Baquero-Sierra, M. J. A., & Vargas-Ordóñez, C. E., & McDermott, J. E., & McBride, S. M. (2023, June), Understanding international graduate engineering students' well-being: What do they need to thrive? (Work in Progress)  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44539

\bibitem{asee_peer_44539}
  Baquero-Sierra, M. J. A., \& Vargas-Ordóñez, C. E., \& McDermott, J. E., \& McBride, S. M. (2023, June), \emph{Understanding international graduate engineering students' well-being: What do they need to thrive? (Work in Progress)}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--44539

Manuel José Alejandro Baquero-Sierra, Cristián Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez, Jacqueline E McDermott, and Stephen Mark McBride.  "Understanding international graduate engineering students' well-being: What do they need to thrive? (Work in Progress)".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44539 Internet.  05 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_44539}
  Manuel José Alejandro Baquero-Sierra, Cristián Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez, Jacqueline E McDermott, and Stephen Mark McBride.
  "Understanding international graduate engineering students' well-being: What do they need to thrive? (Work in Progress)".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44539 Internet.  05 Apr, 2025

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author = "Manuel José Alejandro Baquero-Sierra, Cristián Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez, Jacqueline E McDermott, and Stephen Mark McBride"
title = "Understanding international graduate engineering students' well-being: What do they need to thrive? (Work in Progress)"
booktitle = "2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - International graduate engineering students (IGES) have unique challenges different from domestic students. At large land-grant institutions, these students may feel left out and experience anxiety or stress that hampers their ability to succeed academically. Understanding the antecedents to the challenges IGESs face can help colleges of engineering better support their international graduate students to ensure they thrive at their institutions. Previous studies have investigated the historical, cultural, and social factors that have impacted the construction of IGES's academic identities. However, broader efforts are needed to understand the population of engineering graduate students at universities with a strong engineering focus. This Work in Progress study presents the results of a pilot survey developed that seeks to understand the factors that impact the well-being of IGESs. For this, we developed a survey that evaluates this population's three main components of their Identity Fundations: (a) socially distributed resources, (b) historically accumulated experiences, and (c) culturally developed identities. The socially distributed resources component assesses social and institutional support, their relationships with advisors, institutional support, and networking capacities. The historically accumulated experiences component focuses on IGES experiences with others, daily life experiences, and their preparation to apply to universities. Finally, culturally developed identities refer to IGES's senses of belonging, recognition, and competence evaluated with the Measure of Engineering Identity (MEI). In addition to the dimensions mentioned earlier, we included the PERMA-profiler (Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment) to assess the factors of flourishing and well-being of the IGESs and determine the impact of the components mentioned above. We plan to apply the refined survey version during the spring semester of 2023. The results will help identify the needs and resources of IGESs and their social determinants. Additionally, it will allow the design of programs, workshops, or events that the engineering faculty of [University] could create to support their IGES.

AU  - Manuel José Alejandro Baquero-Sierra
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AU  - Jacqueline E McDermott
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CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
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