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
the largest college on campus and have a challenging first-yearcurriculum. Academic Support Programs for Student Athletes (ASPSA) was recruited to be part of thiseffort because they already taught several academic support classes along with additional interventionprograms for their student-athletes.The first course (spring 2009) was created primarily using a template that was used in similar ASPSAcourses and included class participation, four journal entries, two individual conferences and a finalproject that required students to create a “strategies for success learning plan.”There were additional in-class assignments, but those were not initially included in the graded portion ofthe class. The journal entries involved reflecting on our in
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
and in the process of transitioning from high schools in which the teachers taught them everything they were expected to know to college-level expectations. Second, there were inevitable comparisons drawn between the pilot section and the other sections that were being taught using the old course plan. This issue will not occur in the future because all
engineering field are evolving,analyzing relationship among ideas, and interpreting so are the pedagogical approaches in engineering courses.information presented in diverse formats and media. They What we plan to do in EMT 1255 is a response to thealso showed reasonable competency in applying concepts changes of the industry and the needs to prepare ourand ideas in the text to solve problems. However, they students to meet the challenges that come with thesegenerally lacked proficiency in critical reasoning and changes.making valid judgment and prediction based on relevant Students in the READ gain confidence motivation andevidence
attitudes toward them. These categories are described as METHODOLOGY follows: Our institution is a large university in the eastern UnitedStates, where the introductory engineering course sequence isorganized into sections of 30 students each. While the firstcourse is concentrated in the formation of an engineeringidentity and plan of study, a selection of professional andtechnical skills, including an introduction to computerprogramming, the second course serves as an introduction to8th First Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference July 31-August 2, 2016, Columbus, OH F1A-2Table 1: Students
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
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
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
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
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
shared interest presents promise in providing an the authors to believe that complementary personalities mustoverall positive experience for students, further modification also be considered in order to further improve upon theto the process is required. In subsequent iterations of the student experience.course, two additional methods are planned. 1) Skills-based assigned teams that includes consideration for complementary personalities REFERENCES through a preliminary personality test. [1] Karlin, J., & Kellogg, S. (2009). ‘Metrics and the Holistic Learner’. 2) A Hybrid approach that assigns large teams for a Proceedings
- 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