AC 2007-1862: FRESHMAN ENGINEERING STUDENT RESPONSES TO A PRE-COLLEGE PERCEPTION SURVEY Blair Rowley, Wright State University BLAIR A. ROWLEY is a Professor of Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering and Director of the Freshman Engineering and Computer Science Program. He holds the Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, Columbia and is a PE. He has been in academia since 1970. Among his many activities he served as the Chair of the ASEE/BMD 1987-1988 and is a reviewer for NSF. His research focuses on rehabilitation engineering and teaching. Kumar Yelamarthi, Wright State University KUMAR YELAMARTHI is currently a Ph.D. student, and holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University. He serves as the lead Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Freshman Engineering and Computer Science Program. He was honored as the most outstanding Graduate Student in 2004, most outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in 2005, and also has been nominated for excellence in teaching awards several times. He is currently an author on over fifteen publications. His research focus is low-power VLSI methodologies, and engineering education. Cory Miller, Wright State University Corey E. Miller is an associate professor at Wright State University. He received his Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from the University of Akron. His research interests include personnel psychology, legal issues, and diversity management. He is the author of several papers, and has published in journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology and American Psychologist. He teaches graduate courses in industrial/organizational psychology, personnel selection, and psychometrics, and undergraduate courses in tests and measures, industrial/organizational psychology, and human sexuality. He has experience as a consultant in a human resources consulting firm, and consults on an independent basis on topics such as sexual harassment and diversity, personnel selection, questionnaire development and performance appraisal. Thomas L. Bazzoli, Wright State University THOMAS L. BAZZOLI is Assistant Dean for Fiscal Affairs and Research. He holds the MS in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. During his Air Force career he directed diverse research programs in modeling and testing of system performance, compositional mapping of submicron materials and machine translation of text. He was instrumental in establishing the college’s freshman program. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2007