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Peggy A. Johnson

a coefficient of variation of 0.58. This is notsurprising since the size of the classes range from two to 26 students. Such small programs are bound tohave greater variability since a change of enrollment of just one women student can greatly affect theresulting percentage.PRIOR STUDIES RELATED TO WOMEN IN ENGINEERING Although few studies have been published that discuss issues of recruitment and retention ofwomen specifically in the area of civil engineering, a number of studies discuss the problems of lownumbers of women in the general field of engineering and several provide suggestions for increasing the 3numbers. Engineering has the smallest percentage of women in their

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Fatih Oncul; Marty Drobny; Melvin Lewis; Faruk Apaydin

An Innovative Outreach Program on Mechanical Contracting for College-Bound High School StudentsFatih Oncul, Ph.D.1, Marty Drobny2, Melvin Lewis, M.S.3, Faruk Apaydin, M.S.,P.E4,Fairleigh Dickinson University offers innovative weekend outreach program onMechanical Contracting to college-bound high school students. The program isgenerously sponsored by Mechanical Contracting Association of New Jersey (MCA-NJ).Lectures are half-day long and expanded to ten Saturdays. High school students areintroduced to Mechanical Contracting related careers and subjects such as; HeatingVentilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC), product piping, steam piping and energyconservation. Students are also involved in hands-on

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

New Jersey Institute of Technology’s K-16 Programs to Enhance Diversity in the Technical Work Force DERAN HANESIAN AND ANGELO J. PERNA The Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, 07110. INTRODUCTION With globalization as a given fact of life in the 21st century, there is a need toexpand the engineering manpower pool and its diversity in order for the UnitedStates to compete. To increase diversity in science, technology and engineering,we must reach children at an early age and educate and excite them about careersassociated with these fields. Programs must be developed that interest individualsfrom

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Howard Kimmel; John Carpinelli; Rosa Cano; Angelo Perna

students’ interest in science, mathematics and engineering. Students become interested insubject matter if it relates to real-world problems and applications. They are also stimulated to learnwhen lessons are student-centered and engaging. A pre-engineering curriculum presented through aproblem solving inquiry/discovery pedagogy would stimulate and engage both students and teacherswhile enriching curriculum in secondary school science and mathematics courses. However, it must bedesigned to supplement, rather than replace, current science and mathematics curricula.Our professional development programs that focus on the enrichment of science and math curriculademonstrate to teachers how the integration of principles of engineering and design into

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Elisabeth McGrath; Dawna Schultz

infusing engineering into mainstream K-12 education.Partnerships provide opportunities for: large-scale, statewide programming; sharing of curricula andeffective models; and coalition-based lobbying efforts. It is a reality that partnering organizations oftencompete for participants and support; but when relationships are built on mutual goals andcomplementary strengths, partnerships are an essential component of large-scale change efforts.IntroductionEngineering Our Future NJ (EOFNJ) was launched in 2005 with a goal to ensure that all K-12 students inNew Jersey experience engineering—with a focus on innovation—as an integral part of their elementary,middle, and high school education, not merely as an elective or extracurricular activity. By

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M.G. Prasad

. • Develop student exchanges and other links with institutions in Latin America, Asia, and the Caribbean. • Ask technical faculty to introduce ethnic-related topics, projects and texts wherever possible. • Develop leadership programs for professionals working in multicultural settings.Cultural Diversity and Engineering EducationIt is important to note that there are several values derived from education of cultural diversity namelyeconomical, social, political etc. directly influences engineering education. In a paper3 on “Globalization 2of Engineering Education”, Buckeridge emphasizes a growing concern related to diversity that there is agrowing need to adopt a universal

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Levern Rollins-Haynes; Keith L. Haynes

that few (if any) scientific causes have been identified, it is generally known thatstereotypical attitudes such as those relating to intellectual inferiority play an important role in preventingmany African-Americans from pursuing an education in engineering science. Stereotypical attitudes ofinferior intelligence about those of black ancestry existed during the slavery era and continue to pervadenot only the African-American community, but other communities as well. In his 1764 essay“Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime,” Enlightenment philosopher, Immanuel Kantin agreement with philosopher, David Hume, felt that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites. Kantstated, The Negroes of Africa have by nature no

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K. A. Narh; R. N. Dave

NSF-Research Experience for Undergraduates in Engineered Nano- Composite Particulate Materials at NJIT K. A. Narha and R. N. Daveb a Department of Mechanical Engineering b Otto York Department of Chemical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102-1982IntroductionThe NSF funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program at NJIT, was designed tofulfill the main requirements of the NSF solicitation document for this program - that REU projectsinvolve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects

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Michelle Albanese; Richard J. Puerzer

, such as an exam or homework assignment, demonstrating deeperunderstanding of the course content. This output is then assessed by the instructor who thencommunicates this assessment back to the student and modifies the course content as appropriate. Then,the cycle repeats. With each iteration of the loop, the student should add to previous knowledge andcontinue to grow in understanding. This assessment model relates to the concept of continuous qualityimprovement, a results-oriented program of process improvement based in the scientific method. Thegeneral steps of a continuous quality improvement program are shown in Figure 3. Continuous qualityimprovement can be used to close the assessment loop discussed previously and can be considered

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Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci; Pathickal Polouse

)that may be used with diverse student populations and for which no prerequisite science ormathematics background is required.An integral aspect of each experiment is to illustrate the importance of fundamental science andmathematics as “tools” necessary to solve engineering problems before the student has mastered thescience and mathematics. It is the opinion of the authors that the mystique associated withmathematics and science is often a deterrent to students selecting a career in engineering ortechnology. By demonstrating the final results of engineering and technical applications and showinghow the necessary math and science relate to the solution, it is expected that the students willappreciate the importance of math and science and

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Anilkumar Bhate; M.G. Prasad; Lex McCusker

related to the practice of engineering, these recent trends have to be understood by engineers intheir practical work. Some of these trends include the globalization of business, the increased use of teamsin engineering projects and the change in the workforce dynamics in the engineering industry, to name afew. These trends have made the management of workforce diversity a critical competency in therepertoire of core competencies of an engineering manager.Developing this competency requires knowledge of what diversity is and how one needs to deal with it.This requires a transformation of the mindset of students of engineering from a viewpoint based on amonolithic culture into one based on multi-culturality.The Need for Diversity Management:An

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William E. Kelly

implya high-level of mathematical performance for graduates. Assessment of mathematics readiness –relation to performance - is also increasingly recognized for its importance in advising studentsin and potentially interested in studying engineering . According to Adelman, “the highest levelof mathematics studied in secondary school is strongly correlated with bachelor’s completion inany field.”16 This is particularly true with respect to persistence and success in engineering.Mathematics and the AIR mathematics volume are different in that mathematics programsthemselves are not separately accredited. However, mathematics is an important part of all Page 3engineering programs and thus there would be

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Vincent Winstead

Designing a Multi-Disciplinary Hybrid Vehicle Systems Course Curriculum Suitable for Multiple Departments Vincent Winstead Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Techno logy Minnesota State University, MankatoAbstractIn recent years an increasing emphasis is being placed on the inclusion of multi-disciplinary programs orin courses having multi-disciplinary content. Including this content can be challenging especially amongthe various engineering disciplines. This is exacerbated by the challenges associated with making thistype of course content accessible to a wide range of students with varying levels of

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L. Kuczynski; C. McGuinness; S. Farrell; B. G. Lefebvre; C. S. Slater

Sponsored Industrial Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students: Student Perspectives on Collaborative Projects with Pharmaceutical Industry L. Kuczynski, C. McGuinness, S. Farrell, B. G. Lefebvre, and C. S. Slater Rowan University Chemical Engineering 201 Mullica Hill Rd. Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701 USAAbstract Rowan University’s Engineering program uses innovative methods of teaching and learningto prepare students better for a rapidly changing and highly competitive marketplace, asrecommended by ABET1. Rowan has developed a program that fosters synergistic

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Adriana Popescu

turninglibraries into intimidating places, which can keep students away until the critical moment when a paper orreport that could not be found by searching the internet is needed for a thesis or project.By working closely with the academic departments and the administration of the School of Engineeringand Applied Science (SEAS), the Engineering Library in collaboration with the science libraries atPrinceton University has implemented a range of instructional and educational programs tailored forinternational students with the scope of fully integrating the library resources and services in the students’educational experience. Informally called “Libraries 101 for International Students” the initiative’s goal isto help international students reach a level

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Laurent Simon; Piero Armenante; Rajesh Dave

and thickness of a patch and the solventconcentration influence the permeation rate. The participants have the opportunity to relate concepts,illustrated in typical drug-release experiments, to pharmaceutical applications.SummaryThe primary goal of Camp Pharma is to develop a diverse and well-educated workforce of HS scienceteachers, eager to transfer their laboratory and research experience to the next generation of scientists.The program also intends to train HS students while offering exiting career opportunities inpharmaceutical engineering. The teachers involved in the Camp will be able to devise experiments andincorporate, in their classroom, concepts focusing on the development and manufacture of drugs. Asparticipating teachers bring

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Josephine Lamela; James Finne; Karen Ford; Deborah Iacontino

Tech X Ploration: A Summer Institute for High School Girls or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation Josephine Lamela Professor, Physics Middlesex County College Prof. James Finne Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology Middlesex County College Karen Ford New Jersey Center for Advanced Technological Education Deborah Iacontino Teacher, Technology and Mathematics

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Fani Zlatarova

. studies▪ Service-learning reports consider topics that are suggested by community members and they are developed to satisfy real needs for informational processing.In the last years, students developing projects show special interest in the following areas: informationsystems, database systems, database-driven Web programming, software engineering, electronic games,networking, security, and others. This could be explained by the recent interest of companies in e-commerce and m-commerce applications.2.4. Project GoalsEach of the student projects has a very well determined goal. Three basic groups of goals could bementioned:▪ Educational goals related to the teaching process of the respective computing disciplines▪ Providing students with a

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John C. Giordano; J. Scot Ransbottom

military operations. Indefending our national interests, Army leaders must be sophisticated users of advanced technology andcomfortable employing scientific, mathematical, and engineering concepts to solve national securityproblems.”[3]Pedagogy The goals of the IT105 course are designed to support this vision and set of priorities. It is the first oftwo courses intended to bolster the dean’s vision within Information Technology, one of six identifieddomains of knowledge for the academic program. The five goals of the IT105 course are designed tosupport the dean’s vision and are stated below. 1. Understand the underlying physical and mathematical concepts relevant to IT. 2. Understand how IT systems function. 3. Understand the

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Kalyan Mondal

Challenges in Teaching a Digital Signal Processing Course to International Graduate Students Kalyan Mondal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Coordinator of Information Technology Program Gildart Haase School of Computer Sciences & Engineering Fairleigh Dickinson University 1000 River Road, T-MU1-01 Teaneck, NJ 07666IntroductionFounded more than 60 years ago by a true educational pioneer, Dr. Peter Sammartino, FairleighDickinson University has gained an international reputation for innovation and adaptation. In theyear

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Carol Siri Johnson

“federal programs generate nearly three-fourths of all aid available to help studentsand families pay the tuition, living costs, and related expenses of post-secondary education.”2 Thus, wehave a history of both local and federal support for education for people of all classes. Even though post-secondary education is not equally accessible to all people – the poor and minorities do not attend collegeas frequently as wealthier people do – we still have a solid foundation upon which to build. However, over the past forty years, the gap between the rich and the poor attending college hasincreased and the number of minorities entering fields such as engineering has decreased. In the interestsof openly discussing this problem, I will describe

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E. Hou; T. N. Chang; A. Dhawan; J. Ji; E. Luxford; D. Rodriguez; W. Stoddart; S. Siddiqui

organization are critical to proper execution of tasks and program objectives. Eventhough the team members are non-paid volunteers, their effort is recognized and indirectly compensatedby course grades and credits via, e.g. senior design projects. At the kick off meeting in September 2007,two student team leaders were elected from the remaining members of the previous year’s DARPA GrandChallenge team. The student team leaders’ responsibilities include: organizing team meetings,communication, and integration of technical efforts. A panel of faculty advisors from electrical andcomputer engineering as well as mechanical engineering was assembled along with an industry advisor,thereby providing technical leadership in areas of automation/control, guidance

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Stefan A. Robila

]. Finally, we note that some of the breaches were discovered by the staff or students themselves.Figure 4 shows the result on Google.com when searching for a student’s Social Security Number. Anexcel spreadsheet was publicly available through the search engine for several months. Both the file andthe link to the file are now deleted. 3 Fig 4. Sample search engine result when a student has used her (his) social security number.In the light of such a significant number of vulnerabilities, one must consider ways that will support thestudents’ understanding of the issues [13, 14]. While many aspects of the security incidents

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Sunghoon Jang; Robert Russo; Hong Li

Modifying the Existing Non-invasive Optical Glucose Sensing Device and Demonstrating the Optical Rotatory Effect of glucose in the presence of Glucose Medium Sunghoon Jang+, Robert Russo*, Hong Li# + Department of Electrical Engineering Technology * Department of Vision Care Technology # Department of Computer Systems Technology New York City College of Technology of CUNY 300 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY-11201 I