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Jeffrey Fergus

Session 2464 Preparing Materials Engineers for Cross-Disciplinary Careers Jeffrey W. Fergus Auburn UniversityAbstractMaterials engineers must design materials and processes for a wide variety of applications (e.g.from aerospace to biomedical to microelectronics to automotive) and thus must be prepared towork on cross-disciplinary problems. In response to this need, the materials engineeringcurriculum at Auburn University has recently been redesigned to better prepare students for thesecross-disciplinary challenges. The modified

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Paul Furth

Session 2793 Career Development Activities in a Required Engineering Course Paul M. Furth New Mexico State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes several career development activities that are part of a required sophomorecourse in electrical engineering. These career development activities take place over severalweeks prior to engineering career fairs held every fall and spring on the New Mexico StateUniversity (NMSU) campus. The activities include a 1-hour workshop on resume writing and adocumented visit to the engineering career fair. The goals of the career

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Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

Session 3575 Balancing an Engineering/Science Career and Family: A Novel Approach Elizabeth A. Parry and Laura J. Bottomley Science Surround/North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe stresses of balancing professional and personal lives are commonly accepted as part ofbeginning and building a career. In engineering particularly, the need to maintain awareness oftechnical progress is critical to staying marketable in the field. Life issues, such as parenting,assuming care of elderly parents or maintaining a healthy balance between work and home

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Ardie Walser

Session 2530 Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Students to a Career of Research in Engineering and the Sciences Ardie D. Walser Electrical Engineering Department of the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New YorkAbstractWe wish to present a program designed to encourage pre-college students to major inengineering and to consider research as a career track. We will give a description of theprogram and how it was mounted. It is our objective in this presentation to demonstrate thata program tailored for our institution is flexible

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James Thom; Caroline Hoy; Raymond Thompson

Session 3592 Understanding The Barriers To Recruiting Women In Engineering And Technology Programs J. M. Thom, R. E. Thompson, C. Hoy Purdue UniversityAbstractTraditional recruiting strategies for engineering and technology seem to be ineffective onmodern young women. The traditional model may allude to the “adventure” or “uniqueness” ofthe career field. It may emphasize hardware or products. Indications are this traditional way ofdescribing a career may actually be a de-motivator for young women.The traditional recruiting model ignores the internal needs

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Leah Akins

Session 2347 Partners in Recruitment and Retention Leah M. Akins, Ph.D. Dutchess Community CollegeAbstractIn the past, recruitment was often left to admissions offices and attrition was an accepted aspectof technical curricula. However, due to the dwindling or perhaps stable but low enrollment intechnical fields nationwide, new attitudes towards these issues are necessary. In the Mid-HudsonValley of New York State, the Technology Career Paths – Hudson Valley partnership wascreated for the recruitment and retention of students in the community college

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Cynthia Mitchell; Anna Carew

objectives associated with each set of questions were: A. To investigate and assess the range of our students’ conceptions of sustainability (i.e. their actual prior knowledge of sustainability) B. To assess our students’ perception of a. their own understanding of sustainability (i.e. their perceived sustainability competence) b. their level of interest in learning more about sustainability (i.e. their intrinsic motivation to learn about sustainability) c. the career relevance of sustainability (i.e. their extrinsic motivation to learn about sustainability) C. To examine the interaction between students’ sustainability conceptions and their perception

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Gary Lewandowski; Carla Purdy

Session 2655 Training Future Professors: The Preparing Future Faculty Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati Gary Lewandowski, Xavier University, lewan@xavier.xu.edu Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati, carla.purdy@uc.eduAbstractIn the rapidly evolving fields of computing and electrical engineering, many graduate studentshave little opportunity to learn teaching skills necessary for success in an academic career or tobecome familiar with the benefits of faculty life. In the combined Electrical and ComputerEngineering

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university’s recruitment of female faculty since1985. UMR has hired 32 women in tenured or tenure-track positions during this 15-yearperiod. The women are in a wide variety of academic disciplines with the vast majoritybeing new PhDs beginning their career in academia. The many, approximately two thirds, Page 6.860.1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationare in engineering or science disciplines. The analysis resulted in some interestingfindings.• Of the 32 women hired, 14 (44%) women have left the university and three (9%) others

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Barbara L. Christe; Elaine M. Cooney

fields, femalefaculty must be present as successful role models. It is essential that faculty and administratorsunderstand the issues faced by working mothers to create an environment where success ispossible for all faculty members.Two engineering technology faculty members have some practical advice for “Professor Mom.”Set your priorities and live with them. Give your best to your family first. As successful menretire, they often wish they had spent more time with their family and less time at work. As“Professor Mom” (realize mothers are exceptionally prone to guilt), it is even more important foryou to be a crucial part of the life of your family. And, “Professor Mom,” give your smartest toyour career. Spend your time wisely and document

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lead, especially considering the importance, andthe sometimes dehumanizing effects, of the highly technical work they will do. What we offer in this paper is mostly philosophical. The new skills ABET and industryexpect us to teach our students suggest a natural evolution: synthesizing instruction in theseskills and attributes to create a comprehensive approach to engineering education that mightrequire students to demonstrate a greater understanding of one's self and society. Morespecifically, this approach may help us teach students to focus as much on how they carry ontheir personal lives as they do on their career and material goals. Engineering educators mightcall this approach "educating the whole student" while philosophers might

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Rodney Allen; Richard M. Felder; Catherine E. Brawner

percentage of full professors responding was about 42%. Responses fromassistant professors increased from 19% to 21% while associate professor responses decreasedfrom 32% to 27%. The remaining respondents were instructors, lecturers, adjuncts, or some otherrank. Approximately 90% of the respondents were male. The mean years of faculty service in1999 was 15, 12 at the current institution. An overwhelming majority (>90%) had heard of theSUCCEED coalition or participated in one or more of its programs, likely overstating thefamiliarity with SUCCEED among the faculty population at large.Table 1 shows the number of teaching seminars, workshops, and conferences attended by therespondents in their careers and the number attended during the previous

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Saeed Foroudastan

changing needs. Target areas whichrequire attention include those which directly or indirectly affect the students: to keep thosecurrently enrolled interested in staying within the department, to convince undeclared majors toselect a degree and a career from Engineering Technology programs, to actively recruit highschool students and older nontraditional students currently working, and to improve the attitudeand professional development of faculty and staff, as well as curriculums. A timeline should beutilized to structure the execution of these ideas. Innovative methods for recruiting are discussed. Implementation plans need to bedeveloped which are directed to these target areas. When any of the goals are achieved via theretention and

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Rob Guardiola; Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.Table 1. ABET 2000 Criterion 3, Program Outcomes and Assessment: outcomes that allEngineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have.Paradigm ShiftsConsider three generally disconnected educational processes of accreditation, experientialeducation, and career self-management. Paradigm shifts in thinking about these three processesand their interdependence present exciting and unique opportunities for enhancing engineeringeducation.ABET Accreditation: ABET (a-k) Outcomes represent engineering workplace competencies, notlearning outcomes. Knowledge is necessary; but it is not sufficient. One may apply a well-developed, globally implemented

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year bachelor’swas economically non-competitive. It is proposed that engineering reconsider adopting a five yearformat, leading to a master’s degree, not a bachelor’s degree. The ultimate goal is to provideadditional technical expertise, but also to add the breadth that could make engineering a moreattractive educational experience, leading to expanded career opportunities. with a greateremphasis on leadership of technical activities to support lifetime career development.Engineering EnrollmentsThe number of freshmen entering engineering schools, in the United States, has not substantiallyincreased in over twenty years. This during the greatest explosion of technology the world has everseen. In 1982, 114,517 freshmen engineers were enrolled

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Robert Taylor; Robert Green; Lesia Crumpton-Young; A. Bennett; Teresa Sappington

Session 3453 Quest: A Program to Reach Academically Talented Students Robert A. Green, Robert P. Taylor, Teresa B. Sappington, Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, A. Wayne Bennett Mississippi State UniversityAbstractStudents who score high on standardized tests, have excellent high school grades, and haveexhibited qualities of leadership are recruited by some of the best programs in the nation and arepresented with many career options. Reaching out to these students and getting or keeping theminterested in engineering is critical for the long-term benefit of the engineering

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Frederick Reardon; Cici Mattiuzzi

meetings with alumni andtheir supervisors. The alumni are asked to review their experiences since graduation, makegeneral comments on the relevance of their education in their careers to date, and answer specificquestions about their engineering education. These visits allow us to learn from our graduateswhat they are doing with their education, what was most valuable to them, and specific ways toimprove the educational process. Additional, and unexpected, banefits of these outcomesassessment meetings are that the alumni tend to get more involved and active with the university,frequently offering significant financial and other support, and faculty report gaining renewedenthusiasm for their teaching.IntroductionABET has recently revised the

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Karen Batty; Joseph Clair Batty

mandated to cooperate withuniversities and make facilities available. Partnering with our customers seems to be growingand thriving. Page 6.247.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationK-14 Engineering Education Teamingí6FKRRO-to-Careers ModelIt is our observation that teaming or partnering with our K-12 or K-14 suppliers is lagging thepartnering with our BIG customers. There are challenges to K-12 teaming. We have found thatK-12 teachers and counselors are often fearful of math, science, and technology and

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the expertknowledge needed to identify their best choices for both a suitable engineering disciplineand an appropriate educational institution.II. Why Is Customized Advice Needed? Why do so many people encounter so many doubts and uncertainties when giventhe "privilege" of evaluating a myriad of possibilities before they converge to just oneeducational and career path of their choice? Even though this decision, for a few, may begoverned by a single criterion, such as geographic location, family ties, or the "glow of ahigh salary at the end of the tunnel" through college, in general it is not, by any means, aneasy task when each and every option has to receive serious consideration. What aboutadding other guiding factors, or

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Sara Soderstrom; Chris Lorenz; Michael Keinath

influenced the College of Page 6.582.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Engineering’s pedagogical issues by focussing on our major missions that were outlined by thefirst members of the student chapter in the mission statement: … [The University of Michigan American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter] provides services to prepare interested graduate students better in their pursuit of careers in academia; to provide undergraduate students with a better

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womenand men, the needs of women (and many men) for supportive and nurturing relationships in themidst of a highly competitive educational system. Mentoring strategies that fit more readilywith a female cultural worldview, according to well-accepted theories on the sociology ofgender, are peer-, multiple- and collective mentorships. Mentoring of women must alsoacknowledge the socially-constructed dynamics of gender that affect cross-gender relationshipsand respond to the special ways in which women must often balance career and familyrelationships. Successful mentoring of women rests on, and can help create, a caring communityin which women (and men) have equal access to all educational resources including thoserelevant to their psychosocial as

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Linda Broadbelt; L. Catherine Brinson; Kathleen Issen; Brad Kinsey

Session 2655 Preparing Future Engineering Faculty: A Professional Development Series Kathleen A. Issen, Brad Kinsey, L. Catherine Brinson, Linda J. Broadbelt Clarkson University / Northwestern UniversityAbstractThe Preparing Future Engineering Faculty Professional Development Series was initiated in 1999as a means for engineering graduate students considering academic careers to learn more aboutthe profession they may soon join. The series consisted of several faculty panel discussions thatcovered the topics of hiring

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William Davis; Steve Stafford; Elsa Villa

Engineering Day program was developed and implemented in the spring of 2000 as apossible solution to recruiting potential students into engineering.The goals of Discover Engineering Day are to create awareness among pre-college studentsabout engineering as a challenging and rewarding career choice. A career fair environment thatintegrates interactive presentations was chosen over a lecture or “talking heads” format. Theincorporation of display boards, videos, demonstrations, hands-on activities, and multimediapresentations helped ensure students left with an understanding of engineering. Moreover,interaction with undergraduate and graduate students, professionals/company representatives,student organizations, and professors are also incorporated into

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Tina Varma; Virendra Varma

administered. The design of mentoring programs should consider thefollowing:• Establish the purpose of the mentoring program, and define it in clear terms to participating faculty (old and new faculty).• Seek input from senior faculty and department chairs for overall design layout of the mentoring program.• Address both psychosocial and career development objectives of the mentoring program. It must be noted that the mentoring programs that focus solely on career development are less effective.• Teaching is an isolated job. Collegiality helps faculty growth in several psychosocial areas. Mentoring should not always be same gender, nor should it always lend itself to same departmental pairings. Cross-departmental pairings

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Peggy Rijken; Jagannathan Mahadevan; Dr. Ronald E. Barr; Zeno Philip; Michael Tsurikov; Fernando Ulloa; Cynthia Finley

engineering disciplines in issues such as, in applying for a position, in theteaching process, and life in academia. An ASEE student chapter can organize forums to addressthese issues for students interested in academic careers. Since there is a lot of interactionbetween students in a university setting with good e-mail and other communication avenues, thechapter can also reach out to those students who may not have considered academic careers.Survey of Student Chapter Members The UT student chapter has been in existence since the 1996-1997 academic year. Sincethen, it has conducted many programs of interest to academia-bound graduate students. Some ofthose students have now become faculty members at institutions around the U.S. A small surveywas

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technology programs. Onestudent-led initiative implemented to remedy Oregon Tech’s situation was with a diversity actiongrant obtained by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) student club. TheASME students, working in conjunction with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) club,developed and administered a one-day conference designed specifically for female high schoolstudents regarding engineering careers. A successful program resulted that has helped to focusattention on possible reasons for the disparity of women in engineering technology. In addition,from the collaborative effort of the ASME and SWE clubs, strategies have been conceived forthe recruitment and retention of women in engineering programs at Oregon Tech.I

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Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux

[2], another assessment tool used by ABE.Table 1 lists the Program Outcomes for one of the ABE accredited programs: Food ProcessEngineering (FPE). The PO list appears in all surveys typically with two 5-point Likert scalesthat ask the respondent to assess for each PO the level to which the program addresses the POand the level of career importance (or anticipated career importance) of the PO. Table 1. FPE Program Outcomes (draft). Graduates of our program will demonstrate: Basic Engineering Skills 1. an understanding of the fundamental principles of mathematics and science; 2. an understanding of food process engineering principles; 3. the ability to design and/or conduct experiments to analyze food

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students’interest in engineering and motivate their studies of areas important to their preparation for college levelengineering studies. Seventy teachers completed the survey.Some of the most significant findings of the survey were: • In general, high school students in Michigan are unaware of the magnitude of the opportunity for engineering careers today and for the foreseeable future. Page 6.1005.2 • Students are unaware of the demand for engineers and current high levels of starting salaries for Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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skills.Student learning and retention, particularly for the freshman year, are the priorities of ourprogram. Our goal is to help freshman engineering students understand engineering profession,select their major, learn creative thinking and the engineering design process, prepare for theupper level courses, and enhance their engineering and computer skills. Our strategies andmethods follow.StrategiesSetting GoalsWe help students set one-year academic goals, four-year academic goals, and career goals alongwith the process of learning. Students realize that engineering is a challenge and a rewardingcareer; it is a lifetime learning process. In order to reach their goals, they should make a plan ateach stage of learning. We have one-to-one meetings with

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Patricia Secola; Bettie Smiley; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1692 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Gender Equity Training in Engineering Summer Workshops With Pre-College Teachers and Counselors Patricia M. Secola, Bettie A. Smiley, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Dale R. Baker Arizona State UniversityAbstractThe WISE Investments (WI) Program is a three-year NSF project designed to encourage youngwomen to pursue engineering and related careers. A major component of this grant is to providetwo two-week summer professional development workshops that introduce middle school, highschool, and community college teachers