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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retaining and Developing Women Faculty

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Margaret B. Bailey P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COS); DeLois Kijana Crawford, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wendy A. Dannels, Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID)

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

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Engineering and Public Policy, Women in Engineering

slightly over the 2009-14 period. 6 In order to achieve thegoal of increasing “the representation and advancement of women in academic science andengineering careers,” the National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded over $130M in projectsat institutions of higher education and STEM-related not-for-profit organizations since 2001.7Cultural and structural barriers that may adversely affect women faculty are addressed by theseprojects. In 2012, RIT was awarded an NSF Advance Institutional Transformation grant. Thegoal of the AdvanceRIT project is to increase the representation and advancement of womenSTEM faculty, widely represented across ethnic, social, and cultural backgrounds. The approachis to remove barriers to resources that support career

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Building Pathways that Promote Pursuit/Persistence in Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ebony Omotola McGee, Vanderbilt University; William H. Robinson, Vanderbilt University; Lydia C. Bentley, Vanderbilt University; Stacey Houston II, Vanderbilt University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #11934Diversity Stalled: Explorations into the Stagnant Numbers of African Amer-ican Engineering FacultyDr. Ebony Omotola McGee, Assistant Professor of Diversity and Urban Schooling Ebony O. McGee is an Assistant Professor of Diversity and Urban Schooling at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College and a member of Scientific Careers Research and Development Group at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago; and she was a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral

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2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Lucinda Fowinkle

. Thisexperience gives the student motivation to complete their degree and enter industry aftergraduation. Internships benefit all of the stakeholders: the student gains valuable, marketableskills that give them a head start to a career; the employer has the opportunity to screen potentialfuture employees; the engineering technology programs’ recruitment and retention rates increase.Teaching in an engineering technology 2+2 program has given me experience with students of abroad age range. I began to notice that some of the younger students were not as engaged in theclassroom, were absent more often, and seemed to only be concerned with passing the courseand not necessarily understanding the concepts. The problem did not seem to be related toaptitude, but

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Sreedevi Ande P.E.

engagement and inspiration. In order to maximize the outreach to as many high schoolfemale students as possible regarding the GEMS camp and inspiring them towards choosing aSTEM career, high school students in San Antonio were invited to the GEMS camp to participatein hands-on engineering activities. Students gained valuable experience through challengingactivities that emphasized Civil and Electrical Engineering. The students presented theirexperiences, and the knowledge gained throughout the projects, by creating and delivering agroup poster presentation at the end. The outcomes of the camp included student’s increasedability to conceptualize engineering problems and an increased engagement in engineering byincorporating visualization tools in the

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Innovative Lower Division Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth Pidugu, University of Arkansas-Little Rock; Swaminadham Midturi, University of Arkansas-Little Rock

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Two Year College Division

Rock, AR, 72204Abstract It is documented that the United States of America’s manufacturing, energy, and softwareindustries are facing severe shortage of well-trained and skilled workforce, and are on the vergeof loosing technical superiority to other nations. To this end, grass root efforts involvingrecruitment, education, and training of students from trade schools, high schools and two-yearinstitutes are to be initiated and promoted to prepare students for careers in industrial sector withan emphasis on energy management. This paper describes the Department of Energy sponsoredcollaborative effort between a university, two-year college, Arkansas state energy office andindustry to address the issues of education and training of students

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Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara L Christe, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Steven J. Yelton P.E., Cincinnati State Technical and Community College; Roger Bowles, Texas State Technical College, Waco

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Engineering Technology

Education, 2012 Healthcare Technology Management: Changing the Name of the Field to Improve AwarenessIntroductionEngineering technology education falls into several discipline-specific areas including electrical,mechanical and construction divisions. In addition to these areas, many institutions offeracademic programs designed to train engineering technicians to work in the clinical setting,supporting the safe and effective use of medical equipment. The title of this specialty varieswidely, including biomedical engineering technology, biomedical equipment technology, clinicalengineering, and bioengineering technology (used by ABET). The lack of a unifying namediminishes career awareness, frustrates educators

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Understanding Our Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele L. Strutz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

engineering and doing well. Understanding the livedexperiences of these students is key to learn about their journey to engineering. One element oftheir lived experiences is the influences that prompted these students to want to studyengineering. These influences are not well-researched, yet the findings from their richdescriptive stories may provide insights that could help key stakeholders in guidance counselingoffices, classrooms, families, mentoring programs, engineering, politics, and governmentfunding programs. They may also be helpful to other low-SES first-generation students whowant to pursue engineering.Making career decisionsSome theorists believe that making career decisions is a developmental process that lasts alifetime. 5 Super’s

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Gaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

professionals—white men, minority men,white women, and minority women—and to design educational requirements that accommodatethese different strategies or educational pathways. Our NSF-funded Alternate Pathways toSuccess in Information Technology (APSIT∗) program is seeking to explore the nature of the ITand engineering educational and career pathways used by successful female and minorityGeorgia Tech alumni. In particular, the specific goals of this project are: • To define alternate indices of IT and engineering success that reflect a broader interpretation of societal value than indicated by yearly income and job prestige. • To determine the nature of successful IT and engineering educational and career pathways used by women and other

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifford R. Goodwin; R. Andrew Schaffer

and also focus their applied management studies in avariety of ways.How is applied management blended with engineering technology?A key attribute of the OLS degree is its “three-thirds” approach to the overall educationand development of its students. OLS students take about one-third of their courses inleadership and supervision, another one-third in a traditional technical discipline, and afinal one-third in general education courses in the areas of math, science, english,communications, behavioral and social science and humanities. In each of these areas,there are required courses, but students also have tremendous flexibility to develop theirplan of study to fit personal interests and career goals. The OLS and technologycomponents of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narges Norouzi, University of California, Berkeley; Carmen Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz; Kip Tellez, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

career placement. We posit that universities can betterexemplify the concept of “serving” Hispanic and Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color(BIPOC) students who attend predominantly white institutions by investing in effective transferpathways. Eligibility for our program extends to students who meet two or more of the followingcriteria: being the first in their family to attend college, experiencing socio-economic challenges,and hailing from historically underrepresented groups in terms of both gender andrace/ethnicity.Motivating RationaleThe 2007 Rising Above the Gathering Storm National Academies report sounded initial warningsabout the US’ precarious economic preeminence and competitive edge in science, technology,and innovation

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna-Lena Dicke, University of California, Irvine; Athena Wong, University of California, Irvine; David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine; Analia E. Rao, University of California, Irvine; Lorenzo Valdevit

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #43367Board 423: What Drives You? Exploring the Motivations and Goals of Low-IncomeEngineering Transfer Students for Pursuing EngineeringAnna-Lena Dicke, University of California, Irvine Dr. Dicke is an Associate Project Scientist within the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. In her research, she aims to understand how students’ motivation and interest in the STEM fields can be fostered to secure their educational persistence and long-term career success. Trying to bridge the gap between theory and practice, she is currently involved in an NSF-funded project aimed at fostering the

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Educational Research and Methods Potpourri I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

explore how students’ gender, race/ethnicity, mathproficiency prior to college, and confidence in fundamental skills and professional skills(leadership, communication, and teamwork skills) influences graduate school plans. Results fromthis study indicate that engineering students’ fundamental skills are positively related toengineering graduate school plans, whereas leadership skills are negatively associated with them.Communication and teamwork skills positively influence graduate school plans inside or outsideengineering. Women are more likely than men to plan to pursue engineering graduate school toprepare for an academic career as well as graduate school for other fields. This paper contributesto engineering educators’ understanding of the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Gerra; José L. Torres

2 shows the growth of participating students in what now has become the Post-SecondaryAwareness Seminar. In the most recent version of the Seminar, 368 students from 23 Schools inthe area, both public and private, were invited to participate. The location of the Seminar rotatesamong the local Colleges; the 1997 Seminar took place on the campus of Indiana-PurdueUniversity of Fort Wayne. Figure 2. Participation in the Post-Secondary Awareness Seminar in the period 1986-1997. (UHA, 1997.)The Post-Secondary Awareness Seminar has evolved over the years into a career planningworkshop:1986-1989 PSA "Day". A sequential presentation of topics of interest to the Latino Community, including

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Karissa Tilbury; Mohamad Musavi; Cary James; Alex Friess

- rates suggesting that rural and income-based pressures arestructured but encourage students to share their own compounding in this student population. To address theseexperiences. Topics to date have included: 1) Study Skills and pressures, the Building Bridges to Engineering StudentSelf-Reflection, 2) Goal Setting and Individual Development (BBEST) team seeks to create a targeted, personal approach toPlanning, 3) Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 4) counteract the social and financial pressures associated with theUndergraduate Research Experiences, and 5) Career perceptions of technology and advanced degrees in theirPreparation. The mentorship team consists of the associate

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston-Downtown; Henry Clyde Foust, University of Houston - Downtown; Dvijesh J Shastri, University of Houston - Downtown; Emre Yilmaz; Arash Rahmatian, University of Houston - Downtown; Mahmud Hasan, University of Houston - Downtown

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

whichstudents collaborate with faculty mentors on projects that tackle key issues in cybersecurity, dataanalytics, machine learning, bioinformatics, and structural engineering. Following the summerexperience, year-long mentoring is provided to ensure continued academic and professionaldevelopment, as students apply the skills they have acquired. The program encouragesparticipants to disseminate their research findings through presentations and publications,fostering interaction with the broader scientific community.The key objectives of the REU site are as follows: (1) increase students' interest in pursuingSTEM careers; (2) enhance students' confidence in their STEM abilities; (3) cultivate interest incomputational sciences and engineering fields; (4

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhang, Texas Tech University; Xiong Yu

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

provide these students with access to wind energy researchearly in their career and motivate them to pursue graduate education, career path or research anddevelopment-oriented jobs in the wind energy sector. The Great Lakes Wind Energy Challenges (GLWind) REU site funded by the NSF Division ofEngineering Education and Centers (EEC), co-hosted by Cleveland State University (CSU) and CaseWestern Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio, has supported nine undergraduate students in aten-week intensive summer research program during 2023 and 2024 (Years 1 and 2). The educationaloutcome aims at a diverse group of talented US students who are motivated and prepared to apply theresearch and communication skills developed in the REU program

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Epsilon Pi Tau (EPT), the 2018 CT Women of Innovation Award in the Postsecondary Academic Innovation & Leadership Category, the 2012 New England Board of Higher Education Excellence Award for the State of CT and most recently, the 2020 HI TEC Innovative Program of the Year Award and 2021 ITEEA Special Recognition Award. In 2014, she was invited to the White House College Opportunity Summit recognizing leaders like Karen for their commitment to STEM education. She also serves on numerous local and national boards including the Epsilon Pi Tau Honor Society, Hartford High’s Pathway for Engineering and Green Technology, and the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System. ©American

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Visco, The University of Akron; Nidaa Makki; Erin Stevic; Joshua Phillips, The University of Akron; Elle Bonnema; Deanna Dunn, The University of Akron; Laura Carey, The University of Akron

Based Learning. Her research interests include teacher learning and practices in science education, engineering education, and student learning and motivation for STEM.Joshua Phillips Joshua Phillips is a graduate student attending the LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education at The University of Akron. He received his B.S. in geology from The University of Akron. He is currently obtaining his master's degree in education.Elle BonnemaDeanna R. Dunn (Director)Laura L Carey (Director, Career Services) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Zip to Industry: A First-Year Corporate-STEM Connection

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S6A: Full Papers - Out with the Old, In with the New

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14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference

Authors

Alex Campbell, P.E., Oklahoma State University; John J Phillips P.E., Oklahoma State University

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Full Papers

understanding of otherdisciplines early in their educational career? While this study offers an overview and assessmentof immersing first-year Architectural Engineering students into a beginning architecture designstudio, the intention is for programs with similarly related majors to have the ability to also applyconcepts presented.For the purpose of this paper, interdisciplinary is defined as integrating knowledge and methodsfrom different majors using a synthesis of approaches, multidisciplinary is defined as studentsfrom different majors working together where they each draw on their knowledge from theirchosen major, and cross-disciplinary is defined as viewing a major from the perspective ofanother.Overview of the School of Architecture at Oklahoma

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Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris A. O'Riordan-Adjah, Durham Technical Community College

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

been; and for equally various reasons,enrollment in building and skilled trades programs at community colleges and trade schools is onthe rise throughout the U.S. What’s more, the trades are attracting a wide range of people, fromhigh school graduates to people looking for an alternative career, to military veterans. HamidKing, a skilled trades instructor at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, NorthCarolina reports that he has also seen a number of people who have been working in the skilledtrades for a number of years – some of them with as many as 10 or 15 years of experience in theindustry – returning to school to update their skills in hopes of increasing their earnings potential.And interestingly enough, he says some of his

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2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University

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Diversity

requirement.While the current program extends from summer through the fall term, students have manyopportunities throughout their first year for interactions with other students, faculty, andengineering professionals through a variety of co-curricular experiences related to theirdevelopment as an engineering professional, some of which are required. Students also havemany opportunities for career exploration as well as significant academic and student successsupport. Opportunities are provided for upper-level AcES students to interact with each year’snew cohort.Funding was provided by the WVU Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources from2012 through 2016 and by NSF from 2016 – 2019 (with scholarship funding for previous AcESstudents continuing

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Efforts to Understand and Support Students' Socioemotional Factors

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole Svetlov, Texas A&M University; Aamir Fidai, Texas A&M University; Christine M. McCall, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

tennis coach in Dallas ISD for 10 years. During his tenure at Pinkston high school in West Dallas, he became an advocate for the cause of access and inclusion in STEM education for all students. He founded the first STEM club in Dallas ISD and encouraged his students who were mostly from underprivileged families to aim for college education and careers in STEM fields. Aamir’s research interests include equity in STEM education and infusion of open source hardware and software in STEM classrooms through Internet of Things (IoT) Technology. Aamir is also interested in expanding the academic research opportunity to undergraduate students in in-service teachers in K-12. Aamir is an Aggie Research Leader and is active in

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ERM Technical Session 8: Survey and Instrument Development

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa G. Kuhn, Old Dominion University; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Shanan Chappell, Old Dominion University

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Educational Research and Methods

engage in self-governmentand have opportunities to represent their college to industry leaders and the local community.The national Engineering Ambassador Network has grown to include more than 30 colleges anduniversities, and reached more than 200,000 K-12 students and teachers in 2017 [1].Relatively little is known about the potential impact of ambassadorship on undergraduatestudents’ professional development and future career intentions. A recent survey of 30engineering outreach programs revealed that less than ten percent routinely assess the impact ofambassadorship, although leaders expressed a desire to do so, for program evaluation andresearch purposes [2]. Previous, mostly qualitative research has found that ambassadorship canimpact

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacey L. Vaziri, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Liesl M. Baum, Virginia Tech; Marlena McGlothlin Lester, Virginia Tech ; Phyllis Leary Newbill, Virginia Tech

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with Affiliate Faculty status in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics and the Learning Sciences and Technologies at Virginia Tech. He holds degrees in Engineering Mechanics (BS, MS) and in Educational Psychology (MAEd, PhD).Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design

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Innovative Graduate Programs and Methods, Developing Master's & Ph.D. Programs and Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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Graduate Studies

programs are non-thesis Masters Programs, with only a few requiring a capstone project. Although not conclusivefrom this data we can see that in general, the graduate degree programs offered in logistics &transportation have a heavy focus on workplace readiness by encouraging interaction withrelevant corporations and by helping working professionals to further advance their careers in thelogistics & transportation fields.IntroductionUS domination in manufacturing in the 1980s were declining steadily until recently due to themass outsourcing of US products and services to overseas countries (see figure 1). On the otherhand the logistics transportation sector is booming in the US (see table 1) [1]. Even though massoutsourcing is blamed for

Conference Session

Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lea K. Marlor, University of California, Berkeley; Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

Paper ID #13934The Impact of Summer Research Experiences on Community College Stu-dents’ Pursuit of a Graduate Degree in Science and EngineeringMs. Lea K. Marlor, University of California, Berkeley Lea Marlor is the Education and Outreach Program Manager for the Center for Energy Efficient Electron- ics Science, a NSF-funded Science and Technology Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She manages undergraduate research programs to recruit and retain underrepresented students in science and engineering and also outreach to pre-college students to introduce them to science and engineering career opportunities. Ms

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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Amanda Abrew; Melanie Villatoro P.E.

Broadening Participation of Female Students in Engineering Technology through a network of Peers Amanda Hayley Abrew & Melanie L. Villatoro New York City College of TechnologyAbstract There is a negative stigma centered on women’s capabilities in Engineering, which iscause for a stagnant rate of female retention in higher education. To move beyondstereotypical views of career choices for women in Engineering, the School of Technology andDesign developed a peer advisement program to increase retention and enrollment of femalestudents in associate degree programs in engineering technology. In its pilot phase, theprogram included civil

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

the technological level of theirbusinesses to offset the loss of low skill level manufacturing work to foreign competition. As themanufacturing environment evolves, the level of education of the workforce will increase. To pre-pare for this change in the Grand Rapids area a new initiative was begun to increase the number ofstudents pursuing manufacturing education.The Articulation and Integration of Manufacturing Education (AIME) project [2] is focused onincreasing the number of students pursuing manufacturing education by streamlining the educa-tional process. The first goal of the project is to expand the number of high school graduateschoosing manufacturing careers. This begins in the middle schools when students are starting toform

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

. More effort is needed to raise women’sskills in mathematics, science, and technology if women are to be able to compete.This paper describes a pre-college science and engineering education program conducted everyyear at Penn State Altoona for middle school (7th and 8th grades) girls and their teachers. Theprogram is designed to address each one of the above mentioned skills. The objective of theprogram is to expose middle school girls to careers in science and engineering. In addition toproviding a detailed description of the program, the paper analyzes the outcomes of this program.Recommendations for further improving the effectiveness of the program are also given.I. IntroductionVarious research literature shows that women face numerous

Conference Session

Innovatiive Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso; Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Connie Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso

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Minorities in Engineering

these REU’s give students a tasteof research and some of the technical components of conducting research, technical skillsalone are not enough to be successful in a research or academic career. Researchexperience connected with leadership building experiences will give students a definiteadvantage as they continue through their graduate and professional careers. ThisResearch and Leadership Experience for Undergraduates (RLEU) grouped a set ofminority students on the verge of starting their graduate programs in a project to conductresearch in optimization with various engineering applications. The group consisted ofstudents with little to no experience in optimization, students from industrial, mechanical,and civil engineering backgrounds, and