The SEEC project team held a joint professional development event to advance the goals of our NSF STEM Student Enrollment & Engagement through Connections grant – a program focused on increasing the number of engineering graduates and the diversity of engineering students.

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Objectives:
Build relationships and connections between institutions and among academic departments and student service units;
Create awareness of engineering as a profession and of ISU’s degree programs;
Provide advising and recruitment resources to use with students, parents, and educators;
Review and discuss transfer student data and “case studies” to better understand the engineering transfer student experiences, culture, pathways, and supporting research;
Identify future action items to fulfill SEEC advising and network [recruitment] objectives.

Attendees:
• DMACC Recruitment, Academic Advising and Counseling Staff
• ISU Transfer Admissions
• ISU College of Engineering Recruitment and Advising Staff
• DMACC Pre-Collegiate/High School Programming Advisors
• SEEC O-team members and interested others

For more information, contact:
Monica Bruning, 515-294-9963 mbruning@iastate.edu
Frankie Santos Laanan 515-294-7292 lannan@iastate.edu
Mary Darrow, 515-294-8365 mdarrow@iastate.edu
Michael Lentsch 515-964-6216 mjlentsch@dmacc.edu

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