First-year Engineering Students and Their Perceptions of Academic Progress

Abstract

Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Binghamton University. He has worked for Lockheed Martin, IBM, General Electric, BAE Systems, and Celestica Corporation. He has 25 years of experience in these companies designing military and commercial power electronic circuits and as a systems engineer for airborne and land vehicle electrical systems. He is a licensed professional engineer. He also received a B.A in philosophy and a M.Ed. from the University of Vermont. Before becoming an engineer he was a high school mathematics teacher.

How First-Year Engineering Students Perceive Their Academic Progress

“…With the reduction in the aforementioned challenges in calculus, the focus has now been expanded to studying the performance of students in their science and engineering courses with the goal of improving their perceived performance in those courses. This expanded study utilizes the same survey format as a previous study [1] with additional multiple-choice questions for science and engineering courses. These questions ask how well students perceive they are doing in their math, science, and engineering courses, which campus resources they are utilizing for help, how hard they perceive the class to be, and how much time they spend outside of class studying for each course.…”