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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II - Study Abroad

Collection

2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Phillip A Mlsna, Northern Arizona University; Fang Cheng, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications; David R. Scott, Northern Arizona University; Jie Yang, Northern Arizona University; Guoquan Li, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Xi Zhou, Northern Arizona University

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Main Forum (Podium Presentation)

engineering at South Dakota State University and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at New Mexico State University. He worked for nine years as a U.S. government plant representative engineer at General Dynamics in Ft. Worth, TX, Rockwell Inter- national in Anaheim, CA, and at Honeywell Inc. in Minneapolis, MN, where he was awarded the civil servant of the year award. David joined the faculty at Northern Arizona University in 1990 and became the associate chair in 1998 for two years and then was interim chair or chair for 14 of the last 18 years; the last six of which as chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. As chair, he has overseen dramatic growth in the department and the development of two

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiago R. Forin, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan P.E., Rowan University; Harriet Hartman, Rowan University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University; Sarah K. Bauer, Rowan University; Theresa F. S. Bruckerhoff, Curriculum Research & Evaluation, Inc.; Danilo Zeppilli, Rowan University; Stephanie Lezotte, Rowan University; Danielle Macey

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

the Spring semester of 2019. Another way theRevED research team is collecting data is through the use of one-on-one qualitative interviewswith students. Students have been recruited to share their experiences with researchers. Thesequalitative interviews will be analyzed during the summer of 2019 and compared to the surveysto see if any new concerns can be addressed.A current development for the RevED research team was the initiation of conversations with theRowan Faculty Center on campus. The Faculty Center engages the faculty in a variety of waysincluding the creation of faculty learning communities, webinars for faculty, and other programsfor professional development. This year, the RED research team wanted to establish acertification

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brittney Hope Jimerson, North Carolina A&T State University ; Eui Hyun Park, North Carolina A&T State University; Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech; Steven M. Culver, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

ethic instructioncoverage, an interdisciplinary faculty group received a grant from the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) to help achieve this objective. This paper will discuss two main objectives: 1.Understand and evaluate the results of a college-wide survey administered to gauge theperceptions of undergraduate and graduate engineering students regarding their current ethicsinstruction. 2. Identify areas in the ethics curriculum that might need to be strengthened, andsuggest a more informative way of enhancing ethics instruction at NC A&T.2. The Need for Ethics Instruction in EngineeringOver the years, Universities have shown concern about raising the ethical knowledge of studentsby finding ways to influencing their ethical reasoning. In

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Peer Mentorship, Cross-Race Mentoring Relationships, Race, Gender, Student Success, and Career Outcomes

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Jennifer Tygret; Anneke Bruwer; Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, American Society for Engineering Education ; Ray Phillips, American Society for Engineering Education

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

“underrepresented”populations, such as faculty of color and White women (Thorne et al., 2021). Mentoring fromWhite men offers the unique opportunity for underrepresented individuals to gain career insightsand resources; social, professional, and institutional sponsorship; increased feelings of belongingand engagement; and the development of a network of advocates and allies to whom they maynot otherwise have access (Cole et al., 2017; Mendez et al., 2023; Randel et al., 2021; Thorne etal., 2021; Villanueva et al., 2019). For faculty of color in particular, additional support often isneeded to address issues of racism, tokenism, and hostile campus environments (Stanley, 2006),which may manifest in experiences of isolation, questioning of qualifications from

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Norbert L. Ackermann; Anthony G. Collins

prevented them fromyet forming mission and goals statements that meet with faculty consensus. Goals were sometimes expressions of remedial strategies required to more effectively accomplishthe department’s mission. For example, several institutions described self-assessment procedures whichidentified department deficiencies. In such cases goals and objectives were established in an effort toremedy these perceived deficiencies. Following on from the self-assessment process the department’simmediate goals dld not always relate to the department strengths but instead focused on “Goals” asagents of change that addressed areas of immediate concern or weaknesses. ANALYSIS OF MISSION AND GOALS STATEMENTS There was not

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ECE Curriculum Improvement

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip A. Mlsna, Northern Arizona University; Niranjan Venkatraman, Northern Arizona University; Sheryl L. Howard, Northern Arizona University

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Electrical and Computer

of probability, statistics, Laplace transforms and Fourier trans- forms.3.3 - Ability to design and conduct scientific and engineering experiments.3.4 - Motivation and skills needed for lifelong learning.3.5 - Ability to use industry standard analysis and design tools.4.1 - Ability to relate a broad education and contemporary issues to engineering solutions and their impact in a societal and global context.4.2 - An appreciation and understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.4.3 - Attract and retain under-represented students.Our analysis of the above outcomes showed they were clearly lacking in the Global LearningOutcomes. In order to address these concerns, we modified some of the existing outcomes andadded one new

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Engineering Technology Futuristic Planning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona

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Engineering Technology

retraining forunemployed/displaced workers. These increases are generally short-lived and decreasedenrollments continue. Our school, a small 4-year liberal arts institution with engineering andengineering technology programs, has shown a similar trend with the more dramatic decreases inthe associate degree engineering technology programs. Faced with concerns for the viability ofour technology programs and a clear understanding that our current methods of recruitment werenot meeting our needs, we developed a multifaceted enrollment strategy. Our approach includedprogrammatic review, alignment of advertising to student trends, and new sources ofrecruitment.This work will detail our enrollment strategy and the concomitant results over a five year

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

David E. Hornbeck

Session 3549 THE ABET CRITERIA FOR ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY ARE BROKE. LET’S FIX THEM! David E. Hornbeck Southern Polytechnic State UniversityABSTRACTThe proposed new ABET criteria for engineering technology 1 have generated much discussion in theengineering technology community. A common concern is that the proposed outcomes-based criteria,without quantitative specifications, cannot maintain the quality of programs as effectively as the existingABET criteria do. This paper will show that the rationale behind existing criteria is often not clear, andthe

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University; Kathleen Cook, Seattle University; Gregory Mason, Seattle University; Teodora Shuman, Seattle University; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

department worked together to update ourmission statement can be found in Ref. [2].c. Confronted issues related to inclusion. While we worked on building the new culture, we paidspecial attention to issues that blocked change. Earlier reports from our external evaluators,Inverness Research, revealed instances in which students did not feel included in some settingswithin the Department. Feeling a sense of belonging to mechanical engineering is essential tobuild and strengthen students’ engineering identities. From the situations identified in thesereports, faculty sensed a strong need to raise the awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion(DEI).Over the years, faculty and staff members have participated in numerous trainings anddiscussions on DEI

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Öner Yurtseven; Patricia L. Fox

stream is created forPSET that insures future stability.In addition, equipment and instrumentation needs also dictate the supply and expense budgets foreach department. Rather than allotting funds based on an artificial, two-class system of“technology” versus “engineering,” the more personalized approach allows PSET to address theindividual concerns of the departments and programs. All needs and requests for funds arediscussed with the dean by the department or director. Consulting with the assistant dean forfinance and administration, decisions are based on real need and for the benefit of the wholePSET. For larger budgeting issues, such as the development of new programs, the dean consultswith a faculty budget and finance committee as well as

Conference Session

Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam T Melvin, Louisiana State University; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

focus on appropriate and encouraged use of resources.This also addresses concerns that faculty might have regarding a potentially negative/fearfulclimate created by the videos that might discourage appropriate student interaction. One messagethat came about from informal discussions with students is that academic integrity violations oftenresult from procrastination, so this was also specifically addressed in the new suite of videos.Table 1. Examples of content developed for the new set of videos. The videos consist of six acts, with eachact containing 8-15 scenes dealing with issues related to academic integrity and good decision making. Act Scene Content covered

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Interactive Panel on Perspectives and Practical Skills for Men as Advocates for Gender Equity

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence J. Genalo, Iowa State University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Beth M Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Archie L Holmes Jr., University of Virginia; Brian P Kirkmeyer, Miami University; Klod Kokini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Lopresti, Lehigh University; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division, Minorities in Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

-home mothers like almost all of our mothers.Later, I attended a UMC meeting where presentations on unintended biases were part of theprogram. In one video presentation, you are supposed to count the number of basketballpasses made by a group of players. In the middle of the video, a gorilla walks though thegroup, something almost everyone fails to see when they first view the video. It makes youquestion how our minds work. Later, we were shown a board room scene and asked toidentify the boss. Basically everyone picks the man in the suit even when a woman sits atthe head of the table. Absolutely eye-opening.We can all become more aware of gender equity issues by being more observant. Howmany white males are on your faculty? How many are

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Lau; Robert Pangborn

studies at the University Park campus each year (another 1000 studentsstart at Campus Colleges and move to University Park after two years), while maintaining a classsize averaging only twenty students. In addition, about 150 of the students who enroll each yearin an exploratory program for first- and second-year students – the Division of UndergraduateStudies – intend ultimately to enter majors in engineering. A second concern was how to offerseminars that would be attractive and useful to students with many different perspectives andneeds. No less significant was how to interest faculty in teaching the seminar sections,particularly those who rarely teach courses below the 300 (junior) level. And finally, there wasthe issue of resources to

Conference Session

Best Teaching Practices for ABET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

seamlessly.A number of colleges and universities across the nation have well-developed, formal EACprograms, for example, Dartmouth College, Fairfield University, Rochester Institute ofTechnology, Towson University, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Western Illinois University,Western Michigan University, and Youngstown State University. 1 Others, such as my institution,Oregon Institute of Technology, have taken a more informal approach: for five years, I offered aseries of seminars designed to prepare faculty to incorporate ethics into their technical classes.Most of the 60 faculty who completed the eight-week series have gone on to include ethics casesand issues in their regular classes.Integrating ethics into technical classes, notes Michael Davis

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Session 3257 Technology Education in the Next Century: Is the Proposed TAC/ABET Criteria Compatible? Amitabha Bandyopadhyay State University of New York, Farmingdale,NY 11735 IntroductionAmerican higher education in the last decade of the twentieth century faces escalating costs,uneven demographics, faltering revenues, and serious erosion of public confidence [1]. Thisdepressing picture of academia is emerging at a time when concern over the decliningcompetitiveness of the products of American businesses and industry has made

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

scholarshipactivities. This is a new requirement for ET faculty, making some of them to feel lost withoutknowing how to react to these new and increasing demands.Some engineering technology educators have followed a non-traditional path into academia.While some faculty members hold a doctorate degree, some others hold a Masters degree, as ithas traditionally been considered as the terminal degree in the discipline. Even some otherfaculty members -although their number is declining- only hold a baccalaureate degree. On theother hand, contrary to faculty in other disciplines including engineering, the large majority ofET faculty members have substantial industrial experience outside academia. Given thesedifferences in experience an educational background is not

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Collaborative Projects in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Nelson, California Polytechnic State University; Brent Nuttall, California Polytechnic State University; Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University

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Architectural

, thechallenges continue in determining the number of units the course will require, and finding acommon location and time. Architecture has a culture of five unit studio laboratories, whileARCE and CM have more traditional combinations of three unit lecture courses, lecture courseswith activities, and three unit laboratories. The new course whatever its size needs to fit into theexisting curriculum schedule of all three departments.Another question considered was whether to develop a new course from scratch or scale asmaller existing interdisciplinary experience into a larger effort. The three department headsheld several meetings with those faculty members who had executed previous interdisciplinaryefforts to brainstorm and discuss ideas. Those

Conference Session

Classroom Methodologies

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Mary Ann Frank, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Brenda Morrow, IUPUI- School of Engineering and Technology

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Classroom methodologies

positive impact oncommunication between instructors with student issues and integration, with 67% neutral and33% strongly agree. Open-ended faculty comments suggested evidence of strong studentfriendships and interaction, while indicating concern that the high level of student comfort witheach other empowered students to act and communicate unprofessionally with the instructors andnot use studio time wisely. Other comments indicated, on average a perceived lower level ofstudent maturity within the learning community, raising the concern this limits their exposure tomore mature freshman, with higher level academic and project implementation skills. The fall2020 course format was fully online, with students taking the same three courses together for

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Reilly Sullivan; Libby Osgood P.Eng.

(11%) Did Not Go 13 9 (69%) 4 (31%) 7 (54%) 6 (46%) -The pre-experience instrument consisted of qualitative items with a written responses forparticipants’ Motivations for going on the trip (1 item, nTOT=22), Barriers/Concerns surroundingthe trip (1 item, nTOT=22) and PO/TO mindsets (7 items, nWENT=9). Items are listed in AppendixB. The Went group (nWENT=9) was also administered a post-trip instrument with qualitative itemsabout their favorite part about the IHEE (1 item, comparable to pre-trip motivation), biggestconcern while on the IHEE (1 item, comparable to pre-trip barriers/concerns), as well as thesame 7 pre-experience PO/TO items and 6 new PO/TO items. There was 1 participant who

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Eli Fromm; Jay Bhatt

for an integrated lower-division engineering curriculum. Oneaspect of engineering education proposed in this curriculum was “addressing ethics in thecontext of an engineering issue”. To accomplish this goal, courses were designed withengineering ethics topics embedded within the syllabus.In parallel, the past decade has seen extensive growth in the number of electronic journals suchas those from the IEEE, and electronic books available as subscription based library electronicresources. Along with the web, this has created an information overload that is now a majorsource of confusion among students. This paper discusses an effort to integrate these resourcesinto coursework, as collaborative partnerships among the faculty, the library and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Sanchez; Alejandro Lozano; Victor Mucino

, have launched an Engineering School-Industry Outreach Program inwhich students and faculty from the USA and Mexico reciprocate visits in order to teamup and "work together" in industrial projects in realistic professional settings. Studentsfrom both universities get credit from their home institution and are assessed based ontheir engineering performance on each project, despite the evident cultural, languageand environmental differences between people, universities and industries from bothcountries. While the main objective is to bring an international dimension toengineering education a proactive approach brings new perspectives to industry andacademia from which new lessons have been learned. For the participating students it was made

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Innovations in Power Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University, (first, corresponding author)

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Electrical and Computer

update and upgrade programs in powerand energy in light of new technologies and requirements for the electric power grid includingissues associated with policy and regulations. The workshop described in this paper is the first ina series conceived to develop, implement and evaluate responses to this need. These workshopsbring together diverse sets of academic and industry participants from Canada and the UnitedStates to address a range of issues including curriculum changes, faculty development andstudent recruitment.The goal of the workshop is to identify actions that will create a strong academic foundation foreducating the next generation of power engineering professionals and supporting the industrythrough fundamental research in relevant

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Engineering Ethics - Courses and Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seamus Freyne, Manhattan College; Micah Hale, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Ethics

. One idea is to pair faculty from engineering and philosophy departments to share the load and, perhaps, present a unique perspective.Summary and ConclusionsA survey on engineering ethics was sent to 10 institutions with engineering programs. With thissurvey, the authors hoped to capture a sense of engineering ethics education in terms of courses,content, assessment, and future plans. The data collected with this survey was strictlyqualitative. The authors’ main goal was to assemble a variety of viewpoints, and not specificallyto build a consensus.The authors found the respondents to be very expressive on the surveys, which suggests thatethics education is an issue of concern at many engineering programs.No one will deny the importance

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Trend in Construction Engineering Education I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, SUNY

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Construction

teaching content of the discipline. Writing in the Discipline concepts is based on theidea that content and writing are interconnected and teaching one should enhance theother.Background Writing in the Discipline at Farmingdale State started in response to concern expressedby some faculty after a poor showing of the Farmingdale students in a nationally normed Page 11.1458.2standardized examination and general concern from our employers. About fifteen yearsago a group of engineering technology faculty along with some English and physicsfaculty members started an informal committee known as Writing in Science andTechnology to encourage faculty to assign

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Dongmei Gui; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim

constructing a repository of information and resources for design andmanufacturing educators will provide the core around which the long term, and what we believewill be the most influential, goal of the project will be undertaken: creating a forum, a publicmeeting place for open and on-going discussions of issues important to those involved ineducation and employment of manufacturing and design engineers. Research we are conductingin parallel with the construction of the Forum and Workshop will help us gain a betterunderstanding of how these technologies can be used most effectively to expand and extendcollaborative efforts of faculty, industry and students. Our mission is to create an infrastructurefor collaboration. We have identified three primary

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Engineering Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Herkert, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Jameson Wetmore, Arizona State University; Heather Canary, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Karin Ellison, Arizona State University

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Liberal Education

implications of emerging technologies, on the other hand, generally fall within therealm of macroethics. “Microethics” refers to moral dilemmas and issues confronting individualresearchers or practitioners, whereas “macroethics” refers to moral dilemmas and issues thatcollectively confront the scientific enterprise or the engineering profession, as well as societaldecisions about science and technology7. Microethical issues in engineering practice includesuch topics as health & safety and bribes & gifts, while macroethical issues include such topicsas sustainable development and privacy concerns posed by emerging information andcommunication technologies. Similarly, microethical issues in scientific research include, forexample, research

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Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda O'Neill, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Jessica McCormick, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Matthew Steinkamp, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Patricia Fox, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Rachel Meyer, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Steven Brown, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Brandon Medcalf, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Nathaniel Greene, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Graduate Studies

The Student Perspective: The Quality of Our Educational ExperienceAbstractAre college students receiving the overall quality of education that postsecondary institutionsstrive to achieve? Many students have complaints not necessarily in terms of the technicalcomponent of the education, but in terms of presentation style, grading techniques, and instructorenthusiasm. Students also express frustration in the processes of progressing through theeducational system, from program admission through graduation, and feel that there arebreakdowns in communication with faculty. The issue at hand is to determine where thesebreakdowns and gaps occur, and adapt the current methods and mentalities in a fashion thatcloses these gaps.Currently, faculty

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C Dee

Session 1375 Advising Student Organizations: Penance or Privilege? Kay C Dee Tulane UniversityOften, the first form of departmental or university service experienced by new faculty membersis the role of a “faculty advisor” for a student organization. New educators tend to becomestudent organization faculty advisors for a number of reasons: it can be an excellent way to meetmany students outside the classroom and to establish a reputation in your new institution;advising a student organization can require less institution-specific knowledge than (the moretraditional

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Frair; Karan L. Watson

support to constructimproved curricula and learning environments; to attract and retain a more demographicallydiverse student body; and to graduate a new generation of engineers who can more effectivelyfunction in the 21st century.Foundation Coalition VisionThe vision of the NSF Foundation Coalition is an engineering education partnership betweenstudents, faculty, and industry that will produce graduates who have an • Increased appreciation and motivation for life-long learning, • Increased ability to participate in effective teams, • Effective oral, written, graphical, and visual communication skills, Page 2.421.1 • Improved ability to

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine L. Corum

recruitment 2. Assessment - how students learn 3. Modernizing equipment, facilities, and instructional technology 4. Distance learning and Purdue Statewide Technology (PST) development 5. Faculty professional development 6. Assessing teaching performance 7. At-risk students/remediationAnother strategic planning retreat followed in Spring 1999 which included a status report of thedepartment’s previous strategic plan (Fall 1995). New concerns were identified along withrecommended actions in the following key areas: 1. Undergraduate programs 2. MET enrollment and MET’s professional appearance 3. Laboratories and equipment 4. Faculty opportunities for continued professional