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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Howard Kimmel; John Carpinelli; Rosa Cano; Angelo Perna

programs contribute toits undergraduate and graduate programs. Our programs focus on applied engineering principles, basicscientific and mathematical concepts, and problem-solving skills, critical areas for successful pursuit ofscience, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) careers. Additionally, our programs’academic curricula follow state and national standards and therefore, provide students with theopportunity to gain the skills and knowledge specified by these standards. But this only reaches thecurrent generation of youngsters. NJIT’s pre-collegiate models go further into the areas of elementaryand secondary grade level teachers’ training, curriculum reform, and technical services to schools anddistricts, so that future generations

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Fatih Oncul; Marty Drobny; Melvin Lewis; Faruk Apaydin

An Innovative Outreach Program on Mechanical Contracting for College-Bound High School StudentsFatih Oncul, Ph.D.1, Marty Drobny2, Melvin Lewis, M.S.3, Faruk Apaydin, M.S.,P.E4,Fairleigh Dickinson University offers innovative weekend outreach program onMechanical Contracting to college-bound high school students. The program isgenerously sponsored by Mechanical Contracting Association of New Jersey (MCA-NJ).Lectures are half-day long and expanded to ten Saturdays. High school students areintroduced to Mechanical Contracting related careers and subjects such as; HeatingVentilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC), product piping, steam piping and energyconservation. Students are also involved in hands-on

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kauser Jahan; Kathleen Sernak

world problem solving via innovative creativemeasures. The overall objectives of the program are to:• Provide exposure to engineering careers and make engineering more relevant to middle school educators,• Ensure that teachers are academically prepared to successfully integrate engineering content into their existing curriculum,• Support teachers and students in exploring and understanding engineering content in K-12 education through professional development activities, and• Serve as a national model for other undergraduate institutions in integrating engineering content in K-12 education.This is the first Rowan initiative to integrate engineering content in the middle schoolcurriculum and train teachers regarding

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Aiman Kuzmar

. Engineeringstudents are left to learn about ethics on their own especially after graduation throughtheir professional careers. This has changed recently as more and more engineeringprograms are starting to address engineering ethics in more concrete ways.The importance of ethics extends beyond our engineering profession. The new UScongress made ethics reforms a top priority following several notorious cases of ethicsviolation by its members. It was one of the bills passed in its famous first 100 hours. Inour profession nowadays, ABET, a leading authority, puts a lot of emphasize on ethics inthe education process.An initial investigation conducted by the author shows a wide variance in whichengineering programs at various institutes of higher education in the

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Josephine Lamela; James Finne; Karen Ford; Deborah Iacontino

composedof a four week summer academy, two full day follow up activities, and an ongoing mentoringprogram designed to empower the young women with knowledge, skills, confidence andacademic preparation and to support them to aspire to engineering or technology careers. Theacademy was limited to rising high school sophomores who had completed Algebra 1.U.S. Department of Labor statistics show that of the 450,000 engineering technicians in the U.S.labor force, only 83,000, or 18% are female. The Center for Work and Women at RutgersUniversity reports that although women are approximately 46% of the American workforce,women fill only 29% of SET (science, engineering and technology) jobs. Statistics show thatuntil middle school, girls and boys show equal

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Anilkumar Bhate; M.G. Prasad; Lex McCusker

An integrated Approach to Creating Student-Awareness, Pedagogy and Efficient Management of Multi-Cultural Teams in Engineering Projects Anilkumar Bhate, M.G. Prasad, Lex McCusker Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New JerseyAbstractTeamwork is an essential aspect of most engineering projects. Often the teams consist of memberscoming from diverse backgrounds, and such diverse backgrounds may lead to internal conflicts within theteams. Engineering students, many to become managers in their future careers, need to be educated abouthow to deal with the diversity in their work teams. Teams

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Peggy A. Johnson

are related to people working in legal, medical,and other professions. Engineers are rarely the topic of television shows and movies. Another reasoncommonly cited for the shortage of women entering engineering majors in colleges is the lack ofencouragement by high school counselors and teachers, relatives, and other influential people in the livesof young women (Johnson et al., 1992; Bix, 2004; Widnall, 2006). Other reasons for the shortage ofwomen in engineering may include climate, social value, and peer influence (Johnson et al., 1992). Based on a survey of 85 high school girls, the National Science Foundation (2005) found thatthere is a disconnect between motivating factors for high school girls in selecting a career path and

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Levern Rollins-Haynes; Keith L. Haynes

gratification. Rapper Kanye Westunderscores higher education as being unnecessary to financial success in his “School Spirit Skit 2” onhis College Dropout CD. Although not all rap music caters to the belief that higher education is futile,many rappers flaunt a lifestyle that appears to be more glamorous and more financially successful thanthat of the 9-5 career tract. Because many of the poorer youths (and their families) feel disenfranchised,many of these African-Americans become attracted to this lifestyle in an effort to raise their self-esteem,obtain power, admiration and respect from others, and be noticed by women. Rapper Ludacris states, It’s a fact. The gold back then, and the diamonds now…we wear that to get women. That’s all

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

journals and to present theresults of their effort at national and international technical conferences. Bothprograms require participants to present their research efforts at the annual NJITResearch Symposium. The aim of these programs is to foster an interest in thestudents to continue their education in Graduate School and obtain advanceddegrees. The primary aim of the McNair Program, however, is to produce morefaculty members from the underrepresented student body by allowing them togain an insight into the research process, learn about Graduate Schools and learnabout an academic career. The URE Program allows students to perform researchand independent study under the guidance of a Faculty Advisor. The programprovides academic and educational

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci; Pathickal Polouse

)that may be used with diverse student populations and for which no prerequisite science ormathematics background is required.An integral aspect of each experiment is to illustrate the importance of fundamental science andmathematics as “tools” necessary to solve engineering problems before the student has mastered thescience and mathematics. It is the opinion of the authors that the mystique associated withmathematics and science is often a deterrent to students selecting a career in engineering ortechnology. By demonstrating the final results of engineering and technical applications and showinghow the necessary math and science relate to the solution, it is expected that the students willappreciate the importance of math and science and

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Laurent Simon; Piero Armenante; Rajesh Dave

Research Center funded by the National ScienceFoundation, and comprising four partner universities, i.e., Rutgers University, New Jersey Institute ofTechnology (NJIT), Purdue University, and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.The Camp Pharma program consists of working with both high school science teachers and students inorder to (1) increase their knowledge in pharmaceutical manufacturing, with an emphasis on particulatesystems, which constitute most pharmaceutical drug products (e.g., tablets), and (2) to create an interest inthe pharmaceutical industry as a career option.During the summer, the high school students attending the program will work with NJIT undergraduateand graduate students to learn basic methodologies and lab protocols

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Suzanne Keilson

)diversity.ConclusionMost engineers will spend their careers in the process of slow modifications within a given toolset ofknown solutions, which make reference books such as “The Art of Electronics” by Horowitz invaluable[33]. Students can be taught to go to the reference and to not reinvent the wheel, but rather to use atoolbox of ready-made solutions and components. This does package complexity and reduce the time ofproduct development, but it can also lead to poor design solutions. Many engineering students are nottaught to explicitly understand the design process even as they may go through a senior design capstonecourse. In their technical careers many will work in teams on projects that were well defined before themand will continue after them and wherein

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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L. Kuczynski; C. McGuinness; S. Farrell; B. G. Lefebvre; C. S. Slater

interactionbetween industry and academia and prepares undergraduate students for careers in regionallyand globally important industries. Through the Engineering Clinic program industriallysponsored research or design projects are performed in an academic environment. The abundance of pharmaceutical companies in New Jersey demands a steady pipeline ofwell-prepared engineering graduates. Undergraduate Rowan Engineering students have workedon a variety of research projects sponsored by pharmaceutical companies such as Brystol-MyersSquibb, Johnson Matthey Pharmaceuticals, and Novartis. This paper presents case studieswhich examine successful synergistic interaction between pharmaceutical industry andacademia through the Rowan Engineering Clinic Program. The

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Elisabeth McGrath; Dawna Schultz

addition to the EOFNJ partnerships, a new coalition has formed in the state of New Jersey to advanceK-16 engineering education. Partners in the New Jersey Engineering Education Coalition (NJEEC),which was formed in December 2006, include representatives from the New Jersey Commission onHigher Education, engineering universities, industry, and representatives of the state Chamber ofCommerce. While still in its early stages, this coalition is working to increase the number of students,traditional and underrepresented, who enter and succeed in undergraduate and graduate engineeringprograms, who pursue engineering careers, especially in New Jersey, and who bring the benefits of a solidengineering foundation to their lives as citizens. The NJEEC is a

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Fani Zlatarova

; accomplished as a part of an external grant awarded to Career Services 5▪ Etownian/WWEK/WKZT Website – development of an interactive website to unify the information that is published, broadcasted, and/or shown through the three different media managed by Elizabethtown College students: the newspaper Etownian, the radio station, and the TV channel, and▪ others.The combination of the three types of projects is also possible and perhaps this is the most valuable typeof project because of the incorporation of all the respective multilateral features. Such projects allow thebroader understanding of the different aspect met in such cases and the

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William E. Kelly

as it should.2 One of the keys,according to the NAE authors is life-long learning – one of the current ABET outcomes and onethat has been particularly difficult to assess and evaluate. The NAE authors state that “...to beindividually/personally successful, the engineer of 2020 will learn continuously throughout his orher career, not just about engineering but also about history, politics, business, and so forth.”3Assessment is increasingly focusing on student learning including the ability of students to assesstheir own learning. Ultimately, a professional must have the ability to assess where there are gapsin their knowledge and skills and develop, implement, and assess appropriate learning strategies.An overall goal of accreditation is to

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Adriana Popescu

at thechallenges awaiting the current and future engineers1. In her address, Jamieson said: "We have to askourselves, will graduates have the attributes and skills that they need for careers over the next 40 years?"What makes this question even more thought provoking for engineering educators is the fact thataccording to some academic estimates, the half-life of engineering knowledge is between two to sevenyears, which means that by the time one graduates, half of what it was learned in the first years may ormay not be relevant. One other factor educators need to take into consideration when designing theirprograms is the fact that new technologies requiring multidisciplinary skills are an integral part of theprofessional practice, and they

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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K. A. Narh; R. N. Dave

researchexperience, reasons for choosing to participate in the NJCEP REU program, any honors and awards, andhow the experience could benefit an applicant in relation to his or her academic interests and career goals.To us, the statement of goals is, perhaps the second most important criterion in our selection process, thefirst being the eligibility condition. The final selection procedures, that assured diversity, were based onthe statement of goals, the candidate’s GPA from the college transcript and when all things were equal,their gender and ethnicity. Although not easy, in the end, we exceeded our recruitment goals of 10students as well as diversity percentage. In fact, because of the high quality of the applicants, we decidedto take 11 instead of 10