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Harmonie A. Hawley; Brian O'Dell

research). The surveys showed thatthe students perceived that the Service Learning component enhanced their learning experience.In this study, student evaluations from the Spring 2012 semester indicated that students enjoyedthe outdoor lab experiences. Further work needs to be completed to assess student evaluationsand is planned to continue through the Spring 2013 semester.Student EvaluationsThe laboratory practical administered at the end of the semester was the primary assessmentstrategy for the student learning objectives. In the Spring 2012 semester the average grade onthe laboratory practical was an 84%, or a B-average. This shows that more than half of the classunderstood the basic operation of field equipment and that the students were

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Muge Mukaddes Darwish; Ali Nejat

climate was a factor in not enteringengineering. The lack of flexibility, a disdain for the culture, and management seemedunappealing. A lack of interest was also cited as a reason not to enter engineering. Around 20%of the women never planned to enter and pursued other post-graduate degrees. Table 1 and 2summarizes Fouad and Singh’s findings on the percentage of women engineers who never enterengineering based on graduation years and what these women are doing now.Table 1. Percentage of Women who never enter Engineering Based on college graduation year10 year Prior to 1984-1989 1990-1994 1995-1999 2000- 2005-2010 1993 2004 Percentage 7 13

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John Paulino; Jesús García; Joshua Lohse; Hector Prado; Atul Balani; Sridevi Lakshmipuram; Cheng Chen; Amelito G. Enriquez; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser

research internship program. Question: How much did you learn about each of the following? Average Response Scale: 1 – Nothing; 2 – A little; 3 Rating – Some; 4 – Quite a bit; 5 – A lot. Performing research 4.8 Designing/performing an experiment 4.9 Creating a work plan 4.8 Working as a part of a team

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Kurt McMullin; Thalia Anagnos; Jan Hustler; Nancy Thomas

in Fall 2004 and provided guidance on the Inquiry Spectrum, thevariation of learning environments from direct instruction to student defined inquiry. While theworkshop was successful and attracted approximately 25 IHE instructors and resulted inincreased use of inquiry and student-led discovery in several of the mechanical and aerospaceengineering courses3, the Project Management team subsequently refined their work plan. Anunderlying concept governing the Project Management decisions was that professionaldevelopment would generally require about 100 hours of training to make notable changes inclassroom practice. The IHE workshop strategy would have only provided about ten hours oftraining over several years and even when combined with a

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Ibraheem A. Kateeb; Khaled F. AlOtaibi; Larry Burton; Michael S. Peluso; Evelyn R. Sowells

Electrotechnical Conference, pp. 482-486, 2010.[8] J. Hayes, Fiber Optics Technician's Handbook, Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, 2006.[9] “COAX & Copper,” 21 5 2012. [Online]. Available: http://www.corning.com/opticalfiber/fiberbasics/companion/copper/default.aspx.[10] M. Bellis, “The Birth of Fiber Optics,” 7 6 2012. [Online]. Available: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa980407.htm.[11] telecompaper, “Kroes unveils plans to boost fibre investment,” telecompaper, 3 October 2011. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for