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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vicki V. May, Dartmouth College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

- sity in San Luis Obispo. Page 24.368.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Design it! Build it! A Summer Engineering Workshop for High School Students to Foster Creativity and Change Perceptions of Engineering (Work in Progress)BackgroundA survey of over 1,000 high school students conducted by Penn Schoen Berland found thatstudents were more likely to consider engineering as a career if they had been exposed toengineering and better understood the role of engineers1. Additionally, students who had notbeen exposed to engineering were more

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An Examination of Methods to Enhance Transfer Student Enrollment, Retenion, Persistence, and Outcomes

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Laier, University of South Alabama; Sally J. Steadman, University of South Alabama

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Two Year College Division

work to covertheir tuition costs. The program also includes a seminar for first time students and amentoring program, to enhance the academic success of transfer students. Page 24.724.2The USA-LINK seminar emphasizes academic success skills (such as time management andstudy skills). The students explore engineering majors through problem-based applications,gaining essential experience with engineering problem solving. The seminar also focuses onsocial involvement and interpersonal skills. Students are introduced to career andresearch/internship opportunities and to job placement skills so they are well prepared to enterthe technical workforce.An

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland; Zulema Naegele, University of Portland; Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Increasing Retention in Engineering and Computer Science with a Focus on Academically At-Risk First Year and Sophomore Students1. IntroductionThe program described in this paper seeks to increase retention rates for engineering andcomputer science students and to evaluate the effectiveness of best practices for retention ofacademically at-risk students. The main hypothesis is that students who fall behind their cohortearly in their college career are less likely to be retained in engineering and computer science.As such, we focus this project on the academically “at-risk” student group defined as first-yearcollege students who are not

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

undergraduate students to the concepts and practices ofentrepreneurial thinking. Using a combination of lectures, case studies, student led discussions,team business plans, and investor presentation formats, the course teaches life skills inentrepreneurial thought and action that students can utilize in careers ranging from startingcompanies to initiating R&D projects in large company entrepreneurial endeavors. Major coursethemes include: Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Idea Generation and Feasibility Analysis, andBusiness Planning. The table 1 also shows the content of the course3.Course objectives include exploring the entrepreneurial mindset and culture that has beendeveloping in companies of all sizes and industries; examine the

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Miller-Young

class norms, the lessons become part of the deep structure Page 10.886.4of their class experience as their first introduction to a career in engineering. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationKurfiss12 examined a wide range of successful courses devoted to teaching critical thinking, andderived eight principles for designing a course to support critical thinking. The instructionsactivity is novel and extremely useful, as it incorporates five of the eight principles in a shortassignment at the

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Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Feodoroff

Technology throughout theprogram.IntroductionNew England Institute of Technology is a private, non-profit technical college founded in 1940that provides over 29 specialized associate and bachelor degree programs that prepare studentsfor technical careers. Most associate degree programs can be completed in 18 months, andBachelor of Science programs in 3 years. The academic year is divided into four (4) ten weekquarters with a six week intersession period during June and July. NEIT’s open enrollmentpolicy requires entering students to be assessed for skill in reading, writing and mathematics todetermine their readiness to begin standard college work. NEIT offers technical programs thatmeet the career-oriented needs of students with emphasis placed on

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Hill

accomplish this goal, PLTW, which is not-for-profit corporation, has created a series of five yearlong high school courses. These coursesintroduce students to engineering as a career and provide them with the critical thinking andanalytical skills they will need to succeed as engineers. These courses also bring into them thenecessary math, science, and language arts skills and teach these skills in the context of the pre-engineering classes. Thus, students can see the application of these subjects, many of which arenot normally taught in context, such that they can understand their value and use.These five courses are Introduction to Engineering Design (IED), Digital Electronics (DE),Principles of Engineering (POE), Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Jackson; Mani Mina

electricalengineering class at Iowa State University. Discussion of classroom, laboratory, and out-of-classlearning is included, along with some of our results.IntroductionThe increasingly rapid growth of the various fields of engineering has led to great challenges ineducation, and many proposals have been made regarding changes in curriculum1-3. The needsof first-year university students have especially changed; quickly changing and evolvingtechnology demands more than ever that students continue to learn efficiently throughout theirprofessional career. To this end, a first year course must provide the student with a number ofobjectives:• Identify the scope of the particular field which he or she has chosen to study;• Begin to learn the process of

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rockland; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Howard Kimmel

equipment that are integral to the implementation of theprogram. All teachers may communicate with other PLTW teachers nationwide through theInternet and receive year-round technical support through the staff at the state affiliates,National Technical Training Center located at Rochester Institute of Technology, andnational PLTW office. Nationwide, 2,138 teachers have trained in one or more of the PLTWcourses. Guidance counselors must attend at least one annual conference held nationally orlocally. The goal of the annual conference is to inform counselors from existing andpotential PLTW schools about the program and careers in the field of engineering. To fostercollaboration, a partnership team is established within each PLTW school that

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Taylor

career. • The entrepreneurship program provides a forum for learning and experiencing business firsthand from professionals • The certificate process builds teamwork and communication skills in interdisciplinary project teams • The student who desires to launch a business is provided with foundational knowledge, experience, and mentoring. • The student who decides to pursue an engineering or management career goes into the work place with working knowledge of business and as a more valuable employee • Mississippi and the surrounding states enjoy a higher level of economic development. Figure 1. Vision of the Jack Hatcher Engineering Entrepreneurship Program. For students with higher

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Autar Kaw

. Fortunately, his cancer went into fullremission and in the following semester, he made an “A” in the course. Efed gives the benefit ofthe doubt to the student. As he gains experience, Efed is able to distinguish between genuine andlame excuses. For special and extreme cases those that stretch Efed's time or are beyond his capability ofhelp, Efed does not hesitate to refer students to the campus career counseling services. The contact with student during office hours is very important to Efed. It is an Page 8.1011.3opportunity for teaching students how to learn on their own. Rather than just solving the problemProceedings of the

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What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Crago; Dale Flowers

the formal measures described above, we systematically gather feedback from ourcorporate partners in the program. Two samples include:From Don Richards, Managing Partner of the Chemicals Industry Practice, Accenture:“Consulting careers – similar to traditional engineering organizations – increasingly requirebroader business skills to be successful. The content of the MEM degree is exactly what themarket is looking for; adding business and management disciplines to the heritage of outstandingtechnical and analytical education provided by engineering.”In the short history of the degree program, Accenture has hired two full time consultants fromthe program, the second to start in May 2004.From Helen Rapp, Manager of Engineering Support

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Kane; Carla Purdy

; • advisors' own unpleasant graduate experiences, which they may have come to view as necessary to their success; • lack of oversight of faculty supervisors and of administration support for programs that would improve the quality of graduate student life; • lack of information about how to prepare adequately for comprehensive exams; • lack of training in necessary skills such as giving a presentation or writing a grant proposal; • lack of career guidance; • competitiveness or hostility among research group peers; • lack of feedback on progress towards the degree; • unclear and often unreasonably long timelines to degree completion; • budget constraints which lead to low stipends

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NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Adrezin; Marty Wood; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

development in telecommunications, photonics, laser safety,fiver optics, manufacturing, plastics and composites. Finally, the ATE grants havesupported faculty externships in cutting edge industries that have been used for integratingindustry applications into the classroom and laboratories.NASA Space Grant The College of Technology is also a member of the CT NASA Space GrantConsortium. Through this initiative, the COT students at the community colleges have theopportunity to participate in a number of career awareness programs offered throughoutthe year. In addition, ten $500 scholarships are awarded to College of Technologystudents who plan on continuing their education at a four year institution in engineering,science or technology.Outreach

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenda Kelly; Martha Absher; Gary Ybarra

learning mathematical concepts by capitalizing on children’s naturalaffinity for plants and animals. It was predicted that teaching mathematics in this hands-onintegrated way over the course of this 3 year program would contribute to an increase in theNorth Carolina Standardized End-of-Grade (EOG) Math Test Scores, an increase in self- reportsamong children and adolescents of enjoyment of math and science, an increase of self-report inbeing good in math and science, an increase in viewing math as important to everyone’s life, anincrease in self-report of a wish to work in a career in math or science, an increase in a wish todo more math, and an increase in the percentage of students eligible to take Algebra by the 8thgrade.Program descriptionFor

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Holcombe

and creative endeavors. • Girls are not discouraged from pursuing engineering and technology, but they are not encouraged to select the engineering fields either. • The computer culture that attracts young men does not attract young females because of the violence, redundancy and tedium associated with video games. They dislike the narrowly and technically focused programming classes. • They have a perceived lack of technological skills and avoid them to save face.A survey by Professors Holcombe and Hoffman [2] (Purdue University), asked women in the ETfield, what were the top 5 motivators in choosing their career. Of the 65 respondents the mostcommon answers were: • Eighty percent responded that their family

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Johnson

organizations likeASEE, MESA, IEEE, NASA, and Boeing. Engineering Information Foundation and Project LeadThe Way are involved in activities to promote engineering in the pre-college education system.However, in spite of all of these efforts, enrollments in engineering programs are still falling.With the allotment of H-1b visas rising from 65,00 in 1998 to 195,000 in 2001, there are concernsabout the lack of interest and preparation of American students especially in the engineeringfields. This paper discusses another approach to informing K-12 students aboutengineering as a creative and fulfilling career choice. Presently, three factors suggest a means ofencouraging California’s students to be engineers: • The California Commission on Teacher

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

their career goals. The traditional ‘introduction to engineering’ course thatgenerally surveys various engineering career paths is insufficient to provide the freshmenstudents with a feel for their major. As an alternate, many engineering programs have startedoffering project-based courses under various titles at the freshmen level to introduce students tothe field of their study. A leading institution to introduce such an approach in the ECEcurriculum is Carnegie Mellon University, and they have successfully offered an ‘intellectuallysubstantive’ course with basic algebra and high school physics as prerequisites 1.Unlike the courses specifically designed to provide freshmen experiential learning to the majorsadmitted into a program, the course

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mihalasky; Gina Boesch; Keith Sheppard

contractprofessionals, more emphasis on flexible multidisciplinary teams (in many cases operatinginternationally) and corporations taking a different stance to new product development. Thelatter includes buying in new technology once it has been proven rather than developing in-house. It also includes promotion of intrapreneurship , including spinning off successful internalventures to maximize value. For engineering graduates entering this environment, anentrepreneurial orientation and associated knowledge and skills will be a key career enabler.Development of an institutional culture to foster entrepreneurshipIn response to recognition of the changing business environment, which fundamentally affectsour various stakeholders, Stevens has engaged in a sea

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yanfeng Gong; Mike Collum; Noel Schulz

Session Number 3233 Electrical Engineering Concept Demonstrations and Laboratories using a Power Relay System Noel N. Schulz, Associate Professor, Mississippi State University Yanfeng Gong, Graduate Student, Mississippi State University Mike Collum, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories AbstractRecent issues within the power industry, such as deregulation and California’s energy problems,are creating a renewed interest in careers within power engineering careers. Many schools areseeing increases in the number of undergraduates in

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Richardson; Carl White

ofundergraduate entrance is by recommendation from senior level associates.Graduate students conducting research under the guidance of the director receive automaticadmission into COMSARE. These students are continuing COMSARE undergraduates who havesuccessfully completing the B.S. degree and seek graduate study, or they are recruited viaMSU/COMSARE participation in career and college fairs.Currently, COMSARE’s has a total of forty (40) associates and assistants- seven (7) PMAssociates, three (3) R&D Associates, ten (10) Engineering Associates, and ten (10) EngineeringAssistants. Since its inception, COMSARE has produced a total of 150 highly skilled engineers,who are making productive contributions to their affiliate organizations

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Williams

items included course content and pedagogy to be introduced to the enteringclass in the fall semester of 2000. Along with a technical review of algebra, trigonometry,geometry, and physics, student development would be the main focus. Specific items to beaddressed included the exploration of the engineering profession, community building,identifying and developing academic skills, and setting goals.Many students enter engineering without much information about their intended career path. Infact, one third of the freshmen enter into engineering at Alfred University with an undecidedmajor for the first year. These students have yet to actually understand the job for which they aretraining. This lack of vision prevents students from putting in a

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Olson; Georgia Ehlers; David Lovelock; Ali Mehrabian

(Henderson 1999).The opportunity to study, conduct research, and establish a career in these fields is a reachablegoal for students regardless of physical ability.In the Spring of 1998, a group consisting of students with physical disabilities, faculty fromSMET disciplines, and staff at the University of Arizona (UA) proposed a program to the Page 6.418.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”National Science Foundation (NSF) aimed at encouraging more students with physicaldisabilities

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Nohemi Rubio; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras; Connie Della-Piana

undergraduate students in research. Participation in anundergraduate research experience in science, engineering and mathematics holds the promise ofincreasing student interest in pursuing graduate degrees and research careers in these fields.According to an advisory committee to the National Science Foundation, an undergraduateresearch experience provides students with the opportunity to attain high levels of competenceand confidence in the their field of interest. Students develop an understanding of the methodsand process of research and learn to make informed judgments about technical and scientificmatters and develop a strong set of skills to communicate and work in teams to solve complexproblems1. In addition, students are provided an opportunity

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Weitemeyer; Stephanie Draeger; Rebecca Morrison; Lehang Huynh; Ashok K. Goel; Sarah Bergstrom; Jami Meteer; Aleli Mojica-Campbell; Martha Sloan

in the areas of design, modelingand simulation of GaAs-based very high-speed integrated circuits are outlined.I. IntroductionIt is widely accepted that active research experience is one of the most effective techniquesfor training and motivating undergraduate students for careers in science and engineering.National Science Foundation (NSF) recognizes this and supports undergraduate researchunder two “Research Experiences for Undergraduates” (REU) programs: a) Under their“REU Supplements” program, NSF encourages principal investigators of NSF-fundedresearch grants to include one or two undergraduate students in their existing projects; b)Under their “REU Site” program, NSF provides funds to set up undergraduate research sitesconsisting of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas M. Mattox; David D. Mattox

thefinancial tables. In recruiting guests for the financial presentations, it has been ourexperience that most community financial professionals would be willing to assist in such aprogram. The burden on the instructor is to conceive of simple, product ideas, which can bedesigned and implemented by the basic skill set of the engineering students. The students arenot asked to perfect the design, just to define the general manufacturing cost envelope. Thenecessary planning and business skills will be learned and experienced in the course, albeit ina limited way.Student ResponseStudent evaluations have been above average. Unexpected, but welcomed is a significantshift upward in student interest in careers in management after this exposure, as indicated

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edgar Blevins

assigned to anyengineering management projects for several years after graduation. According to Lannes(2001), an undergraduate engineering degree only prepares a student for the first (engineering)phase of ones career and the graduate degree prepares them for the transition to the managementphases of their career. 7 An informal survey of many attendees at the 2001 ASEM nationalconference did believe that any amount of preparation of future engineers in management skillswould be a great benefit. Several of the attendees indicated that their universities weredeveloping undergraduate or graduate engineering management programs. As stated byRosandich et. al. (2001), areas of human behavior and social systems are given less focus inengineering

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

student-faculty relationships.The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings in terms ofwhether the practices of the Rowan program are indeed best practices in engineeringeducation, and not for women only.IntroductionThe national shortage of engineers has led to scrutiny of the “pipeline” which leads from interestin the sciences in the childhood years through career commitment to the field. Critical in thisjourney are the undergraduate years. Astin and Astin1 estimated 40% attrition in engineeringduring the undergraduate years; Strenta et. al.2 reported 40 - 60% attrition in engineering for menand even higher, 54-70%, attrition for women; Adelman3 shows a persistent 20% gap nationallybetween men’s and women’s completion

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Inquiring MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Somerton

who benefit from affirmative action should have a historical tie to the group that wasoriginally disadvantaged. Data is then presented that shows a large fraction of affirmative actionengineering faculty in the Big 10 are foreign born. Some anecdotal observations are provided thatfurther emphasize the problem. Final remarks concerning the situation conclude this paper.Why Affirmative Action?It would be presumptuous to try to address the above question in all of its complexity. Thisquestion is addressed from the personal perspective of one who has struggled with the concept ofaffirmative action during his academic career. Those of us who have supported affirmative actionmust also be supportive of equal opportunity. However, there is a real

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Stewart; William Lin

input from both our Career Services(placement) office and from the EET program's Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) ofrepresentatives from local employers. So the EET faculty recommended that no EETstudent should complete their formal training without at least one course in electroniccommunications technology. With the goal set, a faculty committee was charged, and thework was begun to move material from what were BS level at other DeVry campusesinto the AAS course sequence at the New Jersey campus. Page 7.889.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright Ó 2002