Conference Session

Developing Communication/Teamwork Skills in ChEs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt

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Chemical Engineering

/conferences/search/00091_2001.pdf. 3. Sharp, J.E., "Using Alumni Networking to Teach Technical Communication," ASEE 2004 Conference Proceedings, CD ROM, 8 pp. Online at http://www.asee.org/acPapers/2004-1005_Final.pdf. 4. Sharp, J.E., "Work in Progress: Using Mock Telephone Interviews with Alumni to Teach Job Search Communication," Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, CD ROM, 2 pp. Online at http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2006/papers/1253.pdf. 5. “Star Method,” MIT Careers Office, online at http://web.mit.edu/career/www/guide/star.html. 6. “Star Method for Selling Yourself in Interviews,” online at http://www.career.caltech.edu/resources/handouts/STAR_Interviews.pdf. 7. “Interview Skills,” online at

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Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Otto Wilson, Catholic University of America

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Materials

Biomaterials (BONE/CRAB Lab). Otto is also very involved in K-12 educational outreach. He was recently awarded a NSF CAREER Award for his proposal entitled “Bone Inspiration in Research and Education. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife Debra and their wonderful sons, Otto III (7) and Daniel 18 months). Page 12.1095.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Nanoscale Hetero-coagulation and Adsorption Phenomena: Magnetic Bone MineralAbstractThe Magnetic Bone Mineral demonstration was developed to provide students with a simple wayto visualize

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Jeffrey Russell

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Civil Engineering

values of Duty, Honor, Country, and prepared for acareer of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United StatesArmy.The mission of the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at USMA parallels theAcademy’s mission, while focusing on educating and inspiring students in the fields of civil andmechanical engineering 19:To educate cadets in civil and mechanical engineering, such that each graduate is acommissioned leader of character who can understand, implement, and manage technology;and to inspire cadets to a career in the United States Army and a lifetime of personal growthand service.The mission includes educating and inspiring, and training at the Academy level. The threeelements of the mission

Conference Session

Focus on Emerging Topics Around the World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Summers, University of Dayton

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Industrial Engineering

cases, examples, and problems - Follow-up on their suggestionsThe assistance of practicing professionals provides interesting information that can beused to help interest students in industrial engineering tools and techniques. They are thebest source of information to help attract more IEs and IETs to the field.Students and faculty have raised concerns about increasing awareness in service industryfirms about how IE/IETs can help improve productivity, quality, costs, and safety. Inmany cases it is up to the individual seeking a job to point out the correlation between theindustry needs and their skills. Perhaps this is why many IE/IETs switch frommanufacturing jobs to service industry jobs later in their career. After getting some

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Mathias, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Ronald Caffey, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Bruce Chrisman, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Chris Pearson, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Ernest Lewis, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Kathy Pericak-Spector, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Hasan Sevim, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

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First-Year Programs

, sophomore and junior engineeringstudents and faculty provide peer and faculty mentoring to freshman and sophomore engineeringstudents to encourage them to continue in the engineering program through the challenging firsttwo years. Practicing engineers are designated as industrial mentors and work with students toprovide career advice, clarify engineering jobs, and explain how curriculum in engineering isused in the workplace.It is projected that through the successful implementation of the innovative student-centeredacademic and non-academic programs, the overall five year retention and graduation rate in theSIUC College of Engineering will increase by 30%, from 37% to 67

Conference Session

K-12 Programs (Co-sponsored by K-12 Division)

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Stwalley, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

mathematics through calculus in equal numbers to boys, and the differencebetween their relative general mathematics achievements has become insignificant.5 The concernnow is how to motivate girls to enter technological professions, such as engineering, which relyheavily on mathematics and computers, when they seem to have a “we can, but I don’t want to”attitude to such career choices.6 Fortunately, if a girl has an intention in high school to major inengineering, then she is more likely to act on her intention than is her male counterpart.7 Whenasked why they chose their field, most women in computing careers gave several reasons whichincluded: a perceived talent to do the tasks necessary in the field, family or friend support, andbeing introduced to

Conference Session

Educational Software

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Chonacky, Yale University

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Computers in Education

AC 2007-2127: COMPUTATION IN UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS: WHAT NEEDSTO CHANGE AND WHAT CHANGE CAN MEAN TO COMPUTATION INENGINEERING COURSES.Norman Chonacky, Yale University Norman Chonacky is currently the editor in chief of Computing in Science and Engineering, a joint publication of the American Institute of Physics and the IEEE-Computer Society. He is a retired physicist who has spent his career split evenly between being a physics faculty member and conducting applied science and engineering research. As an academic he worked to apply computers in physics educational settings and to evaluate the impact that various methodologies had on student learning. As a research scientist he worked in optics

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach, Humboldt State University; James H. Johnson, Howard University; Chris Brus, University of Iowa; Dan Giammar, Washington University; Bette Grauer, McPherson High School; Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Liesl Hotaling, Stevens Institute of Technology; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein, Morgan State University; Steven Safferman, Michigan State University; Tim Wentling, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

2006-2612: TRANSFORMING K-12 EDUCATION VIA THE COLLABORATIVELARGE-SCALE ENGINEERING ANALYSIS NETWORK FORENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH (CLEANER) PROJECTElizabeth Eschenbach, Humboldt State University Beth Eschenbach is department chair and professor of Environmental Resources Engineering at Humboldt State University. Beth left civil engineering as an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz, and graduated with honors in mathematics and in psychology. She obtained her MS and PhD at Cornell in Environmental and Water Resources Systems Engineering. She completed a postdoc at the Center for Advanced Decision Support in Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) at UC Boulder. Beth’s career goals include increasing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin McLaughlin, University of Connecticut

as a career option and act as a guide for thosestudents interested in engineering.Participants chose from a menu of 6-7 workshops, these workshops represent a widevariety in engineering disciplines and are hands-on in nature. Teachers spend 16 hoursduring the week with our faculty in their focused workshop, i.e., designing, building andtesting a fuel cell, LCD panel or fiber optic communication device. Our staff also invitesour attendees to participate in another 18 hours of a wide variety of seminars, lab tours,demonstrations put on by our civil, mechanical, chemical, electrical, computer scienceand materials engineering departments. They visit laboratories, learn about cutting-edgetechnology being developed and tour state of the art

Conference Session

Recruiting and Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Goodmann, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

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Engineering Technology

counselors,who encouraged them to pursue careers in engineering or technology. This encouragement wasnot really necessary, because most came to terms with their geekness before graduating fromhigh school and naturally chose those career paths out of a love of technology.Ancient geek culture developed in this way partly because electronic technology was accessibleto any curious person. The parts (resistors, capacitors, transistors, tubes, etc.) were large enoughto easily see and handle, and circuits (like the classic five-tube radio) were relatively simple.Expensive test equipment could be done without, or could be borrowed from an Elmer. In hisvery entertaining autobiography1, the geek philosopher and Nobel laureate Richard Feynmandescribed the

Conference Session

Assessing Perceptions of Engineers and Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Thompson, University of South Carolina; Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

citizens choosing careers in STEM disciplines isdeclining1. This trend is apparent across the general population as well as withunderrepresented minority groups2.This lack of participation in STEM fields by such a large segment of the generalpopulation is an issue of critical importance, especially in light of our country’sadvancing reliance on technology. These issues arise at the same time that theimportance of STEM fields on national prosperity and security are becoming increasinglyevident3. This leads to a series of questions related to why United States citizens are notchoosing careers in STEM disciplines and what can be done to address the underlyingissues that create this situation.LiteratureMany of the attitudes that adults have toward

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Huettel, Duke University; April Brown, Duke University; Leslie Collins, Duke University; Kip Coonley, Duke University; Michael Gustafson, Duke University; Jungsang Kim, Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, Fundamentals ofECE presents a broader view of the field and provides a roadmap for the curriculum.Furthermore, the course links each discussion of a concept, device, analysis technique, or systemto later core and advanced classes that discuss that topic in more detail. This preview not onlymotivates future core and advanced courses, but it also enables students to identify their areas ofinterest earlier in their academic career and to select their future courses based in a principledexperience-based manner.2.3 Real-World ConnectionCurrent engineering education literature suggests that exposure to real-world applications earlyin the curriculum is a key factor in student interest, long-term understanding and retention8-11.However, standard curricula in

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kedmon Hungwe, Michigan Technological University; Seyed Zekavat, Michigan Technological University; Glen Archer, Michigan Technological University

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Electrical and Computer

introduces the background of our activities including the methodology of the study andstructure of the survey. Section 3 presents the survey outcome data analysis. Section 4 discussesthe results of our analysis and Section 5 concludes the paper.2. BackgroundA key mission of university baccalaureate engineering programs is to develop and offerinterdisciplinary coursework that is essential to preparing highly-qualified engineering graduateswho will be successful and productive in their future careers. To this end, it is generallyrecognized in the academic environment that an introductory course in EE should be offered tothe non-electrical engineering (non-EE) students. As a result, almost all engineering institutionsoffer at least one “service course

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology; Mike Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology; Dinesh Verma, Stevens Institute of Technology

Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at George Mason University in 1996. She is concurrently pursuing her doctoral research at Stevens in systems engineering and intelligent / adaptive online learning systems. As the primary author of this paper, please address all related communications to her at: asquires@stevens.edu. Early in her career Alice focused on engineering hardware design and related software development, followed by technical management and operations management, with a more recent focus on systems engineering and online education and training. She has over twenty years of experience in engineering project management and technical management primarily in the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Matt Eliot, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Emma Rose, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington

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New Engineering Educators

mjeliot@u.washington.edu.Jennifer Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is an assistant professor in the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington. She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her interests include engineering education, learner-centered design, user-centered design, and audience analysis. Dr. Turns is currently working on multiple NSF grants dealing with engineering education including an NSF Career award exploring the impact of portfolio construction on engineering students’ professional identity.Emma Rose, University of Washington Emma J. Rose is a doctoral student in the UW Dept of

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cesar Guerrero, University of South Florida; Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida; Rafael Perez, University of South Florida

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International

particular themeor topic. Instead, it gives students a broad range of research project options in computer scienceand engineering. For example, the program includes research projects in robotics, computernetworks, transportation, computer architecture, data mining, artificial intelligence, real-timesoftware verification, game programming and digital image processing. The second distinctiveaspect is that the program is committed to recruiting the majority of the students from minoritygroups, and Hispanics in particular, mainly from Puerto Rico and Florida. This is motivated bywell published statistics that show very low participation of under-represented minority groups,especially Hispanics, in careers in engineering and computer science, in tenure

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Scott Thomas; Nick M. Safai, Salt Lake Community College; Christopher F Thompson S.M.ASCE, Salt Lake Community College

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International

attending SLCC, he has been involved in extracurricular activities. He is the student president for the American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter at SLCC, and the vice president of Leadership for Phi Theta Kappa. He served as an event manager and the head state referee for the 2012 Utah FIRST LEGO League season. He looks forward to graduating with an A.S. in General Studies in the spring of 2014 followed by an associate’s of pre-engineering degree in Chemical/Civil/Environmental Engineering in the fall of 2015. He chooses to study civil/environmental engineering as a way to grow within his already existing career field. For the past six years, he has worked in the civil engineering profession as a designer

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Dimensions of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aimee S Navickis-Brasch P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho; Jillian Rae Cadwell, University of Idaho ; Laura Laumatia Laumatia; Fritz Fiedler, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #7302How Land Use Change, Changed CultureMs. Aimee S Navickis-Brasch P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow Aimee Navickis-Brasch is a registered professional engineer with over nineteen years of experience in Hydraulic and Stormwater Engineering including positions with: Bovay Northwest Consulting Engineers (Dames and Moore), Boeing, and Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). The ma- jority of her career was spent working for WSDOT as a headquarters hydraulic and stormwater engineer where she was responsible for providing statewide support including; design, research, training, men- toring, and

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 5

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy Santa Cruz, Texas A&M University; Dimitris C. Lagoudas P.E., Texas A&M University; Darren John Hartl, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

per the actuation fatigue behavior of SMAs shown in Fig. 1.The following sections present the various activities and the research work undertaken by theundergraduate student. The research work includes the specimen preparation, experimentalsetup, in-situ method development, results and discussion, and work in progress. Finally, thesummer research program is assessed and its implications on future academic and career plans. Page 23.725.4 Actuation Strain (A) (B)Fig. 1. SMA Actuation (A) Representative strain vs. temperature plot for an SMA correspondingto a complete

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Ella Willard-Schmoe, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

% ofthem did not vote in a recent public election. A majority of them (53%) report havingparticipated in one to three S-L projects, 30% report more than three, and 17% report none.The participants considered security as the most important career value, and income as the leastimportant value (similar to what has been observed in previous years). The students are onaverage in agreement with the principles of the S-L implementation and activities. In particular,they are strongly positive towards the benefits of hands-on experience (7.7 on a 9 point Likertscale). Students are divided, however, on the mandatory nature of the S-L implementation, astheir mean score is 5.15 (not significantly different from neutral (i.e. 5) at a 5% risk level) on aLikert

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiwen Mao, Auburn University; Yingsong Huang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University; Yihan Li, Auburn University; Prathima Agrawal, Auburn University; Jitendra K Tugnait, Auburn University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Engineering for the Department of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University in 2012. He received Auburn Alumni Council Research Awards for Excellence—Junior Award and two Auburn Author Awards in 2011. He received NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2010. He is a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems and the Best Paper Runner-up Award of QShine 2008. He is on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, and ICST Transactions on Mobile Com- munications

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B Kanipe, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

holding successively responsible positions, he was selected as chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division in the Engineering Directorate at the Johnson Space Center in January 2001 and served in that position until retirement on December 31, 2010. A month after his arrival at NASA, the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17, was launched. Obviously, that was exciting, but in terms of his career, the commencement of the Space Shuttle Program in November 1972 was to have far more impact. As a result, Kanipe was able to begin his career working on what he says was the most interesting and exciting project he could possibly imagine: the Space Shuttle. Kanipe moved into management in May 1990 when he became the Deputy

Conference Session

Program and Curriculum Design Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Sheng, Missouri University of Science and Technology ; Robert G. Landers, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Fang Liu; Thanh Nguyen, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Manufacturing

represented “StronglyAgree”. Lower numbers indicated a negative view towards science; whereas, higher numbersindicated a positive view towards science. The students were asked a list of questions from three categories to measure their interestin science: general interest, career interest, and enjoyment which listed in Appendix B. All thestudents displayed some positive levels interest in science both before and after the program, Page 24.63.10with their average median scores of 4.484, 4.584, and 4.954 in the three interests in science,respectively (general interest, career, interest, and enjoyment). In the REU program’s end survey, a

Conference Session

CEIII Wrapup

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Hull Seale, UCSB; Amir Muhsin Abo-Shaeer, Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

enrolled students are female and more than 200 students inthe school district apply in 8th grade for the 100 available spaces in the program.Many students report that this is their favorite class of the day in high school. Manystudents who were not considering engineering as a career have said that they now planto major in engineering in college.This approach to project-based education can be delivered by any high school. Thecurriculum is portable and can be set up in a school that has a modest machine shop. It ispossible to start with a single teacher and a small cohort of students and grow theprogram incrementally. Page 23.359.7

Conference Session

FPD 6: Transitions and Student Success, Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Volcy, Spelman College; Carmen Sidbury, Spelman College

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First-Year Programs

 causes  and  contributors  to  non-­‐persistence  and  found  that  a  strong  predictor  of  students  who  persist  and  those  who  don’t  to  be  the  student’s  declared  reason  for  pursuing  engineering  as  a  study  major  16.    Students  who  pursue  engineering  careers  because  of  interest  in  the  discipline  tend  to  persist  while  students  who  choose  engineering  for  other  reasons,  including  the  all  too  often  stated  proclivity  for  mathematics  2,  do  not.    Students  in  this  second  group  clearly  fail  to  understand  that  while  being  good  at,  and  even  enjoying,  mathematics  may  be  a  pre-­‐requisite  for  engineering,  it  is  not  a  predictor  of  compatibility  with  the  discipline

Conference Session

Outreach to K-12 Females

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, 84(2),191-215.23. Betz, N. E. & Hackett, G. (2006). Career self-efficacy theory: Back to the future. Journal of Career Assessment,14(1), 3-11.24. Hill, O.W., Pettus, W.C., & Hedin, B.A. (1990). Three studies of factors affecting the attitudes of blacks andfemales toward the pursuit of science and science-related careers. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 27(4),289-314.25. Smith, W.S., & Erb, T.O. (1986). Effect of women science career role models on early adolescents’ attitudestoward scientists and women in science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 23(8), 667-676.26. Evans, M.A., & Whigham, M. (1995). The effect of a role model project upon the attitudes of ninth-gradescience students. Journal of Research in

Conference Session

It's Elementary

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Higgins, Engineering is Elementary, Museum of Science; Jonathan Hertel, Engineering is Elementary

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

in developing activities that meet the needs of diverse OST programs. Sites vary inprogrammatic focus, location, facilities, schedule, and almost every other characteristic. Thesame children do not necessarily attend every day, and their background knowledge likely differsdue to mixed grade level groups being populated by children from different schools or evendifferent districts. Common ground among programs can usually be found, however, around theskills OST programs value and work to foster in children. Many OST programs emphasize theimportance of critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity, the types of skillsthat help children grow into productive, thoughtful adults regardless of their eventual career path

Conference Session

Institutional Transformations

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Christi McGeorge, North Dakota State University ; Cali L. Anicha, North Dakota State University; Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University

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Women in Engineering

Since its inception in 2001, 50 institutions across the country have received a NationalScience Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Institutional Transformational Award. The goal of theNSF ADVANCE program is to increase participation of women in academic science andengineering careers. The ADVANCE FORWARD project, funded by NSF in 2008, seeks todevelop and implement a comprehensive research-driven strategy to increase participation ofwomen in all faculty and academic administrative positions across our institution. Thus,because NSF funding is limited to science and engineering disciplines, funds are provided byour institution to support ADVANCE FORWARD project activities for faculty who are in non-STEM disciplines. ADVANCE FORWARD’s approach to

Conference Session

Four Pillars of Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Nutter, Ohio Northern University; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

(Academia), or Professional or Academic administration. Multiple responses were permitted for those whose careers spanned more than one area to a significant degree.An Application of the Survey ResultsA primary objective of this survey was to identify the topics of highest value to manufacturingcompanies, and also those of significantly lower value. Although it is understood that variousinstitutions and industries will have different priorities, this does offer the opportunity to considerwhich ones might be appropriate for emphasis. Alternatively, those considered less important might bereviewed to see if they represent a disproportionate component of an existing curriculum. If sometopics were to be added or expanded, others may need to be

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahareh Azarnoush, Arizona State University; Jennifer M Bekki, Arizona State University; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University; George C Runger, Arizona State University

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Computing & Information Technology

. Participants respondedwith levels of agreement to each of the items on the instrument (presented in a 5-point Likertscale from "Strongly Agree" to "Strongly Disagree"), and a few example items are providedbelow. "I know how to identify the type of support I need from a mentor to help me meet my career goals." "When things go wrong with my research I question my commitment to my field."Of note is that further information on the methods, participants, and results of the CareerWISERCT can be found elsewhere17 and is outside the scope of this paper. We briefly describe theRCT study here here simply to provide some context for the data upon which the case study’sassociation analysis is to be applied.ResultsThe R software for