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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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Susannah Spodek; D. Joseph Mook; Lester Gerhardt

abroad definitely gives you an edge!” --Megan Gibbs, graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002, studied in Denmark in the fall 2001 semester through the Global Engineering Education Exchange program. Megan received a scholarship from ABB that assists female engineering students to study abroad. She was the only person that ABB hired at UW-M in 2002. Abstract In this paper we establish that study abroad, as part of an engineering education, can significantly improve the set of skills new engineers bring to their fields, in the process improving their career opportunities and better meeting the demands of the job market. Data in this paper come from on-going research

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Kimberly Coleman

Session 2793 Preparing Our Best and Brightest Kimberly Coleman University of Kentucky, College of Engineering Career Services In the midst of the worst economy in decades, it’s no surprise that college graduates of thenew millennium are emerging from their campuses, feeling a sense of unfairness unknown to theirgeneration. These aspiring young professionals are products of the economic glory days of the1990s. They believed that if they went to college and applied themselves, that they’d get a goodjob that would allow them to live out their dreams. There was no reason

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Laura Bottomley; Aaron Clark

Session 2793 Defining Engineering as a Career: the States Career Clusters Initiative Aaron Clark, Laura J. Bottomley North Carolina State UniversityAbstractCommunicating to high school teachers, students and parents about engineering as a career is acomplex task that has not necessarily been well defined or standardized. The States CareerClusters Initiative was an effort to define the knowledge and skills necessary to pursue a givencareer pathway. A panel of experts drawn from interested industry, government and academianationwide

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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Christi Luks; Laura Ford

Session 2213 Chemically Powered Toy Cars: A Way to Interest High School Students in a Chemical Engineering Career Christi L. Patton, Laura P. Ford The University of TulsaIntroduction College recruiting events can be disheartening for chemical engineering faculty. Largenumbers of students wait to talk to the science faculty about majoring in Chemistry, while veryfew consider Chemical Engineering other than as a respite from the crowds. Those few that stopto visit have one question: What is chemical engineering

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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William Jordan; Bill Elmore

Session 1475 Balancing Professional and Personal Life to Achieve Significance in an Academic Career William Jordan and Bill Elmore College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA 71272AbstractWe encourage new engineering faculty members to seek significance, not just success. Successis often defined by numbers (numbers of publications, dollars of research funding, performanceon student evaluations). Significance is harder to define. We suggest that a

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A Focus on Industry Partnership

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Juan Lucena

skillsappropriate for the solution of complex technical problems? While attempting to answer thesequestions might involve lengthy and expensive longitudinal studies of non-engineers’ careers, wecan begin to shed light to these questions and attempt to formulate better ones for further researchby exploring the careers of two non-engineers using interviews and ethnographic field work. Page 8.284.3 3 Session 2322MethodologyThe experiences of non-engineers in engineering practice presented here come from ethnographicfieldwork

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Motivating students to achieve

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Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

Session 3475 Hiring and Advancement Hints for Dual Academic Engineering Couples Noel N. Schulz, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Kirk H. Schulz, Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering Mississippi State UniversityIntroductionThis paper and presentation will further the authors’ previous activities related to dual careerhiring [1-2] and address some updated hints for dual career hiring as well as suggestions relatedto advancement, both within your current university as well as looking at dual career moves toother universities. Hints have been derived from over

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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Lisa Anderson; Kim Gilbride

-on and creative activities. In 1999, the committee launched the DiscoverEngineering High School Workshop program with a goal to raise awareness about careers inengineering among all high school students. The High School Workshop program bringsDiscover Engineering directly to the classroom, and is offered in a co-ed classroom environment- not just to female students. This new initiative has allowed us to disseminate our information toa wider audience and to survey the high school students about their knowledge of and interest inengineering before and after participating in our programs. We also were able to study how rolemodels within the family influenced their choices.Our study found that the existing level of knowledge about engineering

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Candice Stefanou; Karen Marosi; Margot Vigeant

Session 2793 Analysis of the GE Faculty for the Future Program at Bucknell University: Learning from the Past and Improving for the Future Margot A.S. Vigeant, Karen T. Marosi, and Candice R. Stefanou Department of Chemical Engineering, Bucknell University/College of Engineering, Bucknell University/ Department of Education, Bucknell UniversityAbstractDespite years of encouragement from the GE Faculty for the Future (GE-FFF) program, there hasbeen no increase in the number of female students from our university going on to graduateschool and academic careers. GE

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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Thomas Juliano; Ronald Rockland; George Gonzalez; Joel Bloom

, Tel: (973) 642-7155, Fax: (973) 642-4184, ronald.h.rockland@njit.edu / 3 Vice President for Academic and Student Services, and Dean, Albert Dorman Honors College, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, Tel: (973) 596-6476, Fax: (973) 596-1528, joel.s.bloom@njit.edu / 4 Chair, Academy for Engineering and Design, Bergen Regional Academies, Bergen County Technical Schools, Hackensack, NJ 07601, Tel: 201-343-6000, Ext. 3369 Fax: 201-343-2108, geogon@bergen.orgAbstractThis paper describes a project involving a major research university and fifteen secondary andpost-secondary schools to develop and implement a career cluster program for the Research,Development and Technical

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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Robert M. McAllister; Matthew Sanders

do not have any understanding of the careers that arepossible with an engineering degree.Program DescriptionsEach program is unique and at a different level, but they share a central theme – to show thatscience, engineering, and mathematics can be exciting, fun, challenging, and rewarding as well asto provide high-quality education, motivate, and prepare them to pursue studies in technical fields.They help build the self-esteem needed to ensure college success. The programs also encourageand excite these highly gifted female students presenting non-traditional opportunities in pursuingcareers in science, engineering, mathematics, and technology. Applicants must complete andsubmit the application form, two letters of recommendation, and a

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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Elizabeth Thompson

obtainingengineering degrees and to enter the workforce as engineers.1 For the past three years, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) student chapter at IndianaUniv./Purdue Univ. Ft. Wayne (IPFW) has been active in a number of functions to increase the sense ofcommunity, self-confidence, and mentoring among female engineering, technology, and computer sciencestudents. They have been active in recruiting a wide range of students, including both traditional andnontraditional female engineering, technology, and computer science students. Entering freshmen havebeen targeted through introductory letters, visibility during the orientation/registration process, andclassroom visits. SWE activities, including picnics, guest speakers, plant tours, career days for

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Veretta Sabb; Clarence Hill; Antonio Gonzalez; Freya Toledo; Didier Valdes-Diaz

the careers related to thetransportation field. Besides achieving its main objective, the NSTI has also been beneficial at many otherlevels including the opportunity to present the students a diverse group of transportationeducators and professionals, the optimization of expertise and available resources to meetadequately the goals of NSTI, and the excellent opportunity for high school students to learnabout university life in all its manifestations. This paper includes a description of the program, the experiences in the last 10 years andthe plans for the future to continue generating the benefits for many potential minority engineeringand science students.I. History The first Summer Transportation Institute (STI) was

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Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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Jerome Lavelle; Mary Clare Robbins

fall who are enrolled in this course. Over thepast twenty years the course has been evolving  there has been substantial change over the lastsix years. The course is now focused on active team-based problem solving; understandingengineering as a discipline and career choice; effective team membership; understanding andusing basic engineering design principles; effective oral and written communication; andunderstanding the resources, opportunities, and policies and rules that apply to engineeringstudents at NC State. The stated Goals and Learning Outcomes of the course, as offered in theFall 2002 semester, are given in Table 1.The learning objectives of the course are achieved using an active/cooperative learning approach,targeted out-of-class

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Graduate Education

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Shahram Varzavand; John Fecik; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

Doctor of Industrial Technology is a graduate program at the post-masters level. The focus ofthe Program is to develop selected intellectual and technical competencies to be applied in theindustrial, educational, and governmental fields. The intent of the DIT program is to contribute to theprofessional development of leaders in their respective areas of pursuit. The program consists ofseveral components to satisfy the 64 semester hours of graduate course work. A further dissectionidentifies the major constituents to be a core of industrial foundations, seminars, research andstatistical aspects, internship, and the dissertation. Other requirements involve a publication activity, aprofessional career development plan which includes a portrayal of

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Developing Young MINDs

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Barbara Christie

methods the PRESS Office used to develop a very valuableand meaningful program that supports our community and benefits the University.I. IntroductionWorking with local high schools to improve the pipeline of minorities entering engineering andother technical fields can prove to be very challenging. Immediately many questions arise suchas: Who do you speak with at the high school: the principal, counselors, or individual teachers?How do you recruit for students? Do you visit during science and math classes, or have anassembly or invite parents for a career night discussion? The barriers to working with severalhigh schools can be overwhelmingly complex for an engineering department at a typicaluniversity.One solution to improving your odds of

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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Janet Schmidt; Greg Wilkins; Clay Gloster; Robert Lent; Linda Schmidt

Session 2330 Predicting the Academic Engagement of Women and Students at Historically Black Universities: A Social Cognitive Approach Robert W. Lent, Janet A. Schmidt, & Linda C. Schmidt, University of Maryland, College Park/Clay S. Gloster, Howard University/ Gregory Wilkins, Morgan State UniversityAbstractWe examined the utility of social cognitive career theory (SCCT) in predicting theacademic persistence goals of (a) women versus men and of (b) students at historicallyBlack versus predominantly White universities. Participants (487 students enrolled inintroductory engineering courses at three universities

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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Sasha Pasulka; Sandhya Pillalamarri; Milica Milovancevic; Michael Wagner; Meena Nimmagadda; James Adams; Anjali Gupta; Mary Anderson-Rowland

society, and to encouragethem to consider a possible career in science and engineering. The site contains three major parts:a role-playing game, a science/engineering knowledge game, and biographical sketches.A discussion of the site, initial assessment, and the initial impact on young women will bediscussed in the paper.Keywords: Women in Engineering, Middle School Education, Interactive WebsiteI. IntroductionStudies have shown that middle school is a critical time in human development that oftendetermines life orientation and long-term success. In particular, middle school girls’ experienceswith math and science during this time could set them on a course that does not include muchmath and science later in their life. Studies show that math and

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The Climate for Women In Engineering

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Natela Ostrovskaya; Jan Rinehart; Susan Metz

people, foundations, and agencies, the numbersare not increasing. Determining what the factors are that motivate and encourage young peopleto pursue Ph.D.s and then select academic careers, is vital to the economic growth of America.IntroductionThe representation of men of color and women faculty in engineering in the U.S. is extraordinarilylow. The most recent data (1997) indicate that female engineering faculty who have doctoratedegrees employed at four-year colleges is at a level of 6.5% (tenured and non-tenured, tenuretrack). The number of doctoral engineers employed as postsecondary faculty in two and four-yearcolleges is so small for Black, Hispanic and Native Americans that they are go unreported sincethe number is less than 500. 1 The

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Best Zone Papers

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

30-year low. In the Fall of 2001, only 2.5% of collegefreshmen women identified engineering as their probable career, while 13.2% of the freshmenmen did. In addition, while 8.3% of the freshmen men selected computer programmer or analystas a probable career, this career was selected by only 1.4% of the freshmen women.4 At this rate,the percentage of women in engineering will continue to increase, but very slowly.Why don’t more women choose engineering? Why do they choose some areas of engineeringover others? Why are they not retained in engineering as well as the men? Why aren’t thenumbers of women in engineering increasing as they are in medicine and law, whereapproximately half of the students in these majors are female? Is there anything

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Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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Maher Murad; Jerry Samples

Session 2375 Challenges and Opportunities in Visiting and Tenure Track Positions Maher M. Murad, Jerry Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThere are challenges and opportunities in both visiting and tenure track positions. Many facultymembers start their teaching career in visiting positions and end up in the tenure stream. In thatcase the faculty member would be faced with somewhat different set of challenges andopportunities, the subject of this paper. The transition from a visiting position to tenure-trackposition is a process. For this process to succeed, it

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Tricia Berry

Session 2793 WE@UT – A Residential Recruitment Program for Women in Engineering Tricia S. Berry The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Women in Engineering at The University of Texas (WE@UT) program, a two-day in-depthresidential program, is designed to increase participant knowledge and understanding ofengineering and technology through hands-on, technology-based team projects so well informedand solid educational and career decisions are made. The objectives of this program are (1) toencourage young women to explore engineering as a career

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Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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Chong Chen

. …… So far I feel I have gained the edge that I was looking for at the beginning. Here at Proceedings of the 2003American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2003, American Society for Engineering EducationCarrier I have learned some of the skills I need in my future career, which I could not havelearned in the classroom. Even though the education I have acquired throughout the years haveprepared me for my career, the actual application of this knowledge and experience I will receivewill make me more marketable in the career field.”University and Faculty Assistances Middle Tennessee State University has a career and employment center. Students at MTSUmay use this center

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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John Chandler; dean fontenot

. Teachers in these schools are working with teachersfrom Estacado and TTU faculty and students to find ways to align the pre-engineering curriculumvertically. Ultimately, the goal of the Academy program is to get students excited about science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at an early age, and then to provide them witha consistent learning experience that continually extends their knowledge and practical use ofSTEM concepts and skills throughout their academic careers from middle school, to high school,and into college.OverviewEstacado High School is located in the Northeast quadrant (quadrant four) of Lubbock, and its Page

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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Suzanne Heyman; Aisha K. Lawrey; Ronald H. Rockland

Session 1692 Building An Engineer: Women in Engineering Suzanne B. Heyman, Aisha K. Lawrey, & Ronald H. Rockland New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractEven as gender gaps in education decrease, barriers to equal education for women in advancedmathematics, science, and technology remain. Such obstacles translate to few women enteringcareers in technology fields, resulting in lower wages for women and limited career opportunities.Gender differences in mathematics and science appear to grow as students progress through highschool. In college, fewer females are found in advanced

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Angela Miller; Monica Schmidt

Session 2793 Hands-On Science Activities Developed for Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council, Inc. Monica A. Schmidt1 and Angela M. Miller2 1 Biomedical Engineering Program, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville / 2 Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council, Inc., Knoxville, TennesseeIntroductionOutreach activities have been implemented to interest girls in careers in science and engineering,with emphasis on the physical and biological sciences. A patch program called “TheMicroscopic World” was designed for Girl Scouts in grades 1-12, sponsored by

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Nicole Hoekstra

Session Number 2793 Northeast Meets Northwest Women in Technology Project Nicole Hoekstra Engineering Technology Department Western Washington UniversityAbstractThe “Northeast Meets Northwest Women in Technology Project” encourages young women toconsider careers in technology and engineering by direct exposure to a complex problem inindustry. The project partnered women in high school from Washington and Massachusetts, highschool teachers, an engineer from Texas Instruments, and an engineering advisor from WesternWashington University. The

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Recruitment and Retention

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Timothy Britt; Dr. Tom Eppes

, some students ask about pursuing anElectrical Engineering (EE) or Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) degree. This gatewayled Professor Britt (one of the co-authors) to obtain separate four-year degrees in ElectronicsEngineering Technology and Electrical Engineering.AET is a proven way to increase the number students that enroll and pursue careers inengineering and engineering technology. It has attracted the attention of the academiccommunity looking to reverse enrollment declines. A scan of ASEE member institutionsshows that Ward College offers the only baccalaureate program in Audio EngineeringTechnology (AET).Our AET program has grown from five (5) students to seventy-five (75) in the eight-year life ofthe program. Fall 2002 saw an

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Annette George; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

Session 2793 Impact of Federal Government Funding of an Internship Program at a Minority Institution Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein1, Annette George2 1 Department of Civil Engineering / 2Dean’s Office, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland 21251.Abstract:Involving students in research has been recognized as a strategic method for developing andpreparing undergraduate students to gain valuable insights into the workforce, particularly intoscience and engineering careers. Federal funding to minority institutions has proven to be one ofthe most

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Martha Garcia-Saenz; Madonna Tirtle

; Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”designing our program; and allowed us to quickly define our mission.The main focus of our program is to encourage women to study Engineering and Technologythrough the creation of an environment that helps nourish them during the completion of theirstudies and helps to retain them in their chosen fields. The program encourages students tosucceed not only academically, but personally and professionally through seminars, talks, anddiscussions with guest speakers from alumni, industry and academia. The goal is to provide ourfemale students with valuable resources, including career opportunities, and help them strengthentheir skills. A