Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marigold F. Bays-Muchmore, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Alexandra Chronopoulou, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

that of thestudents’ perceptions of engineering in regard to their own engineering identity and abilities. In a study by M. Besterfield-Sacre in 1997, incoming engineering students were surveyed ontheir perceptions of engineering as a field, their own abilities as engineers, and their confidencein their success [1]. The performance and retention of the students were then tracked for thefollowing three years and related back to their initial attitudes. Students who left engineering ingood academic standing had significantly different attitudes about themselves and engineeringcompared to students who stayed in engineering, or who left in poor academic standing. Theinitial attitudes of students who left in good standing reflected significantly