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Retention is one of the major issues we face as first-year engineering educators. What steps can we take to prevent our students from losing confidence in their ability to succeed as engineers? This is the first of two sessions that will examine this topic.

Moderated by

1. Dr. Kaitlin Mallouk and Dr. Deborah M. Grzybowski

Papers Presented

1. A Multi-Program Approach to Student Retention and Success [view paper]
   Dr. Paige E. Smith (University of Maryland, College Park), Ms. Elizabeth R. Kurban (University of Maryland, College Park), and Dr. Catherine T. Amelink (Virginia Tech)
2. Improving Student Success and Retention Rates in Engineering: A Four-Year Longitudinal Assessment of the DYP Program [view paper]
   Dr. Steffen Peuker (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
3. An Active Learning Environment to Improve First-Year Mechanical Engineering Retention Rates and Software Skills [view paper]
   Benjamin B. Wheatley (Colarado State University), Dr. Tammy Lynn Haut Donahue (Colorado State University), and Dr. Kimberly Catton P.E. (Cornell University)
4. Integrating Humanitarian Engineering Design Projects to Increase Retention of Underrepresented Minority Students and to Achieve Interpersonal Skill-Related Learning Outcomes [view paper]
   Dr. Elizabeth A. Adams (Chandler Gilbert Community College) and Mary Beth Burgoyne (Affiliation unknown)
5. Reinventing the First-Year Seminar and Student Support Programs to Decrease the Number of Failed Grades in the First Semester and to Reach a 90 Percent First-Year Retention Rate [view paper]
   Dr. Mary E. Goodwin (University of South Florida)