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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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Diversity

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Student Division (STDT)

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

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Pre-College Engineering Education Focused on Female Students

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary B. Isaac, HEDGE Co.

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Diversity

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Diversity

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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

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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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Diversity

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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

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

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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

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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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Diversity

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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

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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marah C. Lambert, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Lisa Merriweather, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Cathy Howell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Dilara Yaya Bryson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Edith Gnanadass, The University of Memphis

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

actions [6, 9]. This suggests the presenceof an ecosystem within STEM where representation is insufficient to provide an inclusivelearning environment to elevate minoritized experiences while dually addressing the embeddedculture of high productivity. The representation loss presents a continued minimization of“diverse perspectives and availability as role models for future scientists and engineers” [10, p.2].Gender and STEMResearch has found that women doctoral students differ from men in terms of their career goalsand challenges [11, 12]. Cidlinská found differences between men's and women’s overall careerpaths and attitudes within the natural and technical sciences—STEM—and the social sciencesand humanities—SSH. STEM doctoral students (both

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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Diversity

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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

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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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Diversity

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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

Track 3: Technical Session 2: Using a Collective Impact Approach to Establish a Center for Equity in Engineering Focused on Graduate Education: Lessons Learned from Phase I

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Teirra K Holloman, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Natali Huggins; Julia Machele Brisbane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michelle D Klopfer, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tremayne O'Brian Waller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jeremi S London, Vanderbilt University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation in the College of Engineering. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering educa- tion can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, and considers the intersection between policy and organizational contexts. Knight currently serves as the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering Education.Dr. Tremayne O’Brian Waller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Tremayne O. Waller is the Director of Graduate Student Programs at Virginia Tech. Dr. Waller facilitates the recruitment, retention, and success of graduate scholars with a focus on those from backgrounds his- torically

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GSD 1: From Recruitment to Retention

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Rebecca Cors, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Wendy C. Crone, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Victor zavala, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Derek Johnson, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Kerri Lyn Phillips, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

suggests that the development of these two factors associated with graduateschool success – research self-efficacy and sense of belonging – was sometimes intertwined forFF students. This is captured in a written reflection: “I believe that researchers (or anyone) are best at their professional/academic roles when they are happy in their personal roles; having a strong network of peers has been fundamental to feeling capable in grad school.”This echoes prior research on the importance of peers and mentors on an individual’s self-efficacy [4]. The links FF students made between sense of belonging and understanding how towork with new environments, people, and ways of doing things in graduate school align

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Supporting Teachers and Students in STEM+C Learning Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuqing Pan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

students’ STEM learning at home,while also collaborating with community leaders to integrate local resources and expertise intoeducational activities. Furthermore, teachers play a key role in mediating between students andexternal stakeholders, ensuring that students' learning experiences are both meaningful andrelevant. By facilitating these connections, teachers help bridge the gap between classroomlearning and real-world applications, ultimately enhancing students’ engagement and achievementin activities. The outermost layer, the social and academic context, encompasses societal, cultural, andpolicy-related factors that influence STEM education. Teachers need to navigate this complexlayer by balancing national education policies, societal

Conference Session

Graduate Education Expectations, Preparation, and Pathways

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

graduate students who have identities that areseemingly “at odds” with each other may tend to consider departing from their graduateprograms. Kajfez’ past work [31], [32] explored competing identities in teaching assistants asthey balanced their roles in graduate school. Similarly, in our recent work [33], we found thatstudents who are considering departing from graduate school often feel like they havesacrificed an identity that is core to them through their time in graduate school, and until theycan reconcile or bring together those identities, they tend to strongly consider departure fromgraduate school, no matter how academically gifted. Participants in this study showed adistinctive lack of conflict between their core identity and their

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

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Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 9

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maya Menon, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Margaret Webb, Virginia Tech

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication, collabo- ration, and identity in engineering.Margaret Webb, Virginia Tech Margaret (Maggie) Webb is a master’s and Ph.D. student in sustainable land development (civil engi- neering) and engineering education, respectively, at Virginia Tech. She graduated with her mechanical engineering degree from Rice University and worked for ExxonMobil as a subsea engineer and as a high school STEM teacher in a Houston charter school before starting grad school. Her research interests in- clude supporting the needs of displaced engineering students, understanding the supports and

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darby Rose Riley, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

cope withstress should focus primarily on improving their emotional relationship with their position [7],[15], [34]. In this study, students who developed a healthy work-life balance and found time todetach completely from academic responsibilities both had lower levels of stress and a greaterself-reported ability to manage their stress. However, as previous studies have found, it is likelythat a student’s identity as an engineering graduate student, and the environment they live andwork in, might stand between them and more effective coping strategies [6], [15], [34], [40].The engineering student “boot camp mentality”—the belief that an experience of sharedsuffering and hardship can bring people closer together—can make some students feel as

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 9 - Design Across the Curriculum

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rubaina Khan, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

Paper ID #37936Scaffolding reflection across the design curriculum:Triangulating Student, Alumni, and Faculty Perspectives ofthe Role of Design within an Engineering Science ProgramRubaina Khan Rubaina Khan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests lie at the intersection of engineering design, learning communities and reflective practice. Prior, to pursuing graduate studies, Rubaina spent 10 years in autonomous marine vehicles research and, teaching robotics and design to engineering students in Singapore.Lisa Romkey (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

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Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Louis Kajfez, Virginia Tech; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

Paper ID #5848Graduate Teaching Assistants Views of Their Own Teaching Practice Com-petenceMrs. Rachel Louis Kajfez, Virginia Tech Rachel Louis Kajfez is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State University where she specialized in construction. Currently, Rachel is a Dean’s Teaching Fellow, is a Departmental Ambassador, and is actively involved in ASEE. Her current research interests include graduate student motivation and identity development.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity CollegeDublin, The University of Dublin

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, 2016 From Problem Solvers to Problem Seekers: The Necessary Role of Tension in Engineering EducationIn this paper it is proposed that the current focus on problems in engineering education andtechnological literacy may be more constructively reframed by focusing on tensions. PriyanDias claims engineering has an identity crisis that arises from tensions inherent in: 1) theinfluence of the profession on society, 2) the role engineers play, and 3) what constitutes validknowledge in engineering. These are ethical, ontological, and epistemological tensionsrespectively, which Dias frames as a tension between identities of homo sapiens and homo faber.Beyond the tensions in engineering there are additional tensions that arise

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 8

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lizandra C Godwin, University of New Mexico; John K. Wagner, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

conductedwith underrepresented undergraduate students. These themes—familial support, mentorship,identity, and skill-building—are examined within the broader context of existing scholarship.While the findings of the focus groups serve as a point of connection, this review aims to situatethese themes within the larger body of knowledge on student experiences in higher education,providing a foundation for understanding their implications for research engagement andgraduate aspirations.Familial Encouragement and AspirationsWithin the CCW framework, familial capital refers to the cultural knowledge and resilience thatstudents gain through their family connections and support. Families often play a pivotal role infostering academic persistence and ambition

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Session 9 - Track 2: The Unheard Voices of Administrators who are Non-traditional Graduate Students in Engineering and Computing Education

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Morgan Haley McKie, Florida International University; Mais Kayyali, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

relate to non-traditional graduate student agency.Positionality Since two of the researchers were in fact participants in the study, it is important todiscuss our roles and relationship as it relates to the topic of study. All authors identify as womenwho are conducting research in engineering and computing education at a Hispanic ServingInstitution (HSI). This is where our identities diverge. The co-authors include two current part-time doctoral students who also serve as administrators. Morgan H. McKie is a queer blackwoman currently a 2nd year doctoral student working as an administrator within the onlinedepartment focusing on technical development and services for the learning management system.Mais Kayyali is currently a 3rd year

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Deciding on a Major

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew B. James P.E., Virginia Tech; Kacie Hodges P.E.; Jenny L. Lo, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

looked at knowledge building in coursework and found that students’ abilities toconnect this to imagined futures was an important factor in their motivation to succeed [3]. Moregenerally, the specific information that instructors emphasize with respect to the future in theclassroom has been shown to be important to students [4].The role of first-year engineering programs also may play a role in students’ continuation andcompletion of an engineering degree and may contribute to a higher graduation rate thanprograms with a direct matriculation [5]. However, these programs are not without challenges.Notable concerns include a potential for a higher student workload, in a time whenadministrations are seeking to reduce this [6]. It has also been

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Egbert; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina

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Graduate Studies

educational institutions need to also embrace this initiativeto market engineering. The goal of such an activity should be to convince parents of theeconomic and societal value added by engineers and encourage them to influence their childrenaccordingly. Another needed step is to strengthen primary and secondary school teaching staffsin the areas of math and science. Having knowledgeable and enthusiastic teachers is a necessarystep to enlisting students into a technical career path.The lack of interest in STEM areas in the U.S. contributes significantly to the fact that thedeveloping countries are graduating multiples of the numbers of U.S. engineering graduates

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Darby Riley, Rowan University; Jacob Troutman, University of Texas at Austin

stressors and copingmechanisms may be paired, the strength of the links between these pairs, how these links changebased upon perceived stress and ability to handle stress, etc.). To this end, a survey was constructedthrough the survey-building platform Qualtrics that would collect information regarding stresslevels, sources of stress, and coping mechanisms used by individual students. The survey wasdistributed to all engineering graduate students at a mid-Atlantic university via email afterappropriate human subjects’ approvals were obtained. No incentives were offered for completionof the survey.The survey collected data on a few metrics: demographics (including engineering discipline, age,race, ethnicity, gender identity, disability status

Conference Session

Inclusive Leadership: A Panel Discussion

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Volpe, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida; Sara Valentina Rojas

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

discussions withcurrent engineering leaders, researchers, and graduate students was a crucial tool for consideringtheir career paths. Specifically, students from underrepresented groups related the knowledgeobtained from interpersonal relations with engineers from underrepresented groups with astronger self-efficacy in their academic formation and a stronger desire to become role modelsfor other minorities. Hence, activities outside the classroom, such as this REU, are an essentialtool for developing skills that employers are looking for, in addition to providing a betterunderstanding of the career paths in engineering. These experiences influence how studentsperceive their future impact on society as engineers and encourage undergraduates to persist