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Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

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, indicates that the underlyingreason might be beyond the SEI curriculum.Many researchers believe that career interests and career plans start developing in middle Page 22.841.13schools, and recommend that career explorations and career planning begin before high school,when students have already made major career decisions in the form of curriculum Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education

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Donna M. Rizzo, University of Vermont

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of Vermont (UVM) incorporated systems thinking and asystems approach to engineering problem solving within their programs. A systems thinkingapproach regards social, environmental and economic factors as necessary components of theproblem solution. Because it is a whole systems approach it also encompasses sustainability. Wehave integrated systems thinking in the following ways; 1) new material has been included intokey courses (e.g. the first-year introductory and senior design courses), 2) a sequence of threerelated environmental and transportation systems courses have been included within the curricula(i.e., Introduction to Systems, Decision Making, and Modeling), and 3) service-learning (S-L)projects have been integrated into key

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Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh

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integrated curriculum, the university created a new versionof ENGR0081, which included small mentoring groups supervised by mentors and centeredaround a social or cultural activity (such as board games, sporting events, or dance inPittsburgh) [9]Library ConcernsThe Bevier Engineering Library is one of 14 units in the Library System at the University ofPittsburgh. One of the library’s goals is to present library research as a necessary skill set forsuccessful engineers. The American Library Association defines information literacy as theability to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, anduse effectively the needed information.”[10] This includes developing search strategies,selecting appropriate literary

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Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Andrew Petersen, University of Toronto Mississauga

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., Colbeck, C., Bigio, D., Smith, P. & Harper, L. 2003. Engineering students and training inteamwork: How effective? Proc. American Society for Engineering Education Conference.12 Smith, K.L., Sheppard, S.D., Johnson, D.W., & Johnson, R.T. 2005. Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom BasedPractices, Journal of Engineering Education, 94 (1) 87-101.13 Bruner, J. 1985. Vygotsky’s theory and the activity-oriented approach in psychology. In Culture, Communication,and Cognition: Vygotskian Perspectives, J. V. Wertsch, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press.14 McDowell, C., Werner, L., Bullock, H., Fernald, J. 2002. The effects of pair-programming on performance in anintroductory programming course. ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science