Gamadi, T., & Watson, M. (2022, August), Improving First-Year Petroleum Engineering Students Experience Through First Common Year Curriculum  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41496

\bibitem{asee_peer_41496}
  Gamadi, T., \& Watson, M. (2022, August), \emph{Improving First-Year Petroleum Engineering Students Experience Through First Common Year Curriculum}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--41496

Talal Gamadi and Marshall Watson.  "Improving First-Year Petroleum Engineering Students Experience Through First Common Year Curriculum".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/41496 Internet.  02 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_41496}
  Talal Gamadi and Marshall Watson.
  "Improving First-Year Petroleum Engineering Students Experience Through First Common Year Curriculum".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/41496 Internet.  02 May, 2024

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AB  - A first-year experience is critical for the long-term academic growth of a student. The literature is full of works that argue how important is the first-year experience. At Whitacre College of Engineering (WCE), we adopted the importance of having excellent and skilled-based experience in engineering students’ first year. This paper provides a review of an engineering education practice, including teaching approaches and institutional strategies to support student success during their first college year. Undergraduate students in Whitacre College of Engineering (WCE) at Texas Tech University follow a common core curriculum in their first and second semesters of study.  The First common First Year (FCY) curriculum was implemented in Fall2020 and formed to introduce certain basic skills to engineering students; and acquaint students with the interaction of skills, techniques, logic, and creativity in engineering problem formulation and solving. The FCY curriculum includes classical foundational studies in calculus, chemistry, physics, English, and new studies in computational thinking (programming/ data science), Bio-inspired engineering design class, and Ethics/humanities science.  Since the first-year experience is critical in the long-term academic growth of a student, a plan was designed to integrate and advance what students are learning from the first common year to their sophomore, junior, and senior year with more emphasis, given to programming/ data science, Bio-inspired engineering design class, and ethics & humanities. To effectively integrate these courses into the upper-level courses, a group of faculty members from different engineering departments, called disciples, were designated.  The main duties of these disciples are:
1.	providing relevant examples from each engineering major related to computational thinking, bio-inspired design, ethics, and humanities to the faculty members teaching the common first year (FCY). 
2.	 monitoring the advancement and integration of First common year (FCY) newly added courses through sophomore (second year), junior (third year), and senior years (fourth year). 
3.	Evaluating the impact of the newly added courses on the attainment of ABET student outcomes 1-7.
An example of how the FYC content is carried out and integrated into the petroleum engineering curriculum is presented in this paper. Furthermore, the paper shows how ABET student outcomes were mapped to these courses. 

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