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IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

them to the industrial engineering program at the University of Oklahomaand what encouraged them to stay. Out of 45 IE students interviewed, 79 total comments(comprising 13 classifications) were identified addressing recruiting and only 27 comments(across 5 classifications) addressed retention. The majority of students (53%) reported that thenature of the degree was a critical factor in choosing IE as a major. This demonstrates theimportance of informing students about IE as a career option. For retention, it appeared thatstudent-faculty interaction had the strongest impact, as reported by 29% of the sample. Whilethis factor may be more difficult to implement, it was critical for students in our sample to haveinteraction with the faculty

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Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

them to the industrial engineering program at the University of Oklahomaand what encouraged them to stay. Out of 45 IE students interviewed, 79 total comments(comprising 13 classifications) were identified addressing recruiting and only 27 comments(across 5 classifications) addressed retention. The majority of students (53%) reported that thenature of the degree was a critical factor in choosing IE as a major. This demonstrates theimportance of informing students about IE as a career option. For retention, it appeared thatstudent-faculty interaction had the strongest impact, as reported by 29% of the sample. Whilethis factor may be more difficult to implement, it was critical for students in our sample to haveinteraction with the faculty

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

CE 431 CE 303 Graph. Eng. Mech. of Structural Concrete Bldg Career Steel Des Eng. Econ Comm. Statics Matls Mech. I Des. I Systems Prep. CE 110 CE 101 CE 201 CE 320 CE 336 CE 441 CE 311 CE GIS

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seth Bates; Patricia Backer

worked together todesign, manufacture, and assemble a product. The Learning Factory, a product of theManufacturing Engineering Education Partnership between three major universities (Penn State,University of Puerto-Rico-Mayagüez, University of Washington), is a practice-based,interdisciplinary project that involves teams of students from Business and Industrial,Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical Engineering3. In the Learning Factory, students activelyengage in the product realization process and complete this entire process—from design conceptto finished hardware—throughout their educational careers. Senior design projects are cross-disciplinary and require the use of advanced design and manufacturing techniques. Our currentproject builds upon

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Dennis

management seeks effective and efficient long-term ownership of capital facilities via systematic acquisition, operation, maintenance, preservation, replacement, and disposition. Goals include optimizing life-cycle performance, minimizing life-cycle costs, and achieving maximum stakeholder benefit. Tools and techniques include design innovations, new construction technologies, materials improvements, geo-mapping, database management, value assessment, performance models, web-based communication, and cost accounting. Including asset management recognizes that civil engineers, during their careers, are likely to be involved with some aspect of capital facilities

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Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Yasuhara

. Employing a grounded theory-style method, we investigategender differences in how pre-major undergraduates are attracted to (or repelled by) the CS major.By also investigating how students conceive of CS as a discipline, culture, and career area, we notonly ask the students the question, Why or why not computer science?, but also discover how theyunderstand the question.We begin by discussing relevant underrepresentation research in Section 2. Section 3 presentsresearch questions and our methods. Survey analysis results in Section 4 are interpreted and dis-cussed in Section 5, and the paper concludes with a discussion of future work. Page

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Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

lecture onmanufacturing issues and topics. These seminars also provide students with theopportunity to interact with industry representatives who attend the seminars.The degree to which the ERC has succeeded in changing culture for the graduate studentsin the Center is addressed in the following statements by two of our graduates who wererecently hired by industry. These testimonials amplify the unique educational focus thatthe Center offered to assist them in their careers.“One of the most important aspects of my experience that helped me tremendously indeveloping my career was the higher, system-level view we gain in our ERC. I thankERC’s management for creating this high-level vision in the Center.” – Frashid M. Asl,Ph.D., Vice President, Risk

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brecca Berman; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

schools.STEP SpilloverGraduate FellowsAs anticipated, graduate students participating in STEP report improvement in their leadership,communication, and teaching skills. However other effects appear to be equally important, andwere included as new objectives in the grant renewal proposal. The spillover effects include:• Academic Content Mastery: Graduate students teaching high school students must convey knowledge so that it is comprehensible to students who come from varying achievement levels and backgrounds. This requires that knowledge be thoroughly understood, condensed and distilled to improve its efficacy.• Career Perspectives: Hands-on teaching experiences provide graduate Fellows with early opportunities to elucidate their interests in

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

fall. The studentswere asked to complete a detailed time management schedule for the spring. The fall speakerwho had talked to the Scholars about time management was brought back in the spring to give afollow-up session. The students were amazed to see how much time they really had left beyondtheir scheduled time for attending classes, studying, working, eating, sleeping, commuting, andgetting ready time.A major project for the spring was to have each student write a good resume. This wasparticularly difficult for freshmen as they tried to focus their resume on college level activities inwhich they were just beginning to participate. An excellent Career Service representative metthe NACME Scholars twice to help them improve their resumes and

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Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stockman

Session # 3620 Computing Fundamentals for IT and IS Programs George Stockman Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State UniversityAbstractInformation technology impacts the careers of all professionals and thus its concepts areimportant for education. Our Department developed a unique sophomore level course to providefundamentals to students with majors in Business, Telecommunications, or Engineering whowith a Specialization in IT. While the initial course was experimental in nature and theavailability was only guaranteed for

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

courses. In the assessment process, we found surprising results,particularly in the summative assessment process of collecting data for continuous improvementand ABET outcomes. Some possible explanations for the results will be offered.BackgroundIn the late 1990’s, engineering and technology educators received perhaps the greatest shock oftheir careers – accreditation was changing to outcomes-based assessment from a decades-old listof topics. After the shock wore off, it took several years of hard work for most educators just tounderstand outcomes-based assessment, let alone perform any meaningful assessments.The difficulty most engineering and technology educators have with outcomes-based assessmentcan be easily understood by studying the mental

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyson McCall; Corinne Ransberger; Steve Hsiung

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Preston McCrary; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball; Wesley Stone

, a strengthened partnership was created.Caterpillar:Western Carolina University has maintained a close relationship with the precision seals division Page 10.531.5of Caterpillar. Through part-time and class projects, students have gained valuable experiences “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”in preparation for engineering careers. The following is an example of the type of projectscompleted by students at Western Carolina University.During the Spring semester of 2003, the Engineering

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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Drnevich

ofsubspecialties or at least work with people in other subspecialties as their careers progressed.Furthermore, people with the broader vision were more likely to advance to leadership positions.This approach appears to have been appreciated by at least some of the students (typically thebetter ones) and there was more widespread ownership of the work, i.e. increased teamwork.Use of the Web for all Course Materials and Products - The worldwide web also is becomingan increasingly important component to the teaching, design, and construction processes. In themid-1990's, instructors of this course began using the web for course information so that studentscould get ready access to this information. In Spring 2001, the author with the assistance of hisco

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MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Jana Renner Martinez; Ann Darnell

mentoring and professional development for students interested inpursuing research as a career. Numerous programs have assessed the impact of researchexperiences on under-represented minority undergraduate students. Nagda et al[2] investigatedthe impact of participation in the University of Michigan’s Undergraduate Research OpportunityProgram (UROP) on the persistence of 1,280 lower division (freshman and sophomore students)minority students. Participation in the program had a significant impact on the persistence ofAfrican American students. While the persistence rates of White and Hispanic students werehigher for participants than for non-participants, the difference was not statistically significant.Other studies have examined the effectiveness

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Tracy; Jason Immekus; Susan Maller; William Oakes

self-report measures to assess program outcomes.1. Introduction Service-learning is the focus of considerable research and is a feature within manyengineering programs. Within engineering education, design courses embedded in service-learning provide a way to promote students’ development of technical and professional skills forsolving applied problems. The ability to create learning environments for engineering students toapply mathematical and scientific principles when solving applied problems is critical forpreparing students for careers in engineering2. The need for engineering programs to producestudents proficient in these skills upon graduation is reflected in ABET EC 2000. Service-learning courses may provide engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Russomanno; Anna Lambert

or summer internships with industry partners of theprogram;4) To improve employment placement in highly sought-after positions.Specifically, the CSEMS program provides a focused, integrative academic experiencefor scholarship students through the processes of emphasizing career and personalcounseling, tutoring, mentoring, career development, research or application-orientedopportunities, student collaboration, and countless other academic and personaladvantages gained by being fully engaged in the University community.Program RationaleStatistical data relating to attrition and retention of students majoring in science,technology, engineering, or math (STEM) fields continues to be alarming, with high-ranking administrators and researchers

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

data collection methods, and experimentresults. Students conducted research primarily through the internet on the topics of proteincrystallization, microgravity, NASA’s biotechnology program, and careers in biotechnology.These topics are introduced into their essays. The essays were graded and the top twenty essayswere identified.The twenty winning essayists were invited to participate to an actual flight sample loading thatwas conducted by scientists and engineers affiliated with the NASA Marshall Space FlightCenter. The flight sample loading was held during the final week of TexPREP. The flightsamples were frozen so that they could then be flown to the International Space Station via theSpace Shuttle. The twenty students were promised a trip

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Wiedenman

increasingly technologicallyadvanced Army. During their careers, USMA graduates will be the leaders who employmechatronic devices. It is vital that they understand the basic concepts behind thesetechnologies. Beyond the Army’s need for technologically competent officers, however, anothermotivation for the current effort has been the desire to integrate the engineering curriculum.Educating engineers who can function in a multi-disciplinary environment directly supports theprogram outcomes delineated by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) in their Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs7. The need for multidisciplinaryintegration at West Point is explicitly stated in the Operational Concept for the AcademicProgram

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

immersing them into ElectricalEngineering communications and signal processing research. Our objective is to raise the interest ofundergraduates in thesis-oriented research and hence attract them to graduate education programs orprepare them for research careers in the industry. The innovation includes the development of researchmodules that expose UG students to signal processing for communications (SP-COM) research. Thesemodules are taken by students across the Electrical Engineering SP-COM curriculum. Four interrelatedmodules are first injected in early junior-level “Signal and systems” and “Random signal analysis”courses and then in senior-level “Digital signal processing” and “Communications systems” courses. Inaddition, a new senior-level

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerri Burke; William Krantz; Joel Fried

female Professor in Cultural Studies) • Presenting a Technical Paper (presented by the REU Director)A field trip to the Air Force Museum and Wright Patterson Air Force Laboratory in Columbusalso was arranged for the students and their mentors. In addition, arrangements were made forthe students to attend the 8th International Conference on Inorganic Membranes that was held inCincinnati. A technical poster competition was held during the last week of the REU program.Cash prizes and award plaques were given to the top three posters at a farewell dinner, whichalso provided a forum for students, advisors, and REU staff to discuss the highlights of theprogram and influence on the students’ career goals.The cultural and social program consisted of

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simoneau; Mary deManbey; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

what’s going on in our industry. We’re working with a lot of advanced technology, and I think teachers and students would be amazed at what we do.”– Andy Summerville, Becton Dickinson Medical Supplies “I just wanted you to know that the staff and I truly enjoyed our interaction with (Sharon and Ingrid) through the externship program. I feel we all mutually benefited from this experience and will be using ideas generated by Sharon and Ingrid in our approach to conducting career tours for high school students.” – Patricia Pisciotto, M.D., University of Connecticut Health Center. “My externship exceeded my expectations. They were very kind and allowed me to jump right in doing research

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Pangborn; Renata Engel

, but at the general education curriculum as a whole and the multi-dimensional opportunities it affords to students in meeting the career and life goals that they, aswell as other stakeholders – faculty, future employers, etc.– deem important. The AmericanAssociation for Higher Education espouses similar best practices for assessing student learning,including involvement of “representatives from across the educational community,” and the useof approaches that “reveal change, growth and increasing degrees of integration,” by focusing onexperiences that lead to the expressed learning outcomes. As will be seen later, our design forassessment draws heavily on these principles.Another fundamental change made to the general education program at Penn

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wang

careers. Both degree-granting and continuing education programs must integrateenvironmental, ethical, and aesthetic values as well as an understanding of political, social,and economic issues that affect public policy. Sustainable development must be a value that isencouraged at all levels of professional training and practice. Thus, while education in any ofthese areas might be carried on independently, education and professional practice in manyfields will be more closely attuned to community and national needs if they are approached ina unified manner. Often, it seems, faculties from other countries are more capable of accurately assessing andpredicting new trends in the global business environment. This author believes this is becausethey

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gardner; Patricia Pyke; Amy Moll

wasdecided that more aggressive support should be developed, aimed at specific courses thatare known to be historically difficult for engineering students. Surprisingly, wediscovered that Calc I was not one of those courses as the success rate of Calc I is ratherhigh. Further analysis showed that only a minority of students in Calc I are beginningtheir college career, hence the high attrition often seen in the pre-calculus anddevelopmental algebra courses.Supplemental Instruction and MathematicsThe Supplemental Instruction (SI) model has proven to be successful in many settings,particularly for at-risk students in gate-keeper courses 3,4. Surprisingly, this model hasnot been widely used in developmental mathematics courses as noted by Wright5. One

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Carlson

Session #____ Rapid Prototyping to Cement CAD Modeling Skills Lawrence E. Carlson Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at BoulderIntroductionAn important aspect of contemporary mechanical engineering education is mastery of a modernsolid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) software package. This important skill is vital tofuture engineers’ careers and gives students immediately marketable skills for summeremployment. Students also need to learn

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

underrepresented minoritystudents. This comparison focuses on changes in student drawings and interview data over timeamongst both groups. This comparison includes a discussion of both groups in terms of theirdeveloping understanding of engineering processes, engineering tools, and engineering fieldsrepresented by the generic term “engineering”. Also included is a discussion of results in termsof implications for future policies and decision-making related to K-12 STEM education.IntroductionDespite efforts to increase student interest in engineering-related fields, the number of U.S.citizens choosing engineering related careers is declining [1]. At the same time, the number offoreign nationals traditionally used to fill voids in U.S. engineering fields is

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Barrett; Marion Usselman

grant from the Siemens Foundation as part of an initiative to encourageminority students to consider science and engineering as a career, and to increase the number ofminority students submitting research projects to the Siemens-Westinghouse Competition inMath, Science and Technology. Each team consisted of 2-3 high school students, a teachercoordinator who had spent time at Georgia Tech in a research laboratory as part of the 2003GIFT program, and the personnel from the Georgia Tech laboratory. The students were recruitedduring the fall of 2003, and encouraged to attend the regional Siemens Westinghousecompetition at Georgia Tech. During the 2003-2004 school-year, they were encouraged to workto become familiar with the research lab, to define

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Denny Davis

or mismatched understandingscan lead to inappropriate career decisions, ineffective curriculum, and poor performanceevaluations. This paper describes a process and defines the profile of an engineer performingwell in professional practice. Developed with input from both academic and non-academicengineers, the profile presents technical, interpersonal, and professional skills or behaviors thatalign with key roles performed by the engineer. The profile is a valuable resource for educatorsand for students aspiring to become high performing professionals in the field of engineering.IntroductionSociety holds high expectations of people in professions entrusted with the well-being of peopleand society as a whole. The engineering profession, for

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Snellenberger; Donald Keating

define a coherent policy for graduate development of its domestic graduateengineering workforce whose professional careers are centered on creation, development and leadershipof new and improved technology in Industry.“…it is a lack of adequate educational training rather than ‘outsourcing’ that poses the greatest threat tofuture American prosperity…the better approach is to intensify efforts to increase the skills andknowledge of the U.S. Workforce.” Allen Greenspan, Feb. 20, 2004If the U.S. is to remain preeminent in creating new innovative technologies through engineering toenhance its economic prosperity and national defense, the U.S. system of engineering graduate educationmust remain the world’s leader - and new