Jay, A. (2023, July), GIFTS: A Fantastically Creative AutoCAD Assessment  Paper presented at 14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. 10.18260/1-2--44834

\bibitem{asee_peer_44834}
  Jay, A. (2023, July), \emph{GIFTS: A Fantastically Creative AutoCAD Assessment}
  Paper presented at 14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  10.18260/1-2--44834

Angelina Jay.  "GIFTS: A Fantastically Creative AutoCAD Assessment".  14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, 2023, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44834 Internet.  13 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44834}
  Angelina Jay.
  "GIFTS: A Fantastically Creative AutoCAD Assessment".
  \emph{14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, 2023, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44834 Internet.  13 May, 2024

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AB  - This GIFTS paper presents the first iteration of an end-of-module AutoCAD assessment that promotes students’ creativity by encouraging them to make connections to the non-engineering parts of their lives. In addition to creativity being a core engineering competency, normalizing non-technical interests and passions can assist in retaining a truly diverse engineering student body. 
For this assessment, students are tasked with drawing a themed fantasy map, like you might find on the inside cover of a novel, in AutoCAD. The theme for this fantasy land is entirely open and up to them. They are given a set of required features (borders, mountain ranges, rivers, etc.), a set of formatting requirements and layers on which to draw those features, and a few example/inspiration images. Themes students chose in this iteration varied from Tolkien novels and Pokémon to students’ countries of origin, Taylor Swift, and even the setting of a fantasy short story that one student had personally written in high school. 
This assignment provides a platform where Taylor Swift Land can be equally as successful, technically correct, and valuable as any Robot Land or New York City, with the intent of helping students with less of a technical background feel a greater sense of ease in the engineering classroom.
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