WIP: Sense of Belonging Research in Engineering Education: Preliminary Results from a Scoping Literature Review

This work in progress research paper presents the preliminary results from a pilot scoping review of sense of belonging literature in engineering education in the last 30 years. We analyzed the publication trends and venues, research methods and study populations, and terminologies used to refer to sense of belonging from the searched literature. Preliminary results provide evidence of a rapidly expanding field of research on sense of belonging in engineering education, while suggesting some promising directions for future research: 1) conceptual discussions on sense of belonging, 2) discourses on the operationalization of sense of belonging in research, and 3) expansion of study populations and research approaches.