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Amaka Waturuocha; Laura Ford; Christi Patton Luks

Pursuing a Personalized Program to Prepare for an Academic Career at an Engineering Department without a Formal Teaching Curriculum Amaka Waturuocha1, Laura Ford1, Christi Patton Luks1 1 University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USAAbstractTypically, when applying to graduate school for doctoral programs, students are not 100%certain of the route their careers will take: industry, academia or both. Most times though, theylean more towards one of these options. In such a case the potential graduate student tailors theirapplications /interests to schools with the kind of curriculum that fits their particular needs. Oncein graduate school

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Charles McIntyre

: Construction Terminology and Accreditation, Ethical Dilemmas, Resume and Career Plan, Engineering and Tech Expo (visit and summary paper), Professional & Trade Organizations, and Guest Speakers.MethodologyThe basic methodology for the development and delivery of the revised CM&E 111 is presentedbelow.  The author attended the ACCE2 Mid-Year Meeting held in Phoenix (February 2012) to discuss first-year construction management courses with construction management program directors at the Baccalaureate Program Chairs Meeting. Approximately forty- five (45) ACCE accredited schools were represented at this meeting. The program chairs approved a request for a survey to collect first-year construction management course

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Scott Bell; Tim Frey; Angie Miller; Eugene Vasserman

context-specific material into Scratch activities and how these could be applied in theirfuture teaching positions. This was a promising step towards empowering new teachers with theability to introduce programming into the K-12 curriculum and potentially increasing the numberof students that consider computing fields as career options in the future.AcknowledgmentsThis work was funded by a United States Department of Defense Education Activity Grant (AwardContract Number: HE1254-10-1-0032)References1 Lori Carter. Why students with an apparent aptitude for computer science don’t choose to major in computer science. SIGCSE Bull., 38(1):27–31, March 2006.2 Scratch, MIT lifelong kindergarten. http://scratch.mit.edu.3 Mark Guzdial. A media

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Charles E. Baukal; Lynna J. Ausburn; John E. Matsson; Geoffrey L. Price

Solvers, and 31.8% Engagers(Conti, 2009).25Different professions may have different learning strategy preference profiles. For example,Birzer and Nolan (2002) found that law enforcement had a distinctive profile compared to thegeneral population in a comparison of known population norms to the preferred learningstrategies of urban police in a Midwestern city.26 They found there were some differencesbetween those working in community policing environments and those who did not. Policeinvolved in community policing tended to be Problem Solvers. Ausburn and Brown (2006)studied career and technical education students and found that most were Engagers.27 To datethere have not been any studies to determine the ATLAS-defined learning strategy

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Russell Feldhausen; Scott Bell; Daniel A. Andresen

activity involved the use of a simpleto build and explain high performance computing (HPC) experiment. Students attending this HPCsession were given a brief background covering the breadth of uses for HPC in today’s world, atour of the Beocat cluster 1 , and then spent time working with a wind forecasting simulation builtusing the Scratch development environment 2 . This activity allowed the students to see the benefitsand limitations of multi-threaded applications, and a post-session survey of participants showedthat many of them felt confident in their ability to learn computer programming, and over halfwould consider pursuing a career that involved using HPC to solve problems.BackgroundThis outreach activity was sponsored by the K-State Office

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Lin Wang; Si Ma; Haifeng Yan

knowledge of civilengineering and transportation engineering, leaving the practicing skills training aspart of the career for students after their graduation. The equipment used for theoperation is quite old and almost non-automated at that time, and it usually took littletime for the graduates to learn how to use them skillfully. There was few computeraided design or operation software employed in the industry as well. With thedevelopment of railway industry in recent years, however, the employers of therailway administrations and design institutions were faced up with the urgent needthat the graduates must be familiar with the conventional and updated knowledge ofrailway operation and design in university, become skillful in utilizing the

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Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Ramazan Asmatulu

career counseling. It is also imperative to have a means of tracking studentsthrough school and of monitoring a program’s success so that the institution may identify whichmethods are effective and those that need improvement [2].Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering EducationIn this project, we tried to address some of the factors affecting freshmen student retention andsuccess rates, and also provide a laboratory option to increase these rates while utilizing thenewly developed Nanotechnology Teaching Laboratory (Nanolab) in the College of Engineering(CoE) at WSU. Students in this laboratory mainly engaged in goal-setting activities and learnedabout techniques that allow successful students

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Lee Gatton; Saeed Khan

Engineering Educationneed for additional training. In fact a student could use this type of development experience inrobotic healthcare as a foundation for their career. The Robotics Virtual Organization (RoboticsVO) which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, states in its 2013 edition of ARoadmap for U.S. Robotics From Internet to Robotics1 that areas that present the keytechnological and research challenges in robotics are; physical human-robot interaction andinterfaces; social human-robot interaction and interfaces; robot-mediated health communication;automated understanding of human state and behavior during robot interactionThis research project involves applying Social Assistive Robotic (SAR) technology to reducingin-home healthcare

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Andrew Braham; Ashlea Milburn Bennett; Jeton McClinton

coursemanagement systems move away from Blackboard type systems to existing social media sites,this is a disadvantage of using LinkedIn versus Facebook. However, this was the first semesterthat the majority of the students had used LinkedIn, so the authors found it promising that theybegan using it with a frequency equal to Blackboard. Perhaps if students begin using LinkedInearlier in their academic career, there would be even a higher rate of usage when they are seniorsor graduate students, as they would be more likely to be looking for employment aftergraduation; LinkedIn could be a powerful tool for researching and communicating with potentialemployers.Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Nur Ergul; Ramazan Asmatulu

(EnerTech, Siemens, and Sunflower), oil (Koch) andagriculture and other industries. These companies are traditional employers of WSU graduatesand interns, and consequently, a sizeable number of alumni are on their staffs. We believe thatthe proper preparation of the local students for careers in nanotechnology is essential for theuniversity’s long-term success in this rapidly developing area. This opportunity will provideseveral benefits to WSU, local students and companies.2. Methodology2.1 Nanotechnology LaboratoryWe have developed the nanotechnology teaching laboratory to fabricate a number of differentnanobased materials. The Nanolab space (~1500 ft2) is located in both Wallace Hall and theBeggs Hall, and also utilized to support three existing

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Garth V. Crosby

components of electronic circuits, and the theories that make them work.Keywords— lab kit, circuit lab, portable lab, online coursesIntroductionAs more and more courses are offered online it is a goal of many universities to try toprovide a broad course selection for students who are exclusively distant learners. Thisposes a significant problem for lab intensive programs such as electrical engineering andelectrical engineering technology. At the same time, there is a tremendous thrust toencourage students to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)based careers. The National Science Foundation (NSF) actively, along with other federal andprivate entities, dedicates significant resources to encourage K-12 students to choose

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Fred Guzek; Kathy Brockway; Troy Brockway; Sue Guzek

Broadening STEM Students’ Perspectives, and Recruiting with Blended Learning and Study Abroad Fred Guzek, Kathy Brockway, Troy Brockway, Sue Guzek College of Technology and Aviation Kansas State University SalinaAbstract:In order to encourage students to consider STEM careers, and to broaden the perspectives ofstudents in STEM curricula, a multidisciplinary team of four faculty members created a six creditcourse in International Project Management for a class of students with a variety of academicinterests. Graduate students seeking Professional Master of Technology degrees were integratedwith undergraduate students majoring in Aeronautical