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Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

an outreach program is to define what is meant by outreach. Forthe purposes of this paper, we contrast outreach with recruitment by distinguishing between thegoals and expected outcomes of a particular program. Some programs have elements thatcontain both outreach and recruitment goals. These definitions will naturally vary amonginstitutions somewhat. Outreach programs might have goals that include encouragingunderrepresented groups to consider science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers,informing students and teachers about the fields of engineering, helping enhance K-12 scienceeducation, etc. Recruitment programs typically have very focused goals of encouraging studentsto apply to a particular university and/or a particular

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Audeen Fentiman; Lisa Abrams

that historically send the largest number of engineering students to Ohio State.These schools typically have strong math and science curricula and large numbers of male andfemale students with the academic preparation required for success in engineering. Successfulrecruiting at these schools can immediately increase the number of women engineering students.The second set of programs is designed to make young women attending other high schools andthose still in junior high aware of engineering as a career option and to encourage them to takethe courses that will prepare them to study engineering. In the long run, these programs will alsoresult in larger numbers of women in engineering. The third set of programs is designed givewomen engineering

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Alex Mendlein

they have learned, and applications of those skills in other courses.They are frequently asked to write about the concepts that were easiest to understand (andwhy), and those that were most difficult to learn (and offer suggestions for improving theinstruction).This paper has been prepared by a team of students selected from a group of volunteers. Itdescribes the course from the students’ perspective, focusing on the skills learned, activitiesthat were perceived to be valuable and those that were not, changes in their attitudes towardengineering as a career, and suggestions for improving the course next year.IntroductionA new course, Introduction to Engineering, was offered for the first time at Walnut Hills HighSchool during the 2001-2002

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Curriculum Development in CET and MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis; Paul Kauffmann

careers, many graduatesdevelop an interest in advancing to management positions. Often this interest is not perceivedprior to the completion of their education. It is not our purpose to anticipate universal careergoals, but it is incumbent on the curriculum committee to include topics having widespreadusefulness in a student’s career.In addition to the above, some employers require specific documentation of management trainingto be considered for promotion. This documentation could include additional courseworkfollowing graduation or could be met with the annotation of a minor in Engineering Managementon the student’s transcript. Specific instances of the requirement for documented managementtraining have been noted by Old Dominion University

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Nowak; Adrezin Ronald; Donald Leone

same level of depth as the more “traditional” engineering majors as the corebiomedical courses do not need to teach elementary engineering concepts. This follows thepyramid model of only teaching advanced concepts once the basics are understood, and notattempting to teach high level biomedical engineering concepts first.Traditional undergraduate engineering education, especially in Civil and MechanicalEngineering, allows a graduate to shift among different areas of expertise over their career due tothe similarity of fundamental principles. Using this approach, as well as the recent emphasis onengineering design throughout the four-year curriculum, the University of Hartford developed itsundergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program. During the

Conference Session

Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Eydgahi

point that challenges evenwell run organizations (Lau 4).A survey conducted by ACE 5 shows that Americans think that global matters will increasinglychange their lives, and the higher education ought to engage in a major role of preparing studentsto be connected with international issues. The survey results show: · 63% strongly agreed that knowledge of international issues are valuable to future careers, while 25% strongly agreed that these issues impact their own careers in the coming years. · 67% strongly agreed that international issues and events would have an impact on their daily lives. · Majority pointed out that higher education ought to play a greater role in providing international education opportunities

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Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Goncharoff; Patrick Troy; John Bell; Dale Reed; Cathleen Theys; Ann Ford; Susan Montgomery

visualization. I have recently submitted agrant proposal to the National Science Foundation that will hopefully allow me to support twograduate students per year for three years.Another benefit I see to the lecturer position is the ( relative ) ease of finding a suitable opening,particularly in the case of a two-career couple. Finding two tenure-track positions in the samecity can be very difficult, and usually involves some difficult compromises. If either half of thecouple fails to get tenure, then the search starts all over again. Hiring a lecturer is generallyeasier than hiring a tenure-track faculty candidate, because a department head can often make thedecision without a lot of committee bureaucracy or dean-level approval, and because the

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

Session 1692 Engineering Alive: A Summer Engineering Camp for Middle School Students and Teachers Laura J. Bottomley, Elizabeth A. Parry North Carolina State UniversityAbstractMiddle school is a crucial time for kids deciding on possible career paths. Especially in the stateof North Carolina, kids are expected to have their career decisions ready by the time they enterhigh school, so sixth, seventh, and eighth grade are critical times for contact with the fields ofengineering from a recruiting perspective. This paper describes a summer camp held

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Zarrugh

engineering education. Engineering education itself faces significantchallenges. These include: (1) economic factors, such as escalating costs and rapid obsolescenceof technology and infrastructure; (2) increased participation of nontraditional students whorequire balance between class time, work schedule and family demands; and (3) traditionalclassroom teaching that may not be the most compatible with the learning styles thecontemporary college students who typically possess short attention spans and a heavily visualorientation. 2An effective response to these challenges is to make a commitment to life-long learning that willallow for smooth career shifts as the needs of society and jobs change. Calls for educationalreform have advocated that

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Peg Boyle Single; Naomi Chesler; Borjana Mikic

Session 3592 Peer-Mentoring for Untenured Women Faculty: The Leadership Skills and Community-Building Workshop Naomi C. Chesler, Borjana M. Mikic, Peg Boyle Single University of Vermont/Smith College/University of VermontAbstractPeer mentoring is a promising strategy for improving the presence, retention and advancement ofwomen faculty members in engineering. Strategies for maintaining and increasing therepresentation of women faculty members in engineering departments may also increase theretention of female students pursuing engineering careers. As a first step toward

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Hager; Ronald Land

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education · Advising and career services, · Computing facilities, · Design experiences, and · Facilities.The final four questions in the survey request respondents to provide a comparative assessmentof the quality of technical and non-technical courses, a summary evaluation of overall programquality, and a summary assessment of their satisfaction with the program. Questions are answered by indicating a level of agreement or disagreement withstatements pertaining to various program characteristics. Five qualitative responses

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patricia M. Secola; James A. Middleton; Donovan Evans; Dale R. Baker; Bettie Smiley; Mary Anderson-Rowland

. Theprogram also provides assistance to the middle school and high school counselors to incorporateengineering information in their academic and career counseling. These pre-college educatorsattend a two-week summer workshop on the ASU campus where they are presented with eightengineering labs, including computer science technology, and gender equity information. 14During the second week the teachers work individually to develop modules that they can presentin their classrooms. In addition, the teachers are divided into teaching teams where they willdevelop a Saturday Academy engineering module to present to middle school and high schoolgirls. The teachers receive advice and assistance in developing the classroom and SaturdayAcademy modules from the

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

reported significant gains on five of sixSkills Assessment Inventory scales, indicating gains in their perceptions of their Knowledge ofEngineering as a Career, Knowledge of Engineering Methodology, Design Skills,Communication Skills and Team Skills. The largest increase was in the area of Design Skills, Page 7.1002.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Engineering as a Career Engineering Methodology Design Skills

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Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

Session 1653 A Course on Freshman Survival Skills Dr. Paul Blowers Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering The University of ArizonaAbstract The University of Arizona has created a year-long, one credit seminar course forfreshmen and transfer honors students who are beginning their educational careers inengineering. This course is designed to make students aware of the opportunities that lie aheadof them and to give them some skills to help them deal with adversity. The topics covered in thiscourse, along with some

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Silvana Tarazaga; Dalmaris Gonzalez

component of EXITE! was a creativity and design competition. All theseactivities made EXITE! a way to make engineering come a reality as a career option for the girls.Assessment of the camp indicates that it was highly successful and had a great impact on theparticipants and their parents.Index Terms – K - 12 programs, summer camps, team activitiesIntroductionEXITE! (Exploring Interest in Technology and Engineering) was a summer camp designed tointroduce girls from middle schools to the engineering and technological fields. The mainobjective of the camp was to motivate girls early in their life to select and pursue careers inengineering or computer sciences. This was accomplished by exposing them to the engineeringand computer sciences through a

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Madara Ogot

invaluable service to the universitycommunity. Similarly, the Creative Design Workshop initiated in Fall 2001 at RutgersUniversity, operates like an 'Engineering Company'. Its mission is the development ofmultimedia materials describing how mechanical engineering systems work and the rationalebehind their design (training). The materials will be developed at the level of high schoolseniors and university freshmen with the aim of attracting more of these students intoengineering careers (service to the community).1.0 IntroductionIn a two-year survey of some 1000 employers in industry and government carried out in the earlynineties by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), 80% of the respondentsplaced a high value on teamwork, with

Conference Session

Inquiring MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Heydt; Keith Holbert; Khaled Nigim

for Native students.[3]In the past, several projects have been developed to introduce American Indian students toacademic activities at the college level as well to increase their recruitment and retentionrates.[4,5,6] In some cases, these programs have also the associated goal of encouraging thestudents to pursue careers in natural and social sciences.[7,8,9] Page 7.490.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education2. Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) ProgramThe REU project described

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Building Bridges in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gadalla

technology at Kean University. Page 7.95.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education a- The first step would be to write the program establishment mission statements. The mission statements should be written to reflect the main objectives that are to be fulfilled by such a program. b- Writing the recipient career performance will cast more light on the mission statement c- Reciting the factors that lead to pitfalls in the existing program help to avoid these pitfalls in the new

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Callison; Bob Lorence; Dan Budny; Kate Thomes

learning environment to help freshmen make informed decisions about theirfuture educational and career goals in engineering. Students research various fields ofengineering and learn about companies, jobs and “hot topics” in their area of interest. In theprocess of creating a mock conference paper on sustainability, students learn library skills andresources, how to conduct research, and how to write technical papers and make oralpresentations.Problem StatementThe Freshman Program at the University of Pittsburgh has an academic and an advisingcomponent. The mission of both components is to create a first year experience that promotesthe student’s continued pursuit of an engineering degree. In addition, the academic componenthas the mission of

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

their career goals. The traditional ‘introduction to engineering’ course thatgenerally surveys various engineering career paths is insufficient to provide the freshmenstudents with a feel for their major. As an alternate, many engineering programs have startedoffering project-based courses under various titles at the freshmen level to introduce students tothe field of their study. A leading institution to introduce such an approach in the ECEcurriculum is Carnegie Mellon University, and they have successfully offered an ‘intellectuallysubstantive’ course with basic algebra and high school physics as prerequisites 1.Unlike the courses specifically designed to provide freshmen experiential learning to the majorsadmitted into a program, the course

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edgar Blevins

assigned to anyengineering management projects for several years after graduation. According to Lannes(2001), an undergraduate engineering degree only prepares a student for the first (engineering)phase of ones career and the graduate degree prepares them for the transition to the managementphases of their career. 7 An informal survey of many attendees at the 2001 ASEM nationalconference did believe that any amount of preparation of future engineers in management skillswould be a great benefit. Several of the attendees indicated that their universities weredeveloping undergraduate or graduate engineering management programs. As stated byRosandich et. al. (2001), areas of human behavior and social systems are given less focus inengineering

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

student-faculty relationships.The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings in terms ofwhether the practices of the Rowan program are indeed best practices in engineeringeducation, and not for women only.IntroductionThe national shortage of engineers has led to scrutiny of the “pipeline” which leads from interestin the sciences in the childhood years through career commitment to the field. Critical in thisjourney are the undergraduate years. Astin and Astin1 estimated 40% attrition in engineeringduring the undergraduate years; Strenta et. al.2 reported 40 - 60% attrition in engineering for menand even higher, 54-70%, attrition for women; Adelman3 shows a persistent 20% gap nationallybetween men’s and women’s completion

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Inquiring MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Somerton

who benefit from affirmative action should have a historical tie to the group that wasoriginally disadvantaged. Data is then presented that shows a large fraction of affirmative actionengineering faculty in the Big 10 are foreign born. Some anecdotal observations are provided thatfurther emphasize the problem. Final remarks concerning the situation conclude this paper.Why Affirmative Action?It would be presumptuous to try to address the above question in all of its complexity. Thisquestion is addressed from the personal perspective of one who has struggled with the concept ofaffirmative action during his academic career. Those of us who have supported affirmative actionmust also be supportive of equal opportunity. However, there is a real

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Stewart; William Lin

input from both our Career Services(placement) office and from the EET program's Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) ofrepresentatives from local employers. So the EET faculty recommended that no EETstudent should complete their formal training without at least one course in electroniccommunications technology. With the goal set, a faculty committee was charged, and thework was begun to move material from what were BS level at other DeVry campusesinto the AAS course sequence at the New Jersey campus. Page 7.889.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright Ó 2002

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Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

topical areas by asking students to rate usefulness. The ratings wereevaluated for differences based on application to job, professional growth, and public/ privatesector employment. Preliminary findings are discussed in this paper and contrasts betweenpublic and private sector practices are examined.I. IntroductionMaster of Engineering Management (MEM) students offer a unique perspective to educators.Since most of these students are several years into their career, they have strong opinionsregarding the value of course topics for the near term in the current job and in the long term fortheir professional and personal development. As a result, they judge the quality of coursecontent, in large part, based on the likelihood of application. For many

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Kauser Jahan

, as well as theproduction process of lip gloss and lipstick. Participants work in teams to formulate lipproducts of different consistencies and colors. Each team creates its own line ofcosmetics, and presents the finished products to faculty and other participants at the endof the module.It is expected that the workshop will encourage young women to consider engineering asa course of study and/or a career, thereby attracting new and more diverse engineeringtalent to the workforce.IntroductionJust sitting in front of the television for an hour or looking at magazine displays ingrocery stores, one realizes that a significant portion of the cosmetics industry is targetedto young women in their early teens. Specialized product lines that rely on

Conference Session

Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamal Bichara; Raj Chowdhury

Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents Roderick G.W. Chu, knowledge is thekey source of economic growth and higher education institutions must help Ohio’s employersmeet their immediate needs for knowledge workers and move aggressively to encourage youngOhioans to pursue careers in the knowledge-based industries 1. Charged with the Ohio Board ofRegents Access and Success Challenge 2, the School of Technology at Kent State University has Page 7.59.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering

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Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; Albert McHenry; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

, Principles Practice Build career Teach Supervise, Observe skills, Faculty Principles Assess See new technology Industry Mentor, Mentor, Assess graduates, Advise on Set priorities Spec future needs content Figure 1MTF FACILITYThe Microelectronics Teaching Factory exemplifies the best in public/private partnerships. It ishoused in a building that was constructed using $6M of

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ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Workman

professional organizations on campus, which helppromote these organizations to prospective new graduates. The American Foundry Society isone such professional organization, but one who feels that the future success of the metalcastingindustry is largely dependent upon obtaining the best, brightest, and most dedicated collegegraduates. Rather than waiting for students to graduate, AFS gets involved from the verybeginning of a student’s college career. Students are able to participate in professional meetings,conferences, and research projects, as well as network, obtain internships or permanentplacement, and receive scholarships directly from the society. The society and industry benefitsbecause a large majority of the students who were involved with

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary John O'Hair; Mark Nanny; Teri Rhoads

education and engineering.I. IntroductionIn March of 2001, the National Science Foundation awarded 24 projects nation-wide in itsGraduate Fellow K-12 (GK-12) program. Of those awarded, 5 states received two awards. TheUniversity of Oklahoma is the only institution to have received two awards – the AuthenticTeaching Alliance (ATA) and Adventure Engineering (AE). The long term goals of the initiativeare to increase the number of secondary math and science teachers, increase the number ofsecondary students choosing careers in science engineering and technology, and increase thepublic’s science and math knowledge.A potential shortage of qualified K-12 teachers is a looming educational crisis. The NationalCenter for Education Statistics estimates, for