A Longitudinal Study of Eight Engineering Colleges using the SUCCEED Longitudinal Database

Clemson University, Clemson SC

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Abstract

This work is proposed as a starter grant to support a follow-on effort to PFSIVIETE fellowship grant number 9896381, "A Longitudinal Study of Eight Engineering Colleges using the SUCCEED Longitudinal Database." The primary goal of the original fellowship was to prioritize factors that contribute to engineering student success by studying programs designed to help engineering students at nine institutions. The breadth of data required to conduct such an analysis could not be collected within the fellowship tenure, so this greater goal remains a subject for continuing research. During the fellowship tenure, a number of individual studies were completed, and results from these have been published or are being developed in collaboration with the investigators who originally designed and implemented the programs under study. This request asks for support necessary to complete the study of data already collected and to collect additional data needed to begin to address the more aggressive goal of characterizing factors that contribute to engineering student success. The Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED) will continue to significantly leverage this work.