Conference Session

Professional Practice and AEC Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud Alahmad, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Patrick Wheeler, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Avery Schwer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Dale Tiller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Andrea Wilkerson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Joshua Eiden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Architectural

addressed student learning and exposure to re-search while concurrently addressing energy conservation. The collaborative project allowedthe expertise of University of Nebraska professors and students to be utilized in combinationwith the Omaha Public Power District’s (OPPD) financial and customer base support. Therelationships built enriched student learning by providing real world engineering experiences.The students refined their research, communication, and presentation skills by interactingwith and presenting engineering solutions to a wide range of professionals, engineering stu-dents, and the community. The students worked closely with professors to prepare profes-sional documents, analyze data, and develop future research plans. Student

Conference Session

Engineering Courses for Non-engineers

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Bishop, United States Naval Academy

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

ofteninstructive to show independent locations for relevant social groups (young people vs. elderly,Americans vs. Europeans, techno-geeks vs. Luddites, etc.). All technologies proposed andinvestigated by students during the course are mapped on these coordinates for relevant socialgroups, and plans for, or analysis of, their trajectory in these coordinates are discussed. Technological Integration X Nuclear Weapons X Air bags High X Cell phones X Traffic Cameras POLICE STATE TECHNO-UTOPIA

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace & Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey; Yu-Ling Cheng, University of Toronto

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International

to self-regulate and plan ahead when it comes to critical thinking. Thesedimensions reflect the two main ideas discussed earlier in the paper around criticalthinking: cognitive tools, and the disposition for critical thinking.Using their framework, and what we’ve learned through our research about globalengineering, we are proposing a tool for making the critical thinking around globalengineering more explicit. Page 14.1191.8Table 1: Intellectual HabitsHabits demonstrated by a global engineer in any project, activity or discussionIntellectual Curiosity The global engineer actively seeks perspectives beyond borders, such as knowledge

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Nelson, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University

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Educational Research and Methods

primary areas of the study (transfer of procedural and conceptualknowledge of sequence and series, design of in-class formative assessment), several relevantquestions emerge for continuing research. Further analysis in students’ transfer of mathematicalknowledge will consider additional problems in order to more clearly understand how thestudents work with multiple variables as well as moving between the frequency and timedomains in signals and systems. In addition to examining a wider range of problems, we plan tocorrelate in-class problem performance with students’ performance on related exam questionsand class projects. Further study in design of formative assessments will investigate the role ofthe instructor and how to best construct and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth Tadepalli, University of Texas, Austin; Cameron Booth, University of Texas, Austin; Mitchell Pryor

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New Engineering Educators

associate procrastination with individual values and learning Page 14.589.4routines. They assert that people with planned daily tasks deal with procrastinationconstructively and better than unstructured individuals. Analyzing students' value orientationsand interpersonal relationships, the authors present statistical evidence of academicprocrastination levels and their dependence on motivational conflicts. They conclude that valueorientations and conflicts do affect procrastination levels in an academic setting. Akinsola andothers5 note a statistical correlation between procrastination levels and achievement inmathematics. The authors further deduce

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Borchers, Kettering University; Sung Hee Park, Kettering University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

.255 .529 .323 .157 .176 Reduce risk/uncertainty 3 .217 .186 .207 .487 .304 Perform strategic planning 3 .025 .388 .503 .224 .164 Manage time by setting goals 3 .150 .059 .807 .021 -.004 Est/achieve goals & obj 3 .227 .045 .800 .107 .257 Define org roles/resp/policy 3 .173 .072 .736 .131 .186 Take calculated risks 4 .265 .122 .268 .183 .639

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Hulme, State University of New York, Buffalo; Edward Kasprzak, Milliken Research Associates; Kenneth English, State University of New York, Buffalo; Deborah Moore-Russo, State University of New York, Buffalo; Kemper Lewis, State University of New York, Buffalo

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Heyer-Gray, University of California, Davis; Jean McKenzie, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Ngo, University of California, Berkeley; Karen Andrews, University of California, Davis; Emily Stambaugh, California Digital Library

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Engineering Libraries

either UC Berkeley orUC Davis depending on such factors as pre-existing holdings at NRLF or more completeholdings for titles. As holdings for most titles actually tend to be identical between the twocampuses, communicating in advance with the other campus about which titles are beingprepared for storage has become key to the process. The wiki serves as the storehouse of theproject proposal, the work plan, group agendas, meeting notes, and working documents and iscurrently restricted to the IEEE Operations Shared Print working group. Some of the workingdocuments include IEEE titles sent or currently being worked on, shared print titles with gaps,and processing procedures/forms to name but a few. The more up to date the lists are kept, theless

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Katherine Titus-Becker, North Carolina State University; Heather Smolensky-Lewis, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

connections ≠ Need to build beginning College of Engineering identity ≠ Delivering coping mechanisms/armoring students against discouragements of first year ≠ Importance of parents to college successThe above focus areas were further refined by seeking support in education literature and thendefining specific actions and/or content for camp sessions to directly address areas of desiredemphasis. The table below lists some of the camp content connected with the relevant research.The first column lists the research or experience-related background. The center column lists thecamp goal that was written by the planning committee to address that idea, and the last columnlists the camp session and/or content that was designed to address the goal

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverley Pickering-Reyna, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Minorities in Engineering

• Creating new materials (e.g., fax cover page, brochures) Page 14.277.6• Involving incoming freshmen early in student groups, mentoring, and tutoring ASEE Topic: Undergraduate Retention and Development• Planning a newsletter to address diversity issues in education• Connecting upper class students with ECSE III studentsAfter orientation, students explored topics common to nine E/CS disciplines (Civil, Computer,Materials, Mechanical, Electrical, Environmental, Industrial, and Transportation Engineeringplus Computer Science). They worked with nanotechnology and chemical engineering. Theprogram

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics, Academic Integrity

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Engineering Ethics

Ethics. 10 (2), 311-324.7. Crown, D. F. and M.S. Spiller. 1998. Learning from the literature on college cheating: A review of empirical research. Journal of Business Ethics, 17, 683–700.8. Sims, R. L. 1993. The relationship between academic dishonesty and unethical business practices. Journal of Education for Business, March/April, 207–211.9. Hall, K.D. 2004. Student development and ownership of ethical and professional standards. Science and Engineering Ethics. 10 (2), 383-387. Page 14.952.1010. Harding, T.S., M.J. Mayhew, C.J. Finelli, D.D. Carpenter. 2007. The theory of planned behavior as a model of academic dishonesty

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Rocco Piccinino, Smith College

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Engineering Libraries

there remainboth political and logistical challenges in this effort, given the particularly packed nature of theengineering curriculum and a strong resistance to change within the profession.7Building on this literature, and with the support of a college-wide curriculum-integratedapproach to information literacy, we have established a sequenced information literacycurriculum for engineering. The college’s formal information literacy program began in2003/2004 with an initial focus on first-year, writing-intensive courses, followed bydepartmental adoption of discipline-specific, sequenced, curriculum-integrated informationliteracy programs. Prior to the initial discussions and planning for this program in 2002, therewas not a college-wide formal

Conference Session

Assessing Design Course Work

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oliver Platts-Mills, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Design in Engineering Education

Amount of funding for project o prior course work • team characteristics o existing knowledge level of o interdisciplinary or single discipline certain topics (from a pre-test) o size • prior engineering experience o MBTI/personality types • prior experience working on teams o Average GPA and GPA range • family background with engineering • project advisor characteristics • family background with attending college o project advisor / project advisor • career plans (e.g., grad school, department engineering job

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in CHE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Donald Orlich, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

attitudes in the desired direction. The class inwhich this module was used was also a senior level high school physics class. Thus it is likelythat the students in this class were already considering pursuing college level studies in a scienceor engineering field so that exposure to the module developed as part of this program may havehad a smaller effect than if the module had been used in a class with students who might be moreundecided on their future plans. Another interesting finding was the student responses on the survey given to them after Page 14.568.7the one-day testing session for the modules developed during the summer. In

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics, Academic Integrity

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shobi Sivadasan, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

MethodologyAbstractThis paper explores plagiarism through the system’s lens and takes you on a journeythrough the complex world of plagiarism using the tools of Boardman’s Soft SystemsMethodology (BSSM) to bring deeper insights into how plagiarism has proliferated theacademic landscape. In a recent survey of 11 universities across the United States, DonaldMcCabe of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, showed that plagiarism is agrowing phenomenon on campuses that, with the evolution of technology, is continuing togrow at an exponential rate. By applying the methods of systems thinking, we plan topresent a deeper insight into this growing epidemic. Using BSSM as our lens andSystemigrams (i.e. Systemic Diagrams) as our modeling approach, we will map

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Carlos Gomez, University of Texas, Pan American

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Mechanical Engineering

Energy, v 28, n 3, March, p 345-362[7] Corbyn, Andrew. 2007. Small wind-turbine community-based renewable energy systems in the Philippines. Wind Engineering, v 31, n 5, p 353-361[8] Piggott, Hugh. How to build a wind turbine? The axial flux windmill plans. 2005. Page 14.523.11 10[9] Ogawa, K.; Yamamura, N.; Ishda, M. 2006. Study for small size wind power generating system using switched reluctance generator. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, p 1510-1515[10] Amano, Yoko; Kajiwara, Hiroyuki. 2006. Maximum output power control for variable- speed small

Conference Session

Implementation of Experiments in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Gray, Texas Tech

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Manufacturing

one alternative if appropriate. As mentioned earlier in thepaper, this particular dilemma occurred at Wichita State University within their MechanicalEngineering program. They were able to solve the lab and equipment shortages by enlisting thehelp and support of Wichita Area Technical College (WATC) who had very strong hands-on andapplications oriented manufacturing programs. Working with the WATC instructors, the WSUprofessors were able to formulate a plan to ensure their students would be provided with themandated hands-on manufacturing experiences in the areas of machining, welding andcomposites. The course was submitted to and approved by the Kansas Board of Regents and inthe spring of 2007 the course was offered as an elective for the

Conference Session

Recruitment and Development of Minority Faculty

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ram Mohan, North Carolina A&T State University; Narayanaswamy Radhakrishnan, North Carolina A&T State University

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Minorities in Engineering

were planning to employ andintroduce these visualization tools in their work as well as in the classes they teach. The freewarenature of these visualization software resources makes it easier for their introduction to theclassroom and use by undergraduate students. These freeware resources were well received bythe participants and several indicated their interest in their introduction in their own courses.Programming for HPC/Multi-Processors: Hardware resources are no use without theapplication software that can optimally utilize all the hardware resources. As the hardwarecomplexity increases leading to better performance, an understanding of the parallelprogramming paradigms and the factors that influence their performance are critical

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Ressler, United States Military Academy; Michael Miller, United States Military Academy; Christa Chewar, United States Military Academy; Jean Blair, United States Military Academy

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Electrical and Computer

Page 14.794.8exposure to and practice with event-driven programming and design patterns, but also includinga significant software engineering design-build-test experience.The course being replaced, Advanced Programming, covered advanced programming conceptsincluding polymorphism, dynamic dispatching, and concurrency. It also provided, at theindividual student level, an initial opportunity for open-ended project work, requiring the fullsoftware development experience of identifying and articulating requirements, designing asolution to meet those requirements, designing an appropriate test plan, implementing thesolution from scratch, and validating its correctness using the test plan.The original course and also the new intracourse that replaced

Conference Session

Bridging the Gap and Freshman Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nelson Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Morley, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rick Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Mathematics

to: ≠ Identify students with both the interest and academic qualifications to pursue advanced calculus while still in high school; ≠ Provide a pedagogically sound distance delivered program to these high school students; and, ≠ Track and support the students in the program to be sure that they were successful.The planning team identified a variety of issues that needed to be addressed, including: ≠ Admissions requirements, and student status for high school distance education students; ≠ Pedagogical requirements for effective mathematics instruction and student support, including help sessions; ≠ Technology infrastructure requirements and related costs; ≠ Available communication infrastructures including

Conference Session

Topics in Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Queens University, Kingston

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Engineering Ethics

mental and physical experiences that are new, unique, or different. ≠ Intelligence: a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn.Affirming what we view as valuable at the outset requires that we clarify what we meanwhen we say we value someone or some idea. In essence what we are doing is clarifyingwhat we value, and why we value it. A process describing the guidelines of the valuesclarification approach was formulated by Simon et al.17Values change over time in response to changing life experiences. Recognizing thesechanges and understanding how they affect one's actions and behaviors is

Conference Session

Design, Build, Fly (DBF)/AIAA Student Competition/UA

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Rodrigue, Saint Louis University; David Safont, Saint Louis University; Alex Rees, Saint Louis University; Jim Maday, Saint Louis University; Francisco Vilaplana, Saint Louis University; Goetz Bramesfeld, Saint Louis University

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Aerospace

compatible with the code.8 Using the bundled hardware andsoftware package, only small alterations to the code are required for a particular aircraft, such asaircraft dimensions, terrain information, and flight plan. This on-board system in conjunctionwith the ground control station provides streaming data about aircraft position and basic control. The bundled package selected for the Bumblebee is the Twog V1 released in June 2008.9The Twog allows for a flexible airframe installation, instead of the GPS antennae being on thecontrol board itself, it can be connected via a cable from somewhere else on the airframe. Thishelps to delete any possible electronic interference with the GPS system. The Twog system uses6 orthogonal infrared sensors for

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dietmar Moeller, University of Hamburg; Hamid Vakilzadian, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Electrical and Computer

output correct?Following the requirements analysis and the internal consistency check, the specificationprocedure may start, that deals with the information needed for creating the architectural con-cept as well as determining the required components to meet the system functionality. Thespecification does not explain how the embedded system works, but it explain what theembedded system does.Describing how the embedded system integrates the functionality described in therequirements analysis is very important in choosing architecture of the embedded system. Thearchitectural concept is a plan on the overall structure of the embedded system for the designof the components that put the architecture in order. Such a design follows two modulardesign

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prakash Ranganathan, University of North Dakota; Richard Schultz, University of North Dakota

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Electrical and Computer

andcommunicate to any external prototype/other communicating instruments, which willhelp both the educators to develop any new lesson plans/projects and students to explorethese tools to learn electrical, programming, or other engineering concepts. The authors strongly believe that the future of NXT looks very promising and theuse of the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT brick is an effective way to introduce and teachthe concepts of any engineering field, certainly not restricted to electronic sensor circuitsand sensor applications but in areas such as robotics, logical programming, traditionalconcepts of mechanics, and much more. The authors strongly believe by incorporatingthese LEGO NXT kits into our freshmen engineering courses, we can promote

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aparajita Mazumder, Formerly Director of International Relations

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International

taught him, “how to accept another way of doing and seeing things.” At SiemensVariable Drives, Joel Hartter a University of Michigan double major in Mechanical Engineeringand German, worked in the area of product testing, design and production planning in the mainfacility that produced electric motors. While advancing his engineering skills, he learnt valuableglobal skills of adaptation, integration and intercultural communication. “I understand what ittakes to function abroad, adapt to another culture and communicate my ideas.”Self-discovery isan important experience in overseas experiential learning experience. The new confidence inproving that you can productively function in another culture, the inexplicable maturing thatoccurs in placing

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics V

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Oliver, University of Toledo

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Engineering Ethics

the Insider stated that: 3 “The Reactor Head was successfully cleaned yesterday, thanks to Andrew’s efforts…This is the first time in Davis-Besse’s history that the Reactor head has been cleaned. Andrew was a salesman to management… because he felt so strongly about the need to successfully clean the Reactor Head.”14 In 2001, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued NRC Bulletin 2001-01,requiring FENOC to report on the plans at Davis-Besse to detect cracking of the reactor head.Inspecting the reactor head would require shutting down the plant. Due to the high cost of such ashutdown, FENOC chose not to inspect

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Andrew Biaglow, United States Military Academy; David Chang, United States Military Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

class preparation and assignments. Since they comparenotes between instructors and help each other, the instructors are basically being watched byother students outside of the classroom. This heightens the instructors’ awareness to beconsistent and up to date.ChallengesIt is well documented in general literature on interdisciplinary teaching that the greatest hurdlefor the instructors is the time and energy required to work as a team.5-7 In this controlsengineering course with application to electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering, theinstructors agree that deliberate time management and planning are essential. Schedulingmeetings between faculties of three different departments is more difficult, but a committedteaching team can make

Conference Session

New Research on Retention of URM Groups in STEM

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Anna Wong Lowe, University of Oklahoma; Susan Walden, University of Oklahoma

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Minorities in Engineering

prohibition against complaining about unequal treatment based on race. This isanother facet of the model minority stereotype7, 18. Like many members of the dominant society,many Asian Americans want to believe in racial equality. Each wave of Asian immigrantsbelieves that they will be treated better than previous immigrants and will escape discrimination,even though that plan of working hard, getting educated, and adopting belief systems of thedominant culture7 has not consistently worked for previous waves19. Assimilation is moredifficult for immigrants with identifiable phenotypes or different cultural systems. When thedesire to believe in racial equality conflicted with experiences of participants, most participantsclung to the promise of racial

Conference Session

Issues and Opportunities in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University; Cathy Hall, East Carolina University; Michael Bosse, East Carolina University; David Batts, East Carolina University; Laurie Moses, East Carolina University

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Industrial Engineering

education and careers in STEM fields. Theprogram provided a rich learning environment centered on problem-solving, understanding of theintegration and interrelatedness of STEM fields, and an understanding of fulfilling statecurriculum standards in mathematics and science through hands-on projects and investigations inSTEM topics.Affective Instructional EnvironmentsIn developing the curricular plan for the summer academy, the participating faculty stronglysupported an integrated curriculum conjoining the areas of mathematics, science, andtechnology.11 The traditional disjointedness of mathematics, science, and technology instructionechoes an unrealistic view of the world. Today, interdisciplinary understanding is needed tosolve technical problems

Conference Session

Panel: Forming an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Mills, University of South Australia; Judith Gill, University of South Australia; Suzanne Franzway, University of South Australia; Rhonda Sharp, University of South Australia

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Women in Engineering

stage that the realityof a feminist multidisciplinary collaboration is most apparent. The language and concepts that weuse have to be shared and interpreted at the same time as we are seeking to push the boundariesof the analysis of the research problem itself. Our discussions and analysis are also shaped by ourneed to be aware of the different audiences for our work. We share our knowledge andunderstandings in order to position our work in relation to funding bodies, academic orprofessional engineers, our own professional conferences, national and international journals.Negotiating knowledgesWe want to stress that collaborative approaches require a considerable investment of time.Agreements must be forged over the initial planning, the written