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2004 GSW

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Charlotte Welch Smith; Bonita Butner; James Gregory

Session 005 E-COACH: Successful Career Advising Tool for High School Juniors Charlotte Welch Smith Counseling Department Frenship High School Jennifer Spurrier Higher Education Program Educational Psychology and Leadership Texas Tech University James Gregory Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies College of Engineering Texas

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2004 GSW

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Keyonn L. Pope

the theoretical knowledge of the designer as this is aprerequisite for a successful design career. Through the use of CMOS technology simplelogic gates can be designed and used to build complex circuits.This is a student paper.Biography:Keyonn L. Pope is a senior, electrical engineering major at Southern University andA&M College located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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2004 GSW

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Jennifer Spurrier; Charlotte Welch Smith; Bonita Butner; James Gregory

examine how well post baccalaureate students seeking teachercertification matched in their choice of education majors from E-COACH (College OptimalAdvisor & Career Helper) with their teaching position. E-COACH is designed as a tool to aidstudents by offering career and learning style assessments. Additionally, E-COACH offers an“ordering of teaching fields in Education” based on an interest assessment. This paper presentsthe results of E-COACH assessments for a group of seventy-one students seeking postbaccalaureate certification. E-COACH career mapping is based on preferences regarding things,people, data, and ideas. Learning style assessments are based on preferences involving hearing,reading, somatic, and visual processing in the brain. The

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2004 GSW

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Lenore L. Dai

traditional learningimpact on education, practicing Six Sigma at the college level also has significant impacts on thestudents’ future career development.

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2004 GSW

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M-A Demuynck; D. E. Edwards; W. J. Zimmermann

bewomen by the year 2005, those choosing engineering are too few and far between. A variety ofreasons have been offered for this phenomenon, and despite many interventions designed toencourage talented females and minorities to pursue careers in engineering and other sciences,the participation rate is not drastically changing. Clearly additional avenues must be pursued. Based on the thesis that reaching students through the Internet enhances the educationalprocess, Texas Womans’ University formulated a project designed to develop independent,interactive web-based learning modules for use with mathematics and computer sciencecourses. These modules offer always-available and convenient tutorial support to studentsenrolled in supported courses

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2004 GSW

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M-A Demuynck; D. E. Edwards; M. M. Holt; R. H. Cox

Texas Tech University AbstractAccording to the Hudson Institute’s report Workforce 2020: Work and Workers in the 21st Century,national demographic trends suggest that 62% of those entering the labor force will be women by theyear 2005. However, women are not choosing to pursue careers in engineering. In fact, fewer than 20 %of the students studying engineering in college are women.In response, Texas Woman’s University (TWU), Texas Tech University (TTU), and Texas Instruments,Inc., (TI) have created a unique partnership to encourage members of traditionally under-representedpopulations to pursue graduate degrees in engineering. The partnership supports female and minoritystudents by providing

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2004 GSW

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Ms. LaQuasha M. Morgan; Ms. Faye Moore,; Dr. David A. Kirkpatrick

concerns about the college experience in general andour department in particular. In addition, we have assisted another honor society oncampus by educating freshmen on the vast career opportunities of technology majors.In the future, we plan to take a leadership role in developing and sustaining a family-oriented atmosphere among the department faculty and students. The faculty in ourdepartment has strongly supported our new student recognition program. In this, we havestarted recognizing scholars who may not have the high GPA’s, but have a greatcommitment in the academic arena and have performed services to our department. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech

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2004 GSW

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Donald J. Bagert; Stephen V. Chenoweth

wereactually computer science majors, with most of the remaining students being transfers into thenew software engineering major. Student feedback at the end of the course showed that most,though not all of these students grasped the relevance for their closely related field, even studentsintending to pursue a research-related career. The fact is that only a fraction of the body ofknowledge about software requirements engineering is unique to software engineering. Theauthors believe that it could be easily adapted for use in other engineering disciplines.This argument is analogous to the one for project management, which Rose-Hulman also teachesas a course specifically for SE and CS majors. Project management principles apply across avery broad

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2004 GSW

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Stephan Wright; Amit Thakkar

ofTexas at Arlington. The concept of mentoring future Electrical Engineering students atUTA has solidified into the primary role among IEEE officers and its members. Thefield of Electrical Engineering is a very challenging subject for most students, and isoften perceived as too difficult. It was also observed that the retention rate was very poorfor these students in their freshman and sophomore years. With the help of IEEEOfficers and graduate as well as undergraduate students, the IEEE mentoring office wascreated. The IEEE mentoring office provides help to engineering students with theircourse work, lab work and career planning. This paper covers the concepts, details anddifficulties faced associated with the creation and operation of an IEEE

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2004 GSW

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Kenneth Van Treuren

. The department isinterested in skill levels, expectations of the program, motivation for entering theprogram and how they found out about the program. All of this information is importantfor use in retention studies. The second survey that student receive is at the end of theintroductory engineering course. At this point in their career they have been introducedto the profession and the department, to include some familiarization with ABETevaluation and what accreditation means for the program. The EGOs are evaluated basedon how the student feels the course accomplished its tasks. Obviously, the students havehad only one course and one course alone is not able to accomplish all the outcomes. Thenext student survey is at the end of the

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2004 GSW

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Jerry Dwyer; Katherine Hitchcox

Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationstudies. One was in specific inquiry based projects, where hands-on activities are ideal. Theother was in girls-only math clubs. Many of these girls had been unaware of careers inengineering or what that might entail. The latter group developed confidence and knowledge ofengineering areas that have traditionally been male dominated. However, the activities werenot sufficient to convince these young women that mathematics was a creative activity or that acareer in mathematics would be interesting. ConclusionA series of engineering and science lessons have been developed to increase student interest

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2004 GSW

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Rafic Bachnak; Korinne Caruso; cody ross

number of manufacturing andprocessing industries are involved in the delivery of the program. The workshops aredesigned to introduce students to college life, involve them in hands-on activities, andencourage them to pursue science and engineering careers. Our goal is to make theactivities undertaken by this project an integral part of the recruiting and training effortsand expand them to reach a larger geographical area and a higher number ofunderrepresented students. The paper will describe the program and present the results ofsummer 2003 workshops. IntroductionThe current US workforce is comprised of 77% White, 4% Asian, and 19% Minority.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National

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2004 GSW

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Mark Hamner; M. M. Holt; Ebony McGee; Diana Dickey-Davis

, ed., Factors in the Underrepresentation of Women in Science and Engineering: A Review of the Literature, Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network (WEPAN) Report, 1994.[7] Harrington, S.M., Barriers to Women in Undergraduate Computer Science: The effects of the Computer Environment on the Success and Continuance of Female Students, 1990, Unpublished dissertation.[8] Seymour, E., “The Loss of Women from Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Undergraduate Majors: An Explanatory Account.,” Science Education 79(4), 1995, 437-473.[9] Cunningham, C., M. Pavone and C. Muller, Factors Influencing Women’s Pursuit of a College Science Major or Science Career: An evaluation of the Women in

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2004 GSW

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Eyad Masad; Dan Zollinger

dimensions. This methodology reinforces key concepts while covering the variousstyles of learning affording all students the greatest opportunity for learning andultimately enhancing their professional careers. The teaching opportunities that arepotentially available in this manner are motivating for not only the student but also forthe instructor to continually seek improvement in how instructional materials arepresented and how student can be effectively challenged to magnify their learningexperience.References:1. Knowles, Malcolm, The Modern Practice of Adult Education from Androgogy to Pedagogy, 1984.2. Kolb, David A., The Cycle of Learning from Experience, 1984.3. Young, J., F., Mindess, S., Gray, R., Bentur, A. The Science and

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2004 GSW

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Shunmugham R. Pandian

of science and math, and eventually of engineering. As a result, compared tothe post-Sputnik era when the challenges of space exploration attracted vast numbers oftalented youth to pursue engineering careers, in recent years there has been a significantplateau or even decline in the numbers of engineering students graduates.This decline so far has mainly been offset by an influx of immigrant engineers andtechnologists, particularly at the graduate and doctoral levels. For example, nearly 70percent of Ph.D. degrees in engineering in the US are awarded to graduate students offoreign origin. Many of these graduates have in the past tended to stay back in the US.However, the globalization of economic development and the resulting higher

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2004 GSW

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Mario G. Beruvides

appreciation of the role thatmanagement will play in their long-term careers. Management studies that are not presented inan engineering context will only prolong this ignorance, (p.8).” 2Several approaches have been attempted and researched to incorporate practical applications,class participation, and active learning for engineering students. Significant educationalinstruction and research attempting, to address these issues have been done by courses designedto build engineering entrepreneurship. 3,4 The reasoning behind this is simple, “Engineeringstudents typically go through school completing assignments that are generated by academiciansand quite often this either cannot or does not reflect the commercial world.” 5 The desire toincorporate real

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2004 GSW

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Wayne J. Zimmermann

Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 1 students to earn two degrees simultaneously while preparing for a professional career in engineering. Undergraduate students attend TWU for three years as mathematics majors in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, then continue their education at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UTD or the Dwight Look School of Engineering at TAMU for two additional years. After completion of the degree, students will receive the Bachelor of Science degree in

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2004 GSW

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Bonnie Boardman; Lynn Peterson

committee felt that while the benefits of a common course were many, there were problemsas well. For retention purposes, it seemed vital that engineering freshman be involved classroomparticipants. To ensure that students were not merely bystanders in their educational experience,thought-provoking, entertaining lab exercises needed to remain a part of the freshman courseexperience. Additionally, each department had department specific content that was necessaryfor their students to be successful in their academic careers. This content varied from departmentto department. There was not time in the semester to give all content to all students.New FormatDescriptionThe format which resulted from this process is a hybrid, using a one-credit-hour