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Franz Foltz; Vinnie Gupta

Cooperative Education and Career Services, (ii) a newly developed zero-creditVTAB Orientation Program course, and (iii) our academic advising system.Our external evaluator was involved in the development, implementation, and analysis of twosurveys and focus group interviews, and is satisfied with the progress we have made. Survey #S1was developed in year one for incoming scholars, and has been administered to all three cohorts.Survey #S2 was developed last semester for scholars in the middle of the program, and has beenadministered to the first cohort. The focus group interview protocol was developed in year one,and has been administered to all three cohorts.We faced two major challenges so far: (i) obtaining the complete list of incoming scholars

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Kyle Trenshaw; Emily Weber; Rachel Monfredo

models is important in retaining STEM majors,as well as creating a sense of community and belonging among students. Providing a networkthat scaffolds not only academic achievement, but also comradery results in classmates andmentors who become lifelong connections and support systems.Setting up this kind of learning community in a classroom moves away from a lecture-basedfocus and towards discussions in small groups around exercises and activities. This is the modelauthor Raymond Landis used to teach his Chautauqua Short Course “Enhancing Student Successthrough a Model Introduction to Engineering Course,” which was supplemented by his textbook,Studying Engineering a Road Map to a Rewarding Career [1]. Over three decades of teaching,Landis found

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Agamemnon Crassidis; Daniel S. Kaputa

with a specific career interest may develop an individually customized concentrationbased on mutual agreement between the student and the department. The current Graduate Focusareas consist of 9 sub-disciplines but none related to aerospace systems and UAS. In thiscurriculum update, the relevant courses required to complete the three course sequence for thenew Aerospace/UAS Graduate Focus area was finalized and is shown below: Aerospace/UAS (choose 1 of 4) 9 MECE-610 Flight Dynamics-X 3 MECE-611 Orbital Mechanics-X 3 MECE-612 Unmanned Aircraft Systems-X 3

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Douglas Bohl

equations of motion for a fluid. Thesecan be expressed in variable form for an incompressible Newtonian fluid as:𝜌( 𝑉⃑ + 𝑉⃑ ⋅ ∇𝑉⃑ ) = −∇𝑃 + 𝜌𝑔⃑ + 𝜇∇ 𝑉⃑ (1)These equations are 2nd order, non-linear differential equations, which is conceptuallyoverwhelming. Even when these equations are simplified, it is difficult to translate themathematical expression into a mental picture of the physical reality. This is true even for manyfaculty who have worked with these equations over the course of a career. Alternate analysismethods that are taught, such as integral analysis, are useful engineering tools but they too oftenremain just equations, with mysterious variables and meaning to the

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Kathryn Dimiduk; Orlay Santa; Hadas Ritz; Lesa Carter

component ofimproving the general level of teaching effectiveness across the college.Introduction and motivationAs a teaching center, MTEI’s goal is to assist all faculty in improving their courses and teachingskills. For faculty at the beginning of their teaching careers, we provide information, support andfeedback for a strong start in teaching so they build confidence and identity as goodteachers. For highly skilled teachers, MTEI offers assistance with planning and assessment ofnew approaches, or technology, or learning activities they created. Both of these groups offaculty are highly motivated and seek out and welcome assistance. For teachers needingsignificant and more specialized support, their departments frequently encourage them to