Bennett, R. M., & Russell, M. H., & Rawn, C. J. (2013, June), Engineering Introduction in Pre-Calculus Courses  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--19526

\bibitem{asee_peer_19526}
  Bennett, R. M., \& Russell, M. H., \& Rawn, C. J. (2013, June), \emph{Engineering Introduction in Pre-Calculus Courses}
  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia.
  10.18260/1-2--19526

Richard M. Bennett, Margaret Helen Russell, and Claudia J Rawn.  "Engineering Introduction in Pre-Calculus Courses".  2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2013.  https://peer.asee.org/19526 Internet.  22 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_19526}
  Richard M. Bennett, Margaret Helen Russell, and Claudia J Rawn.
  "Engineering Introduction in Pre-Calculus Courses".
  \emph{2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2013.
  https://peer.asee.org/19526 Internet.  22 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  -                      Engineering Introduction in Pre‐Calculus Courses                                               Of the 565 freshman engineering students admitted at University X in Fall 2011, 23% were placed in a pre‐calculus course their first semester during orientation advising.  Nine percent of the students placed in pre‐calculus were successful in bumping themselves up to the first calculus course through either AP credit, taking a pre‐calculus course during the summer, or passing a math placement test.  This left 21% of the incoming freshman engineering class in a pre‐calculus course.  The first calculus course is a co‐requisite for the first engineering course, so the students in the pre‐calculus course had no contact with the college of engineering in the fall semester.  Only 64% of these students remained in engineering, taking calculus and the first engineering course in spring semester.  In order to improve retention of the pre‐calculus students, three intervention techniques were used in Fall 2012:  a learning community was offered to these students, students were placed together in pre‐calculus sections, and engineering professors visited the pre‐calculus classes about every other week.  When visiting the pre‐calculus class, the engineering professor would spend five minutes showing an engineering application of the math concepts that were being covered in the class.  This paper provides initial data on the effectiveness of the interventions, and an overview of the engineering applications that were covered in the pre‐calculus class.  
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