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Danielle Reynolds; Nur Yazdani; Tanvir Manzur

Extended Abstract with Poster STEM High School Teaching Enhancement Through Collaborative Engineering Research on Extreme Winds Danielle ReynoldsScience Department Chair, John A. Dubiski Career High School, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA Nur Yazdani Professor of Civil Engineering, UT Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA Tanvir Manzur Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. AbstractThe Research

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John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

selection of STEM majors and classroomsuccess. Second, it has increased opportunities for internships and undergraduate researchexperiences for students early in their college career to encourage students to remain committedto the pursuit of STEM majors. Finally, a concerted effort of curriculum alignment across allSTEM fields at the three participating institutions combined with a formal professionaldevelopment program aimed at spreading effective pedagogical techniques across all threeinstitutions has been designed to enhance teaching effectiveness at the critical introductory level.The Dallas STEM Gateways Collaborative program is built to enhance the number, quality, anddiversity of undergraduates successfully earning STEM degrees

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Melanie Sattler

girls grades 1-6 (ages 6-12) as part of Girls Inc. Operation SMART. The 3 teams each presented one workshop for Arlington, Texas, Girls Inc., for a total of 3 workshops on 3 successive weeks. The workshops were supposed raise the girls’ curiosity about careers in science, math, and engineering, as well as teach the girls about transportation and/or air quality, primarily through hands-on activities. I provided a selection of hands-on activities, obtained primarily from government and non-profit organization web sites, from which the teams could choose. Students started the workshops with a brief overview of what transportation and/or environmental engineers do. Next, the UTA students facilitated the following hands-on

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Raj Desai

# of Students in Online Classes 91 109 114 127program completion rotation cycleTable 2 – Enrollment Results SummaryRegular evening classes had enrollments of 12 to 20 students. Online courses have enrollmentsof 25 to 40 students. Informal survey of students has indicated that online courses have allowedmore students to continue their education. Students with associate degrees need four-yeardegrees to move into management positions. Online education allows them to keep their job andpursue higher education, so they can move up in their careers. Many of our students have movedinto better positions with their current employers after they graduated. Other students with

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Sara E. McCaslin

graduate degree in mechanical engineering. While these results will vary with studentpopulation, this work provides a fascinating insight into how online engineering studentsapproach their coursework. Data such as this can aid faculty into selecting appropriate deadlinesfor assignments and setting aside virtual office hours that best meet the needs of the workingprofessional online student. IntroductionMore and more working professionals are turning to online learning to further their careers andremain competitive in the modern workforce, often with both the approval and support of theiremployers [1]. How their educational needs may differ from those of the classical on-campusgraduate students is worthy of

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Lynn Peterson; James Epperson; Ramon Lopez; Kevin Schug; Carter Tiernan

engagement to those involved. The program was modeled after successfulEmerging Scholars Programs at other schools (e.g., UT Austin), but also included elements ofthe Learning Assistant Model (e.g., University of Colorado at Boulder) to provide additionalstudy and college career skills to the students.Additionally, undergraduate research experiences were available to those who successfullycompleted the AURAS coursework. In these cases, interested students were matched withfaculty in the College of Engineering and College of Science. Students received a stipend for upto 10 hours of work per week, over the period of one semester, renewable when both the mentorand mentee requested it.Discipline-based research focused on conducting educational research

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Matthew Rivera; Vladimir Santalov; Andres Delagarza; Randall Manteufel

student thatmay be working can be taking another class only offered at that specific time during their workhours. This often is the result of a lack of professors at a university, but the students are the oneswho have to pay for it. With such little scheduling flexibility, students are often forced to delaytaking a class they to graduate promptly. As a result, a lack of course availability pushes theirgraduation back, and increases the amount of tuition they have paid at the end of their collegecareer. The fifth impediment is the poor course preparation students have coming into theengineering program. Being placed into various math or science classes can have a lingeringaffect later on in a student’s academic career because of the

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Ronald E. Barr

student 1. STUDENTS C, W, Dperformance, advising, transfer credits, and checks or Nonefor students fulfilling all graduation requirements. Evaluate student performanceSome points of emphasis are: 1. What are the Monitor student progressadmission standards? 2. What is the faculty Advise students regarding curricular and career mattersadvising protocol in the program for both academic Policies for acceptance of new andand career matters? and 3. Do all students meet the transfer students in place andsame graduation

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Camille A. Issa

concluded: “The future strength of the U.S. science and engineering workforce is imperiled by two long-term trends: First the globalcompetition for science and engineering talent is intensifying, such that the U.S. may not be ableto rely on the international science and engineering labor market for its unmet skill needs.Second, the number of native-born science and engineering graduates entering the workforce islikely to decline unless the nation intervenes to improve success in educating S&E students fromall demographic groups, especially those that have been underrepresented in science andengineering careers”.Of course, some would argue that the marketplace itself should determine the number ofengineering graduates, and that the erosion of

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Azhar Hyas; Uyen H. T. Pham; Madiha M. Hanif; Samir M. Iqbal

experience the working of different nanotechnology equipment, betterunderstanding of various bio-nano concepts but also induced a research aptitude in them. Theywere tremendously energized to pursue their career as research scientists after visiting the lab.This activity proved to be a crucial element for promoting interest and knowledge of advancedtechnologies in these youngsters who could be our next generation workforce for engineeringand life sciences. Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel

: tutoring, mentoring, learning centers, first-year students,at-risk students, academic advising, and career awareness.Much has been done to understand and improve the retention of students6-10. Universities useproblem solving recitations, and the integration of math/science/engineering into more excitingengineering courses with more active design project for students. Much of these efforts havelimited success and can often be overwhelmed by changes in the student body attending theuniversity, changes in faculty teaching key engineering courses, and changes in seeminglyinsignificant aspects such as classroom scheduling. In many cases, modest changes impact therate of progress through particular classes and the overall program.In this work, it is

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Gustavo Narez; Sarah Hussein; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Education years in all the Capstone Aerospace Vehicle Design courses. It is only with this level of critical thinking that engineering solutions to the relevant problems in the world can be addressed. In encouraging these levels of thinking at earlier stages in the academic careers of students, the rate of processing information will be more and more effective with the development of these abilities. In the age of information where there is not enough time to fully grasp all available quantities, much less retain it, the individual becomes suppressed by the Remembering and Understanding stages. With correct

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Andy Walker; Bernd Chudoba

stimulation in their analytical work, and3. a lack of exposure to all Mass Properties tasks in ALL design phases.So the aversion of engineering new hires to stay in the Mass Properties is – anecdotally – due toa lack of upfront exposure, and a lack of freedom to innovate their way into the field. Many ofthe new hires I’ve known in Mass Properties leave because they feel “stuck” in their work, feeling that they will be doing the same kind analysis with the same kind of tools for the rest of their careers.  This is daunting when they’ve just left Disciplines currently covered in college with a highly under-utilized analytical skillset.AVD lab: As my

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Jonathan Crosley; Vincent Ricketts; Amit Oza; Bernd Chudoba

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Oscar N. Garcia; Garima Bajwa; Cynthia L. Claiborne; Shanti R. Thiyagaraja; Mohamed Fazeen; Eric H. Pruett

furthering the student's abilityto not only recognize other applications of the concepts covered, but to develop the valuableability of connecting concepts and theories across disciplines. A traditional approach may haveyielded more competence in applying the current techniques of compression, encryption, anderror correction. The students might have been more skilled at algorithmic development for theimplementation of a specific encryption scheme, for instance. But that deep knowledge wouldgradually become less useful, as the implementation specifics and schemes evolved over theircareers. Instead this course provided the students, something that would become gradually moreuseful over their careers – to expose them to how basic concepts are

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2013 GSW

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Eric Haney; Lex Gonzalez; Amen Omoragbon; Thomas McCall; Xiao Peng; Vincent Ricketts; Jon Crosley; Bernd Chudoba

forth by the US government and NASA. The processof reverse engineering the design decisions made in the history-making Project Mercury lays theframework for modern engineers to leverage past knowledge to better understand the potentialsolutions of today’s aerospace challenges. IntroductionThe modern engineer is in a very unique position. There is an enormous amount of knowledgeavailable from past engineering efforts readily available. One hundred plus years of aerospaceknowledge build-up and millions of engineers’ careers can be found in books, internal companydocuments, technical memorandums, design reports, press briefings and others. The concern for Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE