Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joao Vinhas; Joao Paiva

- Technical Drawing, Alg- Algebra, Progr- Programming. Mec- Mechanics; 1- 1996, 2- 1997, 3- 1998, 4- 1999, 5- 2000). The assessment of the residual deep knowledge in those fields soon made us realize thatthese subjects had become, along with Physics and Mechanics, the factors that more sensibly influ-enced student dropout rates. And that, most of all, they were negatively influencing the rate of reten-tion, as the major part of the dropouts were reported to occur at the end of the first year. Page 7.561.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Robinson; Scott Segalewitz; Raymond Lepore

Session 2148 Establishing a Partnership to Deliver Baccalaureate Engineering Technology Programs to Location-Bound Non-Traditional Students Scott Segalewitz University of Dayton Raymond Lepore Sharon Robinson Edison Community CollegeAbstractOhio’s Upper Miami Valley is a rural region extending approximately 30-60 miles north ofDayton. The region is heavily industrialized with manufacturing representing 36 percent ofemployed persons aged 16 years and

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkat Allada; Tony Okafor; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

Session Number: 2563 AN INTEGRATED AND DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT FOR A MANUFACTURING CAPSTONE COURSE Frank Liou, Venkat Allada, Ming Leu, Rajiv Mishra, Anthony OKAFOR University of Missouri-Rolla and Ashok Agrawal St. Louis Community College - Florissant ValleyAbstractPresented in the paper is an interdisciplinary capstone design project course with thesupport of distributed and integrated manufacturing processes. This project courseprovides students with the experience of integrating the technical knowledge they havelearned from

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Dally; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

, Page 6.449.3Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Educationdeveloped engineering drawings, purchased components and performed manufacturing, safetyand quality assurance tasks. The students were also required to give oral presentations anddevelop a technical report to enhance their communication skills. Twenty-one students fromUMES and SSU participated in the class in four teams in the fall 1999 class of ENES 100. Eachteam developed a postal scale under the same realistic constraints of space, time, and, budget.Photographs 1 through 4 show the completed scales that each team designed and manufactured.Two of the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

;upgrading from an Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) input/output card to aPCI Local Bus etc. This is complemented by experiments in fault diagnosis,correction and management.Rather than consider the technical detail of one particular type of PCarchitecture, a range of PC architectures are used thereby ensuring vendorindependent and generic maintenance skills. The principles of computeroperation along with an emphasis on the skills associated with installation, faultdiagnosis etc. provides skills that are readily portable between different PC Page 5.463.7architectures. Given the rapid changes in technology this emphasis on genericskills is a non-trivial

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Peggy Samson; Ken Vickers

Session 2586 The Role of a Middle/High School Engineering Design Contest in Student Preparation for Higher Education and Careers Ken Vickers, Peggy Samson University of Arkansas/Texas A&M UniversityAbstractBEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) is a non-profit, community-basedvolunteer organization started in 1993 by a group of technologists in Sherman, Texas tosystematically address the lack of public peer acclaim for academically successful K-12 students.BEST provides public recognition of these students’ academic, technological, and problemsolving skills by

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeanne Garland; Christine Helfers; Ronald Roedel; Sarah Duerden

designed to generate ideas about this topic. We begin with work on what values theyhold as individuals and we compare that to values they hold as Americans, using the ancientrhetors’ definition of values as honor, justice, goodness, and expediency . Then, we ask studentsto consider if their values differ from our values as teachers and whether they think values havechanged over time. These activities are outlined below: Page 6.628.4Group Activity #1:Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2001 American Society for Engineering Education1. Make a list of values that you

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany S. Oberst; Russel C. Jones

Session 2360 International Experience for Engineering Students through Distance Learning Techniques Russel C. Jones, PhD., P.E. World Expertise, LLC Bethany S. Oberst, PhD. James Madison UniversityAbstract A new mechanism is being developed for expanding international exposure forundergraduate engineering and computer science students in the United States, usinginformation technology and distance learning techniques. Technical students in theUnited States, in a few instances, have begun working on projects with

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick E. Connolly; Theodore Branoff

(NCS) (NCS) (Purdue) (Purdue) Overall 16.96 12.6 12.69 8.13 Males 16.1 12.09 12.02 7.71 Females 19.6 14.35 14.02 8.97Recommendations for Further ResearchThis study examined the effects of the addition of coordinate axes to a test measuring spatialvisualization ability. The conclusions reached by the researchers suggest several areas of furtherresearch.1. The study needs to be replicated at other universities with similar populations to verify the generalizations made with regards to the influences

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Connell; David L. Batie

issue to address. Specific hurdles were requiredby all teams to explore. Specifically, Architecture students realized the pragmatic issues thatconstruction management students must address in utilizing Primavera and Timberline software,and Construction Management students were required to manipulate AutoCAD drawings toobtain necessary information for estimating. The project also allowed both members to enhancetheir working knowledge of the programs on a realistic project, thereby enforcing their decisionmaking skills during the design phase.V. Educational and Technical Requirements of the ClassBased on the following general requirements for both disciplines, students were selected for theinitial Design/Build Internet class: Construction

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Cully Hession; Marty D. Matlock; G. Scott Osborn; Daniel E. Storm; Ann L. Kenimer

ecosystems, carbon and nutrient cycles, and emergy (ala H. T. Odum) as aconcept for sustainable design. Ecological Modeling and Design - Introduction to model design, development,calibration, and validation. Ecological models should be developed for at least threebiomes. Students should use current models that incorporate physical processes,biological productivity, and uncertainty analysis. Ethics and Standards of Practice - Provide explicit code of ethics for ecologicalengineering, including professional responsibility to future generations, sustainabilitycriteria, and identification of exploitation processes. Technical Electives - Approved courses in focus areas. These courses shouldenhance depth in the applied ecology core

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Tools for Planning and Evaluation of Design Projects

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Hammond, University of Indianapolis; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis; Joseph B. Herzog, University of Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

prepare for a rapid pace of change and an intrinsic lack ofpredictability in projects, challenges, and employment [1]. Engineering programs face challengesof high attrition, a lack of opportunity for students to transfer into programs, and, in many cases,pedagogies that have remained in place for decades.Successful engineering students should see curricula beyond a rigorous discipline-specific seriesof courses. The holistic engineering plan of study should include leadership, effective teaming,strong technical skills, and a focus on societal, ethical and environmental effects of engineeringdecisions. Students in such programs who build a strong ‘engineering identity’ are typically moresuccessful [2]. A strong engineering identity is tied to

Conference Session

Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Fan Lau; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

Session 2426 Bugbots! A Multidisciplinary Design Project for Engineering Students Kathryn Hollar1, Fan Lau2 Linda Head1, Kauser Jahan1, Eric Constans1, Paris von Lockette1, and Bernard Pietrucha1 1 College of Engineering, Rowan University 2 Cornell UniversityAbstractRowan University’s College of Engineering stresses the importance of a well-roundedundergraduate engineering curriculum, incorporating relevant aspects of all engineering fields aswell as promoting teamwork through multidisciplinary group

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zohar Herbsman; Cristina Cosma

Session 2342 DEVELOPING AN “IN-HOUSE” GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT – A CASE STUDY Dr.Z.J.Herbsman1, Dr.E.E.Middleton 2, and C.Cosma 3 1&3 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Florida/ 2 Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville DistrictIntroductionThe engineering management profession these days is facing a major problem. In most cases,engineers leave universities after completing their Bachelor’s degree, and a few years later, afteraccumulating practical experience, they express the desire to continue their education

Conference Session

Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Ricardo Mejia, Universidad EAFIT; Carlos Rodriguez, Universidad EAFIT

Tagged Divisions

International

, theincrease of tools over the Internet and the cloud computing model have made possible andaccelerated the means of sharing information synchronous and asynchronously in a veryeffective way. This has facilitated the work of teams that in many cases are geographicallydispersed around the world. Therefore, there is a need to start preparing the future engineers inthe use of collaborative tools for global design project management not only to schedule andcoordinate all the required tasks for the project but also to capture all the information, ideas andconcepts generated during the design process which contains valuable data that supports designdecisions. This paper presents the use of several tools for communication and projectmanagement used in

Conference Session

The Ever-Changing Course

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

-yearengineering program. Within this program, entering students learn basic engineering andtechnical skills that are applicable to their engineering and professional careers. Through thecompletion of the first-year engineering courses, students gain, develop, and improve their skillsin:• Teamwork• Written and oral technical communication (memos, reports, technical posters, technical Page 14.852.2 presentations, etc.)• Problem solving• Engineering design• Engineering modeling (numerical, graphical, 3-D)• Engineering analysis (data collection, analysis, description)• Computer software• Interpersonal communication with respect to teammates

Conference Session

Pre-College: Organizing Instruction Around a Theme

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University; Jesse S. Jur, North Carolina State University; Hannah Kimrey Elliott; James Edward Lamberth III, William G. Enloe Magnet High School

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

have taught earth science, physical science, astronomy, and chemistry. I have been married to Leslie Harris Lamberth of Elizabeth City, NC since August 2014. In the summer of 2014 I was accepted into the Kenan Fellows Program to work with and learn about Dr. Gail Jones and Dr. Jess Jur’s work at the ASSIST (Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies) Center at North Carolina State University as an RET 1 (Research Experience for Teachers.) The ASSIST Center’s goal is to create a wearable, self-powered, multi-modal health moni- toring device. The following year I was brought back as an RET 2 to work with Hannah Elliott, Dr. Elena Veety, and Dr. Jess Jur to design, market, and implement

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Randall Holmes, Caterpillar Inc.; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

AC 2008-506: ENSURING A STRONG U.S. ENGINEERING WORKFORCE FORTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS: CREATING ACULTURE FOR INNOVATION IN INDUSTRYRoger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation Roger N. Olson Professional Experience: Lead Stress Engineer for the Combustors, Transmissions, and Structures Operational Business Unit at Rolls-Royce Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana. Duties include the mentoring of structural analysts, overseeing structural analysis work, participating in design reviews, reviewing/approving technical reports, reviewing/approving design layouts. Formerly, Manager, Structural Analysis - Fans, Compressors, & Turbines), at Rolls-Royce. This

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanical Systems: What's New

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashok Kumar Manoharan, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

technical and/or business issue that has actuallybeen faced by managers together with surrounding facts, opinions, and prejudices upon whichmanagement decisions must depend. These real and particularized cases are presented to studentsfor considered analyses, open discussion, and final discussion as to the type of action that shouldbe taken. The fundamental principles underlying the case study method of teaching, assummarized by Barnes et al.5, are:1. The primary of situational analysis: Analysis of some specific situation forces the student todeal with “as is” and not the “might be.”2. The imperative of relating analysis and action: The traditional academic focus has been toknow; the practitioners’ focuses have been on action. The case study

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Sidler Kellogg; J. Adin Mann; Ann Dieterich

summary format at the end of the report.In the laboratory course the students expressed confusion with the weighting system for thedifferent laboratory reports and in general were not able to use the rubrics to understand theexpectations for the reports. Several students who expressed this confusion also stated that theyhad not previously written technical reports. Further, the students did not say that the laboratorynotebook and oral presentation rubrics were more helpful even though weights were not used andthe rubrics could be used directly for all cases of each material. Therefore, it appears thatstudents need experience with the material being graded by a rubric before they can use a rubricto understand the instructor’s expectations while

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

sections should be indexed. The major sections of the portfolio arepresented in Table 1, with comprehensive descriptions of each section included below.A. CredentialsSubmit a resume that includes work experience, related course work, honors received,extracurricular activities, career goals and attach an updated transcript. The coordinatorshould already have the “Intent to Participate Form” you submitted several months ago.The "Credentials" assignment is due at the second class meeting.B. Demographic InformationDescribe the community in which you are located, the firm's history, general philosophy,the firm's organizational structure (chart), and their mission statement or goals. Providean analysis of the company's methods of promotion and publicity

Conference Session

Integration of the Humanities and Social Sciences into Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Edward Morris Barbanell, University of Utah; Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. Recognizing this disconnect,some in the discipline have begun reaching out beyond the ivory tower, to talk about thepractical applications of their discussions for concrete environmental policies6,7.The clear motivation to increase exposure of civil engineering students to content beyondtraditional technical civil engineering skills has created a number of approaches to accomplishthis objective. Three common approaches are (1) requiring humanities courses to be taken asgeneral education requirements as part of the Bachelor of Science degree, (2) exposing civilengineering students to the humanities in civil engineering courses taught by broadly read civilengineering professors8, and (3) introducing modules or blocks of learning in the civilengineering

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Engineering Design and First-Year Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, Bowling Green State University; Mohammad Mayyas, Bowling Green State University; Mohammed Abouheaf, Bowling Green State University; Gül E. Kremer, University of Dayton

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

infrastructures are in place. For instance, Ohio and Michigan rank topten in attracting reshored companies (see Table 1). This phenomenon will create moremanufacturing job opportunities in the region. The only caveat is that these jobs are not traditionalmanufacturing jobs rather advanced manufacturing/robotics jobs.Skill-biased technical shift has been a pervasive feature of today’s American economy.Technology-skill complementarity has also been widespread over the past century with newtechnologies from those associated with internet and computer revolution to the roboticsrevolution, which as of today has been primarily shaping the future of the world manufacturingindustry. However, according to Ohio Manufacturing Association 2015 report, there is more

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2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Mohammed Mustafa Hussain; Sagnik Basumallik, West Virginia University; Anurag K. Srivastava, West Virginia University; Mohamed Hefeida, West Virginia University

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) relays/Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), MU,Global Positioning System (GPS) clock, and Real-time Automation and Controller (RTAC). Abrief overview of various components is provided below. 1. SEL IED and MU: SG-REAL hosts multiple SEL 451, SEL 421, and SEL 401 devices connected via communication networks. They enable automation, protection, and control of substations through the exchange of time-critical data using communication protocols such as IEC 61850 (GOOSE, SV, and MMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) protocols such as MODBUS and DNP3, and synchrophasor protocol such as C37.118. Generally, RTDS simulates the power system and sends data to SEL 401 MU

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

work students have done in laboratory thatweek. A few general examples follow. In Week 1, the class discusses the different ways that the1970 Draft Lottery Data Analysis is presented in the original Science paper,18 which leads to amore general discussion about steps in the analysis of data. This activity has the ancillary benefitof orienting students to technical journal literature. In Week 2, the sample averages and standarddeviations from each lab section are shown, so that they can relate the variability in samplingstatistics to a known population (coin flip data). After students peer review one another’s writtenreports in Week 5, students interactively identify common writing mistakes followed by groupdiscussion. After practicing making

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Sandfry, US Air Force Academy; michael bettner, US Air Force Academy; Tim Lawrence, US Air Force Academy; Michael Sobers, US Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Figure 4: FalconLAUNCH-V DesignWith these requirements, the team proceeded through the SE processes to determine subsystem-level requirements, functions, and ultimately designs. Prior to the system-level CDR, each of themajor subsystem teams, Propulsion, Avionics, and Mechanical, conducted subsystem-levelcritical design review to assess the technical solutions of their detailed designs.Propulsion SubsystemThe responsibilities of the Propulsion Team include providing the required thrust to meet altitudegoals and ensuring the accelerations sustained by the rocket are not excessive for the payload andstructure. This year’s team has two distinct propellant formulations available: 1) 2% aluminumpropellant used on previous FL flights, and 2) a higher

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Nisreen Ghaddar; Nassir Sabah; Jamal Abed; Fouad T. Mrad

, Differential Equations, Matrices, Laplace and Z Transforms 3. Computer Simulation skills using Matlab, LabView, or similar packagesObjectives: 1. To introduce students to the general field of control engineering, based on bothCorrelate to analog and digital technologies.CCE Program 2. To develop in students mathematical, scientific, and computational skills relevantObjectives to control systems.1,2,3,4,7. 3. To teach students analysis techniques when formulating and solving control problems. 4. To cultivate skills pertinent to the control engineering design, synthesis, and the investigation of open

Conference Session

Reviewing Emergent Topics and Theory in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rubaina Khan, University of Toronto; Adetoun Yeaman, Northeastern University; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

. 6. Nolte, H., Huff, J., & McComb, C. (2022). No time for that? An investigation of mindfulness and stress in first-year engineering design. 7. Tellez-Bohorquez, F., & Gonzalez-Tobon, J. (2019). Empathic Design as a Framework for Creating Meaningful Experiences.Cognition, Psychology 1. Alzayed, M. A., Miller, S. R., & McComb, C. (2021). Empathic creativity: Can trait empathy predict creative concept generation and selection? 2. Bellinger, D. B., DeCaro, M. S., & Ralston, P. A. S. (2015). Mindfulness, anxiety, and high-stakes mathematics performance in the laboratory and classroom. 3. Berenguer, J. (2007). The Effect of Empathy in Proenvironmental Attitudes and Behaviors 4

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2020 ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference

Authors

Ann M Gansemer-Topf, Iowa State University; Qing Li, Iowa State University; Shan Jiang, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Gül E. Kremer, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Nigel Forest Reuel, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Rebecca Mort

sectionsoutline some of our key findings from 10 articles most closely related to our topic. A summary ofthe articles are providing in Table 1.Populations Studied The articles reviewed examined project management and soft skills from a variety ofperspectives. Articles that focused on students included undergraduates in information sciencemajors (Smith & Smarkusky, 2008), chemical engineering undergraduates (Gilbuena et al.,2015), students in information systems and business (Poston & Richarson, 2011), and graduatestudents in engineering (Zwikael et al., 2014). Studies collected information from engineeringfaculty members (Zwikael et al., 2014; Taylor,2011), technical writing faculty members (Taylor,2011), project managers (Joslin &

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Girls and Young Women

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joan Kowalski, Penn State University - New Kensington; Tracie L. Brockhoff, Penn State University - New Kensington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

committed to Penn State, withalmost one-quarter of these Penn State students bound for the Penn State New Kensingtonlocation specifically. In particular, one of these graduates currently attends Penn StateKensington. She is now a senior working toward her Bachelor of Science degree in electro-mechanical engineering technology.Regardless of the individual career choices made, it is evident that all FIRSTE participants foundthis exposure to the technical world with profession women to be exciting and encouraging,thereby removing some of the anxiety surrounding careers in the math and science fields.Table 1: Annual Program Survey Results Career Choice of Participants Year of Number of Engineering/Engr