Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Jana Renner Martinez; Ann Darnell

mentoring and professional development for students interested inpursuing research as a career. Numerous programs have assessed the impact of researchexperiences on under-represented minority undergraduate students. Nagda et al[2] investigatedthe impact of participation in the University of Michigan’s Undergraduate Research OpportunityProgram (UROP) on the persistence of 1,280 lower division (freshman and sophomore students)minority students. Participation in the program had a significant impact on the persistence ofAfrican American students. While the persistence rates of White and Hispanic students werehigher for participants than for non-participants, the difference was not statistically significant.Other studies have examined the effectiveness

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Tracy; Jason Immekus; Susan Maller; William Oakes

self-report measures to assess program outcomes.1. Introduction Service-learning is the focus of considerable research and is a feature within manyengineering programs. Within engineering education, design courses embedded in service-learning provide a way to promote students’ development of technical and professional skills forsolving applied problems. The ability to create learning environments for engineering students toapply mathematical and scientific principles when solving applied problems is critical forpreparing students for careers in engineering2. The need for engineering programs to producestudents proficient in these skills upon graduation is reflected in ABET EC 2000. Service-learning courses may provide engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Russomanno; Anna Lambert

or summer internships with industry partners of theprogram;4) To improve employment placement in highly sought-after positions.Specifically, the CSEMS program provides a focused, integrative academic experiencefor scholarship students through the processes of emphasizing career and personalcounseling, tutoring, mentoring, career development, research or application-orientedopportunities, student collaboration, and countless other academic and personaladvantages gained by being fully engaged in the University community.Program RationaleStatistical data relating to attrition and retention of students majoring in science,technology, engineering, or math (STEM) fields continues to be alarming, with high-ranking administrators and researchers

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

data collection methods, and experimentresults. Students conducted research primarily through the internet on the topics of proteincrystallization, microgravity, NASA’s biotechnology program, and careers in biotechnology.These topics are introduced into their essays. The essays were graded and the top twenty essayswere identified.The twenty winning essayists were invited to participate to an actual flight sample loading thatwas conducted by scientists and engineers affiliated with the NASA Marshall Space FlightCenter. The flight sample loading was held during the final week of TexPREP. The flightsamples were frozen so that they could then be flown to the International Space Station via theSpace Shuttle. The twenty students were promised a trip

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Wiedenman

increasingly technologicallyadvanced Army. During their careers, USMA graduates will be the leaders who employmechatronic devices. It is vital that they understand the basic concepts behind thesetechnologies. Beyond the Army’s need for technologically competent officers, however, anothermotivation for the current effort has been the desire to integrate the engineering curriculum.Educating engineers who can function in a multi-disciplinary environment directly supports theprogram outcomes delineated by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) in their Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs7. The need for multidisciplinaryintegration at West Point is explicitly stated in the Operational Concept for the AcademicProgram

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

immersing them into ElectricalEngineering communications and signal processing research. Our objective is to raise the interest ofundergraduates in thesis-oriented research and hence attract them to graduate education programs orprepare them for research careers in the industry. The innovation includes the development of researchmodules that expose UG students to signal processing for communications (SP-COM) research. Thesemodules are taken by students across the Electrical Engineering SP-COM curriculum. Four interrelatedmodules are first injected in early junior-level “Signal and systems” and “Random signal analysis”courses and then in senior-level “Digital signal processing” and “Communications systems” courses. Inaddition, a new senior-level

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerri Burke; William Krantz; Joel Fried

female Professor in Cultural Studies) • Presenting a Technical Paper (presented by the REU Director)A field trip to the Air Force Museum and Wright Patterson Air Force Laboratory in Columbusalso was arranged for the students and their mentors. In addition, arrangements were made forthe students to attend the 8th International Conference on Inorganic Membranes that was held inCincinnati. A technical poster competition was held during the last week of the REU program.Cash prizes and award plaques were given to the top three posters at a farewell dinner, whichalso provided a forum for students, advisors, and REU staff to discuss the highlights of theprogram and influence on the students’ career goals.The cultural and social program consisted of

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simoneau; Mary deManbey; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

what’s going on in our industry. We’re working with a lot of advanced technology, and I think teachers and students would be amazed at what we do.”– Andy Summerville, Becton Dickinson Medical Supplies “I just wanted you to know that the staff and I truly enjoyed our interaction with (Sharon and Ingrid) through the externship program. I feel we all mutually benefited from this experience and will be using ideas generated by Sharon and Ingrid in our approach to conducting career tours for high school students.” – Patricia Pisciotto, M.D., University of Connecticut Health Center. “My externship exceeded my expectations. They were very kind and allowed me to jump right in doing research

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Pangborn; Renata Engel

, but at the general education curriculum as a whole and the multi-dimensional opportunities it affords to students in meeting the career and life goals that they, aswell as other stakeholders – faculty, future employers, etc.– deem important. The AmericanAssociation for Higher Education espouses similar best practices for assessing student learning,including involvement of “representatives from across the educational community,” and the useof approaches that “reveal change, growth and increasing degrees of integration,” by focusing onexperiences that lead to the expressed learning outcomes. As will be seen later, our design forassessment draws heavily on these principles.Another fundamental change made to the general education program at Penn

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wang

careers. Both degree-granting and continuing education programs must integrateenvironmental, ethical, and aesthetic values as well as an understanding of political, social,and economic issues that affect public policy. Sustainable development must be a value that isencouraged at all levels of professional training and practice. Thus, while education in any ofthese areas might be carried on independently, education and professional practice in manyfields will be more closely attuned to community and national needs if they are approached ina unified manner. Often, it seems, faculties from other countries are more capable of accurately assessing andpredicting new trends in the global business environment. This author believes this is becausethey

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gardner; Patricia Pyke; Amy Moll

wasdecided that more aggressive support should be developed, aimed at specific courses thatare known to be historically difficult for engineering students. Surprisingly, wediscovered that Calc I was not one of those courses as the success rate of Calc I is ratherhigh. Further analysis showed that only a minority of students in Calc I are beginningtheir college career, hence the high attrition often seen in the pre-calculus anddevelopmental algebra courses.Supplemental Instruction and MathematicsThe Supplemental Instruction (SI) model has proven to be successful in many settings,particularly for at-risk students in gate-keeper courses 3,4. Surprisingly, this model hasnot been widely used in developmental mathematics courses as noted by Wright5. One

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Carlson

Session #____ Rapid Prototyping to Cement CAD Modeling Skills Lawrence E. Carlson Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at BoulderIntroductionAn important aspect of contemporary mechanical engineering education is mastery of a modernsolid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) software package. This important skill is vital tofuture engineers’ careers and gives students immediately marketable skills for summeremployment. Students also need to learn

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

underrepresented minoritystudents. This comparison focuses on changes in student drawings and interview data over timeamongst both groups. This comparison includes a discussion of both groups in terms of theirdeveloping understanding of engineering processes, engineering tools, and engineering fieldsrepresented by the generic term “engineering”. Also included is a discussion of results in termsof implications for future policies and decision-making related to K-12 STEM education.IntroductionDespite efforts to increase student interest in engineering-related fields, the number of U.S.citizens choosing engineering related careers is declining [1]. At the same time, the number offoreign nationals traditionally used to fill voids in U.S. engineering fields is

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Barrett; Marion Usselman

grant from the Siemens Foundation as part of an initiative to encourageminority students to consider science and engineering as a career, and to increase the number ofminority students submitting research projects to the Siemens-Westinghouse Competition inMath, Science and Technology. Each team consisted of 2-3 high school students, a teachercoordinator who had spent time at Georgia Tech in a research laboratory as part of the 2003GIFT program, and the personnel from the Georgia Tech laboratory. The students were recruitedduring the fall of 2003, and encouraged to attend the regional Siemens Westinghousecompetition at Georgia Tech. During the 2003-2004 school-year, they were encouraged to workto become familiar with the research lab, to define

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Denny Davis

or mismatched understandingscan lead to inappropriate career decisions, ineffective curriculum, and poor performanceevaluations. This paper describes a process and defines the profile of an engineer performingwell in professional practice. Developed with input from both academic and non-academicengineers, the profile presents technical, interpersonal, and professional skills or behaviors thatalign with key roles performed by the engineer. The profile is a valuable resource for educatorsand for students aspiring to become high performing professionals in the field of engineering.IntroductionSociety holds high expectations of people in professions entrusted with the well-being of peopleand society as a whole. The engineering profession, for

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Snellenberger; Donald Keating

define a coherent policy for graduate development of its domestic graduateengineering workforce whose professional careers are centered on creation, development and leadershipof new and improved technology in Industry.“…it is a lack of adequate educational training rather than ‘outsourcing’ that poses the greatest threat tofuture American prosperity…the better approach is to intensify efforts to increase the skills andknowledge of the U.S. Workforce.” Allen Greenspan, Feb. 20, 2004If the U.S. is to remain preeminent in creating new innovative technologies through engineering toenhance its economic prosperity and national defense, the U.S. system of engineering graduate educationmust remain the world’s leader - and new

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susanne Green; Michele Auzenne; Chris Burnham; Ricardo Jacquez

process of inquiry for the course. Students are also directed to campus offices and services providing academic counseling, tutoring, and assistance in acquiring learning and study skills.Spring Semester Courses:• MATH 185: College Algebra covers complex numbers, roots of polynomials, exponential and logarithmic functions, conics, and binomial theorem.• CE 198: Supplemental Instruction for Math 185 provides assistance in comprehending difficult math concepts and maintaining a timely schedule for completing quizzes and exams,• CHEM 111G: General Chemistry I provides instruction in descriptive and theoretical chemistry.• PHIL 240G: Ethics for Engineering and Scientific Careers is an examination of ethical dilemmas that challenge

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ward; Tonya Emerson

Education Annual Conference & Exposition” Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe most frequent explanations provided by faculty and administrators for student fallout tend tofocus on “poor preparation” or “lack of discipline” of incoming first-year students. There issufficient data to support the notion that mathematics and science education in the United Statesis failing to prepare high school graduates for careers in mathematics and science. Other studies,however, suggest that the loss of majors from mathematics, science, and engineering disciplinescame from “a pool a disproportionately able undergraduates”. [2] Data compiled regardingengineering and computer science students at CSU, Chico who

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jung Oh

thoroughly enjoyed taking a very fun, creative and original way for me to present my research on francium by making the francium quilt.” “It allowed me to use my computer skills from previous classes.”I use this project as an instructional demonstration tool when teaching relevant topics inmy classroom. For example, I take the copper periodic table piece to the classroom whendiscussing oxidation and reduction and electron configuration. I show the francium quiltwith its unit cell drawing to talk about crystal structures. I display the projects topromote science and diversity awareness during public outreach activities, such asCollege Open House and TWIST (Teen Women in Science and Technology) Career Dayat Kansas State University at Salina

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Johnston; Christopher Greene; Jeff Jalkio

andinterdisciplinary work is encouraged. We find that during the school year, few of our studentshave time to work on projects outside of their coursework. This leaves summers available forthis type of project. Furthermore, typically the kinds of skills that students need to be useful insuch projects are typically not available until late in their undergraduate career and by that timethe students are typically looking for jobs or internships that will lead to jobs.So how can we overcome these problems that lead to relatively short periods of useful time?First, it is critical to move useful skills as early as possible in the curriculum. This is often donefor other reasons such as the improvement of retention rates. By incorporating useful designskills in the

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

interface. Define the standard at the interface Work out from there - in both directions. Graduation Common featuresASU lower-level courses Company career path Figure 1: Emphasis to manage the industry-academic interface For this simple concept to work, we need to start with a clear understanding of the whole Page 10.915.2 range of skills expected of new graduates. This covers business and inter-personal skills Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Schroeder; Doug Tougaw

-based leadership • Environmental stewardship • Managing with technology As a result of these emphases, the Valpo MBA program has been very successful at attracting engineering graduates to the program, with as many as half of the students in many classes having an engineering or technical background. The MBA curriculum is broken into three sections. Up to 14 credits of foundation courses are required for students without a business background, followed by 26 credits of core courses taken by every students in the program, and finally 12 credits of electives chosen to complement the particular student’s interests and career needs. The following three courses provide an introduction to values-based leadership, environmental stewardship

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Nelson; Keith Williamson; Hassan Ndahi; Sharon Waters

merit ofinnovative teaching practices and career induction experiences for students. We foundthat science and engineering outreach activities combined with teacher professionaldevelopment seminars and a socio-constructivist framework for teaching provide aneffective approach for limiting the use of accountability systems as the sole reference forsuccess. Similarly, the approach helped teachers cope with the pressures of high-stakestesting while conducting professional experimentation to change their attitudes andbeliefs about science and engineering topics. Specifically, the use of graduate students ascontent-resources in classrooms creates a collaborative environment that encouragesteachers to avoid tendencies to narrow curriculum standards

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Boyer; Taryn Bayles

Page 10.111.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationGrumman’s Electronic Systems sector employees with Baltimore inner-city high school studentsto help them achieve their dreams of pursuing technical and business careers. “WORTHY is aninvestment in our future” says Iorizzo, “while the students gain valuable one-on-one experiencein a real work environment, our employees are playing a critical role in developing the future ofour workforce.”1 Each year, Northrop Grumman selects at least 10 Baltimore inner-city highschool students for the program who are entering into their sophomore or junior years

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanchana Jayasuriya; Doreen Thomas

/interviewpanel consisted of the Dean of Engineering, Assistant Dean (Transition & Diversity), a Senioracademic staff member from each Department of the Faculty (usually Head of Department)and a Human Resources Officer.Due to the high standard of applicants, the Faculty decided to award 4 Fellowships (one morethan originally planned). The Faculty will actively encourage the career progression anddevelopment of the successful candidates, and provide opportunities for articulation into themore sought after Teaching and Research positions. The expectation is that, in the long term,this will lead to more women academics in senior positions and contribute to attracting morewomen into engineering.Expected benefits for the FacultyIt is expected that the

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tomas Cavanagh; Richard Gilbert; Linda Austin; Edwin Goolsby; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

courses developed by theconsortium. The web-based modules offer a rapid-response method to introduce the workforce atvarious levels (new graduates, incumbent workers, career transition, etc.) to the biotechnologyindustry and provide them with valuable real-world information that will better enable them to beimmediately productive in their new job. In addition, because the modules can be incorporated intoacademic courses, they can serve as a bridge for workers to pursue further higher education.Ultimately, the online modules will be available throughout the state for workforce training and thecommunity college curriculum will be available to colleges throughout the state that either have orwant to develop a program in biotechnology

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ferruzza

integral part – but at the end –of their report. We ask their thoughts, along the lines of: did they enjoy the exercise and did itprove to be useful in building their skills as scientists and engineers. We also solicit suggestionson how to improve the exercise.In a bird’s eye view, the responses show a somewhat even distribution of opinions in three largesegments: the enthusiasts, strongly supporting and cheering the exercise as a very important stepin preparing their needed career skills; the indifferent ones, looking at this as just anotherexercise, albeit longer and more complex than usual; and the cynics, openly stating they did notenjoy it and that time might be served better by alternative activities. A large majority of studentsin the cynic

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Goodwin

An Experimental Course for First-Year Students: Leadership in Engineering Mary E. Goodwin Iowa State UniversityAbstractA first-year leadership course was created for engineering students. The purpose of the class wasto develop stronger leadership skills in undergraduate engineering students early on in theircollege career. This was done by actively engaging students in leadership activities that gaveopportunities for practicing skills while also providing classroom instruction on leadershiptheories, issues, and concepts. Industry has expressed a need for graduating engineering studentsto have stronger leadership

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

, promotes life long learningthrough the use of handbooks, technical papers, and critical evaluation of web sites. Theinstructor has observed students who become frustrated with traditional web searches (forfundamental technical information) and become enthusiastic about professional societyhandbooks, especially those available on-line or on CD-ROM with search capabilities. Theseadditional skills and experiences with new literature resources demonstrate to the students the Page 10.1485.6connection between this course and the technical applications, which they may encounter duringtheir engineering careers. “Proceedings of the 2005 American

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Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Atanas Serbezov

and expanded into new areas, there has been increasingpressure to modify senior process design to better prepare graduates for the realities which theywill face during their careers. Some of the challenges discussed in the literature include thefollowing: 1. Shifting the emphasis from process design to product design within the chemical industry [1-3]. 2. Including the design of batch processes in addition to continuous processes to reflect the growth areas of the chemical industry [4]. 3. The need to understand the business factors that affect design [3,5] 4. The need to incorporate sustainable development and design of green processes [6].In addition to changes