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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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José L. Torres; Vijendra Agarwal

of REU grants is a reflection ofthe academic strengths of the CSI Faculty and the available NSF funds.Figure 2 shows the point data and trend for NSF-REU support over the last 12 years. Again, anexponential least squares regression model shows a modest growth trend line in this type ofsupport.The Undergraduate Research ConferenceThe College of Staten Island has been holding its annual Undergraduate Research Conferencesince the Spring of 2002. From inception, its theme has been, “Passport to Knowledge” whichunderscores the importance of pursuit and creation of knowledge through research. Studentsmajoring in all disciplines CSI offers are given the opportunity to present projects, bothscholarly and creative, that have been mentored by a CSI

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carol Shields

As ofthis date the information from the EOFNJ pilot study has been compiled and entered into a database which is now being analyzed by the designers of the assessments.The New Jersey data will be added to the above study which now includes information from over3,000 students from Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, and Massachusetts in grades 3-5.The New Jersey student assessment data will not be available until mid-November 2006.However, CIESE staff has collected the reflections and observations of the teacher participantsusing informal surveys and classroom visits. Anecdotal data and a cursory inspection of teacherresponses indicate the following: • Teachers discovered that engineering concepts can be introduced at an early grade level

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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LeeRoy Bronner; JERRY-DARYL FLETCHER

Software Engineering: Concepts and Techniques. In: Dutoit A, McCall R, Mistrik I, Paech (eds.) Rationale Management in Software Engineering, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, pp.1-48[8] Fischer G, McCall R, Morch A (1989) Design Environments for Constructive and Argumentative Design. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Wings for the mind, New York, NY, US, pp. 269-275[9] MacLean A, Young RM, Bellotti VME, Moran T (1996) Questions, Options and Criteria. In: Moran TP, Carroll JM (eds.) Design Rationale, Concepts, Techniques and Use, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 53-106[10] Schön D (1983) The reflective practitioner. How professionals think in action

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Frank Lanzer

Attracting Girls to Technology: Reach Them Before High School Frank Lanzer Anne Arundel Community CollegeAbstractToday, a technology company may “feel good” if 30% of their employees are women butmost will not be engineers. This reflects the facts provided by the National ScienceFoundation showing 35% of the undergraduates in science and math majors are women,while only 10% are in engineering. It’s no wonder that many girls and young womenperceive these fields as “for men”. Recent research shows attitudes and perceptions beingdeveloped early in the secondary education process.During this discussion, current statistics and research with

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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LeeRoy Bronner; Peter Kazanzides; AmenRa Mashariki; Paul Domingo; Pauline Pelletier; Trevor Thomas

. • Figure 9: Ten Year Scientific Information System Archive – diagram showing a 10 year research archive and the researcher interface. • Figure 10: Scientific Information System Website: a depiction of a scientific information website.4. ObjectivesThe primary objective of this research study is to develop a solution for the ERC informationoverload problem as it relates to researcher communication and collaboration through intelligentinformation design and presentation techniques. The goals addressed by this research areoutlined below: 1. Develop an information design pattern3, 4, 5, 6 that: • uses scientific poster technology as a base, • reflects the input of

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

LeeRoy Bronner; Olusola Laniyi