Conference Session

STEM Education Tied to Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Jannette McFalls-Brown, Mississippi State University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; Rani W. Sullivan, Mississippi State University; Danielle Grimes, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

students.By immersing students in the culture and community of engineering and having them developfirst a belonging in the local community of their departments, then the greater communities,including the community of engineers all over the world.7Engineering identity has been a difficult thing for researchers to define and measure, thoughseveral researchers have tried. The development of a student’s engineering identity is oftenassessed through self-efficacy theories6, and many researchers assume that if a student has a highself-efficacy for engineering, then they have developed their identity as an engineer.Unfortunately, identity is much more complex than just self-efficacy6.Researchers have also examined background characteristics such as students