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  3. A recent Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program immersed undergraduate engineering and computer science students in research at the intersection of engineering and communicative disorders. In this first iteration, 9 students participated in research to support populations impacted by communication, voice, swallowing, and hearing disorders. Other features included clinical shadowing, mentoring by faculty from engineering/computer science, speech-language pathology, and audiology to provide technical and clinical perspectives. The REU experience culminated with presentation of the REU students’ research at a local speech- language pathology conference. Based on focus group feedback about the program, the participants experienced high levels of satisfaction with the end-of-program conference presentations but lower levels of satisfaction with mentoring. Our aim for following years is to improve the mentor training and shadowing integration to enhance the experience for REU students in future iterations. 
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    The University of Alabama is exploring Learning in Advance (LIA) courses to introduce engineering students to concepts and correct common misconceptions prior to encountering the complex theories and concepts in three different gateway courses. These gateway courses are circuit analysis, statics, and data-structures/algorithms. The courses were identified based on analysis of institutional data. Data indicated that greater than 90% of UA students who succeed in the three courses went on to complete their undergraduate degree. Yet, each course has individually high rates of failure and/or withdrawals. The objective and intended learning outcomes of each of the three courses is to provide students with knowledge of key concepts that will strengthen the student’s critical thinking skills and establish a strong technical foundation. In this work an overview of the LIA courses is provided along with summaries of collected student feedback and the plans for future assessment to track the effectiveness of this intervention to improve student outcomes in the gateway courses. 
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