Developing Self-awareness in Learning Practices: Designing and Implementing a Survival Tool for Freshmen in Engineering
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2018-06-23
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Prabhu Gaunkar, Neelam
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American Society for Engineering Education
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Freshman engineering courses are considered to impact students’ perception of engineering and
university education. In many aspects, the freshman engineering class needs to be one of the
most transformative classes on students learning, self awareness, and professional identity.
During their freshman year, many students attempt to draw connections between their aspirations
and their educational path. While some students get engaged in the pursuit of best grades, many
others find engineering courses to be packed with material, information, and tests with taxing
“rigor” and an impediment towards pursuing their passion/dreams. This attitude calls for a
necessary transformation in both the course delivery and student’s outlook towards learning.
Thereafter, in the freshmen engineering courses at our institution we have designed our
freshman course in Electrical Engineering to allow students to pursue their interests while
becoming self-aware of their learning practices, have a smoother transition to university
education and hopefully develop some professional identity as students. In this work, students’
reflections about learning and critical evaluation of systems will be evaluated. Variations in the
texture of the students’ reflection over the course of the semester will be described.
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ASEE holds the copyright on this document. It may be read by the public free of charge. Authors may archive their work on personal websites or in institutional repositories with the following citation: Prabhu Gaunkar, N., & Mina, M. (2018, June), Developing Self-awareness in Learning Practices: Designing and Implementing a Survival Tool for Freshmen in Engineering Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--30312.
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