Work in Progress: A Learning Community for First-Year Engineering Students

A learning community has been established for first-year students in the Department of Engineering at Colorado State University -Pueblo.Two engineering courses were linked by shared homework assignments and a robotics lab was added.A survey was developed and administered before and after the lab to evaluate students' satisfaction with the lab experience.Results show an improvement for all survey questions.Future work will assess students' performance and retention.

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2025-04-22
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https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2-1153-54340
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Experimental Learning in Engineering
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Work in Progress: A Learning Community for First-Year Engineering Students

Nebojsa Jaksic, Yuan Ding, Jude DePalma
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Work in Progress: A Learning Community for First-Year Engineering Students

Nebojsa Jaksic, Yuan Ding, Jude DePalma
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Abstract

A learning community has been established for first-year students in the Department of Engineering at Colorado State University -Pueblo.Two engineering courses were linked by shared homework assignments and a robotics lab was added.A survey was developed and administered before and after the lab to evaluate students' satisfaction with the lab experience.Results show an improvement for all survey questions.Future work will assess students' performance and retention.

Colorado State University Pueblo (US)
Openalex Percentile: Top 88%
Experimental Learning in Engineering
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