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Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

”3rd year, “Working in an industrial “I plan to pursue a career in “…my supervisor was able to “The entire process Stand-alone internshipfemale setting helped me to see the the biomedical engineering provide me with constructive required eportfolio, includes direct applications of field in the future. My criticism that helped improve my collaborations resume, Prezi scientific information professional aim is to further knowledge … This internship between different presentation on compared to my previous advance my studies in allowed my intellectual ability

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Thomas Dodson; Nicholas Mattei; Joshua T. Guerin; Judy Goldsmith; Joan M. Mazur

large state university. Between 2009 and including academic support, special needs services, and2011 we conducted two surveys of over 500 students in multiple counseling. What makes advising challenging is the need tomajors and colleges. These surveys asked students detailed personalize advice for full-time and part-time students,questions about their preferences concerning course selection, transfer students, and students changing majors after satisfyingadvising, and career paths. We present data from this studywhich may be helpful for faculty and staff who advise some of their

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Richard Mendoza; Brian Stuckman; Anthony Melkonian; Alexander Gilman

for exhausting the fog from AUTHOR BIOSthe pinball machine. The first is to route it from the Richard Mendoza is from Central Falls, RI. He is majoring incontainment unit, through a duct that travels beneath the Electrical Engineering at Roger Williams University and plansplayfield, where it will eventually exhaust from the front of the to begin his career as an electrical engineer after graduation.pinball machine where the player is standing. This solutionrequires a series of fans placed at different sections of the Brian Stuckman is from Bristol, CT. He is majoring in Me-exhaust duct and an electronic valve that allows outside air to chanical Engineering with a minor in

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Teresa Piliouras; Pui Lam Yu; Kristin Villanueva; Holly Robillard; Yingxin Chen; Michael Berson; Jeanne R. Lauer; Garret Sampel; Daniel Lapinski; Maigh Attre

of wage and • Tools for working – information and communications proficiency gaps arising from a lack of education and technology (ICT) and information literacy; workforce readiness [1]: • Skills for living in the world – citizenship, life and “What people know and what they do with what they know career skills, and personal and social responsibility. has a major impact on their life chances. … Those with low ATC21S attempts to assess how the above skills (which are literacy skills are also more than twice as likely to bedeemed conceptual skills) are used in collaborative problem- unemployed. … improvements between younger and older978-1-4799-5233-5/14

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Ashwin Satyanarayana; Hong Li; Josephine Braneky

through this journey would help freshmen students chooseto identify whether academic remediation can improve their major so that they can be prepared to make betterstudents’ college outcomes. In college mentoring, the mentorsoften counsel students on (a) how to acquire better study decisions for his/her educational and vocational career. Inskills, (b) how to identify additional academic resources at mentors’ interactions with students, they work to help studentstheir respective institutions and (c) how to assess their life prioritize their studies, plan how they can be successful, andoutside of school. identify

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Yves Ngabonziza; Hendrick Delcham

activities helps them visualize showed that well-designed simulation software has positivetheir academic careers, increases their productivity, and has an impact on students thinking and learning. In such environment, students have the opportunity to interact with Manuscript received March 14th, 2014 Yves Ngabonziza. is with the Department of Math, Engineering and and understand complex phenomena that would otherwise beComputer Science, LAGCC of the City University of New York, Long Island

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Ruzanna Davtyan

practices. REFERENCES BERNS, R. G., & ERICKSON, P. M. (2001). CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING: PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE NEW ECONOMY: NATIONAL DISSEMINATION CENTER FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION. BILLETT, S. (2001). LEARNING IN THE WORKPLACE: STRATEGIES

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Julie N. Renner; Kathy E. Ayers

first-hand experiences The program offers many special advantages. Fellows comedescribed. This paper summarizes the research and professional with their own funding, which can allow them some freedomactivities of a postdoctoral fellow working for Proton OnSite, aleader proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis to explore their own research topics and learn techniques in asystems. The information will help graduate students make new field. Additionally, the required mentorship ensureseducated career decisions. fellows are getting adequate support, while simultaneously

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Girma Tewolde

. Kettering University has long recognized the role of pre- college programs in motivating and attracting young K-12 I. INTRODUCTION students to higher education in the specific fields of their interest [4]. The programs allow the participants to exploreTo enhance the competitiveness of the US workforce it is the different career opportunities and help them identify theessential to improve the quality of education in the country’s

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Mohammad H. Hashem; Ahmed A. Al Khawaja; Saleh O. Edhah; Usman I. Hashmi; Al Hareth S. Al Akill

, academic status anddepressed psychology. A moderate percentage of students place of residence. The questions were fairly simple and theare affected by these emotional issues, because of not being details provided by the respondents were confidential, thisable to understand the meaning of college and significance led to having sincere opinions from the students. However,of a future career [7]. there were factors that limited the research; namely, the survey was within one college which is, the PI, and only aAs we can see, college plays a significant role in number of 39

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

this study, this paper will examine the subjects and careers, or that it costs more to traineffect of two different types of model building spatial reasoning ability due to the need for moreexercises – student-built physical models and hands-on teaching resources.3,4 Therefore studentsstudent-produced computer graphic 3D models – on arrive in architecture, engineering and all STEM978-1-4799-5233-5/14/$31.00 ©2014 IEEEprograms with little or no exposure to spatial project as more difficult to work with than hands-onvisualization training. Yet they are expected to think models. 7and communicate spatially. The students who dostart our programs with stronger spatial

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Moijue Kaikai; Erin D. Baker

successful implementation of this project, theWednesday, geothermal and hydroelectric on Thursday, and Diversity Programs Office of the College of Engineeringthen we finished up explaining wind power on Friday. adapted the wind turbine project for 300 female students, teachers, and guidance counselors from various local high schools in Western Massachusetts for this year’s UMassD. Wind Project Amherst annual Women in Engineering and Computing After the first week of assessment, videos, and classroom Career Day

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Arthur Rozario; Justin Paruvaparampil; Keis Sultani; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Andres Mora; Catherine Carti; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Wenli Guo; Andrew Nguyen; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

papers. Light sources employing He- diffusion would be useful as a diagnostic tool at millimeter andNe laser and consumer product keychain LED were included in multiple-micron level. A monitoring tool needs baseline datathe project. Application to mHealth monitoring was and deviation would be used as an alert.demonstrated in the measurements of an index finger diffusionmean free path and the embedded blood vessel absorption effect. Community college pre-engineering students needExtension to an iris response measurement was also counseling on which career path such as electrical engineering,demonstrated. The interdisciplinary project has been popular chemical engineering, environmental

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Walter Engels; Farshid Zabihian

.   Conversion. OTEC Foundation, n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. 2. . [3] "Ocean thermal Energy Conversion Primer." http://www.uprm.edu/aceer/pdfs/MTSOTECPublished.pdf. The efficiency of the cycle can now be calculated along N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2013.with the Carnot efficiency for comparison purposes. . [4] "Five Lessons for a Successful STEM Career." Lockheed Martin · Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Group

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Zachary Boorman; Richard Freitas; Kristie Kordana; Adam Stanley

Organization, 2000. Web. 2013.sold for about $250, which is a relatively expensive device for . From the first prototype it was determined that sim-plicity in the design is key. The design has to be less complex Zachary Boorman is a Mechanical Engineering major fromto reduce the manufacturing costs and problems that may be Newington, Connecticut. He is attending Roger Williamsencountered with the assembly of the device. This most likely University and plans to start his career as a mechanical engi-will cause an increase in assembly time, but it is a trade-off neer after

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Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

tocurriculum. The critical thinking skills obtained through the provide theoretical and educational resources to augment thelogical process of writing code and computational methods will high school curriculum. Each week, the graduate fellow andbetter equip the students as they enter college and careers the physics teacher collaborated to determine what resources[2],[3]. would be available to integrate into the physics curriculum. Often it was difficult to match the resources to the curriculum. Many institutions have implemented the use of computers,programming, and computational methods into science

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Melody Baglione

pertinent to various areas of the objective was attained. Some students also expressed how the Mechanical Engineering curriculum. We studied heat building tours and their exposure to HVAC control systems fit transfer through the heat exchangers, chiller, and into their larger learning goals, gave them a broader context boilers. Aspects of fluid mechanics and for the theory they learn, and helped guide their future projects thermodynamics were relevant as well with the and career goals. components and pumps in the system. E. Discussion of Preliminary Results and Future Work Answer: I thought it was a nice overview

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Carli D. Flynn; Cliff I. Davidson; Sharon Dotger

understandingcan persist throughout their educational career and may hinder were considered, including equation based, graphical, andtheir ability to learn new material [1, 2]. Concept inventories illustrative or descriptive understanding. It was hypothesizedare multiple choice instruments that have been used in several that a lack in any of the three types of understanding of aengineering disciplines as a way to provide reliable and valid fundamental engineering conceptual framework would impedeassessment of students’ misconceptions. Some of these student understanding of advanced engineering concepts.inventories include assessments of conceptual frameworksrelated to rate processes. However, they are usually

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Nicholas S. Rosasco; Dane Brown

program is “designed By embracing this reality and using it as a teaching tool, the to encourage rising 8th – 11th graders to pursue a course ofscience/technology/engineering/math (STEM) disciplines can study in engineering and technology throughout high schoolbe presented as impactful on the world as a whole, and as and college. Students must demonstrate superior academicexciting and cutting edge. By offering these current and live performance to include GPA, class standing, and/or strongchallenges, it is hoped that the ongoing issues of recruitment PSAT, SAT or ACT results [15].” Additionally, sinceand retaining specialists in the associated career fields can be geographic diversity is a goal for

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Faisal Z. Miqdadi; Abdulla F. ALMomani; Mohammad T. Shadid Masharqa; Nabil M. Elmousel

and influential it is. • You can be the example. Be punctual. Have an organized office. Grade tests as soon as they are over. Never procrastinate. REFERENCES[1] Z, Lisa M. S, Robert “I’ll do it tomorrow”, College Teaching, p.211- 215,Vol. 57, no. 5 Issue 4, Fall 2009, Available [Online]: Academic One-File, https://www.ebscohost.com[Accessed Oct 4, 2011].[2] M . Kelly, “Get time on your side”, Careers & Colleges, p.28, Vol. 24 Issue 4, Mar/Apr2004,[Online] https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=1284 0684&site=ehost-live&scope=site[Accessed Oct 8, 2011].[3] C. Von Hoffman, “Getting organized”, Taking control of your time

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Yao Agoudavi; Nathan Cyrille; Luis Hernandez; Amber LaGuerre; Zhineng Li; Katherine Vides; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

tocounseling on which career path such as electrical engineering, investigate the local environments of arsenic in an arsenicchemical engineering, environmental engineering, biomedical hyperaccumulator, Cretan brake [2]. It was reported that As-Oengineering, etc. Hands-on experience gained in doing a has bond length values from 170 pm to 180 pm and As-S hasresearch project in a laboratory and presenting the results in bond length value of about 225 pm. Another report for Zn inconferences would enhance motivation and improve retention. tobacco roots also shows that Zn-O bond length values haveOur community college, Queensborough Community College more variation (196 to 207 pm) as compared to Zn-S inQCC

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Madina Mansurova; Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki; Anna Pyrkova

. learning strategies: summary of the main concepts in the form Addressing issues of professional development in of theoretical material, providing reading materials to increaseuniversity is taken into account employers’ requirements. knowledge, a deeper study of the topic (tutorials); providingUniversity established communication link with employers via links to textbooks, which represent fundamental concepts;the Employers' Council and the Career Sector which takes providing references to the scientific publications reflectingactive part in assistance of employment of graduates and current researches and developments in this area.expansion on practice base

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Shanon Reckinger; Blanca Aca; Katherine Pitz

—Fluid Dynamics, Outreach, Women and crucial to provide young people with many perspectives of theMinorities in Engineering engineering fields. II. INTRODUCTION I. MOTIVATION It was found that 89% of middle school students wouldT HERE is no shortage of evidence that we need to encourage United States (US) youth to enter the ScienceTechnology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers rather

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M. Ali-ud-din Khan; Muhammad Fahim Uddin; Navarun Gupta

from Mercer University.Dr. Gupta’s interests include audio and bio signal processing. Besidesteaching, he supervises several master’s theses and is advising one Ph.D.student. He is also an active member of the biomedical engineering programat the University of Bridgeport. Gupta also likes to work with the localschools in the area of Bridgeport to encourage students to take up engineeringas a career. He and his graduate students have been working with middleschool students in Bridgeport to improve computer literacy. They are alsoinvolved with the Project Lead The Way program at Stratford High School inConnecticut.As a past Chair of ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education), Dr.Gupta has been very active in promoting engineering

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Adedamola Akinsanya; Christian Bach

. 241- Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1997. 30(3): p. 255-270. 252. [45] Jacobson, R., Complicating 'Complexity': Integrating[31] Robinson, I., Personal narratives, social careers and Gender into the Analysis of the Mozambican Conflict. medical courses: Analysing life trajectories in Third World Quarterly, 1999. 20(1): p. 175-187. autobiographies of people with multiple sclerosis. [46] Gilson, R.J., Controlling Shareholders and Social Science & Medicine, 1990. 30(11): p. 1173- Corporate Governance: Complicating the 1186

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Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; Zhineng Li; Rahel Steffen; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Vazgen Shekoyan; Paul Marchese; Tak Cheung

algorithm would help to establish a publicly smartphone Community college pre-engineering students sometime accessible, computing network that could assist in exploratoryneed extra counseling on which career path such as studies of all FITS data. ImageJ is considered as simple mass-professional engineers, research engineers, information market software since our experience in teaching ImageJ totechnology engineer, etc. Hands-on experience gained in community college students majoring in liberal arts has beendoing a research project in a laboratory and presenting the very successfully over the years. Other authors have foundresults in conferences would enhance motivation and

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Alessandro DiMarco; France Marquez; Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Tak Cheung

single alphabet or mono- nucleotide entropy, L = 2 for double-alphabet or dinucleotide pair entropy, etc. [3]. The results for a real DNA sequence, the I. INTRODUCTION yeast chromosome sequence, showed maximal block entropy Community college pre-engineering students need indicative of a very disordered sequence as compared tocounseling on which career path such as electrical engineering, literary texts or computer codes for the studied L valueschemical engineering, protein engineering

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Jose Javier Montaner Mora; Luis Miguel Mora Gonzalez

remarkable. They provide enriching experiences and skills toexperiences. develop oneself in work and life. They provide new social and “The UMANE program was the qualitative leap to stand technical capacities that represent a significant advancement inout as an engineer. At the beginning it was a challenge, but I one’s formation and training. One outstanding internationalhave learnt to develop the skills needed to achieve my goals. program is UMANE, which connects Europe and the US,This program provided me the capacity to build a new future providing the opportunity to live personal, unique andperspective in my career. I gained relevant skills and

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Dan Tenney; Naif Jalal

. Online Class in Business, Career, and Technical Education,"[11] J. K. Eastman and R. Iyer, "Interactive Technology In The Digital Education Review, vol. 12, pp. 34-43, 2010. Classroom: An Exploratory Look At Its Use And Effectiveness," [32] H. J. So and B. Kim, "Learning about problem based learning: Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER), vol. 2, pp. Student teachers integrating technology, pedagogy and content 31-38, 2011. knowledge," Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, vol.[12] R. Van Oostveen, W. Muirhead, and W. M. Goodman, "Tablet PCs 25, pp. 101-116, 2009. and

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Joseph A. Levert; Andy Grosso

Albany, NY. Mr.Grosso’s career has spanned 30 years in consulting, wholesale distribution,publishing, higher-education and, direct mail. Mr. Grosso's accomplishments have been recognized by Consumer Reportsfor providing Best Service in Industry as well as achieving Best of the Bestawards for both corporate communications and service innovation from theNational Paper Trade Association.