Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gunnar Lucko, Catholic University of America; Panagiotis Tsopelas, Catholic University of America; Timothy Garland, Catholic University of America; Rodrigo Gonzalez, Catholic University of America; Thomas Lee, Catholic University of America; Justin Molineaux, Catholic University of America

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Construction

the appreciationfor the material that students gain when exposed to a student-centered learning environmentexceeds what traditional teaching is able to achieve. Faculty members take on the role offacilitators to the learning process of the students, set the scope, pose challenges, provideguidance, and be partners to the students. While student-centered learning may at first glanceappear less formal and structured, it is certainly richer in opportunities for students to developtheir own learning styles. At the same time, the teacher is challenged even more than intraditional teaching, as the lessons change from a monologue style to a constructive dialogue.This also poses a higher demand on utilizing assessment techniques that reflect the

Conference Session

Developing Programs for Adult Learners

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Plemmons; Ray Jones, The Citadel

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Continuing Professional Development

project-level capability. Alongwith developing knowledge, performance, and personal competencies, the need for developmentand standardization of project documentation became a central and primary theme for TPMcourse development. PMI and CMMI influences are reflected in the Knowledge andPerformance Learning Model shown in Figure 1. Also, the PMBOK Guide was accepted as aprimary text in all TPM courses. The ability to cross-reference content with the PMBOK Guidewas used as selection criteria of other primary and supporting texts17.Figure 1. Technical Project Management (TPM) Knowledge and Performance Learning ModelInput from IndustryIndustry professionals provided input concerning the needs of their employees and explainedhow the TPM courses could

Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pat Pyke; John Gardner; Marcia Belcheir; Janet Callahan; Amy Moll; Cheryl Schrader

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First-Year Programs

corporations.Which of the above students would be deemed a positive measure of student success accordingto both standard indicators? The answer is: only Jim, the student who changed his major tobusiness. Stefano would reflect negatively on the university’s six-year graduation rate. Valeriewould reflect negatively on the freshman persistence (retention) rate, even though she returnedafter her tour of duty. And Lucy wouldn’t count as a success in either statistic, as she transferredin from a community college!Students like Stefano, Valerie and Lucy don’t fit neatly into the traditional model of highereducation where a student completes high school, immediately enters college on a residentialcampus, declares a major, and has adequate academic preparation and

Conference Session

Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carsten Ahrens, F.H. OOW

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Civil Engineering

descriptions reflect and take into accountthe demands of the respective directive. Concerning the many-facetted character of civilengineering in Europe, this is not very surprising. As an example of the diversity inrecognition of civil engineering qualifications, chapter 3, annex 1 of the 2005 ECCE survey“Civil engineering Profession” 2 describes the different legislation procedures for therecognition and protection of professional titles. – It is obvious that no single civil engineercan exist in Europe when so many different legislation procedures are used.4. Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)Although a cohesion of professional recognition procedures or a common platform for civilengineers will not be found in the immediate

Conference Session

Project-Based Education in Energy Conversion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Figure 1 for a complete listing). In creating the courseABET syllabus for ME 413, the course learning objectives reflected many of these sameobjectives due to the inclusion of the project. The technical book review project therefore can beshown to assist engineering students attain attributes defined through ABET Criterion 3 ProgramOutcomes and Assessment which are challenging to reinforce in a conventionalThermodynamics course. These ABET criterion include (d) regarding teamwork, (g) regardingcommunication, (h) relating to impact of engineering solutions, (i) discussing life-long learning,and (j) regarding knowledge of contemporary issues [13].Resembling the technical book review, the team-based presentation project assigned in ME 680allows

Conference Session

What's New in the Mechanics of Materials?

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Linsey, University of Texas-Austin; Austin Talley, University of Texas--Austin; Daniel Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin Wood, University of Texas-Austin; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas-Austin; Rachel Kuhr, University of Texas-Austin; Saad Eways, Austin Community College

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Mechanics

& effect. Focuses on subjective meaning and values. F THINKING FEELING Manner in Which a Person Comes to Conclusions J Focus is on timely, planned decisions. Focus on process oriented decision-making. P JUDGEMENT PERCEPTION3.2. Felder-Soloman’s Index of Learning StylesFelder- Soloman’s Index of Learning Styles24 are composed of four dimensions(active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) (Table 4). Richard M.Felder and Linda K

Conference Session

New Models for Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Morozov, University of Washington; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Cynthia Atman, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

novices offered a greater proportion of factors from thenatural and social frames of reference, versus technical and logistical frames, which indicated arather broad approach the problem. We argue that this may reflect the novices’ relativeinexperience with engineering concepts. While the four experts’ responses differed in terms oftheir representations through a “breadth of problem scoping” coding scheme, two of theresponses echoed a characteristic top-down, breadth-first approach to design. The difference inprotocols presents challenges in comparing expert and novice behavior, and methodologicalissues of collecting less information from a greater number of subjects versus collecting moreinformation from fewer subjects were addressed. Because

Conference Session

Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Janice McCain, Howard University; Marcus Jones, Howard University; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

/building at a higher rate than men. As Felder et al. have argued, allengineering students tend to be visual rather than aural learners, so these differences in definitiondo not necessarily reflect any actual gender differences in learning style.10 Rather, they could bea reflection of gender differences in perception. Furthermore, it is quite interesting that a greaterproportion of men than women included improving humankind in their definitions ofengineering. Considering the weight of women’s development literature that documents theirsocialization as caregivers and connected knowers, we wonder if women engineering studentscontinue to set the study and practice of engineering apart from other activities that they wouldconsider to be in service to

Conference Session

FPD12 -- Novel Approaches to First Year Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Meyer, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Nancy Lamm, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Joshua Smith, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

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First-Year Programs

. Widelyread popular press rankings such as US News and World Reports publish graduation rates.Lower rates reflect poorly on an institution. Additionally, the failure to retain students impactsboth an institution’s budget and planning. A student who drops out no longer contributes tuitiondollars. According to Mangold, Bean, Adams, Schwab and Lynch1 “low graduation rates costuniversities scarce resources.” For these reasons and more, colleges and universities have turnedtheir attention to finding ways to retain the students that do enroll.A widely-implemented tactic used to improve retention is the learning community or first-yearseminar course. (For the purposes of this paper, the terms “learning community” and “first-yearseminar” are used

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Percifield, Purdue University; David Bowker, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University; Mi'schita' Henson, Purdue University

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International

Return to United StatesPre-travel IntensiveOne key aspect of the pre-travel course work was to acknowledge the “American and Purduecultures” and gain perspective on the culture of Greece and specifically the Island of Crete.Native Greek faculty gave presentations on current social, political, educational, and businesssystems; the impact of history on culture and technological development; and provide someinsights as to local cuisine, language, and geography. Students were challenged tocompare/contrast Purdue and United States cultures to Greek culture.Each student was required to maintain a hard copy journal, as well as an on-line journal (Wiki-based) to articulate, reflect on, and synthesize their experiences throughout the four weeks. Thiswas

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronny Veljanovski, Victoria University; Alex Stojcevski, Victoria University

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Electrical and Computer

skills. A final decisionby senior management concluded that PBL will be the teaching and learning style for allengineering programs in the University and initiated a top down approach to change allengineering curriculum. This top down push was similar to that of Aalborg University’s chanceprocess. The decision to change to PBL was made by Aalborg’s senior management and theengineering college5. Reflecting on VU’s change process, there were clear similarities withorganisational literature on change based on Kotter’s model6 and the eight steps totransformation. In semester 1 of 2006, all electrical engineering undergraduate programs werelaunched with a PBL teaching and learning style. Prior to the launch, intensive curriculum designtook place as

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Charles Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Pat Van Driessche, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Marilyn Barger, University of South Florida; Kim Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Debbie O'Hare

embedded in their units of study. Page 12.489.5Importance of Curriculum AlignmentAn important and unique characteristic of the curriculum at Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. ElementarySchool is its horizontal and vertical integration and alignment. This combined alignment andintegration permits the curriculum to mature as the school matures. This, in turn, drives studentexpectation levels up as the fraction of students in the higher grades increases to reflect more ofour primary students moving through the school. The alignment quality also assures that we canincrease our depth of focus with respect to engineering while the integration effort willstrengthen

Conference Session

Optical and Wireless Communication Systems

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Moore, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

criticalimportance to students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,for it represents an accumulation of the body of knowledge of the discipline. Research showsthat educational institutions facilitate the development of critical thinking when they incorporatean active learning style in their instructions and laboratory experiences. Experiential learningmodels presents us with the four modes on which learning styles are based – concreteexperience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation. Studiesconducted on knowledge retention, found that using these learning modes, individually and inpair wise combination, from twenty –to- sixty percent increase in retention has been achieved.However

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manfred Hampe, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt; Lars Hagman, KTH; Jan Helge Bøhn, Virginia Tech

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International

-tensive experiences and well-tuned infrastructures in place to facilitate outgoing and incominginternational students, scholars, and faculty members. This includes dedicated staffs to facili-tate travel briefing, second language training, housing, visa application and processing, socialintegration, and student advising and counseling.12 Evaluation planThe assessment planned reflects both the goals of the program and good practice, beginningwith the alignment of assessment strategies and outcomes. Direct methods will provide oppor-tunities for students to demonstrate their achievements; indirect methods will provide evidenceof students’ and others’ perceptions of students’ achievements. Where possible, assessmentwill be embedded in coursework, and

Conference Session

Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

example, consider BOK Outcome 1, which includesrequirements for “biology, chemistry, ecology, geology/geomorphology, engineering economics,mechanics, material properties, systems, geo-spatial representation, and informationtechnology.” The corresponding provision of the Basic-Level Civil Engineering ProgramCriteria requires only “one additional area of science, consistent with the program educationalobjectives.”The sharp difference between the standards communicated in the BOK and the criteria is entirelyappropriate, as it reflects the distinctly different nature of these two documents. If the criteriawere written at the same level of detail as the BOK, they would be overly prescriptive andlargely unattainable. If the BOK were formulated as a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gina Montgomery, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University

visibly vibrating. The listeners also reported a lack of clarity and felt the sound wasdistorted. Substantial portions of the back wall were bare and lacked any acoustical treatment,and these reflected a part of the energy back towards the source, creating additional reflectedenergy. When the reflected energy detected was loud and late-arriving, this was resulting inunwanted reflections. The clients wanted to resolve the issue as quickly as possible in order toavoid generating a lot of negative publicity.L&T engineers and managers consulted with members of the faculty at a university to evaluate anew material that could potentially be used to resolve the problem and determine thereverberation time of the auditorium if this material was used

Conference Session

International Distance & Service Learning for Engineers- Discussion on Best Practices

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Swan, Tufts University; David Gute, Tufts University; Douglas Matson, Tufts University; John Durant, Tufts University

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International

, organizing and completing theseprojects from the perspective of faculty advisors (each of the co-authors has served as facultyadvisor in one or more international projects). Three projects are described with faculty advisorsproviding insights on project team development and organization, travel coordination issues,project delivery, and personal reflections of the benefits and detriments observed during and afterproject participation. Finally, the paper provides some concluding remarks on how internationalprojects can be more successful as a result of improved advising.Project 1: Kwabeng, Ghana - Schistosomiasis Control in a Community Impacted bySurface Gold-MiningBrief Project Description:Between 30-40% of the children attending elementary school in

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

teachercomments into five focuses (correctness, style, organization, content, and context) and nine modes(corrections, criticism, qualified criticism, praise, commands, advice, closed questions, open questions,and reflective statements).20 In examining the more specific linguistic forms taken by our students’comments, we also consulted Mackiewicz’s subdivisions of non-directive comments: hints(evaluations, general rules, and elisions)19 and compliments (formulaic and non-formulaic—those thatrely on “sequences of language that people have heard and said many times before,” and those thatexhibit “a novel coherence”).21Procedure for Inventorying of Peer Review FeedbackThe site for the first iteration of our study was two sections of the Technical

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Bob Nelson, University of Utah

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

instruction. Finally, faculty members’ reflect on theirexperience working as part of a multidisciplinary team and offer recommendations forimplementation.BackgroundThe field of engineering demands collaboration to solve today’s complex problems. Gone are thedays of working alone in a lab. Today’s engineer needs to be able to function as a productiveteam member, and to accomplish this objective, the engineer needs to be a competentcommunicator. As a result, much of the focus of communication instruction within theengineering disciplines emphasizes effective informal communication within teams. In fact, agreater focus has been placed on “teaming” in the engineering education literature.Engineering teaming research, in general, encompasses the following

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Patti Culley, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

apply for scholarships. The high school resume is often two pages andpredominately a list of activities in which the student participated and honors that the student hasreceived in high school. Now the resume must reflect the skills and knowledge of a promisingengineer. Since the lower division students do not have many college-level activities, honors ortechnical experience, they are often at a loss on how to translate what they do have into acompetitive college-level, pre-professional resume. Page 12.801.2Minority students as a group do not usually have any distinct needs when it comes to puttingtogether a resume. Minority students may be

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Chen, California Polytechnic State University

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Materials

, thestudents were quite used to using the whiteboards to sketch out plans and ideas, as well asdiscussing pros and cons with each other. Since there were so few students in the class,there also appeared to be a fair amount of accountability to contribute in some way. Evenwhen the students divided into 3 different display projects, the students still relied oneach other for feedback and help.While the final designs seemed to be quite simple at first, there turned out to be a varietyof challenges that had to be overcome. The “real world” aspects to the projects and theneed and desire to have the displays actually work impacted the students, as revealed intheir reflection assignments and end of the quarter survey.Metallic TrampolineThe “atomic trampoline

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Michael McCuddy, Valparaiso University

Obligations From Individual Development Individual Development Emerging Technology Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Figure 1. The four-step teaching sequenceThe authors have used this teaching method in leading two class sessions of four different coursesections of both engineering and business students. At the beginning of the first class session,students completed a 17-item questionnaire that measured knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors thathopefully would be influenced by the training sessions. During the two training sessions, thepresentation and discussion reflected the material in section 3 of this paper. At the end

Conference Session

Redefining the Boundaries of Engineering and Liberal Education: Contributions to the Year of Dialogue

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Cech, University of California-San Diego; Kara Boettcher, Montana State University; Heidi Sherick, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

. Page 12.1436.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The Incredible Shrinking Job Description: Trends and Consequences of an Increasingly Technical Engineering ProfessionAbstract: ASEE promotes the importance of graduating engineers who possess a host of non-technical skills to complement their technical competencies. As this year of dialog draws to aclose, the authors are interested in the extent to which such well-roundedness is reflected in theactual work that engages engineering graduates. Using quantitative data from the 1993, 1997and 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, this paper analyses the changes in workcharacteristics of jobs that employ graduates of U.S

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 2

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Vollaro, Western New England College

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Materials

judgment’ in the positioning of selection lines on the materials selection charts (i.e. use of CES EDUPack software) and, Page 12.1038.4 3) reflect on the implications of the material(s) selected for the ‘product’.The philosophy and methodology adopted throughout the Materials Selection and EngineeringDesign and Manufacturing course, is that presented in the text by Michael Ashby, MaterialsSelection in Mechanical Design, Third Edition. The exercises propose using the “Ashby’sphilosophy” outlined in Figure 1. Strategy for Materials Selection 1 All materials

Conference Session

Special Session on Fixed-Point Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Padgett, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

can be treated as “ideal” and so signal can be separated from quantization and othererrors. This approach allows the validation of the theoretical predictions discussed in class.If we wish to explore the effects of different configurations of precision such as reduced wordlengths for FPGA simulation, or increasing the precision of a portion of the algorithm to 32 bitdata, the simulation tools can easily be reconfigured to reflect the changes, and all the analysistools still apply.The use of simulation tools teaches good habits in system development. Students can developand debug their algorithms in floating point, then simulate the results in fixed point and resolveany precision issues before starting any hardware implementation

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

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Liberal Education

built portfolios through a semi-structured curriculum with each week ofthe course focusing on one of the previously mentioned portfolio elements (artifacts, annotations,etc.). Each week students worked to achieve the goal of describing their preparedness tofunction as an engineer. During this portfolio work, students sought to portray themselves asengineers and to provide evidence of their preparedness. The six students from whom wecollected data were the ones who agreed to work with us on our research. Our data includeweekly written reflections from the students about their activities and the challenges they wereexperiencing, periodic interviews with the students focused on the same issues, and pre and post-portfolio construction interviews in

Conference Session

Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy; Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

statements are recommendations from the NAE Committee on the Engineer of2020, Phase II,1 many of which require inspiration of the students to accomplish. The authorsfind that without that added element of inspiration the likelihood of success is minimal: 1. The baccalaureate degree should be recognized as the “pre-engineering” degree or Bachelor of Arts in engineering degree, depending on the course content and reflecting the career aspirations of the student. 2. ABET should allow accreditation of engineering programs of the same name at the Page 12.903.3 baccalaureate and graduate levels in the same department to recognize that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

. • Currently working with the NSF ATE Midwest Center to adapt their marketing materials. Page 12.1392.3Objective 3: Implement regional programs in Information Technology, Engineering Technology and Manufacturing Technology that reflect existing and emerging industry needs. • CREATE has developed and implemented over 50 new engineering/manufacturing/ electronics/information technology Associate degree and certificate programs. These new curricula have resulted in 197 new or revised courses being taught at six community colleges in Fall of 2006 that integrate academic and vocational subject matter with industry skill standards

Conference Session

Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

------ ------ ------testTable 4: MCI results by sex. Numbers in parentheses are number of students (N) followed bythe standard deviations. The values of N reflect those students for whom data was available.MCI gain may not equal the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores due to round-offerror. MCI pre-test* MCI post-test* MCI gainMale 11.9 (87, 3.6) 15.7 (89, 4.0) 3.8 (82, 3.4)Female 10.3 (25, 2.7) 13.8 (25, 3.7) 3.6 (24, 3.0)* Significant at p

Conference Session

Student Teams and Project-Based Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Zemke, Gonzaga University; Diane Zemke, Gonzaga University

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Educational Research and Methods

world just to get off topic. ¶2: Just to make sure you know where everybody’s at? ¶3: And—I mean that it’s hard to say that’s —that’s the most important thing because these other things are kind of the foundation for what you build a good meeting. But assuming you kind of had rudimentary standing agenda items and these other things, it wouldn’t really matter at all unless you had this good process check. I think that’s king of the key. You can have a meeting without one, but you can’t have a good meeting without it.In this reflective task it appeared that the students were easily drawing well-formed ideas fromtheir previous discussion. One implication of this apparent