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Work in Progress: The Impact of North Carolina State University’s Student Council on the Grand Challenge Scholars Program

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Location

Virtual On line

Publication Date

June 22, 2020

Start Date

June 22, 2020

End Date

June 26, 2021

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 4

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Student

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

6

DOI

10.18260/1-2--35693

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https://peer.asee.org/35693

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461

Paper Authors

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Rachel Figard North Carolina State University

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Rachel Figard is an undergraduate majoring in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a minor in English Literature from North Carolina State University.

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Pippin Payne North Carolina State University

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Pippin Payne is a junior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Religious Studies with a minor in Business Administration from North Carolina State University.

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Abstract

In the fall of 2017, North Carolina State University’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP) had 19 scholars in the program. To change the structure of the university’s GCSP and increase the efficacy of the program, a student council was formed to allow students to take ownership and responsibility over the direction of their program. Today, the GCSP has grown by 332% due to this change. By pairing the unique programming of the GCSP with a student council that affects the day to day operation of the program, North Carolina State University significantly increases the number of engineers who graduate well equipped to address the Grand Challenges of Engineering.

This paper will examine both the implementation and outcome of creating a student council made to the GCSP at North Carolina State University and how this created an impactful transformation in students. It will document the effects this program has had on the scholars, specifically when it comes to student learning in the Grand Challenges as an outcome of students taking ownership within the organization. By using this program as a case study, this paper will illustrate the most important change made in North Carolina State University’s GCSP, the impact due to this modification, and how other GCSP programs around the country could adopt this revision into their GCSP programs.

Figard, R., & Payne, P. (2020, June), Work in Progress: The Impact of North Carolina State University’s Student Council on the Grand Challenge Scholars Program Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--35693

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