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Arizonu State University's (ASu College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) houses the Ofice of Minority Engineering Programs (OMEP) that supports both the ASU MESA program and the Minorip Engineering Program (MEP). ASU MESA, purl of Arizona MESA and a national pariner of MESA USA, an eight state collaborative, was estubhhed lo assist o w state and nation in achieving the MESA goals. ASW MESA reaches over 500 students within the Cenlral region of Ihe sfate and as far Northeasi as the lvava~o indian Reservation. The ASU UMEP and ASU MESA hosted a twoweek residential summer program sponsored by the US Department of Transportation The purpose of the Federal Highway Adminislralion (FHWA) Summer Tramporlution Institule (STr) is to raise awareness and fosler excitement on the divwxity of cureers in Transportation Engineering and io instill the imporlance of mathemalics and science as tools in the development of the technological industry. ASU MESA was used to recruit secondary students to study the option uf Transportation Engineering US an academic and profc2wionuf career to Arizona students. The program participanrs consisred of 28 rising fieshmen and sophomores sludents from Arizona high sehools The behavioraf objectives for the STI were delivered by ulilizing technology instrruction, and research. The stQdent participunrs studied various modes of rrunsportufion, explored areas of Civil Engineering, developed teambidding skiis. and participated in transportation design. The program also included mathemaiics and science tutoring, as well as critical thinking and analytical skill building. In the past, similar programs were focused around and facilitated by Historicufly Black Colleges and Universidie,T over a four-week period. In addition, a universiQ wesf of the Mississippi River had never hosted rhe program. Now the g o d of the FHWA is to extend these insiitufes to CI wider and broader student population. Therefore, the STI ofleered at ASU will serve as a comprehensive two-week program model for other MESA or MESA related programs. Furthermore, in Arizona, the program wiil be expanded to include an addifional twoweek session for Nafive American students in Summer 1999. The paper will discuss how universiv facur& and engineering studen&, the FHWA, and fhe Arizona 0-7803-5643-8/99/%10.00 0 1999 IEEE Department of Transportalion (ADUTJ employees, and other technical industry members collaboruted together to develop an eSfective program to increase interest in Transportation.

includes coordinated multi-vehicle searching, automatic target recognition, formation flight of swarms of vehicles, risk assessment of UAS in the national airspace, collision avoidance/deconfliction, and UAS flight operations. He has worked closely with industry partners such as the Boeing Company, Insitu, Aerovel, Hood Technology, and the Washington Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation to implement academic technologies onto deployed platforms. Dr. Lum teaches both undergraduate and graduate course on automatic control, flight mechanics, modeling and simulation, mathematical tools for engineers, sensors and actuators, and other controls related courses. He has been awarded the department's "Instructor of the Year" award twice (2012 and 2013). He is also the faculty advisor to the department's design, build, fly team. He has served as an adjunct professor at Seattle University and as a visiting fellow at

A highly successful minority outreach and support program for incoming college freshmen in engineering is described. The University of Washington has been running ALVA (Alliances for Learning and Vision for underrepresented Americans) for 11 years and continuously tracks its participants. Partners in ALVA come from the government, education, and industry. This program targets talented underrepresented minority students and addresses four major hurdles that face minority students in engineering: lack of vision of themselves as an engineer, finances, community, and academic preparation. We will present ALVA as a model that can be duplicated at other colleges and universities.