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2013 GSW

Authors

Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel

Fall 2006 or thereafter (§ 54.014 of the Texas Education Code2). The totalattempted hours contains all those taken by students at any public institution including all thoserepeated, duplicated, withdrawn after the Census date in which the student received a grade of“W.” Starting in Fall 2006, UTSA has been charging an additional fee of $121 per SCH forstudents who have exceeded the 30 or 45 hour credit limits.Depending on the type of calculation methods used, graduation rates can be strongly influencedby students who initially seek an engineering degree but later change their mind and pursueanother degree.  The factors that influence a student’s decision to leave engineering are linked toboth academic and non-academic factors3. Academic

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2013 GSW

Authors

Melanie Sattler

improve their skills in these areas. Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Education IntroductionIn an age when entire digital libraries are available to students at the click of a mouse button, therole of the college professor as transmitter of information is diminishing. With studentsproverbially awash in information via the Internet, the role of the faculty member in teachingstudents to think critically about this information becomes paramount. Faculty members alsoneed to teach students how to