Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Student Organizations Technical Session 13

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Student Organizations

being students we were professionals, like the goal was- it was almost like a standard that if you were involved with Purdue NSBE you represented Purdue NSBE well. And it wasn't just I'm just a student and I'm going to go to a general body meeting and do this. It was, “well after this school years over with, all my other friends in Purdue NSBE, they're doing internships or they're doing research that's pretty cool over the summer, like I need to do the same thing.” And it kind of raises the standard of- or like raises the bar on what you need to do outside of just classwork. Or you just see “hey all my friends got 3.0's this semester, and we're all taking the same classes, like I need to make sure that I got a 3.0 or better