Renu, R. S., & Potter, M. V., & Kanaparthi, M. (2023, March), Exploring First Year Engineering Students' Career Motivations and Expectations  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45011

\bibitem{asee_peer_45011}
  Renu, R. S., \& Potter, M. V., \& Kanaparthi, M. (2023, March), \emph{Exploring First Year Engineering Students' Career Motivations and Expectations}
  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--45011

Rahul Sharan Renu, Michael V Potter, and Mark Kanaparthi.  "Exploring First Year Engineering Students' Career Motivations and Expectations".  ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/45011 Internet.  11 May, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_45011}
  Rahul Sharan Renu, Michael V Potter, and Mark Kanaparthi.
  "Exploring First Year Engineering Students' Career Motivations and Expectations".
  \emph{ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/45011 Internet.  11 May, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This research explores first-year engineering students' perceptions and motivations about the engineering curriculum and profession. Approximately 60 students enrolled in Francis Marion University's (FMU) engineering programs take a University Life 100 (UL100) course each Fall semester. This one-credit hour course serves to help students transition from high school to college and orients them to the FMU Physics and Engineering department programs. 
Engineering faculty teaching this course in Fall 2022 conduct a survey to understand 1) student motivations to pursue engineering, 2) student perceptions and knowledge of the difference between engineering and engineering technology degrees, 3) student knowledge of differences between a bachelor's degree and an associate’s degree, and 4) student's assumptions of the skillsets required to be a practicing engineer.
The survey consists of Likert scale questions as well as questions that solicit free-text responses. This paper reports on the results from statistical and Natural Language Processing analyses of the responses and provides recommendations for content to be included in courses similar to FMU's UL100 course.
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