Conference Session

Issues in the First Year - Focus on Self-Efficacy

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Natalie C.T. Van Tyne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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pedagogy, reflective learn- ing and critical thinking as aids to enhanced student learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 You Might (or Might Not) Know More Than You Thought: Student Self-Perception vs. Performance in First Year Engineering Graphics and Computer Programming Natalie Van Tyne Virginia Polytechnic Institute, nvantyne@vt.eduAbstract - The results of a beginning of semester survey of efficacy, namely performance accomplishment,students’ current abilities in engineering graphics and

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Hailey Queen, North Carolina State University

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week, and includes assignments related to skills-reflection and skills-building exercises. The course is facilitated by College of Engineering Academic Affairs staff and issupported by guest lecturers from on-campus content experts in the areas of stress management,counseling resources, academic and tutoring resources, etc. The course is required for two populationsof students; those on Academic Warning after their first semester and those who failed to successfullycomplete the required introductory engineering course taught in the fall semester.IntroductionThe College of Engineering is the largest college within NC State University with over 10,000undergraduate and graduate students. All undergraduate students begin in the Engineering First

Conference Session

Issues in the First Year - Focus on Self-Efficacy

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University

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academic year from 87professional ethics requirements), fostered in-class separate events. Given the large number of events and thediscussion of key points, and required students to reflect on wide variety, not all events had a strong engineering focus,their response and personal connection to the given topic. but a majority of events did.This seminar also supported the cross-cutting themes as As part of the large year-end outcomes survey, studentsdiscussed below. Overall, this seminar was intended to help responded to the prompt “Professional Development eventsstudents dispel misconceptions of engineering and make made me feel more like an engineer” on a Likert scale. Of

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Donald F. Hayes PE, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Wonjoon Hong, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; MATTHEW L BERNACKI, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Nicholas Voorhees

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students by using students’ focused only on the lecture portion of the course.LMS usage to trigger early alerts to struggling students.Students use of LMS-hosted digital resources were EGG 101 students reflect a broad spectrum of preparation.observed using Splunk software, and data mining Only about 30% of the students take calculus concurrent withmethods were also to produce a prediction algorithm EGG 101 with a similar number in remedial math (i.e., unablebased on digital course material usage. Students’ usage of to qualify for pre-calculus). Only 42% of the students had acourse resources were found to correlate to performance

Conference Session

Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Classroom Practices

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Ohbong Kwon, New York City College of Technology; Juanita C But, New York City College of Technology; Sunghoon Jang, NY City College of Technology of CUNY

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a specific discipline [2]. Inoften struggle with teaching specialized concepts, Engineering courses, this refers to training students to think,formula, and technical terminologies, because of the communicate, represent, and apply content knowledge likelack of strategies to engage students in active reading expert engineers. As described in the ABET competencies,and learning. this literacy is translated into a range of skills and practicesIn this paper, the challenges students face in reading to that reflect the current requirements in the engineering field.learn in EMT 1255 and the strategies used to overcome At New York City College of Technology

Conference Session

Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Classroom Practices

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2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

David M. Feinauer P.E., Norwich University

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motivating related to leadership) were mapped to it. Typical of outlinesprinciples behind the redesign involved integrally from older, introductory texts, the course was structured toconnecting the presentation and practice of both technical present a great breadth of topics. When reflecting andand professional engineering skills, introducing exercises commenting on the course, students expressed frustrationperceived as real-world and relevant, and refocusing the with a “lack of accomplishment” and “jumping around”—course on skills and principles common to engineers of all indicators of low self-efficacy beliefs. Further analysisdisciplines. This paper details a restructured curricular revealed that although many

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engineering Design

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

FELIX ORLANDO MARTINEZ-RIOS, Universidad Panamericana

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, felix.martinez@up.edu.mxAbstract - The a-k outcomes established by Accreditation All Engineering programs have shared Mathematics andBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) for Basic Sciences subjects such as: Differential Calculus,Engineering students in their self-assessment framework, Integral Calculus, Algebra, Vector Calculus, Differentialshould be reflected in the different subjects that taught to Equations, Electricity and Magnetism, Physics, Chemistrythe students of the first two years of the various and other courses of academic areas of humanities andengineering programs. On the other hand, in those first businesses.semesters, the vocation of the students

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Andrea Carneal Burrows Borowczak, University of Wyoming; Mike Borowczak, University of Wyoming

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2000” Technical Communication Quarterly, 10(2), 2001, pp. 149-soft skill information would have been better served earlier 167.in their engineering coursework, and that they did not see a [12] Burrows, A. C., & Harkness, S. S. “Experiencing action evaluation’sreason for it so late in the graduation requirements. The first cyclic process: partnering conflict, reflection, andauthor was discouraged that the student group did not make action” Educational Action Research, 24(4), 2016, pp. 460-478.a connection with future engineering positions and projects

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mathematics

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2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Sungwon Steven Kim, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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to the national“going rate” of 28 would have several implications, mostlywhich would have consequences for enrollment numbers.However, to reflect current issues of many students havingto repeat Calculus I in their second semester of theirfreshman year, because they received a D, F grade or theyvoluntarily withdrew (W) during their first semester, thisseems to be the first step in solving the problem. Conceptsof mathematics and engineering are not easy to comprehendand the standards of engineering professional societies donot bend based on which school the engineering studentgraduated from. It would be interesting to continue thisstudy after making such curriculum change and comparingthe before and after.The author would like to thank the

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

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2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Kristine K. Craven, Tennessee Technological University; Elizabeth L Hutchins, Tennessee Tech University

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present their OME presentation only using the Biographyat North Carolina State University has been used to help the option and comparing those students' recall and awareness ofstudents improve the effectiveness of their study time. [7] engineers to that of a control group of students who wereStudents take an online assessment that is evaluated and gives assigned the OME presentation in its original format with alla score on four different learning scales, visual/verbal, four options. The authors found that there was an increase insequential/global, active/reflective, sensing/intuitive. Felder awareness of famous engineers, however the students had aincludes numerous practical suggestions for how to adjust

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Mona Hemmati, Colorado State University; Alistair Cook, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University

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data of first year students in college of identified community needs and (b) reflect on the serviceengineering. Considering the result of the study, the activity in such a way as to gain further understanding ofprinciple goal of this program is to increase the retention course content, a broader application of the discipline and anstatistics for engineering students. Each of these fellows enhanced sense of civic responsibility” [1]. Consideringhas been assigned to one engineering department. Using society’s needs, students are led in solving real-worldthe help of this graduate fellow in the Civil and engineering problems using the concepts of their engineeringEnvironmental Engineering