Conference Session

Technical Session S2C

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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programs. There are howevermany challenges integrating real community engagement into the classroom including meetinglearning outcomes and partner needs. This interactive workshop will provide an introduction tocommunity engaged leanring and use a recently developed model to explore approaches thatseek to balance value to students and communities as well as resources that are needed fromeach. Resources, partnerships, benefits and potential barriers will be discussed to providestrategies for successful implementation at the participants’ own institutions. The presenter isexperienced in the field and has conducted more than 100 faculty workshops on the subject area.IntroductionEngineering education is experiencing pressure to accommodate increasing

Conference Session

Technical Session S1C

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus

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Low-Cost/High-Impact: Success Skills Students Will Actually UseIntroductionArguably, the two biggest challenges facing engineering education are retention and, in general,student learning. Obviously, the two are interrelated but not necessarily simply by studentperformance-- generally indicated by grades. Not surprisingly, studies show there is a strongcorrelation between low GPA and students leaving engineering programs.[1-5] However, thereis also evidence of a broad range of GPAs of graduating students.[6,7] Whether or not theprimary focus of efforts to improve students’ performance are geared towards retention, suchefforts will also benefit all students.While there are many factors that affect students reasoning for leaving