Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Angelina Lane, Seattle Pacific University; Donald M. Peter P.E., Seattle Pacific University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Class and Social Integration in Higher Education." Dissertation, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. 2013. http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/1544087. Litzler, Elizabeth, and Cate Samuelson. "How Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students Derive a Sense of Belonging from Engineering". Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education. Atlanta, Georgia. 2013. https://peer.asee.org/19688.8. Fisher, Walter. "Three Strategies for Improving the Graduation of Engineering Minorities". Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education. Portland, Oregon. 2005. https://peer.asee.org/150449. Mills-Henry, Ishara, Bryant, Reginald, Daily

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Ann Pedraza, Texas Tech University; Mario G. Beruvides P.E., Texas Tech University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

in their paper that portions of variance inacademic performance can be explained through different measures of effort and motivation onthe part of the student. They, further, state that these measures are true regardless ofsocioeconomic differences in the students’ backgrounds.[15] Marshall Geiger and Elizabeth Cooper,[16] tried to explain how expectancy theory andneeds theory variables could be used to predict student performance in college based on theirgrade point average.[16] Expectancy Theory as developed by Vroom[45] is defined as the“motivation to act is a combination of the perceived attractiveness of future outcomes and thelikelihood one’s actions will lead to these outcomes” and needs theory is defined as “individualmoated

Conference Session

Engineering Cultures and Identity

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods