Powell, E. A., & Yelamarthi, K. (2023, March), Reinforcing Math Placement through a Summer Bridge Program: Work in Progress  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45036

\bibitem{asee_peer_45036}
  Powell, E. A., \& Yelamarthi, K. (2023, March), \emph{Reinforcing Math Placement through a Summer Bridge Program: Work in Progress}
  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--45036

Elizabeth A. Powell and Kumar Yelamarthi.  "Reinforcing Math Placement through a Summer Bridge Program: Work in Progress".  ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/45036 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_45036}
  Elizabeth A. Powell and Kumar Yelamarthi.
  "Reinforcing Math Placement through a Summer Bridge Program: Work in Progress".
  \emph{ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/45036 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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AB  - Engineering relies on the principles of mathematics and science. All courses engineering students pursue while in college are based on these two key areas. At the ____ University, while students are required to take Calculus I in the first semester, more than 50% of students enroll in college algebra or pre-calculus. This is due to a lack of math preparedness in high school or low ACT scores. This lack of preparedness and having to start at college algebra of pre-calculus often adds time to students' graduation, and also leads to higher attrition in the first year. 

____ University has piloted a Reinforce Advanced Math Placement (RAMP) program in summer 2022 for 100 first-time freshman students in engineering, engineering technology, and computer science majors. The recruited students participated in a one-week residential program with an extensive focus on preparing for math and engineering courses, retaking the math placement test for potential placement in an advanced-level math course, social team-building activities, learning about academic support resources available on campus, and broadly obtaining a jump-start on college life. 

This program started in the summer of 2022 and provided students with 20 hours of math instruction to review the math skills required during the first year of college. This math instruction was provided at three levels including college algebra, pre-calculus, and calculus-I. The instruction was provided by math faculty members, with peer-mentoring support provided by upper-class engineering students. In the pilot implementation, 83 engineering students participated, and 74 students took the Accuplacer test at end of the program. 66% of the students that took the Accuplacer test scored higher, moved up by at least one math course, reducing their time to graduation by one semester. This paper presents a detailed description of the program implementation, results, and feedback obtained. 
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