Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammed A. Alrizqi, Cornell University; Allison Godwin, Cornell University; Junhyuk Kang, Cornell University; Beatriz Asfora, Cornell University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Facility and a McCormick Teaching Excellence Institute Research Fellow. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse groups of students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belonging, motivation, and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning to understand engineering

Conference Session

ME Technical Session 1 - Enhancing Mechanical Engineering Education: From Prerequisites to Practice

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martell Cartiaire Bell, The University of Iowa; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan; Rachel Vitali, The University of Iowa

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

engineering education research, which most recently has focused on incorporating authentic engineering educational experiences through engineering history education and open-ended modeling problems designed to initiate the productive beginnings of engineering judgement and engineering identity. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Perceptions of Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Students Regarding the True Nature of Engineering PracticeIntroduction Historical data suggests that only about one in two students initially enrolled in anengineering program at an institution of higher learning will finish that degree program withinfour to six years [1]. For most engineering

Conference Session

ME Technical Session 1 - Enhancing Mechanical Engineering Education: From Prerequisites to Practice

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenn Campbell, University of Arkansas; EMINE SAHIN TOPALCENGIZ, Mus Alparslan University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

motivationStudent perceptions on what engineering is, what engineers do, and what the different fieldswithin engineering are matter because they may impact undergraduates’ initial decisions to majorin engineering, their desire to remain in engineering throughout their undergraduate career, andtheir decisions to pursue engineering as a career after graduation. Developing a betterunderstanding of student perceptions of engineering, and more specifically, mechanicalengineering can help educators highlight key aspects of engineering that students are not awareof and aspects that may be misunderstood, which may help broaden interest in the field ofengineering.Additionally, student perceptions on what engineering is likely change over time based oncoursework and