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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Kenneth W. Santarelli

labs, however, were offered. Upon entering their senioryear students were to choose the campus at which they would complete their degree objective.In 2004 the City of Lancaster completed renovation of the Challenger Memorial Center, creating theLancaster University Center. This event initiated the evolution of the existing program. Programdevelopment was initially inhibited by the lack of engineering laboratories. In 2007 the City ofLancaster completed construction of a building to house the mechanical engineering laboratory andalso completed renovations within the Lancaster University Center for an electrical engineeringlaboratory and for faculty offices. Laboratory equipment has been supplied by the Air ForceResearch Laboratory and the

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Stuart Kellogg

programmatic assessment. Consequently, there is only limited facultyinterest in NSSE results. Faculty members with an interest in student engagement are alreadyaware of the research and are more focused on programmatic assessment. Other facultymembers have simply not been given a logical cohesive argument based on the NSSE data. Asecond concern centers on the concept of attrition bias. As students drop out leaving a smallerpool of satisfied students, engagement scores increase in the junior and senior years, but thesesame students were also engaged in the first and second year. The real question is why weresome students engaged with the curriculum and others were not? Until there is a betterunderstanding of how engineering and science students learn

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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ParticipantsRecruitment of the high school participants in Girls SEE was a collaborative effort between theGIRLS SEE faculty and staff organizational team as well as the female students in the SWEchapter. SWE students designed the informative brochure and fliers used for recruitment. Thismaterial was disseminated via e-mail to the Fresno State faculty and staff community, to localhigh school counselors, and to advisory board members who are employed at local companies.Face to face recruitment took place at local high schools. SWE students were paired with femalefaculty members to visit math and science classrooms at local high schools to talk aboutexperience as an engineering student as well as the Girls SEE camp. Additionally, the Girls SEEorganizational team