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Innovative retention/development programs for undergraduate minority engineering students Help Me Help You: Building a Support Network for Minority Engineering StudentsIn an attempt to retain undergraduates from underrepresented population, engineering colleges–and universities in a broader sense–often offer support to these students in various forms. However, students are not always aware of these resources and their academic problems can gounnoticed until it is too late to intervene. To ensure students are not only aware of the availableresources but also have the access and rapport to encourage them to seek the necessaryassistance, a student centered support group was developed. The voluntary program, Help MeHelp You (HMHY), commenced by inviting first-year African-American engineering students toparticipate and focused on encouraging students to accomplish the program theme …