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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Debjani Sarkar, College of Engineering, Michigan State University

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Paper ID #32094Engineering the Future – Communicating Across Borders Through ElevatorPitchesMs. Debjani Sarkar, College of Engineering, Michigan State University Ms Debjani Sarkar is an academic teaching specialist in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University. She teaches Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists at MSU. She also leads the com- munications and marketing activities of the first-year engineering CoRe Experience. She supervises the College of Engineering Tutoring Center, which offers free tutoring in Calculus, Physics, and Chemistry for undergraduate engineering students. She has taught

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Kevin Skenes, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Nathan John Washuta P.E., The Citadel; James Righter, The Citadel

a Strand Model GeneralEducation program and revised its general education outcomes to match the AACU learningoutcomes. A new strands-model General Education curriculum is now required for all studentsbeginning in the fall of 2019.The Citadel’s new Strands-Model General Education purpose is twofold:• Promoting our students’ intellectual development by affording them course-work in the fundamental academic disciplines of mathematics, natural science, literature, history, and social science; and• Developing our students’ skills and dispositions in six essential areas so that, upon successfully completing the curriculum, graduates ought to be able: 1. To use quantitative reasoning skills to make calculations, interpret data

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Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas; Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas; Brandon Crisel; Candace Auburn Rainwater, University of Arkansas

college algebra.The Fundamentals of Success in Engineering (SES) Course DescriptionThe primary goal of SES is to help students with lower placement develop study skills beforethey are pushed into mathematically rigorous courses. The course was initially developed aroundthe Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career (Landis, 2013). Using the text asa guide, students explored lessons that challenged them to think more about why they wanted tobecome an engineer, what would be required to become an engineer, and what professional skillsthey needed to be successful. The course culminated with the writing project “Design YourProcess for Becoming a World-Class Engineering Student” in which students appliedengineering design concepts to

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Junfei Li P.E., The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Jaime Ramos-Salas, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Cara Li, Carnegie Mellon University

. The breadboard layoutIt is noted that only fundamental concepts and combinational design are introduced in this course.More advanced topic like Finite State Machine (FSM) and Hardware Description Language (HDL)are reserved for more advanced courses in later years.4. ResultsIt is the instructor and coauthor’s opinion, formed after using the online tool with the students, thatthe platform provided a lot of flexibility to the course. A large collection of resources is offered bythe online FPGA platform, such as the list of gates and 74xx symbols for block diagram design,and the readily available parts on the virtual breadboard. Troubleshooting is also easier on FPGAthan in a physical lab.Two student surveys were applied, at end of session 1 and

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Benjamin D McPheron, Anderson University; Willis Troy, Anderson University; Caroline Baker, Anderson University

as many times asthe student needs to pass the exam. The retakes are similar in nature, but not duplicated.The following course outcomes are covered across the three courses. The course in which eachoutcome is covered is noted in parentheses next to the outcome. Table 1: Course learning outcomes for the corequisite engineering courses in this work. 1. Demonstrate an understanding of precision and 2. Ability to differentiate between ME, EE, and CpE accuracy. (2002) (2001) 3. Able to write reports in LATEX (2001) 4. Able to convert between units (2001, 2002) 5. Operates effectively as a team player (2001) 6. Makes ethical decisions (2001) 7. Performs computer aided

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Sherif Abdelhamid, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Mona Aly, Arab Academy for Science,Technology and Maritime Transport; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

#mumbaiuniversityand #mu. This account joined Twitter in January 2016. The most active account based on thenumber of retweets and replies is “MicroSFF” with 6133 retweets, 85 replies, and 14662favorites. “MicroSFF” account writes very short science fiction and fantasy stories on Twitterand the tweets are also cross-posted to Facebook and other social media platforms. The account’suse of the storytelling approach might be one reason for the high user and student engagement.The most mentioned account is “YouTube” with 115 mentions. The number of used URLs in thetweets is 3834. The most used URL is for the University of Mumbai, the office for first-yearengineering students. Most of the URLs we found point to social media posts/status (e.g. Twitter,Facebook

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Frank Vahid, University of California, Riverside; Joe Michael Allen, University of California, Riverside; Alex Daniel Edgcomb, zyBooks; Roman Lysecky, University of Arizona

were not really negative. They mostly came from students who hadprior programming experience and would have preferred to jump into C++, but who seemed tounderstand and accept the role of Coral. Such comments included those below. • “Coral wasn't my first programming language but I do think that its psuedocode style syntax is more helpful for introducing fundamental concepts as it gives more of a general introduction as opposed to the "here's how to do this in this specific language" style of teaching.” • “Since I already had experience programming before it didn't make too much of a difference to learn Coral before C++ but I could see why it would be easier for people who had no coding experience to