Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Carol S. Stwalley, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette; Grace Lynn Baldwin; Virginia Lynn Booth-Womack, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Sarah Larose

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

Minority Engineering Program and the Purdue Office of Institutional Assessment, Dr. Stwalley collects, analyzes and manages data pertaining to the outreach, recruitment, retention and graduation of engineering students from historically underrepresented groups.Dr. Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette Dr. Robert M. Stwalley III, P.E. joined the Agricultural & Biological Engineering department as a faculty member in the fall of 2013. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Biological Engineering (ABE) and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. from Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Stwalley is the former Director of Professional Practice at Purdue, has more than 20 years in

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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John H. Callewaert, University of Michigan; Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, University of Michigan; Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, University of Michigan; Kevin Cai Jiang, University of Michigan

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

mentors(e.g., faculty, alumni, industry members), with whom they could connect. Guided by prompts,students then wrote short stories around specific, salient moments in those formativeexperiences. Through iterative exercises within small groups and with mentors, studentsreflected on their stories and identified themes, which they used to create a set of values andguiding principles. Students then applied those values and guiding principles to createprofessional documents (e.g., resumes, personal statements, LinkedIn biographies) or supporttheir early-career decisions (e.g., selecting a job offer).Following the completion of the course, students who completed ENGR 490 during fall 2020were invited via email to participate in either a focus group or

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tracy L. Ross, Actua; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

, co-op education competencies, and others specific to faculties ordisciplines such as Engineering, for example, the Graduate Attributes, which represent 12competencies that must be taught and assessed in undergraduate engineering programs [3]. Thecompetency frameworks reviewed were those linked to the University of Toronto Co-CurricularRecord [2], The Canadian University Survey Consortium Survey of University Students [4], TheNational Survey of Student Engagement [1] and the Memorial University Career IntegratedLearning Initiative [5].Finally, interviews were also conducted with several potential employers, including the Actua’scorporate partners, regarding their hiring processes and the competencies they seek in newlygraduated STEM

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Candyce Hill, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

Center for the Improvement of MentoredExperiences in Research [22]. During Fall 2020, a significantly adapted version of thisprofessional development program was offered as a new course (EGR 193: Introduction toEngineering Research) for the first-year, first-semester students newly admitted to academic yearresearch program.The decision to deploy this new course in the Fall of 2020 was in part an effort to provideadditional supports during the global pandemic. Under normal (in-person) circumstances, first-year college students can struggle to understand course expectations, manage the workload, andbalance personal and academic goals [23]–[25]. High-quality programs that support students’social, emotional and physical wellbeing can assist

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kristen Koopman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Robert S. Emmett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

model ofonline education.Roy and Sykes also raise a question of whether the benefits in terms of skills development maydiffer for a virtual internship for in-person students versus online students. We do not know theextent to which prior preparation in self-regulated learning would favor online students’ successin virtual internships. An international survey of 158 people who had completed a virtualinternship between 2011 and 2015 found that the majority reported gaining interpersonal andcommunication skills as well as skills relevant to their career development and strategic thinking,supporting the hypothesis that virtual interns gain skills similarly to traditional interns [39].Bayerlein and Jeske have also explored the extent to which