Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

programs in science” (p. 28). Consequently, equity is equalopportunities for both boys and girls to succeed in science (Levin & Matthews, 1997). However,equity in science learning reflects broader responsibility, embodied by the social justice model:the obligation to prepare all students to participate in a postindustrial society with an equalchance at attaining the accompanying social goods—rights, liberties and access to power (Lynch,2000, p. 16). In order for the science learning to be equitable, it is necessary to have “full and activeparticipation in a contextually equitable classroom” (Krockover and Shepardson, 1995, p. 224).Lee (2003) posits: “from an anthropological perspective, science teaching should enable studentsto make smooth

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

increasing the level of interest in pursuing careers in science,mathematics, and engineering among seventh-graders in the communities adjacent to the Center.This paper will describe these two programs.The NSF Navy Civilian Service (NNCS) ProgramIn this program, ONR, in partnership with NSF, seeks to revitalize the NRE by providing studentscholarship, fellowship, and research support to the Nation’s research universities to create withthe NRE a collaborative educational and research environment which will contribute to thesolution of problems of Navy interest and produce graduates who will work for the Navy upongraduation. The program supports promising graduate and undergraduate students in responseto proposals submitted by university PIs and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

for undergraduate degrees, as well as to the growing job market for engineers,which seems to offer little in the way of wage incentives for bearers of more advance degrees.Given the rapid pace of development of new engineering techniques and processes, particularlynow at the nanoscale, the four-year program will likely fall farther behind in adequatelypreparing engineers for the new level of sophistication required for frontier areas in nanotech andnanomanufacturing. The traditional stop-gap measure for universities and industry is to forgecollaborations that provide life-long training opportunities for industry engineers to upgradeskills and knowledge. For example, the engineering college at the University of MassachusettsLowell offers

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

meanings, and interpretations ofthe term “active learning,” since different contributors in the field have interpreted some termsdifferently. However, by gleaming at the literature, it is possible to arrive at general consensus ofwhat appears to be widely accepted definitions, and to shed light on how common terms are usedtoday.Active Learning is generally defined as any instructional method that engages students in thelearning process. It is widely accepted that active learning requires students to take part in “pre-planned” learning-related activities, believed to spark and stimulate their learning, while in theclassroom.(6) These activities would include: reading, writing, solving problems, answeringquestions, participating in a discussion, etc

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jeff Jackson

called “nuggets”.Also, do not neglect to consider how a STEM educational grant may lead to research grantdevelopment. Educational grants have the ability to stimulate growth in infrastructure. Oneexample would be an undergraduate who participates in or is a beneficiary of a STEM effort andis subsequently motivated to pursue graduate work in the same area. Finally, acquaint yourselfwith the NSF review process. This can be accomplished, in part, by attending NSF grant-orientedconferences. However, the best mechanism for learning about the review process is to serve on areview panel. No other experience will educate you about the dynamics of review panels andprogram directors as much. And, NSF program directors are always seeking qualified

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brecca Berman; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

the individual Georgia Tech colleges and academic departments. STEP and its partner schools and teachers have been included on many faculty research grants, in initiatives that address the broader educational impacts of the research. These grants have included plans to create and implement curriculum units based on faculty research, plans to mentor minority high school students and provide research internships, and plans to develop additional pipeline programs from STEP feeder schools. Plans have been developed for an institutionalized Teaching Interns program that includes graduate and undergraduate students and that is supported by the university administration. The Office of Admission has actively participated in

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

applications, science and mathematics, electronics, and general engineering. Some issues could arise in terms of EAC or TAC requirements for engineering graduates. 4) Engineering and Engineering Technology programs are not differentiated in Chinese engi- neering curriculum3 . Practical experience is a major part of the curriculum versus being less emphasized in some American engineering curricula. Because ”practical series” (somewhat like internship here in the States, but it is required for every student and organized by the university.) is carried out through industry-university collaborations in China, it may provide valuable experience for our students to better understand the engineering and manufacturing

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marlin Thomas

to counter acts ofterrorism in the design, development and evaluation of systems. Consequently, it is imperativethat the IE curriculum is updated to support this critical need. The objective is to ensure thatsystems design and development decision problems include security in parallel with theimportance of cost, efficiency, and safety. So the question is how do we integrate homelandsecurity into the IE curriculum? The proposed plan for accomplishing this is to selectively infuse homeland security andrelated topics and applications into core courses where it makes sense, and implement a newcourse in security based IE design.4.1 Security Skills for Practicing IE’sThe basic undergraduate core industrial engineering program today ranges

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Millard

regional, national andinternational level. Specific areas of emphasis include K-12 and Higher Education curriculumand instructional evaluation; technology integration, and distance learning in traditional andworkforce environments.Pilot data will be collected from teachers, faculty, students and museum educators using thematerials in the spring of 2005. The project will additionally be evaluated in several ways. First,student’s success in subsequent course work at the participating institutions (K-12 and college)will be tracked. Second, the lower undergraduate courses will be evaluated by industry andABET evaluators as a part of institutional programs.Interim Conclusions and Future PlansThe pilot project is leveraging historical archives to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

fields in the US, not only due to its significant impact in the healthcare industry, but also dueto its influence on other engineering and technology industries. U.S. Dept. of Labor estimatesthat the job market for biomedical engineers will increase by 26.1%, faster than the average of alloccupations, through 2012. This is almost double the overall job growth rate of 15.2% and al-most three times the overall growth rate of 9.4% for all engineering jobs1,2. According to 2002figures, there are about 7,600 biomedical engineering jobs in the United States, which is ex-pected to exceed 10,000 by 20121,2. However, BME education, more specifically, the seats avail-able for BME undergraduate education, has not kept pace with this rapid growth and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

innovative undergraduate classes whichinvolve active learning laboratories for the students in each of their freshman, sophomore, junior andsenior years. This program received the 1999 Boeing Outstanding Educator Award, in recognitionof its quality and effectiveness in providing a well-rounded engineering design education.The program objectives were developed in response to the call by industry for baccalaureateengineers to possess a broader set of skills beyond their analytical and computer skills. This call wasstrengthened by the Engineering faculty’s observation of the students’ experiences in senior capstonedesign during the late 1980’s and 1990’s. These students, who had had no prior experience with adesign process, struggled with the issues of

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Dennis

consultant with many years of industrial experience and a “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ® 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”true leader in university governance and community service. Clearly, not all faculty can excelin all the areas describe here. In fact, fewer than 30% of the extant full time faculty at publicand private institutions excel, even marginally, in all four areas. However, as Wankat says[5], “Itis perfectly reasonable and possible to expect all professors to be good enough teachers inaddition to excelling in at least one other area.” Gosick and Streveler[6] contend that nearly 40%of undergraduate engineering

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College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Nicola Ferralis; Leanne Avery; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

/Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractPenn State University has hosted a NSF sponsored GK-12 Outreach project for the pastfive years, and has just begun the second phase of the project. The Penn State projectutilizes the talents of many science and engineering graduate students as teachers,mentors and role models for the K-12 classrooms. The project focuses on developingskills of students in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematicsthrough the use of Advanced Transportation Technologies. The GK-12 students areinvited to participate in research in various ways in support of Advanced TransportationTechnology such as undergraduate/graduate student competitions like Future Truck andChallenge X. The quantitative assessment planned at the