Conference Session

Engineering as the STEM Glue

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joan Barth, University of Alabama; Debra M. McCallum, University of Alabama; Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Rosanna E. Guadagno, University of Alabama; Beverly Roskos, University of Alabama; Carmen Burkhalter, University of Alabama; Marion J Goldston, University of Alabama

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-2446: EFFECTS OF ENGAGING CLASSROOM STRATEGIESAND TEACHER SUPPORT ON STUDENT OUTCOMES OVER SCHOOLTRANSITIONSJoan Barth, University of Alabama Joan Barth is a research social scientist at the University of Alabama. Research interests include psycho- logical and educational issues in school settings. Current projects include a study of personal, social and life goal factors that affect interest in STEM careers from elementary through college years.Debra M. McCallum, University of AlabamaBeth Todd, University of Alabama Dr. Beth Todd is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama.Rosanna E. Guadagno, University of AlabamaBeverly Roskos, University of AlabamaDr. Carmen Burkhalter, The

Conference Session

Developments in BME Pedagogy and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Huiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles; Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles

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Biomedical

research projects. As CSULA begins todevelop this BME program, we have aimed to make the limited opportunities available to ourstudents in BME thus far as enriching as possible.Over the past year, we have exploited the unique user interface of the HP Tablet PC to restructurethe teaching / student learning paradigm in the Biomedical Instrumentation course and to involvestudents in a biomedical engineering research project. Our objectives were to engage students inlearning BME course material by incorporating a technological gadget which students find funand interesting in and of itself, provide an avenue for interaction with the teacher and otherstudents, and aid instruction by allowing for an engaging method for on-the-spot assessment andfeedback

Conference Session

Developing International Engineering Research, Course Enhancement, Leadership of, and Online Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zsuzsa Balogh, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Richard Pozzi, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Jeno Balogh, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Peter Ivanyi, University of Pecs; Richard Matthew Gutkowski, Colorado State University

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International

into U.S. West, and Western Electric Corporation. While at Nortel he developed a Managed IP Voice and Data Product solution for California School Systems. Some of Professor Pozzi’s various job titles have been: Director of Systems Engineering and Sales Support, Senior Systems Engineer, Acting Director Network Architecture, Senior Network Architect, Project Manager for Electronic Library, Direc- tor Mechanized Information Systems, Director Planning and Administrative Services, Director Inventory Management, Manager Business Services, and Field Engineer. Mr. Pozzi enjoys golf, grandkids and running in his time off.Dr. Jeno Balogh, Metropolitan State College of Denver Associate ProfessorDr. Peter Ivanyi, Pollack Mihaly

Conference Session

Descriptions of Curricular and Model Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keeshan Williams, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander, Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

under NYU-Poly’s GK-12 program funded by NSF and CBRI consortium of donors. His research interests include real-time monitoring DNA-protein interactions at electrified interfaces.Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Re- mote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in cooperative control; distributed spacecraft formation

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

AC 2011-1618: AUDIO-VISUAL LAB TUTORIALS TO DEVELOP INDE-PENDENT LEARNERSDeborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Deborah Walter is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She teaches courses in circuits, electromagnetics, and medical imaging. Before joining academia in 2006, she was at the Computed Tomography Laboratory at GE’s Global Research Center for 8 years. She worked on several technology development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on 9 patents. She has been active in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in engineering and currently PI for an NSF-STEM

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meg Krudysz, City College of New York; Ann Wittig P.E., City College of the City University of New York

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

mapping courses and studentactivities to student outcomes3 and then selecting examples of student work in these courses oractivities. Direct evidence includes student work such as homework, laboratory reports,examinations, quizzes, and projects. These are graded, and in some cases evaluated usingrubrics, which define and describe the important components of the work and provide a moredetailed way to measure student outcomes4. Indirect evidence includes students’ self-assessmentof their learning using instruments such as survey. The scores students receive on their work orself-report on surveys are then related to a single numerical range with a threshold value that isconsidered to demonstrate achievement of the SO. Finally, the average cohort

Conference Session

Engineering Mechanics Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

AnnMarie Thomas, University of Saint Thomas; Keith Berrier, University of Saint Thomas; Andrea Guggenbuehl, University of Saint Thomas, Health and Human Performance Department

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Mechanical Engineering

sessions. They were to record advice and comments from the lab coaches in their notebook, as well as their written notes for the experiments that they performed.  Lab Write-ups 15%  Final Project 20% The lab assignments and final project will be discussed below.It should be noted that as it became clear how much time the lab write-ups were taking, studentswere given the option of having the write-ups count for 30% of their grade, reducing theweighting for problem sets to 45%. Page 22.416.3 Table 1: Class scheduleWeek Day Agenda

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernd S. W. Schroeder; Jenna Carpenter

arguments on content realignment given here are valid not only for integrated curricula, but for engineering curricula in general. We Page 4.377.11 The first author was supported by a Fellow of Excellence in Engineering Education grant by the Louisiana Boardof Regents (Faculty Incentives and Rewards – Undergraduate Project program).will show how our changes in course alignment and content alignment within courses allowfor students to complete all mathematics, physics and chemistry requirements plus anengineering breadth class (such as statics and strengths of materials or circuit theory) eachterm within the first two years of college

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah E. Irvine; Teresa L. Hein

new and difficult information” (p. 224). She noted that thisinteraction occurs differently for everyone. Dunn also highlighted that “To identify and assess aperson’s learning style it is important to examine each individual’s multidimensionalcharacteristics in order to determine what will most likely trigger each student’s concentration, Page 4.500.3maintain it, respond to his or her natural processing style, and cause long-term memory” (p.224). To reveal these factors, the learning style model must be comprehensive.The Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model was chosen for this project because of itscomprehensive nature, and, because of the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Qunying Gao; Robert W. Nowlin; Rajeswari Sundararajan

. The Initial Window is Displayed. Wait for an Event to occur Then Continue Is There a Procedure For this Event? Execute the ProcedureFig. 1: Simplified Model Showing the Operation of Visual Basic ApplicationWhen VB is started, the programming environment interface is the first screen to appear. Theprimary components of this interface are: Title bar, Menu bar, Tool bar, Toolbox, Forms, Codewindow, Project window, Properties window, Debug window. Forms are central to everythingdone in VB. A form is a window like any other window. It can have all the standardcomponents

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael T. Hertz; Luna P. Magpilli; Michael E. Gorman

. To follow his dream, Jaworski assembled a team of scientists from different backgrounds. Hestarted recruiting his team during late 1980 and early 1981. Each team member had a research specialty.The first member to join the team was Robert Fraley. Fraley and Jaworski met in the Boston Airport.Jaworski told Fraley his goal of genetically modifying plants and Monsanto’s financial commitment to thisresearch project. Fraley was not immediately sold, but eventually decided to join. “This corporation’sdecision to make a big bet financially on biotechnology was revolutionary,” said Fraley.2 The next member to join the team was Stephen Rogers. Rogers graduated from Johns HopkinsUniversity with a doctorate in biology. Jaworski sent Rogers a

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald R. Woods; Dianne Dorland

Session 1213 STUDENTS PLUS! HANDLING LARGE CLASSES EXTENDED ABSTRACT Dianne Dorland, Donald R. Woods University of Minnesota Duluth/McMaster UniversityWhat might you do when you encounter a class that is much larger than you are used too? Whatdo you do to cope? How do you promote discussion when you have too many students? How doyou manage writing projects? You might search for suggestions of how to handle the mechanicsof the larger class: how to monitor what is happening in the classroom (red cards, ombudspeople,one minute message), how to mark the larger

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert E. Magowan; Azmi Bin Ahmad; Deborah Hochstein

Session 3266 Teaching the Taguchi Method of Experimental Design: Design and Testing of Concrete Mixes Deborah J. Hochstein, Azmi Bin Ahmad, Robert E. Magowan The University of MemphisAbstract The primary objective of this project was to demonstrate the Taguchi Method ofexperimental design for a graduate-level course entitled, “Advanced Statistical Quality Control”,at The University of Memphis. The nature of the project enabled students to participate in theentire process, from start to finish. This particular topic, design and testing of concrete mixes,was selected for two

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael E. Gorman; Matthew M. Mehalik; Julie M. Stocker

project is to develop and disseminate cases and supporting materials that teachstudents to exercise good judgment and moral imagination, that help them learn that designalways entails an ethical perspective, and that demonstrate that environmental design is bothchallenging and viable. These materials have been or will be tested in the classroom and shouldhave appeal in a variety of disciplines including engineering, technology, environmental studies,and ethics (Mehalik & Stocker, 1996). They will be published in the Darden Graduate School ofBusiness Case Bibliography and eventually in a book.This presentation will highlight two of the cases, both of which have been used in fourth-yearcourses involving ethics required of all engineering

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana L. Wake; Craig J. Scott

to visualize how the electric field and potential on the gateelectrode relates the flow of carriers from the source to the drain. Pinch off occurs whenthe depletion region edge completely spans the vertical active layer thickness. The electron current density profile is shown in Figure 3. The carriers leave thesource and enter the drain. Most of the carriers are concentrated in the center of thechannel. (the dark blue and violet bands.) Figure 3. Movie showing the location of carriers in the FET channel under open channel conditions. The MOSFET VRML Example The students pursued this project most enthusiastically because of the threedimensional nature of the visualization. Here the 3-D device

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

learn from history” into the engineering ground, we can saythat previously devised designs, both successful and unsuccessful, form a great base for learninginventiveness. One of the important student activities, which should be included in curricula morefrequently, is the forensic case studies. Such studies offer extensive possibilities of assigning smallto large size projects tailored to the level of students’ knowledge, and, as such, could be used evenduring a freshman year. A limited use of such case studies is already present, especially in civilengineering curricula. Other engineering disciplines are equally good, if not better, grounds forintroducing the study of failures. Forensic case studies provide also an additional benefit early in

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

James A. Liggett; David A. Caughey

that it is most effective to have computer projection equipmentavailable, and to use the features of the textbook in a limited way to illustrate topics, rather thanto base the entire lecture on projected pages, illustrations, and utilities. Increasingly, computerprojection equipment is available in lecture halls, and the ease with which it is possible, in mostcases, to switch back and forth between the conventional blackboard mode, video and animationsequences, and computation bodes well for the increased incorporation of tools such as this intolecture presentations.An instructor can use bookmarks to locate animations, movies, graphs, and active equationseasily. The instructor can use these same features on his/her own machine at home for

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in ET Education & Administration: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Nankivell, Purdue University, Calumet; Jana Whittington, Purdue University, Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Leadership research in academia also needs to focus on the ethical aspects andhow it affects learning. This includes the relationship between leadership and learning.There appear to be comparable characteristics of IT professionals and academic faculty. The ITprofessional has been described as high maintenance, and thus unique to lead. The older ITprofessionals are considered stagnant with little desire for new knowledge. They are alsoperceived as not desiring positions of management. 5 Similarly, academic faculty have beendescribed as “the last group of workers in the world who actually own the means of projection intheir job and have life-time job security”. 9 These practices are now being questioned ascorporate management styles are being adopted

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherrice Traver, Union College; J. Douglas Klein, Union College

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Liberal Education

in Education conference. Her teaching interests are in the Computer Engineering area including Digital Design, Embedded Systems, and VLSI. She has co-taught international project courses in Turkey and in Spain. Her research has been focused on timing issues in digital systems. She has directed local and national outreach programs,including Robot Camp and the P. O. Pistilli Scholarship.J. Douglas Klein, Union College J. Douglass Klein is Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies and Special Programs and Professor of Economics at Union College. Klein joined the Union faculty in 1979, after earning a BA in Mathematics at Grinnell College, and a PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin

Conference Session

Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology

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International

Page 15.1374.9 engineering diplomas are followed by two-year courses at universities in either technical aspects of engineering or engineering science. It is essential that the prescriptive knowledge of how be augmented by the tacit knowledge of what and critical skills of why found at universities.3. An articulation into TAFE colleges. Holders of science degrees would undertake 2-year existing diploma courses combined with a major engineering project, though some universities will accept science graduates into their Masters program in engineering which further emphasizes the science narrative and eschew the practicality of knowledge how.4. A horizontal articulation in which holders of science degrees would undertake an existing two

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joao Vinhas, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

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Mechanical Engineering

experiments by themselves using the physics lab facilities. If theyconsidered it necessary, they could bring some simple and common materials from home. Those experiments should cover five main items of the syllabus: projectile motion, forceand motion, conservation/dissipation of energy, physics of collisions and rotational dynamics.The goal was to implement, in laboratory classes, learning by project strategy, intensifyingcognitive activity, stimulating innovation and creativity as well as promoting team work5.4.3.1. Building a project Following this new strategy, students were informed at the beginning of the term about thesubjects that experiments should incorporate; they also came into contact with the existinglab material for the first time

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmine Balascio, University of Delaware; Thomas Brumm, Iowa State University; Steven Mickelson, Iowa State University

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Engineering Technology

competencies are informed bythe student’s performance in a “Discovery Learning Experience” – either a technical practicumin industry or an undergraduate research project. Page 15.299.2Introduction and Background:The University of Delaware’s Department of Bioresources Engineering offers a B.S. degree inEngineering Technology (ET) that has been a TAC of ABET-accredited2 general ET programsince 1988. The program typically graduates 20 to 25 majors per year. Both EAC of ABETand TAC of ABET accreditation regimes require outcomes assessment. TAC of ABETdocumentation2 under Criterion 3, Program Outcomes, stipulates that each program mustdemonstrate its

Conference Session

Thinking, Reasoning & Engineering in Elementary School

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Mora, New Mexico Tech; Ricardo Negron, WPAFB; Robert McGahern, DDR&E; Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

U.S. students in their knowledge of and theirparticipation in STEM as an area of critical concern to national security. Basic science andmathematics competence, gained in grades K-12, form the foundation of an educated, capable,technical future work force for DoD. The objective of NDEP is to support the education anddevelopment of such a future workforce by establishing a DoD-wide program to invigorate thescience and mathematics curriculum, to enhance teaching skills of science and mathematicsteachers to deliver the curriculum, and to increase the level of awareness, interest and activeparticipation of students in STEM activities, projects, and academics. The overall strategy is tohave DoD scientists and engineers partner with educational

Conference Session

Industrial Interactions and Educational Resources

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gilah Pomeranz, Sinclair Community College; Shep Anderson, Sinclair Community College; Robert Mott, University of Dayton; Steve Wendel, Sinclair Community College

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Manufacturing

, high quality information and classroom activities is often a daunting proposition. Oneway to alleviate frustration and to avoid reinventing wheels is to use the Manufacturing andEngineering Technologies Education Clearinghouse (METEC). METEC serves as a one stopshop for technology educators in general, and new educators in particular.METEC’s searchable electronic database provides resources pertinent to a broad range ofengineering technologies. Among the vetted materials in the database are course and programoutlines, descriptions of best practices, simulations, texts, activities, videos, PowerPointpresentations, etc. The clearinghouse materials are obtained from numerous sources such asNSF centers and projects, other academic institutions

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Jose Yanez, Universidad de Santiago de Chile; Ernesto Gramsch, Universidad de Santiago de Chile; Roberto Santander, Universidad de Santiago de Chile; Cecilia Richards, Washington State University; Robert Richards, Washington State University

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International

noexposure to this key technology. To our knowledge, the facility documented in this paperis the first microfabrication facility to be developed for university education in Chile andonly the second in Latin America. Challenges included the extremely small budgetavailable for the project and the paucity of educational and resource materials available inLatin America.IntroductionMicrofabrication is a key enabling manufacturing technology. Almost all digitalelectronics are manufactured using these microfabrication techniques. Over the last thirtyyears, the suite of available microfabrication techniques has expanded dramatically. Thisexpansion has enabled the rapid rise of a new field, Microelectromechanical Systems orMEMS. The economic impact of these

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Education in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University

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Electrical and Computer

performed, procedures,analysis, report writing requirements and references.II.1 The Virtual InterfacesAs the project outlined in this paper demonstrates, with suitable resources a virtual laboratorycan aid students in their preparation for carrying out the experimental work. The virtualinterface planned to be developed involves creating simulations of the machine experimentson a website. Students log in, configure parameters and then “perform” the experiment.Simulations return results consistent with the machines in the laboratory. It is envisaged thatin this way all students will be able to perform all parts of all experiments in their own time.Students will still attend “hands-on” laboratory sessions to conduct selected parts of theexperiments as

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Grondin, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

program, the most common answer isthe projects. They wanted a “hands-on” aspect to their education. The next mostcommon answer has to do with the focus on the individual and the comparative size ofthe campus. Some students also like the ability to delay any choice of specialization untilthey are juniors. While we do find some students who are attracted by the flexibility ofthe program, this factor is not mentioned by most students.Development of the Perspective OutcomeThe general process by which we developed the program has been described earlier7. We Page 15.421.6started with the 11 ABET outcomes, the set a through k. Then we added in twoadditional

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Education in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Lashway, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg; Peter Idowu, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

applicationsand older devices, which are no longer supported by their manufacturers or contain obsoletecomponents [4]. In [4], the University of Redding, U.K. retrofitted a Puma 560 robot with anenhanced monitoring and torque control system. The project presents an excellent example ofhow a mechanically sound robot can be revitalized on a modern software platform forexperimental research in a classroom. Page 15.122.2When selecting a software platform for building interface and user interaction to hardwaresystems, two programs have been widely used in control system and analysis applications [5].Many control systems have tested and implemented their

Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tristan Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; J. P. Mohsen, University of Louisville; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan

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Continuing Professional Development

several education-related papers for engineering faculty and gives faculty development workshops on active learning. He is currently participating in Project Catalyst, an NSF- funded initiative to help faculty re-envision their role in the learning process.Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Research and Learning North and associate research scientist in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. In addition, she actively pursues research in engineering education and assists other faculty in their scholarly projects. She also is past Chair of the Educational Research and Methods Division of American Society of

Conference Session

Culture, Society, and Co-op

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Jenkins-Stark, Iridescent; Tara Chklovski, Iridescent

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

for media interviews, strategies for identifying public Page 15.500.4outreach opportunities, and workshops for scientists and engineers who are interested in learningmore about science communication 19.Cyber learning: Ice Stories (an Exploratorium project) connects citizens to scientists using theWeb. The project encourages researchers to blog and webcast their research in Antarctica. It alsoencourages readers to comment and discuss the posts with the scientists.Benefits to Engineers: “My Work Inspires Many”The Family Science Courses enable engineers to directly impact the STEM pipeline by servingas role models and providing meaningful