Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2010-1208: MIND LINKS 2010: RESOURCES TO MOTIVATE MINORITIESTO STUDY AND SUCCEED IN ENGINEERINGMaria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Maria M. Larrondo Petrie is Associate Dean and Professor in the College of Engineering at Florida Atlantic University. She is on the Board of the ASEE Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND), and ASEE International Division. She is Executive Director of LACCEI, the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, and is Vice President of IFEES, the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies.Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Ivan Esparragoza is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Joanna Garner, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education

projected words per minute. Also, at a 2009 symposium ofengineering graduate students at a large mid-Atlantic research university, a representativesampling of presentations averaged more than 40 words per minute. In addition, the paper calculates this metric for representative presentations thatfollow alternative slide structures. For instance, in a large set of assertion–evidencepresentations created by international science and engineering Ph.D. students for whomEnglish is a second language, the projected words per minute were less than 20. Thatnumber contrasts dramatically with the more than 40 projected words per minute fromU.S. graduate students. Another alternative slide structure considered is the slide:ologystructure often found in

Conference Session

New Instrumentation Ideas

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Xavier Henry, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Dayvon Green, Morgan State University

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Instrumentation

., Karnieli, K.,and Kaiser. K. 1993. Quantitative remote sensing methods for real-time monitoring of inland waters quality. International Journal of Remote Sensing 14:1269-1295 7. Moisan, T. A., Atkinson, L. P., Blanco, J. L., Hooker, S., Maldnen, C., Moisan, J. R., Mannino, A., Mitra, M., Mulholland, M., Nolan, J., Russ, M., Swift, R. W. and Tester, P.A. 2005. Bio-physical Interactions in Ocean Margin Ecosystems (BIOME): understanding coastal dynamics in the Southern Mid-Atlantic Bight. Oceans, 2005. Proceedings of MTS/IEEE, 3, 2830-2837. 8. MindStorm NXT software: Information available online at the URL http://www.lego.com/en- US/default.aspx 9. Vernier brands for sensors and probes: Information available

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs & Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fleur Gooden, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Tremayne Waller, Cornell University; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

examines three K-12 engineering enrichment programs and their influence on college enrollment and graduationrates for past participants of the programs. The programs, conducted by a large public universityin the mid-Atlantic, target women and underrepresented minorities and draw most of theprogram participants from the surrounding economically disadvantaged counties. The firstprogram is week-long summer day camp targeting middle school students. The second is a year-long program hosting two events each semester targeting minority sophomores and seniors. Thethird is a 2-week overnight summer camp for junior and senior women. To assess the long-termimpact of these programs on interest in engineering, we performed telephone surveys of

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Baukal, John Zink Institute; Joseph Colannino, John Zink Co. LLC; Wes Bussman, John Zink Institute; Geoffrey Price, University of Tulsa

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College-Industry Partnerships

, presented at the ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section meeting, U.S. Military Academy at West Point (New York), March 28-29, 2008.2. J.H. McMasters and N. Komerath, Boeing-university relations – A review and prospects for the future, proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, pp. 1179-1196.3. K. Korhonen-Yrjänheikki, T. Tukiainen, and M. Takala, New challenging approaches to engineering education: Enhancing university-industry co-operation, European J. Engineering Education, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 167-179, 2007.4. J.P. Gosink and R.A. Streveler, Bringing adjunct engineering faculty into the learning community, J. Engineering Education, Vol. 89, No. 1, pp. 47-51, 2000.5

Conference Session

Retaining Women Engineering Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech; Peggy Meszaros, Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

recipients that are female is often used in research because it allows forinstitutional comparisons, accounts for persistence, and provides an index of whatmight at some point in the future be reflected in the composition of the workforce.The final pool of participating institutions consisted five private and three publicdoctoral/research universities of varying sizes. Four of the institutions are locatedin the Northeast, one in the Mid-Atlantic Region, and three in the West. Page 15.297.4The Engineering Student Survey and RespondentsThe survey distributed to students in the participating colleges of engineering was basedon The Student Persisting in

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BME Course and Curriculum Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Aston, East Tennessee State University; William H. Blanton, East Tennessee State University

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Biomedical

instructors that the book is essential. Also, thank you very much for saving me the expense of buying a text for one of my classes. It helped tremendously. (K) I did enjoy the book and found it useful. (L) No answer given (M) The primary benefit of this book was the cost itself. But even without having to pay for it, it was not lacking in detail as one might expect from a free textbook N) Appreciate the use of this E-book (O) the textbook was very good over all. It could have used more examples of the calculations and more descriptions of where the information came from. (P) Add an index. (Q) No answer givenReferences1. Aston, R. “Engineering E-Book Generation” ASEE Mid-Atlantic Fall Conference 2008

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Michael Evans, Virginia Tech; Brett Jones, Virginia Tech; Carol Brandt, Virginia Tech

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Page 15.1138.5MethodParticipantsStudents in an after-school Boys and Girls Club at a middle school in a mid-Atlantic state wereasked to participate in the project. The club coordinator explained the project to the students andprovided them with information and parental consent forms to take home to their parents.Students whose parents completed the consent forms were given permission to participate in theproject.Of the eight students who participated in the project, five students were boys and three weregirls. All of the students were White/Caucasian. Their ages ranged from 11 to 14, with four 11year olds (all sixth graders), one 12 year old (a sixth grader), two 13 year olds (a seventh graderand an eighth grader), and one 14 year old (an

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virginia Westheider, University of Cincinnati; Sarai Hedges, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

/overview/overview.html 2 http://www.isixsigma.com/sixsigma/six_sigma.asp. (viewed December 10, 2007) 3 DiIoia, S. Instye Consulting , http://www.insyte- consulting.com/Home/Resources/Articles/UnderstandingthePhasesofSixSigma (viewed March 10,2010) 4 ABET. Inc., Technology Accreditation Commission, University of Cincinnati- OMI College of Applied Science, Final Statement: Date of Visit October 8-10, 2006, p. 8. 5 Hedges, S. and Westheider, V. “Using Six Sigma for Continuous Improvement in Engineering Technology, Proceedings, ASEE Mid Atlantic Conference, ASEE, 2009 6 http://www.abet.org. (viewed February 26, 2009 7 http://www.abet.org/why_choose.shtml. (viewed February 26, 2009. 8 2008-209

Conference Session

Best Practices in K-12 Engineering Panel

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacy Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University; Marlene Aviles, Dr. Ercel Webb School # 22, Jersey City School District; Jennifer Case, East Middle School; Augusto Macalalag, Stevens Institute of Technology; John Brockway, East Middle School; Christie O'Hara, Colorado School of Mines; Michael Asheim, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Brian Lien, Princeton High School; Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

discussed in a separate section below).Overall, half of the 34 teachers who responded to the survey implemented ten or more of the 27activities that they learned during the summer 2008 workshop. Twenty-five percent did 15 or moreactivities. All but one of the activities introduced in the workshops was used by over half of theteachers. These were two model-based inquiry lessons (phases of the Moon and Earth’s seasons) andtwo engineering lessons (designing walls and creating windmills). Almost all of the teachers who hadused an activity reported successful implementation. Moreover, almost all of the teachers who used anactivity reported that they would use it again next year. Finally, almost all teachers felt that the PISAactivities had helped them