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Computer Education Management Tools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lupita Montoya, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Chris Moore, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Computers in Education

project leader for course support of distributed education courses, consultant to faculty on issues of technology integration, instructional design and content development, and researcher and evaluator for emerging instructional technologies. Chris earned a Master of Science degree in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology in May, 2000 from the University at Albany. Chris has six years of experience in instructional design and integrating information technologies in support of teaching and learning. Page 12.1479.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The

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Perceptions of Women's Success in STEM

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

. Susan served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator of several national projects including: Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE), a current study involving 25 universities; FacultyfortheFuture.org, a website designed to support women and underrepresented minorities interested in pursuing faculty positions in the STEM fields; Achieving Success in Academia, a program to assist junior women faculty to navigate the tenure system; Making the Connection, an initiative designed to increase awareness of engineering among students in grades 3-12; and Increasing Access for Women in Engineering, a curriculum and technical assistance project to establish or

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Special Session on Fixed-Point Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cameron Wright, University of Wyoming; Thad Welch, Boise State University; Michael Morrow, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Gerald Vineyard, U.S. Naval Academy

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Computers in Education

Department. Dr. Welch's research interests include the implementation of communication systems using DSP-based techniques, DSP education, and RF signal propagation. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu. E-mail: t.b.welch@ieee.orgMichael Morrow, University of Wisconsin-Madison Michael G. Morrow, MEngEE, P.E., is a Faculty Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. His research interests include real-time digital systems, embedded system design, software engineering, curriculum design, and educational assessment techniques. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE. E-mail: morrow@ieee.orgGerald Vineyard, U.S

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Squire, Virginia Military Institute; Vonda Walsh, Virginia Military Institute; H. Francis Bush, Virginia Military Institute; Gerald Sullivan, Virginia Military Institute; Anthony English, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Computers in Education

value causing a rapiddecline of intelligibility.Other studies have examined how delay affects fundamental learning processes, rather thanexamining it in the specific context of network information transfer. Maddox et al.6 investigatedthe effects of delaying feedback on ruled-based and information-integration learning. Rule-based skills require the learner to apply an explicit reasoning process, whereas information-integration skills require the learner to integrate existing knowledge, for example to infer theresults of decreasing a resistor’s value given Ohm’s Law and the power equation. They reportedthat feedback delay did not appear to affect the rule-based learning but significantly hinderedinformation-integration learning, such as

Conference Session

NAFP Panel Discussion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Paul Racette, NASA; Scott Askew, NASA; Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Belay Demoz; Paul Mogan, NASA

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Minorities in Engineering

, and 1 Partnership Award for the Integration of Research (PAIR) grant. ‚ Five curriculum development initiatives have been created by NAFP Fellows. A NAFP Fellow was instrumental in the curriculum development of the first Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering to be offered at a Tribal College (Salish Kootenai College). ‚ NASA Employee and Faculty Fellows have used their NAFP experience to obtain additional research grants and fellowships. In 2004 alone, 32% of external proposal submissions from NAFP Fellows were awarded ‚ NAFP Fellows have gained national recognition and honors for their excellence in science, engineering and

Conference Session

Learning Needs and Educational Success

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Northern, Prairie View A&M University; John Fuller, Prairie View A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering

software and hardware functionality in tandem at or near real-time speeds early in thedesign flow.2 Scope and General Goals2.1 Project GoalsIn today’s competitive society, it is important to pursue the kinds of innovative, technology- Page 12.1193.4driven curricula essential to preparing students for life in the changing knowledge-basedeconomy. It is essential that academic institutions equip future graduates with the skillsnecessary to be an integral part of this change. Companies are searching to add tech-savvyworkers to their environment. Today’s students learn at a faster rate when the classroomeducation is combined with the fast evaluation in

Conference Session

Special programs and activities for minorities in engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Stroot, University of South Florida; Bernard Batson, University of South Florida; BK Robertson, Alabama State University

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Minorities in Engineering

partnered with Alabama State University (ASU), anHBCU institution, to initiate a new pipeline between the schools that has the potential to increasethe number of ASU biology graduates enrolling in engineering graduate programs. This newpipeline will be christened by a new hybrid laboratory course in the spring of 2006 that exposesASU students to the use of molecular biology based methods in engineering. This USF coursewas developed through an NSF-CCLI grant and offered to USF students in the spring of 20051-3.For the planned hybrid course, the lecture portion of the course will be broadcast live through theinternet for ASU students. The lecture will be the responsibility of the USF faculty member,while the laboratory section will be provided

Conference Session

Direct Measures of Student Performance

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Robert Houghtalen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

years tofacilitate direct assessment of student outcomes. The RosE Portfolio is a web-based system thatallows students to electronically submit what they believe to be the best examples of their ownwork illustrating achievement of learning outcomes. In order to submit to the electronicportfolio, students access their portfolio using an internet browser. Students must log in toensure the integrity of the data. Once logged in, students choose from the list of criteria thatsupport the various outcomes. At this time we have 35 criteria that support 11 outcomes. Page 12.1525.3Students upload the pertinent file, provide a descriptive title, and

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynnane George, U.S. Air Force Academy; Robert Brown, U.S. Air Force Academy

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First-Year Programs

will provide an overview of the Engineering 100 curriculum, the systems engineeringdesign process taught, and a description of the capstone boost glider project. Since this is nowthe seventh year the course has been offered, course development, feedback, and improvementsto the course will also be discussed. The detail in this paper is intended to provide enoughinformation for others to use a similar model for course development.IntroductionThe purpose of Engineering 100 is twofold. The primary purpose is to introduce first-yearstudents to the USAFA engineering disciplines in the context of the systems engineering designprocess. Students integrate these disciplines using a semester-long boost glider design project.They must use aeronautical

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland

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Women in Engineering

disciplinary female participation at U of A reflectsinternational patterns of subdisciplinary participation.In the case study institution, Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering were the mosttraditional and well-established disciplines, with international as well as national professionalassociations. That background appeared to be linked to entrenched beliefs and assumptionsabout curriculum content, pedagogies and professional issues appropriate to each discipline.Chemical Engineering was newer (first taught as a separate discipline at the U of A in 1967)but was also an internationally recognised discipline. The Department of Engineering Sciencewas a younger (approximately 25 years old) and less traditional discipline. BiomedicalEngineering

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Abu-Hajar, San Francisco State University; Michael Holden, San Francisco State University

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Computers in Education

critical to thesuccess of engineering curriculums—was developed as a new educational model. CBVCemploys computer animation and other virtual visual tools that cannot be employed in traditionalclassroom settings. In CBVC, interactive questions are integrated within lectures—a model thatreinforces the assimilation of fundamental topics. Surveys conducted on the efficacy of CBVCshow that 80% of students questioned benefit from using CBVC, and 20% believe CBVC mayreplace conventional classrooms.1. IntroductionAt present, many engineering courses mandate the use of computers1.. Computers areincreasingly playing a major role in the learning process, and the number of college students whoown a computer is on the rise. The OpenCourseWare (OCW) Program at

Conference Session

MIND - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Ogilvie, University of Texas-Austin

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Minorities in Engineering

of EOE FIGs is managed by staff from the Equal Opportunity inEngineering (EOE) Program at UT Austin. With support from additional EOE staff, the leadprogram coordinator for EOE FIGs: (1) generates marketing material; (2) recruits participants;(3) generates the semester schedule and seminar curriculum; (4) reserves meeting rooms; (5)secures presenters and guest speakers as needed; (6) hires FIG student leadership team; (7)monitors students progress during the year; (8) evaluates student feedback; (9) and tracksretention data for previous EOE FIG participants.Recruiting Process for EOE FIG ParticipantsAt summer orientation, the EOE Program invites first time in college (FTIC) students to becomepart of an exciting community that focuses on

Conference Session

Educational Software

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Stephen Roberts, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University

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Computers in Education

that there are other approaches to this course. We describe our own “solution.” Page 12.391.2A Bit of HistoryThe computing course was introduced to the engineering curriculum sometime in the late 1950sand early 1960s. If you got your engineering degree before 1965, you probably took a Fortranprogramming class using something like an IBM 1620. You prepared your program on punchedcards and “loaded” the cards along with the operating system components onto the machine.Computing technology dramatically changed over time - from cards to terminals and magnetictapes and from 16 bit machines to 64 bit machines (mainframes). Even the programminglanguage

Conference Session

Cooperative Education Addresses ABET

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Stwalley, Purdue University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

growth in student Page 12.528.4skills as they pass through the academic and practical learning processes. The standarddeviation for the category gives an indication of the effectiveness of the educationalprocess as applied to that skill. This combination yields valuable information about theoverall students’ learning experience that can be utilized to adjust curriculum, teachingstyles, or course sequences. The University of Cincinnati has recently received a long-term FIPSE grant and will continue to refine their student evaluation techniques over thenext few years. Although there are numerous other institutions that have long and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Arunkumar Pennathur, University of Texas-El Paso

integrates aniterative process of reflective teaching and learning. Specifically, the focus is onliteracy, discourse, and metacognition with content focused on principles such ascounter-intuition and model elicitation.The successful NSF sponsored Phase 1 project (DUE-0411320) focused onstudent attitudes, study habits and in-class activities. Faculty were involvedprimarily as curriculum developers and guides. When considering a transition toPhase 2, emphasis was placed on faculty attitudes, teaching habits and reflectionin an attempt to elicit desired student behaviors. The faculty and students aremodeled as interrelated components in a learning system in which they bothreflect on engineering content and the pedagogy for delivering the content in

Conference Session

Retention Programs for Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amy Monte, Michigan Technological University; Kerri Sleeman, Michigan Technological University

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Women in Engineering

program. After the first year, the application process, advertising, mentortraining, and engineering and career center workshops were expanded and improved. Table 3: GUIDE Scholar Demographics (Fall 2002-Spring 2006) Women Ethnic/Minority First Year Scholars 61% 41% Undergraduate Mentors 81% 22% Graduate Student Mentors 34% 6%Over the four years of the program, the students participating in the program have changed.During the first two years of the program, more scholars were enrolled in Calculus I or higherand therefore were more prepared for an engineering curriculum. This was due to the

Conference Session

Retention Programs for Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helene Finger, California Polytechnic State University; Tracy Van Houten, University of Southern California; Barbara Curry, California Polytechnic State University; Jennifer Harris, United Parcel Service; Malia Francisco, United Parcel Service; Betsy Sale, United Parcel Service

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Women in Engineering

the upcoming year ofactivities and the general goals of the section for the year. Teaching these leaders of theorganization strategic planning not only benefits the section to have a well organized set ofactivities, but also gives the officers strategic planning skills that are not learned in quarter longclasses.The executive board is an especially integral part of the officer team, comprised of the president,five vice presidents, secretary, treasurer and section advisors. The vice president position offersleadership experience beyond that of typical officer positions, in that the vice presidents haveresponsibility for four to seven officers of similar areas of interest (i.e. corporate, outreach,publicity). Some of the vice president

Conference Session

Factors Affecting Minority Engineering Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Susan Donohue, University of Virginia

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Minorities in Engineering

they left Page 12.817.3SEAS. An analysis of responses on this topic indicated that the respondents may have beenlikely to stay in engineering if the curriculum had been flexible enough to allow them moreopportunities to take courses in the humanities and social sciences. Other significant responsesare: • the type of work or concentrations offered were not a good fit • the school was different from what was expected • the school did not meet expectations • lack of personal attention • required courses irrelevant to ultimate goal • lack of support for ANY (emphasis students

Conference Session

K-12 Programs (Co-sponsored by K-12 Division)

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State University; Elizabeth Eschenbach, Humboldt State University

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Women in Engineering

Engineering. She completed a postdoc at the Center for Advanced Decision Support in Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) at UC Boulder. Beth’s career goals include increasing the diversity of engineering students and improving education for all engineering students. Three of Beth’s current projects are: 1) an NSF planning project for the Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research, 2) an NSF Scientific Leadership Scholars project providing 4-year scholarships to 30 students in computer science, environmental recourses engineering and mathematics and 3) a water resources curriculum project using CADSWES software

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

InventoryAbstractThis paper provides a report on a project investigating the impact of pen-based computing on students’peer review strategies. The context for the project is an introductory technical communication coursefor engineering students from multiple disciplines. The project investigators created three peerreviewing contexts in which to assess the impact of tablet PCs on the quantity and quality of students’peer review comments. A Comment Inventory form was then developed that allowed the investigatorsto categorize each comment based on comment location, content, and form. Initial results from thestudy are presented.Keywords: technical communication; peer review; pen-based computing; tablet PCIntroductionFor many engineering educators, the challenge of

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Wang, University of Nevada-Reno; Jeffrey LaCombe, University of Nevada-Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada-Reno

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Computers in Education

AC 2007-1207: TEACHING STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING USING LEGOPROGRAMMABLE BRICKSEric Wang, University of Nevada-Reno ERIC L. WANG is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Wang has won numerous awards including the Tibbitts Distinguished Teaching Award, UNR's most prestigious teaching award. In addition to his pedagogical activities, Dr. Wang conducts research on sports equipment, biomechanics, robotics, and intelligent materials.Jeffrey LaCombe, University of Nevada-Reno JEFFREY C. LACOMBE is an Assistant Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. In addition to his education-oriented research

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Design – General Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. Christopher Cotting, Virginia Tech; Leigh McCue, Virginia Tech; Wayne Durham, Virginia Tech

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Aerospace

-onapplication of concepts learned in an academic setting is key to deep understanding, this courseserves as a capstone where concepts previously taught in several classes are integrated to givestudents an overarching view of aircraft operation, putting the theory students are taught inprevious courses into practice. In order to facilitate a learning environment and mitigate safetyissues associated with using real aircraft, two modern high performance aircraft models in theVirginia Tech Flight Simulation Laboratory are used instead of test aircraft. This allows foraccomplishment of targeted learning objectives, while alleviating operational costs, weatherconcerns, and liability and safety concerns. It also gives students the ability and opportunity

Conference Session

Multimedia Tutorials and Web Development

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Page 12.1069.8useful links. AT&T’s Virtual Academy11 offers online courses for integrating technology intocurriculum. There are numerous sites with links to fun engineering projects12.The 4000 Years of Women in Science project provides links biographies, references andphotographs of women in science history, including astronomy, mathematics, physics, biology,chemistry, and the social sciences (see http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html).Contributions of 20th Century Women in Physics is a centenary project of the American PhysicsSociety, can be found at http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwpThe Pact62 is an autobiography of 3 inner-city African-American youths who made a pact in highschool to find a way to go to college and then medical school

Conference Session

Issues of Diversity

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Mariga, Purdue University; Alka Harriger, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

the computingfields. In order to make an impact all entities need to work together and continue to educate girls,teachers, educators, counselors, legislatures, and others regarding the importance of this issue.This paper described the complimentary efforts of two female faculty at Purdue University toeducate students, parents, counselors, and other constituencies on what IT is and careers withinIT. Support by a few male colleagues in various activities has also helped. All of these combinedefforts have had some success, but clearly, much more work needs to be done.Bibliography1 Martin, C.D. & Pearson, E., Jr. (January 2005). Broadening participation through a comprehensive, integrated system: Final workshop report. Arlington

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fadi Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine; Judy Shoemaker, University of California, Irvine; John LaRue, University of California-Irvine

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Electrical and Computer

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Design and Implementation of a Program Outcome Assessment Process for an ABET-accredited Computer Engineering ProgramAbstractThis paper describes the design and implementation of a program outcomes assessment processfor the Computer Engineering Program at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, theUniversity of California, Irvine. The purpose of the assessment process is to collect and analyzeinformation on student performance in order to improve student learning and the effectiveness ofthe curriculum, and to meet the ABET accreditation requirements. In the last two years we haveadopted two new direct measures of program outcomes which are

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leyla Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jill Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2007-1754: THE DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSESSMENTOF AN ENGINEERING RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR PHYSICS TEACHERSLeyla Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology Leyla Conrad is the Director of Outreach in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has been developing and leading programs for high school students and teachers, as well as ECE female students that supports the ECE’s undergraduate recruitment and retention efforts. Before her current appointment, she was the Education Director of the Microsystems Packaging Research Center (a NSF Engineering Research Center) where she created and implemented a highly integrated and

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barb Howe, FishSafe B.C.; Gina Johansen, Fish Safe

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Ocean and Marine

simulate the steps of an incline with the model.An interactive handbook has been written called “Fishing Vessel Stability – Make it yourBusiness” that contains the curriculum inter-woven with personal stability stories of survival andtragedy.The variety of instructional techniques associated with indirect instruction are likely to appeal to Page 12.1427.8a greater variety of learning styles than direct instruction with lectures.13 There is also evidencethat indirect instruction enhances motivation to learn, in part because it draws extensively on theprior experience that participants bring to the learning environment.14FacilitationFrom the

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Zachary Bensusan; Leslie Gregg; William Leonard

better equipped to handle all projects and the unforeseenissues that will arise throughout their professional career.acknowledgementsSpecial thanks to Greg Schallert et.al. from Dawning Industries Inc. for helping students to gainindustry experience.references 1. Dawning Technologies, Inc. (2007). About Dawning Technologies, Inc .Retrieved 09/21/2007, from http://dawning.com/company/aboutus.php. 2. Raghavan, J., & Towhidnejad, M. (2006). Challenges in an Industry-Academic Collaboration. American Society for Engineering Education.about the authorZACHARY BENSUSAN is a graduate student in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Systems Integration (MMSI)masters program at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He earned a

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cesar Luongo, Florida A&M-Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M-Florida State University; James Sturges, Lockheed Martin; David Bogle, Lockheed Martin

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Design in Engineering Education

model for their engineering curricula2,3,4. At the FAMU-FSU College ofEngineering this course was first introduced in Mechanical Engineering as a one-year sequencewithin an integrated curriculum in the 1999 academic year.Our core Mechanical Engineering curriculum culminates in a two-semester capstone designproject experience allowing the graduating class to work on relevant engineering projects byapplying the knowledge acquired in the preceding years. In addition to the application oftraditional engineering skills and knowledge, many important elements of engineering trainingare seamlessly integrated into the senior project, including teamwork, technical communications,and project management. This two-semester format provides the opportunity to

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Laguette, University of California-Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

management experience has developed a Capstone Design program that hasintegrated companion courses, industry partnership and financial support, with facultypartnership and support. A Capstone Design program has now been developed and has becomean integral and important component of the Mechanical Engineering curriculum. This programnow allows the students to address more significant and practical design projects.Senior Capstone Projects for 2005/06 included: • An improved cranial closure system for use in neurosurgery. • Mechanisms for the deployment of satellite solar panels. • A spacecraft platform to be used in NASA sponsored researchThese projects were supported by gifts from local industry and faculty support.This paper will address