to tackle complex engineering education problems across the learner life span. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Development of a Diagnostic Tool to Identify Graduate Students' Self- Determined CommunicationAbstractEffective communication is essential for the professional development and preparation ofgraduate engineering students, yet existing instruments do not adequately define and assess howstudents develop autonomy, competence, and relatedness in academic discourse. Grounded inSelf-Determination Theory (SDT), this study presents the Communication & Facilitation ofLearning in Oral & Written Scholarship (COMM-FLOWS) diagnostic tool, a novel
presents numerous challenges for international graduates seeking employment.These obstacles include strict visa regulations, work permit issues, retention challenges in aglobally competitive market, cultural and social differences, work-life balance concerns, and theunderrepresentation of minority groups [2], [19]. Therefore, by addressing barriers such as visarestrictions and employment authorization and providing an environment with cultural andprofessional growth, organizations can better position themselves to leverage the talents of thishighly skilled, diverse workforce.This pilot study is a non-experimental, quantitative survey analysis. The study examines the jobexpectations and motivations of Gen Z international Asian STEM graduate
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projects including conference papers, journal articles, thesisproposals, and research applications. Due to our university’s focus, the participants were allstudying STEM-related fields, with some of our highest attendance over the past five yearscoming from the departments of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Civil andEnvironmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,and Physics. Although there is a graduate program in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciencesdepartment, no graduate students from that program ever attended, making our results unique inrelation to other studies. Attendance was kept, so if students didn’t attend a specific day, theyweren’t sent the daily reflection survey
student progression, and teaching first-year engineering, engineering design principles, and project management. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Longitudinal Study of a First Year Curriculum Change on Student Identity and BelongingAbstractThe purpose of this evidence-based practice paper is to explore and document trends in students’engineering/computing science identity and sense of belonging in their discipline based on theirexperiences in a recently reimagined first year curriculum over the first full year ofimplementation.Developing an identity and sense of belonging in engineering and computing science early in thecollegiate years has had positive impacts on student
. Scholar 3 isfrom Georgia and Scholar 5 is from Arkansas, and they are working and settling in Wisconsinupon graduation from MSOE. The S-STEM scholars at MSOE are not all WI students but are fromvarious states, and they are flourishing in WI job market as well.Graduate SchoolScholar 9 has grown through this program quite steadily. He overcame early struggles with studyhabits, time management, and exam preparation and completed the degree program with maturityand great experiences including REU at Marquette and internship at Thermo Systems. He is ingraduate study pursuing master of science in engineering at MSOE since Fall 2024 and workingas a graduate assistant at MSOE Fluid Power Institute. Scholar 10 completed his BS in record timerequiring STEM
Paper ID #47976Perception and Adaptation of First-Year International Graduate StudentsTowards Academic Writing: A Case Study at a School of EngineeringMr. Samuel Sola Akosile, Morgan State University Samuel Akosile is a Ph.D. student in Sustainable Infrastructure and Resilience Engineering at Morgan State University, within the Department of Civil Engineering. He currently works as a Research Assistant, contributing to innovative studies in the field of civil infrastructure. His primary research area focuses on sustainable design for pavement systems, aiming to develop environmentally responsible, durable, and cost
engineering doctoral education: Experiences of students with minoritized sexual identities. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association; Denver, CO.[5] Ehrhart, M. G., Schneider, B., & Macey, W. H. (2013). Organizational Climate and Culture: An Introduction to Theory, Research, and Practice. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315857664[6] Ehrhart, M., & Schneider, B. (2016). Organizational climate and culture. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology.[7] Schneider, B., & Barbera, K. M. (2014). The Oxford handbook of organizational climate and culture. Cheltenham, UK: Oxford University Press.[8] Hurtado, S., Milem, J. F., Clayton-Pedersen, A. R., & Allen, W. R
], and genre analysis [9] to establish a communication-focusedcommunity of practice [10]-[11] in an EER PhD program at a large, mid-western university. Bydocumenting this project in its pilot phase and the role of our unique expertise in itsdevelopment, we hope to achieve two goals: 1.) to encourage other EER programs to address andexplore the specific challenges and needs of students transitioning from engineering technicaldomain undergraduate programs to EER graduate programs; 2.) to demonstrate how EERprograms can leverage expertise of faculty from writing studies and technical communication todevelop evidence-based practices that support students’ transition.IntroductionGraduate programs within engineering education aim to help students
Paper ID #46252Educating a Responsible AI Workforce: Piloting a Curricular Module on AIPolicy in a Graduate Machine Learning CourseMr. James Weichert, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University James Weichert is a recent M.S. graduate from the Virginia Tech Computer Science Department, where he studied AI ethics, policy and education. Starting fall 2025, James will be joining the faculty at the University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering as an Assistant Teaching Professor.Hoda Eldardiry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Eldardiry is an Associate Professor of
. Shen, and B. Bogue, “Leaving engineering: a multi-year singleinstitution study,” Journal Engineering Education, vol. 101, issue 1, pp. 6-27, 2012.[4] H. Coates, “Students’ early departure intentions and the mitigating role of support,”Australian University’s Review, vol. 56, issue 2, pp. 20-29, 2014.[5] E. Godfrey, “Who leaves and who stays? Retention and attrition in engineering education,”Engineering Education, vol. 5, issue 2, pp. 26-40, 2010.[6] M. Chang, J. Sharkness, S. Hurtado, and C. Newman, “What matters in college for retainingaspiring scientists and engineers from underrepresented racial groups,” Journal of Research inScience Teaching, vol. 51, issue 5, pp. 555-580, 2014.[7] G. Bettencourt, C. Manly, E. Kimball, and R. Wells, “STEM
peers? a. How do first-generation engineering technology students describe their engineering identity development? 3. How do first-generation engineering technology students understand and leverage forms of capital to persist in their program as compared to their continuing-generation peers? a. How do first-generation engineering technology students describe their uses of social capital within their engineering education?In this WIP paper, we present the findings of some of the quantitative data collected at thecurrent status of the grant. We have pilot data from 136 participants that explore researchquestions 1 and 2. We have obtained survey results that look at how FG and CGS explore
Paper ID #48690Developing a survey instrument to measure graduate students’ mental healthexperiences: instrument generation and initial qualitative validationDr. Sarah Jane Bork, University of Georgia Dr. Sarah Jane (SJ) Bork is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering with an emphasis on engineering education research. Dr. Bork’s research has focused on examining the mental health experiences of engineering graduate students. She has studied different areas (e.g., social factors, engineering culture, etc.) using a variety of research methods (e.g., regression analysis, photovoice, factor analysis
engineering, undergraduate engineering, industrypartnerships1 IntroductionRetention and graduation of students are key goals of undergraduate engineering education.Design education and hands-on experiences play a critical role in supporting engineeringretention because they encourage sense of community through team-based learning, exposestudents to real-world applications of engineering, and support creativity and sense of “fun” [1],[2]. More specifically, first-year engineering design courses can provide positive foundationsthat support building a student’s engineering identity and sense of belonging in STEM. Whenstudents are provided hands-on learning opportunities that support their development of technicalskills, their confidence builds [3
factors of consideration for entering into the profession of teaching computerscience [39].We can therefore conclude that teacher identity plays a key role in shaping the pedagogicalapproaches and overall effectiveness of a teacher. It is thus imperative to evaluate the impactof the teacher training program on the unique identities of the teachers under study and howthey develop.Commitment. Teachers’ commitment plays a central role in the expansion and, subse-quently, the sustenance of computer science education, both on a rural and urban scale.Teacher training supports educators by boosting their commitment and confidence in theirability to teach computer science as well as leading students in completing course capstoneprojects [40]. Mentoring
programsoptimize curricula to prepare students for a data-driven profession.Engineering identity is a dynamic construct evolving throughout students' academic experiences,encompassing technical competence and a sense of belonging in the engineering community [4],[5]. Key factors include performance/competence beliefs, interest, and recognition from peers andmentors [6]. Meanwhile, data skills have become crucial for engineering graduates [2], thoughintegrating data science into engineering curricula varies across institutions [9]. Recent studies [1],[7], [8] have begun exploring the link between data proficiency and engineering identity, butfurther research is needed to clarify how specific data skills influence identity formation.Understanding how
post-traditional students in terms ofcategories and extents of post-traditional status, 2) examine the intersectionality of the post-traditional population with other historically excluded demographic groups, and 3) assess theeducational outcomes for this intersectional and underserved population. We draw onintersectionality theory and Choy’s [1] post-traditional student status classifications tooperationalize the analytical categories and procedures for our quantitative study. We utilize thede-identified institutional data from undergraduate engineering students enrolled during the2023-2024 academic year at a large Hispanic-Serving Institution in the Southeastern UnitedStates and employ descriptive statistics, mean difference tests, and
Paper ID #46475Can I Be An Engineer? Factors Influencing Women’s Decisions to PursueUndergraduate Engineering Studies in Lebanon (Fundamental)Rasha Malaeb, American University of Beirut Rasha Malaeb (she/her) is a Computer and Computer Engineering student at the American University of Beirut. She is a research assistant and event coordinator at the Pipeline and Mentorship Initiative at the American University of Beirut where she works on student support-projects as the Peer2Peer Mentorship . Rasha is an applicant of the Women Leader’s in Engineering Full Scholarship and her research is focused on enhancing women’s
Director of Assessment and Research team at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I work with a group of wonderful and talented people at SCD’s Assessment and Research Laboratory to conduct research that informs and evaluates our practice of teaching and learning human-centered design in formal and informal learning environments. My Research focuses on studying students’ collaborative problem solving processes and the role of the teacher in facilitating these processes in STEM classrooms. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Integrating Service-Learning and the Entrepreneurial Mindset in aTeaching and Leadership Course for Graduate
information to those involved in undergraduateresearch, without the student’s perceptions of the URE’s impact on their sense of researcheridentity, the degree to which they may benefit students remains unknown. In developing a clearerunderstanding of how students participating in UREs perceive their researcher identity, thoseinvolved in these experiences can better tailor engagement to enhance undergraduates’experiences.Researchers who study UREs have explored some of the broader student outcomes in a varietyof contexts (e.g., biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, science) [5], [6], [7]. Thiswork and other work has expanded the body of knowledge about students’ experiences inundergraduate research beyond skill development and career
development topics into the ECEcurriculum. We present the results of a one-week module for graduate students that linksdisciplinary and intrapersonal knowledge through a design thinking framework. We present acontent analysis and descriptive statistics from two surveys distributed to students from Fall2024 about their experiences with the module. These surveys asked students about theirexperiences with the module, their engineering identity and belongingness, and their beliefsabout their future careers. A major takeaway from this analysis was the saliency studentsexperienced around the topics of ambiguity, failure, and risk in the context of thinking abouttheir future careers. Finally, we offer recommendations for other ECE educators interested
], many universities and colleges have sought to introduceglobal programming to engineering as part of extracurricular or formal programming. Many ofthese are framed around global study abroad experiences, with scholars noting that even short-term experiences can lead to heightened understandings of globalization and cultural awareness[37]-[39]. However, the continuous limitations of privilege, cost, and time additions on degreecompletion continue to be evident, and rarely have extended to graduate student populations (withthe exception of a few instances noted in literature via NSF IGERT programs and similar, such asthe study performed by Berdanier et al. [40]). Literature documenting these programs also considerwhether and how intercultural
Surveys B and D at the end of each semester for the next fivesemesters. Statistical analyses similar to those performed for Cohort 2024 will be conducted forCohort 2025. Additionally, the availability of data from both cohorts will allow us to comparetheir outcomes at corresponding points in time. A key distinction in the experimental setupbetween Cohorts 2024 and 2025 is that Cohort 2024 did not have access to the engineeringworkshop during their first semester, whereas Cohort 2025 will have access from the outset.Works Cited[1] N. A. Mamaril, E. L. Usher, C. Li, D. R. Economy and M. S. Kennedy, "Measuring undergraduate students' engineering self-efficacy: A validation study," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 105, no. 2, p. 366–395
-319-16169-3_13.[10] J. Love, S. Freeman, and D. Sullivan, “What Sticks with First-Year Engineering Students and Engineering Faculty in STEM Education Service-Learning Projects?,” in 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Indianapolis, Indiana: ASEE Conferences, 2014, p. 24.1369.1-24.1369.13. doi: 10.18260/1-2--23302.[11] M. Regan and S. Sheppard, “Interactive Multimedia Courseware and the Hands‐on Learning Experience: An Assessment Study,” J of Engineering Edu, vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 123–132, 1996, doi: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1996.tb00221.x.[12] H. A. Aglan and S. F. Ali, “Hands‐On Experiences: An Integral Part of Engineering Curriculum Reform,” J of Engineering Edu, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 327
POGIL Employed in aOne Semester Engineering Materials Technology Course. In 2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, 2017.[32] Phillips, J., Use of POGIL Methodology in Undergraduate Mechanical EngineeringCourses. In 2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference, 2022.[33] Aedi, W. and Masitoh, L., Development of POGIL Based Calculus Module forInformatics Engineering Students. Journal of Education, Teaching and Learning, 5(2), pp.225-228, 2020.[34] Gopal, B., Bockmon, R. and Cooper, S., POGIL-like learning and student's impressionsof software engineering topics: A qualitative study. In PPIG (pp. 154-163), 2022.[35] Gopal, B. and Cooper, S., Pogil-like learning in undergraduate software testing anddevops-a pilot study. In Proceedings of the
university.Despite these challenges, we believe the PubWRIT course represents a useful approach togearing up engineering students to be stewards of public welfare in their professional roles in thefuture. We encourage others to adopt and adapt these approaches at their own institutions.AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge Musabbiha Zaheer for assistance brainstorming course materialsand identifying pre-class readings and examples. As well, we would like to acknowledge all theparticipants in our study and the U.S. National Science Foundation for their support of thisresearch. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience
digital rhetoric, has appeared in venues like Across the Disciplines, Composition Forum, Studies in Higher Education, The WAC Journal, and The Writing Center Journal. He is active in national organizations like the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and the WAC Clearinghouse, and he is a founding member of the RhetAI Coalition.Jordan Harshman, Auburn University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Work-in-Progress: Aerospace Engineering Faculty’s Perspective on the Writing SySTEM for Increasing Self-Efficacy of Graduate Student WritersAbstractFew graduate students receive sustained, discipline-specific foundational
semesterincluded four engineering students, described in additional detail in the participants section, andtwo instructors. During the planning phases of this pilot, the research team conducted a literature reviewand found a significant amount of literature on learning in engineering coops and internships,often focused on professional skill development (e.g. communication, writing, teamwork) [8].Due to the focus of integrating engineering work and curriculum, the team also searched forliterature on technical learning in engineering coops and internships and was surprised to findsignificantly fewer publications in this area. In a search of ASEE Proceedings from 2000-2023,the authors found a single paper focused on technical learning, a study by
engineering graduate student at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. Before returning to further his university education with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a serendipitous opportunity for graduate education at UNL, he served for the better part of a decade as a public-school educator, creating and implementing exploratory STEM activities as supplemental curriculum for K-8 students.Dr. Tareq Daher, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Tareq Daher graduated from the University of Mutah – Jordan with a B.S. in Computer Science with a focus on developing educational tools. He pursued a Master’s Degree in Educational Studies at the University of Nebraska -Lincoln (UNL). While pursing his Master Degree he worked as the
studies [38],[39], [40]. However final year (senior) undergraduates and graduate students (i.e. Masters anddoctoral students) still make use of predominantly free, online materials and web searchengines, as well as social information seeking strategies such as asking colleagues andclassmates [41], [42], [43].Methodological and theoretical approachesConsistent with Mercer et al.’s 2019 scoping review findings [9], the more recent LISliterature concerning engineering students is still dominated by quantitative approaches andfrequently lacks a stated theoretical perspective. Most of the papers in this review are small-scale studies. Sample sizes of the qualitative studies range from 10-17 participants, and mostof the quantitative studies range from