Darby Riley
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Exploring the Relationship between Transfer Students’ Social Networks and their Experience of Transfer Shock Open
In this full student-led research paper, we investigate the social networks of both lateral and vertical engineering transfer students to determine how integrated they are at their current institution, and how their social connectedness ca…
The Effect of Ego Network Structure on Self-efficacy in Engineering Students Open
Engineering students' self-efficacy—a self-judgment of capability in a given field—is an accepted predictor of college success. Many factors affecting self-efficacy have been identified in previous research, such as positive performance in…
Board 362: Reimagining Civil Engineering Graduate Programs: A Research-to-Practice Approach for Shaping Future Transportation Engineers Open
The existing curriculum and models for civil engineering graduate programs assume that graduating Ph.D. students will primarily pursue career opportunities in research or academia. However, the number of civil engineering Ph.D. graduate st…
Engineering Education Guilds: Understanding Their Vision for Innovation Open
Engineering education guilds, such as the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE) and the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), seek to work at the forefront of educational innovation by creating networ…
The Effect of a Collaborative Environment on Engineering Students' Social Networks Open
In this full student-led research paper, we examine how collaborative learning impacts the social networks of engineering students. We believe this is important because it will provide us with insight into how collaborative learning can af…
Understanding Stress and Relief: How Engineering Graduate Students Experience and Cope with Stress Open
The mental health of graduate students, as well as the gap between coping needs and available resources, has recently become of interest in the engineering education community. Graduate students are of two worlds: they retain the student s…
Visualizing Stress and Relief: How stressors and coping mechanisms interact in engineering graduate student experiences Open
My primary research interests lie in alloys and nanomaterials
Work In Progress - KEEN Faculty Impact Study Open
is a student of engineering education at Rowan University.She has a special interest in issues of diversity and inclusion, especially as they relate to disability and accessibility of education.Her current research is focused on the adopti…
Adoption of Pedagogical Innovations: Social Networks of Engineering Education Guilds Open
This work investigates how innovations propagate through two professional networks (guilds): the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) and the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE). Previous research h…
Work in Progress: Students’ Informal Reasoning when Approaching Classroom-based Scenarios Involving Diversity and Inclusion Issues Open
This work-in-progress paper will analyze first year students’ informal reasoning when approaching classroom based scenarios related to diversity and inclusivity. Overall, there is limited understanding of how informal reasoning informs dec…