Nader, M., & Oonge, H. N., & Putnam, S. A. (2023, March), The Influence of Engineering Curriculum Alignment on the Success of Transfer Students  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45053

\bibitem{asee_peer_45053}
  Nader, M., \& Oonge, H. N., \& Putnam, S. A. (2023, March), \emph{The Influence of Engineering Curriculum Alignment on the Success of Transfer Students}
  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--45053

Marino Nader, Harrison N Oonge, and Shawn A Putnam.  "The Influence of Engineering Curriculum Alignment on the Success of Transfer Students".  ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/45053 Internet.  16 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_45053}
  Marino Nader, Harrison N Oonge, and Shawn A Putnam.
  "The Influence of Engineering Curriculum Alignment on the Success of Transfer Students".
  \emph{ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/45053 Internet.  16 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Marino Nader1, Harrison Oonge2 and Shawn A. Putnam1
1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2 College of Undergraduate Studies
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2362
Abstract
Curriculum alignment has been a long-time challenge for many universities and colleges. The issue manifests itself by the relative higher host university students’ success, First Time in College (FTIC) to the transfer students (TS), at least in the fundamental courses. As such, some of these TS, may fail or even drop out completely from a STEM program. Aspiring for a resolution to this issue, UCF has collaborated with its partnering universities over the past few years to unify the curricula for improved TS success. The study presented herein, was based on data collected for academic years 2016-2021. This data included students’ success for all of UCF and its partnering universities. The results were then run under Linear Regression Analysis (LRA) and the results were then compared. LRA in this case gave direction and insight to the overall performance of the study, i.e. students’ success. Except for few cases, TS success increased and in most cases the gap of success in sequence courses between the two groups of students, FTIC and TS also progressively decreased. The study included over 50 target courses with respect to the pre-requisite courses. Evidence suggests that the gradual gap narrowing was based on the continual unified agreements on curriculum alignment between the universities. However, it also be due to other factors that are not discussed in this paper. Yet, the overall performance has been enhanced and is still hoped to continue expanding and progressing to completely close the success gap between the two groups. Although focused on some engineering courses, a plan is suggested in this paper to advance this initiative to prosper and engulf other programs.
AU  - Marino Nader
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PB  - ASEE Conferences
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