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Transitioning into Engineering Education: Diverse Pathways of Military Veterans
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Joyce B. Main; Christina Pantoja; Susan M. Lord; Catherine Mobley; Catherine Brawner – Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Background: In the United States, there is increased demand to expand the engineering workforce. Many military veterans have received technical training that can be leveraged in engineering. Their pursuit of engineering degrees has great potential to expand and diversify the engineering workforce. Purpose: This study examines the pathways of US…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Veterans, Prior Learning, High School Graduates
Promoting Sociotechnical Perspectives of Engineering during a Summer Bridge Program
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Jacob Pleasants; Richard Velasco; Claudia Colonnello; Shansley Glenn; Samuel Crapitto; Kate Raymond; Brandon Abbott – Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Background: To address complex challenges of modern society, engineering education needs to help students develop sociotechnical perspectives of engineering. Research has documented efforts to incorporate sociotechnical thinking into undergraduate engineering education, but those perspectives must often compete with more dominant technocentric…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Engineering Education, College Bound Students, Higher Education
A Quantitative Analysis on the Impact of an Engineering Focused Bridge Program for First-Time Black Students on First Semester Mathematics Courses
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Marcus Brumfield; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh; Lesley Strawderman – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2025
Underrepresentation in engineering disciplines remains a significant issue in higher education and the workforce. This paper presents a quantitative analysis comparing the academic success of participants in an engineering-focused Summer Bridge Program (SBP) to non-participants with similar characteristics. The study evaluates first-year…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, African American Students, Engineering Education, Transitional Programs