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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Hands-on Projects and Spatial Skills
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Diana Bairaktarova, University of Oklahoma; Matthew Reyes, University of Oklahoma; Nooshin Nassr P.E., University of Oklahoma; Dan Thomas Carlton, University of Oklahoma, College of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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student in the School of Engineering at The Univer- sity of Oklahoma. Her passion for engineering education stems from her basic curiosity to develop more effective engineering curriculum to help students to meet their professional demands. This motivated her to take part in engineering education research.Mr. Dan Thomas Carlton, University of Oklahoma, College of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Dan Carlton is pursuing his Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, where he is expected to graduate in 2016. He is a Midshipman in the Naval ROTC unit at the University of Oklahoma, and is involved in undergraduate fellowship program sponsored by NASA and the Oklahoma Geospatial and Space Grant
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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
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Stacie Edington, University of Michigan; Archie L Holmes Jr., University of Virginia; Petra Reinke, University of Virginia
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, designed in response to the changing demands placed onengineering graduates in the future, as illustrated by The Engineer of 2020[3] and Educating theEngineer of 2020[4] reports. Both reports illustrate the need for engineers who can effectivelycontribute to the changing landscape of the field through creativity, strong communication skills,an understanding of the principles of leadership and by becoming lifelong learners. [3-4] TheUniversity of Michigan’s program includes elements intended to specifically address theseneeds. We have also explored new models for scalability through a pilot program, includingstudent-led larger group discussions of 50-100 participants.In the following sections, we will offer strategies for the development of a
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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Gerold Willing, University of Louisville; Thomas D. Rockaway, University of Louisville
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, but are very difficult to quantify.1. Introduction Page 26.1221.2The Partnership for Retention Improvement in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science(PRIMES) is a University of Louisville cross-college collaboration aimed at reducing attritionamong our STEM majors. This project unites faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences, theJ.B. Speed School of Engineering, and the College of Education and Human Development intackling identified hurdles that contribute to poor retention (and thus low graduation rates) in ourrespective undergraduate STEM programs. PRIMES’ goals are quite simple: 1. Increase by 25% the number of Bachelor’s degrees
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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Teaching and Advising Students in that Critical First Year
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Iryna Ashby, Purdue University; Marisa Exter, Purdue University
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new multidisciplinary degree program which provides both liberal arts and technical content through competency-based experiential learning. Page 26.1786.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 “What’s in it for me?” A Look into First-Year Students’ Perceptions of a Digital Badge SystemAbstractIn Fall 2014, the Purdue Polytechnic Incubator – a new undergraduate program with the focus oncompetency-based interdisciplinary skills – welcomed its initial cohort of first-year students.During the first semester, students were involved in a number of holistic
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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Hands-on Projects and Spatial Skills
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Susan F Freeman, Northeastern University; Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University
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active member of Northeastern’s Gateway Team, a select group of teaching faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at NU. She also serves as a Technical Faculty Advisor for Senior Capstone Design and graduate-level Challenge Projects in Northeastern’s Gordon Engineering Leadership Program. Dr. Jaeger has been the recipient of numerous awards in engineering education for both teaching and mentoring and has been involved in several engineering educational research initiatives through ASEE and beyond.Dr. Richard Whalen, Northeastern University Dr. Richard Whalen is a Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, MA and a core member of the Engineering Gateway Team. The focus of this team
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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Paying Attention to Retention
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jeff Johnson, LeTourneau University; Alan D. Niemi, LeTourneau University
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even when overall retention is improving?In 2009, LeTourneau University, a small, private university sought to identify the reasons behindlow graduation rates in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology (SEET). Theydeployed an exhaustive survey to students that had left the school asking these former students(leavers) to rank the influences behind their decision to leave engineering. Results were utilizedto help develop several first-year retention initiatives targeted at engineering persistence of firsttime in any college (FTIC) students. These initiatives, aided with funding through an NSF-STEPgrant began with the 2010 cohort and have continued until present. Subsequent deployments ofthe identical survey to cohorts 2009 through
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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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]. Many of these skills can be gained through meaningfulincorporation of liberal arts into higher education [16]. However, current engineering educationhas not yet embraced the notion of the “cooperation among the previously separate disciplines toattack problems that have no recognizable boundaries” (p.17) [17] to enable students to quicklyadapt to the consistent shifts in directions taken by technology and engineering in the real worldwhere the globalization, the development of a knowledge economy, and rapid changes intechnology make skills of recent graduates obsolete in as little as 18 months [12, 18, 19]. Page 26.677.4However, changes in