Active/Collaborative Learning Student Teams Integrating Technology Effectively Women and Minorities Assessment and Evaluation EC2000 Emerging Technology Foundation Coalition Curricula Concept Inventories
 
 
 
 
 
First-year Curriculum at University of Massachusetts
 

University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

First Year

Introduction
Freshman curriculum for engineering students. 		IMPULSE
Freshman Year Experience

Designing for Long-term Effectiveness Designed to include features that would make it robust and would encourage its extension into engineering and science curricula

Student Performance Experience at other universities has indicated that scores are likely to improve

Other Features References for further Information

Papers

IMPULSE

Our Freshman Year Experience

The UMD IMPULSE faculty team built on the results of several previous successful undergraduate experiments at other universities, such as those at RPI [1] and in the NSF Foundation Coalition [2]. The new program, called IMPULSE (integrated math, physics and undergraduate laboratory science, and engineering) [3,7,8]:

  • Integrated multiple subjects
  • Taught and required teamwork among students and faculty
  • Used active and cooperative learning
  • Encourage formation of learning community of students and faculty
  • Included rigorous assessment to evaluate and improve performance.

Many courses in IMPULSE were developed to exploit a technology-intensive classroom to improve learning.

© 2001 Foundation Coalition. All rights reserved. Last modified