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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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Xixin Qiu, Pennsylvania State University

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, engineering doctoral students werefound to be the most difficult to attract in terms of willingness to work with writing centers[16].Discipline-Specific Writing-Intensive CourseSituated within a complex sociocultural context, each discipline under engineering enjoys aspecialized epistemology and rhetorical convention that are co-constructed and practiced byits members [17]. As newcomers to the discipline, graduate students are waiting to beapprenticed into their respective domain, sometimes through a discipline-specific writingcourse. According to research in disciplinary writing education, analyzing discipline-specifictexts is an excellent starting point for writing instruction, allowing students to reflect ondisciplinary norms and incorporate these

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Programs in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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April A. Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; Valerie E. Kerr, University of Pittsburgh; Susan K. Fullerton Shirey, University of Pittsburgh; Götz Veser, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh

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professional developmentstreams, and a resolute approach to Scaffolding Instruction that leads to mastery in the student's area offocus. The last two components provide feedback and reflection: Assessment of Performance Learningquantifies students' progress, and Reflection and Evaluation, where improvement opportunities help thestudent to develop further. Incorporating personalization at every touchpoint of a graduate student'sacademic journey creates an authentic, customized, student-centered approach to graduate education.This paper describes the model, the literature behind its development, and the assessments used to guidestudents.IntroductionGraduate STEM training and career preparation has historically followed a "one size fits all" approach

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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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Ari Sherris, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Christine Reiser Robbins, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Jianhong Ren, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David Ramirez, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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increase in heat-related death, damage to land, plants, andanimals, a rise in life-threatening infectious diseases “such as dengue, malaria, vibriosis, andWest Nile virus” [1], peril to water security, sanitation, and food production, harm to livelihoodsand economic loss. Preparing the next generation of Environmental Professionals to tacklethese and additional challenges is daunting. This paper shares some preliminary reflections onsix short workshops to humanize care, commitment, skill, and responsibility for the heavy liftinginvolved in facing the effects of climate change. The workshops introduce graduate students tothe concept and practice of transdisciplinarity, weaving together topics from interculturalcompetence, community-engaged practice

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 1: Onboarding and Community Building in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Ifeoma Nwanua, University of Florida

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. students in engineering – from motivations and persistenceto encounters with racial microaggressions – the disparity remains, underscoring the need fordeeper exploration.Utilizing autoethnography, this study illuminates the journey of a Black female engineer fromNigeria during her inaugural semester in a U.S.-based civil engineering Ph.D. program. Theresearch hinges on two pivotal questions: what early challenges did she confront, and how did shetraverse them? To answer these questions, reflective journals and audio diaries maintainedconsistently by the researcher were employed. These data sources were subjected to inductivecoding via Dedoose to tease out dominant themes.This research findings highlight critical challenges this international

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Challenges and Coping Strategies of Engineering Graduate Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jennifer Cromley, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan; Dale Robbennolt; Anne Hart, University of Tennessee, Memphis

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could alsocause stress when it came to interactions.Qualifying Exams. Theme: Milestones: Preparing for and completing the qualifying exam was amajor stressor for participants; students in later stages of their programs also reflected on theirstressful experiences with qualifying exams. Oral exams were generally described as moreacutely stressful compared with written exams. Preparing for the exam led to conflicts withresearch progress or course deadlines, while the risk of consequences of failure (such as beingremoved from the program) led to stress due to the high stakes nature of the exams. A fewparticipants failed initial attempts at their qualifying exams and described very high stress interms of repeating preparations for the exam

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 5: Graduate Student Experience and Decision-Making

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Animesh Paul, University of Georgia; Deborah Moyaki, University of Georgia; John Ray Morelock, University of Georgia; Racheida S. Lewis, University of Georgia

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other subjective measures like letters of recommendation and interviewsfor the admission process as the GRE quantitative score only measures a student’s ability whichaccounts for a fraction of graduate school success determinants. Rockinson-Szapkiw, Bray Jr,and Spaulding [6] in their study on the GRE score predictive validity in doctoral education alsodiscovered the GRE writing score to be a strong predictor for graduate students’ dissertationcompletion time.While these studies focused on various components of the GRE, evaluating their validity inpredicting factors postulated to reflect graduate school success, a more recent study by Newmanet al. [7] assessed issues with the GRE considering fairness for all demographic of applicants.They

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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

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Siqing Wei, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Moses Olayemi, University of Oklahoma

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communities in the United StatesAbstractThis paper shares and compares the experiences of initiating and sustaining two graduatestudent-led international ethnic engineering education scholarly communities for Chinese andAfrican groups. Our goal is to reflect on our lived experiences and inspire future students andacademics to cultivate such communities to broaden participation and enhance researchcapability. We adopt the Community of Practice (CoP) as the theoretical framework and opt forcomparative ethnographic narrative analysis as the method in this paper. Specifically, we focusedon the following dimensions of two communities led by the two authors: (1) the origin andpurpose; (2) the characteristics; and (3) practices. Our findings suggest that

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Programs in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mirit Shamir, Kansas State University; Jonathan Aguilar, Kansas State University; Rebecca Cors, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ryan Robert Hansen, Kansas State University; Nathan P. Hendricks, Kansas State University; Gaea A. Hock; Stacy L. Hutchinson, Kansas State University; Prathap Parameswaran, Kansas State University; Matthew R. Sanderson; Melanie Derby, Kansas State University

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courses,and a short description of these courses can be found on our university Graduate School website[9].For students’ professional development, the NRT offered a seminar series in the fall and springsemesters, which included eight sessions (twice a month) each semester. NRT Seminar is a 0-credit hour seminar that has been offered on a Credit/No Credit basis. Students completed up tofour semesters of NRT Seminar. The NRT Seminar consisted of training sessions related toinclusion, career pathways, campus resources, skill development to communicate acrossdisciplines and to diverse audiences, and exposure to FEW research initiatives. Internal orexternal guest speakers gave talks during seminar. Students completed a reflection activity aftereach

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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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Clay Gloster Jr., North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (TGC); Matthew Bonner Aurelius McCullough, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (TCG); Grace Gowdy; Shea Bigsby; Dawayne Whittington; Juanda Johnson-Taylor

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integrates culturally reflective mentoring and professional development specificallydesigned for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Ph.D. students. This holistic graduate studentdevelopment model includes academic and professional skill-building for STEM careersalongside targeted support for pursuing fellowship opportunities, including the NSF GraduateResearch Fellowship.The theoretical framework for our model is based on social cognitive career theory (Lent et al.,1986). This is foundational to our program because it builds on the idea that the higher theperceived self-efficacy to fulfill educational requirements and occupational roles, the wider thecareer options people will seriously consider pursuing (Lent et al., 2004; Lent et al., 2010). Thegreater

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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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and safe working conditions being ahot-button issue in graduate education for decades, nowhere in engineering education research isit discussed [15]. Should research in our field align itself more with the university than thepopulations being studied? How should we be studying doctoral engineering students? Whatproblems should we be highlighting?The Role of Doctoral Engineering StudentsTo decide what direction work in the field should take, we must first understand what roles andresponsibilities doctoral engineering students have at their universities.As existing literature and legislation reflect, the doctoral engineering student has long existed inan ambiguous space [15], [16]. Universities do not consistently classify them as either staff

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 7: Developing Graduate Students' Competencies and Identities

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie M. Rieland, University of Michigan; Shamalee Goonetilleke, University of Michigan; Sarah Jane Bork, University of Michigan; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan

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voluntary convenience samplesurvey. Over 2,000 respondents from 26 countries and 234 institutions responded, revealing anoverwhelming mental health crisis in the graduate student population [9], [10]. They reportelevated rates of anxiety (41%) and depression (39%) in the sampled community, suggesting thatgraduate students are six times as likely to experience depression and anxiety compared to thegeneral public. Likewise, students have not been passive in their dissatisfaction with the state ofthe academy. In recent years, student labor organizing [11], labor strikes, and general protestmovements have become common reflecting the general themes of modern politics including themultiple epidemics of sexual harassment [12], [13], racism [14], [15

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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; for example, Chen et. al. states that “[s]tudents from all backgrounds may find theexperience [of an unexpectedly poor academic performance] threatening to their competence, butstudents from minority groups must also contend with anxiety that this performance ‘confirms’negative academic stereotypes attributed to their group memberships”[10].Often, these biases and stereotypes reflect an automatic judgment without an awareness ofindividuals’ specific abilities or experiences [11] [12]. Thus, the format of assessment, rather thanthe rigor, quality, or intended learning can have undue effect on educational outcomes. Forexample, IGEN performed a case study on a top-ranked physics program which noticed its“passage rate [for a qualifying exam] had

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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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near-peer mentoring between graduate students and undergraduate transfer students in engineering and computingIntroduction Mentoring is a practice in which a student, or mentee, and a more experienced individual,a mentor, engage in a relationship that includes advising or instructing by the mentor to thementee. This type of relationship can be seen throughout academia and is commonly foundbetween staff members and students. The concept of near-peer mentoring reflects the ideas andgoals of traditional mentorship but is formed between individuals who are at similar experiencelevels, personally or professionally, where the mentor and mentee relate to one another due tosimilar age proximity, shared goals, common experiences, or

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alyssa V. B. Santos, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah J. Boehm, Pennsylvania State University; Fadi Castronovo, California State University, East Bay; Tiffany A. Mathews, Pennsylvania State University

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interactions with peers and faculty withinthe first 10 weeks (about 2 and a half months) of graduate school reduced the impact of stress,both physically and psychologically, for the next 6 months [7]. Overall, we know that at least40% of all doctoral students do not complete their programs, and much of this attrition could beprevented and is not reflective of student capability [8].Simultaneously, doctoral degrees awarded in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) continue to be disproportionately awarded to white students. In the 2019-20 academicyear, 71.3% of all STEM doctoral degrees awarded to U.S. citizens and permanent residentswere awarded to white students, even though the U.S. population is approximately 59.3% white.Only 4.3

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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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So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati; Julie Aldridge, The Ohio State University; Nicole Else-Quest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joe Roy, American Society for Engineering Education

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marginalized groups,including Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous students in STEM, is imperative to maintainthe U.S. standing as a global leader in innovation.We reported on the development procedure for a multi-factor organizational climate survey forengineering doctoral student retention. Engineering doctoral graduates account for a large shareof the innovation workforce [2], but the engineering doctoral pipeline does not reflect thediversity of the U.S. population. For example, in 2022, women earned 26.2% of the engineeringdoctoral degrees awarded in the U.S., with fewer than half of those women being U.S. residents.Of those degrees, American Indian women earned 0.1%, Black women earned 5.0%, multiracialwomen earned 5.3%, Latina women earned

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Challenges and Coping Strategies of Engineering Graduate Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Aldridge, The Ohio State University; Nicole M. Else-Quest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joseph Roy, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE); So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati

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aggression. As researchers have explicitly stated that individual attitudes toward diversity, personal experiences, and the presence or absence of specific practices do not reflect diversity climate [28], evidence of this climate was limited to emergent themes from qualitative studies [67][75][83]. Thus, we also excluded papers based on autoethnography or findings relying on unique statements reflecting the experience of a lone participant. Cultural mosaic beliefs climate: perceived cultural diversity [30][31] is a recent addition to the climate literature. We included it in our framework due to the high proportion of international students in engineering doctoral programs. Perceived cultural diversity climate is defined as how well

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 2: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Piyush Pradhananga, Florida International University; Claudia Calle Müller, Florida International University; Rubaya Rahat, Florida International University; Mohamed ElZomor P.E., Florida International University

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pertaining to the existence of the truerelationship between dependent and independent variables is correct. Thus, the data is statisticallysignificant. In Table 1, 𝞵1 and 𝞵2 are the coefficients of the ordered probit model with the values -0.42 and -0.8. This value is the threshold that reflects the predicted cumulative probabilities atcovariate values of zero. Based on the obtained results of regression analysis, higher accessibilityof forensic engineering curriculum within the university (β= -6.35), students’ positive attitudetoward solving complex problems (β= 1.04), higher interest in forensic concepts (β= -1.21), andpractical pedagogical approach used in the course (β= 6.35) will increase students’ interest topursue a forensic engineering

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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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Margaret Webb, Virginia Tech ; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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goes beyond explicit content, aiming to identify‬ ‭underlying concepts, patterns, and thus themes that are not at first apparent; it entails interpreting‬ ‭data to uncover the implicit, or hidden, meanings and insights in a particular text. We analyzed‬ ‭this secondary dataset in repeated and systematic movements between these different phases in a‬ ‭spirit of inquiry and interpretation toward answering our proposed research questions‬‭[79], [80],‬ ‭[81], [82], [83]‬‭, and viewed our reflection and active‬‭roles as both researchers and IDR program‬ ‭members as crucially important to addressing the inevitable subjectivity of the Qualitative‬ ‭paradigm.‬‭ pecifically, we first established Familiarization based on

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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

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Philip Appiah-Kubi, University of Dayton; Khalid Zouhri, University of Dayton

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a second language.This may impact their ability to thrive in the first semester. Lack of confidence to engage inconversations during the first semester could also affect their ability to navigate the academicexpectations as well as their willingness to explore and utilize campus resources. In this paper,first-semester international students in a graduate engineering program were asked to reflect ontheir academic experience to identify the critical success factors. An anonymous, non-scientificsurvey was designed to gather feedback from the students at the end of their first semester. Allstudents in the class were international students taking on-campus courses in the United Statesfor the first time. The following section presents a brief

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Challenges and Coping Strategies of Engineering Graduate Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eunsil Lee, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Susan Sajadi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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on diverse stressors,one closed-end question on students’ satisfaction, and two open-ended questions on the students’perceived challenges in graduate experiences. The closed-ended questions on stressors askedparticipants to reflect on their graduate education experience and indicate the extent to whicheach of the 21 stressors disrupted their ability to perform academically and/or professionally. Another question asked participants to rate their experience as a graduate student at theirinstitution. Response options for the 21 stressors and one satisfaction questions were arrayed ona five-point Likert scale from 0 (none) to 4 (severely), and a five-point Likert scale from 1 (Veryunsatisfied) to 5 (Very satisfied), respectively. The two

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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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rather than reflecting on the past 9 . There any many examples in the literatureof works using this method for centering the experiences of individuals with marginalized identi-ties 10,11,12 . In order to emphasize the need for this work, we have reviewed the literature to findexamples of lived experiences similar to ours to emphasize that these are not isolated incidencesof struggle. Doctoral education begins not with admission to a university, but instead application to pro-grams within that university according to their alignment with a student’s research interests. Oncematriculated into a graduate program, young academics bring diverse life experiences that mayconflict with the typical impression of who belongs. These feelings which have

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandy Christlieb; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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students from across campus build professional skills,gain experience in teaching and research, and develop relationships across disciplines and degreeprograms [12].Two of these cohort programs focus specifically on leadership development: the GraduateStudent Leadership Academy [13] is an eight-week exercise in self-reflection, skill development,and teamwork to solve problems and build community on campus. The Graduate LeadershipFellows program is a year-long experience that encourages “graduate student leaders to engagein change-oriented projects. Fellows aim to increase belonging and community within theircollege or specific populations of students, and their projects increase graduate student well-being, inclusion, and ultimately success” [14

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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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Elizabeth Gross, Sam Houston State University; Diane L. Peters, Kettering University

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5 19 6.20 8.83 Very 37 80 46.25 37.20 Total 77 215 ~97 ~100Not all students answered all of the questions, so the totals for each question are unique. Thepercentages reflect the answers to the specific survey question. As well, not all students whoresponded to this question were online learners. The table above is included to show opinions ofthe importance of online course offerings. Of these respondents, 42.5% of returners elected toenroll in coursework, while only 25.6% of direct pathway did.Respondents were asked how confident they were to complete

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 7: Developing Graduate Students' Competencies and Identities

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelli Cargile Cook, Texas Tech University; Fabiola Liliana Carrion-Anampa, Texas Tech University; Diego Alejandro Polanco-Lahoz, Texas Tech University; Jennifer A. Cross, Texas Tech University; Mario G. Beruvides P.E., Nanyang Technological University

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based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underAward No. 2205033. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] N. Choe and M. Borrego. “Prediction of engineering identity in engineering graduate students,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 181-187, 2019. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8667045.[2] M. Bahnson, H. Perkins, M. Tsugawa, D. Satterfield, M. Parker, C. Cass, and A. Kirn. “Inequity in graduate engineering identity: Disciplinary differences and opportunity structures,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 110

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

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orientation also covered best practice advice on how to get the most out of the mentoringexperience focused particularly on being prepared to connect, learning to ask questions to thementor, and listening for examples that connect with their goals, being open and honest in thecommunication, and periodically assessing and reflecting with their mentor to make sure bothparties were bringing what the other needs to the connection.At the end of the meeting, any mentoring pairs who were present were encouraged to take timeto meet in breakout rooms.MeetingsThe mentoring relationship lasted for 10 weeks. Table II, shown on the following page, includesthe suggested meeting schedule that was shared with participants. This schedule was based onthe model of

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 3: Mentorship and Communication in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abimelec Mercado Rivera, Arizona State University; Mayra S. Artiles, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University

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the Advisor Supportconstruct.Survey Instrument DevelopmentOur survey was developed by adapting two existing scales to our research question and context,namely the Dissertation Self-Efficacy Scale (DSES) [13] and the Advisor Behavior scale [8].The DSES scale was adjusted to be relevant to either doctoral or masters’ students indissertation, thesis, or applied project tracks and, with 14 total items, was renamed Thesis Self-efficacy. The decision to generalize the items to doctoral or masters’ students can help generalizeour survey for use at MSIs, where a recent nationwide study showed that 89% of graduatedegrees awarded at these institutions are master’s degrees [34]. The Advisor Behavior [8] scalewas adapted to reflect only those items

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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

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Sanjeev Adhikari, Kennesaw State University; Kathryn Bedette AIA, Kennesaw State University; Giovanni Loreto, Kennesaw State University

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university to cultivate a moreinclusive and supportive social environment, fostering interactions between local andinternational students. Initiatives such as the Interaction for Learning Framework [18] couldserve as valuable tools for enhancing intercultural engagement within the university community.Specifically: • Beginning with the demographic data, it is evident that the international student cohort in the Construction Management graduate program is diverse, representing countries such as Pakistan, Nigeria, Colombia, Bolivia, India, Jamaica, Ghana, and Mexico. The gender distribution among international student respondents reflects a balanced representation, with 56% male and 44% female, contributing to a dynamic

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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

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

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academic andprofessional progress of students enrolled in higher education and, therefore, exploring thecontributions of advising to the achievements of international students. This is part one of agreater study; hence, it requires interviewing more students and getting more insight into theseissues. Subsequent research should expand this study into further and deeper directions, hopingto provide detailed descriptions that capture the spaces between reflections to make strongerrecommendations to improve intercultural competency in academic advising.Bibliography[1]. C. W. Yao and L. M. Vital, “Reflexivity in international contexts: Implications for U.S.doctoral students international research preparation,” International Journal of Doctoral Studies

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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

Authors

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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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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three themes related to advisor-advisee communication: Mutual Trust, ClearExpectations, and Delivery of Feedback.Mutual TrustWhen asked if they would share information about their neurodiversity-related experiences,strengths, and challenges with their advisor, most participants expressed some hesitation aboutdoing so, suggesting that students may not have the necessary trust in their advisor-adviseerelationship to facilitate these types of discussions. Wendy, who later on in her programdeveloped open communication with her advisor about neurodiversity, reflected on her earlyperception that she was not safe discussing her experiences with ADHD, saying: I think it would be something that might be helpful to share with my advisor