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Preparing and Retaining Engineering Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prue Howard, Central Queensland University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

and the Deans Award for Teaching Excellence twice. Since 1994 her research has centred around engineering education, resulting in significant publications and grants. A major outcome of early grants was the evidence to introduce PBL initially as a philosophy, and then as the basis for the University's Carrick Award winning engineering programs. Since then she has been involved in research in the area of Safe Design and the transdisciplinary teaching of safe design. Research areas now include the development of identity and how this can impact on student learning. Page 14.970.1© American Society

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Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Raelyn Rediske, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Steve Ackerman, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sharon Dunwoody, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Graduate Studies

using a variety of strategies; unfortunately, the literature on the effectiveness ofthese approaches is sparse. We present assessment and evaluation results from a course, “InformalScience Education for Scientists: A Practicum,” taught to graduate students in science and engineering-related disciplines in Spring 2008. This course provides a structured framework and experiential learningon informal science education for the graduate student participants during a semester-long experience.The iterative nature of designing an effective informal science education product and the importance offront-end, formative and summative evaluation are stressed throughout the course. The emphasis is placedon having students use a scientific approach in the

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jin-Hwan Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

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Graduate Studies

require.Mentored Teaching Internship:The mentored teaching experience was designed based on the contract in Figure 2. My researchadvisor agreed to be my teaching mentor. The individualized mentored teaching experienceincluded teaching undergraduate and graduate classes, giving talks at research seminars, andmentoring students including beginning graduate students, undergraduate students for seniorprojects, one REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) student, and a high school studentfor the summer internship in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) atUC. Various methods for active learning, motivating students, problem-based active laboratorylearning, and peer tutoring were applied to mentor undergraduate students.Two upper

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OMCED Topics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manhar Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University; Ronald Yeung, University of California, Berkeley; Spyros Kinnas, University of Texas, Austin

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Ocean and Marine

systems. • Integration of research and education programs Page 14.686.3 • Summer internships for graduating seniors and rising seniors at NAVSEA, CISD, and naval industry, working on implementation of practical designs on future Navy crafts and ship systems. • Involvement of CISD personnel in selection and progress review of certain undergraduate senior design projects with the aim of bringing appropriate relevance to the projects. CISD involvement also serves to provide a recruiting conduit for Navy laboratories and the ship industry. The NNRNE program also facilitated funding of the projects. • Faculty

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Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

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Civil Engineering

goals by addressing concerns rather than simply trying to convince them to attend graduate school. A suggested timetable for the application process as well as general suggestions for enhancing applications and obtaining reference letters is provided.Each year research projects for the REU Site are designed to introduce undergraduates fromdiverse engineering and science backgrounds to “hands-on” structural engineering laboratory,field, and computer simulation research experiences. Six to nine engineering and scienceundergraduates are recruited through a national application process annually, with a special focuson women and underrepresented ethnic minorities. Teams of two or three students are guided ona research project by

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DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2009-2461: COMPUTER-AIDED PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTATION FORINSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENTS CLASSES IN ANUNDERGRADUATE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMJerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette JERRY K. KESKA, Ph.D. Dr. Keska is an Associate Professor and a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Although most of his professional experience is from academia, he has been employed in both the private sector (Copeland Corporation and Technicon Instruments Corporation) and in government laboratories (Pacific Northwest Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory). His primary research interests are in

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Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Constantine Tarawneh, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American; Hashim Mahdi, University of Texas, Pan American

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Minorities in Engineering

, and early warnings.2) ME Faculty will mentor students in areas and activities such as professional opportunities for students (internships, professional societies, co-ops, undergraduate student research and industry projects, design competitions, professional meetings, etc.),answer questions about career choices, encourage good habits (study habits, ethical behavior, healthy life, stress management techniques, search for any required professional help, etc), motivation (rewards of hard work, celebrate success, learn from failure, etc.), building a relationship (personal accountability, showing that we care, etc.), financial aid/scholarships, and selection of technical electives appropriate to student interest and career goals3

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Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthias Lang, University of Texas, Austin; Dinesh Rabindran, University of Texas, Austin; Tricia Berry, University of Texas, Austin

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Mechanical Engineering

. Provide effective mentoring, career development and teaching opportunities for graduate students in engineering5. Impart social responsibility to participants to give back through WEP to encourage others to pursue engineering in college or to pursue engineering graduate schoolGLUE targets second and third year undergraduate women and second year and beyond graduatewomen. GLUE was founded by the Women in Engineering Program at UT Austin and isfacilitated with support from engineering faculty and the Associate Dean for Student Affairs.In a paper that specifically focuses on one of the GLUE participants, Rabindran and Berry3evaluate the impact of undergraduate research on the retention of students in the discipline ofengineering and the

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Capstone Design I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Thuriya Rajkumar, University of Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

liaisons and feedback from many faculty project mentors, a “how-to”guide was developed as a resource for liaison engineers. This guide includes an overview of theIntegrated Product and Process Design program, roles and responsibilities for variousstakeholders, a collection of best practices, and a frequently asked questions section.A checklist for faculty project mentors was developed as a companion to the liaison engineer’sguide. This checklist helps to build rapport between the faculty mentor and the liaison engineer,and informs the liaison engineer about the Integrated Product and Process Design programmilestones, travel dates, and available resources.1. IntroductionThe Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program1-4 is an innovative

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tony Mitchell, North Carolina State University; Robyn Fillinger, North Carolina State University; Marcia Williams, North Carolina A&T State University

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Graduate Studies

past performance atthe designated graduate institutional site of retaining, graduating, and placing significantnumbers of LSAMP graduates into doctoral-degree programs. A plan for formally connecting asignificant number of newly matriculated LSAMP students, including master's degree graduates,to doctoral degree programs is expected.Successful projects must demonstrate substantive and formal connection to other NSF-fundedprograms, such as CREST, NSF research centers, Integrative Graduate Education and ResearchTraining Program (IGERT), Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education Program (GK-12),and AGEP. Successful BD projects must ensure that a substantive number of first year BD

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Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cameron Denson, Utah State University; Nathan Mentzer, Utah State University; Jodi Cullum, Utah State University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2009-1678: HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS ENGINEERING DESIGN LESSONPLANNING THROUGH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTCameron Denson, Utah State University Cameron Denson is a post doctoral research associate for the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education at Utah State University. He earned a Ph.D. in occupational studies from the University of Georgia. His research interests include diversity initiatives and increasing student self-efficacy in science and math through infusing engineering design into 9-12 technology education. Previously, he was a middle school technology educator in North Carolina, active in the community activism and grassroots initiatives.Nathan Mentzer, Utah State University

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Issues of Persistence in Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Ohland, Purdue University; Michelle Camacho, University of San Diego; Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Russell Long, Purdue University; Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Mara Wasburn, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

departure from engineering.What does this mean for engineering education and for the rest of higher education? Wheneight-semester persistence is studied as an academic outcome, caution should be taken wheninterpreting results. Further, if the research and the dataset permit, six-year graduation should beused directly, rather than any persistence measures used to approximate it. The comparison ofboth outcomes in Figure 2 reveals additional information about the experience of a population.We anticipate future work that will explore these issues in a way that disaggregates race andgender, requiring a more complicated graph design. Differences by discipline and with time arealso relevant and will begin to emerge from this work. Future research could

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Educational Research

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University; Philip Harding, Oregon State University; Edith Gummer, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2009-1286: COMPARISON OF STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF VIRTUAL ANDPHYSICAL LABORATORIESMilo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He currently has research activity in areas related to thin film materials processing and engineering education. He is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. Dr. Koretsky is a six-time Intel Faculty Fellow and has won awards for his work in engineering education at the university and national levels.Christine Kelly, Oregon State University Christine Kelly

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Engineering Management Program Design

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Raper, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Susan Murray, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Christa Weisbrook, Missouri University of Science and Technology; William Daughton, University of Missouri

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Engineering Management

that our students could be better prepared for future success.This enabled serious deliberation to occur through first an ad-hoc committee, followed by thenormal curriculum committee, and subsequently approved according to normal departmentprotocol. The process also ensured that all EM graduates would receive more than the minimumhours in engineering and design credit. The revised core eliminated the potential for an ABETevaluator to question the minimum requirements. Courses that were added to the core clearlyincluded engineering content. The senior design capstone course also added engineering contentand met the strict requirements required by ABET.The ad-hoc committee was a small subgroup that had more in depth knowledge of ABETcurriculum

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Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erich Schneider, University of Texas, Austin; Steven Biegalski, University of Texas, Austin; David Hearnsberger, University of Texas, Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas, Austin

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Nuclear and Radiological

over the next decade and a half. Operational and support staffingrequirements for these new plants will be considerable: it has been estimated that ademand for tens of thousands of engineers working in nuclear-related disciplines willdevelop1. Of more pressing concern is the design, engineering, licensing and regulatorywork needed to bring these plans to fruition. Demand for skilled employees in theseareas is affecting a profound and immediate impact on the nuclear job market.Three examples serve to illustrate the pressing need for young talent at the outset of thepathway to the nuclear renaissance. Westinghouse Electric, a major reactor vendor andprovider of operational support services, has publicized its need for 500 trained engineersper

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Computer Education Innovations

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Lesko, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University

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Computers in Education

AC 2009-1244: DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR VIRTUAL-CLASSROOM ANDLABORATORY ENVIRONMENTSCharles Lesko, East Carolina University Charles Lesko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology Systems, College of Technology & Computer Science at East Carolina University. He received his BS at the US Naval Academy; he holds a MS in Forensics from National University and a second MS in Computer Information Systems from Boston University; his PhD is in Applied Management from Walden University. His current teaching and research regime focus on strategic technology management and communication, information technology project management, and virtual reality technology use in the

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Liberal Education and Leadership

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Liberal Education

AC 2009-1610: COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGY IN THE ENGINEERINGCLASSROOM: A REPORT ON FACULTY PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONSJulia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. Her articles on writing assessment, electronic portfolios, ABET, and tablet PCs have appeared in the Technical Communication Quarterly, Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, The International Journal of Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education, and The Impact of Tablet PCs and Pen

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Design for Society and the Environment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Reichle, Old Dominion University; Avery Bang, University of Colorado; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University

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Design in Engineering Education

B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and a M.S. in Civil Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. She is also a LEED AP. Page 14.790.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 International Service Learning Projects for Senior Capstone ProjectsAbstractService learning is being adopted in many engineering programs at various course levels.International service learning experiences can provide senior level engineering students withopportunities to practice the required skills of engineering graduates as detailed by the ABETCriteria for Accrediting

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ERM Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Snyder, Taylor University; Elise Romines, Taylor University; Rachel Dodge, Taylor University; Jason Kruegar, Taylor University; Travis Booth, Taylor University; Josh Gates, Taylor University

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Educational Research and Methods

investigation.IntroductionIntroduction of Problem The problem addressed in this research investigation was the creation of a program thatengaged students in science, the development of instruments to assess the program gains ofstudents, to assess the quality of this program, and support other institutions in applying thisprogram to have a more significant impact on the education of students. This article describesthe first three objectives of the answer to this problem forming the foundation for the laterobjective of generalizing the program and assessing the gains of institution over time.Relevance of Program The U.S. falling behind in the area of science and technology compared to othercountries is a legitimate concern. Motivating undergraduates to enter

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Manufacturing Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy Li, University of Bridgeport

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Manufacturing

AC 2009-346: NEW GRADUATE COURSES DESIGNED TO PRODUCEENGINEERS TO FACE THE CHALLENGING MODERN INDUSTRYJeremy Li, University of Bridgeport Page 14.906.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 New Graduate Courses Designed to Promote Future Engineers to Face the Modern Challenging IndustryAbstractToday’s strong global industrial competition requires our future engineers to have theability to work in challenging and new industrial environment. It requires our studentsand future engineers to have the solid technical knowledge, strong leadership and bettercommunication skills. Because a number of advanced industrial knowledge has not beenincluded in the

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Dan Bumblauskas

emerged over the past decade which allowsfaculty and students to collaborate across great distances. Universities around the world havedeveloped programs aimed at serving domestic and global educational markets. Some of theseuniversities have been leaders in online education and created best-in-class programs. There arechallenges and benefits associated with online distance teaching arrangements. Examples areprovided from the personal experiences of a hybrid graduate student who has taken on-campusand off-campus courses and conducted research remotely.IntroductionBrick-and-mortar educational institutions have long been associated with traditional engineeringeducational degree and continuing professional education programs. Over the past decade

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ERM Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh; Laura Lund, University of Pittsburgh

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Educational Research and Methods

? THE VALUE FOR STUDENTSBased on our experiences, and student surveys and reflections from the students participating inthe course, we found the students top learning experiences were the challenges of functioning ina team environment, the need to learn how to communicate in a technical setting effectively witha client, and the positive feeling they had because of their impact on the community. The factthat their project was part of a service learning course served more to motivate the students andto make them aware of their ability to solve a problem of value to their community, comparedwith the value of the specific methods of engineering analysis or design learned to solve thevarious problems. Of course the principles of the design process

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla LoPiccolo; Amit Bandyopadhyay

Oregonrespectively, do not indicate sustainability within their online site planning course descriptions.Carnegie Mellon University (third ranking) - provides a sustainable design statement for theirwhole program: “Sustainable design rediscovers the social, environmental and technical valuesof pedestrian, mixed use communities, fully using existing infrastructures, including "mainstreets" and small town planning principles, and recapturing indoor-outdoor relationships.Sustainable design avoids the further thinning out of land use, the dislocated placement ofbuildings and functions.”University of Texas at Austin, (fourth ranking) - offers a graduate course titled “Topics inSustainable Development” which is orientated toward service learning: “This course is

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Best Zone Paper Competition

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Council of Sections

are.The Stevens research has already commenced with a pilot study. Once an accepted systems conceptinventory is available from the research, it will be incorporated into the assessment of the undergraduatesystems thread at Stevens to help support effective pedagogy in this challenging yet very important topicas it relates to preparing future engineers.Concluding RemarksThis paper has described how a compelling industry need has driven the development of graduate Page 14.994.7programs directed at practicing engineers and project managers in technology industries to educate themin a systems approach to design for product/process life

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Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Graduate Studies

Kinesthetic Mode = 5 Tactical- 3% Concrete Boylan, H. R. (2002). What Works: Research-Based Best Practices in Developmental Education. Boone, NC: National Center for Developmental Education. Sometimes, in engineering disciplines “Kinesthetic” and “Visual” may slightly overlap. In a laboratory setting, the students can actually “see and observe” certain operations when they “perform” experiments. See and observe may be interpreted as visual. Perform may be interpreted as Kinesthetic. Therefore, a

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Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amanda O'Neill, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Jessica McCormick, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Matthew Steinkamp, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Patricia Fox, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Rachel Meyer, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Steven Brown, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Brandon Medcalf, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Nathaniel Greene, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Graduate Studies

factors to be concerned with, thusstraight student responses are not a measure of effectiveness 4.Research MethodologyIn order to properly define students’ perceived shortcomings in the quality of classroom anddepartmental experiences, qualitative and quantitative research was conducted. Studentscurrently are given course outcome surveys to evaluate the material learned in a specific course.Valuable information impacting this issue is excluded from these surveys that can assist theinstitution in its educational practices. This research was conducted to determine where theorganization can enhance students’ overall academic experience.The researchers are students from various backgrounds in engineering and technology with aninterest in furthering

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New Trends in Graduate Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Descoteaux, Norwich University; David Muckerman, CH2M HIll; Scott Sabol, Vermont Technical College

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Graduate Studies

staff toprofitable use at periods outside of the traditional academic year. Norwich University’s Schoolof Graduate Studies’ annual Residency events provide just such a use for two weeks (two one-week sessions) each June.The “bricks and mortar” side of the University benefits from this activity in primarily two ways.Not only are residence halls, dining facilities, etc., generating revenue, but University supportstaff (e.g., food service, custodial, maintenance, etc.), which are often laid-off at the end of theacademic year, can be retained. In addition to the obvious benefits to the individual and thecommunity in which they reside, this practice can also build staff loyalty.An interesting aside to these summer activities are the additional

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Bahr, Washington State University

introduce students to an undergraduate researchenvironment at Washington State University, a rural residential land grant university. The courseruns the week after classes end, and consists of nine topics presented in half day module formats.The program has run since the summer of 2007, and has served 32 students as of fall 2008.Students from engineering and science majors from across campus were selected fromapplications solicited from primarily first year students, though the program also included firstyear transfer students. The paper will describe the modules, ranging from gaining library skillsto research based career options to finding an advisor and best practices for poster presentations.Students were provided a stipend for housing during

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Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Millman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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New Engineering Educators

research to communities beyond the laboratory and address the work’s possible“Broader Impacts” to society. NSF CAREER awards and many of the NSF Research Centergrant solicitations are even more explicit, requiring that grantees craft educational initiatives thatare based in best practices, bring the academic research to the broader community, and positivelyimpact the pipeline of students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM) education and careers. For new faculty, and even veteran faculty, these requirementsfor creative educational initiatives that significantly affect a community outside the confines ofthe laboratory can be very daunting. This paper addresses how to design an effective educationalplan that incorporates

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Measurement Tools

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; Matthew Verleger, Purdue University; Judith Zawojewski, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University

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Educational Research and Methods

Institute of Technology. She received a B.S.Ed. in Mathematics and Education at Northwestern University, a M.S.Ed in Mathematics Education from National College of Education, and a Ph.D. in Education at Northwestern University. Judith teaches mathematics education courses to practicing teachers and doctoral students. Her research interest is in the use models and modeling for the development of problem solving experiences as sites for research and assessment in the context of program improvement.Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University Margret Hjalmarson is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at George Mason University. She received a B.A. in Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College