Beyond Persistence: Graduate School Aspirations of Hispanic Engineering Students at HSIs

Abstract

Dr. Fleming is the chair of the 2015 Middle States Accreditation Periodic Review and led the University’s Middle States Accreditation Self-Study Taskforce in 1999. She is currently the interim dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Computer Sciences and a professor and former chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Howard University. She is a licensed professional engineer, who, since joining the Howard faculty in 1985, in addition to leading the University’s Middle States Accreditation Self-Study Taskforce in 1999, has led a number of research and intervention initiatives to attract and retain African American students in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and improve the quality of engineering education for Howard undergraduates. Dr. Fleming is the founder and director of the HUSEM (Howard University Science, Engineering, and Mathematics) program, and serves as the principal investigator and director of the National Science Foundationfunded Global Education, Awareness, and Research Undergraduate Program (GEAR-UP), which provides STEM undergraduates with research opportunities abroad as well as exposure to engineering research in an international setting. She is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a commissioner of the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. She earned her doctorate in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. She holds a Master of Science degree from the George Washington University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering at Howard University. She is the author of several engineering publications including articles in peer-reviewed engineering education journals.