Welcome Program for First Year Students at the Faculty of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz: soft Skills

Estíbaliz Apiñaniz-Fernandez de Larrinoa ^[1] ; Javier Sancho-Saiz ^[1] ; Amaia Mesanza-Moraza ^[1] ; Ruperta Delgado-Tercero ^[1] ; I. Tazo-Herrán ^[1] ; J.A. Ramos-Hernanz ^[1] ; J.I. Ochoa de Eribe-Vázquez ^[1] ; J.M. Lopez-Guede ^[1] ; E. Zulueta-Guerrero ^[1] ; J. Díaz de Argandoña-González ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
  
  Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
  
  Leioa, España
Localización: International Joint Conference SOCO’16-CISIS’16-ICEUTE’16: San Sebastián, Spain, October 19th-21st, 2016 Proceedings / coord. por Manuel Graña Romay, José Manuel López Guede, Oier Etxaniz, Álvaro Herrero Cosío, Héctor Quintián Pardo, Emilio Santiago Corchado Rodríguez, 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-47364-2, págs. 711-717
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- It is well known that there are high dropout rates in engineering faculties. There are plenty of reasons that can explain these bad results, among which we can mention group integration problems, lack of motivation or difficulty to adapt to the university study methodology. In this work we propose a Four-day Welcome Program for first-year students to help these new students to overcome some difficulties they will have to face during their time at the Engineering School. Our objective is to improve the results of the first year students by motivating them from the first day.