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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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Shannon Conner, Clemson University; Skylar Hubbarth, Clemson University; D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University

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could practice their skills and attempt to makeimprovements to their classroom teaching style to find what would be most beneficial to thestudent's learning as well as their own comfort. They also found that they were able to developskills beyond being able to convey material, but also learned how to develop a course from theground up, which included the opportunity to construct a syllabus and lesson plan, run aclassroom taking into account time constraints and student and abilities, and how to account forstudent expectations for the course. As many had not had the chance to teach prior to theSPECTRA experience, the lower-stakes environment of a research course may have providedthem opportunity to develop their identities and skills as

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 1: Recruitment and Support in Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meredith Leigh Hooper, California Institute of Technology; Jacqueline Rose Tawney, California Institute of Technology ; Emily Hope Palmer, California Institute of Technology; James Ragan, California Institute of Technology; Morgan Louise Hooper, California Institute of Technology; Yazmin Gonzalez, California Institute of Technology

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safety critical settings, using tools such as Monte Carlo Tree Search.Dr. Morgan Louise Hooper, California Institute of Technology After completing her PhD at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Tech- nology (GALCIT), Morgan Hooper is now an Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) at the University of Toronto. There, her teaching focuses on building community within hands-on Engineering Design courses and beyond. She encourages students to engage with multi-faceted, trans-disciplinary engineer- ing projects to learn the complex ways in which engineering, design, and community interact.Yazmin Gonzalez, California Institute of Technology Yazmin Gonzalez brings over a decade of experience

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 8: Professional Development for Graduate Students

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Elisabeth Gehr, Purdue University; Emily Garcia, Purdue University; Suzanne Swaine, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Stephen McBride, Purdue University; Joseph Vincent Rispoli, Purdue University; Christopher Greg Brinton

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course of three calendar years. Included inthis initiative was the launch of the Mentoring Fellows Program, a student-led and faculty-advised group tasked with researching and improving mentorship at the college level. During thefirst year of the Mentoring Improvement Initiative, the fellows were tasked with focusing on therelationship between a graduate student and their committee head or primary advisor.The College of Engineering Mentoring Fellows, composed of three graduate students, twofaculty, and one staff member, prioritized analyzing existing data collected by the graduateStudent Experience in the Research University (gradSERU) online service. The fellowsrecognized that while most students stated they were content with the relationship