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Aiman Kuzmar

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Hassan A. Kalhor; Mohammad R. Zunoubi

, 16.8% MS, 14% of doctoral degrees and represent 20.4%of the engineering faculty.III. ADVANTAGES OF EXTENDING OPPORTUNITIES TO WOMEN AND MINORITYGROUPSMore women and minorities must be attracted to engineering, because: 1-There is great need for engineers and technologists, and all available human resourcesshould be mobilized.-Engineering is a relatively high paying profession, and attraction of women andminorities promotes social justice and economic well-being.-Participation of diverse people in engineering fosters multi-culturalism, which bringsnew perspectives and insights much needed in our global economy.IV. WAYS OF ACHIEVING DIVERSITYA good percentage of women, although qualified in every way

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Adriana Popescu

increasingly complex, technologydriven society”8. The Center has created new courses and revised some existing ones, with the goal ofexposing students to real life problems that need to be solved from a multidisciplinary perspective.Besides courses such as “Engineering in the Modern World”, “High-Tech Entrepreneurship” and“Introduction to the Innovation Process”, students can enroll in “Reading and Writing About theScientific Literature in English” (WSE-1) and “Writing an Effective Scientific Research Article”(WSE-2). WSE-1 is particularly designed to introduce non-native English speakers to reading and writingscientific literature by analyzing how successful scientists use the published literature as readers andwriters. Both courses, WSE-1 and WSE-2

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Peggy A. Johnson

for improvingthe situation institution were explored.CURRENT STATE OF ENROLLMENT Available data describing the enrollment of women in civil engineering (and similarly named)departments nationally were compiled. Table 1 lists the nationwide percentage of women graduating witha B.S. in Civil Engineering over a period of years. The percentage of women steadily rose during the1980's and 1990's, but has stabilized in the most recent decade at about 20 to 22 percent. For comparison,the 2004 national average for women graduating with engineering B.S. degrees for all engineeringdisciplines, which was 20.3 percent (Gibbons, 2004). Figure 1 shows the percentages of women in the 2005 B.S. classes in Civil Engineering for 233programs

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Carol Siri Johnson

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K. A. Narh; R. N. Dave

, while simultaneously drawing their attentionto the REU web site being set up. The main avenues for advertising included: (1) individually contactingeligible students from within NJIT, based on a list compiled with input from undergraduate advisors ofengineering, Honors (through Dr. David Reibstein) , physics, and chemistry programs as well as thoseidentified by NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) leader, Tony Howell; (2) personal contactsof Prof. Dave at several targeted universities in the US; (3) general program announcement sent to mostengineering schools, and (4) placing the link of our program to national Honor college consortia. Theitems for the REU web site include an overview of the program describing the main objectives of

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Sunghoon Jang; Robert Russo; Hong Li

. III. THEORY Fig. 1 illustrates basic open loop polarimetry system. The linearly polarized wave emergingfrom the first polarizer, where θ represents the axis of the first polarizer, can be represented as thefollowing, E 1 = E sin θ x + E cos θ y ˆ ˆ(1)The linear polarization of the interrogating beam is modulated by the action of the modulatingFaraday rotator such that φ = φ f cos ω f t E1 φ φ+∆ E2 E3 Laser

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Suzanne Keilson

Intelligent Design and Engineering Design Education Suzanne Keilson, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD 21210AbstractThis paper briefly explores the intersection of current controversies about evolutionary theory and ideasfrom intelligent design (ID) with engineering education. Some of the statements about the nature ofdesign that were brought to the fore in recent controversies in the United States and elsewhere overevolution and intelligent design can have significance for engineers and engineering educators [1]. Fromthe time of the “blind watchmaker” to current day arguments, reference to human-made works andengineering abound in the literature of theology, evolutionary theory and its opponents. Whatever

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L. Kuczynski; C. McGuinness; S. Farrell; B. G. Lefebvre; C. S. Slater

still separate from the engineeringcurriculum and academic experience. It would be desirable to integrate more “real-world”experiences into the undergraduate curriculum at universities; however, industry-academicrelations have not, in general, been developed to their full potential. Rowan University hasdeveloped an Engineering Clinic Program which fosters collaboration between academia andindustry and provides “real-world” project experiences to undergraduate students. 1 At Rowan University, all engineering students participate in an eight-semester coursesequence known as the Engineering Clinics. In the Junior and Senior years, these clinic coursesinvolve multidisciplinary student teams

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Stephanie Farrell

1the ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team which are essential skills for professionalsuccess 1, 2, 3. Rowan’s Clinic Program integrates these diverse challenges of “real-world”projects with pedagogically valuable hands-on learning experiences 4, 5 and technicalcommunications6, 7, 8 .1.2 The Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic Project The development of industrial Junior-Senior Clinic projects has been described previously 9and is included here for clarity. The typical engineering clinic project starts well before the first day of the semester, whenthe preliminary work of defining a project must be complete. This work usually begins when anindustrial engineer is invited to Rowan for an informational meeting which includes a

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

,students earn curriculum credit for their research work. Therefore, these twoprograms, coupled with the existing K-12 programs, result in a K-16 programcontinuum at NJIT, and elsewhere, to increase diversity in engineering andscience. THE K-12 PROGRAMS Among the earliest of the K-12 minority programs was NJIT’s UrbanEngineering Program developed over 30 years ago [1]. NJIT is ideally located inthe heart of Newark, New Jersey, a city with a large minority population. Incooperation with the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at NJIT andbordering on an inner city high school these programs began to evolve.Simultaneously, NJIT [2] began to focus on attracting young women into scienceand engineering. This was the start

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Paul G. Ranky

to conform, expect instant gratification. They are often impatient,and therefore want it immediately…The important observation here is that all of these attributes should be respected,and that the education system should adjust to delivering these customerexpectations at a high quality level. Based on 12+ years of continuousdevelopment, field testing, and over 10000 undergraduate and graduateassignments submitted, our advanced content library and tested pedagogical 2methods and tools satisfy the above requirements.In this paper we focus on our generic methodology, and illustrate someengineering applications ([1], [2] and [12]). As a generic, object

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Michelle Albanese; Richard J. Puerzer

attain the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in aglobal, economic, environmental, and societal context.”background Before developing and implementing any kind of teaching technique and assessment method, afoundation in learning, assessment, and quality improvement theory must be established. Bloom’sRevised Taxonomy is based in educational psychology and presents a classification of learning skills andobjectives for students. The goal is to present a holistic approach to learning by combining the threeeducational domains—affective, psychomotor, and cognitive. The cognitive domain, where traditionaleducational methods fall, is best illustrated by a pyramid, as seen in Figure 1. In order to reach

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Josephine Lamela; James Finne; Karen Ford; Deborah Iacontino

composedof a four week summer academy, two full day follow up activities, and an ongoing mentoringprogram designed to empower the young women with knowledge, skills, confidence andacademic preparation and to support them to aspire to engineering or technology careers. Theacademy was limited to rising high school sophomores who had completed Algebra 1.U.S. Department of Labor statistics show that of the 450,000 engineering technicians in the U.S.labor force, only 83,000, or 18% are female. The Center for Work and Women at RutgersUniversity reports that although women are approximately 46% of the American workforce,women fill only 29% of SET (science, engineering and technology) jobs. Statistics show thatuntil middle school, girls and boys show equal

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Charles H. Forsberg

designs; Choice ofthe optimal design; Construction of a prototype or mathematical model of the chosen design;Testing and evaluating the chosen design; Modifying the design, as appropriate, based on thetest results; and finally, Documenting the solution.“Informed” design is a design process developed through the NSF-funded NYSCATE(New York State Curriculum for Advanced Technological Education) Project.1 In thispedagogical approach to design, students increase their knowledge and skill base beforeaddressing the specific design problem. This is done through the performance of short,focused activities known as “Knowledge and Skill Builders”, or “KSBs”.As an example of KSBs: One popular design activity for middle school students involvesthe students

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Alfonso Ortega; Stephanie Rodriguez

name for a counter-weightcatapult, a device for throwing a projectile by using the energy of a falling counterweightto power it. We have developed learning modules for K-12 students based on thediscussion and analysis of each of these machines with the two central tenets: (1.)However primitive, these are engineering machines and we can learn about engineeringby understanding them, (2.) The design of the machines was originally evolutionary, buttoday we would follow a systematic process which we systematize as EngineeringDesign. This paper discusses the structure and content of the Waterwheel and theTrebuchet learning modules. Structurally, the modules have four components:Introduction of concepts; Machine Conceptualization, Modeling and

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Seamus Freyne

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M.G. Prasad

. The first survey is about the influence of culturaldiversity among faculty on the students in their engineering education. The second survey is about theinfluence of cultural diversity among fellow students on the students in their engineering education. Thepurpose of these two surveys was to obtain a feel for the impact of cultural diversity on engineeringstudents in their engineering education. Each survey has five questions. Each question had evaluationscores of 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. The score 0 indicates that students perceive the cultural diversity in faculty asleast helpful in their engineering education and a score of 4 indicates that students perceive the culturaldiversity in faculty as most helpful in their engineering education.Survey

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V. Briller; E. Deess; R. Calluori; K. Joshi

6% 7% Coach 1% 5% Q-37: Who Most Influenced Your Decision to Attend? by Gender Male Female (n = 129) (n = 41) Parent 56% 61% Friend 12% 10% Relative 9% 12% Alumnus of NJIT 7% 2% High school teacher 6% 5

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Howard Kimmel; John Carpinelli; Rosa Cano; Angelo Perna

The K-16 Engineering Pipeline: A Working Model Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology Rosa Cano, New Jersey Institute of Technology Angelo Perna, New Jersey Institute of TechnologyIntroductionNew Jersey Institute of Technology, through its Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) offersinitiatives and programs designed to improve the quality of education at the elementary and secondarygrades in the City of Newark, its environs, and the State of New Jersey.1-4 Simultaneously, collaborationand articulation between the pre-college initiatives and the University’s academic

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Laurence Howell

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Shari J. Klotzkin; Howard S. Kimmel

Working Model, the student achieves a better and deeper understanding of thematerial.For a statics course at Temple University in the Fall of 2001, several Working Model simulations weredeveloped to illustrate important concepts to students. However, the students’ lack of previousexperience with the software was a major difficulty. Instead of spending valuable class time teachingstudents how to create Working Model simulations, exercises were developed which included controlswitches so the students could do the activity with only minimal knowledge of the software. Also, only2D simulations were used for this class.Working Model was used for problems with the following requirements: 1. A hands-on demonstration to clarify principles discussed in

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James Finne; John Carpinelli; William Barnes

for many students it is their first experience at assembling aprinted circuit board. It can be argued that such an assembly is outside of the scope for thiscourse but such experience is valuable nonetheless. Pre assembled adaptors are a possibility forthe future.Figure 1: Kit for Adaptor Assembly showing all components and finished assembly.Figure 2: Solderless breadboard with wires cut short and trimmed. Vdd are red, Vss are black, greenconnect MCLR, OSC, RGC and RGD, and yellow connect the LED bar graph to PORTC of MCU.There are a total of 17 wires for this exercise.The second exercise is a rote entry of a “hello world” program that takes the student through thestep-by-step process of typing an assembly language program, connecting the

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Paul Stanton; Duane Fairfax

1 Establishing Individual Accountability for Learning in an Exam-less, Group Project Course Paul Stanton, Duane Fairfax Department of Computer Science United States Military Academy West Point, NYAbstract We work toward a process model to establish individual accountability for learning in an exam-less,group-project course using an evolutionary approach and vertical slicing. We allow students to evolveinto self-directed, cooperative learners over the duration of

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Robert Esposito

1 Digital Signal Processing: A Hardware-Based Approach Robert Esposito Electrical and Computer Engineering Temple UniversityIntroductionTeaching Digital Signal Processing (DSP) has included the utilization of a simulation tool (ST) forstudent projects and homework. The leading ST in academia is MATLAB by MathWorks. MATLAB isa vector based environment that is conducive to DSP simulation. Specifically, filter design is simulatedutilizing a C-like code. Students are able to enter a filter design as a discrete

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Keith M. Gardiner

1 Discovery, Learning and Research in a Classroom Factory Keith M. Gardiner Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Lehigh University 200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA USA 610/758-5070 Fax 610/759-6527 Keith.Gardiner@Lehigh.edu Abstract Procedures in undergraduate and graduate engineering courses that place heavy emphasis on student empowerment and learning by doing are

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Yan H. Huang; Seong W. Lee

1 Fuel Flow Simulation and Fuel Characteristic Analysis in the Combustion System Using Statistical Method *Yan H. Huang, Seong W. Lee Department of Industrial Manufacturing and Information Engineering Morgan State University Cold Spring Ln & Hillen Rd Baltimore, MD, 21251, USA *Present & Corresponding author’s e-mail: yanhua32@hotmail.com Phone number:443-885-2732 & 3106AbstractOne of the goals of the engineering curricula is to convey an understanding of engineeringmethods such as

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V. Genis; W. Rosen; R. Chiou; W. Danley; J. Milbrandt; G. Marekova; S. Racz; T. Kitchener; B. LaVay

1 Laboratory- and Project-Based Courses in the Engineering Technology Curriculum V. Genis, W. Rosen, R. Chiou, W. Danley, J. Milbrandt, G. Marekova, S. Racz, T. Kitchener, and B. LaVay Goodwin College of Professional Studies, Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104AbstractDrexel University’s Goodwin College of Professional Studies has offered a co-op-based AppliedEngineering Technology (AET) major since 2002. The program comprises three concentrations inElectrical, Mechanical, and Industrial Engineering

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JungHun Choi; Wes Grebski

1 Project Driven Curriculum in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program JungHun Choi, Assistant Professor Wes Grebski, Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Hazleton, Pennsylvania, 18202AbstractThe authors of this paper have incorporated a project driven approach into teaching engineeringtechnology courses in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program at Penn State Hazleton

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Alfred A. Scalza

1 Organizational Behavior in the Classroom: Project Based and Experiential Learning in the Construction Management Curriculum Prof. Alfred A. Scalza, P.E. Farmingdale State College Department of Architecture and Construction ManagementAbstractThis paper sets out to address the “thesis” that there is a correlation between organizational behavior inthe classroom and student’s learning dynamics. What is Organizational Behavior and how does it applyto the classroom in a technical