Conference Session

STEM Issues in ET

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lei Xie, Texas State University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Paper ID #29045Impact of mentor-mentee fit in preparing undergraduate STEM students toteach engineering technology for elementary studentsDr. Lei Xie, TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY Dr. Lei Xie is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Organization, Workforce, and Leadership Studies at Texas State University.Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam joined the faculty of Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M Univer- sity in 2007. Natarajarathinam received her Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from The University of Alabama. She received her Bachelor of Engineering (Major

Conference Session

STEM Issues

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony E. Sparkling, Purdue University; Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Aayushi Sinha, Purdue University; Trenton Thomas Hasser, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

in Choice of Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,” Psychol. Sci., vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 770–775, 2013.[10] B. L. Oo, S. Li, and L. Zhang, “Understanding Female Students ’ Choice of a Construction Management Undergraduate Degree Program : Case Study at an Australian University,” J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract., vol. 144, no. 3, pp. 1–8, 2018.[11] J. W. Elliott, M. K. Thevenin, and C. Lopez del Puerto, “Role of Gender and Industry Experience in Construction Management Student Self-efficacy, Motivation, and Planned Behavior,” Int. J. Constr. Educ. Res., vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 3–17, 2016.[12] R. Su and J. Rounds, “All STEM fields are not created equal: People and things interests explain

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

ramin Sadeghi, Power and Water University of Technology (PWUT); Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

their training costs to the university. These costs do not include theinternet subscription or purchasing a personal computer or laptop. It is clear that in the future,with any increase in the number of students, the training costs will be reduced. The training cost Page 11.490.7of a term is evaluated and determined at the end of the term. The total annual training costs arecalculated by the university and announced publicly.The fields of study in the virtual university have no limit for enrollment of the students, althoughonly at the beginning, because of the hardware limitations, some fields of study may have a limitfor enrollment. This

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilse B. Nava Medina , Texas A&M University ; Angie Hill Price, Texas A&M University; Mathew Kuttolamadom, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Journal, 2000, 34(2),298-306.5. Spurling, S. “Compression of Semesters or Intensity of Study: What is it that Increases Student Success?” City Coll. of San Francisco, CA. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Research and Planning Group (39th, Lake Arrowhead, CA, May 2-4, 2001).6. Kokkelenberg, E. C., Dillon, M. & Christy, S. M. “The Effects of Class Size on Student Grades at a Public University”, Economics of Education Review, 27(2), April 2008, 221–233.7. Morris, D., Scott, J., “ A Revised Pilot Study Examining the Effects of the Timing and Size of Classes on Student Performance in Introductory Accounting Classes”, Research in Higher Education Journal, 43 (April 2014), 1-5.

Conference Session

Recruiting and Retention

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Richardson, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

MET 2004 pilot freshman learning community had 21 students and the attrition ofthis learning community in the fall of 2005 was 14%. Twelve of these learningcommunity students returned to RIT in the fall of 2005 and 10 stayed in either MET andManufacturing Engineering Technology (MFET) programs which are identical programsin the freshman year. There were a total of 45 MET freshman students in the fall of2004 as they lost a total of 10 students for an attrition rate of 22.22%. One year attritionrates for MET freshman students were 17.02% for 47 students in 2003, 14.63% for 41students in 2002, 14.7% for 34 students in 2001, and 3.22% for 31 students in 2000.A study of this learning community found that two variables, grade point average