Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; John Misasi PhD, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

described below. The themes provided the SEL team with meaningfuldata to present to faculty as well as with a starting point to examine the overarching problem anddevelop solutions.Theme 1: Student ExpectationsThis first theme of expectation relates to Prompt 1: What are your expectations regardingengineering department academic culture? Expectations, in this context, are defined as thestudents’ feelings or beliefs around how they interact with different elements in the ENGDdepartment. Culture refers to the outlook, ethics, interactions, and rules of the department such ashow the department operates, what might happen because of a particular action, and howstudents are treated as a member of the department.Student expectations were categorized into