Conference Session

First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

beginning ofcollege, generally believed they knew everything there was to know about college. As aconsequence many of these entering engineer freshmen did not put in the time to learn thematerial in their classes until they hit the first quizzes or midterm and suddenly realized that theyhave a lot of learning to make up to be on top of the class material.After the first two years of the Academic Success Program, the evaluations reflected a deficiencyin the program. The students reported that the Academic Success class did not help them withtheir academics. The students had not learned or been inspired by the time management helps,nor a series of videos on “How to get an A”, to take the time to learn the class material. Thestudents, in general, did

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac Wait, Marshall University; Andrew Nichols, Marshall University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

and non-attendees with TOEFL score < 540, and differences wereanalyzed by two-way crosstabulation (chi-squared analysis).Of the five learning activities, females indicated significantly higher rates of printing notesprovided by the instructor (73.6% of females, compared to 62.3% of males; p=0.03) and takingtheir own handwritten notes during class lectures (81.1% of females, compared to 67.6% ofmales; p<0.01). These elevated study habit tendencies may be reflections of the core reasons thatfemale students experience greater academic achievement than male students. Differencesbetween male and female students in attending class lectures, working together with otherstudents on homework assignments, and reading textbooks were not

Conference Session

History of Aerospace Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Eberhardt, Boeing Company; Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

rival and collaborator the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklynxi. The collaborativerelationship proved important, when in 1973, NYU decided to eliminate its engineeringprogram. This decision was not a reflection on the programs in engineering, but rather apoorly conceived notion about the future of engineering in an economic downturn, by theUniversity’s administration. Most of the faculty and labs were transferred over to thePolytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and the name was changed to the Polytechnic Instituteof New York (PINY). NYU, the first Guggenheim School, became the only program tofail to continue to the present day. However, a perceived need by NYU to reengage inengineering has led to the transferring of PINY to NYU being given the

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

process. Arguably, this process is a large part of engineering, but it’s not the whole picture.≠ Bailey and Gainsberg: One limitation of this study is that it does not encourage engineers to significantly reflect on their practice and why they do certain things, it is more objective. The voice of engineers does not significantly appear to factor in. The study does not aim to suggest improvements to the education of engineers; it simply reports that engineers learn some things in a university setting and some through practice. It does not question those norms.≠ Collin’s work is mainly limited in scope, just considering workplace learning in Finland.≠ A limitation of the study of Korte, et al., is that it just focused on new engineers. It did use

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma; randa shehab, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

National Science Foundation's Directorate ofUndergraduate Education's STEM Talent Expansion Program Grant No. DUE-0431642. Anyopinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.The authors wish to acknowledge the other team members instrumental in planning andexecuting the data collection and processing: Susan E. Walden, Jeanette Davidson, DeborahTrytten, Teri J. Murphy, and Teri Reed-Rhoads; current and former senior personnel - RosaCintron, Paul Rocha, Francey Freeman, Lisa Schmidt, Kimberly Rutland, Tony Lee, MayraOlivares, and Claudia Morales; current and former graduate and undergraduate students - TiffanyDavis

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Ranjan K. Sen; Pradip Peter Dey

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Kenneth Simonson, University of Cincinnati; Kathleen Johnson, University of Cincinnati; Latiera Evans, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

there will always be positions for them. Thus, engineering education will also bechanging, with more emphasis on graduate education, as outlined in a recently released series ofreports by the National Academy of Engineering [30]. Educators recognize that undergraduateresearch motivates students to apply for graduate school, and underrepresented groups mustbecome an integral part of such a technical workforce. However, underrepresented collegestudents do not reflect their numbers in the U.S. population (51% women, 12.1% AfricanAmericans, and 12.5% Hispanics [27, 28, 31]). A recent National Academies report [32]recommends: “Increasing participation of underrepresented minorities is critical to ensuring ahigh quality supply of scientists and

Conference Session

Develop Course / Materials / Topics for a Global Engineering Education / International Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

International

. With thisin mind, it becomes clear that disciplinary content mastery can not and should not be divorcedfrom mastery of the discipline’s rhetoric. Thus, “interactive socialization” is crucial in helpinggraduate assistants construct the agency that is important for them to become innovativeresearchers and more “reflective, confident and self-directed” as adult learners.68, 69So, while students and faculty of science and engineering with differing native languages havethe ability to converse in highly constrained mathematical and technical languages, they alsoneed to have the ability to describe their inspirations and intuitions, as well as explainconnections they might have to other experiences in their unique pasts. When the participants insuch

Conference Session

Mathematics: Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida; Cherie Geiger, University of Central Florida; Scott Hagen, University of Central Florida; Chris Parkinson, University of Central Florida; Alison Morrison-Shetlar, University of Central Florida; Tace Crouse, University of Central Florida; Paula Krist, University of Central Florida; Pat Lancey, University of Central Florida; Melissa Dagley-Falls, University of Central Florida; Pat Ramsey, University of Central Florida; Dahlia Forde, University of Central Florida; Anna Koufakou, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

, Institutionalization and Outreach, and Social Activities) meet asfrequently as needed. The name of a committee reflects the responsibilities assigned to each oneof the committees.The EXCEL program has two Directors (Dr. Georgiopoulos from the School of ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science, and Dr. Young from the Department of Mathematics).Furthermore, the EXCEL program has four program Coordinators: Dr. Hagen fromCivil/Environmental Engineering, Dr. Geiger from Chemistry Department, Dr. Islas from theMath Department, and Dr Parkinson from the Department of Biology. The Directors of the Page 14.985.9EXCEL program supervise and coordinate all of the

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University; Josh Loukus, Michigan Technological University; Jason Dreyer, Michigan Technological University; Steve Chenoweth, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Monika Lumsdaine, E&M Lumsdaine Solar Consultants, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Conference Session

Thinking, Reasoning, and Engineering in Elementary School

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Molly Bolger, Vanderbilt University; Marta Kobiela, Vanderbilt University; Paul Weinberg, Vanderbilt University; Richard Lehrer, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering