Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachal E Thomassie, Texas A&M University; Kathryn Kirsch, Pennsylvania State University; Eric R Marsh, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University

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Mechanical Engineering

. As one of the broadestengineering majors, mechanical engineering offers training in areas that range from thermal fluidsciences to mechatronics to machine design. In the ideal program, students are also given a tasteof industry work through team activities, project-based course content, or a required engineeringwork experience. Mechanical engineering graduates have the opportunity to join any number ofindustries, and are indeed highly sought-after for their problem solving skills and technicalbreadth. Yet, mechanical engineering students are generally not provided with guidance onmatching their interests with one of the multitude of jobs or non-traditional career paths availableto them.Students are also lacking direction on skills so

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

and we suspect that we arenot alone. The first task deals with communicating effectively. This task focuses on articulatingthrough format, structure, grammar and syntax. Writing specialists are best trained in teachingthis practice. The other task deals with communicating technically. This task focuses ontechnical substance, technical analysis and interpretation, and the overall use of engineeringprinciples and concepts to explain and to conclude an answer to a posed question. Technical Page 8.818.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Jon Down, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

skills to compete in the globalbusiness environment when they meet with international business leaders on their travels abroad.They interact with America’s best entrepreneurs to learn business strategies. They design,implement, and lead a business project that aims to be the best of its kind in the world. They aretreated to guest lectures in the classroom and a year-long series of business workshops held bysome of the Northwest’s most successful business leaders. See Appendix 2 for descriptions ofthe three courses in the E-Scholars program.E-Scholars travel both domestically and abroad to meet business leaders across the globe. Allstudents travel to New York, where they meet with companies, consultants, non-profits andgovernment agencies, to

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Western Michigan University; Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University ; Daniel Collier, Western Michigan University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

and has resulted in many publications (see https://sites.google.com/view/chenderson). He is a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Henderson is the senior editor for the journal ”Physical Review Physics Education Research” and has served on two National Academy of Sciences Committees: Under- graduate Physics Education Research and Implementation, and Developing Indicators for Undergraduate STEM Education.Dr. Daniel Collier, Western Michigan University Daniel (Dan) is an alum of Bradley University, Roosevelt University, and The University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign - and currently serves as a post-doctoral researcher for the Center for Research on In- structional Change in

Collection

2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Seraphin C. Abou

surface or deep levelprocessing) to study the impact of collaboration in these online learning environments, Pena-Shaff and Nicholls, (2004), [11].To be truly effective, safety culture and community learning structures must be built to facilitatethe interaction of researchers, educators and students from multiple disciplines. This effort isaimed at integrating multiple interests into one community, a community of safety practice. Inaddition, educational programs must be recast to produce a new breed of researcher prepared andsuited to working at the interface of multiple disciplines, thereby creating a second type ofintegration, a new learning community. However, several barriers must be overcome to achieveboth forms of integration effectively

Conference Session

Potpouri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

scarcity ofinformation exist regarding the role of women engineers in the Arab world. The lack ofinformation about the integration of women into the workforce suggests the need formore studies investigating the status of female engineers in the Arab societies. Whileenrolment statistics of women in engineering in some Arab countries are impressive6 suchas in Bahrain (32%) and in Kuwait (49%), information about the career paths whichwomen engineers follow from enrolment till practicing the engineering career is not wellunderstood. Page 25.1482.2For the purpose of this research, Lebanon was considered as a case study. Lebanon hasone of the best educational

Conference Session

WIP: Student Success and Sustainability

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher V.H.-H. Chen, Columbia University; Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

won best paper at the Annual ASEE conference in both Design in Engineering Education Division and the Professional Interest Council 5 (PIC V) for her research in Inclusive Team-based learning. In 2023, she won the Northeastern Inaugural Global Educator Award for her impactful work developing and running international educational programs. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work-In-Progress: Integrating Sustainability Across the Chemical Engineering CurriculumAbstractThe United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development represents a global commitmentto addressing the world's most pressing economic, social, and environmental challenges with

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Diane L. Nelson, Carnegie Mellon University; Ilhem F. Hakem, Carnegie Mellon University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

, at the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS). Dr. Ilhem F. Hakem joined the Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces (CPS) Program and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2018 as Teaching Professor to support and expand the educational activi- ties of the CPS Program. This involves teaching of undergraduate and graduate level courses, supervising undergraduate and Master students in research projects related to soft materials and finally develop and get involved in K-12 outreach activities. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: A Summer Outreach Program in Chemical Engineering Emphasizing

Conference Session

MET Papers 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Orlando M, Ayala, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

. Ayala spent three years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Delaware where he expanded his knowledge on simulation of multiphase flows while acquiring skills in high performance parallel computing and scientific computation. Before that, Dr. Ayala hold a faculty position at Universidad de Oriente at Mechanical Engineering Department where he taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses for a number of subjects such as Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Multiphase Flows, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery, as well as Mechanical Engineering Laboratory courses. In addition, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

thatapproach because it consistently notes that there is no difference in time regarding theexamination of objectives and outcomes. Further, general models 5,6 provide for a one-dimensional assessment practice. That is, collect and analyze the data then make curriculummodifications to rectify any problems identified through data analysis 7. As a refinement of thegeneral models, assessment experts argue that the process of data triangulation, collection ofthree sets of data to examine the same phenomenon, strengthens the validity of assessmentresults 4,8.Recent research on evaluating engineering program effectiveness has focused on the portion ofthe ABET standards mandated in EC 2000 related to demonstrating achieving student outcomes9 . Examination

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julia Williams

ethics and service learning. If students need to learn tobe responsible to society, the arguments go, then students need to take more courses in ethicsand/or take courses that feature a service learning dimension.Ethics education for engineering students has gained new stature in the past fifteen years,spawning a movement to encourage engineering faculty to add ethical dimensions to theirtechnical courses. Resources for faculty are available at The Online Ethics Center forEngineering and Science. According to Whitbeck, the best approach to teaching ethics toengineering students is to adopt a “’hands on,’ ‘practice-oriented,’ ‘experiential,’ or ‘activelearning approach”: The active learning exercises should be chosen so that over the course

Conference Session

Industrial Collaboration & Applications in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Stuart, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

long learners’ and stay current with rapidly advancing technical changes and global competitive needs. • Provide graduates that are not only excellent problem solvers, but also exemplary communicators and top shelf team players.OIT works closely with Boeing to evolve a tailored program for advancing MMET students whoare full time Boeing employees and set up the times so that jobs are not impacted and classes are Page 11.1175.3provided right at the Boeing site. The course work also weaves in many of the specific needs ofBoeing such as ‘lean manufacturing’, advanced material understanding in composites andmethods of designing

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Technical Session 3: Technology in Biomedical Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Leonard-Duke, University of Virginia; Shayn Peirce-Cottler, California State University, Channel Islands; Timothy E. Allen, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Paper ID #40178The Effect of In-Person versus Pre-recorded Final Presentations onStudent Learning Outcomes and EngagementJulie Leonard-Duke, University of Virginia Julie Leonard-Duke is a current graduate student in Biomedical Engineering at UVA highly interested in engineering education research. During her undergraduate degree at Georgia Tech, Julie was involved with engineering education research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Center for Aca- demic Success. Additionally, Julie was named a University Innovation Fellow and through her training at the Stanford Design School designed a new

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary First-year Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Kunberger P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Chris Geiger, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

experiences for first year studentsa. By 1982, over 175 educators acrossthe country came together to discuss first-year seminars, and the following year the AnnualConference on the Freshman Year Experience was born. Today, an effective first-yearexperience has been identified as a high impact educational practice by the Association ofAmerican Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Although these experiences differ significantlyfrom university to university, ranging anywhere from a single course specifically taken in themajor itself, through more involved practices including live-learn communities, Kuh emphasizesthe most influential points of a first-year experience include a “strong emphasis on criticalinquiry, frequent writing, information literacy

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Greg Rulifson P.E., USAID; Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

. His PhD work at CU Boulder focused on how student’s con- nections of social responsibility and engineering change throughout college as well as how engineering service is valued in employment and supported in the workplace.Dr. Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines Jessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines and Director of Humanitarian Engineering Graduate Programs. Her research and teach- ing bring anthropological perspectives to bear on questions of social responsibility and engineering. In 2016 the National Academy of Engineering recognized her Corporate Social Responsibility course as a national exemplar in teaching engineering

Conference Session

CPDD Session 2 - Professional Development - Where Are We Going?

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Kathryne Newton, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

. The originaloffering was cohort-based and it employed a weekend format; meeting from Friday throughSunday. The cohort met three times a semester, twice in the summer semester, for a total of fivesemesters (Fall, Spring, Summer, Fall and Spring). After 22 months, all members of the initialcohort format graduated in the May 2000 graduation ceremony. Because of its non-traditionalapproach, the state’s authorization included the establishment of a different fee structure thannormal on-campus classes which resulted in a program cost that was higher than traditional on-campus equivalent programs.The Center for Professional Studies in Technology and Applied Research (ProSTAR) wasapproved by Purdue University under the College of Technology as an

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dayna Martínez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers; Esther Gonzalez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.; Kimberly Douglas, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.

their Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute (HSyE) as a post- doctoral research fellow. Native from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dayna graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (¡Colegio!) and then she completed a master’s and PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of South Florida in Tampa. Being Hispanic and an engineer herself, Dayna has a passion for increasing Hispanic representation in STEM. She currently lives with her husband Andrés, their two sons David and Sebastián, and their miniature schnauzer Lucca in Winter Garden, Florida.Esther Gonzalez (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 3: Evaluation & Assessment

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marko V. Lubarda, University of California, San Diego; Alex M. Phan, University of California, San Diego; Maziar Ghazinejad, University of California, San Diego; Nathan Delson, eGrove Education; Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego; Curt Schurgers, University of California, San Diego; Minju Kim, University of California, San Diego; Josephine Relaford-Doyle, University of California, San Diego; Carolyn L. Sandoval, University of California, San Diego; Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

among these demandsis the call for outfitting students – the future workforce – with so-called 21st-century skills [3].Most notably, these include skills of abstract thinking, critical reasoning, technicalcommunication, teamwork, lifelong learning, creativity, and leadership. A critical line ofresponse to equipping students with these skills has been pedagogical advances and instructionalinnovation at the course and curriculum levels. Student-centric, active-learning, and experientialeducational practices – such as flipped classes, project-based courses, undergraduate research,and work-integrated learning – have emerged as effective tools for supporting students’professional skill development in line with expectations of the modern workplace [4

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Engineering Economy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gillian M. Nicholls, University of Alabama, Huntsville; Neal A Lewis, University of Bridgeport; Ted Eschenbach P.E., University of Alaska Anchorage

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

statisticallysignificant difference at α = 0.05. It should be noted that these grades are reasonable for agraduate course since a C is generally considered unsatisfactory at the graduate level. As ameasure of practical significance, the experienced instructor’s assessment of student quality isthat the latter class was on average a weaker group—which makes their better performance evenmore significant. The students learned the material in a better way using modern tools, in a waythey will remember better, and in a way that will help them get a job. This is far more importantthan the improved test scores.The students were highly engaged in the 2013 class; they felt that learning the material usingspreadsheets was a job skill that they could market. This was

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Jill Lunn, Florida International University; Edward Dillon, Morgan State University; Zubayer Ahmed Sadid, Florida International University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

Teacher Education Program (MCCE), and the Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU - CRA-WP). Dr. Dillon currently serves as a Co-PI for the STARS Computing Corps, which recently has been renewed for funding by NSF. He has also conducted a Faculty in Residency at Google during the summer of 2018 to learn more about this company’s culture, practices, and to understand the expectations for candidates (e.g. aspiring CS majors) who pursue career opportunities at this company and related prominent companies in tech.Zubayer Ahmed Sadid, Florida International University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Educational Expertise: Faculty Insights on Preparing Computing

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

technical currency issues via faculty development activities!” • “Every faculty member should be encouraged to complete several classes from the education department to assist in the development of teaching skills. The skill of teaching young men and women is not automatically obtained…” • “We need easy and rapid dissemination of best practices as found by educational research centers.” • “Why educate our students to a standard that is ten years old? …Wouldn’t it be better to educate our students for the standard that will exist ten years in the future? How can this be done without technical currency?” • “Resources are the key, you can have all the policies and good intentions you want but

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Wu, East Carolina University; Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, Reno; Zhen Zhu, East Carolina University; David Feil-Seifer; Marjorie Campo Ringler, East Carolina University; Bryan C. Hutchins; Laura Rosof; Ponkoj Chandra Shill, University of Nevada, Reno; Hossein Jamali, University of Nevada, Reno; Frederick C Harris Jr., University of Nevada, Reno

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Hiring the Next Generation of Faculty, volume 2010(152). New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011. [4] M Bernardine Dias, Brett Browning, G Ayorkor Mills-Tettey, Nathan Amanquah, and Noura El-Moughny. Undergraduate robotics education in technologically underserved communities. In Proceedings 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 1387–1392. IEEE, 2007. doi: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363178. [5] Michael Rosenblatt and Howie Choset. Designing and implementing hands-on robotics labs. IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications, 15(6):32–39, 2000. doi: 10.1109/5254.895856. [6] Glen R Rasmussen. An evaluation of a student-centered and instructor-centered method of conducting a graduate course in

Conference Session

Developing New Engineering Educators

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Karlin, University of Southern Maine; Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

). Fitting the mold of graduate school: A qualitative study of socialization in doctoral education. Innovative Higher Education, 33, 125–138.18. Henderson, C., Beach, A., & Finkelstein, N. (2011). Facilitating change in undergraduate STEM instructional practices: an analytic review of the literature. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 48(8), 952–984.19. Fairweather, J. (2002). The Mythologies of Faculty Productivity: Implications for Institutional Policy and Decision Making. J. Higher Educ. v. 73, no. 1, 26-48.20. Fox, M. F. (1992). Research, teaching, and publication productivity: Mutuality versus competition in academia. Sociology of Education, 65, 293–305.21. Fleming, S. S., Goldman, A. W., Correli, S. J

Collection

2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Suguang Xiao, Clarkson University; Robert J Schneider, Clarkson University; Erik Backus, Clarkson University

interdisciplinary skills, context to design impacts and real-worldmanagement structure. Such projects benefit the University and its students. They give students real worldexperience with core knowledge in a variety of technical and specific discipline domains [4]. They 2provide a real-world testbed for engaging first-hand the real-world challenges of communityimplementation [5]. Moreover, PBL provides a network of connections and experiences that students canbuild on as they finish their college degrees and take their next steps into graduate school or careers [4].As was shown by Strand, this has many advantages over other kinds of experiential or

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

twoproblematic ideologies at work in engineering education: an over-reliance on Outcomes-BasedEducation (OBE) and an emphasis on “evidence-based” research and practice, where “evidence”is narrowly defined following the medical model of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), nearlyimpossible to execute validly in educational settings. The changes remove or weakenrequirements for educational breadth, including global and social context, engineering ethics, andlifelong learning.One of the stated rationales for these changes is that some outcomes are difficult to assess. To thecontrary, the engineering education community has invested a great deal of time and effortinnovating assessment methods to create increasingly valid, concise, and easy to implement

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Skills Development Across the Undergraduate-to-Workforce Transition

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dena Lang, Pennsylvania State University; Travis Gehr; Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University; John Jongho Park, Pennsylvania State University; Andrew Michael Erdman, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development

” as an assistant instructor in the University of Texas at Austin for five years.Mr. Andrew Michael Erdman, Pennsylvania State University Andrew M. ”Mike” Erdman received his B.S. in Engineering Science from Penn State and his M.S. from USC. At Rocketdyne (Pratt & Whitney), he helped design the Space Shuttle. As manager of Reactor Safety Analysis, Experimental Engineering, and Fluid Dynamics Technology at KAPL (Bechtel), he con- ducted research for Naval Reactors. He currently serves as the Walter L. Robb director of Engineering Leadership and as a Professor of Practice in SEDTAPP and Engineering Science at Penn State. Erdman has chaired the local Jaycees, Department of Social Services Advisory Council, GE Share

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 2 - Beliefs, Motivation, and Pedagogy

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Robinson, Saint Vincent College; Brian E. Faulkner, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

incorporate the goals of this laboratory into earlier courses to better preparestudents for their junior-year laboratory.To provide further context for this course, an example lab assignment is presented in theappendix. This assignment is typical of the assignment for this course in length and expectation.Students are expected to make decisions on how to best complete the assignment including whatcontent to use from previous courses, what instruments to use, how to verify their measurementsand how to justify the validity of their experiments. A main objective of this course is thatstudents will practice problem solving and learn from failure. To facilitate that objective, six labassignments are scaffolded such that students are given more help with

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ET Programs I

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Billy Gray, Tarleton State University; Gloria M. Fragoso-Diaz, Tarleton State University; Olugbenro Ogunrinde, Tarleton State University; Tyler Rider, Tarleton State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

style in noway reflects an engineer’s requirement in their job which includes teamwork and multi-disciplineproblem solving skills [1]. Project-based learning (PBL) is a part of a pedagogical practice thatinvolves a wide range of engineering requirements methods. However, this learning method hasnot been holistically implemented [2]. To help with this issue, ABET, in its most recent guidanceis pushing for more PBL which research has shown as key and most prevailing attribute amongsuccessful graduate engineers within the industry [1]. The prevalent method for teaching inengineering disciplines is the “Chalk and Talk” approach. The instructor will lecture and thestudent will be a passive learner, not a student centered method [1]. These authors

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Rosenkrantz

bank of 2-5 questions was created from which WebCT would randomly choose onefor the quiz. This produced unique quizzes for each student and reduced the impact of cheating(note: the topic of cheating is discussed in the "Conclusions and Recommendations" section at theend). Each quiz covered approximately two chapters of material from the book. Students wereallowed to drop their lowest quiz.Each quiz was preceded with a "practice" quiz option. The practice quizzes are important becausethe students need to get familiar with the quiz tool in WebCT and prepare for the types ofcalculations that will be thrown at them on the quiz. Prior to WebCT, the quizzes were almostalways the same format as the homework problems. For on-line courses this

Conference Session

Bridge Programs Connecting to First-Year Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Steele, Louisiana State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs, Pre-College Engineering Education

participate in each year tonetwork with these students, and one is selected to be a guest speaker. This is a great opportunityfor any company who wants to get their name on the radars of students at the beginning of theircollege careers, and it benefits the students who need to practice selling themselves to industryrepresentatives and who may not know much about what engineers do day-to-day. Since thisprogram has existed for a dozen years, there are many SPM alumni who look forward to comingback to this event each year. Graduating mentors fill out an exit survey, and their new contactinformation is collected, so they can be added to the invitation list for the following year.ResultsPerformance in math courses and retention between years one and two