Conference Session

Best Practices for Campus Representatives

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Gunn, Michigan State University

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Campus Representatives

see no reason NOT to join ASEE unless you are: a) not interested in professional development, intellectual discourse, or career advancement, or you are b) professionally comatose.Faculty members can provide endless support in the campus representative’s efforts toincrease membership. One should never feel alone in the process. But one does have toface obstacles that may take much more effort than expected. One would assume thateveryone should feel that an educational society would have people breaking down thedoors of the organization to become members. As I alluded to earlier, this is not alwaysthe case. It is a reality all campus representatives must face an obstacle that occurs in theold saying

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Keathly, University of North Texas; Robert Akl, University of North Texas; Ryan Garlick, University of North Texas

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Women in Engineering

reviews? • What impact did the camp activities have on the performance of the participants as they return to their secondary school, form both the student and parent perspectives? • What impact did the camp activities have on the higher education and career plans of the participants? • What were the demographic characteristics of students enrolled in each type of activity and how do they compare with demographic characteristics of students in the department as a whole?Specific Evaluation ResultsGeneral TrendsOverall these programs coincided with a rise in our new student and continuing studentpopulations as compared from Fall 2004 thru Fall 2006, as indicated in Table 1, as well as aconcurrent rise in the

Conference Session

Engineering, Engineers and Setting Public Policy

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado at Boulder; Tom Lookabaugh, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Engineering and Public Policy

inclusion of such policy issues be part of a standalone course or integratedinto existing courses? 3) Who should teach this material? 4) Could such knowledge help astudent advance in their career? and 5) Would you favor hiring students with educationalbackground in public policy? In this paper, we report on the findings of this survey. Of note, wefound statistically significant differences based on the engineering discipline and on the job titleof the survey participant.1. IntroductionAs part of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program (ITP) curriculum (a master’sdegree program in the Engineering College at the University of Colorado at Boulder), studentshave been required to take course work that includes public policy material and attend

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. An explicit initiative of eachsummer program is to increase the number of historically underrepresented students who aremotivated and prepared to choose careers in science, math, and engineering; Table 2 data bearout the results of this initiative to ensure generous participation of underrepresented minoritiesand females. Financial assistance has been provided for students as needed.Table 2 contains some demographic information about the summer programs for each of theseven summers. Total counts are provided, along with female and minority sub-counts. Thefemale and minority counts (percentages) are especially appealing. Table 2 --- Demographics of WIMS Pre-College Summer ProgramsYear Number Total

Conference Session

MIND - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibironke Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Minorities in Engineering

policy that might address the gaps.Until recently, the inequality has been explained as being consistent with the natural differencesbetween the sexes. One school of thought believes that women’s innate capability limits them tothose disciplines or careers seen to be more attuned to female characteristics. The other school ofthought believes that there is no difference between female and male intellectual capability andwomen can be as successful in the hard sciences as men. The difference, they say, only exists inindividuals and not tied to sex. The history of the general belief that engineering is not forwomen could be traced back to the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. After theSecond World War, enrollment in science and

Conference Session

Cooperative Education Addresses ABET

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess Godbey, Jacksonville State University; Terry Marbut, Jacksonville State University; Dale Broyles, Jacksonville State University & Honda MFG of AL

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

cooperative education programhave resulted such as participation on the department’s Industrial Advisory Council,development of courses, courses video streamed directly to the industrial partner’s site and planttours for recruiting new students considering a career in manufacturing.III. Cooperative Education ProgramThe distinctive aspects of this industry-based partnership and cooperative education experienceare evident beginning with the selection of participating students. Interested students submitresumes to the university placement office. The university placement office ensures that thestudent is eligible for the cooperative education program and coordinates the scheduling andcontacting of students for interviews. The interviews are conducted in

Conference Session

Influence of Race and Culture

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board; Sheryl Hom, isisHawaii and Women in Technology; Jenilynne Gaskin, Maui Economic Development Board; Kawailehua Kuluhiwa, Maui Economic Development Board, Inc.; Christine Andrews, Maui Eco Dev Board

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Minorities in Engineering

Economic Development Board, Inc. (Maui, Hawaii) and is funded in part by theDepartment of Labor as a workforce development project. Research indicates that the transitionfrom middle school to high school is a critical time when girls often lose interest in math andscience. They view these career fields as boring, not relevant to their lives, and Caucasian male-dominated―thus they do not pursue them. WIT has worked with Native Hawaiian culturaladvisors and Kupuna (native teachers) in conjunction to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory(which has oversight of the Maui astronomical assets) to address the dual barriers of gender andethnicity facing Native Hawaiian girls by exposing them at this pivotal point in their lives totechnology in the context

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Lord, University of San Diego

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-541: EFFECTIVE “WRITING TO COMMUNICATE” EXPERIENCES INELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COURSESSusan Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Associate Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, as well as feminist and liberative pedagogies. Dr. Lord served as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference. She has been awarded an NSF CAREER and ILI grants. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T

Conference Session

An International Perspective

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hasmik Gharibyan, California Polytechnic State University

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-751: GENDER GAP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: STUDYING ITSABSENCE IN ONE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICHasmik Gharibyan, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Hasmik Gharibyan is a Full Professor in the Computer Science department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. The first 15 years of her career (1981-1996) she held faculty positions in the Applied Mathematics and Informatics department at Yerevan State University, Republic of Armenia (USSR). Then she moved to San Luis Obispo, USA, and in 1998 joined the faculty of the Computer Science department at Cal Poly. Dr. Gharibyan teaches undergrad and grad courses, including such courses as Theory of Computing, Data

Conference Session

Perceptions of Women's Success in STEM

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-436: IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO CHANGE THE PERCEPTION OFENGINEERINGSusan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology is Senior Advisor of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology. Throughout her career, Susan has worked to increase the participation of women in engineering and science. As the founding executive director of the Lore-El Center for Women in Engineering and Science at Stevens she developed and implemented pre-college and college level programs to increase the representation of women in STEM fields at Stevens and nationally, serving more than 15,000 women. In recognition of this contribution, the Lore-El Center

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Creating successful NEEs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kam Jugdev, Athabasca University

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New Engineering Educators

needs that academics have at stages of their careers. The paperemphasises the importance of mentoring in faculty development programs and concludes withsome tricks of the trade, that I learned through my experiences.Tensions between Scholarship PrioritiesBoyer discusses four kinds of scholarship priorities for a professoriate – the scholarship ofdiscovery (research), the scholarship of teaching (pedagogy), the scholarship of practice(application), and the scholarship of integration (critical analysis and interpretation) 3. Mostuniversities focus on the first three priorities - research, teaching, and service. It is an ongoingchallenge for academics to balance their efforts in these three areas, particularly with thepressures to “publish or

Conference Session

IE Curriculum Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Svec, South Dakota State University; Harriet Svec, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

knowledge of material fatigue, durability,recycleability, disposability, availability, and aesthetics in addition to the traditional concerns ofstrength, sizing, and cost. Modern computer aided design software can render elegant functionalparts but the associated manufacturing costs for producing these pieces can be prohibitive. Theproject offers fundamentals for evaluating how materials and processes relate to the basics ofmanufacturing. In addition to being useful for students as they progress through their program, itsets the stage for their senior engineering design project and ultimately their career. This paperspeaks to the curriculum design needed to bring the project up to 21st century academicstandards.Changes in the curriculum design

Conference Session

Project and Model-Based Mathematics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis Berkey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Bogdan Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

companies, businesses, and government labs. These projects serve to motivate studentsto study mathematics and prepare them for interdisciplinary work in their careers. With fundingfrom NSF, SIAM, the GE Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Intel, severalvertically integrated educational programs have been developed.IntroductionThe demand for professionals capable of modeling and simulating emerging technologies hasdramatically increased in recent years. As mathematics becomes more complex, and thenumerical modeling more sophisticated, the need for mathematically trained professionals isincreasing. Modeling, analysis, and computations performed by mathematicians in collaborationwith other professionals can provide technical advantages and

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Graduate Studies

now have the capability ofmaking “learning the constant for professional competency” and “time the variable” inprofessional engineering graduate education. This paper presents the issues involved andrecommends changes required in implementing high-quality competency-based learning intofirst rate professional educational programs for working professionals.2. Competency-Based Education for Engineering ProfessionalsThe National Collaborative is effecting a dramatic change in the professional education ofpracticing engineers. This is being done with full recognition of the way in which practicingengineers grow professionally throughout their careers. This is, in many ways, a new paradigmbased on the understanding that receipt of a

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Management

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Daughton, University of Missouri; Benjamin Dow, University of Missouri

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Engineering Management

including marketing, finance and legaldepartments. Traditionally, advance degrees in science are too academic, and MBAdegrees often focus just on management skills in non-technical disciplines.A Master’s degree with a mix of advanced technical courses and business/managementcourses was originally proposed by the Sloan Foundation and targeted at individualsholding science or mathematics Bachelor’s degrees and either now working in orpreparing for professional careers in industry. This idea gained rapid acceptance as thereare now over 100 PSM programs at about 50 universities in 26 states.1,2 California seemsto have the largest concentration of these degree programs with seven different locationsin the state providing PSM degrees.2 As an illustration

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Northern, Prairie View A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering

students after one year of engineering studies by providing them withacademic and peer support to facilitate their transition into the College of Engineering. FYIincludes workshops, design competitions and gatherings with industry mentors. The Year Two(Y2) program is designed to increase the retention rate of electrical and computer engineeringstudents through two years of undergraduate engineering studies. The Y2 program providesacademic and career support for second year electrical and computer engineering students andoffers mentoring and exploration opportunities designed to connect students to their area ofinterest and career options.Assessment: Number of work study positions taken and meetings attended.Evaluation: The First Year Initiative

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Brian Sangeorzan, Oakland University; Xia Wang, Oakland University; Chris Kobus, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Alex Alkidas, Oakland University; Michael Latcha, Oakland University

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Mechanical Engineering

on automotive research. The Automotive Research and IndustrialMentorship (ARIM) REU program at Oakland University 1 aims to engage participants inrewarding automotive research experiences that excite and motivate them to pursue careers inscientific and engineering research, and seeks to address the nationwide problem of the under-representation of women and minorities in the sciences, technology, engineering andmath (STEM).The automotive focus of this program was a natural choice given OU’s close ties to and locationnear the world headquarters and engineering centers of the Big-Three automakers, as well asover one hundred automotive suppliers in southeast Michigan. So, in the summer of 2006, tenundergraduate engineering students from across

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil and Architectural Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vernon Lewis, Old Dominion University; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

career path and that minors that are morerelevant to the construction industry business practices would probably serve them better. Basedon this student feedback, the CET faculty reviewed available minors and found that additionalexpertise was available in other academic units such as the College of Health Sciences and theCollege of Business and Public Administration.The College of Business and Public Administration offers the relevant minors in the areas ofmanagement, business administration and real estate. The College of Health Sciences offers anoccupational safety minor. Descriptions of these minors are provided below: • Management Minor - designed to develop the students understanding of management both as an art and a science

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

International

for a Flat World”Co-Moderators: Stephen Williams and Owe Petersen Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee, WisconsinAbstractCompetency in your technical field of knowledge is not sufficient for success in professional lifein engineering. Graduates need more than what the normal degree/curriculum provides. ThomasL. Friedman – “The World is Flat - A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century” – providessignificant documentation of the forces driving the rebalancing of relationships between nationsand industries. Professionals, including, engineers will have their careers shaped by those sameforces.From an engineering standpoint technology has provided the mobility that flattens

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

International

for a Flat World”Co-Moderators: Stephen Williams and Owe Petersen Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee, WisconsinAbstractCompetency in your technical field of knowledge is not sufficient for success in professional lifein engineering. Graduates need more than what the normal degree/curriculum provides. ThomasL. Friedman – “The World is Flat - A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century” – providessignificant documentation of the forces driving the rebalancing of relationships between nationsand industries. Professionals, including, engineers will have their careers shaped by those sameforces.From an engineering standpoint technology has provided the mobility that flattens

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

International

for a Flat World”Co-Moderators: Stephen Williams and Owe Petersen Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee, WisconsinAbstractCompetency in your technical field of knowledge is not sufficient for success in professional lifein engineering. Graduates need more than what the normal degree/curriculum provides. ThomasL. Friedman – “The World is Flat - A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century” – providessignificant documentation of the forces driving the rebalancing of relationships between nationsand industries. Professionals, including, engineers will have their careers shaped by those sameforces.From an engineering standpoint technology has provided the mobility that flattens

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 12.818.2experience to look for improvement opportunities, and to take corrective action. The overall goalis to increase the retention and college success of students into engineering careers. We present the results of a series of focus groups undertook to elicit the high schooldeficiencies and other problems faced by pre-college students that are evident once they areadmitted into engineering, in the opinion of current industrial engineering students at theUniversity of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, UPRM. Attraction into engineering careers is not aproblem at all at the UPRM. At the UPRM we want to create a stronger network betweengovernment and the Department of Education of Puerto Rico to improve the educational systemin the areas

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

International

for a Flat World”Co-Moderators: Stephen Williams and Owe Petersen Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee, WisconsinAbstractCompetency in your technical field of knowledge is not sufficient for success in professional lifein engineering. Graduates need more than what the normal degree/curriculum provides. ThomasL. Friedman – “The World is Flat - A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century” – providessignificant documentation of the forces driving the rebalancing of relationships between nationsand industries. Professionals, including, engineers will have their careers shaped by those sameforces.From an engineering standpoint technology has provided the mobility that flattens

Conference Session

Partnerships in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Marshall, North Carolina State University; Mohamed Bourham, North Carolina State University

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Nuclear and Radiological

on a nuclear engineering career. Strategies for implementation will be the focus ofthis paper.KeywordsNuclear engineering; K12 outreach; diversity programs; women in engineering; minorities inengineering; undergraduate programIntroduction Past issues of American Society of Engineering Education’s Prism and the AmericanNuclear Society’s Nuclear News highlight a concern about diversity within engineering andnuclear engineering.1 Referring to the Report of the Congressional Commission on theAdvancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Development,there is supporting evidence of a troubling trend: low diversity numbers in engineering andnuclear engineering.2 The number of Hispanic, Black, and Asian nuclear

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Holden, San Francisco State University; Juan Carlos Miranda, San Francisco State University; Jose Coto, San Francisco State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

loop performance Page 12.1064.7 Figure 8: Closed-loop performance over a wide range of inputAssessmentThe value of the project to the students was assessed using a survey upon completion of theclass. The results are shown in the following figures. Generally the students felt the project wasvery appropriate for the class (question 1), and most felt that both implementation of control lawsand the ability to design controllers were valuable for their future careers (questions 4 and 5).The majority of the students felt that the time spent in class on design as compared to the timespent on implementation was about right (question 2), although most felt that more time couldhave been spent

Conference Session

International Engineering Education Ii / International Engineering Education I - Poster Session / International Engineering Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Webert Lovencin, University of Florida; Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Nick Safai, Salt Lake City College

Tagged Divisions

International

strategies employed by higher educationinstitutions in recruiting and retaining minorities in engineering education. Some of thestrategies reviewed include early exposure of students to engineering topics, advising, studentparticipation in student competitions, teaching tools, recruiting packages, and scholarships.IntroductionA college education is an important career move for any young individual whose desires to livethe American dream. Such a move, while academic, on the whole has helped provide afoundation for establishing a successful life. While the importance of a college education ispreached to young adults, colleges and universities must be one step ahead of their recruitmentplan to acquire young minds by increasing and retaining student

Conference Session

Perspectives for Women Faculty

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech; Margaret Layne, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

successof women faculty in science and engineering. Institutions funded by the National ScienceFoundation ADVANCE Program, have been in the vanguard of the movement to transforminstitutional and departmental culture in order to recruit and retain more women and minoritiesas faculty in science and engineering. Among a broad portfolio of initiatives aimed atrecognizing that faculty life extends beyond work performance, the 19 round one and twoADVANCE institutions have promoted such work-family policies as dual-career hiring, stoppingor delaying the tenure clock for childbirth or adoption, on-campus childcare and lactation rooms,and the opportunity for temporary periods of part-time employment to deal with family crises,such as the terminal illness of

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin O'Connor, University of Rochester; Daniel Amos, University of Washington; Tori Bailey, Stanford University; Gary Lichtenstein, Stanford University; Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Marcus Jones, Howard University; Derek Seward, University of Rochester; Lisa Perhamus, University of Rochester; Reed Stevens, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

separated consequences,” 11 and those that areextrinsically motivated. Researchers have claimed that intrinsic interest is associated withretention, while extrinsic interest is associated with decisions to change majors. For example,Seymour & Hewitt, in one of the most important and comprehensive works on retention inSMET disciplines, take intrinsic interest to be among the most important factors in understandingstudents’ decision to persist in or to change their major. They claim that “the best foundation forsurvival and success is to have chosen one’s major because of an intrinsic interest in thediscipline and/or the career fields to which it is leading.” 13 It is important to note for ourpurposes that intrinsic interest or motivation is

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders: Programs Involving Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Belle Wei, San Jose State University; Jacob Tsao, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

International

-level skill sets needed for them to be competitive • help students identify new career opportunitiesThe 2004 inaugural study program focused on the global operations of information technology(IT) companies in electronics, semiconductors, computers, and software. It placed specialemphasis on the critical role that innovation and entrepreneurship played in these globallycompetitive companies. This focus guided the selection of sites to visit. During the studyprogram tour students asked questions such as why do engineers and workers in China andTaiwan work so hard; why do these governments invest heavily in expanding the engineeringeducation and promoting technology businesses, and why do technology companies flourish inChina and Taiwan. Some

Conference Session

Marketing Engineering to Minority Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Lemons, NC A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

assistance. Currently, most faculty developmentopportunities place emphasis on the individual having a terminal degree. Only applicants whoalready has a PhD are accepted, which discourages the faculty who have a Master’s degree thatare trying to obtain their Doctoral degree. It seems that someone would be trying to help facultyso they can start of their career. There should be outside organizations that will assist facultythat want to become Professors.Students that come to “_______________University, have opportunities to apply for variousprograms to pay for their tuition for college. They can get assistantships, fellowships,scholarships, and loans. The university has a program called tuition remission. This money willpay the tuition for an out of