Murzi, H., & Jurkiewicz, J., & Reid, K., & Rosenbaum, R. (2020, June), First-year Engineering Program Evaluation: Understanding Senior Students' Perceptions About Their First-year Experience  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34675

\bibitem{asee_peer_34675}
  Murzi, H., \& Jurkiewicz, J., \& Reid, K., \& Rosenbaum, R. (2020, June), \emph{First-year Engineering Program Evaluation: Understanding Senior Students' Perceptions About Their First-year Experience}
  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line .
  10.18260/1-2--34675

Homero Murzi, Jazmin Jurkiewicz, Kenneth Reid, and Rachel Rosenbaum.  "First-year Engineering Program Evaluation: Understanding Senior Students' Perceptions About Their First-year Experience".  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/34675 Internet.  12 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_34675}
  Homero Murzi, Jazmin Jurkiewicz, Kenneth Reid, and Rachel Rosenbaum.
  "First-year Engineering Program Evaluation: Understanding Senior Students' Perceptions About Their First-year Experience".
  \emph{2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/34675 Internet.  12 Dec, 2024

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AB  - Motivation: This Research paper will describe findings from an evaluation of a first-year general engineering program from the perspective of a group of stakeholders. Specifically, senior engineering students, considered "alumni" of the general first-year program, provided their perceptions on how useful the foundation of engineering courses taken in their first-year have been to their advancement in their engineering degree over time. Background: The Department of [Blinded for review] is home of a general first-year engineering program. This program is mandatory for every engineering student before they declare a major within an engineering discipline. One of the key components of the program are the introductory foundations of engineering courses. Data have been collected over the years to evaluate aspects of the first-year program. For example, first-year engineering students take a multi-dimensional survey at the beginning and end of the first semester and faculty (somewhat informally) provide perceptions of successes and suggested changes. However, data have not been collected from the different external stakeholders that are affected by the outcomes of the program (i.e. engineering departments, and senior engineering students). We decided to analyze senior engineering students perceptions of their experience in the first-year program and how effective they believe the program helped them in their academic programs. Methods: Using theory from program evaluation (Patton, 2008) and the academic plan model (Lattuca & Stark, 2009) as a guide, we conducted a focus group with 9 senior engineering students from Aerospace, Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Computer, Industrial and Systems, Mechanical, and Mining engineering and Engineering Science and Mechanics. The study had IRB approval and students signed a consent form to participate in the research. Students' responses were coded using thematic analysis and themes that emerged from the analysis were discussed in detail. Results: Students consider that the first-year program does a good job preparing them to work in teams, to solve problems, to understand design, to think logically, and to communicate (even when this was considered not to be important while in their first year of study). Students believe that first-year programs should emphasize more writing and presenting. They said that there shouldn't be as much of an emphasis on programming; they thought that including tools they don't find in other courses would be more useful (e.g. Excel). Students felt that more exposure to different engineering disciplines was crucial at that stage, and having small projects around different disciplines throughout the year would be ideal. Finally, we provide specific recommendations for administrators, practitioners, and researchers based on our findings. Keywords: First-year program evaluation, students' perceptions of first-year program, academic plan model
AU  - Homero Murzi
AU  - Jazmin Jurkiewicz
AU  - Kenneth Reid
AU  - Rachel Rosenbaum
CY  - Virtual On line 
DA  - 2020/06/22
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - First-year Engineering Program Evaluation: Understanding Senior Students' Perceptions About Their First-year Experience
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/34675
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--34675
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