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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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engineering degree [1]-[3]. program must formulate a set of program student outcomes The Universidad Panamericana is a young private (PSO) (knowledge, skills, attitudes) that directly address theuniversity with 50 years of creation. It has three campuses in educational objectives and have specific outcomes. Thesethe main cities of Mexico: Guadalajara, Aguascalientes and PSO must be the ultimate goal acquired by the students whenMexico City. The School of Engineering at Mexico City has they complete the bachelor program. Table I show the PSO36 years of creation and offers the following Engineering in EAC commission [4].programs: Industrial, Mechanical, Innovation and Design

Conference Session

WIP: Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Classroom Practices

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University; Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University

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) introduce industry present an overview of different fields and careerprogramming and specifically MATLAB early in our opportunities in electrical engineering. In the second course,program, (iii) stress communication skills, and (iv) attract and ECE 102, students learn to develop algorithms and applyengage more students, in particular from under-represented computational software tools (mainly MATLAB) to solvegroups, into ECE [1]. While we have had some successes – primarily simple electrical engineering problems. They do apopular and engaging team design projects, hands-on lab project using MATLAB programming for data acquisitionexperience, and an alumni mentor program – we still

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WIP: Engineering Education Research - Focus on Problem Solving

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2017 FYEE Conference

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David Joseph Ewing, The University of Texas at Arlington

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become a primary focus at the University of economic backgrounds, and prior knowledge among studentsTexas at Arlington (UTA). UTA conducted a study that at UTA, ENGR 1300 utilizes the Student-Centered Activefound students were ill-equipped in the areas of problem Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogiessolving, professional writing, and computer (SCALE-UP) method. This method, developed at NC Stateprogramming. Therefore, UTA has recently created a University [1] and now utilized in many universities [2],new first year engineering course focused on improving focuses on creating a highly active and collaborativethese specific skill areas using the Student-Centered

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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with University’s context and initial efforts, including [1]-[3].concentrations in chemical and mechanical engineering. Reference [1] reports on Campbell University’s efforts toThis paper describes efforts to intentionally support the recruit a diverse cohort of students, [2] reports on thedevelopment of engineering identity in students during facilities prepared for and used by the incoming engineeringtheir first year through the formation of a community of students, and [3] discusses some elements of the origins andpractice. Faculty managed and supported a variety of in- adaptation of the first-year engineering curriculum.class and extracurricular activities to encourage the

Conference Session

WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Geoff Rideout, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Thelma E Coley, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University

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” to provide after-hours support. ESEPs support One courses specific to the Faculty of Engineering.the instructional team by developing and focus-grouping Involving students as active participants in teaching andcourse materials, administering extra problem sets learning is growing in popularity. Healey et al. [1] suggestthrough on-line rooms, and informing instructors of that successful approaches take advantage of sharedstudent difficulties. Finally, the ESEPs support the engagement between students and academics seeking to learnadministration through research into best practices in together and enact changes to enhance student learningfirst-year engineering

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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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, after participating in STEP. Supplemental Instruction was implemented as a mandatory intervention for allFYrE@ECST participants (Figure 1), to help them succeed in Calculus and Physics courses,which are high attrition courses. SI was selected because the model had been widely investigatedin engineering education and a great deal of researchers has reported on the positive results of SIworkshops (Martin & Arendale, 1994), since it was initially proposed in 1973 by Dr. DeannaMartin at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC). But most importantly, SI UMKCmodel goals were aligned with our goals to improve student performance in these high-attritioncourses and to increase retention and graduation rates of engineering students. The

Conference Session

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

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Jack Bringardner, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Gunter W. Georgi P.E., NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering; Victoria Bill, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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-definedgenerating their own idea. projects in Lego robotics, computer-aided design (CAD) of a building, and a LabVIEW digital logic problem. The firstThe project combines entrepreneurial thinking and weeks of the pilot section were devoted to studentsmaker technology to allow students to address large-scale identifying a problem, then they spent the rest of the semestermultidisciplinary engineering problems. In addition to designing and building their solution. Teams were instructedthe introduction to engineering course, a 1 credit hour on design thinking and consumer-oriented design. Studentsfirst-year course, called the

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Issues in the First Year - Focus on Classroom Activities

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Hyunjae Park, Marquette University

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potentially transform a student’s pedagogical approaches along with the engineeringmindset. It was discovered that freshman engineering entrepreneurial mindset defined by the Kern Entrepreneurialstudents frequently re-examine their values and motivations Engineering Network (KEEN) [4-5], this paper describesduring their first year in college [1]. Thrown into unfamiliar how the Freshman Engineering Discovery courses have beensituations with a new environment and expectations, integrated with the EML. And it also shows the primaryundergraduate engineering programs become a crucible in outcomes obtained by implementing the EML in the courses,which engineering students have an opportunity to

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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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two separateQuality Enhancement Plan (QEP). The MAPS program support initiatives: 1) Transition, academic success, andserves as indoctrination for engineering, engineering professional development coaching, and 2) Specific first-technology, and construction management students to and second-year engineering course Supplementallearn, understand, and establish personal connections to Instruction (SI) selection and funding. The focus of thisacademic success and professional development paper is on the transition, academic success, andstrategies, campus-wide resources, networking professional development coaching component of theopportunities, and organizations. The MAPS program

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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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Paper ID #20927Hardening Freshman Engineering Student Soft SkillsDr. Andrea Carneal Burrows, University of Wyoming Andrea C. Burrows is currently an associate professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches courses in science methods and pedagogy. Dr. Burrows taught at Northern Kentucky University for five years. In 2010, she was hired as an external evaluator to con- duct research on community/university partnership relations at the University of Cincinnati. She has re- ceived several awards including the: 1) Lillian C. Sherman Award for outstanding academic achievement

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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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university is dedicated to learning,versity. This 5-1/2-week residential pre-college bridge pro- discovery, and community engagement. NCATSU is the na-gram is used to recruit, retain, and graduate minor- tion's largest producer of African American bachelor of sci-ity freshmen engineering and computer science students ence graduates in engineering and computer science. The en-and to provide a sense of community. Since the inception gineering and computer science programs are housed in thein 2005, the HOME Program has recruited 189 students College of Engineering (COE).into the program. Each summer, a cohort of approxi- The COE at NCATSU is home to seven different depart-mately 20 students are

Conference Session

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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anticipated GPA in such as Statics (ME 212) or Dynamics (ME 214) dropsthe semester, the current math course that they were down even further to approximately 30 students. In aregistered for, the math course that they were planning previous paper [1], the author attempted to correlateto register for in the following semester, and their high freshman engineering students’ ACT Math scores withschool ACT Math score. Preliminary results for the students’ academic performance in the Mechanicalsurvey conducted during Fall semester 2015 suggested Engineering program by conducting a voluntary studentthat students making good progress towards their survey in Fall 2015 which asked students in the ME

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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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outcomes, including:conceptually based on four characteristics traditionally (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process toassociated with the entrepreneurial engineering mindset: meet desired needs within realistic constraints such astechnical fundamentals, customer needs, business economic, environmental, social, political, ethical,acumen, and societal values. Our hypotheses are that, by health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainabilitycategorizing constraints such that the source of a (emphasis added). [1]constraint is also included, an engineering student can(1) examine each constraint from the point of view of a Although the phrase

Conference Session

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

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Shankar Ramakrishnan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Deana Delp

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Session W1A Work-in-Progress - Instilling Entrepreneurial Mindset by Vertical Integration of Engineering Projects Shankar Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., Deana Delp, Ph.D. Arizona State University, sramakr5@asu.edu, ddelp@asu.eduAbstract - The goal of this research project is to instill an TABLE I ASU’S FRAMEWORK FOR DOCUMENTING STUDENT AND FACULTYentrepreneurial mindset by vertically integrating a single OUTCOMES RELATED TO THE THREE C’S [1]design project among two consecutive freshmen

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mathematics

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Gary LeRoy Hunt, Boise State University

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levelpersistence in undergraduate engineering programs, and engineering class were selected. The participants compriseduniversities have invested significant time and resources to a sample of 813 students, with 13.6% female and 23.1%address this issue [1]. Wright State University developed a international students. Of the students taking the class,first-year engineering curriculum focused on teaching math 35.8% were first time full time students, with an averagein an engineering context, resulting in significant increases age of 21.6 years. 20.3% of the students were non-in students’ ability to be successful in subsequent math and traditional with their age being greater than 23 years.engineering courses [2]–[5]. The success of

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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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impact move into after their first year. Concepts of computerperformance in the flipped classroom environment. programming are considered difficult conceptual material forAnalysis of two semesters of data is on-going and will be both computing and non-computing majors [1]. One of thereported in the full paper. challenges present in learning programming is the need to learn the syntax of a particular program in addition toIndex Terms – cluster analysis, flipped classroom, learning logic diagramming methods. Research has shownmotivation, performance. that many

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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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Cincinnati. Whitney also works with the Emerging Ethnic Engineers (E3) Program. She teaches Calculus 1 during the Summer Bridge program and instructs Cooperative Calculus 1 during the school year. Continuing with her commitment to community involvement, Whitney has previously served on the Na- tional Executive Board for the National Society of Black Engineers, a student-managed organization with more than 30,000 members. She served as the Planning Chairperson for the 2013 Annual Convention and is currently an advisor for the Great Lakes Region. Dr. Gaskins the President of the Sigma Omega graduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She is also a member of the Society of Women Engineers, the Women’s Alliance

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Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Mona Hemmati, Colorado State University; Alistair Cook, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University

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data of first year students in college of identified community needs and (b) reflect on the serviceengineering. Considering the result of the study, the activity in such a way as to gain further understanding ofprinciple goal of this program is to increase the retention course content, a broader application of the discipline and anstatistics for engineering students. Each of these fellows enhanced sense of civic responsibility” [1]. Consideringhas been assigned to one engineering department. Using society’s needs, students are led in solving real-worldthe help of this graduate fellow in the Civil and engineering problems using the concepts of their engineeringEnvironmental Engineering

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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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analysis determined that although many survey of the situation revealed that: the course had slowlyquality standalone exercises existed, a guiding narrative evolved from its pilot description becoming somewhatfor the course was lacking. Over multiple years, the divorced from the catalog description, members of the facultycourse was redesigned using a pedagogical approach that and some student constituencies were not happy with it, andincorporated research-based instructional practices with nine student learning outcomes (8 of the 12 ABET Criteriona goal of helping the students grow in their understanding 3 outcomes [1] plus one additional school specific outcomeof engineering as a general field of study. The

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WIP: Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engagement

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Tonya Whitehead, Wayne State University; Jeffrey Potoff, Wayne State University

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occurred during Fall 2016 across three extrinsic motivation and self-efficacy [1]. Shell et al. hassections of the course, with different instructors looked at students initial motivation, goal orientation, andinvolving, slightly different requirements and assignment instrumentality [2]. While not directly tested on computerstructures. Based on instructor assessment and student programming to date, grit has been shown to correlate withfeedback, revisions were made to the structure of the success in higher education as well [3]. The overall goal ofproject and it was rolled out to both the sections in Winter this study is to develop and implement new course materials2017. To ensure consistency

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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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summarizes initial Self-regulated learning (SRL) is described as the process thatwork conducted to understand how students discuss their a learner goes through in order to engage in cognitive andself-regulated learning skills through an end of semester metacognitive functioning, as well as to regulate severalreflective assignment. As part of a first year seminar affective dimensions, such as motivational, behavioral, andcourse for engineering students, students are asked to emotional regulation [1-5]. Self-regulated learning can alsocomplete weekly reflective assignments relating the be seen as a process that allows students to navigate throughweek’s topic to their own practice as a

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

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Alistair Cook, Colorado State University; Mona Hemmati, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University

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2014 Colorado State University College ofEngineering has been involved with the first United States The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)based pilot of the Engineers Without Borders Australia [1] require engineers who are defined by theirglobal design challenge (EWB Challenge). The EWB intersectionality, that is, engineers who are technicallyChallenge is a series of design challenges in different competent in their field(s) of engineering but also have thetechnical areas, created in cooperation with a local global and professional skills to be able to practicecommunity and non-government organization in a engineering outside their native context and culture.different

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WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Joanne F. Uleau, Environmental Engineering Program, University of Colorado- Boulder

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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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domain identity reflects theTech First Year Experience course designed to equip extent to which a person believes that domain is anstudents with problem solving skills, inquiry skills, and important part of who they are [3].integration of learning skills necessary for navigating The model of domain identification by Osborne andcollege level curricula [1]. Jones explains the process by which a set of social and A series of surveys are administered to GE students academic background factors can affect one's domainat three times over the course of their first year: in August at identification and motivation beliefs, and thus, affectthe beginning of the

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Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Donald F. Hayes PE, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Wonjoon Hong, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; MATTHEW L BERNACKI, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Nicholas Voorhees

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University in Philadelphia and also holds master’s degrees in Experimental Psychology from Saint Joseph’s University and Social Work from Temple University. Prior to arriving at UNLV, Matt worked at the Learning Research & Development Center (University of Pittsburgh) and the Human Computer Interaction Institute (Carnegie Mellon University) as a postdoc- toral researcher at LearnLab. Matt’s research focuses on (1) the roles that motivations and metacognitive processes play when learners use technologies like hypertext, intelligent tutoring systems, and learning management systems, (2) the development of interventions and software to promote effective learning strategies, and motivation to learn, and (3) the

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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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expected to be junior or senior rank and must continue contactsocieties in order to build both the social and professional with the freshman students throughout the academic year.connections. Phase 1 in career development is to The class mentor is intended to play a major role in the course.understand one’s self. Activities in the course provideThe course sections were specifically required to remainopportunities for personal exploration and the use of small, 20 - 25 students, in order to promote a casualcareer planning tools. Tennessee Tech University is environment and allow for a personal connection with thetasked with developing a Quality Enhancement Plan that professor, the

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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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selection. While the faculty in the college see value inelement of design. Various accreditation agencies like ABET these experiences, there was a major lack of designrequire that programs cover design and analysis under the experience in the course. Faculty perceptions of seniorconsiderations of global, economic, environmental, and design projects show a need to improve client interactions,societal contexts [1], but many programs expect these topics decision-making processes, holistic critical thinking, andto be covered in other courses rather than creating a sustainable design. A quick examination of the currentcurriculum focused on holistic problem-solving. Other curriculum shows