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Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shauna Rae

advanced student can simulate an entire design or project. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThis paper demonstrates how to integrate co-simulation of VHDL and SPICE into existingcourseware. It also highlights the benefits of using co-simulation in conjunction with traditionalwaveform-based simulations across all levels of digital design.Introductory Digital Logic CoursesEducators have found that students who are used to working with circuits and components canhave difficulties adapting to a hardware description language7, 13. With co-simulation, studentsand instructors can create a component

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa Eljamal; Matthew Mayhew; Eric Dey; Stella Pang

University of Michigan. Sheobtained her B.A. in Literary Studies and German from Middlebury College in 1986 and her M.A. in HigherEducation Administration from the University of Michigan in 1995. She has authored several articles focusing ondisciplinary differences connected to curriculum design and has been an international educator since 1996.ERIC L. DEYDr. Dey is Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and ExecutiveAssociate Dean at the University of Michigan School of Education. He holds the Ph.D. in Higher Education fromthe University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Dey's research is concerned with how colleges and universities shapestudent and faculty experiences., He has expertise in the

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Oliver Sitton; Neil Book

withcalculators. Of course, it is important that each student understands the assumptions andprocesses contained in each routine. Class time must be devoted to training the students to usethe routines and this requires special classroom facilities, however, the training exercises are anopportunity to switch to active learning mode. Development of routines across the curriculum isthe most effective means of providing the suite. Both MathCAD and Matlab have been used todevelop a suite of routines. In both cases, a considerable portion of a summer was devoted toadapting a number of existing routines and creating additional ones to form a suite of consistent,integrated routines.Individualized exams are a necessity when students have networked computers. Also

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Ismail Orabi; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

integrated with coursework in thesciences. The courses in this new curriculum utilize active and cooperative learning techniquesto engage students in the learning process.Beginning first semester freshman year, engineering students are enrolled in a Project-basedIntroduction to Engineering course. This course is unlike introductory level engineering coursesoffered at other institutions in that it is part of the UNH core curriculum and as such is taken notonly by engineering majors, but also by students who are not studying engineering2. Thisprovides faculty with the opportunity to influence students’ perceptions about engineering, whichotherwise would not necessarily be exposed to engineering. The project-based course is one ofthe first courses

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Loralee Donath; Nadia Craig; Nancy Thompson; Michael Matthews

environment for research learning to occur. The learners’ knowledgeconstruction process is aided by an environment of distributed cognition in which participants atall levels—experts, mentors, accomplished novices, and novices—teach and learn from eachother.4 The RCS addresses the development of communications abilities in a system ofdistributed cognition.Survey results of RCS participants are presented to provide an example of a way to incorporatecomplex systems study into the existing undergraduate engineering curriculum. Complexsystems study is defined as a new field of science that studies the collective behavior of a systemand how this system interacts with its environment. Complex systems study is laying thefoundation for a revolution of all

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gustavo Molina

enhance student creativityand involvement in solving problems, mainly through team-work under a mentor [2].A problem-based teaching methodology is used by the author in the Creative Decisions andDesign sophomore class he teaches as part of the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program(GTREP) and Regents Engineering Transfer Program (RETP) for Mechanical Engineeringmajors in Georgia Southern University. The different problem-solving techniques integrate inteam-work design projects. The class meets twice a week for 50-minute lectures, and once a Page 10.1386.1week for three-hour studio-lab in an appropriate classroom for hands-on work, as well in

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Misna; Erica Liszewski

example dialogfor an error in the translation of the truth table is shown in Fig. 8. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 8: Example dialog box describing a student errorResultsThe K-Mapplet was first integrated into our digital logic course in Fall 2003. From then on, thestudents were given roughly three hours of laboratory time during the semester to practice K-map problems using the applet. During this structured time, the professor and a teachingassistant were present to answer questions. Grades for this activity were based on the level ofparticipation, not

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Backer

constituents (students and faculty). Theevaluation process and the subsequent revisions of these materials have created a new type ofresource analogous to an e-book but including a rich environment of video clips, audio clips,text, and graphics. Another shift is in the sharing of expertise. In the twice yearly meetingsfocused on course development, input from faculty content experts is integrated into themultimedia modules for the subsequent revision.IntroductionIn university settings, the field of technology has been expanded in the last ten years with coursesthat focus on the interactions of technology and society. These courses are presented in variousways; some focus on the ethics of technology while others take an artifact-based approach. Inmany

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Archibald; Michelle Clauss; James Dupree

million dollars.6 The success of MIT’sprogram has proved to be an excellent model for other institutions striving to developbusiness competitions.Over view of Entr epr eneur ship in Senior Design: Two notable differences set theEngineering Entrepreneurship Program at Grove City College apart from the programsdiscussed above. 1. The Engineering Entrepreneurship Program is mandatory for all engineering seniors. 2. No new courses were required -- the program integrated several existing courses.A mandatory program means that all engineering seniors receive the benefits ofparticipation as a requirement for senior design. Building the program on existingcoursework made implementation of the program easy, and helped avoid mistakesreported by

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Steven Hansen

previous transportation curriculum did not take advantage of the unique transportationlaboratory in place outside the classroom. With several new faculty in place and through this newpartnership between PSU and ODOT, students have been developing a unique resource that isnow available to all Civil & Environmental Engineering and Urban Studies & Planning students.PORTAL currently has 67 registered users, many of whom are PSU students. AlthoughPORTAL is still in its infancy, it is being used successfully in enhancing educationalopportunities at PSU. One of the main benefits for students is that it helps students bettervisualize what is happening on the freeway system. We have begun an assessment program totrack the numbers of students using

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Lambert; Aaron Robinson; Charles Camp; Jeff Marchetta; Laura Lackey; Stephanie Ivey

to these needs can be provided best by acoordinated, integrated system of educators, students, and employers working together tomaximize results. Targeting the areas of attrition in the critical period between the introductorycourse in engineering and subsequent courses provides a means of coordinated response byeducators working in conjunction with students.Before progressing into the methodology of this particular study, it is important to provide both abrief overview of the Kolb LSI (1985)9,10 instrument and an explanation of our decision to usethe Kolb LSI as opposed to other metrics designed to assess learning styles and behavior, and tonote the relative merits and constraints associated with this metric. It is common knowledge infields

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa McNair; Garlie A. Forehand; Judith Norback

had already been discussed with company contacts and approved by the Director ofUndergraduate Studies. Examples of the seven projects include: 1. designing the template for Standard Operational Procedures for a home décor company 2. working to ameliorate the on-time record of the local train system 3. suggesting alternative approaches to reduce the shrinkage of the inside walls of jets, for a jet manufacturer 4. enhancing the efficiency of the distribution system, for a delivery organization.In this Senior Design course, instruction on conceptualizing audience included three guides to bedescribed in detail below. The instruction was integrated into the course as follows: 1. Early in the semester, a

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhiyong Zhao; Joe Hagerty; J. P. Mohsen

cooperative internship and a five-year curriculum. Fifth-year students in the Master of Engineering program provide candidates for our PhD program.Students from other universities provide the balance of our PhD candidates. The course described in this paper is ameans to integrate candidates from other schools more fully with internal candidates from the University ofLouisville. Because fifth-year students are included in this course, an analysis of the course was done to see how itwould fit ABET educational objectives and outcomes.We discovered that the rationale for the course incorporates key concepts of the ABET accreditation criteria shownin the left section of the following table. The right section shows how the course incorporates those

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Elly; Mordechai Shacham; Michael Cutlip

, and Microsoft Excel for an effective solution of the problemon a widely-used platform.The Polymath package is used to setup the problem. This takes full advantage of the user-friendliness of this software for entering the problem and verifying its solution. A new feature ofPolymath 6.0 allows automatic export of the entire problem to Excel by a single keypress. All ofthe equations and logical/intrinsic functions are automatically generated so that the problem canbe executed completely within Excel. For problems involving differential equations, thePolymath Ode_Solver™ Add-In provides extensive numerical integration capabilities for Excel.The Aspen Properties package which is provided with the Aspen Engineering Suite™ suppliesan Add-In for

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carpenter

Issues in Engineering course be taken outof the Civil Engineering curriculum?Professional and Ethical Issues in Engineering is a course that should be taught in everyschool around the world. Knowing and learning the moral philosophy, engineeringethics and how to build professional engineers is needed these days. This course is agood way to understand the real life after college and how ethics helps and deals withengineers everyday. This course is an introduction for the students and will help themlater how to conduct themselves when they face an ethical issue in engineering if theywere working. Knowing the codes of ethics in Engineering and understanding whatthey are stands for will develop a real professional engineers. Professional and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Venubabu Vulasa; David Grieve; Chetan Sankar; Bob Bulfin; Paul Swamidass

of about 170 pages. Auburn team was graded by Auburn teacher and vice versa.The University of Plymouth’s interest in the project Students from Mechanical Engineering and related fields at the University of Plymouth(UP), UK, have for many years done team-based design projects in their final stage (years 3-4)design module in order to: • Develop group working skills ( team sizes are normally 6-8 students) • Gain an understanding of how graduate engineers work and to gain this experience; team chairperson and secretary are elected • Enable students integrate different fields of their undergraduate studies e.g., fluids, manufacturing, business etc. This is a requirement of the British accrediting professional

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Freeman; Anita Persaud

, and students are involved in learning, there is greater studentachievement and retention within that college environment 1, 6, 8, 10, 2, 3.College students experience three major stages in their acclimation to college: separation,transition, and incorporation or integration 9. Academic and student support services need to befront-loaded because the research demonstrates a high attrition rate during the first year ofcollege. In order for students to be retained, they need to develop their skill competencies andconfidence in their ability to perform well academically. This can be done by: a) increasing thenumber of minority faculty members; b) establishing mentoring programs; c) assigning academicadvisers and support services counselors; d

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Jao; Khalid Al-Olimat

2002.[10] R. B. Bunin, Microsoft Project 2002, Thomson Learning, Boston, 2003.Author BiographiesDr. Feng Jao obtained her PhD from the University of Toledo in the field of Educational Technology in 2001.Currently she is an assistant professor in the Department of Technological Studies at Ohio Northern University. Herprofessional interests include integration of instructional technology across curriculum, software training, digitalmedia, and web-based instructional material design and development. Dr. Jao holds several certifications includingMicrosoft Office XP Word 2002 Expert, Office XP Excel 2002 Expert, Office XP PowerPoint 2002 Comprehensive,Office XP Access 2002 Core, Office XP Outlook 2002 Core and WebCT. She is an active member in

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brett Hamlin; Gretchen Hein

1999/2000, pg. 28-34.[8] May, G.S., D.E. Chubin, “A Retrospective on Undergraduate Engineering Success for Underrepresented Minority Groups,” Journal of Engineering Education, January 2003, pg. 27-39.[9] Gall, K., D.W. Knight, L.E. Carlson, J.F. Sullivan, “Making the Grade with Students: The Case for Accessibility,” Journal of Engineering Education, October 2003, pg. 337-343.[10] Olds, B.M., R.L. Miller, “The Effect of a First-Year Integrated Engineering Curriculum on Graduation Rates and Student Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, January 2004, pg. 23-35.Biographical InformationGRETCHEN L. HEIN - Gretchen Hein is a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tia Sharpe; Robert Maher; James Peterson; James Becker; Bradford Towle

otherwise become discouraged while taking the traditional physics,calculus, and chemistry prerequisites.1,2,3The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Montana State University(MSU) has developed and implemented a new laboratory experience in EE 101, our requiredfreshman-level introductory course, as part of an ongoing course and curriculum evaluationprocess. Students in EE 101 now work on a custom autonomous robot kit, assembling theelectronics and chassis components step-by-step with soldering irons and hand tools, whilegaining an understanding of basic laboratory instruments, measurement procedures, and circuitconcepts. The students learn to work both independently and with a partner to complete theassembly, measurement, and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

described the pedagogical approaches used in these curriculum materials andhow those approaches were used in both sensor and non-sensor versions of the laboratories toisolate the benefit of using the sensors in the classroom.1 The pedagogical equivalency of thesensor and non-sensor versions is an assumption that underpins the research design.2 This paperfocuses on updates to one of the parallel (sensor / non-sensor) laboratories, the development of anew parallel laboratory, and the extension of what we have learned about using the sensors in theclassroom to exercises that cannot be designed as parallel laboratories because they cannot beconducted without the use of real-time sensors.Ongoing laboratory developmentThree lab modules are presented in

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Setoodehnia; Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai; Akbar Eslami

the real world of industry with hands on experience simultaneously with theeducation they receive at school.IntroductionCooperative education (co-op) has come a long way since its inception in 1906, but this journeyis far from over [1]. As our global market changes to more competitive state of affairs, theco-op educators need to encourage more employers to develop quality co-op programs. Thiscan be done successfully with some innovative approach among high schools, universities andindustries. The high school students or teachers can go for work-based learning experiences inindustry and get credit during the summer. This could be through an internship /apprenticeshipprogram at the universities or two-year colleges. This will help students make

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Rojeski; Cindy Waters

. Maintaining thosememories is an issue. Research in the field of memory demonstrates that how quickly andreliably students recall depends on; activation or how long since they last used the informationand strength or how well they practiced it. Standard departmental practice dictates passing aSenior Exam similar to the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, and completing a Senior Designproject. Data from several years of administering pre-tests of pre-requisite material clearlyindicate that student retention declines rapidly over time. A researched technique for memoryimprovement is Preview, Question, Read, Self-Recitation and Test or “PQRST”. This techniquepertains to our strategies. Our department has adopted two strategies to combat this loss

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Winton

to device simulation iseither an assumption or is passed along to other parts of the curriculum. Device physicsusually demands a great deal of overhead and can dwell on anything from thermodynamics tofield theory. And the devices themselves can range from two-terminal non-linear resistances tofour-terminal transistors. Use of SPICE to illustrate performance characteristics of devices arenot uncommon in the circuits courses, but are uncommon in the semiconductor devicescourses.Most of the instructional framework and time commitment given to semiconductor devices issubmerged in the mathematical expositions necessary to describe the physics of the device [5].This is particularly true for small-dimension devices where high-field effects [6-9

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Giles; Donald Roberts; David Mitchell; Anthony Richardson

students are given a brief introduction to each of the programs of study.Student teams then work towards competition in two autonomous robot contests, withconstruction and programming of the robots taking place during the remainder of the course.Robotics has been used for integrated educational experiences at many institutions. CarnegieMellon University6,8 offers robot-building contests for freshman in their introduction to electricaland computer engineering course. MIT offers an undergraduate course where Lego™ buildingblocks7 are used as the basis for robot-building projects. For their honors fundamentals ofengineering course, Ohio State incorporates a robot-building experience where students are givena budget to purchase parts that enhance

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Lin; G. Padmanabhan

enable teachers to absorb new materials and allow them to incorporate them in their lesson plans instead of simply giving them lesson plans developed for them and ask them to teach.3. A net work with tribal college as a focal point is critical for improving STEM education in Indian Reservations Participating in middle and high school STEM education by university professors may be considered as an effort to achieve vertical integration of STEM education aimed at attracting more students earlier into the STEM disciplines. To implement such a program in Indian Reservations has to overcome several difficulties, including sparsely distributed student populations, lack of exposure to new technologies, limited school facility and

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe

Measure What You Value: Developing Detailed Assessment Criteria for Engineering Capstone Projects John W. K. Rowe Sheffield Hallam University, UK.AbstractAn important area of development in the UK and other systems of higher education over the lastdecade has been the wide spread use of specific statements describing the intended learningoutcomes students achieve, in contrast to using syllabus content to define courses and programs.In measuring how well students have satisfied an intended learning outcome one approach is touse developed assessment criteria that specify qualitatively, by level of achievement, studentperformance. Writing

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

the optimal route, but at the same time is notoverwhelming to the student. It can also be the basis for a lively design competition.BackgroundAs part of its membership in the NSF Gateway Coalition, Polytechnic devised an “Introductionto Engineering” course required of all students in the Freshman year, with most students takingthe course in the first term. The charter of the course is to provide a “hands on” approach toengineering to complement the theory they are learning in their other courses, and also to givethe students a better idea of what engineering is. A major component of this course is a term-longdesign project. Early in the term, the student is presented with a range of options for projectsincluding the design of a house, several

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

design ofengineering education and outreach programs aimed at university, K-12, and public audiences.This paper examines the nature of this influence as well as the opportunities and challenges itpresents to education and outreach professionals, in light of current trends in STEM education.The authors are involved in a collaborative effort to devise strategies to tackle some of thesechallenges through the design and development of the education and outreach aspects of theCenter for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN), an NSF-sponsored Nanoscale Science andEngineering Center (NSEC). Close collaboration among CHN’s science, engineering andsocietal implications researchers, university and K-12 educators, and science museum publicengagement

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Miguel A. Padilla; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

affected by such an academic phenomena. It is intuitive that a student’sacademic success prior to leaving engineering (such as grade-point average) has some impact onwhether they leave engineering as well as that student’s post-engineering academic success. Infact, many research studies have explored these relationships. In a landmark study, Astin showedthat majoring in engineering had a negative effect on both grade-point average and chance ofgraduation.1 Seymour and Hewitt documented a three-year study in which they interviewedstudents about their decision to leave the sciences.2 While there were no major differencesamong different types of institutions in regard to the problems described by their students,students at all types of institutions