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Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Steif

PSYCHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A STATICS CONCEPT INVENTORY AND ITS USE AS A FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT TOOL Paul S. Steif Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213AbstractA multiple choice test, the Statics Concept Inventory, is used to measure conceptual progressof students in Statics. This paper reports on detailed comparisons of the results of this test tostudent performance on class examinations. Reasonably strong correlations are foundbetween concept-specific sub-scores in the inventory and scores on related types ofexamination problems or solution errors involving similar concepts. With these findings weset the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Drummer; James Frendewey; Sheryl Sorby; Kris Mattila; John Sutherland; Leonard Bohmann

theimportance of engineering applied to the service sector.5 An outcome of the workshop was thecreation of the Service Enterprise Engineering program within the NSF Division of Design,Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation in recognition of the need for engineers to work withinthe service sector in order to improve this sector’s productivity. Tien and Berg note that “despitethe growing role that services play in the U.S.’s economic well-being, productivity in the servicesector has shown limited growth.”10 They further note that one of the reasons that the servicesector is such a large part of our economy today is due to its inefficiency – especially in terms ofgovernment services. However, as other countries begin to provide services, our own

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Plesha; Gary Gray; Francesco Costanzo

compression, we expect the solution to Eq. (1) to give FBC > 0, which it does. • You should verify that the solutions are mathematically correct by substituting FBC , Ax and Ay into all equilibrium equations to check that each of them is satisfied. However, this check does not verify the accuracy of the equilibrium equations themselves, so it is essential that you draw accurate FBDs and check that your solution is reasonable.Example from Dynamics: Kinetics of a Two-Particle SystemProblem Statement A student throws a pair of stacked books, whose masses are m1 =1.5 kg and m2 = 1 kg, on a table as shown in Fig. 3. The books strike the table withessentially zero vertical speed and their common horizontal speed is v0 = 0.75 m/s

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Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Vaishalee Naruka; Stephen Raper; William Daughton

10 0 s ed g e n in y tio ng at as lv nt ca

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Innovations in Library Management

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2005 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Weiner; Honora Nerz

for getting there?” The best way to bring about a change in one’s work life is to be the driving force behindmaking it happen, by being the one to assess the situation, identify the problem(s) if there areany, and prescribe it the solution (or take responsibility for the search for it). This proactiveapproach will be more likely to get a positive response from senior management and provides amuch greater feeling of control over one’s work life. An element of the planning that should not be ignored, but all too often is, relates to thenext job. We should always be able to envision the next job and have a sense of how long it isappropriate to stay in the current one and/or with the current organization. People often thinkthat if

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Newcomer

assignment serves to get students to look at work tasks with an eye toward ergonomics.Students are only required to observe the work task, but many try different methods of assess-ment such as video tape or still photography, and they, almost all, also interview their subject(s)to get a better understanding of the task and its difficulties from the worker’s perspective. Whenwork tasks are very rapid, such as the case of a grocery cashier, students find that they muststudy different aspects of the task at different times, so students might spend half of their timedocumenting wrist posture and half documenting back and neck posture. Students more oftenthan not find some risk factor in the work task; this is probably in part a selection effect, for

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marlin Thomas

Page 10.694.11the facility and the complexity of the modules.Reconnaissance Information: Based on the information from the damage report by the crisesaction team, the probabilities of each of the four modules being the source of the failure of theventilation system are estimated at p j , 0 ≤ p j ≤ 1, i = N,S, E, W. Further estimates of timest N , t S , t E , and t W required to test each module; and the probabilities α N , αS , α E , and α W of therepair crew overlooking a failed module given that it is in fact the source of break down wasmade by the emergency maintenance crew.Emergency Diagnostics Strategy: The objective is to find the failed module as soon as possibleand the strategy will be to continue trouble shooting until it is

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

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Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

number ofsubsystems including a drive mechanism for generating load, a load measurement unit, adisplacement measurement subsystem, and their related controls. Fig. 1 shows the schematic ofthe microtensile tester developed after an original design from Johns Hopkins University2 whichwas modified to accommodate measurement for large strains. The load train started with amotorized Velmex (Velmex , Inc., Bloomfield, NY 14469) unislide drive equipped with agearbox of 1500:1 ratio, connected to a linear stage providing strain rates as low as 10-4/s. Aswith nearly all variable speed motors, lower speeds could be achieved, however, load capacitydropped below the desirable levels. An “L” bracket machined and installed on the unislide drivemade it

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Goo; Maura Borrego

use 6% Somewhat disagree clickers. 18% Neither agree nor disagree 34% Somewhat agree 20% Strongly agreeAcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank USC’s NICE-PRS discussion group members, includingChris Gould; USC Center for Scholarly Technology staff members Rick Lacy, SueGautsch, Otto Khera and others; and Brooks-Cole sales rep Sylvia Sotomayor.References1 Hestenes, et al. “Force Concept Inventory.” The Physics Teacher 30 (3), 141, (1992).2 Danielson, S. “Developing Statics Knowledge Inventories.” 2004 Frontiers in Education Conference

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Goodman; Maurice Aburdene

. Athanasios Papoulis and S. Unnikrishan Pillai,Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2002.6. Jay L. Devore, Probability and Statistics: For Engineering and the Sciences, Duxbury, Pacific Grove, CA, 2000.7. George R. Cooper and Clare D. McGillem, Probablistic Methods of Signal and System Analysis, Third edition, Oxford University Press, 1999.8. Maurice F. Aburdene and Richard J. Kozick, “A project-oriented course in probability and statistics for undergraduate electrical engineering students” Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997, pp.598 - 6039. Leonard Kleinrock, Queueing Systems, Computer Applications, The Academic Press, Vol. 2, 1976.10. William

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Adams; William Manion

Alumni/Employer s than (N = 6/8) AdequateWritten Faculty 34% 55% 12% Alumni/Employers 44% 32% 24%Oral Faculty 30% 56% 14% Alumni/Employers 30% 63% 7%Visual (ability to design Faculty 34% 51% 14%information, including Alumni/Employers 35% 46% 19%complex displaysof data)These

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Craig; Maurice Aburdene

instructor(s) should complete the same survey form, indicating his/her opinion of the extent to which each course outcome has been achieved by the students, and enter the data in Column Q. If different sections of the same course were taught concurrently by two or more faculty, either their individual responses to the survey form could be averaged and transferred to the spreadsheet, or each instructor’s class could be assessed separately. Page 10.100.8 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for

Conference Session

Systems Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Widmann

strength of the preference is given in the scoring of the questionnaire.Each of the four categories measure strengths of two opposite preferences: 1) Source of personal energy/focus of attention: Those individuals who have apreference for gaining energy through interactions with others are considered to have aExtrovert (E) preference while those who relate best to their inner self and gain energyfrom being along with their thoughts indicate a preference for Introvert (I). 2) How information is gathered: Those individuals who like to gather facts andpay particular attention to details indicate a preference for Sensing (S) while those whohave a preference for speculation, imagination or would rather “see the big picture

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lennard Lema; Zbigniew Prusak; Peter Baumann

representative data, processinginformation and drawing conclusions. Development of Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI)described by Angelo and Cross 3 is very good, although a tedious approach, in laying out themap of ‘where we are’ versus ‘what needs to be done’. Thoroughly developed TGI helpsestablish commonalities between programs and specialties. Detailed TGI was developed for the Page 10.735.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationManufacturing ET program at CCSU in the late 1990’s and was evaluated by

Conference Session

Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

. Page 10.724.115. Davis, W.J., Bower, K.C., and Mays, T.W (2005). “Implementation of a Course Assessment Process for Continuous Improvement and Outcomes Assessment.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Southeastern Section Conference, Chattanooga, TN, April 4-6.6. ABET, ABET 2004-2005 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, MD.7. Dods, R. F. (1997). An Action Research Study of the Effectiveness of Problem-Based Learning in Promoting the Acquisition and Retention of Knowledge. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 20(4), 423 - 437.8. Johnstone, K. M., & Biggs, S. F. (1998). Problem-Based Learning: Introduction

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brij Agrawal

constellation. The reflector and thephased array structures are designed for high stiffness and low thermal distortion and lowthermal gradient. The two-axis solar array drive is used to keep the solar array normal to thesun’s rays. Lithium Ion batteries are used for power storage. S-band is used for TT&C, V-bandfor X-link antennas and Ku-band D-link. Because of large X-link and D-link data, large on-board processing capacity is required. The feed array temperature gradient has to be kept in avery narrow range because of dimensional stability requirements. Table 6 gives the spacecraftmass budget. The estimated mass is based on the selection and use of actual equipment masses.The technology drivers for the spacecraft are payload, structures, and on

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

, 2001.4. National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators. National Science Board. Arlington, VA, 1998.5. Starks, S, S. Blake and M. Tshoshanov, “Using Rockets to Stimulate Interest in Science and Mathematics,” Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, CD-ROM, Big Sky, MT, Feb. 2003.6. NASA, Mission Mathematics: Linking Aerospace and the NCTM Standards, Washington, DC, 2002.7. Twiggs, B., Getting Started with Space Craft Hardware, Colorado Space Grant Consortium Workshop CD- Page 10.1137.12 ROM, Boulder, CO, 2002.8. Blake, S and M. Tshohanov, Final Report, Texas PreFreshman Engineering Program, August

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mysore Narayanan

., & O'Brien, M. J. (1994, June). The building blocks of the learningorganization. Training, 31 (6), 41-49. Page 10.231.10“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Berk, Ronald A. (2002) Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator; Evidence-BasedTechniques in Teaching and Assessment. Herndon, Virginia : Stylus PublishingBlack, L. J. (2000). Fear and desire in course and student portfolios. Journal onExcellence in College Teaching, 11 (1), 43-55.Bloom, Benjamin S. (Ed.) (1956). Taxonomy of educational objectives : Theclassification of

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rorrer; Richard Sanders; Daniel Knight

of bachelor’sdegrees has decreased from approximately 35% in the late 1960’s to approximately 31% since1990 [3]. It is our contention that in order to attract more students into these fields of study,there are a few fundamental precepts. First, the students that are already committed to thesefields need not be the focus of new recruitment efforts. They will enter these fields without anadditional sales pitch or incentive. Second, other students that do not currently possess aninterest in the technical fields can be interested in these areas [4]. Third, there are a significantnumber of students with the ability to succeed in college who are not performing well in highschool and are not being served by existing pre-collegiate programs. It is

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

, Training, EducationIn general, EWB-USA is dedicated tohelping disadvantaged communities University Un ive r s it y Ch a p t e r s Engineers Withoutimprove their quality of life through Engineering Borders – USAimplementation of environmentally and Programs (Projects, Internships, P a r tn e r sh ip EWB model)economically sustainable engineering (Education, R&D) E WBprojects

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Shyi-Jeng Tsai; Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

of the “conceptual model”10 ofvarious mechanisms is much more important than the ability for kinematic analysis ofmechanism. If a designer has formed a “conceptual model” of a device, s/he can mentallysimulate its operation while looking at its sketch or picture10. For example, considering thedifferent configurations of the both four-bar linkages (crank-rockers) illustrated in Fig. 3, youcan distinguish between the rotation directions of the both output links c, because you havealready a “conceptual model” in mind. This “conceptual model” is critical for designer to searchand to select suitable mechanism in her/his task. We expand the concept of “conceptual model”here to improve the competence acquisition of understanding motion of

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jill Lane; Sarah Rzasa; Richard Behr; Christine Masters

Publications.7 Mehta, S. and S. Danielson (2002). Math-Statics Baseline (MSB) Test: Phase I, 2002 Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education, June 16-19, Montreal, Canada.8 Steif, P. (2004). Initial Data from a Statics Concept Inventory, 2004 Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education, June 20-23, Salt Lake City, Utah.9 Perseus SurveySolutions XP-User Guide (2001). Braintree, MA: Perseus Development Corporation.10 Wise, J., Lee, S., & Rzasa, S. E. (In press). Learning by doing: Four years of online assessment in engineering education research. In Williams, D. (Ed.) Online Assessment, Measurement and Evaluation: Emerging Practices

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

)a = x1_e x2_e x1_e -1.732 1 x2_e -1 0b = u1 y1 x1_e 0 1.732 x2_e 1 1c = x1_e x2_e y1_e 1 0 x1_e 1 0 x2_e 0 1d = u1 y1 y1_e 0 0 x1_e 0 0 x2_e 0 0I/O groups: Group name I/O Channel(s) KnownInput I 1 Measurement I 2 OutputEstimate O 1 StateEstimate O 2,3Continuous-time model.L = 1.7321

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Goedert; E. Terence Foster

updated by subsequent communications with programadministrators.3. U. S. Bureau of Economic Analysis web site, www.bea.gov, accessed January 3, 2005, Table 1.1.10.Percentage of U.S. GDP Fixed Investments.4. NCEES web site, www.ncees.org, accessed since June 23, 2003.5. EAC-ABET, 2004-05 Accreditation Policy and Procedure Manual, available at www.ncees.org. Page 10.347.46. EAC-ABET, 2005-06 Accreditation Policy and Procedure Manual, available at www.ncees.org. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

format to meet project goals and allow each level of student theopportunity to learn something they perceive as valuable. For example, the fall 2002 projectasked each team to design a process capable of producing 200 MM lbs/year of methylmethacrylate (MMA) by retrofitting an existing plant or using new MMA process technology.The deliverables from the project were a review of the patent literature, an estimate of thecredit(s) to be used in the economic analysis, a market forecast for MMA demand, an assessmentof the process safety, health, and environmental implications of the new technology, and a reporton the potential public relations and financial impact of the ‘green’ nature of the proposedtechnology. This problem involved extensive

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Livesay; Kay C Dee

correlations over longer test-retest intervals, although ideally, a set of test-retest (and retest and retest) correlations over arange of intervals for the same population would be collected. This, however, is difficult to do inpractice; we’ve tried it for intervals up to 16 months, but the loss of participants at any time pointdoes compromise the overall sample size. The active-reflective domain in the present work,however, demonstrated a correlation that was lower than found for much longer test-retestintervals [2, 7], although this correlation was still statistically significant. Again, this may be dueto differences in the population tested. Interval V-V A-R S-I S-G n= Significant? Correlation

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

EducationReferences 1. Bartholdi, J. (2001) “Bucket Brigades”, “What are Bucket Brigades?”, and Simulated Bucket Brigade Instructions and Materials at http://www.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/bucket- brigades.html 2. Felder, R. M, & Brent, R. (1996). Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student-Centered Instruction. College Teaching, 44(2),43-47. 3. Felder, R. M, & Brent, R. (2001). National Effective Teaching Institute. Teaching Workshop Materials. 4. Hillier, F. S. and Lieberman, G. J. (1995). Introduction to Operations Research, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill, Inc. 5. Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. T., & Smith, K. A. (1998). Active Learning: Cooperation in the college classroom, 2nd edition, Interaction Book Co. 6

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Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

EducationReferences 1. Bartholdi, J. (2001) “Bucket Brigades”, “What are Bucket Brigades?”, and Simulated Bucket Brigade Instructions and Materials at http://www.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/bucket- brigades.html 2. Felder, R. M, & Brent, R. (1996). Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student-Centered Instruction. College Teaching, 44(2),43-47. 3. Felder, R. M, & Brent, R. (2001). National Effective Teaching Institute. Teaching Workshop Materials. 4. Hillier, F. S. and Lieberman, G. J. (1995). Introduction to Operations Research, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill, Inc. 5. Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. T., & Smith, K. A. (1998). Active Learning: Cooperation in the college classroom, 2nd edition, Interaction Book Co. 6

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Pangborn; Renata Engel

Session 3461 An Objectives-Based Approach to Assessment of General Education Lori J. Bechtel, Suzanne Light Cross, Renata S. Engel, Ronald L. Filippelli, Arthur L. Glenn, John T. Harwood, Robert N. Pangborn, and Barbara L. Welshofer Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the development of an innovative strategy to assess how students andfaculty perceive and accomplish the objectives of general education at Penn State. TheUniversity’s general education curriculum is intended to achieve a number of educational goals,including

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kramer

Explaining Faculty Involvement in Women's Retention Laura Kramer Montclair State University After a period of rapidly increasing female enrollments in engineering (from the mid1970s to the late 1980s), the percentage of undergraduate degrees earned by women climbedvery slowly and has been stuck near twenty percent for more than ten years. Without moredirectly confronting and responding to a relatively unchanged set of cultural and institutionalfactors, gender integration in engineering may have gone about as far as it can. The researchdescribed in this paper helps to fill in the picture of the engineering faculty, whose role(s) androle