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Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Pennsylvania; Julie Schafer McGurk, University of Pennsylvania; Emily R. Elliott, University of Pennsylvania; Ursula J. Williams, University of Pennsylvania; Leann Dourte Segan, University of Pennsylvania

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, In-Class Learning Environment as a Teaching AssistantIntroductionActive learning techniques, when properly implemented, have been shown to improve learningcompared to traditional lecture. A review of active learning by Prince found broad support foractive, collaborative, cooperative, and problem-based learning.1 Specifically, a meta-analysisrevealed that small-group work, one form of active learning, promotes enhanced academicachievement, more favorable attitudes toward learning, and increased persistence in STEMfields.2 Despite the strong evidence, many college engineering courses uphold the status-quo,lecture-only format because changing the structure of a course takes considerable time, planning,and foresight

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin A. Cech, Rice University

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

and transgender (LGBT) individuals in U.S.workplaces often face disadvantages in pay, promotion, and workplace experiences.1-7 It is stilllegal in many states to fire LGBT persons due to sexual identity or gender expression.8 Recentscholarship on the experiences of LGBT students and professionals suggests that thesedisadvantages may be particularly pernicious within science and engineering-related fields, giventhe patterns of heteronormativity and heterosexism documented therein.9-12 LGBT faculty inscience, technology, engineering and math (STEM)-related departments face harassment anddiscrimination, marginalization, and chilly departmental and classroom climates.10 In a study oftwo NASA centers, furthermore, LGBT professionals encountered

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Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Algeo Wilson IV, Louisiana State University; Adrienne Steele, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Wei-Hsung Wang Ph.D., Louisiana State University; Linda Lee Ramsey, Independent evaluator

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confidence in their ability to lead discussions, as well as other positiveprofessional and personal growth.1 BackgroundIncreases in student enrollment, decreases in state higher education funding, and larger classsizes all contribute to a less conducive learning environment for students (1, 2); all are a reality atLouisiana State University (LSU). Added to these difficulties, students are further challenged intheir sophomore year of college as they struggle to convert study skills that in high schooldepended on bulk memorization to new more intense requirements of application-basedprocesses. Students who did well freshman year sometimes do not pass major key courses insophomore year (3). Sophomore year is also the time where the majority of transfer

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Technical Session: Student Experience & Perspectives

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Andrew H. Theiss, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University

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. Page 26.667.4Phase 1 – PreparationPhase 1 of the project consisted of the initial preparation and planning for the grading training.This included finding representative technical writing samples, setting the baseline grades with agroup of faculty and senior TAs, and creating sample “marked up” graded examples.Phase 2 – Calibration Sessions and FeedbackPhase 2 of the project consisted of the initial training and calibration. This grading trainingoccurred as part of the annual required TA training sessions. In addition to requiring theattendance of the GTAs and UTAs responsible for grading writing assignments, the faculty ofthe program were also encouraged to attend and participate. This was aimed at providingconsistent exposure to the process

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Technical Session: Professional Development Opportunities for Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen A. Harper, The Ohio State University; Hannah Christine Zierden, The Ohio State University; Kevin Robert Wegman; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, The Ohio State University

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designing and programming the course control electronics. Thisdevelopment and creation is extremely time-intensive. College students already balance manydifferent life aspects, and yet, every year, a core group of TAs embrace this time-intensivechallenge and excel. To further explore this TA experience, this study addresses the followingresearch questions: Why do TAs participate in the development and creation of the robot designproject? What skills, if any, do they develop through their participation?Impetus for this WorkMany first-year engineering programs have a common curriculum that all students are requiredto take.1 These courses tend to be large in size, having multiple sections of the same class. Forexample, at Ohio State, the first-year

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Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jaclyn K. Murray, University of Georgia; Barbara Ann Crawford

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1 illustrates the investigation embeddedwithin the conceptual framework. Developing a community of practice can be an effectivemeans for helping new teachers learn to teach. “Communities of practice are groups of peoplewho share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen theirknowledge and expertise in the area by interacting on an ongoing basis” (p. 5).2 The biomedicalengineering fellows were interested in learning about and educating students with reform-basedinstructional practices. It is anticipated that fellows work together with faculty and mentorteachers as a community to develop a shared knowledge about the practice of teaching science inpreparation for future careers as tenured faculty members at the

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Technical Session: Professional Development Opportunities for Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Marie Reck, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew William Priddy, Georgia Institute of Technology

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colleges to undergraduate serving institutions and research-focused universities,both with and without engineering education degree programs.1 With such a wide range ofinstitutions being served with Student Chapters, it can be difficult to ensure that all needs are metand all Chapters have the same goals.According to the ASEE Student Chapter Mission,1 the general mission of Student Chapters is: I. To develop relationships with local schools (K-12) and aid them in fostering student interest in future careers and study in engineering and engineering technology II. To encourage engineering undergraduate students to continue their studies on the graduate level III. To increase the interest of engineering graduate students in

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Technical Session: Professional Development Opportunities for Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natacha Depaola, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jamshid Mohammadi P.E., Illinois Institute of Technology; Paul R. Anderson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Eric M. Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology; Roberto Cammino, Illinois Institute of Technology; Bonnie Haferkamp, Illinois Institute of Technology; Fouad Teymour, Illinois Institute of Technology

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paper also describes the future direction in this initiative and the ongoingstrategies being implemented to measure the success of the portfolio project.ObjectivesThe objectives of the engineering portfolio at IIT are to:(1) Offer opportunities to students to compile a record of their accomplishments within theengineering distinctive education thematic activities, design their path to graduation with anenriched curriculum, and build on an open-ended self-guided career plan based on masteredskills and demonstrated achievements;(2) Provide potential employers with an extended resume with a more comprehensive record ofprofessional background of a new engineering graduate; and(3) Provide educators with an assessment tool for student learning

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; Michael Haungs, California Polytechnic State University

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering reportpublished by the NSF, with significant variance by subfield.1 The proportion of womengraduating with a bachelor’s degree in computing disciplines has decreased. 1 In 2012, the U.S.Congress Joint Economic Committee affirmed that, “Women’s increased participation in theSTEM workforce is essential to alleviating the shortage of STEM workers” in the United States.2The ASEE Diversity Task Force has identified increasing the percentage of undergraduatefemale students to 25% by 2020 as a strategic goal.3 Explanations for the continuedunderrepresentation of women include the impacts of the social structures of society, educationand the professions on women’s participation, as well as the

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Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen W. Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Ana Alanis, University of Texas, Pan American ; Jose Luis Chavez Jr., The University of Texas, Pan-American; Joel Guadalupe Montemayor, University of Texas, Pan American; Ricardo Montemayor, University of Texas, Pan-American; Haidy Enid Soto, University of Texas, Pan American

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assistance to other sites using the materials. An outlineof the CBI challenge and how the challenge supported course content for the systems thinkingand water science courses are shown in Tables 1 and 2. The CBI challenges for the other coursesare listed in Table 3. The computer science was not completed and is currently underdevelopment for implementation in 2015.Table 1: Challenge and Outline of Systems Thinking Course Systems Thinking Challenge: Model and build a functional low temperature difference Stirling engine from everyday household materials Weekly Module Content Connection to CBI Challenge 1. Systems Introduction and The term system is introduced to students in the context of Basic Theory a

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Brewer, University of Georgia; Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

development.Introduction Times have changed. There is a new message emerging. The future of engineering, and some would say of society, depends on its delivery. The new message starts with the recognition that engineering design is a social and humanistic field, as well as a technical and scientific one; and that, like other professions, human impact is placed at the center of the process [1].This excerpt is taken from Diane Rover’s Journal of Engineering Education AcademicBookshelf review of the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) Changing the Conversationreport. The conclusion of Rover’s article, much like the report she reviews, is clear – “in an ageof ‘messaging’”, messages have the power to transform engineering education.A

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Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thomas John Wallin, Cornell University; Marc James Murphy; Amanda Michelle Lorts Harding, Norfolk State University; Rabia Hussain, Norfolk State University; Sonny James Penterman, Cornell University; Vanessa Nicole Peters, Norfolk State University; Thejaswi U. Tumkur, Rice University; Quincy Leon Williams, Norfolk State University; Suely M. Black, Norfolk State University

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Education faculty and doctoralstudents from Purdue University. Each year, the IGERT-MNM pedagogy module is led by theEngineering Education collaborators from Purdue. The main objective of the module is to helpthe IGERT Trainees and associate trainees develop pedagogical expertise in order to integratepedagogy within their disciplinary areas. To accomplish these objectives trainees were expectedto: 1. Understand pedagogical techniques and apply them to science and engineering activity and curriculum design 2. Identify best practices in methods of communicating scientific content to learners 3. Be able to implement backward design principles 22 to complete a deliverable for use in a classroom setting 4. Gain experience with

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Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

successful interactions and learning outcomes.1-3 One important challenge centers onthe interactions between students from groups negatively stereotyped as poor performers inengineering (e.g., women and under-represented racial minorities) and others. A body of researchin psychology indicates that students from these marginalized groups may have qualitativelydifferent group work experiences compared to others, which may contribute to their self-selection from engineering and thus their group’s under-representation in engineering fields.Recent research suggests that the negative experiences of people from marginalized groups onengineering student design teams can influence many factors that contribute to persistence andsuccess, such as development of

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Technical Session: Professional Development Opportunities for Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cory Hixson, Virginia Tech; Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Rachel E. McCord, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Institutional Research, Planning,and Assessment (IRPA) Office and the other worked as a member of the Center for the Practiceand Scholarship of Education (CPSE). For the IRPA placement, the funding was provided Page 26.1569.4through grant support, while for the CPSE placement, funding was secured through multipleinternal sources (e.g., collaboration with other programs). As mentioned previously, the fourstudents all participated in meaningfully different projects (detailed in Table 1). In each case, thestudent had contact with faculty, staff, members of the upper administration, and undergraduatestudents at RHIT. Table 1

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Technical Session: Student Experience & Perspectives

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dylan Christenson, Texas Tech University; Daniel Baldwin; Maeghan Marie Brundrett, Texas Tech University; Paula Ann Monaco, Texas Tech University; Kevin A. Nguyen, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

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between student and teaching assistantperceptions or between subgroups of students.MethodsA mixed methods survey was implemented with 12 Likert scale questions paired with a freeresponse portion (Appendix A). The study was designed using a concurrent triangulationstrategy (Fig. 1) as described in Creswell (2012)15 because it was anticipated that quantitativeresults would need to be corroborated and expanded by qualitative responses. Quantitative Qualitative Quantitative Qualitative Data Collection Data Collection Quantitative Qualitative Data Analysis

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Lachney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

Page 26.616.2more as a metaphor for conveying students’ experience of disappointment than to insinuatemalicious intent.(i)In K-12 engineering programs, the overwhelming curricular emphasis is on engaging, design-based classroom activities: open-ended, hands-on projects requiring creative synthesis acrossmultiple domains of knowledge on the part of the student.1 In university engineering programs,students confront an educational philosophy that can be characterized as exclusionary and builtupon a “fundamentals first” approach to learning:2 analytically rigorous, rote learning of basicprinciples in math and science (e.g., calculus, chemistry, physics) followed by engineeringsciences (e.g. statics, fluid dynamics) followed by engineering analysis

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Technical Session: Student Experience & Perspectives

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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education and identity development. Page 26.298.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Building a Community of Practice: Discipline-Based Educational Research GroupsEngineering Education is a growing field. Twenty-three universities have doctoral programs inengineering education while numerous others offer certificates, courses, or the option to pursueengineering education research in traditional engineering disciplines.1 Sixteen institutions haveASEE Student Chapters, offering another way for students who are interested in engineeringeducation research to

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Technical Session: Student Experience & Perspectives

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Jannette McFalls, Mississippi State University; Carla Danielle Grimes, Mississippi State University; M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; Rani W. Sullivan, Mississippi State University; James Warnock, Mississippi State University

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Program Assessment Workshops, IDEAL and the assessment webinar series. He also directs activities related to the workshop facilitator training and professional development. Page 26.1615.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Undergraduate Facilitators’ Perspectives of   Engineering Summer Programs  1. Introduction  Summer programs are often used by universities to recruit students into engineering by educating and inspiring them.  Programs have various target audiences and objectives.  For example, some programs are targeted at

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Two Body Solutions: Strategies for the Dual-Career Job Search

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Christopher M Weyant, Drexel University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Kristina M. Wagstrom, University of Connecticut; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

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New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

, prospecting via targetedemail, presenting the couple as a package deal, and balancing career with family responsibilitiesThe National Context for the Dual-Career Job SearchDual-career couples are increasingly common in the workforce in the United States.1 This trendis applicable to engineering in general, academia in general, and by extension to STEMacademics in particular. Recent reports demonstrate these trends and their impact on the STEMacademic job seekers and their partners.Within engineering, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Talent Council surveyedmembership in May 2011 and found that about half of all petroleum engineers were part of adual-career pair. In a December 2011 follow-up survey of members aged 45 and younger, theyfound that