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- B. Elizabeth Jones, Tarleton State University; Denise Martinez, Tarleton State University
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AC 2008-2089: MEETING THE MENTORING NEEDS OF NEW FACULTY: ANINTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERIENCEB. Elizabeth Jones, Tarleton State UniversityDenise Martinez, Tarleton State University Page 13.886.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Meeting the Mentoring Needs of New Faculty: An Interdisciplinary ExperienceAbstractEvery new job presents its challenges, especially when an employee has the feeling of beingisolated. This paper will describe how a campus-wide faculty mentoring and networkinginitiative evolved from a one-day new faculty orientation into a university-supported new facultycohort program utilizing web resources, brown
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- Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University
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the summer research project. For a new faculty member, these benefits are crucial forP&T documentation. REFERENCES[1] National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program Solicitation http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517&from=fund, Accessed 3 December, 2007.[2] National Science Foundation, “Search for an REU Site,” http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_search.cfm Accessed 3 December, 2007.[3] Cutlip, Michael B., “Summary of Undergraduate Research Opportunities for Chemical Engineering Students During the Summer of 2007,” http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~cutlipm/reu/ Accessed 3 December 2007.[4] Chemistry: Chemical Engineering
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- Gene Harding, Purdue University; Benedict Kazora, Purdue University; Robert Smethers, Purdue University
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academictranscript. Also, when appropriate, it is wise to investigate funding. There may be internal orexternal grants available for certain types of development. Alternatively, corporate funding maybe an option in some cases.The details will vary from project to project, professor to professor, and school to school, but theresults of this effort will hopefully be an encouragement to others, and the aforementionedsuggestions helpful.Bibliography1 Gonzalez, R. V., Lopez, J., &Leiffer, P. (2004). Is a successful research laboratory possible with undergraduate students alone? Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.2 Formwalt, B., Hayes, M., Pittner, D., & Pack, D
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- Ryan Beasley, Texas A&M University; Ana Elisa Goulart, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University
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AC 2008-252: NEW FACULTY MEETINGS: SURVIVING THE FIRST YEAR OFTHE TENURE TRACK TOGETHERRyan Beasley, Texas A&M University Ryan Beasley is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2006 as a result of his work on the control of surgical robots. His research activities involve designing surgical robots, developing virtual reality tools to enhance image-guided surgery, investigating haptic interfaces, and devising control algorithms for all the above.Ana Elisa Goulart, Texas A&M University Dr. Ana Goulart is an assistant professor in the Telecommunications Engineering Technology program in
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- Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Seamus Freyne, Manhattan College; Stephan Durham, University of Colorado at Denver
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AC 2008-2346: DISCUSSIONS ON MENTORING FROM A NEW FACULTY’SMEMBER PERSPECTIVEMicah Hale, University of ArkansasSeamus Freyne, Manhattan CollegeStephan Durham, University of Colorado at Denver Page 13.442.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Discussions on Mentoring from a New Faculty’s Member PerspectiveAbstractWebster’s Dictionary defines a mentor as a “trusted counselor or guide”. Manynew faculty members have dreams of the ideal faculty position where he/she canwork closely with a senior faculty member. Many of us hope that this seniorfaculty member or mentor will impart some of their wisdom (or experience) on usand assist us in those
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- Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tonya Saddler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Margaret Layne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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recognized as one of the strongest influences on academic scientists’ and engineers’productivity1 and satisfaction2. Perceptions of climate reflect policies, practices, and interactionsat both a local level, as within a lab or department, and at more global level of the college oruniversity. The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), anemerging voice from Harvard University about faculty careers, measures climate to include (a)personal and professional interactions with colleagues, (b) opportunities for collaboration, (c)sense of fit, (d) intellectual vitality of the senior faculty, (e) fairness of evaluation, (f) equitabletreatment, and (g) support for professional development. Perceptions of climate at the more locallevel
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seemed surprised at their own capabilities. A year after this first experience with a freshmen design project, many of the students involved still come back to talk about the project and to see if they could use the system again for other course projects. Certainly in this case, the use of the gun design as a project topic motivated the students to higher achievement than picking a topic for the design that was equally demanding, but of no interest to them, (e.g. a kitchen utensil, or a vice-grip).b) System Dynamics: Water Rocket Project. Sophomore cadets in the Mechanical Engineering program take a course called “Introduction to System Dynamics” in which they learn to develop mathematical models for various physical systems
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student success is one way to have a positiveimpact on student performance in a class.Bibliography1. Gardner, M., ed. Toward a Scientific Practice of Science Education. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Association, 1990.2. Bentley, D., Watts, M., eds. Learning and Teaching in School Science: Practical Alternatives. Milton Keynes, Philadelphia: Open University Press, 19943. Yung, B., Assessment Reform in Science. Dordrecht, London: Springer, 20064. Wollnough, B., Effective Science Teaching. Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1994.5. Mintzes, J., Wandersee, J., Novak, J., eds. Assessing Science Understanding : A Human Constructivist View. San Diego, Calif., London: Academic, 2000.6. Schoenfeld, A., “Beyond the Purely
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- Adam Chalmers, United States Military Academy; Eric Crispino, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy
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clearlydemonstrated a failure to grasp and apply the course material. But did a cadet fail if theyachieved a C- or a B- for a grade? We devised a numerical method to clearly delineate whatclassified a failing performance. At the author’s request, the Dean’s Office tabulated eachstudent’s grades for all of their courses while at the academy in numerical format. We thenconducted a quick statistical analysis with a normal distribution to determine the mean (GPA) ofeach cadet’s grades and then found one standard deviation. The standard deviation in thenegative tail of the normal distribution provided the metric to determine failure for each student.If a student’s final grade in our course fell within that negative tail, or below one standarddeviation from their
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- Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Tylisha Baber, Michigan State University
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outcomes[6]. ‚ The engineering community became increasingly aware of the broad response in the academic community to Boyer’s authorship of Scholarship Reconsidered[1] and efforts by the US Department of Education along with the National Research Council to a) define rigorous education research[7] and b) gather evidence and highlight the significance of recent findings on how people learn and the significance of those findings for education[8], and ‚ Engineering education began a transition from cycles of “reform” to exploring use of a rigorous research base to inform the shape and content of the undergraduate engineering curriculum[9].As a result of these events, the engineering profession
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devations of the other two workshops at a significancelevel of 5%. Whereas, Figure 4 shows that there is not enough evidence to reject the nullhypothesis of equal standard deviations between workshops 1 and 2. Since the end-of-semestermeasure of students’ satisfaction turned out to have a non-normal distribution which is alsocharacterized by unequal variances – and by checking the distributions, provided in Appendix B,the distributions did not seem to look similar – there was no reliable statistical test available tocompare the two distributions central tendencies. Table 4: Tests of normality, equal variances and equal central tendency measures Normality Equal Variances Equal
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teams on activitiesrelated to the teaching topic. This approach enables the instructor to listen and monitorstudents as they work through the material.6 Price observed that concepts breezedthrough in 10 minutes in a traditional lecture, were actually taking students an entire classsession just to get a feel for. This powerful teaching technique requires certain premisesof teaching and learning to be put into place.7Fortunately, by applying three fundamental principles, instructors can create theseconditions in the vast majority of learning groups. These principles, referred to as“KEYS” in his essay, are: a) promoting individual and group accountability; b) usingassignments that link and mutually reinforce individual work, group work, and total
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AC 2008-2427: EFFECTIVE TEACHING: THE STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVEAdrian Ieta, Murray State University Adrian Ieta holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2004) from The University of Western Ontario, Canada. He also holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Timisoara, Romania (1984), a B.E.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Timisoara (1992), and an M.E.Sc. from The University of Western Ontario (1999). He worked on industrial projects within the Applied Electrostatics Research Centre and the Digital Electronics Research Group at the University of Western Ontario and is an IEEE member and a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario. He taught at the
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- Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University
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AC 2008-1483: DAMAGE CONTROL: WHAT TO DO WHEN THINGS DON'TWORKEdward Gehringer, North Carolina State University Page 13.349.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Damage Control: What to Do When Things Don’t Work Edward F. Gehringer North Carolina State University efg@ncsu.eduAbstractWhat should you do when your software breaks, when your labs don't work out, when your testsare bombed, when your homework has errors? These are questions every instructor has faced.This paper brings together a set of tips from dozens of experienced
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well as engineering education, with an emphasis on student learning and educational methods.Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Michelle Wilson (M’89) was born in Chicago, IL, in 1966. She received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University,Stanford, CA, in 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle, and she was previously with the University of Kentucky, Lexington, in a similar position from 1996 to 1999. She was also with Applied
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AC 2008-1438: LEADERSHIP 104: THE TEACHER-SCHOLAR CULTUREJerry Samples, University of Pittsburgh -Johnstown JERRY SAMPLES is Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology and the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ). He holds a BS ChE. from Clarkson College, and MS and Ph.D. in ME from Oklahoma State University. He taught at the United States Military Academy for 12 years before joining UPJ in 1996. His recent work has been in the area of foundations of good teaching and development of advanced teaching methods. Page 13.839.1© American Society
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his B.S. in 1976, his M.S. in 1979, and his Ph.D. in 1982, all in engineering from UCLA.Laura Genik, Michigan State University LAURA J. GENIK Laura J. Genik is a visiting assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. She teaches in the area of thermal engineering, including thermodynamics, heat transfer, and thermal system design. Dr. Genik has research interests in transport phenomena in porous media, inverse problems and parameter estimation in heat transfer processes, and computer design of thermal systems. She received her B.S. in 1991, her M.S. in 1994, and her Ph.D. in 1998, all in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University
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- Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Margaret Bates, Northeastern University; Brittany Damon, Northeastern University; Alison Reppy
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AC 2008-2574: TIPPING THE SCALES: FINDING THE MOST EFFECTIVEBALANCE BETWEEN LECTURE VERSUS ACTIVE LEARNING ACROSSACADEMIC LEVELS IN ENGINEERINGBeverly Jaeger, Northeastern University Dr. Beverly Jaeger is a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a group of faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern University. The focus of this team is on providing a consistent, comprehensive, and constructive educational experience that endorses the student-centered and professionally-oriented mission of Northeastern University. Teaching across all academic levels, she is also affiliated with the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at
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AC 2008-2407: COMMERCIAL BREAKS IN THE CLASSROOMSeth Norberg, United States Military Academy Page 13.301.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 “Commercial Breaks in the Classroom” by Seth NorbergAbstractAfter teaching a required undergraduate thermal-fluid systems course in the spring of2006 to a broad assortment of engineering students at the United States MilitaryAcademy, many of whom saw no point in their enrollment in the course, various methodswere attempted to spur their interest, keep their attention, and liven the discussion. Thenecessity of a “commercial break” in the classroom was recognized
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AC 2008-1478: UNDERSTANDING AND RELATING TO YOUR INTERNATIONALSTUDENTSEdward Gehringer, North Carolina State University Page 13.1309.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Understanding and Relating to Your International Students Edward F. Gehringer North Carolina State University efg@ncsu.eduAbstractIn most engineering programs, international students constitute the majority of the graduatepopulation, and a rising percentage of the undergraduate population. It is important forengineering faculty to understand these students’ expectations of
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- Reginald Rogers, University of Michigan
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AC 2008-2797: COMMUNICATING IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT:EFFECTIVE TEACHING USING ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS FOR OFFICEHOURSReginald Rogers, University of Michigan Reginald Rogers is a 4th year Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He holds a B.S. degree from MIT and M.S. degree from Northeastern University, both in Chemical Engineering. While at Northeastern, Reginald served as a teaching assistant to many Chemical Engineering courses including Material & Energy Balances, Thermodynamics, and Transport Processes. He was awarded several teaching awards and served on the TA leadership committee focused on improvement of the teaching assistant position in the
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AC 2008-1106: ENGINEERING FACULTY BECOMING ENGINEERINGEDUCATORS AND RESEARCHERSWendy James, Oklahoma State University Wendy James is a PhD student in the College of Education at Oklahoma State University. Currently she has a fellowship promoting collaboration between the College of Education and OSU's Electrical and Computer Engineering department on an NSF funded curriculum reform project called Engineering Students for the 21st Century. She has her M.S. in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership from OSU, and her B.B.S. in Mathematics Education from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She has nine years teaching experience at the high school and college levels with courses in math and