Undergraduate Engineering Students' Engineering Identity Development Associated With Leadership Identity, Ethical Awareness, Self-Awareness, and Global Awareness

• In Event: Identity Development

Abstract

This study investigates the relationship between engineering identity and undergraduate students’ ethical and self awareness as well as their leadership identity. Participants were engineering students who are enrolled in the engineering leadership program from a R1 university in the Northeast of the U.S. Exploratory factor analysis for ethical awareness variables and resulted in a two factor solution with alpha values were 0.73 and 0.82. Bivariate correlations showed that ethical awareness and self-awareness factors were positively correlated and engineering identity was not statistically correlated with leadership identity. Further, using cluster analysis criteria, engineering and leadership identities of the engineering undergraduate students categorized into three groups and ANOVA tests showed only ethical awareness was significantly different among the clusters.

Authors

• Mihee Park, Penn State University

• Nathan Hyungsok Choe, The Ohio State University

• John Jongho Park, The Pennsylvania State University