Conference Session

Graduate Programs, Development, and Research Fellowships

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laleh Behjat P.Eng., University of Calgary; Milana Trifkovic, University of Calgary; Robyn Paul, University of Calgary; Karen Andrea Canon-Rubio, University of Calgary; Stephanie Hladik, University of Calgary

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feel they are not preparedand do not have necessary research skills such as communications skills and organization [3].Communication is a particularly important area of professional skill development, especiallywith high numbers of foreign language graduate students in engineering. Studies have shown thatmentoring can be an effective approach for improving communication skills of internationalstudents, including activities such as Toastmasters clubs, formal academic support, and informalpeer discussion groups [4,5].Many universities have begun to recognize the value of professional development programs inthe balance of work/study/life across different disciplines [1,6,7]. The four most relevantprofessional attributes for engineering PhDs were

Conference Session

LEES Session 9

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Wint

voluntarily basis; retention of studentsand continuation rates; and graduate employment and destination. All three measures can beconsidered to encourage grade inflation and their use means that the position of HEIs withinleague tables is, in part, dependent on external factors such as the survey completion rate. Theresults on Graduate Outcomes surveys are dependent on salary values, this implying thateducation serves economic purposes, but also assumes that graduates will choose roles whichpay the most in regions of high average wages, as opposed to aligning with their values. Onlythis month, the Office for Students (OfS), a non-departmental public body of the Departmentfor Education who acts as the regulator and competition authority for HE in

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Academic Progress, Retention, and Mathematics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Na'imah White, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Karoline Evans, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Douglas Correa Ospina, University of Massachusetts Lowell

higher GPAs [8]. According to Erikson's classic Psychosocial Theory of Light Conflicts, there is a phase of identity formation characterized by aconflict of identity versus role confusion [7]. During the identity formation process there needs to be an equilibrium betweencommitment to a new identity and confusion surrounding its new roles and responsibilities; having a lack of balance will causeuncertainty and doubts [7]. To form a commitment to a new identity, in this case as an engineering student and future engineer, itneeds to be able to seamlessly integrate into pre-existing personal goals, values, and desires that inform the individual’s pathway inpursuing that goal [31]. The individual will allow more time to fully integrate the new

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Challenges and Coping Strategies of Engineering Graduate Students

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liesl Klein, Villanova University; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

university. Departments can also ensure the financial stability of their students by hav-ing policies and procedures in place for continued student funding. Stress fromnot knowing if they will be funded in the next semester or over the summer canbe detrimental to many graduate students. With some form of ensured fundingmechanism, student financial-stress could be greatly reduced. Departments can also assist in ensuring graduate students have a positivework culture and promote work-life balance. Department culture is a criticalcomponent of graduate students feeling welcome and encouraged. Having eventsthat support graduate students, assistance programs for students, and encour-gaing positive interactions between graduate students, faculty, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Satchi Venkataraman, San Diego State University; Dustin B. Thoman, San Diego State University; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Jose E Castillo, San Diego State University

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courses complement thetraining provided by research mentors, ensure commonality and consistency of experiences ofstudents in a program, are effective in community and cohort development [4], [5], and can helpthem successfully overcome initial barriers and establish a path towards their academic andcareer goals [6].Challenges faced by first year graduate students play a significant role in their academic success[2]. Such challenges include making the academic transition to graduate studies, navigating newacademic cultures, assuming and navigating new responsibilities and identities as studentresearchers, and experiencing imposter syndrome. Community building and professionaldevelopment courses for graduate students in the early stages can help

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronny Veljanovski, Victoria University; Alex Stojcevski, Victoria University

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Electrical and Computer

of social, political and / or organizationalcontexts in the engineering discipline. These aspects are an integral part of the problems in theelectrical engineering units of study. By taking on and playing the persona of a role, learnerswere led to reflect on the material from the perspective of personal experience and identity. Thisdeep reflection was enhanced by being able to act out possibilities in a safe and collaborativeenvironment. In addition, learners were absorbed in situations and contexts that highlight thelearning outcomes and objectives of the engineering units of study.The project was carried out over two semesters in 2006 and was evaluated by student feedbackquestionnaires to determine whether the role playing platform had

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Azadeh Bolhari, University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Richard W Saxton, University of Colorado Boulder; Anvie Gowrishankar, University of Colorado Boulder; Maya Leizerovich, University of Colorado Boulder; Shane Gavney, University of Colorado Boulder

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

Engineering Education, 2024 Exploring the Relationships between Artistic Creativity and Innovation Attitudes in Engineering StudentsAbstractThis research explored potential relationships between the innovation self-efficacy (ISE) ofengineering students and their artistic creativity and life experiences revealed on an ice-breakerassignment. In a community-building assignment, students were directed to introduce themselvesthrough cartoon monster drawings that communicated various personal attributes (such as thenumber of languages they speak, and the number of states visited). Previous research has foundthat multicultural experiences can shape feelings of self-efficacy concerning innovation andcreativity. This pilot study was

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Andrew Janeski, Virginia Tech; Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Chris Venters, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

distinct disciplinary patterns2. This research training is central to transformingthe student into a producer of knowledge, so much so that departments design specializedtraining programs to meet the needs of individual disciplines3.The majority of engineering graduate students spend their graduate school years as part of aresearch group4. These groups are generally organized around the research specialty of aprimary advisor, or collaboration between faculty advisors, depending on the size of the researchgroup5. Doctoral students, master’s students and post doctoral researchers work together underthe guidance of these faculty advisors, often in shared laboratory and office spaces6. It’s thisgroup environment where the majority of student learning

Conference Session

Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Najla Mouchrek, Virginia Tech ; Liesl M Baum, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

disciplines, aninterdisciplinary instructor team developed a cross-college undergraduate course aimed at openideation and creative inquiry. One skill in the development of creative practice is identifying andaddressing uncertainty avoidance behaviors, which are high in engineering students. We leverageresearch grounded in professional identity and cognitive design processes to study impacts ofcurriculum designed to address student persistence through, or indifference toward, uncertaintyin creative practice. Questions we seek to explore are: What role does uncertainty avoidance playin developing creative practice, especially in interdisciplinary teams? What strategies can beused to overcome that uncertainty? To explore the role of uncertainty

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez, University of Kentucky; Julia E. Parker, University of Kentucky ; Keren Mabisi, University of Cincinnati; Carissa B. Schutzman, University of Cincinnati; Mark Crocker, University of Kentucky

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Graduate Studies

stress the importance of a) providing graduate students with tools and resources to helpthem establish a home, find a community, and get acclimated to their new environment; b)ensuring that these tools and resources act in conjunction with those provided by the universityand its departments; and c) striving to make these tools and resources inclusive by identifying avariety of cultural organizations [3, 5].The aforementioned set of best practices and recommendations were taken into account andintegrated in the development and deployment of the onboarding and orientation event for whicha description, assessment and outcomes are offered below (see Sections 3.1 and 4.1). However, itis worth noting that the literature is either scant – or completely

Conference Session

Identity, Culture, and Socialization

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thomas A. De Pree, Bucknell University; Rafael Julián Burgos-Mirabal, University of Massachusetts- Amherst

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

system of higher education, performancemetrics and institutional competition have permeated deeply into the conduct of academicorganizations. Their effects can be seen operating at faculty level, although public fundingremains a highly political process in that state.Unfortunately, the expansion of performance-based metrics has had a disproportionate impact onengineering education because many of the measures designed to determine allocations, such asfour year graduation rates, are not compatible with engineering education’s math-science heavycurricula. The related issue of retention, as compounded by increasingly diverse student bodiesand their diverse preparation, also frustrate engineering educators’ efforts to meet state

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Maya Menon, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Margaret Webb, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

it’s just about finding, it’s just about the time limit, it’s just about the project goals. PhD students need to be first author…and everyone is a PhD student so it is hard to collaborate. We need to become an expert in our discipline first, and then collaborate or work with other disciplines should be the second step.Incentives and InterestsGiven the competing goals and expectations, incentives for and interest in interdisciplinary workalso played a key role in identity development. For some students on the cusp of interdisciplinaryscholarship, it appeared “easier” to pursue one discipline than to balance multiple andintersecting disciplines. Upon reflecting on interdisciplinary project work, one

Conference Session

Empowering Marginalized Voices in STEM: Perspectives and Initiatives

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady Ph.D., University of New Mexico; Tahira Reid, Penn State University; Lizandra C. Godwin, University of New Mexico

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

underrepresentedand marginalized groups. Finally, we discuss the implications these findings have for preparinggraduate students to mentor in higher education settings.Keywords: Graduate Student Mentor, Engineering Education, Culturally Responsive Pedagogyand Practices, Academic Wheel of PrivilegeIntroductionGraduate student mentors play a crucial role in the professional and personal growth ofundergraduate engineering students, particularly due to the limited availability faculty have forone-on-one interactions with them [1], [2]. Among the array of tasks they take up in their roles,graduate student mentors are known to provide direct training and support to their undergraduatestudent mentees, function as midlevel managers between the students and the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amyl Ghanem

; sponsors, sources of information about and aid in obtaining opportunities; models,of identity, of the kind of person one should be to be an academic." (Zelditch, 1990).Additionally, although the Circle defined a distinction between mentoring and supervising oradvising a student in research, we did choose to include elements of advising in our discussion.It was the opinion of the Circle that including mentoring in your advising or supervising stylewould contribute to the student’s success in research. Additional benefits of mentoring theresearch students include: Page 7.883.2• Increase the likelihood of a positive and productive research

Conference Session

Track 2: Technical Session 2: "Si no servimos, no servimos": A Pilot Study on the Influence of Perceived Advisor Support on Graduate Student Thesis Self-Efficacy

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Abimelec Mercado Rivera, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

conceptualizingand operationalizing “Servingness,” which encompasses the policies and practices aimed atpositioning institutions to reflect and act in their role to ensure representation and engagement ofthe Latin* community (Garcia, 2020; Garcia et al., 2019; Garcia & Cuellar, 2023; Garcia &Koren, 2020).Perhaps as an unintended side effect of their undergraduate-centered definition, current researchon how policies and practices at HSIs impact Latin* student success predominantly focuses onundergraduate students. As a result, little is known about how servingness impacts theexperiences of engineering graduate students and how institutional policies and practices may beaiding or barricading their path to success. As the calls to expand the post

Conference Session

Student Division (STDT) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eliot Nathaniel Wachtel, University of California, Santa Cruz; Qingyuan Cao, University of California, Santa Cruz; Matthew Kaltman, University of California, Santa Cruz; Khanh Tran, University of California, Santa Cruz; Miguel Robles Hernandez, University of California, Santa Cruz; Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Research Assistant in Dr Colleen Josephson’s j-Lab in Smart Sensing. Matthew has mentored students throughout the last four years, serving roles as a tutor and student-instructor, finding that the best way to truly learn a concept is by teaching to others. Matthew is expected to graduate in the summer of 2024 after completing his senior thesis in the development of a solar-powered sensor utilizing Visible Light Communication (VLC).Mr. Khanh Tran, University of California, Santa Cruz Khanh Tran is a 3rd year Electrical Engineering undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the vice president of the UCSC Rocket Team, serving as a technical lead, mentoring undergraduate students and designing rockets

Conference Session

Professional Skills and Community Building in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois at Chicago; James Pellegrino, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Cody Mischel, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Lewis Wedgewood, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Vikas Berry, The University of Illinois at Chicago

Spring 2022). The iterative cycles pursue ananswer to the following overall research question:How effective is the proposed approach in impacting professional identity formation andpromoting industry-related competencies?Answering this overall research question requires that we also address a series of related andprecursor questions associated with the design, implementation, and evaluation of the proposedcomponents of the proposed approach in the CHE 210 “Mass and Energy Balance” course.Among these are the following:(1) what are the students’ understanding of these applications and their impact on students interms of interest, knowledge of applications, and professional identity formation?(2) What is the relationship between students’ identity

Conference Session

Design and Making

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renee D. Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

asupplement to more important learning. The course design outlined below reflects our bestattempts to use the lens of disability students to show STEM and the liberal arts as organic,essential, and generative partners.Course background and overviewAs an academic field, Disability Studies solidified in the 1990s alongside a social model ofdisability that rejected biological definitions of “normal” bodies and medical perspectives thatidentified disabilities as problems to be fixed. As a result, the study of disability fractured, oftenhighlighting conflicts between academic and professional interests4. At its foundation, the goal ofour Introduction to Disability Studies course is to bridge the chasm between theories andresearch in disability studies and

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University; Sukrati Gautam, Purdue University; Peyman Yousefi, Merck Group; Nuela Chidubem Enebechi, Purdue University; Andrew Pierce, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

involvevarious components including an interconnected network of dedicated staff, students, instructors,Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTA’s), and both community and corporate partners, amongothers. These components work together within the university’s framework to create anenvironment that fosters student learning experiences while addressing community needs, whichis highlighted in a systems-level perspective2,4. The complexity of these systems underscores thenecessity for comprehensive approaches to understanding and enhancing service-learninginitiatives from multiple lenses.As GTA’s are largely responsible for facilitating course delivery, playing a support role for facultyand students5 (Figure 2), their personal and collective experiences are often

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Focused on Female Students

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary B. Isaac, HEDGE Co.

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Pre-College Engineering Education

between 2014 and 2016 regarding the length of the pilot instrument raised concernregarding response fatigue, and resulted in elimination of one of the four scales which showedmoderate, but not significant interactions with other scales. Ryff’s 24-item Personal Well-Beingscale pointed toward the overall group having higher than average levels of personal well-beingrather than lower, which suggested that role model unhappiness or dissatisfaction may not be asignificant contributor to student disengagement, so the scale was eliminated from theassessment.Additionally, further research indicated that the 40-item Sexist Attitudes Towards Women(SATW) scale [84] may retain its reliability and generational fidelity as a measure of explicitsexism better

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 20

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dorian Bobbett, University of Michigan; Jeanne Sanders, University of Michigan; Larkin Martini, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Mark Vincent Huerta, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #41428Work in Progress: Design and Preliminary Results of a Survey to ExploreRelationships Between Faculty Mentoring, Engineering Doctoral Student PsychologicalSafety, and Work OutcomesDorian Bobbett, University of Michigan Dorian is a 1st-year Engineering Education Research Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in May 2023. Dorian currently works with Dr. Karin Jensen at the University of Michigan on projects related to mental-health and well being and mentoring at the graduate student level. She was previously involved in

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Best in DEED

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Lawson-Bulten, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Samantha Lindgren, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

contextawareness is consistent across literature [9]. The lack of contextual understanding and technicaldeterminism has a tremendous impact on incorporation of societal context because it preventsengineering students from recognizing that they make many decisions during design and thosedecisions are strongly influenced by their own identity, experience, and position in their homesociety.In community designs, the call to consider societal background and impact is even moreprominent, highlighting how contextual factors affect the efficiency, justice balance, andadoption of any design [10, 11]. Addressing the societal context is important in any design, butespecially in designs implemented in communities or to populations outside of the engineers’own

Conference Session

The Role of Engineering in Integrated STEM--uh STEAM--uh Education!

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary McCormick, Tufts University; Morgan M. Hynes, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-4154: ENGINEERING IN A FICTIONAL WORLD: EARLY FIND-INGS FROM INTEGRATING ENGINEERING AND LITERACYMs. Mary McCormick, Tufts University Mary McCormick is a graduate student at Tufts University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in education, focusing on mathematics, science, technology, and engineering education. She received a B.S. from University of Massachusetts, Lowell, in civil engineering, and an M.S. from Tufts University in civil engineering. Her current research involves seeing the engineering thinking and doing in children.Dr. Morgan M. Hynes, Tufts University Morgan Hynes is a Research Assistant Professor in the Tufts University Education Department and Ed- ucation Research Program Director for the

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 23

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Talha Naqash, Utah State University, Logan ; Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Zain ul Abideen, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello, Utah State University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

military veteran, licensed mechanical engineer, and associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. Her research examines issues of access, equity, and identity in the formation of engineers and a diverse, transdisciplinary 21st century engineering workforce. Angie received an NSF CAREER award in 2021 for her work with student veterans and service members in engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Unmasking Cognitive Engagement: A Systematized Literature Review of the Relationships Between Students' Facial Expressions and Learning OutcomesAbstractCognitive engagement, a complex concept in the field of education, has a great impact on

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 5: Exploring and Re-Examining Ideas in Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alanna Epstein, University of Michigan; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

the role of academic researchers, including graduate students in technologycommercialization and entrepreneurship (Astebro et al. 2012; Hayter et al. 2017; Shah andPahnke 2014).Launched in 2011, the nationwide or "Teams" program originated from the Lean LaunchPadapproach to entrepreneurship education and startups developed at Stanford University (Nnakweet al., 2018). The I-Corps curriculum centers around a market research and validation processknown as “customer discovery”, which requires participants to interview 100 potential customersand stakeholders (Nnakwe et al., 2018) to assess the product-market fit of their technologies(National Science Foundation, 2019; VentureWell, 2019). Participants apply to the program inteams of three

Conference Session

Social Identities and STEM Experiences: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Peters, University of San Diego; Susan Lord, University of San Diego

Paper ID #38027 ʻHo okele: Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander EngineeringStudents Navigating the New Troubled Waters of Identity andMeaningAustin Peters Austin Morgan Kainoa Peters is a current B.S./B.A. Integrated Engineering student at the University of San Diego's ʻ Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering graduating Spring '22. Peters was born and raised in Wailuku, Maui, Hawai i, and plans to attend Purdue University's PhD program in Engineering Education beginning Fall '23.Susan M Lord (Professor

Conference Session

Architectural Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Huffman, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kathryn Elizabeth Roche

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Architectural Engineering

details. Beth has her Master’s of Science degree in Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology and her Bachelor’s of Architecture degree from Ball State University. Additionally, she continues to practice architecture through her own company, Muse Design. She enjoys the synergistic relationship between her role as a professor and her role as an architect, and believes that this hybrid provides real world practicality into the classroom on a daily basis.Mrs. Kathryn Elizabeth Roche, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Fostering Civic Identity in Architectural Technology Students through the Evaluation of Critical Reflection in Service Learning

Conference Session

LEAD Tech Session #2: Assessing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Development.

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Volpe; Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Denise Simmons, University of Florida; Danielle Weisenfeld, University of Florida; Jackson Carcaba, University of Florida

societies, and identity-focused organizations [18], [19].Out-of-class activities support informal learning through self-selected and self-directedexperiences that can leverage students’ motivation and knowledge. They also provide a socialcontext for students to develop and apply technical, interpersonal, and intrapersonalcompetencies, including leadership.Undergraduate students’ leadership ability is formed by a multitude of factors before and duringcollege [9]. Classroom instruction can provide knowledge, skill, and theory, while activitiesoutside of the classroom can provide experience and context, which all taken together supportleadership development. Leadership development is the collective capacity of a group to engagein roles and processes

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 7: Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafael De Leon, The Ohio State University; Ann D. Christy P.E., The Ohio State University; Rosalyn Stoa, Colorado State University; Alexa Jayne, Colorado State University; Bailey Underill, Colorado State University

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

, students, workers, or something in between? Though Ipersonally believe that doctoral engineering students exist outside of this binary discussionbecause of their important societal role in contributing to knowledge, within the binary they docontribute economically and do work that they are not sufficiently compensated for. They dowork, plain and simple.I am not alone in this line of thinking. Legally, the classification of graduate students asemployees has gone back and forth since the 1990’s. At private institutions, this dispute fallsunder the National Labor Relations Act. Specifically, the decision as to whether or not graduatestudents at private institutions are employees falls under the National Labor Relations Boardwhich is a board made up

Conference Session

Intersections of Identity and Student Experiences: Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session 10

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachael Cate, Oregon State University; Aiden Nelson

these opportunities for practice comes from representatives ofour EECS Industry Advisory Board, who have identified gaps between students’ knowledgeupon graduation and the skills required on the job. Examples of gaps in learning includeunderstanding software licensing and sharing, performing continuous integration and continuousdelivery, doing testing, doing agile development, managing projects, and demonstratingpeople-skills in challenging situations. Workplace proficiency in different domains of knowledgerequires more than simply knowing about the topics: it requires putting knowledge into practice.Based on our prior research [1, 2], we have already demonstrated how a Communities ofPractice Program can be a transformative element in