Conference PaperFYE 2.0: Re-envisioning the First-Year Engineering CurriculumKastner, Jeff; Bucks, Gregory; Hill, Jeremy; Asghar, Muhammad; Murphy, TJ; Reeping, David; Sorby, SherylThis Complete Evidence-Based Practice Paper focuses on the topic of Curriculum and is based on work funded by an NSF IUSE Grant (#2337003). Specifically, it discusses the efforts at the University of Cincinnati, a large, midwestern, urban university, to update their first-year engineering curriculum by providing students and programs more freedom to select content that will both better prepares students for their upper-division classes and specifically allow the students to pursue topics that are of interests to them. The desire to embark on this re-envisioning of the first-year curriculum is motivated by the demands of industry and the current generation of students, which requires a more flexible approach to allow students to better engage with the field of engineering and to allow curricula to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of engineering practice and technology. The significant curricular change involves taking the current 6 credit hours of first year engineering courses and breaking them into a set of 1 credit (or less) modules from which students can select. This paper discusses in detail the first year of the project which has involved implementing changes to the current courses to prepare for the change to the modular format along with getting buy-in from the administration and faculty within the college. The paper also discusses outcomes from the changes implemented during the first year of the project along with the plan for the second and third year of the project, with the goal of having a completely modularized first-year engineering course structure by the start of the third year.American Society for Engineering Education, PEER2025-06-2210675651https://doi.org/2337003Montreal, CanadaNational Science Foundation