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William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

bring richness and depth to our understanding ofthe benefits that first year students accrue from participating in MentorNet.I. Women Students in Engineering and Early ExperiencesEngineering has stubbornly remained a field where women continue to be severelyunderrepresented. Engineering is the career aspiration that still shows the greatest differencebetween the number of men and women as they begin their undergraduate years.1 Nation-widedata show that women earned just 18.6% of undergraduate engineering degrees, 20.3 % ofmasters engineering degrees, and 12.3% of engineering doctoral degrees in 1998.2Consistently, research shows that this discrepancy is not due to a lack of motivation, ability, oracademic preparation of women students.3,4

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Frederick Orthlieb

newtechnological tools and the drive to solve persistent and difficult problems, and simultaneously a means ofadvancing the professional, disciplinary and institutional careers of faculty who enable and superviseundergraduate student researchers. This paper is about how networking among engineering faculty involved inundergraduate research can serve to advance both their educational effectiveness and personal career interests. Networking is a trendy and overused word. Nevertheless, it properly describes the variety and extent ofcontacts and connections used by faculty who are successful at conducting research with undergraduates. Mucheffort goes into establishing and maintaining such connections, and few faculty members start off with a skill

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William Jemison; James Schaffer; William Hornfeck

EXCEL Scholars Program of undergraduate research at Lafayette College.Potential modifications and enhancements will be presented which are proposed to enablethe program to meet the changing needs of the students and graduate schools. Theinformation contained in this paper will serve to inform other institutions considering theinitiation or expansion of a program of undergraduate research.I. IntroductionMany factors affect an undergraduate engineering student’s decision of whether to jointhe workforce or pursue graduate studies and a research oriented career upon graduationfrom college. For example, the strong economy in recent years has created a hugedemand for graduating engineers. This in turn has resulted in enhanced

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Raymond Desrosiers; John Rivera; James Gregory; Don Baggert; Lloyd Heinze

professional nature • about the degree plan and related career opportunities, • about the selection of courses for each semester, • about the process or system rules for registering for classes, adding classes and dropping classes, • about pre-requisites and co-requisites for classes, • about avoiding bottlenecks that might delay graduation or interfere with success, • about how to optimize academic success, and • about how to deal with life problems that develop along the way.An experienced, seasoned academic advisor will be knowledgeable about all of theseitems, will know their own limitations, and will refer special needs to other professionalsin the system.To complicate the advising problem, course availability changes as course

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technology. The latter was added to helpstudents understand the connection between technology and the health professions and also tomeet the needs of a significant number of participants who express interest in engineering andcomputer science careers. We believe that the success of our program can be attributed to severalkey elements: • A dedicated and consistent team of college faculty, student-counselors, and high school science teachers. • A unifying theme (HIV/AIDS for the past two years). • An appropriate balance of academics, educational field trips, and recreational activities. • Continuous reevaluation of the program. • Personal

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. Introduction at this level will attract morestudents to engineering and engineering technology, and will allow students, while still in highschool, to determine if engineering is the career they desire. The PLTW graduate will be betterprepared for college programs and more likely to be successful, thus reducing the attrition rate inthese college programs, which currently exceeds 50% nationally. Page 6.816.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationA comprehensive organizational structure has been

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Rebecca Blust

Session 3249 Increasing Diversity Within the Field of Engineering: Closing the Minority Gap Rebecca P. Blust University of DaytonAbstractAlthough minorities have broadened their career choices in the past few years, they have notincreased their numbers in science and technology. The current US workforce is comprised of77% White, 4% Asian and 19% Minority, but these numbers do not hold for engineeringprofessionals. The Bureau of Labor Statistics in conjunction with the National ScienceFoundation states that among engineering

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Thomas Stanford; Michael Aherne; Duane D. Dunlap; Mel Mendelson; Donald Keating

” collaboration for solutions (for example, strategic alliances with vendors).• Workforce composition (for example, the emergence of dual career families and the aging workforce) and responding to some of the opportunities that diversity in the workplace presents (for example, along gender, cultural, generational boundaries).These powerful change forces prompt a reexamination for how ETL professionals develop andhow higher education supports that development in response to challenging, contemporary workenvironments.Traditionally, promotion to ETL roles has occurred through demonstrating outstanding technicalperformance in engineering and technology roles.6 One inherent challenge with promotingengineering and technology professionals into ETL

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Cecil Beeson; William Gay

specialty certificate in which a he orshe gains practical and up-to-date technical skills. The degree/certificate combination allows astudent the option of immediate employment upon graduation or transfer into a four-yearprogram.This article traces the development of a computer and network maintenance certificate anddiscusses plans for the development of an avionics certificate. These certificates were selected inan attempt to meet community needs, to collaborate with local businesses, and to provide EETstudents exciting and challenging educational and career opportunities. The first certificatediscussed is Computer Systems Support, which is in place and receiving considerable interest onthe part of students and employers. The second certificate

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Robert Y. Ofoli; Mackenzie Davis; Craig W, Somerton

associated with learning styles and theories. Personnel fromstudent services, such as the learning center, the ombudsman office, diversity programs office,and the counseling center provided class presentations in areas of their expertise. College ofEngineering faculty participated in sharing with the students their experiences in teachinglaboratories and design, in using active learning techniques in class, and in starting theiracademic career. By utilizing the members of the university and college community in this way,the students received a much broader learning experience than would have been possible from asingle instructor.A side benefit of using guest lecturers from the College of Engineering is that, if they are chosencarefully, it can

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Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

some ofthe common issues facing new faculty and proposing solutions.I. IntroductionAs a new faculty member begins a career in a research-oriented university, the first goal must beto gain tenure. This is typically a five to six year process that is very rigorous and is completed bydemonstrating success in three main areas. At Texas A&M University (as with most majoruniversities), these requirements include [1]:• Research: The foremost priority in the tenure process is demonstrating the ability to perform externally funded research. This translates into tenure-track faculty spending a majority of their time making research-related contacts, attending conferences, writing proposals, managing contracts and students, staying current

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Peg Boyle Single; Carol Muller

women in engineering andrelated sciences, mentoring has been touted as a particularly effective component of anystrategies to encourage women’s persistence in these fields. Mentoring programs in wide varietyhave been instituted at colleges across the country, and materials, training programs, and papershave been developed to help support these efforts.1,2,3,9,15 The working assumption is thatstudents benefit from having those with greater experience help acquaint them with theopportunities in these fields, offer guidance and advice based on experience, and providesupport, encouragement, and access to professional networks for further career development.Effective mentoring offers personal, one-on-one attention, and may also provide insight about

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James Leary

successfullower-division classes indicated the need to introduce ABE students to engineering courseworkearly in their academic careers. The benefits of early interaction with lower division studentshave also been discussed by Yokomoto, et al.1. While retention of ABE students is the primarydriving force for this change, offering an introductory course in Agricultural and BiologicalEngineering has the additional potential of recruiting students who are undecided in selecting anengineering major. In addition to the learning process, a possible benefit to the students is thedevelopment of support networks that include ABE classmates, faculty and staff. Suchnetworks, according to Hewitt and Seymour2, enable students to persist in their chosen major.Creation

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Janice Margle

Session 3575 TO GO or NOT TO GO Relocating for the Summer - Is It Worth It? Janice M. Margle Engineering, Penn State Abington College Abington, Pennsylvania 19001Abstract Shortly after beginning my teaching career, I had the opportunity to spend a summerconducting research at a government lab. It meant packing and relocating for three months. Itwas an interesting summer followed by a second summer that was equally interesting. I alsospent several summers at a government lab where I did

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Orlando Baiocchi; Atlas Hsie

for his/her MS degree in Engineering Technology.V. Advantages for this new option 1. Provide additional option for students who are seeking stable career environment such as secondary school teachers. 2. Provide additional option for students who are seeking reasonable and steady income for their career. 3. Provide credentials either to work in industry or in secondary school system. 4. Provide graduates with the opportunity to teach at community or technical colleges upon completion of the MSAT degree or its equivalent in engineering technology or engineering

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Lynn Mayo; Eric Hansberry

directcorrelation between marine graphics and other types of graphics, and therefore students notplanning on a marine career will also benefit from this knowledge.Of the many attributes that make up a successful engineer, perhaps three should be highlighted asmost critical. Basic engineering skills are clearly essential, and can be acquired and enhanced inthe process of studying marine design. Good interdepartmental communication and knowledgeis paramount, and marine design projects exemplify the many specialties of engineering workingtogether. Finally, creativity is the skill that most often sets one professional apart from others.Given a greater number of situations and problems to solve, students will further develop theirability to think creatively. A

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Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

for biomedical engineeringstudents.Biomedical Engineering Curriculum at Rice UniversityThe Bioengineering undergraduate program at Rice University is designed to prepare studentsfor careers in the rapidly developing areas of biomedical engineering and bioprocessing. Theundergraduate educational program in Bioengineering has the goal of producing a new type ofbiomedical engineer, fully conversant with modern biochemistry and cell and molecular biology.This type of biomedical engineer translates bench-scale scientific advances in biological sciencesinto cost-effective new products and processes. New and innovative curricula are beingdeveloped to educate biomedical engineers who not only create new tissues and cell-basedtherapies but also

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Judith Grimes; Huiming Wang; Virendra Varma

Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education” categories. ’Intended Major’ is a category on Missouri Western’s admission application that students check off if they are interested in, or leaning towards an engineering or engineering technology career. These are also the students who most likely add to attrition rates.The quality of ET students, judging from above, can entail highly varying abilities of students,and poses several challenges for faculty and administration. It can be argued that majority offaculty in an institution with an open-door admission policy, may agree on the merits of openenrollment as a way of giving everybody a chance at

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student outcomes assessment and employer feedback. Typical evidence may consist of student portfolios including project work and activity based learning; results of integrated curricula experiences; nationally-normed subject content examinations; recent graduate surveys that demonstrate graduate satisfaction with employment including career development activities, mobility operations, and appropriate job titles; and employer surveys that demonstrate satisfaction with recent graduates. Programs also must demonstrate that their graduates are readily accepted into the workforce and are prepared for continuing education. This paper discusses a collaborative model for a senior seminar course which is

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priorities of youracademic setting. Furthermore, you need to be able to structure and shape your personalpriorities within the tenure-decision framework to demonstrate your accomplishments.Therefore, in addition to simply doing all of the rudimentary tasks associated with the facultyload, we are also individually tasked with managing and developing our career path.Know yourselfThe first step in managing and developing your career path is to know yourself, starting withyour personal goals and objectives as well as the requirements to reach them. There are manydifferent reasons to choose the academic profession as a career. Some are drawn to thespecialized research opportunities that exist while some are attracted to the opportunity todevelop and

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James Wood; Elaine L. Craft

connections between subjects traditionallytaught in isolation and between their study and engineering technology careers.The SC ATE curriculum is being taught in seven South Carolina technical colleges and one highschool career center. Engineering technology retention rates have increased 50-100 percent. Inaddition, industry has responded to the implementation of the SC ATE curriculum by providingmore and better scholarships and meaningful work experiences for engineering technologystudents through the SC ATE Scholars initiative. Through the ATE Scholars partnerships,industries and colleges work together to recruit and select students as ATE Scholars. Thefinancial support of local industries (tuition, books and paid work experience) and relevant real

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William Stratton; Ranaye Marsh; Jonathan Lawson; Jay Kunze

simulators could be used effectively if available for educational programs.C That a 4-year program for engineering education may be unrealistically short to accomplish the necessary goals. He discussed serious engineering failures of the last few decades, suggesting that education and training of both engineers and technicians needs to be re- examined in an attempt to determine how to avoid such catastrophic occurrences.In some situations students are led to make career decisions in the freshman year, after which timeswitching between engineering and applied technology paths requires virtually a complete restart.Some academic institutions have made attempts to provide similarities in the two programs, atleast in the

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Carl White; Myra Curtis; Clifton Martin

. This istrue; but the underlying problem is not being addressed for these students. As Dr. Carl Whitestated at a Saturday Academy Partnership Workshop, “These groups are putting SEM careers in Page 6.1000.1front of these students, yet they are not giving them the tools to actually participate in these Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationfields.” The Morgan State University School of Engineering Saturday Academy, developedthrough the ECSEL Coalition, has evolved into a program that is trying

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Beverly Baartmans; Sheryl Sorby

they are receiving is simply not exciting them to learn more. At MichiganTech there is an unusually high percentage of students who are excited enough about mathematicsand science to pursue careers in these areas. Currently, 88% of the university’s student body (82%of the minority students) are pursuing degrees in mathematics, science, computer science, or engi-neering. It seems evident that graduate students from Michigan Tech have something special toshare with students and teachers in K-12 schools.Michigan Tech’s GK-12 Teaching Fellows Program. This is a three year program which linkshigher education at Michigan Tech with primary and secondary schools in the Copper CountryIntermediate School District (CCISD). Ten graduate students and 2-3

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Peter Golding; Walter Fisher; Stella Quinones

interdisciplinary team whose goal is to promotestudent success. Student success strategies, self-responsibility, and critical thinking skills aredeveloped in the university seminar course. The developmental math course provides the mathbackground necessary for these students to enter college-level math courses. Most of the studentshave little difficulty in passing the developmental math course, but they have very poorunderstanding of how to use the abstract concepts learned in math to solve problems. Thisweakness causes many students to do poorly in subsequent technical courses and/or to give up ona career in engineering. The introduction to engineering course serves as a bridge between theabstract concepts learned in math and their application to ÀrealÀ

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Arthur Johnson

pressure times flow rate. Details about these and other applicationscan be found in Biological Process Engineering, by A. T. Johnson (John Wiley, 1999).Teaching students about the principles underlying transport processes, and illuminating thepossibilities of analogous application can enable engineering students to conceptualize in a waythat will be forever valuable to them, whether they remain in engineering careers or take otherfuture career pathways. To be agents of change, they will realize very simply that they mustincrease motivation (effort), reduce resistance, overcome inertia, and maintain sufficient capacitystorage that will not be depleted.ARTHUR T. JOHNSONArthur T. Johnson is currently Professor in Biological Resources Engineering at

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advisor refers thestudent to speak with a faculty advisor regarding course selection or clarification of educationand career goals. The student and the faculty advisor begin to build an advisee/advisorrelationship. Once a semester, staff advisors, a faculty advisor from each department, and theAssociate Dean, meet to discuss every student on probation. During this meeting the groupreviews each student’s semester gpa, cumulative gpa, degree gpa, and department admission gpa.The group also monitors matriculation through courses required for admission into departmentstatus and accordingly sets specific and measurable goals for each student. Collaboration withstaff and faculty advisors has increased matriculation into the departments.TechnologyWhile

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knowledge and skills. Nevertheless, universities should not sacrifice depthof knowledge for current technical skills. By maintaining intellectual integrity, universities makeit easier for graduates to ensure a career in the long-term. Successful practices and experiencesfrom CSSU illustrate the possible ways to better respond to industry needs.I. IntroductionWhat can universities do to facilitate the increasing demand for Science, Engineering andInformation Technology workers? Why has the gap between the number of graduates and thenumber of openings grown dramatically during the last several years? Although these basicquestions are primarily directed to universities, the answers should come from all constituencies.Universities themselves are

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Arturo Fuentes; Cristina Villalobos

, American Society for Engineering EducationThe University of Texas at El Paso is the second largest Hispanic educational institution in theUnited States. Over 67% of its approximate 15,000 students are underrepresented minorities,primarily Hispanic, and an estimated two-thirds are the first in their families to attend college.First-generation students are usually uncertain about their careers and university demands. Parentsand family members may also be uncertain about university requirements. At UTEP, a significantproportion of minority and non-minority students arrive at the university inadequately prepared todo college-level work, particularly in mathematics. Because many UTEP students find itnecessary to work to finance their college education

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Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

toward students "interested in the theoreticalaspects of aerospace engineering, but desire a practical "hands-on" career in which to put theirengineering skills to use"3. Page 6.726.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe program is segregated into two distinctly different portions. The first four semesters areprimarily dedicated to providing aircraft maintenance training. At the completion of the first halfof the program, the student has satisfied the FAA requirements to be examined