This report discusses bridge training programs which are designed to "prepare individuals without the requisite basic skills for postsecondary training leading to career-path employment and further learning in a specific...

The Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP) at MTSU was founded during the summer of 2004 by the local student chapters of ASME and SAE. Both organizations were conducting their own competition vehicle programs, as they had...

This paper describes the PREF Summer Bridge Program designed to increase retention and graduation rates for underrepresented minority students in engineering. The PREF program is a residential, six-week, rigorous...

This paper describes how engineering courses should be changed so they are more appealing to female students. There were major increases in female enrollment in engineering in the eighties but they have plateaued and in...

These pdf slides detail the importance of spatial skills and explain how males frequently have better spatial skills than females. At Michigan Technological University, several studies were undertaken to develop a...