Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Middle East and Technology Exploration in Africa and Developing Countries

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wilhelm Alexander Friess, University of Maine; Muhieddin Amer, RIT-Dubai

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International

Paper ID #5835Observations on startup and operational challenges for US engineering pro-grams in the Middle EastDr. Wilhelm Alexander Friess, University of Maine Dr. Friess holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering and a B.Sc. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1997), and currently is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with the University of Maine and Director of the Brunswick Engineering Program. Previously he has spent 5 years in Dubai as faculty of RIT Dubai and Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University. Dr. Friess’ industrial and academic career spans a variety of consulting and entrepreneurial

Conference Session

Issues in Advising and Mentoring

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Dolenc, University of Virginia

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Educational Research and Methods

Robotics Competition (FRC), a high school robotics contest focused on inspiringstudents to enter STEM careers. Mentor involvement within these robotics teams are comparedto establish end points, and characterized to find where the remainder mentor visions fall withinthis spectrum. Our research questions are: How do mentors define their roles? How do theamount of mentoring levels differ when comparing with the other robotics teams? What are thevarious student behaviors under these mentoring roles?Mentorship Literature Review The difficulty of research obtaining an overall clear definition of mentoring is due todefinitions changing based on the context mentoring exists in. An effort to define mentoring hascaused an overlap of definitions that

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Preparation of Professional Engineers Outside of the USA. What are the Education, Experience, and Exam Requirements?

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Lynn G Brown, The Boeing Company; Patricia Fox, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Catherine Didion, National Academy of Engineering; Daniel R. Sayre, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

Preparation for three years; Manufacturing Technology Advisory Group Board of Directors for seven years; and three National Science Foundation Review Committees for manufacturing and engineering-related NSF grants. Brown also served as a conference committee member of the National Career Pathways Network and serving on a number of state and local boards and skills standards committees. She has taught at the secondary, community college and university levels as well as been a research associate at IC2 Institute in Austin, Texas. Brown attended the University of Texas at Austin for her Ph.D. work in Higher Educational Administration; Northern Arizona University for her M.A. in Curriculum and Assessment and Arizona State

Conference Session

Secondary (6-12) Outreach

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy Healy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Angela Berenstein

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Tour - cleanroom 4.4 Lecture – careers in nanotechnology 4.3 Table 1. 2005 camp survey results of topics Likert scale 1-5 with 1= least favorite and 5= most favoriteIn 2006 and 2007, we used the 2005 and 2006 survey results to restructure the summer programsto include more hands-on activities and less lectures by Georgia Tech faculty. The averageevaluations for these two summers remained very similar to those of 2005 with the averageranging between 3.0 - 4.5. The written comments included similar responses: Page 23.1340.4  “Make the camp harder and

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brenda M. Capobianco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies, Student

a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching in- terests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the de- velopment of engineering education assessment tools. She is a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).Prof. Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette Heidi A. Diefes-Dux

Conference Session

Problem- and project-based learning in environmental engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lupita D Montoya, University of Colorado, Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

first-year students, Page 23.772.2especially those underrepresented in STEM, in ways that basic theory courses including physicsand calculus do not.The need to contextualize engineering education. African Americans, Latinos, and NativeAmericans in the US share some common cultural aspects in their leadership models. Inparticular, their leadership styles are usually people-centered, community-focused, andadvocacy-oriented.8,9 Social and behavioral science studies have examined how core culturalvalues translate into career choices in these populations. For example, a recent study found thatAfrican American medical school graduates from

Conference Session

Global Competency and What Makes a Successful Engineer

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nancy Healy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lynn Charles Rathbun, National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, Cornell University

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International

recognized by the National Science Foundation (NSF)by its development of several programs focused on global placements. NSF stresses in its Page 23.400.2publications and programs the importance of supporting U.S. scientists and engineers todevelop international collaborations that will help ensure that they gain internationalexperience particularly early in their careers.[7] NSF has an entire division, Office ofInternational Science and Engineering that supports the development of scientists andengineers who will become leaders in international collaborations that NSF sees as key toU.S. development and its role as a world leader in science and technology

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Newberry, Nano-Link Regional Center for Nanotechnology Education

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

educators asthe focus topic.The Process:The logic diagram, which was one of the first steps in the evaluation and improvement process for theSynergy project effort, is shown in Figure 1. The logic diagram follows the progression of steps frominput through long term results. Essentially, the goal of Nano-Link is to enthuse young (pre college)students about nanoscience in particular and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) ingeneral. In the early years of Nano-Link, dissemination efforts focused predominantly on the students,with classroom visits, summer camps and various activities used to reach students with information aboutnanoscience and STEM concepts and careers. This effort was moderately successful with hundreds ofstudents reached

Conference Session

FPD 5: Transitions and Student Success, Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Skurla, Baylor University; Steven R. Eisenbarth, Baylor University

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First-Year Programs

supportservices and resources to build a sense of community and to ensure retention through thecompletion of their degree. SAS Scholars were familiarized with campus resources that providesupport, encourage success, and help students improve study skills. Mentoring activitiesincluded teaching life and career skills, providing faculty and industry mentors, encouragingstudents to seek summer internships, and providing them with services, resources, and events toassist them in the transition to engineering and computer science programs at a 4-year university.The introduction of SAS scholars to each other provided the students with an instant supportnetwork of classmates and student-mentors. Through career counseling and focusedstudent/faculty interaction

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Engineering in K-12 Science and Mathematics Standards

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

educational matters. In the state ofNorth Carolina, courses covered by the division of career and technical education (CTE) alreadyaddress many of the engineering topics that can be so critical to teaching children to think.Unfortunately, CTE courses do not extend into elementary school and are severely limited insome middle schools for budgetary reasons. CTE courses in high school have a distinguishedhistory. Here, however, the teaching of engineering-related topics has become strongly linked tospecific engineering content classes. Other CTE courses and other programs throughout thecurriculum do not contain engineering content. In addition, courses offered as career andtechnical education are elective courses, frequently not selected by students who

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. Pinelli, NASA Langley Research Center; Cathy W. Hall, East Carolina University; Kimberly Marie Brush, NASA Langley Research Center; Jeannine B. Perry, Continental Research Associates, Inc.

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Women in Engineering

world marketplace. For women this is further complicated by the fact oncethey do enter the workforce consistent with their chosen major, they are less likely to remain inthis career field.6 Fouad and Singh6 note that after five years in an engineering career, one out offour women are likely to leave as opposed to only one out of ten men. There are not onlyconcerns in attracting and retaining women as engineering majors at the college/university level,but concerns also in retaining women in engineering career trajectories once they have receivedtheir degree. Research focusing on individual characteristics has suggested that one of the reasons forthe gender disparity in physical sciences and engineering is differences in skill sets between

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention and First-year Programs in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher R. Carroll, University of Minnesota Duluth

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Electrical and Computer

engineering concepts? These questions were among thosefaced by the Electrical Engineering faculty. This paper exposes some of the techniques used tointrigue students and to capture their interest in digital circuit design.Attracting middle-school students to the field of engineering is a challenge. Students’ interestmust be captured before societal pressures deflect career choices into other directions. Students,must be encouraged to consider engineering as an interesting field before it is “too late” to enterthe necessary math and science tracks in high school. Consequently, students must be exposedto the excitement and potential of engineering during their middle-school education to motivatethem successfully to consider engineering careers. The

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Skaggs, American University in Cairo

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Women in Engineering

engineeringeducation, this study allows for increased understanding of their identity development in relationto their future career choices. For many females, their identity formation during their collegecareer, as they balance being a woman with being an engineer, is precarious resulting in anexodus of females from engineering within the first five years of graduation.This paper will first present the research surrounding evidence of women not participating inengineering, indications of engineering as a socially-constructed masculine environment, and thepurpose of higher education for professional and personal identity development. Secondly, theconceptual framework and research questions driving this study will be provided. Thirdly,Marcia Baxter Magolda’s

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa A Dagley, University of Central Florida; Nirmala Ramlakhan, Nee-Moh, Inc; Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida

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Women in Engineering

iSTEM Dr. Dagley works to promote and enhance collaborative efforts on STEM education and research by bringing together colleges, centers, and institutes on campus, as well as other stakeholders with similar interest in STEM initiatives. Her research interests lie in the areas of student access to edu- cation, sense of community, retention, first-year experience, living-learning communities, and persistence to graduation for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs.Dr. Nirmala Ramlakhan, Nee-Moh, Inc Situated in the unique space straddling both academia and industry, Dr. Ramlakhan uses her 13 years of experience in education, workforce and career development to drive STEM agendas. Currently

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leticia Anaya, University of North Texas

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Educational Research and Methods

strategies and didacticcurriculums, integrated design technologies and developing technologies; to simulation, qualityin higher education, and distance learning; to information communication technology,assessment/accreditation, sustainable technology and project-based training; and to engineeringmanagement, women engineering careers, and undergraduate engineering research.Trends in Engineering EducationThe trends in engineering education have been reported over several periods of time by differentauthors. Meisen6 mentions that the global trends in engineering education in the 90s were agreater emphasis on experiential programs supported by industry work experience, decliningemphasis on laboratory instruction, internationalization of engineering

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2013 ERC

Authors

George Hazelrigg

$11 M for CIF21 systems, engineering modeling and simulation, smart networks, and sensors• Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) ENG support will focus on the engineering aspects of FY 2013 Request $4 M for SaTC the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) strategic plan12Education and Workforce• The directorate emphasizes support for – Expeditions in Education (E2) FY 2013 Request $1 M for E2 – CAREER awards – Activities that promote the entry and retention of veterans and other non- traditional students in engineering programs • STEP awards through

Conference Session

Building BIM into Construction Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin R. Miller, Brigham Young University; Clifton B. Farnsworth, Brigham Young University; Justin Earl Weidman, Brigham Young University

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Construction

“industry sharing” with academic institutions strengthens our programand likewise better prepares their future employees. After our students graduate we anticipatethat they will be comfortable in sharing new ideas or trends with us because they benefitted fromtheir predecessors sharing with them.Acknowledgment that BIM Specific Personnel Currently Have a Limited Career PathThese visits also revealed that BIM provides a limited career path to those students who wish torise to the executive level. Students would be better served by either pursuing a position as aproject engineer or one in preconstruction, with an emphasis in BIM. Students interested in BIMalso seeking to move up to the executive levels in a company should look for job titles like

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Antonella Sciortino; Lisa Star; Tesfai Goitom

which theirdesigns are implemented. Engineering courses need to provide students with the globalengineering perspective that will prove beneficial for their careers and this should be done at theearly stages of the engineering curriculum. This study proposes a novel approach to expose civilengineering and construction engineering management students to current global issues inengineering and construction practices. An additional goal is the improvement of retention ratesby increasing students' interest in the engineering field. The proposed approach consists ofencouraging mentoring and collaboration between graduate students enrolled in a researchcourse and freshmen/sophomore students enrolled in an introductory engineering course. Thetwo

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy F. Wheeler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Design in Engineering Education

abilities at theconclusion of their undergraduate career. In the wake of ABET 2000, it came to play anexaggerated role in fulfilling the program outcomes of Criterion 3. Of the eleven outcomes,seven are covered in this one course, four of them are covered here exclusively.By 2009, when the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UCC) reviewed the seniorcapstone design course, it was felt that the students were not making the best use of thisopportunity. It was viewed by students as simply another lab-based course. The demands ofteaching professionalism topics, project management and the design process meant that therewas seldom time in a single semester for students to complete an extended project that hadmeaning for their professional development

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Paul Sly, Iowa State University; Daniel P Bumblauskas, University of Missouri Harvard University; Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Sales for Engineers I, and is focused on teaching students how tobe effective technical sales people. Faculty and administrators reached out to an industrialadvisory committee comprised of organizations to develop the program with a vested interest;specific organizations that hire students from the College of Engineering at Iowa StateUniversity for career tracks in technical sales and marketing were solicited.The course, taught by one instructor since 2008, uses a combination of various sales techniquesand strategies from established technical sales programs to frame the syllabus for the course.This course has now been offered for five consecutive years, with surveys taken of students atthe beginning and end of the course for four semesters

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CEED - Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

and actually across the globe, the number of courses, seminars, andsuggestions for providing students with materials to help them in their future careers abound. Wehave courses focusing on how to properly maneuver through a dining experience and how tocarry on a conversation in an elevator. We try to teach young men and women how to dressproperly for success while giving them tips on how to formulate resumes and cover letters. Wemarch any number of employers through our classrooms providing those students with masses ofinformation on those companies and their products. All in all there is nothing wrong with thisapproach. We know what they need to know and we try to provide as much of it as possible. Butwith that there is a sense that we have

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, Purdue University / Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

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Engineering and Public Policy

public policy impacted the citizens (society, general public). None, again, discriminate interms of the scope of the impact. None mentioned topics related to commitment, neither for Page 23.391.3decisions.Subjects showed high interest in pursuing public policy careers and in taking public policycourses. Among the 24 respondents, 17 (70%) said that they are or might be interested in a careerin public policy. 20 (83%) have not taken any policy related course, yet 16 (66%) were interestedin taking public policy related courses.17 subjects (70%) have never been involved in creating or influencing public policy, but 22(92%) agreed that understanding

Conference Session

Supporting Diversity in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chung Hyuk Park, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

utilization of non-visual curriculum3. Currently, there are only a fewefforts focused on encouraging students with visual impairments to pursue higher educationand computing career opportunities at the precollege level, which include the National Centerfor Blind Youth in Science4, the Access Computing Alliance5, and Project ACE (AccessibleComputing Education)6.One of the popular activities that encourage K-12 students to focus their future career goals inthe computer science and engineering fields is the utilization of robotic platforms7. With themultidisciplinary characteristics of the robotics field and its basis in math and science, therobotics curriculum can provide an intriguing and challenging environment for students

Conference Session

"Best" of BED

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J Rust, Western New England University; Andrew Wellesley Browne, Harvard Medical School, University of Southern California

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Biomedical

within BME432 – Lab on a Chip, which introduces students to the theory and application of microfluidicsystems in medicine and biology. Once the project had been described to the students on the firstday of the course, all subsequent lectures were designed to deliver content required for eachstage of the device development process, including concept generation, design, fabrication, andtesting. In order to assess the impact of the project on student interest and attitudes toward theLab on a Chip research field, pre- and post-course surveys were developed and administered.The results from the surveys showed increased student-reported knowledge, confidence indeveloping devices, and level of interest in pursuing further studies, training, and careers

Conference Session

Electrical Energy Courses, Labs, and Projects II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Ferris, Portland State University; Robert B Bass, Portland State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

paper discusses the design of the lab in detail, with anemphasis on the benefits of practical experience for students entering the electrical powerindustry workforce.The Portland, OR, metropolitan area hosts numerous power-related entities, including aroundtwo dozen power engineering consultancies, two investor-owned utilities, two significant federalentities focused on hydropower and transmission, several power plant developers & operators,and a growing number of high-tech manufacturers and software companies focused onsmart-grid products and services. In order to provide students with practical hands-onexperiences in preparation for careers in the local power industry, we have designed theprotection lab curriculum around using standard

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Lorelle A Meadows, University of Michigan

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Women in Engineering

of design projects in first-year engineering courses, little research to dateexamines the effect of such courses on student motivation. Broad studies of retention inengineering education show promising results for women and other under-represented studentsin project-based courses2; however, engineering educators need a richer understanding of howspecific project-oriented pedagogies affect students’, and in particular women’s, motivations forengineering and their intended career plans. This study focuses on women because of theircontinued underrepresentation in engineering3, 4 and the need to ensure effective retention effortsin the midst of a movement to enact large-scale curricular transformation in engineering.To address this need, this

Conference Session

Electrical Energy Courses, Labs, and Projects I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Al DUPE Mundy, United States Air Force Academy; Andrew Laffely, US Air Force Academy; Bryan John Cooper, United States Air Force; George York, U.S. Air Force Academy; Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

andexpanding the capabilities of the system thus requiring the capstone students to acquire in-depth, hands-on knowledge of many different systems and engineering problems including multiple voltage levels, ACand DC power conversion, energy storage, power distribution, and economics of energy. This paperdescribes the energy system, the STEM outreach benefits, and the relevance to undergraduateengineering. Page 23.1000.2IntroductionDuring the last several years, numerous studies and articles indicate the United States, as a nation, has aserious shortage of young people entering into college degree programs and careers in STEM relatedareas[1,2

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Albright P.E., University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer

Challenge: Finding a Complementary Balance of Depth and Breadth in an Engineering Curriculum -- Approach of the Electrical Engineering FacultyAbstractThe faculty of the School of Engineering conducted a thorough review of its ABET-accreditedundergraduate degree programs to assess and evaluate possible changes to our curricula, bothSchool-wide and ones specific to our programs. The aim of the intensive year-long study was tomaintain the principal strengths of depth, yet allow more opportunities for students to gainadditional breadth in preparation for success in a wide range of professional careers during theincreasingly global nature of engineering in the 21st century.As engineering educators, we are certainly aware

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail D. Jefferson, University of South Alabama; Sally J. Steadman, University of South Alabama; F. Carroll Dougherty, University of South Alabama

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Two Year College Division

discussions. The students explore engineeringmajors through problem-based applications, gaining essential problem solving skills. Theseminar also focuses on social involvement and interpersonal skills. Students are introducedto careers and research/internship opportunities and to job placement skills so they are wellprepared to enter the technical workforce. Page 23.1266.2Since an important factor in student retention is the sense of community that a studentdevelops, the USA-LINK program incorporates a community-building model for theparticipants. 2 The success seminar facilitates the formation of student groups. In addition,each USA-LINK student is

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2013 GSW

Authors

John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

selection of STEM majors and classroomsuccess. Second, it has increased opportunities for internships and undergraduate researchexperiences for students early in their college career to encourage students to remain committedto the pursuit of STEM majors. Finally, a concerted effort of curriculum alignment across allSTEM fields at the three participating institutions combined with a formal professionaldevelopment program aimed at spreading effective pedagogical techniques across all threeinstitutions has been designed to enhance teaching effectiveness at the critical introductory level.The Dallas STEM Gateways Collaborative program is built to enhance the number, quality, anddiversity of undergraduates successfully earning STEM degrees