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First-Year Programs: Virtual Instruction in the First Year III

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rui Li, New York University; Jack Bringardner, New York University

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, and hy-flex classroom teaching.Dr. Jack Bringardner, New York University Jack Bringardner is the Assistant Dean for Academic and Curricular Affairs at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He is also an Assistant Professor in the General Engineering Department and Civil Engineer- ing Department where he teaches the First-Year Engineering Program course Introduction to Engineering and Design. He is the Director of Vertically Integrated Projects at NYU. His Vertically Integrated Projects course is on 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

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3; The Best of All the FPD Papers

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noel Kathleen Hennessey, The University of Arizona; Rebecca Primeau, University of Arizona

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developmental spaces our students share. Wedo this by supporting academic foundations in engineering, promoting community responsibility,and teaching principles of leadership. Our programming model includes cohort-style engineeringcoursework, bi-weekly course reviews, and a collaborative service-learning project in whichsecond-year students are project managers and first-year students are team members.The Engineering Leadership Community started as a retention strategy in 2009. Students who donot integrate socially and academically into their institution of higher learning are more likely todepart from college before earning a degree (1). In fact, student engagement can actuallycompensate for academic under preparedness, giving students the opportunity

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First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Sangster P.E., Northeastern University

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identification with, and by, engineering often motivates students to migrate out of engineering into other majors and can be a barrier for students in other majors to move into engineering. In fact, identity and learning prove interconnected, as delineated by several scholars in the situated learning tradition from cultural anthropology. Within this tradition, learning is itself conceptualized as a change in identity that comes with participation.” [3] The positive correlation between project-based cornerstone courses with both retentionand a sense of belonging and identity in engineering have been made. Although there remainsadditional work to examine how strongly retention and belonging are tied together, it

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First-year Programs: Retention and Bridge Programs #1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Melissa Danforth, California State University, Bakersfield; Charles Lam, California State University, Bakersfield; Ronald Hughes, California State University, Bakersfield

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Paper ID #30208Improving Persistence and Success for At-Risk STEM Students through aSummer Intervention Program at a Hispanic-Serving InstitutionDr. Melissa Danforth, California State University, Bakersfield Melissa Danforth is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineer- ing and Computer Science at California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB). Dr. Danforth was the PI for a NSF Federal Cyber Service grant (NSF-DUE1241636) to create models for information assurance education and outreach. Dr. Danforth was the Project Director for a U.S. Department of Education grant (P031S100081) to

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FPD 3: Research on First-year Programs and Students, Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Quinn, University of South Australia; Elizabeth J. Smith, University of South Australia; Syed Mahfuzul Aziz, University of South Australia

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Australia (UniSA) and, since 2007, the inaugural academic director of UniSA’s common first year engineering program. In this capacity he leads the first year teaching and learning team, which involves staff from five schools across the Division of IT, Engineering and the Environment, staff from the Learning and Teaching Unit and the Library. He oversees initiatives to provide active forms of orienta- tion, to identify and support students at risk, and to continuously evaluate and improve student experience. In the last ten years Mahfuz has developed and refined innovative project-based learning strategies and assessment schemes to assist diverse students with their learning. Engaging students in lectures, tutorials and

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First-year Programs Division: Best Papers

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jordan Orion James, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Chen Qiu M.Sc., University of New Mexico; Christopher Riley

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Paper ID #22582Using Design Challenges to Develop Empathy in First-year CoursesJordan Orion James, University of New Mexico Jordan O. James is a Native American Ph.D. learning sciences student and lecturer at the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning in the Community & Regional Planning program. He has served as a graduate research assistant on an NSF-funded project, Revolutionizing Engineering De- partments, and has been recognized as a Graduate Studies student spotlight recipient and teaching scholar. Jordan studies learning in authentic, real-world conditions utilizing Design Based Research

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FPD 4: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part I: Multimedia, Large Classes, and TAs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly C. Huett, University of West Georgia; Barbara B. Kawulich, University of West Georgia; P.K. Raju, Mechanical Engineering Dept, Auburn University,Al; Chetan S Sankar, Auburn University

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findings from the culminating third year of a three-yearNSF-funded project to improve introductory engineering courses at two universities carried outby the interdisciplinary team.Engineering InstructionThe field of engineering education has changed from its 19 th-century emphasis on industrialskills to the post-World War II focus on scientific and mathematics skills to a shift in the 1970sand 1980s that centered on such skills as critical thinking, communications, and team work. 16Recent industry reports indicate that engineering graduates are lacking in the areas of creativethinking and design, communication, and other professional skills.9 Graduates have been foundto be weak in their understanding of certain engineering processes and to lack

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 11: Curricular and Program Innovations

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marisa Exter, Purdue University; Iryna Ashby, Purdue University; Mark Shaurette, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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of precedent materials, and experienced instructional designers’ beliefs about design character. These studies have highlighted the importance of cross-disciplinary skills and student engagement in large-scale, real-world projects. Dr. Exter currently leads an effort to evaluate a new multidisciplinary degree program which provides both liberal arts and technical content through competency-based experiential learning.Iryna Ashby, Purdue University Iryna Ashby is a Ph.D student in the Learning Design and Technology Program at Purdue University with the research interests focused on program evaluation. She is also part of the program evaluation team for the Purdue Polytechnic Institute – a new initiate at Purdue

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FPD 3: Retention

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sally J. Steadman, University of South Alabama; Gail D. Jefferson, University of South Alabama; Tom G. Thomas, University of South Alabama; Kuang-Ting Hsiao, University of South Alabama

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First-Year Programs

Engineering.Dr. Kuang-Ting Hsiao, University of South Alabama Dr. Kuang-Ting Hsiao, University of South Alabama Dr. Kuang-Ting Hsiao received his Ph.D. in Me- chanical Engineering from University of Delaware in 2000. He joined the Center for Composite Materials at the University of Delaware as a research associate and worked on projects funded by ONR and NSF. Dr. Hsiao moved to the University of South Alabama in 2003 and is currently associate professor of mechanical engineering and faulty advisor of Pi Tau Sigma mechanical engineering honor society at the University of South Alabama. His current research projects in multi-scaled composites, nanocomposites, and nano-enhanced phase change materials at the University of South

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First-Year Programs: Peer Mentoring

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rezvan Nazempour, University of Illinois at Chicago; Houshang Darabi, University of Illinois at Chicago; Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois at Chicago; Peter C. Nelson, University of Illinois at Chicago; Anthony E. Felder, University of Illinois at Chicago; Didem Ozevin P.E., University of Illinois at Chicago; Jeremiah T. Abiade, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Annual Engineering Expo for the past 7 years. The Annual Engineering Expo is a COE’s flagship event where all senior students showcase their Design projects and products. More than 700 participants from public, industry and academia attend this event annually. Dr. Darabi is an ABET IDEAL Scholar and has led the MIE Department ABET team in two successful accreditations (2008 and 2014) of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering programs. Dr. Darabi has been the lead developer of several educational software systems as well as the author of multiple educational reports and papers. Dr. Darabi’s research group uses Big Data, process mining, data mining, Operations Research, high performance computing, and

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica A. Kuczenski, Santa Clara University; Laura Doyle, Santa Clara University

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not be placed on the same teamfor both lecture and lab, but rather have independent teams. In the lab, teams are 2 or 3 members;in lecture, teams are 3-4 members. Teams in both parts are created using gruepr, an open-sourcesoftware tool designed to define an optimal project team [2-3], where considerations are made toaccount for time zone (when remote learning) and/or schedule (for in-person instruction) and toavoid placement of a single female on a team where possible.Lecture teams are formed during the first session of class, and pre-S2020 were often adjournedafter the first project (duration 3 weeks), rotating teams every 3 weeks as projects change.Beginning in Fall 2020 teams stayed together for all projects, as online learning continued

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First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krishna Pakala, Boise State University; Kim M. B. Tucker, Boise State University; Samantha Schauer, Boise State University

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First-Year Programs

FIR is a 24/7 faculty resource for undergraduateengineering students. The EIRC which will be examined in this project is located at Boise StateUniversity in Idaho. The EIRC is about 34% female and 66% male, and the distribution of themajors closely mirrors the college of engineering’s statistics. The researchers hypothesize thatstudents who live in the EIRC benefit greatly from being a part of the social/academiccommunity.The EIRC provides many resources to help students adjust to college and get involved oncampus. All participants are required to take a course together taught by the FIR, and they meetonce a week for the entire year. The first semester students are exposed to an innovative, bestpractices approach developed by Landis [2] that

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First-Year Programs: Wednesday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isabel Cristina Jimenez-Useche, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Stephen R. Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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First-Year Programs

Kong and Taiwan 2. The language proficiency of East Asian students and their adaptation to the activelearning style of American classrooms is frequently questioned. Students from these countriesseem to be very quiet and take some time to respond when participating in active learningactivities such as discussions, hands-on activities, team projects, etc. 3. Students reticence tospeak in class has been associated with low language proficiency, students’ attitudes towards theuse of English, differences in classroom teaching styles, and student’s individual personality 3,among others. Language and non-verbal communication differences between American and East Asianstudents can lead to difficulties in teamwork. Low English proficiency

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First-Year Programs: Paying Attention to Retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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behaviorTo help guide students in designing their individualized process they are asked to implement athree step process: 1. Where a “world-class” engineering student would want to be on each item. 2. Where you are currently on each item. 3. What you need to do to move from where you are to where you would need to be to become a “world-class” engineering student.Linking the coverage of student development topics in a first-year engineeringcourse/lab/seminar and the assignment of the "Design your Process for Becoming a World-ClassEngineering Student" project is key, so that students recognize what a “world class” engineeringstudent would do to be successful. This allows students to develop their individualized process tobecome successful

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First-year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ordel Brown, Northwestern University; Susanna C. Calkins, Northwestern University; Lisa M. Davidson, Northwestern University

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to significantly influence the direction and progress of the engineering design processin the critical learning community. Critical incident analysis (CIA) evolved out of a multiculturaltechnology development project [22]. It centers relationships among co-learners in and withinthe context of the design challenge, and encourages students to reflect on the cultural differences[23] and diverse contextual frameworks within which they are operating. Students completeCIAs at two main points in the course. The first is introduced in week 2 and the second one inweek 9. In the first CIA students identify and record individual, team and internationalcommunity partner expectations and perspectives on the design challenge. They highlight areasof

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 4: The Best of the All: FPD Best Papers

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Genevieve Hoffart, University of Calgary; Nicole Lynn Larson, University of Calgary; Tom O'Neill, University of Calgary; Matthew James Walter McLarnon, University of Western Ontario; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Bob Brennan, University of Calgary; Bill Rosehart, University of Calgary

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peer evaluations, and leading teamwork training sessions. She is currently conducting research on team learning processes in engineering student project teams. Additionally, she has co-developed a framework for measuring and in- terpreting an array of team dynamics. An online assessment tool has been created based on this framework which allows teams to diagnose and improve the ”health” of their team. She is passionate about her area of research and plans to continue conducting research on factors that contribute to effective teamwork.Dr. Tom O’Neill, University of Calgary Tom is a Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology and leading expert in the areas of team dy- namics, virtual teams, conflict management

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 16: That Important Decision - Which Engineering Major?

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Jason Howison, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel

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First-Year Programs

freshmanIntroduction to Mechanical Engineering course. The course design combines benefits of bothteam and individual requirements. It contains both small hands on activities as well as short termhomework style assignments. The hands on activities and projects are designed to fosterteamwork in an open-ended problem solving environment. Formal assessments includeindividual as well as team homework problems, presentations, and group projects / activitiesthroughout the semester. Several of the individual and team homework problems containelements of multiple mechanical engineering areas, giving them a “tree-top view” of mechanicalengineering as they work their way through several focus areas.The objectives of this paper are to explain the lecture and lab content

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First-Year Programs: Focusing on Student Success

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Roberts, University of Florida; Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida; Curtis R. Taylor, University of Florida

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as a software development project manager at Capital One Financial Corporation in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Taylor has also held internship and research appointments with the U.S. Air Force, United Technologies Corporation, and the National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Professor Taylor uses his expertise, knowledge, and talents to serve the University and the larger commu- nity. He strives to inspire and motivate students of all ages to pursue careers in science and technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Retrospective on Undergraduate Engineering Success for Underrepresented and First

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FPD 11: Culminating Considerations

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington; Andrew P. Kruzic, University of Texas, Arlington; Stephen P Mattingly, University of Texas, Arlington; Ziaur Rahman, The University of Texas at Arlington; Heather L Frost

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?AbstractA team of faculty from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas atArlington received funding in 2010 to support a project entitled “Civil Engineering and LifeDecisions: Choose Wisely.” The aim of the project is to improve the decision makingcapabilities of students with emphasis on critical thinking and alternative analysis. This is beingaccomplished through the development and implementation of targeted modules for requiredcourses in the first year through the senior year. Gains in critical thinking capabilities aremeasured using the Critical Thinking Assessment Test (CAT), which students complete at thebeginning and end of their undergraduate programs. This paper focuses on the first semesterassessment results as

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FPD VII: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-Year Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Elizabeth Carruthers, The Ohio State University; Paul Alan Clingan, The Ohio State University - EEIC

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First-Year Programs

experience students gain incapstone projects is frequently too difficult (18) or not representative of real-world problems (19) .This lack of experience puts a burden on employers (20), but also puts well-trained students inhigh demand.Recent advances in personal computers have made computational modeling a possibility forstudents as a supplement to their studies. Waiting until upper-level courses to introducecomputational modeling robs them of a valuable tool which could have enhanced their traditionalcourse material throughout their undergraduate careers. In particular, student-level software issuitable for use as an industry proof-of-concept (21) (22). Providing students with early access tocomputational modeling software has the potential to

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FPD XI: Assessing First-Year Programs, Experiences, and Communities

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Kelly J. Cross, Virginia Tech University

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First-Year Programs

-specificintroductions to the major with projects localized to a specific field; from a single coursespanning one quarter or semester to full-year sequences; from a general set of science andmathematics courses to cornerstone engineering courses that emphasize design and professionaldevelopment. This diversity can make it challenging to provide analysis across programs, reachconsensus about appropriate learning goals for first-year students, or develop systematicapproaches to assessment.It is through the issue of assessment that we approach this diversity; the emphasis on assessmentnationally makes it a natural focal point, and any discussion of assessment inevitably raisesissues associated with both learning outcomes and implementation structures. Our goal

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Ways to Measure "Things" About Your Course(s)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew A. Verleger, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

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First-Year Programs

% Exercises 10% Homework 20% Participation 10% Final Project 20% • Exams are equally weighted at 40% total. • Attendance at the lab is not required students are told on the first day of class that it is collected and is used as a weighting factor for any curve applied to final course grades. Attendance was taken 16 times between August 28th and November 6th. • Exercises are conducted using Mathworks Cody Coursework system. They consist of 5-6 problems per assignment and are results-based – does your code calculate the correct answer. Because the system allows for automated grading, students are allowed to

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FPD4 -- Hands-on & Real-World Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Menicucci, Montana State University; James Duffy, Montana State University; Betsy Palmer, Montana State University

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First-Year Programs

Industrial Applications of • Read Lab Handout Leaching • Read F&R 3.2, 3.4,3.510/10 to 10/14 Fluidized Bed Polymer Coating II Nuclear Submarines10/17 to 10/21 Biological Fuel Cells Biological Engineering10/24 to 10/28 Introduction to term project Materials and Product Design10/31 to 11/4 Developing the Experimental Plan Exam11/7 to 11/11 Presentation of Experimental Plan No class – Veterans Day11/14 to 11/18 Student Designed Experiment MRI Research in Antarctica11/21 to 11/25 Student Designed Experiment No class – Thanksgiving11/28 to 12/2 Student Designed Experiment PowerPoint Basics12/5 to 12/9 Student

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First-Year Programs: Wednesday Cornucopia (Educational Research)

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Yatchmeneff, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Matthew E. Calhoun, University of Alaska, Anchorage

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Paper ID #26635Revisiting Engineering Identity in a Common Introduction to EngineeringCourse to Improve RetentionDr. Michele Yatchmeneff, University of Alaska, Anchorage Michele Yatchmeneff is Unangax (Alaska Native) who grew up living a traditional subsistence lifestyle in rural villages along Alaska’s Aleutian chain. She earned a BS in Civil Engineering in 2005 and an MS in Engineering Management in 2009 at University of Alaska Anchorage. After earning her BS she began working in Alaska’s construction and engineering industry, specializing in water and sewer projects in remote villages across the state. She also worked as

Conference Session

FPD and DEEDs Joint Postcard Sessions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anas Chalah, Harvard University; Fawwaz Habbal, Harvard University; Michael Raspuzzi, Harvard University

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Design in Engineering Education, First-Year Programs

Fawwaz HabbalPre-Collegiate Program Background and Direct ObjectiveAs new experiments and design-based projects are envisioned, they must be evaluated andassessed before they become part of the curriculum. Initially, we introduced such new items to asmall group of the Harvard College students, but as the demands for new experiments increased,it became difficult to have a thorough evaluation through the small sample of students. Wedecided to engage a different student body of diverse backgrounds by establishing a pre-collegiate program. This program attempts to prototype and develop multiple new activelearning initiatives before integrating them into the full curriculum. Indeed, the program becamea valuable platform to develop, to experiment, and

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Focusing on Student Success

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory Brozina, Youngstown State University; Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Nazanin Naderi, Youngstown State University

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First-Year Programs

% 2.58% 9.47 Study (long term) 3.27% 3.85% 0.79 4.50% 4.08% 1.08 Study (short term) 5.86% 3.10% 1.41 3.87% 1.77% 0.93 Transit--Driving 1.38% 1.86% 0.33 6.85% 4.00% 1.64 Transit--Walking 1.74% 1.32% 0.42 0.63% 0.79% 0.15 Work 1.26% 2.66% 0.30 4.91% 4.20% 1.18 Other 10.89% 5.82% 2.61 10.34% 4.30% 2.48Correlation and Regression OutputNext, we sought to determine if the activity category variables are a predictor of GPA. First, toreduce the number of independent variables we grouped long-term and short-termhomework/projects into one category entitled homework/projects

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5B: Work-In-Progress: 5 Minute Postcard Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Anthony Gulotta, Rowan University; Nicholas Steven Parisi, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University

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. Thestudents will work in multidisciplinary teams to accomplish a final design project, allowing themto participate actively in a design effort that simulates real world applications. In addition to thefinal design project, students will also continue to develop their communication skills, timemanagement, and critical thinking skills from the previous design course in the fall semester. Inthis paper, we present an overview of the gamification framework and activities being built intothe class as an alternative to traditional homework assignments for this first yearmultidisciplinary engineering design course. The gamification framework is constructed usingthe successful gamification software platform 3D GameLab.16 Herein are described the

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Focus on Student Learning, Lifelong Learning, and the Whole Student

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; Patricia A Ralston, University of Louisville

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that good critical thinkinginvolves identifying the elements of one’s reasoning and assessing the quality of that reasoningusing standards. In past years, students applied the framework through analysis and evaluationof an engineering related article and were encouraged to use the framework in development ofreports for a separate design project.2-4 However, student feedback indicated that the frameworkwas still not well-understood or utilized. Additionally, difficulties were encountered assessingwhether students’ critical thinking abilities actually improved after instruction and courseactivities. In Fall 2014, faculty sought to enhance and expand critical thinking instruction in thecourse by providing students with more meaningful

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FPD VII: Research on First-year Programs Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Bazylak, University of Toronto; Susan McCahan, University of Toronto; Peter Eliot Weiss, University of Toronto

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First-Year Programs

AC 2012-4577: EFFECTS OF LECTURE CAPTURE ON A LARGE FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING COURSEJason Bazylak, University of Toronto Jason Bazylak has been an lecturer with the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering since 2008. His research interests are in engineering design education and outreach to under-represented groups in the engineering professions, particularly Native Americans. He coordinates a large, award-winning first-year service-learning course, coordinates and teaches a third-year mechanical design for environment course, supervises the undergraduate design facilities, and is the Project Coordinator for the mechanical and industrial engineering senior design course.Dr. Susan McCahan, University of

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Research on the First Year I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University; Jing Chen, Purdue University

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. Another prevalent project that explicitly focus onengineering decision-making was developed by the Missouri recovery program17. Thisproject included a workshop that utilized Structured Decision Making (SDM). The SDMapproach focused on complex decisions and the importance of uncertainties.There are, however, few researchers who examined students’ use of data or decisionsupport structures to make design decisions14 and 19. Studies with first-year engineeringstudents show they rarely use structured decision-making tools and tend to overlookcritical information during the decision-making process9. Novice engineering studentsmake decisions based on limited data and evidence. In addition, when novice designersuse a decision support tool such as QFD