Notre Dame First Year Engineering Workshop






CONTACTS Catherine F. Pieronek Director, Academic Affairs and Women's Engineering Program, College of Engineering Phone: (574) 631- 4385 E-mail: cpierone@nd.edu John J. Uhran, Jr. Senior Associate Dean Emeritus, and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering Phone: (574) 631-7432 E-mail: juhran@nd.edu

The idea of this workshop is to bring together people who are interested in making the first year experience for engineering students, the best that it can be, keeping in mind that it is a transition year, one in which we are trying to make a high school student into a college student. It is also intended to have each participant interact with each other and the workshop leaders as much as possible with the idea of sharing thoughts that can be taken back home and possibly acted on. All meeting and registration will take place in our conference center, McKenna Hall directly across from the Morris Inn.
Workshop Schedule
SUNDAY
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.	Registration
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.	Campus tour for those interested
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.	Reception and Dinner Entertainment and greetings
8:30 - 10:00 p.m.	Cracker Barrel disscussions

MONDAY
7:30 - 8:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 8:15 a.m.	Welcome
8:15 - 9:15 a.m.	Session #1: Keynote Dr. Gerald Jakubowski, President, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Past President of ASEE “Personal Thoughts on the Recruiting and Retention of Engineering Students”
9:15 - 11:00 a.m.	Session #2: How Do We Prepare First Year Engineers to Stay the Course? Dr Stephen Carr, Panel Leader Northwestern University Dr. Pablo Debenedetti Princeton University Dr. Matthew Ohland Purdue University Dr. Sven G. Bilén The Pennsylvania State University Dan Budny University of Pittsburgh
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Session #3: What are Today’s Students Like? Student Panel Both High School Seniors and First Year Students Dr. Douglas Tougaw, Panel Leader Valparaiso University
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.	Lunch Speaker: Dr. David Billington Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University “Engineering in the Modern World”
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.	Session #4: Small Group Discussions All Session Chairs will be involved as Leaders
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.	Session #5: Open Forum – Summaries and Questions and Answers
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.	Speaker: Dr. Joseph Cuseo, Professor of Psychology and Director of Freshman Seminar at Marymount College (CA) “Student Success and College Quality: What Really Matters”

TUESDAY
7:30 - 8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Session #6: Technology and Engineering Education: How Do We Start in FY Dr. David Berque, Panel Leader DePauw University Dr. Jay Brockman Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame “Integration of Conventional and Web-Based Media in an Engineering Course” Ms. Kerry Meyers/Leo McWilliams “Technology in the Classroom Friend or Foe?” University of Notre Dame
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Session #7: A Conversation on Diversity Issues in Engineering? Dr. Ray Landis, Panel Leader Dean Emeritus of Engineering and Technology California State University at Los Angeles Mr. Ivan Favila University of Notre Dame Mr. Derrick Scott University of Michigan
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.	Checkout and Buffet Lunch
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.	Speaker: Dr. David Cohn, Director, Business Informatics, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center “Engineering 2.0 – Coping with a Flat World”
1:30 - 4:30 p.m.	Session #8: Presentations Dr. Kathy Zerda, et al. University of Houston “A Unique Collaboration between Senior Design Students and First Year Engineering Students” Dr. Scott Miller/ Dr. Jeff Cawlfield University of of Missouri-Rolla “Advising First-Year Engineering Students: Effective Advising of a Large Freshmen Engineering Cohort” Kerry Meyers/Leo McWilliams University of Notre Dame “A Working First Year Engineering Model: the Hands-on, Project Based Experiences at Notre Dame” Ms. Rhonda Wiley-Jones/ Dr. Kelly Strong Iowa State University “First-Year Curricular Integration through Learning Communities” Dr. Nathan Klingbeil, et al. Wright State University “The Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics Education: Uncorking the First-Year Bottleneck” Participants from 2006
*Participant questions and comments will be a part of every event and a DVD of the proceedings will be made available to all registered participants.