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

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Krista M Kecskemety, The Ohio State University; Tyler James Stump, The Ohio State University; Peyton OReilly, The Ohio State University; Sydney Cooper, The Ohio State University

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Paper ID #45035GIFTS: ”What’s Your Superpower?”: Connecting Entrepreneurial Mindset,DEI, and CharacterDr. Krista M Kecskemety, The Ohio State University Krista Kecskemety is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University and the Director of the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors Program. Krista received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University in 2006 and received her M.S. from Ohio State in 2007. In 2012, Krista completed her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Ohio State. Her engineering education research interests include investigating

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

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Adetoun Yeaman, Northeastern University; Xiaojing Yuan, University of Houston, College of Technology (MERGED MEMBERSHIP WITH COE); Gisella Lamas-Samanamud, University of Kentucky - Paducah extended campus; Heather Beem, Ashesi University; Janie M Moore, Texas A&M University; Randi Sims, Clemson University

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are navigating whatit means to be in a university environment - to live and work more independently, whichchallenges growth in areas such as socialization, study habits, and time management. It is nosurprise that successful first year experience (FYE) programs also include a mixture of co-curricular activities ranging from academic support to community building, and personaldevelopment initiatives to facilitate students’ professional and personal growth [1].The purpose of this Work in Progress study is to validate a survey that will be used to investigatethe effects of social and navigational capital of first-year engineering students on three importantaspects of the entrepreneurial mindset (EM). This is done for two reasons: 1) construct