Conference Session

Building Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Ansari, Virginia State University; Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Krishan Agrawal, Virginia State University

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Minorities in Engineering

) encouraging professionaldevelopment in the technology context, and (2) promoting interdisciplinary scientific research.Pre-college and undergraduate student participation in the sciences, particularly in research, is amajor challenge that is addressed by this project. Diversity of scientific disciplines is encouragedunder this project. Some of the most challenging and exciting research topics today are found atthe intersections of disciplines and sub-disciplines. This grant established partnerships with STEMacademic departments, industries, and other projects and provided opportunities for students toengage in interdisciplinary scientific research projects within the broader domains of the arts andsciences areas at our institution.Needs Assessment

Conference Session

Design Cognition

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Pappas

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Design in Engineering Education

tothink well requires intentional changes: changes in thinking processes, and changes in everydayhabits and routines. One does not employ new thinking skills in isolation; rather, it requiresdeveloping a lifestyle, behaviors, and attitudes that inspire and support the process of thinkingand effective design problem solving. Design instruction in our six course undergraduate design sequence spans sophomorethrough senior years and focuses on sustainability in four contexts: environmental, socio-cultural, economic, and technical. Students learn to design (and re-design) for sustainability inall contexts and are required to build their designs. Throughout the program, students arerequired to design or re-design products and processes that are

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Mohammad Noori, North Carolina State University; Edward Sullivan, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Tidwell, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Duane Dunlap, Purdue University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

level responsibility of corporate planning, technical program making and technology policy making.2. Engineering the Future ─Professional Graduate Engineering EducationTo Enhance U.S. Innovation in Industry for CompetitivenessToday, as never before, America’s future technological strength for economic competitiveness andnational security depends on continuous innovation by its engineers working in industry and governmentservice. Their ideas are the creative well-spring of U.S. technological development. The need forinnovation has been stressed by the Council on Competitiveness, which calls it “the single most importantfactor in determining America’s success though the 21st century.”1As such, the National Academies’report, Rising Above the

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Eniko T. Enikov; Malcolm T. Gibson

theopportunities for undergraduate research projects, students can significantly advance theireducation by applying first-hand the curricula they are learning in class. This approach allowsfor a greater understanding of the advanced sciences and an early exposure to the laboratoryskills, both technical and practical, utilized by the professional engineering industry. One way of accomplishing this is through the pursuit of research inmicroelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and the technologies it encompasses. MEMS researchis an innovative research area for undergraduates because it incorporates a diverse range oftechnical skills in various engineering fields and represents many current and emergingapplications in society. With a history of over 30

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beverley Pickering-Reyna, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Minorities in Engineering

students participated in a research seminar, as in Table 2, to help reinforce the terminalend of the pipeline. Graduate school faculty, coordinators, and students assisted ECSE III withscholarly writing, research protocol, and analytical co-curricular activities (e.g., scavenger huntthroughout UWM libraries, tour of an industrial research facility). That effort helped ECSE IIIstudents prepare a year earlier for the Sophomore Research Experience b (SRE) program. RonaldE. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program interns shared their projects with ECSE IIIstudents in a mutual learning exchange, also. The Committee on Institutional CooperationSummer Research Opportunity Program (CIC/SROP) participants explained to ECSE IIIstudents how to prepare

Conference Session

Panel: Effecting Change in Higher Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priscilla Nelson, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Theresa Hunt, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Cherrice Traver, Union College; Pamela Eibeck, Texas Tech; Zulma Toro-Ramos, Wichita State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Mary Roth, Lafayette College; delcie durham, University of South Florida

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Women in Engineering

participantsIn bringing together women administrators from 17 US states and Canada (see Appendix C forParticipant List), the WEAAP workshop offered an extensively diverse perspective for its issue-driven agenda. Over 45 women in higher education administration were identified throughexhaustive networking. All were invited to participate, and 23 were able to attend. Institutionsrepresented included 18 public and 7 private institutions, ranging in enrollment from 2,300 to50,000 (Table 2) with great variation of graduate and undergraduate programs, demographics,research expenditures, and costs (Tables 3, 4 and 5). Details used to derive informationsummarized in these tables is presented in Appendix D.Workshop organizationThe workshop was organized into

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Council of Sections

early and reinforcing them with appropriateapplications would be beneficial in building the systems perspective, even though the true realization oftheir significance might not become really apparent until students were out in the business world. Thatsaid, approximately 40% of engineering undergraduates at Stevens participate in Cooperative Educationand most of the remainder have multiple industrial summer internship experiences prior to graduation –providing at least some real-world context for systems pedagogy.In the summer of 2005, two of the authors (Jain & Gallois) lead the development of the first pilot stage ofintroducing a systems thread into the core engineering curriculum2. The vehicle for this thread was to bethe core design

Conference Session

Critical issues in IT and IET: Focus Group

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Michael Mauk, Drexel University

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Engineering Technology

community colleges partnering with Drexel University andalso to middle and high schools participating in activities organized by the AET faculty.Specifically, the hands-on nanotechnology course will be offered to the students of BurlingtonCounty College (BCC), Delaware County Community College (DCCC), Montgomery CountyCommunity College (MCCC), and Pennsylvania Institute of Technology (PIT), which have dualdegree programs with Drexel’s AET program. In addition, the developed course material will beadapted for presentations at the middle and high schools to provide an introduction tonanotechnology with the aim of stimulating an interest in STEM areas.The need for a large number of practical engineers with background in advanced and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denny Davis, Washington State University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Phillip Thompson, Seattle University; Jay McCormack, University of Idaho; Olakunle Harrison, Tuskegee University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University; Robert Gerlick, Washington State University; Susannah Howe, Smith College

practices opportunity and plan to improvement, and (c) plan to improve performance improve performance.Growth Measure achieved level Rate current importance and ownAchieved of (individual) level in professional attributes. o Scope of professional performance with regard Identify areas of greatest growth. development gains to important ethical and Describe (a) gains, (b) impacts o Quality of impacts professional attributes and (c) broader

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; HuiRu Shih, Jackson State University; Yi-Lung Mo, University of Houston

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Civil Engineering

techniques 48.Awang and Ramly integrated Problem-Based Learning with creative thinking into anengineering course41. Bailie introduced four-stage procedures for creativity: preparation,generation, incubation and verification, to facilitate students to innovatively deign composite andinfrastructures 49. University of Virginia offers series of courses designed to stimulate creativitythrough conveying attitudes and beliefs, thought pattern, habits and behavior characteristic ofcreative people and teams 50.In a broader scope beyond engineering education, MIT and Buffalo State University offer acreativity course for students from all disciplines. At UC-Berkeley, undergraduates andgraduates from multidiscipline form Berkeley Innovation Group and cross

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Christensen, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University

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Chemical Engineering

well as Malicky, Lord, and Huang’s[5] pedagogydecision matrix, can help formulate more effective service-learning projects to better meet overalllearning objectives. This leads into the focus topic of this paper: the compared results of servicelearning project optimization in an introductory chemical engineering course to better fulfilllearning objectives.The Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University has a totalenrollment of approximately 605 students with 479 undergraduates participating in a 132 hourprogram. In 2006, the department received an NSF engineering educational grant, in whichservice learning was earmarked as one of the methods to enrich the overall curriculum quality[6].Service learning is an

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

a trueelective for CE majors in the spring semester of the senior year (Fig 2). Figure 2: Updated CurriculumThe curriculum changes provide a broader undergraduate curriculum as envisioned by theBody of Knowledge (BOKI) and implied in Policy 465 with technical depth coverage in amasters or 30 additional post baccalaureate credit hours. Review of Program EducationalObjectives (PEO) in spring 2007 did not result in any curriculum changes since theobjectives were already broad statements of what a graduate should be able to accomplishfour to eight years after graduation (Table 2). Now that the program has alumni as ofMay 2008, surveying alumni on the accomplishment or lack there of will provideinvaluable data that

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Millman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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New Engineering Educators

with K-12education or the local community, talk to them about participating in one of their programs andask them to provide you with a letter of collaboration. Educational plans do not necessarily needto be new and “out of the box”. It is much more important that they are realistic and effective. Page 14.429.3Recommendation #2—Define your audience.Typical audiences are: ≠ Higher Education: Postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and/or undergraduate students ≠ K-12 Outreach: Students (elementary school, middle school, high school) and/or teachers, and occasionally policy makers (e.g. the state Department of Education

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Moshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Timothy VanEpps, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

a new twist for learning andteaching in IT and CS.7. “Workshops Modules”: These modules are based on our experience from an NSF-funded STEPprogram. The success of this program indicates that incorporating its major concepts into the proposedprogram will meaningfully enhance students’ innovation-related skills. The “Workshops” modules willrun twice over two semesters. Participants will appreciate the importance and basic elements of teamworkin school, business and industry. They will understand the basic elements of effective work andcommunication in teams, understand the role of industry internships in engineering education, and beacquainted with the expectations that employers have for interns. In these workshops, students willunderstand

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kauser Jahan; Jess W. Everett; Gina Tang; Stephanie Farrell; Hong Zhang; Angela Wenger; Majid Noori

/demanufacturing systems. Her work has led to over 25 articles in journals, conference proceedings and bookchapters within the last three years.Dr. Stephanie Farrell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She has been involvedwith several pre-engineering programs for high school students and college freshmen. Through these programs, shehas focused on informing students about engineering careers and stimulating their enthusiasm for engineeringeducation. Outside the classroom she has worked extensively to encourage the participation of underrepresentedgroups in engineering by participating in programs such as The Alliance for Minority Participation, UniversityResearch Experiences for Undergraduates and Exploring Career Options

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

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Kauser Jahan; Jess W. Everett; Gina Tang; Stephanie Farrell; Hong Zhang; Angela Wenger; Majid Noori

/demanufacturing systems. Her work has led to over 25 articles in journals, conference proceedings and bookchapters within the last three years.Dr. Stephanie Farrell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She has been involvedwith several pre-engineering programs for high school students and college freshmen. Through these programs, shehas focused on informing students about engineering careers and stimulating their enthusiasm for engineeringeducation. Outside the classroom she has worked extensively to encourage the participation of underrepresentedgroups in engineering by participating in programs such as The Alliance for Minority Participation, UniversityResearch Experiences for Undergraduates and Exploring Career Options

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High-School Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Muhammad Kehnemouyi, Montgomery College; Uchechukwu Abanulo, Montgomery College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

sciencerequirement for non engineering majors.Like similar introductory courses in engineering nationwide, the ES 100 model has beensuccessful in achieving its goals of exposing students to hands-on experiences in differentfields of engineering. Furthermore, courses similar to ES 100 have been offered to highschool student through several programs sponsored by universities, companies andgovernmental institutions with a goal of stimulating an interest in engineering in highschool students. Nonetheless, reports indicate that undergraduate engineering enrollmenthas declined in recent years1, while the number of students who dropout of engineeringearly in their academic career has been shown to increase2. What could be the reason forthis decline, which defies

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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course based at StanfordUniversity. It is a core course for many students pursuing a Mechanical Engineering Master’sDegree with an emphasis on Design Theory and Methodology. The course has projectssponsored by industry and pairs up teams of students at Stanford with similar teams of studentsat other global universities. Most students come from an undergraduate experience inMechanical Engineering. As part of their ABET-approved programs they experienced a capstonedesign course2 allowing them to synthesize what they learned in their programs.For researchers at the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, ME310 has long been alaboratory and test bed for design research.3 Much study has been devoted to how designersdesign, how they work in