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Student Recruitment and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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., “Encouraging Graduate Study in Engineering,” Journal of Engineering Education, July 1995, p. 249-255.18.Auerbach, J., Gordon, J., May, G., and Davis, C., “A Comprehensive Examination of the Impact of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program on Minority Enrollment in Graduate School,” Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2007, 15 pages.19.Davis, I., DeLoatch, E., Kerns, S., Morell, L., Purdy, C., Smith, P., and Truesdale, S., “Best Practices for Promoting Diversity in Graduate Engineering Education,” Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2007, 6 pages.20.Eisenman, S. and List, G

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Tools for Teaching

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyu Yon Lim, Pennsylvania State University; Roxanne Toto, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Hien Nguyen, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Mark Wharton, Pennsylvania State University; John Cimbala, Pennsylvania State University

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AC 2008-616: IMPACT OF INSTRUCTORS’ USE OF THE TABLET PC ONSTUDENT LEARNING AND CLASSROOM ATTENDANCEKyu Yon Lim, Pennsylvania State University Kyu Yon Lim is a PhD candidate majoring in Instructional Systems with emphasis of instructional design with emerging technology. Her research interests relate to technology integration, generative learning, and problem-based learning. She can be contacted at kylim@psu.edu.Roxanne Toto, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Roxanne Toto is an Instructional Designer and e-Learning Support Specialist for the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at the Pennsylvania State University where she teaches faculty, teaching

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SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russell Korte, The University of Texas-Tyler; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; William Jordan, CRL-Stanford University

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Senior Scholar principally responsible for the Preparations for the Professions Program (PPP) engineering study, the results of which are forthcoming in the report Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field. In addition, she is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and served as Chair of Stanford's Faculty Senate in 2006-2007. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design-related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on weld and solder-connect fatigue and impact failures, fracture mechanics, and applied finite element analysis. Dr. Sheppard was recently named co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF

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Design: Content and Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University; Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University; Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University; Samuel T Hunter, Pennsylvania State University

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knowledge but considerably decreasing originalityand fluency of ideas generated in fact resonates with many. Industrial leaders long expressed amounting concern about the impact of traditional engineering education on the creative potentialof future engineers. A lack of creativity is viewed as problematic in a rapidly changingtechnology-oriented world where generating new ideas is essential to survival.9 In addition,industry has perceived new BS engineering graduates as lacking design capability or creativity,as well as an appreciation for considering alternatives. Further, a 1995 ASME report rankedcreative thinking as 5th of 56 top desired “best practices” for new BS-level engineers as seen byindustry and academe.10 In the past several years

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Design: Content and Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Melnyk, United States Military Academy; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy

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AC 2008-263: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO GRADING A MECHANICALENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE AT THE UNITED STATESMILITARY ACADEMYRichard Melnyk, United States Military Academy Major Rich Melnyk graduated from West Point in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He earned a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix in 2007. He served as an Instructor and Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at West Point from 2004 to 2007. During that time, Major Melnyk was the course director for two of the three courses in the

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Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashley Ater Kranov, Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology; Robert Olsen, Washington State University; Carl Hauser, Washington State University; Laura Girardeau, Washington State University

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thesix professional skills to the ABET engineering criteria, engineering education in the US today is“falling far short of preparing engineering graduates for practicing—and leading—in a change-driven, knowledge-intensive, global society that will characterize the decades ahead.”3In Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change, the NSF recommends thatengineering courses include early and continued exposure to environmental, political and socialissues and their international and historical contexts, as well as legal and ethical implications ofengineering solutions.4 Oberst and Jones argue that engineers shape and are shaped by “theemerging realities of a truly global workforce. Engineers as a professional group are thuscanaries in the

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Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Lisa Brooks, Texas A&M University; Christine Ehlig-Economides, Texas A&M University

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Culture; 444 Harrington Tower; College Station, TX 77843; Telephone: (+1) 979.8621713; e-mail:yalvac@tamu.eduLisa Brooks, Texas A&M University Lisa Brooks is a graduate student of Science Education at Texas A&M University. She holds an M.Ag. degree in Entomology from Texas A&M University and a B.S. degree in Animal Science from Rutgers University. She specializes in research focusing on the design of learning environment that support transfer of learning to practical situations. Address: Texas A&M University; Teaching, Learning, and Culture; 343 Harrington Tower; College Station, TX 77843; Telephone: (+1) 979.696.5034;e-mail: lisaabrooks@tamu.eduChristine Ehlig-Economides

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Emerging Issues in Engineering Education Research and Pedagogy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Walden, University of Oklahoma; Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma; Deborah Trytten, University of Oklahoma

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Page 13.1089.3individual’s opportunities for success. Though we faced other difficulties, the selection andacceptance of the ethnographic interview for our methodology was not a stumbling block for theengineers on the team.Grounding our interpretations in the data and not in pre-determined theoretical frameworkproved difficult for us and even more difficult for reviewers of submitted publications. Unlikewith the scientific method where an experiment is designed to confirm or refute a hypothesis,discourse analysis rarely begins from a defined theoretical framework. An accepted practice inethnographic based research is for interpretation of discourse to be grounded in the data not thetheoretical framework [28]. The danger of grounding

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ERM Potpourri

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Howard Evans, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University

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that all faculty members hired in the future either have a basic background in research or participate in a required introduction to research and scholarship during their first six months of employment. 4. Develop a scholarship mentoring system for all new faculty members, so that new hires are paired with a successful researcher from their discipline. 5. Develop a basic research course for all graduate students from all disciplines so that all of them have a basic working knowledge of research principles. This step would enhance the ability of students to work with faculty on research projects. Topics in the course could include such things as basic statistics, research designs, qualitative and quantitative

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SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 1

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Morozov, University of Washington; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington; Cynthia Atman, University of Washington

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AC 2008-768: SAME COURSES, DIFFERENT OUTCOMES? VARIATIONS INCONFIDENCE, EXPERIENCE, AND PREPARATION IN ENGINEERING DESIGNAndrew Morozov, University of Washington ANDREW MOROZOV is a graduate student in Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Washington. Andrew is working on research projects within the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT) and the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE).Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington DEBORAH KILGORE is a Research Scientist in the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT) and the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), University of Washington. Her areas of specific

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STEM Pipeline: Pre-College to Post-Baccalaureate

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Trenor, University of Houston; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University

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cases, post-doctoralfellows also served as mentors for participants. Given the National Science Foundation’s goalsfor the REU initiative, the UH REU site was designed to provide participants with a positivelaboratory experience as well as significant professional development and social components.Weekly professional development sessions included a panel discussion with current engineeringgraduate students and professors on the topics of applying to graduate school and academic andindustry career opportunities, as well as several weeks of written and oral technicalcommunications instruction and practice. Participants were housed in on-campus furnishedapartments, and social activities designed to foster camaraderie among participants

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Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Wittenborn, Purdue University; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Craig Miller, Purdue University

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AC 2008-2814: ASSESSMENT OF A BLENDED PRODUCT LIFECYCLEMANAGEMENT COURSE UTILIZING ONLINE AND FACE-TO-FACEDELIVERY MECHANISMSDaniel Wittenborn, Purdue University Daniel Wittenborn is doctoral student in the College of Technology at Purdue University. He received a B.S. in Industrial Technology from Southeast Missouri State University and an M.S. in Computer Graphics Technology from Purdue University. While at Purdue, he has received the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award and Schroff Award. He was also named a recipient of the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship in 2007. Currently, his research interests include engineering education related to computer-aided design, manufacturing, and

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Student Recruitment and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yvonne Ng, College of St. Catherine

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howthey can increase the number of participants, and eventually the number of graduates. Theybelieve that several factors are responsible for the decline, including • CS has a negative public image (geeky, isolated, mathematical, difficult) 9 • CS is represented as mainly programming, which has a negative image in students’ minds. 4Educators seek ways to pull women into the field because “factors driving women away willeventually drive men away as well.” 4 Modifying the CS curriculum so that it will encouragewomen to engage in more coursework may entice other underrepresented populations—andmaybe even more men. Thus, experimenting with women has broader impacts than just gettingmore women into the field.As a women’s

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SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 1

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Atman, University of Washington; Lorraine Fleming, Howard University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Karl Smith, University of Minnesota; Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University; Christine Loucks-Jaret, University of Washington; Dennis Lund, University of Washington

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Ford Motor Company's Scientific Research Lab. Dr. Sheppard's graduate work was done at the University of Michigan.Lorraine Fleming, Howard University LORRAINE FLEMING is professor and former Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Howard University. Dr. Fleming serves as the Co-PI of a National Science Foundation HBCU Undergraduate Program grant designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities who pursue degrees in engineering, mathematics, and science. Additionally, she is a Co-PI for the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education. She serves as the Principal Investigator of an NSF grant designed to study the post baccalaureate decisions of high achieving

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Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Betty Harper, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Patrick Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

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, DC: American Society for Engineering Education.5 p. 124 in Baldwin, R. G., & Chronister, J. L. (2001). Teaching without tenure: Policies and practices for a new era. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.6 Lattuca, L. R., Terenzini, P. T., & Volkwein, J. F. (2006). Engineering change: A study of the Impact of EC2000. Baltimore, MD: ABET, Inc.7 Pascarella, E. T., & Terenzini, P. T. (1991). How college affects students: Findings and insights from twenty years of research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.8 Pascarella, E. T., & Terenzini, P. T. (2005). How college affects students, Vol. 2: A third decade of research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.9 Casella and Brougham (1995

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Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cathy Burack, Brandeis University; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Alan Melchior, Brandeis University; Eric Morgan, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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coordinator was hired to provide aneasier link to community partners for faculty new to S-L. A motto for the faculty has been:“Start small rather than not at all.”An implementation grant from NSF in early fall 2005 allowed the continuation of minigrants,more graduate student assistants, and the hiring of a full-time S-L coordinator (LindaBarrington). Concurrently, the university matched resources to provide course release time forfaculty members who serve as department coordinators as well as a course release for one facultymember in each department to develop significant, high quality S-L projects in a course orcourses. We are presently having biweekly community of practice meetings of faculty with afew invited students and occasional outside

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Fostering and Assessing Effective Teaming

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; James Duvall, Oklahoma State University

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courses commonly occur near the end of abaccalaureate program. Large demands on time are made at a time when students are preparingto graduate and extrinsic motivators are low; grades are not critical to students who have alreadyfound a job or been accepted to graduate school. For these reasons motivation is hypothesized tobe critical to success and the peer evaluation is analyzed using constructs of motivation theory.Following previous research on the role of goals in academic achievement this work assumesthat students in the capstone design course set goals for themselves which they work to achieve.Achievement goals are generally divided into either mastery goals or performance goals 18.Mastery goals are inwardly directed toward developing ones

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Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; daniel ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Howard, Illinois Institute of Technology; June Ferrill, Rice University; Lisa Getzler-Linn, Lehigh University

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for their profession, create a hypothetical scenario portraying an ethical dilemma thatinvolves issues covered by the code, resolve the dilemma, and explain why their resolution is thebest course of action based upon the code of ethics.14Several important issues are evident in the discussions of how best to develop ethicalcompetence among undergraduate students. One concerns how to conceptualize, define, andmeasure the desired – or feasible – outcome. While there seems to be consensus that allprograms hope to shape students who will behave ethically as adults, we have found no studiesthat link undergraduate educational experiences to measurable ethical behavior after graduation;the study that most nearly tried to assess the impact of

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Fostering and Assessing Effective Teaming

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Roach, University of Texas-El Paso; Elsa Villa, University of Texas-El Paso

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classroom. 4th ed. 1984, Edina,Minnesota: Interaction Book Company.9. Gates, A., et al. A Cooperative Model for Orienting Students to Research Groups. in 29th ASEE/IEEEFrontiers in Education. 1999.10. Fullan, M., The school as a learning organization: Distant dreams. Theory into Practice, 1995. 34(4): p.230-235.11. Fullan, M., The new meaning of educational change. 4th ed. 2007, New York: Teachers College Press.12. DuFour, R. and R.E. Eaker, Professional learning communities at work: Best practices for enhancingstudent achievement. 1998: National Education Service.13. Sergiovanni, T., The story of community, in Learning communities in education: Issues, strategies andcontexts. 1999, Routledge: London. p. 9-25.14

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Problem Solving and Misconceptions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland; Chris Smaill, University of Auckland

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. 4. Mazur, E. (1992) Qualitative versus quantitative thinking: are we teaching the right thing? Optics and Photonics News, 3,pp 38-39. 5. Hake, R.R. (1998). Interactive-engagement vs traditional methods: a six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses. American Journal of Physics, 66, pp 64-74. 6. Strevler, R., Miller, R., Reed-Rhoads, T. & Allen, K. (2007) Best Practices in the Design and Use of Concept Inventories. Workshop presented at 2007 ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. 7. Notaros, B. M. (2002). Concept inventory assessment instruments for electromagnetics education. Proceedings of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International

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SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington; Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Daniel Amos, University of Washington

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bedoing design work, but he had become resolved to the fact that this is a less likely possibility forhim in the image he has of his future engineering workplace.In other students we noticed a more gradual development of this understanding of the differences Page 13.1113.8between drafting and designing. For instance, with Steve this shift develops from research, todesign, then to the actual practicality of what he anticipates his workplace to look like. In hisfreshman year interview Steve emphasized the research aspect of his anticipated engineeringworkplace. Well, the mechanical engineering class that I took would lead me to believe that

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STEM Pipeline: Pre-College to Post-Baccalaureate

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland; Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland

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others are Mathematical Modelling, Engineering Mechanics,Engineering Design, Biology and Chemistry for Engineers, Engineering Computation andSoftware Development, and Materials Science. Selection and study in a specific engineeringdiscipline is not undertaken until all first-year courses are completed.MethodologyAn action-research methodology seemed appropriate for an iterative, reflective process thatwould allow for inquiry and discussion as components of the “research”. Commonly thosewho apply an action-research approach are practitioners who wish to improve understandingof their own practice. Although the naming and number of the steps involved can vary,action research always involves a series of cycles, sometimes envisioned as a spiral 7

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Institutional and Curricular Reform

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Gardner, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University

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the lifecycle of an engineering education grant, the phase where best practices are sustainedand disseminated is perhaps the most crucial stage for maximizing impact. Yet this transitionphase often receives the least attention as project team enthusiasm can wane, while fundingtapers off, and faculty priorities are pulled in other directions. There are numerous obstaclesassociated with sustaining program changes, even those perceived as very valuable. Typicalchallenges are: What happens when the funding runs out? What grant-developed programsshould be sustained by the university? Does the institution need to internally allocate resources inan annual budget large enough to replace the grant?Ultimately, sustaining successful programmatic

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Problem Solving and Misconceptions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Carla Firetto, Pennsylvania State University; Lucas Passmore, Pennsylvania State University; Peggy Van Meter, Pennsylvania State University; Kelli Higley, Pennsylvania State University; Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University; Francesco Costanzo, Pennsylvania State University; Gary L. Gray; Stephen Turns, Pennsylvania State University; Jonna Kulikowich

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mathematics for 3 years. She has worked on diverse projects about learning, including research about discourse, reading, statistics, algebra, and now Statics. Her primary research focus remains improving the quality of mathematics teaching. She can be contacted at kjh262@psu.edu.Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University Christine B. Masters is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at The Pennsylvania State University. She earned a PhD from Penn State in 1992. In addition to raising four children with her husband of 20 years, she has been teaching introductory mechanics courses for more than 10 years, training the department graduate teaching assistants for

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Student Engagement and Motivation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; John Geddes, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Mark Somerville, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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introduction of lifelong learning as a required outcome for allengineering graduates, ABET exposed major deficiencies in the approaches of conventionalengineering curricula and illuminated the fact that conventional approaches may inducedependency rather than autonomy in learning. Educators now recognize that students’development of a capacity for self-directed, lifelong learning is critical for their success intoday’s global engineering environment, but the details of how we may best engage students inSDL (and eventually lifelong learning) still pose a substantial challenge. To effectively promoteSDL, faculty need to develop skills in facilitating pedagogies that engage students in self-direction, a sensitivity to and understanding of student