Lumpp, J. K., & Blackburn-Lynch, W. C., & Lovely, J., & Letellier, L. M., & Whitney, J. G., & Anderson, K. W., & Herrick, S. (2019, July), Helping Transfer Students Succeed:  Establishing Pathways to Include Transfer Students in a First Year Engineering Program  Paper presented at 2019 FYEE Conference , Penn State University , Pennsylvania. 10.18260/1-2--33709

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  Lumpp, J. K., \& Blackburn-Lynch, W. C., \& Lovely, J., \& Letellier, L. M., \& Whitney, J. G., \& Anderson, K. W., \& Herrick, S. (2019, July), \emph{Helping Transfer Students Succeed:  Establishing Pathways to Include Transfer Students in a First Year Engineering Program}
  Paper presented at 2019 FYEE Conference , Penn State University , Pennsylvania.
  10.18260/1-2--33709

Janet K. Lumpp, Whitney C Blackburn-Lynch, Jennifer Lovely, Laura Marie Letellier P.E., Julie Gordon Whitney, Kimberly W. Anderson, and Susan Herrick.  "Helping Transfer Students Succeed:  Establishing Pathways to Include Transfer Students in a First Year Engineering Program".  2019 FYEE Conference , Penn State University , Pennsylvania, 2019, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/33709 Internet.  14 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_33709}
  Janet K. Lumpp, Whitney C Blackburn-Lynch, Jennifer Lovely, Laura Marie Letellier P.E., Julie Gordon Whitney, Kimberly W. Anderson, and Susan Herrick.
  "Helping Transfer Students Succeed:  Establishing Pathways to Include Transfer Students in a First Year Engineering Program".
  \emph{2019 FYEE Conference , Penn State University , Pennsylvania, 2019, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/33709 Internet.  14 Jan, 2025

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AB  - This Work-In-Progress Paper will describe the effort being made by a large public institution to better ensure the success of the students who are transferring into the College of Engineering (COE).  Transfer students in the COE enter from across the state or across campus with diverse work, life and military backgrounds.  This diversity of experiences brings real world talent into the classroom, but the academic success of our transfer students was limited.  The COE has a transfer cohort of 150 - 200 students/year.  From 2011-2017, we lost an average of 31% of those in their first year.  Less than 60% of those students were deemed successful in their first 2 years.  This resulted in the development a transfer student course within the First-Year-Engineering program (FYE), to address how we might aid the success of our transfer students.

In Fall 2016, the COE established their first-year engineering program as a two semester sequence.  During the first FYE semester, the transfer students and freshman were given essentially the same classes.  This was not well-received, and we did not see any increase in retention or success with the transfer students.  It was clear that the common first-year experience was geared more toward students coming out of high school and that something different would be needed to attract and retain transfer students.  These differences were difficult to define and have required more substantial iterations from semester to semester to develop the current one semester transfer student course.  

The first iteration of the course material involved removing the more exploratory parts of the content and including more career readiness topics, as most transfer students have already identified a discipline within the COE, and they have work experience making them more ready for internships and co-op opportunities.  We continued to have the transfer students complete the second semester design projects teamed with freshman.  The two semester sequence was not popular among the transfer students who prefer to move more quickly into the courses in their majors.  Subsequently, the pre-requisites were adjusted to allow transfer students to complete the FYE courses in one semester and then two of the courses were merged into a three-credit course to pair the transferrable skills content with the team design projects for transfer students only.  The FYE curriculum now addresses the needs of transfer students to have relevant classroom experiences, become familiar with the resources available in the university environment and build a cohort within the COE.  These changes have resulted in our first semester retention increasing significantly.  After the first year of this modified transfer student course, only 15% of the transfer students earned below a 2.0 in their first year.


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