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the Southeast Transportation Workforce Center and the West TN STEM Hub. Her technical research includes focus on journey to school in urban areas, transportation planning (particularly related to freight impacts), livability assessment in urban communities, and strategies to engage citizens in the transportation planning process. She has a strong record of STEM workforce and education research, with special emphasis on transportation workforce development, partnerships between industry and academia, and increasing representation of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM.

is professor of electrical and computer engineering technology at IUPUI. She is the author of RFID+ The Complete Review of Radio Frequency Identification. Her areas of focus include analog circuits, radio frequency, signal processing and engineering technology education assessment. She holds an MS in electrical engineering from Purdue University.

(IUPUI) provides financial support, mentoring, and leadership and career development to undergraduate students with demonstrated potential to succeed in engineering, but who face significant financial challenges, possibly in combination with other barriers to meeting their full potential, such as being a firstgeneration college student or a member of an underrepresented group. In addition to scholarship support, CLEAR Scholars are provided with an intentional set of activities that promotes student retention, achievement, and persistence to graduation through: (a) Community-building through a cohort model; (b) Leadership and career development; (c) Engagement with industry; (d) Advising through mentoring; and (e) Resources for academic success (hence the acronym CLEAR). The ultimate goal of this project is to produce engineering graduates with lower student loan indebtedness and greater preparation for post-degree roles. Entering the Program Students apply for the CLEAR Scholars program as rising sophomores. To qualify, they must be engineering majors with a GPA of at least 2.7 earned in freshman math, science, and engineering classes in order to demonstrate their potential to succeed in engineering. Applicants submit a brief essay describing their interest in the program and why they think they are a good candidate, along with a recommendation letter from a faculty member. CLEAR Scholars remain in the program through their sophomore, junior, and senior years, provided they remain in engineering and maintain a GPA of at least 2.5. The sophomore year was chosen as the starting year of intervention because many existing campus efforts promoting student success and retention focus only on the first year, and resources for career planning are targeted primarily at juniors and seniors, leaving second-year students an invisible population receiving the least attention of any class [1]. Fourteen students have successfully graduated from the program since its inception in 2012. Program Activities CLEAR Scholars meet monthly during the fall and spring semesters for activities that connect them to academic and career development resources, as well as helping them develop relationships with one another and with the CLEAR Scholars coordinator. A typical schedule of activities for the year is shown in Table 1. Resources for Success Workshops include presentations from on-campus programs that support academic success, particularly those that are especially relevant to success in engineering, such as the Math Assistance Center; as well as activities that reinforce student self-efficacy, such as developing time management skills by comparing planned weekly schedules to actual time spent on those activities and reflecting on how to plan accordingly. Academic Reflections give Scholars an opportunity to reflect on their

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