Thankful for the opportunity to work with OU College of Engineering's Summer Bridge program and engage with their undergraduate and graduate students, some of whom were collaborators and co-authors in this article. Happy to answer questions or chat more about our study!

An implication of our work is that socially engaged views of engineering need to be conveyed to students early in their education. Our findings also emphasize the importance of precollege engineering learning experiences.

Even though many of those students had engineers in their families, many nevertheless reported only a cursory familiarity with professional engineering. In contrast, students who had completed multiple prior engineering learning experiences tended to hold stable perspectives.

Findings: Our results point to the important role that early engineering learning experiences play in establishing students' perceptions. ESB was most likely to influence students' perceptions when they entered with few prior engineering learning experiences.

We investigated the extent to which students' views of engineering changed in the context of an Engineering Summer Bridge (ESB) program, in which engineering is promoted as a socially engaged practice.

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Thank you so much, Lani! Hope to see you again soon!

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Cool idea!