Collection

15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Heather Schwab, The Ohio State University; Peyton OReilly, The Ohio State University; Laine Rumreich, The Ohio State University; Krista M Kecskemety, The Ohio State University

graduate teaching assistant (GTA) and three undergraduateteaching assistants (UTAs).With multiple variables affecting sense of belonging, this work explores these elements and howthey may be fostered in both the RDB and NSR courses. Therefore, this paper aims to answer thefollowing research question: In what ways does sense of belonging differ across different first-year engineering design project courses? MethodsTo collect sense of belonging data, a survey was adapted from the “Sense of Belonging atImperial College London” study which was an adapted survey based on the validated Harvard-Panorama Student Perception Survey scale [20] and Yorke’s sense of belonging in highereducation scale [21]. This sense of belonging survey was used for its