Mentors Improve the College Experience of Engineering Undergraduates

Marszalek, Maja Anna; Snauffer, A.M.; Good, Shari; Hein, Gretchen; Monte, Amy

doi:10.1109/fie.2005.1612063

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“…For the second research project 3 , the subject served only as a graduate mentor for the senior design team and did not become as involved as in the first project. Numerous papers have been written detailing the benefits and effectiveness of graduate mentoring for senior design curriculum 4,5 , as well as mentoring in general 6,7 . This paper is not intended to negate those findings in any way.…”

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Cooperative Methodology For Successful Integration Of Undergraduate And Graduate Research Projects

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Hess

Johnson

2008 Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Cooperative Methodology For Successful Integration Of Undergraduate And Graduate Research Projects

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Johnson

2008 Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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“…Decreasing the ratio of students to TAs allows, the TAs to act as mentors. A good mentor can guide the freshman students in various aspects in and out class [13]. 3) Minimizing theoretical content: Teaching theoretical content is minimized in 2009.…”

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A creative engineering design course for freshman using LEGO robots

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2009 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

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High-quality courses offered to freshman engineering students can help them to develop into excellent engineers. Freshman-year courses have a great impact on these students. Students can learn what real engineers do by learning important aspects of an engineering career in their courses. Thus, improving the educational effect of courses is an important issue. Many design courses are offered to freshman engineering students at colleges around the world. This paper discusses a design course at SungKyunKwan University that uses LEGO. The course was offered from 2006 to 2008, and will be again in the future. This paper discusses a project-based course using LEGO that will be carried out in 2009 and its expected educational effects.I.

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“…First, we provide access to upper year student mentors who have developed successful study habits to meet with CSC123 students regularly and help them prepare for upcoming milestones and exams. [13] and [4] demonstrate how effective this type of mentoring can be. Second, we expose our students to a wide variety of assessment techniques typically found in college courses to help them make the transition from high school forms of assessment providing them with the experiences they need to better understand how to acclimate to college academic life.…”

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Improving first-year success and retention through interest-based CS0 courses

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Clark

Clements

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Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Many computer science programs suffer from low student retention rates. At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, academic performance and retention rates among first-year computer science students are among the lowest on campus.In order to remedy this, we have developed a new CS0 course featuring different "tracks" that students can choose from (e.g. robotics, gaming, music, mobile apps). This allows students to learn the basics of programming, teamwork, and college-level study in a domain that is of personal interest. In addition, the course relies on classic Project-based Learning (PBL) approaches as well as a focus on both academic and non-academic factors shown to increase student retention.Initial assessment demonstrates positive results in the form of increased academic performance in post CS0 courses and student retention.

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Mentors Improve the College Experience of Engineering Undergraduates

Cited by 16 publications

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Cooperative Methodology For Successful Integration Of Undergraduate And Graduate Research Projects

Cooperative Methodology For Successful Integration Of Undergraduate And Graduate Research Projects

A creative engineering design course for freshman using LEGO robots

Improving first-year success and retention through interest-based CS0 courses

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