Davis, K., & Caffery, J. J., & Beyette, J. F. (2001, June), A Multi Faceted First Year Electrical And Computer Engineering Course  Paper presented at 2001 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 10.18260/1-2--9581

\bibitem{asee_peer_9581}
  Davis, K., \& Caffery, J. J., \& Beyette, J. F. (2001, June), \emph{A Multi Faceted First Year Electrical And Computer Engineering Course}
  Paper presented at 2001 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  10.18260/1-2--9581

Karen Davis, Jr., James Caffery, and Jr., Fred Beyette.  "A Multi Faceted First Year Electrical And Computer Engineering Course".  2001 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2001, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2001.  https://peer.asee.org/9581 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_9581}
  Karen Davis, Jr., James Caffery, and Jr., Fred Beyette.
  "A Multi Faceted First Year Electrical And Computer Engineering Course".
  \emph{2001 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2001, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2001.
  https://peer.asee.org/9581 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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While the primary objective behind this course is the improvement of freshmen retention, an introductory course must also prepare students for the engineering courses that follow. Thus, while the course content has been selected to highlight the broad spectrum of ECE topics, course activities are also selected to allow the development of design, analysis, communication, and teamwork skills. Ultimately, the course prepares students for continuation of their studies while helping them to form bonds with their classmates that will eventually lead to small study groups that are vital to academic success.
This paper describes the structure and content of the lecture and laboratory portions of the course and describes the relationship between this course and ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 outcomes.
Finally, the paper presents preliminary course assessment results.
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