Into the storm: Ecological and sociological impediments to Black males' persistence in engineering graduate programs

BA Burt, KL Williams, WA Smith - American Educational …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
While much is known about how Black students negotiate and navigate undergraduate
studies, there is a dearth of research on what happens when these students enter graduate …

Master's and doctoral engineering students' interest in industry, academia, and government careers

NH Choe, M Borrego - Journal of Engineering Education, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Graduate education literature tends to focus on faculty careers with little
attention to industry careers. However, more than one‐third of US engineering doctorates …

Broadening participation in the engineering professoriate: Influences on Allen's journey in developing professorial intentions

BA Burt - Journal of Engineering Education, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Given the significant roles that faculty play, it is important to understand how
and why engineering graduate students choose faculty careers over other professional …

Toward a theory of engineering professorial intentions: The role of research group experiences

BA Burt - American Educational Research Journal, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article advances the Theoretical Model of Engineering Professorial Intentions to explain
why individuals do or do not choose to pursue faculty careers. A 13-month ethnographic …

Career decision‐making among Chinese doctoral engineering graduates after studying in the United States

Q Huang, J Jung - Higher Education Quarterly, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
How does studying in the United States affect Chinese doctoral engineering graduates'
career decisions? The present study is based on semi‐structured interviews with 16 …

Rigor and support in racialized learning environments: The case of graduate education

JR Posselt - New Directions for Higher Education, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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Prediction of engineering identity in engineering graduate students

NH Choe, M Borrego - IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contribution: This paper shows that identification with engineering for engineering graduate
students is positively and significantly predicted by engineering interest, competence …

Team culture of community: Cultural practices for scientific team cohesion and productivity

BA Burt, B Stone Jr, T Perkins, A Polk… - Small Group …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Within scientific teams, a culture of community (the facilitation of shared values, goals, and
an environment where individuals feel valued and want to engage in a team's work) has …

How a principal investigator supervises a student research group: An autoethnographic longitudinal examination

BA Burt, BD Stone Jr, Y Hemmings… - Teachers College …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Research groups are social locations where teaching and learning merge
among students and a principal investigator (PI). When joining, some students are able to …

Learning competencies through engineering research group experiences

BA Burt - Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose In some fields, research group experiences gained in laboratories are more
influential than the classroom in shaping graduate students' research abilities …