Individual Nomination

Benjamin C.弗洛雷斯 德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校本杰明弗洛雷斯，在18年的服务过程中，持续有效的辅导和指导工作，大大提高了代表性不足的群体在干学科的参与。他在国家努力发展充分多样化的劳动力方面发挥了模范领导作用。弗洛雷斯一直是一个专门的顾问和指导的电气和计算机工程师，电气工程荣誉社会，工程荣誉社会，黑人工程师的国家社会，工程教育的美国社会，妇女工程师的社会和墨西哥学生协会的地方学生分会。在这个能力，他不知疲倦地组织和暴露分数的工程学生领袖的专业发展活动。在弗洛雷斯博士的领导下，工程师和科学家学术中心已扩大到平均每天为900名学生提供服务，并为200多名学生提供了校园就业机会。弗洛雷斯博士还负责实施妇女参与科学和工程方案，该方案为250名本科女生提供了支助。通过WiSE，弗洛雷斯博士开展了一些活动，向300多名中学女生及其家长推广STEM职业。此外，弗洛雷斯博士在1996年至2003年期间指导了校园内第一个集中的本科STEM研究项目，为303名本科生提供了支持。该计划现在在全国范围内被公认为是西班牙裔学生保留，毕业和招收研究生的一个非常成功的模式。目前，弗洛雷斯博士指导得克萨斯大学系统路易斯斯托克斯少数民族联盟博士。弗洛雷斯在为代表性不足的少数民族学生的成功制定一个强有力的指导和支持模式方面发挥了主要作用。他发表了许多参考会议文章，促进了对学生辅导和指导的理解，并在美国，墨西哥和智利提供了数十个关键说明演讲，通过榜样促进教育和学生成功。他与德克萨斯州的机构和美国各地的几个少数民族服务机构合作，促进STEM教育的转型。

BENJAMIN C. FLORES University of Texas at El PasoDr. Benjamin Flores has, over the course of 18 years of service, sustained effective mentoring and guidance efforts that have significantly enhanced the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM disciplines. He serves as an exemplary leader in the national effort to develop a fully diversified workforce. Dr. Flores has been a dedicated counselor and guide for the local student chapters of the Institute of Electrical and Computer Engineers, the Electrical Engineering Honor Society, the Engineering Honor Society, the National Society of Black Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Society of Women in Engineers, and the Mexican Student Association. In this capacity, he has worked tirelessly to organize and expose scores of engineering student leaders to professional development activities. Under Dr. Flores' leadership, Academic Center for Engineers and Scientists has expanded to serve an average of 900 students per day and has provided employment on campus to more than 200 students. Dr. Flores is also responsible for implementing the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) program, which provided support to 250 undergraduate female students. Through WiSE, Dr. Flores developed activities that reached out and promoted STEM careers to more than 300 middle school girls and their parents. In addition, Dr. Flores directed the first centralized undergraduate STEM research program on campus which supported 303 undergraduate students between 1996 and 2003. The program is now recognized nationwide as a highly successful model for Hispanic student retention, graduation and recruiting into graduate school. Currently, Dr. Flores directs the University of Texas System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority ParticipationDr. Flores has played a principal role in developing a robust mentoring and support model for under-represented minority student success. He has published numerous refereed conference articles that advance the understanding of student mentoring and guidance and has offered dozens of key note speeches in the United States, Mexico, and Chile, promoting access to education and student success through role models. He has collaborated with institutions in Texas and with several minority serving institutions throughout the United States on promoting the transformation of STEM education.