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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ibukunoluwa E. Salami; Segun S. Oladipo; Logan A. Perry

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Exploring High DFW Rates in an Engineering Statics Course: Insights from Faculty and Teaching Assistants. Ibukunoluwa Eunice Salami1, Segun Samuel Oladipo2, Dr. Logan Perry31: Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska- Lincoln 2: Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 3: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-LincolnAbstractEngineering statics is a branch of engineering mechanics that focuses on the effects of forceson

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Nosakhare I. Idiaghe; Jessica Deters

experience? (2) What do students wish that their research mentors had done differently?This qualitative study is part of a larger study that explores the experiences of undergraduatemechanical engineering students who participated in an academic year-long research labexperience. Data collected for this study includes interviews at the beginning and end of theirresearch experience with this paper drawing specifically from the post-experience interviews.The findings highlight avenues for strengthening mentor-student relationships and advocates forthe apprenticeship model as a tool for engaged learning.KeywordsUndergraduate research, apprenticeship, faculty mentor, mentoringBackgroundUndergraduate research has gained prominence across U.S. higher

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Mirit Shamir; Jonathan Aguilar; Rebecca Cors; Ryan Hansen; Nathan Hendricks; Gaea Hock; Stacy Hutchinson; Prathap Parameswaran; Matthew Sanderson; Melanie M. Derby

harvesting or planting times. Transportation to thefield sites and back was provided from the Kansas State University campus.To explore different career pathways, the NRT leadership team established a team-based facultyand peer mentoring model to provide vocational counseling and career planning for NRTstudents to pursue industry, government, and academia positions [9]. The interdisciplinary team-based faculty mentoring included development of Individual Development Plans (IDPs) withNRT students [10]. Each mentoring group had three faculty members from at least twodisciplines. The IDP included skills assessments, short-term and long-term career goals. As part © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kaycie Lane; Jason Hawkins

in Spring 2024. The Design Spine at UNL has an emphasis onpromoting essential teamwork, communication and holistic thinking skills in an effort to produce moreengineering graduates who are prepared for the future challenges facing the engineering industry.Furthermore, as this course is new to the civil engineering major, the instructor also wanted to ensuresufficient opportunities for student feedback coupled with flexibility to alter the schedule as needed asimplementation occurred. The instructors therefore focused on five semester projects with clearlydelineated rubric components in alignment with learning outcomes. Details of each project are providedin the result section and sample rubrics are provided in the Supplemental Information

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Molly McVey; Priscilla L. Shum

large contextual projects as part of their coursework) contributed to the developmentof a professional identity amongst recent graduates. Similarly, for undergraduate students, designexperiences [24], participating in technological innovation competitions [25], enjoyment ofelements of professional engineering practice [26], and engagement in engineering-relatedactivities [27] predicted undergraduates’ engineering identity.A sense of belonging is more associated with positive social and relational experiences. Bothformal and informal mentoring, especially for underrepresented students, were important forfostering belonging [11, 28, 29]. Peer mentors with the same identities as mentees could beespecially effective [30, 31]. Actions of faculty