Individual Nomination of Amelito Enriquez for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring

Amelito Enriquez博士是加拿大学院的工程和数学教授，这是一所位于加利福尼亚州雷德伍德城的联邦政府指定的拉美裔服务社区学院。自1995年加入加拿大学院以来，他一直是数学、工程和科学成就计划的领导者，并设计和实施了各种由联邦政府资助的计划，包括学生通向工程和科学的入口计划和数学、科学和工程转移奖学金计划。这些项目的重要指导元素帮助加拿大学院增加了超过600%的工程学招生，与其他种族相比，来自代表人数较少的民族的科学、技术、工程和数学学生的招生增长率和成功率要高得多。

Dr. Amelito Enriquez is a Professor of Engineering and Mathematics at Canada College - a federally designated Hispanic-serving community college in Redwood City, California. Since joining Canada College in 1995, he has been a leader in the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement program and has designed and implemented a variety of federally funded programs including the Student On-ramp Leading to Engineering and Sciences program and the Mathematics, Science and Engineering Transfer Scholarships program. The significant mentoring elements of these programs have helped Canada College increase its engineering enrollment over 600%, with significantly higher rates of increase in enrollment and success of science, technology, engineering and mathematics students from underrepresented ethnic groups compared to other ethnic groups.