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Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Glen Livesay; Kay C Dee

Figure 4: Detailed plot of the learning style preferences in the test (A) and retest (B) for the sequential/global domain of the ILS. Page 10.1253.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 35 30 Sequential-GlobalNumber of Students 25

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Maixner

Session 2005-1222 Excel™ Analysis of Combined Cycle Power Plant Michael R. Maixner United States Air Force Academy A key issue in student design projects in thermodynamics is the necessity to modify property values during iteration and/or redesign. This is particularly true when dealing with two working fluids (e.g., air, water) in a combined cycle. The necessity to manually ascertain these values at all points of the cycle can inhibit the pedagogic purpose of the project: to allow students to view how overall system parameters (efficiency, specific fuel consumption, horsepower, etc.) may vary in

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jake Ingman; Camille Schroeder

York Press.[5] Hilgartner Schlank, C., & Metzger, B. 1997. Together and Equal: Fostering Cooperative Play and Promoting Gender Equity in Early Childhood Programs. Needham Heights:Allyn & Bacon.[6] Sadker, M., & Sadker, D. 1994. Failing at Fairness, How America’s Schools Cheat Girls. New York:Macmillian.[7] Gurian, M., & Ballew, A. 2003. The Boys and Girls Learn Differently Action Guide for Teachers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.[8] National Research Council. 2000. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington:National Academy Press.[9] Lee, Shireen. January 2001. Where are the Women and Girls?. Three Guineas Fund. Available from: http://www.3gf.org/viewpoint.html

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Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis

Classrooms. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 9. Nilson, Linda B. (2003). Teaching at its Best (2nd ed.). Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company. 10. Sladovich, H.E., 1991. Engineering as a Social Enterprise. Washington, DC: National Academic Press.Biographic SketchesGil Laware is an Assistant Professor of Computer Technology at Purdue University. Currently, he is the VicePresident of Research of the DAMA (Data Management Association) Foundation. He has written and spoken on thelinkage between business planning, metadata, knowledge management in delivering information technologysolutions. He holds an MBA in Management and another in Management Science.Beverly Davis is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership at Purdue

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Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brian Adams

, R.G. HOLLINGSWORTH and M. SCHEP. 2002. A Road Map for Teaching Introductory Programming Using LEGO© Mindstorms Robots. ITiCSE’02, June 24-26, 2002, Aarhus, Denmark. p 191-201.15. WOLZ, U. 2001. Teaching design and project management with Lego RCX robots. SIGCSE 2001 2/01 Charlotte, NC USA. p 95-99.16. FAGIN, B. 2003. Ada/Mindstorms 3.0. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. v10 n 2:19-24. Page 10.1352.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

higher Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationverbal SAT scores. The latter suggests that they may have strengths in other fields that pulledthem away from engineering.3) Involvement in Campus Activities of Stayers vs. LeaversA series of survey questions asked about participation in extra-curricular enrichment activitiessuch as field trips, listening to guest speakers, work with faculty members, study groups,counseling and mentoring. Indices were created to reflect (a) participation in academicenrichment activities; (b) participation in counseling activities; (c) participation in studyactivities; (d

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Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Helbling; Patric McElwain; Angela Beck; Ron Madler; David Lanning

-38 Engineering.DAVID B. LANNING, Ph.D.Currently an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at ERAU/Prescott where he teaches courses in structuralanalysis and engineering materials. He spent several years in fatigue and fracture research at the Air Force Instituteof Technology and has until recently worked on the Air Force High Cycle Fatigue Program.RONALD A. MADLER, Ph.D.Currently the Department Chair for the Aerospace Engineering Department. Additionally, he teaches courses in the Page 10.783.10spacecraft design sequence including the Spacecraft Preliminary Design course. His background is in engineeringeducation

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

continue to serve humanity, andmany exciting applications are yet to be developed. Furthermore, ASEE is now actively pursuingits K-12 initiative and the history of engineering offers an excellent avenue to reach out to schoolchildren of all ages. This paper provides an insight that fluid mechanics and fluid power have beenwell served by a great number of scientists and engineers whose work could inspire an entirely newgeneration of engineers.REFERENCESMunson, B, D. Young, and T. Okiishi. 2002. Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, 4th Ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &Sons, Inc., pp. 28-31.Tokaty, G. A. 1971. A History and Philosophy of Fluid Mechanics. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc.BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONKURT A ROSENTRATER is a Lead Scientist

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Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ronald Welch

and Assessment,” Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for EngineeringEducation Annual Conference and Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, June 2001, Session3630.5. Lowman, Joseph, “Mastering the Techniques of Teaching,” Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1995, p. 298.6. ASCE Program Design Workshop, “A Model for Faculty Development in Civil Engineering: The ExCEEdTeaching Workshop,” ASCE, July 1999.7. Welch, R.W., C. Quadrato, B. Albert, “Required Faculty Training - How to Teach Civil Engineering,”Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, AmericanSociety for Engineering Education, June 2004, Session 2515.8. Lowman, Joseph, “Mastering the Techniques of Teaching

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Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Bannerot

addressed here (although this study does not even support this practice).However, for other less homogeneous academic situations, it appears that teams can be helpedmost by providing them with more assistance in scheduling and meeting arrangements.References1. Richard Bannerot, “Characteristics of Good Team Players,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition of the ASEE, June 20-23, 2004, Salt Lake City, UT.2. Alan J. Dutson, Robert H. Todd, Spencer Magleby, and Carl Sorensen, “A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses,” Journal of Engineering Education, January 1997, pp. 17-25.3. James L. Brickell, David B. Porter, Michael R. Reynolds and Richard D

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Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

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Carl Bern; Brian Steward; Amy Kaleita-Forbes; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

10.116.6“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” -7-References1. ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2003–2004”, accessed February 25, 2004.2. Brumm, T. J., S. K. Mickelson, B. L. Steward and A. L. Kaleita-Forbes, “Competency-based outcomes assessment for agricultural engineering programs,” International Journal of Engineering Education, 2005, in press.3. Mickelson, S.K., T.J. Brumm, and B.L. Steward, “Using Competency Feedback to Assess Agricultural Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the

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K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patricia Pyke; John Gardner; Amy Moll

and retain more when they study in groups. Grading: Grading Written Reports: 25% A = 90-100 Oral Reports: 25% B = 80-90 Short Assignments: 25% C = 70-80 Attendance: 25% D = 60-70 F < 60 Attendance Attendance is critical for this class in all lab classes and at the lectures. An unexcused absence will result in a deduction of 5 points from your final grade. Two unexcused absences will result in a

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

grand challenge question. Thismosaic was designed for use in Physics and Anatomy & Physiology classrooms.Study DetailsThis small study was implemented using several classrooms. For the Hemodynamics Mosaic,one Biomedical Physics class at a private school (N=17, 7 female) named "experimental" andone AP Physics B class at a comprehensive public school (N=11, 8 female) named "control"were used. For the LASIK/Optics Mosaic, the same Biomedical Physics class was used as theexperimental group and a small Physics 2 class (N=6, 1 female) was used at the same school as acontrol. Finally for the Electrocardiogram Mosaic, the Biomedical Physics class was used yetagain as part of the experimental group. Additionally, an Anatomy and Physiology classroom

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ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jefferey Froyd

., Hole, B., Kelly, A., and Post, T. (2000). Principles for developing thought-revealing activities for students and teachers. Handbook of Research Design in Mathematics and Science Education, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum17. Halpern, D.F., and Hakel, M.D., (2003). Applying the Science of Learning to the University and Beyond: Teaching for Long-Term Retention and Transfer. Change, 36:6, 37-3918. Woods, D. et al. (1997). Developing Problem Solving Skills: The McMaster Problem Solving Program. Journal of Engineering Education, 86:75-9119. Masui, C., and De Corte, E. (1999) Enhancing learning and problem solving skills: orienting and self-judging, two powerful and trainable learning tools. Learning and Instruction, 9

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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zhiyong Zhao; Joe Hagerty; J. P. Mohsen

, the answer was to be left blank. 0 1 2 3 4 5This course fits well with departmental needs and objectives. 0 0 0 0 1 6(b) This course fit well with my teaching style. 0 0 0 0 3 4(c) The format of this course works well for a graduate course. 0 0 0 0 3 4(d) The effort and time I spent in participating in this course represents a worthwhile expenditure of my resources. 0 0 0 0 3 4(e) In my opinion, the students worked well in groups in this

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Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

a preliminary design, your team is to identify key safety issues for follow up during detailed design. Detailed design will likely be handled by outside contractors, but we need internal expertise from the preliminary design to effectively manage that effort. Key design targets for the new plant: • Total operating time: 8000 hr/year • Allowed wash/cleanout time: 160 hr/year • Total production capacity: 120 to 125 million lb/year • Four main products of varying EO/PO content o “A” 60% of capacity (~72 MM lb/y); ~10 hr net cycle time o “B” 20% of capacity (~25 MM lb/y); ~10 hr net cycle time o “C” 10% of capacity (~13 MM lb/y); ~11 hr net cycle time o “D” 10% of capacity (~13 MM lb/y

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michele Auzenne; Jeanne Garland; J. Phillip King; Ricardo Jacquez

The Minority Engineering Transfer and Articulation (META) Program: Building Stronger Pathways and Developing Student Achievement Ricardo B. Jacquez, Jeanne Garland, J. Phillip King, Michele Auzenne, Steven Peralta, and Hilario Rubio New Mexico State University/ Santa Fe Community College/ And Luna Community CollegeAbstractThe Minority Engineering Transfer and Articulation program (META) is a 36-month project thattook place between 2001 and 2004. The program is a cooperative effort between communitycolleges, New Mexico State University (NMSU), and

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Preston McCrary; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball; Wesley Stone

industry, government, and graduateengineering/technology education. Leaders in each arena are engaging in dialogue centered onstrengthening the competitiveness of remaining industry and developing regional resources tosupport entrepreneurial startups. Leaders and scholars argue that a robust strategy includescollaborative engagement projects which create innovative technologies (intellectual property), ahighly trained and creative professional workforce, and resources which support entrepreneurialstartups. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into efforts being made by WesternCarolina University (WCU) and its graduate Engineering Technology (ET) program tosimultaneously foster professional growth in its students and meet the technical

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K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dana Newell

comparison between the two groups was conducted in terms of GPA. For four years, the GPA’s of Engineering and Non-Engineering students were not significantly different.Graph 2: Change of Major of Bridge Program Participants 2000 - 2004 Chose different major all years 50 40 30 % 20 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 -A rc h ite c tu ra l/In d u s tria l D e s ig n 2 -N u rsin g /H e a lth F ie ld s 3 -B u s in e s s 4 -E d u c a tio n 5 -S o c ia l S c ie n c e s 6 -S c ie n c e s /M a th

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Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Roy McGrann

element a) Topanalysis using Pro/MechanicaTM.Engineering AnalysisSolid Model To create the solid model, an approximate “block”model was created. The dimensions of the sculptor’s scalemodel were determined. The model was too large for the 3-Dscanner that was available, so it was decided to scale andmeasure dimensions from digital photographs. Two of the b) Frontfive views used are shown in Figure 3. A steel ruler can be Figure 3. Digital Photographseen in each photo. A grid was superimposed on each photo Views of Scale Modelas shown in Figure 4 for the front view. The 3-D Cartesian coordinates of key points were determined

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Youssef Shatilla; Adnan Zahed

all the concerned parties in years to come. Appendix B gives an overview of the office goals and activities. Faculty members and students have felt a sense of achievement and satisfaction on the award of the substantial equivalency status for all the engineering programs. This is an assurance of quality of education being offered in the college of engineering. It is certain to have the following advantages for our students: 1. Increase the job potential in the local and international markets. 2. Graduates desirous of higher education can easily seek admission in other international institutions. 3. A continuous overall improvement process for the educational programs

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Shane Brown

Student Social Capital and Retention in the College of EngineeringAbstract An investigation of relationships between student social capital and retention in theengineering program and the use of the concept of social capital as a framework to understandthe retention of engineering students are discussed. The concept of social capital has beenutilized in investigations of economic productivity and innovation of corporations, drop-out ratesin high school, and academic performance both in high school and in college. For the purposesof this study, social capital consists of social networks, social norms, and the value of thesenetworks and norms for achieving mutual goals. Previous

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Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Donald Richter

Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No.1, pp 105-107, January 2001.[9] Johnson, D.W. and Johnson, R.T., Learning Together and Alone: Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learning, Allyn and Bacon, 1994.[10] Terenzini, P.T., Cabrera, A.F., Colbeck, C.L., Parente, J.M., and Bjorklund, S.A., Collaborative and Active Learning Approaches: Do They Work for Everyone? Association for Institutional Research, Seattle, WA, June, 1999.Biographical InformationDONALD C. RICHTER obtained his B. Sc. In Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Ohio StateUniversity, M.S. in Engineering from the University of Arkansas, Ph.D. in Engineering from the University ofArkansas. He holds a Professional Engineer

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Trine Kvidal; April Kedrowicz

, 245-287.[12] Cusella, L. P. (1984). The effects of feedback course, message, and receivercharacteristics on intrinsic motivation. Communication Quarterly, 32(3), 211-221.[13] Roghaar, L. A. & Vangelisti, A. (1996). Expressed attributions for academic successand failure by adolescents and young adults. Western Journal of Communication, 60(2),124-145.[14] Weiner, B. (2000). Intrapersonal and interpersonal theories of motivation from anattributional perspective. Educational Psychology Review, 12, 1-14.[15] Geddes, D. & Lennehan, F. (1996). Exploring the dimensionality of positive andnegative performance feedback. Communication Quarterly, 44, 326-344.[16] King, P. E., Young, M. J., & Behnke, R. R. (2000). Public speaking

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Martin

effective work is decentralized.”Regarding maintaining their own alumni/student databases 4. Many said that they “try” to keep their own student and/or alumni databases, intimating much frustration with accomplishing the task in a satisfactory fashion. 5. (No) “But we wish we did.” 6. “We are discouraged from doing so.” 7. Many indicated they were “starting” to do this. 8. “Primarily to keep track of advising.”Regarding “Decentralized career services” functions 9. “But the students use me a lot b/c they know I have a lot of connections.” 10. “Best contacts are usually the ones made at the college level rather than the overall university level. One obvious reason is that the focus is on companies that recruit our

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

standards. Similarly, in the workplace setting respondents wereasked to recall an instance in the past where they had been “tempted to violate workplacepolicies”.Based on the variables included in the WES study, the decision to engage in unethical behavioris influenced most directly by a) the student’s perception that his/her peers engage in unethicalbehavior (peer behavior), b) the extent to which the student reports engaging in prior high schoolcheating (prior behavior), c) the frequency with which a student perceives that they are temptedto engage in unethical behavior (frequency of temptation), and d) the context of the unethicalbehavior (e.g. cheating on a test versus cheating on a computer program; or stealing officesupplies versus falsifying

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Bertoline; Dennis Depew

Session 2155 Revisiting the Urgency for Reform of Faculty Reward Systems to Advance Professional Graduate Education for Engineering Practice and Technology Leadership D. R. Depew, 1 G. R. Bertoline, 1 M. J. Dyrenfurth, 1 A. L. McHenry, 2 E. M. DeLoatch, 3 P. Y. Lee, 4 H. J. Palmer, 5 J. W. Bardo, 6 D. D. Dunlap, 6 S. J. Tricamo, 7 D. A. Keating, 8 T. G. Stanford 8 Purdue University 1/ Arizona State University East 2/ Morgan State University 3 California Polytechnic State University 4 / Rochester Institute of Technology 5 Western Carolina University 6/ New Jersey Institute

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Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed

, the department established empowered facilitators for integratingvertical and horizontal educational flows. The vertical flows represents the Thirds such asDesign and Energy systems while the horizontal flows represents the Disciplines such asAutomotive and Biomechanics. The facilitators work with course coordinators toestablish the following work standards: 1. Common Course Learning Objectives 2. Common Syllabus 3. Common Final Exam & Course grading Percentage allocation. a. Course coordinator with faculty teaching course to ensure final is established each term. b. Course coordinators arrange for common exam time/room and administer

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Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven P. Thomas

not intend to have additional childrenin the future. Two (8%) of the study participants are uncertain as to whether they will or will nothave additional children in the future, and one (4%) of the study participants does intend to haveadditional children in the future.ResultsThe results of this study are summarized in five sections that parallel the research questions: (a)Educational Background of Study Participants, (b) Work History and Development of StudyParticipants, (c) Life Experiences Impacting Study Participants’ Career Development, (d) BarriersThat Have Hindered the Study Participants’ Career Development, and (e) Factors That HaveAssisted the Study Participants’ Career Development.Research Question One: Educational Background of

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Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kari Clase

. Retrieved January 5,2005 from http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/5. Campbell, A. Malcolm.(2004). Open Access: A PLoS for Education. PLoS Biology. 2(5): e145.6. Wood, William B. and Gentile, James M. (2003) Teaching in a Research Context Science, 302(5650), 1510.7. Campbell, A. Malcolm, and Heyer, Laurie. Discovering Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics.San Francisco, California: Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings, 2003.8. BIO-RAD Biotechnology Explorer Program. Inquiry-based biotechnology curriculum, kits, equipmentand supplies. Retrieved January 5, 2005, from http://www.explorer.bio-rad.com9. Nobrega, Marcella, et al. (2004). Megabase deletions of gene deserts result in viable mice. Nature.431 (7011):988-93.Biographical