Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Workforce Pathways and ATE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Megan Morin, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Alireza Dayerizadeh, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Department’s Merit Fellowship (2016) and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2018). His current research interests include electric vehicle fast chargers and wireless power transfer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Filling the Technical Gap: The integration of technical modules in a REU Program for 2+2 Engineering StudentsAbstractDue to the abstract nature of the field, electrical engineering students can benefit significantlyfrom active learning to increase understanding and self-efficacy in the field. In some cases,students may lack of confidence in their abilities, which can lead them to avoiding

Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Students and the Pipeline

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington; Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers; Alexandra Schaefer, University of Washington

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Diversity

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qualitative approachprovides a deeper look into dimensions of this experience for women on the transfer pathway andtheir perception of factors contributing to success.Quantitative methodsSurvey data were collected from 414 students aged 18 or older at three community colleges inTexas between April and September 2019. Select demographics of the sample are shown in Table1, more detailed demographic information can be found in Appendix B. The survey capturedinformation on students’ self-efficacy, inclusion, motivation, and confidence in ECS usingpreviously-validated measures from the Longitudinal Assessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy(LAESE) [12] and the Academic Table 1: Demographic characteristics of survey

Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Students and the Pipeline

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Leo Salgado, University of California, Irvine; Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Irvine; Hye Rin Lee, University of California, Irvine; Lorenzo Valdevit, University of California, Irvine

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Diversity

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and Marshall College. Hye Rin’s research interests are self-reflection, academic interventions, online learning in education, mea- surement, temporal motivation, and resilience in students with disabilities. Specifically, her research focuses on (1) creating an effective intervention that helps URMs persist and continue on in STEM ma- jors via the social media platform, YouTube; (2) examining the nuances related to various measures of academic self-related motivational beliefs; (3) resilient students who achieve high levels of academic per- formance despite their disability; and (4) combining aspects of cognitive and positive psychology to study individual differences in motivation, particularly in exploring