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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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Alexander V Struck Jannini, Purdue University Library TSS

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while alsomaking enough time to study for this class.The ApproachAn immediate recognition of my own situation from a few years prior came back to me. Iremembered how I felt in the office of my former advisor, and I remember what I wished wouldhave happened when I was under similar circumstances. I could have just nodded sagely, a lookof disappointment but understanding in my eye, and wished the student well in their academicendeavors, saying it was for the best. But I did not. Instead, I asked the student how they plannedon meeting their goals. What was their study plan? How did they study for exams or classregularly? How do they know how much time to put aside for studying? What I learned was thatthis student did not have a clear plan to meet

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Student Success and Support Mechanisms in Engineering Education

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jemal Bedane Halkiyo, Arizona State University; Abdisa Bedane Halkiyu, Bule Hora University

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academic success, particularly within online learningcontexts where students must often self-regulate in the absence of structured face-to-faceinteractions [2], [3], [4]. The self-directed nature of online education requires students to notonly master content knowledge but also develop efficient time management strategies. Researchshows that inadequate time management skills correlate with increased stress, diminishedacademic performance, and higher dropout rates [5]. Therefore, understanding the specific timemanagement challenges faced by online students is important for crafting suitable interventionsand support frameworks.Time management entails a range of skills, including planning, prioritization, goal-setting, andself-monitoring, alongside

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Student Division Technical Session 2: Career Development and Employability

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ella Kokinda, Clemson University; Makayla Moster, Clemson University; D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University

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aims to formulate a surveythat will complement the interviews where we will seek quantitative data regarding the identifiedthemes. For the survey, we plan to utilize the identified themes to generate survey questions thatwill include multiple choice and Likert scales to identify participants’ attitudes toward each of ouridentified themes. Additionally, we will collect demographic information and ensure that eachparticipant is actually a first generation women in a Computing graduate degree program. At theend of the survey there will be a place for participants to schedule their semi-structured interviewwith the research team. Table 1: Table of interview questions # Question 1 Who/What influenced you to

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Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 3: Student Innovative Practice

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eisa A. Khawaja, Alpharetta High School; Hoda Ehsan, The Hill School

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Paper ID #37721Work in Progress: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence EducationalResources for Pre-College EducationEisa A. Khawaja, Alpharetta High School Eisa Khawaja is currently a junior at Alpharetta High School in Alpharetta, Georgia. He plans to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. He is also interested in Artificial Intelligence and participated in an AI Scholars summer program.Dr. Hoda Ehsan, The Hill School Hoda is Chair for Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Director of Quadrivium Design and Engineering at The Hill School. She holds a Ph.D in Engineering Education from Purdue University

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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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Hamidreza Taimoory, Virginia Tech; David B. Knight, Virginia Tech; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech

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activities, and professional development in engineering education.Dr. David B. Knight, Virginia Tech David Knight is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He also serves as Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation and Director of Research of the Academy of Global Engineering. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems- level perspective of how engineering education can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, and considers the intersection between policy and organizational contexts.Dr. Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech Dr. Walter Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education and the director for

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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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engineering practices, primarily focusing on team-basedactivities to promote professional engineering communication, along with helping students createa qualification plan to develop their undergraduate and professional goals in engineering. TheTRUE Capstone projects focus on preparing students for professional engineering problems byincorporating industry partners into the project decision process in order to identify real-worldproblems and solutions for the Capstone teams.In accordance with the RED ideology, a group of students, mentored by an engineeringeducation researcher, decided to apply Participatory Action Research (PAR) to study the role ofnew changes in the department. In this paper, we present the investigation led by one of

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Collaborative Learning in Engineering

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Paper ID #47337Bridging the Gap: Autoethnographic Insights into Project-Based Learning inElectrical EngineeringWylam Patrick DeSimone, University of Georgia Wylam Desimone is an Electrical Engineering student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, having transferred from the University of Georgia. He focuses on hardware development, product ideation, and rapid prototyping, creating innovative solutions for technical challenges. At the University of Georgia’s Cultivate Lab, Wylam worked on a robotic guitar project as well as other studies focused on engineering education. He plans to continue research at the Georgia

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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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Aadhy Parthasarathy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Rupal Nigam, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Aanchal Gupta, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Tove Elisabeth Kopperstad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ani Pirosmanishvili, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Theresa Ann Saxton-Fox, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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attend (almost) every event in a series, for example, by structuring the programinto a for-credit course that meets regularly. A unique aspect of the GrOW program was that itwas led by (senior) graduate students (authors), who first-hand understood the needs of first-yeargraduate students, which yielded relatable and useful events. Therefore, the authors also suggestthat there be some involvement of students (for example, from registered graduate studentorganizations) in the planning and execution of such programs in the future.SummaryA year-long orientation program for gender minorities in the first year of graduate engineering atUIUC was developed and consisted of 7 events spread throughout the academic year. Thisprogram had three themes of

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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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likeresearching it. And I was like, yeah, I know, I really want to do this. I’ve not really thought aboutchanging my major. [...] I do like horticulture, which deals a lot with how infrastructure impactsthe environment. I think it’s interesting, but I’m not in love with it. If I were to change, or if Ihad a different spark at some point in my life, I would change to that.Motivation and ChallengesAcademic Challenges: I knew math was going to be hard going into it. And failing this Calc IIIclass really made me think it's time to start a back-up plan, even though I really don’t want to.I’m taking it again this summer, but if I fail it twice, maybe it’s a sign that I should switchmajors. Someone I know told me to switch professors. So, I have the top

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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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Philippa Eshun; Kacey Beddoes, San Jose State University

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making whatever he sayssound condescending. If I ever ask him a question he won't let me finish my question beforespeaking over me which results in him answering something I wasn't asking.” The second phasespanned primarily years two and three and was comprised of learning how to work with a widerrange of people with different communication and interaction styles. The third phase spannedprimarily years four and five and was comprised of transitioning into supervision and managementroles. As one participant explained: I've learned that it takes a lot of planning to have people under you, maybe even outside of work hours…Throughout the whole day I'll be having to go and teach them how to do certain things, they have lots of

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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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Laurel Lynn ONeill, Penn State University; Luis Delgado Jr., Penn State; Stephanie Cutler, Penn State University; Sarah E Zappe, Penn State University

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always bechallenges representing all identities; in this panel, there was a lack of students who were not white.Future panels would benefit from including additional, different intersectional identities.The panel referenced in this paper was out of a similar panel planned and moderated by the firstauthor the ASEE Zone 1 conference in 2023. Following the success of it, a panel was run again bystudents with support from a teaching and learning center. Engineering faculty, students, staff, andadministrators were invited to attend the panel. Demographic data is limited, but there wereapproximately 50 attendees in the conference room resulting in attendees standing and bringingchairs from other rooms.The questions asked to the panelists are as

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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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and Information Access. These themes fitexisting theories about transfer student success, such as Laanan’s Transfer Student CapitalTheory (Laanan et al., 2010). When students are provided with the skills and tools they need,they thrive in engineering programs and transfer at higher rates. I did not find many paperswhich focused specifically on working or caretaking students, but several papers consideredthese groups. Planning for the success of these students involves some special considerations,which I discuss below. For many engineering transfer students, forming a strong community at school can bechallenging due to external commitments. Formal mentorship programs can help these studentsform a strong engineering identity while

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Engineering Identity and Student Support (Features 2 papers of STDT)

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hang Zhang, Jining Normal University; Xinyao Song; Ming Li, Beijing Foreign Studies University

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current situation of the cultivation of engineeringand technological talents’ intercultural communicative competence, summarizes thecurrent problems and reasons, and attempts to propose solutions.Key words: intercultural communicative competence; engineering and technologicaltalent; “Belt and Road” initiative; China1. IntroductionThe “Belt and Road” initiative① is a major initiative and strategic idea for China tobase on its own strengths and look to the world, actively plan a panoramic opening up,tap the ancient spirit of the Chinese Silk Road, and actively assume the responsibilityof a country with great power. With the continuous promotion of the “Belt and Road”initiative, China’s economic, political, cultural and other cooperation with

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Engineering Education Methods and Reflections

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ruidong Ma, University of Washington; Renee M. Desing, University of Washington

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regarding pacing became more polarized—some students found it too slow,while others still considered it somewhat fast. This divergence helped me recognize the inherentchallenge of balancing pacing preferences in large-enrollment courses, which are common at thelarge public university in the Northwest where I teach. This is what the analysis said I shouldimprove on, understanding the overall class need about pacing is what I decided to focus on goingforward. In response, I developed a strategy to incorporate regular classroom polls about pacingand modified my approach to examples by reducing calculations while asking students to outlinetheir solution strategies and plan equations instead. In addition, this year, I was appointed to teacha new course

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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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Sepehr Khorshid, University of Alabama; Siyuan Song, University of Alabama

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elucidate priorities and to develop action planning [30].While frequently overlooked, needs assessment is the procedures of evaluating the educationalrequirements of individuals or groups and matching their needs with the curricula or training[31].This study aims to employ a comprehensive questionnaire survey that includes both open-ended and close-ended questions to identify various types of stressors experienced by students inCivil, Architecture, and Construction Engineering. The questionnaire can be found in theAppendix. The initial section of the survey is devoted to collecting demographic information,including age, gender, ethnicity, current job/student status, field of study, and whetherrespondents are first-generation college students. This

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Student Division Technical Session 6: Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brigid McCormack, 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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-professional educational opportunities outside of the traditionalclassroom [3].Experience on teams like these builds hands-on technical design skills including designing,planning, and manufacturing; critical skills that will contribute to future success in the profession[4]. Current SAE teams are typically dominated by men, mirroring the percentage of women(10%) working professionally in mechanical engineering [5] and the social dynamics studentswill eventually find in the professional world [6].We provide an example of the typical composition of teams in Table 1, which details the resultsfrom the top ten performing teams from the 2023 Oshkosh Baja competition. The averageparticipation of women on these ten university teams is 17.5%, with the lowest

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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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Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi, Utah State University; Ning Fang, Utah State University

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their engagement, learning, andachievement while removing the demotivation and mental stress of having lower grades [37].Faculty can also make students see the importance of the class at the beginning of the semester.Asking students what they want to take from the class and apply it in their career as theassignment after the first lecture can promote intrinsic motivation. In addition, faculty shouldutilize active learning pedagogy that has shown evidence to increase student engagement duringcourse learning.References[1] R. M. Gonyea, K. A. Kish, G. D. Kuh, R. N. Muthiah, and A. D. Thomas, 4th ed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, Policy, and Planning.: College Student Experiences Questionnaire

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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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. I am excited about having the opportunity to become a better ENGR/ENGE researcher. In the future, I aspire to be an engineering education policy advocate and have plans to develop a research preparation consortium.Dr. Jeremi S. London, Virginia Tech Dr. Jeremi London is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at Virginia Poly- technic Institute and State University. London is a mixed methods researcher with interests in research impact, broadening participation and instructional change. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Work in Progress: Bridging the Gap in Doctoral Engineering Education: Critically Investigating Factors InfluencingPerformance Outcomes

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Student Division (STDT) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Perla Abigail Bran, City Colleges of Chicago; Casey Mikaela Tan, City Colleges of Chicago; Jason Kwame Frimpong Osei-Tutu, City Colleges of Chicago; Luis Vicente Villanueva, City Colleges of Chicago; Brenda Najjuma, City Colleges of Chicago; Doris J. Espiritu, City Colleges of Chicago

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able to transfer back to 4-year institutions and complete a degree. The samecase study question will be used for consistency. It will be interesting to see if reverse transferstudents enrolled in the same college but not involved in a programmatic approach would feelthe same way. These two populations should have the same demographics to eliminate thedifferences in demographics.To further our research, we will also conduct a comprehensive survey among reverse transferstudents in the college to understand their experiences, challenges, and aspirations. The aim is tofurther explore the identified themes across a larger demographic by advancing towards a largerquantitative investigation [18]. Our plan involves conducting consequential interviews

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Engineering Education Methods and Reflections

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jad El Harake, Vanderbilt University; gina yu, Vanderbilt University; Kaden Jorge Tro; Jonathan Ehrman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

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thetangible deliverables they had planned to at the beginning of the term. This difference inevaluation metrics was not unique to the cases with high score difference between mentors andmentees, but rather consistently appeared across all responses.Figure 1. Distribution of student self-evaluation scores and mentor evaluation scores;positive score discrepancies in which the mentor score was greater than the student scoreare shown in green, while negative score discrepancies in which the mentor score was lowerthan the student score are shown in red, and scores which were equal between student andmentor are shown in blue.Overall, mentors gave students higher scores than students gave themselves. A mismatch instudent-mentor perceptions of research

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Collaborative Learning in Engineering

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Taylor Martini, Baylor University

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Excellence in Student Leadership award and the 2025 Outstanding Leadership and Service in Mechanical Engineering award for her contributions to student mentorship and leadership. In addition to her academic work, Taylor is an Engineering and Computer Science Ambassador, where she supports recruitment and outreach efforts. She interned with Lockheed Martin Space from May 2024 to August 2025 in both mechanical and electrical engineering roles. She is a member of the Beta Beta chapter of Pi Tau Sigma, the Mechanical Engineering Honor Society, and is active in Aero at Baylor, where she served as project manager for a 3D Printed Aircraft competition team (2023–2024) and treasurer (2024–2025). Upon graduation, Taylor plans

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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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Caroline Cresap, Louisiana Tech University; Ashtyne Klair Monceaux; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University

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during the remainder of theiracademic experience. Our faculty mentors engage with students during the weekly lunches andprovide educational support through assistance with scheduling and navigating availableresources.Lunches. The lunches were a weekly event in the engineering building, a central location wheremost students had classes. Each week, the faculty mentors planned a lunch served at no cost tothe students. Once the students arrived and made their plates, they would socialize with theirclassmates and faculty mentors, sitting at tables with six chairs. A professional developmentnugget would be delivered after 20-25 minutes of eating and socializing. The professionaldevelopment nugget would be a 10-15 minute long discussion from industry

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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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Noor Aulakh, Rowan University; JoyLynn Torelli, Rowan University; Alexandria Ordoveza, Rowan University; Darby Rose Riley, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University

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lateral transfers, which made this group underrepresented. Having a small samplesize reduced the number of ego networks that could be analyzed and made it difficult to make acomparison of the social networks between the two types of transfer students. In addition, therewas a lack of specific subpopulations, with respect to lateral and vertical transfer students andwhether they were either in-state or out-of-state transfers. This might have skewed the egonetworks by not treating each subpopulation as an entity on its own. These limitations can befurther addressed with more individualized survey questions and in the next round of dataanalysis.For the next phase of this study we plan to separate the different subpopulations of transferstudents and

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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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,when asked about other identifying characteristics of engineers, participants talked aboutsupplementary connections and experiences that further defined them as engineers.The findings from this study lead us to believe that students move through a set of learning andexperience milestones throughout their academic career, initiated and supplemented by socialconnections. As students find themselves going in a different direction than originally planned,they compensate for a lack of experience in one area with additional experience or interpersonalconnections in another. Students’ perceptions of success stemmed from a culmination ofexperiences and connections that are valued by them as individuals. While many studentsfollowed a prescribed

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Student Division (STDT) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eliot Nathaniel Wachtel, University of California, Santa Cruz; Qingyuan Cao, University of California, Santa Cruz; Matthew Kaltman, University of California, Santa Cruz; Khanh Tran, University of California, Santa Cruz; Miguel Robles Hernandez, University of California, Santa Cruz; Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz

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board routing sions. Identifying tools and techniques Basics of 3D CAD, sketching, Professional documentation to model parts modeling. practices; ability to read profes- sional documents Notebook drafting, CAD de- Iterative design cycle Time management, task plan- sign, slicing, tolerancing, 3D ning, and estimating task dura- printing tionWeekly StructureA typical week begins by flipping the classroom; it starts with a prelab

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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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and left engineering, one who didnot receive the intervention and stayed in engineering, and one who did not receive theintervention and left engineering—and their descriptions of their self-efficacy for beingsuccessful in their engineering major.Theoretical FrameworkSelf-efficacy is the belief in one’s capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specificperformance attainments (e.g., engineering degree attainment). Self-efficacy has been related towomen’s plans to persist in engineering. Women who have higher self-efficacy, especiallyBlack, Latina/x, and Indigenous women, are more likely to persist in engineering careers [23].Conversely, research has demonstrated that women who have lower self-efficacy are more likelyto drop out of

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Motivation and Engagement in Engineering Students

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Autumn Cuellar, Utah State University; Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University

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in STEM classrooms and its impact onundergraduate and graduate students. Students believe that the Universal Design for Learningprinciples benefit their learning. However, only a few faculty members implement theseprinciples. Most of the articles highlighted how students preferred Multiple Means ofRepresentation. The other two principles were barely explored. Researchers should examine howstudents feel about Multiple Means of Action and Expression and Multiple Means ofEngagement. Autumn Cuellar plans to explore all three principles in her dissertation by 5interviewing disabled engineering students, using this WIP paper as background

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

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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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Student Division Technical Session 3: Student Experiences and Support

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Herman Ronald Clements III, Purdue University; Alexander V Struck Jannini, Purdue University

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bring change. So, I would say that to be honest, that's one of the biggest driving forces for me to pursue engineering, the kinds of things that I want to generate in my country at some point because there are changes, and at a large scale, not just like local changes. It's still within my plans to go to my home country at some point and make those changes, but I don’t know if I would describe my work right now as fully related. Right now, it's mostly about developing myself so I can be fully prepared, and someday we'll go back. But for the work I’m doing, I'm kind of like realistic in that it isn’t fully towards my goal—sadly, my country is really poor. There are a lot of other structural issues that we have to solve first in