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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Elizabeth Kurban, Women in Engineering, University of Maryland College Park; Mary L Bowden, University of Maryland College Park

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classroom and laboratory hours of math-intensivecurriculum aligned with practicing and strengthening engineering problem-solving skills. Thecoursework was taught by a university faculty member and doctoral student, and assisted bystudent teaching assistants. FYSE participants were given homework assignments, lab work,quizzes, exams, and an engineering-related group project with a final presentation. Upper-levelengineering undergraduate students were hired as residential tutors to assist students each weeknight, providing guidance and support on homework assignments and projects, in addition togeneral support in the students’ residence facility.In addition to the academic components, the FYSE program was designed to cultivatecommunity and a network

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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AJ Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Brett Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Norma L Veurink, Michigan Technological University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan Technological University

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Technological University Jon Sticklen was the chairperson of the Engineering Fundamentals Department, Michigan Technological University from August 2014 through June 2020. In the decade of the 90s, Dr. Sticklen founded and led a computer science laboratory in knowledge-based systems in the College of Engineering, Michigan State University that focused on task-specific approaches to problem-solving, better known as expert systems. Over the last fifteen years, Dr. Sticklen has pursued engineering education research focused on early engineering with an emphasis on hybrid course design and problem-based learning. Dr. Sticklen assumed the chairperson of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Tech on August 1, 2014. His research has