Improving Student Success and Retention Rates in Engineering: An Innovative Approach for First-year Courses

The redesign will change ME163 into a “Learn-by-doing” student centered activity with focus on student success through implementation of the “How to Become a World Class Engineering Student” approach which has shown to increase retention as well as first year overall GPA. Student will be better prepared for all "bottleneck" courses. Team-Based Learning will be implemented to assure that student learning occurs interactively.