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Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tuba Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

How to Get Published: Tips from Journal Editors

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

Konseyi(MDK). The journal focuses exclusively on scholarly educational research in engineering Page 15.656.3education. We offer a large international readership and a highly cited archive. Its articles covera wide range of subjects including what knowledge and competencies engineers must possessand how they are learned and assessed, how educational methods, materials, infrastructure, andfaculty affect learning, and how to attract, engage, and retain diverse human talent to engineeringDr. Susan Lord directs the Optoelectronics Laboratory at USD. Her research interests are in theareas of optoelectronics and materials. She has worked as a Research

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Fridley, University of Alabama

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Civil Engineering

follow: Core Curriculum: The university has a core curriculum requirement which includes 6 semester credit hours of freshman composition (FC), 6 credit hours of “writing within the curriculum” in 300- and 400-level courses (W), 9 credit hours of humanities, literature, and fine arts (HU/L/FA), 9 credit hours of history and social and behavioral sciences (HI/SB), a 6 credit-hour depth (or sequence) study in a discipline in either HU/L/FA or HI/SB, 12 credit hours of natural science (NS) and mathematics (MA) to include 2 credit hours of laboratory (mathematics must be at the calculus I level or higher), and either 6 credit hours of foreign language (FL) or computer (C) in addition to the HU/L/FA requirement (FL courses can count

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ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Grant, North Carolina State University; Jessica Decuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University; Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University

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Women in Engineering

of twenty-two African American women engineering faculty was held to discuss the challenges andbarriers that affect the tenure and promotion process. The discussion led to the identification ofsix significant factors affecting successful attainment of tenure for Black women faculty inparticular. The most important factor identified by the senior faculty within the group waseffective mentoring. Other factors included support of the home department, community support,and existing laboratory infrastructure. While there were no real surprises from this survey, thelack of resources to follow-up with the group to effect change caused this initiative to go intohibernation. (It should be noted that Dr. Mead was a member of the Leadership Task Force

Conference Session

Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College; Christopher Ruebeck, Lafayette College; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University

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Environmental Engineering

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Enhancing K-12 STEM Education with Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Taylor Martin, University of Texas, Austin; Tom Benton, University of Texas, Austin; William McKenna, University of Texas, Austin; Pat Ko, University of Texas at Austin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, is particularly urgent in Texas becauseof a 2006 legislative decision requiring all high school students, beginning with those 15.1277.9who entered ninth grade in 2007, to complete four years of science to graduate under thestate’s default degree plan. This fourth year of science, which must be laboratory-based,may be selected from existing courses in anatomy/physiology, astronomy, advancedbiology, chemistry and physics, environmental systems and research/design, or may be anew course in space science or a new course in engineering. In schools offering anengineering option, this new initiative will put enormous pressure on secondary

Conference Session

Learning By Doing in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Golter, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washington State University; Gary Brown, Washington State University; David Thiessen, Washington State University; Baba Abdul, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

-Hill, Inc., New York, NY.Hagen, K. D., “Heat Transfer with Applications” Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999.Rolle, K. C., “Heat and Mass Transfer” Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000.Leinhard and Leinhard, “A Heat Transfer Textbook, 3rd ed.” free on-line athttp://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.htmlInstructional Laboratory Supervisor Paul B. Golter: 5-9634; email: pgolter@wsu.eduLecturer Baba Abdul: e-mail: davab@wsu.edu, 5-9625Course Details Page 15.1062.17Grading: Project 60% (Group); Case study 10% (Group), Homework 20% (Individual), Final DesignAnalysis (10%). The part of your grade arising from group work will be

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Chris Groscurth, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

(Entrepreneur, etc.) 5 (50%) 44 (33%) Government (Politician, Science Policy Advocate, etc.) 3 (30%) 16 (12%) Industry (Engineer/Research Scientist) 10 (100%) 114 (84%) Research Laboratory (Engineer/Research Scientist) 7 (70%) 67 (50%) Other (please specify) 0 (0%) 3 (2%) *Responses obtained from a survey sent to the 272 GSIs in the College of Engineering in Fall 2009 (~50% response rate)Since EGSMs are advanced doctoral students (many of whom have reached candidacy), whoalso have in-depth training and experience related to effective college teaching, consulting

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Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan Castilleja, The Boeing Company; Rachel Jackson, Rice University; Natalia Salies, Rice University; Brent Houchens, Rice University

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Minorities in Engineering

school students by providing a design project to work on for 5-7 weeksduring or after school, each academic semester. The students build and learn about physics andengineering principles with their college mentors. The design project provides a naturalmechanism to spur a mentoring relationship. After the mentorship sessions, mentees demonstratehow their designs fulfill the design requirements via a competition held during DREAM Day.DREAM Day takes place at the end of the program and includes lectures and panel discussionson financial aid policies, tours of engineering laboratories, and information on STEM careers.Many of the students do not realize the opportunities that engineering and college present tothem, but when the Rice mentors inform

Conference Session

Educational Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; David Knight, The Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Curriculum, Course, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program of theNational Science Foundation, the P360 research effort examines the curricular, pedagogical,cultural, and organizational features that support undergraduate engineering education that iswell-aligned with the goals of the National Academy of Engineering’s Engineer of 202012. (Anadditional goal of this study is to identify educational practices that facilitate the success ofwomen and minority students in engineering.)Our findings reveal how engineering faculty and administrators implicitly and explicitly defineinterdisciplinarity. After demonstrating the different, sometimes conflicting, understandings ofthe term, we comment on the conceptualization of interdisciplinarity that guided

Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Continuing Professional Development

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Monica Elser, Arizona State University; Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Jay Golden, Ph.D., is a faculty member in ASU’s School of Sustainability and codirector of the; James Middleton, Arizona State University; Sharon Robinson Kurpius

and Practice presented students with a series of projects over a year longinformal experience. In our case, learners were presented with engineering design problemswhere solutions are achieved via an actual project. Participants had access to a wide range ofresources that included human and content rich media, Arizona State University art museum andengineering laboratories, the Phoenix Zoo, the Arizona Science Center, a number of differenttypes of hardware and software technologies. The project therefore is the culmination of thelearning process, and the solution is the finished product21,22,23,24. Using a project-challenge thatis analogous to complicated tasks encountered in today’s STEM workplaces, student teams wereconfronted with a

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randal Abler, Georgia Tech; James Krogmeier, Purdue University; Aaron Ault, Purdue University; Julia Melkers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tamara Clegg, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

various and sometimes unexpected ways: New computer hardware allows not only higher speed computers but also smaller, lightweight devices such as PDA’s and cell phones. New applications bring not only new or better services (voice/video over IP, etc.) but also new challenges as well as malicious applications such as viruses and email spam, which have become commonplace.James Krogmeier, Purdue University James V. Krogmeier received the BSEE degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1981 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983 and 1990, respectively. From 1982 to 1984 he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

ispresented in the following list. Items referenced with [29] are quoted from the THE ThomsonReuters Survey and those with [31] from the ARWU.1. Financial indicators a. Income from research grants and awards (may be intramural or external) [29] Page 15.1008.14 b. Total expenditures [29] c. Income from teaching [29] d. Analysis of income sources (government, private, competitive, industry) [29] e. Analysis of expenditures (staff salaries, teaching, reserch, library, real estate) [29] f. The size of the resource supporting the program i) Size of the endowment ii) Number and state of equipment of the laboratories and facilities