Collection

2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Emilia Mediavilla, Western Washington University ; Asaki Nelson, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

community forstudents.Results & DiscussionSummary of ActivitiesZoom Q&A Sessions: During fall quarter, the SEL team focused on connecting pre-majors tomajor level students by hosting a series of “Casual Q&A’s” for each program. During thesehour-long sessions hosted and facilitated by the SEL, 2-3 major-level student volunteersanswered questions of audience which consisted primarily of pre-major students. The sessionswere open to all pre-major students in the department and were advertised using social media.There was an average of 15 students at each session which was low considering there wereapproximately 250 premajor students enrolled in engineering and design at this time.Considering the sessions were held in the evening using Zoom