- Conference Session
- First-Year Programs: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the First Year
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- 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Joseph Dygert, West Virginia University; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
Education, 2021Exploring the Evolution of Engineering Students’ Feelings of Inclusion in Their Collegeand the Broader Scientific Community.AbstractThis complete research paper discusses how students’ feelings of inclusion change throughouttheir undergraduate career. Student responses acquired through focus groups and one-on-oneinterviews were examined to determine how included the students felt in their engineeringcollege and also the broader scientific community.A small group of non-calculus ready engineering students enrolled in a large land grantinstitution in the Mid-Atlantic region consented to participate in the study. The student cohortparticipated in an NSF S-STEM funded program aimed at fostering a sense of inclusion inengineering by