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2023 PSW

Authors

Tara Esfahani; David Copp

In Their Own Words: How Engineering Students Adapted to Disruptive Transitions Between Online and In-Person Learning Tara Esfahani and David A. Copp Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, IrvineAbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented shift in students’ learning environments thatcaused students who planned on in-person instruction to learn online instead. This changeaffected students’ learning attitudes, anxiety, and success. In this work, we present students’personal voices to better understand how sudden disruptions in education affected students overnearly two years of transitioning between

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2023 PSW

Authors

John Chen; Jim Widmann; Brian Self

undergraduates. These factors include Grit, Engineering Identity, Mindset,Mindfulness, Meaning and Purpose, Belongingness, Gratitude, Future Time Perspectives of Motivation,Test Anxiety, Time and Study Environment, Perceptions of Faculty Caring, Self-Control and Stress.These NCA factors have been studied individually or, in some cases, in small groups and were found tohave an impact on academic performance. Our approach is to study them as a larger collection todetermine how perhaps certain groupings of these factors are impactful on student performance.Summary of PresentationStudying engineering is hard. The subjects are difficult, the workload is heavy and the competition isintense. Making this demanding environment even more so is a sometimes