Conference Session

Technical Session VII

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Matt Williams, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, First Year Advising Program

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First Year Engineering student is assigned an advisor that theywill work with throughout their first year.During the spring semester of 2016 we began requiring all first year engineering student tocomplete a five-semester plan before their mandatory meeting with their advisor during theregistration period. Originally we had students upload their plan to Microsoft SharePoint, whichwas not part of our university’s LMS. For the fall 2016 semester we created a section for allentering first year students in Canvas, our LMS. Students already use Canvas for all of theiruniversity courses and therefore are familiar with its design and structure. The benefit of using anLMS is that it allows users to “organize content and multimedia resources into

Conference Session

Technical Session II

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Davida Scharf, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #24447Work-In-Progress: Collaborating with Librarians to Help First Year Stu-dents Explore Engineering Disciplines and Improve Research & Writing SkillsDr. Davida Scharf, New Jersey Institute of TechnologyDr. Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Ashish Borgaonkar works as Asst. Dean in the Office of the Dean, Newark College of Engineering, NJIT, Newark, NJ. He has taught several engineering courses primarily in the first year engineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering departments and won multiple awards for excellence in instruc- tion. He also has worked on several programs