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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Aronson; Marie Reyes; Jeff Goldberg

and invitestudent clubs and professional organizations.This year, we have engaged 23 sophomores and juniors in classes, working with four schools andtwo community organizations. We have developed new project areas with what we expect to belong-term clients. Student enthusiasm is high. We have finished construction of a meetingspace/computer lab for the students and we believe that this will help build a space in the College Page 8.598.7where women can flourish. -7-Two senior projects are running, and one is a continuation of the 2001-2002 project with thePromotora group in Nogales. The Director is

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Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

management skills, communication skills, and design and constructionskills.The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Institute for SteelConstruction (AISC) sponsors regional and national concrete canoe and steel bridgecompetitions on an annual basis. The Civil Engineering Technology (CET) students at theRochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have participated in these competitions for the past nineyears. These competitions give students a chance to apply what they have learned in theclassroom.To assess the impact of the concrete canoe and steel bridge competitions on student learning anddevelopment, the authors carried out a survey of current students and graduates of the CETprogram at RIT who have been members of the concrete

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rex Ramsier; H Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

earlier attempts at the VITDP. Wehave a limited window in terms of keeping mentors available with minimal disruption to theirschedules, minimizing the negative impact on the students’ other academic responsibilities, andkeeping the students’ enthusiasm for the project high.Construction of the TeamsFollowing the advice of many educators who specialize in collaborative learning, the teams arearranged using specific criteria. Arranging the teams allows us to draw on knowledge gained fromprevious VITDP projects concerning technical abilities, interpersonal skills, behaviors, andattitudes for every student except the freshman. Given that collaboration, communication, andcooperation are key elements for success, our prior knowledge of individual

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Lord

encouraging younger students to consider engineering careers.Walk On Water at USD is a great learning experience that serves several purposes. It is a designproject for freshmen engineering majors at USD, a project for high school science classes, anevent which creates awareness of engineering in the local community, a forum for interaction ofhigh school and college students, and a vehicle for upper-class engineering students to developskills in planning and executing an event including fundraising and publicity.The paper will introduce the WOW event and then show how the competition provides a vesselto promote engineering and applied science throughout many areas within the local community.IntroductionThe annual Walk On Water (WOW) competition has

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Gwendolyn C. Archibald

Ambassadors Connecting with Engineering (ACE) Academy: Providing Opportunities to Engage a Diverse Group of Talented Students Gwendolyn C. Archibald Graduate Assistant, Admissions and Outreach Student Development Center College of Engineering The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 gwendolyn-archibald@uiowa.eduABSTRACTThe Ambassadors Connecting with Engineering (ACE) Academy is possible as a resultof the partnership between The University of Iowa College of Engineering and ALCOA.ACE Academy is a week-long residential camp that focuses on engaging a diversegroup of talented high

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Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Masoud Rais-Rohani; Thomas Hannigan

experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.(c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs.(d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.(e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.(f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.(g) an ability to communicate effectively.(h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.(i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.(j) a knowledge of contemporary issues.(k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.A new curriculum map

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Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paulette Beatty; Jackie Revuelto; Dianne Kraft; Carolyn Clark

followedin calculus as well as in the students’ other academic arenas. [6]On the order of 500 institutions nationwide are currently engaged with some form ofcurricular learning community. While the actual designs vary a great deal, these programs all re-form the curricular structures to make explicit linkages among courses, and to intentionally build communities of students and teachers. Even more importantly there is a range in what we would refer to as teaching teams. Joining faculty members on teaching teams are librarians, computer center staff, advisors, residence life professionals, and quite frequently students as peer facilitators in the communities. So learning communities are not merely

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Luttrell

member self evaluation, andopportunities for small amounts of extra credit. Course grades were based on a 90%-A, 80%-B,70%-C, 60%-D, <60%-F scale, allowing the WebCT discussion points to represent a one-lettergrade value.Active classroom strategies were used to keep the classroom lively and the students engaged.Students who were actively engaged in class discussions, asked especially deep, well thought outquestions or participated to a clearly higher degree than their classmates were awarded a smallindex card. The students placed their name on the card and turned it in at the end of class. Thesecards were part of their participation grade in the course with each card being worth a minimal 0.5points. This gave the students a tangible reason

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson; Tom Brumm; Anthony Ellertson

attainable through enrollment in unrelated, stand-alone courses” (p. 2). Despite theage of many learning community programs, Tinto reports that current perceptions of learningcommunities have been based largely on anecdotal evidence and institutional reports orassessments described at conferences or national meetings. Recently, however, a study wasconducted for the National Center of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment that suggestslearning communities impact student learning in several ways:1. Learning community students formed study groups that extended beyond the classroom.2. Learning community students became more actively involved in their learning than did other students.3. Learning community students perceived their learning experience was

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hardymon; Saeed Foroudastan

test model nature, rather than final production model), there are written and oralsections of the final competition requiring the team to explain and defend their choices. Manyconversations over details about the advantages and disadvantages of components and decisionsshould prepare the students for these phases of the competition.Importance of design project selectionProject selection is important. Each project must complement the fundamental engineeringeducation that the course provides and suit the learning objectives of the class while providing anunderstanding of engineering disciplines. Decisions on design project selection for the freshmenmust be result oriented and offer positive experiences in order to engage the students in

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

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Barbara Masi

conceptions of the design process hampered some students’ use of the Design ProcessTemplates.Introduction This study explores the impact of freshman engineering design experiences on studentengineering design-related perceptions and performance. Freshman performance in engineeringdesign was measured for several skills: problem solving, mechanical building, and teamworkskills. Recent studies have argued that exposing students to engineering design activities during Page 8.1145.1their freshman year will provide the sort of multi-dimensional, challenging experience thatprovides a base for many important skills students need for success in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Bernal

Session ???? Increasing Georgia’s Hispanic Community into Higher Education Barbara Bernal Thomas School of Computing and Software Engineering Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, Georgia 30060 bthomas@spsu.eduAbstractA comprehensive study of Georgia’s Hispanic population will enable academia to understand thehistorical progression of the Hispanic population in the state. The implications of this progressioncan help us address the overall impact of this population in academia. We

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wayne Jones; Robert Wright

-uniform standards is quickly exiting the novelty phase and becoming an expectedrequirement1, 6, 7.The genesis of the convergence lab began with a group of Collin College professors debatinghow to spend the final balance of existing grant monies and accrue the maximum utility forstudents. This discourse eventually led to an existing classroom being completely remodeled andretrofitted with leading edge broadband communications and networking components andsystems. Significant benefits to students, college, community, and corporate partners aredescribed below: • Collin College curricula is the prime driver. Hands-on experience not previously available. Foster interdisciplinary collaboration. • Industry

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Kithcart; Legunchim Emmanwori; G. Van Ness Burbach; Dominic Clemence; Caesar Jackson; Guoqing Tang

infrastructure such as research facility, research faculty and supportstaff, ensuring student participation and support, and engaging undergraduate students intofaculty research projects. We will discuss in detail the development of research infrastructure inSection 3, and describe how we involve students into faculty research projects in Section 4.Student participants of the geophysical research training program are generally recruited throughthe on-campus advertisements by the Talent-21 Program and personal invitations by researchfaculty involved with the research training program. Financial support for students to participatein our research training program is primarily provided by the TALENT-21 project. However,besides the TALENT-21 project, several

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sageev Pneena; Kathy Bernard; Carol Romanowski

advantage of opportunities to receive formal TCinstruction reported a significantly positive impact on their ability to function successfully asengineers. Their TC capabilities helped them advance their careers, often providing“differentiating” value to their employers.Moreover, as Figure 1 shows, the greater the amount and intensity of TC instruction and qualifiedfeedback, the greater the benefit. Those graduates with a high TC index8, 11 reported that their TCproficiency helped them obtain and adjust to their jobs, work well in teams, garner recognitionand promotion, and build confidence. Those who left college without good communication skillsreported they belatedly realized the importance of these skills—and recommended making thepresently

Conference Session

Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough

Page 8.650.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationScience Teacher's Association (NSTA), and is available at a nominal cost from the websitewww.exploringphysics.com.According to Professor Chandrasekhar, the ingredients which have made this program acontinuing success included clearly defined themes, hands-on activities, and “take homegadgets” to engage student interest, and involvement of both parents and teachers who deal withthe students to influence attitudes and reinforce lessons learned by the children. Moreinformation about this program can be obtained from the project websitehttp

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Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Al Hashimi; Colm Mealy; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

Arabic or English version of the test. To begin assessing the impact of theFoundation year program on PI students, an additional 112 students who entered the Foundationyear in the fall of 2002 took the test in Arabic.As shown in Table I, 21 questions on the PI version of the FCI are common to the Hestenes 1992and Halloun 1995 versions. Responses to these 21 questions have been used to compare theperformance of CSM and PI students from several perspectives.Comparison of PI Freshmen (English) and PI Freshmen (Arabic). Our first analysis is acomparison of responses of the PI freshmen who took the test in English vs. those who took it inArabic. As shown in Figure 1, there appears to have been substantial language effect on theresults, since a much

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ernest Goeres; Elisabeth Sanchez; Alejandro Lozano; Victor Mucino

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” perform professionally in a different cultural setting and that WE CAN DELIVER !”. • “We also learned what a great University WVU is. We are grateful to WVU for giving us this opportunity and we highly recommend this type of experience to every student at WVU”. From the perspective of the faculty, two benefits can be brought forward, one is the“closeness” to students developed through the program, the second one is the “closeness” toindustry, which in turn trickles down into better class-room communications and richer illustrativeengineering examples. As pointed out by

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Kremer

are from the start of the class,they must know what learning and assessment activities relate to each outcome, and they must beconvinced that it is worth their time to provide detailed feedback and that it will be seriouslyconsidered for improving the course. This preparatory work should be standardized so thatfaculty members do not have to create their own surveys and communication methods. One wayto do this is with checklist items that remind instructors to communicate the outcomes and sharethe course design forms with the students (See checklist in Table 2), and standard survey formsand questions with a detailed introduction to remind the students of their important role in theassessment and continuous improvement process (See survey form

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

Section 1526PATHWAYS FROM COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO BACHELORS OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING WITH A NANOTECHNOLOGY MINOR Paul M. Hallacher, Douglas E. Fenwick, and Stephen J. Fonash The Penn State Nanofabrication Facility The impact of nanotechnology on the health, wealth, and lives of people could beat least as significant as the combined influences of microelectronics, medical imaging,computer-aided engineering, and the man-made polymers developed in the 20th Century(National Science and Technology Council, July 2000). Some of the breakthroughspromised by nanotechnology include computers with 1,000 times more informationstorage

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Silliman Stephen; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

, American Society for Engineering Education retention rates differ by gender; and evidence exists indicating that factors outside of the first-year course experience impact differences in retention by gender.After a test run with 25 first-year students in the 1999-2000 academic year, the Collegeimplemented the course sequence as a requirement for all first-year engineering intents in the2000-01 academic year. Data collected over the first three years of administration of the coursehave enabled the College to consider the overall impact of the course on the quality of thelearning experience, as well as the impact that changes to course timing and content have had onundergraduate retention. This paper presents an interpretation of

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

exercises, our goal was to “demystify” for thesefuture teachers some of the fundamental ideas of science and engineering and to heighten theirinterest and skill level in effectively communicating these ideas to K-12 students.We have also had direct outreach into the K-12 community. As part of the class, our studentshave put on workshops for in-service teachers in our region, demonstrating the hands-on scienceskills that they have learned. This helps make a difference in class rooms of current teachers.Our students make presentations using simple experiments in local fourth-grade science classes.This helped have an impact on current teachers, as they observed what could be done. It alsohelped to have an impact on elementary school children who now

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Matthew Eliot; Angela Linse; Jennifer Turns

focus on the user. The work also takes advantage of some unique opportunitiesavailable at the University of Washington.Thinking of Instructional Development through the Lens of User-Centered DesignIn our work, we are approaching instructional development through the lens of user-centereddesign (Gould and Lewis, 1995; Maquire, 2001). Faculty are users of current as well asprospective instructional development activities. They are the intended audience for instructionaldevelopment resources, and it is faculty who choose to engage in activities that impact theirteaching and their students’ learning. Instructional development goals can include helping facultybetter engage with curricular materials or better implement pedagogical strategies

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

CE programs. While limited access to the computer in early years and subtle biases inearly socialization are not under UNM’s control, many educational and administrative policiescan be initiated to improve attrition in CS and CE at UNM. These departments need to provide acurriculum that engages and motivates the diverse students, enabling every student especiallyminority students to learn. There is a need to create and support learning communities forminority students and faculty such as interactions outside the classrooms. The faculty needs torecognize that different students learn in different ways and with differing levels of ability. Bothdepartments need to take academic advising seriously. Students should be instructed on

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

impact of engineering solutions on society (ABET EC2000 Criterion 3h). The ability to acquire new knowledge and capabilities on their own (ABET 9 EC2000 Criterion 3i). Knowledge of contemporary issues facing society (ABET EC2000 Criterion 10 3j). The ability to use techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary 11 for engineering practice (ABET EC2000 Criterion 3k). The ability to use computers effectively as a tool in engineering practice for analysis, design, research, and communication (ABET EC2000 Criterion 12 3k). A significant exposure to a foreign culture to provide a better awareness of 13 the global context of engineering practice (ABET EC2000 Criterion 3h

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Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Evans; Eric Lachance; Allen Estes

overruns is aperfect illustration of the political impact of a project. The Washington D.C. projects illustratehow difficult construction can become if society demands that infrastructure remain operationalduring the construction process. These field trips provide students with the opportunity to seeengineering in action. Students see how creativity and the engineering problem solving processcan overcome extremely complex problems, whether they be redirection of traffic flow on I-495or handling the alignment of submerged tunnels at the Big Dig.There is considerable overlap in the student chapter contributions to the various outcomes.Certainly the guest speaker seminars, the conference attendance, and the community serviceprojects described earlier

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Helen Qammr; H. Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway

impact,geographical location, intellectual property, aesthetics, public opinion, and time. Theengineering design team must decide how to utilize its resources in order to provide asolution or recommendation that satisfies these types of constraints. The steps in theengineering team design process include forming a balanced team, establishing acommunication plan that facilitates reaching consensus, setting a detailed project workplan, utilizing resources effectively to stay on track, and communicating the results in oraland written format.III. PurposeNewman, Ridenour, Newman, and DeMarco (2003), when establishing a typology ofresearch purposes, posit the purpose of research directs the study more so than theresearch question. Therefore the

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Gabrielle Williamson; Corinne Daprano

oral and written communication, project management,team skills including collaboration and leadership, an appreciation of different cultures andbusiness practices, engineering ethics and understanding the societal, economic andenvironmental impacts of engineering decisions 2-5. Experiential learning as well as the Page 8.75.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationopportunity to work on multi-disciplinary and multi “major” teams can provide an opportunityfor students to develop these

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mario Medina; Louis Thurston

Session 1406 On the Use of Equation Solvers, Interactive Software, and Hands-on Projects in Integrated Sophomore Engineering Courses Mario A. Medina Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department The University of KansasAbstractThe long-term objective of this effort was to fundamentally change the quality of engineeringinstruction and student interactions-through the use of newest education technologies in theclassroom. Three principal areas of student impact were identified. These were: (1)Improvement of the quality of engineering

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DEED Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

Education 1access, retrieve, evaluate, use and communicate information will be critical in a global informationsociety characterized by rapid technological change. Engineers who possess a more thoroughknowledge of information retrieval strategies and information resources will be more effective ineducating themselves.” [1]. Thus begins an abstract for a 1994 conference paper. The need forinformation literacy has not decreased since that time. While students arrive on campus verycomfortable with the World Wide Web, they are not trained in efficient use of electronic ortraditional resources, nor are they necessarily able to evaluate resources for