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Students Against the Odds: First-year Engineering Students' Strategies for Improving Academic Achievement
Author(s) -
Sergio Celis,
Camila Aguirre
Publication year - 2016
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.18260/p.25936
Subject(s) - dismissal , mathematics education , recall , intervention (counseling) , psychology , academic achievement , academic year , engineering education , odds , medical education , computer science , engineering , medicine , logistic regression , mechanical engineering , machine learning , psychiatry , political science , law , cognitive psychology
Sergio Celis is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Sciences at the Universidad de Chile. He conducts research on higher education, with a focus on teaching and learning in STEM fields. His primary research interest is in how multiple forces, internal and external to the institution, influence what and how we teach in colleges and universities. His doctoral thesis investigated how social and intellectual movements influenced the emergence of entrepreneurship education in engineering. Sergio received his professional degree in industrial engineering at the University of Chile and his Ph.D. in higher education at the University of Michigan.

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