Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Blair J. McDonald P.E., Western Illinois University; Susan C. Brooks, Western Illinois University - Quad Cities

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Mathematics

retention resulted in an equivalent raw number ofstudents retained in the spring of 2021 when compared to the spring of 2019 and an increasefrom the spring of 2018. This drastic increase in the freshman retention rate illustrates anincrease in freshman student success in mathematics courses (calculus) as well as appliedmathematics courses (physics and statics). In comparison, the ASEE “Engineering by theNumbers” survey indicated that the overall student persistence to the second year was around80% in 2014 [17].What the above quantitative data fails to effectively convey are students’ attitudes towardmathematics. In Dr. Brooks’ course evaluations at the end of the fall semester of 2020, one ofthe sophomore Calculus III students, an engineering major

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zeynep Akcay Ozkan, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Dona Boccio, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College ; Dugwon Seo, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College ; Sirin Budak, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

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Mathematics

Mathematics from New York University - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. She has taught mathematics at Queensborough Community College since 1980. Dr. Boccio was a recipient of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) Teaching Excellence Award in 2017. She also received the 2005 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Mathematics Education from the New York State Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (NYS- MATYC). She was a Faculty Fellow in the 1998 and 2001 NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Programs, the 2002 NASA Faculty Fellowship Program, and then spent a sabbatical year at NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center. Her research included tracking orbital debris and modeling