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History, Program Design, and even a Journal Club

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Farison, Baylor University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

of theirfirst accreditation. Clearly, that number is growing quite steadily.Expanding on the historical data in Table 1, Table 2 gives considerable data about each of theinstitutions: the institutional name used by ABET, the multidisciplinary engineering program(s)offered, the year of their first accreditation, the number of other ABET-accredited engineeringprograms at the institution, and the date of the next general accreditation review. Table 3provides a numerical summary of the more detailed data in Table 2, highlighting the anticipatedvisit workload over the next six-year cycle that would be predicted from Table 2, by year andprogram area. Clearly, there is a wide variation reflected by those data in the anticipatedworkload from year to

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Graduate Student Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Vaccari, Stevens Institute of Technology; Siva Thangam, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

dissertation must show that the candidate is fully aware of the pertinent published material and the dissertation must be written in a satisfactory literary style, free from typographical and other mechanical errors.No criteria are given for the oral presentation except as follows: “The purpose of the oral examination is to examine both the content of the dissertation and the candidate’s ability to defend it. “Holbrook6 quotes Kouptsov8 for Ph.D. criteria obtained by a survey of European academics asfollows: Belarus: '…Must reflect research on a disciplinary or interdisciplinary, theoretical, or applied problem, the results of which will constitute an original contribution to knowledge in the discipline or

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Measurement Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Nelson, Purdue University; Alice Pawley, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

Page 15.1343.2investigated the culture of design firms,10,16-17 global partnerships within high-tech industry,18and socialization of professional engineers19 all with the goal of making recommendations forpractice. The purpose of this paper is to use techniques from applied anthropology to illustratehow domain analysis2 can be used to advance research in engineering education.As a methodology, domain analysis is well suited to answer complex questions. Complexquestions feature “a community” as a crucial element of study, and reflect activities within asocial environment. Different people can answer these very open-ended questions differently.Moreover, complex questions connect together with other questions. Indeed, the benefit toconducting

Conference Session

Outreach and Beyond: New Roles for Librarians

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim Miller, University of Maryland; Bob Kackley, University of Maryland, College Park; Nevenka Zdravkovska, University of Maryland

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Engineering Libraries

these ninth to twelfth grade students werebeing heavily recruited to attend the University of Maryland upon matriculation from theirrespective high schools.Upon later reflection we realized how many opportunities the Maryland Libraries, includingEPSL Librarians, have taken advantage of to enhance the University of Maryland in the eyes ofnewcomers. For example, every year on the last Saturday in April, Maryland Day occurs oncampus with as many as 75,000 visitors, many below the age of 18. For several years forMaryland Day, the UM Libraries have sponsored a well-known children’s TV celebrity, Bob theVid Tech, from Maryland Public Television fame in a tent crammed full of youngsters. The otherinitiatives include "History Day", put on by the UM

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Graduate Studies

required for Engineering Levels [1-3]; b) Part II addresses theOrganizational Leadership Skills and Actions required for Engineering Levels [4-6], and; c) Part IIIaddresses the Strategic Leadership Skills and Actions required for Engineering Levels [7-9]. The overallanalysis sets the foundation for building a coherent professional graduate curriculum and dynamiceducational process reflective of how experienced engineering professionals learn, grow, and create newtechnology in industry. This paper addresses Part II: the Organizational Leadership Function, Skills andActions that engineers must learn and develop from Group Leader, Functional Area Manager, SystemsEngineer through Technical Program Manager Levels [4-6

Conference Session

Educational Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

based learning as well as co-op and internship experiences that students have had by their senior year. The perceivedimportance of these skills was comparable for each group.Local Findings:The local findings seem to contradict the national results because all of the students either agreeor strongly agree that their skills have improved since coming to the university. The manyopportunities for teamwork and collaboration in the engineering curriculum and in outsideinternships made possible through university–industry collaborations at North Carolina A&Tappear to have bolstered the students’ initial strong confidence in this area. A sample ofstudents’ free responses to a reflection question is shown in Table 6. These responses

Conference Session

Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography1. Akay, A., A Renaissnce In Engineering PhD Education. European Journal Of Engineering Education 2008, 33 (4), 403-413.2. National Science Board Science and Engineering Indicators. National Science Foundation: 2008; Vol. 1.3. Hogan, R.; Hogan, J., Assessing Leadership: A View From The Dark Side. International Journal Of Selection And Assessment 2001, 9 (1/2), 40-51.4. Hunt, C., Careers In Chemistry: Keys To Success...Beyond Hard Work! American Chemical Society Graduate Education Newsletter 2007, 6 (1), 1-3.5. Sekhon, J. G., The PhD Education of Industrial Mathematicians in Australia. Bulletin Of The Australian

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Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University; Alexandru Belu, Case Western Research University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

? Page 15.46.94. A change in the planet's reflectivity can change its effective temperature. For a onepercent increase in reflectivity (that is 0.34 rather than 0.33 for the albedo), how muchdoes the ground temperature decrease with NO change in optical depth.5. Venus has an effective temperature of 240K, but its surface temperature is 700K!Find the atmospheric optical depth that is required to accomplish this.Extra Credit Calculation: To make our calculation easy, we have divided theatmosphere into layers of equal optical depth. In the real atmosphere, these layers wouldhave different thickness since the optical depth depends on the mass of the layer and thedensity of air decreases with altitude. The density of air in the Earth's atmosphere, d

Conference Session

Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerome Schaufeld, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; McRae Banks, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

interest in the subject matter Figure 5. The results of student assessment of the course for both the first and the second offering.3.1.3 GradesThe grading of the course consisted on several components: Homework (15%); Projectpresentation and report (35%); Quiz (30%) and class participation (20%).Homework, due in every lecture challenged students to reflect on the reading for the upcomingclass. The write-up was limited to one page and had to provide a synopsis of the material readand a few points for the class discussion of the material. The students initially had somedifficulty with the concept, including limiting it to a page, but after the first weeks there was anoticeable improvement

Conference Session

Design in BME Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Taylor, University of Virginia; Katelyn Mason, University of Virginia; A. Leyf Peirce Starling, The Fletcher School; Timothy Allen, University of Virginia; Shayn Peirce, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

encompass a variety of benefits a senior undergraduatestudent can receive as a result of their Capstone design experience. Besides benefiting thestudent in terms of advancing their careers, building their resumes, and preparing them for post-undergraduate endeavors such as graduate school, the success metrics examined in this study (i.e.grant applications and publications) also benefit the advisors, department, company, etc. Perhapsan outcome more immediately relevant to undergraduate students would be the end-of-yearevaluation score of their design project, which is reflected by their spring semester grade. Thus,we examined the end-of-year grades to determine whether any trends in advisor demographics orteam formulation were discernable.The

Conference Session

Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Eric Pappas, James Madison University

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Educational Research and Methods

ones that I knew would not be practical.”and Creativity “I’ve learned more about the design process and problem solving and have developed more cognitive skills that help with creativity.” “I learned about some of my strengths and weaknesses, especially in comparison toSelf-awareness my peers.”Students were also asked to reflect on what aspects of the project were most and least valuable.Overall and in agreement with responses on learning outcome gains (Table 1), students felt thatthe most valuable aspects during the project were learning and applying the design process (e.g.,developing ideas, meeting customer needs, generating concepts, sketching and drawing concepts

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Shey, United States Naval Academy; Ryan Rakvic, United States Naval Academy; Thomas Salem, United States Naval Academy; Samara Firebaugh, United States Naval Academy

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Electrical and Computer

Fairchild SemiconductorQRB1134 Phototransistor Reflective Object Sensor. Using this sensor, allows the students tomake a line following robot by properly selecting resistors to properly bias the sensor as shownin Figure 2. This sensor also covers signal conditioning because it outputs a digital signal, butthis requires the students to evaluate whatvoltages are evaluated as a logical “0” and alogical “1” by the controller. VSourceThe second sensor used is the MaxSonar EZ0 Current Pull-upUltrasonic Range Finder. This sensor offers Limiting Resistormultiple output

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ahlgren, Trinity College; Igor Verner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

competition_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. StrategiesPlease reflect on matching of the assistive robotics competition goals by the current RoboWaiter contest. Suggeststrategies that can improve the RoboWaiter._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. ReasonsThe first of the tables below is intended for contestants and the second (reverse side) for supporters. Please answerin the proper table. The tables are similar: the first column includes a list of possible reasons for participation in orsupport of the RoboWaiter. In the second column please estimate the

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 STEM Education with Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Hunter, Tennessee Technological University; Jessica Matson, Tennessee Technological University; Margaret Phelps, Tennessee Technological University; Roy Loutzenheiser, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

proficiency levels on the TennesseeComprehensive Achievement Program (TCAP) test were collected and analyzed. For highschool students, proficiency levels on their most recent state achievement test were used for thebaseline. Proficiency levels for the various Gateway (required pass for graduation) and end-of-course tests that each student had taken were collected and sorted by subject.The data in Figures 2 and 3 are reflective of student outcomes for the project. The data show thatthe greatest gain by students was in moving from proficient to advanced. This result is indicativeof raising the bar of content and problem-solving within the existing science and math curricula. 100 90 80 % Advanced

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erika Murguia, Arizona State University; Erin Kube, Arizona State University; Jennifer Bekki, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Bianca Bernstein, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

the CareerWISE office. Page 15.263.5Participants completed a 12-item questionnaire about their experiences as part of the CW project.Participants reflected and described what they had gained as participants in a largeinterdisciplinary project as well as the challenges that they had faced. Participants responded toquestions about the changes in their knowledge and skills related to: interdisciplinary teams,disciplinary cultures, gender issues in educational and career settings (topic of the CW project),and the creation of instructional materials for online use (topic of CW project). They were askedhow they had used these skills in external

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 STEM Education with Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Settings, NationalScience Foundation. Opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation (NSF).References[1] National Research Council. (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school: Expanded edition. Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning with additional material from the Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.[2] National Research Council. (2001). Knowing what students know: The science and design of educational assessment. Committee on the Foundations of Assessment. Pelligrino, J., Chudowsky, N., and

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Barbara E. Mizdail

projects reflecting the concerns of today’s students for the environment, positive feedbackfrom research faculty for student contributions with existing projects, and an awareness of thecapabilities of students at this first year level.The First Year ExperienceA first year experience for incoming students is not a new concept to higher education. For morethan twenty years, colleges and universities have contrived and implemented ways to supportstudent success during the critical first year. The majority of all colleges and universities offer afirst year seminar course or experience to their first year entering class. First year experiencescan increase the probability of students successfully completing their first year of study, whichleads to the

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Philip Samuel P.E.; Kathryn Jablokow

as a result of their psychologicalbiases5. Such biases include limitations imposed by the designer’s intelligence and expertise(i.e., cognitive level), emotional state, and belief systems (i.e., cognitive affect), as well asbiases arising from cognitive style – i.e., the designer’s preferred approach to managingstructure in problem solving. For example, designers with more adaptive cognitive styles tendto generate ideas that support and refine the structure of a given system, while those withmore innovative cognitive styles tend to generate ideas that loosen and reframe the system’sstructure in more radical ways7, 8, 11. Yet these same psychological biases also enable eachdesigner, as they reflect previous experience which may help guide the

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Barbara E. Mizdail

projects reflecting the concerns of today’s students for the environment, positive feedbackfrom research faculty for student contributions with existing projects, and an awareness of thecapabilities of students at this first year level.The First Year ExperienceA first year experience for incoming students is not a new concept to higher education. For morethan twenty years, colleges and universities have contrived and implemented ways to supportstudent success during the critical first year. The majority of all colleges and universities offer afirst year seminar course or experience to their first year entering class. First year experiencescan increase the probability of students successfully completing their first year of study, whichleads to the

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Lizabeth Thompson Schlemer; Faith Mimnaugh

written on each. In the area of basketball, every passionatecoach would include John Wooden7 as a fantastic role model. He often mentions his view that coachingis teaching and he took the responsibility seriously8.John Wooden’s “Pyramid of Success”8 has informed many on not only sports skills but life skills also.The title of Swen Nater’s book on John Wooden reflects Wooden’s passion for individual development:You haven’t taught until they have learned.Phil Jackson9 extends activities on the court to life lessons. He focuses on success through selfless teamplay and spiritual practices to help focus team activities.Jenkins10 reviewed an interesting book, The Sports Coach as Educator: Reconceptualising SportsCoaching that attempts to conceptualize

Conference Session

Special Session: Next Generation Problem-Solving

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Tamara Moore, University of Minnesota; John Christ; Eric Hamilton, Pepperdine University; Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines; Heidi Diefes-Dux

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randal Abler, Georgia Tech; James Krogmeier, Purdue University; Aaron Ault, Purdue University; Julia Melkers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tamara Clegg, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Benjamin Stein, University of Wisconsin; Allen Phelps, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

logs and self-report surveys have also been used as methods for obtaining information about theenacted instruction6,7,8.The assessed curriculum refers to the specific content that is tested and can differdrastically from the intended and enacted curricula. Tests are drafted by the federalgovernment (thought instruments like NAEP, for example), individual states, districts,and the teachers themselves. The learned curriculum captures the actual changes inknowledge by the individual students, which reflects the notion that students can andoften do learn more and less than offered in the instructional context.In earlier studies, we analyzed the enacted curriculum of the first Project Lead the Way™foundations course, Introduction to Engineering

Conference Session

Design with External Clients

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Fleishman, Western Washington University; Eric Leonhardt, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

contribute to greater fuel economy. Unique design and fabricationtechniques for high performance structural composites will be utilized to reduce curb weight by30-50%, when compared to conventional steel chassis design benchmarks. Self-imposedmandates adopted by the WWU R&D team include design and manufacturing sustainabilityfocus, which are reflected in all architectural, materials selection, and manufacturing processdecisions. An additional design goal targets the ability to use a range of alternative fuels by usinga modular hybrid powertrain and open source control strategies that enable utilization of regionalfeedstocks available to the purchaser. The hybrid bus project combines undergraduate Vehicle Design students withEngineering

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Best Practices in K-12 Engineering Panel

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University; Marlene Aviles, Dr. Ercel Webb School # 22, Jersey City School District; Jennifer Case, East Middle School; Augusto Macalalag, Stevens Institute of Technology; John Brockway, East Middle School; Christie O'Hara, Colorado School of Mines; Michael Asheim, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Brian Lien, Princeton High School; Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, 2teachers learned physical science content of forces, motion, and electricity through lectures, hands-onactivities, field trips, Internet based projects, collaborative work, reflections, model-based inquiry, andthe engineering design process administered by the faculty and staff of the engineering and teacher-education colleges. Teachers engaged in two Engineering is Elementary (EiE) modules over focusedon the engineering design process.Proven Success in the ClassroomBased on our pre- and post- tests administered to teachers and students in treatment and comparisongroups in year 1, participating teachers showed science and engineering gains of almost 3 timesgreater than teachers in the comparison group. Students of teachers in the treatment group

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tuba Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

given, etc., but rather fromstudents’ hard to observe internal mechanisms. Such mechanisms regulate the extent to whichstudents can comprehend the complexities of a real system and how much of this complexitythey can reflect in a conceptual and calculational model.Self-efficacy is one such mechanism that has been shown to regulate learning, motivation andacademic performance of students. It is defined as personal judgments of one’s capabilities toorganize and execute courses of action to attain designated goals [1]. Individuals have high self-efficacy for a task when they believe they possess the capabilities necessary to successfullyperform the task and low self-efficacy if they believe that they do not have the necessarycapabilities. Hence

Conference Session

Service Learning and Societal Issues in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Jed Marquart, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

, we had many new ideas and ways to improve our final product."The informal observations of the authors are that student teams generally found the preparationof the posters to be time consuming, and that teams sought confirmation more with this activitythan with any other; for example, students more often asked “Is this right?” of their instructorsthrough this process than at any other time in the course. The assumption is that this was due tostudents having little to no prior experience preparing research posters. After the competition,students generally reflected that they wished they had been more organized, but now that theexpectations were known, it would be more straightforward if they had to repeat the process.Many teams described

Conference Session

Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eleanor M. Jaffee, Smith College; Donna Riley, Smith College

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Women in Engineering

descriptive reports of the sample.Data Analysis. Analysis began with structural coding, or segmenting interviews based on thestructure of the interview protocol itself. This allowed us to focus our efforts on portions of theinterviews relevant to particular topics. Following this initial step, we began the thematic codingprocess using a codebook reflecting the study‟s central theoretical themes17. According toMacQueen et al., “the codebook functions as a frame or boundary that the analyst constructs inorder to systematically map the informational terrain of the text” (p. 32).18 For the purpose ofintercoder reliability when working as a team, the authors recommend that codebooks include sixbasic components for each code: the code itself, a brief

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Crawley, MIT; Robert Niewoehner, United States Naval Academy; Jean Koster, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

/modules listed above.Conclusion: Summary of Program Progress to Date The project’s purpose is the deployment of the CDIO pedagogy to other North Americaninstitutions. The project’s eight specific tasks, products and progress are summarized below.1. A refined and stakeholder-validated description of the knowledge and skills desired in graduating students by the US aerospace industry. This task is complete with a report in work. In a related effort, the international CDIO consortium is currently weighing a draft of the 2.0 version of the CDIO syllabus. Proposed changes reflect both 8 years of experience working with the syllabus, and shifts in industry’s emphases. Action on proposed changes is expected in 2010.2. The documentation

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Jianchu Yao, East Carolina University

mobile stations can be used anywhere in the world whereelectricity is available, making engineering education accessible to students without access tobenchtop measurement instrumentation. This might include junior-college students that wish toalign with university-level teaching efforts, or perhaps non-engineering students to whom facultywish to teach circuits principles but do not have the local laboratory resources to support.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National ScienceFoundation Course, Curriculum, & Laboratory Improvement Program underType I grant DUE–0942425. Opinions, findings, conclusions, orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and donot necessarily reflect the