AC 2010-1266: ENGAGING SPACES FOR FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING: A TALEOF TWO CLASSROOMSS. Scott Moor, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Scott Moor is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Coordinator of First-Year Engineering at Indiana University Purdue University – Fort Wayne. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from M.I.T. After over a decade in industry he returned to academia at the University of California at Berkeley where he received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and an M.A. in Statistics. He is a registered Professional Chemical Engineer in California. His research interests include engineering education with an emphasis on developing and testing
AC 2010-1662: DEALING WITH FAILURE AND MAKING THE TRANSITIONBETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGEDan Budny, University of PittsburghAlaine Allen, University of PittsburghJeremy Tartt , University of Pittsburgh Page 15.343.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Dealing With Failure and Making the Transition Between High School and CollegeAbstract ℵ The transition from high school to college can be very difficult for many students. Atthe University of Pittsburgh, we have a system of courses and academic counseling that isdesigned to address these issues and help with this transition. One major component of ourprogram is a process
AC 2010-777: INFLUENCING SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN A STEMLIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITY: AN NSF STEP FUNDED PROJECTMelissa Dagley-Falls, University of Central Florida Melissa Dagley Falls is the Director of Academic Affairs for the UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science and advisor to both undergraduate and graduate students within the college. Dr. Dagley Falls chairs the Admission, Advising, and Retention Committee (AARC) and serves on the assessment and activities teams of the NSF-funded STEP program entitled “EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence." Her research interests lie in the areas of student access to education, sense of community, retention, first-year
Hodge 2006 Yes 0 1 0 Hodge 2007 No impact 0 1 0 Hodge 2008 No impact 0 1 0 Hodge 2009 Yes 0 1 0 Vasko 2012 Yes 1 0 0 Tsang 2013 n/ac 2 1 0 a Freshman retention not reported, but retention at other times was higher for the LLC. b Study was published in 2001 about the 2000