Conference Session

Attitudes, Self-Confidence, and Self-Efficacy of Women Engineering Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines

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Women in Engineering

to theircommitment to engineering. Passionately committed means the participant shows exceptionalenthusiasm for their major or prospective future job. Happily committed means the participant issatisfied with their choice of major and looking forward to their future in engineering.Committed with resignation means the participant has accepted that they will be an engineer butthey are not very excited about it. Uncommitted participants talk about careers unrelated toengineering even if they plan to finish their engineering degree. As previously mentioned, interview data were triangulated with survey data. All studyparticipants completed the Persistence in Engineering (PIE) survey in the fall and spring of thefirst three academic years and

Conference Session

Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ayhan Irfanoglu, Purdue University; Yating Chang, Purdue University

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Civil Engineering

study-abroad programs, faculty members,especially junior faculty members who have yet to obtain their tenures, find it time consuming toengage in teach abroad and related programmatic logistics. The development and managementprogram involves great amount of administrative details, ranging from program recruitment,flight arrangements, program payment and budgeting, excursion planning, and so forth. These Page 14.803.9tasks are outside of faculty members’ functions and can become impeding to the success of theprogram.As mentioned before, IAESTE-USA, a program of AIPT requested teaching plans and proposalsfrom various schools. The Earthquake

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Amy Thompson, University of New Haven; Carl Barratt, University of New Haven; Michael Collura, University of New Haven

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First-Year Programs

courses.This paper discusses our experience at the University of New Haven in addressing issues thatarise when running multiple sections of a first semester freshman engineering course. Some ofthe management issues that occur involve scheduling time of teaching assistants, planning andpurchasing materials, scheduling classrooms, recruiting and training full time faculty and adjunctfaculty and planning for their schedules, and managing the dissemination of information undertight budget constraints.IntroductionMany changes in engineering education over the past 20 years have focused on enhancing thefirst year experience to improve the academic performance and persistence of engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Collaboration: Faculty and Student Involvement in K-12 Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalie Mukolobwiez, Saint Ursula Academy; Michelle Beach, Midpark High School; Jaswinder Dhillon, Withrow High School; Raviteja Chalasani, University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

experience reproduces, at a smaller scale, what they had experienced for six weeksduring the RET Site. Following a 5E lesson plan, the teachers introduced the relation betweenbuilding, earthquake and harmonic motion. The activity is designed for the students to initiallytry to find out the main parameters of small scale building models that impact its dynamicvibration characteristics and the impact they may have in causing some damage or even completefailure (or collapse) after an earthquake. Using the engineering design process, students developpreventive devices, such as base isolators or dampers, to mitigate the damage. They investigatedthe effects of these devices on the natural frequency and/or damping coefficient of the building.They also

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University

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Electrical and Computer

HF design additionally requires that engineering and otherstudents see how HF design is applied to challenges in their discipline or future career. Ensuringfuture vitality requires that HF courses both enhance students’ chances HF-related employmentas well as entice students to pursue graduate studies.Discussion of Planning MeetingsTo create a course on high frequency design techniques that could serve as wide an audienceof students as possible, the three faculty and one graduate student involved in the course meton a regular basis (primarily) during a summer intercession to discuss the key requirementsfor such a course. The following paragraphs summarize the discussion of these individualsand serve to outline the framework around which the

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hitt, United States Military Academy; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy; Stephen Suhr, United States Military Academy; Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Page 14.987.6laboratory did not eliminate fully the potential for overcrowding issues during prototypeproduction. Future course offerings will also incorporate more stringent scheduling andmaximum occupancy requirements for the laboratory. The standard shop safety briefing will beaugmented with a requirement for students to verbally describe their fabrication plan to alaboratory technician prior to using any powered tools. Student inexperience with shopequipment is a systematic shortcoming in West Point‟s mechanical engineering program.Increased emphasis for hands-on applications will be incorporated into the Manufacturing andMachine Component Design course which precedes Mechanical Engineering Design to providestudents with greater exposure

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Terry Beck, Kansas State University; Bill Whitson, Kansas State University; Greg Payne, Kansas State University; Trevor Heitman, Kansas State University

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Mechanical Engineering

accomplished with the rapidprototyping capability, and is a planned future activity. Future additions planned include thetesting of more complex wing morphing, perhaps more focused on wing morphing as a means ofboundary layer control, and refinement of the image illumination system to extend the field ofview and clarity of image captures. A more flexible (i.e., two or more degree of freedom)sectioned wing model is envisioned as the next logical step, which would require moresophisticated internal joint control.AcknowledgementsThe MNE research engineer and instrument shop machinist Jason Selland is gratefullyacknowledged for his work in conjunction with the rapid prototyping system, which was used toconstruct the smoke rake and flapped wing designs

Conference Session

Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 2

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University

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Aerospace

state. According to regional graduateretention data14, only 27% of graduates intend to stay in the region, while 45% plan to leave aftergraduation. This makes the shortage of engineers even more severe than typical statistics ofopenings versus graduates illustrate.High technology companies form a large and growing sector of Connecticut’s economy, Page 14.650.6incorporating seven of the top ten fastest growing occupations in the state. A large annual gapbetween supply and demand in all highly technical fields in the state is anticipated at leastthrough 2012, and it is critically important that engineering students remain in the state to fill

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muge Mukaddes Darwish, Texas Tech University T-STEM Center; Mary Frances Agnello, Texas Tech

Tagged Divisions

Construction

resources are made available for its development' - World Summiton Sustainable Development: Plan of Implementation (2002). As time progresses the world seemingly begins to unravel due to the deliberate negligence of anignorant populous. This neglect is leading to an environment in which change can be volatile tomankind’s secure existence. Is it possible to solidify man’s grasp of sustaining its livelihood?The World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland report) concluded 23years ago that, “humanity has the ability to make development sustainable”. The Brundtlandreport defined sustainable development as the “development that meets the needs of the presentwithout compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; Amanda Funai, University of Michigan; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of the LLC (Learning Living Community) programs. These funding sources make it asustainable program for the foreseeable future.All review sessions are held in the Living Learning Center, in a classroom located within thefreshman housing complex. Holding these in close proximity to where the freshmen live greatlyincreases the number of students who attend each week. Because the location is so close,students “tag along” with their friends, even if they had no original intention to attend. Pizza isalso provided each week. Although almost all of the students have a meal plan, this also seemsto increase the number of students attending. At the end of the year, a survey is given toparticipants in the program and 60% indicated that having pizza at

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Reichle, Old Dominion University; Avery Bang, University of Colorado; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Engineering Programs. Bridges to Prosperity is a non-profitorganization that builds footbridges in rural third world communities. These design buildfootbridge projects require a full year for fundraising, site visit, design and construction, andprovide engineering students an opportunity to practice their knowledge of globalization,sustainability, engineering design, teamwork, and leadership. A team of students from theUniversity of Iowa completed the design and construction of a footbridge in Peru in the spring of2008. The planning, implementation and results of this service learning project are examined.Project BackgroundStarting in 2006, a group of undergraduate civil engineering students from the University ofIowa undertook a service learning

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Meyer, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

in notebooks by program outcome. Theresource requirement for these copies was about 10% of the total amount of student workcollected. This proved to be a great decision. When communication with our assigned PEVbegan, we informed him of our method of collection of student work, and he was quite pleasedwith the plan. For the visit, we presented the following resources to the PEV: ≠ CD-ROM with electronic copies of all student work (except final exams) from all CE program courses. ≠ CD-ROM with electronic copies of student work on final exams from all CE program courses. Final exams are re-used from year to year, thus it was necessary to keep this CD-ROM secured when not in use by the PEV. ≠ One notebook for each

Conference Session

Methods and Techniques in Graduate Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal Nepal, Texas A&M University; Paul Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

approved technical electives. ≠ Administrative capability and faculty advisor development ≠ Program marketing and promotion ≠ Faculty capabilities audit and resource reallocation such as shifting a portion of undergraduate teaching responsibilities to graduate teaching to meet the immediate needs. ≠ Curriculum design: the needs, competitors, program goals and quality position, facilities Page 14.858.3 and equipment (computers, programs, research labs, etc), graduate committee, faculty specialties and competitive advantages, plan of study, etc. ≠ Student recruitment and admission: minimum enrollment and long

Conference Session

Goal Specific First-Year Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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First-Year Programs

ofcommunication during the design process. Therefore, in the fall 2008 semester the teams werealso evaluated on their ability to effectively communicate their design with their team membersand with other teams in their discussion session. The class consists of 210 students; broken intoseven discussion sessions, with five teams each – for a total of 35 design teams. Thecommunication criteria was assessed in addition to the design project criteria. Each team wasrequired to complete their design, mathematical model and testing plans well in advance to theirscheduled testing date. Each team gave their design project construction materials and designplans (which include CAD drawings and instructions) to another team in the class whichconstructed the design

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Tania Monterastelli, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

no statistical differences in their interest in an engineering career, their knowledge ofscience and engineering fields, their plans to major in science or engineering in college, orwhether their interest in science is related to becoming a doctor or other health professional.Similar trends were also seen in the 2004-5 program.Energy Systems (2006-7) In the 2006-7 program series(6), the overarching design project was to construct an energysystem that would harness renewable energy, store, transport, convert, and utilize the energy toilluminate a small light bulb. Students could choose between using the following renewableenergy sources: solar, wind, or water. This design challenge encouraged students to useknowledge of potential and

Conference Session

Engineering and Mathematics Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Athanasios Tsalatsanis, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida

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Mathematics

; modeling analysis and control of discrete event dynamic systems.Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida Prof. Ali Yalcin received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick New Jersey in 1995, 1997 and 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department, and an Associate Faculty member of the Center for Urban Transportation Research His research interests include modeling, analysis and control of discrete event systems, production planning and control, industrial information systems, data analysis and knowledge discovery, and

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, illustrate, interpret, operate, practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use, or write.(4) Analysis: Instruction using the following are applicable to this level-analyze, appraise, calcu-late, categorize, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, ex-periment, question, or test. (5) Synthesis: Instruction using the following are applicable to thislevel-arrange, assemble, collect, compose, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, manage,organize, plan, prepare, propose, set up, and write. (6) Evaluation: Instruction using the follow-ing are applicable to this level-appraise, argue, assess, attach, choose compare, defend estimate,judge, predict, rate, core, select, support, value, or evaluate. However

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Golter, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washington State University; Gary Brown, Washington State University; David Thiessen; Nurdan Yurt; Baba Abdul, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, Developappropriate scoring examples, Test the resulting rubric, Revise the rubric.Portions of the CTL rubric describe a common problem solving method. Identify theproblem, make assumptions, pursue a solution methodology and evaluate your solution.Taking these four categories leaves us with a rubric that can measure critical thinking inthe context of problem solving. A pair of graduate students came up with examples ofwhat might be typical for each score in for a chemical engineering problem. This rubric,see Appendix 2, was then used to rate group presentations on the design project thestudents did, and later brief individual papers. The brief papers were one to two pages onthe following question: Imagine you are planning on adding a swimming pool and

Conference Session

Design Cognition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rogelio Cardona, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Ted Cruz, University of Puerto Rico; Noraica Davila, University of Puerto Rico; Omar Ferrer, University of Puerto Rico; Alexander Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico; Ramon Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico; Willie Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico; Nelson Mendez, University of Puerto Rico; Damian Torres, University of Puerto Rico; José Vega, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

14.385.6greater good for society, and would be implementable in the capstone designcourse. It was later given structure via an Undergraduate Research Course, titled“Idea Incubator”. Within the first meetings of this initiative, guidelines were setthat were to be observed at all times, and were intended to allow the student tofeel like a true scholar.The Unofficial Guidelines on Creative ThinkingThe first guideline was: Relax. Ironically, this was a serious implication. Allactivity in the classroom was allowed; from using cell phones to laptops, fromeating to taking a nap (a team favorite), as researchers, we were all allowed to dowhatever we felt like doing, all within the context of what our plans aimed for.The second guideline was: No one, under any

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineeringcourses are not based on one curriculum but are composed of many disciplinary subjectswhich form, hopefully, a network of epistemic elements constructed to unify professionalknowledge. In reality, professional engineering courses can be often seen as a collection ofsubjects in search of a unifying objective.Grunert19 distinguishes curricula in terms of style of delivery rather than knowledge contexts.He identifies 5 principle curriculum planning models outlined in table 1. Content-led,Rational and Assessment-led models largely represent a linear view of knowledge. Though,in style, the PBL curriculum model, like the Rational and Assessment-led models, isoutwardly outcome driven, nevertheless like the Fuzzy model it can also construct the non

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Heffner, Lehigh University; Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University; Steve Martin, Iowa State University; Kathleen Richardson, Clemson University; Eric Skaar, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Page 14.890.4engineering as well.2. Course OrganizationThe two cooperative MITT courses were intended to be second-level courses in glass on anadvanced senior or elementary graduate level. They were organized to first review the materialwhich would be covered in an introductory glass course. The review segment was covered in thefirst week of the semester. The remaining segments of the courses covered material new to thestudents and were taught by experts in their respective fields. Each segment emphasized aparticular technique for structural characterization for the first course or an associated propertyof glass for the second course, using examples of the correlation between structure and propertiesof glass.In the planning discussions among

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheila C. Palmer; Pamela M. Norris

intern responsibilities would prevent this from occurring.• Several participants suggested that the program should be made available to a larger number of doctoral students. This has been partially addressed in that the School of Mechanical Engineering now requires all Ph.D. students to take a Teaching Practicum course for two quarters. This course requires the student to select a faculty mentor who helps them prepare two or three lectures. The mentor then attends the class lectures and offers constructive criticism. The student also assists their mentor with course planning and a small amount of grading. This course is designed to be a teaching apprenticeship.• The requirement that participants in the program interact with

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Tsung-chieh Tsay; Richard E. Larew; Fabian C. Hadipriono

: .construction engineers to have a more scientific background and to be qualified in a shorter time. With suchrapid technological advances currently characterizing the construction industry, adequate classroomsubstitutions for field experience are increasingly necessary. As an example, in an earlier course term project of courses, such as the Construction Methods andEquipment, students assume the role of a construction engineer responsible for a construction project, such asa deep foundation construction for a high-rise building; a cofferdam installation for a bridge foundation; anderection of a concrete or steel building/bridge. Students selecting the erection of a bridge construction projectare given the plan drawings and specifications of the

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Vipin Kumar; Miguel Torres; Jens Jorgensen; John Lamancusa

Page 1.298.3 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings2.2 Course Development The course (and the other new courses developed by MEEP) was developed by an innovative, fourpart process designed to take maximum advantage of the strengths and diversity of each school.1) Planning - coordinators from each school agree on overall course objectives and content and how that course fits into the balance of the curriculum2) Piloting - one school takes the lead role in developing the course specifics and offering it on a trial basis3) Publication - The piloting school makes all course materials available in electronic format for use by other schools in the partnership.4) Deployment - The remaining schools

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Professor Michael J. Rabins; Jr., Professor C. Edwin Harris; Jeremy E. Hanzlik

presentation. “Numerical Problems for Gilbane Gold” provides numerical problems as a companion to the GilbaneGold video. Z-Corp, a fictitious company, is discharging lead and other heavy metals as a by-product ofcomputer chip manufacturing. The company anticipates a major expansion which will increase total leadoutput. To remain in compliance with local ordinances, the company plans to dilute the more concentrateddischarge with water. As the story unfolds, David Jackson, a young environmental engineer, realizes that thediluted lead will be absorbed by the city’s sewage sludge and ultimately end up on farmers’ fields as fertilizer.This places quite a burden on David, and in the end, he becomes a whistleblower which will likely lead todisastrous

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy L. Haupt; Gregory J. Toussaint; Daniel J. Pack

. Page 1.417.10 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Figure 7: Plot of two variable function versus fitness. Fitness is encoded in color with lighter colors representing higher fitness. We plan to improve the graphical user interface and the underlying genetic algorithm program toenhance its value as a teaching tool and to improve its effectiveness for research. One of the firstimprovements will be to optimize the MATLAB code for efficiency and speed. We can always move to a morepowerful computational platform, but we would like the program to be as efficient and elegant as possible. A simple improvement would be to add a significant amount of error

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zulfa Zakaria, IIUM

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

(take bold character) TB JM TB TB + N + TM (take bold character) TB N TB TB + TM (take bold character) TB TM TD A1 = TD (answer for topic A1 which is stated on the last column in Appendix) Page 14.112.8Page 14.112.9Page 14.112.10Page 14.112.11Page 14.112.12Page 14.112.134.2. Challenges to the validity of the studyThe survey conducted here faces possible challenges that may arise when it is compared to otherexperiments and case studies [25], even if it was planned with an adequate consciousness of suchchallenges

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enno Koehn, Lamar University; Devang Patel, Lamar University; Santosh Khonde, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

design emerged through theapplication of criteria to sustainability during emergency management efforts. The three criteriafor sustainability: equity in the present and future, economy and ecology, were used to assessweather-related emergency management activities typically conducted as a contingency beforean emergency, the reaction during the emergency and recovery activities conducted after theevent. Planning sustainable communities is a concept that is growing in importance in today’sworld. Sustainable communities are disaster resistant and vice versa. Sustainable communitydevelopment and disaster resistant communities are natural partners, and therefore bridges mustbe built between them to help optimize the goals of each. By the nature of

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marisa Orr, Clemson University; Zahra Hazari, Clemson University; Philip Sadler, Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Gerhard Sonnert, Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Educational Research and Methods

. Sinceintroductory college English students were surveyed, the project is able to examine themotivations and experiences of a spectrum of students, ranging from those who wanted tobecome engineers to those who had different career plans. Students at 34 randomly selectedcolleges/universities across the United States completed 6860 surveys (4801 freshmen). Overall,51% of the sample was female. This study compares the importance that freshman femaleengineers (n=87) placed on various career-related outcomes with corresponding results forfreshman female non-engineers (n=2236), and for freshman male engineers (n=486).InstrumentThe data used in this study was drawn from the PRiSE (Persistence Research in Science &Engineering) Project, which focuses on

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Burkett, University of Alabama; Charles Snead, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

brainstorming, formalizing a construction plan,drawing schematic representations of the instrument/lamp, generating a parts/tool list, andimplementation of the design. This project addressed the need for promoting creative thought inengineering undergraduate students for enhanced product design. Attention was given to theartistic component, a view often neglected. There were 43 total students in the class and theywere arranged into seven groups. The music department donated the instruments that included a:saxophone, clarinet, bassoon, piccolo, trumpet, mellophone, and trombone. The students weretasked to design and build a lamp from these instruments and the team budgets averaged $60 pergroup. The laboratory activity and completed lamp designs will be