Running Head: INVESTING IN THE FUTURE Investing in the future: Testing the Efficacy of Socialization within Undergraduate Engineering Degree Programs Bryce E. Hughes and Sylvia Hurtado UCLA Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Conference November 2013 St. Louis, MO This study was made possible by the support of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH Grant Numbers 1 R01 GMO71968-01 and R01 GMO71968-05, the National Science Foundation, NSF Grant Number 0757076, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 through the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH Grant 1RC1GM090776-01. This independent research and the views expressed here do not indicate endorsement by the sponsors.