development.Preliminary results indicate that students differentiate between researcher, scientist, and engineeridentities qualitatively and quantitatively, but that these identities are separate from the salientidentity activated when completing student-type tasks. As such, items developed in this work canbe used to craft a framework for understanding graduate student experiences, but futurerefinement may be necessary to fully capture students’ transitions from undergraduate tograduate education. While the results of this study speak to graduate students holistically, furtherwork is needed to understand how the different sub-populations (e.g., underrepresentedminorities, international students) that exist within engineering graduate programs experiencegraduate
seek through our work overall isthe enhancement of both students’ and faculty’s capacities to engage issues of inclusivity, equityand social justice. Towards this end, we aspire to shift School community members’ cognitiveand affective knowledge of power and privilege. While there are quantitative assessment toolsthat measure related constructs (e.g. cultural competencies), we are not aware of any instrumentsthat measure a person’s understanding of social power and oppression, particularly how sociallyconstructed differences and identities like gender, race, and class intersect and combine to affectpeople’s lives in various settings. Our research team is in the early stages of constructing such aninstrument, and will begin piloting it soon to
in the context of problem solving, and researcher identity.Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Ohio State and earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the intersection between motivation and identity of undergraduate and graduate students, first-year engineering programs, mixed methods research, and innovative approaches to teaching.Dr. Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University Marian Kennedy is an Associate Professor within the Department of Materials Science &
general and first-generation SVEs in particular. Forexample, because many of these students overcame initial obstacles in higher education, theycould be a potential pool of effective mentors, both to other student veterans and to first-generation students.Women Student VeteransA paper on women student veterans will be presented in the Military and Veterans Division forthe ASEE 2018 Annual Conference.15 A graduate student at Clemson University is leading thiseffort.Preliminary Interview Findings on Women Student VeteransFrom: R. C. Atkinson, C., Mobley, C. E. Brawner, S. M. Lord, J. B. Main, and M. M. Camacho,“I Never Played the “Girl Card”: Experiences and Identity Intersections of Women StudentVeterans in Engineering,” Proceedings of the 2018
of an engineering identity.The work presented here addresses this gap through a sequential, mixed-methods study. Theoverall goal of this study is to construct a grounded theory of engineering leadership as acomponent of the professional formation of undergraduate engineers. Informed by an analysis ofnational data, the grounded theory approach will lead to an explanatory model of engineeringleadership identity development. An initial application of the model will develop and test a seriesof educational interventions, enabling engineering educators to more effectively train engineeringstudents in leadership. In the first phase, existing national data sets of college students are analyzedusing quantitative methods to better understand how
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model as a theoretical basis todevelop the Engineering Professional Responsibility Assessment (EPRA) survey. A modifiedEPRA survey was used in this study, aimed at measuring social responsibility in veteran andfirst-year students at Kansas State University. The current pilot survey for this research projectcontains three components: Likert-scale questions to measure dimensions of PSRDM,demographics, and previous job attributes (military occupational specialty code) for the veterans.The original EPRA survey [16] outlines the twelve steps described by the PSRDM, which arebroken into three paths: social awareness, professional development, and combined socialawareness and professional development. The EPRA survey contains 65, (primarily Likert
undergraduate mechanical engineering major anticipating graduation in May of 2019. I am a member of the Beyond Professional Identity research group based in Harding University located in Searcy, Arkansas. I plan to further my studies in engineering education in graduate school particularly in regards to equipping students to work in development and sustainability. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #22967Dr. Jeremiah SullinsDr. Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia Shari E. Miller is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of the School of Social Work at the Uni- versity
addressing initial mathematics course placement and initial mathematics course outcomes,particularly among students from minoritized populations, low SES backgrounds, and rural areas.The launch pilot focuses on elucidating the pathways that lead students into college math courses FTbelow calculus and on testing interventions at points of maximal theoretical impact. Although thedata we collect is specific to South Carolina, the framework for the study (Figure 1) is groundedin engineering identity theory and draws on national research on engineering identity andengineering pathways [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]. Each critical decision point isaffected by a range of inputs that are not unique to South Carolina