Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Courtney S Smith-Orr, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

students9) How important is it to you to fit in with other students in your engineering-related courses?  Possible probes: male students, female students, other students in your engineering program, other engineering studentsChoice of Major and Career Goals10) Do you have any plans to change your major? If so, please describe them for me.11) At this point, what kind of work do you see yourself doing after you graduate?12) At this point, how important is it to you to have a career as an engineer after you graduate?Gender-Related Issues13) Please describe for me what it has been like for you, being a woman in your engineering program.14) How much does being a woman contribute to how you see yourself as a person?15) How important is

Conference Session

Faculty and Course Evolution: Teaching With Technology, Online Delivery, and Addressing Emerging Student & Industry Needs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

undergraduate assimilated knowledge throughsuccessfully greater career opportunities, recommendations from supervisors and third partiesand the potential students statement of purpose. In the final analysis, it is a judgment decision onmaturity, based on a collection of factors that support an informed decision on the potentialsuccess of an applicant. These many career oriented factors are typically not available whenassessing the Master’s applicant who has just completed their undergraduate degree.This paper shares the quantitative results of a longitudinal study of nearly 400 workingprofessional adult learners, from business and industry, who graduated from Purdue University’sCenter for Professional Studies in Technology and Applied Research (ProSTAR

Conference Session

Faculty and Course Evolution: Teaching With Technology, Online Delivery, and Addressing Emerging Student & Industry Needs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems; Timothy Boyd, Northrop Grumman Corporation; Noah Miller, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems

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Continuing Professional Development

by industry, students, alarge number of faculty members and the Dr. Mohamed Noori, Dean of Engineering,. Thisis an organization that has become embraced by all. The real surprise was watching andlistening as the student leaders explained their rise from a novel idea to the most reveredstudent group on the Cal Poly campus; not for their ability to sell widgets, but for theirdevelopment of leadership within their organization and others.The founders of the club had created a leadership structure that documented anddelivered: succession planning, mentoring, tutoring and a Long Range Strategic Plan forthe future of the organization. Each retiring member of the board (students graduating)introduced their replacement for the next year and

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education Cross-Cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madelyn Espinosa, The Pavlis Institute - Michigan Technological Univerisity; Helena Keller, Michigan Technological University; Nicole Westphal, Michigan Technological University

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International

- I am more comfortable in figuring out problems on my own, without the guidance of a higher authority figure.” (A1)[1]Realizing this sense of self-confidence is paramount in becoming an effective leader. In order to be aneffective leader one must be confident enough in one’s abilities to make decisions for the group. A leaderoften arises as a person who can make decisions in difficult situations where information may be limited.Francisco Dao is the founder of 50 Kings, an exclusive annual retreat aimed at fostering meaningfulrelationships among members of the technology and media community. [2] Dao states, “While the fearful will agonize over decisions and always make the safe choice, the confident will take the

Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Edwin Cawthorne Jr., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #7975Designing an Introductory Entrepreneurial Thinking CourseMr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is a graduate student in the Engineering Education Program at Purdue University and the recipient of NSF awards for research in engineering education. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-professional Studies Program and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology and involved in research in service learning, assessment processes

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa A Dagley, University of Central Florida; Nirmala Ramlakhan, Nee-Moh, Inc; Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

program staff to include this in future activities with the suggestion of schedulingit in fall when more students would take advantage.STEM female faculty role models shared life stories (personal and professional) and experienceson the path to success at the mentoring Networking events. In 2010-2011, three Networkingevents were held in both the Fall and Spring semesters. The purpose of these events was to givementors and mentees an opportunity to talk with professors outside the classroom atmosphere oncareer and major related topics and seek professional advice. Professors from chemistry,mathematics, biomedical sciences, and environmental engineering presented. One event eachterm was focused on advising or shared experiences by EXCEL graduate

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Bairaktarova, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of Page 23.557.1 engineering education assessment tools. She is a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (CA- REER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). c American Society

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, College of Engineering Pune; Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, College of Engineering, Pune

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

contacted the identified expertsand interacted with them in person or over the Internet. They also explored media coverage of their topics. Theywere not mandated but expected to meet their mentors on regular basis. Some of them carried out surveys to getinsight into their topics.Synthesize: Students were expected to put together all the things that they had learnt and understood to create acoherent whole. Such a synthesis was required to be done at information, knowledge, or wisdom levels, butstudents mostly ended up doing it at information or knowledge level. As an example, gathering informationabout a particular regime and just organizing it in a particular way is called ―information synthesis‖. Analyzingthe reasons for the fall of a regime and

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

one technique necessary to capture attention of Freshmen students. • Technical education should begin in high school with hands on training in all aspects of machining, welding, electronics, controllers, etc. The focus should be hands on. After high school those with engineering aspirations can take their education to the next level while others are well prepared to move into higher paying skilled labor employment. • Students need to have the ability to communicate effectively on a professional level, and be able to act/react ethically when they begin their career. A basic understanding of business fundamentals could greatly improve their contribution to an employer as well. • In order

Conference Session

It Takes a Village: Engineering Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie Robinson, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #7915Motivation of Latina Students Leading to Retention in EngineeringDr. Carrie Robinson, Arizona State University Page 23.915.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Motivation of Latina Students Leading to Retention in EngineeringAbstractFemales and underrepresented ethnic minorities earn a small percentage of the engineering andcomputer science bachelor’s degrees awarded in the United States, receive an even smallerproportion of graduate degrees, and are

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

pedagogy. In practice, there is a dearth in theliterature, but the few papers focusing on design in K-12 engineering seem to show itseffectiveness. Cunningham and Lachapelle20 summarize the results from six years ofEngineering is Elementary, an engineering design curriculum for elementary schools, and findthat it has improved interest, engagement, and performance in both students and teachers. Sadleret al.21 show that after engaging in design challenges, middle school students’ science skillsincreased, though they evaluated solely the ability to design science experiments. Kolodner22finds that students participating in Learning By Design engaged in collaboration,communication, decision-making, and design of investigations much more like experts

Conference Session

CEED - Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph A Raelin, Northeastern University; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Jerry Carl Hamann, University of Wyoming; David L. Whitman, University of Wyoming; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; Leslie K. Pendleton, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

occupations.24SCCT theory has also made an impact on models attempting to explain the withdrawal of studentsfrom undergraduate education. Compared to the models cited earlier that stressed the importance ofacademic performance and other institutional factors, such as student-institution match, SCCTfocused more on cognitive-person variables, such as self-efficacy, to reveal the potential for studentsto exert personal agency in their career endeavors.25 26 What is especially important about thesevariables is that they can be assessed and their conditions altered during the freshman year andbeyond in order to enhance students’ perceived consequences of succeeding in college and staying inschool.27 28While this study’s pathways model (Figure 1) bears

Conference Session

First Year Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #6270Examining the Experiences and Perceptions of First-Year Engineering Stu-dentsIrene B Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Irene B. Mena has a B.S. and M.S. in industrial engineering, and a Ph.D. in engineering education. Her research interests include first-year engineering and graduate student professional development.Dr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Sarah E. Zappe is Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the En- hancement of Engineering Education at Penn State University. In her current position, Dr. Zappe is re

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

readings from a variety of sources. These materials provided a foundation to buildadditional understanding of ethical reasoning using a variety of both inductive and traditionalteaching methods including small and large group discussions (both face-to-face and online),classroom debates, formal written papers and examination questions requiring students to buildan argument based on a prescribed ethical framework.Three separate traditional teaching techniques were utilized to promote students’ ability to applyethical frameworks and considerations to the decision making process. The first was assignmentof a substantial paper examining an ethical dilemma regarding a post-graduation employmentopportunity.27 The dilemma involved a soon to graduate

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma; Dirk Ifenthaler, University of Freiburg; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

been assigned specific roles or functions to perform and who have a limited life span of membership [1]. Over the past few years, at the University of Oklahoma, a graduate course titled AME5740 Designing for Open Innovation has been designed, course content and assignments developed and a learner centric paradigm instantiated. Different facets of this course have been described in several publications – most recently in [2], [3]. In these papers, the authors explore the key question: How can we foster learning how to learn and develop competencies? In this paper we document our initial findings as to how far we have succeeded in facilitating students learning how to learn and develop competencies within this course

Conference Session

Assessment of Community Engagement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theresa M. Vitolo, Gannon University; Karinna M Vernaza, Gannon University; Barry J Brinkman, Gannon University; Scott E Steinbrink, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

, and are all tenured.Hence, many of the demographic and attribute elements of the survey are irrelevant.What is relevant are the elements questioning work effort relative to personal values. TheSEECS Faculty Satisfaction Assessment (see Appendix B) uses a subset of questions from theHERI survey. To emphasize the association between the personal statement and the facultymember‟s perspective on the value of the SEECS work to realize the personal value, an emphasisaspect is included in the assessment. Hence, a faculty member is not only asked whether thepersonal statement is important, but also whether the SEECS program is viewed as beingimportant relative to the statement. Essentially, if faculty members highly rate a value statementand if the

Conference Session

Software Engineering Outreach: Industry, K-12

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

teachers: The event provides an opportunity for faculty Faculty Sponsor sponsor to interact with high school teachers. Such interaction leads to exploration of possible collaborations. In the past the faculty sponsor has submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation with participating high schools as implementation partners.  Personal gratification: Meeting students who may consider the computing field as their career choice and discussing software engineering practices with them and their teachers provides a personal gratification. Host Institution  Publicity

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Mobley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

interviewed.Obtaining Knowledge about the Transfer Process through OrientationMost students recognized that the transfer process involved several discrete decisions andrequired access to information often not readily accessible through their own personal efforts. Inparticular, orientation programs and academic advising were an important source of informationabout the transfer process and about succeeding at the receiving institution. Students describedparticipating in several types of orientation: at the university level, college level and departmental Page 23.524.5level. Others participated in orientation activities both at the sending institution and the

Conference Session

It Takes a Village: Engineering Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Cate Samuelson, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

adjustment and their success in college.4 In fact, the academicachievement of Latino students in particular tends to be enhanced by professors perceived to besupportive and accessible.4Students’ level of comfort approaching faculty for academic and social support can contribute totheir sense of belonging.3 Students who cultivate relationships with faculty members outside theclassroom tend to both report higher levels of satisfaction with their college and graduate.4 Infact, minority students who complete science and engineering degrees often highlight the role ofa faculty member as being instrumental to their success.4 Positive experiences with supportivefaculty can increase students’ sense of belonging and contribute to a climate that

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Shealy, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Catherine Mobley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Descriptive Study of Engineering Transfer Students at Four Institutions: Comparing Lateral and Vertical Transfer PathwaysStudents who attend two or more institutions during their post-secondary educational careers, ortransfer students, make up just over one-third of all American students.1 Additionally, 25% ofstudents who transfer will do so more than once.1 Reasons for transfer vary widely, but usuallyinclude academic, financial, or institutional factors.2 Moreover, reasons for transferring may bedifferent from reasons for discontinuing coursework until a later date (stopping-out), as thosewho stop-out normally identify more personal reasons for leaving an institution compared to theacademic

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, State University of New York at Oswego; Rachid Manseur, Oswego State University College; Thomas E. Doyle, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

software engineering faculty.During the first two weeks, students are directed to seek and research a suitable project topic byquerying faculty members, employers, or any other source available to them. The caliber of theproject and its suitability as a capstone experience are subject to faculty approval. In the currentcase, the three students made two important decisions: they decided to work as a team and,among the few topic choices that were offered to them, they selected a project in robotics.The ECE department owns two Cyton V2 7-dof robotic arms29 in need of a simple intuitive userinterface that allows easy programming of manipulation tasks. Figure 5 shows a picture of onerobotic arm.Multidisciplinary project experience in SEIn regards to

Conference Session

Motivation and Self-Efficacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel McCord, Virginia Tech; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

find that their performance is poor may be less likely to participatein a study on thermodynamics because these students are averse to the thermodynamics context.We plan to engage partner sites directly in an effort to recruit more students in the future. Onemethod that Dillman suggests for improving response rates in through the use of rewards44. Wehave developed an incentive plan for faculty members that will help pass on information aboutthe study in an effort to reach more students.Acknowledgements We would like to thank the faculty members that helped distribute the survey and thestudents who took the survey. This paper is based on research supported by the National Science Foundation underGrant No. EEC-1150384. Any opinions

Conference Session

Four Pillars of Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gayle E. Ermer, Calvin College

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

manufacturing career. By assessing the manufacturing processes course content in directcomparison to manufacturing curriculum standards, along with making sure the program as awhole teaches basic professional skills (that are not manufacturing-specific), Calvin’s programcan become an example that is successfully “incorporating manufacturing content required oftheir graduates and demanded by their constituencies into existing programs” 11 as recommendedin the four pillars document.Curriculum and Manufacturing Processes Course BackgroundThe mechanical engineering concentration curriculum at Calvin includes a number of requiredengineering courses as listed in Table 2. Currently there is only a single course required (andoffered) for engineering students

Conference Session

Study Abroad, International Experience, Exchange Programs and Student Retention

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keilin Tarum Deahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eileen Walz, University of Illinois; Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Valeri Werpetinski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Laura D Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Judith A Sunderman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; J. Bruce Elliott- Litchfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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International

. Traveling abroad required the projectteams to work together to accomplish their goals even as they changed throughout the trip. Theunpredictability of working in a new, foreign environment meant they had to be flexible andaccommodating to unforeseen circumstances. This required each member to contribute, worktogether, and take on responsibilities that often involved doing new things and being in situationsthey were uncomfortable.Being abroad presented personal challenges and often the more experienced project membershelped others work through these challenges. Seeing cultures with living conditions so differentfrom their own can be startling but ultimately students responded with an increased sense ofresponsibility to put their engineering

Conference Session

Issues in Advising and Mentoring

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily L. Allen, San Jose State University; Francisco Castillo, College of Engineering, San Jose State University; Eva Schiorring

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

their challenges and contexts. The exemplar faculty advisor mustalso reflect on their practice, and deeply understand all aspects of the baccalaureate curriculum.Advising must help the student look beyond a semester-to-semester roadmap of isolatedcoursework and should help the student plan his or her trajectory through the program in terms ofacademic work, career planning, workplace engagement, and community involvement, all ofwhich are critical steps on the way to becoming an engineer. In this paper, the theoreticalframeworks for academic advising are presented; the concept of an advising syllabus isdescribed, and results from our own professional development program for engineering facultyadvisors are discussed.The Need for Improved

Conference Session

Culture, Race, and Gender Issues

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy E Foor, University of Oklahoma; Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

of an engineering career, practicing hands-on engineering, acquiring formal and informalknowledge that eases the pathway to retention and graduation, accessing potential employers atnational and international competitions, building a stronger résumé and interview portfolio,interacting with faculty and high level institutional administrators, and potentially using thevehicle as one’s senior capstone project. These benefits accrue as a result of the capital that coremembers are able to invest in TEAM A. That capital is commitment.The students are emphatic in their perceptions of the benefits they receive from their status onTEAM A. Page

Conference Session

CEED - Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida; Cameron M. Ford, University of Central Florida; Patrice Lancey, University of Central Florida; Divya Bhati, University of Central Florida ; Kim A Small, University of Central Florida College of Engineering and Computer Science

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

graduated clients of the university’s incubatorprogram. In the Internship Path students are placed with mid-size or large corporations ororganizations. Students are allowed to switch Paths at certain points in the program – if they sochoose – as part of their career exploration process. The YES program also offers other benefitsto participants which include academic advising with a YES advisor each semester to checkprogress to graduation; an intimate learning community of scholars (YES Socials andWorkshops); a YES Distinguished Speaker Seminar series; an annual YES Symposium toshowcase what they have learned from the mentorship experience through a presentation orposter; and the opportunity to network with members of the YES Advisory Board

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara M. Samuel, University of Michigan; Natsuko Hayashi Nicholls, University of Michigan; Leena N Lalwani, University of Michigan; David S. Carter, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Paul F. Grochowski, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

-textbooks and the comments about their future use of e-textbooks.Literature ReviewStudents’ perceptions of preferred features in e-books Page 23.1109.2Foote & Rupp-Serrano conducted a study in which they found that graduate students desiredfeatures where they could save a PDF of the e-book, search within the e-books, highlighting, andtaking notes. They also noted that graduate students desired more advanced features such asvideo and data files, and improved graphics7. Brahme & Gabriel conducted a study in which theyfound that 63% of their participants lamented the inability to take notes and highlight in an e-book3.Several studies found

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audrey Lynn LaVallie, Turtle Mountain Community College; Eric Asa, North Dakota State University; G. Padmanabhan P.E., North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

; a lack of research experience can negativelyimpact applicant success5.Most of the high school students on the North Dakota Reservations aspiring to pursue careers inSTEM areas are likely to enroll in the Tribally Controlled Colleges (TCCs) first and then moveon to four-year universities. The TCCs continue to make great strides toward improving the livesof their members on the Reservation by creating culturally sensitive educational opportunities.However, there was concern with the low enrolment in STEM courses and programs. In order forthis situation to improve, programs had to be developed which not only motivate students topursue college education in STEM, but also help guide them through graduation. A core groupof faculty from the two

Conference Session

First Year Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Olson, University of San Diego; Truc T. Ngo, University of San Diego; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

discussed, and opportunities for furtherstudy will be proposed.Literature on Student Attitudes towards EngineeringResearchers have used academic measures, demographic information, and survey instruments, totry to develop an understanding of how students decide to major in engineering and thepersistence of those students in engineering programs. Most commonly, statistical procedureswere used to relate high school performance, standardized test scores, and demographicinformation to retention in engineering, or engineering GPA. For example, one study appliedlogistic regression to a database of more than 80,000 students to assess the impact of high schoolGPA, SAT scores, gender, ethnicity and citizenship affected graduation rates.1 They concludedthat