Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom J. Zajdel, Carnegie Mellon University; Allison E. Connell Pensky, Carnegie Mellon University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

skills without thetraditional barriers of calculus and physics that gate the engineering major at the university level.Our course targets students from the arts, humanities, computer sciences, and businessdisciplines, working to improve their technical literacy and help them develop their technicalabilities. Engineering students in non-electrical disciplines have also been attracted to the courseto build their electronics skills for lab work. These skills should better prepare students tomeaningfully engage with technology in their lives and careers after graduation. The pilot studyran during the Fall 2022 semester with 9 enrolled students and an extension and replication iscurrently underway. To recruit more students for future studies, we have

Conference Session

Work in Progress Papers in ECE

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Wilfrido A. Moreno P.E., University of South Florida; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Chris S. Ferekides, University of South Florida

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

were the self-efficacy surveys and qualitativequestions that asked students to list and rank factors they felt influenced these beliefs. Alimitation of this approach is that it lacked the methodological depth to clarify why studentsfelt these factors influenced their beliefs.How to study engineering self-efficacy qualitatively?Qualitative studies investigating self-efficacy show that an alternative is adapting qualitativeinterview questions from quantitative surveys and questionnaires. Zeldin & Pajares [22] usedthis procedure to gather data to conduct a case study of STEM women. Interview questionswere framed based on questions from questionnaires that were made into open-endedquestions in a semi-structured interview protocol. We adopt

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in Computing -2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah L. Harris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Christine Clark; Ed Jorgensen; Tiberio Garza, Florida International University; Norma A Marrun, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Valerie L. Taylor

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

their families is correlated with increases inacademic success, as measured by retention, progression (GPA and courses completed), and 4- to6-year graduation rates, for both computer engineering and computer science students. We havedemonstrated these effects in a dually designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and AsianAmerican and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) and have doneso as a pilot study for other, including similar, institutions as well as other STEM fields.AcknowledgmentsThis work was funded in part by NSF Grant #1742607.References[1] Fernández, E., Rincón, B. E., & Hinojosa, J. K. (2021). (Re)creating family and reinforcing pedagogies of the home: How familial capital manifests for