Conference Session

CEED Technical Session II: Developing Research and Design Skills Through Experiential Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

benefits that they had sought and whether they had attained them or not. Itthen went on to ask them to identify their pre- and post-participation statuses with regards toseveral key metric areas (including technical skills and excitement about the research area) andseveral other soft skill areas. Further, the survey asked participants to identify what level ofattribution of the gains that they made they associated with program participation.The paper presents the results of this survey. It then continues and provides a discussion of thebenefits of REU program participation for student participants, drawing from the benefit datapresented and analyzed throughout the paper. Areas for prospective future work are alsodiscussed.2. BackgroundThis section