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The Mind Matrix

Conference Session: Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Val Stamboltsian; Robert Dennis; Khy Huang

representations are nodes andlinks. In our work, knowledge maps are two-dimensional diagrams that use a spatial* The Mind-Matrix is supported by a gift from the Ahmanson Foundation. We wish to express ourgratitude for their generous support of our "Kids Building Learning Systems for Kids program." Page 7.1165.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationarrangement of nodes and labeled directional links to communicate about concepts in adomain by specifying the various semantic relationships between those

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The Loophole In Affirmative Action Hiring Of Engineering Faculty

Conference Session: Inquiring MINDs
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Craig Somerton

Session 2270 The Loophole in Affirmative Action Hiring of Engineering Faculty Craig W. Somerton Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityIntroductionOver the past twenty years engineering administrators have come under increasing pressure, dueto affirmative action, to hire minority and women faculty. This has posed a problem due to thevery small pool of minority and women Ph.D. graduates in engineering across the country. Onesolution to this problem that has been implemented is to augment the hiring pool with foreign-born minorities holding (or nearly holding) permanent

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Strengthening Native American Pathways To Science And Engineering Education

Conference Session: Inquiring MINDs
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: G. Padmanabhan

Session No: 2270 STRENGTHENING NATIVE AMERICAN PATHWAYS TO SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION G. Padmanabhan, Wei Lin, Robert Pieri, Floyd Patterson, Sharon Cobb North Dakota State University Carol Davis Turtle Mountain Community CollegeAbstractNative American population is highly underrepresented in mathematics, science, and engineeringprofessions. In order to increase Native American participation in MSE professions, theirpathways to science and engineering education need to be strengthened. Native American highschool

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Engineering Research Experience For Undergraduates With Topics Important To American Indian Students

Conference Session: Inquiring MINDs
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Gerald Heydt; Keith Holbert; Khaled Nigim

Session 2270 Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduates With Topics Important to American Indian Students Keith E. Holbert, Khaled A. Nigim, Gerald T. Heydt Arizona State UniversityAbstractAn NSF-sponsored research experience for undergraduates (REU) program is described herein.An important objective of this REU program is to encourage retention of American Indianstudents in the science and engineering disciplines. Originally, the program strategy was to useenergy engineering topics of relevance to indigenous peoples. The topic of energy utilization

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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

Conference Session: Inquiring MINDs
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: 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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Components Of A Year Long Bridge Program For Minority Engineering Students

Conference Session: Hunting for MINDs
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Minnie McGee; Audeen Fentiman

Session 1470 Components of a Year-Long Bridge Program for Minority Engineering Students Minnie M. McGee, Audeen W. Fentiman The Ohio State UniversityAbstractHistorical data gathered and assessed as part of the Gateway Engineering Education Coalitio nprogram at The Ohio State University indicated that only about 1 in 10 minority engineeringstudents with math placement below college algebra completed a degree in engineering. Asignificant fraction of incoming minority engineering students, some with excellent high schoolgrades, do not perform well

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Fast Track To Achievement Ii: Increasing Academic Performance And Retention Of Engineering Freshmen By Promoting Achievement Behaviors

Conference Session: Hunting for MINDs
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Kisha Johnson; Grace Mack; John Wheatland

Session 2002-2103 Fast Track to Achievement II: Increasing Academic Performance and Retention of Engineering Freshmen by Promoting Achievement Behaviors Grace E. Mack, John A. Wheatland, and Kisha Johnson Morgan State UniversityAbstractIn making the transition from high school to college, engineering freshmen can benefit fromguidance by upperclassmen on how to meet the challenges of engineering and how to negotiatethe college environment. Upperclassmen, particularly those with a proven track record ofacademic achievement and leadership, are credible sources and

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"Out Of The Classroom Experiences": The Importance Of Qualitative Experiences In Student Academic Success

Conference Session: MINDing Our Business
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Denise Hayman

institutions.Many of these challenges mirror issues of society-at-large but are sometimes overlooked byprofessionals who deal with these students. To facilitate a student’s personal journey toward enhanced development andtransformation, engineering professionals must keep in mind that many of the experiencesencountered by students create some cognitive dissonance and challenge thought patterns,behaviors, and self-identity. To respond more effectively to their needs, the professional focusmust support a student’s need for a sound identity and awareness of issues that might impacttheir academic performance. Some of their issues might include academic, economic,motivational, family background, societal, diversity, and values challenges. Although

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Muscle Math Understanding Through The Science Of Life

Conference Session: MINDing Our Business
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Treva Fitts; Susan Wynn; Martha Absher; Kristen Ford; Judy Russell; Glenda Kelly; Adefolakemi Oni; Gary Ybarra

Session 2370 MUSCLE: Math Understanding through the Science of Life Gary A. Ybarra 1, Martha S. Absher1, Treva P. Fitts 2, Judith Russell3, Susan Wynn3, Kristen Ford 4, Adefolakemi Oni1, Glenda Kelly 5 1 Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC/ 2 E.K. Powe Elementary School, Durham, NC/3Lakewood Elementary School, Durham, NC/ 4 South Eastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces, NC/ 5 Private Practice, Chapel Hill, NCMUSCLE: Math

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Umes Nasa Collaborative Achieves Phase I Mission Objectives

Conference Session: MINDing Our Business
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

with the students and keeping in mind the project goals and objectives thefollowing Vision and Mission statements were identified:(i)Vision: The vision of the UMESAIR project is to provide experiential learningprimarily for undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET)students. Students will interact in teams to investigate multi-disciplinary problemsassociated with applications of remote sensing.(ii) Mission: The mission of the UMESAIR project is to design, build, and fly aninstrumented payload to remotely determine coastal topographic and vegetation features.A significant and immediate goal of the project is the education of the participatingstudents. The participating faculty members, NASA engineers and

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Land Grant Research University Partnerships With Hbcus For Enhanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Conference Session: Hunting for MINDs
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Sr., Willyerd Collier; Ken Vickers; Benita Wolff; Greg Salamo

social factors from a black majority Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationinstitution to a white majority institution, provided increased risk of academic instability to thesestudents as compared to non-minority students facing only one or two of these three factors.In this paper a system will be described that has evolved over the last five years at the UA toovercome these inherent systemic barriers to success of new HBCU graduate students. We willdiscuss the method by which institutional linkages between HBCUs and the UA are being usedto address this problem of graduate program knowledge

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What's It Like For The Women? Acceptance, Inclusion, And Equity In Predominately Male Technical Programs

Conference Session: Hunting for MINDs
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Liz Oshaughnessy; Barbara Goldberg

which to fruitfully fine-tune delivery of services and design gender specific support programs. Page 7.1314.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Results obtained varied greatly depending upon the method of data collection. SSI surveying atthe Long Beach campus revealed female perceptions of equity to generally be on a par with, oreven exceed, those of males. However, female perceptions of quality of instruction, access toresources and helpfulness of support staff were less favorable than

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The Computing And Composition As An Integrated Subject In The Secondary School Curriculum

Conference Session: MINDing Our Business
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Robert Friedman; Fadi Deek; Howard Kimmel

. Introduction A problem solving and program development process (Deek, 1997) offerscomputing instructors as well as instructors in other disciplines a comprehensive model Page 7.1132.1that assists in synthesizing their teaching and learning objectives. This methodology, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationadapted in various disciplines, is tailored to foster students’ and instructors' taking intoconsideration the necessary tasks to be performed, skills that must be developed, and theexpected learning

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Introducing Underrepresented Minority High School Students To An Aeronautical Technology Program At Purdue University

Conference Session: MINDing Our Business
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Ronald Sterkenburg

forpostsecondary education, and eventual graduation from college. The students will be enrolled inthe program during their last three years in high school. The program consists of twocomponents: a nine-month academic year program - during which the students will attend classes Page 7.753.1every Saturday morning at the Purdue Calumet campus to reinforce and supplement high school “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”offerings - and three summer components. During their first summer, the rising sophomores

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Cooperative Engineering Education Program

Conference Session: What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Anthony Dardy; William Krantz; Kettil Cedercreutz

the blend of practical andtechnical education offered at a co-op school. While the debate between which of these areas inmore important may go on forever, there is no debate in my mind regarding the character that isbuilt when these two are blended. In my opinion, this character is a competitive advantage thatdrives success in any organization.” Tom Parker North American Supply Chain Manager The Dow Chemical Company UC Co-op Recruiter for Dow Chemical UC Chemical Engineering Class of

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Abort, Retry, Ignore Electrical Engineering For Non Engineers

Conference Session: ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Monica Mallini

Abort, Retry, Ignore – Electrical Engineering for Non-Engineers Multimedia Session 2793 Monica A. Mallini-Rourke Alexandria Research Institute Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 206 N. Washington Street Suite 400 Alexandria, VA 22314 mmallini@vt.eduAbstract - Electrical Engineering 2300 is a required course for certain undergraduate and graduate computer sciencestudents at Lamar University. This course for non-engineering majors covers a

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Using A Green Engineering Building Design Contest To Promote Sustainable Engineering

Conference Session: Teaching Green Engineering
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Charles Turner

Environmental Science.IdeologyEngineering education is, for the most part, limited to distinct and traditional areas ofstudy. With the advent of ABET 2000 criteria, there is a renewed interest in developinginterdisciplinary engineering curricula that focuses attention on the impact of engineeringon people, society, and the environment. Since Sustainable Engineering addresses someof these issues, this field seems to be a natural choice for curriculum development.With this in mind, our primary goal is to improve the quality of engineering education byintroducing experiences throughout the engineering curriculum that deal with sustainabledesign. These experiences can be curricular or extra-curricular. In some instances, wehave developed green engineering

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A Course On Engineering Entrepreneurship For Chemical Engineering Seniors

Conference Session: Innovative Courses for ChE Students
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Ramani Narayan

world with consideration of issues such as the nature of entrepreneurship, opportunity identification, intellectual property creation and strategy, market research, operations, financing, valuation of technology, and cash flow analysis in a technical environment. These are necessary ingredients of all successful technical business ventures, regardless of size. Student teams of 2-3 will apply their engineering skills and abilities in a business environment to identify innovative product/process opportunity/opportunities, investigate the potential for an entrepreneurial business opportunity, keeping in mind the differences between an "idea" and

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The Freshman Engineering Course Balancing Act

Conference Session: ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: James Hedrick

habits their first year, if they don'talready possess them. The course faculty discussed this issue and decided to increase the depthof the material presented and the level of mastery required, while at the same time providingadditional support for students having trouble (thus bringing the less prepared students up to thelevel of the better prepared students). However, it is important to keep in mind the differencebetween presenting facts and presenting a process for studying engineering. Increasing thequantity and difficulty of facts presented will not achieve better student performance. Thematerial must be presented in a way that provides examples of how to study engineering. Thekey support strategies we implemented are detailed below.A

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Robots! Freshman Clinic In Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session: ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Hong Zhang; Jennifer Kadlowec

Session 1898 ROBOTS! – Freshman Clinic in Mechanical Engineering Hong Zhang Jennifer Kadlowec College of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028 zhang, kadlowec@rowan.edu 1. Introduction The integration of both hands-on experience and minds-on thinking in engineeringeducation is the hallmark of Rowan Engineering. The Engineering Clinic 1,2 sequence wasdeveloped to promote project-based learning. As a unique component of the Rowanengineering curriculum, engineering clinic is a framework that includes the topics fromintroduction of

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New Designs On Teaching Biological Engineering

Conference Session: Educational Trends in Engineering
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Mark Riley

engineeringfundamentals, but also mindful of biological advances. Such requirements of new professionalsbring continuing demands on how biological engineering should be taught.At The University of Arizona, the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) Departmenthas revised its course offerings in the biological engineering area. This presentation will discusshow two courses have been revised to integrate: use of the internet, discussions of recenttechnological advances, design projects, and laboratory exercises. After several years of poorly-received use of the internet, an improved approach was developed resulting in nearly all studentsmaking use of the information on a more than weekly basis. Students respo nded positively tothese changes and performed

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Introducing Students To Ocean Engineering

Conference Session: Capstone Experiences in OME Education
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Thomas Consi

.S36). In it the students learn aboutocean engineering by building a small battery powered remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs). TheROV is a vehicle in both the conventional sense of a submarine and, importantly, in the sense ofa vehicle for learning in which concepts are introduced as the little machine is built. Course13.S36 is in the tradition of hands-on type courses that have long been recognized as animportant part of engineering education1. Hands-on courses connect theory with practice and bydoing so help to clarify the theory in the students’ minds. These courses also give the studentssolid practice in problem solving of the type they will probably encounter on the job. Finally,hands-on courses give the students technical skills (e.g

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Learning Skills For First Year Engineers

Conference Session: Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Eric Soulsby

Page 7.806.11 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationimprove the percentage of students entering engineering who complete within a four or five yearperiod. Learning skills in the first year that can be used to be successful in later courses and havingteachers develop learning objectives with skills in mind may help students make the most of theircollege experience.Appendix 1: The Cornell Note-taking Method The Cornell method involves dividing a page of notes in the format shown and following thesteps below: 1. Record the lecturer’s ideas/facts in the note-taking area. 2. At

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Battlebots And The Electrical Engineering Education

Conference Session: Mobile Robotics in Education
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Brian Peterson; Barry Mullins

Session 2620 BattleBots and the Electrical Engineering Education Barry E. Mullins, Brian S. Peterson Department of Electrical Engineering / Air Force Institute of Technology United States Air Force Academy, CO / Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OHAbstractThe use of robotics as a learning tool within computer/electrical engineering as well as computerscience curriculums is ever increasing for a variety of reasons including stimulating interest inengineering. This paper describes the educational experiences gained through the design,construction, and competition of two robots called

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Engineering Management Program Re Evaluation

Conference Session: Assessment in EM Education
Collection: 2002 Annual Conference
Authors: Terry Collins; Alisha Youngblood

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationCore CoursesAs discussed earlier, most other programs require a certain number of core courses to add morestructure to the degree. This should be kept in mind for the redesigned MSEM program. Thecourses that would be likely candidates for this include:· Engineering Management· Intermediate Engineering Economy· Productivity Improvement· Cost Estimation Models· Decision Models· Production Planning & Control (Analysis of Inventory Systems for BSIE graduates)· Project Management· Technology Forecasting & CommercializationThese courses represent 24 hours of