Conference Session

Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauri Burke, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

International

, students were required to submit anapplication, resume, transcript, and three letters of recommendation. Additionally, studentssubmitted a written statement explaining their career goals and interest in the HumanitarianEngineering program at Colorado School of Mines. Thirty-five entering freshman, ten of which were female, applied to participate in thisprogram. Twelve were selected. All applications packages were reviewed by six members of ourfaculty using a common scoring rubric. To the extent possible, names and genders were removedfrom student applications before the review process began. Twelve undergraduate scholarshiprecipients were selected to participate in the program and the remaining scholarship recipientswere rank ordered on a

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

work. The entire class was able to learn about a broad range ofengineering practices and real-life problems related to residential construction and publicsafety. Each student’s personal experience at a particular site provided an enhancedreceptivity for understanding and integrating the information from the other team reports.Through this project, most of the students realized the importance of service to theircommunity and at the same time they became aware of the importance of content knowledgeand life-long learning in a professional engineering career. They also were able to see theimportance of the role engineers have, and will continue to have, in our society, and howvital their work is for all of us.The most noticeable benefits for the

Conference Session

Introducing Active and Inductive Learning and Improving the Learning Curve in ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech; John Charonko, Virginia Tech; Alicia Williams, Virginia Tech; Satyaprakash Karri, Virginia Tech; Kelley Stewart, Virginia Tech; Pavlos Vlachos, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

level for “research-based learning” which is inherent inthe graduate level but almost non-existent in the undergraduate level. To achieve this research-based learning at the undergraduate level, a new educationalparadigm is needed that, demands a commitment to the intellectual growth of individualstudents, redefines the role of engineering in society, and stimulates students to pursue careers inengineering and research. These goals can be accomplished by integrating research intoengineering education, serving to increase recruitment and retention and enabling futureengineers to become society leaders. To pursue these goals, we initiated an effort to translate state-of-the-art multidisciplinaryresearch examples and accomplishments

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricio Tapia, University of Florida; Fazil Najafi, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

International

only the education process but also the wayshow Teacher Assistants perceive their responsibilities. Becoming a Teacher Assistant atUniversity of Florida helps student’s financial needs and prepares those who want topursue an academic career. For Chileans, being a Teacher Assistant is considered a highprestige.IntroductionTeacher Assistant (TA) activities play an important role in the education of civilengineers since students learn and have the opportunity to interact with their fellowstudents. TA’s activities include performing assigned class duties, office hours, assistingstudents in the laboratory, field trips, and grading. The emphasis in each activity is afunction of the type of topic covered by the course. Theoretical subjects need

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neetika Kohli, Purdue University; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; David Meyer, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

students. During this important point in astudents’ academic career, it is critical that the students’ initial exposure to engineering is learnercentered, knowledge centered, assessment centered, and community centered1. Wirelessresponse units can serve as the catalyst to stimulate these interactions.The Introduction to Digital System Design course2 is offered by the School of Electrical andComputer Engineering. Students majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineeringare required to take the course. A number of Computer Science students take the course as wellto fulfill degree requirements. This four credit hour course has a weekly three hour lab that istightly integrated with the course material covered during the three hour a week

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students III

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guili Zhang, University of Florida; YoungKyoung Min, University of Florida; Matthew Ohland, Clemson University; Timothy Anderson, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

merit-based scholarships if the GPA drops below 3.0 and cannotgraduate with a cumulative GPA below 2.0. A high student GPA should also reflectcomprehension and satisfaction with the academic subject and thus discourage migration toanother discipline. In contrast to these conclusions, Seymour and Hewitt reported results from aqualitative study that indicated that students leaving engineering were academically no differentfrom those that remained,17 noting that students left for reasons relating to perceptions of theteaching quality, institutional culture, and career aspects. Thus the importance of college GPA asa factor in engineering attrition is less clear. Further clouding the issue is the tendency of poorperformance to be accompanied by poor

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

the reported difficulties onteams, students overwhelmingly reported they were much better able to function on ateam by the end of reformed courses and the experience prepared them for a career orcapstone design.To highlight changes between lecture and reformed courses we looked at differencesbetween the extreme numeric responses SALG data (1 & 2 responses vs. 4 & 5 responseson a Likert scale) of lecture vs. reformed courses. Faculty identified ten course outcomes(from 77 SALG questions) that were associated with students who are independentlearners (i.e. using the textbook, teamwork, enthusiasm) and six outcomes associatedwith dependent learners (i.e. learned facts and equations, got help from professor or TA).While there were gains

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

design and test of mobile robotics applications.Bibliography1. See the description of the Electrical Engineering discipline at the IEEE USA web-site at: http://www.ieeeusa.org/careers/yourcareer.html2. See the MSOE web-site for course description at of all courses mentioned in this paper at: http://www.msoe.edu/eecs/cese/courses/curriculum.php?progcode=EE15.1&abet=03. See Microsoft's web-site at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/4. See the web-site of IAR, one of the industry's leader in IDE's for embedded systems at: http://www.iar.com/5. See the ISO/IEC9899 standard, available on-line at: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/6. See the web-site of Atmel Corp. at: http://www.atmel.com/dyn

Conference Session

Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Anaïs Miodek, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

degrees awarded in the U.S. at the undergraduate, mastersand doctoral level has declined from 1966 to 2001.2 In order to meet this increasing demand forengineers and other technologically trained professionals, the U.S. needs to boost interest inthese fields, and increase the pipeline to ultimately graduate more students at all levels in scienceand engineering.Research has shown that in the U.S., science, math and engineering fields are not highly desiredas academic or career options, in part because there is a serious disconnect between the subjectmaterial and its real-life applications.3 A research experience, especially at the undergraduatelevel, helps highlight the connection between technical engineering research and engineering’sbenefits to

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

competitiveness and national security purposes.DiscussionThere is a large and growing need for the advancement of professional education for the nation’sengineers in industry. There is an especially critical need to develop engineers as ‘champions’,‘innovators’, and ‘leaders’ throughout their professional careers through professionally-orientedgraduate studies. This need is so large that it is not out of the question to consider creatingacademic departments [graduate centers] within existing colleges of engineering and technologythat cater solely to the professional graduate degrees. These “professional studies departments”[graduate centers] would have their own administrative structure, leadership, and faculty whoseprimary mission is to develop and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University

of Electrical and Computer Engineering at TTU. Prior to joining TTU, Dr. Ghani has accumulated over 8 years of software and telecom industry experience and has held senior positions at Nokia, IBM, Motorola, and several start-ups. At TTU he has quickly built up a strong externally-funded research program and has established a state-of-the-art networking lab. Most recently, he received the NSF CAREER Award (2005) to conduct advanced research in multi-domain/multi-layer high-speed networks. He received his PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada

Conference Session

BME Assessment and the VaNTH ERC

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Blanchard, Florida Gulf Coast University; James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

professionals in a diverse, interdisciplinary environment, and ‚ are well prepared for careers in the medical device, health care, or biotechnology fields, as well as for graduate studies or professional training. Draft of first three PEOS developed by Bioengineering Working Group and other participants in School of Engineering Retreat, 8/12/05. Approved by the WSOE Curriculum Committee, 9/2/05. Revised by WSOE SOE Advisory Board, 11/04/05. Revised by Bioengineering Working Group to add fourth PEO, 8/11/06. Modified (Founding Director) to change “multidisciplinary” to “interdisciplinary,” 10/1/06. Revised by Bioengineering Working Group during the WSOE Advisory Board meeting on 10/27/06. Approved by the

Conference Session

Partnerships in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Tulenko, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

AC 2007-480: A SUCCESSFUL PROTOTYPE FOR UNIVERSITY/NATIONALLABORATORY RESEARCH COOPERATIONJames Tulenko, University of Florida James S. Tulenko, a professor in the Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fl, is also the Director of the Laboratory for Development of Advanced Nuclear Fuels and Materials. He was Chairman of the Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering at the University of Florida for sixteen years. He is a Past President of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Prior to his academic career, Professor Tulenko spent 23 years in the Nuclear Industry as Manager, Nuclear Fuel Engineering at Babcock and Wilcox; Manager

Conference Session

Intersdisciplinary Courses and Environmental Undergraduate Research

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Bott, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

to be proficient in the workforce, and the Ph.D. is the defining degreefor technical work. At the undergraduate level, the objective should be to integrate realistic,useful, and externally-funded research experiences into undergraduate engineering education in awell-equipped laboratory, while at the same time providing a valuable service to regionalindustries, utilities, and consulting firms. These experiences bolster interest among students inthe technical and scientific aspects of Environmental Engineering, thereby enticing and betterpreparing students to pursue these topics in graduate school and in future careers. These projectsalso expose undergraduates to both the environmental engineering profession (collaboration withpracticing

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Said Abubakr, Western Michigan University; Dewei Qi, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

International

language and intercultural skills, as well astheir ability to collaborate across borders, business leaders need to demonstrate the economicvalue of study abroad by rewarding international experience in their hiring and advancementpractices.”Study abroad in non-traditional destinations is expanding rapidly, especially to countries whereAmerican students see potential career opportunities. Of particular note are large increases in thenumber of Americans studying in China and India, two countries of growing economicimportance to the United States. Study abroad in China increased by a dramatic 90% (4,737, upfrom 2,493 in 2002/03), making China the 9th-leading host destination for American students.American students continue to study abroad in larger

Conference Session

It's Elementary

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Christine Mendoza

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

board of Learning and Instruction and Teachers College Record. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presiden- tial Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants in both the public and private sectors, and served as an external reviewer for doctoral dissertations outside the U.S. She publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals and books, and has held both elected and appointed offices in the American Psy- chological Association (APA). Dr. Husman was a founding member and first President of the Southwest Consortium for Innovative Psychology in

Conference Session

Mentoring Minority Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frances Carter-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Patricia Ordóñez, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras ; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC); Miguel Alfonso Nino, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

reportedsuccess using e-mentoring where senior students were asked to leave voice messages forincoming first year students for their online introduction to nursing course. Although there wereno empirical results, the student mentees in the study responded favorably to the e-mentoring.7The definition of peer mentoring above describes a hierarchical relationship that is similar to thementoring relationship between a faculty mentor and his/her advisee, with one obviousexception. The major difference is that student peer mentors have a more equal relationshipbecause the future career success of the mentee is not in the hands of the mentor. Nevertheless,in a study where 54 medical professionals involved in faculty peer mentoring were interviewed,it was

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

more engineers into public office to encouraging engineers who aresuccessful in their technical careers to aspire to leadership in national organizations (such asASEE). The problem remains, however, that engineers in general may feel less prepared topursue leadership advancement because of their lack of confidence in their leadershipcommunication skills.Recognizing that communication plays a central role in leadership, faculty and staff at Rose-Hulman have made communication a focus for the Leadership Advancement Program events thatare planned each year. In particular, we are using the notion of “difficult conversations” as away to emphasize the importance of communication in effective leadership.“Difficult Conversations” Approach to

Conference Session

Professional Development and Advising for Graduate Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Paul Andrew Branham, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Neha Choudhary, Purdue; Trina L. Fletcher, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Molly H Goldstein, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Cole Hatfield Joslyn, Purdue University; Corey A Mathis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Emilie A Siverling, Purdue University; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; M. D. Wilson, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

the profession such as “the lack of women inSTEM [Trina]”. Some stemmed from a desire to be a boundary spanner, contributing “tothe wide-boundary but nonetheless relevant body of knowledge in the engineering-education-entrepreneurial [community] [Michael]”.Two motivations students observed across the faculty was a passion for engineeringeducation research, and a willingness to be a trailblazer, comfortable with taking a non- Page 24.31.11traditional career path. As Molly notes, “I saw that the successful faculty (all) had onecommon link – their passion in EER [engineering education research].” This was bothinspiring and contributed to students

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

have been identified as being in a transitional phase of life between children andadults. This variation has increased recently as an increasing number of non-traditional studentsenter academia as a result of delayed college enrollment, second career adults, and militaryveteran undergraduates.This study explores student motivation and intellectual development by addressing researchquestions: How do adult learning (andragogical) characteristics of students in first-year designcourses compare to those in senior design? and What is the relationship between andragogicalcharacteristics and design learning? These questions will be answered through a survey ofstudent andragogical characteristics composed of several pre-developed and

Conference Session

Diversity Redefined: Nontraditional Views in Traditional Environments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary W. Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology/CINVESTAV

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

been so engageddeveloping products and they have presented their work to small and large audiences such as theuniversity innovation festival that is a family and industry oriented event.Based on the author’s experiences in teaching, researching, supervising and collaborating withD/HoH students, some success stories were selected to build the framework to presentmodifications to be incorporated in courses, university infrastructure, personal mentorship andopportunities that help D/HoH succeed and build the skills for a fruitful career in differentengineering disciplines. Through the enhancement for the D/HoH students, all other hearingstudents will also benefit from it

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Devlin B. Montfort, Washington State University; Cara J Poor P.E., Washington State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

designing water and wastewater treatment facilities in central California. He was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2011. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on theoretical approaches to understanding why some engineering concepts are harder to learn than others, and how the concepts are embedded in contexts.Dr. Devlin B. Montfort, Washington State UniversityDr. Cara J Poor P.E., Washington State University Dr. Poor has been teaching many of the integral undergraduate civil engineering courses at Washington State University for the last six years, including seven mechanics of materials courses. She received the departments’ Outstanding Teaching Award in 2010 and Outstanding Advising Award in 2012. Dr. Poor is a licensed

Conference Session

First Year Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Olson, University of San Diego; Truc T. Ngo, University of San Diego; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

objective measures of student abilities, some research has assessedhow student attitudes or motivations affect their pursuit of engineering degrees. Besterfield-Sacre et al.3,4,5 developed the Pittsburgh Freshman Engineering Attitude Survey (PFEAS) tocapture the attitudes of students towards engineering, and then used the results of the survey toexplain persistence among their students. The 50-item Likert questionnaire was used todistinguish how a student felt about 13 factors influencing attitudes to engineering includingacademic confidence, career prospects, family influence, and the impact of the profession onsociety. Along with measures of high school academic performance, these attitudes wereinitially used to explain some of the differences

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabah Razouk Abro, Lawrence Technological University; Jerry Cuper, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Arab Institute for Statistics, a position that enabled him to lecture in a number Arab countries. Sabah has over 25 years of experience in higher education including more than 15 years in education management across different parts of the world. Concentration in the last 15 years was on development of career, Art & Science, technology and engineering programs. Leading positions in educational institutions including chair of department, acting Dean, university board member, University assessment committee member, consultant and team leader. A unique experience in coordination between educational institution and in- dustrial partners to build new paradigm in education through an NSF sponsored program. He is Lawrence

Conference Session

"Best" of BED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony J McGoron, Florida International University; Hamid Shahrestani, Florida International University, BME; Michael Edward Brown, Florida International University; James Dennis Byrne, Florida International University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Engineering and Medical Instrumentation. He has mentored many senior design teams in association with other FIU faculty or FIU’s industry partners since 2006. Page 23.370.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Delivery and Assessment of the Biomedical Engineering Capstone Senior Design Experience Page 23.370.2AbstractThe capstone design course is the most important experience engineering students have duringtheir undergraduate academic careers. The capstone design sequence at Florida

Conference Session

Preparation of Professional Engineers Outside of the USA. What are the Education, Experience, and Exam Requirements?

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Albert T. Yeung, University of Hong Kong

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

disciplines and are available athttp://www.hkie.org.hk/eng/html/gradschemea/modeltrainingguide.asp. They are guidelines andtraining organizations are encouraged to design training opportunities to meet the specific needsof the organization as well as the future full professional career expectations of the candidate.The HKIE has adopted its Scheme A as a training objective system whereby candidates areassessed according to the set objectives. The Objective Record is a useful indication of whatcandidates are expected to demonstrate. They are in three parts: (i) common core – the objectivesthat candidates of all disciplines must meet; (ii) core – the objectives that all candidates of adiscipline must meet; and (iii) specific – the objectives set by the

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David K. Probst P.E., Southeast Missouri State University; Yumin Zhang, Southeast Missouri State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

and shared their experience in publications. One approach is to use advancedtechnology to enhance the effectiveness of learning, such as multimedia and CAD simulations.4-8Another approach is derived from cognitive science, and the knowledge in this course is dividedinto three categories: declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge.9 We adopted anintegrated approach, which can be effectively applied to learning the knowledge in all these threecategories.II. Conceptual Bridge Page 23.48.2Most students consider Engineering Thermodynamics a very challenging course, whichquenched the passion of many promising students pursuing a career in

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srujal Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel P. Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Page 23.87.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A pedagogical model to educate tomorrow’s engineers through a cloud-based Design and Manufacturing InfrastructureMotivationEncouraging high school students to pursue a career in Engineering is crucial in building a strongfoundation for a successful future of any nation. The United States is ranked 27th (out of 29) forthe rate of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) bachelor’s degreesawarded in developed countries - 6% of U.S. undergraduates major in engineering comparedwith 12% in Europe, 20% in Singapore, and 40% in China1. In order to increase the number ofengineering graduates, it is important to encourage

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Guerra, NASA Headquarters; Gloria A. Murphy, NASA; Lisa D. May, NASA Headquarters

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

NASA Headquarters was Director of the Directorate Integration Office in the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. In that position, her responsibilities involved strategic planning, international cooperation, cross-directorate coordination, architecture analysis, and exploration control boards. Ms Guerra also spent 3 years at the Goddard Space Flight Center as Program Integration Manager for future high-energy astrophysics mis- sions, particularly the James Webb Space Telescope. She began her career at the Johnson Space Center working for Eagle Engineering and SAIC, focused on conceptual design of advanced spacecraft for human missions to the Moon and Mars. Ms. Guerra earned a B.S in Aerospace Engineering and

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ida B Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Dennis R. Depew, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Melissa Jane Dark, Purdue University; Rylan C. Chong, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

engineering careers because of the expectationthat they would be able to help people, during their studies they find a lack of opportunities to doso 10, 11. These students are assumed to be searching for ways to use technical material tocontribute positively to society. This opportunity to benefit society is one of the main attractionsfor students, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, to biomedical, environmental-ecological, and agricultural-biological engineering disciplines12; it is especially noteworthy thatthese engineering disciplines also have the largest ethnic and gender diversity in enrollments.Engineering/technology and public policy could serve as a method to maintain these students’interest in engineering because of its socially