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Student Division Technical Session 6: Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaitlyn Pope, Utah State University; Cassandra McCall, Utah State University

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engineer, and the thought of pursuing anengineering career was very intimidating. As I continued into graduate school and intoengineering education research, I found myself fascinated by student career pathways andprofessional formation. I conduct this work to gain a better understanding of this process andhow to help facilitate it in others so they can enter the engineering workforce as confidentengineers.Theoretical FrameworkThis study is grounded in social identity theory (SIT), which implies that membership in a group– in this context, in engineering – is constructed through comparisons of values and behaviorsthat members make between themselves and members of other groups [6], [7], [8]. Groupmembers use these comparisons to partially define

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Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 6: Underserved Student Experiences

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne Victoria Wrobetz, Front Range Community College, Colorado

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., 2014), it is important that every interaction establishes an inclusive community. Informalcommunity-building and relationships with faculty and staff help students develop a sense ofbelonging in college (Myers et al., 2015). Additionally, students should be encouraged tointegrate their outside lives with academics. Community involvement in research projects canhelp engage students in problem-solving (Loeser et al., 2021). This is important particularly forstudents who have a strong sense of cultural and community identity. At United Tribes TechnicalCollege, a primarily residential college, the entire community gets involved in STEM education,joining in on environmental research projects led by students (Bahnson, 2020). Qaqish et al.(2020

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Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 6: Underserved Student Experiences

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicole Adia Jefferson, Virginia Tech ; Jeremi S. London, Virginia Tech

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andimportance of milestones in the Ph.D. program, it is imperative that engineering programs keeppreparation for milestones in mind when thinking about students’ transition into the program. The NSF-funded Dissertation Institute (DI) is one of few nationally-scaled examples inthe engineering community that is focused on graduate student success on a milestone (i.e. thedissertation proposal) (Hasbún et al., 2016; Miller et al., 2020). It is a one-week writingworkshop that gives Ph.D. students a secure place to support one another among like-mindedpeers while they modify their task assumptions about the dissertation and develop good habitsthat might lead to degree completion. Although this is an excellent resource for Ph.D. students at later

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Student Division Technical Session 7: Teaching and Learning Practices

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isabel A Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kaitlyn Anne Thomas, University of Nevada, Reno; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kelly J Cross, Georgia Institute of Technology

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communication: How engineering students per- ceive gender typical speech acts in teamwork. Journal of Engineering Education, 98(1):5–16, 2009.[10] Karen L Tonso. On the outskirts of engineering: Learning identity, gender, and power via engineering practice, volume 6. Brill, 2007.[11] Anita Williams Woolley, Christopher F Chabris, Alex Pentland, Nada Hashmi, and Thomas W Malone. Ev- idence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups. science, 330(6004):686–688, 2010.[12] Behzad Beigpourian and Matthew W Ohland. A systematized review: Gender and race in teamwork in under- graduate engineering classrooms. In 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2019.[13] Jenni Buckley, Amy Trauth, Sara Bernice

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Student Division Technical Session 5: Self- Efficacy

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Luke Morrison, University of South Florida; Chris S Ferekides, University of South Florida; Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University

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of South FloridaDr. Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University Dhinesh Radhakrishnan is a research scientist in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 WIP: Role of an Electrical Engineering Department’s Revolutionary Programs through the Lens of Impostor Syndrome and Self-Efficacy: AnUndergraduate Researcher’s Investigation in a Participatory Action Research ProjectAbstractPurpose: In this work-in-progress paper, we discuss the student-led research efforts investigatingthe role of new programmatic activities within the University of South Florida’s (USF)Department of Electrical Engineering (D-EE) and

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Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 4: Minoritized Student Experiences

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Micaha Dean Hughes, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; John Roberts, UK College of Engineering

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Paper ID #38826Attracting Black Students to Undergraduate Engineering Programs: A RapidReview for Broadening ParticipationMicaha Dean Hughes, North Carolina State University, Raleigh Micaha Dean Hughes is a doctoral student in the Educational Psychology program in the Teacher Educa- tion and Learning Sciences department at North Carolina State University. Her research interests include community-engaged approaches to educational equity and access in STEM education, college recruitment and K-12 outreach practices for minoritized groups in STEM, mathematical identity development for rural adolescents and young adults, and

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Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 2: Student Success and Resources

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Drinkwater, Duke University; Karis Boyd-Sinkler, Duke University; Rebecca Simmons, Duke University

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Paper ID #38994Why Should You Join? Exploring the Role of Engineering Clubs on theUndergraduate Engineering ExperienceMs. Katherine Drinkwater, Duke University Katie Drinkwater is a recent graduate of Duke University with a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering. She is excited to begin working towards her Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in the Fall. Her interest in Engineering Education began through a project where she helped to design a makerspace inside a shipping container. Since then, she has explored design and engineering education through in- dependent projects and extracurricular leadership in SWE

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Student Division Technical Session 6: Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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, June 2016.[3] D. L. Jackson and F. S. Laanan, “Desiring to fit: Fostering the success of community college transfer students in STEM,” Community College Journal of Research and Practice, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 132–149, July 2014. doi:10.1080/10668926.2012.762565[4] A. L. Zuckerman and S. M. Lo, “Transfer Student Experiences and Identity Navigation in STEM: Overlapping Figured Worlds of Success.” CBE life sciences education, 20(3), ar48, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.20-06-0121[5] B. K. Townsend and K. Wilson “A hand hold for a little bit: Factors facilitating the success of community college transfer students to a large research university,” Journal of College Student Development, August 2016, https

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Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 5: Motivation and Support for Success

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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D'Andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika, University of Toronto, Canada; Qin Liu, University of Toronto, Canada; Joanna Meihui Li, University of Toronto, Canada; Mustafa Nisar, University of Toronto, Canada; Jiawen Lin, University of Toronto, Canada

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participation in makerspaces is ascribed to early childhood experienceswith making [72]. Unsurprisingly, societal pressures and work-family conflicts experienced bywomen students in face of choice goals exist across geographical boundaries (e.g., in Japan, [38];in Thailand [62]; and in Canada [50]).Similarly, different cultural backgrounds enable students to develop cultural resources withintheir communities and apply these resources to their university experience [73]. Familial capitalsupports marginalized students to pursue humanitarian engineering through encouraging storiesand role models [74]. First-generation students also gain funds of knowledge from their familiesand communities regarding tinkering, perspective taking, and reading people [75

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Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 1: Student Success and Mentoring

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Duncan H. Mullins, State University of New York, Buffalo ; AraOluwa Adaramola, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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dealing with while teaching.We eventually recognized that our teaching skills would improve over time and needed to makespace for growth and give ourselves grace during this process (11 DM, 12 DM). Interacting withstudents this semester helped us to realize the urgency and need to drive change and innovationin higher education because it affects students’ lives and future opportunities.DiscussionAs mentioned above, we discovered that teaching is a complicated set of skills primarily learnedthrough practicing teaching. We grew and developed in very unexpected ways through thisprocess. We found new things about teaching. We learned about the vast array of skills requiredfor teaching and were able to begin building our teaching toolbox. We learned

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Student Division Technical Session 7: Teaching and Learning Practices

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Nicole Fitzpatrick, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Nosakhare Iyobosa Idiaghe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Chloe Faith Mann, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jessica R Deters, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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abouthow to be successful in an engineering degree as their continuing-generation peers. Moreover,both students have financial needs to meet through working, and juggling these work obligationswith their education remains challenging.Feelings of Belonging Grow Over TimeEstablishing a sense of belonging in engineering is an integral component of success inengineering education [23]. This feeling of belonging, often associated with inclusion,community, and well-being, was represented to varying degrees in the narratives. Since Parkerhas been integrated in the engineering education experience for a longer time, it is likely that hehas more deeply rooted connections on campus than Wyatt; however, since retention of first-yearengineering students may

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Student Division Technical Session 5: Self- Efficacy

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Elizabeth Nortz, Cornell University; Allison Godwin, Cornell University; Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh; Danielle V. Lewis; Kevin Jay Kaufman-Ortiz, Purdue University; Charlie Díaz, University of Pittsburgh; Carlie Laton Cooper, University of Georgia

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students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belonging and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a 2016 National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning to understand engineering students’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research including the 2021 Journal of Civil Engineering Education Best Technical Paper, the 2021 Chemical

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Student Division Technical Session 1: Student Experiences and Support

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katelyn Churakos, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jayden Mitchell, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Jessica Swenson is an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo. She was awarded her doctorate and masters from Tufts University in mechanical engineering and STEM education respectively, and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan. Her research work aims to improve the learning experience for undergraduate students by examining conceptual knowledge gains, affect, identity development, engineering judgment, and problem solving. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Using an Autoethnographic Approach to Examine the Student Experience Solving an Open-Ended Statics ProblemAbstractThis research paper