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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Timothy Aaron Wood, The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Tara Hornor, The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel

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civil engineering education.Dr. William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel William J. Davis is Dept. Head & D. Graham Copeland Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Construction Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. His academic experience includes: transporta- tion infrastructure planning and design, infrastructure resilience, traffic operations, highway safety, and geographic information systems. His research interests include: constructing spatial databases for bet- ter management of transportation infrastructure, improving transportation design, operation, safety and construction, understanding long-term effects of urban development patterns, and advancing active living within the built environment

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Debjani Sarkar, College of Engineering, Michigan State University

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pitching, as a learning objective for my graduate students who areacademically, culturally, and linguistically very diverse. This tool enriched their learningexperience by increasing their connectivity and inclusivity. Along with breaking communicationbarriers, they built cross-cultural relationships and developed a sense of belonging towards theirpeers who shared common interests, beliefs, and hobbies. They learnt to tailor theirconversations depending on their audience. This assignment was assessed by me in a traditionalclass setting. I plan to repeat this activity in my subsequent classes. This pedagogical practicecan be implemented with first-year engineering students who face similar challenges in theirtransition as they learn to explore

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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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the fall semester, 2017. The goal we have for this paper is toeconomically describe at the 10,000-foot level (a) our reasons for the systemic changes weestablished, (b) the core architecture of our revised FYEP, (c) a selected subset of ourpreliminary findings and observations regarding our revised FYEP, (d) a special observationconcerning the ease of transition from face-to-face operation over to complete internet operationof FYEP while maintaining the integrity of our revised operational model all in the context of aglobal pandemic (coronavirus), and (e) a thumbnail description of our plans for the future.Introduction: Framing of the Goals for an Enhanced First-Year Engineering Program.The common first-year engineering program at MTU was

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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airport and the sound of them reminds you of how much you love flying and fuels your desire to get back into the air. You are planning a number of day trips in the near future. Your Own Position Given all of the stakeholders’ recommendations, what would you recommend to Wayne Davidson? Note: my thanks to Melanie Brandt, Colorado School of Mines, for these example stakeholder descriptions

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Briana M Bouchard, Tufts University; Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University; Ethan E Danahy, Tufts University

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university age range. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Using engineering discourse instruction to promote equitable and inclusive group workAbstractThis work in progress paper describes a two-session instructional module on equitableengineering talk, which explicitly addressed the role of discourse in engineering practice as wellas the importance of inclusive and equitable discourse in a first-year engineering course. In themodule, students audio recorded themselves as they worked in small groups to plan an initialsolution to an engineering design problem. After listening to their recorded discourse, theyparticipated in

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Victor Alonso Bradford, University of Missouri - College of Engineering; Tojan Rahhal, University of Missouri - Columbia; Hani Salim P.E., University of Missouri - Columbia

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-progress paper will highlight the creation and expansion of the Mizzou EngineeringSuccess Bridge Program (ESBP), a no-cost summer transition program for incoming freshmen atthe University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) that has grown from a week-long to a month-longprogram that brings campus and industry professionals together to serve engineering’s most at-risk population. The work-in-progress paper will also demonstrate how MU plans to transitionESBP to a two-week online format in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.ESBP was organized by the First Year Engineering (FYE) Office, which serves to provide allnew undergraduate students with the resources, opportunities and connections to smoothlytransition to Mizzou Engineering, but also jumpstart their future

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Lisa Lampe, University of Virginia; Blakeley Calhoun

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-advising model infused several Research on academic advising stands to gainformative topics and activities into the first-year engineering from applying a CRT lens. For example, previouscourse. These included major selection; identification of peer- research at one institution reported a change insupport mechanisms; references to available counseling, advising structure increased student satisfactiontutoring and career-planning resources; periodical remindersregarding academic deadlines; check-ins to identify students at overall [4]; however, it failed to account for possibleacademic and/or medical risk; and early interventions for differing experiences among engineeringstudents who experienced