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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Mary Cardenas

server, as well as linkfiles from the web. eCAT was one of the ELNs used in the Electronic Lab Notebook pilot study12at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This study involved academic researchers, mostlygraduate students, in fields of science, engineering, and medicine. A significant finding in thereport is that the users found two features of most use: the ability to add data and link files. Thesimple drawing tools in eCAT were not deemed very useful by many of the users. Although thefile structuring functions of eCAT may not be necessary for simpler undergraduate laboratories,given that practicing engineers found this useful, eCAT may be a good option for upper-levellaboratories and students involved in undergraduate research.Sophomore

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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student outreach, recruitment, retention, and strategies that aim to increase graduation rates andreduce achievement gaps for women, under-represented minority students, and students from under-resourced communities.About ASEE Zone IV: Founded in 1893, ASEE is a non-profit multidisciplinary organization that promotesexcellence in instruction, research, public service, and practice to further engineering and technologyeducation. Zone IV, the largest of ASEE's regional groups, includes three sections: Pacific Southwest (Arizona,California, Hawaii, and Nevada), Pacific Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, andCanada-Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan), and Rocky Mountain (Colorado, South Dakota, Utah,and Wyoming).Program