Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virgil U. Pierce, University of Texas, Pan American; Javier Angel Kypuros, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

laboratory spaces used by the center.If successful, a student will be Calculus ready for the fall semester of their first-year. Theintervention is producing students who have higher pass rates in Calculus 1, and higher GPA.However, for the first cohort we did not find that these higher rates were statistically significant.Still, by accelerating Calculus readiness and providing a learning environment that promotesgeneral college readiness, we should have reduced time-to-graduation and hope to showimproved knowledge mastery in later courses, especially those that are Calculus or Mathematicsintensive.Enrolled StudentsThe first cohort entered the program in Summer 2014. We had 22 students, all had placementinto our College Algebra or Pre-Calculus course

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey, University of St. Thomas

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Mathematics

Paper ID #11518Advanced Undergraduate Engineering MathematicsDr. Michael P. Hennessey, University of St. Thomas Michael P. Hennessey (Mike) joined the full-time faculty as an assistant professor in the fall of 2000. Mike gained 10 years of industrial and academic laboratory experience at 3M, FMC, and the University of Minnesota prior to embarking on an academic career at Rochester Institute of Technology (3 years) and Minnesota State University, Mankato (2 years). He has taught over 20 courses in mechanical engineering at the undergraduate and graduate level, advised 11 MSME graduates, and has written (or co-written) 45