Collection

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Benito Mendoza, New York City College of Technology; Pamela Ann Brown, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

Tagged Topics

Diversity

students in explicit stages of research and culminates in a paper orposter. Mentoring is charged to the course instructor and sometimes peers. Most CUREsimplementations involve lower-division students and last for one semester of less. On the otherhand, most UREs implementations typically involve upper-division students [5]. Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUWe believe that in engineering technology undergraduate programs CUREs and UREs shouldcomplement each other. CUREs should be included across the curriculum and at different levels.Our view is to incorporate basic research skills in early semesters and keep cultivating andexpanding them as students move up. We believe that with this approach upper