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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette

experienced engineers can do this best, individuals whobring to the classroom a wealth of experience, the vision of emerging opportunities from thelaboratory and who can be credible liaisons between industry and the academy.Dr. William Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering, predicts that we will needa million entry-level engineers in the next decade. Colleges in the United States are producing65,000 engineers each year–just two-thirds of that rate. Factor in the retirement of olderengineers and the result is a shortage of about 350,000 engineers by 2012.Traditionally, new full-time professors of engineering, much like new collegiate faculty in otherdisciplines, enter the professoriate early in their careers after a graduate program

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NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Loendorf

Session 3575 Transitioning from Industry to Education: The First Year William R. Loendorf Eastern Washington University School of Computing and Engineering Sciences Department of Engineering Technology and Multimedia DesignAbstractAfter years as an engineering professional in industry, a career transition into a related field wason the horizon. The events at the beginning of the 21st century lead to the downsizing ofnumerous companies and the eventual elimination of countless jobs. As the economy weakened,it became increasingly difficult to

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

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Marybeth Lima

Session 1475 Tips for beginning faculty in engineering Marybeth Lima, Associate Professor and ASEE Member Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering 149 E.B. Doran Building, LSU Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4505.Phone: (225) 578-1061; FAX (225) 578-3492; e-mail: mlima1@lsu.edu Page 9.1310.1Robert Boice (1992) has done research on the attributes of new faculty members whoquickly establish successful careers. These attributes are as follows: faculty membersspend quality time on teaching but not quantity time (they do not obsess); spendsignificant time

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

ease; but when discussion takes place, one discovers thatthere are underlying difficulties in the system. Students are quick to comment off the record onthe difficulty of taking courses that fail to draw connections to either the real world or futurecourses in the student’s major. They find them baffling in many respects until someone makesthe effort to draw logical connections between those initial courses in the academic system andthe later major driven classes.The current work in progress involves that body of students who feel that they have an interest inengineering as a career choice. The targeted sub group consists of any students who have qualmsover what they are being required to learn in courses like mathematics, chemistry, physics

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

outreach efforts have not prompted increased enrollments in the courseworkrequired to pursue an IT career, most notably the mathematically rigorous computer sciencecurriculum. In 2002, the Advanced Placement (AP) assessment for computer science recordedthe lowest female participation rate of any AP discipline, with girls accounting for only 10% ofthe test takers for the advanced exam.6 “In secondary schools across the nation, a repeatedpattern plays out: a further increase in boys confidence, status, and expertise in computing and adecline in the interest and confidence of girls.”7 The multiple applications of technology thatattract girls to their use do not seem to have the same effect on their interest in developing anddesigning technology as it

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 3675 What You Need to Know about Becoming an Academic in Engineering: A Woman’s Point of View Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Arizona State UniversityAbstractAn academic career offers many advantages: choice of research area, choice of teaching style,flexibility in scheduling, a new start each semester, options on how the summer is spent, workingwith really great people, and after tenure, job stability, to name a few. Academia is anopportunity to help people directly, to be able to see the “light bulb turn on,” to be a mentor, tobe a role model.The academic

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch

American Manufacturing” that therewill be a projected need for 10 million new skilled workers by 2020. They believe that “A long-term manufacturing employment and skill crisis is developing, one with ominous implicationsfor the economy and national security.” Given the significant job losses in manufacturing, it isbecoming increasingly difficult to attract a new generation of young people into advancedtechnological education programs, which would prepare them for high skill; high wage jobs(National Association of Manufacturers). Manufacturing is severely challenged by old negativeimages about the factory floor and an education and training system that does not promoteengineering and technology careers. New strategic alliances between education and

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Diana Muldrow; Rosa Cano; Deran Hanesian; Henry McCloud; Angelo Perna; Howard Kimmel

expectations. Some of the topics are discussedcontinually through weekly GA meetings and individual meetings with a program coordinator.Women in Engineering and Technology Initiative-- FEMME ProgramThis initiative, designed for elementary, middle and secondary school girls in order to increasethe number of women entering and successfully completing STEM careers, is one approachutilized by NJIT to stop the migration of capable and interested students out of the STEMpipeline. Our program builds on existing partnerships in order to produce systemic changes inthe attitudes, behaviors, academic preparation and performance of female students.First offered as FEMME in 1981, the initiative was designed to improve the mathematics andscience backgrounds of

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

discussing data fromparticipant surveys.In response to numerous requests from both students and faculty to support academic e-mentoring, and with support from a grant from the National Science Foundation, MentorNet in2003 began a pilot program for MentorNet ACE (Academic Career E-Mentoring). This newproject focuses on providing One-on-One e-mentoring services for graduate students, matchingthem with tenured faculty as mentors, and will eventually experiment with offering such servicesto tenure track faculty members seeking or pursuing academic science and engineering careers.The paper will also describe initial engagement with this new program, and offer preliminaryfindings about the potential benefits to be gained from e-mentoring for those

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jerry O'Connor; Dan Dimitriu

Session 2004-676 FORGING STRONGER TIES BETWEEN COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITIES Dan G. Dimitriu, Jerry O’Connor Physics, Engineering, and Architecture Department, San Antonio College This paper is based on a work in progress funded by the National Science Foundation,initiated to address common problems faced by Engineering Programs in Community Colleges. In order for the U.S. to remain competitive in a global, technology-based economy, there is apressing need for more students to prepare for careers in engineering and technology. It iswidely known that engineers are essential to both the private and public sectors, and

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Ellen Haupt; Jessica Gregory

in-depth by working directly with the SWE members on their projects, then having the opportunity to teach what they have learned to the younger girls. The SWE members become involved in reaching out to the next generation of potential engineers. When the SWE members become active in helping others learn about science and engineering, they are more likely to feel camaraderie with their peers, mentoring each other, and thus are less likely to feel isolated and drop out of engineering. Thus, by this tiered mentoring approach, we are recruiting the younger girls into potential engineering careers and working to retain the college level women in their engineering programs. Planning for this project was done using a Logic Model formulation

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Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James West; Dennis Miller; Daina Briedis

topics with specialized studies in . . . contemporary fields . . . [thus allowing graduates . . .] • to become successful in the practice of chemical engineering or in advanced studies in engineering, scientific or complementary disciplines; • to assume leadership roles in industry and/or their communities ; • to contribute to the economic environment of their communities; and • to maintain career skills through life-long learning.In the basic sense of truth in advertising, it occurred to us that we might be promising somethingthat our traditional curriculum would not be able to sustain in the near future. In addition, thehiring of new faculty had enhanced our expertise in the

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sweeney; Heather Cullen; Alyssa Panitch

ProgramThe mission of the Bioengineering Program at ASU is to educate students to use engineering andscientific principles and methods to develop instrumentation, materials, diagnostic andtherapeutic devices, artificial organs, or other equipment and technologies needed in medicineand biology and to discover new fundamental principles regarding the functioning and structureof living systems. The overall goal of the program is to produce high-quality graduates with abroad-based education in engineering and the life and natural sciences who are well prepared forfurther graduate study in bioengineering, a career in the medical device or biotechnologyindustries, a career in biomedical research, or entry into a medical or other health

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhonda Lee-Desautels

practicing and one retired professional engineers locally that are part of the SWE RegionG section. The development of the program has been a collaborative effort, with the main goalof stimulating interest in engineering as a career for K-12 female students. The accomplishmentof this goal will be through a combination of hands-on activities, pointed question and answersessions, and, most importantly, through the intimate contact with females actively working, orpursuing, careers in engineering. The effort has involved extensive meetings with participationfrom both students and professionals. These meeting have involved scrutinizing past outreachefforts that have had limited success, and developing new methods of approach.BackgroundThe pursuit for a

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

tribal college,university, and high school faculty. A core group continues to work together for the continuationand improvement of the activities. The paper focuses on the partnership development and thesystemic impact of the project. For brevity details of the project activities are not included, butwill be made available for discussion at the conference.I. IntroductionThere is concern among the Native American (NA) educators nationally about the lack of NAparticipation in science, mathematics and engineering (SME)careers. Over the last two decades,the relatively small percentage of NA students earning science and engineering degrees has notincreased in spite of the fact that one third of NA first-year students enrolled in four-year

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ellen Litzinger; Barbara Bogue

. Thisinternalization of failure can create a highly stressful situation, particularly when coupled with ademanding curriculum 8, 16, 17.To address this issue we created an upper level course, Wellness Strategies for EngineeringWomen, that combines a required general education course requirement in health and physicalactivities with career development activities and an exposure to gender literature. The primarycourse design was developed by author Mary Ellen Litzinger (an instructor in Penn State’sDepartment of Kinesiology) in collaboration with the Penn State Women in EngineeringProgram. Two facets of this course, the career development and gender literature components,were developed by author Barbara Bogue, director of the Women in Engineering

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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

example13. Although the term “confidence” is not synonymous withself-efficacy, it can be understood as a component of it when expressed positively.Since self-efficacy is task-specific, there are many different kinds of self-efficacy. Some morecommonly investigated types of self-efficacy relevant to women in engineering are mathematicsself-efficacy 15, science self-efficacy 16, academic milestones self-efficacy 17, career decision-making self-efficacy 18, career self-efficacy 19 and agentic self-efficacy 20. Page 9.233.3Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright

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Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

using both faculty and studentteams. SC ATE has two curriculum components available, the Technology Gateway and the ETCore. The Technology Gateway is a pre-engineering technology curriculum for slightly under-prepared students who want to major in engineering technology. The ET Core is a series ofgeneral education courses taught in the context of technology applications for the first year ofstudy in any engineering technology major.The Technology Gateway has six scenarios covering career exploration, simple machines, basicelectricity, optics, thermal, and hydraulics. This pre-ET curriculum was designed primarily toaddress weaknesses in mathematics in the slightly under-prepared student seeking entry in toengineering technology. The curriculum

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Brelin-Fornari; Betsy Homsher; Laura Sullivan

1505 Kettering University’s Bioengineering Summer Program for High School Women Janet Brelin-Fornari, Betsy Homsher, Laura Sullivan Kettering UniversityAbstractIt has been documented that young women are more likely to pursue a career that they perceiveas contributing to the common good of society. Also, the number of young women that obtaindegrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is steadily decreasing orremaining stagnant. To address these two issues, Kettering University has developed a summerprogram that introduces high

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Diversity: Women and Minorities in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Phillips; Joseph Fuehne

Session 1148 Introducing Technology Using LEGOs to At-Risk and Minority Elementary Students Joe Fuehne, Julie Phillips Purdue University School of Technology at Columbus-Southeast IndianaAbstractMany at-risk and minority elementary students are not introduced to the “fun” of technology. Inaddition, they often lack good role models that utilize technology in their careers. To thestudents, there is no connection between technology and the devices and machines that they seeor use everyday.Certainly, technology is not always considered “fun” and is often not considered as a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Lloyd Massengill; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

course. Since a new design instructor wasappointed for ME (DK) and the EE/CE instructor was also to change, the current andfuture instructors decided to get together in order to consider means by which interactionbetween the departments could be facilitated to the benefit of both the faculty and thestudents.The primary design effort that resulted from this effort was the initiation of a seniordesign seminari. The catalog description for the course was posed as: “Elements ofProfessional Engineering Practice. Professionalism, licensing, ethics and ethical issues,intellectual property, contracts, liability, risk, reliability and safety, interdisciplinaryteams and team tools, the role of codes, standards and professional organizations, career

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Dunn; John Brauer

executive.Advanced Topics in Integrated Engineering & Business builds on the foundation created in the“Fundamentals” course to build an understanding of the interrelationships of corporate functions.The course also develops the student’s personal skills beneficial to career success. Topicsstudied include a team based internet competitive business simulation CAPSTONE ManagementSimulation, effective business presentations, building business cases, emotional intelligencecompetencies and intellectual property. The course concludes with student presentations oncontemporary business topics of globalization, outsourcing, leadership, and successful businessmodels. A field trip to a company site is also included in the advanced course.The curriculum was

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Westrom

scientists to ensure that students will beentering the “Engineering pipeline” for future generations. The lack of motivating experienceand hands-on projects in the early K-12 grades in the American public school system turnsstudents away from careers in engineering. The paper presents a national award winning, after-school program where students 4th grade through high school become engineers and scientists,by building robots, bridges, boats, cars, airplanes, towers and scores of other hands-on projects.The Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA) curriculum consists of over 50 hands-onprojects. Engineers, companies, universities and communities, team with teachers and schools tomotivate and excite students with hands-on science, mathematics

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Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

for reference, and provide these tonew faculty upon their arrival. Rick Reis’s book [16] does a terrific job at introducingthe university, preparation for an academic career, finding a suitable academic position,and how to successfully jumpstart your academic career. Additionally, there are somevery good appendices with information on what to ask before accepting an academic job,and some helpful hints on successful proposal writing. There is some variation in whatmaterial is discussed based on the new faculty member’s background and interest areas.Table 1 gives a general idea of the chapters that we discuss.Table 1: Discussion Topics for Department Head/New Faculty MeetingsSession # General Topics Reference Materials

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Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Baumann

section,which was easily filled.New activities introduced into the classroom could be classified into three categories:informative, instructional, and support services. Informative elements included a generalengineering technology curriculum review, a welcome and membership invitation by studentleaders of the technical student organizations on campus, and a session with the Career Servicesorganization. Instructional workshops were given on required academic integrity, proper timemanagement, and the role of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in design team buildingand team dynamics. Several student support services of the university were introducedspecifically those of The Learning Center and those offered by Prevention and

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Knight; Christine Cunningham

) Though the concepts are theoretical, the implications are concrete. The messagesstudents gather from years of socialization influence their attitudes about science andmath, their self-efficacy beliefs, their choice of coursework, and even their future careerplans. Girls begin to form negative attitudes about their abilities in science, especiallyphysical science, as early as second grade [12]. Sex role stereotypes have negativeimpacts for both men and women. Men who choose non traditional careers in nursing andelementary school teaching often are regarded with a critical eye. Similarly, women whocontinue onto careers in non-traditional fields such as science and engineering arenegatively stigmatized [13]. A student who is interested in

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Barron; Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Robert Pangborn; Thomas Litzinger

Session #1630 Educational Objectives and Expectations for Post-Graduation Achievement Kimberly A. Barron, Robert N. Pangborn, Sang Ha Lee, Thomas A. Litzinger and John C. Wise College of Engineering, Penn State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the evaluation of survey data collected from almost 1,300 Penn Stateengineering alumni who graduated in the years 1995 to 2000. Analyses were conducted todetermine if there are differences in the respondents’ perceptions of their education based on theinitial career path chosen, namely, full-time

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

Session 1471 An Optimal Engineering Education: The BSE at a Liberal Arts College W. Wayne Wentzheimer, Gayle E. Ermer, Jennifer J. VanAntwerp, Steven H. VanderLeest, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan1 AbstractHow best do we educate an engineer whose career could last over 40 years? This paperexamines the structure of the BSE program at Calvin College, a comprehensive liberal artscollege in the Midwest. This engineering program emphasizes breadth, contextualization, andnormative design.For several decades, most engineering

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Melvin Corley

really been fulfilling its stated purpose.This paper describes changes that have been made to help the course better achieve itsobjectives.The first change was to bring in a number of outside speakers who could relate their real worldlife experiences to those of the students. On a regular basis, we now bring into our classspeakers who give presentations on the following topics:! Experiences the engineer will face early in his career (by a recent graduate).! Experiences the engineer will face by the time he reaches mid career (by someone who has graduated 10-15 years ago).! Financial planning by a certified financial planner.! Intellectual property presentation by the university’s director of intellectual

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EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsaid for management majors – a well-rounded education both inside and outside of the classroomis necessary to succeed in a technology-infused business world. Any career involves the life-long learning and application of not only technical skills and theoretical knowledge, but also“people skills,” written and oral communication skills, and teambuilding skills.Colleges and universities strive to prepare graduates for the demands of a technology-infusedbusiness world where familiarity with both engineering and management skills is necessary.In recent years, institutions of higher learning have made changes in