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Retention, success, and satisfaction of engineering students based on the first-year experience
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Retention, success, and satisfaction of engineering students based on the first-year experience
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Prendergast
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Lydia Q.
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1972-
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Lydia Prendergast
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Eugenia Etkina
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chair
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Albin
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Susan
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Susan Albin
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David
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David Coit
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Weber
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Keith
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Keith Weber
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2013
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A project-based course for first-year engineering students, called Engineering Exploration, was created an implemented with the goals of increasing retention, providing professional skills, increasing interest about engineering, and to aide in choosing an engineering major. Over 100 students have taken the course since its inception in Fall 2009. Retention rates, GPA, and opinions of engineering students have improved for the cohort of students who took the course. Minority retention however did not see a steady increase. Female persistence in engineering was also explored in this study. While beneficial for women, the course was not as beneficial for them as it was for their male counterparts. Women who took the course and subsequently recounted reasons for leaving as being primarily due to educational pursuits outside of engineering. Faculty involvement in the first year was crucial in students’ experiences choosing a major. Future goals are to offer the course to more students, continue to fine tune the curriculum to make it more beneficial, increase awareness to faculty members, create an engineering video library for tours and virtual problem solving, and to create a secondary project-based course in the second year, specific to particular engineering majors. In total, Engineering Exploration has proven to be a benefit to the first-year experience for engineering students.
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vii, 136 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Lydia Q. Prendergast
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Engineering students
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Dropouts--Prevention
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Women engineering students
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College majors
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000067820
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doi:10.7282/T3Q81BQ9
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ETD doctoral
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Lydia
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2012-12-21 11:39:25
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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