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Marisa Orr

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1978
Engineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentCareer Development and DiversityEngineering Education and PedagogyHigher Education Research StudiesExperimental Learning in Engineering

Publications

115

Citations

786

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

47

Publishing since 1978

Research summary
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Marisa Orr studies how engineering students choose, persist in, and succeed in their majors, with particular attention to underrepresented groups such as Black students and women. Her work examines factors like self-efficacy, decision-making, spatial reasoning, and program interventions (such as summer bridge programs and living-learning communities) that affect students' academic trajectories and retention in engineering. This research is aimed at improving engineering education practices and support systems rather than technical engineering itself.

Engineering student retention and persistenceDiversity and equity in engineering (especially Black and female students)Student decision-making and major choiceEngineering education interventions and programsSelf-efficacy and spatial reasoning in STEM learning

Publication counts were fairly steady at a low level (3-5 per year) from 2017-2023, with unusually large spikes in 2020 and 2024, suggesting bursts of conference-related output rather than a smooth trend.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 7.4/year recently
2017: 3 publications172018: 3 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 33 publications33202021: 3 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 31 publications242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×8
  • 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×7
  • 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)×2
  • IEEE Transactions on Education×1
  • International Journal of Qualitative Methods×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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