2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Data Analytics for Engineering Student Success and College Operations

Presented at DSAI Technical Session 8: Learning Analytics and Data-Driven Instruction

As resource constraints have driven calls for more transparency and accountability in higher education, high demand disciplines like engineering are using data sets to justify decisions and shape strategic planning goals. However, engineering is also well-poised to employ data in visual and useful ways to analyze and synthesize years of data and trends. Serving a large undergraduate engineering student body across multiple campuses and encompassing multiple engineering disciplines, the Penn State University’s College of Engineering can gain insights into the student population, faculty, and departments’ needs. The college Data Analytics Team has become proficient at displaying data for decision makers and has become a resource and model for others in the university. Although each academic college has unique datasets that require their own dashboard builds, the Data Analytics Team’s Power BI operations and products are deployable templates in a variety of contexts.

Authors

Dr. Robert J. Rabb P.E. Pennsylvania State University [biography]

Robert Rabb is the associate dean for education in the College of Engineering at Penn State. He previously served as a professor and the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at The Citadel. He previously taught mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United Military Academy and his M.S. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests are in mechatronics, regenerative power, and multidisciplinary engineering.
Dr. Ivan E. Esparragoza Pennsylvania State University [biography]

Ivan E. Esparragoza is a Professor of Engineering at Penn State. His interests are in engineering design education, innovative design, global design, and global engineering education, professional skills in engineering, curricular innovation, and program assessment.
Dr. Jennifer X Wu [biography]

Jennifer Wu is the Director of Engineering Institutional Research and Associate Research Professor in the College of Engineering at Penn State. She has a PhD in Educational Administration from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Prior to her current

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