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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sandeep Dilwali

A OVEL APPROACH TO I TRODUCI G STEM DISCIPLI ES TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDE TS: THE STEM DISCOVERY PROGRAM Sandeep Dilwali, Ph.D. Mail to : dilwalis@wit.edu Department of Electronics and Mechanical Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave Boston, MA 02115 Abstract: This paper discusses various factors which prevent high school students from pursuing careers related to science, technology, engineering and

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sofia M. Vidalis; Joseph J. Cecere

“IF THEY KNOW, THEY WILL COME:” Collaboration between Penn State Harrisburg SDCET Program and Secondary Education Sofia M. Vidalis, Ph.D. & Joseph J. Cecere, Ph.D., CPC Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgAbstractHigh school graduates continuing their formal schooling at higher education institutions mayexperience confusion as they explore and try to understand possible careers related to majorsthey think they want to pursue. High school counselors and teachers strive to keep abreast of thechanges and advancements in new and transforming careers in order to properly advise students.This information is important as students schedule

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Neil J. Hutzler; Joanne S. Chadde; David Heil; William E. Kelly

FAMILY EGIEERIG: ITRODUCIG EGIEERIG TO PARETS & CHILDRE Neil J. Hutzler1, Joanne S. Chadde1, David Heil2, and William E. Kelly3 1 Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI 2Family Science Foundation, Portland, OR 3ASEE, Washington, DC Abstract: The goal of Family Engineering is to engage, inspire, and encourage elementary and middle school students to consider careers in engineering and science through hands-on activities with their parents at Family Engineering Nights. This program is designed to address the United States’ need for an increased number, and greater diversity, of students skilled in math, science, technology and

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jeanne Radigan

their company is shielded from labor laws. This putsmany students in the position of having to pay to work as an intern. For many college students,internships are viewed as a critical career move and they continue to line up and compete forthese unpaid positions, believing that they will reap future dividends [33]. Evaluating the Internship Evaluations of students by their employers can be a valuable tool used by campuses torevise their academic programs to better meet industry needs. Colleges and universities struggleto keep pace with employers demands and are constantly revising curriculua to improveeducational value. By surveying employers for their level of satisfaction with interns, collegesand

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William Danley; Vladimir Genis

show agreement that the outcome wasmet through third party assessment.Program Educational ObjectivesThe information collected and documented in Survey Assessment Summary Sheets indicateshow well AET meets the Program Educational Objectives (PEO). Program objectives are broadstatements that describe the career and professional accomplishments that our program ispreparing our graduates to achieve. Program Educational Objectives are listed and discussed inself-studies that are provided to ABET prior to evaluation visits and it is important that PEOs areconsistent with the program mission and with the program outcomes. This information isincluded in the CQI report and is made available to AET Industrial Advisory Committee. Theseresults are

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sarai Hedges

investigation of the 4 surveys in the SIPOC diagram found that in 2006 the AlumniSurvey was administered by the CAS Career Placement Office and had an abysmal 5.7%response rate. The 2007-08 Employer Survey, administered by the University of CincinnatiProfessional Practices Office, had a 69.7% response rate for all CAS students. The Student PPSurvey, administered by the same office, does not have questions pertaining to lifelong learningand is very difficult to alter. The College Student Services Office administered a Senior Surveyuntil spring quarter 2008 when it was discontinued due to a change in university policy andrefusal by a university office to continue its administration. The CAS ECET program developeda Senior Survey for its students, which

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Anthony Manno; Kamal Shahrabi

too much time reading, digesting and getting distracted by all thisinformation.ProtectionAll of this interaction and posting about our lives exposes us to people who might want to takeadvantage of us with that information. It can also allow someone like a prospective or currentemployer or in a future career change to take something out of context and thus have a negativeimpact. Users of Web 2.0 technology need to be aware that when everybody has the ability to 5write anything they want, get it seen or available to be found in a search. This new rapidlychanging environment is causing the law to better define who is a journalist and who and whatsources should be allowed to remain confidential. Just

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Harvey I. Lyons

academic environment that satisfies not only a disciplines’ technological requirements butalso the demands of the marketplace. Consequently, engineering technology programs should beconceived, structured and implemented accordingly.The writer entered the teaching profession after a significant experience in industry and has beeninvolved since with the development of engineering and engineering technology programs thatwill directly address the needs of industrial practice. At the onset of his academic career, thewriter conducted a comprehensive industrial survey to determine if a particular company’stechnical expectations and requirements were being met with recent mechanical engineeringundergraduates. Following are a sampling of industry’s

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Muhammad M. Baig; Rafiqul Islam

careers as well as the plans and suggestions to overcome those problems. The course outline along with laboratory experiments will also be discussed.Keywords: Problems and Solutions for PIC MicrocontrollerIntroduction At Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Natchitoches, we inducted a one-semester course on microcontrollers, obviously, for a multiple of reasons, for our undergraduatestudents doing majors in ‘Electronic Engineering Technology (EET)’. At the very start of thisventure, we found out that we were on a head-on-collision course to a number of challenging andmulti-faced problems. This was quite disappointing. But we pursued on to develop a reasonablygood course and our consistent efforts in doing-so ultimately

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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B. Samanta; Chiraag Nataraj; Sanjeev Reddy; Mark Woods; C. Nataraj

students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participationin a sports-like, science and engineering-based robotics competition. Villanova is also aparticipant for GEAR UP, a teacher training program to increase teacher and studentunderstanding of math subjects and to help them use robotics to accomplish their math goals.To provide educational and research experiences to high school students, an exploratory (pilot)project on swarm robotics was initiated in Summer 2008 in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at Villanova University, Villanova, PA with a team of two high school students anda senior Villanova Mechanical Engineering undergraduate under the supervision of two Facultymembers. The plan was to test the