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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

undergraduate students to the concepts and practices ofentrepreneurial thinking. Using a combination of lectures, case studies, student led discussions,team business plans, and investor presentation formats, the course teaches life skills inentrepreneurial thought and action that students can utilize in careers ranging from startingcompanies to initiating R&D projects in large company entrepreneurial endeavors. Major coursethemes include: Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Idea Generation and Feasibility Analysis, andBusiness Planning. The table 1 also shows the content of the course3.Course objectives include exploring the entrepreneurial mindset and culture that has beendeveloping in companies of all sizes and industries; examine the

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Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Miller-Young

class norms, the lessons become part of the deep structure Page 10.886.4of their class experience as their first introduction to a career in engineering. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationKurfiss12 examined a wide range of successful courses devoted to teaching critical thinking, andderived eight principles for designing a course to support critical thinking. The instructionsactivity is novel and extremely useful, as it incorporates five of the eight principles in a shortassignment at the

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Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Feodoroff

Technology throughout theprogram.IntroductionNew England Institute of Technology is a private, non-profit technical college founded in 1940that provides over 29 specialized associate and bachelor degree programs that prepare studentsfor technical careers. Most associate degree programs can be completed in 18 months, andBachelor of Science programs in 3 years. The academic year is divided into four (4) ten weekquarters with a six week intersession period during June and July. NEIT’s open enrollmentpolicy requires entering students to be assessed for skill in reading, writing and mathematics todetermine their readiness to begin standard college work. NEIT offers technical programs thatmeet the career-oriented needs of students with emphasis placed on

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Jackson; Mani Mina

electricalengineering class at Iowa State University. Discussion of classroom, laboratory, and out-of-classlearning is included, along with some of our results.IntroductionThe increasingly rapid growth of the various fields of engineering has led to great challenges ineducation, and many proposals have been made regarding changes in curriculum1-3. The needsof first-year university students have especially changed; quickly changing and evolvingtechnology demands more than ever that students continue to learn efficiently throughout theirprofessional career. To this end, a first year course must provide the student with a number ofobjectives:• Identify the scope of the particular field which he or she has chosen to study;• Begin to learn the process of

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

participating units. The scholars receive $1,000 per quarter until theycomplete their first co-op experience. The pre-co-op support does not exceed seven quarters.NSF and RIT are each contributing $500 per quarter per scholar. After their first co-opexperience, the scholars retain the $500 per quarter scholarship from RIT until they graduate atthe end of 12 academic quarters.We have been successful in developing a partnership among the four academic departments, andthe coordination mechanisms with supporting units that include the Undergraduate Admissions,Financial Aid, Registrar’s Office, Academic Support Center, and Career Services3,4. This paperdescribes the relationships and mechanisms we have developed with these supporting units toadminister the

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Mecum; Leslie Wilkins

Early and Sustained Gender Equity Programs Enrich Pipeline of Female Engineers Leslie Wilkins, Isla Yap, Sheryl Hom, Christine L. Andrews Maui Economic Development Board/Women in Technology ProjectIntroductionLaunched in Fall 1999, the Women in Technology (WIT) Project encourages women and girls topursue science, technology, education and math (STEM) careers in the counties of Maui, Hawaiiand Kauai in the state of Hawaii.Among programs in the United States addressing the under representation of women in STEM,WIT is unique in several ways: While most such programs in the United States are administered by government or educational institutions, WIT is administered by

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Jones; Cynda Fickert; Alice Smith

research, the other primary goal of the RET was for the teachers to develop classroom modulesbased on their research experiences. These modules were to be used in their classes as both hands on learningexperiences for their students, and as stimulators for students to consider career opportunities in engineering.During the RET time, Fickert and Jones designed two inquiry-based units to use in each of their classrooms.Jones says of his RET experience, “I use a great deal of discussion in my classroom to promote inquiry in myclassroom culture. One aspect of that culture is the students’ perception of the teacher as an expert on certain topics.The experience with CAVE allows me to put myself in a professional setting if I find the opportunity to use

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sookram Sobhan; Noel Kriftcher; Nerik Yakubov; Alon Kadashev; Magued Iskander; Vikram Kapila

teachers [1] has led to overcrowded classrooms, further hindering thestudent achievement in these disciplines. Motivated by the recognition of these needs, RAISE fellows have been mobilized toimplement a partnership between Polytechnic University and four New York City public highschools, to i) introduce technology to in-service teachers to enhance their technical proficiency,ii) serve as an additional resource in the classrooms and labs to provide individual attention tostudents, iii) interact with students as their mentors and coaches to stimulate their interest in mathand science, and vi) serve as role models to motivate students to pursue careers in STEMdisciplines. Sensor-based experiments in physics have been developed and are

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder

National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Education grants, theIntegrated Teaching and Learning (ITL) Program’s outreach initiative has engaged engineeringgraduate and undergraduate Fellows in K-12 classrooms as science and math content experts andengineering role models for the past six years. One program goal is to improve thecommunication and instructional skills of engineering students, while providing them withclassroom experience that serves as a foundation for those who pursue a career in academia. Theprogram also seeks to enhance the graduate Fellow’s engineering education experience byimproving their ability to teach to diverse populations. In addition, their fellowship affords theman opportunity to understand and appreciate the

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

Audience Fall Expanding Your Horizons 8th-10th grade (October) Conference Winter Park and Ride Workshop 6th-7th grade (December) Spring SWE Sleepover 11th grade (March) Summer Colleges and Careers Day rising 12th graders (July, August) Summer I Built My Computer@RIT women entering RIT (July)Summary of Existing Outreach

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Macnab

university be able to cope? They will not be able to without developing those skillsfrom scratch. It is more difficult to develop skills on the job. In fact, some people are not able todevelop these skills during their career. Such a career is often characterized by lack of promotionsand long periods of unemployment between jobs. Have fun cheaters!The Dummies Guide to Enjoying UniversityThere are some easy ways to change stressed students into happy students. Stressed students arethose who often worry about their marks, work all the time, are tired, and hate the material theyare learning. Page 10.1177.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

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

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

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

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Bertoline

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”patient load. The clinical track differs from the academic track in that excellence in teaching and clinicalservice may be weighted more heavily than achievement in research.An example of how clinical faculty are evaluated for promotion and tenure is found in the guidelinescreated for clinical faculty at New York Medical College. At New York Medical College, to besuccessful, the medical school must have a faculty that excels in research, education, andprofessional service. Full-time faculty members are evaluated for promotion, and in two of thefour career tracks for tenure, by four sets of standards. These standards are

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

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T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; R.N. Olson; R.E. Morrison; P.Y. Lee; L.M. Coulson; K. Gonzalez-Landis; J.P. Tidwell; J. O'Brien; Isadore Davis; H.J. Palmer; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; D.H. Quick; Albert McHenry; Jay Snellenberger; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

that fosters the continuous development of the U.S.engineering workforce in industry concurrently with engineering practice for technological innovation.The framework integrates innovative project-based learning, progressive experience, self-directedlearning, and graduate studies concurrently with engineering practice. The framework is specificallydesigned to foster growth beyond the professional master’s level, leading to the professional Doctor ofEngineering and Engineering Fellow for senior career development of engineering leaders. The intent isto build clusters of postgraduate professional education across the country in partnership with industrythat strengthens U.S. innovative capability for continuous technology development and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay

(although residence halls have opened since the fall of 2004) the students are amix of part and full time students, as well as one of traditional and non-traditional types(who have been out of school for several years). The School of Engineering, Technologyand Computer Science (ETCS) has an enrollment of about 1500 students and comprisesof five departments, that of Engineering and Computer Science and three Technologydepartments. The introductory freshman course ETCS 101 is a required course for allETCS majors, which provides them with an introduction to the various departmentswithin the School of ETCS, counseling and career information along with some teamprojects. A new project introduced during the fall of 2003 and continued through thespring of

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sherman

millennial students have been encouraged by their elementary,middle and secondary level schools to be actively involved in the education of theirchildren. This extends not only in the traditional areas of personal and social support, butinto curricular areas as well. Reports on the activities of these parents is found in thepopular press,3 magazines4, professional journals, student services publications5 and othergovernmental publications at the local, state and federal levels.6This parental motivation for increased educational involvement comes from a variety ofreasons beyond the natural parental desire to protect and support their children. It isfound in the gender of the parent7, the career pattern of the parent, their active parentingstyle, and

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stephan A. Durham; Mark L. Kuss; Ernest Heymsfield; Hanna Sheppard

testing programare shown in Figures 2 and 3, respectively.At the end of the six week program, the group of students are required to present there researchfindings to parents, teachers, and friends. This program has been useful in recruiting studentsinto the engineering field. In addition, it has been recognized that students learn to work ingroups effectively.Student FeedbackThe program has been very effective in providing students with the opportunity to succeed incollege. In addition, the research projects performed by these students have encouraged many ofthem to pursue careers in Engineering. Success stories and student feed back are found below. “Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for

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Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Cummings; John McMasters

various university club meetings, and some are even heavily involved in interacting with students working on various design projects, but the average engineer has little or no interaction with students over the course of their career. A number of companies, including Boeing, have created technical interest groups to encourage mentoring and sharing of corporate knowledge throughout the company. These efforts have been met with varying degrees of success. In an effort to improve this situation, the Boeing Technology Interest Group concept has been modified and expanded to include students within the groups. Concepts for including students (both graduate and undergraduate) and faculty

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Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clair Nixon

engineer hires. These four competencies are as follows: • Strong communications skills • Enhanced financial acumen • Better understanding of the customer • Comprehension of the life cycle of a product There were clearly other business competencies that would be desirable for newengineers. However, many of these business competencies would likely be used later inan engineer’s career. For the purposes of this presentation, I will focus on the above fourcompetencies. There has been considerable discussion in the literature relative to alternativeinstructional methods for enhancing engineering education. In some cases, the coursedevelopment and delivery has been developed with consideration of ABET criteria withspecial

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Vallone

: teamwork, communication skills suchas listening & supporting, conflict resolution, leadership, risk management, presentation,political skills, and finally, knowing how all the technical and interpersonal pieces fit together.Most software engineers learn these skills the hard way, by trial and error on the job. Somenever learn. Consider the typical engineering career progression where a developer does anoutstanding job designing and implementing software and is thus promoted into management, aposition that relies almost entirely on the “soft” skills. While one might argue that the highfailure rate of software projects is due to aggressive schedules and unrealistic customerexpectations, it is certainly conceivable that the Peter Principle1 is a

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Pyke; John Gardner; Amy Moll

engineering professors will often tell a student, “You HAVETO be superior at math to be an engineer.” This statement also implies that you have totake advanced placement math and AP Calculus in high school to succeed in anengineering college. Are these statements really true? And what impact do they have onthe student’s career choice?The authors suggest that it is a myth that students HAVE TO be excellent at math to bean engineer. Clearly math is a very important tool for engineers. All engineers musthave some level of competency at math. However, once students are no longer takingclasses at a university, the amount of math used in engineering positions varies widely.For many B.S. level engineers in the workplace, advanced math is not a regularly

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Hickey; Raluca Rosca

Engineers, Gainesville Student branch and supported by the Dean ofGraduate Studies in the College of Engineering. The first offering of ETP-UF took place duringthe last half of the Fall 2004 semester, and a second offering is advertised for Spring 2005.IntroductionThe general objectives of the Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (ETP), as well as theoutcomes of the first offering were presented at the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference 1 by itsdesigners at the NSF-funded Center for Advancement of Engineering Education at University ofWashington. In short the program strives to better prepare graduate students in engineering forthe teaching component of an academic career, by offering an eight week, step-by-step approachto writing a teaching statement

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Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Hole; Day Radebaugh; Kurt Soschinske

Engineering Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas 67260 USAAbstractThe practice of engineering, in the context of the current society, is an extremely complexenterprise. This paper argues that a framework for ethical decision-making must considercorporate, social and global goals, as well as the objectives of the individual engineer. Theethical education of the engineer must be through collaboration among academic institutions,business interests, and professional engineering organizations. This paper recommends adoptionof a single thread of ethics education, beginning early in life and continuing throughout theacademic training and subsequent professional career of the engineer

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Session 1882 The Data Are In: Student Workplace Competencies in the Experiential Workplace Thomas J. Brumm1 Larry F. Hanneman2 Steven K. Mickelson1 1 Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering 2 College of Engineering Career Services and Chemical Engineering Iowa State UniversityAbstractWorkplace competencies describe the skills, knowledge and behaviors

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Cuddihy; Steve Lappenbusch; Jennifer Turns

offering of the seminar1. Getting to know each other: Students shared their interests within the discipline of technical communication and their ideas about post-PhD careers.2. Preliminary exam preparation: The students identified questions related to the first PhD milestone (the preliminary exam) and then one student who had completed the preliminary exam described his experiences, using the questions as an advance organizer.3. Preliminary exam follow-up: The group revisited the questions generated during the previous session, with the department chair and the PhD advisor providing authoritative answers to some of the questions.4. Research questions I: Prior to the session, each student generated two example research questions

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TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Shanehsaz; Michael Qaissaunee

will provide technician training in wireless communications, an area oftechnology innovation with great industry demand. By incorporating security as an integral partof this program, the curriculum will serve to foster greater growth and adoption of mobiletechnologies. This project will benefit regional industry, government agencies, high schoolteachers and students, community college faculty and students, those switching into informationtechnology careers, and those with bachelor’s degrees in unrelated fields. Page 10.807.2 Proceeding of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

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A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Bennion; Jay Kunze; Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar; Michael Lineberry

close relationship with the Nuclear University Consortium that is part of the BEA team.In summary, the opportunities for developing a new paradigm for national laboratory anduniversity interaction and cooperation lies ahead. Successful development of the partnership willlead to effective implementation of the INL mission and of a viable future for nuclear energy inthe nation and the world.--------------------------------------Biographical InformationJay Kunze is the Dean of Engineering and Associate Director of the Idaho Accelerator Center atIdaho State University (ISU). He spent 20 years of his career at the INL predecessor laboratories,then 5 years as president of a geothermal energy company. During that period he was an adjunct(teaching

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

, personal objectives or overall career growth from their participation in the project. This should be a key factor in assessing the impact of the project. Given the educational nature of the project undertaken, the goals and objectives should be clearly stated. Figure 1 provides a framework to ensure the plan associated with the project covers all areas for participation. Customers Mission Objective

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

concentrated on Afro-Americans and Hispanics.5,7,16 There is littlework on Native Americans in S&E.Recently, scholars have begun to take a more in-depth look into the specific disciplines of IT andunder-representation of women.1,6,9,10,11,13,21 Some have began to focus on under-representedminorities in IT3,22 Studies reveal racial/ethnic socialization of childhood, bias in schooling, lackof proficiency in mathematics and science, problems resulting from working in a predominantlywhite environment, lack of resources especially computers at home, digital divide, image of IT,and absence of the minorities role models − all of which contributes towards under-representation of minorities in IT education and career. Though most of these are likely to