Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

achievement, persistenceand transfer status to four-year colleges and universities, and (c) how in turn the students’propensity for innovation and creative problem solving affects such choices and persistence. Thispaper presents on four years of a multistage research project funded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF). The value of the study’s findings depends largely on an exploratory researchdesign, which analyzes the pedagogical practices—practices designed to foster successfultransfer from community college to four-year colleges and universities and how students’innovative capability influences such transfer capacity. The goals of this research are: (1) toexplore the pedagogical practices used to support non-traditional students in community

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joyce B. Main, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Yanbing Wang, Purdue University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

projected average salary to be statistically different betweenthose who were formerly postdocs and those who did not obtain postdocs. The opportunity costof postdoc training in terms of salary also appears to vary across employment sectors, with thestakes particularly high for those eventually employed in industry. For PhDs who remain inacademia, time as a postdoc may improve early career earnings. Therefore, from the perspectiveof financial returns to doctoral training, it is important for engineering PhDs to consider the long-term career prospects in different sectors. For engineering PhDs with career interests in non-academic employer sectors, awareness of the potential delay in salary growth associated with thelow payment during postdoc

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lucy Arellano Jr., University of California, Santa Barbara

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

achievementsand their self-perception as a STEM learner. Marcus mentioned during the interview, I don’t think I only have a STEM identity ‘cause I also have a creative identity. My own projects, whatever I’m into. Personally, I’m really into music, so as of now I’m a math and music major, so I find it difficult to balance those things ‘cause on one hand, STEM takes a really long time to do. Music also, in its own sense, takes a long time to do with having to practice every day, and going to concerts and rehearsals and stuff like that. I think they balance out each other nicely though since one is very analytical and one is very theatrical. I think it’s important to not just study, study, study. You have to do