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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Edward W. Chandler; Robert A. Strangeway; Owe G. Petersen

4depth as one progresses through it will not provide a sufficient preparation for appliedengineering positions.Employment and Career Prospects Including Design: For most positions in industry other thanresearch and development, employers generally do not distinguish between engineering and four-year engineering technology graduates1,3,4,7. This aspect has not changed since the 1960s.Industry is satisfied with both engineering and engineering technology graduates in appliedengineering positions, with the notable exception in some states of professional registrationissues (addressed later in this paper).We remark that a hallmark of engineering programs is design. Any engineering program on theapplied side of the spectrum must also embody

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Robert Avanzato

fellgenerally in the 2 to 4 person per team range. Many of the key lessons learned in thecontests were related to working in a group. This result is significant in that teamwork isan educational goal of the participating courses, and an important experience for thestudents in preparation for internships, co-op experiences, and full-time careers. This isespecially important in that these students are lower division students in their freshmanand sophomore years. These experiences provide a level of confidence and set afoundation for future project work. Both the Robo-Hoops and Firefighting competitions successfully support a widerange of engineering courses, educational objectives, and equipment (hardware andsoftware). Survey results do not

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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José L. Torres; Vijendra Agarwal

,technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines has existed much longer than socialsciences and humanities. It is not surprising given the fact that faculty in STEM areas havebeen discussing ways to integrate UR as a capstone experience longer and found that URenhanced student learning, increase critical thinking skills and steered students into successfulSTEM related careers. It has also been relatively easier to provide UR experiences in sciencesand engineering because faculty typically have their research laboratories to fit in one or moreaspiring undergraduates. In the current global competitive environment and United Statesfacing a critical shortage of students majoring in STEM areas, it is more critical than everbefore that institutions

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orlando J. Hernandez

EngineeringDesign Experience at TCNJ. With this platform, students receive a solid foundation inmicrocoontroller based design. The goal is to provide student with powerful learning experiencesthat they can easily transfer to a future workplace.References[1] MCDOWELL, CHARLIE; WERNER, LINDA; BULLOCK, HEATHER E.; FERNALD, JULIAN; “Pair programming improves student retention, confidence, and program quality”; Communications of the ACM, v 49, n 8, Music Information Retrieval, 2006, p 90-95.[2] A-WIT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; “C Stamp Syntax and Reference Guide Manual”; v 1.5.[3] REYER, STEVEN; WRATE, GLENN; WHEELDON, JOHN; PETERSEN, OWE; “Freshman electrical engineering course addressing retention and career choice”; ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2002

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Philip L. Brach; Pathickal Poulose; Ahmet Zeytinci

part of a Department of Education Grant to create a two-course sequence that maybe used to interest and motivate students to pursue careers in science, engineering andtechnology.The original design is for the course to be a college freshman level course. However, theexperiments are being designed so that they may be stand-alone experiences that may beincorporated into high school curricula as well. As such the mathematical rigor may be variedbased on the ability of the student population to be served. It is important to recognize andacknowledge that the rigor of math and science incorporated with any experiment is notintended to diminish the importance of these tools to the study and practice of science,engineering, and technical

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James McDonald; Mary A. Burke

, Joseph M. and Townsend, Barbara K., Evaluating State Level Articulation Agreements According to Good Practice, Community College Review, Volume 28 Number 3, pp 1-21. 3. Reese, Susan, Articulation Agreements Ease the Way, Techniques (Association for Career and Technical Education) Volume 77 Number 3, March 2002 pp 37-38. 4. Roach, Ronald, A Passport to a Four-Tear Degree, Black Issues in Higher Education, August 28, 2003 pp 28-31. 5. Taulbee Survey 2004-2006, Computing Research News, Computing Research Association, May 2006. 6. Kalwarski, Tara, et al, Best Jobs in America, Money Magazine, May 2006. 7. Zinser, Richard W. and Hansen, Carl E., Improving Access to the Baccalaureate, Community College

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bert Davy; Indranil Goswami; Jiang Li; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; Charles Oluokun; Arcadio Sincero

economically disadvantaged. These groups, which the economy mustincreasingly rely, have been historically underrepresented in science, engineering and relatedfields.According to Nikias the Dean of the Viterbi School Engineering at University of SouthernCalifornia, we have forgotten why these students wanted to become engineers in the first place.Engineering is enormously creative. If science is all about understanding nature, thenengineering is about applying that understanding to create new technologies that profoundlyaffect our lives. But the traditional approach to engineering education–a heavy dose of rigorousmath and science during freshman and sophomore years–does not engage students’ vision of anengineering career. Freshmen students are

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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LeeRoy Bronner; Olusola Laniyi