Wahed, S., & Katz, A. (2024, March), Where Political Affiliation and Sustainability Meet: A Study of Undergraduate Engineering Students' Career Choices  Paper presented at 2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--45584

\bibitem{asee_peer_45584}
  Wahed, S., \& Katz, A. (2024, March), \emph{Where Political Affiliation and Sustainability Meet: A Study of Undergraduate Engineering Students' Career Choices}
  Paper presented at 2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia.
  10.18260/1-2--45584

Shabnam Wahed and Andrew Katz.  "Where Political Affiliation and Sustainability Meet: A Study of Undergraduate Engineering Students' Career Choices".  2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia, 2024, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/45584 Internet.  17 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_45584}
  Shabnam Wahed and Andrew Katz.
  "Where Political Affiliation and Sustainability Meet: A Study of Undergraduate Engineering Students' Career Choices".
  \emph{2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia, 2024, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/45584 Internet.  17 May, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in various industries, and engineers have a crucial role to play in designing and implementing sustainable solutions. We explored in this study whether students’ sustainability-related career choices are associated with their political affiliation. For this study, the CLIMATE survey is used that collected data from 96 research institutions all over the USA. The survey data includes 3766 undergraduate students' responses from diverse engineering majors. We focused on one survey question: “Which of these topics, if any, do you hope to directly address in your career?”. The question consists of 10 sustainability-related career choices such as energy, disease, poverty and distribution of wealth and resources, climate change, terrorism and war, water supply, food availability, opportunities for future generations, opportunities for women and/or minorities, and environmental degradation. Pearson's chi-squared test is used to compare the responses from students with different political affiliations. There are significant political affiliation differences in students’ sustainability-related career outcomes. Students with Republican political affiliations are more interested in addressing terrorism and war whereas students with independent political affiliations are more interested in addressing energy supply and demand. Students who have democratic political affiliation are more interested in the rest of the eight sustainability-related career choices. Overall, among the students, Democrats affiliated are more interested in solving sustainability issues compared to Republicans affiliated. As early as in their undergraduate engineering period, students' political affiliations may impact their inclination towards promoting sustainability outcomes in their professional pursuits, as suggested by our findings. 
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