2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

WIP: Approaches to pairing proactive advising and teaching students how to learn

Presented at First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 2: Advising & Mentoring

This Work in Progress paper details efforts to develop a comprehensive approach for supporting academic success among undergraduate engineers. This approach includes developing positive attitudes and habits that support learning. At the same time, the approach promotes proactive advising by instructional teams. Learning and persistence are each multifaceted aspects of success in engineering education. Thus, an approach to student support is needed that attends to these multiple factors. The Academic Achievement Program can be broken down into three goals: I) promote a multifaceted understanding of factors that influence student success, II) provide tools to support proactive advising at the classroom level, and III) teach learning attitudes and behaviors for effective learning. To achieve these goals, the AAP comprises three components that span a range from direct student instruction to resources for instructional teams: 1) the Engineer Your Success Course as a means of promoting attitudes like “growth mindset” and accepting the need to change, 2) the Student Support Planning Checklist (SSPC) as a tool for promoting proactive advising, and 3) content on effective learning strategies. This paper will provide a brief introduction to the literature that guides this work, an overview of the program components, and discussion of lessons learned and next steps.

Authors

Ms. Lisa Trahan University of California, San Diego [biography]

Lisa Trahan is Director of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment at UC San Diego's IDEA Engineering Student Center.
Ms. Jessica Baldis University of California, San Diego [biography]

Jessica Baldis serves as the Academic Success Coordinator at the University of California, San Diego’s IDEA Engineering Student Center. She holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Washington and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Jessica spent several years managing and directing software engineering and content development teams primarily in the military and law enforcement spaces before transitioning to higher education.
Jasmine L. Sadler University of California, San Diego [biography]

Trained aerospace engineer and ballerina, Ms. Jasmine L. Sadler, MBA is the CEO+Visionary of The STEAM Collaborative where she lives her life on purpose innovating programs to develop culturally responsive educational leaders. She is a doctoral student in educational leadership with a vision to own and run a STEAM University. Jasmine is a UC San Diego Graduate Student Assistant Researcher and Chair of the UCSD Graduate Student Diversity Advisory Committee. The #DancingRocketScientist delivers her inspirational testimony internationally, and works as an operations project management consultant for multiple non-profit STEM Education organizations.
Darren J Lipomi University of California, San Diego

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