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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University

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network had significant impacts was in the retention of engineeringmothers in the workforce. Data showed that the support provided by the group contributed to theretention of the group’s members in the workforce, and assisted in their efforts to balance workand personal life. This paper will address these particular aspects of the group’s value to themembers, and recommendations will be made for how to leverage the knowledge to bettersupport this particular group in the workforce as they transition throughout their career fromrecent graduates to seasoned professionals while raising families.IntroductionPhrases like retention, work-life equilibrium, family, and career are frequently used, yet whencombined, they can become perplexing or overlooked

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh

their technical field,and are pressed by the urgency of finding a qualified job right after graduation. Notwithstanding,students have been asking for a broader offer of elective courses from our department that canconnect them with job opportunities.Our aim is to reorient the education of our engineering students towards more aligned, valuable,and sustainable contributions to solutions to the increasingly complex problems that they areexpected to face in their professional careers. In the absence of a more general and concertedinstitutional approach, we have been exploring singular interventions fitting the curriculum andavoiding critical interference with major constraints like the ones highlighted above. Asmentioned above, opportunities so

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Christopher Joseph Gioia; Louis Edward Christensen, The Ohio State University

learningDBEL – Design-based engineering learningCAD – Computer-aided design 1 Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionImproving the quality of education is motivation for many who pursue careers in academia, andtwo common topics that appear are active learning and student self-efficacy. Active learning putsstudents in a position where they are discovering knowledge on their own rather than passivelyreceiving information from an educator. Knowledge transfer through active learning strategieswhether it be design-based