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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Cruz-Pol

motivate girls entering the 7thand 8 th grades, early in their life, to select and pursue careers in engineering or computersciences. The students participate on workshops applying scientific and engineeringconcepts, as well as on hands-on experiments in a laboratory environment.One of the most popular workshops in EXITE! is the construction of an electronicdoorbell for the girls’ bedrooms. Girls at this age begin to ask for respect from theirparents when they want to go into their rooms, and most of girls see the doorbell as themean to manage this need. This motivates the participants to be interested in theworkshop.The construction of the electronic doorbell introduces the participants the basics conceptsof electricity, circuits, types of

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Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Debra Fowler; Jefferey Froyd; Don Maxwell

Session 2430 Learning Strategy Growth Not What Expected After Two Years through Engineering Curriculum Debra Fowler, Don Maxwell, Jeff Froyd Texas A&M UniversityAbstractAs the pace of technological development continues to increase, consensus has emerged thatundergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curricula cannotcontain all of the topics that engineering professionals will require, even during the first ten yearsof their careers. Therefore, the need for students to increase their capability for lifelong learningis

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International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ian Simpson

.• A belief that the French language would remain a major force on the world’s linguistic stage, on a par with the influence exerted by English, and that no special effort was necessary to encourage international students to choose to come and study in France.As a result of this mistaken attitude, the numbers of international students registering at FrenchUniversities and “Grandes Ecoles” declined sharply in the early 1990’s, as many internationalstudents saw greater career opportunities for themselves by registering at English-speakinguniversities in countries such as Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA. The French are alsoonly just beginning to become aware of the economic potential of attracting internationalstudents to France, both

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Jaeger; Richard Chapman; Victor Nelson

switching equipment, will choose the Hardware Specializationwithin the Wireless EE Option. Students interested in application development, includingserver-side as well as client-side, and embedded applications, will choose the SoftwareSpecialization within the Wireless SWE Option. Both options provide a NetworkSpecialization for those students interested in pursuing a career with wireless serviceproviders and other telecommunications companies (those companies that develop andmaintain wireless networks and sell service). This specialization will prepare students toanalyze, develop, design, test, administrate and support wireless network systems, and tointegrate products from various vendors into new or existing networks.Each curriculum builds upon

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Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hannah Collins; Byron Newberry; Ira Lockwood

interest include structural analysis, thermal stress, linear and nonlinear oscillations, andengineering design.HANNAH COLLINSHannah Collins is a recent graduate from Oklahoma Christian University with her degree in MechanicalEngineering. She is most interested in the area of machine design and is currently pursuing a career in research anddevelopment.IRA LOCKWOODIra Lockwood is a senior at Oklahoma Christian University majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Bible andMinistry. He is interested in designing products for the automotive or aerospace industry, especially in areas ofvibration analysis or aerodynamic design. Page 8.220.8

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Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Holcombe

Session _____ ET grads – How’d the transition go? Michael L. Holcombe Purdue University, South BendAbstractWe in the academic world often wonder about the trials and tribulations experienced byour graduates as they transition from academia student status to full-time industrialemployment to begin their careers. Many students leave the university with no experiencein industry, some have had co-op experience and others have had internship experience.In addition, many of our ET students are in the category that we call non-traditionalstudents who may have had a variety of experiences

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sarah Leach

number and type of goods produced in their geographic area, and maintaining their interest ina technical education and career. This paper presents examples of topics, demonstrations, andfield trips used in an introductory materials course for freshman and sophomores. Materialsprocessing information does not detract from the focus of the course, but rather enhances theability of students to see connections between theory and implementation.IntroductionMaterials courses emphasize understanding the relationship between the internal structure andresulting physical and mechanical properties of materials. This understanding has always beenessential for appropriate selection and application of materials even when the primary engineeringmaterials were

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Current Environmental Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Cynthia Veit; Chris Swan

or brought to the recycling center, what happens next? Researching anddescribing what happens next was the project of a course on the reuse of waste as constructionmaterials. The course serves as an introductory course for first-year engineering students to seewhat type of work engineers may do in their professional careers. To create an appropriate, “real-world” component of the course, students were tasked to research options for recycled materialreuse.This paper describes how this effort was transformed into a community service-learning project.Community service learning, the pedagogy of combining education with community service, hasvalue in a number of academic fields. The students in the course were assigned communities(municipalities

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joni Spurlin; Mehmet Ozturk; Hatice Ozturk

, did not give us anypositive feedback on group cohesion and performance when compared with randomly formedgroups. The extensive use of psychological type in work setting, education and career counseling [2]gave us the idea of applying personality profiles while forming our problem laboratory groups.Jung’s comprehensive theory that relates to psychological type is the belief that everyone usesfour basic processes or functions which are called sensing(S), intuition (N), thinking (T) andfeeling (F). These four processes are used with the attitudes of introversion (I) and extraversion(E) and the orientations to the outside world as judgment (J) and perception (P).Isabel Myers developed the following work expectations for the eight preferences [2

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Smith; Angela Quick

careers. Page 8.1178.5“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”BiographiesDR. WILLIAM W. SMITH, JR is a Senior Research Engineer in Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and ComputerEngineering. In addition to classroom teaching, research, and consulting work with satellite, navigation, andinstrumentation, Dr. Smith works with a variety of pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate students onprogrammatic and individual research and design projects.ANGELA HINSON QUICK is the director of the

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Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hank Javan; Mark Rajai

newtechnology by developing and offering proper advanced instrumentation courses at graduatelevels so that upon entering the work place for professional career, students will have thenecessary background for advancement.This article explains the content of a new advanced instrumentation course offered to graduatestudents in the Department of Engineering Technology at the University of Memphis. Thedevelopment of the course material, the required instruments, and the method of delivery will bethe main topics of this article.IntroductionThe Department of Engineering Technology at the University of Memphis in addition to itsmajor degrees in electronics, computer, and manufacturing technology offers M.S. degree inengineering technology with concentration in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Manuel Toledo-Quinones

participate in a multidisciplinary program focused on promoting careers inmass transport. Participating students from the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) improved and acquired skillsin areas such as software development, distributed computing, embedded systems, machinevision, image processing, and multimedia. The program complements UPRM’s ECE curriculumby combining a year-long development experience with participation in workshops, publicpresentations and report writing.As a way of illustration, this article presents two projects being developed by ECE students aspart of UPR/MIT/Tren Urbano Professional Development (TUPD) program, which is brieflyoverviewed first. The first

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Hoskin; Ronald Welch

together a project from ground zero to the preliminary design. It was perfectly tailored for what I need to learn.• Students can make a difference.• We have the knowledge to solve real-world problems.• I know more than I thought I did about engineering and the problem solving methodology.• I learned that there is much more to civil engineering than what I have learned in formal training.• Working on an ambiguous project is more time consuming than other projects here.• How to think outside of the box.• That real-world problems require in-depth thinking and problem solving and that the skills I have learned earlier in my student career are actually applicable

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ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Janak Dave; Thomas Boronkay

Shafts received her Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology from the Universityof Cincinnati in June 2002. She had been working at the Nursing Home throughout her college career. Shecontinues to work there while finalizing her future plans. Page 8.267.7“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition” Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

students in the regular freshmanengineering course, including nine African-American students. (Most of the other African-American students in the freshman class were in a separate program designed specifically forminorities.)The data compiled included the following:• pre-admission data (predicted grade-point average, SAT scores).• responses to the Pittsburgh Freshman Engineering Attitude Survey (beginning and end of the fall semester, and for IMPEC only, end of the second semester). An instrument developed at the University of Pittsburgh that assesses attitudes toward engineering as a curriculum and career, self-reported confidence levels in core freshman-year subjects, and in the post-survey, attitudes toward the freshman year

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chu Chen Chen

2001. 8. Ginsberg, M., “New Directions in Federal Energy Management”, 17th World Energy Engineering Congress, pp. 555-562. 9. Lobash, M., “Finding a Space in a Facility Career.” Building Operating Management, February 2003. 10. Moriarta, Courtney, “The Next Generation of Energy Efficiency Professionals.” State Energy Program, Rebuild America Conference, July 29-August 1, 2002. 11. Mumma, Stanley A., “HVAC: The Next Generation”, Consulting-Specifying Engineer, January 2003. 12. The International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol, http://pmvp.org.CHU-CHEN (C.C.) CHENDr. Chen is an Endowed Professor in Construction in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mehran Kasra; Joe Iannelli; Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

coordinationto a lead faculty member. Often, this assignment is not viewed as career-enhancing and thusappointment is often made by the department head sometimes on a semi-voluntary basis. In anycase, in order to be effective as an overall ABET review coordinator, the selected individualmust be willing to devote a substantial portion of his or her time for several months and must bea "detail person" who can give attention to the many facets of the preparation process. Thecoordinator must also be thoroughly knowledgeable of ABET 2000 requirements in order toguide the activities of other program faculty. Additionally, the coordinator should anticipatemotivating and encouraging the other faculty members to keep the project on schedule. In ourcase, the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

sense, theCAMS course acts as a “pathfinder” course, since it sets the stage for all the succeedingchemical engineering courses that the students will see in their academic careers.At the other end of their undergraduate academic career, the students encounter the senior-level Advanced Analysis (AA) class, in which problem-based learning is used to tietogether all of the material that the students have learned in all of their chemicalengineering courses between CAMS and AA.Two additional topics are covered during the second part of the semester of CAMS. Thesolution methods employed by the simulation packages are discussed in a general way, sothat the students can understand how the packages work (and, occasionally, don’t work)[Felder and

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Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anthony Hotchkiss; Slade Gellin

, 1997.Biographical DataSLADE GELLIN received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977. Since that time he has spent his career inboth industry and academia developing engineering software. He is currently an assistant professor of mechanicalengineering technology.ANTHONY HOTCHKISS received his Ph.D. from Southampton University, England in 1977. He has worked inthe aerospace and computer industries before entering academia in 1987. He has more than 100 publications inCAD/CAM/CAE, and is currently a professor of industrial technology at Buffalo State College. Page 8.55.8 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Silverstein

demonstrating the relevance of their science and math education to futurecareers. The prizes they earn by correctly answering questions give them a taste of the materialrewards that may be earned though an engineering career. Above all, this activity ensures thatparticipants have a good time as they are exposed to engineering concepts a direct andentertaining way. The student and faculty involvement in the development of the software usedin this outreach, the forums in which it has been used, and the responses of participants aredescribed. Applications of the software in chemical engineering courses are considered.Different modes of question writing are also discussed, including application of the lower levelsof Bloom’s Taxonomy.I. IntroductionOne of

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Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

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Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

great benefit for applied disciplines and technologies suchas Geomatics. The Adjunct faculty member of Geomatics in our department is in continuouscontact with providers of equipment and services in the field. These providers are interested inpresenting their products to students. Figure 4 shows the representative of a manufacturer ofrobotic equipment used in Geomatics explaining the characteristics and operation of the robots toone of the many women students in Structural Analysis and Design.Adjunct faculty teaching engineering technology at the University of Houston-Downtown areprofessional engineers successful in their careers and willing to share with students professionalexperiences accumulated over many years of practice. Most students at

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Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; Albert McHenry; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

arevery different; they are computer literate, mature, and prefer to integrate their studieswith work and family to achieve their career goals.Today, almost every higher education institution is engaged in educational programcontent delivery over the web at some level. However, the survey conducted for thispaper only includes those institutions that are engaged in distance delivery of laboratorycourses (Table 1). Table 1 Institution Course MIT Microelectronics WebLab. Rochester Institute of Technology On-campus laboratory. University of North Texas Circuits laboratory accessible by

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; Jon Weihmeir, Arizona State University; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

of cost pressure has been asubstantial reduction in the internal training capacity of most US companies.Arizona has a large semiconductor industry with Intel, Motorola, STM, Microchip, TI,Medtronic, ON Semiconductor and ASML as the leaders. Total employment exceeds25,000 and more than half have some level of technical qualification. However, with anew technology generation every 2 years, there is a need for continuous skills upgradingand the majority of students taking technology courses in ASU (or the CommunityColleges) are already working in the industry. Students are seeking courses that willprepare them for the technology of the future and the skills to map out the knowledge andcredentials their future career plans require.(*) Motorola

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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MICHAEL HOLTZ; Chandra Sekhar; Ashfaq Ahmed; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Agni Networks Inc., San Jose, California. His expertiseincludes optical networking at Physical and Data link layers, optical and WDM interface, SONET and GigabitEthernet and analog electronic systems. He is the author of a Textbook in Power Electronics, published by Prentice-Hall. His professional career is equally divided in academia and industry. He has authored several research papers inIEEE journals and conferences.ASHFAQ AHMED is Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology Department at Purdue University Calumet.Professor Ahmed received his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Karachiin 1973 and Master of Applied Science degree in 1978 from University of Waterloo. He is the author of a Textbook

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International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mohamed Gadalla; Kamal Shahrabi

].The objective of this paper is to provide taxonomy of the CAD/CAM users, and introduce a newcategory of users named as intelligent users. In addition some academic experimentation was doneto prove that the new category of users is indeed an independent category. This research will haveanother phase where the industry will be contacted for possible participation in questionnaire typeof survey to get their feedback and suggestions.Fig. 1 shows the proposed Job taxonomy for careers in CAD/CAM and particularly in the usersection. The programmer section is left as an area of future research. As shown in the figure, theuser section is split into three categories: users, super users, and intelligent usersIn this paper each user category will be

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sheryl Sorby

pursuing a mechanical emphasis with aminor in manufacturing. A marketing survey was conducted among second-year engineering stu-dents during the fall semester. Through this survey, it was found that the primary barriers toincreasing the number of students who choose this degree seem to be: (1) lack of awareness of theprogram itself and (2) hesitation to enroll in a program with no proven track record for job place-ment. Of the students surveyed, sixty included their name and email on the form indicating thatthey wished to be contacted with further information on the program. We will also be workingwith staff in the Career Center regarding interfacing with corporate recruiters to ensure theemployability of the BSE graduates. Problems that we have

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Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Murphy

beenwritten on numerous pedagogical and androgogical research theories. It does not matter what weknow, if we are not able to convey it. Newly appointed faculty members should be daring asthey begin their new career. Your students will not only notice and appreciate your enthusiasm,they will respond to it.Joubert, Joseph. as quoted from 21st Century Dictionary Of Quotations . Dell Publishing. 1993.DAVE MURPHYDave Murphy retired from the Richmond (Kentucky) Fire Department as Assistant Chief. Upon retirement, heentered the industrial sector as a safety director for AFG Industries. He is currently an Assistant Professor in theFire Safety Engineering Technology program located at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dan Parshall; Anthony Buonaquisti; Anita Callahan

). Building theories from case study research. Academy of Management Review, vol. 14,no. 4, pp. 532-550.5) Gardner, H., (1999). Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st century. New York, NY: BasicBooks, c19996) Armstrong, R., (2002). Personal interview with Science for Success external program evaluator.7) Moffat, N., et al. (1992). Girls and Science Careers: Positive Attitudes Are Not Enough. National Associationfor Research in Science Teaching. Boston, MA (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 362 400)8) Hall, B., Armstrong, R., (2001). Evaluation of the MOSI/CitiGroup project “Science for Success: Making theGrade”. Executive Summary.9) Parshall, D., (2002). Science For Success: A Case Study of the MOSI/CitiGroup Project.10

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Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Miller

forms indicate the students enjoy the approachand alumni comments indicate they feel the approach is worthwhile.Introduction The USNA was established in 1845 and is the premier institution staffing the officercorps of the Navy and Marine Corps. Its mission is “to develop midshipmen morally, mentallyand physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty in order toprovide graduates who are dedicated to a career of naval service and have potential for futuredevelopment in mind and character to assume the highest responsibilities of command,citizenship and government”. The Academy provides the 4100 midshipmen the opportunity topursue studies in engineering, science or humanities. Due to a large focus in math and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Martin

to conduct smaller job searches on their own. To this end, we offer a 20-minutemotivational talk on how to network, how to utilize job ads, and how to identify potentialemployers through such resources as web career indices and the yellow pages.Interviewing Skills & Mock Interviewing Exercise: We devote one full class session tothe art of interviewing. We then spend the next week conducting video-taped mockinterviews. In student groups of three (plus a Co-op staff member), we have one studentinterview another while the third student observes. The Co-op staff member facilitatesthe exercise including asking a few interview questions him or herself (usually includingat least one question which the interviewee was not likely expecting). The