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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 5: Skill Development in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Britney Russell, University of Connecticut; Antigoni Konstantinou, University of Connecticut; Ayah Abdallah, University of Connecticut; Fayekah Assanah, University of Connecticut

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Professional Development Course Series for all engineering graduate students. Assanah’s research focuses on synthesizing hydrogels to mimic the mechanical behavior of the brain matter and investigate the cellular response to injury. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Cultivating Scientific Communication Skills through Professional Development Course Series for the Graduate CurriculumBritney Russell, University of ConnecticutBritney Russell is a doctoral student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Universityof Connecticut. She was a teaching assistant for the First Year Experience, ScientificCommunication, and Engineering Internships and Careers in Industry courses that

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 5: Skill Development in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abdulrahman Alsharif, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Maya Denton, University of Oklahoma; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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research groups [7]. The interactions of thesetwo factors (e.g., advisors and peers) play a crucial role in a student's performance in researchenvironments [7]. Graduate students are often engaged in faculty-led laboratories (or research groups) andcollaborative teams as students develop both their teaching and research skills [7, 16, 17].Depending on the size of the research group, faculty advisors' roles and interactions might vary(e.g., large-size, mid-size, or sub-size) [7]. Crede and Borrego found that there were substantialdifferences in the perceived roles and interactions between faculty and graduate students acrossdifferent sized labs [7]. In particular, large-sized groups appeared to be run more like smallbusinesses (i.e

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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

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David K. Pugalee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Praveen Ramaprabhu; Mesbah Uddin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; H. P. Cherukuri, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Terry Xu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Audrey Rorrer

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Paper ID #41393Pathways to Entrepreneurship (PAtENT): Addressing the National AcademiesRecommendationsDr. David K. Pugalee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Dr. David Pugalee is a full professor, and Director of the Center for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (STEM) at UNC Charlotte. The recipient of millions of dollars in grant-funding, Dr. Pugalee has also published works on STEM teaching and learning.Praveen Ramaprabhu Praveen Ramaprabhu is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Sciences at UNC Charlotte, where he heads the Laboratory for Multiscale Computational

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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

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Isabella Victoria, University of Florida; Laura Melissa Cruz Castro, University of Florida; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, University of Florida

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topics for all theprograms. In fact, each program was very niche and covered different objectives along with havingdifferent justifications for its implementation. The variety of topics covered by each industryworkforce development program are shown in Appendix A. Figure 5: Targeted population of workforce development programs.RQ2: What workforce readiness skills do these training programs have for engineeringgraduates?Utilizing the Virginia Workplace Readiness skills framework and applying it graduate engineeringprograms in the United States, the workforce readiness skills programs are teaching students,academic faculty, and industry professionals (Table 2).Table 2: Skills identified from the workplace development programs

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 3: Advising in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hayden Ross Asbill, Campbell University; Mitchell Ann Letchworth, Campbell University; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University; Christina A. Pantoja, Campbell University

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Paper ID #44473The Graduate Student Role in Undergraduate Research Mentoring: A SystematicLiterature ReviewHayden Ross Asbill, Campbell UniversityMitchell Ann Letchworth, Campbell UniversityDr. Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University Anastasia Rynearson is an Assistant Professor at Campbell University. She received a PhD from Purdue University in Engineering Education and a B.S. and M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her teaching experience includes outreach activities at various age levels as well as a position as Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at

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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 7: Graduate Student Experiences

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Crystal Alicia Nattoo, Stanford University; Crystal E Winston, Stanford University; Rachel A. G. Adenekan, Stanford University

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lacks proper internal oversight. A lack ofemphasis on selecting PIs who are well-equipped to lead supportive and diverse laboratories cou-pled with a lack of diversity in the researcher and PI populations frequently leads to an unhealthywork environment that Black PhD students have the burden of navigating throughout their entiredoctoral program. We hope that sharing our experiences will serve as a reference point in the refor-mation of the graduate engineering education system. By challenging biases and fostering a moreinclusive academic space, we aim to see an improvement in the graduation rates of Black doctoralcandidates.Introduction Academic spaces are experiencing an influx of diverse students feeling empowered to pur-sue higher

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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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Rafael De Leon, The Ohio State University; Ann D. Christy P.E., The Ohio State University; Rosalyn Stoa, Colorado State University; Alexa Jayne, Colorado State University; Bailey Underill, Colorado State University

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students do perform work and provide quantifiableeconomic value universities through research and teaching that are critical to the business modelof universities and essential to the advancement and dissemination of scientific knowledgeallows us to begin to recontextualize doctoral engineering students as workers. Whenrecontextualized as workers, many frameworks and theories can be used to explain theexperiences of doctoral engineering students and perhaps why attrition is such an issue. Onepromising framework is the Psychology of Working Theory (PWT) [26]. Central to the PWT isthe concept of decent work. The PWT claims that in order to have access to well-being in anaffluent western context, decent work is necessary. Decent work is defined within

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 3: Advising in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut; Alexandra Hain, University of Connecticut; Arash Esmaili Zaghi, University of Connecticut

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2014 report indicate thatneurodiverse individuals make up only around 3% of science and engineering doctoral degreerecipients [10].Graduate students face a unique set of challenges when compared to undergraduate students,with faculty advisors playing a large role in student success. Several studies have noted specificchallenges related to advisors, including work-life balance, which may be impacted by facultyexpectations, and hierarchical faculty-student relationships [11]-[13]. Satterfield et al.’s [14]literature review focused on the experiences of graduate students during their studies andexplored how individual factors (the influence of the student’s advisor), programmatic factors(isolation and teaching assistantships), and external