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2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

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Angela Bielefeldt; Joan Tisdale; Katherine Ramos; Mike Soltys

Confidence, Identity, and Belonging Among Engineering and Engineering-Interested Students in a First-Year Engineering Design CourseAngela BielefeldtDr. Bielefeldt, P.E., is a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) in the Departmentof Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering and the Director of the Integrated DesignEngineering program. She has taught at CU Boulder since 1996, including a variety of courses for first-semester students. Her primary research interests in engineering education include sustainability,community engagement, social responsibility, and ethics.Joan TisdaleKatherine RamosMike Soltys © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Confidence, Identity

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2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

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Ben Weihrauch

theirconnection to FGS persistence and graduation outcomes. One of Sedlacek’s (2004) noncognitivevariables – availability of a strong support system – proved to be particularly salient to studyparticipants. At the center of study participants’ support systems was a sense of belonging andcommunity. Though all study participants reported building some level of community orfriendships, they were challenged in doing so. Most study participants reported low levels ofsocial preparedness, or the ability to easily make social connections with peers, with manyparticipants making few friends in the first and second year.Commonly, study participants built friendships through what Kelly referred to as the “sharedstruggle” environment of being an engineering student

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2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

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Alexis Capitano; John Cook; Kathryn Johnson

Crushed Dreams: Faculty Perceptions of Discrepancies Between EngineeringAcademics and Students’ Future CareersAlexis CapitanoAlexis is a senior majoring in Electrical Engineering and pursuing a Masters of Science in STEMEducation with planned graduation in December 2024.John CookKathryn Johnson © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Crushed Dreams: Faculty Perceptions of Discrepancies Between Engineering Academics and Students’ Future CareersAbstract: This paper summarizes the findings from a qualitative analysis of how faculty view gapsbetween the curriculum in which they teach and the profession in which their students are likelyto be employed. The data – a set of transcribed, anonymized