Conference Session

Technical Session T1B

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Amanda Marie Singer, Michigan Technological University; Katrina L Carlson, Michigan Technological University; Akua B. Oppong-Anane, Montana Technological University; Michelle E Jarvie-Eggart P.E., Michigan Technological University; Sarah Tan, Michigan Technological University

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relationships reported amongst respondents? 2. How do the results obtained from the previous study compare to the findings of this cross- university study?Study DesignTo further examine the role of familial influence on student engineering major choice, this studyemploys a multi-methods approach facilitated through a survey with both quantitative andqualitative components. Data obtained from elements of the survey were first analyzedindependently from each other. These independent analyses were followed by a combinedinterpretation phase that sought to understand the results in reflection of one another. To aid inthe analysis and interpretation of results, Social Cognitive Career Theory is used as a theoreticalframework for this

Conference Session

Technical Session M1

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Xinyu Zhang, West Virginia University; Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University; Stefanie Paige Hines, West Virginia University

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ofEngineering Success (AcES) was founded in 2012 for non-calculus ready first-time freshman(FTF) engineering students. AcES consists of a week of activities prior to the fall semester and asemester-long course in academic success and professional development, where students buildprofessional networks and improve their success skills through team activities, field trips, mathreviews, projects, academic success workshops, and career exploration. AcES charged a nominalapplication fee, but program specific scholarships were provided to remove the financial barrierfor underrepresented students such as low-income, women, underrepresented minorities (URM),and first-generation. AcES faced significant recruitment challenges due to the institutionalrecruitment

Conference Session

Technical Session T1A

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Jessica Martin, Baylor University; Jana Roste, Baylor University; Austin T. Smith, Baylor University; Shane Michael Meyer, Baylor University; Emma G Cartisano, Baylor University; Emily Sandvall, Baylor University; Andrea Pouso Morales, Baylor University

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. Broadly categorized, students’understandings of success related to career preparation and opportunities—an expected theme forthose in technical degree programs, happiness or enjoyment in life, and living a life of purpose—what some might call “the good life.” Edwin’s response to our questions related to successreveals such understandings of success are not necessarily exclusive: “To me, [success] meansbeing able to fulfill your own personal purpose, while at the same time, enjoying it and making agood living out of it, I would say. That’d be success.”Though student participation in specific majors clearly shapes notions of success, students’insistence that the profitability of a future career is not the only—and sometimes not even theprimary

Conference Session

Technical Session M5C

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Srinivas Mohan Dustker, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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benefits to their career advancement [10]. Increasedretention has been reported within engineering engagement [11-13]. Improved diversity, especiallyin regard to gender, has also been documented within engagement [14-16].This paper presents an approach that builds on the prior literature to create an alternate pathwaythrough the first year in engineering that includes community-engaged learning community (LC)classes. Evidence from the experience is shared along with lessons learned.Context: First-Year CurriculumPurdue University has had a dedicated department or school responsible for the first-year ofengineering for more than 60 years [17]. All engineering students at Purdue University are requiredto complete a common first year core of classes

Conference Session

Technical Session M1

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Erica J Marti, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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wastewater, she has strong interests in engineering education research, teacher professional development, and secondary STEM education. In 2021, Erica received the ASEE Pacific Southwest Early Career Teaching Award and two awards at UNLV for mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. She also received the Peter J. Bosscher Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2019 from Engineers Without Borders and was recognized as a Nevada Woman in STEM by Senator Jackie Rosen. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 WIP: Contract grading as an alternative grading structure and assessment approach for a process-oriented, first-year

Conference Session

Technical Session M5A

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Sean P Brophy, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); John H Cole, Purdue University; Srinivas Mohan Dustker, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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students take the traditional path consisting of two 2-credit introductory engineeringcourses. The first course, ENGR 131, focuses on design, teaming and career exploration usingExcel as a computer tool to model systems and analyze data. The second course, ENGR 132,introduces students to MATLAB and more formal constructs associated with computation.Two other pathways are offered to students to meet the first-year engineering requirements. Onepathway combines the traditional introductory courses into one 4-credit course, ENGR 130. Thispathway is ideal for students who have some or most of the first-year requirements met throughAP credit.The other pathway leverages Learning Communities(LC), where students participate onvertically integrated project

Conference Session

Technical Session M1

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Jennifer I Clark, Montana State University - Bozeman; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University - Bozeman

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solution for increasing nextgeneration experts (NGE) in engineering and computing careers [1]–[4]. Montana StateUniversity’s (MSU) open access mission is to educate the sons and daughters of its state’scitizens. In accordance with this mission, the Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering(NACOE) has preserved their practice of a single application and acceptance process forprograms in the college. Upon acceptance to MSU a student may declare any program in theNACOE regardless of their academic readiness. Both MSU and the NACOE recognize manycommunities in Montana have limited access to advanced coursework (e.g.: calculus, physics,computer science, etc.) anticipated for first year engineering or computing students. Open accessinvites first year