Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University; Alireza Farahani; Lu Zhang, National University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

Intelligence(AI). This category of AI, utilizing deep learning, a subset of Machine Learning (ML), excels inprocessing and generating natural language text. The ChatGPT model undergoes training onextensive datasets, empowering it to grasp the details and complexities inherent in humanlanguage. ChatGPT has a significant ability to produce high-quality text that seamlessly mirrorshuman writing. Its proficiency extends to extracting knowledge and addressing challengingacademic queries. This inherent capability enables it to tackle examination questions that mayprove elusive through conventional web searches, delivering responses that are not only accuratebut also dependable [5]. ChatGPT stands as a promising tool with versatile applications

Conference Session

Engineering Engagement Activities

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yury Alexandrovich Kuleshov, Purdue University; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

institutions, which adds to the credibility of the author’s choice. Atthe same time, other repositories or additional sources may return the results differentfrom the received results. For example, the topic of Additive Manufacturing, whichconstituted only two percent of the retrieved manufacturing-related activities has beenpopular among K-12 educators for at least a decade, at the emergence of three-dimensional (3D) printing era [10]. Such printers became a necessity in makerspaces andas one of the first I4.0-related activities in K-12 settings. Some authors are now trying tolink makerspaces to the advancement of manufacturing in I4.0 settings [12].Another discovery is the discipline orientation of the authors who write about both STEMeducation

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James A. Ozment; Alison N. Smith; Wendy Newstetter

that “student population in such a course has tremendous variation inbackground, motivation, expectations, and analytical skills”, Singhania7 proposes somesolutions for improving the situation. He recommends warning students against “thinking on-line”, and instead teaching them to write the programs at their desks, only testing when satisfiedwith the result. He also identifies several suggestions for group techniques: allowing students toread and check each other’s programs, group review of a program, and other forms of teaminteraction. Fienup2 also supports group work. He writes (in reference to his object-orientedCS-2 course), “team projects avoided overwhelming students with large projects by decreasingthe amount of work that each student

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

arrive at general consensus ofwhat appears to be widely accepted definitions, and to shed light on how common terms areused.Active learning is generally defined as any instructional method that engages students in thelearning process. It is widely accepted that active learning requires students to take part in “pre-planned” learning-related activities, believed to spark and stimulate their learning, while in theclassroom 5, 6 .These activities would include: reading, writing, solving problems, answeringquestions, participating in a discussion, etc.; and most important, students must be engaged inthinking tasks while actively involved. It is generally understood that during active learning, lessemphasis is placed on transmission of information

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Learning 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

and stimulate their learning, while in theclassroom. (5, 6) These activities would include: reading, writing, solving problems, answeringquestions, participating in a discussion, etc.; and most important, students must be engaged inthinking tasks while actively involved. It is generally understood that during active learning, lessemphasis is placed on transmission of information and more on developing students’ skills.Additionally, during an active learning cycle, emphasis is placed on students’ exploration oftheir own abilities, including: their thinking process, their value system, their intellect, and theircourage to express themselves orally and in writing. Active learning is contrasted to thetraditional lecture where students passively

Conference Session

Flipping ECE Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Stickel, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

with opportunities for peer instruction, individual and group problem-solving exercises, and discussion and consideration of experimental demonstrations.  During the exercises the instructor would circulate through the lecture hall with approximately 100 students.  After a period of time for these exercises the instructor would review or present a solution to the problem in collaboration with the students using a tablet PC.  The in-class time was also used to discuss additional applications and current areas of related research.  Approximately one-third to one-half of the class was spent with the instructor speaking at the front, but the presentation was not based on pre-planned notes, but rather

Conference Session

Computer Hardware and Simulation

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krista M Hill, University of Hartford; Ying Yu, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

verification, and teaching with new educational methods, which includes peer instruction, personal response systems, video games, and state-of-the-art CAD tools. Page 23.1288.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Use of a CPLD in an Introductory Logic Circuits CourseAbstractIn the 2011 Fall semester we successfully adopted a complex programmable logic device(CPLD) for use in our introductory logic circuits course at the University of Hartford. Whilethe adoption of the corresponding CAD tools is an important element, we have been

Conference Session

Engineering Equity: Challenging Paradigms and Cultivating Inclusion in Technical Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kiana Alexa Ramos; Isabella Stuopis, Boston College; Emanuel Joseph Louime; Peyton Elise Carter; Caitlyn Hancock; Avneet Hira, Boston College

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

authentic experiences. However, inkeeping things at grade level and making room for youth to insert their ideas and experiences, allbackgrounds are primarily vague and do not explicitly suggest harm will come to the zone. Forexample, "The Park," although highlighting what will be lost, there is also language to suggestthat another park is available—leaving plenty of space for youth to compare this with theirnearest parks and playground compared to our fictional space. Prior to building the prototypebridge, youth were instructed to write down their zone choices and justifications for building onthem on the worksheet. The activity was also designed intentionally to create small groups which each youthleader would spearhead. The only additional

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johanna Antonia Perasso Adunce, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile.; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico; Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

situation and write prediction. They certain conditions. their predictions. contrast their •Modality: In- •Modality: In- results to their presence class presence class predictions. •Modality: Virtual.Figure 1. Schematic view of the innovation implemented and the modality.The regular resources for this course were adapted to the innovation (Modified ILD + Phet) priorto the beginning of the course to have a balanced and clear picture of the topic, activities, numberof sessions to introduce the innovation, assignments, and test days. The topic that

Collection

2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Brian P. Murphy

context: Implementation of CE Education requiresknowledge of workforce development, community, government coalitions, funding, and policy.Research activities focus on the best practices in these areas and are informed by socioeconomicfactors that influence the findings' scope and impact on social justice. The research design andimplementation plan are created from what is learned in the literature review, using researchtools, and methods aligned with supporting theories.1. Illuminating Truths in a Literature ReviewAs a writer, Lamott's TEDR speech video [14] is motivational about finding the truths we wish toreveal through writing. I want to reveal the “truth” that advances in clean energy technology andthe rapid growth in the CE sector

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert P. Dalka, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Devyn Shafer; Brianne Gutmann, San José State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

this type of mentorship (Leydens 2014, Nieusma 2011). One such initiative, theAccess Network, aims to do just that. The Access Network is a collection of programs (sites) thatare situated in U.S. universities that work towards a more equitable, diverse, inclusive, andaccessible version of the STEM community (Quan 2019). Access prioritizes student leaders, bothat the network-level and in their local sites, by empowering them to take the lead on actions andby providing support for this work. Access sites engage in activities that build inclusive learningcommunities, provide guidance through peer mentorship, and support growth in students’leadership around social justice.One major function of the Access Network is to connect students across these

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University; Manuel Alejandro Figueroa, The College of New Jersey; Jamie N. Mikeska, Educational Testing Service; Matthew S. Taylor, The College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

two thirds or more of the instances ofeach feature in the teacher’s discussion transcript, they also associated non-examples with eachfeature (i.e., “over-coding” for the feature). Most especially, participants over-coded instancesfor Feature 1, linking many quotes to this feature even though the quotes did not encouragestudents to engage other teams about their designs; this finding was also evident in thesynchronous discussion. In the Identifying Strategies assignment, PSTs collectively identified atotal of 15 strategies that the teachers used with respect to the three features. The most frequentlymentioned strategies for each feature were: having students call on a peer for critique orfeedback (Feature 1), posing questions about whether

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Coso Strong, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. However, whenstudents did reflect on out-of-major courses, they tended to recount a wider variety of enactedphilosophies, including more learner-centered ones (progressivism, social reconstructionism, andexistentialism). Qualitative analysis of students’ descriptions of their most impactful classesrevealed five major factors that contribute to the success of a course: course components, theinstructor, the student experience, the subject matter, and other stakeholders (e.g., peers andteaching assistants). Exploring these impactful classroom experiences highlights connectionsbetween the literature and student experiences as well as supports new faculty who areconsidering the type of instructional environments they will strive to create in their own

Conference Session

Track 6: Technical Session 6: Stewardship of the Stories: Learning from Black Engineering Students' Lived Experiences

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder; Donna Auguste Ph.D., Auguste Research Group, LLC; Cynthia Hampton Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Tech. She has done work as a transformational change postdoctoral research associate with the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research and practice spans student intervention programs, faculty agency, evaluation, grant-writing, and facilitation of change initiatives. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Stewardship of the Stories: Learning from Black Engineering Students’ Lived ExperiencesAbstractIn 2019 - 2021, during a research study involving 24 Black engineering student participants whowere currently or formerly enrolled at a predominantly White university in the United States,some participants answered interview questions, based on their lived experiences, in astorytelling manner

Conference Session

Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ellen M. Swartz, North Dakota State University; Ryan Striker P.E., North Dakota State University; Lauren Singelmann, North Dakota State University; Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, North Dakota State University; Mary Pearson, North Dakota State University; Stanley Shie Ng, Biola University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

offers more opportunities for innovative impact. Each increase in Innovative Impact requires more extensive research, design, and review in the innovative outcome. In IBL, students are encouraged to develop their learning and innovative solutions so they contain high levels of knowledge development (DoK-3 and DoK-4) and high levels of impact (Academia and Society levels).Tokenized Learning SystemThe tokenized system allows students to log, track, and provide evidence of their individual self-defined learning goals easily and efficiently to all course instructors involved. The token flowprocess also incorporates anonymous peer/instructor review as well, giving studentsresponsibility and experience in providing/receiving

Conference Session

Climate Issues for Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yong Zeng, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; John R. Duncan, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

supported by the findings of the study whereby persisters reported fewerrestraining forces while switchers reported fewer driving forces. The two driving forces that arecommon among persisters and switchers are formal support programs and peer supportprograms. Strengthening these two programs would increase the driving forces for all students.These findings will assist faculty, advisers, and program planners to better meet the needs ofwomen in engineering programs and likely help to reduce the attrition rates of women inengineering.Keywords: women engineering persistence environment motivation force-fieldWhile there is a general shortage of engineers, the need is acute in the under-represented areassuch as women and minorities. According to the

Conference Session

Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katrina Marie Robertson; Hadi Ali, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Jonathan M. Adams, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott; Elizabeth Ashley Rea, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition and the writing program admin- istrator at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ. His research on rhetorical theory, in- frastructure, and communication pedagogy informs his teaching of courses in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication in engineering.Elizabeth Ashley Rea, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Fostering Educational Equity in EngineeringAbstract: This is a research paper. Students in introductory engineering courses face challengescommunicating and integrating their ideas in team projects. Often these challenges with

Conference Session

PCEE Technical Session 8: Engineering Design in Elementary School

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Batrouny, Tufts University

curriculum that she designed and taught. Her current doctoral research at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach focuses on decision-making strategies and the personal, interpersonal, and external influences on those strategies across engineering educational contexts. Outside of research, she is a teaching assistant at the university's machine shop, where she assists students with a wide range of digital fabrication tools and precision machinery. Outside of school, Nicole is interested in biking, yarn crafts, sci-fi and fantasy writing, sustainable living, social justice, and the intersections of all of these. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanaz Motamedi, University of Florida; Mckenzie Landrum, University of Florida; Tara Ippolito, University of Florida; Austin Hayes

-ended problem. Typically, the instructorshould develop the problem to be solved by all students. If students are allowed to choose theirown topic, this would increase intrinsic motivation, but would make it difficult for the instructorto ensure consistent knowledge between all students [13]. When PBL was applied in an undergraduate electrical engineering course, it was found toresult in significantly higher conceptual understanding compared to the traditional lecture method[14]. To ensure individual student participation, fairness, and accountability, many studiesincorporated peer evaluations [15, 16]. PBL also has positive results on student perceptions. Forexample, when PBL was implemented on an Administration Theory course, students

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Rong Su, University of Iowa

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

explored peer-reviewed journal publications on P-12 engineering education from2000-2015 across five large periodical databases (PsycInfo, EBSCO Full text/ERIC, Scopus,Professional Development Collection, EBSCO Education source. Since we are interested in themeasures of students’ affective views with respect to engineering focused interventions, wemodified the search criteria to include terms such as interests, attitudes, self-efficacy, identity,motivation, and aspirations. These affective views were chosen as areas of concentrationbecause they are the most commonly used as measures that, if increased, would predict a higherlikelihood of students pursuing engineering. With the additional search terms for students’affective views, we repeated search

Conference Session

Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession - and ASCE

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Timothy W Mays P.E., The Citadel; Monika Bubacz, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel; Kaitlin Marley, University of California - San Diego; James Michael Grayson, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

objectives V Planning a Class: Offers a structured methodology for organizing a class with emphasis on constructing an outline, board notes, and out-of-class activities VI Writing: Covers the fundamentals of making written presentations using the chalk board, vu-graphs, and PowerPoint slides VII Teaching Assessment: Covers student, peer and self-assessments and separates myth from fact regarding their usefulness. Classroom assessment techniques (Angelo and Cross, 1993) are illustrated throughout the seminars. VIII Communications - Speaking: Covers fundamentals of communication skills with emphasis on speaking to a group and generating positive emotion from students IX Communications – Questioning: Examines different

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 12: Creativity and Problem Framing

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey D White, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Yan Chen, University of New Mexico; Todd Hynson, University of New Mexico; Ian A. Drackert, University of New Mexico; Jordan Orion James, University of New Mexico; Claire Yvonne Saul; Austin C. Megli, University of New Mexico

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

and conceptual information used to frame the problemin terms of needs/constraints; 2) design practices used (e.g., generating ideas, consideringmultiple stakeholders, remaining tentative); and 3) stylistic choices (e.g., organizing theirresponse, depicting context). We developed three DST scenarios and tested them in a chemicalengineering program over a three-year period (n=580). To make data analysis feasible, twoundergraduate peer-learning facilitators analyzed each DST independently (14 PLFscontributed), following minimal training. Results. Using a validity-as-argument approach (Linn,1994), we argue that the DST provides valid information about design problem-framing ability,provided the information is used for course improvement purposes

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac Wait, Marshall University; Andrew Nichols, Marshall University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

towards degree programs, those completing IEP may be at an academic advantagewhen compared to students with a similar academic background but who do not attend anintensive language training program. By improving students’ ability to communicate in thelanguage of instruction, IEP-attending students can become better equipped to engage in thelearning activities that lead to academic success, such as critical listening, taking notes, readingtextbook materials, understanding class lectures, performing writing assignments, interactingwith English-speaking peers in group assignments, and seeking assistance from English-speakingfaculty outside of the classroom. Regardless of a student’s field of study, an improved ability tounderstand and communicate in

Conference Session

Pre-College: Working with Teachers to Improve K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katey Shirey, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

diSessa’s p-prims (Louca, Elby, Hammer, & Kagey, 2004),but for this study I am simply identifying various views, habits of mind, and patterns of actionthat seem tethered to decisions in various contexts. My framework states that 1. Teachers haverepertoires of resources that are bigger than what you would see at any given time. 2. Resourcesget “called up” or activated in various combinations due to situational conditions in response toclassroom, contextual, peer or social contexts, and are not necessarily consistently called upevery time. 3. Sometimes co-activated resources may be highly unstable and sometimes theymay be mutually reinforcing.In this paper I’m particularly interested in teacher moves, authority, what counts as knowledgeand

Conference Session

Encouraging Students to Think Critically

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

learning, which they can use to make adjustments to their teaching.One definition of formative assessment is offered by Black and Wiliam (2009): Practice in a classroom is formative to the extent that evidence about student achievement is elicited, interpreted, and used by teachers, learners, or their peers, to make decisions about the next steps in instruction that are likely to be better, or better founded, than the decisions they would have taken in the absence of the evidence that was elicited. (p. 7)However, there are multiple viewpoints on the methods by which this evidence should beelicited. One view interprets formative assessment as a formal diagnostic test that produces ascore quantifying student achievement

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mia Minnes, University of California, San Diego; Sheena Ghanbari Serslev, University of California, San Diego ; Madison Edwards

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

desired performance level. At this point, students are self-regulated learners: they canset their own learning goals, determine how to best accomplish these goals, and monitor their progressin accomplishing them [1, Part II]. When self-regulated learners perceive deficits in their learning, they exhibit adaptive help-seeking:asking others for the resources necessary in order to learn independently [16], [17]. Students may engagein formal (approaching an instructor) or informal (approaching a peer or friend) help-seeking behavior.Students who use more metacognitive, cognitive, and resource management strategies are more likely toseek help when needed. Furthermore, students who exhibit high self-esteem appear more likely to seekhelp when needed

Conference Session

Faculty Development Medley!

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Mani Mina, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin; Arnold Neville Pears, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division

engineering educator might be expected to possess. This has profoundimplications for the design of future courses for beginning teachers of engineering and alliedsubjects.(b) Findings related to becoming a professional engineering educatorOne of us (John) was much affected by the fact that much of the discussion seemed to focus onthe personal problems of the teacher, in particular the teaching versus research conflict. Itseemed there were no lines of accountability and that everything was governed by a strongmotivation to write papers to be published in internationally peer reviewed journals. He alsonoted a similarity with the problems faced by the beginning schoolteacher and considered thatthe workshop should have begun with a discussion of

Conference Session

Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Pennsylvania; Julie Schafer McGurk, University of Pennsylvania; Emily R. Elliott, University of Pennsylvania; Ursula J. Williams, University of Pennsylvania; Leann Dourte Segan, University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Student

. (2003). Introduction to the SCALE-UP (Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Undergraduate Programs) Project. Proceeding of the International School of Physics.17. Haller, C.R., Gallagher, V.J., Weldon, T.L., & Felder, R.M. (2000). Dynamics of peer education in cooperative learning groups. Journal of Engineering Education, 89(3), 285-293.18. Biggs, J. & Tang, C. (2011). Teaching for quality learning at university (4th ed). Berkshire, England: Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education (UK).19. Lopez, J.A., Love, C., & Watters, D. (2014). Clickers in biosciences: Do they improve academic performance? International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education, 22, 26-41.20. Felder, R.M. &

Conference Session

Interest and Movitation: Formulating New Paradigms to Increase URM Participation in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Yatchmeneff, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP) Deputy Direc- tor and managed its Summer Bridge, Academies of Engineering, and University Success components. I earned a BS in Civil Engineering from University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) in 2005 and a MS in En- gineering Management from UAA in 2009. I have taught the Introduction to Engineering course at UAA 5 times. I have more than five years of construction and engineering professional experience in Alaska. I specialized in water and sewer projects in remote Alaskan villages. My responsibilities have included design assistance, technical report and permit writing, feasibility studies, and business plan preparations. Previous work includes conceptual design of

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Project-based Learning and Cornerstone Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

through writing, speech and engineering drawings. • Create a Community: Allow students to make connections with the Cal Poly Mechanical Engineering community and develop support systems that will help them succeed during their time as students. This includes getting to know the faculty, understanding department procedures, finding extra-curricular opportunities and gaining exposure to other academic opportunities such as study abroad.New Freshmen YearTo address these goals, several structural changes were made. First, all Mechanical Engineeringfreshmen were put in a lockstep program so that they took the same four core ME courses duringthe same quarter with block scheduling. This ensured that all ME freshmen would