Visualize to Realize through Career Vision Approach

Believing that any student, if given the right kind of inspiration, motivation, training and exposure, will certainly be able to realize his/her potential, the Career Vision Approach program is an integrated and comprehensive program across first year orientation for all incoming undergraduate students of engineering, with an emphasis on student success, learning and earliest introduction into career. First year students are in many ways the most vulnerable group in our institute. Through orientation, peer mentoring and transition, the program is aimed at supporting new students to become successful university learners, prepared to achieve their personal and career goals. This paper focuses on answering two questions: first, „why consider strategic approaches to the first year in Engineering education?‟ and second, „how can we be more strategic about supporting the first year experience‟?