Asee peer logo

An Index to Aid in the Development of High School Recruitment of Future Engineering and Science Majors

Download Paper |

Conference

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

San Antonio, Texas

Publication Date

June 10, 2012

Start Date

June 10, 2012

End Date

June 13, 2012

ISSN

2153-5965

Conference Session

The Transition from Secondary to College Mathematics

Tagged Division

Mathematics

Page Count

8

Page Numbers

25.165.1 - 25.165.8

DOI

10.18260/1-2--20925

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/20925

Download Count

441

Paper Authors

author page

Galen E. Turner III Louisiana Tech University

biography

Kelly B. Crittenden Louisiana Tech University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-7025-5055

visit author page

Kelly Crittenden is the Harrelson family endowed Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Louisiana Tech in 2001. His primary research areas include multidisciplinary engineering education, curriculum development, and product development.

visit author page

author page

James D. Nelson Louisiana Tech University

author page

Heath Tims Louisiana Tech University

Download Paper |

Abstract

An index to aid in the development of High School recruitment of future Engineering and Science majorsWe propose an index to aid institutions of higher education to bettertarget professional development programs for high school teachers andrecruitment of students. In particular, we propose the index, hs, of aninstitution of higher education, defined as the number of high schoolswho have graduates enrolling in the institution >= hs as a usefulindicator for the selection of high schools with whom an institutionshould work in the areas of professional development and recruitment ofstudents. Using this hs-index for ___________ university, we have beenable to show how professional development programs with regional highschools have positively impacted student enrollment in our engineeringand science degree programs.

Turner, G. E., & Crittenden, K. B., & Nelson, J. D., & Tims, H. (2012, June), An Index to Aid in the Development of High School Recruitment of Future Engineering and Science Majors Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--20925

ASEE holds the copyright on this document. It may be read by the public free of charge. Authors may archive their work on personal websites or in institutional repositories with the following citation: © 2012 American Society for Engineering Education. Other scholars may excerpt or quote from these materials with the same citation. When excerpting or quoting from Conference Proceedings, authors should, in addition to noting the ASEE copyright, list all the original authors and their institutions and name the host city of the conference. - Last updated April 1, 2015