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Beverly Karplus Hartline

) degree prepares students with a strongfoundation in natural science, computation, engineering, and/or mathematics for abroad range of professional career options in business, industry, government, andnon-profit organizations.Each PSM is an innovative degree program, designed in close consultation withinterested employers, in which the students undertake an internship or teamproject, rather than a thesis or comprehensive exam. The PSM curriculumcombines rigorous graduate-level coursework in science, engineering, computerscience, and/or mathematics with workplace-oriented coursework in management,communications, law, marketing, entrepreneurship, or other, so-called “plus”fields. In 2010, the PSM scope was broadened to include engineering

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Cecelia Wright Brown; Kofi Nyarko; Kevin Peters

to increase mathematics, science and reading test scores for 8th grade girls.The program was designed to cultivate science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM) interest in young women by increasing their learning through critical thinking andproblem-solving applications to pursue engineering and science careers. The program’s focuswas on fifteen (15) Baltimore City School 8th grade girls who were preparing to enter BaltimoreCity High Schools. The intent of this program was to further the mission and goals of the fundingagencies education division and inspire minority women to pursue career paths in science,mathematics, computer science, engineering, education or seek professional employment. Duringthe four-week period the girls

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Walter W. Buchanan; Robert J. Herrick

UniversityAbstractThis paper gives an overview of engineering technology as an academic disciple and discusses thefuture of its graduates including their opportunities and challenges. Potential careers and examplesof high visibility alumni will also be presented.OriginsThe origins of engineering technology as an academic discipline goes back at least to the 1940swhen engineering technicians were educated in two-year schools. One of the first TechnologyAccreditation Commission (TAC) of ABET (then called the Engineers’ Council for ProfessionalDevelopment (ECPD). Later it was renamed the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology. Now it is named simply ABET, Inc. Associate degrees were awarded by the BenjaminFranklin Institute of Technology (then called

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Kauser Jahan

deliveredto school districts by engineering students and faculty. Engineering students develop andpilot the activities, lesson plans, and handouts. The program, has already reached out tonumerous schools in the Southern New Jersey region with successful outcomes. Schoolshave limited money for educational field trips these days. Engineers on Wheels brings the‘field trip’ to the students and also helps students learn about a possible career field.Introduction:Science and engineering has been the base of the American economic growth forgenerations. We were leaders in the industrial revolution and we initiated the internetage. Today, these fields continue to have great potential for growing our economy andemploying more Americans. Between 1983 and 2004

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Singli Garcia-Otero; E. Sheybani; Eduardo Garcia-Otero

underrepresented minority engineers and scientists pursuing successfulresearch careers in STEM. A serious national shortage of well-trained underrepresentedminority engineers and scientists exits. Well-trained underrepresented minority engineersand scientists can conduct independent engineering research, can focus research efforts on 294the disproportionate lack of technical achievement in minority populations, and havecultural perspectives that are essential to the successful conduct of many forms of researchinvolving minority populations.Partnership between VSU, LC & NASAIn 2010, Virginia State University and Louisburg College were funded by NASA-CIPAR(Curriculum Improvement Partnership Award for the

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Barrie Jackson

different learning styles thismodel is generally accepted as not being universally effective. Having spent several years in my career in research establishments, I certainly recognizethe value of research. My concern is an issue of balance. The other issue is a Myth as suggested by Goldberg where basic research is theoverarching mission of an engineering college/University. This myth originated from themisguided view that the success of the Allies in the Second World War was mainly due to theefforts of scientists, in particular physicists rather than engineers. When the Russians launchedSputnik this certainly had a further effect of promoting science to the relative exclusion ofengineering practice in the engineering curricula. In an

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Pawan Tyagi; Christine Newman

future career.4 In addition to earlyengineering exposure, a more practical aspect of attending an introductory engineering program may beto earn college credits from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). College credits have three utilities: (a)enhances the student’s college application, (b) makes college education more affordable, and (c) reducesthe course load in the initial year and allows the student to settle into college at a convenient pace.5,6 Atpresent there are a large number of introductory engineering programs, however, rarely are theseprograms ABET accredited and provide transferable college credits to high school students. On the otherhand there are a vast number of courses at community colleges and universities, which allow high

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Dennis J. Fallon

of South Carolina. Dr. Fallon’s academic career includes sixyears as an Assistant Professor at ODU and 22 years at The Citadel where he served as Headof the CEE Department for ten years (1993-2003).An active member of the Southeastern Section of American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE), Dr. Fallon has held numerous positions within the organization including the Chair ofthe Civil Engineering Division and the Administrative Unit, Conference Site Coordinator,Newsletter Editor for three years, Technical Program Chair and Instructional Unit Chair from1994 to 1995, and was elected President of the Southeastern Section from 1996 to 1997 andthen again from 2003 to 2004. He has also served for three years as the National CampusRepresentative

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Ted E. Batchman

in the future. This paper explores how the classroomlecture has changed with technology and student expectations. Current discussions and conflicts onwhat engineering education should look like in the future will be discussed as well as the dilemmafacing new faculty with increased expectations to achieve tenure. Cutting funds for highereducation by many states has been a high priority of legislators and research funding is being cut bythe federal government. So why should one go into a career in higher education? The importantrewards are still the same as they were a half century ago!Foundations for the FutureFor the past several years there was an article published on the incoming class of freshman studentswith the emphasis being on the

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Gaffar Gailani; Sidi Berri; NIEVES ANGULO

NASA(3a) Articulation with between Hostos Community College (HCC) and City Tech.HCC engineering program is located within the Math and the Natural Science Departments. It wasestablished in 2003 by Dr. Nieves Angulo, to meet the needs of the growing number of minoritystudents who are interested in pursuing a career in engineering. The purpose of the program is tooffer the first required two years in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Chemical engineering tostudents planning to enter and continue studies in those fields. The program has grown rapidly sinceit began in 2003 with fewer than 10 students to reach 164 students in the Spring of 2010, making itone of the fastest growing programs at HCC. Enrollment has increased 41.2% from the spring 2009

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Jessica L. Buck; Bertiel Harris; Elizabeth Y. McInnis

service-learning.However, it is a well established fact that we learn through combinations of thought andaction, reflection and practice, theory and application (Kendall, 1988). Effective learningcan be achieved while discussing intellectual, civic, ethical, moral, cross-cultural, career, orpersonal goals (Kendall, 1990; Lisman, 1998). “Students from middle schools are mastering 149academic content standards while immersed in hands-on, technology-integrated projectsthat provide learning experiences that are not usually possible within the confines of thetraditional classroom” (Bradford, 2005, p.1). This emphasized that service learning isintegral in school learning process. This process becomes more

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Fani Zlatarova; Pavel Azalov

formulated as: “Collect,analyze, and interpret data”. Obviously, this statement implies possessing computing knowledge andskills. Current engineering students are future operational employees, supervisors and team leaders,middle managers and knowledge workers, and also top managers. Obtaining an appropriate backgroundin Computing during the years of undergraduate studies is important for their successful career. Theauthors of this paper try to answer the question if the currently offered undergraduate computing coursesfor engineering students provide the needed preparation for taking advantage of Information Technologywhen developing a variety of projects in the everyday professional activity. After analyzing academicprograms for engineering majors

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Frank M. Croft

Dr. Frank M. Croft, Jr.Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science The Ohio State UniversityFRANK M. CROFT, JR. is an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering andGeodetic Science at The Ohio State University. Prior to assuming this position at OSU, he servedon the faculty of the Speed Scientific School, University of Louisville (1976-1984) and WestVirginia Institute of Technology(1973-1976). Before beginning his academic career, Croft was anassociate engineer/scientist with the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach California (1969-1973). Croft holds abachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering, earned at Indiana

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Howard Eisner

them in their overall careers within the enterprise.Finally, if students have special ideas that might contribute to improvements in the variouscourses, they are able to move forward with them in two distinct directions: (1) bring them updirectly in the classes themselves, and (2) send them off to the appropriate personnel within thefirm or agency (i.e., their employers).Selected Experience This author has been directly associated with cohort-based programs for more than ten years. Ithas therefore been possible to both establish such programs as well as observe how they operateover this entire period of time. All of this experience is at one University so the author has nofirst- hand knowledge of how such programs have been operating at other

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Atin Sinha

complete the project. Based on the past four years of experience it is safe to say that the 3Dscanning/reverse engineering/rapid prototyping project will continue to motivate our students towards anexciting engineering career in the coming years.Bibliography 1. Grimm, T., “User Guide to Rapid Prototyping,” Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2004 2. Stratasys, Inc., http://www.stratasys.com 3. NextEngine Inc., http://www.nextengine.com 4. 3D Digital Corporation, http://www.3ddigitalcorp.com 5. Creaform, http://www.creaform3d.com 6. Rapidform Global Headquarters, INIUS Technology, Inc., http://www.rapidform.com 7. Geomagic http://www.geomagic.com 8. Sinha, A., “AC 2009-514: Integrating Reverse Engineering Project in

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Tony Kerzmann; Gavin Buxton; Maria V. Kalevitch

, chemistry, biology and environmental science. RMU's focuson communication and business skills gives graduates an advantage in the job market. Allof our students enjoy small class sizes and personal attention that make RMU a specialplace to learn.It is this interdisciplinary background and strong vocational emphasis, along withPittsburgh's status as a future energy capital that makes RMU the ideal environment fortraining our future workforce for careers in the alternative energy sectors, and providinglocal employees with science and business graduates with a strong background inenvironmental issues and sustainability.On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, President Obama outlined the importance of energy [1]:“The time has come, once and for all, for this

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Hossein Rahemi; Shouling He

department in new course offering and program modification. Their valuablerecommendations and comments will continuously make our program delivery stronger and morecompetitive with the growing demand of today’s technology. Furthermore, the close partnership withthese industrial companies, such as NASA, Sikorsky, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Lockheed Martin,RCM-Tech, Rockwell Collins, Pavon Manufacturing Group, FAA, CDI-Aerospace, U.S. Didactic, Con-Edison, and MTA, allowed our students to explore an internship opportunity with top engineeringenterprises. These internship programs provided our students with the needed career-building and hands-on experiences and a mind-set to adapt the fast changes and challenges in technologies

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Bhavna Sharma; Birdy Reynolds

volunteer for extra professionaldevelopment opportunities,21B. Reynolds, M.M. Mehalik, M.R. Lovell and C.D. Schunn. (2009). Increasing Student Awareness of and Interest inEngineering as a Career Option through Design-Based Learning. International Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 1-11.2 L. Desimone, A. C. Porter, B. F. Birman, M. S. Garet, and K. S. Yoon, The Newsletter of theComprehensive Center Region VI, 8, 2005, p. 3.and equality of access issues can arise, unless selection for admission into such programs explicitlyaddresses equity issues. A variation of the professional development approach that we explore in thispaper is the NSF's Research Experience forTeachers (RET) program, in which teachers are paid toparticipate in engineering

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Daniel Schmalzel

course to teach writing and a public speaking course to complement the secondclinic. All teams in a specific Clinic will be given the same well defined problem statement that isthe subject of the entire semester. The individual student’s grade will be based on theirperformance in both team and individual presentations or writings. At the end of this yearstudents should understand that an engineer maybe called to act as project interpreter andadvocate. So their ability to accurately convey knowledge with many different audiences may bedirectly correlated to their later career success. It is also at this stage that students work in theirfirst inter-disciplinary team, a hallmark of the Rowan Clinic Experience.Junior and Senior Engineering Clinics

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Radian Belu

his career Dr. Belu published several papers in referred journals and in conferenceproceedings in his areas of the research interests. He has also been PI or co-PI for variousresearch projects United States and abroad in power systems analysis and protection, loadand energy demand forecasting and analysis, renewable energy analysis, assessment anddesign, turbulence and wave propagation, radar and remote sensing, instrumentation,atmosphere physics, electromagnetic compatibility, and engineering education. 58 Introduction to the EMC/EMI Education into the Engineering Technology (ET) Curriculum through Course Assignments and ProjectsAbstractModern electronic and electrical systems engineering

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Keith M. Gardiner

, automotive and energy industries are exceptionally busy making forecasts outto 2030 and even, in some cases, to 2050. In fact, the bulk of their products possessremarkably lengthy life cycles customarily accompanied by Greenhouse Gas (GHG)emissions. So as we consider engineering education for the next decade, why not stretchand aim our discussions and projections for a couple of decades or more? Where will ournation and the world be in 2031? What will be the issues, opportunities, pressure points,problems, requiring our best engineering solutions both nationally and globally over thishorizon? The engineers that we are educating today should be engaged in the productiveperiods of their careers. What should we be doing today to prepare them adequately

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Radian Belu

industry as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developedundergraduate and graduate courses in electronics, power systems, control and powerelectronics, electric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numericalmethods and data analysis, space and atmosphere physics, and physics. His researchinterests included power system stability, control and protection, renewable energy systemanalysis, assessment and design, power electronics and electric machines for wind energyconversion, radar and remote sensing, wave and turbulence simulation, measurement andmodeling, numerical modeling, electromagnetic compatibility and engineering education.During his career Dr. Belu published several papers in referred journals and in

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PATRICA A. S. RALSTON; JEFFREY L. HIEB

K-12 outreach approaches. Much of the recentpublished work still focuses on fairly small scale outreach efforts that are single camps reaching a limitednumber of high school students28 or programs based around robotics or other competitions.27 Outreach programs by engineering colleges are an effective way to expose K-12 students to theengineering design process, engineering education, and engineering as a career. However, a growingbody of research suggests the need to help K-12 teachers develop the ability for guiding the inquiry anddesign process of engineering and STEM hands-on activities and to support interactions with students asthey tackle interesting problems. Some researchers question whether traditional outreach efforts