Collection

2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Jennifer A Cross, Texas Tech University; Md Rashedul Hasan, Texas Tech University; Diego Alejandro Polanco-Lahoz, Texas Tech University; Mario G. Beruvides P.E., Texas Tech University; Kelli Cargile Cook, Texas Tech University; Jason Tham, Texas Tech University

identity developmentand its influencing factors from students enrolled in a doctoral engineering program at a large stateuniversity in the US. Surveys, journey mapping, and focus groups were adopted for the first round ofdata collection, whereas interviews substituted for focus groups in subsequent rounds. Multiplequalitative and quantitative analysis methods were applied to the data within a phenomenologicalanalysis framework. This paper focuses only on the round 1 and round 2 journey map data collectedfor the cohort of 10 online (distance) students; however, the department under study includes both on-campus and online (distance) doctoral students, and results for on-campus students will be reported infuture research. These data were collected