Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian W. Anthony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David E. Hardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing

essential components and growth opportunities of thefoundation - manufacturing and innovation - of an economy.There are many indicators of the decline of manufacturing in the US, most of them economic.One troubling indicator is the persistent lack of interest in careers in this field, particularly at thecollegiate and post-graduate level. While there are continual calls for better labor force trainingand government programs to support the same, there are actually disincentives for promisingyoung professionals to enter this field. Societal perception and industry needs seem to runcounter to one another. We propose that the MEngM can serve as one example of a newnational model for professional manufacturing engineering education. It can profoundly

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jumoke Ladeji-Osias; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; John Wheatland; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke

or career preparation and placement. The studentcommunity is cultivated through academic monitoring, mentoring, professional developmentand community building activities. Two kinds of mentoring relationships are encouraged; peermentoring between the graduate and undergraduate students and hierarchical mentoring betweenfaculty and graduate students to support community building, encourage academic excellenceand increase career preparation. The program involves two cohorts of approximately 11undergraduates each and five cohorts of about four graduate students each. In addition tofinancial need and citizenship criteria, other selection factors include academic performance,motivation, and calculus I enrollment (undergraduates).This paper will

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2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jumoke Ladeji-Osias; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; John Wheatland; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke

or career preparation and placement. The studentcommunity is cultivated through academic monitoring, mentoring, professional developmentand community building activities. Two kinds of mentoring relationships are encouraged; peermentoring between the graduate and undergraduate students and hierarchical mentoring betweenfaculty and graduate students to support community building, encourage academic excellenceand increase career preparation. The program involves two cohorts of approximately 11undergraduates each and five cohorts of about four graduate students each. In addition tofinancial need and citizenship criteria, other selection factors include academic performance,motivation, and calculus I enrollment (undergraduates).This paper will

Conference Session

Global Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph East, Michigan Technological University; Genevieve Gierke, Michigan Technological University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University

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Community Engagement Division

is responsible for its overall coordination and development. Her responsibilities include corporate sponsor- ship development, interdisciplinary program evaluation and assessment, and workshop/course instruction in the areas of teaming and leadership. She is also actively involved in coordination, curriculum devel- opment, assessment, and instruction in the Pavlis Global Leadership program. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Wayne State University and is currently working on her Ph.D. at Michigan Technological University. Before joining MTU, she held various engineering and management positions during a 15 year career in the automotive industry

Conference Session

Towards Global Competency for Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Patricia Fox, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Lynn G. Brown, The Boeing Company; Alan Jacobs, Education Market Business Development Consulting; Catherine Didion, National Academy of Engineering; Daniel R. Sayre, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Hans J. Hoyer, American Society for Engineering Education

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International

manufactur- ing and engineering related grants; and conference committee member of the National Career Pathways Network; as well as serving on a number of state and local boards and skills standards committees. Brown attended the University of Texas, Austin, for her Ph.D. work in higher educational administration, North- ern Arizona University for her M.A. in curriculum and assessment, and Arizona State University for her B.A. in secondary education - communications.Mr. Alan Jacobs, Education Market Business Development Consulting As a member of ASEE since 1994, Alan Jacobs has served the society in numerous leadership roles. He founded the ASEE Corporate Member Council (CMC) Special Interest Group (SIG) on International

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

David Kazmer; Katie Bardaro

standard error of the model is much less than the standard deviation of theobserved engineering salaries. The derived salary profile models are then used to evaluate the net present value(NPV) of engineering graduates from the 150 top-ranked engineering colleges. The NPV and model coefficients arethen regressed against the graduate’s college ranking and entry SAT scores. The results follow expectations, namelythat improved college rankings and SAT scores correlate with higher net present values of career earnings of $1,960per ranking point and $849 per SAT point. The models have also been used to evaluate internal rates of return onengineering educationKeywords: Human capital; internal rate of return; engineering education; college rankings

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laurie S. Garton, Texas Engineering Experiment Station

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New Engineering Educators

AC 2012-3702: GRANTSMANSHIP AND THE PROPOSAL DEVELOP-MENT PROCESS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SEVERAL YEARS OFPROGRAMS FOR JUNIOR FACULTYDr. Laurie S. Garton, Texas Engineering Experiment Station Laurie Garton is a Senior Research Development Associate with the Texas Engineering Experiment Sta- tion Office of Strategic Research Development. She has B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineer- ing (environmental) from Texas A&M University and was an engineering faculty member before joining TEES in 1999 where she started working on technical research project grants related to interdisciplinary environmental themes. Currently, she leads the TEES New Faculty Initiative targeting grants such as the NSF CAREER awards

Conference Session

Two-year Institutions Help Fill the STEM Pipeline

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Two Year College Division

such as computer literacy, teamwork, and critical thinking as well asstrong technical competencies in quality and process control, production philosophies includinglean, Just-In-Time, and integrated production systems in order to be successful in their careers.Not enough high school graduates consider an advanced manufacturing career as an option andare not aware of the skills needed to work in this environment. A survey by the NationalAssociation of Manufacturers stated that 80 percent of respondents reported a moderate toserious shortage of qualified job applicants3.It is obvious that the K-12 system does not providestudents with these skills or provide educational experience for them to be familiar withadvanced manufacturing career

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2012 EDI

Authors

S.K. Ramesh

University, Northridge has potential students who will receivereceived a five-year, $5.5 million" HSI STEM grant "toincrease underrepresented and low-income students in tutoring, mentoring, researchengineering, science and math." The piece notes that the opportunities, career advice and stipendsgoal of the ED HSI STEM Program is to "help students to help pay education costs. Faculty fromtransfer from area community colleges and thengraduate from CSUN with degrees in engineering or the three institutions will also collaboratecomputer science." on curriculum." The Times reported04/17/12 EDI 2012_Ramesh 6

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2012 ERC

Authors

Thomas W Peterson

, post-doc, CAREER) Supporting the best ideas and the best people Catalyzing Innovation Broadening participation OneNSFEngineering Prioritizes ResearchCritical to the Nation’s Challenges• National Priorities – National Nanotechnology Initiative – National Robotics Initiative• OneNSF Initiatives – Advanced Manufacturing – Communications and Cyberinfrastructure – Education and Workforce – Interdisciplinary Research – Sustainability and Clean Energy – Innovation Ecosystem6National Nanotechnology Initiative• The directorate will continue support for $174 M – nanomaterials and nanodevices – nanosystems – nanomanufacturing – environment, health, and safety• ENG will direct

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Onursal Onen, University of South Florida; Rasim Guldiken, University of South Florida

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Mechanical Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012INTRODUCTION OF “MICROFLUIDICS” TO UNDERGRADUATE FLUID MECHANICS COURSE Page 25.850.2AbstractUndergraduate level fluid mechanics course is traditionally taught as a math-intensive coursewith the content remaining fairly similar for decades. The course content is usually challengingfor students with significant amount of theory and numerous new concepts introduced. In a fluidmechanics course, only a limited amount of state-of-the-art technologies and real-lifeapplications can be included, given the limited time and the material that should be covered.Information on market and career opportunities are often not mentioned in fluid

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alpaslan Sahin, AggieSTEM Center at Texas A&M University; James R. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Niyazi Erdogan, Texas A&M University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

significant difference between those but we found thatthose who chose STEM majors took more computer courses than those who did not choose to doso. IntroductionThe need for a larger workforce in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics [STEM]fields to stay competitive with other nations requires involvement of women and otherunderrepresented groups.6 Although more women have chosen the science and engineering fieldsas a career over the last decades, the proportion of women workforce in the science andengineering fields increased from 12% to 27% in the period of 1980 to 2007, they are stillunderrepresented.17 There are many reasons underlying the career choices of students such as thecourses that

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2012 ERC

Authors

Matt Hourihan

Engineering Investments Advanced Manufacturing +41% ($68 million) CEMMSS doubling to $110 million CIF 21: doubling to $11 million CAREER (Young Investigator Support): +4.8% to $53 million, 125 awards Clean Energy Technology: +5% to $128 million NNI: +4.8% to $174 million; NITRD: $4.3 million SBIR/STTR: +8% to $165 million SEES, S+T Centers, ERCs essentially flatU.S. R&D INVESTMENTU.S. R&D INVESTMENTU.S. R&D INVESTMENTNASA Investments Science: Planetary Science: No more ExoMars, but alternate study underway James Webb ST continues growth (+21%, $628 million) Exploration: Orion MPCV on track for FY14 but System Dev down (-7.9%, $2.8 bil) Commercial crew transport system funding doubled ($830 mil

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Curriculum Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Henry Clark, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

AC 2012-3462: LEGITIMIZING ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY EDU-CATION: WINSTON PURVINE, OIT, AND THE ROLE OF THE ASEE,1946-1991.Dr. Mark Henry Clark, Oregon Institute of Technology After receiving a B.S. in mechanical engineering at Rice University in 1984, Mark Henry Clark decided to pursue a career in the history of technology, earning a Ph.D. in the subject at the University of Delaware in 1992. Since 1996, he has been professor of history at the Oregon Institute of Technology. He has also been a visiting faculty member at the University of Aarhus and the Technical University of Denmark. Page 25.888.1

Conference Session

Mentoring Millennial Women in Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Porush, MentorNet

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Women in Engineering

). Page 25.930.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Mentoring Millenial Women in Engineering What research tells mentors about navigating the gender and generation gapMentorNet will present its findings on new communication styles among female collegestudents who are millenials (those born after 1980) and the implications for their career-focused relationships formed over electronic media, especially with mentors.The basis for these changes, our research suggests, stem from radical shifts in cognitiveand expressive habits powered by electronic media, including the ubiquity and power ofsmartphones, the Internet, social media, online gaming, and the number of channels andlayers

Conference Session

Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University

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Engineering Technology

and 17 years of academic experience as a professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor. Foroudastan’s academic experience includes teaching at Tennessee Technological University and Middle Tennessee State University in the areas of civil engineering, me- chanical engineering, and engineering technology. He has actively advised undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, and minority students in academics and career guidance. Foroudastan has also served as Faculty Advisor for SAE, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Pre-engineering, ASME, Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP), and Tau Alpha Pi Honors Society. In addition to Foroudastan’s teaching experi- ence, he also has performed extensive research and

Conference Session

Ethics Education, Global Health, and Outreach in BME

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Rust, Western New England University; Steven G. Northrup, Western New England University

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Biomedical

, healthcare workers, andpatients. In order to assess the impact of the new course on student interest and attitudes towardglobal health, a set of pre- and post-course surveys were developed and administered. Theresults from the surveys showed increased student-reported knowledge regarding global healthissues after completing the course. The students also reported an increased level of interest inpursuing further studies and careers in the area of global health, as well as a desire to becomemore proficient in a foreign language.IntroductionThe development of solutions to healthcare problems facing the global community is ofsignificant interest to biomedical engineers working in both academia and industry. Thesesolutions often require technologies to

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol E. Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stefi Alison Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

EFFORT@RIT project identified the following major barriers to the recruitmentand advancement of women STEM faculty at RIT; career navigation, climate, andflexibility/options for managing the work/life balance. To quote from Paper I [1]: “Issues related to career navigation could be caused by women’s self-agency and negotiation skills, coupled with a lack of “sponsorship” from more seasoned faculty and/or administration, hinder the success of female faculty in obtaining more advantageous starting packages, assignments, compensation, and promotion. Climate issues are exacerbated by women’s view of the workplace in personal terms, as opposed to a more male process-oriented view, meaning that issues of

Conference Session

CANCELLED: Industry Lead Interactive Session - Presented by Bentley Systems

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2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Martin Pflanz, Bentley Systems; Ed Wright, Bentley Systems

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Bentley Systems - Industry Lead Interactive Session

points throughout a student’s learning pathway. The following points outline BentleySystem, Inc’s inclusive support of Engineering Education:  Creation of the BeMentors Community, a central hub for STEM mentors to encourage, learn, prepare and share best practices for mentoring students  Career readiness for exiting college graduates through the BeCareers Network  “Educators Collaborative” program facilitating collegiate uptake of industry technology  Support of student competitions both at National and Regional levels through contributions of direct manpower and operating funds  Launched “Cloud Mentoring”, a corporate-corporate initiative to make impact  Corporate leadership-embraced support of

Conference Session

International Forum Poster Session & Welcome Reception: Sponsored by Quanser and Cypress Semiconductors

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2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Young-Min Kim, Chungnam National University; Chang-Hoon Lee, Education Center for Creative Future Engineers; Myoung-Hee Oh, Education Center for Creative Future Engineers; Ki-Soo Kim, Chungnam National University

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ASEE International Forum

technology teachers.Finally, Education Center for Creative Future Engineers in Chungnam National Page 17.47.2University, sponsored by Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology andMinistry of Knowledge Economy, has developed career-guidance books inengineering and technology fields. Further, they have tried to improve the existingprograms and develop various new programs. Page 17.47.3

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Katie Bardaro, PayScale, Inc.

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Engineering and Public Policy

by applying the theory of humancapital given the costs reported by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)and college-specific salary profiles derived from the world’s largest database of self-reportedincomes (that contains ~8% of the salary data for all U.S. engineers). Results indicate that themedian bachelor degreed US engineer will earn $4.2MM over the span of a forty year career,which corresponds to a net present value of $1.8MM assuming an annual cost of capital equal to4.1%. The national average internal rate of return for engineering education is 5.85% givenaverage lost wages and total cost attendance of $36,360 per year across the top 150 USengineering colleges; this internal rate of return increases to 6.5% if

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University; Theodore J. Heindel, Iowa State University; Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Iowa State University; Shankar Subramaniam, Iowa State University

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Women in Engineering

. Department of Energy’s Early Career Principal Investigator award. His areas of expertise are in theory, modeling and simulation of multiphase flows (including sprays, particle-laden flows, colloids, and granular mixtures), turbulence, mixing, and reacting flows. His current research concerns hierarchical coarse-graining ap- proaches, mesoscale models of colloidal aggregation, and direct numerical simulation of gas-solid flows. Page 25.1483.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 WiME: a departmental effort to improve recruitment, retention and engagement of women

Conference Session

Government Policy, Manufacturing Education, and Certification

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Simoneau, Keene State College; Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology; Diane Dostie, Central Maine Community College; Lisa C. Hix, Keene State College; David J. Tuttle, Platt Technical High School

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Manufacturing

keeptheir programs attractive as viable educational and career pathways.As policymakers continue to try to revive the economy, newly proposed educational policies atthe federal, state and local levels are largely tactical rather than strategic, if policies exist at all.This paper will examine manufacturing education policies and their impact on the sustainabilityand growth of manufacturing programs. Key aspects of manufacturing programs will bepresented including student recruitment and retention, faculty and curriculum development, andlaboratory and programmatic costs.The current interest and discussions surrounding support for manufacturing, although wellintentioned, are not the result of proactive manufacturing policies but rather of a belated

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi M. Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Women in Engineering

successful career in industry, of particularinterest is how contextualized, hands-on, collaborative learning contributes to their self-confidence and persistence in engineering. While research has indicated that active learningactivities and cooperative experiences foster deeper learning and have an impact on persistencein the engineering workforce, there is limited empirical evidence of women’s professionalpersistence and self-confidence as a result of this type of educational experience. Preliminaryfindings from a validated survey instrument, the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE), theAcademic Self-Efficacy (ASE), and the Professional Self-Efficacy (PSE) are presented. Keyfindings of what these women learned and appreciated, insight into the

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2012 EDI

Authors

David Munson

engaged after PoE1• 215 engaged during current PoE2The Pillars of NEECNEEC Project-based education• Engage students in multi-disciplinary research.• Investigate real Navy problems.• Generate interest in Navy-related career opportunities.• Focused on undergraduate students.• Projects coordinated NAVSEA and Naval Surface Warfare Centers across the countryProject-based EducationProjects – PoE1 (15)Project MemberAcoustic Diagnostics for Sound Sources in a Noisy Environment University of MichiganAir Layer Drag Reduction for Energy Conservation University of MichiganAssessing the Relative

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2012 EDI

Authors

James H. Aylor

, MN) Division leadership collaborating with Purdue INSPIRE on J-PEER journal of engineering education researchWhat is the value of OUTREACH to the university? Outreach: single visits to promote engineering  Single visit: classroom visits (presentations and activities), mentorships in FIRST, Future City, clubs, etc.  Participation increases undergraduate satisfaction, confidence and retention  Creates goodwill with community  Supports STEM career knowledge and development in K-12 students  Increases K-12 and community knowledge of university and of engineering  Attractive to industry and alumni What is the value of SUSTAINED ENGAGEMENT to the university? Sustained Engagement: longer partnerships to conduct research

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Tech; Elizabeth M. Tront, Virginia Tech; Joseph G. Tront, Virginia Tech

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International

engineers, as well as thecultural, social and economic aspects of practicing engineering abroad. Students also studyhistoric innovations and modern technology and how different cultures shape how engineering ispracticed. By giving students a taste of an international experience and increasing their comfortlevel with global travel, the program intends to promote additional, more extended internationalacademic experiences such as international internships, study abroad programs, or other faculty-led programs. RSAP also allows students the opportunity to make initial contact with an industryor university in another country to further their student experience or career prospects. First-year students apply to the program and are selected based on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering. Page 25.110.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Successful 4-Year Academic Scholarship Program for Upper Division Engineering and Computer Science Non-Transfer Students and Graduate StudentsAbstractThis paper describes a successful four-year academic scholarship program for upper divisionengineering and computer science students funded by a National Science Foundation’s S-STEMgrant that ran from Fall 2007 through Spring 2011. Scholarships of $2,000 per semester weregiven

Conference Session

Ethical Issues II: Academic Integrity and Student Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narciso F. Macia P.E., Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Robert W. Nowlin, Retired

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Engineering Ethics

as a Staff Engineer at Acoustic Technologies Inc. in Mesa, Ariz. He holds one patent and is the author and/or co-author of numerous papers. He is a senior, life member of IEEE and a member of ASEE. Page 25.138.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Advising Engineering Students to the Best Program: Perspective, Approaches and ToolsIntroductionOur present era is characterized by an almost an infinite number of choices, ranging from icecream flavors to vehicles. The situation is no different for those pursuing careers in engineeringprograms

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University; Sue Guenter-Schlesinger, Western Washington University

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Women in Engineering

- portunity and Affirmative Action at Utah State University. She also held an adjunct position at USU in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology. After earning her B.A. and M.A. in English and her Ph.D. in higher education from the University of California, Los Angeles, Guenter-Schlesinger began her career with the University of Maryland’s European Division and the U.S. Army Research In- stitute. She then served as Director for the U.S. Army’s Equal Opportunity Program in the European Command, located in Heidelberg, Germany. In her current role, Guenter-Schlesinger is Chief Advisor to Western’s President and Provost on equal opportunity and employment diversity issues. Her current re- sponsibilities