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Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Kristine K. Craven, Tennessee Technological University; Elizabeth L Hutchins, Tennessee Tech University

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Paper ID #20885Utilizing an Institution’s QEP and Applying Career Development and Learn-ing Principles into an Engineering FYE CourseDr. Kristine K. Craven, Tennessee Technological University Dr. Kris Craven is currently the Interim Chairman of the General and Basic Engineering (GBE) Depart- ment and a tenured Assistant Professor of the same department at Tennessee Tech University (TTU). I have been employed by TTU since 2000 primarily teaching in the Basic Engineering Program. I have also been teaching junior level courses for the Mechanical Engineering department for several years. In addition to ASEE, I am a member of

Conference Session

Issues in the First Year - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Lilianny Virguez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Tech

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engineering.wave of revisions in their first-year programs in the last Previous findings suggest that students’ course perceptionsyears. These program modifications are intended to can affect their motivation to persist in an engineeringenhance student success in engineering, including both career [1]. The purpose of this study is to compare students’students’ achievement and students’ motivation to course perceptions in two versions, 1024 versus 1215, of apersist in an engineering degree. This paper will look at required introductory engineering course.students’ perceptions as it compares Traditional versus There is a need to understand how to better supportRevised versions of an

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Kevin Joseph Lindsay, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Carolina engineering technology, and construction managementat Charlotte’s William States Lee College of Engineering. students in the pursuit of their educational and career goals.Although the MAPS program was originally developed The program utilizes the talents and leadership of College ofand implemented through National Science Foundation Engineering upper class students to engage, direct, and(NSF) funding more than two decades ago, it is now fully support freshmen, transfer, and continuing students, new tofunded by the University as a key component of the the pursuit of an engineering or engineering technologySouthern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) degree. The MAPS program is comprised of

Conference Session

WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Emily Sandvall, Baylor University; Deanna Calder; Megan Harper, Baylor University; Zachary Bruce Jackson, Baylor University; Billy Joel Baker

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FYEE Conference - Works in Progress Submission

with one’s major, and the probability of classroom environment allows for deeper, moreretention within the major. Specifically, the study wanted to transformational conversations to occur between first-yearexamine the factor of peer mentoring with the development students and the Peer Mentors about college life andof a student’s professional identity, or an attachment and academic success in engineering. Allowing Peer Mentors toidentification with one’s chosen career path [6]. Reference co-teach opens the door for more focused conversation and[5] concluded that the rigorous nature of STEM majors and creates another opportunity to reiterate curricular topicscourse work can make the development of professional

Conference Session

Issues in the First Year - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University

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– 2017 academic year,mandatory extracurricular programming in professional the School of Engineering welcomed its inaugural class,development and service, and mandatory machine shop providing first-year engineering programming andand makerspace training. The three cross-cutting themes extracurricular opportunities to nearly one hundred studentswere the core values of the School of Engineering, the who enrolled in at least one engineering course. The Schoolneed for diversity in engineering, and the availability of of Engineering also provided opportunities for students todifferent career choices in engineering. Data was collected interact with the broader Campbell community throughthroughout the

Conference Session

WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Kayla Nicole Arnsdorff; Ashley Tingting Chen; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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throughout a task such as school or a career. Chris talks inat the longitudinal impact of the DYP project on retention, general about students using goals as motivation when heperformance, and affective measures for undergraduateengineering students who create the DYP plan in their first says that by keeping track of "progress they are makingyear. Pilot data in the form of DYP reflections were coded in towards their goals they make it easier to have a strongorder to begin the development of a qualitative coding commitment to the goal because they can see they are movingscheme for future data collected for the project. forward with it

Conference Session

WIP: Engineering Education Research - Focus on Problem Solving

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2017 FYEE Conference

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James Lloyd Long, Liberty University; Carolyn Ziebart, Liberty University

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FYEE Conference - Works in Progress Submission

and pedagogies2011, with the first Computer Engineering graduates implemented in the first-year engineering programs over thefollowing in 2012. Although the Software Engineering past three years include:program was subsequently dropped, the Electrical and • Adoption of Studying Engineering: A Road Map to aIndustrial & Systems Engineering programs received ABET Rewarding Career. Ray Landis’ seminal work [1] wasaccreditation in 2012, followed by Computer Engineering in established as a foundational text in the Introduction to2013. The Mechanical Engineering program was started in Engineering course. In-class discussions and out-of-2014 and is on track to have its

Conference Session

WIP: Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Design-Based Projects

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; Kerry E Patterson, Lipscomb University; Joseph B Tipton Jr., Lipscomb University

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Diversity, FYEE Conference - Works in Progress Submission

introducing these concepts in the freshman year, students will be able to apply the skills they develop inIndex Terms – FYEE course, Human-centered design, future projects throughout their tenure as an undergraduateInteractive design, Sustainable design, Engineering design student and into their career as an engineer.process OBJECTIVES INTRODUCTION To improve student outcomes at the Raymond B. JonesWhile engineering problem-solving utilizes concepts from College of

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Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Classroom Practices

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2017 FYEE Conference

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David M. Feinauer P.E., Norwich University

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, and lectures.from various engineering disciplines. The course Previously, an engineering graphics and “fundamentals”presented a great breadth of topics through a series of style intro sequence was required of all students and thetutorials, laboratory experiments, and lectures. When faculty led the programs through a change to thereflecting and commenting on the course, students aforementioned model in 2008. In 2012, the author started hisexpressed frustration with a “lack of accomplishment” faculty career at Norwich and was immediately tasked withand “jumping around”—indicators of low self-efficacy “fixing” this introductory course, which was in its infancy. Abeliefs. Further

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Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Sharri Lee Kornblum, CSULA engineering department; Zanj Kano Avery El; Gustavo B Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles

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, Computers Science and Technology (ECST) matches closely that of theuniversity. In terms of academic preparation, 40% of incoming engineering first year studentsjoin Cal State LA testing into remedial math, while the percentage of calculus-ready freshmenhas traditionally been very low. Cal State LA serves as a gateway to higher education for theyouth in this population, and our College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology(ECST) serves as a gateway to STEM careers. Recently, Cal State LA was ranked 1st in thecountry in social mobility for propelling a higher percentage of students from the bottom fifth ofincome into the top fifth of U.S. earners (Turner & Treasury, 2017). About 80% of incomingengineering freshmen participate in ECST’s

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Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Classroom Practices

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Ohbong Kwon, New York City College of Technology; Juanita C But, New York City College of Technology; Sunghoon Jang, NY City College of Technology of CUNY

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FYEE Division - Paper Submission

the lab setting, they and develop new initiatives to meet these challenges.acquire troubleshooting knowledge and hands-on Content knowledge alone does not prepare studentstechnical skills. In this reading intensive course, sufficiently for the disciplinary literacy they need to bestudents need to read the lab manual and a textbook of successful in their careers. Disciplinary literacy isover 700 pages. Therefore, reading and understanding significant because it is the “specialized knowledge andthe textbook is a main concern., Given the breadth and abilities possessed by those who create, communicate, anddepth of materials covered in the course, instructors use knowledge” within

Conference Session

WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati

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of Cincinnati, whitney.gaskins@uc.edu, burbansm@mail.uc.edu, jenkink4@mail.uc.edu Xavier University Louisiana, colatunj@xula.edu, mberger@xula.eduAbstract - The first year of college encompasses one of microaggression, conscious and unconscious biases arethe most challenging transitions a student may face sources of chronic stress and trauma that negatively impactduring their college career and/or lifetime. For minority their academic achievement [7]. Stereotype threat describesstudents in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math a condition in which students’ belonging to a group has(STEM), the transitioning experience may yield many been stereotyped causing

Conference Session

Issues in the First Year - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Natalie C.T. Van Tyne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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FYEE Division - Paper Submission

categories considered programming to also easily justify the importance of mastering graphics withinstill be difficult than those for whom graphics was still the context of a design project that required its use. Theydifficult. could also recognize this area of knowledge as being useful to Participants classified as Beginners in graphics stated their career in the long term, because they identify graphicsthat they had little to no exposure in any form of graphics (i.e., with engineering. This is an example of extrinsic utility as amanual sketching or CAD), and therefore were not expected value-related construct for self-efficacy.1 A similarto have any

Conference Session

Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Design-Based Projects

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Rouzbeh Tehrani, Temple University; Mohammad F. Kiani, Temple University; Evangelia Bellas, Temple University; John Joseph Helferty, Temple University; Won H Suh, Bioengineering Department, College of Engineering, Temple University

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FYEE Division - Paper Submission

fulfill their own teaching or researchas time management, career options, on-campus tutoring objectives [1]. But current literature suggests that faculty areand resource centers to name a few. Based on student moving away from the earlier models in an attempt tofeedback and low retention rates, it was obvious that a increase retention rate by redefining first year engineeringnew model was needed. The focus was to be much more education [1,2,3]. Recently, there has been an emphasis onhands-on and use a project-oriented approach. In engineering design and hands-on, team work based projects.addition, multiple instructors were employed from four Such practices have shown to

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Andrea Carneal Burrows Borowczak, University of Wyoming; Mike Borowczak, University of Wyoming

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embark on engineering careers, do not explicitlysoft skills through conflict resolution. Currently as know about ABET soft skills such as proper communicationstand-alone course sessions embedded within and partnership conflict management. Often, whenengineering classes, exposure to ABET’s soft skills as engineering students engage in group projects, their focuswell as conflict resolution techniques, can dramatically and assessment are on the final product instead of both theimprove student understanding and collaborative product and the process of product creation. To gaininteractions. The researchers propose utilizing these understanding of the collegiate

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mathematics

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel; Ally Kindel Martin, The Citadel; Emily Kate Bierman, The Citadel

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FYEE Division - Paper Submission

Career & Networking Expo. She holds a M.Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of South Carolina. Previously she worked as a Student Success Adviser and focused on early intervention initiatives. She has taught courses including First Year Seminar, Keys to Student Success and University 101.Dr. Emily Kate Book, The Citadel Dr. Emily Book is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Citadel. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, her M.B.A. from Clarke Col- lege, her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin, and her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University. Her research and

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Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Hailey Queen, North Carolina State University

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-class subjects including: learning stylesassessments and application, emotional intelligence, career development and goals setting, self-awareness, course planning and GPA calculations, academic planning and advising, employinginterdependence, and developing an academic recovery plan. Engineering staff felt the first iteration ofthe course was lacking in applicable content and focused too much on reflection alone. The seconditeration (spring 2010) of the course content was much more developed, included more structure, in-class assignments and homework and more applicable skills such as stress management.As we assessed the course in its new and improved form over the years we continued to look for areaswhere our students struggled and how we

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2017 FYEE Conference

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John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; James Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University

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Diversity

education courses as important to their future careers as engineers. J. Blake Hylton, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Ohio Northern University, j-hylton@onu.edu

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WIP: Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engagement

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Lauren Miranda Lingar; Abbey Williams; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Diversity, FYEE Conference - Works in Progress Submission

critical that in cluster 2 had mid-level responses to interest, value, instructors and course designers develop flipped classrooms and perceived choice in programming tasks as well as with a specific focus on tying to student interest, identifying mid-level performance on an exam focused on value of the skills learned to future careers, and providing MATLAB programming. All other performance opportunities for student autonomy in the class. By pairing measures were similar between clusters. the flipped classroom with pedagogy linked to interest, value, Cluster 3 was comprised of 98 participants, or and perceived choice, instructors have

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WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Racheida S Lewis, Virginia Tech; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity, FYEE Conference - Works in Progress Submission

and science learning (pp. 331–352). Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.[3] Settles, I. H. (2004). When multiple identities interfere: the role of identity centrality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30(4), 487–500. http://doi.org/10.1177/0146167203261885[4] Jones, B. D., Paretti, M. C., Hein, S. F., & Knott, T. W. (2010). An Analysis of Motivation Constructs with First year Engineering Students: Relationships Among Expectancies, Values, Achievement, and Career Plans. Journal of Engineering Education, 99(4), 319–336. http://doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2010.tb01066.x[5] Krathwohl. (n.d.). The Logic of Inferential Statistics (p. Chapter 19

Conference Session

WIP: Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Design-Based Projects

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Kaitlin Engle Mallouk, Rowan University; William T. Riddell, Rowan University; Karl Dyer, Rowan University

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FYEE Conference - Works in Progress Submission

lab, students were provided with a detailed hand out andneed throughout their engineering careers (e.g., lectures. Together, these delivery mechanisms providedFirst Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference August 6-8, 2017, Daytona Beach, FL W1A-1information regarding conservation of energy, illuminance, simple arithmetic operations, plotting data in radar andluminous flux, radiant flux, monochromatic light sources, scatter charts, adding trend lines to scatter chart data, usingand power spectra density of visible wavelengths for the LINEST function to obtain coefficients from the trendincandescent

Conference Session

WIP: Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engagement

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Harlan E Spotts Jr., Western New England University; Jingru Zhang, Western New England University; Chang Hoon Lee, Western New England University

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FYEE Conference - Works in Progress Submission

settings, people with little historyfunctional teams. The sooner students can begin to develop working together and from various disciplinary andgood team skills, the better. “Why do some students experience backgrounds come together to create somethingflounder on their initial job assignments after graduation, that hadn’t existed before. This diversity of perspectivewhile others move quickly up the career ladder? One brings with it the opportunity for unique combinations ofcommon criticism voiced by employers is that new hires do knowledge that could not have occurred separately. It alsonot seem to function well in a team-based environment.” [1] brings with it the risk of an inability to

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Leotis L. Parrish, North Carolina A&T State University; Ava W. Dickens, North Carolina A&T State University; Tamara L Fuller, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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and tion to HOME Program students. Student support for theFirst Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference August 6 - 8, 2017, Daytona Beach, FL W1A-1 Session W1AHOME Program includes peer and faculty mentoring, schol- 3. Provide participants with pre-college academic ex-arships, internships, co-ops, and mentoring. posure, career preparation and networking opportunities The impetus for launching the HOME Program was to re- 4. Provide structure and opportunities for a sense ofcruit students

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engineering Design

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2017 FYEE Conference

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FELIX ORLANDO MARTINEZ-RIOS, Universidad Panamericana

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, Illinois. 2006Mathematics and Science subjects in the first year [14]-[16]. [7] Hensel, R., Sigler, J. R., Lowery, A., "Breaking The Cycle Of Fifty percent of the students who have participated in the Calculus Failure: Models Of Early Math Intervention ToSAE competition have already passed at least 65% of the Enhance Engineering Retention", Annual Conference &subjects of their undergraduate study program, indicating a Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2008.high probability of completing their entire Engineering [8] Landis, R., "Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewardingprogram. Career

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Student Success & Development - Focus on Mathematics

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Sungwon Steven Kim, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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” students for correlate ACT Math scores with student success largelyengineering study is explored. The question of how we stemmed from the author’s personal conversation andcan provide academic and advising support to the group interaction with graduating senior students that spannedof students who are identified to be “marginally throughout the students’ entire academic career at MSU,prepared” is raised and discussed. Effective strategies of Mankato. The number graduating senior students has heldusing ACT Math scores to identify this group of steady at approximately 25 students, while the number of“marginally prepared” students so that their probability students registering for the ME 101

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engineering Design

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2017 FYEE Conference

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James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Julian Sosnik PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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FYEE Division - Paper Submission

first yearIndex Terms – Design, Interdisciplinary, Student Experience, curriculum for Biomedical, Civil, Computer, Electrical,Teamwork Electromechanical, Interdisciplinary and Mechanical INTRODUCTION Engineering majors, annual enrollment in ENGR1500 exceeds 500 students [7].Engineering Education requires that sufficient attention be The course is comprised of one hour of lecture and fourplaced on simulating a realistic work environment to hours of laboratory per week. Through a series ofadequately prepare students for their careers. A

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engineering Design

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Akhan Almagambetov, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; John M. Pavlina, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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"UNSATISFACTORY" STUDENT SET UPS FOR PROBLEM 3; BOTH STUDENTS ARE IN THE EDA SECTION OF THE LABORATORY.First Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference August 6 – August 8, 2017, Daytona Beach, FL E1A-5 Session E1A FUTURE WORK future career and attain a greater understanding of the pre- sented concepts, when compared to the