Yeaman, A., & Yuan, X., & Lamas-Samanamud, G., & Beem, H., & Moore, J. M., & Sims, R. (2024, July), WIP: Survey Validation to Enable Investigating Community Cultural Wealth in Engineering Students’ First Year Experiences (FYE)  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--48642

\bibitem{asee_peer_48642}
  Yeaman, A., \& Yuan, X., \& Lamas-Samanamud, G., \& Beem, H., \& Moore, J. M., \& Sims, R. (2024, July), \emph{WIP: Survey Validation to Enable Investigating Community Cultural Wealth in Engineering Students’ First Year Experiences (FYE)}
  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts.
  10.18260/1-2--48642

Adetoun Yeaman, Xiaojing Yuan, Gisella Lamas-Samanamud, Heather Beem, Janie M Moore, and Randi Sims.  "WIP: Survey Validation to Enable Investigating Community Cultural Wealth in Engineering Students’ First Year Experiences (FYE)".  15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/48642 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_48642}
  Adetoun Yeaman, Xiaojing Yuan, Gisella Lamas-Samanamud, Heather Beem, Janie M Moore, and Randi Sims.
  "WIP: Survey Validation to Enable Investigating Community Cultural Wealth in Engineering Students’ First Year Experiences (FYE)".
  \emph{15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/48642 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

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author = "Adetoun Yeaman, Xiaojing Yuan, Gisella Lamas-Samanamud, Heather Beem, Janie M Moore, and Randi Sims"
title = "WIP: Survey Validation to Enable Investigating Community Cultural Wealth in Engineering Students’ First Year Experiences (FYE)"
booktitle = "15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)"
year = "2024"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Teamwork is an integral part of engineering and engineering identity. It is essential for engineering students going through their first year experience (FYE) to be exposed to teamwork as well as learn and practice skills of highly effective collaboration. Aspects of teamwork, including the social and navigational capital each team member brings, as informed by the assets-based theory of community cultural wealth, have the potential to affect interpersonal aspects of students’ learning experiences and the forming of their engineering identity. Studies show that students with strong engineering identities tend to persist and graduate with engineering degrees in a timely manner. Social capital deals with support provided by various networks of relationships while navigational capital relates to one’s ability to maneuver through social and professional situations. Both forms of capital provide support for students beyond the typical academic achievements normally emphasized in university settings. 

The purpose of this study is to investigate the social and navigational capital of first year engineering  students from the lens of the entrepreneurial mindset (EM). Particularly, this paper focuses on two research questions:
      
      RQ1: To what extent does student social capital relate to the three EM components of curiosity, connection, and value creation?
      RQ2: To what extent does student navigational capital relate to the three EM components of curiosity, connection, and value creation?

EM has been shown in the literature to have a solid direct connection with student success. We hypothesize that it has potential to catalyze engineering identity formation through the FYE. This study utilizes a concurrent triangulation mixed-methods approach with a quantitative priority. Data will be collected via a mixed closed and open-ended questionnaire deployed across five academic institutions with approximately 250 respondents (50 per institution).  Comparison between institutions will reveal deeper understanding of the commonalities between the engineering education practices in different institutions, their students’ distinct learning experiences, and progress toward timely graduation with an engineering degree. 

The findings from the study will also provide insights into the connections between cultural wealth and student embodiment of an entrepreneurial mindset in forming engineering identity. Broad impacts from this study include informing engineering education researchers and practitioners on types of interventions needed to catalyze engineering identity formation in various unique institutional contexts. The insights gained from the study will also support the design and development of such interventions beyond students’ FYE in their engineering curriculum and promote their timely graduation with Bachelor’s degrees. 


AU  - Adetoun Yeaman
AU  - Xiaojing Yuan
AU  - Gisella Lamas-Samanamud
AU  - Heather Beem
AU  - Janie M Moore
AU  - Randi Sims
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts
DA  - 2024/07/28
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - WIP: Survey Validation to Enable Investigating Community Cultural Wealth in Engineering Students’ First Year Experiences (FYE)
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/48642
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--48642
ER  -