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Welcome Program for First Year Students at the Faculty of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Soft Skills

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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.

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The authors would like to thank the UPV/EHU for the financial support inside the Educational Innovation Projects 2016.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, C/Nieves Cano, 12, 01006, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

    Estíbaliz Apiñaniz-Fernandez de Larrinoa, Javier Sancho-Saiz, Amaia Mesanza-Moraza, Ruperta Delgado-Tercero, I. Tazo-Herrán, J. A. Ramos-Hernanz, J. I. Ochoa de Eribe-Vázquez, J. M. Lopez-Guede, E. Zulueta-Guerrero & J. Díaz de Argandoña-González

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  1. Computational Intelligence Group, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastian, Spain

    Manuel Graña

  2. University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain

    José Manuel López-Guede

  3. Computational Intelligence Group, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastian, Spain

    Oier Etxaniz

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Álvaro Herrero

  5. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Héctor Quintián

  6. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

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Apiñaniz-Fernandez de Larrinoa, E. et al. (2017). Welcome Program for First Year Students at the Faculty of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Soft Skills. In: Graña, M., López-Guede, J.M., Etxaniz, O., Herrero, Á., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) International Joint Conference SOCO’16-CISIS’16-ICEUTE’16. SOCO CISIS ICEUTE 2016 2016 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 527. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47364-2_69

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