Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Kevin Joseph Lindsay, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Diversity, FYEE Division - Paper Submission

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

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

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2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

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

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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student. At the end the lifecycle of a particular task by engaging in planning,of the semester, students are asked to complete a monitoring, and evaluation activities. Research hassummarizing reflective assignment where they look at demonstrated that the ability to self-regulate is not only atheir growth as a learner over the academic term. Using better predictor of student success than IQ or economic statusthe framework of self-regulated learning, our research but self-regulation can be learned by anyone [6]. Research inteam has begun coding the end of semester reflective engineering education is beginning to look at how studentsassignments to understand how students discuss

Conference Session

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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students, it is important to exploreand understand as much as possible about the many factorsthat can influence a student’s decision to stay or leaveengineering. At Virginia Tech we collect data while studentsare in enginering and also ask students who leave thecollege of engineering to complete an optional exit survey.Future plans for this work may include gathering morequalitative data to further unpack the significance of thedata. REFERENCES[1] First Year Experiences at Virginia Tech. (n.d.). Retrieved February 02, 2017, from https://www.fye.vt.edu/[2] Jones, B. D., Ruff, C., & Osborne, J. W. (2015). Fostering Students’ Identification With Mathematics and Science. In Interest in mathematics

Conference Session

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

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2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

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

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process, the instructorwill utilize skills and knowledge from previous projects to references the case study and invites students to critique theconstruct an immersive and interactive design process project with respect to the E4C design process. Utilizing aexperience emphasizing the human element of design. real-world example while explaining the design process givesStudents in the course will be introduced to a five-step design students a better idea of how the iterative nature of design andprocess originally developed by Engineering for Change analysis actually works in the field.(E4C) [9]. The steps are: a plan stage for team formation, The third phase of the course employs the

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

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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Diversity, FYEE Division - Paper Submission

Helmsley Foundation with a number of interventions that focused onthese success variables. FYrE@ECST interventions included (i) a redesigned introduction toengineering course with focus on design and hands-on learning (Tufenkjian et al., 2017); (ii)Mathemagics (Sharif, Menezes, Schlemer, & Won, 2016), a series of workshops integratingphysical processes and phenomena to math; (iii) a new comprehensive advisement tool calledGolden-Eagle Flight Plan (GEFP) (Sun, Won, Allen, & Gadhia, 2016); and (iv) SupplementInstruction (SI) workshops for physics and calculus for a freshman cohort. This paper reports onthe implementation and assessment results of the Supplemental Instruction workshops as part ofthe FYrE@ECST program in a student population

Conference Session

Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Classroom Practices

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

David M. Feinauer P.E., Norwich University

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changes described in 1) and 2), but much planning and careessential if one wishes to address student perceptions related is needed to help students connect the exercises to their pastto “what it takes to be an engineer” and the role for experiences and the learning objectives of the course.engineers in their careers, communities, and families.First Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference August 6 – August 8, 2017, Daytona Beach, FL W1A-2

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

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2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

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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fall and spring, and the potential to proposal, project progress, and team decisions. Theseincrease to 10%, or 2 sections in the fall and spring. Also, it projects also require extra time and money. Time is requiredhighly recommended that students should be in the top half for teaching assistants to help students with 3D modeling, 3Dof their class with previous experience in team projects, printing, circuit wiring, coding, and prototyping. The courseprogramming, making, or 3D modeling. should also provide additional technical instruction and labs for new topics, which requires time and effort to plan. ExtraInitially, there

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2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

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

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Diversity

AestheticsThe CSM will be explored in the workshop through planned Electrical Efficiencyactivity sessions, including application of the guiding Environmental Ergonomicquestions, evaluation of student responses, and application of Manufacturability Healtha proposed expansion of the framework regarding relative Mechanical Learnabilityimportance of various attributes. The activity sessions will be Physical Maintainabilityfollowed by facilitated discussion sessions. Workshop Precision

Conference Session

WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

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

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program has not met our expectations as we still included more time in class, include sophomores, plannedhave had low participation. At the end of each fall semester out events, more suggested meeting times and screening outwe conducted a 15 question survey on the mentorship students that don’t want to participate. Others stated needsprogram as part of the final exam in the Introduction to to be more of a requirement, more time in class with eachEnvironmental Engineering course. Students were given other, more planned events.extra points for taking the survey. Every year we had over We are evaluating the suggestions from both the first-90% survey participation with 55 EVEN students

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

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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feedback)Hispanic/Latino, 11% Multi, and 0.5% Native Monitoring Course Visits to “My Grades” Table of student gradesAmerican/Pacific Island. The ethnic distribution was similar Performance on completed assignmentfor males and females. Monitoring Learning Uses of a tool to organize a study session ProcessThe two course sections were taught by different instructors, Planning Downloads of Syllabus, schedule, exambut had identical syllabi, schedule, assignments, grading guides

Conference Session

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

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2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

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

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Diversity, FYEE Conference - Works in Progress Submission

students who, in spite of passing an considering how it can be more effective. We need to beintensive language program, still struggle with English, and cognizant of not asking too much time of our working alumni,(iv) students do not follow our advising plans. For example, but also want to encourage more interaction between studentsthe number of credit hours required to graduate in ECE is and mentors. Expecting freshman to reach out to180, but the average number at graduation is about 230. professionals may be too intimidating, so we are considering To illustrate diversity of student backgrounds, Figure 1 more structured meetings between students and mentors,shows the admission status of

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mathematics

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

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

Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

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

Conference Session

Issues in the First Year - Focus on Self-Efficacy

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

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

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Diversity, FYEE Division - Paper Submission

- to engineering identity provide them with a more nuancedyear seminar, and were emblazoned on a twelve-foot-tall understanding than those in the sample taken by Meyer andbanner in the center of the engineering building. colleagues [6]. Students were also asked “Do you plan to work, conductVIII. Cross-Cutting Theme: Diversity in Engineering research, continue study, or teach engineering for at leastThe Campbell University School of Engineering emphasizes three years after graduation?” and 24 (69%) responded yes,the need for engineers from diverse backgrounds for