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2023 PSW

Authors

Christine King; Dalton Salvo; Joanne Ly; Nia Dowell; SueJeanne Koh; Warren Wiechmann; Brett Sanders

research positions,allowing for more inclusive practices across laboratories [5]. However, they are typically offeredfor only one semester or less time and require mentors to guide multiple students [6], unlikeindividual undergraduate research experiences that typically provide very few undergraduateswith research experiences over the course of a year or more [4].To be able to provide an inclusive research experience that allows many students to join researchlaboratories as well as mitigate issues associated with the short duration of course-basedundergraduate research experiences, the University of California Irvine (UCI) has developedSIRiPods: Summer Interdisciplinary Research in Pods. Unlike typical research programs within asingle laboratory

Collection

2023 PSW

Authors

Tara Esfahani; David Copp

authorsof [14] investigated undergraduate engineering students’ test anxiety and its relation to examformats and access to technology and a quiet place to study. The authors of [15] interviewedengineering students and instructors from a calculus course on the impact of the transition, andtheir results highlight the diverse needs of students and students’ decreased access to resources. Aparticular challenge for online engineering courses is facilitating virtual laboratory experimentsand hands-on projects, and the impact of COVID-19 on senior capstone design courses has beenstudied (see, e.g., [16, 17]).In this paper, we present a qualitative analysis of upper division engineering students’ responsesto open-ended survey questions on their experiences

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2023 PSW

Authors

Helen Choi

3ameliorate some of the isolation of engineering graduate students and provide aplatform for students to "cultivate an academic identity, wherein they try on the identityof disciplinary expert and peer mentor." [7] explains how the social networking functionsof GWCs can be further developed via the implementation of a communication fellowsprogram whereby graduate fellows develop discipline-specific communicationsresources and programs for their home departments.Ultimately, GWCs attempt to prepare engineering graduate students to entercommunities of practice [1]. For engineering graduate students, according to [1], suchcommunities relate to students' "laboratories, programs, the wider academic field,working groups, informal cooperation, or