Tang, J., & Granda Marulanda, N., & Sorrells, J., & Pierce, R. (2022, August), A career as an Engineer: Participant Perception and Attitude before and after an Engineering Summer Camp for Project Discovery Talent Search students at ___________ University (Evaluation)  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40412

\bibitem{asee_peer_40412}
  Tang, J., \& Granda Marulanda, N., \& Sorrells, J., \& Pierce, R. (2022, August), \emph{A career as an Engineer: Participant Perception and Attitude before and after an Engineering Summer Camp for Project Discovery Talent Search students at \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ University (Evaluation)}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40412

Joseph Tang, Nelson Granda Marulanda, JennieV. Sorrells, and Robert Pierce.  "A career as an Engineer: Participant Perception and Attitude before and after an Engineering Summer Camp for Project Discovery Talent Search students at ___________ University (Evaluation)".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40412 Internet.  28 Jun, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_40412}
  Joseph Tang, Nelson Granda Marulanda, JennieV. Sorrells, and Robert Pierce.
  "A career as an Engineer: Participant Perception and Attitude before and after an Engineering Summer Camp for Project Discovery Talent Search students at \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ University (Evaluation)".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40412 Internet.  28 Jun, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This paper reports the experiences and findings from an engineering summer camp for low-income and first-generation college-bound high school students held at Western Carolina University in July 2021.  The aim of the camp was to motivate the students to consider college education and a career in engineering.  Further rationale for this camp is described, and an overview of the camp program and demographics provided.   A pre- and post-intervention survey was also designed and described in this paper to assess participant perception and attitude towards an engineering education and career, which consists of a mix of both quantitative and qualitative responses.  The pre- and post-camp results of the survey are reported and some statistical conclusions drawn.  One noteworthy, albeit disappointing, result is that no statistically significant evidence was observed of improvement in participant perceptions towards the difficulty of an engineering education over the course of this summer camp.  However, this is due in part perhaps to the relatively low number of camp participants and thus small sample size, though there was a slight improvement in interest toward an engineering career.  Further discussion is given on the effectiveness of the camp’s aims, on some general camp design and planning lessons learned by the organizers in conducting the camp, and on the survey methodology and results. 
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