Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University; Bruce Harding, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

information, the basis for a price quote,equipment specifications, company profiles, standards compliance and a myriad of other types ofinformation. Throw in issues of ethics and determining the validity and reliability of sourcesamong the millions on the internet, information literacy becomes a critical instrument in thepractitioners toolbox. Yet few classes address practitioner's needs for broad informationresearch literacy skills.This paper details strategies for a student research project that new faculty may use to enhanceundergraduate technical research experiences in an information literacy context within anyengineering or engineering technology discipline. It leverages the internet plus the resources ofa well-endowed, or even a modestly

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

preparingstudents to become engineers in the 21st century and the importance of integrating all elements ofsuccessful engineering practice in engineering education. In addition, they wrote a shortdescription of an idea or plan for implementing innovative techniques in their classroom. On thebasis of these ideas, they were preliminarily placed in one of four affinity groups that stemmedfrom Educating Engineers: design education, engineering fundamentals and analysis, laboratory/project/ experience-based learning, or ethics/society/broader engineering skills. Attendees wereable to attend more than one affinity group session at the symposium.The organizers strove for a mix of formal and informal networking opportunities, small groupdiscussions, and panel

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for New Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Roberts, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

example, one of the graduates noticed that ESL (English as a second language) students sometimes performed poorly on specific exam questions. The student suggested modifying exam questions to allow for ESL students to be as successful as their counterparts by minimizing confusing English terminology, words that have dual meanings, and popular American expressions. Now this has become common practice among all Engineering Fundamentals courses. Graduate mentees have also helped develop course projects. After seeing a disappointing research poster forum, a graduate student helped develop a project to cap off the section on ethics in engineering. We continue to do this project and have

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. Accurate case studies may give students are “realworld” examples. A discussion of the ethical dilemmas involved is appropriate as well.Hose Coupling Problems at the Great Fires Case StudyProposals for national hose coupling standards of the 19th and 20th century have been describedin detail since 1873. The earliest dates are usual missed from the present day accounts. Cochrane(1966) 21 as well as many other authors typically discussed the beginning of the activities tocreate a hose coupling standard as beginning in 1904 after the Great Fire in Baltimore when firecompanies from the region’s major cities arrived to help fight the great “conflagration” inFebruary. Most could not attach their hose couplings to Baltimore fire hydrants because“common

Conference Session

Launching Successful Academic Careers

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Chin, East Carolina University; Nancy Study, Virginia State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

thefollowing: is the research question significant, and is the work original and important; have theinstruments been demonstrated to have satisfactory reliability and validity; are the outcomemeasures clearly related to the variables with which the investigation is concerned; does theresearch design fully and unambiguously test the hypothesis; are the participants representativeof the population to which generalization are made; did the researcher observe ethical standardsin the treatment of participants; and is the research at an advanced enough state to make thepublication of results meaningful.Design and reporting researchWhen preparing their manuscript, authors should familiarize themselves with the criteria andstandards used by the journal to

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for New Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Dahm, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

fall freshman clinic format was completely changed in the fall of 2005, and among the effects of the changes was a stronger emphasis on the Rowan Seminar goals of the course, one of which is library skills. The changes are described in detail in the summary of the fall 2005 marathon in Appendix I-D. Note that the 2005 portfolio scores for Goal 3, objectives 1 and 2, which involve ethical responsibility and lifelong learning, were also lower than in previous years. Though the changes to freshman and sophomore clinic were precipitated by concerns about library skills, they should also help with these concerns. The new sophomore clinic assignment is a research paper on an engineering disaster, and the