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Experiential Learning and Professional Skills and Competencies: Attainment, Assessment, and Evaluation.

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Warren Plugge, Central Washington University

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research provided a frameworkfor the collection, analysis and synthesis of information a student would perform during theinternship as a structured course. His collection of information in the course was categorized insix main areas of observation, participation, managing, self-analysis of work effort, outside workactivities and a professional development plan. Adcox [3] developed a system where thespecified tasks and artifacts could be measured to gain an understanding on constructionconcepts that were acquired by the students in an applied construction management setting usingthe internship as the course. This approach helps provide an example on how activity based,evidence-based or problem-based learning can be used in construction management

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Experiential Learning and Professional Skills and Competencies: Attainment, Assessment, and Evaluation.

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Buten, University of Michigan; Jack Boomer Perry, University of Michigan; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan

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important.The interview protocol was designed to correspond with Experiential Learning Theory’s (ELT)learning cycle (A. Y. Kolb & Kolb, 2009; D. A. Kolb, 1984). The learning cycle is composed offour parts: concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and activeexperimentation. During the cycle an individual experiences an event (concrete experience),reflects on said experience (reflective observation), congeals said reflections into abstractconcepts (abstract conceptualization), and plans on using the concepts in future situations (activeexperimentation). The theory was selected to frame how/if students are learning professionalskills experientially through their participation in engineering project teams. Since project

Conference Session

Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fangqing Yi, Tsinghua University; Xiaofeng Tang, Tsinghua University

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. According to the EducationDevelopment Plan for Graduate Students of Professional Degrees (2020-2025) issued by theAcademic Degrees Committee of The State Council and the Ministry of Education, the orientationof professional master's degrees is to cultivate application-oriented specialized talents, and theintegration of industry and universities in the construction of joint training bases is taken as animportant condition for institutions seeking professional master's degree authorization. Accordingto the policy documents, training units shall jointly formulate training plans together withindustries and carry out the construction of joint training bases. 1One of the characteristics of theadmission of full-time engineering masters degree in China is

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Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Daniel Munro, University of Toronto; Virginia Hall; Tracy L. Ross, Actua

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participants already know their education and career intentions before theyparticipate in the program. In that case, the impact of the program on those intentions is usually amatter of reinforcing, rather than redirecting, the paths that students are already on. Results fromthe comprehensive survey appear to confirm this. 89% of WIL participants agreed or stronglyagreed that, after the WIL program, they plan to work in their field of study – a small increasefrom the 85% who agreed or strongly agreed prior to the program. The proportion who “stronglyagreed” rose from 49 to 56%. Among “high-intensity” WIL participants, 88% agreed or stronglyagreed – which marked an increase of five percentage points from the 83% who agreed orstrongly agreed prior to the

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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P.K. Imbrie, University of Cincinnati; Fazel Ranjbar, University of Cincinnati; Jutshi Agarwal, University of Cincinnati

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paper is the preliminary investigation towards a larger work. The primary step indetermining whether first COOP impacts retention is to control for confounding factors like otherparts of curriculum, extra-curricular opportunities, non-academic support, and resourcesavailable, and even student’s self-motivation to persist in the degree. Future work will also focuson exploring students' COOP experiences and how they impact students' attitudes toward theirmajors and career goals. To achieve this, we plan to collect data on students' COOP experiencesand conduct surveys and interviews to understand their effects on students' perceptions. Byinterviewing first COOP students, it can be explored what encourages students to continue inengineering

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Improving Retention & Self-Efficacy through Experiential Learning and Research Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sydney Donohue, University of New Mexico; Kamryn G. Zachek; Alex Webster, University of New Mexico; Timothy L. Schroeder; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico

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students’ self-efficacy and research identity. Surveyquestions ask students to evaluate aspects such as, how active their role was in planning theproject, sense of responsibility for project progress, sense of belonging to a community ofresearchers, and intention to persist in a research experience. Results will be used to scale thisopportunity and create similar communication fellowships for other Grand Challenges anddisciplinary programs at the university.1.0. Introduction and Background1.1. Undergraduate Student Engagement in Research Participation in transdisciplinary research enriches the undergraduate experience bytaking educational content out of the classroom and materializing it in a real-world, professionalsetting. Early

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Experiential Learning and Professional Skills and Competencies: Attainment, Assessment, and Evaluation.

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John H. Callewaert, University of Michigan; Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, University of Michigan

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(additional details below) and canchoose from 40 different opportunities or create their own with guidance. For example, 442 ofthe students have selected leadership as a focus competency and there are 15 opportunities listedwithin Spire offering leadership development. Figure 3 below provides an example of Spireinterface.Figure 3. Spire student interface showing opportunities, planning, and reflection features.Research QuestionsThe ultimate goal of this initiative is to identify pathways for student development ofprofessional competencies and engineering identity. This will be accomplished by examiningstudent engagement with the wide variety of available experiential learning opportunities and thenewly developed platform, assessing student

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isaac Heizelman, University of North Dakota; McKenna Rose Matt

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afterundergraduate programs. This paper will provide a first-person account of one undergraduateteam’s experience during their first semester in IBL. Students will reflect on their developingself-image as student engineers, not as engineering students. Students will share their initialproject aspirations and the failures, pivots, and learning which occurred during the semester.Students’ use of tokens to manage planned work and education achievements will be discussed.Students will state their achievements from this course and contrast traditional learningstructures, such as high-stakes testing, active learning, and project-based learning, to IBLKeywords: Innovation, IBL, LMS, engineering, education, learningIntroduction: This paper’s

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Jackson, University of Florida; Emily Hope Ford; Allison Kathleen Porras; Andrew John MacIntosh

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regular communication and guidance.Third, faculty provide the student teams with more than typical design instruction. Permanentprogram faculty provide student teams with traditional instruction in engineering designtechniques, project management, branding, marketing, and planning; all generic designinstruction that all teams will value. Program staff provide logistic support such as facilitatingtravel to and from industry sponsor sites, purchasing, and fulfilling manufacturing needs. Inaddition, each team is guided by a faculty coach. The coach is an engineering faculty withparticular expertise in the primary project area for each time to provide specific guidance, andindeed sometimes instruction, to achieve project success.Program StructureThe

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luiz A. DaSilva, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Liza Wilson Durant, George Mason University; Jordan Mason; Sarah Hayes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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employment with host companies upon completion of the 19-weektraining and apprenticeship program.In its first year, the program received over 400 applications for 21 available positions, hosted bythree cybersecurity companies and a county government. 43% of the cohort identify as female,and veterans represent 19% of trainees. Underrepresented population groups in STEM compriseover 90% of this cohort. One company, in particular, saw the immediate impact of their trainees,offering full time employment to their entire cohort, with plans to potentially double the cohortsize in 2023. Feedback from the trainees has been equally enthusiastic; one of them says: “Beingone of the twenty-one people selected out of four-hundred (...) was nothing short of

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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. TheClass of 2022 was significantly affected by Covid-19 protocols. In the spring of 2020, classeswere removed to a remote setting and a majority of co-ops planned for the summer of 2020 werecancelled. Furthermore, all co-op and career networking events were cancelled and were slow toreturn. The university was back to its pre-covid operations in the spring of 2022. As a result, theClass of 2022 experienced a significant increase in recruiting efforts from both companies thatoffered co-ops and those who did not. There was also a significant increase in the number ofoffers per student. The aggressive hiring process did create a more competitive hiringenvironment for employers as they tried to also catch up with the backlog of pandemic delayedprojects

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Improving Retention & Self-Efficacy through Experiential Learning and Research Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel A. Tillman, University of Texas at El Paso; Thomas Joseph Soto, University of Texas at El Paso; Song An, University of Texas at El Paso; Carlos Paez, Navajo Technical University; Alice Carron, Blue Marble Institute of Space Science

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spatialreasoning, scale drawings and informal geometric constructions (Reporting Category 3, 7.6, 7.7,& 7.8). The theme of Drawing inferences about populations based on samples (ReportingCategory 5, 7.10 & 7.11) also underlies each of the experimental activities. Using data-collectionmaterials to help discern properties of operations in action such as generating equivalentexpressions by swapping out the order of collected data numbers to get the same result is just oneof many planned health-data activities with real-life consequences. Additionally, the project isideally suited to reinvigorate middle school students’ appreciation of random sampling to drawinferences about their unique population. Understanding that statistics can be used to

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Appiah-Kubi, University of Dayton; Phil Doepker; James Brothers, University of Dayton

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projects completed.Clients who responded indicated that the students achieved the project deliverables. One of theclients, a startup company (Lunnie) that recently launched a new postpartum bra utilized theresults from one of the projects a team worked on at the University of Dayton’s Flyer pitchcompetition and won first place with over $25,000 cash award. The transdisciplinary studentteam of students and their clients conducted market research to understand how the competitorswere marketing and selling their products.They also conducted a social medial audit and advised the client on the best days and times topost ads and videos. This helped the client to be strategic with her social media posting. Thesocial media plan led to increased

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Improving Retention & Self-Efficacy through Experiential Learning and Research Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Lynn Nelson, University of Texas at San Antonio; Karina Ivette Vielma, The University of Texas at San Antonio; JoAnn Browning, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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observations of students’ engagement. Weekly Deliverables Portions of the research paper, group lesson plan, peer review feedback, research poster, PowerPoint presentation, resume or curriculum vita, personal statement, and final paper **Focus Group All-inclusive group feedback about aspects of the program, including travel, site experience, mentor experience, presentation preparation, research meetings, and recommendations for improvement Post-assessment Comparison for post attitudes towards research, career goals, interest in PhD, experience and confidence conducting research activities Longitudinal Survey

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martell Bell, The University of Iowa; Rachel Vitali, The University of Iowa; Jae-eun Russell

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Learning Goals, Essential Project Design Elements, and Project-basedTeaching practices [12]. At the core of the BIE PBL framework are the student learning goals,which include key knowledge, understanding, and success skills. Surrounding these core learninggoals are the seven essential project design elements: 1) a challenging problem or question, 2)sustained inquiry, 3) authenticity, 4) student voice and choice, 5) reflection, 6) critique andrevision, and 7) public product. Project-based teaching practices consist of 7 elements: 1) designand plan, 2) align to standards, 3) build the culture, 4) manage activities, 5) scaffold studentlearning, 6) assess student learning, and 7) engage/coach. This research-informed PBLframework was chosen for its

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Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lana El Ladki, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Saira Anwar, Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering, Texas A&M University; Bilal Mansoor, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Yasser M. Al-Hamidi, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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based ontheir needs, interest, and career goals. The program evolved given its high student demand and toeffectively align with industry needs.Figure 2: The systematic approach of SEE coursesAlso, with the design rigor, the SEE program is continuously improved and updated based onindustry needs. Due to which, the course topics within workshops, varied over time. Also, newand more courses were added need-based. These topics and course identification and offeringsfollow a systematic process. Please refer to Figure 2 for the approach, which explains the steps toidentify topics, develop and design the training courses customized for the engineering context,plan their implementation, and offer them to students. The concurrent process ends with

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Improving Retention & Self-Efficacy through Experiential Learning and Research Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sophia Vicente, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Wayne Gersie

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influenced recruitment and the motivations that ledstudents to accept (or decline) their internship offer across the themes. In terms of programstructure, this was the first summer that not all of the Penn State students took advantage of theroom and board offered by ARL. However, two Penn State students specifically cited the roomand board as motivators for applying and the quote from P8 was directly from a Penn Statestudent. Additionally, in their individual interviews several of the Penn State students living offcampus brought up their meal plan as a benefit of the program and ate in the dining hall withtheir on-campus peers. While it was originally thought that the data would show largerdifferences in opinions regarding the room and board, it

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Improving Retention & Self-Efficacy through Experiential Learning and Research Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charmane Caldwell, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Reginald J. Perry, Florida A&M University - Florida State University

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that includes an essay. Thestudents are not reviewed on their academics, but on their motivation to become an engineer andtheir active participation in the Engineering LLC. This means the program focuses on the wholestudent, not just their academics. Essay Prompts in Application Why are you interested in an engineering degree, and what are your plans once you earn that engineering degree? What lessons have you personally learned from Engineering Concepts Institute and/or the Engineering LLC program?Program ElementsThe Educating Engineering Students Innovatively program, which spans the fall and springsemesters of