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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Smith; Angela Quick

Quick to be themagnet school’s director. Mrs. Angela Quick (co-author) was the director of another magnethigh school and had pioneered the research-oriented magnet school curriculum culminating inthat presented herein.Beyond initial consultation, Georgia Tech provides access to many of its resources with theprimary contribution being mentors and facilities for the magnet school students’ researchprojects. The high school classes visits Georgia Tech at least once annually as a group toparticipate in college classes and attend various campus events. For example, all magnetfreshmen attend at least one collage introductory biology and chemistry class.RecruitingWith plans to have about 40 students in each of the four high school grades following the

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

example, do so eitherbecause they need or are encouraged to receive engineering design credit for their work.Resources One of the largest issues with linking student-initiated design projects to the educationalprocess is the increase in faculty workload, hardly a trivial matter. Offering a dedicated courserequires a significant time commitment and must not be entered into lightly. The ability toprovide an excellent design experience to the students may be the only reward to the instructor.However, one method for an instructor to derive benefit is to only commit time and effort toprojects that will also benefit the instructor’s research or educational goals. More limitedinvolvement that still provides meaningful experiences can be

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Juliano; Ronald Rockland; George Gonzalez; Joel Bloom

Session 3547 Enhancing the pre-engineering curriculum – a multi-partner initiative Thomas M. Juliano1, Ronald H. Rockland 2, Joel S. Bloom 3, George Gonzalez4 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, Tel: (973) 596-5694, Fax: (973) 642-4184, thomas.juliano@njit.edu / 2 Associate Dean, Newark College of Engineering, and Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102

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Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Beaman; Philip Schmidt

MS and 24 PhD degrees; US News and WorldReport ratings for that year ranked ME at UT 10th nationally at the undergraduate level and 11that the graduate level.As is the case with departments nationwide, UTME faculty have been evaluating the strategicdirections in which we need to move to stay in the top tier in the decades to come. One of our toppriorities, along with excellence in research and graduate education, is to produce new graduateswith exceptional preparation for further professional study and engineering practice. One result ofthis priority is a new undergraduate curriculum reform initiative called PROCEED, an acronym Page

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Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Russell

Session #2315 ASCE’S RAISE THE BAR INITIATIVE: MASTER PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION ASCE Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice (TCAP^3) BOK-Curricula Committee of TCAP^3 Accreditation Committee of TCAP^3 Licensing Committee of TCAP^3AbstractIn October 2001, ASCE approved Policy Statement 465 entitled “Academic Prerequisites forLicensure and Professional Practice.” The underlying purpose of ASCE Policy Statement 465 isto prepare the civil engineering professional of the future. The

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lisa Anderson; Kim Gilbride

Session 1692 Bringing engineering to K-12 classrooms – Initiatives and Results Lisa Anderson, Kim Gilbride Women in Engineering Committee, Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAbstractSince 1989, the Women in Engineering Committee at Ryerson University has been developingstrategies to increase the participation rate of young women in engineering at Ryerson. TheDiscover Engineering Summer Camp was launched in 1991, as a day camp targeting femalestudents in grades 10 to 12. The aim of the camp was to introduce engineering concepts to youngwomen through hands

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ernest Smerdon

Session 2315 ASCE’s Raise the Bar Initiative: Accreditation-Related Barriers and Critical Issues Ernest T. Smerdon, P.E., Richard O. Anderson, P.E. and Jeffrey S. Russell, P.E. Dean Emeritus, University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721/Principal Engineer, SOMAT Engineering, Inc., Taylor, MI 48180/Chair, Construction Engineering and Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706IntroductionThe conditions and broad requirements of engineering practice are rapidly changing – and theywill change even more in the future. Moreover, engineering education is also changing, perhapsmore

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Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Session 1609 Biomedical Engineering Topics in High School Science Instruction: Initial Development and Field Studies Robert D. Sherwood, Stacy S. Klein Vanderbilt UniversityTheoretical Basis The growth of the influence of cognitive science on the design of instructional materialsin science and mathematics has been substantial over the past twenty years. Early works such asBransford, Sherwood, Vye and Reiser1 summarized research on teaching thinking and problemsolving pointing out important differences between the organization of knowledge by

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Martin; Shailendra Mehta; Ronald Steuterman; Leah Jamieson; Donald Blewett; William Oakes; Edward Coyle

.” Session 27939. Author Biographies:EDWARD J. COYLE is an Assistant Vice Provost for Research at Purdue University, where he is also a co-founderof the EPICS Program and the Director of the EPICS Entrepreneursh ip Initiative. He is a co-recipient of theAmerican Society for Engineering Education 1997 Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in EngineeringEducation and a Fellow of the IEEE. His areas of interest include computer networks, digital signal processing,engineering education and entrepreneurship.LEAH H. JAMIESON is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where she is a co-founder and Co-Director of the EPICS Program. She is a co-recipient of the American Society for EngineeringEducation 1997 Chester F. Carlson

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Patrick Norris; Duco Jansen; Sean Brophy

allows students to rate their confidence in their response using a low, medium or highscale.MethodThe initial goals for our use of VSAS were to replicate the use of CCS using multiple-choicequestions and to explore the capabilities and uses for the short answer and essay answers. Inaddition, we wanted to evaluate the robustness of this technology for use in the classroom. TheVSAS was used periodically throughout the semester in an optional 1-credit freshman seminar onbiooptics with 18 students (see [6], in this volume for more details about the course). Severalclasses were observed by outside researchers and a survey was used to measure students’perceptions of the system at the end of the course.The VSAS system was used in several ways

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stuart Walesh

Session 2315 ASCE’s Raise the Bar Initiative: The Body of Knowledge for the Future Stuart G. Walesh Consultant and AuthorAbstractASCE’s Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice (TCAP^3) wascharged to develop, organize, and execute a detailed plan for the full implementation of ASCEPolicy 465 (Academic Prerequisites for Licensure and Professional Practice). This paper presentsthe recommendations of TCAP^3’s Body of Knowledge-Curricula Committee and, secondarily,describes the process used to arrive

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Larry Trioloa; Charles Garnett; Barry Mohle; Alfred Wicks; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

an initiative with the goal of adding approximately 400 new research employeesper year to its R&D centers located throughout the United States. These comprise the NavalSurface Warfare Center, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Naval Air Warfare Center, Space andNaval Warfare Systems Center, the Naval Research Laboratory, the Naval Medical ResearchCenter, and the Naval Medical Health Center.Internal studies4 of the Navy’s science and technology (S&T) needs have pointed to factors whichmust be addressed if this objective is to be met. Some of these factors are internal, such aslimitations imposed by the Civil Service System on the flexibility to hire new employees and theability to reward research productivity, but often these factors

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Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Laws

continuing for a five tosix year period provided students were making adequate academic progress toward thedoctoral degree. Over the years, recruitment of candidates for the programs expandedbeyond the initial local schools to include public and private universities across thecountry as well as the HBCUs and HSIs. Additionally, to help identify students early intheir undergraduate careers who might have the potential to seek graduate technicaldegrees, the Labs established undergraduate summer intern programs to give women andminorities the opportunity to work in an industrial research environment. To furtherreach students in high school before they went on to college, the Labs provided a weeklong series of seminars and laboratory visits for high

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rod Townley; Stephen Kuyath

formed RITC prioritized its activities as follows:1. Complete the initial research begun by the project director to determine current training needs in the Charlotte Region, but continue research activities to ensure the project stayed on target,2. Develop a plan to integrate the IT Skills Standards into curricula at member colleges by developing a new model for IT curricula,3. Begin integration of IT Skills Standards into IT curricula at member colleges, and4. Develop strategies to secure funding for the continuation of the project. Research: The RITC adopted a model for researching new occupational markets [1]. Using this model, the researchers conducted national scans, regional monitoring, and local surveys. National Science

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Denise Carlson; Janet Yowell; Jacquelyn Sullivan

science concepts become “real world”and relevant to K-12 teachers and students, as well as opens up the world of engineering to them. Page 8.21.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationCreation of Curricular ContentsOnce Fellows have completed initial research on a topic, the background and motivating conceptsfor each lesson plan are composed. This step is followed by populating the remaining templatesections. Fellows should add any supporting visual or multimedia elements (photos, diagrams

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

chose a set of survey instruments developed by researchers at the Departmentof Educational Studies and Center for Research on Cognition and Learning and the EducationalResearch Institute at Utrecht University in Ljubljana, The Netherlands. The surveys weredeveloped and tested in response to a national push in the Netherlands to improve teaching andencourage authentic teaching methods7 . A pair of Authentic Pedagogy questionnaires created byRoelofs and Terwel1 were designed to elicit information from secondary students relating theirexperiences with authentic teaching practices. The instruments initially consisted of twoseparate surveys: one for foreign language (English) courses and one for mathematics courses.A separate teacher’s manual was

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ioannis Miaoulis; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

fellowshare the instruction during the unit. In this format the teacher often communicates to thegraduate student what the next unit will focus on. The graduate student will then research severalengineering activities that could be presented to the class. The fellow then lets the teacher knowwhat ideas they have come up with and they discuss the activity the teacher selects. The fellowprovides the teacher with information on the project and how it will work as well as backgroundinformation. The teacher then presents the majority of the material to the students, occasionallyleaving the most technical concepts information for the graduate student to explain.While working with the Teacher-Fellow instruction model the fellows must be aware of theteachers

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Roe

).3. Eric Roe, M. Barger, A. Hoff, R. Gilbert, J. Hickey, K. Rogers, A. Greenway, M. Hepburn, K. Loweke, B. Smrstick. High School Technology Initiative (HSTI): High Tech Curriculum Materials for High School Science. In Seventh Annual Conference – Advanced Technological Education in Semiconductor Manufacturing. ATESM, 2001.ERIC A. ROE is a Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering at USF. He received his MS in Chemical Engineeringfrom USF. Prior to his study at USF, he was employed in Research and Development at Tropicana Products. Hisresearch interests are Food Engineering, Fluidized Bed Drying, and the integration of engineering and education

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

Paper # 2003-1125 Engineering Ambassadors in the High School Classroom Robert F. Vieth, Kazem Kazerounian School of Engineering University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-3222AbstractStudents and faculty within the School of Engineering and the Neag School of Education at theUniversity of Connecticut have initiated a program, with the support of the National ScienceFoundation, to introduce core engineering concepts to select high school students in the State ofConnecticut. This program, entitled the

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Moayyad AlNasra; Virgil Cox

too late. What was accepted in the1970s may not be accepted today as far as civil engineering technology curriculumis concerned. The civil engineering technology industry changed drastically latelywhile the civil engineering technology education changed a little. Five-year study atGaston College of the Civil Engineering Technology two-year program will bepresented. The study will focus on the factors affecting the survival rate, studentacademic performance, initial salary, and the waiting period before getting the firstjob after graduation.Techniques and procedures to enhance creative environment in the civilengineering technology program will be discussed. Reforming math and sciencecourses in the engineering technology curriculum became a

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Larry Richards

InitiativeThe Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative (VMSEEI) was designed toaddress this need. Our goal is to design and implement Engineering Teaching Kits (ETKs)to introduce engineering concepts and methods to students in middle school science andmath classes. The four major objectives of VMSEEI are to: (i.) Show middle school teachers and student teachers how to introduce engineering and technology into their classes using ETKs; (ii.) Use ETKs to promote awareness and stimulate excitement among middle school students concerning the nature and practice of the engineering profession; (iii.) Develop in the students an early appreciation for the tradeoffs involved in the

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TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gary Goff; Hugh Rogers, University of Central Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

throughout the state to articulate various A.S. degrees to appropriate B.S.programs. This paper will review some of the new and innovative approaches variousinstitutions are taking to developing new A.S. to B.S. articulation agreements.State-Wide-ActivitiesUnder the new criteria, all Florida A.S. degree programs can develop their own articulationagreements with appropriate upper division programs throughout the state. However to furtherpromote this initiative; the state designated twelve Associate of Science degrees to beautomatically articulated to specific university programs. To date, only five AS degree programshave been approved for articulation to a Bachelor of Science degree. These programs areElectronic Engineering Technology, Radiography

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

Session 2793 ECE Undergraduate Research for Tren Urbano Manuel Toledo-Quiñones Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-5000IntroductionPractical problem solving in correlation with a solid theoretical foundation and a broadbackground play an increasingly important role in engineering education1,2. This article presentsa non-traditional undergraduate research and education model in which electrical and computerengineering students

Conference Session

Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

helped develop mentoring fieldexperiences among the preservice and inservice teachers. In addition, freshmen Honors Program studentstake a research mentorship course in the spring of their first year. A group of Honors engineering andscience majors are working to create K-12 activities based on engineering context. They are working withthe education majors in the course previously mentioned in order to create standards-based, age-appropriate activities. Engineering and education faculty and students, working in teams, through thecourses mentioned and the mentorship program, have developed activities that bring authentic learning inengineering contexts to science, mathematics, and technology education. Examples of such standards-based activities

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

Session 2253 TTU College of Engineering Pre-College Engineering Academy© Estacado High School Pilot Program John R. Chandler, Ph.D., and A. Dean Fontenot, Ph.D. College of Engineering, Texas Tech UniversityAbstractThis paper reports on progress to-date in the planning, design, and initial implementations in a K-12 Pre-College engineering program being developed collaboratively by Texas Tech University(TTU) and Lubbock Independent School District (LISD). The Pre-College EngineeringAcademy© is a multidisciplinary, project-based curriculum that presents high school students withrealistic

Conference Session

Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

school mathematics and scienceteachers, in particular those working in the rural area. The University is located in southwesternWisconsin where most pupils in the area are living in farming communities of population less than2,500. As stated in the monograph "Science Education in Rural America,"7 policy initiatives areneeded in rural areas because many students there do not have opportunities to participate inactivities that lead to science learning.Our team included faculty from mechanical engineering and education departments, and a masterteacher from a local middle school. The responsibility of the engineering faculty was to teach thecontent material while that of the education faculty was to take care of the pedagogy issue. Themaster teacher

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Pauline Sexton; Monique Wade; Bevlee Watford

1995 and 2002, Virginia Tech has seen an overall engineering enrollmentincrease of approximately 13.2% according to the Office of Institutional Research. Furtheranalysis shows that there has been an increase of 30.4% in African Americans and a 23.5%increase in Hispanics enrolling in engineering during this period of time. The increase in numbersis a preferred trend, but the question remains ‘what is causing this increase and how can it be Page 8.507.1continued?’ At Virginia Tech, there are many incentive programs to encourage students from Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tohru Kitamura; Masashi Tani; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

March2001.The curricula for this two-day course has been carefully designed to include the Design Section ofthe Technology Content Standard as published in the Standards for Technological Literacy: Contentfor the Study of Technology.3 The course provides an opportunity for students to develop anunderstanding of the attributes of design and engineering. In addition, students are also exposed tothe roles of troubleshooting, research and development, invention, innovation, and experiment inproblem solving.On the first day of the pre-college engineering course at KIT, each student was asked to design andbuild one model bridge individually using light and flexible timber material, which is known as balsawood. After completion, students applied loads

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Haley; Calvin Mackie; Sundiata Jangha

2003-1936 FOCUS: A Recruiting Initiative for African American Graduate Students at Georgia Institute of Technology Sundiata K. Jangha1, Robert G. Haley2, Dr. Calvin Mackie3 1 George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering 2 College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tulane UniversityIntroduction In today’s changing world, many industry, government and academic leaders havereached

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Robinson; Demetris Geddis; Adam Austin; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

that Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationemphasizes conceptual understandings, multiple representations and connections, mathematicalmodeling, and mathematical problem solving.”[4] Educators looking towards K-12 as the keytime to build STEM proficiency in students have begun to recognize that the various fields ofengineering are a rich source of the types of “real-world” problems for K-12 mathematics andscience education advocated by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics[4] and theNational Research Council[5]. The initiative discussed in this paper is an outgrowth of thisrecognition