Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mayra S. Artiles Ph.D., Arizona State University; Juan M. Cruz, Rowan University; Sarah Anne Blackowski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Stephanie G. Adams, University of Texas at Dallas; Gwen Lee-Thomas, Quality Measures LLC

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

also make them successful as a doctoral student (Holbrook et al., 2014). This gap causesstudents to often lose focus of their primary responsibilities, such as research and maintaining apositive relationship with their advisor, instead of focusing their efforts less effectively on otheractivities such as coursework or extracurricular tasks that do not hold the same significance inthe doctoral journey. It is not until later in the Ph.D. process that students face the reality thattheir efforts were misaligned with the best activities for degree progress (Artiles, 2019; Artiles etal., 2018). This far into the Ph.D. process, it often seems too late to refocus and make timelydegree progress, causing students to lose motivation and, in some severe