Darabi, H., & Nazempour, R., & Nelson, P. C., & Revelo, R. A., & Reckinger, S. M., & Ozevin, D., & Bilgin, B., & Felder, A. E. (2023, June), Board 375: Reporting the Progress and Performance Evaluation of an Ongoing Integrated Program for Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation of High-Achieving, Low-income Engineering Students  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43055

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  Darabi, H., \& Nazempour, R., \& Nelson, P. C., \& Revelo, R. A., \& Reckinger, S. M., \& Ozevin, D., \& Bilgin, B., \& Felder, A. E. (2023, June), \emph{Board 375: Reporting the Progress and Performance Evaluation of an Ongoing Integrated Program for Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation of High-Achieving, Low-income Engineering Students}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--43055

Houshang Darabi, Rezvan Nazempour, Peter C. Nelson, Renata A. Revelo, Shanon Marie Reckinger, Didem Ozevin, Betul Bilgin, and Anthony E. Felder.  "Board 375: Reporting the Progress and Performance Evaluation of an Ongoing Integrated Program for Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation of High-Achieving, Low-income Engineering Students".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/43055 Internet.  01 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_43055}
  Houshang Darabi, Rezvan Nazempour, Peter C. Nelson, Renata A. Revelo, Shanon Marie Reckinger, Didem Ozevin, Betul Bilgin, and Anthony E. Felder.
  "Board 375: Reporting the Progress and Performance Evaluation of an Ongoing Integrated Program for Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation of High-Achieving, Low-income Engineering Students".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/43055 Internet.  01 May, 2024

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AB  - The present paper reports an update on an NSF-funded S-STEM program currently in its last year at the University of Illinois Chicago. Lessons learned during the project implementation are also listed in the paper. A summary of the paper materials will be presented at the ASEE 2023 Annual Conference and Exposition as part of the NSF Grantees Poster Session.

The project’s objectives are 1) enhancing students’ learning by providing access to extra and co-curricular experiences, 2) creating a positive student experience through mentorship, and 3) ensuring successful student placement in the STEM workforce or graduate/professional degree program. As part of this project, students are provided with financial assistance. A total of three Cohorts of students are supported by the project: Engineering students who started as freshmen, including 18 students of Cohort I and 13 students of Cohort II, and 19 students who transferred from various community colleges to Cohort III. More than 60% of the students are classified as minorities.

This project has resulted in the creation of several support and intervention programs, including a Summer Bridge Program, an Engineering Success Initiative course, a Service Learning Project course, and an integrated mentoring program that matches each student with an academic mentor (a faculty) and an industry mentor. The paper will summarize the lessons learned from the support programs.

Out of the 18 students recruited by this program as Cohort I, all have already graduated, and 16 have started a job. Cohort II students will graduate next semester (Spring 2023), and the majority  of students in Cohort III students will graduate in Spring 2023. Two students dropped out of the university in their first year, and one dropped out of the university in the second year. More information is provided in this paper regarding student retention and performance (Grade Point Average).



AU  - Houshang Darabi
AU  - Rezvan Nazempour
AU  - Peter C. Nelson
AU  - Renata A. Revelo
AU  - Shanon Marie Reckinger
AU  - Didem Ozevin
AU  - Betul Bilgin
AU  - Anthony E. Felder
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
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