Shehab, R. L., & Walden, S. E., & Wellborn, E. E. (2015, June), Motivating Factors for Choosing Engineering as Reported by Racial and Ethnic Minority Students  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24507

\bibitem{asee_peer_24507}
  Shehab, R. L., \& Walden, S. E., \& Wellborn, E. E. (2015, June), \emph{Motivating Factors for Choosing Engineering as Reported by Racial and Ethnic Minority Students}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.24507

Randa L. Shehab, Susan E. Walden, and Emily Elizabeth Wellborn.  "Motivating Factors for Choosing Engineering as Reported by Racial and Ethnic Minority Students".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/24507 Internet.  23 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_24507}
  Randa L. Shehab, Susan E. Walden, and Emily Elizabeth Wellborn.
  "Motivating Factors for Choosing Engineering as Reported by Racial and Ethnic Minority Students".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/24507 Internet.  23 Apr, 2024

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AB  -           Motivating Factors for Choosing Engineering as Reported by             Racial and Ethnic Minority Students (Fundamental)It is a long time goal of the science, engineering, technology, and math communities to diversifythe demographic composition of these fields in order to improve solutions to today’s technicaland social problems. We examined the pre-college factors that motivated racial and ethnicminority students to pursue a major in engineering and how these factors related to personal orprofessional goals. A set of over 150 semi-structured interviews with African American, AsianAmerican, Hispanic American, and Native American engineering students was analyzed todetermine what influenced each of the students to enter engineering. For this analysis, a pair ofundergraduate research assistants applied an iterative-inductive coding process to identifyindividual factors and trends. Trends related to Social Cognitive Career Theory emerged but withvariances both within each minority group and across the four groups.Social Cognitive Career Theory associates career choice with an individual's self-efficacy in thatfield, interests that align with the field, and outcome expectations congruent with the career orthe path to reach the career. Furthermore, the theory posits that self-efficacy is enhanced orundermined by social supports and barriers that are present as the choice is made and re-madealong the path toward the career. From this interview set, we found that engineering self-efficacydid not figure strongly in the students' choices of pursuing an engineering major and career. Forresearch participants across the four minority groups, interests and social supports were highlyinfluential. Outcome expectations, as related to employment prospects, were also highlyinfluential for Asian American students, though only moderately influential for the other threegroups of students.This paper will provide a detailed examination of the differential trends within and across groupsand recommend strategies to consider for encouraging young racial and ethnic minority studentstoward future careers in engineering.
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