Conference Session

Learning Needs and Educational Success

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brenda Hart, University of Louisville; Veronica Hinton-Hudson, University of Louisville; James Lewis, University of Louisville

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Minorities in Engineering

participants. However,with respect to the goals of the program, it is successful at what it does—enabling participants toacquire a degree of interest, proficiency, and understanding of the requisites for engineering.Therefore, the student returns to high school with a much better understanding of what is offeredat the University of Louisville with respect to engineering and what they need to do to be readyto pursue such a career field.Other opportunities for further research include the outcomes data analysis of the program pre-and post- survey information. Although post program surveys were always an integral part ofINSPIRE, it was not until recently that a validated assessment tool for pre-engineering programin the form of a pre- and post-survey

Conference Session

Physics Education Research (PER) Relevant for Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mel Sabella, Chicago State University; Stephanie Barr, Chicago State University

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Educational Research and Methods

introductory physics classes at theinner-city university, (2) involve undergraduate science majors in the implementation,assessment, and creation of innovative teaching materials, and (3) document the effectiveness ofthe implementation in promoting student learning through the use of multiple assessmentinstruments.Almost all students enrolled in these introductory courses are majors in the science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. In order for these students to succeed as theymove through their academic and professional careers, they require preparation that goes wellbeyond what the traditionally taught physics course often provides. Rather than developing askill set that involves pattern matching and formula manipulation

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Engineering and Public Policy

faculty, and other employee categories by full-time and part-time status, sex and racial ethnic categories; 2) full-time faculty by rank and tenure; and 3) new hires by full-time and part-time status, sex and racial ethnic categories [11].Most academic institutions must also develop Affirmative Action plans that include classifyingthose positions likely to underutilize women and minorities, to describe likely career paths forthose categories, and to develop a plan to employ women and minorities in those positions innumbers commensurate with both the local population diversity as well as the diversity of thefield as a whole.With these sources of information, it would be possible and

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Reisel, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

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Environmental Engineering

experience that could be helpful for them in theirfuture careers. In addition, the students had the opportunity to work with engineers from theindustrial sponsors of the project. In these interactions, the students needed to learn how to workwith other engineers, and communicate their questions, ideas, and results clearly. The relianceon undergraduate students, rather than graduate students, on the project did have somedrawbacks. These include an increased need for guidance, and often an increased time for thecompletion of project tasks due to the students having less time to devote to the project.This paper describes the research activities of the students on the project, and contains asummary of the results. The educational benefits experienced by

Conference Session

Metrology Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Sugg, Navy; John Fishell, STEP

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

clear that the lack of numbers of qualified students “entering” theengineering educational pipeline was the limiting factor in meeting the needs for the increasingdemand for engineers.The Navy Metrology Engineering Center has been a proactive and engaged partner in the STEPProgram since its inception. STEP is a 501C(3) non-profit corporation funded privately bypartner companies investing in the education of our youth in an attempt to raise the numbers ofhigh technology educated workers in our community. STEP’s primary mission is to “Inspirestudents to pursue careers in math, science, engineering and technology” through an innovative,proactive approach that engages students, teachers and the “educational system” to hightechnology companies

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Ashley Babcock, University of Georgia; David Gattie, University of Georgia-Athens

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Women in Engineering

environment, and Page 13.1225.6between students that tend to take a holistic approach to problem solving and a complex learningenvironment (bottom, left and upper, right corners of figure 3 respectively) and those in between(blue oval). Ideally, students would be capable of using a holistic and reductive approach by thetime they reach graduation. The blue oval area is a good fit region and would prepare studentsfor the professional, real-world environment. This would be an ideal region for students toremain in order to best prepare them for their professional careers so that they can transitionseamlessly between reductive and holistic problem solving

Conference Session

Re-Imagining the Higher Ed Classroom -- Tablet PCs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Monson Hayes, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

AC 2008-1300: ENHANCING DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTSWITH TABLET PC TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWAREElliot Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Elliot Moore II received his Bachelors, Masters, and PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998, 1999, and 2003, respectively. As a graduate student he was awarded as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow, President’s Fellow, and FACES (Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science) Fellow. After working in a post-doctorate position for about a year, Dr. Moore joined Georgia Tech as an Assistant professor in Fall 2004. One of Dr. Moore’s research areas includes the use of digital

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Kornecki, ERAU; Thomas Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Wojciech Grega, AGH; Jean-Marc Thririet, LAG; Miroslav Sveda, BUT

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International

historically poor performance in meeting society’s needs, the practice ofsoftware engineering is in need of substantial changes. One challenge concerns preparingsoftware professionals for their careers; the field must drastically change its approach to softwareengineering education if it hopes to consistently provide safe, secure, and reliable systems. “. It istime to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the computing education.We feel it is imperative that software developers understand basic real-time concepts of timing,concurrency, inter-process communication, resource sharing, hardware interrupts handling, andexternal devices interface. Industry needs computing graduates with knowledge of dependabletime-critical reactive systems and those who

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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International

curriculum for a college in China, toeliminate gaps between the curriculum and rapidly changing requirements by foreigncompanies in China, and to ultimately help Chinese students to be prepared for theirprofessional careers in the dynamic global economy.Research is carried out to first examine common characteristics of Chinese students inthis program in order to identify their strengths and weaknesses. The study recognizesChinese students’ strengths and particularly their success in mathematics and sciencebased on literature reviews on other’s work, personal experience interview andobservation. It also reveals an important finding that overemphasis on understanding andmemorization in mathematics and science in existing software engineering

Conference Session

Applications of Engineering Economy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Robertson, Arizona State University; Michael Kozicki, Arizona State University; Slobodan Petrovic, Arizona State University

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Engineering Economy

success and the vulnerability to a weakness in any one of them. It is a useful framework for student projects where some reasoned case has to be made for the likely evolution path.Many parties have an interest in making objective assessments of the possible success ofemerging technologies - from investors to students pondering their career direction. Tomake the task more tractable, cases that are judged individually on merit have beenexcluded. This avoids the minefield of research project funding, venture capital andpeer-reviewed publications. Instead, this paper concentrates on cases where there is nosingle project advocate. The goal is to determine the maturity state and intrinsic merits ofan emerging technology rather than

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, andconcluded that “employment during college enhances the development of career-related skills.”While most of these studies were based on student self-reports of the benefits of these workexperiences, data from employers suggests that they agree with students’ self-assessments.Casella and Brougham9 found that a majority of employers they surveyed reported that studentswith work or internship experience “produced higher-quality work, accepted supervision anddirection more willingly, demonstrated better time management skills, and were better able tointeract with coworkers on team projects.” Similar to internships, the influence of coops might beexpected to be even stronger because these experiences are typically longer in duration and moreintegrated

Conference Session

Public Engineering of Engineering, K12 Standards, and Overview

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Giddens, Georgia Institute of Technology; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

underrepresented groups for the country to maintain, letalone increase, its technological capability.13 Thus messages that effectively encouragegirls and underrepresented minorities to consider careers in engineering could be crucialto U.S. success and leadership in the future.This paper reports on messaging research conducted by the National Academy ofEngineering (NAE) with support from the National Science Foundation.Message DevelopmentIn the lexicon of marketing, messages are a key component of branding. A brandassociates specific traits in a person’s mind that induce behavior. At one time, brandswere associated only with consumer products, such as dish soap, cereal, or new cars.Branding is now applied more broadly, to organizations, to entire

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada-Reno

component of San Jose State University’s Introduction toMaterials class, listed in Table 1, were a series of one week lab experiments. Theexperiments were very typical to those used in most other Introduction to Materialscourses. The laboratory class was redesigned using multi-week modules with anemphasis on realistic engineering projects. The goals of doing so were similar to the re-design of the lecture modules described above. Creating a more open-ended nature to thelabs will increase students’ ownership of the labs and their motivation to learn. Thecontext of a real world engineering setting will help students see how the fundamentalconcepts relate to their future careers as engineers. Especially in a service course wheremost of the majors are

Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Engineering Education Research and Pedagogy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lynita Newswander, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2008-1086: JOURNAL CLUBS AS PEDAGOGY FOR INTERDISCIPLINARYGRADUATE EDUCATIONMaura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University MAURA BORREGO is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Dr. Borrego holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Her current research interests center around interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering and engineering education, including studies of the collaborative relationships between engineers and education researchers. Investigations of interdisciplinary graduate programs nationwide are funded through her NSF CAREER award.Lynita Newswander, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and

Conference Session

Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs and Program Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Green, University of Maryland; Georgina Johnston, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

management, risk management, and skills. strategic management. Launching & Career Activities Student Satisfaction Long-term outcomes associated with Customer (student) satisfaction and new venture creation are measured, and career activities are also measured to include number of companies launched, ensure holistic program evaluation and revenues, profitability, employees, etc. quality assurance. Career activities of students to include graduate school and employment are also measured.Developing the Performance Measurement System for the Hinman CEOs ProgramA six-stage process was used to develop the performance

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Friauf, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Steven Reyer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

thereare numerous other writing tasks as well, all intended to parallel business and industryrequirements. They focus on providing evidence of individual contributions and range fromengineering notebook entries to bi-weekly “elevator” style reports – very short succinct reportsthat demonstrate the progress made in the latest time interval. Finally, in conjunction with our“trade-show”-style Senior Design Show in May of each year, each team must create a posterwith a primary pictorial emphasis to highlight their design. This is part of a poster competitionthat takes place the same day.BackgroundMuch has been written about the essentials of writing requirements in various curricula settingsand career preparations.1-3 Surveys repeatedly have

Conference Session

Gender & Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Thompson, Purdue University; Pamela Turner, Purdue University EPICS; William Oakes, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Almost all of the teachers and administrators strongly felt theirstudents had very little awareness of what engineering was.At the end of the workshops, they were more convinced that engineering could be fun,and that they didn’t realize there are many career possibilities and variety of engineeringfields. One participant commented that, “the EPICS program is a great introductoryopportunity for high school students into engineering fields”.Participants’ felt they had a broader view of engineering after completing the workshop.Comments included that understanding the engineering fields required many talents – notjust science and math, and a belief that anyone could develop the skills necessary tobecome an engineer. One participant said that their

Conference Session

Innovations to Curriculum and Program

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

itsniche will be in relation to sustainable energy topics, and train students in this important area.BackgroundEnergy-related issues are important to the sustainability of the planet, due to links with globalclimate change which has been associated with the combustion of fossil fuels. Energy issues arecurrently receiving a lot of news coverage. This is exciting many students about the possibilitiesof working in a career that would develop sustainable energy sources with fewer pollutioneffects. Meeting this challenge will require the efforts of scientists, engineers, and policymakers. Students with an interest in this field are currently struggling to determine the bestmajor to pursue in college to enable them to pursue a career in this

Conference Session

Mobile Robots in Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Reed, Louisiana Tech University; Taylor Creekbaum, Louisiana Tech University; Matthew Elliott, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Davis Harbour, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

AC 2008-2360: UTILIZING ROBOTICS TO FACILITATE PROJECT-BASEDLEARNING: A STUDENT PERSPECTIVEAnthony Reed, Louisiana Tech University Anthony Reed is a sophomore at Louisiana Tech University majoring in biomedical engineering. He graduated from a residential high school in Louisiana and plans to pursue a career in medicine after graduating.Taylor Creekbaum, Louisiana Tech University Taylor Creekbaum is a sophomore at Louisiana Tech University majoring in biomedical engineering. He graduated from the same residential high school as Anthony Reed, and he has a special interest in computer applications.Matthew Elliott, Louisiana Tech University Matthew Elliott is a freshman at Louisiana Tech

Conference Session

Applications of Engineering Economy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Kelley, Baylor University; Robert Doty, Baylor University; Bill booth, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

assurance for career success, as a combination of professional skills is needed.4Successful careers require an understanding of how a business functions and familiarity withcontemporary issues in a global and societal context.5 A variety of innovative and successfulapproaches have been used to expose students to global issues. Selected engineering standardsare used to lead into global manufacturing.6 The Engineering Projects in Community Service(EPICS) has a international component.7 A multi institution, multi country initiative seeks topromote international cooperation and generate new partnerships.8 Although engineeringstudents traditionally have elected not to study abroad, new international programs andrecruiters’ expectations are leading more

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

professionally as a result of the REU Bonds Experience.” This statement yielded anaverage response on the Likert scale of 4.6 ± 0.75 while the statement “I am well informed about researchenvironments and career options,” earned a 4.15 ± 0.81 indicating that the participants overwhelmingly agreed thatthis program had a positive impact on their professional skills and perceptions. To further explore the role of thecourse, the participants were asked, “How satisfied have you been with how the class interfaced with your researchexperience?” which yielded an average response of 3.55 ± 1.10. This number is slightly lower with a large standarddeviation indicating that opinions were quite diverse regarding the course attributes. This has been targeted as anarea

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Naumov, Purdue University Calumet; William Obermeyer, Purdue University Calumet; Rahul Singhal, Purdue University Calumet; Eduardo Garcia, Purdue University Calumet; Nasser Houshangi, Purdue University Calumet

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

a validation engineer. Contact him at naumov82@gmail.com.William Obermeyer, Purdue University Calumet William J. Obermeyer is an undergraduate computer science student at Purdue University Calumet and anticipates graduating with highest distinction in May 2008 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science, Associates of Arts in History, and minor in applied mathematics. He intends on obtaining a graduate degree in mathematics from Purdue University – Calumet to pursue his passions of education with a career in academia. Additionally, William has over ten years software development and engineering experience. Contact him at obermeyer@calumet.purdue.edu.Rahul Singhal, Purdue

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho

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Design in Engineering Education

between the students’ state at the courseentry and the desired program outcomes can be achieved. This paper addresses the naturalintegration of a capstone course with its educational program from a logical perspective. Thisperspective goes beyond providing the "finishing touch" and mere “demonstration” to activelypursue the profile of an expert in the field as the logical outcome for the course and the program.IntroductionCapstone courses and experiences are the “culminating experiences in which students synthesizesubject-matter knowledge they have acquired, integrate cross-disciplinary knowledge, andconnect theory and application in preparation for entry into a career.1 Capstone courses areusually taken last in the sequence of courses at the end

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lyubov Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State University; Keith Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephen Johnston, North Carolina A&T State University

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Graduate Studies

to numerous reports ofthe need for engineering graduates with strong technical skills as well as a broader education,and (3) to emphasize to students that energy and environmental technology decisions are drivenby economic considerations.The two course sequence EES 810 (Theory and Practice of Energy and EnvironmentalEconomic Policy Analysis) and EES 811 (Application of Energy and Environmental EconomicPolicy Analysis) are the starting point for the thread of economic analysis that runs throughoutthe EES course of study. This part of the EES curriculum is designed to provide students withsome basic economic analysis tools that can be used throughout their career to analyze energyand environmental technologies not just in terms of technology

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Amir Javaheri, Virginia State University; Stephen S. Tompkins, Virgina State University; Keith Williamson, Virginia State University

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Manufacturing

State University developed a curriculum that providesstudents with balanced coverage of ABET and the University core requirements. The programoutcomes have been adopted considering the University and school mission, program objectives,(a) through (k) defined by Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), andspecific outcomes for manufacturing engineering as defined by the Society of ManufacturingEngineering (SME).Our MANE program focuses on the areas of automation, quality, manufacturing process,engineering analysis and manufacturing design to prepare students for successful careers inmanufacturing engineering and allied professions. This paper presents a brief description of themajor components of our assessment that fulfill the

Conference Session

FPD1 - Early Success and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Robert Green, Mississippi State University

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First-Year Programs

about their particular degree program(s). These aregenerally 20 minute lectures by the department head but some departments also have studentstalk about their experiences in the cooperative education program. Approximately 25 minutes peracademic major is allocated and speakers are encouraged to focus on the types of things thatstudents will do with that major after they graduate. Guest speakers are asked not to talk aboutthe degree requirements but instead to focus on the types of experiences students will have in thework force following graduation. In addition, a representative from the Career Services officepresents the final lecture in the course after all engineering majors have been presented. Thisspeaker gives students information on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Becker, Montana State University

AC 2008-777: WEAVING A MICROWAVES THREAD THROUGH THECURRICULUMJames Becker, Montana State University Dr. Becker is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Montana State University. His research and teaching interests include microwave circuits, radio frequency electronics and nanoelectronics. He is a 2004 recipient of the NSF CAREER award. Page 13.1393.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Weaving A Microwaves Thread Through The CurriculumAbstractA set of educational materials being spread across the electrical and computer engineeringcurriculum at Montana State

Conference Session

Student Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Rachel Reed, Calvin College; Crystal Bruxvoort, Calvin College; Neil Carlson, Calvin College

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Educational Research and Methods

., & Dantzler, J. (2002). Effect of a freshman engineering program on retention and academic performance [Electronic version]. Proceedings - Frontiers in Education 32nd Annual, 3, S2C-16-S2C-22.11. Blaisdell, S. L., & Cosgrove, C. R. (1996). A theoretical basis for recruitment and retention interventions for women in engineering. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference.12. Marra, R. M., Moore, C., Schuurman, M., & Bogue, B. (2004). Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE): assessment results on women engineering uvwfgpvuÓ beliefs. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference.13. Betz, N. E., & Hackett, G. (1981). The relationship of career-related

Conference Session

Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Ronald Welch, The University of Texas-Tyler; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; Norman Dennis, University of Arkansas; Debra Larson, Northern Arizona University; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University; Tonya Nilsson, San Jose State; Jim O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers; Thomas Lenox, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

in San Jose. She was previously an Associate Professor at California State University, Chico. She is a registered Professional Engineer in California. Tonya earned her Bachelor's degree in Architectural Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, her Master's in Structural Engineering from Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in Structural Mechanics from University of California at Davis.Jim O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers Jim O’Brien has over 32 years of experience as a leader, team builder, and manager in diverse professional and academic environments. During his 26-year military career in the US Army Corps of Engineers, he spent 13

Conference Session

Service Courses for Non-Engineers

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Vince Bertsch, Santa Rosa Junior College; Kate Disney, Mission College; Elsa Garmire, Dartmouth College; Barbara Oakley, Oakland University; Mary Rose, Ball State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

between theNAE and ITEA approaches, but first we review other related work in this area.Engineering and Technology Courses for Non-Engineers.The engineering education community has begun developing a broader scope, becoming activebeyond its traditional boundaries. Engineers have embraced the need to increase the awarenessand understanding of engineering as a career by initiating a number of programs aimed at the K-12 audience. A recent example is the American Society for Engineering Education’s (ASEE)publication, Engineering Go For It,[9] and a website [10] aimed at a K-12 students and teachers.Most major engineering societies now have outreach activities for K-12 [11-14]; meanwhile,ITEA is working to develop program and assessment standards, and