Greene, H. L., & Post, P. E., & Abrams, L. (2015, June), Engineering Ambassador Program Connects High School Students with University Students and Career Engineers in their Communities  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.23949

\bibitem{asee_peer_23949}
  Greene, H. L., \& Post, P. E., \& Abrams, L. (2015, June), \emph{Engineering Ambassador Program Connects High School Students with University Students and Career Engineers in their Communities}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.23949

Howard L. Greene, Paul E. Post, and Lisa Abrams.  "Engineering Ambassador Program Connects High School Students with University Students and Career Engineers in their Communities".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/23949 Internet.  17 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_23949}
  Howard L. Greene, Paul E. Post, and Lisa Abrams.
  "Engineering Ambassador Program Connects High School Students with University Students and Career Engineers in their Communities".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/23949 Internet.  17 Apr, 2025

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AB  -       Engineering Ambassador Program Connects High School Students with         University Students and Career Engineers in their Communities                              (research to practice)An ambassador program has been developed to efficiently and effectively connect undergraduateengineering students and university alumni in engineering careers to high school students across thestate for the purpose of generating better engineering career awareness, preparing students for studyand encouraging them to consider engineering careers. Further, the program helps currentundergraduate engineering students improve their communication skills while reinforcing theimportance of career ambassadorship.In general, high school educators, guidance counselors and administrators do not feel well-equippedto offer accurate or complete portrayals of what engineers do, either during the course of study for aBachelor’s degree or on the job. One factor that contributes to this inability is that teacher licensureprograms do not require learning about engineering careers or the engineering process. Theambassador program is designed to put high school students in an informal environment together withuniversity engineering students who are alumni from that high school and engineering careerprofessionals from their community to give an authentic picture of the profession.The program is designed as follows. In June, high schools across the state that are well-representedin engineering at the university are given an invitation to take part in the ambassador program. Inresponse, the school supplies the name of a liaison to the ambassador team. Then, at the beginningof the academic year, high achieving junior and senior undergraduate engineering students arerecruited to come to a once-per-year training event at which they form ambassador teams based upontheir hometown high schools. At the event they:    • Choose a team leader    • Are given the name of the liaison at their hometown high school    • Receive a list of engineering alumni of the university who are working in vicinity of their high        schools and have indicated an interest in serving on their ambassador team to offer        perspectives on authentic engineering careers. After the training event, the team leader convenes the team, contacts the alumni and the high schoolliaison and assumes the entire responsibility of planning and coordinating the school visit.The program leverages two elements:   • College students’ loyalty to their high schools and engineering professionals’ loyalty to their       communities. Each has the desire to re-connect with the next generation of college students,       helping those who are struggling with the same questions they had.   • Massive amounts of readily available university student and alumni data coupled with the       ability to instantly send “customized” email invitations to large numbers of students and       alumni who meet certain criteria with low time investment.In its second year, the program has over 200 student ambassadors and 140 engineering alumnischeduled for visits to 37 schools across the state. First year feedback indicated that undergraduateengineering students enjoyed the experience and felt they were effective in generating a genuineinterest in engineering. Preliminary feedback from Year 2 visits will be gathered and summarizedfrom school liaisons, university students and engineering professionals.
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