2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Professional organizations provide undergraduate students with competition opportunities to engage in extracurricular activities to design and build different products every year. During these opportunities, students see practical applications of their studies, test their products in regional and possibly national and international competitions, build community through friendships, develop their identity, and increase their sense of belonging. A survey was conducted to measure the identity in terms of recognition, interest, and performance of civil engineering students before and after joining the competition teams. The current paper particularly describes the effect of concrete canoe and steel bridge competition teams on identity. The results showed that the competition teams help develop the identity of students as an engineer.