Conference Session

Engineering Student Involvement in K-12 Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kate Caldwell, North Carolina State University; Jessica McCoy, North Carolina State University; Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Althea Smith, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Parry, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

GK-12 program at the expenseof the lauded Graduate Research Fellowship program [8]. The shift from a purely-research focusto a hybrid outreach-research program is also a concern. Trautmann and Krasny counter theargument that graduate fellows involved in GK-12 programs are “sidetracked” from their focus Page 12.1430.2on research with evidence that the nontraditional fellowships improve both the students’ teachingskills and their actual research [11].RAMP-UP: Evaluation HistoryOver the course of RAMP-UP’s first three years, the process of collecting data from fellows hasevolved to more adequately measure the program’s impact. For example

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimberly Ogden, University of Arizona; Gregory Ogden, University of Arizona

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waste. After the general course, the teachers receivehands-on safety training in the individual laboratories. The PIs and graduate students provide thelaboratory specific training as a team.One specific example of a research project and how this was incorporated into the classroom ishighlighted here. The teacher team from a middle school consisting of two science and one mathteacher designed and built a water recycle system for a research-scale hydroponics green houseused to grow tomatoes. The teachers designed a model of the system using a 3-D software and arapid prototype machine, purchased the materials, installed and tested the system

Conference Session

Innovative K-12 Engineering Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Summer Dann Johnson; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University; Brenda Nixon, Louisiana State University; Daivon Craft, Louisiana State University; Cheryle Peters, Louisiana State University

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math students. This program is similar to the REHAMS and BIOS inthat high school students are exposed to university activities and research, attend academicworkshops and reside on campus. Preliminary data on the impact of this program has not beenreleased.SEHS Program Details Based on current and historical trends, the need to be proactive to recruit and retainstudents into traditional science and engineering fields has substantially increased. The SEHSpilot program was designed to provide hands-on learning experiences in research and advancedtechnologies for high school students and teachers. Training the teachers in this unique way alsoprovided a support system for students and a resource at the school. These

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leyla Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jill Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

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with theirengineering research experience. It provides the teachers with an overview of microelectronicspackaging issues and technologies and prepares them for their research experience. Mostimportantly, by covering subjects from electrical design, materials, substrate fabrication toassembly, thermal management and testing, this module provides the teachers a system-levelview of microelectronics packaging.Before starting the research experience component, teachers spend half a day learning basic labsafety rules. Only then they are admitted into the labs, where they are trained in techniques,tools and special equipment they’ll use for their summer research. Each teacher works closelywith a faculty member and a graduate student on an

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daphne Duncan, Purdue University; Euridice Oware, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

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educational research methods. Her research interests include assessment and evaluation of the educational environment. She worked as a researcher for four years as a member of the Assessment and Evaluation team within the National Science Foundation-funded VaNTH Engineering Research Center, developed a two-year mentoring-based curriculum for underrepresented undergraduate students at Vanderbilt University, and co-facilitated training workshops for first-time biomedical engineering graduate teaching assistants at Vanderbilt University. She most recently completed a research project examining the validation of the VaNTH Observation System, a classroom observation instrument used exclusively to

Conference Session

Gender and Accessibility Issues in K-12 Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Veronica Burrows, Arizona State University; Judy Sutor, Arizona State University; Marilyn Carlson, Arizona State University

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University. In addition to technical research interest in applied surface chemistry, her engineering education research interests include the learning of engineering modeling, the impact of reflective practice in learning engineering, authentic assessment methods, and "girl-friendly" education.Judy Sutor, Arizona State University Judy Sutor is a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Arizona State University. She earned her BSEE degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then spent 22 years working in Research and New Product Development in the Semiconductor industry. Her principle research area is in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore

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sensing and precision agriculture, robotics, systems and control and design of mechanical and mechatronic systems. Dr. Nagchaudhuri received his bachelors degree from Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India with a honors in Mechanical Engineering in 1983, thereafter, he worked in a multinational industry for 4 years before joining Tulane University as a graduate student in the fall of 1987. He received his M.S. degree from Tulane University in 1989 and Ph.D. degree from Duke University in 1992.Madhumi Mitra, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore Madhumi Mitra is currently an Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at University of Maryland Eastern Shore. She is also the

Conference Session

Engineering in Middle Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John McLaughlin, MacLaughlin Associates; Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary; Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech; Kirk Jenne, Office of Naval Research; Robert Stiegler, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division

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Accreditation Cycle,” Approved October 29, 2005.(4) Mertens, D., and J. A. McLaughlin, Research and Evaluation Methods in Special Education. Newbury Park, CA: Corwin Press, 2003.(5) Wholey, J., “Evaluability Assessment.” Chapter in Wholey, et. al., Handbook of Practical Evaluation, Jossey-Bass, 2004.(6) McLaughlin, J. A. and G. B. Jordan, “Logic Models: A Tool for Describing Program Theory and Performance,” Chapter in Wholey, et. al., Handbook of Practical Evaluation, Jossey-Bass, 2004.(7) Stufflebeam, D. “Evaluation Models. New Directions for Program Evaluation,” no. 89. San Francisco, Jossey- Bass, 2001.(8) Bickman, L., “The Functions of Program Theory,” In L. Bickman (ed.), Using Program Theory in Evaluation

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Kathleen Sernak, Rowan University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2007-1125: ENGINEERING CLINICS FOR TEACHERSKauser Jahan, Rowan University Kauser Jahan is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. She completed her Ph.D. studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1993. After completion of her graduate studies, she worked as an environmental engineer for the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP). Her research interests include bioremediation of contaminated groundwater and soils; the fate and transport of pollutants in the environment; and applied microbiology in environmental engineering. She is also actively involved in encouraging

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Lyndon Abrams, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Deborah Bosley, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Stephen Kuyath, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Dawn Denney, Northwest Cabarrus High School; Kelly Teague, J.M. Robinson High School; Bill Welch, J.M. Robinson High School

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focused on students whoare underrepresented in engineering related majors. The TECT workshop will make use of thesummer camps as a time to conduct concurrent teacher and counselor in-service education andpromote best practices that reach across the diversity of student learning styles and interests. Inthe TECT workshops the teachers and counselors will be observers of students, learners of newengineering and pedagogical content and participants in teaching the summer camp activities.As the project is currently on-going, empirical data concerning the effectiveness of the approachis not available. Rather, this paper focuses on some of the lessons-learned by the project teamduring the development of the materials for the workshop. The paper first

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Shumway, Brigham Young University; Jared Berrett, Brigham Young University; Andy Swapp, Milford High School; Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University; Thomas Erekson, Western Illinois University

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considerable amount of research conducted on the topic ofprofessional development in the last 20-30 years. From these primary research studies andrelated meta-analyses, many effective methods for conducting professional development havebeen identified. The incorporation of these “best practices” is imperative in developing effectiveprofessional development and in realizing the goal of the center to infuse engineering design,problem solving, and analytical skills into the K-12 schools.When considering participants for professional development, Wade, in a meta-analysis of 91research studies found that professional development activities are most successful whenparticipants are chosen by their leaders or colleagues to attend or that they are selected on

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Valerie Galarza, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Mariela Figueroa, UPRMUniversity of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Cristina Lugo, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Ricardo Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Francisco Rivera, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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expectations; modeling, practice, and constructive feedback on high-level tasks; astudent-centered instructional environment and respect for students at all levels of development.Unfortunately, most science and engineering students enter college at low levels of criticalthinking, and when they are taught they generally graduate at levels not much higher than thoseat which they entered. This is the reason for which this educational model has been built, to fightthis huge intellectual lag in entering college students and to help instructors educate betterprofessionals in science and engineering.D. Promoting Students Success Marna Zinatelli and Marc A. Dubé wrote in an article title “Engineering Student Success:How Does it Happen and who is

Conference Session

Gender and Accessibility Issues in K-12 Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Uchechukwu Abanulo; Ananth Iyer; John Helferty, College of Engineering, Temple University; Joseph Fischgrund, The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Lang, “Higher education for deaf students: Research priorities in the new millennium” Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 7, 267-280. 2002.10. Bo Molander, Svend Pedersen, Kia Norell, “Deaf Pupils reasoning about scientific Phenomena: School Science as a Framework for understanding or as fragments of factual knowledge”, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Volume 6, Number 3 Pp. 200-211. 2001.11. Harry G. Lang, “Best Practices: Science Education for Deaf Students”, A Review of Research, 2005.12. National Science Teachers Association (May/June 2000). Survey indicates high teacher turnover, job dissatisfaction. NSTA Reports, pp 5, 15.13. R. M. Ingersoll, “The Problem of Under Qualified Teachers in

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sibel Uysal, Arizona State University; Sharon Kurpius-Robinson, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

as part of a university and high school collaborative program. Thismagnet program focused on the impact of the high school courses which were intended to teachengineering principles to help students better understand the design process. We were alsointerested in creating a rubric to help future teachers who want to introduce engineering to theirstudents as part of their educational curriculum. Page 12.902.3Theoretical Background of this ResearchSocio-constructivist theory provided the framework for this research. Sociocultural theoryoriginated in the work of Vygotsky and his Soviet colleagues in the early decades of thetwentieth century

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn Barger, University of South Florida; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Robin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Chuck Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Kim Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Pat Van Driessche, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Debbie O'Hare

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classroom. It also seems to run counter to a number of givens in their lives especially sinceteacher career advancement seems to dictate that they pursue one or more masters degrees withthe corresponding homework. Finally, the idea of conducting a course with no fixed finalperformance expectations might be just a bit “around the bend”. Naturally, these are all genuineconcerns and this course set does not blatantly ignore the good practices expected of any course.However, it is one thing for an in-service teacher to succeed when writing papers and/or doingliterature research in a method course or principles of school administration course and quiteanother for a teacher with no or at best absolute minimal previous exposure to engineeringscience and

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Matson, Tennessee Technological University; Kristine Craven, Tennessee Technological University; Sally Pardue, Tennessee Technological University; Corinne Darvennes, Tennessee Technological University; Alison Wachs, Tennessee Technological University

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System to Capture Instructional Differences in Engineering Classrooms,” Journal of Engineering Education, 92(4), 329-336.3. Lutz, Susan L., John T. Guthrie, and Marcia H. Davis. (2006) “Scaffolding for Engagement in Elementary School Reading Instruction,” The Journal of Educational Research, 100(1), 3-20.4. Smith, Karl A., Sheri D. Sheppard, David W. Johnson, and Roger T. Johnson. (2005) “Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom-Based Practices,” Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 87-101. Page 12.270.11

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Feldhaus, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Kenneth Reid; Pete Hylton; Marguerite Hart, Washington Township Schools; Kathy Rieke, Washington Township Schools; Douglas Gorham, IEEE

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Engineering Outreach, held just before the ASEE 2004 AnnualConference and Exposition in Salt Lake City, Utah. A paper detailing the results of that Page 12.628.2conference and delineating guidelines for how K-12 engineering education works best anddefines key challenges confronting the field was published.2Clearly, there is a movement by the engineering and engineering technology communities to gaina better understanding of the K-12 issues that impact enrollment at post-secondary institutions,and to generate research to answer the question of how stakeholders from many levels – K-12teachers, university professors, industry, and government

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Celina Bochis, University of Alabama; Steven Hsia, University of Alabama; Pauline Johnson, University of Alabama; Karen Boykin, University of Alabama; Sandra Wood, University of Alabama; Larry Bowen, University of Alabama; Kevin Whitaker, University of Alabama

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AC 2007-1089: INTEGRATED ENGINEERING MATH-BASED SUMMER BRIDGEPROGRAM FOR STUDENT RETENTIONCelina Bochis, University of Alabama Celina Bochis is a graduate student at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa working on her PhD degree in Environmental Engineering with minors in Water Resources and Statistics. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography (minor in Hydrology) from the "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2001. She is currently working as student program coordinator for Engineering Math Advancement Program combining administrative and teaching duties. Her research interests include the magnitude of impervious surfaces in urban watersheds, the

Conference Session

Engineering Student Involvement in K-12 Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado at Boulder; Diana Wiant, Centaurus High School

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

accomplishment, enrollment into and graduationfrom Centaurus High School. BVSD established the Centaurus Pre-Engineering Academy tocreate a unique and challenging learning opportunity for its high school students — a student bodycomprised of 39% minority students, and 30% from low-income families. This initiative toincrease performance and close the achievement gap has, principals report, resulted in moreparents open enrolling their students intoLafayette’s schools — reversing the historical“white-flight” from the area schools.During 2005-2006, the graduate andundergraduate TEAMS Fellows impacted 1,865students weekly via the instruction of engineeringcurriculum in 68 classrooms: four elementaryschools (710 students); one middle school (915students); and

Conference Session

Gender and Accessibility Issues in K-12 Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Glenda Kelly, Duke University; Paul Klenk, Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University; Lee Anne Cox, Duke University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and was formerly the Graduate Student Coordinator for the Technotronics After-School Program. In addition to his K-12 outreach work, he has researched novel therapeutic radiation delivery methods for cancer treatment and utilized lock-in thermographic techniques for imaging photovoltaic cells.Gary Ybarra, Duke University Gary A. Ybarra, Ph.D. is a Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He is the principal investigator of several K-12 engineering outreach programs as part of his Engineering K-PhD program at Duke. He received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from North Carolina State

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leo McAfee, University of Michigan; Andrew Kim, Michigan State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) for WirelessIntegrated MicroSystems (WIMS) has conducted pre-college programs for seven summers (inyears 2000 to 2006). During these seven summers, more than 880 pre-college students haveenrolled in 30 courses. Moreover, female and minority categories each constitute more than50% of the participants. Indeed, youth are being greatly impacted by the WIMS summerprograms. The significance of the summer programs can be indicated with several factors:1. Phenomenal participation count and percentages by female and minority students.2. Educational content of the programs; each program has a subset of the core topics.3. WIMS core components (microsystems and miniaturization, sensors