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Discussion 3. Student views on the effectiveness of the IMPULSE program
"I know for me personally IMPULSE helped me develop a really good work ethic"

The following interview excerpt provides insights into why IMPULSE students believe this program prepares them for engineering better than the traditional approach.
    Student #1: Because you have a better relationship with your instructor. It seems like they work a lot harder. At first they put a lot into it and they wanted everything to go smooth. Some things were a little bumpy like the equipment didn't work as they expected it or whatever.

    Student #2: I know for me personally IMPULSE helped me develop a really good work ethic because I just had so much homework that now I feel the need to do homework. In high school I didn't do homework. I still did well in high school, but I never did my homework. But when I came here I just had to do my work because there was just so much of it; it was just overwhelming; they did give us too much, but it helped me out in the long run.

    Student #3: Also most of the time you didn't want to let your teammates down. In my group I saw the one kid letting the whole team down, and that really bothered me; so I didn't want to be the one that was doing that.

    Student #4: Working in groups does bring your average down. So when I go home I work hard.

    Student #5: The projects that you do in class help you learn a lot, too. The different concepts that you try on paper or see in the book, you can't quite understand until the physics teacher gets up in front of the class and does a little demonstration; and you're like, "Oh yeah, that's how it works." I felt that IMPULSE helped me absorb concepts and help me understand and learn things better, so in my classes now I can understand and learn things quicker.

    Student #6: We did more projects than the other people that weren't in IMPULSE. Like in engineering we did the cardboard boats and the bottle rockets, and that helped us learn so much stuff. It was fun, and no one else in the other engineering classes had projects that they had to do.


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