Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus; Kenneth Reid

reaches 10,000 secondary teachers, guidance counselors, and outreachprogram leaders, and created a survey to understand what secondary teachers think ofengineering as an academic and career pathway for their students. Finally, ASEEbrought together leaders from industry and higher education along with K-12 teachers fora Leadership Workshop on K-12 Engineering Outreach, held just before the ASEE 2004Annual Conference and Exposition in Salt Lake City, Utah. A recent paper detailing theresults of that conference and delineating guidelines for how K-12 engineering educationworks best and defines key challenges confronting the field was recently published. (1)Clearly, there is a movement by the engineering and engineering technology communitiesto gain

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

as well as a technical education.The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) Engineering Division with funding from the HewlettFoundation has undertaken a new initiative that will prepare engineering students for careers thatwill benefit the international community. Specifically, the Engineering Division is collaboratingwith the Liberal Arts and International Studies Division at CSM to create courses that will helpengineering students to understand their obligations as engineers to the well-being of the U.S.and other societies. One of the primary goals of this effort is to create a culture of acceptance andvalue of community and international service activities throughout CSM faculty and students.The efforts of the “Humanitarian Engineering” program

Conference Session

Exploring Trends in CPD

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Llewellyn Mann; David Radcliffe

A Reflexive Course for Masters Students to Understand and Plan Their Own Continuing Professional Development Llewellyn Mann, David Radcliffe Catalyst Centre for Society and Technology The University of Queensland AustraliaAbstractContinuing Professional Development (CPD) is seen as a vital part of a professionalengineer’s career, by professional engineering institutions as well as individual engineers.Factors such as ever-changing workforce requirements and rapid technological change haveresulted in engineers no longer being able to rely just on the skills they learnt at university orcan pick up on

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

laborthere have been a number of highly publicized lay-offs. These stories have created an incorrectimpression in many parts of American society that manufacturing is leaving. Even before this,manufacturing employment did not have the luxury of a positive image as illustrated by theNational Association of Manufacturers report [1] that surveyed students and teachers. When asked to describe the images that they associate with a career in manufacturing, student respondents quickly and consistently offered phrases such as "production or assembly line work" work in a "factory" or "plant" that is "repetitious," "boring," "tedious," "dangerous," "dark" and "dirty." They felt that manufacturing required "hard work" and "long

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

Oregon to network, share resources, and collaborate on Page 10.667.4 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” projects that will increase the number of girls in STEM educational programs and careers in Washington and Oregon. 2) Making Connections [12]: is another project run by the Women's Center at the University of Washington. The program serves socio-economically disadvantaged high school students in the Seattle area by promoting college enrollment and offering

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Glenn Wrate; Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen

increased emphasis on developing the professional skills of ourgraduates.Curriculum modifications include a greater focus on microprocessor based systems, interfacing,signal processing, and material science. Core electrical engineering topics are introduced duringthe freshman year and include both lecture and laboratory experiences. The curriculum hasretained its broad range of content topics and its traditional strong design and laboratory focus.The curriculum changes are intended to provide the breadth and depth of technical knowledgeand the professional skills that will enable our graduates to: enter industry with immediateproductivity, pursue changing career opportunities, adjust to life-long technological changes, andpursue graduate school

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Physics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McNeil

Physics and an M.S. in a traditional engineeringdiscipline, and (3) a vigorous marketing effort that emphasized the advantages of a course ofstudy that offered a solid foundation in physics concepts and math literacy coupled to a wide mixof applications and practical hands-on experiences. The general applicability of physicsfundamentals along with great curricular flexibility have allowed our Engineering Physicsdegree to become the "Universal Donor” degree for post-graduate studies in science orengineering. While contributing to our growth, these reforms have presented special challengesto our assessment/feedback program with so many different curricular and career paths for ourstudents. This paper describes the program and discusses our approach

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Fouad; Tarek Rizk; Fouad Fouad

undergraduate and graduate levels. The objective is to graduate engineers who are familiarwith the construction industry and have a better understanding of the role of the civil engineer inthe construction process. Courses offered include project management, project planning,contracts, bidding, estimation, and other topics that are of importance to construction.As a means to provide an incentive to the student, a certificate in Construction EngineeringManagement is awarded upon the completion of a required number of credit hours. Thecertificate prepares the undergraduate civil engineering student for a career in the constructionindustry. For those students who are not interested in a career in construction, the certificateprovides them with sufficient

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wally Peters; Michelle Maher; Nadia Craig; Veronica Addison

, teamingexercises, experiential learning activities, technology, and communication in order to integratethe systems perspective into this course. The most unique portion of this course was the inclusionof biology in a discipline that does not value biology as a fundamental course. In order toincorporate biology into the course the students read “What is Life?” by Lynn Marguilus andDorion Sagan. This book provided a way to introduce the complexities of designs that exist inthe natural world.The focus of this paper will be on the inclusion of biology in an introduction to engineeringcourse. The student’s comments concerning the ways that this book will help them in theirengineering education and career will be analyzed thoroughly. Possible ways to

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Cochran; Kanthasamy Muraleetharan

post-competition surveys were conducted to gather data on students’ knowledge ofengineering computational tools, how earth structures behave during earthquakes, and theirpreference for a career in science and engineering. These surveys revealed that although thecompetition did provide valuable knowledge for the students about engineering computationaltools and the effects of earthquakes on earth structures, it had no significant influence onchanging the students’ career choices. The planning and implementation of this pilot designcompetition is presented and the difficulties encountered during the implementation arediscussed and suggestions for improving a similar competition are provided. Selected surveyresults are also presented and

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks; Laura Ford

4. What do you plan to do after graduating from high school (please be as specific as your plans are: vo-tech, job, college, probable major or field)?Figure 1. Pizza Ticket from 2004major, and the majority of the students simply answered “college”. Results from the 2004 ticketswere much more specific.At the end of the competition, we hand each teacher/advisor a packet of evaluation forms forboth the students and the teacher. The evaluation form asks for suggestions for improvement onthe rules, facilities, and poster session. It also asks a series of questions that we use to judge theeffectiveness of recruiting students to engineering: • Did you enjoy the Chem-E-Car Competition? • Have you ever considered engineering as a career field

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Bender; Amy Hoover; OraLynn Manweller

Young Women’s Aviation, Construction, and Engineering Academy OraLynn Manweller, Amy Hoover, William Bender Central Washington UniversityAbstractThe Young Women’s Aviation, Construction and Engineering (ACE) Academy was institutedthis year at Central Washington University. Our goal is to increase the number of young womenwho choose to pursue education and enter the workforce in these technical fields. The Academyis a 3-day, 2-night summer weekend academy that provided hands on learning experiences andactivities to spark career interest in these fields. The academy will be offered in subsequentyears, and the success of the program will be

Conference Session

New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis; Hugh Jack

product design careers and opportunities disappear. In addition, manyManufacturing Engineering and Technology programs in this country are seeing analarming decline in enrollments. In most cases (if not all), the remaining twenty fiveABET accredited manufacturing engineering programs in the U.S are shrinking as thenumbers of incoming students dwindle.If our students are indeed basing their academic choices on negative information andimages promoted by mass media, it is up to educators to appeal to students and revitalizethe image by promoting the positive future of manufacturing education and prepare forthe opportunities of outsourcing. Educators must be prepared for this phenomenon andprepare students adequately for the new world that faces them

Conference Session

Issues of Building Diversity

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carla Purdy; Mara Wasburn

included downsizing and consolidation of diversity programs, providingsufficient mentoring and role models, failure to institutionalize diversity programs, the disparitybetween students' and advisors' definitions of a "best fit" graduate program, the use of GREscores in admission decisions, graduate student socialization, and the need for more informationon career options early in students' college careers.1. IntroductionThe need for diversity at all levels of the engineering profession has been well-documented1,2,3,4.However, current enrollment figures for both undergraduate and graduate engineering programsshow that, for the most part, women and minorities are still under-represented5. At manyinstitutions, especially state-supported universities

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

initial surveys to subsequent surveys and other information stored by the University,such as transcripts; while names are collected to be able to link these various sources ofinformation, confidentiality is assured and protected. In the fall, students are asked about their family background, high school preparation andachievement, support by significant others for their engineering pursuit, preferred learning styles,self-confidence in themselves as students and as engineering students, perception of problems forwomen and men pursuing scientific, mathematical and engineering careers, their expectationsabout completing the major at Rowan, financial concerns, and their expectations of what a job inengineering will give them. In the spring, many of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

industrial seminar series for mid-career engineers on plastics and toxics use-reduction. These sessions typically last between one-day and one week, are well-attended, andare offered on-site per company request. Such ad-hoc approaches at engineering schools,however, are often scattered and somewhat serendipitous, providing neither a broad base offundamentals nor the preferred in-depth focus.This classic tension between depth and breadth in engineering education is especially vivid at theundergraduate level, given the tight four-year time frame and the lack of adequate secondaryschool preparation. The advent of nanotechnology, with its sweeping interdisciplinary horizon,has heightened the tension. Should engineering programs broaden the base of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jake Ingman; Camille Schroeder

increaseengineering exposure for these students to enhance their science, math, and engineering interestsand engage them in learner-driven activities that can entice them to consider a career inengineering. One such activity is FIRST LEGO League (FLL).First LEGO LeagueFLL is a LEGO robotics competition for children ages 9-14 created by a partnership between theLEGO Company and non-profit organization FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition ofTechnology). FIRST has a mission of providing a means for young people to pursueopportunities in engineering and technology. There are currently over 60,000 children involved Page 10.841.1in FLL across with the world in

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Pinkham; Cathryne Jordan; Lisa Peterson

corporate andcampus site. Students are introduced to their math instructors, corporate/campus mentors, anddormitory counselors. Ice breaker activities begin the process of building community among thestudents, and they are given the chance to ask questions and learn from previous ALVA students. Math. While average mathematics scores have risen for all racial and ethnic groups since1990, the gap between minority and white students still remains, and underrepresented studentsbegin college less prepared for math than their majority peers20,13. In 2000, only 4% ofHispanic/Latino, 3% of African American, and 10% of Native American high school seniorsscored at or above the Proficient level8. Math skills are key to an engineering career, so everyALVA

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hsiao-Shen Tsao; Belle Wei

trip experience as transformative, and many of them changedtheir study and career plans after the trip. Each of the 25 students presented the lessonshe or she learned from the study tour to an enthusiastic crowd of over 100 engineeringstudents. Such increases students’ awareness of global issues and we expect to havemany more students interested in the GTI study tour of 2005.1. IntroductionAs the debate on the costs and benefits of offshore outsourcing rages on, manytechnology companies in Silicon Valley have already established extensive globaloperations. Furthering the globalization trend are compelling economic considerationssuch as low costs, availability of a large talent pool, and potential markets of regionsoutside the U.S. It is a fact

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Wilkins

Excite Camp 2004: An Updated Look at Integrating Science and Native Hawaiian Tradition Leslie Wilkins, Jenilynne Gaskin, Sheryl Hom, Christine L. Andrews Maui Economic Development Board/Women in Technology ProjectBackgroundLaunched in 1999, the Maui-based Women in Technology Project (WIT) is funded by the U.S.Department of Labor as a workforce development project. Its mission is to encourage womenand girls to pursue education and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)in the state of Hawaii. WIT has been successful at creating systemic change by working directlywith educators and employers to make them aware of the return on investment of recruiting andretaining a

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Graf; Ann Christy

spent on non-technical subjects is not beneficial to their future careers. Overseveral years, the first author has assigned essays inviting students to reflect on their attitudestoward the General Education Curriculum (GEC) at the Ohio Sate University (OSU). Fewerthan half expressed an appreciation for the value of the GEC component of their education,especially the arts and humanities. Likewise, OSU’s College of Engineering annual alumnisurvey includes questions about the importance of and ability/preparation gained at OSU in avariety of areas including math, chemistry, physics, and humanities. Every year, humanities isranked the lowest in both categories: importance and ability/preparation.ObjectivesThe objectives of the poetry contests were

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ka-yiu San

research activities in the Bioengineering Department at Rice University will bepresented.IntroductionThe Bioengineering undergraduate program at Rice University is designed to prepare studentsfor careers in rapidly developing areas of biomedical engineering and bioprocessing. Theundergraduate educational program in Bioengineering (BIOE) has the goal of producing a newtype of biomedical engineer, fully conversant with modern biochemistry and cell and molecularbiology. This type of biomedical engineer will translate bench-scale scientific advances inbiological sciences into cost-effective new products and processes. New and innovative curriculaare being developed to educate biomedical engineers who will not only create new tissues andcell-based

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer; Robert Houghtalen; James Hanson

Engineering REU Sites: Designing for Appropriate and Valuable Summer Educational Experiences Kevin Sutterer, Martin Brenny, J. David Pirnia, Michelle Woodward, Robert Houghtalen, and Jim Hanson Department of Civil Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe National Science Foundation (NSF) provides funds for summer Research Experience forUndergraduates (REU) programs with the aim to provide appropriate and valuable educationalexperiences for undergraduate students through research. Through effective REU programs,talented undergraduate students should be retained and attracted to productive careers in teachingand university research. The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

objectives: to provide ECE students with fundamental and contempo-rary BME knowledge for future career and graduate study opportunities; and to improve stu-dents’ interest in and comprehension of ECE concepts by acquainting them with engineering so-lutions to real world problems in medicine. This approach has several advantages: (1) it is versa-tile, any number of topics can be integrated that the faculty deems important; (2) a broad spec-trum of topics can be addressed as they are distributed throughout the 4-year curriculum, (3) allstudents are exposed to novel content; (4) very little additional resources are required for imple-mentation; (5) students receive a more well-rounded and broad education within their specific

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

studies and careers in engineering and engineering technology; and influence the recruitment and retention of young faculty and underrepresented groups.Student chapters often offer two tiers of membership. Participants in local activities are oftenconsidered “local” members of the chapter, and as such are included in informational mailings andinvitations to events, and they are encouraged to become more active in the local chapter. Typicallythis level of membership is at little if any monetary charge. Anyone is welcome to join the nationalorganization by applying for membership to ASEE itself; a small portion of the membership fee isreturned to the student chapter for use in their activities.Student chapters must fulfill the

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Frehill

professorate by minorities such as the Alliance for GraduateEducation and the Professorate program and the Bridges to the Doctorate program that is an add-on to the highly successful Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program. Toincrease women’s participation in the professorate, the NSF developed the ADVANCE:Institutional Transformation Program, which intends to increase the recruitment, retention, andadvancement of women within academia.Women engineering faculty like women faculty in other science areas are more likely than theirmale counterparts to have feelings of isolation7, to experience a negative professional climate3, 9and to face the conundrum of being part of a dual career couple9. To complicate matters, womenare generally

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Setoodehnia; Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai; Akbar Eslami

Cooperative Education-Innovative Approaches for Partnerships between Universities and Industries and High Schools Ali Kashef, University of Northern Iowa Mark Rajai, Northern Kentucky University Akbar Eslami, Elizabeth City State University Ali Setoodehnnia, Kean UniversityAbstractOver the last few years, continuous learning has become an essential element of job success,and workplace learning linked to career development has become part of the educationalsystem of the future. Today, many industries are increasingly depending on cooperativeeducation (co-op) and internship programs with universities, colleges and sometimes

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

identified in the ARET Department's TAC-ABET Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP),program outcomes have been devised to describe what graduates of a degree program will beable to demonstrate and know when they graduate. The skills and abilities identified in theprogram outcomes are measures of the quality of the program and can have a significant impacton the validity of the degree. Professional experience through an internship program, whetherconducted in an office or through a program such as this, can enhance a student's understandingof the career field and practice, ultimately creating a better quality student. The process ofobtaining professional internships in a rural area is significantly more difficult than in largerurban areas. Economic

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Guerriero; Elizabeth Chain; Mary Vanis; Donna Zerby; Bassam Matar; Mary Anderson-Rowland

been developed and are being pilottested in these classrooms as another tool to encourage students to learn about engineering andincrease interest in engineering as a career. Lessons have been learned in how to contactstudents for events, how to get information from the students who attend, and how to be flexiblewith student schedules.The paper will also discuss the joint administration of the program with different managementsystems and styles in each of the six institutions in the program. Lessons have been learned inconstructing a functional management structure, in scheduling faculty and staff from theinstitutions to participate in the activities, and in scheduling professional engineers for panels

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

combustion engines, fuel systems, exhaust emissions, fuelcells and energy systems.This paper describes structure of research projects, expectations on the part of faculty advisorsand students, preparation of student participants for subsequent research career or advanceddegree and the extent to which project objectives have been met. Tracking of the past REUstudent participants has shown that several of them are pursuing advanced degree programswhile a similar number is planning to pursue research and development career in industry.IntroductionThere has been an increased interest in providing research opportunities to undergraduates at manyinstitutions. While major research universities and some well-known liberal arts colleges have