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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul DeNu; Connie Sketch

Online Technology Career Preparation Course Paul A. De Nu and Connie Sketch Cincinnati State Technical and Community CollegeCincinnati State Technical and Community College is a comprehensive community college withan enrollment of approximately 8500 students. Students attending Cincinnati State are providedan education that features a combination of theory and practice, delivered via appropriateclassroom, laboratory, and cooperative education experiences. Cooperative education isconsidered an integral part of the learning experience at the college. Cincinnati State’scommitment to co-op is demonstrated in part by the large number of student placements eachyear. The

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ji Yeon Hong; Charla Triplett; Jenefer Husman

Role Conflict and Engineering Career Choice C.K. Triplett1, J. Husman1, and J. Y. Hong2 1 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 / 2 University of Georgia, GA 30602AbstractAlthough many factors influence career goals, recent research in women’s careerdevelopment have focused on issues such as gender role attitudes, family issues, multiplerole conflict, and the effects of support and barriers (Hackett 1997). In this study, seniorengineering students were given surveys designed to measure their self-concept of actualself, ideal self, and a generic engineer (career self). The 50 adjectives female

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Advice for Dual-Career Couples

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

Session 2275 Work/Life Balance for Dual Career Faculty Couples Kirk H. Schulz and Noel N. Schulz James Worth Bagley College of Engineering Mississippi State UniversityAbstractDual career faculty couples face a unique set of challenges within the academic world. Whilethese couples face the same challenges as all dual career couples, faculty couples have to alsocombine these normal stresses with special challenges of working as a faculty member. The firstchallenge is the original job search and finding two positions. The next challenge is to

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Advice for Dual-Career Couples

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patricia Hyer; Catherine Eckel; Margaret Layne; Elizabeth Creamer

Developing and Implementing Guidelines for Dual Career Hires Peggy Layne, Elizabeth Creamer, Patricia Hyer, Catherine Eckel Virginia TechAbstractLike many land grant institutions, Virginia Tech is located in a part of the state with limitedemployment options. In order to attract and retain an outstanding faculty, Virginia Tech mustincreasingly address issues related to the employment of faculty spouses and partners. Theseissues are particularly important for women faculty, since women are more likely to be marriedto other professionals, especially academics, than their male colleagues. As part of VirginiaTech’s NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant focused on

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Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Dunn

courses demonstrated tome how difficult presenting new material to students actually can be. I found that I had to notonly review concepts that I had learned years before, but I also had to learn new areas that werebeyond my standard span of working knowledge. It was one of the most challengingassignments that I had ever undertaken, but was also one of the most rewarding.In June 2003, I was offered the opportunity to make a career change from being a practicingCivil Engineer with the Maine Department of Transportation to becoming an adjunct professor atthe University of Maine. The opportunity came quickly in order to replace a professor for thefall 2003 semester. The position was offered for a temporary position and required that I take aleave of

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Advice for Dual-Career Couples

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2005 Annual Conference

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J.W. Bruce; Lori Bruce

“This town ain’t big enough for the both of us”: Two Engineering Educator Careers, One Department J.W. Bruce1 and Lori M. Bruce Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mississippi State UniversityABSTRACTDemands and stresses on a dual-career couple can be great. When the couple works in the samedepartment, it starts to become difficult to separate professional and person life. Each dual-careercouple must work out their own arrangements for dealing with communication, confidentiality,and emotional support. However, each person in the couple must strive from the first day tomaintain a separate professional identity and manage

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Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Gregg; Tamara Knott; Jenny Lo

well.Michael Gregg, Associate ProfessorAn alternate and increasingly less traveled road toward tenure in engineering is via industry.This is particularly true in a research university, such as Virginia Tech. Twenty years ofindustrial experience included self employment, government consulting (honorably referred to asa ‘beltway bandit’ in the Washington D.C. environs), machine design and automation, qualitycontrol, marketing and manufacturing. Reaching a ‘technical ceiling’ in industry – a positionabove which administrative duties abound but active engineering is relegated to others – requireda reassessment of career path. Teaching engineering had never been considered as an option,having seemingly endured that experience as an undergraduate and

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Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Palmer; Matthew Ohland

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationResearch reported by Fields in an NSF brief indicates that PhDs who work as post-doctoralassociates are not likely to be hired into tenure-track positions.3 What the work of Fields does notaddress is how many of those post-docs sought tenure-track positions. Some may have realizedduring their post-doc that they were not interested in an academic career, or were more interestedin administration without assuming the responsibilities and pressures of a tenure-track position.Others may have used to post-doctoral position to gain an advantage in obtaining industrialemployment.Rather than add to the

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Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

those in industry considering a similar career change.Introduction Page 10.1356.1Even before the start of the second year as a full-time professor in the Engineering and Design(E&D) Department at Eastern Washington University (EWU) it was apparent that it was going to Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationbe very busy. There were new courses to prepare, department and university committeeappointments, new academic programs to develop, professional papers to write, and the quest fortenure

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Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven P. Thomas

The Career Development of Women Executives in Information Technology Rose Mary Wentling, Steven P. Thomas University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAbstractThis paper will report the results of a study on the career development and aspirations of womenin executive level positions in information technology. The major method of this research studywas the individual case study. Case studies relied on in-depth telephone interviews with asample of 25 women in executive level positions in IT in 25 Fortune 500 companies. The studyprovided an insight into the perception of women executives working in information technology(IT), and their role in this

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Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

Tech PrEP: Seeding Technology Careers via Michigan Tech University’s Enterprise Program John B. Lehman, Mary B. Raber, David H. Stone Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractSince the fall of 2000, Michigan Technology University’s undergraduate Enterprise Program(www.enterprise.mtu.edu) concept of cross-disciplinary problem solving and product generationhas created active learning environments for undergraduate students across campus. Within theprogram, teams of students from a broad base of disciplines are provided an opportunity to workfor several years in a business-like setting to solve real-world engineering problems supplied byindustry. Through

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Morgan; Beverly Davis

Promoting Engineering Education as a Career: A Generational Approach James Morgan, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory Beverly Davis, Purdue UniversityAbstractCurrently, there is a fundamental paradigm shift in society with regards to attitudestowards the sciences. In higher education, this shift is especially noticeable withinengineering programs. Many educators are encouraged to shift the traditional teachingfocus and concentrate on student learning. A disturbing trend finds many young peopleare unaware what a career in engineering entails, are unaware of the job opportunitiesafforded to them with an engineering degree, or for numerous reasons decide early on

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

An Alternate Route For a Career Related to Engineering Education: A Kumon Franchise Doreen Lawrence†, and Barbara Oakley†† † Kumon North America, Inc. Glenpointe Centre East- 5th Floor, 300 Frank W. Burr Blvd, Teaneck, NJ, 07666/ ††School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 48306 AbstractKumon North America, Inc. (KNA) is North America’s largest supplemental educationprovider. In studying the relation between KNA and engineering, it has been found thatnearly ten percent of all Kumon mathematics instructors have left successful engineeringpositions to run their own Kumon

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Re-energizing the Mid-Life Professional

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bruce Reid

What Do I Do Now: Suggestions for the Frustrated Mid-Career Professional Bruce Reid The Pennsylvania State University Wilkes-Barre Campus Lehman, Pa. 18627AbstractLibrarians, like most professionals, may arrive at a stage in their careers whenthey start questioning themselves about their job satisfaction and importance. Thereasons are many, from not being challenged by their work to abrupt changes inthe workplace dictated by management and the economy. At this stageprofessionals may begin to feel unappreciated by management and not in controlof their work environment. In this piece I offer some

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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Timothy Murphy

Student Paper Preparing for an Academic Career Through Team Teaching as a Graduate Student Timothy Murphy and Jamie Phillips The University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109IntroductionMany graduate students pursue their doctorate degree as a milestone towards the attainment oftheir ultimate goal, to be an educator. Unfortunately, many of these students will go to graduateschools where they will have little, if any, chance to develop their teaching skills in the face ofthe research workload necessary to obtain a doctoral degree. Many students will obtain

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gillian Saunders-Smits

Session 3460 The Secret of their Success: What factors determine the career success of an aerospace engineer trained in the Netherlands? Gillian N. Saunders-Smits Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsIntroductionAlthough engineers are educated with a vision that they can become successful, very littleresearch is done into how engineers become successful. What is it exactly that makes oneengineer more successful than another? And what consequence does

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ken Vickers

Graduate Recruitment Strategies Ken Vickers Research Professor, Physics Director, Microelectronics-Photonics Grad Program University of Arkansas AbstractMicroelectronics-Photonics (microEP) was started in the fall of 1998with the goal to emulate an industrial technical work group environmentas much as possible in the academic environment. This goal was put inplace primarily in recognition that the professional behaviors thatmost student observe in their academic career are the actions of theirprofessors, whose behaviors are driven by an entirely different set ofreward and recognition criteria than are used

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Andy Matthews; Jerri Dwyer

thatthey know how to embark on the job search and are thus ineffective. Some studentsconduct an effective job search campaign but are ill-equipped for the transition tothe world of work.How can we provide a coherent message about what is needed to prepare for the jobsearch and transitioning to the world of work? How can we clearly and consistentlyarticulate the essential elements of career planning from the outset?These questions challenged us at the University of Arkansas Career DevelopmentCenter to create this cohesive comprehensive career development program -theProfessional Development Institute. Our vision is to prepare students to shine abovethe rest of the competition. If successful, the program supports the University’s rolein the economic

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

Can a Women in Technology Freshman Seminar Change Student Attitudes? A Pilot Study Mara H. Wasburn, Susan G. Miller Purdue UniversityAbstractIncreasingly, companies and corporations are seeking to diversify those areas of their workforcethat are predominantly male. Many of those positions are highly technical. However, despiteabundant career opportunities, women are not preparing themselves for technology-relatedcareers that would fill these positions. In 2002, a partnership was developed between the Schoolof Technology at Purdue University and John Deere to create a retention vehicle for beginningwomen students in the School. In this paper, we

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

assistance and faculty advisors to assist them with the transition to university life. Inaddition, GUIDE scholars attend engineering seminars and career workshops. The engineeringseminar series introduces the undergraduate students to different facets of engineering throughinteractions with engineering faculty and professionals. The career development workshopsfocus on activities students need to complete to obtain co-ops or internships after they completethe GUIDE program.As part of the program, students meet with the program advisors to discuss their perception ofthe program and to make suggestions to improve the program. This year’s improvementsincluded changes to the structure of the engineering seminars and improvements to

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Denice Denton; Sheila Edwards Lange; Eve Riskin; Kate Quinn; Joyce Yen

. recipients is not equally reflectedamong assistant professors.4Clearly women in SEM are operating in male-dominated fields. As such, they often encountersubtle (sometimes overt) biases which can impact their ability to achieve their full potential, tohave access to information and build social capital, and to be viewed as leaders. Indeed, similarto Valian’s5 discussion of gender schemas and the ‘accumulation of disadvantage’, Sonnert’sstudy Project Access6 and Mary Frank Fox’s7 research on productivity have confirmed subtlebarriers that, compounded over time, result in major disparities in the career advancement ofwomen and men in academia nationally. Their research indicates that: • Among younger women in the physical sciences, mathematics, and

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Professional Development & Women Faculty

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2005 Annual Conference

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F. Carroll Dougherty; Cheryl Schrader

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PANEL FOR WOMEN FACULTY: PATHWAYS AND CHECKPOINTS F. Carroll Dougherty, Cheryl B. Schrader University of South Alabama / Boise State UniversityAbstractFinishing the Ph.D. is always considered to be the hard part; but it is simply the beginning of along string of challenges and opportunities, checkpoints and pathways. Many women are drawnto an academic career path because of their interest in teaching, research, and outreach potentialto others. But sometimes the pathways to success seem unfriendly or unclear. It is not alwayseasy to chart one's progress and define the steps needed to accomplish a goal. And it can be alltoo easy to get sidetracked

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rachelle Heller; H. David Snyder; Catherine Mavriplis; Charlene Sorensen

The “FORWARD to Professorship” Workshop Catherine Mavriplis, Rachelle Heller, George Washington University, Washington DC Charlene Sorensen, H. David Snyder Gallaudet University, Washington, DCAbstract“FORWARD to Professorship” is a workshop that aims to help women and otherunderrepresented groups in Science, Engineering and Mathematics succeed in obtainingtenure-track faculty positions and in acquiring tenure. The workshop addresses skills andstrategies to survive and excel in academia. Participants from wide geographical,disciplinary and career level backgrounds come together for a three-day workshop inMay. Participant

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Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus

Project PETE: Pathways to Engineering and Technology Education Charles Feldhaus, Ed.D Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisIntroductionThis paper details a unique, funded, secondary/post-secondary partnership titled ProjectPETE: Pathways to Engineering and Technology Education. This partnership betweenthe Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) Career and Technology Center and the PurdueSchool of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University Purdue UniversityIndianapolis (IUPUI) provides a variety of pathways for IPS students to attend thevarious post-secondary programs offered by the Purdue School of Engineering

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Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

School implemented inthe spring 2003 and fall 2004 semesters. In this semester-long course, students create andrun real businesses using a project based learning model and following Pennsylvania’sacademic standards for career awareness and planning, career acquisition, careerretention and entrepreneurship. Our primary goal at Northwestern Lehigh High Schoolwas to create a program that helps students meet the individual, family, work andcommunity challenges in today’s complex, technology infused, global society. We offerthis work as a possible model for others to follow. This course is a partnership withLehigh University’s Integrated Product Development Program and Wilkes University’sEntrepreneurship Program. The Northwestern Lehigh model for

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen; Robert Strangeway

for students in its Electrical Engineering andElectrical Engineering Technology programs, which addresses these challenges. Studentsare exposed to a variety of topics in a multitude of fashions.This paper describes the objectives of this class and the methods of coverage. Assessmentof sessions for each individual topic within the course clearly indicate that students notonly realize the value of professional education before graduation but also their desire tolearn more about professional life after graduation.Course description and objectivesThe following excerpt from the official course description clearly indicates intent andlayout of the course. The professional development course (GE300) is “designed toprovide career guidance to

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Brainard; Sheila Edwards Lange; Elizabeth Litzler

estimates theeffects of climate and integration measures on career commitment. Both regression analyses findthat certain aspects of climate and integration are significantly associated with graduate studentadvancement and retention.I. IntroductionGraduate enrollments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) reached arecord high of 455,400 students in the fall of 2002. According to the National ScienceFoundation, the number of women graduate students in STEM has increased every year for thelast twenty years and more than 40% of STEM graduate students are women [5]. As science andengineering graduate programs become more diverse, it is imperative that we know more aboutgender differences in perceptions about the climate for graduate

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Whelan; Sharon Jones

for a variety of careers including medicine, law, architecture, and so on. The BA Engineering degree is currently offered at a limited number of colleges, including Lafayette College in Pennsylvania where it’s been offered since 1970. Lafayette College’s engineering division has four ABET accredited BS programs as well as the BA Engineering Program. The BA Engineering Program is well established with two tracks in engineering management, and engineering public policy. The BA Engineering Program has two full-time faculty members to teach the program specific core courses. The Program draws on the Page 10.149.1 expertise

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Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Kuyath

moderate success, so a more holistic approach must betaken to encourage women and underrepresented minorities to consider engineering orengineering technology as an attainable career goal. Outreach programs that focus only on thetargeted groups may not be doing enough.The Theory of Planned Behavior describes three main factors that directly affect a person’sintentions to behave in a particular manner, such as enrolling in an engineering or engineeringtechnology college program. Once a person intends to engage in an activity, s/he will typicallyproceed unless some mitigating circumstances arise. The three main factors affecting intentionsare 1) the person’s attitude toward the behavior or activity, 2) the perceived subjective normsregarding the

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kathleen Condray

studentsare able to realize the dream of going abroad. Using German as an example, this paper will outline how students can both stay on-trackin their engineering curriculum and gain valuable work and study abroad experience in thesummer which will help them in their job search and in their careers beyond graduation.Programs discussed will include RISE (Research in Science and Engineering) of the DAAD(German Academic Exchange Service), in which students receive paid fellowship positions inuniversity doctoral laboratories, CDS (Carl Duisberg Society), in which students work in paidinternships in offices in their field at companies such as Porsche and Siemens, and ICE(International Cooperative Education), in which students complete paid