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Future Career and Professional Success for Graduate Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

graduate students in technicalfields, where teaching is often perceived to be secondary to working on research. In contrast, theparticipants described in much of the identity literature related to educator development comefrom fields where teaching is the main focus of preparation for future careers(e.g., 6, 9). A fewstudies have been done in engineering on teaching(e.g., 11), but the research is very limited.SummaryEducational researchers have taken multiple approaches to exploring student identitydevelopment. While most of the research methods have been qualitative in nature, few studies Page 24.652.3have adopted quantitative approaches. The

Conference Session

Future Career and Professional Success for Graduate Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janie McClurkin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Velvet Fitzpatrick, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Cyndi Lynch, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering’s Leadership Minor at Purdue University. She also serves as the Executive Director of the International Institute for Engineering Education Assessment (i2e2a). She ob- tained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt Univer- sity. Her teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in STEM education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of graduate students for diverse careers and the development of reliable and valid engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF

Conference Session

Professional Development and Advising for Graduate Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Diane L Peters, Kettering University; Steve Skerlos, University of Michigan; Adam B. Baker, University of Michigan

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working outside of academia for five or moreyears. In the first phase of a three year NSF-funded study that aims to characterize the populationof returning engineering PhD students, explore the interactions of their previous workexperiences and their academic work, and investigate stakeholder views and institutional policiesrelated to returning PhD students, we developed the nationally distributed Graduate StudentExperiences and Motivations Survey (GSEMS) to compare experiences and perspectives ofreturners and direct-pathway students (those who progress through to the PhD without a 5 year ormore gap). The survey included, among other topics, questions relating to students’ relationshipswith their advisors.The advising relationship is a critical

Conference Session

Future Career and Professional Success for Graduate Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Qunqun Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies

Page 24.190.9corresponding dimension.Second, by focusing on the Chinese students, this study facilitates our current understanding onsaid students’ learning experiences in U.S. engineering doctoral programs from an integratedperspective. Our preliminary results suggested that being exposed to U.S. engineering doctoraleducation has allowed said students to approach problems through multiple perspectives, whichpotentially have helped their development towards self-authorship. Considering the largerepresentation of international students in the U.S. engineering graduate programs, this workserves as a pilot study for applying self-authorship theory among other ethnical groups.Third, our findings also indicated that the three dimensions of self