Conference Session

The Best of First Year Programs: Best Paper Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado Boulder; Kenneth M. Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

today, about14% of the first year engineering cohort is enrolled in Pre-Calculus or year-long Calculus I their firstsemester [2].Eight credit hours of math is a lot to ask of first semester students, especially those among theleast mathematically prepared in the college.During the course approval process, it was decided to make Engineering Math a 3000-levelcourse (a designation usually reserved for third year courses) so that it could count as a technicalelective in several engineering degree programs. If it had been approved as a 1000-level course,most students would not have had free space in their degree plan to count the four-credit coursetowards graduation. For all these reasons, it was important to explain the course to students andmake

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Focusing on Student Success

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qudsia Tahmina, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

and the overallgrade of the student which serves as a factor to determine student’s success in a classroom.First year engineering curriculum includes two semester course sequence: Fundamentals ofEngineering I (offered in the first semester) and Fundamentals of Engineering II (offered in thesecond semester). Data is presented from the first semester course offered at the regional campusof a large, research institution. Fundamentals of Engineering I course include the followingsections as three main components of the coursework. a) Introduction to data analysis tool suchas Microsoft Excel, b) Computer programming in MATLAB, and c) Design project. Teamworkand collaboration are heavily weighted for the assessment of student performance in the