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Doug Jacobson; Barbara L. Licklider

Session 1453 Project SUCCESS: Sustaining Undergraduate Careers: a Computer Engineering Support System Doug Jacobson, Barb Licklider Iowa State UniversityAbstractLearning Communities, a growing initiative at Iowa State University, aid freshmen in thetransition to college life as students live in the same residence hall and attend a common block ofclasses. By combining learning communities with the concept of student-centered active learning,students will gain control of and adjust more quickly to their new environment, experienceincreased achievement, and persist

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Robert Engelken

Session 2793 The Role and Scope of Engineering Consulting in a Balanced and Integrated Career and Personal/Family Life of a New Engineering Educator by Dr. Robert Engelken, Professor of Electrical Engineering Arkansas State University P.O. Box 1740 State University, AR 72467 (870) 972-3421 (870) 972-3948 (FAX) bdengens@navajo.astate.eduI. Abstract/IntroductionThis paper will

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Peggy Samson; Ken Vickers

Session 2586 The Role of a Middle/High School Engineering Design Contest in Student Preparation for Higher Education and Careers Ken Vickers, Peggy Samson University of Arkansas/Texas A&M UniversityAbstractBEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) is a non-profit, community-basedvolunteer organization started in 1993 by a group of technologists in Sherman, Texas tosystematically address the lack of public peer acclaim for academically successful K-12 students.BEST provides public recognition of these students’ academic, technological, and problemsolving skills by

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Gregory E. Maksi

structure, lack of hi-techequipment, lack of highly technical instructional expertise, and lack of a rigorous, relevantcourse curriculum. In fact, seventy percent of our public high school graduates will not graduatefrom a four-year college or university and will struggle to develop a long-term career ofsubstantial wage growth and advancement opportunities. The traditional public high schoolsystem is not satisfying the high-tech needs demanded by the New World, thus creating a“technical competency gap” between industry and public high school education.Furthermore, the traditional path from high school to college is no longer working effectively.In order to attend college, most young men and women must work at low skilled, low wage jobstaking at

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Clifford R. Goodwin; R. Andrew Schaffer

and also focus their applied management studies in avariety of ways.How is applied management blended with engineering technology?A key attribute of the OLS degree is its “three-thirds” approach to the overall educationand development of its students. OLS students take about one-third of their courses inleadership and supervision, another one-third in a traditional technical discipline, and afinal one-third in general education courses in the areas of math, science, english,communications, behavioral and social science and humanities. In each of these areas,there are required courses, but students also have tremendous flexibility to develop theirplan of study to fit personal interests and career goals. The OLS and technologycomponents of the

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Sohail Anwar

. More effort is needed to raise women’sskills in mathematics, science, and technology if women are to be able to compete.This paper describes a pre-college science and engineering education program conducted everyyear at Penn State Altoona for middle school (7th and 8th grades) girls and their teachers. Theprogram is designed to address each one of the above mentioned skills. The objective of theprogram is to expose middle school girls to careers in science and engineering. In addition toproviding a detailed description of the program, the paper analyzes the outcomes of this program.Recommendations for further improving the effectiveness of the program are also given.I. IntroductionVarious research literature shows that women face numerous

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Stephanie Blaisdell; Mona Moore; Marcela Castro; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 3592 University Faculty Commitment and Involvement in an Outreach Program: Instrumental in Program Success Marcela Castro, Stephanie Blaisdell, Mona Moore, Dr. Mary Anderson-Rowland Arizona State UniversityAbstractWISE Investments (WI) is an National Science Foundation-funded program which is designed toencourage more females in middle, high school, and community college to pursue engineeringand related careers. A major component of the program are two, two-week summer workshopswhich introduce middle, high school, and community college teachers and guidance counselorsto engineering. These teachers

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Asad Yousuf

Session 2548 Self-Efficacy and Vocational Interests in the Prediction of Academic Performance of Students in Engineering Technology Asad Yousuf Savannah State University.ABSTRACTResearch on career self-efficacy has previously focused on investigations of the relationship ofgeneral elements of self-efficacy to students’ consideration of a range of career options.However, researchers have moved from that traditional approach of general self-efficacy towardsexamining self-efficacy in relation to educational progress and achievement in specific fields.This paper will discuss the result

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Eric W. Johnson

pressing need for new engineers and this shortage will likelycontinue into the next century. To help alleviate this problem, both industry and universities mustwork harder at promoting engineering and engineering-related careers at the secondary schoollevel. Recently, the Sloan foundation released an excellent set of multimedia materials aimed ateducating students about careers in engineering1. These materials provide valuable informationfor high school seniors and college freshman who have already decided that they are interested ina science or engineering-related career. Over the past ten years there have also been numeroussummer workshops held at universities around the country for middle and high school students.These types of workshops have

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Ed Clausen; Carolyne E. Garcia

planning tool for students in both assessing strengths and weaknesses in both theiracademic and professional careers. Table 1. Documentation for Criterion 3 Outcomes Outcomes Documentation a b c d e f g h i j k Quantitative metrics, including transcripts, X X X X X X X X scores of FE, MCAT, GRE Job Offers/Alumni Career History X X X X X X Performance in Capstone Design courses X X X X X X X X Employer Satisfaction

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Andrew T. Rose

Session 3575 Balancing Your Life (Boat) in the Tenure Stream Andrew T. Rose University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThis paper presents a narrative describing my experiences in choosing to leave a career inconsulting engineering to accept a tenure stream faculty position in Civil EngineeringTechnology, my adjustment to the demands of this position on my personal life, and my attemptsto balance my professional and personal activities. The decision to accept this position was arealization of one of my career goals. The decision involved not only me, however, but my wifeas

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Stacy S. Wilson

Technology at WesternKentucky University (WKU) has begun to focus on the need for recruiting and retaining morewomen and minorities into its programs. Traditionally, the percentage of women and minoritiesin the Department of Engineering Technology at WKU has been extremely low. The WomenEmbracing Engineering (WEE) and Minorities in Engineering (MIE) programs are currentlybeing organized to address the issues of low enrollment and retention. The initiation of theseprograms is being planned for August 2000.The WEE and MIE programs are expected to have a wide range of impact on the young womenand minority students of south central Kentucky. Often capable young women and minoritystudents do not pursue careers in science, engineering, and technology for

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Wei Lin; Sharon Cobb; Floyd Patterson; Carol Davis; Robert Pieri; G. Padmanabhan

Native American participation in Math,Science and Engineering careers. Activities for the five year proposal period focus on attractingthe Native American high school students to the tribal colleges, retaining them through thecollege, facilitating their smooth transfer to the university, and motivating them for higherstudies. Because of the vast distances involved between each of the five tribal colleges and theuniversity, and the sparsely populated nature of the region, distance education technology willnecessarily play a key role. For example, some of the activities will be over a two-way videonetwork (Interactive Video Network) connecting all of these colleges and the university. Thedevelopment of the proposal involved representatives and

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William R. Hendee; Steven R Krogull; Jay R. Goldberg

find employment with healthcare consulting firms. Each of thesecareer paths involves the management of healthcare technology. Engineers in industry managethe development of technology from the conception to commercialization stages. Engineers inthe clinical environment manage the selection, implementation, utilization, and assessment ofhospital based technologies.Typically, new graduates with no work experience possess solid technical skills but lack trainingin business, management, and regulatory issues. Their background in product development andproject management tends to be weak, and they lack an understanding of the economic andregulatory environments of healthcare delivery. Engineers working in industry advance alongtheir career paths

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Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

Section 3575 Learning to Juggle: A Model for New Engineering Faculty Development Rose M. Marra, Thomas A. Litzinger The Pennsylvania State UniversityIntroductionNew faculty are faced with many challenges, not the least of which is learning to juggle themany aspects of their new careers. While many universities and colleges offer new facultyorientations, many such activities feature an endless array of “talking heads” fromadministrators, or perhaps “how to” lectures on the mechanics of pedagogy. Having discussedsuch workshops with other new faculty (and, we admit

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Barbara Adams; Monica Bruning; Lawrence Genalo

career awareness.• The center will help to establish an early awareness of an engineering career path - especially critical to populations that are underrepresented in engineering.• The center will lead in learner-centered, hands-on, engineering activities with K-12 students.Engineering Programs in DeliveryThe center’s objectives are being met through various programs being delivered tostudents in grades K-12 and their current and future teachers. In a mobile roboticsprogram utilizing Legos and “Not Quite C” programming, an engineering course wascreated which provides technological literacy, hands-on learning activities, and fieldexperiences for future teachers. “Toying With Technology1,2,” as this program is titled,brings these hands

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Patrick C. Gee; Marvin Needler; Barbara L. Christe

Session 1648 An EET Project for MEAP Students Barbara Christe, Patrick Gee, Marvin Needler Indiana University-Purdue University at IndianapolisAbstractThe Electrical Engineering Department at Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolishas designed and implemented a project for participants in the Minority EngineeringAdvancement Program (MEAP). 6th – 12th grade students interested in engineering andtechnology complete a project during a summer session designed to encourage minorities toconsider engineering and technology as potential careers. A volume monitor unit was chosen forthe

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Donald D. Carpenter

desire to teach and therefore, are working towards theirPh.D. in pursuit of a career in academia. While many universities give graduate students theopportunities to be teaching assistants, many graduate students never have their own class. Byteaching at a two-year school, they are gaining valuable classroom experience while still being“students” themselves. It also shows them another side of academia they are probably unfamiliarwith since many graduate students have only experienced large universities. Also, teaching at atwo-year school is a good way for graduate students to supplement their income. Some graduatestudents find that they need to have a part-time job while in graduate school. Working at a two-year college allows them to teach both

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Melanie Basantis; Zenaida Otero Keil

An Industrial Internship Program to Enhance Student Learning and MarketabilityZ. Otero Keil and M. Basantis, College of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro,NJ, 08028 Industrial internships are an important part of the Rowan Engineering Programs.These internships are designed with industrial partners to provide the optimum learningexperience for students as well as research opportunities and industrial contacts for theCollege of Engineering. Rowan University offers an innovative internship model thatinvolves students, faculty, industrial partners and Career and Development Center staff.This team approach to internships leads to enhanced student development and strongrelationships between the University and its industrial

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Rex E. Ward; Erdogan Sener

exhibit polarity of workforce organizations in terms of being union or merit shop also.The NeedFirstly, notwithstanding where the shortage seems to be at this point in time, it is the authors’belief that the issue should not be confined to the shortage of the workforce in specific segmentsof the industry only. The Indiana Career Cluster Guide2 is a listing of 14 career clusters thatprovides actual numbers of labor force supply and demand specific to Indiana career clusters.This document indicates a supply and demand gap of over 44,000 skilled trade workers neededto fulfill the market need in Indiana by the year 2005. Even though this document does notprovide data for the balance of the construction workforce, it is only logical to foresee that

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Stacy S. Wilson

Session 2326 Introducing Freshmen to Engineering at Western Kentucky University Stacy S. Wilson Western Kentucky UniversityI. IntroductionIn the past few years, Western Kentucky University (WKU) has developed a freshman seminarcourse entitled University College 101 (UC101) for the entire university. The purpose of thiscourse is to introduce freshman to college life and equip them with the appropriate skills tosucceed at the university level. Topics include study skills, time management, academicregulations, career planning, etc.Each

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Veronica D. Hinton-Hudson; Brenda Hart

Session 2332 CAMP IE—A Discipline-Specific Model for the Recruitment of Minorities into Engineering Veronica Hinton-Hudson and Brenda G. Hart University of Louisville, Louisville, KentuckyAbstractIn spite of progress made over the last 20 years, recruitment and retention of African Americanstudents remain a problem at most engineering schools. Many universities have developedprograms that seek to introduce pre-college students to the engineering profession early in theirhigh school careers. The University of Louisville is no exception. In collaboration with thelocal public

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Patrick C. Gee

Session 2470 MEAP at IUPUI Patrick Gee Indiana University-Purdue University at IndianapolisAbstractThe Minority Engineering Advancement Program (MEAP) was established in 1976 in responseto the small number of minorities in the engineering profession. MEAP strives to circumventsome of the inhibitors that prevent minorities from selecting engineering and technology aspotential careers. MEAP enhances the recruitment and retention of minority students at thePurdue School of Engineering and Technology (PSET) at Indiana University Purdue-Universityat Indianapolis (IUPUI

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Zeno Philip; Michael Tsurikov; Jennifer A. Maynard; Fernando Ulloa; David Garza; Ronald Barr; Cynthia Finley

assist graduate students with the academic hiring process; and (6) to develop the skills needed to establish and lead a research program.INTRODUCTIONAs the mean age of ASEE engineering professors is over 50 years, there is the potential for ASEE to fulfillseveral points of its mission statement, “to encourage youth to pursue studies and careers in engineeringand engineering technology; and influence the recruitment and retention of young faculty andunderrepresented groups.” (3) by working with ASEE Student Chapters to prepare future faculty. ASEEcan sponsor events for graduate students, facilitate contact between graduate students and professors, andtake an active role in preparing teaching assistants.To these ends, the University of

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Linda M. Head; Zenaida O. Keil; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan

Session 1692 AWE: An Outreach Workshop for Middle School Girls Kauser Jahan, P.E., Beena Sukumaran, Linda M. Head and Zenaida O. Keil Rowan University College of Engineering 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, New Jersey 08028-1701AbstractA two-week, EiF Foundation and Rowan University sponsored workshop designed to introducemiddle school girls to engineering careers was held at Rowan University during the summer of1999. This target audience was selected to expose young girls to the importance of focusing onmathematics

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Kirk H. Schulz; Noel Schulz

percentages of the undergraduate population are first generationcollege students. Their personal and family aspirations are to get a baccalaureate degree and finda good job. Many of these students know very little about graduate school as a career option. Infact, often they have many misperceptions and incorrect information about attending graduateschool.In an effort to determine why students choose to go graduate school, a survey was developed andcirculated to graduate students in engineering at Michigan Tech. This paper summarizes theseresults, and gives some of the initiatives that the authors have used in an effort to recruitadditional students in the graduate program at Michigan Tech.I. IntroductionAs universities make more and more partnerships

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Mahammad Najafi; George Yang

indicated that industries demand better-educatedmanufacturing workforces. The Northwestern Missouri area did not have a single postsecondaryvocational technical education program in manufacturing that could produce the neededtechnicians or technologists for local industries. A two-year manufacturing engineeringtechnology program would fit right into Missouri Western State College’s career-orientededucation. Upon the approval of the Missouri Coordination Board of Higher Education, theprogram started in 1998, and within two years, collaboration with local industries had beenestablished. Articulations with area technical schools have been going smoothly especially in theareas of facility usage and continuing education for students. Student-body growth

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representapproximately twenty seven percent of applicants, thirty percent of admitted students,and only twenty two percent of the school population1 (see Table 1). In accordance withthese figures, the Engineering Workforce Commission reported that in the fall of 1998,women represented a mere twenty percent of the undergraduate engineering population2.If the initial interest to pursue technical careers is not present, young women entering Page 5.609.1institutions of higher learning will not choose to major in engineering, science, ormathematics. Why do women lack interest in the fields of engineering, science, andmathematics and how can we, as program administrators

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Teresa Sappington; Rebecca K. Toghiani

. This camp alsofocuses on exposing these students to the different careers available through engineering. Duringthe summer of 2000, three sessions of this camp, each accommodating approximately 30campers, will be offered in an attempt to satisfy the high demand for the program. Efforts directed at outreach to the K-6 community have been limited in the past. TheCollege of Engineering coordinates the regional Science Fair and helps science teachersthroughout the state by offering training seminars and support activities for the Science Fair.Identifying mechanisms through which the College of Engineering can interact more extensivelywith the K-6 community has been the focus of more recent development efforts. The SummerEngineering

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that beginning students may fail to see as important. Itcreates a dialogue about the importance of communication; the formats that will be encounteredin academia and the industrial world; and the need to be aware of language, audience, grammar,and revision techniques. It is hoped that this very quick review of the important elements ofcommunication will influence students to make a greater effort in their writing and speakingresponsibilities.2.1 Preliminary IssuesThe seminar begins with an overview of the communication area, its importance to workers inthe global society, and the need for students to continually be aware of where communicationfits in their careers. Students need to be told to let text flow from the knowledge that they