Collection

2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Matthew Kuester, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor; Paul R Griesemer, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Tagged Topics

Diversity

students between the fall and spring semesters of their first year.Previous studies suggest that incorporating hands-on projects early in the curriculum can increasestudent retention and engagement across a range of contexts1-9, and specifically at a small institutionwith a limited enrollment like UMHB10. With this in mind, the engineering faculty sought toimplement a hands-on project into the first-year engineering course at UMHB. This paper describesthe implementation of this project, including motivation, project selection, course redesign, andassessment. First Year Course RedesignAs mentioned in the introduction, the UMHB engineering faculty sought to implement a hands-onproject into the first-semester