Engineering Students’ Expectations about Calculus-based Physics

The study measured the first-year engineering expectation in calculus-based Physics subject and compared expectations when respondents were grouped according to sex and grouped according to senior high school strand completed. A quantitative research design using a descriptive-comparative approach was utilized. The study respondents were first-year engineering students under the course Physics for Engineers during the first semester of SY 2024-2025. The students’ expectations are categorized as independence related, coherence related, concept related, reality link related, mathematics link related, and effort related. Results showed strongly positive expectations in independence related, coherence related, concept related, reality-link related, mathematics-ink related, and effort related expectations. Overall expectations in Physics for Engineers course were likewise strongly positive regardless of sex and high school strand completed. In conclusion, the independence expectation, coherence expectation, concept expectation, mathematics link expectation, reality link expectation, effort expectation and overall expectations in calculus-based Physics of college students are all positive regardless of sex and completed high school strand.