somewhat remarkably, there has been very littleinvestigation into the impact of these breaks on students. At the University of Waterloo, a two-day fall break, following the holiday Monday of Canadian thanksgiving (the second Monday inOctober) was added on a three-year trial starting in 2016, with the stated goal of helping studentmental health by allowing a time to catch up on classwork before the stressful midterm period.Fall break was extended to be a full week at UWaterloo beginning in fall 2019 on a three-yeartrial, based on the resounding positive response captured in institution-wide student surveys.In 2017, the authors noticed a reduction in midterm grades for specific populations of first-yearengineering students following the fall break
Engineers and Surveyors as the public member andher term expired Dec. 2019. She was the first public member to serve as the NC board chair (2018) .She is also heavily involved as an ASEE-CIPD Board member and in 2019 she was elected to be CIECTreasurer and the Assistant PIC V. Ms. Thurman is also member of the WiMfg national and NC Chapterand SoACE and NCACE. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: A Holistic Approach to the First-Year Engineering ExperienceIntroductionThe University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte is North Carolina’s urban researchuniversity. The William States Lee College of Engineering (COE) at UNC Charlotte
literature. Some specificcollegiate courses that have documented their use of exam wrappers include engineeringmechanics [4], food science and human nutrition [5], introductory science [6], as well asintroductory calculus, statistics, and chemistry [1].Modified Exam WrapperIn order to meet the needs of our students, a modified exam wrapper assignment has beenimplemented in the learning strategies course associated with the GELC. The first iteration,detailed in our 2019 ASEE paper [2], took place in Fall 2018. The second iteration, which will bethe primary focus of the current paper, took place in Fall 2019. For the purposes of this paper,the students enrolled in the learning strategies course during the Fall 2018 semester will bereferred to as the
Foundation.References[1] Menezes, G. B., & Won, D., & Tufenkjian, M., & Allen, E. L., & Schiorring, E. (2017, June),An Integrated First-Year Experience at ECST (FYrE@ECST) Paper presented at 2017 ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. https://peer.asee.org/27573[2] Menezes, G. B., & Allen, E. L., & Ragusa, G., & Schiorring, E., & Nerenberg, P. S. (2019,June), Board 106: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Large-scale Interventions in aFirst-year Experience Program Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida. https://peer.asee.org/32177[3] Kornblum, S. L., & Avery El, Z. K., & Menezes, G. B., & Won, D., & Allen, E. L. (2017,August), Enhancing
University.References[1] C. Seemiller and M. Grace, “Educating and engaging the next generation of students,” About Campus, vol. 22, pp. 21-26, 2017.[2] J. Cruz and N. Kellam, “Beginning an Engineer’s Journey: A Narrative Examination of How, When, and Why Students Choose the Engineering Major,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 107, no. 44, pp. 556-582, 2018.[3] P. C. Rickes, “Generations in flux- How Gen Z will continue to transform higher education Space,” Planning for Higher Education Journal, vol. 44, no. 4, 2016.[4] L. S. Nadelson et al., “Knowledge in the making: What engineering students are learning in makerspaces,” in Proceedings, 2019 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2019, Tampa, FL.[5] R. M. Carbonell, M. E
Paper ID #28830Increasing Motivation and Enhancing the chemistry enrichment experienceof incoming students’ through the use of lectures related to chemistryin engineering and ALEKS R systemDr. Wujie Zhang, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Wujie Zhang, a Biomedical and Food Engineer, is an associate professor in the Physics and Chemistry Department at MSOE. He has been recently named ”20 under 40” by the ASEE Prism magazine. With a committed interest in lifelong learning and engineering education, he has been an eager participant in various workshops and programs, such as the ASEE Virtual Communities of Practice (VCP) program
- cation. He has served on the ASEE Pacific Southwest Section Board of Directors since 2014, including serving as the PSW Section Chair for 2018-2019.Dr. Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Jessica Ohanian Perez is an assistant professor in Electromechanical Engineering Technology at Califor- nia State Polytechnic University, Pomona with a focus on STEM pedagogy. Jessica earned her doctorate in education, teaching, learning and culture from Claremont Graduate University. Her research focuses on broadening participation of marginalized group in engineering and investigating alternate paths to the field.Mr. Cesar Moreno c American Society for Engineering
those who did not to determine if thereexists a similar pattern to that found with students who took the surveys and those who did not.Question Q20 – How do you think you are doing in your engineering courses? – was only addedto the mid-semester survey in the fall 2019 semester. The main motivation when the survey wasfirst done was assessing student performance in their mathematics and science courses. Theauthors plan to report on results of this newer survey question in future work.References[1] S. Gratiano and W. Palm, Can a five-minute, three-question survey foretell first-yearengineering student performance and retention?, Proceedings of the 123rd ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA.[2] M. Anderson-Rowland, A first year
various classes. Students were told that participants who completed both a start-and end-of-semester version of the survey would be entered into a random drawing for one ofthree $50 gift cards. Three hundred forty-eight FTIACs were eligible to participate. One studentdied during the Fall 2019 semester and four others made complete withdrawals from theuniversity for unknown reasons. These students were removed from the analysis, leaving apotential pool of 343 participants. One hundred four completed the start-of-semester survey(30.3% response rate) and 42 completed both the start- and end-of semester surveys (12.2%response rate). Only results from the start-of-semester survey are included in the current work.Table 1 shows the demographics of
the many people, both at CSU as well as the ASEE members, who reviewed and improved this paper.References[1] G. Kuh, C. Schneider, High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter, Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2008.[2] P. Healy, “We should all be concerned about the student debt crisis,” CNBC, November 4, 2019. [Online]. Available: CNBC, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/04/we-should-all-be- concerned-about-the-student-debt-crisis.html [Accessed March 10, 2020][3] N. Stump, “At these colleges, students begin serious research their first year,” The Conversation, September 16, 2019. [Online]. Available: The Conversation
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Smart Cities Technology with a focus on transportation. His primary focus is developing curriculum, mentoring students, and engineering education research, particularly for project-based cur- riculum, first-year engineering, and transportation. He is active in the American Society for Engineering Education and is the Webmaster for the ASEE First-Year Programs Division and the First-Year Engi- neering Experience Conference. He is affiliated withthe Transportation Engineering program in the NYU Civil and Urban Engineering Department. He is the advisor for NYU student chapter of the Institute for Transportation Engineers. American c Society for Engineering
since 2015. FabLabUC is a fabrication laboratory located at the Innovation Center, PUC . Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Sciences with a research focus on Engineering Education at PUC. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Teaching Human-Centered Design to Engineers: Continuous Improvement in a Cornerstone CourseIntroductionThis evidence-based paper describes the continuous improvement process of a first-yearcornerstone (Project Based Learning) course which took place between 2014 and 2019 at anEngineering School. This improvement process has been based on data from the Department ofEngineering Education, and
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predictors of preparedness for college (SAT scores), thoseexam attendees (attending 2 or 3 exam sessions) outperformed their non-exam (attending 0 or 1exam session) attending peers with similar scores. Qualitative survey data indicated strongpositive perceptions of the collaborative exam review and its impact on students’ study time anduse of effective study strategies.IntroductionIn the summer of 2019, our research collaborators attended the Annual ASEE Conference and inparticular, a session presentation on the use of collaborative practice exams in historicallydifficult introductory math and science courses at the University of Kansas [1]. The methodimplemented by this team is detailed in their paper and described below.The collaborative mock exam
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