Conference Session

Internship, Co-Op, and Professional Development Programs

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Barnes, Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators; Tamara Ball, University of California, Santa Cruz; Christine R. Starr, University of California, Santa Cruz; Scott Seagroves, The College of Saint Scholastica; Kauahi Perez, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Lisa Hunter, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

larger quantitative studies examining engineeringor technology programs specifically. In one study on retention of engineering students afterfreshman year, several pre-existing factors were evaluated quantitatively to understand if theyhad any statistical impact on engineering student success [41]. This study used a multi-universitydatabase which contained information on 87,176 students from 9 universities to predictgraduation using six variables (ethnicity, gender, high school GPA, SAT Math score, SATVerbal score and citizenship status). The results of this analysis revealed that high school GPA,gender, ethnicity, quantitative SAT scores, verbal SAT scores, and citizenship were eachsignificant predictors of graduation although different models

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John H. Callewaert, University of Michigan; Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, University of Michigan; Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, University of Michigan; Kevin Cai Jiang, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

input from others, 4) learningfrom failure.Understanding the Purpose of the CourseAs this was the first time the course was offered, there were a few different understandings aboutwhat the course was about. Some students thought the course might prepare them with financialmanagement skills for after college, how to communicate in the workplace, or how to besuccessful in graduate school. As one mechanical engineering student noted: I don't remember this correctly, but when I signed up for the course, I think, the idea was that this would be a little bit more of like the skills for when you actually leave college. So, for example, ... like taxes or, you know … how would you communicate with people who are higher status