Conference Session

FPD I: Attacking the Problems of Retention in the First Year

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Rippon, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University; Robin R Hammond, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

22.768.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Helping Freshmen Develop a Personal Identity as an EngineerAbstractFreshman retention is a top priority in nearly all engineering schools. Increased retentionoptimizes new-student recruitment dollars, decreases students‟ time to graduation, impactsschool rankings, and helps to meet industry‟s increasing demand for engineers. Most researchersand experts in the field agree on a number of basic tenants of retention. Topmost are the tenantsof creating community amongst freshmen, bonding freshmen with returning students, creatingopportunities for meaningful interaction between freshmen and faculty both in and outside of theclassroom, helping freshmen

Conference Session

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

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia R. Backer, San Jose State University; Emily L. Allen, San Jose State University; Janet Sundrud, San Jose State University

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First-Year Programs

AC 2011-467: ASSESSMENT OF FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCES AT SJSUPatricia R Backer, San Jose State University PATRICIA BACKER is a professor of Technology and the Director of General Engineering at SJSU. In 1997, she received a Fulbright Scholar award in Peru where she taught on the topics of computer-based multimedia. At SJSU, she is involved in developing and assessing outreach programs to increase the number of underrepresented students in engineering.Emily L. Allen, College of Engineering, San Jose State UniversityJanet Sundrud, San Jose State University JANET SUNDRUD is a graduate student in the Department of Communication Studies. She specializes in performance theory, queer identities, gender equality, and critical

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Arun R. Srinivasa, Texas A&M University, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

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First-Year Programs

UC Berkeley and has been a faculty in the mechanical Engineer- ing Department at Texas A&M University. He is one of the curriculum coordinators for the freshman engineering program of the Dwight Look COllege of Engineering at Texas A&M University,Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeffrey E. Froyd is the Director of Faculty Climate and Development at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C.J. Egelhoff, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Susan Donner Bibeau, U.S. Coast Guard; K.L. Burns, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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First-Year Programs

instruction program9, and high intensity collaborative learning based onthe Treisman model10. Student professional organizations have been employed to conductoutreach, build community and act as a recruiting and retention hub 11-14. Studies to define bestpractices have been conducted15-16 and the question of commitment to an engineering majorbefore enrolling has been investigated17. The first-generation college students population hasbeen given additional scrutiny for encouragement to study engineering as colleges anduniversities have attempted to draw in engineering students through the community or juniorcolleges 18-20. More recently, community colleges and baccalaureate institutions havecollaborated to deliberately design practices and coursework

Conference Session

FPD X: First-Year Design with Projects, Modeling, and Simulation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ani Ural, Villanova University; Joseph Robert Yost, Villanova University; David W Dinehart, Villanova University; Shawn P. Gross, Villanova University

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First-Year Programs

prepare undergraduate students forengineering practice and advanced study in graduate school, it is necessary to build knowledge inthese areas throughout the engineering curriculum, starting from the first year. However, in atypical civil or mechanical undergraduate engineering curriculum, students are not exposed tobasic stress analysis and force-deformation concepts until the second semester of the sophomoreyear. In addition, experimental techniques and finite element modeling are mostly covered in thejunior and senior years. Interestingly, the fundamental concepts central to much of this coursework are understood much earlier in the students’ education. That is, students understand fromobservation and common experience the meaning of concepts