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 Keynote lunch and round table discussions that will summarize the concepts from the morning sessions. In the afternoon the conference will continue with a number of best practice interactive discussions that will continue the discussions started in the morning sessions. Thursday evening has a reception activity 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 45 presentations are expected. At lunch there will be a second keynote presentation followed by anothe round table discussion.

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

Daily Schedule

Wednesday, August 6
5:00 pm – 7:00 p.m.	Registration in the Hilton Hotel Lobby, then a small Reception at the Hilton.
Thursday, August 7
7:30 am – 5:00 p.m.	Registration in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center.
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.	Good Morning: Continental breakfast with juice, coffee, tea & water
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Invited Workshops A and B
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Refreshment Break
10:30 a.m. – Noon	Invited Workshops C and D
noon – 1:45 p.m.	Welcome and Keynote Lunch Welcome by Teri Reed and P. K. Imbrie Lunch Network with conference attendees Keynote: "Retaining First-Year Engineering Students through Targeted Strategies" Keynote by Sheryl A. Sorby Room: 1011C
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Roundtable Discussions
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.	Refreshment Break
3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Conference Best Practice Sessions 1
5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.	Tours of Engineering facilities or Presidential Museum
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.	Thursday night Reception
Friday, August 8
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.	Good Morning: Texas Style Breakfast with juice, coffee, tea & water
8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.	Registration
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Conference Best Practice Sessions 2
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Refreshment Break of Coffee/Tea and Juice
10:30 a.m. – Noon	Conference Best Practice Sessions 3
noon – 1:45 p.m.	Welcome and Keynote Lunch Welcome by M. Katherine Banks Dean of Dwight Look College of Engineering Lunch Network with conference attendees Keynote: "Broadening Participation - Where are we now?" Keynote by Bevlee Watford Room: 1011C
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Roundtable Discussions
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.	Refreshment Break Coffee/Tea and Soft Drinks
3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Conference Best Practice Sessions 4
5:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.	Friday Evening Networking Activity on your own with conference attendees

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.