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Engineering Cultures and Identity

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Learn. 2012:1621-1623.44. Hidi S, Renninger KA, Krapp A. The present state of interest research. In: Renninger KA, Hidi S, Krapp A, eds. The Role of Interest in Learning and Development. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.; 1992:433-446.45. Vygotsky L, Hanfmann E, Vakar G. Thought and Language. MIT press; 2012:252.46. Schreuders PD, Mannon SE, Rutherford B. Pipeline or personal preference: Women in engineering. Eur J Eng Educ. 2009;34(1):97-112. doi:10.1080/03043790902721488.47. Geisinger BN, Raman DR. Why they leave: Understanding student attrition from engineering majors. Int J Eng Educ. 2013;29(4):914-925.48. Lent RW, Brown SD, Hackett G. Toward a unifying social cognitive theory of career and

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Engineering Cultures and Identity

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anita Patrick, University of Texas, Austin; Maura Borrego, University of Texas, Austin

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Multiple Identity science, (2) the rules that govern the behavior of an engineer, and (3) the Theory environmental setting of the institution in which one learns to become an engineer. It is this latter factor that we have examined in this study.”Godwin (no specific Identity is composed of students’ perceptions of their performance/competence, Hazari (2010)32,(2013a;b)29; 30 Identity theory) recognition, and interest in a domain. (p. 1) Cass (2011)23, Potvin (2011

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Engineering Cultures and Identity

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexis Prybutok, The University of Texas, Austin; Anita D. Patrick, University of Texas, Austin; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas, Austin; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Mary Jo Kirisits, University of Texas, Austin

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exhibited nosignificant difference in responses, upper-division mechanical engineers at this institution go onto develop a greater overall physics identity and opinions of their design efficacies than doupper-division civil engineers. Future work will explore whether these differences persist acrossa broader range of disciplines and institutions. Further data analysis will be conducted on thissample to disentangle the potential effects of gender and race on the findings. Finally, the surveywill be given to the same students next year to monitor longitudinal retention rates and changesin engineering identity.References 1. Carlone, H. B.; Johnson, A. Understanding the Science of Experiences of Successful Women of Color: Science Identity as

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Engineering Cultures and Identity

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park

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Paper ID #14736”Turning away” from the Struggling Individual Student: An Account of theCultural Construction of Engineering Ability in an Undergraduate Program-ming ClassMr. Stephen Douglas Secules, University of Maryland, College Park Stephen is an Education PhD student at UMD, researching engineering education. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acoustical engineer. He has taught introduction to engineering design in the Keystone Department at the UMD A. James Clark Engineering School. Stephen’s research interests include equity, culture, and the

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Engineering Cultures and Identity

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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Paper ID #15322First Generation Students Identification with and Feelings of Belongingnessin EngineeringHank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno Hank Boone is a Graduate Research Assistant and Masters Student at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on First Generation engineering college students’ engineering identity, belonging- ness, and how they perceive their college experience.He is also on a National Science Foundation project looking at non-normative engineering students and how they may have differing paths to success. His education includes a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Nevada

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Engineering Cultures and Identity

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dina Verdin, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brenda Capobianco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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funds of knowledge has beenused in STEM education literature by examining the following questions: 1) How is the funds of knowledge framework being utilized to understand math, science and engineering concepts at the secondary and post-secondary level? 2) What are implications for the use of the construct—funds of knowledge—in research related to a) first generation college students, in general, and b) first-generation college students in engineering?Study Methods and FindingsA systematic literature review is a methodology for “making sense of large bodies of information”and a way of contributing answers to questions “about what works and what does not” amongother types of questions (p. 2).17 Additionally, it is