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- 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines
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decisions for environmental engineering students.This study sought to provide more information on these elements, by gaining a richunderstanding of the experiences of students using qualitative approaches less likely to biasstudent responses.Research QuestionsThree topics were explored in this study:RQ1. Understand how students’ motivations for environmental issues in combination with other factors led them to choose to enter college with an engineering majorRQ2. Understand the reasons that engineering students change majors or persist in their major, among undergraduate students initially having strong environmental interestsRQ3. Explore how students view environmental issues as part of their future engineering career pathways and among the
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- Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1
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- 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University; Sahar Razavi, Northern Arizona University; Nihal Sarikaya, Northern Arizona University
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Group Publishing Ltd., 2015, vol. 17, pp.143-175.[19] D. Lopatto, “Undergraduate research experiences support science career decisions and active learning,” Cell Biology Education, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 297-306, 2007.[20] M. Boylan, “The impact of undergraduate research experiences on student intellectual growth, affective development, and interest in doing graduate work in STEM: A review of the empirical literature,” in Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Oct. 2006. http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/cheri/conferences/doctoralEducation.html[21] K.W. Bauer, J.S. Bennett, “Alumni perceptions to assess undergraduate research experience,” J. Higher Educ., vol. 74, pp. 210