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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - GIFTS

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Paul Hottinger, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Paper ID #37173GIFTS: Building a sense of connection to campus and engineering identitythrough information literacyDr. Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Jessica Ohanian Perez is an assistant professor in Electromechanical Engineering Technology at Califor- nia State Polytechnic University, Pomona with a focus on STEM pedagogy. Jessica earned her doctorate in education, teaching, learning and culture from Claremont Graduate UniversityMr. Paul Hottinger, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Paul R. Hottinger is an associate librarian in the Research and Instruction Services unit

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 9: Identity & Belonging 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Newsome Holcomb, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jacqueline Rohde, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lakshmi Raju

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Diversity

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investigate the ways that peer mentorship affectssense of belonging and discipline identity for students from varied matriculation points.IntroductionAs higher education institutions foster increasingly diverse undergraduate populations, it isimperative that student success initiatives purposefully develop students’ sense of belongingwithin an institution, a campus, a peer community, and an academic discipline. Belonging is acritical dimension of student success affecting a student’s degree of academic adjustment,persistence, and post-graduate aspirations, while also contributing to institutional benchmarkslike retention and degree completion [1]. Additionally, the decline in the number of traditional-age college students after 2025, a result of the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 3: Identity & Belonging

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Frank, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daphne DePorres, U.S. Air Force Academy; Joel Sloan, United States Air Force Academy

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laboratory, there also needs to be an appropriate amount of rigor in the coursecontent to help close the gap in preparation for subsequent undergraduate-level STEM courses. Ablend of fun and technical content can lead to increased student engagement [29]. The coursewill develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills and tools that will benefit students in awide range of general education courses. At USAFA, along with humanities, social sciences, andbasic sciences, general education requirements include 15 semester hours of engineering courses.Skills such as literature review, project management, and technical communication, whichstudents will practice in this first-year course, are expected to be useful in several future coursesand in their

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 2: Advising & Mentoring

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Anna Wolff; Pat Burnett, Whatcom Community College; Anna Fay Booker; Tran M. Phung; Mei P. Luu; Seth Greendale

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EMSLC student participation in club meetings and projects as well as their interestin leadership opportunities and compare engagement levels to non-EMSLC students. We willinvestigate RQ5 by analyzing the demographic breakdown of findings related to the other fourresearch questions.ConclusionThis work-in-progress paper describes early development of a new learning community we aredesigning to welcome and support precalculus-level students into their engineering academicpathway. The approach leverages multiple high-impact educational practices to promote deepconceptual learning, motivate foundational skill development, explore social relevance andconnection, and ultimately seeks to strengthen students’ engineering identity, sense of belonging,and

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Best Of FPD

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University

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equitable learning environments through the development and implementation of strategies geared towards increasing student sense of belonging. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Centering Social Justice in Engineering: A new course model for first year engineering educationIntroductionThis complete evidence-based practice paper shares a new model for a first-year engineeringcourse that centers social justice within first year engineering education. The course combinestechnical and social justice content with a goal of developing student understanding of therelevance of social justice to their future as engineers. Included in the course are social topicsrelated to

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 2: Advising & Mentoring

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sophia T. Santillan, Duke University; Linda P. Franzoni, Duke University; Stacy L. Tantum, Duke University

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network of university resources, and guide students in the exploration and selection of amajor and career direction.360 Coaching builds on the Advising-as-Teaching learner-centered approach to advising atNorthwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science [4], andsimilarly aims to leverage a naturally developing community within our first-semesterengineering design course, EGR 101L – Engineering Design and Communication. While manyof our 360 Coaches are involved with our first-semester design course as either an instructor or adesign team technical mentor, this is not universally true; some of our 360 Coaches are notinvolved in our first-semester course. This is a distinction between our 360 Coaching programand

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 7: Making

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sherri Youssef, The Ohio State University; Meagan Eleanor Ita, The Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University

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welfarehas also become critical to ensure solutions being developed not only support end users but alsoaddress the problem as identified by end users [2], [5]. Moreover, beyond applying the technicalknowledge gained in the coursework, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)highlighted that graduating engineering students must know how to “work as part of teams,communicate well, and understand the economic, social, environment, and international contextof their professional activities” [6, p.1]. Stemming from this point is the need to instill societalperspectives into graduating engineering students so they holistically understand the impact oftheir products locally and globally [7].With the scope of engineering expanding past the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 2: Program Design

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Jason H. Ideker; Jennifer Parham-Mocello, Oregon State University; Rowan Ezra Skilowitz; Natasha Mallette P.E., Oregon State University

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specific to teamwork orcommunication in the programming class, beyond mention of building a resume or digitalportfolio. The CLOs may need to be specifically revised to promote student awareness andpractice of communication and teamwork through computation.The skills listed in Figure 2 were emphasized during the ideation and development of thesecourses, and the survey results suggest that they were also communicated to most students. Notethat we are not examining student competency here, but rather focusing on their experience ofthe program. These data establish a meaningful baseline by showing that most students saw astrong connection between the Engineering+ coursework and the key skills emphasized by thecurriculum designers. Additionally, in

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 2: Program Design

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily M Wortman-Wunder; Miriam Howland Cummings Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver; Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver

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Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver Dr. Maryam Darbeheshti is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado, Denver. She is the PI of a recent NSF award that focuses on STEM identity at Urban Universities. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 “I’m not a big English person but I liked this class”: Lessons from aCollaboration between the School of Engineering and the English DepartmentAbstractThis Complete Evidence-Based Practice paper describes a two-semester STEM-focused Englishcomposition sequence developed as part of an Engineering Learning Community (ELC) at apublic urban research university. To create a course that achieves the goals of the standard two