Board 80 : Work in Progress: Do It Early and Do It Often – Engineering Math for First-Term EE Students

This work in progress paper introduces a first-year introduction to electrical engineering course at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) along with a data analysis plan. The purpose of the course is three-fold: to introduce new students to the major through a number of engaging laboratory exercises, to introduce new students to other students in their cohort and to electrical engineering faculty at the university, and to reinforce high-school-level mathematics in the context of engineering problems. This work-in-progress paper will provide the history of the introduction to electrical engineering course and how it has been modified within the past three years. This paper will also introduce the analysis plan to obtain information on the effectiveness and impact in subsequent courses caused by implementing engineering mathematics into this introductory electrical engineering course. In general, the proposed study will consist of a grade comparison between students who took the introductory course in the three years before the inclusion of engineering math content and those who took the introductory course in the two years after the addition of engineering math content.