Conference Session

Student Success and Support Mechanisms in Engineering Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Max Wu-Blouin, McGill University; Kennedy Grace Olsen, McGill University; Manish Malik, Canterbury Christ Church University; Lawrence R Chen, McGill University

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

scoping review of the literature on undergraduate engineering studentperceptions, attitudes, and emotions on failure.How students perceive and respond to failure can have a significant impact on their growth anddevelopment [1], [2]. This relationship is complex and can draw upon many factors includingmindset [3]-[5] (e.g., Dweck’s implicit theories of intelligence beliefs), motivation and self-regulation [6], [7] (e.g., measured through the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire,MSLQ), and emotions [8], [9] (e.g., examined with the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire,AEQ). First, students with a growth mindset can see failure as a learning opportunity whereasthose with a fixed mindset may be more inclined to see a failure in terms of

Conference Session

Collaborative Learning in Engineering

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wylam Patrick DeSimone, University of Georgia; Parker Gavin Ferrer, University of Georgia; Sarah Jane Bork, University of Georgia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

apersonal goal while concurrently collecting data on both the technical and emotional challengesfaced along the way.To formulate the dataset for this examination, I included journal entries after work sessions onprojects, weekly reflections from my summer research experience, a final project reflection, andpictures representing milestones with captions to explain emotional experiences. These elementsprovided insight into both my conceptual understanding and emotional mindset, structuredthroughout the period from May to December 2024.Project Overview and BackgroundThe emotionality of music is often conveyed through techniques like tempo, articulation, andpitch. For example, slow tempos and smooth legato articulation can evoke sadness, while