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Muhammad Faysal Islam; Mohammed Nazrul Islam

science disciplines. Along withpreparing students for discipline-specific engineering courses, these remedial classes aim tobroaden their horizons and develop interdisciplinary skills for career success. However, neitherthe holistic views of interaction between different systems nor the complexity behind theirmanagement are provided to the engineering students. As a result, the engineering graduates veryoften find it challenging interacting and coordinating with different branches or sectors of theirworkplaces. It is important to mention that the number of engineering graduates pursuing careerin other disciplines are also increasing.Project management deals with planning and managing resources to implement real lifesolutions, and hence can

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Wenli Guo

education, wherethere are ample slots for additional students. City University of New York (CUNY) is nation'sleading urban public university serving more than 480000 students at 23 colleges andinstitutions in all five New York City boroughs. As a community college of CUNY located in themost desired city in the United States for Chinese students, what can we do to attract studentsfrom China? The Port of Entry (POE) program at Queensborough Community College is the bestsolution. POE is a unique intensive language development program designed to provideinternational students and new immigrants with the language skills, knowledge, and experiencenecessary to succeed in higher education and professional careers in the United States. Thisespecially works

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jumoke Ladeji-Osias; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; John Wheatland; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke

or career preparation and placement. The studentcommunity is cultivated through academic monitoring, mentoring, professional developmentand community building activities. Two kinds of mentoring relationships are encouraged; peermentoring between the graduate and undergraduate students and hierarchical mentoring betweenfaculty and graduate students to support community building, encourage academic excellenceand increase career preparation. The program involves two cohorts of approximately 11undergraduates each and five cohorts of about four graduate students each. In addition tofinancial need and citizenship criteria, other selection factors include academic performance,motivation, and calculus I enrollment (undergraduates).This paper will

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Martene Stanberry

“My First Year Teaching In a College Of Engineering” By Martene Stanberry, Ph.D. The first year of teaching as a faculty member in a College of Engineering provided mewith many opportunities for professional growth. It served as a time to set a foundation on how Iwill teach, do research, and serve the university and community in which I am a part. During thistime it was important to meet the challenges and expectations of the Department of MathematicalSciences, the College of Engineering, and Tennessee State University (TSU) as well as achievethe career goals and aspirations I had set for myself. There are several important factors to consider when making the transition to

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 Use an exit survey, university wide alumni survey that allows to add CM specific questions, and an employer’s survey  A comprehensive Capstone project provides assessment  Use course assessment tools for evaluating program  Use Building Thesis class and several other survey type measurements  Use individual Capstone projects in which each student must demonstrate his/her proficiency in estimating, scheduling, safety, and project planning  Have own internal tools for assessment  Gather industry feedback and input at different venues, including career fair questionnaire and Capstone presentations to industry and collecting feedback  Exit interview, alumni surveys; input from our

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Sean Pratt; Yapah Berry; Olivia Reed; Gaffar Gailani

New York. This six weeks program is designed for high achievingminority high school and middle school students. The program extends over six weeks periodand its goal is to encourage those students to pursue careers in engineering and science whenthey go to college. The curriculum is designed to be introductory to engineering and science.This is well aligned with the goals of NASA CIPAIR funding that our MechanicalEngineering Dept. has received. Another partner in this project is Louis Stokes for MinorityParticipation in Science and Engineering (LSAMP) who supported the undergraduatestudents for two full academic semesters, spring and fall of 2011, in their effort to design acurriculum in aerospace to be taught in Proyectoaccess summer

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Wenli Guo; Vazgen Shekoyan

centrally hosted eLearningNote that homework was graded without any environment offering a wide range of course delivery,comments by the instructor. assessment and collaboration products and services. In b) Students should reflect on what they did or particular, it allows students to create ePortfoliosthought wrong in their original solution. They should (electronic portfolios). The primary purpose of havingwrite an explanation on what was wrong in their student ePortfolios is to engage students throughoutoriginal answer and why it was wrong. Without this his or her academic career. By having an electronicstep students were not allowed

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Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott; Kemi Ladeji-Osias; Petronella James

, and 20 credits of non-electrical courses. The proposed program expansion will allow students to be able to takeelectrical engineering courses while continuing to work at the military facilities near Aberdeenand other locations around the state. Our proposed program was implemented with theassumption that the added accessibility, affordability, flexibility of this approach will increasethe number of students who enter and complete electrical engineering programs at Morgan andchoose careers with the government and government contractors. The Bachelor’s of Science degree in electrical engineering at MSU is accredited by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Since the proposed changes tothe new program at HCC will not

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Jesse E. Jaeger; Jibin T. Chacko; Richard A. Maier; James Patrick Abulencia

new technology, which can become skills for future careers [5].The study was conducted over two years with the class of 2012 and 2013. Each year the studentswere separated into groups to create an educational video that illustrates a fluid dynamics conceptthat both engineers and non-engineers can learn from. A list of possible subjects to focus on wasprovided, but students were not restrained to those topics. The project was first assigned to aclass of 2012 with 32 students. The students did not receive any additional resources, such asvideo editing software, to complete the project in the five week period. The next year the projectwas assigned to a class of 2013 with 35 students under the same conditions as the first year’sgroup. The desired

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Laura-Ann S. Chin; Kenneth A. Kroos; Justinus A. Satrio

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5 8I 4 9J 5 9I 1 4.5 3.333333ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Spring 2012 Conference, University of Delaware, April 20-21, 2012 Page 4 of 7Qualitative Results:The following is the list of questions given to the Jigsaw II students and their average responsesbased on a Likert Scale of 1(Strongly Disagree) to 5(Strongly Agree).1. I remember more when I explain what I have learned to someone else. 3.89 (Agree)2. Working in groups in class is similar to what I expect to be doing in my future professional career. 3.89 (Agree)3. Working in groups helps the