Conrad, L. F., & Auerbach, J. L., & Howard, A. (2015, June), The Impact of a Robotics Summer Undergraduate Research Experience on Increasing the Pipeline to Graduate School  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24875

\bibitem{asee_peer_24875}
  Conrad, L. F., \& Auerbach, J. L., \& Howard, A. (2015, June), \emph{The Impact of a Robotics Summer Undergraduate Research Experience on Increasing the Pipeline to Graduate School}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.24875

Leyla F Conrad, Jill L Auerbach, and Ayanna Howard.  "The Impact of a Robotics Summer Undergraduate Research Experience on Increasing the Pipeline to Graduate School".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://strategy.asee.org/24875 Internet.  08 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_24875}
  Leyla F Conrad, Jill L Auerbach, and Ayanna Howard.
  "The Impact of a Robotics Summer Undergraduate Research Experience on Increasing the Pipeline to Graduate School".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://strategy.asee.org/24875 Internet.  08 Jun, 2024

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AB  -    The Impact of a Robotics Summer Undergraduate Research    Experience on Increasing the Pipeline to Graduate School                Leyla Conrad, Jill Auerbach, and Ayanna Howard                 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering                         Georgia Institute of TechnologyThe Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science (SURE)*program, initiated in 1992, is a ten-week summer program for junior and seniorlevel undergraduates from U.S. institutions. In 2013, the program instituted a newinitiative to provide opportunities to students focused on robotics research, andas a direct consequence, interest them in opportunities available throughgraduate study. Robotics, as a discipline, is inherently interdisciplinary,combining all aspects of engineering and computer science necessary fordesigning and deploying integrated systems and solutions. Every year eightstudents with diverse backgrounds are selected and paired with faculty advisorsand graduate student mentors who are members of the Institute for Robotics andIntelligent Machines. In addition to conducting research during their stay,students also participate in a week-long robotics boot camp their first week,attend weekly seminars on emerging research in engineering fields, visit localindustry, participate in enrichment and academic development activities, andattend social events.       Students conclude the program with researchpresentations to their peers and faculty and graduate student mentors. Duringthe life of the SURE program, 541 students, selected from a pool of 2,899applicants, have participated in the program. A comprehensive assessmentprogram for SURE has been developed and implemented.             The assessmentprocess is driven by the overall program objective to provide participants ameaningful research experience and enrichment activities to increase thelikelihood that participants will attend graduate school in engineering/science.This model identifies three cohorts from which data is collected. Each datasource provides unique information that contributes to a comprehensive analysisof the impact and experiences of program participants and to an understandingof the academic trends of all SURE program applicants. The pre- and post-program surveys, focus group session and interviews with participants include aseries of questions about students’ research interests, and participants’perceived impact of SURE on research skills and planned graduate schoolattendance. The faculty advisor survey includes questions about the contributionthe students made to their research programs, whether or not their student wouldsucceed in graduate school, the quality of the students' oral and written projectpresentations, and how the program could be improved in future years. TheLongitudinal Survey of Former SURE Participants, conducted every four years,addresses the primary objective of the SURE program to motivate participatingstudents to attend graduate school in engineering/science. Respondents areasked a variety of questions about their academic decisions after participating inthe SURE program. Detailed data about graduate school attendance, degreeattainment, and major is collected and analyzed. Questions are included toobtain feedback about their co-curricular activities and the environment of theirundergraduate institutions. Another set of questions refer to sources ofencouragement that students might have had when deciding to attend graduateschool. Thus far, the program has been tremendously successful in attaining itsobjectives. Collected outcome measures have shown that 77% of the studentswho participate in the program attend graduate school in engineering/scienceand 6% attend medical school upon receiving their B.S. degree.* Supported by the NSF award EEC-1263049
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