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How Students’ Informal Experiences Shape their Views of Engineering and Affect their Plans for Professional Persistence

Author(s) -

Kerry Meyers,

Leo McWilliams,

Catherine Pieronek

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

papers on engineering education repository (american society for engineering education)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--20566

Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , affect (linguistics) , persistence (discontinuity) , institution , white (mutation) , engineering education , student engagement , psychology , medical education , pedagogy , engineering , sociology , medicine , engineering management , social science , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , geotechnical engineering , communication

Dr. Kerry Meyers is in her second year as the Director of the STEM College’s First-Year Engineering Program at Youngstown State University. Her career is focused on the development of common, project based First-Year Engineering experiences, beginning at the University of Notre Dame where she was also the Director of the First-Year Engineering Program from 2005-2012. Further, her research interests relate to Engineering Educational issues in the early stages of student development and progress. Her core engineering educational background is Mechanical Engineering and doctoral work is in Engineering Education, both from Purdue University.

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