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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Amy Miller

’ comments were tallied andcomplied for class. The results, in their entirety, are given in Appendix B; an abbreviated table ofmain concerns is shown in Table 1.The new faculty member first reviewed the results with the mentor. Several interesting pointswere noted. First, a major comment in all three classes was that the students did not want theinstructor to do book questions as classroom examples. Second, nine members of the 10:00 AMfluids class commented that the pace was too fast while none of the 9:00 AM class made a similarcomment. By comparing the results it was determined that the 10:00 AM class, made up of CETstudents, had a different background than the MET students in the 9:00 AM class, as a result,they required additional explanations of

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rose

first on the exams, followed by written and numerical assignments. Theinstructor continued covering new material in both classes, however, no additional assignments,other than laboratory reports, were assigned through the end of the semester.Possible AlternativesAt many institutions, alternatives exist for providing instructional materials online. The Universityof Pittsburgh provides faculty access to CourseInfo v. 3.0, the online course management systemfrom Blackboard, Inc. The author had attended a one-day workshop in 2000 introducingCourseInfo. Limited use by other faculty within the Engineering Technology Division and theamount of time required to prepare materials, resulted in the author not incorporating CourseInfointo his teaching at

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Barbara Christe

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Krahe

this age-old situation. It isnot about teaching strategies, it is more a tactical approach to teaching. Although it is true that thereare problems with universities, facilities, and preparation of faculty and students; and someone shouldbe looking at the big picture; it is also true we are here, now. What can we do today?IntroductionIt can generally be assumed that new engineering educators are technically well prepared, have athorough knowledge of the field of study, and have some reasonable depth of experience in thesubject matter beyond the current course. It is even likely that they are excited about the field, andfind it quite interesting, challenging, and compelling.It is also assumed that they have a sincere interest in teaching, that

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; Deborah Follman

the textbook before coming toclass; active learning; undergraduate lecture teaching assistants; distribution and collection ofmaterials as well as post-lecture review of submitted work; making the environment more friendlythrough music and videos; integration of learning communities; and classroom representatives andteam minute papers to create a manageable student feedback mechanism. This paper will presentthe perspectives of a new faculty member teaching for the first time and of more experiencedinstructors of large classes.Introductory CommentsOne can imagine the worries of a new professor teaching for the first time: How do I write agood test? How do I keep the lectures interesting? Are my expectations of the studentsreasonable? What if

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Walter Tucker; Bob Lahidji

online course. Furthermore, the important issue of who owns the online courses Page 8.570.1is also not clear. For example, in 2000 a New Jersey institution established a policy that facultyProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationhave an ownership and receive pay to develop online courses6. Offering Internet courses,however, has a direct effect on faculty load and the cost of delivering instruction. Faculty load is amajor issue in all academic institutions and is especially critical in a collective bargainingenvironment

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh

Session 2003-2484 Issues Encountered with Students using Process Simulators Mariano J Savelski and Robert P. Hesketh Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan University 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, New Jersey 08028-1701AbstractProcess Simulators has become an indispensable tool for design and retrofit of refineries andpetrochemical plants. Originally created for the commodity industry, the advantages provided bythese tools have made them also an attractive option for other

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Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Denise Driscoll ; Klod Kokini; Linda Katehi; Jeff Wright; Carolyn Percifield

numbers of both graduate and undergraduate students enrolling and graduating from Purdue engineering; 3) To substantially increase the number of women and minority engineering faculty; and, 4) To significantly improve the climate in order to provide the best education and environment to students, faculty and staff.Moreover, there is a need to provide faculty and staff with experiences that will help them becomemore aware of diversity issues and the experiences of minorities and women on predominantlywhite campuses. Therefore, Purdue University Schools of Engineering, with encouragement andsupport from DuPont, began offering Diversity Forums for engineering faculty and staff inJanuary 1998. The overarching objective of the

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jay K. Martin; Jay Martin; Dayle K. Haglund; Jennifer Kushner

opportunity for departments to produce improved andresponsive curricula for their students. By setting goals and measuring outcomes, ABET EC2000is a framework for assisting departments to engage in a process of continuous review of theircurriculum. As remarkable as the flexibility is, equally remarkable is the distinct lack of structurefor the method a department should use in their process of continuous review.An additional issue arises because it is not obvious how to assist get a department to move fromwhere it is now to a department that is actively engaged in continuous review of the curriculum.Our experience has been that it is a challenge to engage faculty in an engineering department toemploy this process. Despite some effort in looking, we

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Bishop; Gary Lewandowski; Joel Fried; Carla Purdy; Anant Kukreti

for more qualified faculty in engineering programs and to improve the overalleducational environment, the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering has established acollege-wide Preparing Future Faculty program. The program maintains strong ties with a well-established university-level program but is specifically focused on engineering and computerscience disciplines. It is based on the best practices of two previously existing departmentalprograms, in Chemical and Materials Engineering and in Electrical & Computer Engineering &Computer Science. The new program retains the flexibility of the departmental programs, whileproviding a solid common core of knowledge and practice for student participants. It is organizedinto easily

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Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

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Angela Linse; Rebecca Bates

large research Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationuniversity, a small religiously affiliated liberal arts college, and a small women's liberal artscollege. One of the goals for interviewing faculty members from many different disciplines wasto learn about the varying culture across engineering fields. This aids communication andteamwork in smaller schools with fewer faculty or broader departments (e.g., joint physics andelectrical engineering departments). Examples and ideas accumulated through these interviewswere used in the graduate course.At the beginning of their faculty careers, new

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Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

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Julie Jessop

experience for all. First, new assistant professors should not hesitate to ask moreexperienced faculty advisers for advice (Tip #10). Selecting more than one “mentoring mentor”is important because you can gather a full spectrum of advice and be able to follow what fitsyour mentoring style best. Second, there are numerous mentoring resources available in print.In addition to the books and articles mentioned here, there are several excellent books to helpnew assistant professors in all aspects of their position; I indicate the specific chapters dealingwith graduate student mentoring below: P.C. Wankat, “Chapter 9: Graduate Students and Graduate Programs,” The Effective, Efficient Professor: Teaching, Scholarship and Service, Allyn and Bacon

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Smith; Wayne Walter

Session Number 2566 Handicapped Design Projects in a New Engineering Honors Course Wayne Walter, Mark Smith Kate Gleason College of Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623AbstractAs part of a new Honors Program within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at theRochester Institute of Technology (RIT), a multidisciplinary design project has been recentlyintroduced as a two-course sequence (1 credit each quarter), taken by honors students during thewinter and spring of their Freshman year. Instead

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Larry Richards

). Throughout the semester, we did extensive evaluation of team andindividual performance, as well as assessing the class itself and student reactions to it. Inthis paper, we provide an overview of the course, present some of the assessment results,and review the lessons learned: what worked, what didn’t?IntroductionA course on Creativity and New Product Development has been taught at the Universityof Virginia since 1995. Henry Bolanos and Dave Lewis developed the original version ofthis course. Henry is an independent inventor and has founded several businesses; Daveworked for IBM before joining the faculty of the University of Virginia. He owns a smallbusiness and holds several patents. They proposed a course that would teach the newproduct

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Reuben Fan; Sean Brophy

The wealth of knowledge now available at a person’s fingertips necessitates that educationis brought beyond plain memorization. A higher demand is being made on our graduates to adaptto new situations. Students must be able to critically analyze facts and figures and understand theirconceptual basis, make sound judgments on a plethora of information, and have the confidence tocreate informed decisions and opinions. Therefore, our models of instruction and assessmentmust be increased to meet these demands. This work is part of a large cross-institutional projectaimed at designing and researching innovative methods for teaching biomedical engineeringstudents on college campuses. One of the goals of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness

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Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

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James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

Session 3248 Merits of Faculty Internship in Industry – A Valuable Experience Ahad S. Nasab and James H. Lorenz Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractOne of the more effective ways for the engineering technology programs to keep faculty abreastof the new developments in their respective fields is to instill a faculty internship program.Studies have shown that faculty industrial placement is a component of life-long learning thathelps to maintain and expand technological skills1. The internship program at Middle TennesseeState University (MTSU), fully supported by the industrial

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Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Teresa Cutright; Helen Qammar

quantified outcomes for that course. They also describe what student activities(i.e. homework problems, exam questions, project sections, in-class problems, etc.) will be usedto measure the outcome. All of the information to this point is needed in any ABET self-studyreport. The most important aspect is that instructor defines each rubric so they make the mosteffective use of their time. As mentioned before, the faculty will also trust the results since theyshould not select a weak rubric. As faculty change courses and as courses change instructors, it isnow the responsibility of the new instructor to repeat this process to make the most effective useof their time.Once the outcome measurements are obtained, the next step in the structure is in the

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What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Leonard

-disciplines of industrial engineeringrather than on the problems that industrial engineers are expected to solve, (4) fails to address theneeds of today's industry, and (5) places a gap between undergraduate education and graduateprograms.The Kuo and Deuermeyer list of limitations for the traditional industrial engineering curriculumis remarkably similar to the set of issues given as limitations of almost all current engineeringcurricula taught in the United States, as described by NSF in its Program Solicitation NSF-02-091, the program which is funding the curriculum model being developed by the authors. Thus,the authors believe that a planning process for reform of a traditional IE curriculum can beexpected to address current concerns about the

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Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Kenney; Thomas Jewell

new power stations); § Manapouri hydro station (focusing on environmental concerns and design issues with original development of the underground station and technical issues with the second tailrace tunnel).In addition to demonstrating a familiarity with, and understanding of, the environmental,economic, and technological issues related to the specific technology or power scheme, thestudents are expected to present evidence, especially first-hand observations, of the impacts (pastand projected) of the technology. Impacts that must be considered include: § Magnitude and timing of net economic benefits (e.g., value of electric power generation); § Enhancement/loss of recreational uses; § Damage to the

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The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Vivian Lemanowski; Ellen Yezierski; Arlisa Labrie; Bettie Smiley; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 3592 A New Look at Gender Equity Professional Development for Secondary Science/Mathematics Teachers and Counselors Arlisa M. Labrie, Vivian L. Lemanowski, Bettie A. Smiley, Ellen J. Yezierski, Dale R. Baker, and Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Arizona State UniversityAbstractWISE Investments (WI) is a four-year National Science Foundation project HRD 98 72818designed for secondary science/mathematics teachers and counselors to enable them to helpinterest young women in engineering. A component of the WI program is gender equitytraining. Although the gender equity professional

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

and sustain conversations about the possibilities of adopting the curriculumfor all engineering majors. However, at no FC partner institution were the assessment data alonesufficient to move the non-FC faculty to adopt a new curriculum. The initial change model thatthe FC leaders were using, with its emphasis on the pilot curriculum, was beginning to beproblematic, but there were greater problems than the issue of assessment data. We turn now toexamine some of those other issues.Limitations of Pilot Curricula as a Base for Moving to InstitutionalizationPilot curricula, by their nature, involve a small numbers of students and faculty members.Students who participated in relatively small numbers in the pilot curricula at each FC institutionwere

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Current Environmental Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ishrat Mirzana; Ali Ansari

city of five million have resulted in a concrete jungle of overheated homes andsuffocating interiors. Trees have been cut down to make space for building construction andresidents of the town squeezed into closely spaced rectangular boxes of brick and concrete, cut-off from nature and isolated from their human surroundings. Physically and psychologically, thequality of life has suffered. Since our region lies in a temperate zone with day temperatures in thehigh 30’s to around 40C a good part of the year, people who have air-conditioners use them quiteheavily, causing considerable electrical load. Other people experience much thermal discomfortand tend to live with it.These observation led us to think on new lines concerning “climate responsive

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Godfrey

Session 2630 A Theoretical Model of the Engineering Education Culture: A Tool for Change Elizabeth Godfrey The University of AucklandIntroductionThe call for “a culture change in engineering education, ultimately to extend throughout theprofession” in the Australian Review of Engineering Education: Changing the Culture1 threw aspotlight not only on the need for change but the need for change in the culture. Inrecommending a “more outward looking culture attuned to the real concerns of communities”,better communication skills, and

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Matthew Eliot; Angela Linse; Jennifer Turns

continuallycharting new territory as it seeks to optimize student learning in these changing times. Ourpreliminary attempts have been focused on grounding our research in the explicit concerns ofengineering educators and instructional developers.Currently we are holding informal, semi-structured discussions with CELT’s instructionaldeveloper. These discussions have concentrated on the themes that reappear in her work withengineering faculty. These themes are quickly becoming a lens by which we will be able to narrowour field of inquiry. We are also beginning to differentiate levels of engineering faculty concerns,including concerns about the institutional context (how engineering educators can best interactwith their administration and staff), the classroom

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The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mara Wasburn

Changing the Continuing Chilly Campus Climate for Faculty Women: Recommendations Based on a Case Study Mara H. Wasburn Purdue UniversityAbstractA vast body of research conducted in the 1970’s and 1980’s documented a host of problemsconfronted by women faculty at colleges and universities nationwide: their small number, a“chilly campus climate,” low salaries, slow progress toward promotion and tenure, little power orinfluence, and a number of worklife issues. Subsequently, many institutions established policiesto address these inequities. This qualitative case study compares the concerns expressed in 1988by women faculty at “Sycamore

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Teaching Styles and Peer Review

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2003 Annual Conference

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Malgorzata Zywno

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFEAS faculty members, who did not respond to the survey, have on average worse teachingevaluations than those 27.3% who did. Thus the picture painted by the survey results is possiblyeven more conservative. The low return rate (only 14%) among the junior faculty likely indicateslower interest in educational issues. As they constituted proportionally the largest segment ofthose who did not respond to the survey, worse teaching practice among the younger faculty isalso likely, and of much concern. Among respondents, the self-declared ICE score was weaklynegatively correlated with years of experience, with the

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Andrew Otieno; Abul Azad; Radha Balamuralikrishna

presentationwill also focus on the challenges of conducting such collaborative projects and recommend dosand don’ts for faculty teams that plan to conduct interdisciplinary student projects in engineeringtechnology.Relevance of Interdisciplinary Projects and Fostering Student CollaborationIn recent decades there has been an increasing demand on manufacturers to reduce the cycle timefor new product development. At the same time, we continued to see that the life cycle of newproducts became increasingly shorter. In this era of a free global market economy that fostersand nurtures creativity as well as innovation, engineering technologists can rest assured thatthese observations define a trend that will continue into the coming decades at an even morefurious

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Keyser; Ronald Musiak; Richard Mindek; Mary Vollaro; Steven Schreiner

important topic.MethodologyThe manner of delivery for the seniors was straightforward. About two-thirds of the way through thesemester, a one-hour lecture was prepared and given to a group of 39 seniors, and several faculty from theME, EE and IE departments, covering ethical topics and issues modeled after the “Ethics Across theCurriculum” workshop. This lecture started with a brief discussion with students concerning the importanceof ethics in their professional careers, followed by anecdotal examples of why ethics issues should beconsidered more carefully. This was then followed by a PowerPoint presentation introducing the students tosome of the ethical and philosophical definitions taken from the IIT workshop 1, which were referred tothroughout

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Urmila Ghia; Rebecca German; Lisa Hogeland; Brian Kinkle; Carla Purdy

and engineering with established scientists and engineers; and the new Faculty for the Future initiative11; • books such as the comprehensive discussion of Ph.D. study by Lazarus, Ritter, and Ambrose12; • programs supported by industry, including the AT&T Fellows Program13. All of these programs provide important support and information in various ways and many provide mentors to help overcome many of the obstacles listed above. But none of these programs specifically addresses the student’s relationship with her research advisor. The Mentor Training Workshops we describe here are specifically designed to strengthen the mentoring aspect of this important relationship.3. Concerns Which May Be Addressed

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yell Inverso; Rachelle Heller; Dave Snyder; Charlene Sorenson; Catherine Mavriplis

. Furthermore, ethical, environmental and policy issues play asignificant role as well. The topic provides a level playing field for participants in thecourse: both faculty and students are unfamiliar, in terms of expertise, with the topic. Theremoteness and perceived strangeness of the Moon and the ‘blank slate’ that the Moonoffers for current as well as futuristic technological applications also contribute to thisequality. This equal access issue is important to our target audiences: women andunderrepresented groups such as the Deaf and minorities suffer from the real or perceivedimpression that they are less knowledgeable or able in a particular technical discipline(Leveson 1991, Howell, 1993). Removing barriers to these equalities has been a