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2000 Annual Conference

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Karen Al-Ashkar

teacher education. Action in TeacherEducation 15 (1):14-2112. Spitzberg, I., Jr. It’s academic: The politics of the curriculum. In Altback, P.,Berdahl, R., & Gumport, P. (Eds.) Higher education in American society (third edition).New York, NY: Prometheus Books (1994).13. Tennant, M. & Pogson, P., Learning and change in the adult years: A developmentalperspective. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass (1995).14. Walshok, M., Assessing the needs. In Johnson, K. & Foa, L. (Eds.) Instructionaldesign: New alternatives for effective education and training. New York, NY: Macmillan Page 5.569.9(1989).15. Wlodkowski, R. Instructional design and learner

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2000 Annual Conference

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

to engineering practice and design- Larger exposure to design principles, team projects, business perspective and societal issues.- Training to perform well with interdisciplinary teams- Tailoring to local circumstances keeping a global perspective.- Assessment ready and open to industry’s feedback- Reinforce communication skills experiences and training for life long learning.In academe, gaining approval to curricular changes is at least a two year effort . As aconsequence, meaningful changes will take approximately two to three years to have anyinfluence to speak of. Since engineering programs are not required to show a return oninvestment in two or three years as industry is, it would be most advantageous to build-inflexibility and

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

in late April.Due Activity DeliverablesDate9/11 Analyze problem & environment Preliminary problem assessment Identify goals and objectives Introduction and background Identify conditions & constrains Problem statement & objectives Develop approach Problem decomposition Determine feasibility Discussion of constraints Approach: strategy and primary activities9/18 Develop requirements spec

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Dulin

. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 7. Florman, Samuel C. (1996). The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (3rd ed.). New York: St. Martin’s Press. 8. Fox, William F. (1997). Understanding Administrative Law. San Francisco: Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. 9. Jones, Charles O. (1997). An Introduction to the Study of Public Policy (3rd ed). Monterey, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. 10. Kingdon, John W. (1984). Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 11. MGT of America (2000). Charleston/Huntington Area Engineering Education Needs Assessment (prepared for the University System of West Virginia). Tallahassee, Florida

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Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

their design class to assess the pointing requirements of their communicationssystem as well as the size of the communications system.It should be noted that the Naval Academy in reference (1) has done some very interestingexperiments with spacecraft communication, using various types of antennas to measure theantenna pattern and the signal to noise ratio.Propulsion:Because propulsion is the main method used to change or correct the orbit of a spacecraft, someaspect of the propulsion subsystem needs to be illustrated. Liquid propellants are quite volatileand require far too much care to be useful in this context. However, cold gas thrusters or solidrockets are fairly simple to implement and are far safer. While we may implement a cold gas

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Design and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

457 443Having the ethical norms in front of them at the beginning of this process encourages students tofill in the gaps in their knowledge with their research in order to completely assess the effects ofthe various alternatives. Some higher order thinking (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation inBloom’s taxonomy) is required in order to rank each of the alternatives accurately with respect tothe norms. One of the dangers of this quantification might be redundancy in categories that could Page 7.1253.7give inappropriate weight to a particular issue, although this can occur wit h purely technicalProceedings of the 2002 American

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Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

university, making it difficult to form teams in w hich thestudents have similar schedules outside of class. Therefore, class time is taken to discuss teamdynamics using the Tuckman Model1. This is done with the intention that by being exposed tothe pros and cons of teamwork and to the evolution that teamwork follows, unproductive teamdynamics will be minimized.With this basis, each week, the teams are required to complete a Tuckman-based questionnaire 2to help them assess at which stage of teamwork their group currently lies. The goal of this is togive a tool to the groups to help them quickly identify, address, and correct teamwork problems.Instructor intervention is available when their abilities to cooperate are exhausted.The third portion of

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Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Dabby

when trying out new approaches!). Their feedback wasconsistently constructive and effective. As a result, I was able to continually evolve the classalong lines that seemed to engage all of us. When they discussed and voted our final topics ofthe term, they helped me to see where the class wanted to go. They took ownership of the SlideShow—on a consistently high level—demonstrating the power of student-driven learning.“Invention Day” grew out of this experience. In Olin’s end-of-term assessment, studentsaddressed the question of whether the class “exercised their creativity.” Two of the ninerespondents checked “agree”, while the remaining seven marked “strongly agree.”XI. One last, lingering thought …To establish a backdrop for Leonardo, our

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Pamela Neal; Erlind Royer; Kenneth Soda

seven-phase project life cycle including thecontents of the documents produced at key milestones in the life cycle. The students thenexecute the project life cycle by developing technical specifications and a schedule in the contextof their specific project. After a discussion of test design and planning, the students develop ahigh-level design as well as integration and test plans for their project. Progress is assessed witha design review at the end of the semester. Students complete detailed project design,fabrication, and test the following semester.The main objectives of El Engr 463, Design Project Techniques, are to provide students with thepractical hardware skills they need to successfully complete the capstone design project and

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Masaaki Mizuno

. His research interests include real-time embedded systems, distributed systems, anddistributed scientific computing.DONALD H. LENHERT is the Paslay Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atKansas State University. His research interests include embedded systems and digital testing.NAIQIAN ZHANG is a Professor in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. His researchinterests include sensors and controls for biological and agricultural systems.AMY B. GROSS, Associate Director of The IDEA Center, served as the external evaluator for the NSF-CRCDgrant. The IDEA Center's mission is to assist colleges and universities assess and improve teaching, learning, andadministrative performance

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CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Emerson

Brooklyn, New York published the resultsof preferred learning style assessments of 144 undergraduates entering this science andengineering university in the fall of 1993 and an additional 196 students entering in 1994. 5Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator method, they found considerable variation among thestudents. Of the 16 possible learning style types specified by Myers-Briggs, no type gained morethan 17% of sample population, although there was a tendency toward Thinker and Sensor typesvs. Feeler and Intuitive styles. This research further shows a difference in gender learning styles,with a significantly larger number of Thinkers and Extroverts among the females than among themales. Of additional interest, less than 44% of the 340 students

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Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Carnahan; Bruce Vojak; Raymond Price

Report assesses 185 engineering colleges in its annual survey. 13Note that this “overall” rank differs from the “reputation” rank by academics. The “reputation”rank by academics is based on a survey of deans, program directors, and senior faculty who areasked to judge the overall academic quality of engineering colleges on a scale of 1 (“marginal”)to 5 (“distinguished”).14Further, individual departments within several disciplines are also ranked. These discipline-specific rankings are conducted in a manner similar to the reputation survey conducted at thecollege level. Deans, program directors, and senior faculty are asked to nominate up to ten topschools in each discipline, with the magazine publishing the list of schools with the highestnumber

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

to assess their confidence in their ability to completetasks representative of the module’s learning objectives and to indicate their confidence using afive-valued scale (i.e., 1 -- “Strongly Disagree”, 2 -- “Disagree”, 3 -- “Neutral”, 4 -- “Agree”,and 5 -- “Strongly Agree”). In creating this list of tasks, we converted each learning objectiveinto one and only one task statement so that there was a one-to-one correspondence between themodules’ learning objectives and students’ confidence statements. For example, the objective,“Students should be able to write guidelines for an effective presentation” became “I amconfident that I can write guidelines for an effective presentation.” A companion paperdescribes data from a second survey in

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Ressler

involved complex technical issues instructural, hydraulic, and construction engineering, substantial real-world constraints associatedwith a historically significant site, and a strong community service component. The educationalbenefits of the project included grappling with real-world constraints, solving substantialtechnical problems, using the worldwide web for research, and coping with constructionmanagement difficulties such as limited funding, delayed shipments, and miscommunication.Most important, the students learned how to bring a project from concept through construction.Student assessment data demonstrate that such projects contribute much, not only to students’learning, but to their motivation, thinking skills, and creativity as

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Harris; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

, for assessment, and similar efforts. PRIME worksclosely with a local organization called WIN – World Class Industrial Network for buildinggovernment relations and consulting in the area of fundraising.V. Impact of PRIME To DatePRIME is dedicated to the creation of the integrated educational system needed to meet industry,student/trainee, and regional economic needs southwestern Pennsylvania. PRIME builds on Page 7.669.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó2002, American Society for Engineering Educationbasic scientific and mathematical

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ralph Buchal

training. Further experience is required to assess the value of thesetools.SharePoint Team Services lacks some important capabilities found in the more powerfulSharePoint Portal Server, particularly check-in/check-out document control, and automaticversion management. Administration of SharePoint webs was a bit tedious as the administrationtools are quite elementary. Also, SharePoint Team Services does not allow a user to subscribe toan entire web for notifications. This requires subscriptions to each part of the web, which iscumbersome when many webs are being monitored for changes.Despite its limitations, SharePoint Team Services provides important collaboration capabilities nototherwise available at the University of Western Ontario, or at

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Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nathaniel Allen; Mike Klein; Matthew Cunnington; Levi Westra; Ronald Smelser; Edwin Odom

. However, a good idea must be economically feasible. For the Stirling engine project,we are constrained by the $50 fee that we assess our students for laboratory courses. If we makefees too high, we discourage students from participation in our curriculum.We began this project by contacting the MIT faculty who developed the project to find thevendors who supply the basic Stirling engine kit and two castings, the engine base and theflywheel, as well as a set of plans for the engine. We ordered a kit3 for $110.00 to build ourprototype but decided to make the engine base from sheet aluminum and the flywheel from brassround stock. The kit assembled easily, and the engine ran with only minor difficulties in theengine timing. We explored several

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NSF Opportunities for Undergrad Eng Ed

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannette Neal

, R., Doran, M., and Pardue, J., “Integrating Collaborative Problem Solving Throughout the Curriculum”, Proceedings of the 27th Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 237-240, 1997.3. Dede, C., “The Evolution of Learning Devices: Smart Objects, Information Infrastructures, and Shared Synthetic Environments,” The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning, A Series of White Papers for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology, http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/dede.html, 1998.4. Dede, C. and Lewis, M., Assessment of Emerging Educational Technologies that Might Assist and Enhance School-to-Work Transitions. Washington, DC: National Technical

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ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

P. James Moser; Biswajit Ray

of the curriculum changes were incorporated upon discussion and concurrence with the active Industrial Advisory Board of the program.Future ABET AccreditationThe first batch of students joined the program in Fall-2001; accordingly, the first batch ofgraduates is expected in Spring-2006. We are working towards an initial evaluation visit byABET-TAC in Fall-2006 under Technology Criteria 2000 (TC2K). The baccalaureate programis designed to be accreditable per TC2K guidelines for program criteria and characteristics,faculty, facilities, institutional and external support, and assessment. The total credit,communications, mathematics, physical and natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, andtechnical content requirements

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Dixon

similar single-discipline course. Also the ABET “Criteria for AccreditingEngineering Programs” used during the 2001-2002 accreditation cycle states in Criterion 3.Program Outcomes and Assessment part (d), “Engineering programs must demonstrate that theirgraduates have an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.” The best way to demonstratethat a student has this ability is to have the student actually function on multi-disciplinary teams.Hence having students successfully work on multi-disciplinary teams, not only brings additionalbenefits to the student, but demonstrates that ABET Criteria 3(d) has been met.ObjectiveAdvantages and disadvantages of the aforementioned teaming alternatives will be presentedalong with opinions as to the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Earl Owen

therefore learn, remember, perform, and understand in different ways. . . . [T]hese differences challenge an educational system that assumes that everyone can learn the same materials in the same way and that a uniform, universal measure suffices to test student learning. . . . The broad spectrum of students--and perhaps the society as a whole--would be better served if disciplines could be presented in a number of ways and learning could be assessed through a variety of means.”2According to this viewpoint, lectures and lab sessions need to be individualized for efficientlearning. Students need to help determine what is learned and how and set their own objectives.Assignments may usefully accompany lectures, but

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2001 Annual Conference

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Francis Di Bella

passing the proof test is indeed the ultimate objective of the engineer who isin a life long training for moral autonomy. The competence gained through educationand experience can best be exhibited to the offending party3 through a steadfastapplication of a charismatic delivery. The presentation of the ethical engineer’s point ofview must be as deliberate and bold as it is accurate and precise but should not be mixedwith animosity or demeaning for such an attitude only invites further contentiousness.The offending party must quickly recognize that the ethical engineer has an alternativepoint of view that is in fact justified and immovable. But then the offending party mustbe given an alternative and assessable path to escape from their previous

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jones; David Niebuhr; Heather Smith; Lanny Griffin; Blair London; Linda Vanasupa; Katherine Chen

learning opportunities that allowed them to applythese concepts to “real-world” engineering applications.VI. AcknowledgementsWe would like to gratefully acknowledge the students who have dutifully tested our module andassisted us by completing the countless surveys associated with its evaluation. We also thankDr. Gwen Lee-Thomas, Executive Director of Assessment & Evaluation Consulting. This workwas supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF Grant#DUE-9952609).Bibliography1. Gunn, C.J. “What We Have Here is a Need to Communicate,” ASEE Prism, October 1994:26-29 Page 6.1007.10“Proceedings of the 2001 American

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Suzanne Weiner; Honora Nerz

Association of Higher Education, 1998.10. Lawton, Bethany. "Library Instruction Needs Assessment: Designing Survey Instruments," Research Strategies 7 (1989): 3, 119-128.11. Lin, Poping. "Leading Ideas: Core Information Competencies Redefined: A Study of the Information Education of Engineers." 22 November 1999. Association of Research Libraries. 3 January 2001. .12. Jones, Debra. "Critical Thinking in an Online World." 1996. University of California, Santa Barbara Library. 7 July 2000. .13. Lesk, Michael. "How Much Information is there in the World?" 1997. Michael Lesk’s Homepage. 3 January 2001. .14. Sax, L. J., Astin, A. W., Korn, W. S., & Mahoney, K. "The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 1999." 1999. University of

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2001 Annual Conference

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Subhash Sarin; Louis Guido; James Heflin; Robert Hendricks

electricalcharacterization tools required to monitor the design and manufacture of microelectronic devices.The experimental procedures for, and the underlying theory of, I–V, C–V characterization, filmthickness measurements by ellipsometry will be studied. Foundational understanding andresearch techniques appropriate for discovering and developing ways to assess the quality,monitoring the processing, and guide the development of processing for microelectronic deviceswill be presented. Strategies involving statistical sampling and the Deming Inspection Criteriawill be considered. Measurement methods involving various forms of microscopy (acoustic,electron, atomic force, and infrared) infrared thermal imaging, and X-ray radiography, will bestudied. Engineering issues

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jian-ren Li; Ahmad Zagari

. CONCLUSIONThis project enables students to integrate classroom and laboratory knowledge with project-based learning. It has allowed students to develop advanced technical skills by cross-linking two Page 6.641.12sets of contemporary microprocessor technologies, i.e., Motorola and Intel, in a compact and Proceeding of the 2001 American Society for Enginnering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c2001, American Society for Engineeringefficient way. The development of such competencies is essential in order to functionsuccessfully in today’s competitive electronic job market.Our preliminary assessment

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Qiuli Sun; Kurt Gramoll

geometric modeling application supports two methods ofgenerating 3D models – extrusion and revolution. Figure 8 shows a part that was designed by thegeometric modeling module. Page 6.647.10“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Fig. 8 Bolt Designed by Geometric ModelingAssessmentIn order to assess the effectiveness of the multimedia modules, a survey was done aboutpreviously discussed structural analysis module. First, the professor demonstrated the module inthe classroom to show how the module

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2001 Annual Conference

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James Masi

Conference Session

Impact of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill on Chemical Engineering Education & Misc.

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael A. Smith, Villanova University; Noelle K. Comolli, Villanova University

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Chemical Engineering

authors believe thisdemonstration can be extended for use in many different chemical engineering departments, andrecognize further assessment of the student’s improved knowledge of heat transfer and modelingshould be implemented in future use of this demonstration.References[1] S. Farrell, R. P. Hesketh, J. A. Newell, C. S. Slater, Int. J. Eng. Educ 17 (2001) 588-592.[2] D. Waechter-Brulla, M. Woller, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology 24 (2000) 327-333.[3] J. P. Holman, Heat transfer. 8th ed. McGraw-Hill Companies: New York, 1997 p xxviii, 696 p.[4] D. D. Joye, M. A. Smith, Heat Transf. Eng. 21 (2000) 47-54

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Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianping Yue, Essex County College

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Two Year College Division

, Technology, Engineering, and Page 22.835.11Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) at the National Science Foundation (NSF), DUE0622440.Bibliography1. Gleason, J., Boykin, K., Johnson, P., Bowen, L., Whitaker, K., Micu, C., Raju, D., & Slappey, C. (2010). Integrated Engineering Math-Based Summer Bridge Program for Student Retention. Advances in Engineering Education, 2(2), 1-17.2. Klingbeil, N., Rattan, K., Raymer, M., Reynolds, D., & Mercer, R. (2009). The Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics Education: Nationwide Adoption, Assessment, and Evaluation. Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Annual Conference &