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2 Harnessing Experience to Improve Opportunities: Best Practices and Innovative Ideas
2 Harnessing Experience to Improve Opportunities: Best Practices and Innovative Ideas
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Three industry executives actively engaged in efforts to recruit, retain, and advance underrepresented men and women participated in a panel discussion to share their best practices and suggestions for action. Barry Cordero, principal project engineer at Medtronic and national vice president of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
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Sylvester Mendoza, Jr., corporate director for diversity and inclusion and EEO at Northrop Grumman Corporation, underscored the need for mentorship and added that in his experience coaching and sponsorship 2 also are critical to retaining and advancing women and underrepresented minority scientists and engineers in industry. All three -- mentorship, coaching, and sponsorship -- are essential, he said, if Northrop Grumman and others are going to meet the challenges laid out by the National Defense Industrial Association (Box 2-1)
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Boeing takes mentoring so seriously that all of the 288 executives at the vice president level must 4 See Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads (www.nap.edu/catalog.php? record_id=12984, accessed March 31, 2014)
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After joining together with the Orange County Register, local business leaders, local churches, and other organizations, the school doubled that rate in five years. The program revealed that cultural perceptions and media views of scientists and engineers greatly influenced students' decisions.
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The benefits of mentoring usually include personal support, role modeling, and friendship. 9 Coaching begins with agreement on goals and then moves on to an action plan; it is usually instructional, with a particular goal of focus, such as developing technical or soft skills, or it can be used as a way to train someone on a discrete task or series of tasks.
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The impact of sponsors goes beyond the traditional social, emotional, and personal growth development provided by many mentors. The importance of a combination of mentoring, coaching, and sponsorship 12 was reinforced by Mendoza when he described Northrop Grumman's online and face-to-face mentoring programs.
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Biases influence how people view their own capabilities and those of diverse employees and can affect attitudes about advancement. Affinity groups and professional associations can help solve this challenge by offering training to recognize implicit bias to industry partners and by including its members in outreach efforts regarding implicit biases.
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41 percent of middle school science teachers reported having earned degrees in science or science education, and only 35 percent of middle school mathematics teachers had degrees in mathematics or math education. The comparable figures for high school teachers were 82 percent and 73 percent for science and mathematics, respectively." See also another report from National Center for Education Statistics at http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ JTE/v21n2/obrien.html)
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For example, data from the 2007-2008 school year indicate that 12 and 16 percent of high school science and mathematics teachers, respectively, without a college degree in their subject received state certification to teach those subjects." 18 Online internships or other creative innovations might also be explored for high school students as well as teachers, and may provide additional means of introducing students to engineering by giving them real world problems to solve.
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