Conference Session

But I'm a Loner! Expanding capability and creativity by examining effective alliances

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

students feel lost, afraid, and confused along the way.In her monograph, they’re Not Dumb, They’re Different: Stalking the Second Tier (29),Sheila Tobias echoes some of these concerns. Her work addresses some specificclassroom characteristics that, if paid attention to, might help calm down the secondtier students (i.e., those high achievers who are serious about their learning andcareer goals but who, for some reason, chose to opt out of engineering).Tobias assertsthat many traditional science courses suffer from lack of community( both betweenthe instructor and the students and among the students themselves) and that manystudents desire this relationship and become more successful learners when itprevails in the classroom. She further states