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Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Reyer; Glenn T. Wrate, Northern Michigan University; John Wheeldon; Owe Petersen

Session 2253 Freshman Electrical Engineering Course Addressing Retention and Career Choice Steven Reyer, Glenn Wrate, John Wheeldon, Owe Petersen Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThe Electrical Engineering Program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) hasimplemented a new introductory electrical engineering (EE) course in the first quarter of thefreshman year. Student retention is the primary motivation, and the special manner in which thecourse is team-taught

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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Daughton

Session 3642 An Analysis of the Career Value of a Graduate Engineering Management Degree William J. Daughton Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractThe Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program in the College of Engineering andApplied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder has been granting graduate degrees for14 years, and in that time over 200 engineers have graduated. The focus of the graduate programis to prepare individuals who have been working as professional engineers for two toapproximately

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kimberly Barron; Anita Todd; Robert Pangborn

Session 3630 Changes in Perceived Learning Assessed in Stages from Mid-stream Academic through Professional Careers Anita M. Todd, Kimberly A. Barron and Robert N. Pangborn College of Engineering, Penn State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the implementation and initial findings of a new web-based senior exitsurvey in the College of Engineering at Penn State. The electronic format includes an adaptivefeature that accounts for the student’s major, and presents the respondent with both a corecontent and a department-specific component that together meet multiple assessment interestsand

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

Session 1392 Women in Technology: Attitudes, Perceptions, and Beliefs regarding their Majors and Intended Careers Susan G. Miller, Mara H. Wasburn Purdue UniversityAbstractA July 2001 report released by The National Council for Research on Women finds that much ofthe progress that women have made in science, engineering, and technology in the past twodecades has stalled or eroded. Among other things, the report urges systematic change to inviteand retain more women and girls in those disciplines. In 1998, at Purdue University, the studentgroup Women

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Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gordon Silverman

Session 1309 Biomedical Engineering Redux: Emerging Career Opportunities and Their Implications for Educational Programs Gordon Silverman, Professor and Chair Electrical and Computer Engineering, Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York, U.S.A.I. Background.Biomedical engineering combines engineering expertise with the needs of the medicalcommunity for the enhancement of health care. (1) (2) Working cooperatively with scientists,chemists, and medical professionals, biomedical engineers design and develop devices associatedwith the biological systems of

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Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rebecca Blust

Session 3475 The Quest for Equilibrium – Balancing a Career in Science and Engineering Academia and a Family Rebecca P. Blust University of DaytonAbstractAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost 64 million women, aged 16 and over areemployed, representing approximately 46% of the total workforce. This number has more thandoubled since 1960. In that same time period the number of workingwomen with children lessthan 6 years of age, has more than tripled. The number of professional women (bachelor'sdegrees or higher), in the civilian labor

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

Session 2109 Optimization of Undergraduate BME Curricula for Students Seeking Careers in Clinical Medicine Richard J. Jendrucko, Jack F. Wasserman University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleBiomedical engineering (BME) academic programs are generally designed to meet the needs ofemployers including biomedical industries, government agencies and clinical service entities(e.g. hospitals). Additionally, undergraduate BME programs are structured to meet all ABETaccreditation requirements which include a plan for continuous program improvement. Based onan overall

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis

Session #734 Building Industrial Partnerships and Business Relationships: Early Career Interventions for Professional Growth and Learning-Centered Classrooms Beverly Davis Purdue UniversityAbstractAt Purdue University, a new president has redirected an entire university and this transformation will alterthe way most non-tenured faculty progress through the tenure process. The new triad of Learning,Engagement, and Discovery has replaced the historical Teaching, Service, and Research pyramid that somany of us have come to recognize as the all in all

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Inquiring MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Freya Toledo; Antonio Gonzalez-Quevedo; Didier Valdes-Diaz

Session 2270 The first Summer Transportation Institute (STI) at the University of Puerto Rico: An experiment in motivating high school Puerto Ricans to study transportation related careers Antonio A. González-Quevedo, Didier M. Valdés-Díaz, Freya M. Toledo-Feria School of Engineering University of Puerto Rico at MayagüezAbstract The Civil Infrastructure Research Center (CIRC) of the University of Puerto Rico atMayagüez (UPRM) managed the first Summer Transportation Institute at the University ofPuerto Rico during the

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

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Carol Mullenax

Session 2455 If I’m going to work in industry, why join ASEE??? Carol Mullenax Tulane UniversityAbstract:One challenge to sustaining ASEE student chapters is finding enough interested parties toparticipate. There are many thoughts on how to increase potential membership, including cateringto undergraduate and graduate students planning to pursue industry positions. This paper serves asa sort of business case for students not specifically planning an academic career to participate inASEE and become better educators. Based on nine years of industry

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Shelia Barnett

, in collaboration with the Career Services Office at MercerUniversity, has recently implemented a pilot program, the Initial Freshman Experience program. The program objectives were outlined to benefit both Mercer University students andemployers. The following objectives were developed: to improve student learning inside andoutside the classroom, to prepare students for the journey of lifelong learning, to increase thenumber of students with practical engineering experience prior to graduation, to strengthenrelationships between Mercer University and employers who hire Mercer University studentsand graduates, and to provide enthusiastic and high-quality graduates for our employers. In its first year, there has been

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Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Monica Bruning

Session 1396 Why NOT Engineering – Perspectives of Young Women and the Influence of the Media Monica J. Bruning Iowa State UniversityOverviewThis pilot study is developed to assess how young women (10 th grade girls) come to know theengineering profession. The study analyzes young women’s career exploration approach and theinfluence that the engineering language and imagery has upon the young women as they explorethe profession. The pilot study employs a qualitative research design and utilizes feminist theoryto better understand the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jessica Mitchell; James Sweeney; Kristine Csavina

inbioengineering and to encourage an investment in their education. Additionally, workshops arean effort to help students relate first-year coursework to a broader overall goal of future coursesand potential career paths. Themes of workshop modules, scheduled to meet every other week,include 1) a first overview of bioengineering at ASU including hands-on labs and faculty labtours, 2) an exploration of education and career paths for bioengineers, 3) and an overview ofvarious opportunities available to them within the Department of Bioengineering. Topics may bemodified according to findings from surveys administered in the semester prior to the workshopseries. Assessments will be conducted both pre and post workshop to determine whether thelearning

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Marketing Engineering Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathy Franck; George Sehi; Surinder Jain

sufficiently large number of students coming into the program in order to justify continued support. · Having the students gain appropriate competencies and attitudes while they are in the program. · Producing graduates in adequate numbers with the variety of specialties needed by employers. · Successfully placing graduates in career positions that will lead to productive Page 7.623.1 employment throughout their professional lives.IMAGE & M ARKETING OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION ASEE CONFERENCE 2002According to the report, “These success factors, in turn, depend on the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn

the record onthe difficulty of taking courses that fail to draw connections to either the real world or futurecourses in the student’s major. They find them baffling in many respects until someone makesthe effort to draw logical connections between those initial courses in the academic system andthe later major driven classes.The current work in progress involves that body of students who feel that they have an interest inengineering as a career choice. The group consists of any students who have qualms over whatthey are being required to learn in courses like mathematics, chemistry, physics, or language arts.The projected initial numbers of students impacted could be as many as 3,000 students with asmany as 1,500 added to the group each year

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Achieving Diversity in the CE Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

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Norma Mattei

(Guice, 2001). Add to thesepressures the "usual" pressures of acquiring research and funding, publishing scientific articles,service, and acquiring tenure. A graduate student finishing work on an engineering doctorate maynot find that academia is a very attractive career choice. In 1997, 12% of the science andengineering doctorates were awarded to women. Blacks earned 3% and Hispanics earned almost4% of all science and engineering doctorates. Accordingly, the pool of potential female andminority engineering educators is very small. Should it be important to the profession that thesefemale and minority doctoral students be retained in academia as engineering educators? Why?How?This paper will first explore one reason why it is important to have a

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sukhvarsh Jerath

thegraduates for careers in business, education, government and industry. By 1940, a bachelor’sdegree had become the common level of education for most white-collar jobs and professions.As we look to the future, there is no question that we live in a technology dependent world.People working in every job, from multi-media classrooms to fully automated factories, willneed some basic knowledge of modern technology. As it was necessary to promote literacy andbasic education commonly known as liberal education for achieving success in the past, it will benecessary to have technological component in education to be successful in life in the future. Inaddition, engineering education imparts analytical, problem solving, and logical thinking skillsthat are

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TYCD 2002 Lower Division Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Grace; Scott Klingenstein; Ron Ulseth; Nick Nicholson; Don Moen; Amy Hendrickson; Aaron Wenger; Kenneth Gentili; Paul Gordy; Jim Richardson

little or no history ofcommitting to a two year sequence of engineering curriculum. Many, in fact, have trouble committing to acomplete calculus sequence or to calculus-based physics. In addition, there is the difficulty of goodarticulation agreements that ensure seamless transfer of two year’s worth of engineering classes betweenTYC’s and universities. A few states, in fact, by law make such transfer impossible.However, the opportunities for increased recruitment of both traditional and under-represented groups tothe educational track leading to an engineering career that are afforded by the community colleges of thisnation may be too large to continue to ignore. The possible increased opportunities for retaining a largerpercentage of beginning

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Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Mickelson

of that ISU Competency. These key actions are the basis of our assessment tools.Also associated with each ISU Competency is a set of representative career activities, whichrepresent the workplace settings, used to describe a “Critical Incident”. Using the key actionsand representative career activities described in the critical incidents, these fourteen ISUCompetencies were mapped to the Criterion 3 outcomes in matrix form (Figure 2). Page 7.1292.2“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Figure 2. ABET Outcomes Versus ISU

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Lent; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer; Linda Schmidt

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Collective Efficacy 3 Social cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994 6) hasbecome an influential approach to understanding academic and career behavior. SCCTwas designed to explain the processes through which people develop career andeducational interests, translate their interests into occupationally-relevant choices, andachieve varying levels of performance and persistence in academic and work

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Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mariesa Crow; Karen Butler-Purry; Noel Schulz

opportunities in their specifictechnical area. The paper will outline how these networking groups started, suggestions forothers and lessons learned.IntroductionUniversities have been working very diligently the last twenty years to increase the diversity oftheir faculty and students. William Wulf, President of the National Academy of Engineering,discussed how we would have a shortage of engineers early in the 21 st century if the engineeringcommunity does not reach out to women and minorities and encourage them to pursue careers inengineering1. One key issue in the recruitment and retention of women into engineering careersis to provide role models for them in their engineering faculty. Women students see womenfaculty who are pursuing professional and

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New ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vernon Lewis; Paul Kauffmann

that provides a direction for education to consider: · Two- thirds of respondents said the manufacturing workplace suffers from a poor and outdated image in attracting competent workers. · Respondents recommended steps and programs should be identified and implemented to make technical and manufacturing careers preferred career options. · This study encouraged the nation’s community and technical colleges to expand certificate and degree programs to ensure they are effective and attuned to workforce needs. · It urged the university system to be more attuned to changing workforce needs and play a role in supporting resolution of the issues the nation is facing.Training requirements in corporate America are varied both in content

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Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session 1460 Are Current Engineering Graduates in the US Being Treated as Commodities by Employers? Russel C. Jones World Expertise LLC and Bethany S. Oberst James Madison UniversityAbstractThe employment scene for professionals of all sorts becomes more volatile with eachdecade. In engineering, graduates of past generations could reasonably look forward to alinear career trajectory characterized by upward mobility and advancement. A

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Segalewitz

currently available Web technology while reinforcing the University's missionof “connected learning.” The course outcomes align to meet many of the department's goalsincluding developing scholarship and critical thinking skills, leadership and team building;problem solving and decision-making, professional ethics, and communication skills. Thisone-credit hour course contains exercises and discussion in professional ethics andintegrity, goal setting, effective learning, early career development, networking, Universitypolicies and procedures, and an introduction to engineering technology disciplines. Bykeeping the class size relatively small, these tools are presented in a collaborative mannerthat facilitates active learning and stresses critical

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Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis

in school. Dr.Breazeal believes that more girls would be attracted to the hard sciences if they realized how creative theycould be. She feels that technology is flexible enough to allow for self-expression and she feels that it is afulfilling career. Looking back to the AAUW study, when girls were asked to describe a person good withcomputers, a majority of those interviewed described a man. In a 1997 survey of 652 college-bound highschool seniors in Silicon Valley, Boston and Austin, Texas, 50% of both male and female students said thatthe field of computer science was geared toward men. Studies have continued to show that earlysocialization may determine the jobs women and men consider socially acceptable and that gender has beenshown to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Martha Zola; Angelo Perna; Vladimir Briller; Raymond Calluori

measures ofacademic performance. The data were collected for 456 Engineering students who participated inthe Entering Student Surveys in Fall of 1999 and 2000. Since the Entering Students for the lastthree years have consistently ranked career oriented goals high, the research suggests that theextrinsically motivated goals are more likely related to a high level of commitment andsuccessful Freshman academic performance.The implications of these findings will be relevant in the faculty advisement of students. Thestudents will be better served in matching their goals and course selection, which will ultimatelylead to improved learning.IntroductionThe paper is a part of a larger study on retention and graduation (Zola, 2000). Its purpose is toassist

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Robinson

class all affect the number of AP classes offered in high schools.I. IntroductionA problem with many high schools is that challenging courses are not offered, especially inmathematics and the sciences. In its final report of 2001, The National Commission on theHigh School Senior Year urged states to offer challenging alternatives to the traditionalhigh school senior year. The report said that not enough high schools are preparingstudents for college and careers and that while 70 percent of today’s high school graduatesgo on to some form of postsecondary education, only one-half of those who enroll at four-year institutions leave with a degree. The main reason cited was that they were notprepared for the rigors of college academics in high

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paige Smith

. 8, 20, 21At the University of Maryland (UM), an innovative educational intervention is being introducedin summer 2002 to help overcome some of these barriers. Research Internships in Science andEngineering (RISE) serves women in the higher-educational pipeline: incoming first yearstudents, undergraduates and graduate students. This program has two tracks. For incoming firstyear students, there is a ten-day orientation to engineering, the sciences and the UM community.The goal is to jump-start the careers of female students by providing them with teamwork andtechnical skills training and networking opportunities with both female faculty and each other, aswell as exposure to research in STEM fields. For upper-level undergraduates, the

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Tomorrow's Civil Engineering Profession

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2002 Annual Conference

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KC Mahboub; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Scott Yost

Session 2615 What does it mean to be an engineer? The 2001 Challenge to Engineering Educators S. Yost, A. Phillips, P. Palazolo, K.C. Mahboub Univ. of Kentucky/Univ. of Memphis/ Univ. of Memphis/ Univ. of KentuckyAbstractDean Kamen’s keynote speech at the 2001 ASEE National Convention in Albuquerque, NewMexico asked some tough questions of engineering educators. Primarily, Kamen questionedwhat we are doing to represent engineering as a viable career choice in comparison to thewidespread appeal of lucrative sports careers, which promise to pay young people extraordinaryamounts of money. His conclusion

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Siobhan Gibbons; Ronald Rockland; Joel Bloom; Howard Kimmel

qualified high-tech workers in New Jersey, including those whohave been historically underrepresented (such as minorities and women). Thiscomprehensive program has two major components. The Instructional component includesthe adaptation of pre-engineering curricula for use in middle and high school science andmath classrooms and the provision of summer institutes for teacher professionaldevelopment. The Outreach component involves the implementation of an “Engineering theFuture” outreach program and the formation of alliances with three groups of stakeholders:educators, counselors and parents. It will include assessments of attitudes towardsengineering and technology, a career alternative assessment, and a comprehensiveinformation campaign about