Conference Call for Papers
Enhancing the First-year Engineering Education
August 2 - 4, 2015
Presentation Formats
Proposals for participation in FYEE 2015 can be submitted in the following formats:
- Papers: Full Paper (6 pages)
- Papers: Work in Progress (3 pages)
- Workshops
Schedule
Papers and workshops will be submitted in a two-stage process. First, initial short descriptions
of the proposals must be submitted by the Step 1 submission deadline, and then they will be
reviewed. All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. If you are invited
to submit for the second stage of the process, you must submit a preliminary version of the
complete document by June 5, 2015. These documents will then be peer-reviewed. After the peer
review process, final versions of the documents as they will appear in the conference
proceedings must be submitted by July 17, 2015.
- Workshop and Paper presentation Proposals submitted: May 1, 2015
- Author Notification: May 5, 2015
- Preliminary Paper Submission Deadline: June 5, 2015
- Peer Review Final Acceptance Communication: June 26, 2015
- Final Camera-Ready Paper Submission: July 17, 2015
- Hotel Deadline: July 17, 2015
- Conference: August 2-4, 2015
Topics of Interest
You can either select an area of Engineering Education, Engineering Technology Education
or other related area. The topic areas are to allow attendees to develop a network
of people with common interests,
- Instruction/Pedagogy (e.g., curriculum design, ABET accreditation requirements and assessments, peer mentoring/teaching programs
- Student Success/Development (e.g., learning communities, development models and what best procedures can be used to promote the professional development of the first year student)
- Academic & Career Advising (e.g. exploring engineering, understanding today's student, students on non-traditional pathways and advising students on probation)
- First Year Student Orientation
- Enrollment Management
- Impact of K-12 education on our students
- Service Learning in the first year and beyond
- Current technologies and their impact/use for first year students (including Hardware/Software/Product demo and use)
- Maker Spaces
- Engineering Education Research as it applies to the first year experience
- Other topics that address issues in education
Tuesday Full Paper Submission Requirements
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The Full paper submission type is for completed work, or work
at a phase where actual results are available.
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Authors must submit an electronic description of no more than 500 words, via the 2015
Web page by the submission deadline.
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The author must submit: author's name, paper title, author's affiliation, phone
number, fax number, and e-mail address.
- Each description should be between 300 and 500 words in length.
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One author from each paper is expected to register for and attend the conference.
The registered author can present more than one paper.
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Final papers will be limited to six pages, not including references or Author Bios.
See the paper guidelines for font and spacing requirements.
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Full papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. The purpose of the
review will be to check for completeness and accuracy of the work.
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Click here for a more detailed description of
Full papers.
- Submission deadline May 1, 2015.
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Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their proposed paper by May 5,
2015.
- If your submission is accepted, papers are due for peer review by June 5, 2015.
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Authors will be notified of peer review results by
June 26, 2015.
- Modified papers will be due by July 17, 2015.
Tuesday Work in Progress Submission Requirements
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The Work in Progress submission type is for work that is still
in the process of study and/or implementation. That is the work is not complete,
thus, results may not be available.
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Authors must submit an electronic description, via the 2015 Web page by the submission
deadline.
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The author must submit: author's name, paper title, author's affiliation, phone
number, fax number, and e-mail address.
- Each description should be between 300 and 500 words in length.
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One author from each paper is expected to register for and attend the conference.
The registered author can present more than one paper.
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Final papers will be limited to three pages, not including references or Author
Bios. See the paper guidelines for font and spacing requirements.
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Work in Progress papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. The
purpose of the review will be to provide the author with feedback to consider in
their on going research.
- Click here for a more detailed description of Work in Progress papers.
- Submissions are due by May 1, 2015.
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Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their paper proposal by May 5,
2015.
- If your proposal is accepted, papers are due for peer review by June 5, 2015.
- Authors will be notified of peer review results by June 26, 2015.
- Modified papers will be due by July 17, 2015.
Monday Workshop Submission Requirements
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The Monday Workshop submission type is for work that promises
to be both informative and also provide an interactive format that encourages participation
by the attendees.
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We hope to engage the participants in a number of working sessions that will enable
us to understand how we might make engineering a more viable option as a field of
study and career opportunity than it currently seems. We hope the proposed workshop
can help the attendees begin to understand how to solve the drop in enrollments
in engineering by providing an interactive workshop that is related to the topics
listed in the call for papers.
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The author must submit: author's name, proposed workshop title, author's affiliation,
phone number, fax number, and e-mail address.
- Each proposed workshop should be between 800 and 1500 words in length.
- All workshop facilitators must register for and attend the conference.
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Final workshop description is not limited to any page restriction. See the paper
guidelines for font and spacing requirements.
- Workshop proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee.
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Click here for a more detailed description
of Workshop proposals.
- Proposals dealine extended to May 1, 2015.
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Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their workshop by May 5,
2015.
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If your proposal is accepted, a modified proposal must be submitted for listing
on the web site by June 5, 2015.
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