Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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International

the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. His technical work covers the topics of Optical Data Links, Integrated Circuit Technology, RF semiconductor components, and semiconductor component reliable. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering. Page 12.1142.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Panel Session – International Division “Educating Graduates

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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International

the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. His technical work covers the topics of Optical Data Links, Integrated Circuit Technology, RF semiconductor components, and semiconductor component reliable. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering. Page 12.1143.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Panel Session – International Division “Educating Graduates

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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International

the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. His technical work covers the topics of Optical Data Links, Integrated Circuit Technology, RF semiconductor components, and semiconductor component reliable. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering. Page 12.1144.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Panel Session – International Division “Educating Graduates

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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International

the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. His technical work covers the topics of Optical Data Links, Integrated Circuit Technology, RF semiconductor components, and semiconductor component reliable. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering. Page 12.1145.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Panel Session – International Division “Educating Graduates

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IE Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harvey Svec, South Dakota State University; Harriet Svec, South Dakota State University

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Industrial Engineering

of time.Engineering education faces significant challenges in an attempt to meet the demands on theengineering profession in the 21st century. At a national level, a number of well-know reports,circulated during the mid to late 1990s have stressed reformation in engineering education formore relevance and compatibly with a technically inter-connected workplace. The reports –national and international – call for curricula that include, among other areas, integrated andexperiential activities. The rejuvenation of the project begins the process for student engagementin the technical workplace.Further, engineering facilities across the nation focus on new and better technology. Design andmilling processes continue to be the basis of good

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Arunkumar Pennathur, University of Texas-El Paso

AC 2007-561: CULTIVATING AUTHENTIC ENGINEERING DISCOURSE:TRANSITIONING FROM AN NSF CCLI PHASE 1 TO A PHASE 2 PROJECTLouis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso Louis J. Everett is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas El Paso. Dr. Everett is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas and has research interests in the use of technology in the classroom. His technical research interests include robotics, machine design, dynamics and control systems. leverett@utep.edu http://research.utep.edu/pacelabArunkumar Pennathur, University of Texas-El Paso Dr. Arunkumar Pennathur is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at UTEP. He holds a PhD in Industrial

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Crossman, Old Dominion University; Anthony Dean, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

technology programs at ODU earn a Bachelor of Science inEngineering Technology (BSET), in lieu of a discipline specific degree. This was by design, andallows the Department of Engineering Technology to introduce new programs under the BSETwithout approval from outside the university. While the CET, EET and MET programs wereinitiated in the early 1970’s, the General Engineering Technology (GET) program was initiatedin 2001. The GET program was developed to allow students from a wide variety of associatedegree technical science programs to pursue a baccalaureate degree in one of six GET options oreven one of their own design (with approval of the Department Chair). It was felt thatdevelopment of a Motorsports Technology option under the GET program

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Topics Related to Assessments and Outcomes

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Frederick, Mechanical and Aeropace Engineering; Rebekah Frederick, Homewood Academy for Girls

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Aerospace

University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)1 and Ecole Superieuredes Techniques Aeronautiques et de Construction (ESTACA) a college in France.2 Theobjective of the course is to integrate the technical skills learned at the undergraduate level in adesign project. The actual project is a “nesting” of several classes. The core students come fromthe senior-level Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering design classes. The students aregrouped into multi-disciplinary teams that also can include electrical, computer, or industrialengineers and English students.3 Each team member has a designated technical/support role onthe team. This allowed individual members to understand their responsibilities, receive trainingin their area, and gain focused access to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University

Option in a Technical Communication Course*Abstract Although many institutions have called for more undergraduate research, incorporatingsignificant research experiences into undergraduate engineering curricula has proven to bechallenging. This paper presents the results of a two-year experiment in the College ofEngineering at Virginia Tech to address this problem by means of a research option in thetraditional technical communication course, which is a required course in many engineeringcurricula. In this research option, students had the opportunity to prepare for and to document asummer research experience. To that end, the research option of the course was divided into twosegments: (1) a spring segment to prepare students for a summer

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cher Cornett, East Tennessee State University

asfollows: 1. Brainstorming and feedback on initial ideas, and on sketches, storyboards, or other pre- visualization 2. Informal feedback by the instructor and the class during production 3. In-class critique on the finished project 4. Online critique assigned as homework 5. Report generated from the online critique Page 12.264.4 6. Revision of the project based on feedback 7. Final grade and instructor feedback, including scores for both technical and creative criteria.In the “brainstorming and feedback” phase, students present conceptual ideas (usually more thanone) for the project to the class, accompanied by sketches

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

includes a variety of engineering fields. This field of study helps make a well-rounded engineer and gives opportunities to become a strong leader and decision maker with practical engineering abilities.”[1] Definition 2: “A professional in general engineering uses the principles of math and science to solve technical problems. For example, a professional with a general engineering degree may be involved in the design of computers, helicopters, toys, and robots used in manufacturing. Knowledge of general engineering is also required to build viable structures like the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and used to determine the safest slope of an exit ramp from a highway.”[2]It is apparent that the

Conference Session

FPD11 -- Multidisciplinary Experiences

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University; Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

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First-Year Programs

students to have improved technical communication skills hasbeen well documented, perhaps most clearly in the ABET criteria3. Teaching communication aspart of engineering curricula has been tried in many ways, a good overview of which is presentedin Ford and Riley4. Adding technical communication to the freshman curriculum was one of thecentral reasons for reforming the courses at ONU. Some of this work has resulted in previouspublications5,6. The first of these courses, Freshman Engineering 1, includes objectives related totechnical communication and exposing students to the engineering profession.As the model of a Scholar/Teacher was being discussed at the 2006 ASEE National ConferencePlenary Session2, Dr. Sheri Sheppard stated that the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University; Rick Williams, East Carolina University; William Howard, East Carolina University; Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

create asuccessful design, in the sense that it leads directly or indirectly to an improvement in our qualityof life, must work within the constraints provided by technical, economic, business, political,social and ethical issues.”2 Elements of this definition of The Engineer of 2020 are found in thedictionary definitions given in Table 1 such that both science and math are applied to an endresult “useful to people” and “supplying human needs”.The ultimate goal of an engineering curriculum is to produce engineers that can contribute to the Page 12.819.2profession and society in agreement with such past and present definitions and the vision of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Design – General Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. Christopher Cotting, Virginia Tech; Leigh McCue, Virginia Tech; Wayne Durham, Virginia Tech

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Aerospace

communicated tothe students. With added laboratory time more emphasis will be placed on pre and post flighttest briefings, adding more emphasis on test requirements directly before and after each test.Revisions to Specific TestsLab 1:For the first flight test lab, a stronger emphasis will be made on atmospheric effects on basicaircraft performance. Principles relating to basic atmospheric parameters and how they varywith altitude will be reviewed with the class. Students will be required to submit source codefrom basic tools that they will generate for use throughout the semester. These tools will includefunctions to access the course supplied atmosphere model, conversion from equivalent airspeedto calibrated airspeed and vice versa, and the

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques in Graphics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Sherwood, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Peter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Engineering Design Graphics

andacts as visual map to reinforce the connection of the course topics to one another. The Ganttchart also is an introduction to how to manage a project by planning tasks that need to becompleted in serial and what tasks can be done in parallel to have a distributed workload over thetime period while finishing the project on time.Tasks #1 and #2 are done as individual technical reports. Students do not necessarily come tothe course knowing any of the students in the class. Thus, the first two weeks is a time for thestudents to begin to meet others during the two-hour lab sessions and to force each student to beinvolved in all aspects of writing a technical memo report. Any weaknesses in technical reportwriting and formatting in MS Word are to be

Conference Session

Outreach Projects and General Energy Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

which took place in of March 2005. An organizationalchart of the overall project team is given in Figure 1 below. All members in the project reportedto someone on the organizational chart. 10 kW Photovoltaic Project Organizational Chart Prof. Janice Means Robert W. Fletcher, Ph.D. Carey Valentine Prof. Dan Faoro Project Principal Investigator Campus Facilities College of Architecture Mechanical Engineering Electrician - Jim Bates Robert G. Pratt, P.E. PV Installer - Advanced Consulting Engineer Distributed Generation RGP Pro, Inc

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Engineering Without Borders: Programs Involving Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Eger Bill; Phillip Aaron, University of Dayton; Charles Schreier, University of Dayton

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International

effective solutions to technicalchallenges through guided research, development projects, and technology dissemination.Students use their engineering knowledge to address real world problems, while gaining a betterunderstanding of the interface between technology and global society. While traveling, students Page 12.951.6are required to provide weekly electronic status reports to the ETHOS administration. Due to thenature of their living arrangements they are forced to engage in local culture including language,infrastructure, and general lifestyle. During the fall semester, students return to campus write a technical report summarizingtheir

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations and Applications

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology; Eva Graham, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Engineering Technology

thatby providing undergraduate students the ability to understand the linkage between theory andreal-world applications, it increases their motivation to remain in a STEM-related major.Discussion on the approach is presented in this paper and validated through implementation witha pilot student population to provide supportive evidence of the observed benefits.1. IntroductionAn essential element of NASA’s education mission to inspire the next generation of explorers,requires that the public is engaged through the implementation of innovative approaches such asinformal and formal education methods, science outreach, and research development efforts.1One of the direct outcomes of this focus is to contribute to the nation’s educational goals

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Brian Sangeorzan, Oakland University; Xia Wang, Oakland University; Chris Kobus, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Alex Alkidas, Oakland University; Michael Latcha, Oakland University

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Mechanical Engineering

evaluate the impact of the REU experience on the technical and developmental skills of the students.• Evaluation of REU activities to measure the level of satisfaction and perceived usefulness of the program to students, acknowledging that such perceived usefulness may not show up for several years.• Evaluation of the projects: At the end of each 10-week session, feedback will be collected from the students, the faculty members and the industrial mentors to evaluate the appropriateness of individual projects for undergraduate research. Reports on undergraduate research in general and REU sites in particular, highlight both the difficulty and importance of project selection on the success of an undergraduate research

Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cuneyt Sert, Middle East Technical University; Gunes Nakiboglu, ROKETSAN Missiles Industries Inc.

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Mechanical Engineering

. Collins, Integration of Simulation into the Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics Curriculum usingFLUENT, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session: 1637, 2003.7. R. A. Pieritz, R. Mendes, R. F. A. F. Da Suva, C. R. Maliska, CFD Studio: An Educational Software Packagefor CFD Analysis and Design, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, vol. 12 (1), pp. 20-30, 2004.8. GNU General Public License (GPL), http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html9. Homepage of Virtual Flow Lab software, http://www.me.metu.edu.tr/cuneyt/VirtualFlowLab10. J. Blanchette, M. Summerfield , C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, Prentice Hall, 2006.11. J.F. Thompson, B. Soni, N.P. Weatherrill, Handbook of Grid Generation, CRC Press, 1998.12. H.K. Versteeg, W. Malalasekera, An

Conference Session

Two year Colleges

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College; Ellen Hause, AACC; Benjamin Taylor, Seminole Community College

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Two Year College Division

year 2002 somesixty-three community colleges had received grants that directly addressed the IT workforcetraining needs of their local communities [1]. To a great extent, the success of this program wasdue to the vision and generous philanthropy of the Microsoft Corp., the expertise of the AACCmanagement team who oversaw the program on a day-to-day basis, and the dedication of thecommunity college faculty and administrators that took part in the mentoring process.It should be noted that prior to the Working Connections program and the start of the NationalScience Foundation’s Advanced Technology Education (ATE) program in the early 1990’s, mostcommunity college faculty worked in relative isolation with very little contact with colleaguesthat

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Lichtenstein, Stanford University; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Colorado School of Mines; Tori Bailey, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

, engineering, mathand sciences, and social sciences. MT is a state-funded, technical institution that offersundergraduate degrees in engineering, chemistry, mathematics and computer science, andeconomics and business.1 The difference between these two institutions in terms of institutionalfocus and academic offerings available is significant; Coleman offers a broad range ofalternatives to majoring in engineering while the MT does not.The two institutions also vary in terms of student demographics. Although both Coleman andMT engineering programs enroll similar numbers of women and Latinos/as (approximatelytwenty-four percent and eight percent, respectively), Coleman’s engineering students are fiftypercent non-white while MT’s are approximately fifteen

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Regis University

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Educational Research and Methods

level and sixty-four sub-field codes. Table One containscodes for how participants discuss their identities and their relationship to engineering school,the engineering profession, and their peers.Table 1: APS Codebook Entry for Identity Main Sub General Definition Definition Category Categories Notes/Guidelines Identity (ID) Any instance where there is a reference to an identity (stereotype/characterization). ID.peers Any instance when the informant talks about peer group identity (in

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Materials

tailored to the needs of the projectand may include open-time for team discussion and problem solving, learning activities, mini-lectures with Q&A sessions, computational analysis of data as well as fabrication and assemblyof parts. There is no rigid schedule and the students work in teams composed of 4-6 students.Design Methodology for PBL ActivitiesSeven faculty spent two weeks during the summer of 2006 to develop the PBL design activitiesfor our Junior Experience. We followed a collaborative process for systematically designing eachproject-based series of activities as outlined below:Step 1: We began by identifying a profile of our customer’s needs and values. First we listed thevalues that our students have expressed over the years

Conference Session

Potpourri Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mara Wasburn, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

new media programming, such as televisiondramas with women engineers, computer technicians, and/or engineers in leading roles, mighthelp attract more women to these fields. This paper identifies a theoretical rationale for a mediacentered strategy. It involves using the mass media to create a more positive understanding ofwomen in these professions. It then describes a pilot study that utilized a national sample. Datafrom that survey suggest that a media-centered approach might have some success in producinggreater interest among women in pursuing certain STEM careers.IntroductionIt is commonly accepted that part of the solution to the increasing problem of the shortage ofwell trained technical personnel in all advanced industrial nations

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Potpourri Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Buck, Jackson State University

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Women in Engineering

Educational institutions are increasing their efforts to integrate females into non-traditional technical programs. Adjustments, such as curriculum and recruitment andretentions efforts, are being made to ensure that females feel welcome and a part of theprogram’s standard regimen. Industrial Technology stands at the vanguard of successfulparadigms that prepare females in such non-traditional areas as managerial and technicaldegree programs. Marshall (2000)26 contended that the common goals of IndustrialTechnology programs are to increase enrollments and to offer a curriculum designed toprepare students for management and technical careers. O’Meara & Carmichael (2004)34added that emphasis should be placed on both recruitment and retention efforts

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Potpourri Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danny Bee, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Brenda Puck, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Peter Heimdahl, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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Women in Engineering

OverviewAdvanced STEPS for Girls was conducted on the UW-Stout campus for the first time in thesummer of 2006. The one-week camp, which was held June 24-29, was offered to alumni of the7th grade STEPS camp of 2003. Tuition in the amount of $350 was charged to each camper withten spaces reserved for full scholarships.The goals of Advanced STEPS camp are to: 1. Reinforce the career message of the 7th grade STEPS program in the minds of campers with continued interest, 2. Significantly influence the selection of science, technology or engineering as a participant’s career choice, 3. Offer advanced design topical sessions and an advanced problem solving activity, and 4. Create an “army” of LEGO Mindstorms mentors for FIRST Lego League (FLL

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Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Cottrell, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Women in Engineering

economy, and construction planning, scheduling, estimating, and management. Page 12.1136.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Outreach Initiative for Recruiting Women to Engineering: Doing a Good Deed for Girl ScoutingIntroduction The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow. This truth is frequently brought to lightby many who would raise an alarm about a perceived trend or character trait contrary to theirvision of a secure and robust future; others would sow confidence in a generation from whichgreat things were expected. Current studies indicate that the United States is facing an

Conference Session

Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Portia Sabin, University of Washington; Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

. Page 12.428.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Cultural models of the admissions process in engineering: Views on the role of genderAt the University of West State (UWest), a flagship, state university on the westcoast of the United States, students generally apply to the engineering collegeafter they have finished 2 years of prerequisite courses. Admission to the collegeis highly competitive, and although the college regularly offers informationalsessions about the application process, our analysis shows that the processremains occluded to students. The mystery surrounding the process makesnavigation of the process difficult, so we find students attempting to construct anunderstanding of the process by

Conference Session

MentorNet

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Jo Wellenstein, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Susannah Sandrin, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; Karen Showers, Wisconsin Technical College System; Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board; Jennifer Chou-Green, MentorNet; Carol Muller, MentorNet; Laurie Mayberry, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ann Bloor, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Isla Yap, Maui Economic Development Board

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Women in Engineering

Wisconsin Systemand Wisconsin Technical College System campuses; 30 institutions could potentially participate.One of the aims of this program was to encourage more technical/community colleges to partnerwith MentorNet, broadening the range of mentoring opportunities for the diverse population ofstudents who attend such schools.To promote MentorNet participation in the Wisconsin systems, a collaborative team fromHawaii, Milwaukee School of Engineering, MentorNet, the University of Wisconsin System, andthe Wisconsin Technical College System held a one-day orientation training in August 2005. Ahands-on training session was offered via a phone/web conference in October 2005. During thefirst year, 24 campuses participated. The University of Wisconsin