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The Freshman Engineering Course Balancing Act
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hedrick, James A. |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | In an effort to increase student retention, many colleges have instituted a first term freshman engineering course to help students understand what engineering entails, and how to s쳮d in obtaining an engineering degree. The Union College freshman engineering course has been evolving over the past six years and last year we implemented an innovative format that provided a remarkable result. At the center of this model are: a unifying theme, use a single instructor to teach a section (rather than each instructor teaching a single component of the course to all sections), and faculty working as a team to improve and teach the course. This paper describes the changes we have made implementing this model and to address the issues of course content, exams, student work, and student/faculty assessment used to evaluate our success. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://peer.asee.org/the-freshman-engineering-course-balancing-act.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
