Davis, C. E., & Vreeland, D. F., & Griffin, C. R., & Yeary, M. B. (2012, June), Creating a Culture of Student-driven ECE Recruiting and Retention  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21108

\bibitem{asee_peer_21108}
  Davis, C. E., \& Vreeland, D. F., \& Griffin, C. R., \& Yeary, M. B. (2012, June), \emph{Creating a Culture of Student-driven ECE Recruiting and Retention}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21108

Chad Eric Davis P.E., David F. Vreeland, Christopher Robert Griffin, and Mark B. Yeary P.E..  "Creating a Culture of Student-driven ECE Recruiting and Retention".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21108 Internet.  16 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21108}
  Chad Eric Davis P.E., David F. Vreeland, Christopher Robert Griffin, and Mark B. Yeary P.E..
  "Creating a Culture of Student-driven ECE Recruiting and Retention".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21108 Internet.  16 Dec, 2024

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AB  -   Creating a Culture of Student-Driven ECE Recruiting and RetentionThis is a continuation of a 2011 ASEE publication that focused on methodologies in ECErecruitment. This paper will complete the previous work by providing details on ECEretention best practices and look deeper into the role that student culture plays inrecruiting and retention. While this study occurred in an ECE department, most aspectswill translate to any engineering discipline.In the fall of 2008, our ECE department declined to 250 undergraduate enrollments. Asdescribed in the previous paper, the details of the declining trend were similar to overallengineering enrollment declines in the U.S. In response, a corrective action program wascreated to improve recruiting and retention practices. As of the fall 2011 reportingperiod, the number of ECE undergraduates enrolled in our ECE department is 345. Oneof the primary reasons for this 38% increase in just three years is a drastic change in thestudent culture. Prior to 2008, our ECE students had minimal involvement in recruitingand retention. Since 2008, a radical change has been made that resulted in studentsdriving the process. One of these students is a co-author of this paper and will give astudent perspective on the dynamics of the culture change that occurred in ourdepartment. Active student organizations were the primary vehicle used by our ECEdepartment to create this culture change. Data will be presented that correlates studentorganization involvement to recruiting and retention. Furthermore, our retentionprograms that were only briefly mentioned in previous work will be discussed in detailand tied to the student culture theme of this paper.The assessment methods of this paper will be both quantitative and qualitative.Quantitatively, enrollment and retention statistics of all ECE students in our departmentand the subset of ECE National Merit Scholars will be used. Additionally, student groupmembership and enrollment will be studied. Finally, a qualitative assessment will beperformed using student surveys and interviews. We hope our experiences will helpother ECE and engineering departments reverse declining enrollment trends.
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