期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2018
DOI：10.24908/pceea.v0i0.13012
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：As a way to help ease the struggles that students face in the transition from high school into university, the Engineering Faculty at the University of Waterloo started a reduced load program in 2010. During their first term at Waterloo, engineering students who are in academic jeopardy after midterms can drop two prescribed courses to give the students an opportunity to finish the term on a successful note. The two dropped courses are taken during the following spring term along with a third course, GENE 101 – Strategies and Skills for Academic Success. After successfully completing the reduced load terms, the students return to a full load. GENE 101 is considered a foundational success course. This paper will look at the curriculum and structure of the course and the impact it has had on engineering students. At the time of this writing, two groups of students who took GENE 101 and the reduced load program have graduated from Waterloo as engineers.
