Conference Session

Technical Session T1A

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Jessica Martin, Baylor University; Jana Roste, Baylor University; Austin T. Smith, Baylor University; Shane Michael Meyer, Baylor University; Emma G Cartisano, Baylor University; Emily Sandvall, Baylor University; Andrea Pouso Morales, Baylor University

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. Broadly categorized, students’understandings of success related to career preparation and opportunities—an expected theme forthose in technical degree programs, happiness or enjoyment in life, and living a life of purpose—what some might call “the good life.” Edwin’s response to our questions related to successreveals such understandings of success are not necessarily exclusive: “To me, [success] meansbeing able to fulfill your own personal purpose, while at the same time, enjoying it and making agood living out of it, I would say. That’d be success.”Though student participation in specific majors clearly shapes notions of success, students’insistence that the profitability of a future career is not the only—and sometimes not even theprimary

Conference Session

Technical Session M5C

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Surupa Shaw, Texas A&M University

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, requires the soft skills, like motivation, self-directed learning and confidence, as primaryelements as part of the college degree program. E. Pang et al. [11] investigated the competencies (Ability andwillingness to learn’, ‘teamwork and cooperation’, ‘hardworking and willingness to take on extra work’, ‘self-control’ and ‘analytical thinking’) effectively needed for fresh graduates to succeed at work and they foundthe earnest need of developing these competencies among university students prior to their entry into theworkforce. It is clear from these studies that the skillsets needed to succeed respectively in university and inthe professional career have an overlap, but they indicate a requirement of more than the basic course contentknowledge

Conference Session

Technical Session T1B

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Amanda Marie Singer, Michigan Technological University; Katrina L Carlson, Michigan Technological University; Akua B. Oppong-Anane, Montana Technological University; Michelle E Jarvie-Eggart P.E., Michigan Technological University; Sarah Tan, Michigan Technological University

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individualpositionalities are included within this section to provide audiences with a lens to view the results.Amanda Singer was a graduate teaching assistant within Michigan Technological University’sFirst-year engineering program at the time of this study’s development and data collection. Dr.Michelle Jarvie Eggart is an assistant professor within the Department of EngineeringFundamentals at Michigan Tech and taught the sections of the First-Year Engineering (FYE)courses in which students were surveyed for this work. Dr. Akua Oppong-Anane is an assistantprofessor and academic advisor within the FYE program at Montana Technological University.Like Dr. Jarvie Eggart, Dr. Oppong-Anane was the course faculty member for the section ofstudents surveyed at Montana