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Mastering Time Management for First-Year Engineering: Strategies, Challenges, and Success

In your first year of engineering, learning effective time management skills is crucial to academic success and reducing stress. By becoming aware, getting organized, and setting goals, you can increase your overall average by 10-15%. This adaptation from Queen's University offers valuable insights on developing good time management habits. Understand the importance of starting well, monitoring, analyzing, and revising your approach. Discover strategies for organizing, scheduling, and analyzing to optimize your study time. Create realistic, specific, and measurable goals to stay on track. Embark on your engineering journey equipped with the tools to excel academically, balance your time effectively, and enjoy a fulfilling university experience.

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Mastering Time Management for First-Year Engineering: Strategies, Challenges, and Success

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  1. Managing Your Time in first year engineering Adapted from : Learning Strategies Development Queen’s University

  2. Three part process Become Aware Get Organized Set Goals

  3. Three part process Become Aware Get Organized Set Goals

  4. Research shows: Practicing effective time management skills can increase your overall average by 10-15%! AND (more importantly!) You will get more out of your courses, enjoy the subjects more, and be less stressed out.

  5. Developing good time management habits is a life-long journey…Where are you starting from?

  6. My planner is a thing of beauty. Procrastination is for other people. I hand in projects before the teacher even has a folder to put them in. I’ve got all my due dates written down, and try to start bigger projects well in advance. I do struggle a bit with motivation when the deadlines are far away, or I don’t really enjoy the course though. My planning horizon is about two days ahead. More than once I’ve been surprised when my friends remind me about a deadline that I had forgotten… Planning ruins my spontaneity. I feel most alive at 4 AM, wired on Reb Bull, blitzing the 10-page report that is due in 3 hours.

  7. Which of those students is likely to understand the material better? Which of those students is most likely to overwhelmed when several deadlines hit at once? Which of those students do you want to work with for each Mod 3 project deadline?

  8. Your First Year in Engineering • You are engineering students! • You have more courses than students in other faculties. • You have no ‘easy’ courses. • So how much studying are we talking about?

  9. There are 168 hours in each week to do EVERYTHING • Eat • Sleep • Study • Exercise, socialize, hobbies, volunteer, etc.

  10. So…. not a lot of wiggle room. • TIME MANAGEMENT IS KEY TO: • Getting the most of out of studying, • Having enough time for yourself, and • Not feeling guilty about it!

  11. Start well, Monitor, Analyse, Revise Start Well: Today you will set up a weekly schedule to manage your time. Monitor: Just before mid-terms, monitor your time use and revise if you need to.

  12. Three part process Become Aware Get Organized Set Goals

  13. Goals: • Help us determine a direction • Assess whether we are on track • Enables us to celebrate our achievements! • Goals should be: • Realistic • Specific • Measurable

  14. Sample time management goals I will make a weekly work plan, and follow that schedule at least 5 days out of 7. I will schedule brief nightly review sessions, and will complete those every weeknight. In the first three weeks, I will start every Mastering homework at least 3 days before it is due.

  15. Three part process Become Aware Get Organized Set Goals

  16. Strategies for Organizing Scheduling: reserving time for LEARNING material as well as doing assigned work Organizing: your study space, your notes in binders with tabs, find old exams early in the term….. Analyzing: is my schedule working? Am I focusing on the right things? Should I rearrange things to improve? Most important

  17. Building your own time-managed weekly schedule • You need to know your section number (e.g. 04, 10) • If you do not know your section number, sign on to SOLUS. • From the ‘other academic…’ drop down menu, select ‘Class Schedule’. • Your section number shows up in the last two numbers of your tutorial and labs. • (E.g. ‘207’ – Section 07)

  18. Guidelines Problem sets are best done in 1-2 hour block times - try to schedule these an evening or two before tutorials. For weekly Mastering/Webwork try and schedule 2-3 days they close so you have time to ask about problems you can’t do right away Reserve at least 30 minutes for clean-up and review time at the end of every class day!

  19. Your turn:go to:http://tiny.cc/engtime [Built as an APSC 100 Mod 3 project, and a summer Engineering student!]

  20. Check-In: how are you feeling? I totally have this first year thing. I will still have time to join three design teams and play varsity rugby. Some nervous butterflies, but mostly excited. I’m going to be busy but it will be okay if I work at it. Feeling a little anxious. I know a lot of students can handle this, but I’m not sure (yet) that I’m one of them. Okay, this is a lot of work, and it is freaking me out (at least a little bit). I would really like to talk to someone about this…

  21. The hardest times are at the transitions.Talk to your FRECs, and your undergrad TAs: with time comes familiarity. Most of you will feel a lot better about all of this in a few months! (If during mid-terms you’re still feeling overwhelmed, come talk!)

  22. Now… Go to (your next) class! 

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