Springer, E. J., & Huang-Saad, A. (2020, June), Understanding Identity among Biomedical Engineering Students and Professionals  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--35424

\bibitem{asee_peer_35424}
  Springer, E. J., \& Huang-Saad, A. (2020, June), \emph{Understanding Identity among Biomedical Engineering Students and Professionals}
  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line .
  10.18260/1-2--35424

Emmett Jacob Springer and Aileen Huang-Saad.  "Understanding Identity among Biomedical Engineering Students and Professionals".  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/35424 Internet.  07 Oct, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_35424}
  Emmett Jacob Springer and Aileen Huang-Saad.
  "Understanding Identity among Biomedical Engineering Students and Professionals".
  \emph{2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/35424 Internet.  07 Oct, 2024

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title = "Understanding Identity among Biomedical Engineering Students and Professionals"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - As a highly multidisciplinary field, Biomedical Engineering has a complex and ever-evolving identity. Little is known about how individuals in BME, especially students, perceive how BME intersects with and incorporates science, medicine, and other engineering disciplines. Additionally, individual identity is recognized as a crucial factor in choosing and persisting in an academic discipline, yet there are few studies examining how individuals in Biomedical Engineering professionally identify. Understanding such identities and how they are formed may be valuable in innovating BME instruction to properly meet students’ academic and professional needs. This work explores how BME students and professionals view themselves and the field of biomedical engineering as related to traditional science and engineering influence. 

This paper presents quantitative analysis of Likert-scale survey data collected from an annual professional meeting held in 2018. Descriptive statistical analysis reveals that the survey participants, on average, view BME as nearly evenly between science and engineering and identify strongly as both engineers and scientists. A multi-step regression was constructed to analyze what predictor constructs contribute to a stronger identity for either engineering or science and how these identities influence career path goals and choices. This study shows that recognition from others is a significant predictor of individual identity and that personal interest is a significant predictor of how an individual views BME. Gender was not found to influence professional identity or perception of BME in this study. 

AU  - Emmett Jacob Springer
AU  - Aileen Huang-Saad
CY  - Virtual On line 
DA  - 2020/06/22
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Understanding Identity among Biomedical Engineering Students and Professionals
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--35424
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