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Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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College-Industry Partnerships

AC 2010-289: PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS: A REQUIREMENT FORGRADUATIONJohn Marshall, University of Southern Maine John Marshall received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is the Internship Coordinator for the Department at the University of Southern Maine. His areas of specialization include Power and Energy Processing, Applied Process Control Engineering, Applied Automation Engineering, Fluid Power, and Facility Planning. Page 15.989.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Professional Internships as a

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in Engineering Technology Education & Administration: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Robert Strangeway, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Edward Chandler, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Engineering Technology

) is a field of study which focuses on the applications of engineering and modern technology, rather than the theoretical.What does ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) say? ABET describesthe difference between engineering and engineering technology as: "Engineering and technologyare separate but intimately related professions. They differ on the basis of: ≠ “Engineering undergraduate programs include more mathematics work and higher level mathematics than technology programs. ≠ Engineering undergraduate programs often focus on theory, while technology programs usually focus on application. ≠ Once they enter the workforce, engineering graduates typically spend their time planning, while

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Electrical and Computer

of early fostering of communication and collaboration skills that are seen by industry as paramount and essential for team based software development [27]. With PBL, students will work as a team, which mirrors the professional behavior of software developers. As a result, students’ teamwork and leadership skills will be developed or improved. 4. Life-long learning is a necessity for software developers due to the rapidly and continually changing nature of the IT industry. PBL can develop students’ self- learning capability, which can help them keep abreast of multicore computing and other new technology.4. Apply PBL to the Multicore Programming Course I plan to apply the guided problem-based

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Focus on Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, AZ State University

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Women in Engineering

in graduate school in engineeringor computer science at ASU, the student is supported for a maximum of four semestersby a second CIRC program funded by an NSF S-STEM grant (#0728695).Through the CIRC/METS program, transfer students in the Fulton Schools ofEngineering can apply for and receive a $4,000 scholarship per academic year. Therequirements for the scholarship include: U.S. citizenship or permanent residency, full-time student in engineering or computer science, a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0, andunmet financial need according to FAFSA. Each semester six workshops are held withmultiple meeting times for each. The topics include the “Guaranteed 4.0 Plan”14,resumes, interviews, how to use computer data bases for research papers

Conference Session

Robotics in Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

mobile robot programming for ER1 Mobile Robot49Universidad Catolica autonomous navigationde ChileAugsburg College CS course on robot history and theory Robix Manipulator, instructor- created vehicle50Course FormatThe first offering of the IMR course was in spring 2007 and it quickly became apparent that theproposed topics were too ambitious. The topics included simulation, actuators, effectors,locomotion, kinematics, sensors, control, navigation, localization, path planning, computervision, image processing, human-robot interaction and GUI design. The problem was that someof these topics were entire courses in themselves (i.e. computer vision, human-robot

Conference Session

Classroom Engagement

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University; Colin Neill, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

to single individuals,”6. Furthermore, the team itself performs cognitive tasks inthat “they detect and recognize pertinent cues, make decisions, solve problems, rememberrelevant information, plan, acquire knowledge, and design solutions or products as an integratedunit.”7. This is not to say, however, that team cognition is a natural outcome of working on ateam. In fact, it requires a lot of effort and is a distinguishing feature of high-performance teams8 . Team members come with differing perspectives, backgrounds, and expectations and from thisdiversity a shared mental model must emerge9.An individual’s mental model is an “internal conceptual representation of an external systemwhose structure maintains the perceived structure of that

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Snyder, Taylor University; Joshua Gates, Taylor University; Lydia Kilmer, Taylor University; Emily Paladin, Taylor University

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Educational Research and Methods

area that needed to be changed in the next workshop. The workshop organizersthen ranked the changes that needed to be made according to their priority for change and thendesignated people were responsible for making changes for the next workshop. This processprovided a continual improvement plan for the workshops and a second source of data for ourholistic assessment of changes in the faculty that attended the workshop.Focus groups At the closing banquet each university was asked to give their perspective on threequestions. The first question asked what was the most important thing they had gained from theworkshop; the second question asked them to indicate in what class they were planning onimplementing the program; and the third

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

growth requiresthoughtful planning.” Almost all leading colleges and universities have recognized this fact andcontinuously participating in an ongoing discussion on assessment. Therefore, one recognizesthe fact that any strategic plan for continuous ongoing assessment should have a clear vision ofwhat the university needs to assess and how the process will be implemented. In reality, themethodology used in designing a continuous assessment plan should actually direct and raisequestions about the significance and effectiveness of instructional delivery techniques. Gregorc Page 15.215.2and Ward (1977) are of the opinion that instructors should

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Implementing the CE BOK into Courses and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering

information from this assignment revealed student attitudes aboutcivil engineering. The course included additional assignments on sustainability (2009 only),ethics, a team West Point Bridge Designer project, a curriculum plan to graduation at CU with aB.S. in CVEN, a paper on a significant event or structure related to civil engineering (such as theThree Gorges Dam, the flooding in New Orleans from hurricane Katrina, etc.), and a shortsummary of a professional society meeting that they attended (such as ASCE or AGC). In thefinal assignment of the semester the students wrote a reflective essay that instructed them to statewhether or not they planned to remain a civil engineering major and why/why not. The studentswere also instructed to comment on

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Simin Hall, College of Engineering at Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech; Sam Conn, Virginia Tech

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Mechanical Engineering

and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech. Her research interests include work-life spillover among faculty and issues confronting underrepresented groups in the STEM fields. Catherine has served as the Coordinator of Special Projects for the Office of the Provost at Virginia Tech focusing on faculty work-life issues, diversity efforts, excellence in undergraduate education, and coordinating university planning activities and served as a doctoral intern with the State Council of Higher Education.Sam Conn, Virginia Tech Prior to joining Virginia Tech's Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning as Director, Sam served as Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Information

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CE Capstone: Innovations in Learning & Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler; Michael McGinnis, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

to fulfill (demonstrate accomplishment of) an expanded list of equally desirablefuture CE program outcomes.7 Since the CE Program at UT Tyler could not properlyassess either ABET a-k or their own nine outcomes as written (multiple requirementslumped under a single outcome; i.e., mathematics, science, and engineering science inABET outcome 3.a as well as in UT Tyler PO 1 in Table 1), the outcomes were brokeninto a larger number of smaller outcomes for their assessment plan. This type ofexpansion of outcomes is mirrored in the BOKII outcomes such that ABET Outcome 3ais broken into three separate outcomes.The UT Tyler CE curriculum (Figure 1) provides a broad undergraduate experience asenvisioned by the Body of Knowledge (BOKI) and implied in

Conference Session

Engineering Collaboration: Faculty & Student in K-12 Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly Anthony; Josh Price; Joe Harris

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

number of male and female students with a variety of learning Page 15.711.4challenges, including students that qualify for (Individualized Education Plans) IEPs and thosewho are English Language Learners (ELLs). There were also a number of students that were ator below grade level in mathematics and who have had limited success in previous educationalsettings.This Legacy Cycle was written to be used in Grades 9–12, but could easily be modified for usein Grades 6–8. The students were not expected to have prior knowledge for the project––in factmost of the students had never been exposed to the terms introduced during the lesson.The Legacy Cycle

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Diane Rover, Iowa State University; Mack Shelley, Iowa State University

technology. The rest of the total of 21 creditscan be filled from the approved class list, including 2nd-year, 3rd-year, 4th-year, andgraduate-level classes. Each engineering department is to offer classes in their field forsuch requirements. For this study the graduate educator will be helping teach the threeintroductory classes.The Graduate Educator: Future Faculty in EngineeringWe utilize a set of bright, eager-to-learn, and energetic graduate students to teach theseclasses. These students are selected from among those who are planning to be ineducation and become future engineering faculty. These students are likely to haveopportunities to teach technical classes within their department or their program. Thatexperience is very valuable and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Samples, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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New Engineering Educators

an optimization of thelearning experience that balances the needs of students and faculty alike.New faculty members entering the classroom for the first time have several daunting tasksincluding: teaching, research, service, and grantsmanship. The need for self-discipline and timemanagement was clearly established by Samples but the execution of the plan that results in abalance is always in question since it varies from person to person. Some faculty members cometo the classroom with a charge to be a great teacher and are challenged to use many of thestudent-centered techniques described in the literature. It may be expected that they areimmediately successful in implementing paradigm shifts within colleges and schools that taketeaching

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jayathi Raghavan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Hong Liu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Mathematics

students mentioned above whose academic backgrounds aresignificantly different, 2) to customize a curriculum that will enable the students in dual major tocomplete the degree within one additional year without compromising the integrity of theprogram, and 3) to offer an innovative curriculum so as to attract students to this new degreeprogram under tight budget constraints. In this paper, we discuss how we plan to address some ofthe issues through the design of our unique undergraduate Computational Mathematicscurriculum. Page 15.160.2BackgroundFaculty at our institution has been active in research related to Computational Sciences for manyyears

Conference Session

BIM and Other New Construction Practices

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Korman, California Polytechnic State University; Lonny Simonian, California Polytechnic State University

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Construction

Page 15.1320.3tasks encountered in the delivery process for construction projects9.In the past, there has been a wide variation in the level of technology used in the MEP coordinationprocess. At the low-tech end of the spectrum, specialty contractors drafted plan-views ontranslucent media and prepare section-views when necessary. At the other extreme, progressivecontractors have used three-dimensional (3-D) computer-aided-design (CAD) software to improvethe process. With the recent development of BIM technology software, the process has gravitatedtoward the use of BIM technology as BIM is becoming standard practice now for large-scaleprojects and is able to provide more efficient coordination, scheduling, and cost estimating.BIM has been

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in ET Education & Administration: Part III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Terri Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University; Adrie Koehler, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Damon Hathaway, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Kelly Keelen, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

and activities thatimpact student graduation from our programs. Specific activities were inventoried, analyzed, andevaluated based on the utility and effectiveness of various parts of the process that lead to desiredresults. The Task Force communicated to and involved other school stakeholders in its importantwork. Key outcomes included strategies and recommendations to guide implementation efforts tomaintain, enhance, or improve school-based activities that contribute to student success.This paper describes the purposes, processes, and perspectives associated with this planning andimprovement initiative. Each component of GREAT will be explained, and examples of bestpractices and indicators of performance will be identified. How to involve

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ECET: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Land, Penn State University - New Kensington

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Engineering Technology

managethe development of a prototype exam. The contract was officially in place in late 2007.Exam Development ProcessWith funds in hand, a five person project management team representing the Association, theIEEE, and the SME was assembled, and the team, under direction of the SME, fashioned aproject plan that would produce a prototype exam in approximately one year. The plan includedfive major elements: Recruitment of members of the ECETDHA to serve as content experts, Development of a „body of knowledge‟ defining the field or electrical/electronic technology, Generation of exam questions covering „body of knowledge‟ topics, Independent review of questions for accuracy, appropriateness, and difficulty, and Exam

Conference Session

Newly Developed Engineering Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-1462: PROPOSED FRESHMEN EXPERIENCE COURSEThomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central Page 15.1006.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Proposed Freshmen Experience CourseAbstractThere are many college campus’s moving towards Freshmen Experience courses as part of aGeneral Education. While at first glance this may appear appropriate “on paper”, a one size fits allapproach does not seem logical for such varied plans of study. Each college places academicemphasis in different areas. This makes a “one size fits all” approach to a freshman experiencecourse weak as the expectations that the faculty will have of their students will vary with

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine Scott, Seattle Pacific University; Hannah Azevedo, Seattle Pacific University

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Two Year College Division

graduation.To pair up Scholars with appropriate Industrial Mentors, we asked each Scholar to write a shortstatement about their engineering interests and plans. We then tried to match students withIndustrial Mentors most closely connected with their interests. Before each advisory boardmeeting (held in the early evenings), we schedule a short “Meet & Greet” function between thementors and the ECASE Scholars. The aim here is to provide a relaxed meeting environmentthrough efficient use of the Industrial Mentor’s time. Mentors and mentees are also welcome andencouraged to meet or exchange e-mails at their own convenience.So far, we have had mixed results of this program in its second year. Overall, the dedication ofthe Mentors has been excellent

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hetal Jasani, Northern Kentucky University; Traian Marius Truta, Northern Kentucky University

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Graduate Studies

courses encompasses the variety of the CIT discipline. There aremany specializations possible and we plan to offer our students the opportunity to customize thisprogram according to their needs. The choice of electives also recognizes the potential of varyingbackgrounds of students entering the program. Our electives emphasize several areas which arerecognized as the main components of the CIT discipline: security, networking, systemadministration, web technology, and databases. This program is designed to provide the requiredskill sets in many of the mentioned areas. It is through the electives that the interdisciplinarybreadth of the program is implemented. Courses in business informatics as well ascommunication are weighted just as heavily as

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Aerospace

the plan to improve safety, shown by a reduced RPN. Specific recommendations arerecorded on the form along with the responsible person and planned date of completion. Duringthe improvement of the process, the team records the actual actions taken and recalculates theRPN. Process owner buy-in is critical to lasting process improvements. The process owner is the Page 15.1334.5person who is responsible for the process after the team has completed the improvements. Theteam works with the process owner to implement the process changes. The process owner mustensure that personnel are trained in the new methods and understand why the improvements

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salahuddin Qazi, SUNY Institute of Technology; Robert C Decker, Mohawk Valley Community College

interdisciplinary survey minor in nanotechnology≠ Wireless Communication Systems (ETC 421) contains elements of nanotechnology like radio frequency (RF) MEMS≠ Optical Communications (ETC 483). Contains elements of nanotechnology including optical MEMS. It one of the capstone courses for students of electrical engineering technology department.≠ The modules will also be extended to other courses including, Thin Film Technology, VLSI design, Manufacturing Processes, whenever they are offered. Web access is also planned to increase the usage.In the two-year program at MVCC, Introduction to Semiconductor Manufacturing (ET 289)course is included in the plan of study. Certain features and structures in semiconductors can

Conference Session

Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal Corbett, Louisiana Tech University; Galen Turner, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

strategies, providing an opportunityfor in-class competitions. These hands-on projects buildexcitement and foster the development of student confidenceand creativity.While careful planning ensures that this curriculum is not intimidating to teachers, it is importantthat the curriculum be rigorous and challenging. Additionally, the authors recognize that it mustbe appropriate for and within the grasp of high school students and must meet local and stateeducation standards. Collaborative partnerships developed with area high schools ensure that allof these conditions are met.The crucial component of implementing a project-based hands-on curriculum in schools is theteachers. Master teachers for the pilot curriculum were chosen from three schools that

Conference Session

Introducing Programming in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso

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First-Year Programs

programming skills that the students acquire through the degree plans. This is morecrucial to the Electrical Engineering area where we proposed this intervention. There are severalfactors that negatively affect our students, including the methodologies used to teach computerlanguages. The Computer Science department developed an introductory course in programmingtitled “Computational CS-Zero” (CCS0) or also called “Introductory Computational Systems”ICS5 used in the entering program4 that has shown its effectiveness in the past8, 9, 10 . Therefore,we proposed the modification of our engineering course incorporating some modules from CCS0and adding more relevance by applying the assignments to the simulation of electric circuits orother physical

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisa Clyne, Drexel University

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New Engineering Educators

Page 15.768.4implemented that incorporated development of skills in key areas for career development, astructured values-based approach to career planning, and instruction in scholarly writing. Mostparticipants enjoyed several key meaningful outcomes, including structured short- and long-termcareer planning; development of close, collaborative relationships; development of skills innegotiation and conflict management, scholarly writing, and oral presentation; and improvedsatisfaction linked to participants’ decisions to remain in academic medicine 19. These types ofmentoring models may produce organizational change that benefits men as well as women 17.Since 2003, the Drexel University College of Engineering has hired and retained 35 new

Conference Session

New Instrumentation Ideas

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Xavier Henry, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Dayvon Green, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

to such changes.The algal masses consume the dissolved oxygen for respiration leading to anoxic conditions inthe waters which in turn could result in massive fish kills and related organisms.4 The algalblooms are a strong indication of the overall health of a body of water in any region, and throughmonitoring the water quality of a specific ecosystem it becomes much easier to devise a waterquality management plan towards reversing or preventing the changes that are negativelyaffecting the region.5The monitoring of water quality using remote sensing was initiated in the 1970’s using earthresources technology satellite, later renamed Landsat1 (ERTS-1). Since then, the digitalevaluation of remotely sensed data has been widely used to estimate

Conference Session

Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Hadaway, Norwood High School; Megan Urbaitis, Norwood High School; Regina Lamendella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Andrea Burrows, The University of Cincinnati; Mike Borowczak, The University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati

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Environmental Engineering

mathematics and science classes. The up-front preparationoccurs in “Instructional Planning,” a formal three credit hour course offered by the College ofEducation, taught primarily by the Grant Coordinator (co-author) with support provided for aCollege of Education faculty member who is a Co-Principal Investigator on the grant. The courseaddresses a wide range of topics: STEM achievement standards, lesson and unit planning,instructional models of teaching, instructional management, the nature of students, skills ofconnecting with students at a personal level, understanding student cultures and respondingappropriately, and assessment or evaluation of student learning and instructional efforts. Thecourse is scheduled during the summer before the Fellows

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Burrows, The University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati; Mike Borowczak, The University of Cincinnati; Amr Safwat, The University of Cincinnati

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Graduate Studies

AC 2010-2158: IMPROVING FUTURE FACULTY WITH GRADUATEENGINEERING EDUCATIONAndrea Burrows, The University of CincinnatiAnant Kukreti, The University of CincinnatiMike Borowczak, The University of CincinnatiAmr Safwat, The University of Cincinnati Page 15.696.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Improving Future Faculty with Graduate Engineering EducationAbstractOne of the major missing links in today’s graduate engineering curriculum is the lack ofeffective preparation of students who plan on entering into academia upon graduation. Whileclasses exist to prepare future engineering faculty, these classes are often taught by currentfaculty members with limited breadth

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Mehrabian, University of Central Florida; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University; Alireza Rahrooh, University of Central Florida; Tarig Ali, University of Central Florida; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

studywhile we use statistical analysis in the later part of the paper. The data used are collected fromrecent sample courses in engineering and technology taught by the authors and their colleagues.We conclude that the currently available automated robust and effective online assessment toolsare significant in pedagogical assessment in engineering and technology. The results areconfirmed through our discussions with the colleagues having similar experience at some otherinstitutions of higher education. We plan to expand our database and revalidate our studythrough collaborative data-sharing efforts with our colleagues across the States in the near future.Introduction“Distance learning” and interchangeably used in this article “distance education