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Full Paper: Engineering Catalyst – An Alternate Supported Path to the Same Destination

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14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference

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University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee

Publication Date

July 30, 2023

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July 30, 2023

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August 1, 2023

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S6B: Full Papers - One Size Does Not Fit All

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7

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10.18260/1-2--44825

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Susan E. Walden University of Oklahoma Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-6925-7176

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Dr. Susan E. Walden is the Executive Director of Engineering Pathways at the Univ. of Oklahoma. She leads outreach, recruiting, first-year engineering, and several retention programs in the Gallogly College of Engineering.

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Randa L. Shehab University of Oklahoma Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-2857-6082

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Dr. Randa L. Shehab serves as the Senior Associate Dean for the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. She is a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and holds the Nettie Vincent Boggs Professor of Engineering.

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Casey Violette Haskins University of Oklahoma

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Casey Haskins is an instructor for Math Catalyst and the Math Retention Specialist for Engineering Pathways in Gallogly College of Engineering at the Univ. of Oklahoma.

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Brian M McSkimming University of Oklahoma Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-9363-4974

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Brian McSkimming is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Pathways for the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, and an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education.

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Jahnavi Dirisina The University of Oklahoma

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Jahnavi Dirisina is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, with a research focus on Engineering Education.

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Jude A. Okolie University of Oklahoma Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-7506-551X

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Dr. Jude A. Okolie is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Pathways at the University of Oklahoma.

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Javeed Kittur The University of Oklahoma Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-6132-7304

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Dr. Kittur is an Assistant Professor in the Gallogly College of Engineering at The University of Oklahoma. He completed his Ph.D. in Engineering Education Systems and Design program from Arizona State University, 2022. He received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Master’s in Power Systems from India in 2011 and 2014 respectively. He has worked with Tata Consultancy Services as Assistant Systems Engineer from 2011-2012, India. He has worked as an Assistant Professor (2014 to 2018) in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, KLE Technological University, India. He is a certified IUCEE International Engineering Educator. He was awarded the 'Ing.Paed.IGIP’ title at ICTIEE, 2018. He is serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET).

He is interested in conducting engineering education research and his interests include student retention in online and in-person engineering courses/programs, data mining and learning analytics in engineering education, broadening student participation in engineering, faculty preparedness in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning, faculty experiences in teaching online courses. He has published papers in various conferences and journals related to engineering education research. Particularly, his work is published in the International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Computer Applications in Engineering Education, International Journal of Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, and IEEE Transactions on Education. He is also serving as a reviewer for a number of conferences and journals focused on engineering education research space.

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Allison Quiroga University of Oklahoma Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-6939-0754

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[Full Paper] Engineering Catalyst is a new program to support engineering and computer science students who enter the University of Oklahoma with a pre-calculus or college algebra math placement. With a strategic goal to increase B.S. engineering graduates by about 30% by 2029, the Engineering Pathways team at the University of Oklahoma designed and launched a new first-year engineering transition program in 2022. In early brainstorming in 2021, the name Engineering Catalyst was chosen to represent the vision of the program – providing students entering our college in pre-calculus or college algebra a supported path to their engineering or science degree. The program is an adaptation of national models for “gold/red shirt” programs and a first-year research program for mid-tier incoming students, guided by significant features of our local context. Here we describe the motivation and structure for this hybrid model first-year plus support program and an informal assessment of our first year.

Walden, S. E., & Shehab, R. L., & Haskins, C. V., & McSkimming, B. M., & Dirisina, J., & Okolie, J. A., & Kittur, J., & Quiroga, A. (2023, July), Full Paper: Engineering Catalyst – An Alternate Supported Path to the Same Destination Paper presented at 14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. 10.18260/1-2--44825

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