Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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New Engineering Educators

expanded into funded summer research projects, and several have produced publishable results.”—from a Computer Science faculty member at a regional state university “Absolutely; every such study is focused on my research program. It has been extremely worthwhile doing so. While some students flop, it happens, about a third of my papers are authored with students who are, or were, undergrads. And some of those papers are in top places.”—a faculty member in Informatics at a Research I institutionThe Civil Engineering department at the U.S. Military Academy offers every student anopportunity to undertake an independent-study project.4 These are similar to capstone projects,but they need not include the four subdisciplines that ABET

Conference Session

Educational Research and the New Engineering Educator

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malcolm Drewery, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Stefani A. Bjorklund

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New Engineering Educators

and achieving certain learningoutcomes desired of engineering graduates. This paper provides preliminary analysis in thevalidation process of the E-FSSE survey that began in October, 2006 (see E-FSSE Survey inAppendix I). Thus far, three of the nine universities in the validation project have completed thesurvey, via the web. This paper provides some preliminary analysis in the validation process andnext steps. Several more validation steps are necessary before analysis is complete.IntroductionIn the wake of the National Academy of Engineering’s “Educating the Engineer of 2020” reportand the highly acclaimed National Academies’ “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” report,today’s engineering community is increasingly concerned with and attuned