Building Professional Communities - Initiating Junior Chapters of MAES & SHPE to Increase STEM Awareness and Professional Practice | Zendy

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Building Professional Communities - Initiating Junior Chapters of MAES & SHPE to Increase STEM Awareness and Professional Practice

Author(s) -

Aileen Tapia,

José Manuel Martínez,

Peter Golding

Publication year - 2016

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/p.26413

Subject(s) - outreach , professional development , ethnic group , medical education , service (business) , pedagogy , psychology , sociology , political science , medicine , economy , economics , anthropology , law

Aileen Tapia is an industrial engineering junior at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she gadly serves as the Region 5 Student Representative and previously served as secretary and president of the 150-member student chapter. She also helped establish a SHPE Jr. chapter at her high school alma mater. As a research assistant, she explored different techniques to effectively deliver Project Based Learning (PBL) techniques to assist in Engineering Education. By creating a supportive STEM network, Tapia hopes to empower Hispanics to become the STEM innovators and leaders of tomorrow.

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