Schwab, H., & OReilly, P., & Rumreich, L., & Kecskemety, K. M. (2024, July), Full Paper: Sense of Belonging in a First-Year Engineering Program: Analyzing Differences Across Design Project Courses  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--48603

\bibitem{asee_peer_48603}
  Schwab, H., \& OReilly, P., \& Rumreich, L., \& Kecskemety, K. M. (2024, July), \emph{Full Paper: Sense of Belonging in a First-Year Engineering Program: Analyzing Differences Across Design Project Courses}
  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts.
  10.18260/1-2--48603

Heather Schwab, Peyton OReilly, Laine Rumreich, and Krista M Kecskemety.  "Full Paper: Sense of Belonging in a First-Year Engineering Program: Analyzing Differences Across Design Project Courses".  15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/48603 Internet.  20 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_48603}
  Heather Schwab, Peyton OReilly, Laine Rumreich, and Krista M Kecskemety.
  "Full Paper: Sense of Belonging in a First-Year Engineering Program: Analyzing Differences Across Design Project Courses".
  \emph{15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/48603 Internet.  20 Dec, 2024

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AB  - This research paper investigates the differences in sense of belonging with respect to gender and intended major within a first-year engineering program. Research was conducted through survey responses from students at a large midwestern university at two points in the first-year engineering program. The first data point was collected at the end of autumn semester and the second at the end of spring semester. Students of all engineering majors must take two semesters of first-year engineering courses focusing on problem solving, computational tools, and design. This study is a follow-up to a previous study of analyzing the differences of sense of belonging between course themes (the second semester design course allows students to select between 2 different themes). The prior study found slight differences in sense of belonging between course themes, but demographic information was not collected. This study will examine the overall sense of belonging within the courses and the college of engineering while adding in the additional factors of gender identity and intended major and looking at the longitudinal changes throughout the first year. The data analysis examines how the environment of similar intended majors and gender identity could affect sense of belonging. This baseline information can be used to promote inclusion and diversity in these courses in the future. Additionally, we want to examine if the sense of belonging within the first-year engineering courses differs from the sense of belonging within the college of engineering which again can be used to identify areas of improvement with respect to inclusive teaching and academic systems.  
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