Collection

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kaylee Cunning; Joseph Tighi; Braden Olson; Nitish Bastola; Isabela Bueno; Jamilla E. S. L. Teixeira; Jessica Deters

environmental implications. This paper presents a case study of anundergraduate research experience aiming to demonstrate how early research engagementopportunities can enhance students’ engineering education and shift their career trajectories.Furthermore, it is shown here how sustainable engineering research plays a vital role in attractingundergraduate students to research, transforming students’ identities, and contributing tostudents’ development of research and interpersonal skill. It is concluded that UREs create aunique opportunity to integrate undergraduate students into research, enabling interdisciplinaryexploration that bridges knowledge gaps while fostering critical thinking, adaptability, and aholistic understanding of sustainable