Are Students ENTITLED to High Grades

The engineering student today is different from the students in past generations.They have rapid access to information and their ability to assimilate information from multiple sources could be characterized as strengths when used appropriately.However, many of the students have changed in other ways.The current students are members of the Y Generation, a group which expects to get ahead in this world as fast as possible.Some of these students have never heard the word NO in their lives and have received extremely high grades in high school without doing much work.Their parents act more like friends of their children and less like parents.How does an engineering professor interact with these students in an engineering classroom setting? Observations from the ClassroomBurns, in his book, Success in College, presents a table with the differences between high school and college.(1)