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Amelito Enriquez

132 Improving the Participation and Retention of Minority Students in Science and Engineering Through Summer Enrichment Programs Amelito Enriquez Cañada College, Redwood City, CAAbstractAlthough many California Community College students enter college with high levels of interestin science and engineering, their levels of preparation for college-level work, especially in mathand engineering, are so low that the majority of them drop out or change majors even beforetaking transfer-level courses. In 2008, Cañada College, a Hispanic-Serving community collegein Redwood City

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David Lanning; Wahyu Lestari; Shirley Waterhouse

thisunique course. In fact, this was one of the arguments made by the authors in the proposalrequesting NSF support, as an indication of the distinctiveness of this course withinundergraduate course catalogs.IntroductionAn introduction includes an historical perspective of engineering failure, with an emphasis on theaerospace industry, including a survey of prominent failures and comparisons between fail-safe,safe-life, and damage tolerant design strategies. For the laboratory session, an introduction tofailure surfaces is performed. A range of failure surfaces are rapidly produced through variousloading modes, producing a range of failure surfaces. Macroscopic and microscopic preparationand characterization techniques, including the use of the

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Nebojsa Jaksic; Jeff Piquette; Melvin Druelinger; David Lehmpuhl; Helen Caprioglio; Juyun Cho; Paul Chacon; Michael Mincic

SymposiumTutoring and Mentoring ActivitiesMath and physics tutoring was available through the Math Learning Center at CSU-Pueblo.Tutoring in engineering subjects was available in the Engineering department. The CIS programprovided its own tutors for all their students. To serve the whole S-STEM cohort, a graduatestudent was given an office space and was scheduled two to four hours per day to perform eventand meeting scheduling, tutoring, and administrative duties dealing with the S-STEM grant.While the tutoring function was advertised to all S-STEM students, again, there was no demandfor this activity. This result was anticipated by the S-STEM Project Management Team.Most of the mentoring activities dealt with undergraduate research and special design

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Said Shakerin; Camilla Saviz

others can befound in the proceedings of the ASEE annual conferences, available online at asee.org3-5.Objective and Desired OutcomesThe goal of developing the Fountain Bench was to provide a dual-purpose apparatus for use informal and informal fluid mechanics education. Specifically, the apparatus can be used forformal demonstration of fluid mechanics concepts to augment class discussions and to informallyeducate younger students (K-12) and the general public about the science and beauty of fluidmotion used in water features. Additionally, the apparatus could be used as a platform toexperiment with design ideas for senior design projects, for example, in the area of innovativewater features.Desired outcomes of the Fountain Bench project are

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Wangping Sun

through international experiences. Proceedings of ASEE 2008 Annual Conference and Exposition.23. Riha, A., Apple-Smith, J., Rover, D., and Melsa, J. 2007. Growing globalization of engineering practice: raising national awareness. Proceedings of ASEE 2007 Annual Conference and Exposition.24. Riley, D. 2007. Resisting neoliberalism in global development engineering. Proceedings of ASEE 2007 Annual Conference and Exposition.25. Soerens, T., Adams, C., Hall, K. 2007. Community development in a global context: an international service-learning program. Proceedings of ASEE 2007 Annual Conference and Exposition.26. Rong, M. 2005. NSF REU US - China - IRES: international establishment of engineering project center in China. funded

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John M. Murray; Roger A. Greener; Heong-seok Kim; William T. Murray

(men, birds), the four-leggeds, nations thatspring from the ground, and those that live in the water. Even the rocks and stars are worthy ofrespect11-20. Education can play an important role in illuminating this integrated worldview byexpanding our circle of understanding and action to include complex, self-organizing,interdependent systems, inspiring a sense of place through holistic, regional study, andintroducing ourselves to the land.Understanding the energy basis for man and nature21-24 is equally fundamental to sustainability inthe wild, rapidly changing American West since, over the long term, the biogeosphere mustoperate primarily on renewable solar, tidal, and deep earth energies. These bountiful energiesmanifest themselves in

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Eniko T. Enikov; Vasco Polyzoev; Joshua Gill

toshow that under this law, the steady state angle of the pendulum  ss and the input voltage u ss arerelated through a graph shown in Fig. 4 (left). They are then asked to show that by selecting theparameter S  K / mg , the resulting transfer function between the time varying input u (t ) and the Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 326output angle  (t ) is that of Fig.5. Using multiple open loop response experiments of this latersystem, students are able to identify numerical values of the

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Oenardi Lawanto

Analysis of Its Determinants and Malleability,” Academy of Management Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 183-211.16. Bandura, A., Schunk, D. H., 1981, “Cultivating Confidence, Self-Efficacy, and Intrinsic Interest through Proximal Self-Motivation,” Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 586-598.17. Brown Jr., Inouyne, D. K., 1978, “Learned Helplessness through Modeling: The Role of Perceived Similarity in Competence,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 36, No. 8, pp. 900-908.18. Schunk, D.H., 1981, “Modeling and Attribution Effects on Children’s Achievement: A Self-Efficacy Analysis,” Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 93-105.19. Weinberg, R. S., Gould, D

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J. S. Shelley P.E.

, andpreparation of the students.References1 Shelley, J. S. (2009) Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in a Broadcast Learning Environment: Application ofthe Dynamics Concepts Inventory, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Sessions 2630,Austin, TX: ASEE.2 Ragan, L.C. (2000) Good Teaching is Good Teaching: the relationship between guiding principles for distanceand general education; Journal of General Education; 49(1).3 Kohn, Alfie;(1996) Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community; Association for Supervision &Curriculum Development.4 Anderson, L. W., Krathwohl, D. R., Airasian, P. W., Cruikshank, K. A., Mayer, R.E., Pintrich, P. R., Raths, J., &Wittrock, M.C. (2001). A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing

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Retention“Maturing of a Multidisciplinary Cohort of STEM Scholars: Year Three” Nebojsa Jaksic, Jeff Piquette, Melvin Druelinger, David Lehmpuhl, Helen Caprioglio, Juyun Cho, Paul Chacon, & Michael Mincic.......................................................................................... 121“Improving the Participation and Retention of Minority Students in Science and Engineering through Summer Enrichment Programs” Amelito Enriquez .................................................................................................................................... 132“Student Recruitment by Faculty Phone-a-Thons” Debra Larson & Marissa Mourer