Hypatia & Galileo Engineering Living-Learning Communities
Dr. DeAnne Perry DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAMS, CEED 2
Zoom Etiquette • Mute microphones • Questions in Q&A section 3
CEED • Communities are part of the student support menu of the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity office • www.eng.vt.edu/ceed • 28 years of student support programs • Hypatia – 19 years • Galileo – 14 years 4
Living Learning Communities • Students live together in one building • Hypatia & Galileo are all engineering students • Can live in the community multiple years but most do not • Living beyond first year requires leadership role 5
Hypatia & Galileo are designed to: • Help students transition well from high school to college and college to career • Make a large university feel more like home • Explore areas of your professional development as an engineer with a focus on topics of diversity 6
2018/2019 Retention & GPA Impact • Retention from 1 st year to 2 nd year in COE • Hypatia 99% • Galileo 98% • Control Group 96% (No CEED program participation) • Control group size for female is unequal due to # of CEED participants • Average Cumulative GPA • Hypatia 3.34 • Galileo 3.36 • Control Group 3.13 (No CEED program participation) 7
Communities by the numbers for 2020/2021 • Galileo – male students • First Year - 338 • Upper Class - 72 • ½ 3 rd and 4 th floor, all of 5 th - 7 th floors • Hypatia – female students • First year – 280 (unless we get enough female applicants to make the communities equal in size) • Upper Class - 78 • Ground floor, 1 st and 2 nd and ½ of 3 rd and 4 th floor 8
1 st Year Student Structure Goal of community is to help support 1 st year students with the • transition from high school to college and college to career 1 st year student required 2 credit course taught by engineering • graduate students & CEED staff Assigned upper class mentor to meet once a week for 1 st ten • weeks of fall semester • What to expect from the course & What to expect from mentoring
Upper Class Structure 2 nd year students are peer selected and must live in the community serving in a committee • position – 1 credit leadership course • Academic Support • Communications • Data Management • Outreach • Professional Development • Service Learning • SMILE • Social • Studio Design Challenge • Studio Training 2 nd year students can also apply to be a mentor, not everyone is selected to be a mentor • • All mentors/committee members must live in the community 3 rd and 4 th year students not on the Leadership Teams can apply to remain in the • community as a mentor/committee member • Galipatia Leadership Team helps mentor the upper class in committee and mentor roles
inVenTs Studio 1 & 2 • 2 nd floor of Lee Hall • Studio 1 – design space – 3D printers & LOTS of tools • Studio 2 – collaboration space – study space • Managed by graduate students and team of upper-class leaders • Corporate and faculty events 11
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inVenTs Supported Design Competitions • Rocketry Team • NASA Micro G Next • More in the works for next year! 14
Let’s “tour” Lee Hall! https://youtu.be/e8slZUfya0E Photos of the building - https://www.galipatiacommunity.com/lee- hall-info 15
Application Process • Application revisions begin in late January and proceed up to and through May 1 or until the communities are full. • Decisions are made on a rolling basis. We review a new set of applications every Monday and return decisions to those applicants by the following Monday. • Applications are reviewed by community faculty and staff, and current upper class community members. • The only living learning community you can apply to BEFORE you accept your admissions offer! 16
How to Apply We encourage you to look over the following information before you apply: • What to expect from the course - https://eng.vt.edu/ceed/ceed- undergraduate-programs/communities/what-to-expect-from-the- course.html • What to expect from your mentor - https://eng.vt.edu/ceed/ceed- undergraduate-programs/communities/hypatia-galileo-mentoring.html • inVenTs Studio Maker Space in Lee Hall - https://eng.vt.edu/ceed/ceed-undergraduate- programs/communities/invents-residential-community.html • Community FAQ - https://www.galipatiacommunity.com/faqs • How to apply - https://eng.vt.edu/ceed/ceed-undergraduate- programs/communities/apply-for-engineering-residential-programs.html 17
MEET THE LEADERS 18
Hometown: Greensboro, NC Clubs/Orgs: NSBE, Dean’s Team, Undergrad Research Role in Galipatia: GLT - Service Learning Liaison JESIKA MCDANIEL JUNIOR BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS Why I love Galipatia? ENGINEERING “It’s very empowering to be surrounded with like minded women in engineering … without Galipatia I probably would not have stayed in engineering” – Jesika M. 19
Kelly Crocker • Major: Civil Engineering • Minors: Green Engineering & Science, Technology, and Law • Roles I’ve had in Galipatia: mentor, professional development committee member, professional development committee liaison 20
Zach Trees Hometown: Jonesville, VA Year: Junior Major: Industrial & Systems Engineering Current Role in Galipatia: Mentor Liaison Activities outside Galipatia: The Consulting Group at Virginia Tech (CGVT) 21
Hometown: Milford, Virginia | Hobbies: Sports, Music, Video Games Kobe Washington Sophomore in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Mentor Liaison) 22
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