Conference Session

Preparing Minority Students for Undergraduate and Graduate Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin J. McCave, Clemson University; Jordon Gilmore, Clemson University; Karen Burg, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

enrolling in graduate orprofessional schools.5,6Many researchers have explored potential causes for minority student underrepresentation in theSTEM disciplines. Issues such as preparedness deficiencies, stereotype threats, familial orsocietal expectations, or low esteem have been presented as potential reasons for low interest,aspiration, admission, retention, and persistence in STEM of ethnic minority students.7-14Diminished pursuit of graduate studies for URM students were thought to be largely related tofinancial hardship post baccalaureate; however, further research has shown that URMs in STEMalso may not see graduate or professional schools as significantly beneficial to career aspirationsand interest.15Undergraduate research programs have

Conference Session

Focus on African-American and Hispanic Engineering Students’ Professional and Academic Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kalynda Chivon Smith, Howard University; Lorraine N. Fleming, Howard University; Inez N. Moore, Howard University; Silas E. Burris, Howard University; Fabiana Bornmann

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

; however,DuBois spoke specifically of college educated Blacks’ responsibility towards those with fewerresources, which has not been often empirically studied regarding the motivations of Blackundergraduates to persist in STEM majors. Although there has been some debate about whomDuBois regarded as the Talented Tenth and exactly what he charged them with, DuBois spoke ofeducated Blacks sacrificing their personal desires in order to increase the overall well-being oftheir entire race in the United States. In the simplest terms, this charge is now antiquated;however, Blacks are still less likely to attend and graduate from a college or university and areless likely to obtain financially stable careers than their White counterparts. The need

Conference Session

Gender Perceptions and Girls in K-12 Engineering and Computer Science

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Deckard, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific; David Quarfoot, SDSU/UCSD; Kimberly C Csanadi

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, like science festivals, robotics competitions, and fairs that encourage young people to create, build, and invent - to be makers of things.”Working with middle school science teachers, education advocates, community partnersinterested in STEM, and university STEM student organizations, an intervention, Girl’s Day Out,was developed by Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific or SPAWARSystems Center Pacific) in San Diego, California – one of the research, development, andscience/engineering support arms of the U.S. Navy. The intervention was created to inspire andencourage middle school girls to pursue STEM subjects in high school as a possible pathway to aSTEM career, and to inform parents of the opportunities

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy J. Hinds, Michigan State University; S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

, mechanics, computational tools and international product design as well as graduate-level courses in engineering innovation and technology management. He has conducted research in the areas of environmentally-responsible manu- facturing, globally-distributed engineering teaming and early engineering education development and has over 30 years of combined academic and industrial management experience. He received his BSME and MSME degrees from Michigan Technological University.Dr. S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University S. Patrick Walton received his B.ChE. from Georgia Tech, where he began his biomedical research career in the Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He then attended MIT where he earned his M.S

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

strategies, and connect with the many resources that areavailable on campus to help ensure success.BackgroundThe high school level Introduction to Engineering course was developed based on the interestand ideas that emerged from a workshop conducted at UMBC in July 2001. The objective of theworkshop was to better equip high school teachers and counselors to identify, guide, and prepareprospective students at each of their schools for a career in engineering. The three-day workshopwas developed and presented by the author and was modeled after work done by RaymondLandis1, former Dean of Engineering and Technology at California State University, LosAngeles. Invitations to the workshop with a brochure and application form were sent to areahigh schools

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Depew

an alreadyindustrial research careers. established competence in industry.Tuition TuitionPrimarily borne by universities and federal Primarily borne by industry and industry tuitionresearch grants. reimbursement policies.Faculty FacultyResearch-oriented faculty who are pursuing Professional-oriented faculty who are pursuingacademic scientific research and teaching creative engineering practice and teachingcareers. careers. Core plus adjunct faculty in industry.Teaching at undergraduate and graduate research Teaching

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

visible to the Dean and campusassessment office via password, and the lessons learned from data become part of thecontinuous improvement plan for the ARET program.2. IntroductionImplementation of a Web Curriculum in Architectural Engineering Technology(ARET)at Bluefield State College (BSC) will strengthen our capacity to continually improve thequality of undergraduate education for students seeking careers and graduate study inarchitecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professions. Implementation of ourcomprehensive technology-based approach will directly improve student opportunities togain access to high quality teaching and learning environments, while increasing both thenumber and diversity of underrepresented students, women

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Johnson; Martin Morris; Arnold Ness; Richard Deller; Julie Reyer

BEST/STEPS: Hands-On Education and Recruitment of Underrepresented Groups Julie A. Reyer, Richard W. Deller, Martin J. Morris, Arnold Ness, Richard T. Johnson College of Engineering and Technology, Bradley University By the time students enter college, lack of rigorous high school coursework can eliminateengineering as a potential career path[1]. Bradley University has developed new summer campprogram designed to attract students to engineering and to interest students in taking high schoolcourses needed to pursue engineering. The campers were members of underrepresented groupsselected with the input of representatives from local public schools and industry. The purpose ofthe camp, sponsored by the Society of

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malika Moutawakkil; Lisa Hunter; J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

half of all studentsthat are traditionally underrepresented in STEM. Women accounted for 57% of total enrollmentin two-year colleges in 1997. 5, 10 Women earned 32% of the total associate’s degrees in STEMnationwide in 1998. However, they earned only 15% of those awarded in engineering andengineering technologies.5 Fifty-four percent of Hispanic undergraduates in 1996 were enrolledin two-year colleges, as were 52% of American Indian undergraduates, 46% of AfricanAmericans, 45% of Asians, and 42% of whites in higher education. 3, 5, 10 Over 35% of URMgraduating with a bachelor’s degree in STEM began their college careers at two-year colleges.1Of persons who earned STEM bachelor’s degrees in 1995 and 1996, 12% of Asians, 11% ofAfrican Americans

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

associate or resource person in K-12 orundergraduate engineering courses can provide solid information and educational materials onnuclear science and technology. He or she may even inspire some of the students to choose thatfield of study. At the same time, the nuclear engineering student can benefit from spending timewith people who do not automatically accept nuclear science and technology as being beneficial.Learning how the general public thinks about radiation, nuclear power, nuclear waste, etc.prepares a nuclear engineer for dealing with the public in his or her professional career – a skillthat many nuclear engineers have lacked in the past.Scholarships and FellowshipsScholarships and fellowships are available from a variety of sources and

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

NSF-sponsored SUCCEED (SoutheasternUniversities and Colleges Coalition for Engineering EDucation) Coalition, the EntrepreneursProgram aims to retain student interest in engineering by exposing undergraduate students to thedesign process early in their academic careers and by providing upper class students as mentors.Secondly, it seeks to teach students “real-world” skills such as teamwork, leadership, and thedynamics of entrepreneurship.Multiple approaches to assessment—qualitative means such as surveys and focus groups as wellas quantitative methods such as longitudinal assessment of retention and GPA—triangulate on thebenefit of the program. The design of program is discussed, so that it may serve as a modelprogram. This model should be of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. Hutzel

, ventilating,and air conditioning equipment. In the near future, continuing education short courses areexpected to help this facility become nearly self-sufficient.Laboratory development is never completeFacilities engineering has become an important career option for many Technology students.The continuing boom in industrial and commercial construction has helped create a strongdemand for technicians who operate and maintain mechanical systems in modern commercialbuildings. In fact, a recent report published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineersshows that facilities engineering will be one of the fastest growing technical careers over the nextten years.1Maintaining a modern heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) laboratory for

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott D. Baldwin

career. It is almost an even greater certainty that the code they develop will beused again or modified at a later date. It has been shown that 40 to 60% of all code is reusablefrom one application to another, 60% of the design and code in all business applications isreusable, 75% of the program functionality is common to more than one program, and only 15%of the code is unique to a specific application1.Reuse and maintenance of code typically means code modification. The modification may ormay not be minor in scope. But with today’s dynamic employment market, we can expect thatthe individual modifying the code did not originally write the code and will therefore have torediscover the architecture of the system2. With an expected shortfall of 1

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry

in electrical and computer engineering (ECE), mechanical engineering (MEC), andengineering (EGR). (The engineering major allows students the flexibility to pursue aconcentration that can be either of an interdisciplinary nature within engineering, or can be in asubject outside of engineering but which supports some well-defined career goal of the student.)The course is team taught by two, and sometimes three, engineering faculty members, with atleast one faculty member from each of mechanical engineering and electrical and computerengineering. (This same staffing arrangement also applies to the senior engineering designcourse.) Enrollment is typically about 30 students in the fall semester and 15 students in thespring semester.III. Design

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Linda Head

at early educational levels.One likely explanation that is often overlooked is the relative lack of comfort many women feelaround mechanical equipment, especially machine tools. Since much of traditional mechanicalengineering involves the design and prototyping of mechanical equipment, this lack of comfortmay manifest itself in the decision by women not to pursue mechanical engineering as a career.23In contrast, many young men are raised in an environment where familiarity with tools andmachinery is expected. In a design-intensive environment such as Rowan, a lack of prototypingexperience greatly diminishes a student’s educational experience. It is through prototyping, or“seeing what works,” that students become mature designers.One Possible

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg L. Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Ben Mason, University of California, Berkeley; Nicholas W. Trombetta, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

Level Coursework Skills Experience (GPA) Experience Student1 JR 3 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2 pt 3 pt Student2 SR 2 pt 1 pt 3 pt 2 pt 2 pt Student3 SR 2 pt 2 pt 3 pt 2 pt 3 pt Student4 JR 2 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 2 pt Student5 SR 2 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 ptSummarized in Table 6 are short-term career goals for the five undergraduate students, asunderstood before and after

Conference Session

Poster Sessions for Unit Operations Lab Bazaar and Tenure-Track Faculty

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deniz Rende, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Nihat Baysal, Yeditepe University; Sevinc Rende, Isik University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. This study describes how in three consecutive courses, we preserve academicrigor of the UOL course while incorporating components such as experimental design, projectdevelopment and teamwork, which aim to meet the needs of professional careers. We follow upthe course outcomes with a survey targeting the graduates of the program. The results show thatgraduates employed in industry frequently rely on these skills during job interviews, research andproduct development, whereas those who pursue advanced degrees in academia use these skillspredominantly for their research, highlighting the need for adaptive approach for differentgraduate trajectories in designing the course. For both groups of graduates, the skills introducedduring the UOL courses

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik N. Dunmire, College of Marin; Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Kate A. Disney, Mission College, Santa Clara

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

2R = Recommended X = Required choose one combined course3 4 5 Careers/soft skills Design specialized Intro to Civil only6 7 specialized Civil Materials course only microelectronic circuits*Data obtained

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention of Women I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Ayre, University of South Australia; Julie E. Mills, University of South Australia; Judith Gill, University of South Australia

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

: REFLECTIONS ON A COHORT OF ‘STAYERS’ IN CIVIL ENGINEERINGAbstractSeveral reports of the disappointing numbers of women who leave the engineering professionwithin 10 or so years after graduation in a range of western economies have been released inrecent years. This paper reports on a recent study of the careers of all female graduates from civilengineering at an Australian technical university which found that a much higher proportion ofthem had remained in the profession than would be expected from these reports. It found thatdespite the cohort reporting higher rates of parental and other care responsibilities than typicallyfound in engineering women, the group were more satisfied with their workplaces and jobs as awhole than the

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scarlett R. Miller, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Brian P. Bailey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Alex Kirlik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-4614: TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OBJECTIVEASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE FOR USE IN ENGINEERING DESIGN ED-UCATIONDr. Scarlett R. Miller, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Scarlett Miller is an Assistant Professor of engineering design and industrial engineering at the Pennsylva- nia State University where she holds the James F. Will Career Development Professorship. She received her Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Illinois and her M.S. and B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Nebraska.Prof. Brian P. Bailey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Brian Bailey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Univeristy of Illi- nois, Urbana

Conference Session

Ethics Education, Global Health, and Outreach in BME

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

currently pursues educational research activities, with the ultimate goal of optimizing bioengineering curriculum design and student learning outcomes. Page 25.1409.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Use of Case Studies and a Systematic Analysis Tool to Engage Undergraduate Bioengineering Students in Ethics EducationAbstractIn addition to developing technical skills, engineering undergraduates must also be prepared tonavigate the ethical issues they will encounter during their professional careers. Inbioengineering in particular, students must be prepared to identify

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Singli Garcia-Otero, Virginia State University; Eshsan O. Sheybani, Virginia State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

1787, it is associated with the United Methodist Church, and offers three Associate degrees toits graduates: Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Science in Business.The school has an enrollment of approximately 700 students, including 70% African American.Due to very limited advanced research opportunities for minorities in HBCUs, there is a scarcityof underrepresented minority engineers and scientists pursuing successful research careers inSTEM. A serious national shortage of well-trained underrepresented minority engineers andscientists exits. Well-trained underrepresented minority engineers and scientists can conductindependent engineering research, can focus research on the disproportionate lack of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Hank Regis; Gaby Hawat

that there still exists a major shortfall in the supply and demand equation forengineers in the American workforce, particularly with software/hardware engineers as part of anationwide shortage of technical talent in general. Virtually all technical sectors currently have astrong demand for engineers1. Valencia Community College is responding to a strong need forgraduating engineers by providing the fundamental engineering classes needed for allengineering programs such as Engineering Analysis-Statics, Engineering Analysis-Dynamics,Probability & Statistics for Engineers, Principles of Electrical Engineering. In addition Valenciaprovides an “Introduction to the Engineering Profession” class, designed to assist students withtheir career

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard J. Kee; Riad Al Akkad

have proven to beeffective for his institution.Over the past five years, the School of Engineering at The University of Dayton has developed amulti-faceted program for first-year engineering students, a program that proves to be gaining asignificant increase in retention. This integrated plan includes two different means of assistancemade available to all first-year students, collaborative learning workshops and specializedadvising. An introductory course in engineering design is a requirement for all first-year studentsand has proven to unfold the goals of the engineering discipline so that students gain clearerperception of their personal career goals. Additionally, two specialized programs orientedtowards special-admit students and minority

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey L. Ray

experience in their careers, lifelonglearning is essential for career success. The methodology also reinforces prior knowledgestudents have experienced during prerequisite courses and during their co-op experiences.Course DescriptionThe format of EGR 485/486 – Senior Engineering Project I and II is composed of one fifty-minute lecture period and a three-hour laboratory session per week. Lecture and lab sessionsmeet in a teambuilding classroom environment furnished with workgroup tables. The layout aidsin the facilitation of group exercises and discussions during both sessions. The lecture session isdedicated to presenting the underlying principles and discussion of the modules. The lab sessionis devoted to hands-on group exercises focused on the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey B. Connor; Richard Goff

. A total of eight activities wereused with the majority presented early in the semester. A description of the activities aswell as the goals of scaling up this program are in another paper, in this same session,authored by Goff and Connor.Study DesignA survey was given mid and at the end of the fall semester to all eight HO sections and16 TR sections at mid semester and 12 TR sections at the end of the semester. Allstudents rated the first five statements on a scale of one to five (1, strongly disagree; 5strongly agree) and responded to the sixth:1. The thought of a career in engineering is exciting2. I am learning in this class3. This class has helped me understand engineering4. This class is relevant5. This class is useful6. How many hours

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Beaufait

academicachievements encountered in these creative projects, three of the five undergraduate studentshave chosen to pursue higher education and are currently graduate (MS/ Ph.D.) students with theauthor. The fifth one has decided to be a graduate student after the completion of his BSMEdegree in 1998. In this paper, the author intends to unfold and describe a novel "creative projectmodel" and share his views on establishing effective avenues for undergraduate researchexperience which could benefit students, influence their future choice of careers, and benefitmanufacturing industries. Page 3.176.1 1I

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherra E. Kerns; Robert T. Nash; David V. Kerns

engineering students.Vanderbilt University’s Management of Technology Minor program of study is designed to provideour students the opportunity to gain a working knowledge of the fundamentals of business andengineering management. The program is open to students majoring in one of the traditionalundergraduate engineering programs offered within the Vanderbilt University School ofEngineering (VUSE). Approximately one-half of the students graduating from VUSE assume someform of management position within five years after graduation. Babcock’s 1989 study concludesthat "two-thirds of today's engineers will spend two-thirds of their careers as managers". Clearly,engineering programs have a responsibility to prepare their students for management and

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

housed together, take classes together, act in teams, network, and process elementsnecessary in the design activities of the graduated engineer in the real world.The importance of looking at freshmen as excited but sometimes poorly guided individuals willbe addressed. As Parker Palmer states "Everyone must be educated into a capacity forconnectedness." This connection of reality, academics, impressions, and misconceptions must beaddressed in order for the student to truly learn the material for a career in whatever branch ofengineering that they choose. A model for incorporating design into the total education of thestudent will be described. The presently offered course for residential option students will bedescribed in regard to the design

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

circumvented as not having a sufficient“benefit to cost/risk ratio.” When multiplied by hundreds or even thousands of new/youngfaculty in engineering and science, these lost/missed opportunities for true, lasting contributionsin “research, teaching and service” really add up. This is especially true since it is generallyaccepted that the first ten or so years of one’s technical career is the time of greatest creativity,energy, and, hence, potential contributions. In addition to these missed opportunities, the emphasis on quantity also compels theaverage new/young faculty to spend huge amounts of time (often up to 60-70 hours per week) inpursuit of such. Often one’s life is deliberately restructured to accommodate this “busy” work