Vasquez, H., & Fuentes, A. A., & Freeman, R. A. (2011, June), Second Year of the Development and Implementation of an Introduction to STEM Course for Dual-Enrollment Programs  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--18887

\bibitem{asee_peer_18887}
  Vasquez, H., \& Fuentes, A. A., \& Freeman, R. A. (2011, June), \emph{Second Year of the Development and Implementation of an Introduction to STEM Course for Dual-Enrollment Programs}
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--18887

Horacio Vasquez, Arturo A. Fuentes, and Robert A. Freeman.  "Second Year of the Development and Implementation of an Introduction to STEM Course for Dual-Enrollment Programs".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://peer.asee.org/18887 Internet.  09 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_18887}
  Horacio Vasquez, Arturo A. Fuentes, and Robert A. Freeman.
  "Second Year of the Development and Implementation of an Introduction to STEM Course for Dual-Enrollment Programs".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://peer.asee.org/18887 Internet.  09 Jan, 2025

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AB  -     Second Year of the Development and Implementation of an   Introduction to STEM Course for Dual-Enrollment Programs                                        AbstractAn Introduction to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) coursewas improved and taught for the second time during the summer in 2010 to dual-enrollment college students at South Texas College (STC). The new Introduction toSTEM course was developed in collaboration between STEM Faculty members at theUniversity of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) and STC to create, support, and strengthenSTEM pathways for students in the Dual-Enrollment Engineering Academy (DEEA) andother dual-enrollment or similar programs. The course was offered to 4 groups of about15 students each, at two different campuses in the DEEA program at STC. DEEAstudents take college courses to accomplish an associate degree in Engineering by the endof their senior year of high school. Challenge-based instruction (CBI) was implementedin this new course; challenges, lecture and handout materials, hands-on activities, andassessment tools were developed in the areas of basic electronics, renewable energy,mechatronics, statics, dynamics, chemistry, reverse engineering, and forwardengineering. This paper describes the improvements made to the challenges implementedin the summer of 2009 and the modifications made to the course in order to improvestudent engagement and motivation. The results of the assessments and affect surveys arepresented and compared to the results of the previous year of this project. Based on thepositive results, it is argued that the instruction materials and tools developed for the newcourse could be modified and adapted in other engineering and science courses at UTPA,STC, and other institutions to increase and improve educational challenges and hands-onactivities in the curricula to support recruiting and retention programs and/or activities.
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