Conference Session

Career Development in Engineering: From Higher Education to Industry

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ben David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

qualitativedata collection over time and across locations.SampleIn the Spring 2016 semester, 12 mechanical engineering seniors were recruited to participate in alongitudinal study of workplace learning. Mechanical engineering was selected for two keyreasons. First, the dominant industry focus of mechanical engineering makes it a useful site forexploring the school-to-work transition of new graduates. Second, ME is one of the largestengineering fields nationally and the largest department at the study university, providing anopportunity to obtain a larger and more diverse sample. Table 2 summarizes participantdemographics by race and gender. Given the potentially small number of potential participants incategories other than white male, race and gender