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Steve E. Watkins; Nancy M. Ostin

-collegecost and personnel time from the department and faculty. outreach4. Chapters can be rewarded for the extent and A department or school has numerous needs for student impact of their engagement activities with organizationalrepresentation in formal and informal capacities. The activity awards for the best or outstanding chapters.membership process of the honor society has identifiedstudents who have succeeded in the program and who have 4. Best Practices of an Honor Societygood leadership and communication skills. These students 4.1 Making an Honor Society Effectivecan provide a valuable student perspective related to The first function of an academic honor

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Jorge Leon; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

the degree program currently seen related to the content beyond advanced technologies.being developed at TAMU. Further, a brief assessment of The curriculum for the MSET at Wayne State Universitythe potential job market awaiting the graduates from this [4] incorporates problem solving skills with communicationprogram, as well as the expected student demand was and project management. The Purdue University onlinepresented. Future work includes continued refinement of Master of Science in Engineering Technology program [1]the curriculum and other program details by drawing upon emphasizes more general objectives such as “design andthe best attributes of currently offered similar programs. guide

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Kenneth Van Treuren

process and see what the process with the customer for changes to the RFP, also something is like in industry. Researching current found in industry. Throughout the entire process, tradeoffs technology and anticipating future trends is were made in the design requiring the student teams to also (a) useful skill to practice” make sound engineering judgements based on available data. Choosing a “winner” also reinforces the nature of “I enjoyed getting to see how companies actually competition in the business world. go through the process to get the engines to work

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Brian P. Bernard; Rui Cao; Maureen Russo RodrÕguez

technology. The paper will also or distance education offers an alternative solution throughreflect on the impact of this particular technological which small universities can expand their offerings, withoutimplementation on various teaching styles in both foreign needing to shoulder the added costs of acquiring all of thelanguage and engineering courses, especially compared to additional faculty, space, and equipment that wouldother distance engineering education in the literature, with a otherwise be necessary to implement such programming. Aspurpose of analyzing the model’s suitability for expansion an example, Concordia, Lubbock Christian, Schreiner,into other engineering courses or a fully accredited

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Timothy Urban; Margaret Baguio

internship. The residential internship is for two weeks where interns must be on-site at The University of Texas Center for2. Background Space Research. The internship includes daytime research The original program began in 2010 with an education activities, experiential learning activities, evening STEMgrant designed to leverage a set of NASA projects at CSR, activities, and field investigation. Each year, several teachers andusing NASA’s Earth observing satellites as a catalyst for the graduate students are selected as chaperones for the SEES programimplementation of a six-week high school student internship and

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Nisha Abraham; Nina Telang

Understanding Behaviors of Attendance in Supplemental Instruction and Subsequent Academic Success in a First Year Engineering Course Nisha Abraham, Nina Telang The University of Texas at Austin 2501 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712, USA E-mail: nisha.abraham@austin.utexas.edu, telang@ece.utexas.edu Abstract Engineering (ECE) department partnered with UT’s Sanger As student retention and four-year graduation rates are Learning Center in Fall 2015 and piloted SI sessions for theof institutional and national interest and

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Sarah Seraj; June Young Park; Michael Pieratt

voters were veryenvisioned stadium patrons viewing the Rainbow Fish while protective of their livelihood and personal goals, which is notwaiting for games to start, which would increase the surprising but differed slightly from our expectations.popularity of the Rainbow Fish and boost fisherman Secretly, we had hoped that everyone would be morelivelihood. Their proposed onsite wastewater treatment philanthropic and that they would choose the best solutionfacility would ensure there was no degradation of water for everyone, not just themselves. We had factored in the factquality in Rainbow Lake. In addition, the Research & that the role-players were a group of analytical

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Myles Sloan; Chung Hyun Goh; Fredericka Brown

for, while getting the BAJA programsome, a good grade might be incentive enough to put forth up and running. But more than getting the car designed andthe effort to properly gain these experiences, other things built, the group involved in getting the team establishedwill likely become a larger priority. The SAE student design wanted there to be good engineering practice started fromseries introduces students to a competitive atmosphere that the very beginning. This meant that all

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Colby Ryan; Alexis Crandall; Mitch Martinez; David Kennedy; Kristian Ecolango; Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

satellites. The team was also highly successful in using thealliance with the ESET program’s MISL. The partnership project to win a number of contests including: Bestencompasses applied research, educational, and STEM Capstone Project for the TAMU College of Engineeringoutreach activities. Showcase, Best New Business Idea in the TAMU Mays One of the more significant applied research School of Business Ideas Challenge, and First Place inprojects that demonstrates the impact of such a public- Texas Instruments International Innovation Challenge.private-academic partnership was Strata-1. The NASA- Both the Strata-1 applied research project and the