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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Curricular & Program Design

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Xinyu Zhang, Purdue University

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Paper ID #42503Institutionalization Challenges for an NSF S-STEM ProgramDr. Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University Robin A. M. Hensel, Ed.D., is a Teaching Professor in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University and an ASEE Fellow Member. As a mathematician and computer systems analyst, she collaborated in engineering teams to support energy research before entering higher education where she taught mathematics, statistics, computer science, and engineering courses, secured over $5.5M to support STEM education research, led program development efforts, and

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Retention & Success

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University; Carl Boyet, Louisiana Tech University; James D. Palmer, Louisiana Tech University

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attaining a four-year university education (includingtuition and fees, as well as room and board) ranged from $23,250 for in-state students to $40,550for out-of-state students in 2022, individuals, particularly those from low-income backgrounds,can face significant financial challenges and stress [4].These financial burdens may be a deterrent for students to pursue degrees seen as morechallenging, like STEM degrees, in fear of having academic setbacks and incurring additionalcosts. Therefore, a key factor in strengthening the STEM workforce is creating opportunities toenhance capacity by ensuring accessibility to STEM education for individuals across allsocioeconomic groups [2]. Funding opportunities, like the National Science Foundation’s S-STEM

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 2: Advising & Mentoring

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna-Lena Dicke, University of California, Irvine; David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine; Deniz Nikkhah, University of California, Irvine; Kameryn Denaro; Hye Rin Lee, University of Delaware; Lorenzo Valdevit

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detail in Appendix A. Given the diverse socio-demographicbackground of the students in the mentoring program, their perceptions of how culturalbackground influences their relationship with their faculty and peer mentors will be addressed aswell (see Section 3 in Table 1). Lastly, students will be asked to provide an overall assessment oftheir mentoring experiences with both their peer and faculty mentors (see Section 4 in Table 1).As indicated in Table 1 (see Column 1: Item Focus), the majority of measures will be used toassess both faculty and peer mentoring experiences with the exception of a few measures thataim to assess aspects specific to the faculty or peer mentor relationship.Table 1. S-STEM mentoring survey measuresItemFocus Item

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 10: Identity & Belonging 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Arthur Brobst, Old Dominion University; Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Andrew G Klein, Western Washington University; Sura Alqudah, Western Washington University

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) offers three undergraduate-only engineeringprograms: Electrical and Computer Engineering (EECE), Manufacturing Engineering (MFGE),and Polymer Materials Engineering (PME). The Becoming Engaged Engineering Scholars(BEES) S-STEM scholarship program, funded by the National Science Foundation, providesacademic and financial support to 4 cohorts of low-income undergraduate students interested inmajoring in engineering. The BEES program supports scholars for the first two years of theirstudy at WWU.In addition to two years of financial support, the scholarship program that provides the focalpoint of this study offers curricular and co-curricular supports for pre-major engineering studentsduring their first and second years of undergraduate study. These

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 6: Mentors & Teams

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Miriam Howland Cummings Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver; William Taylor Schupbach; Tom Altman; Michael S. Jacobson; Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado Denver; Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver

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focus on the aspects that make the program mostmeaningful for the students. This mentorship program is a concerted effort with an engineeringlearning community (ELC) for first-year students [1, 2], which was initially designed to increasestudent retention at the engineering college. Moreover, eligible students voluntarily take part inan NSF-funded Scholarships for STEM (S-STEM) program where participation in both ELC andthe mentorship program is required. On the other hand, incoming students who are not eligiblefor the S-STEM program are encouraged to participate in the ELC and are offered mentorship.There are a variety of mentorship programs at different institutions, created for engineeringstudents, that have assorted but generally

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 2: Program Design

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily M Wortman-Wunder; Miriam Howland Cummings Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver; Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver

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is tailored to the unique needs ofSTEM, and specifically engineering, students. The composition sequence was designed andtaught by a member of the English Department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences(CLAS).CU Denver requires its undergraduates to take two composition courses, Composition 1 (ENGL1020) and Composition II (ENGL 2030). The ELC began including English Composition in Fall2017 and several enrolled students have been supported through a National Science Foundation(NSF) S-STEM grant beginning in Fall 2019. Students participating in the first semester of theELC must co-register for ENGL 1020 unless they have already met the requirement (a 4 or 5 onthe Advanced Placement Language and Composition exam, for example); students

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Peers as Mentors & Instructors

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin

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researchshould explore how to best support student peer mentors in their role in ways that help breakdown the cultural stereotypes that pervade the profession while supporting student agency andlearning in the space.Acknowledgement – This material is based upon work supported by the National ScienceFoundation S-STEM program under Grant No. 1834139. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] K. Sheridan, E. Halverson, B. Litts, L. Brahms, L. Jacobs-Priebe and T. Owens, "Learning in the making: A comparative case study of three makerspaces.," Harvard Educational Review, vol. 84, no. 4505-531

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 1: Programs & Curricula

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University and A&M College; Elizabeth Michelle Melvin, Louisiana State University and A&M College

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data safeguards) has been gathering the appropriate comparativedata, thus the ability to calculate informative statistics has been lagging. The BEE program willdevelop more detailed pre- and post- surveys of the participants, and the goals of these surveysare to gather expectations, motivations, and preceived program effcacy. In 2021, the LSU CoEwas awarded an NSF S-STEM grant (PRISE Program) to offer scholarships to high achievingbut underprepared low socioeconomic status students and to study the relative success of earlyacademic and professional development intervention on the ability of this group to obtain gainfulemployment upon graduation with of 10 out of 11 CoE undergraduate degrees. The PRISEstudents are strongly encouraged to enroll

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 2: Advising & Mentoring

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Anna Wolff; Pat Burnett, Whatcom Community College; Anna Fay Booker; Tran M. Phung; Mei P. Luu; Seth Greendale

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serves on the ASEE Board of Directors as Zone IV Chair.Anna WolffMr. Patrick Burnett, Whatcom Community College Pat currently teaches engineering at Whatcom Community College after 13 years of teaching in the En- gineering Department at Edmonds Community College, including holding the chair position. He earned an MS in Physics from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, and a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign. Over the past 7 years, Pat has been working with various K-12 organizations to incorporate engineering practices in classrooms as they incorporate Next Genera- tion Science Standards into their curriculum. Pat has served as co-PI on NSF S-STEM and STEP grants. Pat is

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Curricular & Program Design

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Ronald S Harichandran P.E., University of New Haven; Stephanie M Gillespie, University of New Haven

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used in this study.References[1] R. Harichandran, N.O. Erdil, and S. Gillespie, “College-Wide First Year and Career Mentorship Programs,” in Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, June 2022. https://peer.asee.org/41342[2] S. Alqudah et al., “S-STEM engaged engineering scholars: Insights from year 1,” in Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Virtual, June 2020. https://strategy.asee.org/35171[3] H. Darabi et al., “An integrated program for recruitment, retention, and graduation of academically talented low-income engineering students,” in Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Virtual, June 2020. https://peer.asee.org/34133[4] C. B. Muller, “The