Thriving for Engineering Students and Institutions: Definition, Potential Impact, and Proposed Conceptual Framework

摘要

This research paper summarizes existing research and reports regarding factors that contribute to engineering student success and organizes these factors into a conceptual framework of engineering thriving. Despite the growing recognition of the importance of noncognitive factors in engineering student success and the vast literature on the educational benefits of thriving, a conceptual framework for thriving in the engineering context is currently lacking. In this paper, we propose a theoretical conceptual framework of engineering thriving based on an exploration of a limited set of existing research and professional reports and face validity checks with faculty.