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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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Mary Cummings

an engineering career, only 12% of LD malesexpressed the same interest. Interestingly, 2% of women with learning disabilities wereinterested in a career in engineering, which was the same percentage as the interested womenwithout a learning disability.The 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) defines learning disabilities as “adisorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or inusing language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in imperfect ability to listen, think,speak, read, write, spell or do mathematical calculations…The term does not include a learningproblem which is primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor handicaps, of mentalretardation, of emotional

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How are We Faring with EC2000?

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Richard Zollars

, professional and ethicalresponsibilities, and life-long learning). Some examples of questions asked in prior yearsare: 1) List some (if you believe there are any) of the special ethical responsibilities that apply to your profession. 2) Can you recall a discussion regarding ethics you had in the classroom or with a professor while at WSU? What was the issue? 3) What are some of your professional goals and aspirations? 4) What discussion of long-term career goals for people in your profession has occurred in or out of class with your professors?These questions are followed up by additional probes such as: 1) Are you actually talking about these things in classes at WSU? 2) Have you ever talked in courses about ethics? 3

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Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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Roy McGrann; Abraham Howell

must be properlyaligned for communication to take place. The possibility of a radio frequency (RF)transmitter/receiver was researched and it was decided that this would be a costly alternative ascompared with the UHF kit.“Exploring Engineering” a case study “Exploring Engineering” was a weeklong event that focused on giving 5th and 6 th gradestudents a more detailed sense of what engineering encompasses and exactly what engineers do intheir careers. Throughout the week students participated in numerous hands-on activities such asbuilding wooden structures to withstand a simulated earthquake and assembling and testingremote-controlled CD-Robots. Exploring Engineering was organized by Eileen C. Way(Professor, Systems Science and

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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Lawrence Genalo

national standards will helpthem to improve the science, mathematics, and technology proficiencies of their students. Theirstudents, feeling more able to solve problems in STEM fields, will be more likely to chooseengineering as a career in greater numbers. Those students who choose to become K-12 teacherswill be more able to introduce STEM topics to their students. Even those who choose not to gointo STEM-related careers or teaching will be more informed citizens.The program presented here is helping to increase the numbers of teachers who are able tooperate in engineering related contexts. Each semester 20 to 30 preservice teachers complete athree-credit engineering course. Each summer 20 to 30 inservice teachers complete a two-creditgraduate

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Best Teaching Practices for ABET

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Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

materials, resume materials, and learning reflections that can follow them throughout their career here at UT and into the world beyond. The Mechanical Engineering department at UT Austin is creating an electronic portfolio system in hopes of encouraging both teachers and students to focus more on projects as a way to foster active experimentation and to help students create artifacts that show their growth and progress along the pathway to becoming an engineer. The FIC is providing technical expertise to build the system and instructional design support to create a tool that can be used for reflective practice throughout a student’s academic career. (For more information, see http

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International Engineering Education I

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David Holger; James Melsa; Loren Zachary

ACHIEVING A GLOBAL ACADEMIC INDUSTRIAL NETWORK FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY James L. Melsa, Dean David Holger, Associate Dean Loren Zachary, Assistant Dean College of Engineering Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50014 Abstract It is clear that the engineer of the 21 st century will be required to spend an appreciable portion of his or her career in an environment rich with a variety of global connections

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Graduate Student Experiences

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Paul Bishop; Gary Lewandowski; Joel Fried; Carla Purdy; Anant Kukreti

oneducational issues by a distinguished engineering educator helps to facilitate both faculty andstudent involvement. Overall, this program provides a richer, more supportive environment forgraduate students, with opportunities for mentoring by multiple mentors, and thus increases thechance of retention.1. IntroductionPreparing Future Faculty (PFF)1 is a ten-year-old national initiative designed to improve thegraduate educational experience, to encourage more Ph.D. students to consider academic careers,and to better prepare the next generation of college and university professors to meet their manyresponsibilities. A PFF program has three main features

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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Heinz Luegenbiehl

it is questionable whether a strictly Americancontext for engineering practice still exists, even for engineers who practice solely in the U.S. Welive in an era of global interdependence which is reflected in the working environment of typicalAmerican engineers. Often these engineers work for multinational corporations which employengineers from a variety of cultural backgrounds, both here and abroad. Even if that is not the case,their employers are likely engaged in contractual or trade relationships with companies in othercountries. Further, the mobility of contemporary engineers makes it increasingly likely that duringtheir career they will work for a foreign employer, either in the U.S. or abroad. Perhaps most important to

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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David Border

three-semester co-operative education component, emphasison application over theory has proven beneficial to our students. With the rise of networkingapplications, and the “network appliance” in both corporate, manufacturing and consumerenvironments, our students need additional communication systems preparation. This isparticularly critical for ECT graduates that seek a career in an Information Technology field. Inthis employment sector they will compete for jobs with recent graduates from other institutionsthat may already hold an IT industry related certification. These certifications can be either Page 8.333.1closely tied to the

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Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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David Harris

-hour difference can be one reason for that. Besides, this project was a part of HMC but not for METU. But, for sure this project was useful for my future career because I learned that no matter what the distance is between the partners teamwork can be achieved and the result was pretty good. I learned how to work people who I don’t know anything about. The main problem was the time difference between two countries. In order to connect by phone or netmeeting either they should stay at night or we should wake up at early morning. So connection with netmeeting was restricted. But the connection with netmeeting was more efficient as we can

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Thomas Jewell

long-termdata on how terms abroad experiences have influenced the lives and careers of Union’sgraduates. A survey to develop base-line data will be sent out later this winter.Preliminary results from that survey should be available by June and will be presented atthe poster session.Future DevelopmentsIt is the goal of the engineering programs at Union to have sufficient number and varietyof foreign experiences available to allow all students to participate in a program that is ofinterest to them and meshes with their professional and personal interests. In a period offiscal belt tightening, it is unlikely that many additional terms abroad will be developed.Mini-terms are certainly an option. However, they are highly dependent on

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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Fazil Najafi; Nick Safai

the overall IHE ’s students department. informa tion, office of Graduate Minorit y• Provide web-site research and enrolment objectives. information r esources statistics. • Career and with security placement workshops including MGS • Time management handbook, etc. workshops

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Steven Levitt

Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationh) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context;i) a recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in lifelong learning;j) a knowledge of contemporary issues; and,k) the ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice"1.The first three criteria are standard engineering skills. Engineering educators realize these skillsare not sufficient for successful careers in engineering. It is important to note that several ofthese criteria directly require communication skills. From a practical standpoint, I like to pointout to students that recruiters consistently claim

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Keith Johnson; Mark Rajai

becoming a faculty“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightO 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”member, the author’s new philosophy is smart labor yields success. This philosophy reflectsthe authors new found belief that just because you work hard, you are not guaranteed toachieve your career goals. Too often, the burden of being committed to so many committeesand trying to keep up with regular duties can be extremely frustrating.Committee assignments can become a burden if they are taken out of perspective, and onedoes not anticipate the amount of work and time involved. As a new faculty member, there isa strong possibility that one may be encouraged to serve on

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Maria Reyes; Jennifer Adair; Barry McNeill; Mary Anderson-Rowland

successfulGraduate Career Change Program in Industrial Engineering. She is a frequent speaker on the myths ofmathematics and engineering and of the career opportunities in engineering, especially for women andminority students.BARRY MCNEILLBarry McNeill is an assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Arizona StateUniversity. He earned all his degrees from Stanford University (BS Chem E and MS & PhD ME). Hehelped develop and deliver a new first year and a new third year engineering design core course. He hasgiven numerous workshops on course/curriculum development and learning and has co-authored severalpapers on assessment

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Melinda Gallagher; Jenny Golder; Lawrence Genalo

Session 3453 An Engineering Linkage to K-12 Teachers Lawrence J. Genalo, Melinda Gallagher, Jenny Golder Iowa State UniversityIntroductionEngineering faculty at Iowa State University have worked collaboratively with teachereducation faculty since 1996 to offer an undergraduate course entitled Toying withTechnology to elementary and secondary education majors1, 2. The development of thistechnology literacy course provided students with an appreciation for the technologicalinnovations that surround them. Studies have shown that students form many of theiroverall career and educational attitudes as early

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James Dally; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

introducing design it helps promote student creativity and allows faculty tointroduce the broad objectives of engineering education and engineering profession. "Engineers" play a significant role in the economic prosperity of a nation and are sometimesreferred to as the " engines " of economic growth. However, students typically graduate fromhigh schools without a good understanding of the engineering field and career options ahead ofthem. As such dissemination of information among high school students about the field ofengineering is a valuable contribution to society.Figure 1 illustrates how experiential and service learning was integrated in the "Introduction toEngineering Design Class (ENES 100)" in the fall semester of 1999. The course was

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Allen Estes; Stephen Ressler

effectively teach.”“15 lbs. of great stuff in a 10 lb. Box!”“This has been an extremely broadening experience – I will carry it with me forever! Thanks.”“One of the top 3-4 workshops of all kinds that I have ever participated in!”“Overall I felt this was an EXCELLENT workshop. I wish I had this 3 years ago when I just started myteaching career. Even now it is not too late and I hope to make effective use of what I gained during this Page 6.477.4workshop.” Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

academic programs in Engineering Technology should be two-fold: to teach thestudents the theoretical and practical principles in their future professions and to give them aninsightful vision of the industry in which they will develop their careers. While the first goal hastraditionally been well addressed and solved, the second one is not addressed by all institutionswith Engineering Technology programs. This paper describes my experiences developing andcarrying out an internship for the Biomedical Engineering Technology (BET) program at PennState University, Wilkes-Barre Campus (PSU-WB). Although some of the issues discussed inthis paper are specifically for this particular program, I firmly believe that most of the topicsdiscussed here are

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Wade Kenny; Kevin Myers; Heather Cornell

by Louis9 as those activities thatcommunicate to organizational newcomers the roles and behaviors they should adopt. Theintroductory Material and Energy Balances (MEB) course to be studied is, in itself, anenculturation process where students learn the basic skills they will use for at least the rest oftheir academic career, if not for the rest of their lives. Dr. Richard Felder hypothesizes that muchof the difficulty in MEB courses arises because the basic concepts are inherently simple.Students may feel at first that they need not learn the engineering approach to a problem, and,instead, use other methods learned in algebra and chemistry to solve the problems.Unfortunately, as problems become more difficult and new concepts are introduced

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Deborah Hwang; D. Blandford

State University2 - A summer course for high school women to encourage them to pursue science and engineering careers, and an education course to teach K-12 science teachers about engineering careers. Robotic Design Studio at Wellesley College3 - A course that introduces the application of engineering and design concepts to everyday life. Artificial Intelligence Robot Building Lab at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges4, 5 - Explores artificial intelligence by building an autonomous vehicle. Autonomous LEGO Robotics at Case-Western Reserve University6, 7 - A junior-level engineering and science design course that “teaches critical thinking and interdisciplinary teamwork by building your own animal

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Ronald K. Goodnight; Gary B. Randolph; Dennis O. Owen

are employed, they have not formally entered theworkforce with a career mindset. Most view their employment in much the same manor as theydid their high school part time jobs. They still consider themselves primarily students and arenot in a career path.Another group of traditional students beginning to use the Anderson facility are universitystudents who cannot get majors or courses they desire at the conventional campus locations.Demand for courses at Purdue’s main campus in West Lafayette, IN has exceeded the availableresources. Students are finding that courses and majors that are closed at main campus areavailable at Anderson and other regional campuses. Similar situations have occurred at otheruniversities in the area, and students from

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Raul Ordonez; Harriet Benavidez; Anthony J. Marchese; James A. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Beena Sukumaran; Ravi Ramachandran; Julie Haynes

not only proficiency in the technicalprinciples, but, as importantly, require a mastery of written and oral communication skills and theability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team. In the sophomore year, the attempt is made tointegrate design and communication (written and oral) by serving the dual purpose of introducingstudents to formalized engineering design techniques and providing them with the necessaryfoundation for their careers as technical communicators. The course is team-taught by faculty fromthe College of Communication and the College of Engineering. In the fall semester, the thrust is onintegrating discipline specific design modules with communication [3] by applying the principles ofTotal Quality Management (TQM) [4][5

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Sheikh A. Akbar; Prabir K. Dutta

more of one at the expense of the other? Also, in research, there is a growing trend ofmultifaceted partnerships involving academia, government, national laboratories and industries.Such partnerships in education are almost nonexistent. With changing societal needs anddemands, the way we educate and train the future generation of engineers will evolve. We willneed to integrate the latest research developments into students’ curriculum more readily andtrain students in a cooperative environment with involvement from industries. This will helpstudents appreciate the impact of their education on society and will also help develop skillsuseful for their future careers. This paper describes a novel curriculum development that grewout of what

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John S. Mullin; James J. Alpigini

experience in a professional environment. While many ofthese candidates have had some exposure to information systems, their goal is to either expandtheir current capabilities and responsibilities or to transition their careers into an informationsystems area.At PSGV it has been observed that people desiring to make this type of career transition haveoften relied on the continuing education. The primary goal of these continuing education courses isto augment the skill set of students already involved in the industry. While these professionaldevelopment courses are invaluable to people in the field, they do not provide the needed depth ofunderstanding for people making the transition to the information science field. To address thisproblem, PSGV has

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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Teodora Shuman; Greg Mason

diverse educationalbackgrounds.Objective 2: To teach students to use technology such as email, video teleconferencing, and theinternet to communicate technical ideas with colleagues at different geographical locations.Objective 3: To provide students with a design experience, which extends beyond the classroomand develops their awareness that material taught in one course is related to, and applied in othercourses.Objective 4: To develop students’ communication and research (educated and informed decision-making) skills and bestow awareness early in their career that these skills are integral parts of thedesign process.Objective 5: To engage high school students in the design process, and encourage them to pursuea career in science or

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Session 2793 Incorporating MatLab in the Mechanical Engineering Courses at Alabama A&M University Amir A. Mobasher, A.R. Jalloh, R. Rojas-Oviedo, Z.T. Deng, C. Qian Mechanical Engineering Department Alabama A&M University Huntsville, AL 35762 Amobasher@aamu.eduAbstractNowadays, entry-level engineers may find themselves in an environment thatprogramming, simulation and modeling may become an integral part of their career. Ininstances that they are involved with enhancement and

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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John Wheeldon; Glenn Wrate

, hopefully, inthe future to students in the Mechanical Engineering program.IntroductionElectrical Engineering (EE) programs across the United States have seen a decline in electricalpower engineering courses for the last few years 1. This same trend has been witnessed in the EEprogram at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). At MSOE however, there is anincrease in interest in the power systems option among Architectural Engineering (AE) students.The driving force behind this interest is an increasing demand for graduates with a powersystems background for facilities engineering 2. A group of 25 local design firms and contractorsrecently approached MSOE and requested a sequence of courses that would prepare AE studentsfor a career in the

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Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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Jørgen Hansen; Arvid Andersen

to function in internationalcollaboration and co-operation4. It seems to be an important part of the career of an engineerof tomorrow (ref. 7). The European Project Semester (EPS), which is about internationalteamwork, is a balanced mix of conventional taught courses and team-based project work.After six years with this semester, we find it inconceivable to contemplate former teachingand learning methods. A few years back, before the start of EPS in 1995, a guest lecturer atthe Engineering College of Elsinore made a remark that made us reconsider our situation. Hewas teaching a conventional class and experienced how demanding our students could be. Hecame from a university where they tried to teach students to find their own way and stand

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Nashwan Younis

facultymust apply the results to the educational objectives as well as the outcomes of the programs. Thedesign content in the curriculum is not an isolated issue from other attributes. It is recommendedto analyze the overall effectiveness of the program in regard to preparing the graduates for aprofessional career in general. This is should be done in conjunction with assessing a desiredattribute. The result from our alumni is shown in Fig. 5. 50 % Numb er o f Res pon s es 40 30 20