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WIP: Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engagement

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2017 FYEE Conference

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

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jaskirat.sodhi@njit.edu, ashish.borgaonkar@njit.edu, hou@njit.edu, moshe.kam@njit.eduAbstract - Students’ inability to easily apply concepts of to finish these pre-requisite mathematics requirements inmathematics to engineering problems and applications is their first year to progress ahead in a timely fashion due todetrimental to their success in pursuing an engineering high failure and withdrawal rate. A key detrimental factordegree. It has a direct impact on the retention and contributing to this is that a majority of the incoming firstgraduation numbers in engineering colleges. In addition, year students are considered to be underprepared inhigh failure rate in first year mathematics courses is also

Conference Session

Issues in the First Year - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

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

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to understand what impact the CoP As part of the first-year experience, methods employed focus on developing student identity has on student retentionto foster community and identity development included four and persistence over time. As this model incorporates cross-main avenues along with three cross-cutting themes. The four cohort and mentoring roles, this paper does not categorizemain avenues for development are the first-year engineering students using this model. The model was used to inform the(FYE) design course sequence, an FYE seminar, mandatory initiatives discussed in this paper.extracurricular programming in professional development Identity can be viewed and considered

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Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Kevin Joseph Lindsay, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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. The coaching program has evolved based on students’ commitment to success, level of inquiry, andexperiences and feedback from key stakeholders, leading personal understanding of self and cultural awarenessto the continuous development of new strategies for (http://prospect.uncc.edu/resources).improving participant satisfaction, academic and A student’s personal success in the College ofprofessional success, and retention. These enhancements Engineering is ultimately a function of their motivation,have made a positive impact based on recent assessment decision making, level of communication, work ethic, andresults, to include overwhelmingly positive student ability to overcome adversity

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Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

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2017 FYEE Conference

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

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test scores of the value of conversations and talking through problems toengineering student responses to ABET soft skill solve their own problems. As educators, it would beknowledge, explores the possibilities for freshman convenient to ‘bottle’ the wisdom of product creation andengineering students to engage meaningfully in six of the pass it along to students. However, students need explicit11 outcomes for engineering graduates. With a focus on instruction on what engineering researchers andmulti-disciplinary teamwork, professional ethical practitioners implicitly understand and use daily. Thisresponsibility, effective communication, engineering

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

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2017 FYEE Conference

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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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. The best prediction model produced Use of digital EGG contenta Kappa value of 0.48 (κ = 0.48) with a recall of 61%, i.e. the Assignment 205.3 143.6model accurately identified ≥ 6 in 10 students who earned Content Folder 165.8 117.3less than 70% of possible points (Table III). This final Link To Content Area 229.7 124.9prediction model developed based on behaviors within the Communication Tool 0.1 0.4first five weeks includes six attributes. Table IV shows the Lecture Notes-Complete 6.1

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WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Kayla Nicole Arnsdorff; Ashley Tingting Chen; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Paper ID #20934Student Descriptions of Self-Regulated Learning: A Qualitative Investigationof Students’ Reflections on Their First Semester in EngineeringKayla Nicole ArnsdorffMs. Ashley Tingting ChenDr. Rachel McCord, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Rachel McCord is a a Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Divi- sion at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include the impact of metacognitive and self-regulated learning development on engineering student success, particularly in the first

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engineering Design

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2017 FYEE Conference

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James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Julian Sosnik PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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, there is little difference between students enrolled incan be utilized to form student teams, replicating the the course, regardless of their chosen major. This workinterdisciplinary design environment that students may studies three years of data on the impact of assigned groupsexperience post-graduation can be achieved thorough in these courses, as they pertain to overall student experience.assigned teams based on complimentary skills [2,3]. While research shows that the various methods ofassigning student teams can be instrumental in developingstudent skills [4], they can also have positive and adverseFirst Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference

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WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati

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Cincinnati. Whitney also works with the Emerging Ethnic Engineers (E3) Program. She teaches Calculus 1 during the Summer Bridge program and instructs Cooperative Calculus 1 during the school year. Continuing with her commitment to community involvement, Whitney has previously served on the Na- tional Executive Board for the National Society of Black Engineers, a student-managed organization with more than 30,000 members. She served as the Planning Chairperson for the 2013 Annual Convention and is currently an advisor for the Great Lakes Region. Dr. Gaskins the President of the Sigma Omega graduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She is also a member of the Society of Women Engineers, the Women’s Alliance

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Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Leotis L. Parrish, North Carolina A&T State University; Ava W. Dickens, North Carolina A&T State University; Tamara L Fuller, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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in Table IV provided by the Office of Under- for HOME students on the impact of community on student’sgraduate Admissions represents the cumulative grade point success.average for HOME Program Participants and non-Programparticipants at the end of the spring semester each year from RESEARCH LIMITATIONSspring 2013 to spring 2017. To avoid duplication, the data forthe non-HOME Program students does not include the data The research presented in this paper is in the preliminaryfor HOME Program students. This data indicates that the stages. This groundwork approach allows the authors to build upon opportunity for

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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

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- Service Learning is one of the emerging Index Terms – Project-Based service learning, EWBconcepts that are becoming popular in the education of Challenge, Graduate Teaching Fellows, and First-Yearundergraduate students. Considering the empirical Teaching Experience.approaches, the objective of service learning is to providean opportunity for students to be more engaged in usingtheir engineering concepts and potential for satisfying INTRODUCTIONindividual human, and community needs. Additionally, Learning quality has been one of the crucial aspects that playProject-Based Service Learning (PBSL) has been a major role in students’ future and keeps them

Conference Session

WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Emily Sandvall, Baylor University; Deanna Calder; Megan Harper, Baylor University; Zachary Bruce Jackson, Baylor University; Billy Joel Baker

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., “Early predictors of career development: A 10-year follow-up study”, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 70, 1, 2007, 61-77.[7] Budny, D., Paul, C. A., & Newborg, B. B., “Impact of peer mentoring on freshmen engineering students”, Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 11, 5/6, 2010, 9. AUTHOR INFORMATIONBilly Baker Community Director, Elon University,Bbaker20@elon.eduDeanna Calder Graduate Apprentice, Baylor University,Deanna_Calder@baylor.eduMegan Harper Graduate Apprentice, Baylor University,Megan_Harper@baylor.eduZack Jackson Graduate Apprentice, Baylor University,Zack_Jackson@baylor.eduEmily Sandvall Associate Director for UndergraduatePrograms – Engineering and Computer Science

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Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

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2017 FYEE Conference

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

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that indicate college success and are on the job, interpersonal communication strategies,within the power of the individual to adjust. The activities and networking, interview strategies, working on a team, projecttopics covered in the Connections course focus on these six management and working in a global context. Furtherfactors and provide resources to help students improve. The opportunities to become connected are provided through theareas are as follows: academic self-efficacy, organization and Clay N. Hixson College of Engineering Student Success Fairattention to study, stress and time management, involvement where each organization and department shares informationwith college activities

Conference Session

WIP: Engineering Education Research - Focus on Problem Solving

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Krista M Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Lauren Corrigan, Ohio State University; Paul Alan Clingan, The Ohio State University

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impacting students in other areas of lifecommon task for engineers. In a first-year engineering and school. One specific example that could be investigatedcourse, students were asked to track the time spent on is in teams with males and females are femalestheir design and build robot project. Students had disproportionately working on tasks like documentationdifferent category choices to select. Based on these rather than the other areas of the projecttimesheets the students were to use this data when This work-in-progress paper investigates students’reporting on their project. The results from the timesheet responses from a survey about completing the timesheets

Conference Session

Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Classroom Practices

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Hamid Rad, Washington State University

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talk about a particularcovering the engineering fundamentals and problem topic, such as fluid mechanics. In addition, the facultysolving, the students are engaged in two group projects speaker was introducing himself to the students by furtherenhancing their creativity and hands-on skills. One is a talking about his/her area of research. This gave students anterm project, similar to the ones assigned in previous opportunity to get to know the faculty, their area ofyears. The additional project proposed at the freshman expertise, and foresee a chance to develop a relationship forlevel was on reverse engineering. The paper provides potential undergraduate research opportunity during theirdetails of

Conference Session

Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Classroom Practices

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2017 FYEE Conference

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David M. Feinauer P.E., Norwich University

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areas of automation and control theory, and system identification. His work has been published through the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE); he is an active member of both organizations. He serves as advisor to the student entrepreneurship club and as the State Partner for the FIRST LEGO League Program—a nationally recognized program that incorporates robotics with innovation and community engagement. He holds a PhD and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engineering Design

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2017 FYEE Conference

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FELIX ORLANDO MARTINEZ-RIOS, Universidad Panamericana

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all the requirements of the competition (humanitarian charges). and have a plane ready to fly, we begin to work with students • The model must have a data acquisition system from July to March or April (depending on when SAE (for example based on GPS) and transmit at all schedules each two competencies: East region and the West times the height. region). • The pilot flies the plane visually, and another The month of July is Mexico is a vacation period for member of the team drop the humanitarian students, but those engaged in this contest begin work during

Conference Session

Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Classroom Practices

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2017 FYEE Conference

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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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(NYCCT),these challenges will be discussed. First, we will review Electromechanical courses primarily equip students withthe correlation between students’ reading proficiency technical knowledge and skills in lecture and lab settings. Inand their performance in the course by analyzing the addition to these traditional teaching and learning settings,results of reading assessments administered in three we perceive a need to enhance students’ disciplinary literacysections (N=66) of EMT1255 from Fall 2015 to Fall 2016. by engaging them in the reading-to-learn process. To do so,This will allow us to identify the impact of students’ we implemented READ (Reading Effectively Across thereading skills on their

Conference Session

Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Design-Based Projects

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Dani Fadda P.E., University of Texas, Dallas; Oziel Rios, University of Texas, Dallas

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class project to introduce freshman students to the engineering(less than 50 students) and also for a larger class (more design process, working with uncertainty, and improvingthan 200 students). The project was tested during the fall teaming/communication skills. Books are also available tosemester of 2016 on a class of 48 students. It was support the freshman level introductory courses [7, 8, and 9].successfully scaled to a class of 221 students during the Kits are commercially available in abundance andspring semester of 2017. The project is presented in this several have been reviewed. However, these are found highlypaper along with a discussion of the resources (materials

Conference Session

WIP: Engineering Education Research - Focus on Problem Solving

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2017 FYEE Conference

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James Lloyd Long, Liberty University; Carolyn Ziebart, Liberty University

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. This project focuses on theprograms at the SoECS has been ENGR 110, Introduction to student’s educational and professional goals and theFirst Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference July 31 – August 2, 2016, Columbus, OH W1A-1 Session W1A plans to achieve them, including self-evaluation and of a number of mechanisms for upper class engineering improvement activities in the areas of community students to interface with the freshmen. building, professional development, academic

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WIP: Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Classroom Practices

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University; Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University

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) introduce industry present an overview of different fields and careerprogramming and specifically MATLAB early in our opportunities in electrical engineering. In the second course,program, (iii) stress communication skills, and (iv) attract and ECE 102, students learn to develop algorithms and applyengage more students, in particular from under-represented computational software tools (mainly MATLAB) to solvegroups, into ECE [1]. While we have had some successes – primarily simple electrical engineering problems. They do apopular and engaging team design projects, hands-on lab project using MATLAB programming for data acquisitionexperience, and an alumni mentor program – we still

Conference Session

WIP: Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Design-Based Projects

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; Kerry E Patterson, Lipscomb University; Joseph B Tipton Jr., Lipscomb University

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students tobudgeting, and management; a learn stage for research and complete a project in small groups with the aid of the designinterviews with a client; a design phase for brainstorming and process. To begin this phase, students are placed in or chooseprototyping; a realize stage for analyzing producibility and groups to work with for the entirety of the project. Themanufacturing techniques; and a sustain stage for ensuring instructor then presents a scenario to the students that depictslong-term success. One critical aspect of this design is its a client or community that has a need. To encourageiterative nature that encourages students to view failure as a creativity and imagination, the instructor could

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Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Design-Based Projects

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2017 FYEE Conference

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

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TeachingInternational relations X X X Council research project grant. [13]Global citizenship X X X XGlobal product platforms X X In the year studied, the EWB Challenge allowed students toEconomics/outsourcing X X X co-create engineering solutions and management strategies toSocio/political impact on challenges faced by the community living in the X X Xproblem definition Mayukwayukwa refugee settlement in the Kaoma District ofAppreciate cultural valuedifferences

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Harry Ingle Jr., Tennessee Technological University; Kristine K. Craven, Tennessee Technological University; Elizabeth A. Powell, Tennessee Technological University; Elizabeth L Hutchins, Tenneessee Tech University; Linda Christine Randolph, Tennessee Technological University; Carol McGee, Tennessee Technological University

. Classroom Assessment Techniques. 2nd opportunities: One way that students in the College ed. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1993. of Engineering are recognized is through funding [12] Brownell, J. E., & Swaner, L. E.. “High-Impact Practices: Applying for professional development, such as travel to the Learning Outcomes Literature to the Development of Successful conferences when students are presenting, or Campus Programs.” Peer Review, 2009, 26-30. assistance with competition team travel. Moreover, AUTHOR INFORMATION students who engage in service and

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Alignment Between Pre-college and First- Year Engineering Programs Noah Salzman, Matthew W. Ohland noahsalzman@boisestate.edu, ohland@purdue.eduAbstract - Developments in pre-college engineering such This will help frame group discussions on how the first-yearas the incorporation of engineering in the Next engineering education community currently addressesGeneration Science Standards and the rapid growth of students’ PCE experiences, and provide the opportunity toformal and informal pre-college engineering programs engage in constructive dialogue focused on how FYEand activities has resulted in increasing numbers of

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2017 FYEE Conference

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James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Lisa K Davids, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

workshop includes faculty University’s Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness Committee,who are interested in developing a community of practice and her service as the Peer Review Sub-Committee Chairfocused on classroom observation and the sharing of for that committee.instructional techniques. While VAPR has only beenimplemented in a cohort of first-year engineering faculty,the approach can be seamlessly integrated in any facultycohort and has the potential to support teaching assistantsand graduates students as they develop their identitiesassociated with instruction.First Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference August 6 – August 8, 2017, Daytona Beach, FL