Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Professional Skill Development

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

María del Carmen Garcia-Higuera, Universidad Panamericana; Rocio Chavez-Telleria, Universidad Panamericana; Armando Alemán-Juárez, Universidad Panamericana ; Isabel Joaquina Niembro García P.E., Universidad Panamericana

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #25457Improving Student Retention and Soft Skills: Faculty Experiences on Transi-tioning to Active Learning Approaches on First-Year Engineering Programsat Universidad PanamericanaDr. Mar´ıa del Carmen Garcia-Higuera, Universidad Panamericana Carmen Villa is the director for the Center for Innovation in Education at Universidad Panamericana. She teaches courses at the College of Engineering and at the School of Pedagogy. She received a B.Sc. degree in computer science engineering from Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City; a D.E.A. in computer science form the INPG in Grenoble, France; and a Phd.D. in educational

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering in the First-Year

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huihui H Wang, Jacksonville University; Festus Ogbaisi, Jacksonville University; Martins Slaboh, Jacksonville University; Emre Selvi, Jacksonville University; Maria Javaid, Jacksonville University

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First-Year Programs, Multidisciplinary Engineering

department, we have more students in ME thanin EE. However, it is imperative for all students to have the basics of EE in order to work on therobotic projects. In this case, we mix students from two programs together in the engineeringorientation course. “What topics should be covered in this course?” is always a question and achallenge for the instructors. After 3-year practices and continuous improvements, we decide tocover not only the basics of ME and EE but also diverse soft skills trainings especially theproject management trainings. Three teaching assistants (two juniors from EE and one juniorfrom ME) are assisting a professor in the lab sections. This paper studies the outcomes of severalactivities such as the ethics debates, self-identities

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday Cornucopia (Classroom Innovations)

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duncan Davis, Northeastern University; Jimmy Gitming Lee, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

thenarrative. As of 2017, over 2,800 escape rooms exist worldwide​[1]​. Escape rooms have becomea phenomenon with varying themes such as zombies, mad scientists, bank heists, detectives,haunted houses, and ancient tombs​[2]–[4]​. Primarily designed for fun, educators have startedusing them to convey and test content in their classes. Escape rooms have captured the attentionof various disciplines across universities in departments that include education​[2]​, nursing​[3]​,chemistry​[4]​, pharmacy​[5], [6]​ , and surgical medicine​[7]​. An escape room designed purely for fun lends itself to teaching the participantsleadership, communication, and other soft skills​[2]​. Researchers created a pilot program for 13participants to test how well

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Deciding on a Major

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J.w. Bruce, Tennessee Technological University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

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First-Year Programs

, 2007.[Chr2014] R. Christensen, G. Knezek, and T. Tyler-Wood, “Student perceptions of Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) content and careers”, Computers in HumanBehavior, Elsevier Press, 2014.[Fel1995] R.M. Felder, G.N. Felder, M. Mauney, C.E. Hamrin, and E.J. Dietz, “A LongitudinalStudy of Engineering Student Performance and Retention. III. Gender Differences in StudentPerformance and Attitudes, J. Engr. Educ., vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 151-163, 1995.[Hut2014] C.J. Hutto and Eric Gilbert, “VADER: A Parsimonious Rule-based Model forSentiment Analysis of Social Media Text”, Proc. Int’l Conference on Web and Social Media,2014.[Ita2016] M. Itani and I. Srour, “Engineering Students' Perceptions of Soft Skills, IndustryExpectations