Grant, C. S., & Bowles, T., & Qaqish, O. B., & Jeffries, R. E., & Smith, B. (2013, June),  Mentoring Minority Students in Biomedical Engineering: An Engaged Approach   Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--19017

\bibitem{asee_peer_19017}
  Grant, C. S., \& Bowles, T., \& Qaqish, O. B., \& Jeffries, R. E., \& Smith, B. (2013, June), \emph{ Mentoring Minority Students in Biomedical Engineering: An Engaged Approach }
  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia.
  10.18260/1-2--19017

Christine S Grant, Tuere Bowles, Olgha Bassam Qaqish, Rex E Jeffries, and Barbara Smith.  " Mentoring Minority Students in Biomedical Engineering: An Engaged Approach ".  2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2013.  https://peer.asee.org/19017 Internet.  18 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_19017}
  Christine S Grant, Tuere Bowles, Olgha Bassam Qaqish, Rex E Jeffries, and Barbara Smith.
  " Mentoring Minority Students in Biomedical Engineering: An Engaged Approach ".
  \emph{2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2013.
  https://peer.asee.org/19017 Internet.  18 May, 2024

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AB  -              Mentoring Minority Students in Biomedical Engineering:                        A Cross-disciplinary ApproachThere is a compelling need for a program that develops self-efficacy in UnderrepresentedMinority (URM) students in STEM related fields. To answer this need, professor and lifelongmentor developed the national mentored-leadership initiative program to empower URMstudents at the high school and undergraduate levels in their successful pursuit of engineeringcareers. This objective is accomplished by actively partnering students with senior URM mentors(i.e. post-doctoral associates and faculty members) in research and professional development,collaborating to advance minority students in engineering. Students completing the programdemonstrate a firm understanding of the translational aspects of their research, enabling them tomake informed career choices to maximize their expertise and biomedical interests. Ultimately,this outcome is achieved through engaged participation in: a “mentoring incubator” andmentoring course led by URM full professor and lifelong mentor; interactive seminars androundtable discussions with mentee “success story” resource group; sessions with biomedicalgroup of successful URM engineering faculty; and targeted research experiences at a largeresearch university, leveraging partnerships with agency-sponsored programs.Program established: The summer 2011 program provided opportunities for URM high schooland undergraduate students to participate in the mentoring experience outlined above. Theresearch component engaged the students in optimizing growth conditions for human cancercells; and interaction with a group of faculty in musculoskeletal research that performs researchat all levels in this medical issue, from cellular to patient level. The Academic Year 2011-2012program provided URM freshman engineering students with roles as lab assistants, training andassisting in cell culture and encapsulation. In addition to being mentored by program developerand full professor, students were mentored by postdoctoral lab manager in his study of oxygenconsumption using the lab’s bioreactor and in the calibration of pH meters and scales. Thestudents also trained in the organization of all aspects of the lab and assisted in the setup of anew lab.Outcomes: Summer 2011 –The high school and undergraduate participants presented their cellculture research results at the university summer undergraduate poster presentation. One highschool student is currently majoring in biomedical engineering at a 4-year southeasterninstitution. Another student’s cell culture research experience led to a summer 2012 researchopportunity at a large research university. A 2012 Fall freshman engineering student gainedvaluable laboratory experience with breast cancer cells that earned her a summer 2012 REUinternship at an east coast research institution.Background catalyst for the program: Over the last several decades, minorities have beenunderrepresented in the field of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).Despite the new policies effort to increase the number of underrepresented minorities (URM)students entering college in STEM fields, recent reports from the National Science Foundationindicator report (2008) shows that freshman students start their college careers in STEM but areless likely to complete a degree in STEM versus other field majors. What is more troubling is thefact that URM students who start STEM degrees as freshmen are the least likely to remain in theSTEM field.
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