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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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Mandana Ashouripashaki, The Ohio State University; Krista M Kecskemety, The Ohio State University

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. o Exploration (15-25): Individuals actively explore different career options, engage in specific training, and begin transitioning into the workforce. o Establishment (25-45): This stage involves establishing a stable career path, making significant contributions to the chosen field, and taking on increasing responsibility. o Maintenance (45-65): The focus here is on maintaining a steady career trajectory, continuously updating skills to stay competitive, and planning for retirement. o Disengagement (65+): This stage marks a gradual withdrawal from work, with individuals shifting their focus to leisure activities, family life, and community engagement. • Life Space

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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 Technical Session 1: Student Experiences and Support

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiffany Chan, University of California, Davis; Tate L Chatfield, University of California, Davis; Xianglong Wang, University of California, Davis

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student-faculty micro-interactions but also offer a scalable and cost-effective approach that may beapplicable across diverse academic settings. The introduction of such initiatives becomesincreasingly crucial in ensuring that students, especially those at risk of disengagement, find asupportive and inclusive environment that enhances their sense of belonging and contributes totheir overall academic success [20] and well-being in BME.MethodsTwenty-three (23) non-graduating BME undergraduate students that have at least one year left intheir academic plan, recruited during April to December 2023, in groups of 3-5, participated indepartment-sponsored lunches with faculty members based on shared interests. Recruitment ofthe students was based on an

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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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Leslie Anna Brown, Utah State University; Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University

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multiplecases) techniques will be used to understand the teacher's perspectives of utilizing technologyand gamification to teach computer science [22].InterventionIn this intervention, the participating teachers will teach a robotics unit utilizing bothgamification and a LEGO® SPIKE™ robotics kit. The designed lesson plan (created by LeslieBrown) is titled ‘Robots in Healthcare’ where students will be tasked with coding the LEGO®SPIKE™ robot so that it can maneuver around a hospital to deliver medicine and food topatients. In the first week of the learning unit, students will practice using pseudocode. In thesecond week of the learning unit, students will practice using block-based code through theLEGO® SPIKE™ application and robotics kit.‘Robots in

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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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Benjamin Edward Chaback, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Bryan Watson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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while taking classes. Yet both approaches focus heavily on theacademic side of the student experience, and do not pay much attention to other areas of holisticgrowth or development. The course learning objectives provided by most classes focus primarilyon obtaining and retaining information. Some examples of standard course learning outcomes are“Learners should be able to recall nutritional guidelines for planning meals” and “Learnersshould be able to develop solutions for networking problems, balancing business concerns,privacy and technical issues” [10]. While these course learning outcomes evaluate how wellstudents are progressing in a class, they do not look at how much students have developedholistically.2.2 Zachman Framework The

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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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Jun Zhu; SUN TIEMIN, Beijing Foreign Studies University; jiayao sun; Fangyuan Chai

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information (Yue, et al., 2023). Therefore, if colleges could provide morecareer guidance for graduates, such as employment information and career curriculum,graduates are more likely to be satisfied with employment.2.3 Career Readiness Career Readiness is a crucial aspect of career selection process, encompassing theadaptation to roles from student to professional worker, training for work abilities,adjustment of personality and career, career design, and career planning, all in order tomake an informed choice and excel in career. Career readiness can be divided into broadand narrow categories. The broad sense of career readiness includes not only theemployment readiness made by the unemployed to engage in a certain occupation orobtain a certain

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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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Student Division Technical Session 6: Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University; Julie P Martin, University of Georgia

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for? How can I best serve my professional community? – and the answers to these bigquestions have led me to pursue opportunities like becoming a program director at NSF andtaking on new administrative roles at my institution.Rachel: There was a time when I was extremely lost in my career. I did not know what I wantedto do next, but I knew I was very angry every day I went to work. Something had to change. Istarted working with a career coach and everything turned around. We explored the source of myanger, talked about ways to get out of my rut, strategized applying for new roles, planned outdifficult conversations, and started to unpack what I really wanted and needed in a career to behappy. I do not do coaching consistently, but during

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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 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 Technical Session 3: Student Experiences and Support

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maryann Renee Hebda, Baylor University; Morgan R Castillo, Baylor University; Tracey Sulak, Baylor University

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Results and Feedback We have quantitative results from the pre- and mid-semester surveys at this time, and oursample was smaller than expected (n = 20 pre-, n = 16 mid-semester). Though we do not yethave post-semester data to run our planned quantitative analyses, we noticed in the descriptives(see Table 1) that our sample started out rating themselves so high on the 4Cs that there is notmuch room for growth. Thus, we need to find a way to capture most/all of the class in order todetect an effect if one exists. Also, these students already receive CATME training to assist themin assigning more realistic ratings to themselves and peers. We would like to adapt this trainingfor our survey next semester and see if the self-reports change

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Student Division Technical Session 4: Project-based Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Simon Zhang, Northeastern University; Joshua Dennis, Northeastern University; Haridas Kumarakuru, Northeastern University; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

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to move from a planning phase to atesting phase quickly, boosting efficiency in the design cycle.A review of the scientific literature regarding heat transfer in cooking systems was insightful tounderstanding the dynamics of the cooking process. In evaluating the accuracy of our thermometer’stemperature prediction models, replication of or comparison to proven thermal models was essential to theproject’s success. Another consequence of reviewing literature was simply our familiarization with aunique application of mathematics that may guide our future interests in product engineering and design.Previous demonstrations in literature that model internal temperature of food systems often describedtemperature via a variation of the heat equation

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Student Division Technical Session 4: Project-based Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maryann Renee Hebda, Baylor University; Morgan R Castillo, Baylor University; Tracey Sulak, Baylor University

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Education Experiential learning, most simply defined as learning by doing, can occur in multiplecontexts at the university level. For example, many undergraduates have opportunities for hands-on laboratory time, internships, and service-learning programs. Through these experiences,ideally four stages should occur: participating in the experience, reflecting about the experience,conceptualizing (understanding) what they experienced, and applying what they learned in asimilar setting [6]. When bringing experiential learning into the classroom, particularly within acourse focused on engineering design, it can integrate authentic learning experiences intostudents’ plan of study and daily lives [1]. A recent systematic review [7

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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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Fangyuan Chai; Yi Wang; Zhaoping Feng; Jing Jin; Jun Zhu

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the context of employment education and services, the landscape ofuniversity graduate employment services has evolved significantly from state-led joballocation policies. During the planned economy era, employment for graduates wasarranged by the state. In 1987, the introduction of “supply-demand meetings” began todiminish the role of these policies. By 1999, most regions had abolished the jobassignment system, and post-2000, with the expansion of higher education,employment services shifted towards promoting autonomous job selection and careerguidance. Despite this transformation, university-provided career guidance and servicesstill require enhancements in terms of service philosophy, platforms, methods, andpathways [25]. There are

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Student Division Technical Session 5: Self- Efficacy

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sierra Lynn Repp, University of Portland; Sean Lyle Gestson, University of Portland; Jacob P. Kimball, University of Portland

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was 6.7 in their productivity, which makes sense, as this method isa great way to organize existing thoughts and plan out next steps. The results from the Biomimicry group are interesting because when assigned theirmethod, both participants first wrote a comment pondering how to connect their ideas to naturebefore getting into their problem-solving. Also, both participants only developed one solutioneach when assigned to the method of Biomimicry, one of which was an expansion on the freebrainstorm idea with added connections to nature. Despite this, both of them in the post-workshop survey rated the increase in their creativity to be a 9, which is a strong indication thatthey felt more creative when using Biomimicry. Overall, both

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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) 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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Student Division Technical Session 1: Student Experiences and Support

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorna Treffert, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Courtney June Faber, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Isabel Anne Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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faculty about how the students contributed. In future work, we hope toobserve both the main Team Y meetings and the student project meetings. As we conduct moreobservations, we will look for more instances when the assertion of power-over and the sharingof knowledge with the students helps to bolster the students’ ability to engage in researchactivities. We will also look to see how the student researchers share their unique insights andcontribute to the team’s research efforts. We plan to conduct ethnographic interviews of thestudents and their faculty advisors. These interviews will allow us to capture how the studentsand faculty made meaning out of the expressions of power within their team’s culture. Inparticular, we want to understand how

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Student Division (STDT) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narangoo Tumur, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Amardeep Kaur, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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meaningful discussions. We werefortunate that the schedule worked in Spring 2024 to allow us preparation time before each labsession. In the future, we plan to request scheduling so that we have an ample amount ofpreparation and troubleshooting time.Student FeedbackStudent surveys are an important tool to gather different types of feedback. The feedback couldinclude student impressions about the content, facilities, quality of instruction, mode ofinstruction, etc. [9][10][11] Long-term use of surveys also provides data for continuousimprovement [12] of activities and provides information about whether the changes result in apositive outcome. Our objective was to collect information that would help us improve thestudent learning experience in the

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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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Vivian H Nguyen, City Colleges of Chicago ; Anthony Jesus Blanco, City Colleges of Chicago; Andrew Steppan, City Colleges of Chicago; Juan Munoz, City Colleges of Chicago ; Guadalupe Pina-Castillo, City Colleges of Chicago; Shlesha Patel, City Colleges of Chicago; Melvin Cabrera, City Colleges of Chicago; Tobias Wimmer; Doris J. Espiritu, City Colleges of Chicago

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a case study research: plan, design, preparation, data collection,analysis and reporting [8], [51]. This process allowed us to consider the nuances of theundergraduate’s experience in a CoP that were not apparent in the survey, as well as how theirself-efficacy changed based on modeling and observational learning [27], [52], [53], [29], [54].The case-study interviews assessed the potential of student involvement in cultivating acommunity of practice, which, in alignment to Wenger’s Theory, is expected to enhance aperson’s sense of belonging and self-efficacy [35].III. RESULTS 1. DemographicsThree hundred forty-nine (349) participants responded to the survey. Two hundred eighty-three(283) students are in a community college, sixty-four (64

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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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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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Paper ID #42562An Autoethnography of the Student Experience Solving an Open-Ended StaticsProblemKatelyn Churakos, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Katelyn Churakos is an undergraduate research assistant in the Department of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo. She is majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Law and is expected to graduate in December 2025. After graduation, Katelyn plans to pursue employment in the mechanical engineering field, preferably in project management.Jayden Mitchell, University at Buffalo, The State University of New YorkDr. Jessica E S Swenson

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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