Conference Session

Innovative Assessment Techniques in Civil Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Michael Dulaski P.E., Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

most comprehensive – it lacked peerinput for team members. The students may experience something on a daily basis thatmay not be observed in a meeting – missed deadlines, lack of contributions – all elementsthat should be included when grades are issued.In order to address this challenge, the capstone advisor implemented a self-gradingrequirement. Twice a semester, at the mid-point and end, students have to grade theirwork as well as their peers. During this self-evaluation, no rubrics are provided; thestudent is responsible for not only detailing their contribution, but also supporting theirgrade selection with prose and examples of their work.In order to quantify the team-grading structure and determine its efficacy, as well asidentify

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kelso; John D. Enderle; Kristina Ropella

, there are no required textbooks, and only a minimal number of lectures. Experts fromindustry, patent law and government agencies typically provide the lecture material. Studentsintegrate and apply knowledge from their major field of study toward a specific project.A number of biomedical engineering programs, like the University of Connecticut2 , have a fullyear of required senior design courses, here referred to as Design I and II. The major deliverablein Design I is a paper design with extensive modeling and computer analysis. Over the semester,students are introduced to a variety of subjects including working on teams, the design process,planning and scheduling, technical report writing, proposal writing, oral presentations, ethics indesign

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Carol Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COS); Maureen S. Valentine P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Andrea Gebhart Rommel, Independent Scientific Consultant; Laurie A. Clayton, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

peer editing, targeted computing grant proposal writing and career-life balance discussions including remote call-ins from faculty role models at other institutions.A faculty member from the Department of Biomedical Engineering was funded by a Connect grant todevelop a peer mentoring network. This project included addressing the challenges raised by thereviewers of a declined grant submission, leading to resubmission of this proposal. This wasaccomplished using an external mentor who provided guidance on designing effective experiments.This process enabled the grantee to broaden mentorship to other experts in their research area andsupported their professional development by establishing their research lab and assisting with becomingknown as a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rob Henry Kinzel; Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Winston Sealy, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rachel E Cohen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jennifer Veltsos, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page 26.403.6primary faculty mentor who is closely related to that student’s field of study, and returning  scholars serve as role models and mentors for the new scholars. The faculty mentors meet withtheir mentees at the beginning of each semester and as needed throughout the academic year.    In addition to undergraduate mentoring, faculty peer-mentoring is also an important componentof the program. The faculty mentors for the MAX program consist of a mix of professors,associate professors and pre-tenure assistant professors. The weekly planning meetings are usedfor continuous improvement of the MAX program, but they also provide an outlet for peer-mentoring and building community amongst the MAX faculty. Topics such as academic writing

Conference Session

Track 7: Technical Session 2: Lessons Learned from Development of an Elective Undergraduate Course on DEI in STEM

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Leigh S McCue, George Mason University; Christopher Alexander Carr, George Mason University; Kevin William Kuck, George Mason University; Dhiambi Otete; Violet Veronika Reges

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

artificial intelligence titled ”Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Double- Edged Sword,” which was given at the World Engineering Education Forum & Global Engineering Dean’s Council in October 2023. His work demonstrates his keen interest in cutting-edge technology, engineering solutions, and a passion for DEI topics. In addition to his academic pursuits, Kevin has gained valuable experience through various internships and work roles. He served as a Mechanical Engineering Intern at Jacobs, where he contributed to HVAC and MEP design projects, created energy models using HAP, and performed essential calculations for mechanical equipment selection. His involvement in report writing summarizing ultrasonic pipe testing

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary First-year Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Kunberger P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Chris Geiger, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

experiences for first year studentsa. By 1982, over 175 educators acrossthe country came together to discuss first-year seminars, and the following year the AnnualConference on the Freshman Year Experience was born. Today, an effective first-yearexperience has been identified as a high impact educational practice by the Association ofAmerican Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Although these experiences differ significantlyfrom university to university, ranging anywhere from a single course specifically taken in themajor itself, through more involved practices including live-learn communities, Kuh emphasizesthe most influential points of a first-year experience include a “strong emphasis on criticalinquiry, frequent writing, information literacy

Conference Session

It Takes a Village: Engineering Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Cate Samuelson, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

identifies four main areas whichunder-represented minority students in engineering described as helpful to their development of asense of community and belonging: co-curricular/extracurricular involvement, peer support,faculty and department support, and residence programs. The study demonstrates that under-represented minority engineering students were able to derive a sense of integration, communityand belonging using multiple means, and that the support mechanisms they used changed a bitover time. By understanding the different ways that under-represented minorities are able tointegrate into their college campuses and ultimately find a sense of community and belonging,engineering programs can work to develop strategies to better support under

Conference Session

Problem Solving and Misconceptions

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Verleger, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

usedthroughout the entire sequence for feedback and assessment. This rubric is provided to thestudents before they begin writing the first draft. This rubric is currently being examined forreliability and validity.After students receive feedback on their first draft from the teaching assistant, they makerevisions to their procedure and submit a second draft that enters a calibrated double-blind peerreview. Each team receives three or four critiques. Teams then utilize these critiques to finalizetheir procedure which is submitted for grading to the teaching assistant. Page 13.689.4In the five years since MEAs were first implemented in the first-year

Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Identity Technical Session 10

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Andrea Haverkamp, Oregon State University; Ava Butler, Oregon State University; Naya Selene Pelzl; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Identity

justice and engineering with the aim of cultivating an inclusive and socially just engineering profession.Dr. Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University Dr. Montfort is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State UniversityDr. Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University Qwo-Li Driskill is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. They hold a PhD in Rhetoric & Writing from Michigan State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Exploring Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Engineering UndergraduateExperiences through

Conference Session

Mentoring Practices and Project Teams

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzette R. Burckhard, South Dakota State University; Joanita M. Kant, South Dakota State University; Francis Arpan; Ross Peder Abraham, South Dakota State University; Gregory J. Michna, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

conducted research into heavy metals concentrations in plants and soils on Pine Ridge Reservation and ethnographic research on Rosebud Reservation. That reservation research is part of an ongoing National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Pre-Engineering Education Collabora- tive led by Oglala Lakota College (a tribal college) in cooperation with South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and SDSU. She has recently served as a principal investigator for a South Dakota Space Grant Consortium project designed to create interest in STEM education and careers among high school girls at Flandreau Indian School. She has publications in peer-reviewed regional conference proceedings and international journals and has recently

Conference Session

Research on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dina Verdin, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Award. Her dissertation proposal was selected as part of the top 3 in the 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division D In-Progress Research Gala. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Negotiating Belongingness: A Longitudinal Narrative Inquiry of a Latina, First-GenerationCollege Student’s Experience in the Engineering CultureAbstractResearch studies have long argued that a sense of belonging is essential for minoritized students’continued engineering persistence. Common factors that have been found to promote a sense ofbelonging include campus diversity, institution’s culture, perceived class comfort, facultyinteractions, and peer support. Yet

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Yanhua Cao, Jackson State University; Himangshu Shekhar Das, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

a common time slot suitable for collaborativeleaning in a traditional face-to-face manner. This paper is to introduce findings from availablecognitive research on supporting effective collaborative learning and present a new instructionalframework for scaffolding collaborative learning for engineering students through cyber-enabledonline discussion. Within this framework, students are assigned with a shared learning task andrequired to co-construct their understanding of the course-related learning concepts and co-solvethe assigned learning problems with their peers through online discussion. The scaffolding fromboth social and cognitive perspectives is presented to students to provide a structure of effectivecollaborative knowledge

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

Richard Hoehn; Dr. Saleh M Sbenaty

. They have opportunity to work in teams with sharing, respect, and contribution towardsone goal. A project is either selected by the team or assigned by the instructor. The scope ofactivities generally includes design, research, costing, building, testing, demonstration, andpresentation. All teams must have meetings, consultations, proposal writing, project planningand management during the course duration. At each stage student have to make decisionsregarding various aspects of their project. Most of these decisions come from their owndeliberations. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

Mohan Ketkar

. They have opportunity to work in teams with sharing, respect, and contribution towardsone goal. A project is either selected by the team or assigned by the instructor. The scope ofactivities generally includes design, research, costing, building, testing, demonstration, andpresentation. All teams must have meetings, consultations, proposal writing, project planningand management during the course duration. At each stage student have to make decisionsregarding various aspects of their project. Most of these decisions come from their owndeliberations. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ph.D., Robert D. Borchelt

is offered every third semester at present. This is a laboratory-oriented course in which the students workas a team to design and develop working automated manufacturing cells involving machining and/or assemblytasks. Students are required to design and build the appropriate fixtures, robot grippers, electronic systems,etc. and write the complete protocol and software for the machining/assembly operation. In the early weeks ofthe course, the laboratory work involves primarily “demonstration” experiments to acquaint students with thelarger hardware available in the laboratory. This equipment includes robots, machine tools and programmablecontrollers, as well as the appropriate programming and control software needed to utilize them

Conference Session

Faculty Development Medley

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Reese Jr., Johns Hopkins University; Eileen Haase Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; Ahmed Ibrahim, Johns Hopkins University; Jane Brock Greco; Kelly F. Clark, Johns Hopkins University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Faculty Development Constituency Committee

framework for critique by our peers so that we can incorporate their feedback duringthe pilot. We also hope to raise awareness of this project to encourage additional colleges toadopt the framework in the future.We define research-based teaching practices as pedagogical strategies that have been tested usingeducational research methods and published in peer-reviewed literature. Future faculty aregraduate students and post-doctoral fellows who aspire to faculty positions that include teachingresponsibilities, however, current faculty will also be invited to participate in the DLCs.The motivation for this NSF-funded project is that research-based teaching practices have beenshown to improve student learning compared to traditional methods like

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill M. D. Motschenbacher, North Dakota State University; Melissa Vosen Callens; James Nyachwaya, North Dakota State University; Emily A. Berg, North Dakota State University; Jared Ladbury, Minnesota State University Moorhead; Paul Kelter, North Dakota State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

mechanization and post-harvest maize production in Wang’uru, Kenya and Iganga, Uganda. She also served for four years in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Sacramento (AOE-1) as an Interior Communications Electrician.Dr. Melissa Vosen Callens, Melissa Vosen Callens is currently an assistant professor of practice in instructional design and commu- nication at North Dakota State University, Fargo. Her areas of research and teaching interest include Popular Culture and Online Education. Her writing can be found in The Ultimate Walking Dead and Phi- losophy, English Journal, Communication Teacher, Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History, and A Sense of Community: Essays on the Television Series and Its Fandom

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

environment. The ultimategoal of the program is to prepare each of the students for a professional construction position.Each student is monitored and assessed frequently. Individual accountability is promoted bykeeping the teams small, by rotating the roles of the team members, and by giving short quizzes atthe end of every session. To promote positive interdependence, individual quiz grades areaveraged or summed to obtain a grade for the team that eventually affects every member of theteam.Peer AssessmentPeer evaluation and assessment is a part of the United States higher education for a long time.However, using peer evaluation or students are quite uncommon. At Farmingdale constructionstudents are able to evaluate their peers in terms of their

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Camilla Saviz; Kurt Schulz

procedure, and conditions used to run the experiment, together with atimeline (or project schedule and management plan). Project plans are evaluated bythe instructor and discussed with each team during lab. In the Fluid Mechanics course,students also give a preliminary oral presentation approximately four weeks after theproject is assigned. Each team presents the experiment to the class, discussingobjectives, set-up, theory, and presenting progress to date. Questions, comments, andconstructive peer critiques are highly encouraged; students often help their peers tobetter define the project and provide suggestions for overcoming obstacles. In

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Geiger, Florida Gulf Coast University; James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

this approach), the students are asked to summarize the described technology orscientific advance, using peer-reviewed sources to verify the claims made within the newsarticle. Potential sources for these news articles are given to the students as a primer to thisexercise, but the selection process is entirely student-driven, allowing the students to exploretopics they personally find interesting rather than having instructors dictate appropriate topics. Page 26.1755.2Depending on the course and /or instructor, the “mini” approach and specifics vary. We reporthere on three variations on the “mini project” theme in courses that range from the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy; K. Ravindra

globaleconomical changes, we have industrial reorganization. The role of an engineer has beenredefined due to various changes in industries. Integration has gained importance and theconcept of Integrated Product Development (IPD) has become the current industrial practice.The feed back from industrial peers and alumni has helped to reshape or modify the academicpractices and the result is the Integrated Curriculum Design (ICD). The industrial peers caneffectively contribute to the program through Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC). TheIndustrial Advisory Committee has been established for the continuos improvement of theMechanical Engineering program at Parks College of Engineering. The input from the industrialcommittee and alumni are considered as

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Fahmida N. Chowdhury

topic of neural networks application in his or her own field of interest 2. Doing the necessary research 3. Writing and testing the code for running simulation experiments 4. Interpreting the results 5. Writing the report, complete with results, discussion, and citations 6. Presenting the paper to an audience of peers, professors, and some under- graduate students They listened to each other’s papers, asked questions, and evaluated each other on various aspects of the presentation. The above listed items are the immediately apparent positive outcomes. In ad-dition, there are long-term benefits of such interdisciplinary exposure. For example,one undergraduate student

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trina C. Kershaw, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Susan Thomson Tripathy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Hong Liu, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Next stepsDuring the Spring 2023 semester, we continued to support students as they progress on theirprojects. As of May 2023, we conducted three workshops to support students as they work onone of their final products, writing and presenting an academic paper. The first workshop wasfocused on tools to organize the literature review, such as summary tables and synthesis matrices(cf. [18]). The second workshop revisited the Message Box [22] to help teams think of theiraudience for the academic paper, and also provided an opportunity for peer review, which allowsfor critique and revision of their work, the sixth feature of gold-standard PjBL [19]. The thirdworkshop focused on effectively presenting research via spoken presentations and posters

Conference Session

New Pedagogical Approaches in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua A Enszer, University of Delaware

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

limitations.” College Teaching, Vol 60, No 4, p170-175 (2012).3 Castellanos, M., and Enszer, J. A. “Promoting metacognition through writing exercises in chemical engineering.”Proceedings of the 122nd ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, WA (2015).4 Ohland, M. W., Loughry, M. L., Woehr, D. J., Finelli, C. J., Bullard, L. G., Felder, R. M., Layton, R. A.,Pomeranz, H. R., & Schmucker, D. G. “The comprehensive assessment of team member effectiveness: Developmentof a behaviorally anchored rating scale for self and peer evaluation.” Academy of Management Learning &Education, Vol 11, No 4, p 609-630 (2012).5 Brown, P. C., Roediger III, H. L., and McDaniel, M. A. “Make it stick: The science of successful learning.”Harvard University

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Brocato, Mississippi State University; Amy Barton, Mississippi State University; Kelly Agee, Mississippi State University; Ed Dechert, Mississippi State University; Greg Carlisle, Morehead State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #11936Improving Engineering-Student Presentation Abilities with Theatre ExercisesMr. John W. Brocato, Mississippi State University John Brocato is the coordinator of the Shackouls Technical Communication Program in the Bagley Col- lege of Engineering at Mississippi State University, where he teaches technical communication and pro- vides writing/presenting-related support to the entire college. He is the LEES Division Program Chair- Elect as well as the Campus Representative Coordinator for ASEE’s Southeastern Section.Mrs. Amy Barton, Mississippi State University Amy Barton (M.A. in English from Mississippi State

Conference Session

New Developments in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University; Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University; Phillip Wong, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the instructor for their design and write several progress reportsthat precede the final report. Expectations for using Trello as a kanban board are also raised, withassessments being tightly focused on weekly progress and individual participation. At themidpoint and the end of the project, students are asked to perform a peer evaluation usingCATME, which provides the instructor and the team members feedback on team dynamics andindividual contributions.The ECE 103 course offers a set of labs that contain a mix of general C programming exercisesand hardware interfacing. Teaching staff are on hand during the lab to provide immediatefeedback and guidance, especially when they introduce the ESP32 microcontroller to students.The ESP32 is a low

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess W. Everett, Rowan University; Jenahvive K. Morgan, Rowan University; Kaitlin Engle Mallouk, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

teamingabilities at the end of the semester, students writing more varied sections of laboratory reports,and more students taking on a leadership role at least once during the semester compared to theTreatment B framework. The Treatment A framework produced no reduction in free riders orincrease in laboratory report quality, as observed or evaluated by students. While the submissionof two draft reports does not appear to have significantly reduced free riding, in combinationwith online peer evaluation it may reduce team conflict.Some of the differences observed between the three Treatment A sections and all thirteenTreatment B sections disappeared when only comparing Professors Morgan and Mallouk’s Aand B-1 sections. This indicates that some of the

Conference Session

ECCD Innovative Teaching Applications

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Dunkel, University of Idaho; Ryan A Oliver, BP; Tao Xing P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Dev S. Shrestha, University of Idaho, Moscow; Russell Scott Smith, University of Idaho Energy Plant

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

- Work in-Progress9 Instructor/team Mtg Fabrication Peer Review Debrief10 Writing Design Reports Instructor/team Mtg Assembly11 Instructor/team Mtg Assembly12 Wikipage Review Instructor/team Mtg Testing13 Instructor/team Mtg Testing Logbook Review14 Expectations for Instructor/team Mtg Report Writing Design Expo Logbook Debrief15 Design Expo Day Instructor/team Mtg Prep for Booth Display Report Review Design Expo Technical Talk16

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emil H Salib, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

network of computers that stores transactional data in replica across every com-puter (node) in the network. This data is called a distributed ledger. The following are the coreblockchain architecture components: nodes, transactions, blocks, hashes, chain, miners and con-sensus.3.1.1.1 NodesA node [4] is a user or computer within the blockchain which is also known as peer or participant.Nodes are distributed across a widespread network and carry out a variety of tasks. All nodes on ablockchain are connected to each other and they constantly exchange the latest blockchain data soall nodes stay up to date. They store, spread and preserve the blockchain data. Figure 1 shows howmultiple nodes, designated in the Ethereum implementation as Ethereum

Conference Session

Virtual Mentoring Program, Listening to Those That Matter, Moving Beyond Research, and Career Outcomes Tracking

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lexy C. Arinze, Purdue University; Janet M. Beagle; Jacqueline E. McDermott

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

institutions will be presented.IntroductionVirtual mentoring is not a new practice, it has been in existence for over 20 years [5], [6] [7], [8],[9]. The online setting can seamlessly connect undergraduate students across the country withmentors, and the GradTrack program was initially started in 2021 during the COVID-19pandemic. Virtual mentoring has also been shown to increase sense of community, STEMachievement, career self-efficacy, and drive to persist in mentors and mentees [10].The GradTrack mentoring structure is a scalable group and peer mentoring model, with 2graduate student mentors from Purdue with 5-7 URM undergraduate student mentees fromacross the United States and Puerto Rico joined in a mentoring circle. The second iteration of