Conference Session

FPD4 -- Hands-on & Real-World Studies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Rice, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Greg Russ, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Julia Ross, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

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First-Year Programs

communication in engineeringfields. Throughout the semester, the teams are required to utilize the concepts learned inlecture and apply them to the completion of a fun, yet inexpensive design project. Inpresenting their work, the teams must demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentalengineering principles behind their design in addition to simply exhibiting thefunctionality of their project.During the Fall 2006 semester, the project facilitates learning of energy systemsinvolving renewable energy sources. Students were required to construct a system thatuses solar, wind, and/or hydro sources to collect energy. Furthermore, their system mustbe able to store, transport, convert, and utilize the collected energy to power a small lightbulb. The overall

Conference Session

FPD and DEEDs Joint Postcard Sessions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jillian Beth Schmidt, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Design in Engineering Education, First-Year Programs

Paper ID #21307Work in Progress: Development and Implementation of a Self-guided Ar-duino Module in an Introductory Engineering Design CourseDr. Jillian Beth Schmidt, Missouri University of Science & Technology Dr. Jillian Schmidt is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She teaches primarily first and second- year engineering design courses, and her research interests include technology incorporation and team dynamics in project based courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018

Conference Session

Retention Tools and Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Amy Hamlin, Michigan Technological University

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First-Year Programs

engineering degree. For students at MichiganTechnological University, this decision primarily occurs during their first or second year.Therefore, the contents of the first-year engineering courses make a crucial first impression.The first-year engineering program at Michigan Tech consists of a two course sequence that wasdesigned to give the students the engineering skills necessary to succeed at any engineeringdiscipline while providing the opportunity to learn more about the different majors. From 2000to 2006, students were scheduled for their engineering courses as part of a cohort with calculusand physics. While the material covered in the first semester was common throughout thesections, the design projects for the second semester course were

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Cornucopia #2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Uma Lakshman, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering; Jack Bringardner, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #30558Work in Progress: Transitioning to Two Semesters: The Development of aFull-Year CornerstoneMs. Uma Lakshman, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering Uma Lakshman is a rising fourth-year undergraduate student at NYU Tandon studying Civil Engineering with a minor in Urban Informatics. She is the Head Teaching Assistant of the Introduction to Engineering and Design Course at NYU Tandon, and manages the 115 Teaching Assistants of the course. She has previously worked at AECOM as a Civil Engineering and Highway Design Intern. She has worked on projects such as the Nassau Expressway Reconstruction and the FDR Median

Conference Session

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

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

participants were members of the University’s Honors College and completed the coursein their first or second year on campus.In the initial offering, the course focused on a single problem: how to increase the sustainabilityof the supercomputer center on campus? Students enrolled in this problem-based researchseminar learned about the problem area through in-class instruction and homework assignments,and then worked with the instructors to develop individual projects examining various solutionsto the shared research problem. In the second year the course was offered, the focus shifted froma specific problem to the broader topic of image analysis workflows, which are used in manySTEM disciplines to analyze data from photos and videos. In this workflow

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering in the First-Year

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huihui H Wang, Jacksonville University; Festus Ogbaisi, Jacksonville University; Martins Slaboh, Jacksonville University; Emre Selvi, Jacksonville University; Maria Javaid, Jacksonville University

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First-Year Programs, Multidisciplinary Engineering

department, we have more students in ME thanin EE. However, it is imperative for all students to have the basics of EE in order to work on therobotic projects. In this case, we mix students from two programs together in the engineeringorientation course. “What topics should be covered in this course?” is always a question and achallenge for the instructors. After 3-year practices and continuous improvements, we decide tocover not only the basics of ME and EE but also diverse soft skills trainings especially theproject management trainings. Three teaching assistants (two juniors from EE and one juniorfrom ME) are assisting a professor in the lab sections. This paper studies the outcomes of severalactivities such as the ethics debates, self-identities

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibibia K. Dabipi, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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First-Year Programs

engineering design experience aimed at a design course that iscollaborative, multi-disciplined, hands on, aerospace industry focused, and helps studentsidentify strengths and weaknesses they may have when working in team environments [1][2].While focusing on aviation projects, the faculties from both the engineering and aviationprograms seek to address the issues faced by students in both programs in a way that benefits thestudents. Practical projects provide the students with the understanding that their work isaddressing a relevant industry need. Additionally, design projects such as this one introducesstudents to the type of group dynamics that they are likely to encounter at their future sites ofemployment where they will be expected to perform

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenahvive K. Morgan, Michigan State University; Roya Solhmirzaei, Michigan State University; Hadi Salehi, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

involve their experience with writing and programming, as well astheir university schedule and location. Based on the responses from these questions, each pair ofstudents are matched with another pair of students with complementary skills. Another uniquecharacteristic of this course involves students having the ability to change teams after the firstdesign project. Students may desire to change teams if they feel that the rest of their team isunderperforming, or if they feel that the other students on their team are overly demanding.These practices are informed by the above studies to encourage students to develop moredependent learning styles.A self-reporting measure of team performance was given to first-year engineering students toexamine

Conference Session

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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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #15792Building Computational Thinking Skills Using Robots With First-Year Engi-neering StudentsDr. Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University Dr. Sarah B. Lee is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineer- ing at Mississippi State University and is a Gender Studies faculty affiliate. She received her BS from the Mississippi University for Women, a Master’s degree in Computer Science at Mississippi State Univer- sity, and her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Memphis. She brings software development and project management experience to the classroom from her

Conference Session

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

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Benjamin Emery Mertz, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

engineering design process in thecontext of a semester-long project. The previous course design used the first half of the semesterto teach important aspects of the engineering design process through scaffolding activitiesdesigned to highlight each step in the design process before having students apply those steps toa full design project in the second half of the semester. The new course design utilizes more just-in-time learning strategies as students learn and apply the design process steps directly to theirproject as they work on the same project throughout the entire semester. To assess the impactthat this course has on the students’ knowledge and application of the engineering design processas well as potential benefits that may arise from the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the First Year

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emma Tevaarwerk, Northwestern University; Kathleen Carmichael, Northwestern University; Ordel Brown, Northwestern University; Lisa Davidson; Elise Gruneisen

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

of a novel curricular intervention piloted in a first-yeardesign course at a private, medium-sized R1 university. Specifically, the intervention requiredthat students on a team rotate through leadership roles in four key areas: primary research,secondary research, training-building-testing, and project management. The team lead for eachrole completed associated documentation and coached their successor on how to succeed in thatrole. This study leverages a cooperative learning approach in order to provide more equitableaccess to learning for all students. Implementation of such approaches in first-year contexts is ofparticular importance, as these classes are formative for how students view teamwork.Research ContextThis research was

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Schimmels, Marquette University

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First-Year Programs

engineering skills associated with design andcommunication and on personal characteristics associated with good teamwork and effectiveleadership. Small group discussion related to course readings are used to increase studentunderstanding of abstract engineering concepts. Design projects are used to facilitate studenttransfer of their understanding to new contexts.The course sequence has been piloted in the Mechanical Engineering program and was shown tobe quite successful with regard to student achievement and student satisfaction. Plans are beingmade for college-wide implementation of a similar freshman experience emphasizing skill andpersonal characteristic development.1.0 IntroductionThe issues of engineering student engagement and persistence and

Conference Session

FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University; Burford J. Furman, San Jose State University; Ping Hsu, San Jose State University; Patricia R Backer, San Jose State University

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First-Year Programs

for Engineering Education, 2013 How Important is the WOW Factor in First Year Engineering Courses?AbstractThis paper discusses the effectiveness of using projects with a “wow factor,” that is, engagingand challenging hands-on projects, in a freshman engineering course to excite students aboutengineering and to motivate student retention and persistence. The course, offered at San JoséState University, enrolls approximately 700 students per year in a lecture/laboratory format.Projects include a solar cell evaluation, and the design, construction and testing of a scaled windturbine and an autonomous robot. Impact of the course content on students’ knowledge andattitudes about engineering is

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Focus on Students

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Philip Reid Brown, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Ilene J. Rosen, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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First-Year Programs

answers is a lessauthentic representation of computer programming skill than projects that ask students to writeand test real computer programs. To combat plagiarism, project-centric programming courses often use plagiarism softwarelike Stanford MOSS in order to flag and investigate potential plagiarism cases. The idea behindthe use of such a program is that of deterrence: If these tools are good enough at detectingplagiarized code, and students are aware of their existence, then students will not plagiarize, lestthey get caught with solid, algorithmic proof behind the potential accusation. In practice, it is notso simple. Some students attempt to beat plagiarism programs. More difficult still is whenstudents are not aware of their own

Conference Session

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

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Warren Bucks, Ohio Northern University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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First-Year Programs

acquisition systems home andconduct experiments and design projects. This paper presents the results of a pilot project inwhich a first-year engineering course at a large university was modified to use data acquisitionhardware systems and a graphical programming environment. This paper will discuss thecurricular structure, the implementation of the graphical programming language and hardwarecomponent, examples from the class, and initial assessments from the experience in the form ofclass surveys. Challenges and opportunities are discussed. Overall, students reacted positivelyto the inclusion of the graphical language and extremely positively to the inclusion of thehardware aspect, which allowed for more hands-on activities. The instructional team

Conference Session

Introducing Programming in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Gordon, The Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

school juniors and seniors intended to establish basicmodeling and simulation skills, the importance of modeling to the solution of engineeringproblems, understanding of the underlying mathematics, and consideration of careers in STEMfields. We summarize the content of the course and the final projects undertaken by the students.Pre- and post-course surveys were used along with student responses to open-ended journalprompts to gauge the success of the course. There was significant positive change in thepercentage of students seeking STEM careers and their confidence in using MATLAB to explorechallenging problems via modeling. Students also indicated they were engaged by the coursematerial and felt better prepared for college. Other responses

Conference Session

FPD10 - Freshman Engineering Introduction to Design

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Montgomery, University of Michigan; Rodney Johnson, University of Michigan

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First-Year Programs

communicating about their work. The challenge for educators has been to integratethis more holistic view of an engineer’s training with the already demanding curricula already inplace. At the University of Michigan all incoming first-year students are required to take acourse, Engineering 100, “Introduction to Engineering,” that integrates many of these skills—design, communication, engineering science and teamwork—in the context of a semester-longproject. This course has several sections each semester, each with a different project focus. Somesections of this course go through a complete design/build/test cycle, while others, such as ours,focus more closely on the design process.Our section, Design: The Next Generation, focuses on the product design

Conference Session

FPD and DEEDs Joint Postcard Sessions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail Baura, Loyola University Chicago; Leanne Kallemeyn, Loyola University Chicago; Noe Arroyo; Vincent C.F. Chen, Loyola University Chicago; Allan Beale

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Design in Engineering Education, First-Year Programs

Paper ID #22177Work in Progress: Building a Functional Cardiograph Over Four SemestersDr. Gail Baura, Loyola University Chicago Dr. Gail Baura is a Professor and Director of Engineering Science at Loyola University Chicago. While creating the curriculum for this new program, she embedded multi-semester projects to increase student engagement and performance. Previously, she was a Professor of Medical Devices at Keck Graduate In- stitute of Applied Life Sciences, which is one of the Claremont Colleges. She received her BS Electrical Engineering degree from Loyola Marymount University, her MS Electrical Engineering and MS

Conference Session

FPD 4: Peers and Perceptions

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University

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First-Year Programs

ofoutcomes. The introductory course is designed to contribute toward the achievement of fourABET1 student outcomes. Assessment of outcomes is performed through direct measurements ofstudent performance in multiple assignments and three team projects. The data from the directassessment is compared with the student perceptions of the achievement of these outcomes.Statistical analysis and correlation analysis are used to compare the two data sets. Studentperceptions are quantified through data collected from surveys conducted in three sections of thecourse taught by two different instructors during Fall 2013 with the use of a 1-5 Likert scale. Thesurveys are conducted at the end of the semester. The surveys are designed such that eachoutcome can be

Conference Session

Service Learning and Societal Issues in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Savilonis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David Spanagel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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First-Year Programs

been at WPI since 1995. Email kwobbe@wpi.edu; phone 508-831-5375. Page 15.472.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engaging Students with Great ProblemsAbstractWPI’s Great Problems Seminars were designed to bring first year engineering students intomeaningful contact with current events, societal problems, and human needs. Key learningobjectives include: introducing project team work and developing writing and presentation skills.Each seminar has focused on a large global issue: food and hunger, energy and its utilization,health and healthcare delivery, the NAE Grand Challenges. Seminars are co-taught by

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Teams and Teamwork

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emma Tevaarwerk DeCosta, Northwestern University; Kathleen Carmichael, Northwestern University; Lisa M. Davidson, Northwestern University; Ordel Brown, Northwestern University; Elise Gruneisen, Northwestern University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

exclusion from high-profile team roles [5-9].Recent research indicates that first-year, team-based design courses represent a uniqueopportunity to address such disparities and providing early collaborative learning experiencessupports the success of students from underrepresented groups in engineering [10-13]. Whilelectures and readings may provide teams with basic tools for team and project management,these correlate team success with the creation of a high-quality final design [14]. Such tools mayinadvertently cue students to distribute work according to stereotypical social roles in the beliefthat by having team members “play to their strengths,” they are doing what is best for the team[15]. Such task distribution may limit new learning across

Conference Session

ENT Division Technical Session: First-year Experiences

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Scott Duplicate Streiner, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Bruce Oestreich, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation, First-Year Programs

the last decade. These practices have often beeninitiated, supported, and disseminated via the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network(KEEN), which has focused on students developing curiosity about the world around them,connecting information from a variety of sources to guide in analysis, and creating products thatprovide value to stakeholders. In the College of Engineering at Rowan University we havesought to strategically develop the entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students by building inEML principles – namely the KEEN 3C’s of Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value – intoexisting and new first and second-year design projects.This full paper describes one such first-year project that leverages EML and Universal

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Keyanoush Sadeghipour, Temple University; David Brookstein, Temple University; Shawn Fagan, Temple University; Cory Budischak, Temple University

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First-Year Programs

student aspiration conforms to oneof the basic tenets of “design thinking” in that it is a methodology that imbues the full spectrumof innovation with a human-centered design ethos.At our university we have started to infuse the concepts of design thinking in our initialIntroduction to Engineering course and then later in our capstone senior design project courses.Between those “course bookends” we are working with our faculty to introduce to them thedesign thinking concept of “identifying the need” in place of only teaching “transactional”engineering concepts and theories and how to solve engineering problems.This paper will illustrate how we have introduced design thinking in our first-year introduction toengineering course and then conducted

Conference Session

First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd R Hamrick, West Virginia University

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First-Year Programs

and German in 1987, and returned to academia after a 22 year engineering career in industry. During his career Dr. Hamrick served in a broad range of positions including design, product development, tool and die, manufacturing, sales, and management. His teaching style brings practical, innovative, experience based learning to the classroom, where hands on projects that reflect real world applications are valued by students. Since 1998 he has mentored and lead youth organizations including Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H, and First Robotics, with youth ranging in ages from first grade through high school. He was named a Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources Outstanding Teacher for 2013-14

Conference Session

FPD1 - Early Success and Retention

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; James Mathias, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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First-Year Programs

AC 2008-710: AN INNOVATIVE FRESHMEN ENGINEERING COURSE TOIMPROVE RETENTIONJale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University-CarbondaleJohn Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-CarbondaleJames Mathias, Southern Illinois University-CarbondaleLalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University-CarbondaleRhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Page 13.182.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 An Innovative Freshmen Engineering Course to Improve RetentionAbstractAs part of a federally funded project to improve retention, the College of Engineering (COE) atSouthern Illinois University- Carbondale (SIUC) has implemented a college

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Tuesday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julian Ly Davis, University of Southern Indiana; Arthur L. Chlebowski, University of Southern Indiana; David J. Ellert PE, University of Southern Indiana

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First-Year Programs

within a freshmanengineering design course in which students are asked to conceive, design,implement and operate a Six-Section Rube Goldberg machine. Often in the firstyear of an engineering curriculum there is a project based class designed tointroduce students to, motivate students about, and retain students within theengineering discipline. They also begin to instill skills such as: 1. Team Work 2. Systems Engineering through Experimentation, Testing, and CAD & physical Modeling 3. Written Communication 4. Oral Communication 5. Time Management 6. Team ManagementAt this institution, project based classes allow students to develop these skills andexpressly enforces two avenues of technical communication: between and

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Mathematics in the First Year

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cem Karacal, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Ma Zenia N. Agustin, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; George Pelekanos, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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First-Year Programs, Mathematics

, Mathematics & Statistics Department2 1 Edwardsville, IL 62026AbstractThis Evidence-based practice complete paper describes the experiences with a holisticMathematics Enrichment Sessions, Freshmen Mentoring, Mathematics Tutoring and newFreshmen Engineering course that are implemented during the last five years at Southern IllinoisUniversity Edwardsville as part of our NSF STEP project. The mathematics Enrichment Session(ES) idea, which is a combination of the best aspects of Supplemental Instruction idea andPeerLed Team Learning methods, can be an effective way of supporting students in their firstyear of studies. The implementation of the peer-mentoring program that was

Conference Session

FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Esmaeili, University of Dayton; Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #7138By the Students, for the students: A New Paradigm for Better Achieving theLearning ObjectivesMr. Mohammadjafar EsmaeiliDr. Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University Dr. Eydgahi is a professor in the school of Engineering Technology at Eastern Michigan University. He has supervised a number of graduate thesis and undergraduate projects in the areas of Unmanned Vehicle Design, Sensor Fusion, Speaker Recognition Design, Virtual Reality and Visualization, Digital Signal Processing, Control Systems, Robotics and Systems Automation. He has an extensive experience in curriculum and laboratory design and development

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Todd France, Ohio Northern University; Louis A. DiBerardino III, Ohio Northern University

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First-Year Programs

education and project-based learning.Dr. Louis A. DiBerardino III, Ohio Northern University Dr. DiBerardino is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University. His teaching and research interests are in first-year engineering, dynamic systems, and musculoskeletal biome- chanics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Impact of Various Pedagogies on Design Confidence, Motivation, and Anxiety of First-Year Engineering StudentsIntroductionThe content and pedagogies of first-year engineering programs vary widely from institution toinstitution. In the content space, efforts are underway to establish a first-year body of knowledge[1][13][14

Conference Session

Service Learning and Societal Issues in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Sevier, Boise State University; Seung Youn Chyung, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

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First-Year Programs

SL andNSL groups of students participated in collaborative project-based learning environments tocomplete given assignments, the types of collaborative learning differed in several ways: 1) TheSL students completed one comprehensive project for 7 ½ weeks, whereas the NSL studentscompleted a series of small scale problem-solving projects, 2) The SL students worked with thesame members of a team throughout the project, whereas the NSL students worked with differentteam members for each project (teams of four members worked on the SL project, and teams ofthree members completed the NSL projects), and 3) Each SL team worked with a client from thecommunity to solve a real problem (i.e., real-world learning experience), whereas NSL teamssolved a