Conference Session

Technical Session I

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

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Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University

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. Often as they begin their course of studies they sometimesstruggle to see how classes in their first year on campus connect to the careers that they haveenvisioned. CoRe co-curricular programming provides students with a broad introduction to theengineering profession, experiential opportunities, mentoring, connections to campus resources,problem solving and team building skills to retain them at the university and in the college.Supporting student success relies on the programs ability to show students their potential role inthe engineering professional community and that they belong in the college. The main goalthroughout the academic year is to help new students to become integrated into their college anduniversity community by connecting

Conference Session

Technical Session I

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Liang Li Wu, University of California, Irvine; Gregory N. Washington, University of California, Irvine

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during Winter quarter. However, 88% Winter of 2015 and Winter of 2016, respectively. Notably,of the students recommended the course to incoming the largest difference occurred at the end of Winter Quarterfreshmen peers, indicating their favorite component of the (W15) where the first-year course concluded. For the pilotcourse being the hands-on learning. Figure 1 showed the group, the mean values of students’ interest in engineering,quadcopters made in teams by students and the delivery of interest in pursuing a career in engineering and thethe payload via distance and color recognition. importance of non-engineering courses all increased, when

Conference Session

Technical Session VI

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Sheila Erin Youngblood, Cameron University; Irene Camilla Corriette, Cameron University ; Tyler C Bishop, Cameron University

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syoungbl@cameron.edu, icorriet@cameron.edu, tyler.bishop@cameron.eduAbstractAn engineering program, in collaboration with a mathematics program in Lawton Oklahomahas developed three annual pipeline development opportunities to strengthen the link betweenK-12 and a university. The primary goal of these opportunities is to give Southwest Oklahomamiddle school, high school, and community access to enrichment programs that increase theirinterest in engineering and mathematics careers and attract them to majors in engineering andmathematics. It is imperative that middle and high school students learn to apply engineeringand mathematics prior to entering college. It is equally important that students feel confidentand comfortable on a college campus

Conference Session

Technical Session I

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Stephany Coffman-Wolph, University of Texas, Austin; Kimberlyn Gray, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.

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-generation student: “… and told me I wasn't good enough”)Students, overall, felt that on-campus student organizations helped bring liked minded peopletogether. However, students were overall split on the importance of these organizations to theircollege careers (general population: 49% yes, 51% no and first-generation population: 52.5%yes, 47.5% no). The first-generation students seem to have slightly stronger feelings on thestudent organizations than the general student population. Thirty-Six percent of the generalpopulation and 22.5% of the first-generation population were members of STEM organizationsand both groups felt these organizations were helpful. The general population wantedorganizations to focus on social / fun actives. The first

Conference Session

Technical Session II

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Jenahvive K. Morgan, Michigan State University

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management, design and creativity, engineeringcommunication, engineering as a career, ethics, and engineering estimations and calculationswith an emphasis on unit conversions. Grit is also a topic covered in the course with reference tothe retention of the students in the college of engineering, through to their completion of theengineering degree.Material pertaining to grit was introduced in the course and then an examination of how thismaterial may have increased student grit was conducted. Duckworth et al. (2007) [1] created atwo-factor, twelve item, self-reporting measure of grit. The foundation of this study was basedon the theory of grit as a compound trait. This compound trait was comprised of stamina in twodimensions, and these dimensions

Conference Session

Technical Session III

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Mary Fraley, Michigan Technological University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University

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Innovation Center for En- trepreneurship and Director of the Global Leadership program. Her responsibilities include interdisci- plinary program evaluation and assessment, course/workshop instruction in the areas of leadership and human centered design. She received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Wayne State University and is currently working on her PhD at Michigan Technologi- cal University. Before joining MTU she held various engineering and management positions during a 15 year career in the automotive industry.Dr. Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University Gretchen Hein is a senior lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Tech. She have been teaching

Conference Session

Technical Session VI

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Rebecca R Essig, Purdue University Fort Wayne; Kimberly Warren O'Connor, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne; S. Scott Moor P.E., Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Sara Marie Thomas

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students’ college experience and potentially their future careers. To introduce students to some campus activities available to them, instructors presented slides prepared by student organizations. The students were then assigned to choose two campus activities to attend before the second midterm and complete four reflection questions. The presentations only highlighted engineering related student groups, but students were allowed to go to any campus activity for the assignment.The initial data sets collected for the pilot study included tutoring attendance from theengineering tutoring room, grade distributions on the first midterm, student enrollment lists fromENGR 101 (fall semester only) and ENGR 102 (spring semester only), and

Conference Session

Technical Session IV

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Christopher McComb, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jessica Dolores Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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professional expectations of engineering as a career and discipline [9], [10]. Someprograms also use these courses to foster engineering ethics, writing and communication skills,teamwork competencies, and to develop community and engineering identity within students toaid in retention of engineering students [11], [12]. In other words, first-year engineering designstudents are typically gaining other competencies beside academic objectives (the what part ofengineering) in addition to learning how competencies are enacted within the engineeringdiscipline.While all engineering programs may structure their first year and design experiences differently[11], engineering education and design literature concurs that the emphasis on authentic andexperiential

Conference Session

Technical Session III

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

BALRAJ SUBRA MANI, New Jersey Institute of Technology; I. Joga Rao, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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. FED-101 isintended to expose them to what to expect when they become an engineer in their chosendiscipline. No common curriculum across various universities dictates how such intendedoutcome would be delivered. Years ago, Mechanical Engineering Department at NJIT hadchosen to use 3Dimensional modeling using Creo Parametric 4.0 [1] solid modelling software,aka Pro/Engineer [1], Wildfire [1] in FED-101. Solid modelling is used as a design tool inmechanical product design. However, product design is not the only career path in MechanicalEngineering. From ideation to product realization, product design has many steps. Apart fromcompetency in product design, time management skills, hands on ability, intellectual-property-exploration skills