NACMECreating Opportunities, Ensuring Success

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OverviewPre-engineering Programs

Middle and High School – develop collaborative relationshipsScholarship and Student Support

Community College Increase awareness of career opportunities in Engineering Improve transition to 4 year institutions – Articulation Agreements

Universities Scholarships – 5 year commitment Diversity matters – recruit, retain and graduate Evaluate effectiveness of student support strategies – share best practices Facilitate corporate internships and recruitment – online resume system

Post Graduate -Support Sloan Foundation Minority PhD Program Research

Publish reports, articles, op-ed pieces and editorials and participate in panels Increase understanding and provide recommendations on the the national issues

related to minorities in the fields of engineering, science and technologyNational Meetings

Communications and community building Leaders from industry, education, foundations and government

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University Program

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University Program

1,269 Scholars - 20% growth Y-T-Y Cash Grants total $1.6M – growing to $1.8M in 2008 Retention rate of 82% vs. national average of 39% 3.1 Average GPA 33% women compared to national avg. of 24% 49% African American; 43% Latino; 5% American Indian; 3%

Other

Community College Programs San Diego Maryland

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Partner UniversitiesArizona State University, TempeBucknell UniversityCalifornia State University, Los AngelesCalifornia State University, Sacramento City College of The City University of New YorkClarkson UniversityCornell UniversityDrexel UniversityFairfield UniversityFlorida International UniversityGeorgia Institute of TechnologyHoward UniversityJackson State UniversityKansas State UniversityKettering University Louisiana State UniversityMarquette UniversityMichigan Technological UniversityNew Jersey Institute of TechnologyNorth Carolina A&T State UniversityNorth Carolina State UniversityNorthern Arizona UniversityPolytechnic UniversityPolytechnic University of Puerto Rico

Prairie View A&M UniversityPurdue UniversityRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRochester Institute of TechnologyStevens Institute of TechnologySyracuse UniversityTemple UniversityTennessee Technological UniversityTuskegee UniversityUniversity of AkronUniversity of Bridgeport*University of California, San DiegoUniversity of Central FloridaUniversity of Colorado – BoulderUniversity of HoustonUniversity of Illinois, ChicagoUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore CountyUniversity of Missouri, RollaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Texas, El PasoUniversity of Texas, San AntonioUniversity of WashingtonVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Pre-Engineering Program

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Pre-EngineeringFacts

70% of 8th Graders are not proficient in reading and will never catch up

1.1M American high school students drop out every year – 6K every school day

America has world’s largest economy - $11.1 Trillion (China 2.0 Trillion)

Americans are more productive than their global peers

US attracts the most foreign investment

R&D in the US is the world’s largest – emerging markets growing faster

American citizens make up a declining share of science and engineering students

May 2007 – Minority population in America exceeds 100 million

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Pre-EngineeringHow are underrepresented minorities doing?

Math test scores – wide gaps and growing

Advanced math completion – white students 47%, minority students 31%

High School graduation rates – improving but wide gaps still persist

College – White 28%, Black 19%, Latino/Hispanic 12%

USA ranks 10th in the world for college attainment ages 25-34

College graduates by age 26 – high income families 60%, low income families 7%

USA invests significantly more in education than other countries, yet we rank 22 out of 26 in math performance

In 2002 only 4% of minorities (28K out of 690K) had taken and passed sufficient math and science to qualify for admission to study engineering and technology at the college level – of those 16,800 admitted

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Pre-EngineeringDeliverables: The NACME Guide to Engineering Colleges (in collaboration with The Princeton Review) Helping Teachers Make a Difference (in collaboration with Cambell-Kibler) Quick Study Guide for Students and Parents (in collaboration with Guaranteed 4.0) Engineering Your Future: A Career Guide for Minority Youth Classroom STEM Materials (posters, deliverables, etc.) NACMEBacksMe.org – December 2007

Partnerships ACE Mentoring Program - high school outreach program that includes mentors and the

development of education and career-related materials to support the AOE students MESA – bring after school programs to the AOE sites California/WashingtonGrants & Scholarships Teacher STEM Innovation Grants (Deadline: November 30th, 2007) Student Pre-Engineering Scholarships (Deadline: May 31st, 2008)Symposium NACME Symposium and Partner Meeting - May 27th- May 29th, 2008

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Academy of Engineering (AOE)

The National Academy Foundation, Project Lead the Way and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering

A partnership to create small learning communities in high schools focused on Science/Technology/Engineering/Math (STEM). The goals are:

Recruit and encourage more high school students to investigate careers in engineering science and technology

Increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in the study of engineering

High school graduates ready for postsecondary education and prepared to succeed and graduate with a degree in the field

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AOE Involvement

National Academy Foundation (NAF): unique capabilities and documented success in developing specialized career academies in Finance, IT, Travel and Tourism

Project Lead The Way (PLTW): Provides the curriculum development for core pre-engineering studies, teacher certification and classroom requirements

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME): reinforcing and enhancing the educational experience in the classroom by providing support to the local community, students and parents – using a collaboration model

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AOE GuidelinesThe guidelines for this new academy include: Small, 400 student four-year high school Either stand-alone or small learning community in an urban school Must have a separate leader and independent, dedicated staff across all

disciplines and approval by the school district Degree of autonomy negotiated with school district and significant budget

authority AOE will not be a set of drop-in courses AOE will not be for the top students of a high school or community, but must

be open to all students of the school Agreed policy for admission to program (Student expresses interest in theme

and enrolling in the school) Every student graduates ready for success at a four-year institution STEM theme: The academy will center its course curriculum on science,

technology, engineering and math

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Advisory Board Involvement Los Angeles, CA University High School 3M BP  

San Diego, CA EDT Academy Morse High School Boeing   Raytheon

San Diego, CA Patrick Henry High School   Raytheon  

San Diego, CA James Madison High School Raytheon    

San Francisco, CA Burton High School Bechtel   AT&T

Strathmore, CA Porterville Charter Academy TBD    

Atlanta, GA Frederick Douglass High SchoolIBM

AT&T GE / Bechtel

New York, NY Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture High School

Malcolm Pirnie    

Columbus, OH East High School on Arcadia TBD    

Las Vegas, NV Northwest Career and Technical Academy   Bechtel  

Waco, TX AJ Moore Academy TBD    

Dallas, TX H. Grady Spruce High School AT&T IBM  

Burien, WA Evergreen High School   Boeing  

TENTATIVE

NACME Model for NACME Model for CollaborationCollaboration

Partner Universities Academy of Engineering MESA Programs

SLOAN/GEM/NACME ACE Programs

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Research and Policy

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Research and Policy

2007 Scholarship Program evaluation Progress report –Minorities in Engineering

Coming later this fall2008

Executive Roundtable (January) – Efforts to enhance minority participation in STEM education

Graduating scholar survey Women in engineering – focus on women of color Proving the model – joint study PLTW/NACME Community College – Transfer student performance at 4 year

institutions

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DiscussionYour inputs are valued!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI

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Contact Information

Raluca CadarProgram Manager, Pre-Engineering

NACME, Inc.440 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 302

White Plains, NY 10601-1813Tel:     914-539-4010 x 202

Fax:    914-539-4032

Email: rcadar@nacme.org