Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Cody Prince, East Tennessee State University; PAMELA J. MIMS, East Tennessee State University; Aruna Kilaru, East Tennessee State University; Lindsay Lee, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

include a select cohort of high school students, veterans, aswell as junior and senior undergraduate students within engineering and biology concentrations.Participants will complete content knowledge questions at the end of each module. Students willalso take the Career Connect Student Survey (i.e., soft skills) and the self-efficacy measures (i.e.,generalized self-efficacy, bioengineering self-efficacy, short form occupational self-efficacy),before taking any curriculum modules and then again after they complete the training program.MeasuresSoft Skills To assess soft skill development, we utilize components of an existing validated survey,the Career Connect Student Survey. This survey measures student self-perceptions in areas suchas time