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Choice and Persistence in Engineering Education and Careers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alana Unfried, North Carolina State University; Malinda Faber, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University

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Paper ID #10378Student Interest in Engineering and Other STEM Careers: School-Level,Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and UrbanicityMs. Alana Unfried, North Carolina State UniversityMalinda Faber, North Carolina State University Malinda Faber is a Research Associate on the Evaluation Team at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. She works on an evaluation of the Golden LEAF Founda- tions’ K12 STEM Initiative, a scale research study on the ”Students Discover” National Science Founda- tion Math and Science Partnership grant, an evaluation of the Golden LEAF Foundation’s Essential Skills

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Choice and Persistence in Engineering Education and Careers

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Joanna Wolfe, Carnegie Mellon University; Beth A. Powell, Tennessee Tech University

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the perspectives of individuals who Page 24.1410.3have had successful, long-term careers as engineering professionals or faculty. These individualscertainly have the wherewithal to succeed as an engineer and their voices cannot be as easilydismissed as representing the viewpoints of those who are not “cut out” for the engineeringprofession.Our research also specifically examines the impact of left-of-center grading on women versusmen. Women tend to leave engineering at higher rates and with higher GPA’s than their malecounterparts and often cite poor teaching, intimidation, and loss of confidence among theirreasons for leaving [10, 11

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Choice and Persistence in Engineering Education and Careers

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Allison Godwin, Clemson University; Geoff Potvin, Florida International University; Zahra Hazari, Florida International University

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Paper ID #9082Do Engineers Beget Engineers? Exploring Connections Between the Engineering-related Career Choices of Students and their FamiliesMs. Allison Godwin, Clemson UniversityDr. Geoff Potvin, Florida International UniversityProf. Zahra Hazari, Florida International University Page 24.441.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Do Engineers Beget Engineers? Exploring Connections Between the Engineering-related Career Choices of Students and their

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Choice and Persistence in Engineering Education and Careers

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Gillian M. Nicholls, University of Alabama, Huntsville; Rhonda Kay Gaede, University of Alabama, Huntsville

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American Higher Education to Boost Completion and Reduce Costs. Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. 2012, Washington, DC: Complete College America.27. Ohland, M.W., et al., Persistence, Engagement, and Migration in Engineering Programs. Journal of Engineering Education, 2008. 97(3): p. 259-278.28. Consumer Reports, Student debt grows to alarming levels -The hundreds of billions owed have potentially crippling ramifications for the U.S. economy, in Consumer Reports. 2012, Consumer Reports: Yonkers, NY.29. Rothstein, J. and C.E. Rouse, Constrained after college: Student loans and early-career occupational choices. Journal of

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Choice and Persistence in Engineering Education and Careers

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Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado Boulder

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Choice and Persistence in Engineering Education and Careers

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Brianna L. Dorie, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Meagan C. Pollock, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Meagan worked as a engineer for Texas Instruments, including three co-op rotations, before returning to school to earn her doctorate. She has earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas Woman’s University, and a Masters of Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University. In addition, Meagan has developed secondary curriculum in STEM for Learning.com and Scientific Minds, and worked as a research consultant for Texas Instruments Education Technology in exploring the K-12 Engineering Education market opportunities. As a researcher, Meagan’s current work is focused on closing the gender gap in engineering, improving STEM career counseling, equipping STEM

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Engineering Student Experiences

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Louis Nadelson, Boise State University; Dee K. Mooney, Micron Foundation; Janine Rush-Byers, Micron Technology Foundation, Inc.; Nathan Dean, Boise State University

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asurvey of desirable STEM careers the students selected engineering with very high frequencywhich was matched only by nursing in terms of student selection as a desirable STEM career 1.Yet, when the K-12 students were asked if they would like to work in a career that appliesmathematics and science a majority of the students responded “no” indicating that there is adisconnect between their career preferences, expectations, aspirations, and their understanding ofengineering as a career. These results led us to wonder what influences a student to be anengineering major.We hypothesized that students become engineering majors because they like to work onproblems and develop solutions. Similarly, we anticipated students want to be nurses becausethey

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Student Beliefs, Motivation and Self Efficacy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adam Kirn, Clemson University; Courtney June Faber, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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student motivation for performing and completing a specific task such as problem solvingor design1 . Specifically, students with higher problem solving self-efficacy (a task-specific moti-vation construct2 ) have been shown to have improved learning and understanding in introductoryengineering courses3 . Students’ long-term motivation focuses on goals such as graduating with anengineering degree or having a specific career path. Work in Expectancy x Value theory has shownthat students who have higher expectancies for their courses are significantly more likely to havehigher grade point averages (GPAs)4,5 . The importance of both scales in the literature has beenhighlighted in a number of studies (e.g.6,7,8 ). It has been proposed that these two

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Trends in Engineering Education 1

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Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Fatin Aliah Phang, Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Aziatul Niza Sadikin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Syed Ahmad Helmi, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Mohd Johari Kamaruddin, Centre of Lipids Engineering & Applied Research (CLEAR), Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

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. Page 24.382.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014Determining the effect of an engineering overview assignment on first year studentsAbstractAn engineering overview assignment given in the Introduction to Engineering course aims tosupport first year students to learn about engineering, and motivate them to see it as theirfuture career. In addition to learning from the literature, students also interviewed at leasttwo practicing engineers to produce the group report and presentation for the assignment. Todetermine the impact of the assignment, a study was conducted in one of the classes byanalyzing the group reports and individual reflections written after its completion

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

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Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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: CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society (EEC 1351728), Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?(EEC 1329321), and Broadening the Reach of Engineering through Community Engagement (BRECE)(DUE 1259356). He is also Co-PI on one NSF-funded project: Should Makers be the Engineers of the Fu- ture?(EEC 1232772), and is senior personnel on an NSF-funded grant entitled Workshop: I-Corps for Learning (i-Corps-L). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010)and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineeringfrom Purdue University,and as a qualitative researcher studies both STEM and informal engineering education. As an educator, he foundedandled a team to two collegiate

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Engineering Faculty: Interactions, Influences and Issues

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Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida; Caitlyn R. McKinzie, University of Central Florida; Andre J Gesquiere, University of Central Florida; Sudipta Seal, University of Central Florida

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Paper ID #8899The Influence of Student-Faculty Interactions on Post-Graduation Intentionsin a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program: A Case StudyDr. Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida Dr. Lisa Massi is the Director of Operations Analysis for Accreditation, Assessment, & Data Adminis- tration in the College of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. She is Co-PI of a NSF-funded S-STEM program and program evaluator for an NSF-funded REU program. Her research interests include factors that impact student persistence and career development in the STEM fields.Caitlyn R

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 1

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Lauren D. Thomas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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and development ,4-­‐6 with the goal of introducing strategies toimprove education and retention in engineering7. The theory of identity-trajectory wasintroduced by McAlpine8 to explain the professional identity development through time ofgraduate students and emerging academics through intellectual, institutional, and networkstrands. The three strands work independently, and at times, weave together to explain identitydevelopment for those early in their academic career. Identity-trajectory provides a means tounderstand these early influences impact on one’s professional trajectory as they progressprofessionally.The intellectual strand focuses on learning within and the contributions of an individual to theirfield. Past experiences, agency

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; P.K. Imbrie, Texas A&M University; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University

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measure their confidence of learning engineering basic subjects andacademic skills necessary to complete their engineering programs. Page 24.1356.3Table 1. Noncognitive constructs measured by the SASIID Construct Origin Ns Nt Subconstruct Ni 1 Intrinsic Academic Intrinsic 4 25 Career 5 Motivation Motivation Scale (AIMS) Challenge 6 (French & Oakes, 2003)11 Control 7

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 2

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Corey T. Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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-track facultypositions is often linked to the conflict between childcare responsibilities and the normativeacademic tenure-track pathway, previous studies have tended to focus on individual life choices,rather than the effects of institutional-level policies and structure. More recent research onwork/life policies in higher education have pushed our understanding of how organizationalstructure and political climates at the department and institution levels influence the ability offaculty members to integrate career and life responsibilities. Many postsecondary institutionsoffer more generous work/life benefits than required by the 1993 Family Medical Leave Act(FMLA), which provides employees with 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for

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Trends in Engineering Education 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Linda C. Schmidt, University of Maryland, College Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Peifeng Yin

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dissection, iii) Product redesign3.1 Description of Team Base Activities In both the Introduction to Engineering Design (EDSGN 100) and Concurrent Engineering(IE 466), students work in teams to complete activities relating to both virtual and tactile learning.In the context of the EDSGN 100 course, customer needs analysis and product benchmarking wereperformed using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Pugh Charts. With senior studentsin IE 466 (who had more exposure to the engineering design process throughout the course of theiracademic careers), more advanced customer-engineering methods such as the House of Quality(HOQ) were employed to analyze the design of the coffee maker. For the QFD component of theproject, students in IE 466 had

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Student Beliefs, Motivation and Self Efficacy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Courtney June Faber, Clemson University; Sarah Jane Grigg, Clemson University; Adam Kirn, Clemson University; Justine M. Chasmar; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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andis only open to students pursuing degrees in science or engineering majors. The mission of theSEC is “to assist students in their transition to college and prepare them for their future academicand professional career by promoting: academic preparedness, professional development,interpersonal development, and community engagement”5. This year, approximately 400students at this institution were admitted to the SEC. Students participating in the SEC enroll inSEC specific sections of courses required for their major when available. This year SEC sectionswere available for two classes which also have honors sections and regular sections. SECsections of a class have the same academic requirements of regular sections, but all students inthe class

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Student Learning, Problem Solving, & Critical Thinking 2

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Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University

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Student- Centric Learning), promoting Leadership in Sustainability and Management Practices. He is also an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, focusing on the energy ef- ficiency of IT Equipment in a Data Centers. Before his teaching career, he had a very successful corporate management career working in R&D at Lucent Technologies and as the Director of Global Technology Management at Qualcomm. He initiated and managed software development for both the companies in India. He holds MS in Engineering and MBA degrees. Page 24.140.1 c

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Engineering Student Experiences

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Scott Blum, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

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determine that the themes fit within the context as a circularvalidation of the process.Researcher position As a cadet myself years ago during the cold war, and then during two militaryassignments as a faculty member at the Air Force Academy, I have experienced first-hand thearray of engagement opportunities USAFA has to offer. I have been a provider of cadetprofessional and academic development and also a recipient. I also spent a 26-year career in theAir Force, so I have a thorough grounding in the culture of the Air Force and the Air ForceAcademy. Though I have this background, it was important for me not to impose mypreconceived notions on the current generation of cadets. As I observed activities and interviewsubjects, I was careful not

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Engineering Faculty: Interactions, Influences and Issues

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marie H. Magnell, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Lars Allan Geschwind, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Lena B. Gumaelius, KTH, Department of Learning; Anette Jepsen Kolmos, Aalborg University

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education. On the other side,academia moves more in a direction of research and has a career path based on primarilyresearch criteria and with less recognition of experience from working life 1, 2.The purpose of this paper is to identify faculty approaches to industry connections andworking life issues in engineering education. The research questions are: a) What are facultyattitudes towards working life issues and their integration into the curriculum? and b) Whatactivities related to working life do faculty members introduce to the curriculum?These research questions are based on the assumption that faculty attitudes and curricularactivities related to working life are important factors in engineering education if we want toensure that students

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Student Learning, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia B. Paschal, Vanderbilt University

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Employer _________________________________ Position Title ___________________ Location (City, State) _________________________________ Annual Salary $_______________________Bonus $______________________ *Did you receive any offers from employers that recruited through the [institutional career center] via listings in [institutional online service], info sessions, career fairs, or on-campus interviews?  yes  noIf you selected graduate or professional school, full OR part time as your primary activity, which of thefollowing BEST describes your current plans?  Admitted, planning to attend ____________________________________________ (institution)  Considering admission offer(s) from

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice L Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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“paradigmaticcognition” which he defines as “classifying a particular instance as belonging to a category orconcept” (p. 9); and “narrative cognition [that] configures the diverse elements of a particularaction into a unified whole in which each element is connected to the central purpose of theaction,” (p. 11). These two types of knowledge can be treated as analytic processes, where aparadigmatic analysis “seeks to locate common themes or conceptual manifestations among thestories collected as data” (p. 14; grounded theory is a type of paradigmatic analysis) while anarrative analysis “synthesizes or configures events into an explanation of, for example […] howan individual made a career choice.” (p. 16) So narrative analysis “is the procedure throughwhich the

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Trends in Engineering Education 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

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frugal innovations to address healthcare challenges in resource-limited settings. Prof. Sienko has led efforts at the University of Michigan to incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Sci- ence Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate Teaching Award. While at MIT, she was a winner of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Page 24.639.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014

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Engineering Student Experiences

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Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto; Penny Kinnear, University of Toronto

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/tries out versions of her chemical engineer identity.BackgroundThe motivation for the study goes back several years, as a result of our involvement with theCHE portfolio courses (CHE297 and CHE397). These courses afforded an opportunity forstudents to synthesize their learning in core courses, consider the relationships between whatthey were studying and their future careers and develop their written and oral communicationskills. What emerged from that experience was the sense that there were significant changeshappening in terms of how students viewed themselves as students and potential engineers; whatwe wanted to discover was what was happening in the curriculum—and what was, perhaps,inherent in the chemical engineering culture—to facilitate

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Engineering Faculty: Interactions, Influences and Issues

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mariafé Taeví Panizo, James Madison University; John Hollander, James Madison University; Jesse Pappas, James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Robin D. Anderson, James Madison University

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founding faculty member of the James Madison Uni- versity Department of Engineering. At JMU, Dr. Pierrakos is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) and Director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through service, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as complex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 engineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Elizabeth G. Creamer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT); Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington

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on engineering design learning with a focus on issues of context in design. Page 24.776.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Integrating Reflection on Experience into Engineering Education Jennifer Turns, Brook Sattler, Ken Yasuhara, Jim Borgford-Parnell and Cynthia J. AtmanIntroductionAssigning meaning to experiences is something we do all the time. Words are interpreted asfriendly or rude, job performances as successful or unsuccessful, reactions of interest or boredomas evidence of whether we are well suited for our current jobs or careers. Moreover

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Trends in Engineering Education 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Flora P. McMartin, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC; Sarah Holsted, Broad-based Knowledge; Joshua Morrill, Morrill Solutions Research (MSR); Joseph G. Tront, Virginia Tech

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information as Page 24.312.2recognition for their efforts. The award they are interested.” [7, 9]  was an effort to initiate and spread an appreciation for this work with the intent of ultimatelyshifting the engineering educational environment from one that did not appear to support orreward the efforts of these faculty members who developed and used courseware to one that did.[15] Results from the first phase of this research project indicate that the award holds someprestige and that winning the award has helped shape the careers of young faculty members andgraduate students who were award

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Trends in Engineering Education 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan; David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Michael Geoffrey Brown, University of Michigan-CSHPE

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rank question, as nearly half of the respondents werefull professors. Our sample had considerably less experience working in industry, working onaverage less than four years either before or during their faculty career (e.g., as a consultant).Variables and AnalysesWe imputed missing data based on procedures recommended by Dempster, Laird, and Rubin51and Graham52 using the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm of the Statistical Package forthe Social Sciences (SPSS) software (v.18). To reduce data from several survey questions intofewer scales, a principal axis analysis (Oblimin with Kaiser Normalization rotation) wascompleted. Items were assigned to a scale based on the magnitude of the factor loading, theeffect of including an item on the

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Engineering Student Experiences

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise Wilson, University of Washington; James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Caitlin H. Wasilewski, Seattle Pacific University

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sciences, in particular, task value is closely linked with the student’sdesire to pursue and persist in these subject areas even two years after the task value ismeasured9. Self-reported or subjective task value has also been linked to future course plans andactual choices of courses as well as achievement10-12. Task value has multiple componentsincluding the intrinsic, attainment, and utility value of a task as well as the perceived cost ofpursuing that task7. Intrinsic value refers to the inherent enjoyment that engineering is expectedto provide the student over the course of his or her program. Attainment, on the other hand,speaks to the student’s perception of how important the engineering course of study is to his orher future career and the

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danielle Almetria Smalls, Engineering Education Department at Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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, student recruitment into and retention within engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies.Rachel McCord, Virginia Tech Page 24.1365.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Wanna Take a Survey? Exploring Tools to Increase Undergraduate Student Response Rates to Real-Time Experience SurveysAbstractOur study explores the student perspective on approaches to real-time data collection surveysintended to be completed during classes. Real-time data collection means in the moment, whilelearning is happening. In