Welcome to the 8th Annual First Year Engineering Experience

As a continuation of the dialogue started in 2005 at the University of Notre Dame and on behalf of the Department of Engineering Education and College of Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU), we welcome you to the First Year Engineering Experience. This 8th Annual First Year Engineering Experience Conference is being held at the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel and on the OSU campus. The program committee welcomes you to Columbus, Ohio, and hopes that you will find your time here enjoyable and valuable as you participate in the broad range of experiences that have been planned.

FYEE is a unique opportunity that allows attendees and presenters to discuss ideas, reflect on the topics and issues from the sessions, and chart new directions and collaborations. Invited facilitators from around the country will hold short workshops and discussion groups on important topics. Conference attendees are encouraged to share best practices through technical sessions.

The FYEE conference begins on Sunday afternoon with several invited workshops concluding that evening with a welcome reception at the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel. Monday morning begins with a breakfast buffet on campus and a keynote presentation by Bernie Savarese. These are followed by interactive workshops, lively presentations, and networking. Following lunch, we continue with workshops and best practices paper presentations. We will then travel to our beautiful student union for a dinner evening reception and enlightening words from Dr. Susan Freeman from Northeastern University.

Tuesday's events will take place once again on the OSU campus. It is a day of "best practice" presentations, where the attendees will present their work and show how they fit into the discussions from the previous day's activities.

With the continued focus on the connection between academic advising, K-12 preparation, and first year engineering experiences, we hope to see many old friends as well as lots of new faces at FYEE 2016.

We look forward to seeing you all, FYEE 2016 General Chairs

FYEE 2016 General Chairs

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