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Title: Boosting Study Program Awareness via a Structured Introductory Experience to Engineering
This paper discusses the implementation of an introductory course to engineering established to provide students with knowledge about the roles of engineers, the engineering method, ethics, teamwork, and detailed information about each of the engineering majors offered in the College of Engineering (CoE) of the host institution. The course is offered as part of a larger initiative seeking to improve success indicators among low-income students. This paper provides details about the course structure, implementation context, metrics, and results measured via descriptive statistics among participant students. The results of a longitudinal implementation, suggest that early provision of career information and awareness can impact the engineering retention and persistence of students and their interest in their chosen majors, particularly in educational settings where students declare their major on the entrance to their first year.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1833869
PAR ID:
10466840
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Date Published:
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
First-year Experiences, Institutional Interventions, Student Retention
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Baltimore, Maryland
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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