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BEST PRACTICES FOR SUCCESS


CORPORATE LIFE


THE 2017 DEAN’S ROUNDTABLE


“We need partners to step up with the same level of commitment that we have in producing the product [students]… when they come through our system…. They can compete with any student in the country...”


Dean Chance Glenn College of Engineering, Alabama A&M University


ment and private sector through Advancing Minority Interest in Engineering (AMIE). AMIE fosters a system that encourages student interest in the STEM fields through outreach, educa- tion, internships, and job placement to create a diversified workforce. There are aspects of the partnerships that are successful.


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Experiential learning is one of those areas. “Having partnerships is critical for the development of our students… senior design projects…summer internships that then move on to permanent hires. It gives students the opportunity to look at industry projects and make sure they are prepared when they get out,” states Dr. Pamela Leigh-Mack, Chair, College of Engineering and Technology, Virginia State University. Dean Devdas Shetty, School of Engineering, University


of District of Columbia, agrees that “bringing industry to classroom works well as long as you integrate it to the curriculum like senior capstone projects.” However, there is a need to go deeper: “In view of the integration of computer science in engineering, the curriculums are changing…. We need partnerships that address curriculum redesign,” explains Dean Devdas.


14 USBE&IT | DEANS ISSUE 2017


he Dean’s Roundtable is a discussion of the state of STEM as it relates to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) and their alliance with the govern-


The HBCU ABET accredited engineering deans at the 2017 BEYA STEM Conference.


by Denise Stephens editors@ccgmag.com


The HBCUs are concerned with attracting and retaining


STEM students. The main challenge is “many students are not well prepared…maybe 50% of our engineering students are not calculus ready,” says Dean Heshmat Aglan, College of Engineering, Tuskegee University. Also, many students are the first in their families to attend college and do not have family support. The HBCUs need additional resources to provide summer intensives and tutoring to bring the students up to par and to give them the support they need to be successful. Dean Achille Messac, College of Engineering, Architecture


& Computer Science, Howard University, thinks the solution is a transformational interaction at the federal and corporate level that needs to be reassessed to redirect a proper amount of resources to preparing students. Further, he believes that corporate partners should engage with them at the level of pedagogical delivery as well as look at physical and educational infrastructure “so that they can be part and parcel of who we


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