Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

to the current members ofWomen in Technology. Of the 81 students involved in the group, 51 responded to the survey, fora 63% response rate.The survey questions were modified from the WEPAN Pilot Climate Survey, designed to assessengineering students’ perceptions of the educational climate at their universities 26. One studyidentified those factors as isolation, the perceived irrelevance of theoretical preparatory courses,negative experiences in laboratory courses, classroom climate, and lack of role models 27. Otherstudies have suggested that the different learning styles of women may influence their desire toenter engineering or technology fields. Finally, Santovec contends that the problem is the imagethat engineering and technology is not

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Short

laboratories indicated graphical rating scales were used by avast majority [19].A report by Murphy indicated a criticism of graphical ratings is the tendency of managers toassign a uniform rating. Murphy’s report studied Merck & Co, Inc. from 1978 through 1989.Merck managers assigned a rating from 1, poor, to 5, best, based on overall performance. Forappraisals during 1984 and 1985, 97.76% of the employees received a 3 or 4 appraisal rating[20]. The Cornell University researchers found 77% of their respondents’ professionalemployees rated at the comparable 3 or 4 level [14].Another shortcoming of the graphical rating is its inherent relia nce on the rater’s subjectiveanalysis of the work performance behaviors observed and their translation to the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Chung

Session 2793In addition, the set of relationships between cognitive processing and online process measuressuggest a potential profile of participants. Successful participants engaged in proportionally morescientific reasoning than less successful participants. In general, successful participants relied onmore laboratory/data tests and less on resource materials (i.e., experts, library, dictionary).Further, successful participants exhibited less confusion and had less of a need to fill gaps intheir knowledge. In contrast, less successful participants misinterpreted information, wereconfused, and were unsuccessful at eliminating parents even though the tests they were usingcould have eliminated a parent

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

with progressively greater emphasison constructivism.Advantages Of Activity-Based Learning Versus Lecture-Based TeachingOne key concept in educational improvement is that there should be more emphasis on studentlearning as opposed to the process of teaching. Research such as that reported above indicatesthat students learn best in situations in which they are actively engaged in the learning process.Furthermore, particularly in engineering technology programs, students are expected to be ableto perform useful tasks immediately upon completion of the program. There is an emphasis onwhat students can do in addition to what they know. They are expected to critically analyzeproblems and generate appropriate solutions with minimal supervision

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

clients to other resources. Thisnecessitates that effort be applied continuously to renew linkages to other services and to shareinformation on client needs. The larger community benefits from communication amongst thevarious service providers, since gaps and overlaps in services available can be identified. Anoverall communication strategy must exist in order to extend the reach of the InnovationIncubator to be statewide. Communication approaches will be discussed.I. IntroductionThe National Science Foundation in fall 2000 funded the University of Arkansas under thePartnership for Innovation program to initiate a new effort based on the “teaching through doing"paradigm. This effort is intended to produce diverse graduates equipped with and ready

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh

operating system functions is the focus ofthis work. Our work marks a new approach to teaching and studying operating systems design processes. The fourspecific operating system functions studied are those of CPU scheduling, memory management,deadlock/synchronization primitives and disc scheduling. The aim of the study is to first introduce and discuss themodules in light of previous research, discuss in details the affecting parameters and their interaction and attempt tooptimize some of the lesser-established parameter-performance relationships by way of simulations. Results of thesimulations of the four functions are then analyzed in light of specific parameters and the effect they have on theoverall system performance. System performance is