Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 7: Developing Graduate Students' Competencies and Identities

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret E.B. Webb, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

disciplines limited the breadth of their exposure todivergent ways of thinking at the undergraduate level at the expense of disciplinary depth.Interestingly, many students in our study noted that they were glad their undergraduateexperiences were siloed to facilitate deep disciplinary thinking then, but now that they areinterdisciplinary graduates, their career goals are changing, and the recognize that their previouslearning makes it hard for them to negotiate diverse skill sets need to do convergent scholarshipwith other researchers. Students G (2019), AC (2021), W (2021), A (2021), and H (2021) alldiscussed this issue with comments such as, “it’s really hard to become an expert on somethingthat …[I] never cared about before.”In essence, the siloed

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 1: Recruitment and Support in Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meredith Leigh Hooper, California Institute of Technology; Jacqueline Rose Tawney, California Institute of Technology ; Emily Hope Palmer, California Institute of Technology; James Ragan, California Institute of Technology; Morgan Louise Hooper, California Institute of Technology; Yazmin Gonzalez, California Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)