Conference Session

Technical Session 3a

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Rebeka Sultana, California State University, Long Beach

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section

after the first or secondMidterm exam. Those who barely pass the class with a letter grade D are required to repeat theclass to get a grade C or better to enroll in upper division classes where Fluid Mechanics is oneof the prerequisite courses. This setback significantly delays their graduation time.To increase better understanding of the first Midterm’s course materials and improve the averagescore of the first Midterm, students require more time to practice the theory of fluid statics. Thispaper describes a simple change in the course syllabus that was adopted to allow students withmore time to grasp the challenging concepts of the first Midterm. The purpose of this study is toimprove students’ success rate in the class with specific goal of