Board 330: Looking Back: Alumni Assessment of Activities Offered Through NSF S-STEM Grant
- Conference
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Portland, Oregon
- Publication Date
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June 23, 2024
- Start Date
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June 23, 2024
- End Date
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June 26, 2024
- Conference Session
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Diversity and NSF Grantees Poster Session
- Page Count
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12
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--46911
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https://peer.asee.org/46911
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104
Paper Authors
Varun K Kasaraneni
Gannon University
orcid.org/0000-0003-3128-7537
Scott Steinbrink Gannon University
Dr. Scott Steinbrink is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, primarily tasked with teaching computer methods and design.
Lin Zhao Gannon University
Lin Zhao received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada in 2006. She received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 1993 and 1996 re
Saeed Tiari Gannon University
Dr. Saeed Tiari is an Associate Professor and the chair of the Biomedical, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Gannon University. Prior to joining Gannon University in 2016, Dr. Tiari obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Temple University. His
Karinna M Vernaza Gannon University
Dr. Karinna Vernaza joined Gannon University in 2003, and she is the current Dean of the College of Engineering and Business and a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Univers
Abstract
Since the fall of 2008, XXXXX University has hosted an NSF-funded S-STEM grant and has awarded scholarships that have helped fund XX students to graduation. The S-STEM program we have enacted has been structured based upon a seminar in which all scholarship recipients are required to participate. The seminar was and is a key feature of the grant and was, at the time of the initial grant application, unique. Seminar activities include community-service-based design, and aspects of professional and personal development. Personal and professional development activities have been selected to introduce skills that might help students succeed in finding and maintaining employment in their chosen STEM field and help them to advance in their employment thereafter. These activities are not typically offered to students outside the scholarship program. In this paper, we will report on past graduates’ perceptions of those “personal and professional development” activities, gathered via survey of alumni. We seek to understand which activities the past students feel have been advantageous to them, and which might be less so. The goal of the paper is to provide thinking points for other scholarship administrators who might wish to consider inclusion of similar activities.
Kasaraneni, V. K., & Steinbrink, S., & Zhao, L., & Tiari, S., & Vernaza, K. M. (2024, June), Board 330: Looking Back: Alumni Assessment of Activities Offered Through NSF S-STEM Grant Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--46911
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