Conference at a Glance

The Program begins Thursday morning with a series of highly interactive Workshop sessions - each topic area featured was selected for their timeliness and value related to first year engineering programs. The purpose of the workshops are to describe the main First Year Engineering focus areas that most attendees are connected with in their present position. The session will allow people to meet others that work in their area and share common discussion topics. The morning sessions will provide concentrated professional development and the range of topics offers opportunities for everyone from new faculty and staff members to the most experienced educators to expand their skills and knowledge. These sessions will be followed by lunch where the Keynote luncheon speaker will summarize the concepts from the morning sessions. In the afternoon the conference will break into two time slots that will continue with a number of invited interactive discussions that will continue the discussions started in the morning sessions. Thursday evening has a number of activities to promote discussions between conference attendees.

The Friday technical program will offer a number of sessions, presented in parallel tracks. The presentations will be a series of best practice descriptions that were submitted based on the call for papers, from the conference attendees. The presentations will include the description of completed work and additional presentations describing preliminary developments of ongoing, cutting-edge projects. Approximately 100 presentations are expected.

A complete schedule of technical sessions showing paper titles, and author names, is available by clicking here

Daily Schedule

Conference Topic Areas

Listed below is the topic Areas from the Call for Papers. Below each topic is a list of the papers in the various sessions that fall into these track.

• Advising
• T1B Workshop B - Strategies to Enhance Engineering Education at Small Colleges
• T2A Focus Workshop - What Makes a Successful First-Year Engineering Program
• T4C Advising Issues for the First Year
• Diversity
• F3A Diversity Isuues in the First Year
• Engineering Education Research
• T2A Focus Workshop - What Makes a Successful First-Year Engineering Program
• F1B First-Year Engineering Design Courses
• F1C Teaching the First Engineering Courses
• F1D Student Experiances: Living Learning Communities, Student Engagement, Identity, & Leadership
• F3C Retention Programs
• Introduction to Engineering Courses
• T2A Focus Workshop - What Makes a Successful First-Year Engineering Program
• T4A First Year Engineering: Understanding our Students
• T4B University STEM and Pre-College Programs
• T4C Advising Issues for the First Year
• T4D Research on First-Year Engineering Courses 1
• F1A First-Year Engineering Teaching and Administration Approaches
• F1B First-Year Engineering Design Courses
• F1C Teaching the First Engineering Courses
• F3C Retention Programs
• F3D Student Professional Development
• F4B Introducing Teamwork in the First Year
• K-12
• T4B University STEM and Pre-College Programs
• Living and Learning Communities
• T1D Workshop D - Planting the SEED for Success: Easing Transitions through Living & Learning Communities
• F1D Student Experiances: Living Learning Communities, Student Engagement, Identity, & Leadership
• Peer mentoring
• F4C Transition to College & Mentoring
• Service Learning
• F4D Student Opportunities: Service Learing, Career Services, Co-op & Intern
• Student Development Models
• T1A Workshop A - Implementing the "Design Your Process of Becoming a World Class Engineering Student" Project
• T1C Workshop C - Developing a Classification Scheme for "Introduction to Engineering" Courses
• T2A Focus Workshop - What Makes a Successful First-Year Engineering Program
• F1D Student Experiances: Living Learning CoFocus Workshop - What Makes a Successful First-Year Engineering Programmmunities, Student Engagement, Identity, & Leadership
• F3A Diversity Isuues in the First Year
• F3D Student Professional Development
• F4A Research on First-Year Engineering Courses 2
• F4B Introducing Teamwork in the First Year
• F4D Student Opportunities: Service Learing, Career Services, Co-op & Intern
• Teaching the first engineering courses
• T4A First Year Engineering: Understanding our Students
• T4B University STEM and Pre-College Programs
• F1A First-Year Engineering Teaching and Administration Approaches
• F1C Teaching the First Engineering Courses
• F4A Research on First-Year Engineering Courses 2
• Technologies in the classroom
• F3B Workshop - Enhancing First Year Engineering Education through Student-Own Design Kits
• F4A Research on First-Year Engineering Courses 2
• Understand our students
• F1D Student Experiances: Living Learning Communities, Student Engagement, Identity, & Leadership

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