Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Diversity

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Student Division (STDT)

developing professional skills [95].DiscussionAddressing the Research QuestionsTo address the first research question of this paper that explores individuals’ engineeringpathways from high school to workplace”, our literature review shows the following patterns inpathways of students who consider pursuing, or have pursued, an undergraduate engineeringdegree. At the high school stage, the educational pathways are primarily categorized by ‘STEM’vs ‘non-STEM’, either for choice of subjects studied in high school, or by the choice ofpostsecondary majors. However, at the postsecondary education stage, pathways are defined bychoice of engineering disciplines and persistence in an engineering discipline till completion. Atthe workplace stage, pathways are

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Student Division (STDT)

toward individual groups [42]. Among thetargeted strategies developed to increase the number of minority students in engineeringprograms is the nationwide growth of outreach programs like summer camps, weekend familyevents and other informal education opportunities in which students can engage. In general,many researchers consider educational “outreach” to be informal, out-of-school experiences forstudents [43].One possible reason for the lack of easy-to-locate research in minority engineering recruitment isthe loose, poorly defined use of the terms “outreach” and “recruitment” in engineering educationresearch. For the purposes of this discussion, we utilize “outreach” to mean informal interactionswith K-12 students that are generally geared