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

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Jacob T Allenstein, Ohio State University; Robert B. Rhoads, Ohio State University; Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University

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DevelopmentIntroductionAlbert Einstein once said, “intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only atdeath.” 1 To develop students who can achieve lifelong learning is a goal of higher education.2Because lifelong learning is vital to an engineer's career, the accreditation board for engineeringand technology (ABET) included lifelong learning as one of its student outcomes. ABET statesthat by graduation students should have "a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage inlife-long learning."3At The Ohio State University’s Engineering Education Innovation Center (EEIC), students areoffered a wide range of engineering courses through the first-year engineering program and asenior-year multidisciplinary capstone program. A requirement for all first

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1553 FPD3 - Computer & Programming Tools in First Year Instruction

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Robertson, Arizona State University; Sarah Roux, Arizona State University; Vivek Ramanathan, Arizona State University; Mark Rager, Arizona State University

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AC 2008-1508: PERSPECTIVES ON A FRESHMAN TREATMENT OFELECTRONIC SYSTEMSJohn Robertson, Arizona State University John Robertson is a Professor in the Electronic Systems Department at Arizona State University Polytechnic. He was formerly an executive with Motorola and now participates in many senior technical training programs with the JACMET consortium.Sarah Roux, Arizona State University Sarah Roux is a proud Texas native with a background in the Semiconductor industry in the US and France. She was in the 2006 class and is currently a Control Systems Major with an interest in Alternative Energy. Her career goal is to help develop a progressive national energy policy.Vivek Ramanathan, Arizona State

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Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Summer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; John Scalzo, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Sarah Jones, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Kelly Rusch, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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industries, since those are the predominant employers for graduates in thisgeographic region. The speed information session provided access to professionals who discussalternative engineering career and/or additional professional development skills needed that arenot covered in another topic. Guests included the LSU International Programs/Study Abroadgroup, engineers in medical and law professions, representatives of the Graduate School, MBAprograms and current graduate students, and representatives from the Louisiana ProfessionalEngineering and Land Surveyors (LAPELS) Licensing Board.Introduction to Engineering, ENGR 1050 Introduction to Engineering (ENGR 1050) is an interdisciplinary course gearedspecifically to assist students academically

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First-Year Programs: Paying Attention to Retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Elizabeth R. Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

include “(1) facilitating the first year students’ and newtransfer students’ transition into the school of engineering; (2) increasing students’ commitmentto engineering majors through career clarification and goal setting; (3) reducing the barriers tosuccess that students may face, particularly those for women and underrepresented students; and(4) enhancing the positive personal and environmental factors for students in engineering.”(Smith, Fourney, & Pertmer, 2009) Ultimately, the SEEDS program seeks to promote persistenceand success among engineering students, particularly through their first year in the Clark Schoolof Engineering.The SEEDS program is comprised of a series of programs, including the Engineering Living &Learning

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FPD1 -- Implementing a First-Year Engineering Course

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Hagenberger, Valparaiso University; Barbara Engerer, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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First-Year Programs

semester of a student’s academic career is always very important, and it may be evenmore important for an engineering student. From increasing academic rigor to increasedfreedom to make important life-affecting choices, the first semester of an engineering programholds great opportunity to change a student’s life. Along with this high degree of importancecomes a high degree of flexibility, because there are many different ways in which a firstengineering course can be structured and taught. Each of these different philosophies has itsbenefits and liabilities, and optimizing the first-semester engineering course is still a very activearea of curricular research.In this paper, we will first present an overview of the many different philosophies

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FPD4 -- Hands-on & Real-World Studies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Bland, John Brown University

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First-Year Programs

andhow their personal career may be impacted.The above course adaptations are changes that could be made within the original course structurewithout adding work or changing the classroom time. Original discussions are now simplyreframed to consider global and cultural issues.One change that did add content is a discussion on appropriate technology. The new coursesyllabus takes a week to discuss the issues of appropriate technology and how engineers need toadapt designs for integration into needy societies. Over the two years that this new course hasbeen in place, guest lecturers have proven to be very effective in stimulating discussion andcritical thinking in this class segment.During the first year, JBU had the opportunity to have artisans

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FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-year Programs Division

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A. Meadows, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Elizabeth S. Hildinger, University of Michigan

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First-Year Programs

Page 25.524.2opportunity to engage in aspects of engineering that are important to their career goals.  I. BackgroundEnrollment trends in engineering schools in the US show increased numbers of students enteringthe engineering field over the past decade3. Enrollment of female students has been rising,reaching 18.6 percent in 2010; however, women remain highly under-represented in the field.Likewise, enrollments of some groups of minority students remain low, with African Americanstudents declining to only 5.9 percent of undergraduate engineering enrollment, while Hispanicstudent enrollments increased to 9.1 percent. At the University of Michigan, College ofEngineering, enrollment of female students has been relatively high, reaching its peak

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Learning as a Community

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Amanda Idema, Michigan State University; Cynthia Helman, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

related to the failure of New Orleans levees in hurricane Katrina. As Associate Dean, he oversees curriculum, advising, career planning, study abroad, early engineering and other related initiatives.Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University NEERAJ BUCH is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. He is also the Director of Cornerstone Engineering and Residential Experience program at Michigan State University. He earned his M.S. degree in pavement engineering in 1988 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his Ph.D. in pavement and materials engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 1995. Dr. Buch began his

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First-year Programs Division: Self Efficacy

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacey Leigh Kelly, Virginia Tech; Darren K. Maczka, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

“engineering” in the title, which could have an unexpected impact on their decision-making process. A betterunderstanding of how these courses impact major and career intentions, and how those choices may change duringthe course of the first year, could help inform advising, curriculum, and other retention strategies. In the presentstudy, we utilized existing survey data and university records collected over a three-year period to determine howstudents’ perceptions of motivation and identity constructs (e.g. engineering identification, engineering utility)change over their first year of which the FYE experience is a significant part. In addition, we examined how theseconstructs measured during the first semester may relate to engineering major choice

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FPD 2: Retention

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Kristen Strominger, University of Cincinnati - School of Energy, Environmental, Biological and Medical Engineering; Urmila Ghia, University of Cincinnati

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First-Year Programs

project targetsrecruitment and retention of engineering ethnic minorities, women, and economicallydisadvantaged and/or First Generation college-bound students. The strategies include: cohortbuilding, networking, and pathway to graduate school. Cohort building includes buildingproductive academic relationships among students, between students and faculty, and betweenstudents and the university administration. The networking strategies include building andupholding a professional network with all people the students meet within their education andfuture career field, such as advisors, faculty members from whom they take classes, professors intheir major, internship supervisors, employers or administrators, and throughvolunteer/community activities

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy J. Hinds, Michigan State University; S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

, mechanics, computational tools and international product design as well as graduate-level courses in engineering innovation and technology management. He has conducted research in the areas of environmentally-responsible manu- facturing, globally-distributed engineering teaming and early engineering education development and has over 30 years of combined academic and industrial management experience. He received his BSME and MSME degrees from Michigan Technological University.Dr. S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University S. Patrick Walton received his B.ChE. from Georgia Tech, where he began his biomedical research career in the Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He then attended MIT where he earned his M.S

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FPD 1: The Path to Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Marisa K. Orr, Louisiana Tech University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University

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First-Year Programs

enrollment began their college careers outside engineering.1Many programs have been put in place to recruit students into engineering fromunderrepresented groups,2,3 but fewer programs exist to recruit from among students alreadyenrolled in universities and the nature of the engineering curriculum makes it difficult for manystudents to switch into engineering once they have chosen a different academic pathway.Most people who apply to colleges of engineering “always wanted” to be engineers or at leastthey had decided by the time they were seniors in high school that engineering was going to betheir career path. Many identify as being “good at math and science” and therefore engineeringmade sense to them.4 Others like to build things or got involved

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Reza Kamali, California State University San Marcos

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First-Year Programs

six broad factors drive students to leave engineering: classroom and academicclimate, grades and conceptual understanding, self-efficacy and self-confidence, high schoolpreparation, interest and career goals, and race and gender. They also noted that studies suggestthat retention can be increased by addressing one or more of these factors [3].In order to address the factors that persistently cause so many students to leave engineering, andto develop a lower-division curriculum that will engage and retain Electrical Engineering majors,particularly those from underrepresented groups, California State University San Marcos, proposesto implement this study to improve retention. This paper will address two of the retention issuesthat Geisinger and

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First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Anne Blackowski, Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Tamara Knott, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

. Matusovich is an Associate Professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 10 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies.Prof. Tamara Knott, Virginia Tech Tamara Knott is Associate

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FPD6 - First Year Curricula Development

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana; Richard Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana; Eric Sprouls, University of Southern Indiana

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First-Year Programs

degree program in Engineering was initiated at a regionaluniversity. Three freshman engineering courses were developed to allow incoming studentsimmediate contact with both the engineering program and faculty. Students take EngineeringSeminar during their first semester. The seminar is designed to expose students to engineering asa career, the various engineering specialties and details about the curriculum. The students alsoget to meet the faculty (and some upper class students) both during weekly presentations andduring the annual picnic. The two other freshmen courses, Introduction to Engineering andIntroduction to Design."ctg"qhhgtgf"fwtkpi"vjg"uvwfgpvuÓ"hktuv"cpf"ugeqpf"ugoguvgtu."tgurgevkxgn{0"Introduction to Engineering introduces

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Experiential Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University; Hunter Lovvorn, Mississippi State University

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First-Year Programs

career in industry. Her research interests include interdisciplinary project and team-based learning to promote gender equality in digital literacy and human and social aspects of software engineering.Mr. Hunter Lovvorn, Mississippi State University Hunter Lovvorn is a Teaching Assistant at Mississippi State University where he is pursuing a master’s degree in Computer Science with an emphasis in computer security. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Building Computational Thinking Skills Using Robots With First Year Engineering StudentsAbstractThis research paper describes the transition of content in a first year experience (FYE) course

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Design and Design Chanllenges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean P Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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First-Year Programs

learningoutcomes designed to prepare students for their academic and professional careers 2,3. Thesesame requirements also identify specific engineering problem solving abilities involving theapplication of disciplinary knowledge to analyze systems being designed. Research on howstudents approach a design illustrate many challenges they demonstrate when engaging in designactivities. For example, failing to identify the major requirements, define user needs, identifyingappropriate measures of success, failure to identify to pursue alternatives 4,5. Also, as studentstransition from high school to college they are unaware of the increase in complexity ofproblems they will solve and their need to work interdependently with others to meet thosecomplex

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FPD 9: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part III: Research, Sustainability, and Professionalism

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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First-Year Programs

disagree disagree Control Group Experiment Group n = 20 n = 21 Figure 1. Students’ answers to attitude question 1 in the pre-survey Page 23.726.5Similarly, for the remaining 4 attitude questions there is no statistical difference between the twogroups. It is important to note that 9 out of 20 students (45%) in the control group disagree orstrongly disagree with the statements “People should be willing to make economic choices for abetter environment” and “My career choices should

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First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University; Edward Randolph Collins Jr. P.E., Clemson University; Chris Porter, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

28% Mechanical EngineeringAt the beginning of the Friday Tour, all guests report to Holtzendorff Hall for the 12:40 pm start,which is the home to both General Engineering (GE) and OUR. Guests are registered and gatherin a 150-seat auditorium for a presentation by GE; additional lecture halls are used during busytimes of the semester. A packet of CES information is given to all prospective students duringcheck-in. GE faculty conduct a 20-minute presentation to all guests, as all freshmen and transferstudents wishing to pursue a degree in engineering initially begin their collegiate career in GE,about the philosophy, curriculum, teaching methods, advising, and enrichment opportunitiesoffered in GE and the College

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FPD 2: Building Community

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Sudhir Shrestha; Kody Varahramyan, IUPUI

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by a team of 4-6 students.Seven credit hours incorporate fundamental, practical and computational principles ofnanotechnology into the curriculum. This will allow the TLC to build the following professionalattributes: • Ability to work productively in a collaborative setting. • Knowledge of successful careers in the nanotechnology area to fill the future needs of industry. Students pursuing this track are equipped with key elements needed in industry, including computer modeling and simulation, laboratory experience, and design methodologies. • Ability to do scientific research and engage in discovery and scholarship. • Develop strong professional attributes, including ethical behavior in the workplace

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First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chitra Javdekar, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley Hills MA 02481; Stephen W. McKnight, Northeastern University; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College

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First-Year Programs

the first one or two years ofcollege[2], making the first year college experience for students a critical one in the choice oftheir careers. Several models have been used to describe the attrition of STEM studentsincluding a leaky pipeline model, a path model, and statistical models based on pre-collegecharacteristics for incoming freshmen as indicators of their future retention in engineeringprograms[3].However, it should be noted that one of the important research studies suggests thatproportion of students switching (40%) because of “inadequate preparation in high school mathand science” is almost equal to the proportion of “non-switchers” (38%) reporting inadequatepreparation in those subjects[2]. This suggests that although inadequate

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Exploring Retention

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeong Hwan Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jacob Marszalek, University of Missouri, Kansas City; Joyce Lee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Susan Linnemeyer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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First-Year Programs

SAGE – Student Assisted Guidance in EngineeringI. IntroductionEngineers are key personnel to maintain or promote economic growth and create jobs throughinnovation in a society 1. However, engineers experience difficulties in transition or socializationin multiple stages of their academic and professional career 2-5. Especially, first-year engineeringstudents are exposed to more critical environmental changes and discrepancies of identity 6, 7.Unsuccessful transitioning into rigorous engineering education context induces low retention offirst year engineering students. The National Science Foundation 8 reports that only 60% ofstudents who enter engineering disciplines obtain an engineering degree. Some engineeringcolleges provide special

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

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Héctor Enrique Rodríguez-Simmonds, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Juan David Ortega-Alvarez, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University; Stephen R Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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. We conducted individual interviews with 12 students enrolled in the FYEProgram. These students were selected so that they were representative of the entire studentpopulation in terms of gender. The qualitative findings of this study reinforce that the studentsare basing their decision of a major using SLE. These findings also helped us unpack themeaning of SLE, and we further came up with 6 different types of SLE. Finally, our findings alsoindicated that direct interaction with people was highly valued by the students while selecting amajor.IntroductionFrom the vocational standpoint, literature on career decision-making is abundant. As early as1979, Harren advanced a comprehensive model for career decision-making focused on collegestudents

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FPD and DEEDs Joint Postcard Sessions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Anderson, Montana State University; Abigail M. Richards, Montana State University

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Design in Engineering Education, First-Year Programs

moving through the same curriculum, as a cohort, over the past three years.Simultaneously, the instructor of the introductory chemical and biological engineering course,which targets first semester freshmen, found through end of semester course reviews that manystudents remain uncertain of what career opportunities are afforded to them as chemical orbiological engineers. To remedy this perceived problem, the authors were inspired by the workof Butterfield and Branch [1] where seniors ‘hired’ freshman students to assist in the laboratorycomponent of the Capstone Design experience. In their work, freshman participants self-reportedhaving learned important engineering concepts, and also gained insight into their future careertrajectory.Our approach

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First-year Programs Division Postcard Session 1: Retention and Student Success Strategies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington; Ann Delaney, Boise State University; Katherine Christine Tetrick, Washington State University; Sonya Cunningham, University of Washington; Pamela Cosman, University of California, San Diego; Tanya D. Ennis, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jana Milford, University of Colorado, Boulder; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Michelle Ferrez, University of California, San Diego

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the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her career in the telecommunications industry included positions in software and systems engineering and technical project management. Tanya taught mathe- matics at the Denver School of Science and Technology, the highest performing high school in Denver Public Schools. She is a PhD student in the School of Education at University of Colorado Boulder studying Learning Sciences and Human Development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018

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FPD XI: Tidbits and Cookies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia A. Tolley P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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First-Year Programs

AC 2012-4740: GENDERED SOCIALIZATION DURING THE FIRST SEMESTER:CONTRASTING EXPERIENCES OF MALE AND FEMALE TRANSFER/NON-TRADITIONAL ENGINEERING STUDENTSDr. Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Peter Tkacik is an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering within the motorsports focus area. His largest area of research is in the engagement of high school students and early career engineering col- lege students through hands-on learning activities and exciting visual and experiential research programs. Other research activities are related to the details of the visual and experiential programs and relate to race car aerodynamics, vehicle dynamics, color-Schlieren shock and compressible flow

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FPD IV: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-year Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian M. Argrow, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel W. Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney, University of Colorado, Boulder; Suzana Brown, University of Colorado, Boulder; Adam J. Blanford, University of Colorado, Boulder; Corrina Ladakis Gibson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Eric Donnelly Kenney

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First-Year Programs

MCENGuidelines for the weekly discipline module activities are presented in Table 5. The moduleinstructors had great liberty in designing weekly activities; the only requirement was that thestudents be divided into teams to produce a single module deliverable. The deliverable was ateam presentation to demonstrate that the team had explored the application of the modulediscipline to at least one of the Engineering Grand Challenges. As discussed earlier, the NAEEngineering Grand Challenges1 were used to focus all the discipline modules onto a common setof “big” problems that will likely shape the careers of many of the current first-year students.The module curriculum focuses on the process to generate engineering design requirements. Inthis way, the

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stacie Edington, University of Michigan; Steven J. Skerlos, University of Michigan; Claudia G. Cameratti-Baeza, University of Michigan; Abby M. Chapin, University of Michigan; Frank J. Marsik, University of Michigan

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program and plans to pursue further educational and career opportunities involving human-centered design, product development, and global health.Frank J. Marsik, University of Michigan Frank Marsik is the Faculty Director of First Year Student Engagement in Undergraduate Education within the University of Michigan, College of Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of Michi- gan. In addition to serving as the primary instructor for ”Engineering 110: Design Your Engineering American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #34818Experience”, he also teaches a

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FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Kampe, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Matthew Stimpson, Virginia Tech; Brad Matanin, Virginia Tech; Amanda Martin, Virginia Tech; Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

M.S. in Counselor Education, Student Affairs Administration from Radford University, and M.S. in Career and Technical Education and B.S. in Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise both from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Sate University.Matthew Stimpson, Virginia Tech MATTHEW STIMPSON is a doctoral student in the Higher Education program in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech. He is also a graduate assistant in the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity, also at Virginia Tech. He holds a M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration and a B.A. in political science, both from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.Brad Matanin, Virginia

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First-Year Programs: Monday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Cory Brozina, Youngstown State University

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First-Year Programs

science earn significantly more than students who major in the humanities andsocial sciences. Finally, high ability students have been found to shift to majors that result inmore profitable professional pathways and lower ability students shift to “easier majors”7.Student ability and their expectation of future earning potential were reported as importantfactors in the selection of a college major; however, these perceptions may have errors thatwould influence major change8. Social Cognitive Career Theory is based on the idea that careerdevelopment is a process related to self-exploration and choice, but that there can be barriers thatconfound decision making. For example an individual’s prior experiences and background(culture, gender, genetic