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    In summer 2020, faculty in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville developed and implemented a virtual Summer Bridge Program (SBP) as part of an NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) grant. Texas A&M University-Kingsville is a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). The primary objective of the SBP was to improve academic motivation, retention, and success of underclassmen and transfer students in the college by implementing a co-curricular summer program that included several high-impact enrichment activities. The aim of this work is to share the approach developed for this SBP to obtain feedback from other undergraduate engineering education experts. Many universities have identified bridging programs for STEM students as a means of ensuring greater success and retention of freshman and sophomores majoring in STEM fields [1,2,3], and this was one impetus for the SBP. 
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    The first-year introductory engineering courses taught by three departments in the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville have incorporated engineering design instruction and hands-on design projects in the last two years as part of NSF grant award #1928611. A primary objective of this grant is to increase the retention and persistence of minorities in the engineering programs by incorporating high-impact enrichment activities into courses early in the student’s academic career. A logical course to include high impact activities for first-year students is the introduction to engineering courses in the departments, which are titled “Engineering as a Career” (GEEN 1201), within the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering. 
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