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Neil J. Hutzler; Joan S. Chadde; David Heil; Mia Jackson

Family Engineering for Elementary-Aged Children and Their Parents Neil J. Hutzler1, Joan S. Chadde1, David Heil2, and Mia Jackson2 1 Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 2Foundation for Family Science and Engineering, Portland, ORAbstractThe goal of the Family Engineering program is to engage, inspire, and encourage elementarystudents to learn about and consider careers in engineering and science through hands-onactivities with their parents at Family Engineering events. This program is designed toaddress the United States need for an increased number, and greater diversit , of studentsskilled in math, science, technology, and engineering. The Family Engineering program for6-12 year-olds and

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Kristine Guzak; Kurt Paterson

entire group suggests that career goals, solving problems, newopportunities, hands on experience, and community need are also high motivators forstudents to become involved with international programs (Table 1). A further breakdownof the results can be found in a pie chart in Appendix B. As discussed within theremainder of this paper, this information can be used to encourage individual groups ofstudents to increase the interest in these programs and continue to meet the needs ofstudents. Graduate program Undergraduate program High international experience Medium international experience Low international experience Male Female 0

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Carl Sandness; Tom Jamar; Roy Smith; j. Moe Benda

. Bolf travels thenation courting engineering graduates, he mentions that the area s recreational opportunities area real selling point for potential employees, but finds that many leave the area after a few yearsof employment, seeking careers in other industries and regions of the state and country. It isgenerally true that Iron Range born and raised high school and even college graduates who havecome back and have entered the mining companies are more likely to stay in the region for thelong term. The next logical question to ask therefore is how do we interest young Iron Rangestudents to pursue engineering in order to keep engineers in the region for the long term? Localgraduates are very familiar with the area, have family and friends that

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Alon McCormick

sequence. Overarching goal: prepare ChEn students for professional practice and for possible research careers in computationally-intensive ChEn fields and applications In each following core ChEn course, students then completed numerical projects building on principles of that course The Numerical Methods course was built on concepts from linear algebra: linear e a e , ea e a e , ea de a d e , b da a e be , a d de Advantage: After that key Numerical Methods course, students were proficient at programming, at formulating numerical approaches, and at coping with challenging numerical problems Problems: In

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Stephen Patchin; Cody Kangas; Jamie Lindquist

Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section Conferencetheir families, brings STEM education outside the classroom and school day hours, andcelebrates informal learning and innovation.Meeting the ChallengeIn 2004 Michigan Technological University conducted its first annual YES! (Youth Engineeringand Science) Expo at Chrysler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This STEM career awarenessevent brought together industry, institutions of higher education, and government to participatein the event. The goal: inspire middle and high school students to explore education and careersin engineering and science. The program moved to Ford Field in Detroit with K-12 attendancegrowing from 5,000 students in 2004 to over 15,000 in 2008. YES! Expo event format

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Ryan G. Rosandich

North Midwest Section Conference Observations from academia2: The current mechanical engineering curriculum is not successfully attracting and retaining women or minorities. New graduates forget much of their technical education shortly after graduation, and use little of it during their professional careers. Many faculty members have less than five years practical engineering experience. Engineering faculty members are often very narrowly focused on their areas of specialization and tend to emphasize technical depth in their courses. Most BSME programs appear to be preparing students for graduate school and research-oriented careers rather than engineering practice, and this is out of

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Lisa Watrous; Mari Buche; Susan Bagley; Jason Keith

given the low representation of females in computing fields nationally, particularly inhigher education fields.1-5 The model often used to identify this negative trend is that of a ea g e e .3, 7 The pipeline model illustrates the gradual, but continuous, phenomenon ofwomen exiting the STEM fields at key decision points or specific stages of career progression.3In most instances, it is presumed that these decisions are voluntary, and are the outcome of awide range of factors5. The SFHI initiatives for the two subsequent years were divided betweendisciplines related to Energy and Health. It was anticipated that more females would apply to theHealth SFHI since the initiative includes a number of disciplines considered more

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William C. Farrow

Through an Integrated Reverse Engineering and Design Graphics Project. Barr, Ronald, et al. October 2000, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 413-418. Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest ConferenceBiographyWILLIAM C. FARROW has been teaching at the Milwaukee School of Engineering full time for 10 years in theMechanical Engineering department. Besides teaching courses related to engineering design and engineeringmechanics he works with students pursuing aerospace career goals. Dr. Farrow has worked for McDonnell AircraftCom ., Ea on Co o a ion Co o a e Re ea ch Di i ion, and a NASA Je P o l ion Lab a a Fac l Re ea chFellow. Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Conference

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R. Nelson; J. Bumblis; C. Liu; A. Turkmen; N. Zhou; D. Olson; R. Rothaupt

toapproximately 100 students in the last three years, a student Branch of the IEEE (Institute of Electricala E c c E ) a ,a a a c Ma 2012. Sof the issues and considerations encountered during the early development phase were described in aprevious ASEE paper1. In this paper thorough description will be provided regarding programdevelopment, course and laboratory development, student and faculty recruitment and development andaccreditation issues with the goal of providing a clear picture of what is involved in establishing a newengineering program.BackgroundThe University of Wisconsin Stout has a rich history of preparing students for professional careers ina variety of applied fields

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Steve Sternberg

Academic Integrity in the ClassroomAuthor: Dr. Steve SternbergAffiliation: Chemical Engineering, University Minnesota Duluth ssternbe@d.umn.eduThis paper will explore issues of academic integrity (AI) in the classroom: Define several meanings of academic integrity Explore how and why students cheat Describe techniques to enhance student integrityThe work is based on personal observations and informal discussions with many studentsthroughout my career as a student and as an instructor.Academic Integrity is a term used to describe the expectation of honest, open, and responsibleconduct while engaged in scholarly activity - be it research, teaching, service

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D. A. Rogers; B. D. Braaten

attempt to presentmaterial that has applications to other specialties and career fields. The order of materialpresented here we feel is quite convenient to the learning process; of course, other arrangementsare certainly possible.The course begins with a review of uniform plane-wave propagation in a vacuum and inisotropic lossy media. This model of propagation adequately describes radio propagation after awave has left a transmitting antenna and before it reaches the receiving antenna. It also is a closecousin of propagation along a transmission line. A detailed understanding of these simple casesis very valuable to the future practicing engineer or researcher. The process of study includesMa e e ai i he i e a d phasor domains (which

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Mike Rowe

presentation (propaganda) ofwhat software engineers do for a living and the career outlook, salary and placement rates.Following this presentation, the students were given free time to continue with their projects.About 15 percent of the groups satisfactorily finish the lab this second day without any out ofclass time. The other groups required or choose to put in additional out of class time. It isobvious that some groups put in substantial time to go far and beyond just satisfying therequirements. One such example will be demonstrated at the conference. Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section ConferenceConclusions and ObservationsOverall the faculty has been very happy with the outcomes of this Software Engineering

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Seraphin C. Abou

to system safety culture improvement. In thepresent study the taxonomy categories are not only adopted to analyze the cognitive processinglevel that this kind of development may provide. The present study also adopts the taxonomy asa scripting guide for the students. Students from diverse disciplines enrolled in environmentalhealth and safety program were asked to add to each of their response to the survey questions alabel that is based on one of the cognitive process categories in Bloom's taxonomy. Questions weasked were for example: what motivates and inspires the students who are attracted to theprogram, what types of careers do they plan to follow, and what specific issues are important tothem?This modified taxonomy attempts to account

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James Allert

. The software programdescribed in this paper is an Excel spreadsheet, similar in concept to Burge and Leach but muchmore extensive in its reporting capabilities and without some of the problems inherent in theaveraging of student data (discussed later in this paper). III. Program assessment ABET program assessment is a complex undertaking. Every educational program has certainobjectives in mind. From the ABET standpoint, important evidence that a program is successfullyachieving its objectives comes from its graduates. Evidence of the degree to which graduateswere adequately prepared for their chosen field comes ideally from those who are 3-5 years intotheir careers. Surveys of alumni and other similar instruments often are used to provide

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Waddah Akili

between traditional classroomteaching and what really takes place in the real world (9). They give students experience withsituations and challenges they do not usually come across during traditional classroom activities.In any of their form, thoughtfully planned and well prepared cases provide: Relevance. Cases depict real situations at a particular location and point in time. As such, they provide an insight into the decision-making process. Students see the relevance of the case to their future careers. Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section Conference Motivation. Cases can provide incentives for students to immerse themselves in real engineering tasks. Also, assuming the role

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Christa James-Byrnes; Mark Holdhusen

online student teams farexceeded the projects of the traditional section teams. The quality of the presentations wassuperior for the online students, and the data analysis for the wind project was at a greater levelof detail for the online students. Both instructors feel this may be attributed to the ability of theonline students to work more effectively in teams than the face to face students.Both instructors believe that the interviews are a vital component to the course and allow thestudents to not only understand what a practicing engineer does in his or her career, but theinterviews add relevancy to the course material. Both instructors were disappointed in thenumber of students who viewed the videos and had expected that all students would