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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Arnaldo Mazzei

of the subjects being taught.The choice for a high-end simulation package is based on the principle of teaching a tool that canbe used during the students’ senior design courses and in their professional careers as well.Carrying out the integration of the software into the course can pose some challenging issues. Forexample, integrating software teaching and assignments into an already full course schedule. Herethe author suggests a Web-based approach. Student feedback on the integration is included andan example assignment is also given in the paper.Introduction Page 8.742.1Many universities currently teach kinematics and dynamics of

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Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

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Swami Karunamoorthy

the course. Page 8.633.2 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”University AssessmentThe Office of Institutional Study (OIS), comprised of an Assistant Provost andsupporting staff, is responsible for developing and implementing the Universityassessment system with the help of a University Assessment Committee. This committeehas representatives from different academic units as well as career services and campusministry. The committee has identified Five Dimensions of the Saint Louis UniversityExperience

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Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marjorie Hovde

Communication Skills for Engineers”, The Balanced Engineer: Essential Ideas for Career Development, 1998 Professional Activities Conference Proceedings,1998, pp. 47-53. Cranston, R. L. “Successfully Speaking: Winning Government Orals by Giving Memorable Speeches”, The Balanced Engineer: Essential Ideas for Career Development. 1998 Professional Activities Conference Proceedings, 1998, pp. 59-64. Paul, R. M. “Recommendation for Effective Communications to Influence Federal Policy Issues of Importance to Electrical Engineers”, The Balanced Engineer: Essential Ideas for Career Development. 1998 Professional Activities Conference Proceedings, 1998, pp. 30-33.2. American Society for Engineering Education. How Do You Measure

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

and engineering and laying down a foundationfor exploring the differences, similarities, and interdependencies of these notions. We aimto develop and crystallize the philosophy driving our efforts to offer K-12 students ameaningful exposure to engineering concepts and principles, and to expand the scope ofstudents’ eventual career choices to include engineering.Introduction Page 8.1066.1The National Academy of Engineering (www.nae.org) lists the greatest engineering “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hardymon; Saeed Foroudastan

experience, but to include a design project. The hands-ondesign concept makes the course more interesting and more challenging, and gives the students ataste of real-world applications as motivation to continue with engineering or engineeringtechnology as their major. Through a design project, students gain a better understanding ofengineering or engineering technology as a career through exposure to the various disciplines theproject requires. Several years ago, the professor of the introductory course initiated the conceptof project involvement with one requiring simple drawings and models involving redesign of adoor to solve an actual ventilation situation at the cogeneration plant. Realizing that small designassignments added value to the course

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Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

(physics class, chemistry,workshops, instruments, tools); what hobbies they have; why they are interested in engineering asa major and as a possible future career; and how committed they are to graduating as an engineer.Using these data, it was intended to ensure there is a good mixture of majors, prior skill sets, andhobbies represented on each team. In addition, an attempt was made not to isolate a single femaleon a team. An identical design experience and familiarity questionnaire was administered to bothsections right before the design project was introduced. This questionnaire included questionsrelevant to students’ self-assessment on their 1) familiarity with camping, 2) familiarity withfolding campers, 3) their like/dislike of

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2001 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rose

inthat they teach the use of current technology to solve engineering problems facing industry.Accreditation requirements for ET programs prescribe that faculty have a minimum amount ofindustrial experience prior to beginning their teaching career. In addition, ET faculty can maintaincurrency is through industrial experience and consulting. Industrial experience and consulting canprovide opportunities for professional development, if the faculty member properly documentsthese experiences in the technical literature. Consulting and industrial experiences can presentopportunities for professional publishing in the form of case histories presented in conferenceproceedings and journal articles of a practical nature. Documenting how consulting and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

a 'giant leap of faith' and liberated some of the credits typically assignedtechnical/approved electives and created a new and different experience designed to educate andprepare graduating engineers for more productive and successful careers. This paper describes the Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.999.2 Copyright @2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcurricular structure of the Enterprise Program and our experience thus far during the first year ofimplementation.II. The Enterprise Curricular StructureA key challenge

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2001 Annual Conference

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John Marshall

Session 2548 Enticing High School Students into Engineering Technology with a Simple Industrial Process Control Module John Allen Marshall, Ph.D. University of Southern MaineAbstractToo few high school students understand that a career in Engineering and EngineeringTechnology can genuinely be exciting and neat. Some have the short-term view thatgood paying jobs are plentiful, so why take the really difficult courses. Many sell theirown abilities short and convince themselves that it is too difficult a career path. And stillothers conjure up the image of a dirty, dull, dangerous

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2000 Annual Conference

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Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

was“Career Management – Lifelong Learning.” Over the years there have been a number of studiesto investigate the types of activities involved in lifelong learning, their frequency of use, thetypes of support systems required for lifelong learning, barriers to lifelong learning, and impactof lifelong learning for individual engineers. Many of these studies are summarized in a 1985report by an NRC panel [2].Lifelong learning is an issue of importance for engineers around the world. UNESCO sponsoredseveral significant studies including “Advances in the continuing education of engineers” [3].The report resulting from this study summarizes practices in continuing education in a numberof countries, both developed and developing, and also delivery

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2000 Annual Conference

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Peter J. Graybash

. Profession Awakens to the NeedContinuing Professional Education is especially critical in the engineering profession, whereknowledge has a generally accepted five-year half-life. That is, half of what a new graduate haslearned is obsolete within five years. Engineers become obsolete, how do we get that overcome? The need for career-long continuing engineering education was formally recognized byindividual engineers, industry experts, academicians and professional societies when a panel ofthe National Research Council recommended that the National Science Foundation (NSF)establish learning objectives for career-long engineering education.In 1992,the NSF funded several engineering educational institutions to define the learningobjectives, and to test

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mike Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ken McNichols

Role PlayingRole playing can serve teaching engineering and technology to K-12 students as it has servedscience education. The applications to science education presented in Section III serve as anexample and inspiration to those interested in developing role playing games for K-12engineering and technology education. We identify three clear modes of using role playing forthis purpose and discuss them in this section.IV.1 Teaching the functions and duties of various engineers and technologistsOur experience has shown that, Many students and K-12 teachers have no idea what engineersactually do. There is a strong need to inform them of the variety of activities involved inengineering so that more students can consider engineering as a career

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Faitak; Monika Blair; Matthew Johnson; Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

high school studentshave had to learn how to work as a team, be creative and problem solve. Knowing that the teamsare only given a box of materials, a list of game rules and six weeks to design and build therobot, it is also obvious that they have gained time and resource management skills. Amid thefun and excitement of the competition, students barely know they are learning these importantskills; skills which are invaluable for the continuation of their education and for their careers. Inthe heat of this competition, ripe for learning, is there a lost opportunity to more deeply teachbasic science concepts as well?With funding from a National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and EngineeringCenter (MRSEC) grant, and in

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Dahleh

to employers of UCSB undergraduates. It is distributed at the annualCollege of Engineering career fair in the fall quarter and the annual SWE evening with industryin the winter quarter. The career placement office gives it to on campus recruiters. The Collegeoffice sorts the forms by department and sends them to the department to be processed. Thesurveys are reviewed annually and the results are included in the ABET report to the faculty.The survey consists of a single page with six questions. It asks for feedback on all of thetechnical outcomes of the program.Necessary resources for the assessment processThe College of Engineering at UCSB hopes to maintain the assessment of the program outcomesand objectives with the current faculty and

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Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sr., Willyerd Collier; Ken Vickers; Benita Wolff; Greg Salamo

, undergraduate faculty lack knowledge of graduate programs atother institutions, which can limit prospective students’ confidence in accepting academicopportunities that would well support their academic and career goals.Even with the difficulties involved, HBCU students have found and enrolled in UA graduateprograms. Upon arrival on campus, they found that there existed a lower level of interactionbetween research faculty and students at the UA as compared to the students’ undergraduateHBCU. This change of academic operational culture, coupled with the change in workload at Page 7.795.1the graduate versus undergraduate level and the change in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Samira Hasan; Tom Roberts

Copyright @2002, American Society for Engineering Educationinformation about computer labs and Career & Employment Services are distributed as studentsenter.Students are welcomed into their groups, complete an attitude survey, and participate in warm-upexercise designed to acquaint group members. Students are welcomed to the College by theDean and the Chairman of the Student Council NSOS Committee. The material covered in thefirst session is administrative information including; the University Honor Code, a calendar ofevents, course drop/add procedures, information about campus/college computer systems, andclass schedules. College of Engineering computer id’s are also given out by mentors at thissession.Session Two: Personal Development and

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Issues of Concern to New Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rose

only desired for improved teaching, but developing rapport with othersmay be a lesson in and of itself for the students. Experience developing professionalrelationships with superiors as well as colleagues is as important to the future career plans ofstudents as it is for the student and teacher in the present classroom environment. Developinggood rapport with students can result in more effective teaching, improved student evaluations,and a more rewarding experience for faculty and students in the and out of the classroom.Suggestions from the literature, as well as the author’s own experiences for developing andimproving student-faculty rapport are provided. With practice, developing good rapport withstudents can become second

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Smith; Denny Mahoney

driving principle, supported as necessary by business and Page 7.914.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education(systems) engineering disciplines. Targeted students include mid-career engineers andtechnical specialists with career paths to senior management.PD21 began as a two-year pilot project with funding from the National Science Foundation,during which time the consortium grew to four universities, adding the Naval PostgraduateSchool in 2000. PD21 is a consistent educational program based on

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New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jalaluddin Ahmad; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

manufacturing and technical careers for students who might have been turned off by traditional manual-labor-intensive programs. o Many employees are still not fully aware of the purpose of the EMS degree. Many times, when students applied for industry positions, the faculty must provide employers with additional information such as curriculum listings and course descriptions. Based on the personal experience of faculty in the EMS area, it is interesting to note that the first impression of employers have in general about EMS is considering it to be Emergency Medical Systems. EET or EIET are more common and standard terms for industry and academics in the electrical and electronics area. This will eliminate any initial

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Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachel Collins; Matthew Ohland

1996-97 cohort tofind that retention rates for the L&L students were significantly higher than the rest of thefreshman class and that the overall academic performance of the L&L group was “more uniformthan the other freshmen, but not necessarily better.”Some communities keep students for their entire academic career. Since some programs such asResidential Initiative on the Study of the Environment (RISE) at Michigan State Universitymaintain a living/learning community for four-years, it seems appropriate to maintain programduration as a classification variable. Similarly, the Residential Option for Science andEngineering Students (ROSES) at Michigan State University allows upperclass students to

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Fahmida Masoom; Abulkhair Masoom

understanding of engineeringdisciplines, and prepare students well for the intended course of study. Nine years after the firstoffering of this course, it is time to reflect on what t his course has accomplished, and thedilemmas faced by the instructors.IntroductionTowards the end of the 1980s, engineering educators around the country began to tackle the issueof large attrition rates in undergraduate engineering programs by introducing the concept of afreshman engineering or introduction to engineering course. The idea was to teach basic collegesurvival skills to incoming freshmen and introduce them to the different fields of engineering inorder to help them make an informed choice about their future career path. Since this problemwas common to most

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Geselowitz; Kim Breitfelder

endeavor as well asdecreased exposure to the possibility of engineering as a potential career. The IEEEVirtual Museum uses the history of science and technology to bridge the gap betweenthese two disciplines at the pre-college level. The IEEE, an international organization,has chosen the World Wide Web as its medium because of its potential to reach thelargest number of educators and their students worldwide. The site explores howtechnology works while examining the social ramifications of that technology. It isaugmented by instructional materials that help educators implement the material found onthe site, and which can be tailored to local conditions. In this way, science andtechnology teachers learn how to bring the humanities into their

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Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Mooney

since 1985. 1 Coupled with the well-chronicled mathand science deficiencies in primary and secondary school levels, 2,3 this has promptednumerous entities to develop and funding agencies to finance K-12 engineering outreachprograms. The Adventure Engineering program addresses some of the critical issuesassociated with these trends by encouraging more students to consider technical careers atthe time when they are likely to be exploring possible career paths, the 5 th through 9thmiddle grade years.Adventure Engineering (AE), launched in 1999 with funding from the National ScienceFoundation, is a middle grade science and math outreach initiative aimed at students whowithout the benefit of a positive mathematics and/or science applications

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ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

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Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

backgrounds and programs of study. This may be true because as another writernoted “Few opportunities exist in most undergraduate engineering curricula for students ofdifferent disciplines, even within engineering, to work together 4.” When in fact, that is exactlythe scenario that our graduates will encounter when they begin their career. Multidisciplinedesign and research teams are used extensively in industry to reduce the time required to completea complex process or a task. Inexperienced teams must deal with self-imposed barriers based onthe individual's preconceived expectations of other team members (and often their own) value tothe team based on their education or position. As another writer pointed out “It is no longeradequate to teach

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard Foster

and advanced digital circuits. A routing program generates printed circuit boardsfrom the students’ designs. This course includes programming the GAL22V10 PLD.Designing projects with the Basic Stamp and/or the PIC microcontroller is an option forschools with developed programs.Principles of Engineering (POE)POE is a survey course to provide the student with an understanding of the field ofengineering and engineering technology with an eye to career possibilities. Studentsexplore engineering systems and manufacturing processes. Students also grapple withquestions of broader application such as the social and political consequences oftechnological change. In this course, the student sees many sides to the question ofwhether a career in

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2001 Annual Conference

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David Probst

2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education5. be able to use the techniques, skills, and modern tools necessary for a career in science or engineering. a) Students will demonstrate the ability to use computers as tools in science and engineering work. Specifically students will be proficient in the use of: i) word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation software ii) mathematical packages such as Mathcad and Matlab iii) programming in a high level language such as FORTRAN, C++, or TurboBasic iv

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2001 Annual Conference

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Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Table 2 lists the Program Outcomes for one of the ABE accredited programs: Agricultural andBiological Engineering (ABE). The PO list appears in all surveys typically with two 5-pointLikert scales that ask the respondent to assess for each PO the level to which the programaddresses the PO, as evidenced by student mastery of skills, and the level of career importance(or anticipated career importance) of the PO. The faculty also evaluated the level to which theircourse addresses each PO. Table 2. ABE Program Outcomes (draft). Graduates of our program will demonstrate: Basic Engineering Skills an

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2001 Annual Conference

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William Edward Howard; Joseph Musto

revision of the Introduction to Engineering Concepts course,and most importantly the development of a new course entitled Computer Applications inEngineering. This new course, taken by all Mechanical Engineering Department freshmen as ofthe 1999-2000 academic year, was designed to meet four specific curricular objectives: 1) Tofamiliarize the students with the laptop computing environment and infrastructure at MSOE; 2) Tofamiliarize the students with specific software tools required for both their academic careers atMSOE and professional practice; 3) To develop formal problem solving methodologies whichintegrate the use of the computer; 4) To expose the students to the various areas of technicalconcentration available in the Mechanical Engineering

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth R. Leitch, West Texas A&M University; Rhonda B Dittfurth, West Texas A&M University; Freddie J Davis P.E., West Texas A&M University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, Page 22.834.2especially when it comes to job performance and the ability to advance in one’s career path.While computer science and engineering technology have been well established at WTAMU, the mechanical (2003)and civil (2010) engineering programs are relatively new. Curricula for the newer engineering degree programs aresimilar to other ABET-accredited programs which are constrained in the number of credits that can be allotted tospecific English and technical communication courses.The ECS Department at WTAMU recognizes the importance of strong technical communication skills for itsstudents and alumni. In addition to instructional strength in civil and mechanical engineering, engineeringtechnology, and computer science, the departmental

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FPD I: Attacking the Problems of Retention in the First Year

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Kline, Western Michigan University; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University

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First-Year Programs

; developing anEngineering House which includes tutoring services for freshmen in the residence halls;enhancing academic and career advising; early intervention by faculty and residence hall staff forstruggling students; and the formation of faculty learning communities for the exchange of bestpractices. Coordination of activities with other university programs such as the Louis StokesAlliance for Minority Participation and freshman/parent orientation to promote student successwas also improved. An institutional data-collection system was created to track student progressto support assessment and evaluation activities for this project. The tracking system provides aunique code for every student in the learning community cohorts; and compiles reports