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First-Year Programs: Assessment in the First Year

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jamie R. Gurganus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Shannon M. Clancy, University of Michigan; Richard Olaf Blorstad, DeMatha Catholic High School; Ryan Reinhardt; Charles D. Eggleton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; L. D. Timmie Topoleski, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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First-Year Programs

of research (increasing retention ofengineering students) by developing a tool that uses existing validated assessments to support astudent’s ability to self-assess their engineering academic career. This tool will serve first- andsecond-year students. The aims of the study focused on the following: 1. To define a UMBC student’s (Third, Fourth and Fifth year) successful Engineering State of Mind. This was essential to the creation of the Engineering State of Mind Instrument (ESMI) giving students indirect peer mentoring opportunities through online profiles. 2. Determine the common themes of Freshman Engineering students Engineering State of Mind and the attitudes and perceptions of the different population groups of the

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Tariq Khraishi; Kristine Denman

Institute for Social Research University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 kdenman@unm.eduAbstractIn this paper, the authors discuss the experiences of a National Science Foundation STEP (STEMTalent Expansion Program) award to the School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico(UNM). The setup of this STEP project is unique in the sense that it focuses its efforts and activityfunding on internships and professional conference participation trips for early career engineeringand computer science students. In addition to a background on the national STEP Program, thepaper discusses the constructive elements of this project and the data

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Special programs and activities for minorities in engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Brown

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Minorities in Engineering

stands for Stay Tech @ RIT) is an initiativesponsored by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) seeking to study new andinnovative methods to increase the recruitment and retention rates of these underrepresentedpopulations. The ST@R Project achieves these goals by focusing its efforts on three majorareas: (1) Student Support Services and Outreach Efforts, (2) Mentoring and Coaching, and (3)Career Exploration and Professional Development. To improve the pipeline of electricalengineers as well as increase the number of underrepresented individuals, the ST@R project alsofocuses on researching and developing a pedagogical system that addresses diverse teaching andlearning styles within the engineering classroom. The main objective is to

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

. Teachers in these schools are working with teachersfrom Estacado and TTU faculty and students to find ways to align the pre-engineering curriculumvertically. Ultimately, the goal of the Academy program is to get students excited about science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at an early age, and then to provide them witha consistent learning experience that continually extends their knowledge and practical use ofSTEM concepts and skills throughout their academic careers from middle school, to high school,and into college.OverviewEstacado High School is located in the Northeast quadrant (quadrant four) of Lubbock, and its Page

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Chemical Engineering Education: Upperclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Cox, Purdue University; Angie Andriot, Purdue University; Stephen Beaudoin, Purdue University

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Chemical Engineering

preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).Angie Andriot, Purdue University Angie Andriot is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University. Her dissertation, entitled “Gender and Engineering Identity Development among Undergraduate Majors,” is partially funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Purdue Research Foundation. Angie also works part-time doing research for the College of Engineering

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Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carol Gattis, University of Arkansas; Todd Shields, University of Arkansas; Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas; Shannon Davis, University of Arkansas

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Minorities in Engineering

STEM fields. Page 15.238.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 ECAP: A Recruitment-to-Graduation Program for Underrepresented Engineering StudentsAbstractThe University of Arkansas College of Engineering recently completed the first twoyears of a comprehensive program called the ‘Engineering Career Awareness Program’(ECAP). This program is supported in part by an NSF grant titled “Breaking Barriers:Pathways to Graduation for Underrepresented Talent (ECAP)” (NSF award #DUE-0807180). This program successfully removed traditional barriers to students fromunderrepresented groups entering and

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Ellen Haupt; Jessica Gregory

in-depth by working directly with the SWE members on their projects, then having the opportunity to teach what they have learned to the younger girls. The SWE members become involved in reaching out to the next generation of potential engineers. When the SWE members become active in helping others learn about science and engineering, they are more likely to feel camaraderie with their peers, mentoring each other, and thus are less likely to feel isolated and drop out of engineering. Thus, by this tiered mentoring approach, we are recruiting the younger girls into potential engineering careers and working to retain the college level women in their engineering programs. Planning for this project was done using a Logic Model formulation

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Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James West; Dennis Miller; Daina Briedis

topics with specialized studies in . . . contemporary fields . . . [thus allowing graduates . . .] • to become successful in the practice of chemical engineering or in advanced studies in engineering, scientific or complementary disciplines; • to assume leadership roles in industry and/or their communities ; • to contribute to the economic environment of their communities; and • to maintain career skills through life-long learning.In the basic sense of truth in advertising, it occurred to us that we might be promising somethingthat our traditional curriculum would not be able to sustain in the near future. In addition, thehiring of new faculty had enhanced our expertise in the

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sweeney; Heather Cullen; Alyssa Panitch

ProgramThe mission of the Bioengineering Program at ASU is to educate students to use engineering andscientific principles and methods to develop instrumentation, materials, diagnostic andtherapeutic devices, artificial organs, or other equipment and technologies needed in medicineand biology and to discover new fundamental principles regarding the functioning and structureof living systems. The overall goal of the program is to produce high-quality graduates with abroad-based education in engineering and the life and natural sciences who are well prepared forfurther graduate study in bioengineering, a career in the medical device or biotechnologyindustries, a career in biomedical research, or entry into a medical or other health

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Heyman; Aisha K. Lawrey; Ronald H. Rockland

Session 1692 Building An Engineer: Women in Engineering Suzanne B. Heyman, Aisha K. Lawrey, & Ronald H. Rockland New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractEven as gender gaps in education decrease, barriers to equal education for women in advancedmathematics, science, and technology remain. Such obstacles translate to few women enteringcareers in technology fields, resulting in lower wages for women and limited career opportunities.Gender differences in mathematics and science appear to grow as students progress through highschool. In college, fewer females are found in advanced

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Miller; Monica Schmidt

Session 2793 Hands-On Science Activities Developed for Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council, Inc. Monica A. Schmidt1 and Angela M. Miller2 1 Biomedical Engineering Program, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville / 2 Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council, Inc., Knoxville, TennesseeIntroductionOutreach activities have been implemented to interest girls in careers in science and engineering,with emphasis on the physical and biological sciences. A patch program called “TheMicroscopic World” was designed for Girl Scouts in grades 1-12, sponsored by

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Tomorrow's Civil Engineering Profession

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

KC Mahboub; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Scott Yost

Session 2615 What does it mean to be an engineer? The 2001 Challenge to Engineering Educators S. Yost, A. Phillips, P. Palazolo, K.C. Mahboub Univ. of Kentucky/Univ. of Memphis/ Univ. of Memphis/ Univ. of KentuckyAbstractDean Kamen’s keynote speech at the 2001 ASEE National Convention in Albuquerque, NewMexico asked some tough questions of engineering educators. Primarily, Kamen questionedwhat we are doing to represent engineering as a viable career choice in comparison to thewidespread appeal of lucrative sports careers, which promise to pay young people extraordinaryamounts of money. His conclusion

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati

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College Industry Partnerships, Graduate Studies

engineering educators. Although the merger with the College ofTechnology is a major change, other factors are also having a strong impact. These include therise of the field of engineering education, changes in the undergraduate experience such asincreased emphasis on research and entrepreneurship, and, in addition, changes in the academicengineering job market and in the importance of post-doctoral positions for those students whoare focused on a research career in academia. At the present time, UC is also revising all itscurricula in preparation for a move from quarters to semesters in Fall 2012. And also, like manylarge state universities, UC is dealing with many budget challenges. Here we describe changesin our PFF program to adapt to the many

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wayne E. Whiteman, Georgia Institute of Technology; William J. Wepfer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

Ph.D. students tocomplete a Teaching Practicum course during their doctoral studies. Students work closely withfaculty mentors in teaching a course. While the focus of the class is on pedagogy, the goal is forstudents to find the experience useful regardless of whether they are going into academia,industry, a research laboratory, or other career pursuits. In addition to issues dealing withteaching engineering, sessions are organized for career planning, success in both academia andindustry, ethics, and basic counseling and mentoring skills. This paper is a study of theeffectiveness of the Teaching Practicum experience. Survey responses are analyzed from nearly100 Ph.D. alumni for the period from the summer of 1996 to the spring of 2009. The

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Professional Aspects of Graduate Engineering Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ana T. Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida; Kavitha D. Ramane, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

asks, “What can be done at the graduate level toensure that engineering Ph.D. students are acquiring the desired characteristics to be successfulin academic and industrial careers?” Our findings suggest that engineering Ph.D.s working in avariety of sectors identify different skills that students can acquire during their graduate schoolexperiences. Both industry and academic professionals confirm a need for more frequentinteractions between industrial professionals and doctoral engineering students.IntroductionEngineering doctoral graduates often are criticized for being narrowly trained in their disciplines,for being ill-prepared for the professional workplace,1 and for not being flexible in a changingglobal environment.2 Multiple initiatives

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Lin; Sharon Cobb; Floyd Patterson; Carol Davis; Robert Pieri; G. Padmanabhan

Native American participation in Math,Science and Engineering careers. Activities for the five year proposal period focus on attractingthe Native American high school students to the tribal colleges, retaining them through thecollege, facilitating their smooth transfer to the university, and motivating them for higherstudies. Because of the vast distances involved between each of the five tribal colleges and theuniversity, and the sparsely populated nature of the region, distance education technology willnecessarily play a key role. For example, some of the activities will be over a two-way videonetwork (Interactive Video Network) connecting all of these colleges and the university. Thedevelopment of the proposal involved representatives and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Batty; Joseph Clair Batty

mandated to cooperate withuniversities and make facilities available. Partnering with our customers seems to be growingand thriving. Page 6.247.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationK-14 Engineering Education Teamingí6FKRRO-to-Careers ModelIt is our observation that teaming or partnering with our K-12 or K-14 suppliers is lagging thepartnering with our BIG customers. There are challenges to K-12 teaming. We have found thatK-12 teachers and counselors are often fearful of math, science, and technology and

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie L. Blaisdell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1692 A Pipeline to Recruit Women Into Engineering Stephanie L. Blaisdell, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Arizona State UniversityWomen constituted only 17% of those awarded bachelor degrees in engineering in 19951, a slightincrease (16%) from the previous year2. The future does not seem much brighter, either. In1990, senior males in public high schools were more than three times as likely to choose a careerin science, math or engineering than women3. Interest in engineering careers among collegefreshmen in 1995 reached a 20-year low, with only 2% of the women planning to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melanie B Butler, Mount St. Mary's University; Rosina Bolen; DINA YAGODICH, Frederick Community College; Aubrey Allen Smith, Montgomery College; Christine McCauslin; Isaac N Mills, Mount Saint Mary College; Jeffrey Simmons; Kraig E Sheetz

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #42367Board 350: Preliminary Results from Community Colleges Collaborating inSTEMDr. Melanie B Butler, Mount St. Mary’s University Dr. Melanie Butler is the Principal Investigator for C3STEM: Community Colleges Collaborating in STEM, which is an S-STEM Track 2 National Science Foundation grant that has established pre- and post-transfer support, co-curricular, and career development activities for supporting recruitment, retention, and student success in STEM. She is a professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Mount St. Mary’s University.Rosina BolenDINA YAGODICH

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Kow Quainoo, North Park University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

funding and participation in an academic cohortdesigned to provide experiential learning in career-relevant spaces. Students in our sample werecompleting their STEM degrees during the recent “COVID years”, a time when they were not onlyat risk due to financial hardship, but also separated physically from teachers, peers, mentors, andopportunities. Although COVID had a negative effect on the types of experiences available tothese students, participation in this program has helped them to thrive, persist and succeed.Through group meetings, guest speakers, career development participation and trips to engineeringindustry sites, the group developed professional relationships with peers and faculty, andbelongingness within the university community

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute; Billyde Brown; Ray Phillips, American Society for Engineering Education; Jennifer Tygret; Taelor Malcolm, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

-sponsored collaborative research projects focused on broadening participation in STEM academia. Dr. Mendez’s research centers on the creation of optimal higher education policies and practices that advance faculty careers and student success, as well as the schooling experiences of Mexican-descent youth in the mid-20th century.Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced enDr. Billyde BrownRay Phillips, American Society for Engineering EducationJennifer TygretTaelor

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Advancing Diversity in Engineering Education: Insights and Perspectives from Underrepresented Communities

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Animesh Paul, University of Georgia; Racheida S Lewis, University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

, lesbian, bisexual,transgender, and non-binary identities. In our study, we have chosen to use thisterm in its broadest sense. However, when discussing this community within theframework of specific research, we will adopt the terminology used by theresearchers of those studies. The existing literature on Queer experiences in STEMfields provides unique insights into the distinct challenges and opportunitiesencountered by people of various gender and sexual orientations. Studies haveexplored the experiences of LGBTQ+ students in male-dominated fields, such asengineering, shedding light on the challenges they face [1]. Huff et al. [2] offers acomprehensive examination of the development of professional identities amongearly-career engineers in the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Chuck Keating; Paul Kauffmann; Abel Fernandez

promotes a structured career planningprocess that minimizes non-focused effort, and provides a foundation for future success.I. IntroductionNew engineering educators are presented with a bewildering array of opportunities as theyponder the paths to tenure through teaching, research and service. The contribution to tenuresuccess made by specific activities is not clear, yet new faculty must make decisions as to how toallocate their time. Service options may include multiple university and department committeesthat can absorb time and effort. Involvement in research centers and industry related projectsmay lead to research funding and publications but their contribution toward achieving tenure isnot clear. Teaching is an important activity that must

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POTPOURRI

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guy Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology; Brian Tomaszewski, RIT

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Information Systems

students to achieve maximum successes in their careers or research disciplines.Background technologies and the anticipated future of the fieldGeospatial Technologies (GTs) have evolved from initial beginnings as simple computer-basedmap making tools to complex visual and computational environments. GTs are used world-wide in diverse application domains ranging from community planning to the exploration ofouter space. The increased use of GTs has led the development of new tools, techniques andtheory that have imbued GTs with new forms of geographic visualization, support for spatialthinking, and opportunities for research and education. It is an exciting time for GT researchand education. Industry standard, commercial desktop Geographic

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Extending a Hand Back: Older Students Inspiring Younger Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristine R. Csavina, Florida Gulf Coast University; Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. High school studentsfrom around the United States were selected for a month long STEM experience in the chosensite of Calhuitz, Guatemala, a remote community in the county of Huehuetenango. A team ofBioengineering and Nursing faculty delivered this educational and cultural summer experiencewith the objective to broaden students’ knowledge and exposure to health care careers inengineering and nursing, while providing assistive devices and health care outreach to the localcommunity. The high school students convened for two and a half days on the campus ofFlorida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), where they were introduced to health care topics andprepared for the challenges they would encounter in Guatemala. Students spent three and a halfweeks in

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2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

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Jan DeWaters P.E., Clarkson University; Kathleen Kavanagh, Clarkson University; Seema Rivera

STEM QuESTS: A Design Challenge to Broaden Student Engagement in STEM EducationAbstractEngineering competitions are a popular mechanism to engage students in engineering and, morebroadly, in STEM studies and careers. Participants typically work in teams to solve real-worldproblems, integrating conceptual learning with hands-on activities. Engineering designchallenges provide an authentic engineering experience that integrates science, mathematics, andengineering principles and helps students develop innovative design thinking. They also improvestudent engagement, motivation, and self-efficacy, and provide students the opportunity todevelop important “21st Century” professional skills.As an alternative to the

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FPD 2: Retention

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University

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First-Year Programs

engineeringdegree, and whether a student have chosen an engineering discipline to pursue. Several surveysadministered at strategic time points during the semester were used to track level of interest inpursuing engineering and to identify key events that can be consider as precursors to leavingengineering. Reflection essays were also employed to understand how the first semesterexperience affects student’s perception of engineering as a career of choice.An analysis of entrance surveys indicated a high level of interest in pursuing an engineeringdegree in most students surveyed. Key events, such as their first calculus test, triggeredindecision in some of the students. Early results identified a group of students at risk of leavingengineering during the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Nivedita Kumar, Florida International University; Mark Allen Weiss, Florida International University; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Jacqueline Faith Sullivan, University of Central Florida; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Bailey Bond-Trittipo, Florida International University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

; virtual Industry Tours; graduate school events (such asvirtual application/scholarship/fellowship Workshops, graduate school showcases); virtual professionaldevelopment Workshops; Career and Internship Fairs at each institution; the aforementioned Flit-GAPSymposium and associated student presentation workshops; Peer Mentoring of older cohort members toyounger cohort members through virtual Alumni Panels; and invitations to Special Events at each institution(e.g., professional conferences, symposia, etc.). It is hoped that some of these successful activities can besustained and scaled even after the expiration of the grant.Pathway ActivitiesA key element of Flit-GAP involves offering all scholars a pathway selection, either internship, research

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Sarah (Yin Yin) Tan; Song-Lin Yang; David Labyak

ETD 505 Examining the Academic Success and Transition Experiences of Engineering Transfer Students: A Comparative Analysis of ETS- IMPRESS and Traditional Engineering Pathways Sarah (Yin Yin) Tan, Song-Lin Yang, David M. Labyak Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractAcademic and career success hinges on diverse factors including students’ perception of schoolreadiness and expectation. Previous studies have indicated that transfer students transitioningfrom a 2-year college to a 4-year university in engineering programs, specifically thoseparticipating

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Professional Papers

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2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Kimberly T. Luthi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide; David Paul Harvie, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide; John K Wilson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide; Monica Surrency, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide

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Diversity, Professional Papers

responses of undergraduate students who participated in peer led learningactivities in online courses [8]. The responses center on how the students felt most supported intheir courses as well as how they felt supported in their academic and career goals.One of the goals of this research is to measure the impact of peer learning on the persistence ofVeteran and active military student population in engineering pathways. At Embry-RiddleAeronautical University-Worldwide Campus over 54% of the student population is activemilitary or Veterans. The research was conducted in foundational undergraduate courses thathistorically have higher attrition rates and present the largest barriers to students’ persistence andsuccess in their degree progression. The