Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

lecture onmanufacturing issues and topics. These seminars also provide students with theopportunity to interact with industry representatives who attend the seminars.The degree to which the ERC has succeeded in changing culture for the graduate studentsin the Center is addressed in the following statements by two of our graduates who wererecently hired by industry. These testimonials amplify the unique educational focus thatthe Center offered to assist them in their careers.“One of the most important aspects of my experience that helped me tremendously indeveloping my career was the higher, system-level view we gain in our ERC. I thankERC’s management for creating this high-level vision in the Center.” – Frashid M. Asl,Ph.D., Vice President, Risk

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brecca Berman; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

schools.STEP SpilloverGraduate FellowsAs anticipated, graduate students participating in STEP report improvement in their leadership,communication, and teaching skills. However other effects appear to be equally important, andwere included as new objectives in the grant renewal proposal. The spillover effects include:• Academic Content Mastery: Graduate students teaching high school students must convey knowledge so that it is comprehensible to students who come from varying achievement levels and backgrounds. This requires that knowledge be thoroughly understood, condensed and distilled to improve its efficacy.• Career Perspectives: Hands-on teaching experiences provide graduate Fellows with early opportunities to elucidate their interests in

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

fall. The studentswere asked to complete a detailed time management schedule for the spring. The fall speakerwho had talked to the Scholars about time management was brought back in the spring to give afollow-up session. The students were amazed to see how much time they really had left beyondtheir scheduled time for attending classes, studying, working, eating, sleeping, commuting, andgetting ready time.A major project for the spring was to have each student write a good resume. This wasparticularly difficult for freshmen as they tried to focus their resume on college level activities inwhich they were just beginning to participate. An excellent Career Service representative metthe NACME Scholars twice to help them improve their resumes and

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stockman

Session # 3620 Computing Fundamentals for IT and IS Programs George Stockman Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State UniversityAbstractInformation technology impacts the careers of all professionals and thus its concepts areimportant for education. Our Department developed a unique sophomore level course to providefundamentals to students with majors in Business, Telecommunications, or Engineering whowith a Specialization in IT. While the initial course was experimental in nature and theavailability was only guaranteed for

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

across-section of information sources for the reader interested in pursuing the topics further, butmay also be read without attention to the footnotes.IntroductionA few years ago when concerns were being raised about the impact of the global marketplace onthe employment of US engineers, the authors drafted a paper entitled “Are current engineeringgraduates being treated as commodities by employers?” 1 We questioned whether engineering inthe United States was still an attractive profession offering productive and satisfying careers andlifestyles. One of the important problems we noted was the churning in engineeringemployment, with more experienced engineers living under the constant threat of being replacedby younger, more recent graduates, and

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

LTC Robert Powell

found that in “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering”Germany and Japan, the workplace played a crucial role in the education system. A close look atAmerica’s education system revealed that U.S. schools were not teaching the skills needed forwork and that the transition from school to a stable career-oriented job was a haphazard anddisorganized process.The reformers identified many problems with U.S. schools. Essentially, they were failing toprepare the nation’s workforce. U.S. schools were not doing their job because 1) they providedno incentive for students to work hard; 2) did little to help students find good jobs

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Kissoff

project course which is designed to encompass and exhibit the skills and knowledgeobtained by graduating seniors during the four years in their program. The project is consideredto be a culmination of the students’ education and a springboard for the type of work that theymay encounter in their chosen careers. Programs within The University of Toledo’s Engineering Page 9.1099.1Technology Department are no different. In order to gain an economy of class size and maintainconsistent guidelines for the projects and presentations between disciplines, students in each of Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

for upper elementary and middle school teachers has been initiated at Kansas State University to enable teachers to become agents of change and engage their students in the engineering process at an early age – before high school. This is the time when many students begin formulating career directions, and we want them to consider computing sciences and engineering as viable career options. This paper describes the structure of our Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site in real-time embedded system design, and the lessons we have learned during its first year in operation.1 IntroductionThe number of embedded

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

) resources, globalization, and shifts in social and governmental practices, foretell majorchanges in the career needs for tomorrow’s young civil engineer. The Civil EngineeringDepartment at Colorado State University (CSU) has been defining and implementing changes inthe curriculum to respond to needs of today’s and future graduates as an ongoing task. Thedepartment more recently has worked with the ASCE Body of Knowledge Committee as anexample of a civil engineering program in a large public university, and the lead author servedon that committee. Relevant activities at CSU are described. Three program features at CSUfacilitating the curricular changes needed to achieve consistency with the desired BOK are anundergraduate program including an

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

. traditional science andengineering graduate programs are recognized world wide for their strength in giving theirstudents excellent technical knowledge. The evidence of the power of these traditional graduateprograms is in the high number of students from around the world who apply to the programs ona routine basis. The microEP program has maintained the full scope of academic methods inthese traditional programs in transferring technical knowledge, while adding new methods andtechniques to improve its students’ ability to utilize that knowledge effectively in their earlyprofessional careers. These new methods and techniques include: • Creating a natural work group of all students entering the program in one academic year (the Cohort

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

appreciation forinterpersonal and presentation skills, leadership, professional ethics, organizationaldynamics, product development, and statistical quality control; 2) Knowledge 2- InSpring, students attend alumni-led workshops on career development; 3) Experience- InSummer, students complete 12 weeks of employment where they will be able to realizeUPOP’s educational objectives; 4) Reflection 1- During the summer, students complete astructured journal that permits exploration of engineering teamwork, communication, andorganization; 5) Reflection 2- In Fall, students meet to discuss their experiences withother students and faculty. Assessment and evaluation of the new program includedactivity feedback surveys completed by students, ability self

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Hagigat

], [5].This article contains a summary of the accreditation criteria from TAC and CAC of ABET. Thesummary is focused only on the portions of ABET criteria that would be affected if distancelearning courses are offered. The article then contains discussions on techniques for satisfying theABET requirements when distance learning courses are offered.An institution can also be accredited by one of the following eight regional accrediting agencies.• Commission on Higher Education, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools• Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, New England Association of Schools and Colleges• Commission on Technical Career Institutions, New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

to learn in order to keep up.” • “We learn how to do time management and realize the importance of self-learning.”It is encouraging to receive this kind of feedback from students as it suggests that they seem tobe practicing higher-level learning skills when they talk about time management, understandingteacher’s perspective, self-learning, etc.Based on our experience and the documented positive impacts of active learning, we propose thefull integration of the LTT program into the ME core curriculum. This complements ouroutreach program by systematically stimulating our students with higher-level learning skills tonot only prepare them for their future careers but to also prepare them to be competent

Conference Session

Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

not planning to work as an engineer give the fact that “they could not likeand adopt this profession during their studies” as the reason to it. This is another negative effectof the university entrance exam pushing the students to make their preference list based on theirgrades and not on their aspirations and/or skills.The second reason of the girls not wishing to work as engineers is their intention of following auniversity career. Among the replying students to this question 50% of the girls stated their wishto follow a university career while it is only 3.3% among the boys. This resulted is supported bythe findings of previous research in Turkey [17]. The increase of female participation in graduatestudies faculty and researchers is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wheatland

history of oppression, unequaleducation, and unequal career opportunities. 2 However, as the United States moves into thetwenty-first century, industry leaders recognize that this country must develop all of its technicaltalent if it is to remain competitive in the global economy. Since the early 1970s many government and private initiatives have focused onincreasing the number of SEM college graduates from underrepresented groups. 3 One of thestrategies encouraged in these initiatives is the use of summer bridge or transition programsdesigned to help students successfully make the transition from high school to college. 4 Formore than ten years Morgan State University (MSU) has offered summer bridge programs.MSU is one of several

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chmielewski

Session 2003-1056 “One Ancient Greek and One Mythic Bird: The Cunning of the Engineer” Philip J. Chmielewski, S.J. Loyola Marymount University Engagement in life-long learning (ABET) can be fostered by utilizing resources drawnfrom (a) classical Greek literature and (b) modern ethnography. Life-long learning does notsimply happen because a person lives or even lives long. The habit of the learning thataccompanies the stages of one’s life and one’s career must be acquired. In this paper the focus isdirected to the shrewd, problem

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadia Craig; Michelle Maher; Walter Peters

course wasdesigned, the “story” of this course will include student comments and learning outcomesthroughout the following sections.Methodology and Course DesignThe freshman learning experience discussed in this paper took place in a College of Engineeringsection of University 101, “The Student in the University.” This course recently receivedrecognition from U.S. News and World Reports as the number one program for first-yearstudents in the country.4 The “university” part of this course introduces and exposes the studentsto living and learning opportunities such as sex education, alcohol and drug abuse education, thelibrary, and the career center. This class was made up of ten freshman engineering honorsstudents (four females and six males

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Applied Science offers the First-Year Engineering ProjectsDesign-Build Course (FYEP). Initiated in 1994, this course is a three-credit, one-semester coursethat now serves approximately 350 students per year. The course is required by the mechanical,aerospace, and environmental engineering majors and is an elective for the rest of the college’sdepartments. In contrast to large, impersonal math and science courses, each FYEP section islimited to 30 students. Instruction and enrollment are interdisciplinary; sections are staffed withinstructors from a variety of engineering departments. The goals of the course are to introducestudents to the excitement of engineering as a career and the practical considerations of thedesign process, experimental

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Bradley Golish; Phil Weilerstein; Harvey Wolfe

program). Results were veryencouraging. Survey respondents indicated that over 30% of these alumni were actively pursuingan entrepreneur-like career. These students had either formed their own company or hadcommercialized their product. This result illustrates great strides towards the promotion ofentrepreneurial activities. Seventeen percent of the students were pursuing a more traditionalavenue of entrepreneurial activities, such as working for a start-up company, worked in the areaof design, continued their E-team idea via graduate work, or were studying patent law. Further,over nine percent of the students who had an E-team experience were filing a patent for theirwork or had one approved. Twenty-six percent of the students had pursued a

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCaul; Earl Whitlatch; Robert J. Gustafson

: Cost and time constraints(n = 37); Supervisor/employer attitude, values and behavior (n = 37); Personal beliefs and attributes (n = 22); Page 8.176.1 Lack of training or knowledge (n = 18); Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Money and personal greed (n = 11); Career advancement and job security (n = 10); Communications (n= 7); Laws, regulations and design codes (n = 7

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Peter Shull; Heather Nachtmann; Joseph Hartman; Robert Martinazzi; Kim Needy

everything fromcourse material sharing, labs and software, to teaching and career management workshops andgrant opportunities1. Repositories are being provided in selected instances for faculty members.For instance, MIR FacultyOnline6 is an online source of textbook information for college anduniversity professors. The service provides access to textbook data, including reviews, lists oftop-selling titles by course, among other information. The Internet Scout Report3 states "MIRcan be extremely useful, especially for younger faculty or professors tasked with teachingcourses out of their field." Despite this new abundance of information available, enabled by theInternet, there is still little guidance offered as to its use.The framework and model in

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Wojciechowski

. In addition to the initial challenge of developing relationships with potential employers of co-op students, a greater one has been maintaining the three-semester per year balance of supply and demand of students for co-op employment.10. Career Services. For new programs in engineering, the institution’s Office of Career Services (OCS) needs considerable lead time to develop an understanding of the culture and issues related to providing engineering graduates with effective assistance in securing engineering employment. In this regard, regular communication should occur between the program director and the OCS staff. In addition, significant effort is required on the part of the OCS in attracting corporate recruiters

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

. He also feels that since he is thefirst generation out of his family going to college, his parents are very supportive and committedto his education. He feels that through a strong commitment to himself, he will be an engineerand this will allow him to do want he wants to do in his career. Going to high school, eventhough he had very little exposure, he liked computers a lot. He also feels that the CEASenvironment is free of discrimination. He also stated that he has never felt the need to see hisfaculty professors. He feels that the MEP SBP gave him a head start in ECE 100, but he wouldhave liked the program to include more on corporate politics and culture.Ken is a commuter student and usually leaves school when his ride has to leave, but

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Wild; Michael Ryan

first year – before their academicrecord and confidence have been seriously damaged. The first set of conditions is strictlyacademic: students are required to take appropriate remedial courses and to achieve at aparticular level in these courses. They are also required to use selected support resources.Even so, a high attrition rate is expected among this group, and so a second set ofconditions constitutes a “safe-exit” process. Participation is required in: · A two phase career planning activity developed specifically for this group. Students first meet in small groups with university career planning and advisement professionals to explore their own personal motivational connection to engineering. In accord with the needs

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

(ethics, sociological, health and safety). The teammanager was responsible for organization, maintaining schedules, and the written and oral t eamreports that were the products of the team. The task teams were responsible for educating theentire project team on the fundamentals of their respective task.Why the Mars Mission PBL-Problem – USAF graduates are Air Force Officers who, duringtheir careers, participate in and have responsibility for a variety of systems -programs. Suchprograms often present interdisciplinary ill-defined problems requiring expertise in engineering,economics, politics, sociology, medicine, psychology, and law. So in addition to device-orientedproblems, USAFA cadets need school-experiences working on multifaceted

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Scott; J. Elaine Seat; J. Roger Parsons

database to show the MBTI distribution for students at ouruniversity, compare this information to existing engineering student data available in theliterature, explore graduation rates for different learning styles, and explore gender and minoritydifferences in learning style and graduation rate.We also have given the MBTI to our engineering faculty and have data to demonstrate theteaching /learning style differences that a typical engineering student faces in his or her classes.We compare this information with MBTI data for educators from kindergarten through highschool to show how this situation has changed for a typical student as they have progressedthrough their educational career. We also compare this information with existing data

Conference Session

Technology Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Markham; Russell Thomas; Roger Debo; Angus Kingon

business schools.This paper discusses some differences between the current teaching of entrepreneurship inengineering versus business schools, and also adds the dimension of “high technologyentrepreneurship.” The work has been motivated by a strong desire to provide the optimumeducation content to our own entrepreneurial students at NCSU, in both the Colleges ofEngineering and of Management. The ultimate objective is to ensure that we are providing aneducational experience supportive of student career aspirations and perceived employer needs.The outline of the paper is as follows. Firstly, we provide some background comments thatprovide context and definitions for the categories of entrepreneurship that we discuss in the paper.Next, we compare

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Bernard White

a softening ofrequirements relative to our other rigorous IT&E programs, while othersquestioned the extent to which the BS IT program would prepare students for life-long learning. As always, there were questions regarding the potential diversionof resources away from existing IT&E programs. As the BS IT program proposalneared maturity, it was generally the consensus that the new program will helpachieve our goal, which is to produce more graduates who understand informationtechnology and who can use it effectively.V.1. Career Opportunities for GraduatesLots of discussion centered on the degree to which the BS IT degree will enhancestudents’ abilities to find work as IT professionals. The working group addressedthese concerns by

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Fadali; Michael Robinson

principles and design.II. Research QuestionsThe following research questions were used to judge the presence of technological andengineering applications and design in some of the newest and most widely used secondaryscience textbooks. These questions were chosen for their motivational potential and thepossibilities they might offer to students to gain the kinds of problem solving skills needed forsuccessful study and possible careers in technical fields. Mathematics was addressed in sciencetextbooks because of the research that indicates that one reason for the high attrition rate in manyengineering programs is related to inadequate preparation in mathematics prior to enteringcollege 16 . 1. Do the science textbooks use science conceptual

Conference Session

FPD V: Gender and Engineering Education: A Panel Discussion and Workshop

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering; Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lynn Andrea Stein, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs, Women in Engineering

faculty in 2003. Her current research interests are twofold: as well as her research in biological materials (cur- rently focused on bioderived plastics synthesized by bees), she also researches the engineering student experience, including persistence and migration, differences by gender, and the role of self-efficacy in project-based learning. In 2010, she received an NSF CAREER Award in support of her research on engineering education.Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering Caitrin Lynch is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Her research concerns gender, work, aging, and globalization, with a focus the United States and Sri Lanka. She is the author of the book