Conference Session

Graduate Education Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Thomas M. Bluestein, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Mayra S. Artiles , Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Graduate Education

community (Solem, Lee, & Schlemper, 2013).Peer interactions Peers provide intellectual and social support for each other, as well as more formallyassisting with projects, class work, and assignments, and less formally by sharing ideas andCLIMATE AND ENGINEERING GRADUATE STUDENTS 5opinions. Many times, students in the same or similar programs become friends and co-workersas they navigate their plan of study. As these groups of students, or cohorts, form, a communityof students begins to be created. These communities are governed by a set of norms that createculture, and when students are outside of this culture, their fit in the program becomes threatened(Lovitts, 2001