Conference Session

Perspectives for Women Faculty

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Birmingham, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

accomplished in the past year and what I wanted to accomplish in thenext three years. Only occasionally did I meet with my department chairs over the years todiscuss my career, however. I also started my faculty career before the implementation of aformal faculty mentoring system, and did not have the friendly advice of a trusted colleague toguide me, nor did I actively seek out such advice.I was in a quandary: according to the plan—never articulated in the academy, but generallyunderstood by all—everything was fine. Like Balboa upon finding the Pacific Ocean, rather thanjoy, I was professionally void. While large-scale research was fun and rewarding, I found that itlacked a certain satisfaction. Perhaps it was that as projects get bigger, one moves

Conference Session

Foster Excellence

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Fairley, Georgia Institute of Tehnology; Leyla Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gary May, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Minority Undergraduates: A Longitudinal Study of Program Outcomes 1986-1996. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 2000: p. 114-119.2. Morley, R., J. Havick, and G. May, An Evaluation of the Georgia Tech Summer Undergraduate Program of Research in Electrical Engineering for Minorities. Journal of Engineering Education, 1998. 87(3): p. 321-325.3. Good, J., G. Halpin, and G. Halpin, A Promising Prospect for Minority Retention: Students Becoming Peer Mentors. The Journal of Negro Education, 2000. 69(4): p. 375-383.4. May, G., Advising and Mentoring. 2006, Georgia Institute of Technology: Atlanta.5. Watford, B., et al. Lessons Learned: Implementing a Large-Scale Peer Mentoring Program. in

Conference Session

Capstone Design & Project Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Walter, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeffrey Webb, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; George Slack, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

inMechanical Engineering, students in the Sustainable Design Minor, or taking the public policyminor from the College of Liberal Arts, etc. Projects include small and large scale energyproduction and utilization systems including alternate energy systems, projects for third worldapplication, and projects which are focused on product stewardship issues such as recycling, re-use, and re-manufacturing. Students in the following programs will likely be interested in thisproject track: Electrical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, MechanicalEngineering, Mechanical Engineering / Energy & the Environment Option, Minor in SustainableDesign.Printing and Imaging Systems Technologies TrackThese projects should be of interest to students doing a

Conference Session

ChE: Safety, Sustainability, and Global Opportunities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allyson Frankman, Brigham Young University; Jacob Jones, Brigham Young University; W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University; Randy Lewis, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

students themselves, and they wanted the mentors to play a moreactive role. The class was initially designed to be a “hands-off” environment for the professorsand mentors, giving the students the opportunity to pro-actively determine internal deadlines, thedetails of the problems and ways to find them. The mentors and professors were availablealways, but students had to actively seek them out. This structure is something that students arenot used to, and had a hard time adjusting to.Key lessons learned to be implemented in next years class, are that more structure and classinstruction upfront are needed. This will give students the “tool-kit” necessary to solve open-ended problems. In addition, mentors will establish overall project timelines and

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Dale Bremmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

national attention. Some include indices that correlate resources to specific state ornational academic standards. Most improve convenience and accessibility by at least an order ofmagnitude over conventional Internet searches.Our purpose here is to recount how program assessment and lessons learned over three years offielding the portal have helped us to identify PRISM’s core competencies for transforming middleschool STEM teaching and learning.1.0 PRISM: A Portal with a PurposePartnerships between K-12 and collegiate institutes have proliferated over the last two decades.Add the power of the Internet, and you have many vertical alliances hoping to transformeducation. We believe PRISM represents one of the best of its category. PRISM addresses

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach, Humboldt State University; Jami Montgomery, WATERS Network - CLEANER Project Office; James Johnson, Howard University; Chris Brus, University of Iowa; Dan Giammar, Washington University; Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bette Grauer, McPherson High School; Liesl Hotaling, Stevens Institute of Technology; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein, Morgan State University; Steven Safferman; Tim Wentling, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

, 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, 15 conference proceedings, and over 40 conference presentations/poster sessions. He is an associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering and a member of the NSF CLEANER (Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research) Education Planning Committee.Tim Wentling, National Center for Supercomputing Applications Dr. Tim L. Wentling is a Professor of Information Science in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. Dr. Wentling is the leader of the Knowledge and Learning Systems Group

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

here with reference to these three categories.2.1 Learning Goals for the Design CourseDesign plays a central role in engineering education, giving a capstone experience to integrateand apply prior learning to a large-scale project. A typical process design course achieves a setof learning objectives, including the following components. Attitudes Knowledge Skills • Design is goal oriented, • Process synthesis • Defining and the result must satisfy a • Flowsheeting completing an open- student-prepared • Engineering economics ended project specification • Equipment sizing and