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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

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Adnan Javed; Fazil Najafi

Document: 2004-2243Division: Emerging Trends in Engineering EducationPROFESSIONAL ENGINEER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMAT THE COUNTY LEVEL: SETTING HIGHER STANDARDSFOR ENGINEERING PRACTICE Adnan Javed1, Gary Downing, P.E.2, Thai Tran, P.E.3, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi41 Boyle Engineering/University of Florida, 2, 3 Sarasota County Government, 4 University of FloridaABSTRACTOne of the most important decisions a young engineer can make early in his/herengineering career is to place oneself on a professional course and becomelicensed as a professional engineer (P.E.). The profession regulates itself bysetting high standards for professional engineers, and by law, many jurisdictionsrequire

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zhanmin Zhang; Susan Tighe; Gerardo Flintsch; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

reason for the recentdecline in the number of North American students interested in pursuing careers in infrastructuremanagement. There was some disagreement about the real magnitude of the problem; however, Page 9.564.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringthere was consensus that the universities with the largest graduate programs in the field haveexperienced great difficulties in attracting domestic students. Two important points were raised: • There has been an overall decline in Civil

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Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Phillip Wankat

and summer programsinstead of a systematic reorganization of graduate education. Recent developments such aschanging ABET requirements and NSF education and CAREER grants have highlighted theimportance of formal training in pedagogy. Teaching, learning, and the scholarship of teachingand learning are central to the emerging discipline of engineering education. All engineeringprofessors can become effective and efficient teachers, assess student learning, and improveengineering education. And for professors interested in engineering education, this disciplinewill also provide a new career path.A Short HistoryThis short history is based on Grayson’s1 history of engineering education in the United Statesand Canada. Formal education in

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Wong; Stephanie Blaisdell; Paula Leventman; Anna Swan; Katherine Ziemer; Rachelle Reisberg

-stepengineering design process to create and test an orange juice concentration process. KateZiemer, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, developed this unit where students arechallenged to provide good-tasting orange juice to Boston Schools for $0.15 a glass. This unit isdesigned to be flexible enough to fit into any teacher’s current curriculum and is divided intoactivities that can be run independently of the entire unit. The entire unit takes approximatelyfour weeks to run from start to finish and each kit costs approximately $100.The goals of The Great Orange Squeeze unit are to: - Involve student interest in an enjoyable and equitable way - Build a connection between engineering careers and helping society - Illustrate as

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Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heidi Sherick

colleges and MSU-Bozeman dedicated to providing undergraduate research and scholarship opportunities for American Indian students in career fields of science, math and engineering. • Montana Apprenticeship Program (MAP): MAP is a summer academic enhancement program designed for American Indian juniors and seniors in high school. MAP has been running for 22 years and has hosted over 300 students from all over the U.S. MAP is a six- week program that provides pre-college academic preparation, and offers students experience in a scientific-research laboratory. Eighty percent of students from MAP enter college. • American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES): The AISES student chapter at MSU was chartered

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The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Roth

. Page 9.800.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education TABLE 1 Equivalent Course Outcomes For Capstone Project Course and Internship Course (Outcome 1 is modified to be appropriate to the particular course) 1. (Capstone project) Realize the importance of a vigorous and continued effort to search for employment throughout my senior year. (Internship) Realize the importance of Professionalism in the workplace; that is, career development of you and your colleagues, remaining

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Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

A Self Assessment of Computer Science Education in a Chemical Engineering Curriculum William Josephson, K.C. Kwon & Nader Vahdat Chemical Engineering Department / CEAPS Tuskegee University Tuskegee, Alabama 36088AbstractThe Department of Chemical Engineering at Tuskegee University (T.U.) regularly reviews itsundergraduate curriculum to ensure that it fulfills the department’s objective of providinggraduates with the skills necessary to begin a career in chemical engineering. Department facultyrecently assessed the status of computer science education within the curriculum

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

, teaching is an important aspect of the faculty career. Providing engineeringgraduate students with opportunities to focus on teaching is one way to prepare future faculty fortheir faculty career (also a widely accepted national goal). In this paper, we focus on a programwe have created that addresses these two observations.This program, the Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program, is devoted to helping engineeringgraduate students advance their teaching ability. The Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program(ETPP) is only one of many efforts of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for theAdvancement of Engineering Education (CAEE). The ETPP is the primary program throughwhich the CAEE achieves one of the primary goals of the National Science

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

experience in the classroom as apracticing teacher, and then came to the university to pursue their Ph.D. As faculty, they havedeveloped their careers around a primary mission of working with pre-service teachers who aregoing to go into the K-12 classroom and/or in-service teachers who are working in K-12classrooms. As a result, education research done by faculty in schools of education tends tofocus on the problems of teaching and learning in K-12 classrooms. While research conducted inschools of education is potentially useful for those who teach in the elementary, middle and highschools in the U.S. and abroad, it does not necessarily address the problems that faculty facewhen teaching sophisticated topics in science, engineering, and mathematics

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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E. Hirleman

Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE) increases theeffectiveness of undergraduate engineering education in preparing engineers for careers in theglobal technical economy. The unique 18 month program developed at Purdue in partnershipwith Karlsruhe and Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities integrates: language education; culturalorientation; three month domestic and three month international internships at the same partnerfirm; study abroad; and a two semester face-to-face-, multinational design team project, with onesemester abroad and one at home. The program is bilateral, with nominally equal numbers ofstudents from each university participating in the paired exchanges. Curriculum articulation is

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

Session 2555 Development of Graduate Programs in Engineering Education Linda Katehi, Katherine Banks, Heidi Diefes-Dux, Deborah Follman, John Gaunt, Kamyar Haghighi, P.K. Imbrie, Robert Montgomery, William Oakes, and Phillip Wankat Purdue University, West Lafayette, INAbstractLong-term and sustainable engineering education reform requires a pipeline for educating futureengineering faculty and professionals interested in pursuing careers in K-12 teaching andadministration. Purdue University is evaluating the development of new M.S. and Ph.D. degreeprograms in

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Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Wangrow; Doug Tougaw

expertise is diverse enough to cover every area of emerging technology. Due to the geographic location of the university, it can also be difficult to hire adjunct and visiting faculty to teach part-time while continuing to pursue their engineering careers full-time. Thus, we have occasionally found ourselves in the position of knowing what needs to be taught but not having anyone who can teach it with the level of authority necessary to prepare students for a professional career in that field. 2. The Genesis of a New Course In Spring 2003, as part of the preparation of a departmental strategic plan, the department faculty and its Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) identified “wireless communications” as a key field in which our graduates are likely

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Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lori M. Bruce; J.W. Bruce

effective time and task management, coupled with professionalnetworking, to help a new engineering faculty member navigate their careers along a path tosuccess.1 IntroductionOne of the greatest challenges associated with transitioning into a position, as a new engineeringprofessor is the challenge of time and task management. Rather than having two to three tasks atany given time, the new professor is likely to have eight to ten tasks that need addressing withina given workday. In Reis’s interviews with over 70 faculty members, he found that all werechallenged to find creative ways to manage the large number of tasks on their “plates”, that iscomplete them, do them well, and still find time to sit, think, and plan [1]. A second, and oftenequally

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Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michel Reece; Carl White

Development of a New Integrated Student Agency toIncrease the Number of Minorities with Advanced Degrees in Engineering: ATMO Michel A. Reece, Carl White, Member, ASEE Center of Advanced Microwave Research and Applications (CAMRA), Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, 21239, US ABSTRACTATMO which stands for Academic, Training and Career Management Office within theCenter of Advanced Microwave Research and Applications (CAMRA) is a new studentagency developed at Morgan State University (MSU) whose goal is to integrate researchand training into an academic curriculum to help increase the number of minorities toobtain advanced degrees

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Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Beth Lakin; Gary Crossman

portfolios todocument their experiences and to assist them in career development and promotion. In theuniversity setting, portfolios are used to assess learning during a student’s academic career andare often used as tools for gaining entry-level positions. Trends point to the integrated use ofportfolios in both university and workplace settings as tools for lifelong education. Not only isthe portfolio an instrument for assessing what one has learned and applied, but also a means forsetting future learning goals. Building a portfolio requires the student/employee to increase hisor her awareness of strengths and gaps and promotes taking responsibility for continuedprofessional development in the workplace (Stewart, 2000). A typical

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Dillard

their own motor drives.Some designs have more current drive than others affecting speed. Thus, each team musttune their system to find a reasonable compromise between straight-line speed andintersection turning.Results and Assessments Two assessment surveys were administered to 23 students during the semester to gaugestudent performance and attitudes under the new course structure. The first survey targetedthe student’s perception of the their preparedness for an embedded systems laboratory andtheir careers. The data for seven very revealing questions are listed in Table 5. We found Page 9.1071.5students to be much more confident about

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Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

noconnection to those upper level courses is provided. Within an educational mode that may seemto be the correct way to prepare students; but when carefully analyzed, that singular focus of thecurriculum may be incomplete. Most will agree that it is necessary to pique the interest ofstudents in their future careers with material that is significantly important within that career. It isnot enough to simply require courses that do not present specific connections to the future majorsand hope that these same students will continue in the engineering programs. It is with thatthought in mind that a new component of the Residential Option for Science and EngineeringStudents (ROSES) course was initiated in Michigan State University’s College of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thomas; Carolyn Skurla; Walter Bradley

Teaching Freshman Engineering Using Design Projects and Laboratory Exercises to Increase Retention Carolyn Skurla, Brian Thomas, Walter L. Bradley, Baylor UniversityIntroductionThe primary goal of the freshman engineering course at Baylor University is to help students toappreciate the exciting career possibilities that a degree in engineering will provide them.Obviously this can be accomplished with descriptions of what engineers do, including interestingvideos and speakers from industry; however, we believe that the best way for students tounderstand what engineers actually do is to give them the opportunity to practice engineering.The analogy to

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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

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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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

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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

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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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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Ester B. Johnson

students from thesecounties.To state that work is needed in the area of recruitment is an understatement. Strides arebeing made, but much more is needed. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee andother institutions expend a significant amount of time examining factors that attribute tothe success of students that includes recruitment, retention, and survival skills and/or 3techniques. Research has shown that recruitment is a key component of attractingstudents, but recruitment alone is not enough. Studies have shown that recruitingStudents of Color into engineering is multifaceted. The community and or families mustbe educated as to what a career in

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Debra Ricci; Arnold Weimerskirch

. Paul, Minneapolis, and Owatonna, Minnesota and in Rome. UST isMinnesota’s largest private educational institution. The University integrates liberal artseducation and career preparation, emphasizing values necessary for complete human Page 9.220.1development and responsible citizenship in contemporary society. UST provides qualityProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationeducation through an integration of theory and practice, enhancing students’ professionalcompetence and ethical judgment, and

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ward

career options that use mathand science, to provide an introduction to the profession of engineering, and to provide positivefemale role models.The camp is limited to 48 girls, 6 groups of 8. The camp is multidisciplinary with universityfaculty from the areas of civil, computer, electrical, and mechanical engineering, physics,biology, chemistry, technology and math all taking part as instructors for the many workshops.Because of our strong Pharmacy College, a pharmacy workshop has also been added. Each ofthe days is full, starting with their first workshop at 8 am, immediately after breakfast, andusually ending at 10 pm with recreation or speakers in the evenings. Each workshop typicallyruns 1 hour, but some are scheduled for one and one-half

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Novel Courses for ChEs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Dickson

current industry specific technicalsubject material in their programme.However, as part of ongoing course review procedures, three factors influenced afurther change of course delivery: • Recognition that school leavers have an incomplete view of how a course in chemical engineering will lead to a career in the process industries. • Feedback from graduating students on their performance at job interviews. • End-of-year course assessment suggesting limited choices of optional modules in year five.As a result of this process, two new modules have been introduced into the degreeprogramme • A second year class in “Business Management Practices”. • A fifth year (for MEng students) class in “General and Strategic

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Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt

. A large body of research hasaccumulated examining social cognitive variables, especially self-efficacy, in relation to variousaspects of academic and career-relevant behavior. Social cognitive career theory (SCCT)2 wasdeveloped a decade ago to help organize and lend direction to this inquiry. SCCT was designedto explain the processes through which people develop educational and career interests, translatetheir interests into occupationally-relevant choices, and achieve varying levels of performanceand persistence in academic and work domains. Research findings have consistently supportedthe theory’s utility in predicting the academic choice and performance behavior of students inscience, math, and engineering fields3.While social cognitive

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Merredith Portsmore; Kaitlyn Conroy; Melissa Pickering; Emily Ryan; Brian Gravel

show these traditional pedagogical methods are ineffective at pulling womeninto the field.The work of Tobias (1990) identifies problems for women such as too narrow a focus, a lack ofapplication, and missing context [3]. Rosser (1990) suggests a number of inclusionary methodsfor teaching science, math, and engineering that include connecting women’s life experiences tothe subject matter, exploring fewer military problems and more problems “of social concern,”and describing the global, holistic contexts of problems being solved in class, usinginterdisciplinary and interactive approaches to teaching [4]. Previous work suggests that women(and many men) may benefit from seeing explicitly how engineering can be used in careers thatare personally

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The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joni Spurlin; Susan Grant; Jo-Ann Cohen; Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley; Sarah Rajala

surveys, concept mapping Meet women with common Conduct focus groups semi-annuallyinterests & build lasting friendships Increase self awareness through Administer gender identity instrument acknowledging personal strengths (BEM Sex Role Inventory) and weaknesses Administer Felder’s Learning Style Tool Explore career and personal goals Ongoing through workshops, journaling, concept mapping Develop leadership skills Administer Skills Leadership Inventory (pre- and post-)Maintain balance between academic Utilize calendar tools to plan time; compare actual and personal life

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Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dawei Wu; Chunyan Wu; Aditya Dikshit; Weizhao Zhao

. These visits are not pure observations, insteadstudents are facing professors or technicians who give lectures and communicating withprofessional medical imaging experts directly. Students can also make use of these opportunitiesto seek for their senior design projects or even their career direction. Pictures on next pagerecord these activities. Students in clinical laboratories (Department of Radiation Oncology)listened to a professor’s lecture about the principles of CT and therapeutic electronic accelerator(left panel). A professor in the Department of Radiology opened a MRI machine’s cover toshow students the structure of the magnetic coil when he gave lecture about MRI machine’sprinciple and setup (middle panel). Students in a research