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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Margo Cousins; Daniel Puperi

303L in the fallsemester, and students who did not participate in FIG and 1.2 Communication measurementare enrolled in BME 303L in the spring semester. These Section 3 of the survey measured the students’ scientificdata will be used to optimize advising and curriculum for communication self-efficacy, which is related to ABETfirst year students and improve engineering outcomes for Student outcome g: an ability to communicate effectively.all students. Future surveys are planned for sophomore and This included 15 Likert-scale questions adapted from ajunior years as well. validated self-efficacy in scientific communication

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Daniel Puperi

303L) was increased to 2 credit hours in 2014 and to 3 Engaging biomedical engineering (BME) students in the credit hours in 2016 to allow for more time to teachfirst year has been an important part of The University of engineering design and analysis topics. The first design/labTexas at Austin’s strategy to improve student motivation, module for BME 303L is an alginate bead drug delivery whichretention, and self-efficacy. First year engineering curricula has been

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Julia N. Savoy; Mia K. Markey; H. Grady Rylander III

a result of receiving the TPT, and if not,faculty advisors have long been found to support satisfying what barriers do they report?degree programs, student self-efficacy, progress toward 4. Did BME students engage in any career developmentgoals, and future career success [7-9]. Previous research behaviors as a result of receiving the TPT? Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 20182. Materials and Methods students would receive the pre-survey, TPT, and post-2.1 Fall 2016 Study

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Nisha Abraham; Nina Telang

ofindividuals with a high level of expertise and prefer group Supplemental Instruction Programming on First Yearwork only when they have created their own study groups. Academic Success. In Conference proceedings of AmericanThis could be a reflection of self-efficacy, control and self- Society of Engineering Education 2017 annual conference,direction that students value, and therefore influence their Columbus, Ohio.attendance to SI sessions. The consistency of the grade datacomparisons for attendees versus non-attendees is shown [4] Malm, J., Bryngfors, L., & Mörner, L. L. (2012).over two years, but identifying similar students using Supplemental instruction for improving first year results instandardized