Conference Session

Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cameron Denson, Utah State University; Nathan Mentzer, Utah State University; Jodi Cullum, Utah State University

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 14.668.2NCETE Teacher Professional Development Positioning of the teacher as developer of lessons facilitates coherence with otherlearning activities occurring in each teacher’s classroom. Specifically, teachers can situate theengineering design concepts into their curriculum by crafting a lesson rather than attempting tofit a pre-packaged generic lesson into an existing and, perhaps, rigidly structured curriculum.The lesson development opportunities provide teachers with an active learning experience,wherein they first experience exemplary engineering design challenges as participants and thencreate design challenges. Formative feedback was provided by peer teachers and professionaldevelopers as the teachers developed the lessons

Conference Session

Learning as a Community

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Amanda Idema, Michigan State University; Cynthia Helman, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

in the same residence hall community, it is hoped that an academicallysupportive peer group will enhance the overall experience.Such integration does not come easily. A coordinated plan has been developed to join the Page 14.749.3Cornerstone Experience and the Residential Experience to address the challenges encountered bythe development and implementation teams. These issues include facility location andcomposition including design and construction, gender balancing in a residence hall withpredominantly engineering degree program students, segregating engineering students or mixingwith other majors on single residence hall floors, development

Conference Session

Retention Tools and Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University; Wolfgang Bauer, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Nathaniel Ehrlich, Michigan State University; John Courtney, Michigan State University; Ruth Heckman, Lansing Community College; Denise Fleming, Michigan State University; Louise Paquette, Lansing Community College; Renee Mickelson, Lansing Community College; Mark Urban-Lurain; Clifford Weil, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

, and in synergy with large-scale developments in the MSU College of Engineering.The two most salient developments that the EEES program articulates with are (a) a program toredefine the first year engineering experience and (b) a large scale program to expand our currentresidency program in undergraduate engineering to encompass most first year engineeringstudents. An important focus in both efforts is on community building for early engineeringstudents. These programs and the synergy with EEES will be described later in this paper.The four EEES components are: • a program of Supplemental Instruction for the key core courses taken by early engineering students. For local reasons, we call this subprogram “peer assisted learning

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Williams, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Tamara Knott, Virginia Tech; Karen Gilbert, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

following the design method taught in class.In this paper, the authors will describe the rationale, pedagogical choices, and administrativetasks involved in providing a design-related service learning experience for first-year students onsuch a large scale. Excerpts from students’ reflection essays are presented as anecdotal evidencethat the proposed program assisted students in achieving the course objectives and learningoutcomes.1. Offering a First Year Engineering Design Experience on a Large Scale1.1 Context: “Exploration of Engineering Design”The context for this paper is a required introductory course for first-year engineering students ofVirginia Tech. Virginia Tech is a large mid-Atlantic land-grant university; the engineeringcollege is its

Conference Session

Mathematics: Recruitment and Retention

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida; Cherie Geiger, University of Central Florida; Scott Hagen, University of Central Florida; Chris Parkinson, University of Central Florida; Alison Morrison-Shetlar, University of Central Florida; Tace Crouse, University of Central Florida; Paula Krist, University of Central Florida; Pat Lancey, University of Central Florida; Melissa Dagley-Falls, University of Central Florida; Pat Ramsey, University of Central Florida; Dahlia Forde, University of Central Florida; Anna Koufakou, University of Central Florida

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Mathematics

, Greece, in 1997, and her M.Sc. in Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, in 2000. She worked as a Software Engineer at LaserSight Technologies, Winter Park, Florida, until 2003. Anna has been a Computer Engineering Ph.D. Candidate at the School of EECS at UCF since 2004. She has been involved in several Machine Learning & Data Mining projects, such as mining of Law Enforcement Data (http://finder.ucf.edu). She has also mentored several undergraduate students for NSF-funded research projects. Her main research interests include Large-scale Data Mining, Parallel and Distributed Data Mining, Frequent Itemset Mining, Outlier Detection, Machine Learning, and

Conference Session

Issues of Persistence in Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Ohland, Purdue University; Michelle Camacho, University of San Diego; Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Russell Long, Purdue University; Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Mara Wasburn, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

AC 2009-705: HOW WE MEASURE SUCCESS MAKES A DIFFERENCE:EIGHT-SEMESTER PERSISTENCE AND GRADUATION RATES FOR FEMALEAND MALE ENGINEERING STUDENTSMatthew Ohland, Purdue University Matthew W. Ohland is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University and is the Past President of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida in 1996. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition. He studies longitudinal student records in engineering education, team-member effectiveness, and the implementation of high-engagement teaching methods.Michelle

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

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Civil Engineering

technology parks tolure back native talent and produce world-class companies. South Korea graduates nearly thesame number of engineers as the US though it has 1/6th the population and 1/20th the GDP. Ifthis continues the percentage of foreign doctoral recipients who stay in the U.S. may return to thelower 50% level that existed until 1992.Recognizing the needs identified above, the U.S. NSF established the Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU), to fund both summer and academic-year REU Sites. A REU Site isdesigned for engineering, science, and mathematics undergraduates who are U.S. citizens orpermanent residents. This paper documents REU Site programs implemented by the author asthe Project Director (PD) from 1992 to 2008 at two different

Conference Session

Panel: Effecting Change in Higher Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priscilla Nelson, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Theresa Hunt, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Cherrice Traver, Union College; Pamela Eibeck, Texas Tech; Zulma Toro-Ramos, Wichita State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Mary Roth, Lafayette College; delcie durham, University of South Florida

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Women in Engineering

“Changing the Conversation,” 2008, National Academy Press, Committee on Public Understanding of EngineeringMessages, http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12187Create a culture in engineering colleges that welcomes women. Successful female engineeringmajors have typically “fit in with the guys”. Until faculty and student peers welcome womenalong with their femininity, symbolized by the sorority girl wearing pink, capable young womenwill continue to reject engineering rather than redefine or reject their sense of self.Integrate successful retention models. Some retention efforts were identified as having positiveimpacts including cohort registration, mentoring, living-learning communities, high-qualityacademic advising services, undergraduate