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Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

theinstitutions. Comparison between the curriculum in the 60s, 70s, and 2000s show the changeswith time and developing technology. Finally, the authors’ assessment of engineering educationin Egypt is given based on data available, as well as personal experiences and vision.Suggestions to improve the quality of engineering education in Egypt are given as well.An Over view of Higher Education in EgyptEgypt, as well as other Middle Eastern countries, realizes the need for top quality highereducation as a means of bridging the widening technology and economic gaps that developed inthe last three decades of the Twentieth Century. As the world enters the Twenty-First Century, achange in paradigm occurred that emphasizes Information Technology and

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ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

entrepreneurship endeavors.Austin Entrepreneurship Program at Oregon State UniversityOregon State University (OSU) is a land, sea, and space grant institution with a studentpopulation of around 20,000. It is one of four universities in the Northwest to be granted aranking of Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive. There were over 3,000 undergraduatestudents in engineering and over 2,000 undergraduates in business as of Fall term, 2002.1 In2003, the university completed a strategic plan emphasizing five multidisciplinary themes. Oneof the thematic areas is “optimizing enterprise, technological change and innovation.” 2 Tocapitalize on this theme, university administrators are looking at greater levels of collaborationacross disciplines, departments and

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

student leadership. This paper will outline suggestedstrategies for implementation by engineering educators ready to serve as leaders at diversifyingengineering.Overview of the Under Representation of Women and Minorities in Quantitative FieldsIt is estimated that over the next ten years, the U.S. will need an additional 1.9 million workers inscience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).1 Traditionally, the STEM workforce hasconsisted of mostly white, non-Hispanic men, who made up 70% of the STEM workforce in1997.2 In the same year, underrepresented minorities - African-Americans, Hispanics, andAmerican Indians - comprised just over 6% of the general STEM workforce.2 This reliance on a

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Valerie Vance; Michael Cornachione; Harriet Cornachione

. Page 9.12.1Introduction Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) is a public institution focused on undergraduateeducation with limited graduate offerings. The main campus is located in southernOregon on the high desert, eastern Cascades region, approximately 300 miles south ofPortland, Oregon and 350 miles northeast of San Francisco, California. Programs arealso offered at a Portland campus and in Seattle, Washington. The civil engineering degree program is the only engineering program currentlyoffered at OIT and is limited to the Klamath Falls campus. The department also offers adegree in geomatics and maintains a student population of about 130-150 students, with100-120 majoring in civil engineering. Other engineering-related programs

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

reflectthe breadth of scholarly activity that occurs under the engineering education umbrella. Thesescholarly activities include but are not limited to:• Quantitative and qualitative research on student learning and learning environments focusing on the abilities and skills engineering and pre-engineering students need to develop to be successful at each stage of their academic careers and beyond.• Development, implementation, and assessment of new instructional models, materials, and learning environments.• Dissemination of research results to a wide variety of audiences including engineering colleagues; math, science, and technology educators; and policy makers.• Preparation of the next generation of faculty and professionals

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Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

are also addressedincluding previous academic achievement, scores on standardized tests, and entry requirementsof the different institutions the subjects attend.Introduction In recent years, there has been considerable effort put into increasing the numbers ofminorities in the academic fields of engineering, science, and technology. Despite the increasedrecruitment efforts, and the larger numbers of minorities actually beginning studies in the fieldsof engineering, science, and technology, the numbers of minorities in these fields not completingtheir studies remains at a higher rate than those of the non-minority population. The overallnational average college graduation rate for black students is 38 percent, compared to 60 percentfor

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Tront

through digitallibraries. Faculty members attempting to create materials for collections of engineeringeducation content in a digital library face several challenges. Lack of training in soundpedagogical practices, a shortage of training in the effective use of educational technology, shortsupply of required development resources and time to produce completed and tested works, anda lack of emphasis on improving teaching in the university faculty rewards systems are the majorobstacles to materials development. To remedy this situation, this project endeavors to create anactive, engaged, and sustained virtual community of engineering educators who energeticallycontribute to and share materials from a common collection of courseware.New members of

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Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 5. Basic electronics laboratory.Teachers are very enthused about the hands-on nature of these laboratories, and they provide agood springboard to more advanced sensor research on bioengineering applications – for thisyear, the focus was on variable-rate technology and biosensors. Below is a list of the ten labscompleted during the first two weeks of the summer program:Basic Electronics Labs: 1. Introduction to safety features of the real-time instrumentation laboratory 2. Digital multimeter usage and functions a. Measuring voltage, current, and resistance b. Build and prototype a simple circuit 3. Resistors and thermistors

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rose Marra; Cherith Moore; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

a survey instrument designed to measure self-efficacyin engineering, feelings of inclusion and outcomes expectations, and collected responses fromundergraduate women studying engineering at four institutions: Penn State University (PSU),Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), University of Texas – Austin (UT Austin) andRensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).The paper describes the development process for ensuring reliability and validity and also reportsthe preliminary results of the analysis to answer the following research questions. 1. Do students’ feelings of self-efficacy vary from one institution to another? 2. Do students with different year-standings answer the module items differently regardless of institution? 3

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Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anne Spence

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Standard Content CD applicationKnowledge of Students will describe, Students will be able to demonstrate aNumber represent, and apply numbers knowledge of number relationships andRelationships and their relationships and will computation in conjunction with theand Computation estimate and compute using process standards: problem solving,(6.0) mental strategies, paper/pencil, communication, reasoning, and and technology. connections.Process of

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Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Chandler; dean fontenot

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004 American Society for Engineering Educationbring about a systemic change in the perception that people in the northeast quadrant ofLubbock have about Texas Tech University, we focus our attention on servicing andpartnering with schools in the northeast quadrant. Traditionally, those economicallydisadvantaged and those from underrepresented populations, especially African-American and Hispanic, view higher education to be beyond their reach. Under theauspices of the Community of Learner, Educators, and Researchers (CLEAR) and theCenter for Partnerships in Science and Technology (CPST), we are developing hands-onprograms for students in order to establish of pipeline of

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International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yuko Hoshino; Masakatsu Matsuishi; Wayne Sanders

Session 1660 Evolution of Engineering Design Education at KIT - Technical and Cultural Aspects of Concept Transfer and Translation - Masakatsu Matsuishi, Yuko Hoshino, Wayne Sanders Kanazawa Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn 1996, Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) became the first university in Japan to offercourses in Engineering Design. Starting in the Fall and Winter quarters, Engineering Design I(EDI) and Engineering Design II (EDII) were taught respectively to approximately two thousandsophomore

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

healthcare industry, but also dueto its influence on other engineering and technology industries. U.S. Dept. of Labor estimatesthat the job market for biomedical engineers will increase by 31.4%, faster than the average of alloccupations, through 2010. This is double the overall job growth rate of 15.2% and more thanthree times the overall growth rate of 9.4% for all engineering jobs1,2. However, BME educationhas not kept pace with this rapid growth and development. There are fewer than 90 institutions inthe US offering some form of a BME program, mostly at the graduate level3. In fact, only 28 ofthese institutions offer an accredited undergraduate BME degree program4 . As we look at the number of degrees conferred, the situation is not looking

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Merredith Portsmore; Kaitlyn Conroy; Melissa Pickering; Emily Ryan; Brian Gravel

classroom environment. Tufts University offers this opportunitythrough the Center for Engineering Educational Outreach, and in the following paper, theparticipating female engineers account their enhanced leadership, communication, and technicalskills as a direct result of outreach.IntroductionAs technology becomes increasingly important in the global community, there is an evergrowing need for technological literacy amongst the population. Integrating engineering witheducation on the K-12 level will foster the development of students’ technological literacy; avaluable skill in becoming a global citizen. Engineering outreach is, thus, required in all societiesto educate all people on the importance of engineering and the role it plays in society. A

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Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heresh Shahani; Harish Pallila; Musoke Sendaula; Saroj Biswas

knowledge management systems, suchas, Blackboard [1], and WebCT [2], as well as the distance education systems developed atvarious academic institutions [3-14]. A majority of e-Learning systems concentrate mainly ondelivery of course contents over the Internet with little or no room for interactivity. Interactivity Page 9.192.11 This research is supported by National Science Foundation s Science, Technology, Engineering, and MathematicsTalent Expansion Program under grant #0230425. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American

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Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lisa McNair; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Michael Laughter; Judith Norback

technically-prepared graduates also be prepared for the communication needs of various jobs, enabling themto get good jobs and move up the career ladder. Examples of workplace materials and curriculabased on the Criteria of Communication Excellence will be provided in the presentation alongwith specific steps for replication. Results will be provided for use by other undergraduateprograms teaching Technical Communication courses.I. IntroductionRecent research has demonstrated that engineers entering the workplace need to acquire moreproficient communication skills in order to excel in their jobs.1 Although the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET) has recently passed criteria that include written and* This work was supported by

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

instructional practice. Online portfolio systems are aculmination of technological advances and current curriculum reform efforts. While adictionary definition of portfolios still describes a paper-based tool (A portable case forholding material, such as loose papers, photographs, or drawings.) 1 many of today’sportfolios are electronic and can store a variety of multimedia files. Lankes defineselectronic portfolios as a “purposeful collection of student work that exhibits thestudents’ efforts, progress, and achievements.” 2 Portfolios have been in use for a longtime in disciplines such as art or photography and in K-12 education, yet they are stillrelatively new in other disciplines such as engineering and in higher education. ABET2000’s Criteria 33

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

Session 2530 Assessing Engineering Teaching Kits for Middle School Students Larry G. Richards, Jesseca Flaherty, Jennifer Cunningham University of Virginia/the Rochester Institute of Technology/Charlottesville High SchoolAbstractAt the University of Virginia (UVA), we have been developing engineering teaching kits(ETKs) to introduce engineering design to middle school students. This paper describesour strategies for assessing these ETKs and evaluating our entire program. So far, wehave three sources of assessment information: classroom observations, teachers’ reactionsto these materials including their willingness to use ETKs, and formal

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TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Carr; J. Steven Brown

students did not have any prior knowledge orexperience with engineering. With minor modifications and simple upgrades the device can beused throughout a typical undergraduate engineering curriculum.First, we present material to motivate students to the importance of the study of internalcombustion engines. This material is not complete or exhaustive. Its purpose is to give a sketchyoverview of why the study of internal combustion engines is anything but a dead, unneededundertaking. In addition, the material helps to address ABET Outcomes (h) and (j)1 by placingthe study of internal combustion engines within a societal context and by addressing the majorissues associated with this technology. We then describe the engine itself and some upgradesthat

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Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sunil Sinha; Randolph Thomas; John Kulka

act upon,6. ability to speak and write in a way that is logical, complete, consistent, and clear, and that can recognize potential objections to one’s position,7. ability to recognize the historical importance to our society of previous ethical decisions made in relation to engineering and technology,8. ability to recognize actions that expose oneself to legal liability,9. ability to use basic risk assessment techniques in engineering decision-making,10. ability to recognize the regional and global consequences of engineering decisions.This list is based on the belief that there is significant overlap in criteria and thus, they should beconsidered together. Most construction engineering educators are unsure how to include thiselement in

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Ellen Litzinger; Barbara Bogue

. New York, NY: Henry Holt.11. Mead, G.H. (1934) Mind, Self and Society. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.12. Musil, Caryn McTighe. Gender, Science and the Undergraduate Curriculum: Building Two-Way Streets. Washington, DC: AACU, 2001. wee www.acu-edu.org/publications13. National Council for Research on Women, Balancing the Equation: Where are Women and Girls in Science, Engineering and Technology? (2001)14. Nelson, M.B. (1998). Embracing victory: Life lessons in competition and compassion. New York: William Morrow.15. Rosser, Sue V., ed., “Building Inclusive Science: Connecting Women’s Studies and Women in Science and Engineering,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 200016. Rosser, Sue V.ed., Teaching the Majority: Breaking the

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3561Jones, Elizabeth A. Transforming the Curriculum: Preparing Students for a ChangingWorld, ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report 29(3), Adrianna J. Keyser, Series Editor,San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2003.Myers, Chet and Thomas Jones. Promoting Active Learning: Strategies for the CollegeClassroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.National Academy of Sciences. “Improving Undergraduate Instruction in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Report of a Workshop,”http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309089298/html, The National Academy of Sciences,copyright 2003.CHARLES E. LEISERSONProfessor Leiserson

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Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nathan Klingbeil

their ETCS 101Introduction to Engineering, Technology and Computer Science course2. Without a doubt, the introduction of early intervention programs and application-orientedfreshman engineering courses are significant steps toward increasing student retention,motivation and success in engineering. That said, the correlation between retention rates andthe inability of incoming students to progress through the required calculus sequence cannot beignored. This problem is not unique to WSU, and in recent years has received substantialattention in the engineering education literature10-16. The general consensus thus far is that thetraditional approach of teaching students the required mathematical theory simply as aprerequisite to subsequent

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Murphy

. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Fire SafetyEngineering Technology program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he develops and teachesfire safety classes. Page 9.277.5 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering”

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session xxxx Canaries in the mineshaft: engineers in the global workplace Bethany S. Oberst, Ph.D., James Madison University and Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E., World Expertise LLCAbstractWe need to get beyond the overheated rhetoric about the offshoring of jobs and look seriously athow engineers and the engineering profession want to live and act in society. This articleoutlines the current debate about the migration of jobs overseas and the dismemberment ofengineering and technology jobs into commodifiable pieces. It is written so as to provide

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Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust

learning is explained by Bonwell and Eison as, the students “are doingthings and thinking about what they are doing”.1To accomplish this, a group of Engineering Technology students were challenged to apply thelean manufacturing concepts learned in class to a pre-designed production simulation. Thesimulation, “Wagons R Us”, required the students to assemble wagons using K’NEX plasticcomponents as their raw materials.The simulation begins by having students participate in and observe an extreme case of atraditional production system. According to Dr. Ann Stalheim-Smith, “active learning is not aspectator sport”.2 Therefore, the exercise required each student to actively participate. Studentswere divided into teams, given the constraints of the

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Novel Courses for ChEs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Bowman

through Advisor Seminars, Journal of Engineering Education, 86, 29 (1997).7. Richardson, C., "Freshman Retention in Engineering Technology Programs at Rochester Institute of Technology," in Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Milwaukee, WI (1997).8. Overholser, K.A., "Engineering Freshman Seminars," in Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Albuquerque, NM (2001).9. Bowman, F.M., Balcarcel, R.R., Jennings, G.K., and Rogers, B.R., A Freshman Chemical Engineering Seminar, Chemical Engineering Education, 37, 24 (2003).10. AIChE, Chem-E-Car Competition Rules, http://students.aiche.org/events/chemecar.asp (2003).11. Brophy, S.P. and Bransford, J., "Design Methods for

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Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

Session 2515 Required Faculty Training - How to Teach Civil Engineering Ronald W. Welch, Craig Quadrato, Blace C. Albert United States Military AcademyAbstract Most new civil engineering faculty are hired with the presumption that they knowhow to teach. However, the usual extent of their formal faculty training is occasionallyfilling in for their faculty advisor while in graduate school. At West Point, we couldclaim that since our new faculty trained soldiers every day prior to going to graduateschool, there is no need to waste valuable time and resources on formal faculty training.But, is that

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

, andadopting engineering technologies appropriate to the time. The Department is now lookingtowards taking a leadership role in engineering education reform. Such a step will createopportunities to reform the first-year engineering program, long the centerpiece of FrE.FrE serves as the gateway to the Schools of Engineering with all students completing the FrEcore curriculum being admissible as sophomores to the professional engineering degreeprograms at Purdue. In this role, FrE works closely with the Engineering Professional Schools,the School of Science, and the School of Liberal Arts, as well as industry, alumni and parents torecruit, retain, and reinforce outstanding engineering students.Transformation of the first-year program needs to find

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Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Heising; Mary Goodwin

, students were asked to read selected chapters from the following books whichwere also the required texts for the class: Women in Engineering: Gender, Power and WorkplaceCulture (McIlwee and Robinson, 1992), Men and Women of the Corporation (Kanter, 1993), TheTime Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (Hochschild, 1997),Workplace/Women’s Place (Dubeck, 2002) and Becoming Leaders: A Handbook for Women in Page 9.1426.8 Diversity Course 9Science, Engineering and Technology (Williams, F. M., & Emerson, C. J., 2002). After havinggroup discussions on these