The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) has announced that its Equipando Padres program will be hosting a virtual and in-person workshop on Saturday, March 11. The meeting is designed to provide in-depth information for students interested in engineering.
The upcoming event is open to parents, guardians, or caregivers of high school students in the Hialeah, South Dade, and Miami areas. Workshops on the value of a college experience and how to prepare for college will be offered in English and Spanish and led by SHPE student members, parents, and SHPE professionals.
According to SHPE, the event is sponsored by Raytheon in collaboration with NAF, a national non-profit organization that transforms the high school experience to prepare students for college, career, and future success.
Last year, SHPE announced partnering with NAF to bring Equipando Padres University to seven NAF Academy schools during the 2022-2023 school year.
Equipando Padres meetings are designed to engage and inspire Hispanic parents through education on college access and success, college funding, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career pathways, and the fundamentals of STEM. Click here for more information.
Parents and families do influence first-year engineering major choices. A study presented at the 2020 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) virtual conference found that although the number one factor affecting career choice was interest in the field of study, an understanding of familial influences helps advocates to determine effective methods to expose more diverse sets of students and parents to engineering as a profession.
The latest Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering report from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) at the National Science Foundation says that recent trends in undergraduate and graduate enrollment reflect the increasing diversity of the U.S. college and graduate-school populations.
Hispanics or Latinos increased their share of undergraduate students from 18.9% in 2016 to 20.2% in 2018. In graduate school, the overall number of science and engineering (S&E) students declined between 2016 and 2018, but the share of Hispanic or Latino students increased during this period, from 6.4% to 7.0%.
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