Collection

2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Lesley M Berhan, The University of Toledo; Bryan Thomas Bosch, The University of Toledo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

immediate feedback. As collegebound populations continue to change, this program has shown results that may allow schoolswith decrease enrollment to better support underprepared students in their own academic quests,increasing retention and graduation rates along the way.MethodThis program has focused on two specific areas which were lacking with this student population,curricular focus on areas of interest and co-curricular support programming, to help foster agreater sense of belonging while instilling self-efficacy in the most significant problem areas forunderprepared STEM students, mathematics and science. Utilizing two newly developedcourses, the curriculum effectively transfers students to their majors one semester earlier thanpreviously