Conference Session

Technical Session T1B

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Hannah Nolte, The Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Marie Starkey, Pennsylvania State University; Christopher McComb, Carnegie mellon University; Nicolas F Soria Zurita, The Pennsylvania State University & Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Full Papers

’ intrapersonal and interpersonal skills [6]. Integrating mindfulness-based practices intofirst-year engineering courses is likely to benefit students in many ways.In this work, brief mindfulness-based meditation practices were incorporated into a requiredfirst-year engineering design course. This paper will detail students’ perceptions on includingthese practices into their course and the authors will share their insights on incorporating thesepractices into the course.MethodsBrief mindfulness-based meditation practices were incorporated into multiple sections of arequired first-year engineering design course at a large mid-Atlantic university as part of twolarger institutional review board approved research studies. Each meditation practice