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GSD 6: The Graduate School Experience

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milica Miladinovic, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ceren Yilmaz Akkaya, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Yunus Doğan Telliel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Pratap Mahesh Rao, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Paper ID #47505Engaging End-Users, Reconceptualizing Research Plans: Graduate ResearchTraining in Translational EngineeringMilica Miladinovic, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Milica Miladinovic is a PhD candidate in Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), currently working as a Research Assistant in Professor Pratap Rao’s lab. She holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Belgrade (Serbia). Her research focuses on wearable, flexible, and stretchable printed electronics and sensors. She is particularly interested in

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GSD 7: Innovative Graduate Education

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ilya Avdeev, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Jennifer Gutzman, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Loren G Peterson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Paper ID #48190Implementation of an I-Corps Inspired 3-Day Bootcamp for Graduate Studentsto Plan their Academic CareersDr. Ilya Avdeev, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Dr. Ilya Avdeev is the Director of the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s College of Engineering & Applied Science. Dr. Avdeev teaches multidisciplinary Product Realization course that merges engineering design practice with design thinking. Dr. Avdeev is a Director of the NSF I-Corps Site of Southeastern Wisconsin – a partnership of five Milwaukee universities (UWM

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GSD 4: Stressors and Supports

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Dustin Thoman, San Diego State University; Satchi Venkataraman, San Diego State University

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for Engineering Education, 2025From Checklist to Lifestyle: Transforming Student IDPs intoGrowth HabitsAbstractDeveloping an individual development plan (IDP) is a key component in the professionaldevelopment activities for graduate students. A well-designed IDP supports the student throughseveral steps of professional development planning and goal setting. First, the IDP helps thestudent articulate career goals. Second, the IDP guides students to identify specific strategies oractivities to help make progress toward those goals, including undertaking activities thatcontribute to academic, professional and personal growth and pursuing focused careerexplorations to continually refine or change career goals. Third, the IDP supports the students

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GSD 2: Identity and Motivation

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allyce Horan, Colorado School of Mines

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. There are three components of this study: Theapplication, the daily survey, and the final survey. This study received Human Subjects Research(HSR) exemption and surveys were deployed and analyzed using web-based subscriptionsoftware and results were anonymized.The application served as both a functional and exploratory element of the study. Due to limitedspace and resources, we needed students to apply to attend the Retreat so that we couldpractically plan the event. The exploratory questions were brief and required students to create adaily writing plan for the TWR in consultation with their advisor; both advisor and student wererequired to sign off on the writing plan. To help students create a reasonable writing plan, weprovided brief

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Programs in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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April A. Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; Valerie E. Kerr, University of Pittsburgh; Susan K. Fullerton Shirey, University of Pittsburgh; Götz Veser, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh

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personalized learningmodel (PLM) for graduate education within the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. Thismodel aims to transform and modernize graduate STEM education through a personalized, inclusive, andstudent-centered approach, which will, in turn, advance existing knowledge on the relationship betweenpersonalized learning and student outcomes.The principles of personalized learning guide the PLM. It is comprised of five components. The first threecomponents provide an intentional approach to learning: Instructional Goals developed for each studentbased on a learner profile and individual development plans (IDP), a purposeful Task Environment thatbreaks the traditional three-credit coursework into modules and co-curricular

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 9: Lessons Learned from Engineering Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann M. Gansemer-Topf; Shan Jiang, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Yiqi Liang, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Dong Chen, The University of Arizona

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and then appliedthese skills directly to their current research projects (thesis). Applying PM skills to researchbenefits both the student and their research team by improving time management, taskcompletion, and communication. Ultimately, we anticipate that PM skills will increase students’likelihood of completing their degrees and equip students with transferable knowledge for theirfuture work.To assess the effectiveness of the course in meeting our goals, we developed a comprehensiveevaluation plan that included pre- and post-class surveys. These pre- and post-surveys askedstudents to rate their familiarity with and use of PM skills. In this paper, we provide a detaileddescription of the course and highlight the results of the pre-and post

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Mentoring Programs in Graduate Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Arnold Christian; Dayna L. Martínez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.; Esther Gonzalez; Andrea D. Beattie; Ashleigh Tierney; Kimberly D. Douglas, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.

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. 1. Connection Plan – Future GR.A.D.S. utilized a ten-week connection plan that laid out the schedule with goals and tasks for each week. This connection plan included tasks for both the mentor and mentee regarding the goals, meetings, and surveys. For some tasks, email notifications were sent to the participants to remind them of the timeline. For other tasks, the platform also sent multiple reminders if the task went uncompleted. 2. Messaging Portal – The messaging portal allowed participants to communicate in a thread viewable in their connection. This single continuous thread is convenient for tracking. 3. Meeting Tracker – Participants were encouraged to link their calendars to their profile in the

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GSD 3: Pedagogy and Curriculum

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isha Galaz Abdullah, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; David K Pugalee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; David C. Weggel, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; David Jacob Thaddeus, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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research questions were: 1. How did the engineering students describe their experiences advising their partner? 2. What are the characteristics of the engineering students’ final written project reports? 3. How did the instructors describe aspects of their co-teaching?The analysis of the student surveys revealed five themes: Student Needs and Knowledge Gained;Communication and Empathy; Recommendations from Engineering Students to Partner;Perspectives on Project Rubric; Professor Guidance. The first three of these themes were alsoidentified in the students’ reports. The co-teaching survey highlighted the instructors’perspectives on effective co-teaching elements: classroom applications, relationships,communication, planning and knowledge base

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GSD 1: From Recruitment to Retention

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Rebecca Cors, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Wendy C. Crone, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Victor zavala, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Derek Johnson, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Kerri Lyn Phillips, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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onboarding program heldprior to the start of their graduate programs. The MRSEC’s Forward Fellows (FF) program,launched in 2024, funded students who were admitted to graduate programs in departmentsaffiliated with the MRSEC. These students engaged in mentored research for one month prior totheir official matriculation date and participated in both professional development andcommunity building activities.A few months prior to launching the FF program, the planning committee gathered input fromfaculty, staff and current graduate students from eligible departments to determine how to designan impactful program that fits the diverse departmental and student needs. The input from thedepartments led the committee to implement a rolling application

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Dustin B. Thoman, San Diego State University; Satchi Venkataraman, San Diego State University

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the unique challenges faced by students changing orintegrating multiple disciplinary backgrounds and identities. If the student might seekemployment outside of academia, they may need mentors external to their institution and theacademic network of their research supervisor.Students may not establish the professional networks necessary to cultivate such a variety ofmentor relationships without explicitly planned networking activities and skill development. Tobuild these networks and seek out meaningful mentor relationships that are key to theirsuccessful identity development, a graduate student needs a strong sense of self-efficacy,motivation, and autonomy [7]. Independence, motivation, and self-direction have also beenshown to be vital for

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GSD 7: Innovative Graduate Education

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Yuliana Flores, University of Washington

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particularly rich sitefor examining AI integration because it combines my deep familiarity with the course's coreacademic functions with active pedagogical experimentation, allowing for consideration of howAI might support both established practices and innovative approaches.Data. Autoethnography, as a form of ethnography, involves both participation in events of thespace being studied and observation of that space as well. In the context of autoethnography,participation involves the researcher doing what they are already doing, while observation cantake many forms. In this case, traces of the participation represented the core of the datacollection. These traces included educator planning and reflection documents, conversations withthe generative AI

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 1: Recruitment and Support in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Tonya L. Peeples, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University; Cynthia Howard-Reed, Pennsylvania State University

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degreesacross engineering disciplines at Penn State. Students will receive 2-year scholarships andparticipate in programming designed to impact academic and social success. Project activities willinclude intentional strategies to increase interest, applications, and enrollment in engineeringmaster’s programs. In addition, retention activities such as mentoring (group and individual), andprofessional development programming will be offered for the two years of the scholars’ programsof study. Finally, the project plans to build skills in inclusive mentoring for 54 faculty membersthat will have an impact beyond the duration of this project.A primary goal for the first years of funding has been to further develop intra- and inter-institutional partnerships

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 8: Professional Development for Graduate Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Marie Reck, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Shanna Rose Thompson, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Nicole Danielle Jackson, Sandia National Laboratories; Shweta Dabetwar

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. Theformative feedback included short surveys after each session and a plus/delta (+/Δ) activityduring the last session. During this activity participants were asked to list positive aspects of theprogram (+) and suggested changes (Δ). All feedback was anonymous. Additionally, theorganizers met weekly to discuss how each session went and plan future sessions whileincorporating any feedback received.In the spring of 2023, we asked an evaluator to follow up with the participants of the pilotprogram to determine how their job search had progressed since completing the program and getfeedback on the program after having participated in a faculty job search. This survey wasadministered in Qualtrics by the program evaluator. The quantitative data was

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ari Sherris, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Christine Reiser Robbins, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Jianhong Ren, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David Ramirez, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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coaching for and by language teachers (e.g., peer coaching, critical friending in educational contexts). Ari has planned and facilitated language and literacy workshops and lectures, as well as curriculum development, in Ghana, Israel, Italy, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand, and the USA. As a private person, Ari travels to the Israeli occupied West Bank of the Jordan river where he documents Israeli settlers who engage in violence, agricultural theft, intimidation, and threats. Ari’s videos, notes, and presence support a coalition of non-government organizations working in solidarity with Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley to prevent the destruction of Palestinian villages and to prevent the

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 8: Professional Development for Graduate Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynn Mandeltort, University of Virginia; Priya Date, University of Virginia; Amy M. Clobes, University of Virginia

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from the perspective the mentees, roughly thesame objectives apply from the perspective of the mentors, which we discuss further inAssessment.Design approach: assessmentThe assessment segment of backward integrated design is typically a major focal point for coursedesign because assessment of student learning in classrooms is often a high stakes endeavor anddifferentially impacts students, such as affecting grades and therefore financial aid andpersistence in degree programs. In professional development program assessment, however,participants’ outcomes are not “graded,” and our assessment is used primarily for internalimprovement and contributing to the body of research in the program area. Thus, we created anassessment plan that can convey

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Mentoring Programs in Graduate Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clay Gloster Jr., North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (TGC); Matthew Bonner Aurelius McCullough, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (TCG); Grace Gowdy; Shea Bigsby; Dawayne Whittington; Juanda Johnson-Taylor

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which 39.4% were awarded to URMs and 35% to women.Over a six-year period, N.C. A&T has awarded a total of 314 doctoral degrees, including 204doctoral degrees in STEM, 134 to women, and 139 to URMs. Building on past strategicsuccesses, the University’s current strategic plan—A&T Preeminence 2023: Taking theMomentum to 2023—sets several goals relevant to developing competitive graduate studenttraining programs. Of note are Goal 3, “Position the university to be a national, premier research-intensive, doctoral, science and technology-focused learning institution,” and Goal 5, “Foster amore diverse and inclusive campus community by promoting cultural awareness and collegiality,and by cultivating respect for diverse people and cultures.” To

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 1: Onboarding and Community Building in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University; Sanjivan Manoharan, Grand Valley State University; Samhita Rhodes, Grand Valley State University

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startedlooking into the feasibility of making the graduate engineering program more accessible. Thiswould not only allow us to meet the growing demand for engineers in West Michigan, but itwould be well aligned with our program’s student-centric focus. To prepare the students for thegraduate-level engineering work, an exhaustive list of prerequisite undergraduate classes thatstudents must take has been approved. While each applicant’s curriculum is tailored, GVSU’sSchool of Engineering developed a general plan to onboard students from a variety of non-engineering undergraduate backgrounds. Applicants are granted conditional admission to thegraduate program predicated on completing the prerequisite classes with a B or better grade.These plans allow the

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GSD 2: Identity and Motivation

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Hadley Perkins, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

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identities. Fourconstructs describe the connections between time domains as ways individuals make meaning ofthe task at hand or their identity: Attribution of current task to past identity, Past identityexperience to explain current identity, Perceived Instrumentality of current task on futureidentity, and Future Identity Goals impact on current task planning For data analysis, a particularfocus was placed on the connection constructs and how identity and motivation impact eachother. Data collection was structured to capture personal reflections on events and theirmotivations.Another way of conceptualizing how identity motivates action is through teacher disposition.Along with teacher knowledge and skill, teacher disposition is a third essential

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 8: Professional Development for Graduate Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Elisabeth Gehr, Purdue University; Emily Garcia, Purdue University; Suzanne Swaine, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Stephen McBride, Purdue University; Joseph Vincent Rispoli, Purdue University; Christopher Greg Brinton

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surveys from the Graduate Student Experience in the Research University (gradSERU)online service. The fellows recognized several gaps in Purdue’s graduate mentoring experiencethat needed to be addressed: an engineering-specific individual development plan (IDP), surveysof faculty members, and educating students about taboo mentorship topics.An IDP was created for PhD or master’s students in the College of Engineering. The document isintended to guide students through four steps: a skillset self-assessment, goals for Year 1 ofgraduate school, a meeting between student and advisor, and progress updates after the first year.The IDP was published on the university website and distributed among the engineeringdepartments in August 2022 and has since

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GSD 3: Pedagogy and Curriculum

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claudia G Cameratti-Baeza, University of Michigan; Charlie Michaels, Center for Socially Engaged Engineering & Design, University of Michigan

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sessions, required meetings, and training.From the group of 38 graduate students who have joined the program, 20 are master students,and 18 are pursuing doctoral degrees. Although the majority of the graduate students who havejoined the program (22) are in various areas of engineering, the program has also welcomedstudents from social work, public policy, public health, communication and media, environmentand sustainability, education, business, art and design, and architecture and urban planning. Thecohort of graduate facilitators in the 2024 - 2025 academic year includes nine graduate students.Graduate facilitators join the program for an average of three semesters of facilitation work, withsome of them continuing in the program for up to ten

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 9: Lessons Learned from Engineering Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Audrey Rorrer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; David K. Pugalee, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Praveen Ramaprabhu; Mesbah Uddin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Terry Xu, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; H. P. Cherukuri, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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stakeholders. Students who are in theprogram are surveyed and interviewed, and students not in the program are invited to participatein surveys. Interviews and initial survey results have been published elsewhere [12].Launch InitiativesDuring the first two years of the PAtENT project, primary activities have centered onrecruitment, marketing, and investigating student and faculty perceptions about the program.The year one focus was on relationship building with campus resources and community, andestablishment of data measurements and collection plan. The management team collectedresponses from faculty about project status for potential doctoral candidates, and finalizedstudent cohort one. Additionally, the team connected with the Ventureprise and the

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Mentoring Programs in Graduate Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dayna L. Martínez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.; Susan Arnold Christian; Esther Gonzalez; Andrea D. Beattie; Ashleigh Tierney; Kimberly D. Douglas, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.

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plan tasks and suggested activities was also assessed as well as reference materials,communications, relationship with mentor and mentees, weekly group meetings, and discussionboard.At this point, mentors were contacted by the team to learn from them how things were going andto give another opportunity for learning between groups. The most common point of discussionwas how to engage members and issues related to attendance. Some advice from facilitators tocombat these issues centered on communication and planning as well as shifting some of theplanning responsibilities to the group. This recommendation was made because when that shifttakes place and mentees are driving the group connection, they participate more fully in themeetings and

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GSD 8: Industry and Professional Skills

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jen (Jennifer) Herman, The Ohio State University; Leah Wahlin, The Ohio State University; Deborah Kuzawa, The Ohio State University

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to address the why or how aliterature is structured and produced as it is. For example, students in Foundations ofEngineering Education must write a critical analysis essay, critiquing a piece of literature.However, students trained in technical engineering domains may struggle to understand therhetorical purpose of this type of paper [8] or how to begin developing the analysis, in partbecause their undergraduate educations have focused on different epistemological paradigms forcritique [13], and they have not yet been socialized to value the writing process for planning andexecuting such an analysis [1]. Because the transition from novice researcher-writer to expertresearch-writer occurs over time and experience, students also need support

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GSD 5: Mentorship

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randi Sims, Clemson University; Sofia Brewer, Clemson University; Lily Fender, Clemson University; Kassidy Maron; Adelyn Dwyer, Clemson University; Karen A High, Clemson University; Marieke Van Puymbroeck

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pilot study will ultimately culminate in two surveys and one interview protocolintended for use in future EMPOWERS work to measure changes in graduate students'perceptions of personal well-being, self-efficacy, and inclusion. Additionally, the long-lastingeffects of this program and study aim to provide practical and holistic mentoring training forboth faculty and graduate students broadly throughout STEM.IntroductionResearch indicates that graduate student attrition rates are a rapidly growing concern [1], [2].Moreover, current calls for systematic change in graduate studies are widespread [3]. Severalreasons are given for this phenomenon, including increased mental health challenges, lack ofcareer planning and development, and ineffective

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GSD 4: Stressors and Supports

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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RAVISHA CHUTANI, University of Georgia; VARUN KATHPALIA, University of Georgia; John Ray Morelock, University of Georgia

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Paper ID #47735Impact of financial anxiety and financial stress on the financial well-being ofengineering graduate students in the United StatesRAVISHA CHUTANI, University of Georgia I am a second-year PhD student majoring in Financial Planning in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia.VARUN KATHPALIA, University of Georgia Varun Kathpalia, born and raised in northern part of India, joined EETI as a PhD student in the Spring of 2024. He completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology (Punjab Technical University, India

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 7: Developing Graduate Students' Competencies and Identities

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret E.B. Webb, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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study shows that supporting thefuture professoriate’s interdisciplinary identity development begins with addressing siloededucation at the undergraduate level and involves increasing institutional capacity for advisinginterdisciplinary students, institutionalizing development plans for interdisciplinary researchers,and aligning university incentives for scholars with convergent research aims.BackgroundThe research site for this study is an interdisciplinary graduate program centered on resilience(referred to in this paper as the IR program), currently funded through a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) grant, located at a large land-grant university. IRis designed to spur collaboration and develop convergent research

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 1: Recruitment and Support in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meredith Leigh Hooper, California Institute of Technology; Jacqueline Rose Tawney, California Institute of Technology ; Emily Hope Palmer, California Institute of Technology; James Ragan, California Institute of Technology; Morgan Louise Hooper, California Institute of Technology; Yazmin Gonzalez, California Institute of Technology

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. The amount of time given away from researchover the summer to study for quals is dependent on one’s advisor; students may have to advocatefor the amount of time they estimate they will need. After reviewing material individually forseveral weeks, students generally transition to studying in pairs or groups, using a compendium ofpast problems to mock-examine each other. During the two weeks immediately preceding quals,senior graduate students self-organize to offer mock exams as well.When students arrive at their exam, they are provided with the exam questions, and allowed up toten minutes of silent time to peruse them. Students may use this time to plan their responsewithout verbal communication or use of the blackboard. Although the

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Programs in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mirit Shamir, Kansas State University; Jonathan Aguilar, Kansas State University; Rebecca Cors, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ryan Robert Hansen, Kansas State University; Nathan P. Hendricks, Kansas State University; Gaea A. Hock; Stacy L. Hutchinson, Kansas State University; Prathap Parameswaran, Kansas State University; Matthew R. Sanderson; Melanie Derby, Kansas State University

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in our state, where they met with FEW stakeholders. In summer2023, NRT trainees traveled to a different region of our state, where they met with FEWstakeholders and visited a livestock farm, a dairy farm, and the wastewater treatment plant thatuses anaerobic to convert wastewater to biogas. The field experiences were organized in thesummer to avoid conflict with trainees’ course schedule and fall or spring breaks as well asconflict with producers harvesting or planting times. Transportation to the field sites and backwas provided from campus.To prepare NRT trainees to engage with policy that sustains the use of natural resources, NRTtrainees were introduced to different water management plans and learned how to engage withpolitical

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 3: Advising in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zilong Pan, Lehigh University; Anand Jagota, Lehigh University; Volkmar Dierolf, Lehigh University; Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University

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,resource constraints, and differing student goals contribute to nuanced responses, demonstratingthe complex considerations faculty members must navigate in shaping doctoral trainingexperiences.4.5. Unstructured commentsThe last question in the survey asked participants to provide additional information that theybelieved could enhance doctoral training. Two themes emerged from their responses. The firsttheme pertains to the refinement of academic course plans. For instance, one faculty memberhighlighted the need for a revision in academic coursework to incorporate more relevantproblem-solving, data analytics, and writing skills. This sentiment aligns with another suggestionemphasizing that academic courses often focus excessively on “technical

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 2: Graduate Student Pipeline and Workforce Development

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isabella Victoria, University of Florida; Laura Melissa Cruz Castro, University of Florida; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, University of Florida

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customers and coworkers, providing thoughtful, courteous, and knowledgeable service. 10. Teamwork: Assumes shared responsibility for collaborative work and respects the thoughts, opinions, and contributions of other team members. Professional competencies 11. “Big picture” Thinking: Understands one's role in fulfilling the mission of the workplace and considers the social, economic, and environmental impacts of one's actions. 12. Career and Life Management: Plans, implements, and manages