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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 7: Graduate Student Experiences

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marah C. Lambert, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Lisa Merriweather, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Cathy Howell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Dilara Yaya Bryson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Edith Gnanadass, The University of Memphis

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Learning and Adult Education with a minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests are at the intersection of race and learning in adult education, DesiCrit (theorizing the racialized experiences of South Asian Americans using Critical Race Theory), Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) as a framework to analyze learning, and qualitative research. She is currently working on the following research projects: Environmental racism, Racialized experience of South Asian Americans, and Mothering during the pandemic. Her selected publications include ”Learning to teach about race: The racialized experience of a South Asian American feminist educator” in Adult

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lina Wei, Peking University

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ofengineering PhD students, and what type of training mode is suitable for differentengineering PhD students?3. Research design3.1 Research tools and variable settingsTo gain a comprehensive understanding of the current training experience of Chinesedoctoral students, the China Doctoral Education Research Center launched by PekingUniversity, commissioned by the Ministry of Education's Department of DegreeAdministration and Graduate Education, has been conducting the NationalPostgraduate Training Quality Feedback Survey Project since 2016. This nationalsurvey focuses on recent doctoral graduates. The team developed the NationalDoctoral Graduates Survey Questionnaire as a survey tool, drawing from existingsurvey questionnaires. The questionnaire uses a

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Mentoring Programs in Graduate Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dayna L. Martínez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.; Susan Arnold Christian; Esther Gonzalez; Andrea D. Beattie; Ashleigh Tierney; Kimberly D. Douglas, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.

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were placed in either their first or second topic of preference. The mostrecent list of topics is listed in Table I. TABLE I LIST OF TOPICS FOR GMG Group Description This group centers on helping participants with writing. This could include papers, Writing thesis, or dissertation. Together with their mentor, they go over practical advice to help them through their writing project. This group covers different topics that pertain to preparing to apply for a job in Preparing for a job in

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Dustin B. Thoman, San Diego State University; Satchi Venkataraman, San Diego State University

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were several statements expressing an increased sense ofcontrol over students' unique career development path. ● " ...after taking this course, I can identify specific areas of computational science which interest me (e.g. machine learning, high-performance computing), as well as possible opportunities within a number of projects and industries that would benefit from a computational scientist’s skills and background. Not only do I feel far more confident about my decision to get a Ph.D. in such a subject, I know that I will have a variety of career opportunities that will both fulfill and challenge me."; ● "found it interesting that most panelists had taken indirect paths to their current position. This helped to

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 8: International Perspectives in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Himani Sharma; Ann F. McKenna, The University of Iowa; Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

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his experience of encountering sarcasm when expectations aren't met, underscoringthe importance of providing constructive feedback and empathy during difficult times. Hementioned, "Sometimes I do get a little bit of sarcastic comment from him like, 'Okay, so I've been working on some project for a while. Let us say he expects me to get results. But sometimes the experiments are not going well, there is also not coming as well as they should be."However, bringing sarcasm in critique does not work all the time but rather has reverse effectson learners, constituting part of their lack of motivation. The participant in this scene maysymbolize the contrast between fake goals, which seem impossible to reach, and real-life

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 2: Graduate Student Pipeline and Workforce Development

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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will be able tosucceed in their course of study. At the same time, almost all programs are committed tobroadening educational opportunity by admitting non-traditional students and seeing themthrough to graduation. Standardized tests such as the Graduate Record Exam were conceived asa way to discover talent that would not be apparent using traditional metrics such as prioreducational background and grade-point averages. The GRE arose as a joint research project byHarvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton in 1936 [1]. The University of Wisconsin was the firstoutside school to use it, on an experimental basis, in 1938 [2]. In 1949, the GRE was acquiredby the Educational Testing Service [1]. Its latest revision, in 2011, turned it into a fully