Davis, R. E. (2017, April), What Makes a Successful Engineering Student?  Paper presented at 2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting, Tempe, Arizona. 10.18260/1-2--29241

\bibitem{asee_peer_29241}
  Davis, R. E. (2017, April), \emph{What Makes a Successful Engineering Student?}
  Paper presented at 2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting, Tempe, Arizona.
  10.18260/1-2--29241

Ruth E. Davis.  "What Makes a Successful Engineering Student?".  2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting, Tempe, Arizona, 2017, April.  ASEE Conferences, 2017.  https://peer.asee.org/29241 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_29241}
  Ruth E. Davis.
  "What Makes a Successful Engineering Student?".
  \emph{2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting, Tempe, Arizona, 2017, April}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2017.
  https://peer.asee.org/29241 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - At our university we have been working to improve the experience of undergraduate engineering students for a long time. We started with an NSF grant to support significant revision in the way we taught the Introduction to Engineering course, changing it from a "talking heads" tour through disciplines to an active engagement in project work that demonstrated the interdisciplinary quality of most projects, while also showing how each discipline contributed its expertise.

We went from a one-unit lecture course to a one-unit laboratory course, and then, after a few years, added another unit so we could have a one-unit lecture and a one unit lab each week. We tracked the student response to each of these changes, but in addition, we also tracked the student demographics, entering expectations, motivation for studying engineering, and expectation of success.

We have been collecting data on our students for eleven years. Now we are investigating the correlations among demographics, academic preparation, motivation, and prior exposure to engineering to success in an engineering program. We also asked about learning styles, preferences for collaboration or individual work, and confidence in their ability to complete their engineering degree. We look at four and six year graduation rates, changes of major within and outside of engineering, and grades achieved along the way.

We hope to learn the most important factors predicting success so that we can make better admission decisions as well as provide useful advice and formative experiences to students along the way.

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