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Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Kozak

Session 3549 So You Have A Presentation?! Michael R. Kozak University of North TexasThere are not boring topics, only boring presentations. The effective communication of ideas isas important as the idea itself.1 A presentation is a one-shot attempt to make a point, a salespitch that promotes an idea, proposition, position, organization or product. 2,3 Effectivecommunication: • transfers vital information • provides a basis for judging your knowledge • conveys your interest and competence • increases the knowledge of others

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Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

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Benson Tongue

Making a Large Class Small Benson H. Tongue Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California Berkeley, CA 947201 I’m teaching HOW many next semester?As budgets shrink and class sizes grow, educators are hard pressed to maintain qualityin their classrooms. At Berkeley, the class size of our required undergraduate mechanicalengineering courses has ballooned from 40-60 students per professor up to the current level of130-170. Although less than the 500-600 students that routinely fill introductory chemistrycourses, 160-odd students certainly would seem to mandate that what once

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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russel Jones

Session # 2560 Engineering for a Better World Russel C. Jones WFEO Committee on Capacity Building Andrew Reynolds US Department of State Anthony Marjoram UNESCOAbstractIn 2003, the United States of America rejoined UNESCO after an absence of 18 years.The US government indicated to UNESCO that it wanted a significant portion of theincreased funds that it would provide to its budget to be allocated to enhancing itsprograms in

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Gregg

Green Engineering: A Multidisciplinary Engineering Approach Michael Gregg Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAbstractVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) is entering its 131st year.Founded in 1872 as Virginia’s land-grant college with an initial enrollment of 43, Virginia Techhas grown to become the commonwealth’s largest university with enrollment at roughly 26,000.The University offers over 200 degree programs through its seven undergraduate academiccolleges. Its annual research expenditures exceed $150 million.IntroductionVirginia Tech’s College of Engineering accounts for about one quarter of university students,both

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New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Anderson

A Manufacturing Systems Capstone Course John C. Anderson Oregon Institute of Technology INTRODUCTIONCapstone courses serve a valuable function in Engineering and Engineering Technology curricula.Typically these courses offer the student an opportunity to integrate the lessons learned in engineeringscience classes, as well as transition from the textbook problems with a limited scope to more openended problems.A capstone course also offers the opportunity to fill in some gaps in the student’s academic backgroundprior to entering the professional ranks.The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Fike

Teaching Telecommunications Fundamentals – A Networking Approach John L. Fike, P.E. Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M UniversityIntroductionAs with many topics in a rapidly changing technical world, an introductory course intelecommunications and networking presents a challenge to curriculum developers. How doesone teach fundamentals, such as frequency, bandwidth, and multiplexing, which change slowlyand do not always appear important to the students? How does one teach contemporarynetworking topics in a way that is interesting to the “techies” while not losing the

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ken French

Vertical Integration with a Vortex Tube Ken French John Brown UniversityAbstract Vortex tubes are made by small groups of students in a freshman engineering‘concepts and design’ class. The tubes are made from specially prepared kits with detailsimportant to performance left un-finished. Students in an elective manufacturingmethods class produce the kit components once they are designed. An upper division fluid mechanics class will use laboratory sessions to measureand compare the performance of the freshman teams’ vortex tubes. Design, CAD andteam dynamic are essential components of the learning10.Background The vortex

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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William W. Ryan; Tiffany Wiederstein; Danny King; Malcolm Fowler

RECRUITING FROM A NEW SOURCE By William W. Ryan, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., Oklahoma Christian University; Tiffany Wiederstein B.S.E., Oklahoma Christian University; Danny King M.Ed. Pre-Engineering Academy at Francis Tuttle Technology Center, Malcolm Fowler, M.Ed., Pre-Engineering Academy at Francis Tuttle Technology CenterIntroductionSmall universities may come from any number of diverse backgrounds. For example, they mayhave a religious emphasis or they may have been the result of a philanthropist’s desire. Thesesmall institutions must compete with much larger, state-funded colleges and universities. Thiscompetition for a limited pool of students each

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Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sara Tracy; Jason Immekus; Susan Maller; William Oakes

between test content andits associated domain. Typically, content validity is ensured by (a) thoroughly reviewing thecontent domain literature, and (b) review of items by content experts. For the EPICS scales, ateam of researchers (graduate students and faculty) thoroughly reviewed the relevant literature.Further, a panel of students and faculty familiar with the measured outcomes assisted in item andtest development. Faculty within Purdue University’s Communication Department served asconsultants on the communication competence measures; engineering faculty from multipleinstitutions provided feedback on the scales at the 2004 EPICS National Conference. Construct validity. Construct validity addresses whether a scale measures what it

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gene Harding

A Jitter Education: Finding a Place for Jitter Analysis in the EET Curriculum Gene L. Harding Purdue UniversityAbstractTiming jitter has become a major issue in the high-speed electronics industry during the pastseveral years. It is the phenomenon seen when the rising or falling edge of a digital waveformappears before or after the expected time. This paper describes the basics of timing jitter, how tomeasure and display it, and proposes where and how to incorporate various jitter topics into afour-year electrical engineering technology (EET) curriculum.IntroductionTiming jitter is the phenomenon seen when a

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Alley; Jenny Lo; Bevlee Watford

Session 1526 Promoting Undergraduate Research by Creating a Research Option in a Technical Communication Course: Initial Project Phase* Michael Alley, Jenny Lo, and Bevlee Watford Engineering Education Department Virginia TechAbstract Although many institutions such as the National Science Foundation, the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science, and the National Research Council have called formore undergraduate research, incorporating significant research experiences into undergraduateengineering

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Wayne Whiteman

Session 3155 How Long Does it Take to Earn a Ph.D. in Engineering: A Case Study Wayne E. Whiteman, Ph.D., P.E. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405AbstractA case study is conducted of the length of time it takes to earn a Ph.D. in engineering. Fourhundred twenty-one individuals who earned their Ph.D. from the Woodruff School ofMechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia are studied.This case

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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ryan Owen; Robert Knecht; Abel Feltes

Session 1640 A VERSATILE WEATHER STATION ENGINEERING DESIGN FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF A FIRST-YEAR TEAM Abel Feltes (Team Weather Works) Ryan Owen (Team Pyramid) and Robert Knecht Colorado School of Mines Abstract –The theme of the Spring 2004 EPICS Challenge was “A Versatile WeatherStation.” Over 60 first-year teams exhibited designs of weather stations required operating aclimate network to be placed in local high

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Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark French

Session 2249 Experience from a First-Time Offering of a Motorsports Technology Course Joseph F. Kmec Heather L. Cooper John R. Hartin Steven E. Widmer John R. Williams R. Mark French Purdue UniversityAbstractAs part of a continuing effort to enforce the multidisciplinary and applied character of thecourses offered, the department of Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET

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Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman; Leo McWilliams; Kevin Abbott; G. Christopher Clark

Session Number: 1686 Observations on Benefits/Limitations of an Audience Response System S.E. Silliman1, K. Abbott2, G.C. Clark3, L.H. McWilliams1 1 College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame / 2Office of Information Technologies, University of Notre Dame / 3Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre DameAbstractProviding stimulating lectures to large groups of students has been one of the most challengingaspects of a first-year engineering course sequence. Prior efforts at improving the lectureenvironment included use of an audience response system (ARS). While the

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State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman; Leo McWilliams; Mark Gunty; Carrie Graf; Catherine Pieronek

Session 2008 Identifying Student Differences in a First-Year Engineering Course: A Comparison of Mid-Year Survey Reponses Leo H. McWilliams, Catherine Pieronek, Stephen E. Silliman, Carrie Graf, Mark Gunty University of Notre DameAbstractAs of May, 2004, the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame completed thefourth year of a two-semester, first-year engineering course sequence. During the 2003/4academic year, a mid-year survey was administered during the final week of the first semester.This survey targeted differences among student experiences for three groups of

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yongjian Fu; Daniel Simon; Charles Alexander

A Knowledge Capturing Integrated Design Environment for a Course in Electrical Circuits Yongjian Fu, Daniel Simon, Charles Alexander Cleveland State University AbstractSoftware tools have become a major and necessary part of the world of the workingengineer. In fact, courses in electrical circuits involve the use of an ever increasing arrayof software tools. Word, Excel, Power Point, PSpice, and MATLAB represent some ofthe most commonly used programs. It is extremely important to integrate these togetherinto what is called an integrated design environment. In addition to organizing them intoan easy-to-use environment, the

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Frank Miceli; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball

Session 2549 A Partnership for Reviving Manufacturing Through Technology Transfer Aaron K. Ball, Chip Ferguson, Frank Miceli Western Carolina University/ Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community CollegeAbstractWith continued job losses to overseas markets and increased awareness of energy costs,opportunities to revive American manufacturing may lie in producing improved energy efficientproducts. Prior research sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) has resulted in ademonstrated proof of concept for a new hybrid energy saving

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Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Gassert; Deepti Suri

Gathering Project Requirements: A Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Experience. Deepti Suri, John Gassert Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineering 1025 North Broadway Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 {suri, gassert}@msoe.edu AbstractMilwaukee School of Engineering has one of the first ABET-accredited undergraduate softwareengineering (SE) programs in the United States. As part of the curriculum, SE students areexposed to Requirements Engineering (RE) in their junior year

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Peter Orono; Stephen Ekwaro-Osire

EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN PARADIGM AS A RETENTION TOOL Peter O. Orono, Stephen Ekwaro-Osire Freshman Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis / Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech UniversityAbstract This paper shows that an evolutionary design paradigm in engineering design education willcontribute to freshman engineering design education and consequently to student retention.Evolutionary design represents a tool to contribute to student retention because it addressesstudent interest, it involves teamwork, it demystifies the design process, and additionally itacknowledges the demands of industry. Evolutionary product design

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Trends in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Ristroph

Session 1139 Coach: A New System for Interactive Learning John H. Ristroph University of Louisiana at Lafayette AbstractCoach is an interactive learning system originally designed for engineering economics, and thenextended to be useful to other disciplines. It provides professors with a comparatively easy wayto implement computer-based tutorials, examples, or problem solving sessions. IntroductionInteractive learning systems encourage active learning, but they have proven

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TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bruce Franke; David Devine

Session 3649 Public Records as a Source for Assessment Data David P. Devine and Bruce Franke Indiana University Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to present how program assessment data can be gathered frominformation available from public sources in the government. Public records areinvestigated as a source of assessment data. Particularly, this paper deals with records thatare well suited for civil engineering technology, civil engineering, and related degreeprograms. These records include engineering licensing records of individuals, RequestsFor Proposals/Requests for

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Soda

A Custom Printed Circuit Board Differential Amplifier For Instruction In Undergraduate Analog Electronics Kenneth J. Soda Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force AcademyAbstractInstruction in the theory and operation of analog electronic circuits remains an essentialelement of contemporary electrical engineering curricula. While computer basedsimulation of these circuits is extremely helpful to mastery of essential topics, hardwareimplementation of these circuits in the undergraduate electronics laboratory bestreinforces theoretical explanations and solidifies

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Lean Manufacturing and Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Lobaugh

Session 3663 Lean Manufacturing A unique approach to educating students Michael Lobaugh Lecturer in Engineering Mechanical Engineering Technology Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractThis paper presents a recently developed method of teaching Lean Manufacturing. The LeanManufacturing course is structured as both a lecture and an open discussion class. The class ispresented as a 400 level course, which qualifies as a technical elective for all

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New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Fischer; Richard Jerz

Experiences in Designing a Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Course Dr. Richard Jerz, Dr. Gary Fischer St. Ambrose University / The University of IowaAbstractMechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering faculty at The University of Iowa agreed toimplement a required undergraduate course for each curriculum that will give students anunderstanding of basic design principles and manufacturing processes. The new course is called,Design for Manufacturing (DFM). The course goals include giving students the opportunity todevelop an understanding of the fundamentals of design, engineering graphics, andmanufacturing processes. Topics covered

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Kline

A Course in Manufacturing Systems with Simulation William A. Kline Rose Hulman Institute of TechnologyabstractThe manufacturing sector plays a vital role in the national economy and the recent pressures ofoutsourcing and offshoring place a higher emphasis on excellence in manufacturing systems andmanufacturing management to retain a competitive manufacturing sector in the United States. Acourse in manufacturing systems has been developed with the Factory Physics textbook and thePromodel simulation package.The Factory Physics textbook presents a broad introduction to production processes withparticular emphasis on batch process analysis and the role of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amir Karimi; Dan Dimitriu

Exploring the Engineering Profession-A Freshman Engineering Course Dan G. Dimitriu, Amir Karimi College of Engineering The University of Texas at San AntonioAbstractThe engineering curricula for BS degree programs at The University of Texas at San Antonio(UTSA) were recently revised. The major objectives of these revisions were to improve thequality of the programs offered, increase student retention, and enhance the engineering studentexperience at the freshmen level. A common freshman course, “Exploring the EngineeringProfession,” was introduced into each engineering program’s curriculum at

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ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Hazem Refai; James Sluss

Session # 3432 A Laboratory Course for Telecommunications Systems Engineering Hazem H. Refai and James J. Sluss, Jr. School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Telecommunications Systems Program University of Oklahoma – Tulsa Abstract An integral part of the curriculum in the recently developed Master of Science in Telecommunications Systems program at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa is a laboratory course. The course is designed to enhance student understanding of fundamental computer networking

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mohamed Chouikha; Don Millard

Toward the Development of a Mobile Studio Environment Don Millard, Mohamed Chouikha Rensselaer/Howard UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an overview of Rensselaer's "mobile studio" engineering teachingenvironment that is currently being used in circuits and electronics courses designed for collegesophomores and juniors. The paper discusses the deployment of HP Tablet PCs along withmobile technologies at Rensselaer and Howard University to: 1) eliminate the boundariesbetween the theory and fundamentals provided in a lecture; 2) help students apply theoreticalconcepts in directed problem sessions; and 3) enable exploration of engineering principles,devices, and

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K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karen Ramsey-Idem; Sally Pardue; Kristine Craven

Engineering A Future at Tennessee Technological University Kristine K. Craven, Ph.D., Sally Pardue, Ph.D., Karen Ramsey-Idem, Ph.D. Tennessee Technological University/ Fleetguard, Inc.Abstract Engineering A Future (EAF) is an outreach program for girls in the 5th through 8th gradeheld at Tennessee Technological University (TTU) on the Saturday of Engineer’s Week. Thisprogram started in 2003 with an enrollment of 73 girls and was repeated in 2004 with 137 girls inattendance, the projected number of participants for 2005 is between 300 and 320. The girlscome to the TTU campus for the day and experience a number of group and individual activities.The basic format for the program includes