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Work in Progress: Preparing Students for Undergraduate Research Online and In the Classroom - Framework, Participant Reflections, and Lessons Learned

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Best Diversity Paper

Page Count

11

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41480

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https://peer.asee.org/41480

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218

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Marian Kennedy Clemson University

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Marian Kennedy is an Associate Professor within the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Clemson University. Her research group focused on the mechanical and tribological characterization of thin films. She also contributes to the engineering education community through studying the process/impacts of undergraduate research and navigational capital into graduate school.

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Cora Allard-Keese Clemson University

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Joshua Alper Clemson University

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Jennie LaMonte Clemson University

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Aubrey Baldwin Clemson University

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Abstract

To support undergraduates impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic by cancelations or delays of their summer research positions or internships, the authors initiated an online research skills development series at Clemson University, a large public land-grant research university in the southeastern United States. This paper provides a high-level overview of the ‘Research Foundations’ program we developed and offered during the summers of 2020 and 2021. It also documents how we evolved this program into an academic course offered during the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 terms. Finally, it presents our analysis of both applications and exit surveys from which we identify students who chose to participate in the program/courses, their reasons for participating, how the students perceived the value of the program at the close of the program, and how they perceived that the program helped them prepare for research participation.

Kennedy, M., & Allard-Keese, C., & Alper, J., & LaMonte, J., & Baldwin, A. (2022, August), Work in Progress: Preparing Students for Undergraduate Research Online and In the Classroom - Framework, Participant Reflections, and Lessons Learned Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41480

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