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Task
Address specific barriers to New Mexico
State University’s (NMSU) engineering students while engaging the
broader issues of engineering education presented by the Accreditation
Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the National Science
Foundation, and others.
Method
Implement a variety of sustainable strategies and activities
selected for their potential to effect long-term institutional change.
These activities will include both student support and faculty
development resulting in increased recruitment, retention, and
progression of engineering students – including those students
historically underrepresented in the engineering disciplines.
Goals:
- Establish integrated learning communities for freshmen engineering
students emphasizing
- written and oral communication skills; teaming skills
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undergraduate research and engineering design
- processes
and skills of academic/scientific inquiry
- Provide faculty development and training including new pedagogical
approaches incorporating writing-to-learn techniques.
- Develop a responsive assessment methodology.
- Develop a replicable model for engineering educators.
- Graduate students with cross-disciplinary skills and abilities
including proficiency in applying successful thinking strategies and
processes.
- Contribute to the research on learning theory and engineering
education.
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