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Samantha Murray

publication inSpring 2011. The guide will be a resource for Family Engineering event facilitators andfor parents. The program will be pilot-tested, field tested, and disseminated for use inrural, suburban, and urban areas and tested for appropriateness with families of diversesocioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. Modeled after the successful Family Science and Family Math programs whichclearly showed parents’ interest in engaging in learning activities with their children,Family Engineering will develop children’s interest in pursuing STEM careers. It isessential that we inform and engage children in learning about engineering at an early agebecause students’ attitudes about careers in science, math, and engineering are oftenformed before

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Neville Jacobs

THE MAKING OF ENGINEERS: THE ROBOT CHALLENGEBy Neville JacobsINTRODUCTION The purpose of this presentation is to describe two IEEE initiatives that we believe can raise theinterest of students in technology and engineering, counter the influence that television has exerted inglamorizing careers in other fields, such as medicine, law and high finance; and introduce students to thefun of getting involved with engineering challenges . We all know that engineering can be very excitingand rewarding, but we need to bring this to the attention of our pre-college students, so as to obtain alarger proportion of them going on to Engineering schools.TWO SYMBIOTIC PROJECTS:TISP - TEACHER IN-SERVICE PROGRAM This is an enrichment program

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Kauser Jahan; Jess W. Everett; Gina Tang; Stephanie Farrell; Hong Zhang; Angela Wenger; Majid Noori

the world in technological innovation because of itspoor performance in teaching math and science. This eliminates many of the best and brightestschoolchildren from the ranks of future scientists and engineers. Many students who doundertake science and engineering studies in college are unprepared and drop out in frustration,while other potentially capable students never consider these subjects in the first place. In bothcases, precious human and institutional resources are squandered. Enhanced engineeringeducation in our K-12 classrooms can provide students at an earlier age with a more specificunderstanding of what a technical career entails.The College of Engineering at Rowan University is always seeking innovative teaching methodsto

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D. Weber; G. Reluzco; D. Kaminski; B. W. Bequette

career outcomes of its graduates.The NSF GK-12 program, on the other hand, aims to make college STEM studies lessintimidating to the students by injecting graduate students into the classroom; a great deal ofwhom are less than ten years out of high school themselves. The graduate fellows draw on theirrecent high school and undergraduate experiences to work with the teacher to create fresh andeffective lessons.Both programs emphasize the connection between engineering choices and their environmentalimpact. There is also the shared goal of motivating the high school students to seek anundergraduate education in an engineering field, but by different means. The incentive for STEMbachelor’s degrees in PLTW is high-demand, high-impact career

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Raluca I. Rosca

in the classroom, so it is possible to discussparticipants’ experiences with direct bosses or professors without fear that their comments willbe transmitted to those bosses. As the author put it in the interview16, they were ‘people that youknow well enough but at the same time don’t directly affect you, [and] your career’.The inequality in representation of women and men in the engineering classroom was seen ashaving not only a detrimental effect on society, but also on people’s personal lives. A wish wasexpressed ‘to go home to your life partner and talk about your work and they would understandit.’ The male students commented, “Yeah, it’s comfortable to be in a guys-mostly classroom, butwhere are all the girls?” Conversely, the female

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Robert M. Brooks; Berk Ayranci; Keerthi Takkalapelli

from job search to expandingengineering interest in secondary schools. Because of the questionnaire a focused list ofdeliverables to be delivered by the student chapter with their prioritized rank was made anddistributed to the students. Within the next month, 13 more students joined the student chapter.Overall the student membership improved by 144%. Statistical tests were conducted to verifythe significance of improvements on each issue. The t-tests and f-tests confirmed statisticallythe improvements at significant confidence levels.IntroductionASEE supports the profession and boosts the students’ career. ASEE student chapter providesexcellent support for the students in many respects. In order to empower ASEE to serve studentsbetter, ASEE’s

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Josh Wyrick; Catherine Booth

. They also can learn new engineering technologies within the Clinic context. Theexcitement of working on such relevant and meaningful projects, especially at the FreshmanClinic stage, is a driving force for sustaining a student’s interest through graduation and into hisor her career. The lab experiments described herein were designed for the first semester of theengineering clinic sequence (Table 1).Lab DevelopmentThe series of labs focuses on renewable energy and sustainable engineering. Because the studentthat comprise the class come from four distinct engineering disciplines, the lab themes wereapproached from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. The labs had to be observably comparable, andtherefore they had to each have the same ultimate

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Michael Casey

technology in the field. They discussed proposals for new directions in order toprepare the next generation workforce, which will be expected to multitask and be conversantwith many types of information technology. The paper highlighted that most CE students areincorrectly convinced that they need not concentrate on computing technologies because it willbe unlikely that they will ever have to write code. One of the recommendations of the paper isthat CE students need a theoretical undergraduate course in computing using basic engineeringexamples and exercises as a baseline, even if they never apply those skills later in their career. 2Some other previous works investigate the issues of computing