Connecting Incoming Freshmen with Engineering through Hands-On Projects

Suxia Cui; Younhui Wang; Yonggao Yang; Felecia M. Nave; Kendall T. Harris

American Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 2, No. 2 (2011) pp. 31–42

Engineering programs suffer a high attrition rate, which causes the nation to graduate much less engineers. A survey of the literature reveals that the high attrition rate is due mainly to the fact that the first year of an engineering program is...