Ehsan, H., & Sanchez-Pena, M. L., & EbrahimNejad, H., & Al Yagoub, H. A. (2019, June), Capturing the Experiences of ESL Graduate Students in Engineering Education  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32497

\bibitem{asee_peer_32497}
  Ehsan, H., \& Sanchez-Pena, M. L., \& EbrahimNejad, H., \& Al Yagoub, H. A. (2019, June), \emph{Capturing the Experiences of ESL Graduate Students in Engineering Education}
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--32497

Hoda Ehsan, Matilde Luz Sanchez-Pena, Hossein EbrahimNejad, and Hassan Ali Al Yagoub.  "Capturing the Experiences of ESL Graduate Students in Engineering Education".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/32497 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_32497}
  Hoda Ehsan, Matilde Luz Sanchez-Pena, Hossein EbrahimNejad, and Hassan Ali Al Yagoub.
  "Capturing the Experiences of ESL Graduate Students in Engineering Education".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/32497 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Doctoral education can be a challenging and overwhelming journey for many graduate students. Engineering Education as an emerging interdisciplinary field welcomes diverse students in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, ability, and language. Therefore, the experiences and needs of engineering education graduate students’ are varied. Their diverse needs require equally diverse support structures. 
We are a group of engineering education students and alumni who share the experience of speaking English as a second language (ESL).  Using a duoethnographical approach, we aim to reflect on our doctoral journey in engineering education and highlight the challenges we went through and the strategies used to overcome them. We are taking the positionality of “researcher to participant”, to examine our experiences. Our challenges and strategies are centered about experiences with cultural differences, identity formation, language barriers, and the expectations from ourselves and our broader engineering education community.
This study intends to convey a message to other ESL graduate students a message of solidarity in their own doctoral journey. The findings of our study can also highlight the approaches that other ESL students can take to help them overcome the challenges that they may face. In the end, the findings of this study can inform policymakers and school administrators about the ways they can support their ESL students.

AU  - Hoda Ehsan
AU  - Matilde Luz Sanchez-Pena
AU  - Hossein EbrahimNejad
AU  - Hassan Ali Al Yagoub
CY  - Tampa, Florida
DA  - 2019/06/15
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Capturing the Experiences of ESL Graduate Students in Engineering Education
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--32497
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