Conference Session

Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Hailey, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

studentfeedback and instructor reflection. ‚ Provide clear information to the seminar speakers about the backgrounds of the freshmen students. Several speakers’ presentations were at a highly technical level that made it difficult for the freshmen to follow. ‚ Invite junior- and senior-level female students into the class to talk about their experiences in addition to graduated engineers and faculty members. ‚ Include at least one more “hands on” session. We spent one session talking about engineering design and building paper towers from index cards. The students wanted more sessions like this one. ‚ Include at least one more community-building session where we spent time talking about classes and freshmen