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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"First-year engineering"”.
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First year engineering students’ perceptions of engineering
Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign has steadily drawn increasingly larger incoming classes of students. With a significant population and a diverse number of programs, these freshmen will be entering a unique engineering culture. This study sought to understand the …
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Assessment of First-Year Engineering Students' Spatial Visualization Skills
… of the spatial visualization skills of first-year engineering students. This research was conducted through three approaches: (1) a review of cogent research framed by a spatial visualization matrix, (2) the development and validation of an Engineering Graphics Concept Inventory, and (3) …
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Understanding Academic Advising at Institutions with a First-Year Engineering Program
… was to better understand the structures of engineering academic advising at large four-year, primarily residential institutions with a first-year engineering program. To accomplish this purpose, the following overarching research question guided my study: How do first-year engineering …
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Learning Analytics: Understanding First-Year Engineering Students through Connected Student-Centered Data
… of large amounts of disconnected student data on first-year engineering (FYE) students and to understand how FYE instructors use data to inform their teaching practices. Grounded by the Academic Plan Model, which highlights student characteristics as an important consideration in curriculum …
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Exploring the Implementation of Care in Teaching in a First-year Engineering Course
… specifically, and little in the context of Engineering Education. To advance our understanding of the potential value of care in teaching in higher education, this study presents an empirical case study of how care can be enacted in teaching in an Engineering Education classroom. The study …
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Teamwork Exercises and Technological Problem Solving with First-Year Engineering Students: An Experimental Study
… information processing, and problem formulation. First-year college engineering students (N = 294) were randomly assigned to three levels of team size (2, 3, or 4 members) and two treatment conditions: teamwork exercises and problem structure (N = 99 teams). In addition, the study included three …
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Development of First-Year Engineering Teams' Mathematical Models through Linked Modeling and Simulation Projects
… they are rarely explicitly taught in engineering. Model-eliciting activities (MEAs) represent a pedagogical approach used in engineering to teach students mathematical modeling skills through the development of a model to solve an authentic problem.</p> <p>This study is an …
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Practice and Efficacy of Peer Writing Feedback in a Large First-Year Engineering Course
Engineering educators and industry professionals recognize the need for graduates to be effective communicators, yet the effective teaching of communication remains a persistent contemporary issue, with studies continuing to indicate that engineering graduates are insufficiently prepared for …
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The Motivation and Identity Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants in First-Year Engineering Programs
Many engineering programs have a common content based first-year curriculum that all engineering students are required to take. These courses tend to be large in size, having multiple sections requiring the use of Teaching Assistants (TAs) who may be graduate students (GTAs) or undergraduate …
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A PHENOMENOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES WITH PROBLEMS INVOLVING MULTIPLE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
… skills for solving such problems, undergraduate engineering programs can introduce such problems during the first year of students’ education, in the form of cornerstone design tasks. This provides students with more opportunities to develop their ability to engage with ill-structured problems, …
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A standards-based grading model to predict students' success in a first-year engineering course
<p>Using predictive modeling methods, it is possible to identify at-risk students early in the semester and inform both the instructors and the students. While some universities have started to use standards-based grading, which has educational advantages over common score-based grading, at–risk …
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Contextual Shaping of Student Design Practices: The Role of Constraint in First-Year Engineering Design
Research on engineering design is a core area of concern within engineering education, and a fundamental understanding of how engineering students approach and undertake design is necessary in order to develop effective design models and pedagogies. This dissertation contributes to scholarship on …
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The composition of first-year engineering curricula and its relationships to matriculation models and institutional characteristics
… of technically excellent and innovative engineering graduates urges for a reform of the engineering curriculum to meet critical challenges in society (National Academy of Engineering, 2005). An examination of the current engineering curricula is needed to offer a baseline to further …
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The Influences of First-Year Engineering Matriculation Structures on Electrical and Computer Engineering Students' Self-Efficacy
While first-year engineering (FYE) programs have grown dramatically over the last 30 years, they take a variety of different structures. However, few if any, researchers and FYE program developers has considered how program structure, and specifically matriculation, impacts retention – an issue …
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Achieving What Gets Measured: Responsive and Reflective Learning Approaches and Strategies of First-Year Engineering Students
Background: Engineering students who achieve academic success during their first year may later disengage from challenging course material in their upper-level courses, due to perceived differences between their expectations and values and those of their degree programs. In the extreme, academic …
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Development of a Scalable Self-Regulation Intervention in Support of Lifelong Learning for First-year Engineering Students
Lifelong learning is a Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) graduate attribute and thus a fundamental component of engineering education, and yet, unlike many core engineering concepts such as thermodynamics or heat transfer, there is no agreed upon approach to teach it to students. This …
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A Quantitative Analysis of First Year Engineering Students' Courses Perceptions and Motivational Beliefs in Two Introductory Engineering Courses
As a national initiative to support retention of engineering students, engineering programs have undergone a surge of revisions to their coursework in recent years, most notably in relation to first-year programs. These program modifications are generally intended to enhance student success in …
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An investigation into the performance and problems of first-year engineering students at the University of Cape Town
The first- and second-year results of the 1989 engineering student intake were analysed and revealed that matriculants from Black Education Departments performed significantly worse in the first year than those from White Education Departments. Matric point scores were found to be good predictors …
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A Mixed Method Approach for Assessing the Adjustment of Incoming First-Year Engineering Students in a Summer Bridge Program
… non-participants in a summer bridge program for engineering students at a predominantly White institution (PWI) in the mid-southeastern region of the United States. Specifically, the Academic, Social, Personal-Emotional, and Goal Commitment/Institutional Attachment subscales of the Student …
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An investigation of what knowledge in valued and how it is communicated in a mathematics support course for first-year engineering students
… in support courses, which is an important first step in establishing whether these courses are replicable and whether they might indeed provide access to the knowledge valued in mainstream mathematics courses. My study investigates the implemented pedagogy of one particular mathematics …
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