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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education3. Knight, D. W., Sullivan, J. F., Poole, S. J., and Carlson, L. E. “Skills Assessment in Hands-On Learning and Implications for Gender Differences in Engineering Education, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada 2002, Session 2430.4. Macoby, E. E., and Jacklin, C. N. The Psychology of Sex Differences, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1974.5. Benbow, C., and Stanley, J. S. “Sex Differences in Mathematical Ability: Fact or Artifact?” Science, vol.222, 1983, pp. 1262-1264.6. Margolis, J. and Fisher, A. Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing

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Industrial Collaborations

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James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

Session 3248 Merits of Faculty Internship in Industry – A Valuable Experience Ahad S. Nasab and James H. Lorenz Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractOne of the more effective ways for the engineering technology programs to keep faculty abreastof the new developments in their respective fields is to instill a faculty internship program.Studies have shown that faculty industrial placement is a component of life-long learning thathelps to maintain and expand technological skills1. The internship program at Middle TennesseeState University (MTSU), fully supported by the industrial

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Benjamin Flores; Rosa Gomez-Martinez; Joseph Ramos; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras

aware that by helping and serving others theystrengthen the learning community of which they are a part.AcknowledgementThis work was funded by the National Science Foundation’s Model Institutions forExcellence Program under cooperative agreement No. EEC-9550502.References[1] R. Cortez, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Yearly, (2003, March, 12). Fact BookPages, personal communication.[2]. L. Floyd, E. Ruiz, S. W. Stafford, and C. Romero, “Academic Center for Engineers and Scientists:Student Center for the 21 st Century,” ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section 2000 Annual Conference, LasCruces, NM, Spring 2000.[3]. S. W. Stafford and C. Romero, “Student Management Teams-Leaders in Training,” InternationalMaterials Research Congress, Symposium

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Retention of Minority Students

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Denise Driscoll ; Klod Kokini; Linda Katehi; Jeff Wright; Carolyn Percifield

; Boice (Eds.), SanFrancisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.2 Johnsrud, L. K. (1993). Women and minority faculty experiences: Defining and responding to diverse realities.In Building a Diverse Faculty, Gainen & Boice (Eds.), San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.3 Garcia, M., Hudgins, C. A., McTighe Musil, C., Nettles, M. T., Sedlacek, W. E., & Smith, D. G. (2001).Assessing Campus Diversity Initiatives: A Guide for Campus Practitioners.4 Breckler, S. J. (1984). Empirical validation of affect, behavior, and cognition as distinct components of attitude.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 1191-1205.5 Feldman, R. S. (2001). Social Psychology, 3 rd Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc

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Related Engineering Programs

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Robert Bowman

/rankings/brief/engineering/nophd/enns06_brief.php[2] J. M. Henderson, et.al., “Building the Confidence in Women Engineering Students with a New Course toIncrease Understanding of Physical Devices”, Journal of Engineering Education, October, 1994, pp. 1-6.[3] R. Felder, et. al., “A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention. III. GenderDifferences in Performance and Attitudes”, Journal of Engineering Education, April 1995, pp. 151-163.[4] H. C. Patangia, “A Novel Course To Provide Electrical Engineering Experience ToFreshmen Students,” Proc. of 2002 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition[5] S. Reyer, G. Wrate, J. Wheeldon, and O. Petersen, “Freshman Electrical Engineering Course AddressingRetention and Career Choice,” Proc

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Internet Programming and Applications

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Eric Crahen; Bina Ramamurthy

/j2ee/, November 2002.[4.] Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI): Distributed Computing for Java, White paper,http://java.sun.com/marketing/collateral/javarmi.html[5.] Microsoft’s .NET: Microsoft XML Web Services Platform,http://www.microsoft.com/net/defined/default.asp.[6.] S. Mullendar. Distributed Systems. Addison Wesley Publishing Co., 1993.[7.] Object Management Group, The Common Object Request Broker:Architecture and Specification, 2.5ed., Sept. 2001. [8.] B. Ramamurthy, and P. Ventura. A Practical Approach to Introducing Design Patterns in CS1 andCS2'', submitted to 8th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education(ITiCSE2003), Macedonia, Greece, June 30 - July 2, 2003.[9.] Reading list for Stanford

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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Sheryl Sorby

Page 8.738.5 Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwe are still achieving an improvement in visualization skills and understanding of graphics princi-ples that are comparable to those we reached during our quarter classes.AcknowledgementThe author would like to gratefully acknowledge the National Science Foundation for their sup-port of this work through grant No. EEC-9872533.Bibliography1. CEEB Special Aptitude Test in Spatial Relations, developed by the College Entrance Examination Board, USA, 1939.2. S. A. Sorby, and R. A. Gorska, “The Effect of Various Courses and Teaching Methods on the Improvement of Spatial Ability,” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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B.K. Hodge

(CHP-B) is an important twenty-first centuryemphasis area for the U. S. Department of Energy (USDOE). By coupling local electricitygeneration (gas turbines, fuel cells, internal combustion engines,…) with thermally-activatedbuilding systems (absorption chillers, desiccant dehumidifiers, heat recovery steamgenerators,…) system thermal efficiencies in excess of 80 percent are possible. The high thermalefficiencies of CHP-B systems contrast with the near-30 percent thermal efficiencies of stand-alone, simple-cycle, fossil-fuel power plants. The USDOE perspective on CHP-B is available onthe web site (1) www.chpb.net. The USDOE is interested in CHP-B because the wide-spreadadoption and use of CHP systems would markedly reduce fossil fuel

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What's New in Industrial Engineering

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Max Schwesig

., Eschenbaecher, J. (2002) Bridges – Deliverable D11. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationDiverging E-Business trends in Europe and the USAThe identification of diverging trends is again a very difficult task. Nevertheless some lessonslearned out of the analysis conducted so far can be highlighted. • Customers want anywhere/anytime service via multiple channels - web, call center, agent, etc. The US started already in the beginning of the 1990’s with call centers and electronic supported telephone systems. This has been adopted in the last 5-6 years in Europe. Meanwhile the high

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The Biology Interface

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Raj Mutharasan

solving,and most importantly reduction in the number of modules.Course Content - 2001-03During the late 90’s, we saw the emergence of DNA microarrays as a discovery and molecularanalytical tool for obtaining temporal gene expression profiles. This technology, central in bothresearch and product development, was included as a topic within the course. Additionally,student feedback suggested increasing the biological content of the course. Hence, the geneticengineering section was expanded to 50% of the course, and a problem set that enabledapplication of concept was developed. Since manufacture and drug delivery were consideredimportant areas that lie interface of biology and engineering, they were streamlined and re-oriented toward course goals

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The Climate for Women In Engineering

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Natela Ostrovskaya; Jan Rinehart; Susan Metz

). Engineeringand Technology Degrees: Washington, DC Annual Series. 1990-2001.3 Ibid.4 Sandler,Bernice,R. (1993). Mentoring: Myths and Realities, Dangers and Responsibilities. A Hand Up: Page 8.847.9Mentoring Women in Science. Washington, DC: The Association for Women in Science.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education5 Dresselhaus, Mildred S., Judy Franz, Bunny C. Clark (1995). Improving the Climate for Women in PhysicsDepartments. (College Park, MD: The American Physical Society and the American

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donald Headley; Sanjiv Sarin

Fuller, H., “Accounting for Individual Effort in Cooperative Learning Teams,” Journal of Engineering Education, 89(2), 133-140, 2000.10. Kruger, J., & Dunning, D., “Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1121-1134, 1999.11. LeBold, W.K., Budny, D.D. and Ward, S.K., “How Do Students Grade Their Learning?” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Atlanta, GA, 1995.12. Maskell, D., “Student-based Assessment in a Multi-disciplinary Problem-based Learning Environment,” Journal of Engineering Education, 88(2), 237-241, 1999.13. Mehta, S. and Danielson, S., “Self-Assessment by

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Global Engineering Education

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William Paterson; Samantha De Bon; Jean-Yves Chagnon; Deborah Wolfe

Session 2002-873 Engineering Accreditation in Canada and Its Current Challenges S. De Bon, MBA, D. Wolfe, P.Eng., Canadian Council of Professional Engineers / J.-Y. Chagnon, ing., W.G. Paterson, P.Eng. Canadian Engineering Accreditation BoardIntroduction to the CEABThe Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE) is the federation of provincial andterritorial authorities (constituent members) which license professional engineers. It oversees theprofession across Canada. The Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB), a

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ET International Collaborations

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Jean-Yves Hascoet; Benoit Furet; Marek Balazinski

hnician students from theInstitut Universitaire de Technologie de Nantes.In order to bring this project to fruition, we needed to find the subject of the product design.2.2.2 The supportJean-Pierre Lévy, sport teacher, conceived and constructed an a rtful pair of all-terrain in-linerollers in the 1980’s. This innovation was ahead of its time however, and the commercializationof his new product did not occur until a few years ago. M. Lévy asked the Institut Universitairede Technologie de Nantes to develop his idea.Our new educational approach was applied to encourage students in a design and manufacturingproject based on the creation of an all-terrain in-line roller for average consumers.2.2.3 Pedagogical organizationIn order to construct a

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Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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Peter Edwards

’ worksheets are shown in the followingframe. Note how with these particular examples that the student is using this applet in itssecondary role, as a design tool.1. There are three ways in which you can help solve the problems of near resonance of the Millennium Bridge over the River Thames in London (see accompanying Theory Sheet). You now know that light damping can lead to such problems in mechanical systems; so one solution would be to increase the resistance to motion. What else can you do to eliminate such problems? [Hint: think R 2 – 4Mk]. Discuss how any of this could be done in real world terms - and consider sending your s olution to the Millennium Bridge Commission, London!2. A second order linear system of the mass

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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Richard Jendrucko; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

dogs with flexibility problems in their stifle (knee) joint(s) on their hind leg(s). The surgeon is providing similar re- sources for this design project. Students worked with a veterinary physical thera- pist and were assigned a specific canine for the project. They were loaned a video on canine biomechanics and

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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Yichong Zeng; Patrick Kwon; Muhammad Sohail Ahmed; Jenny Wang-Chavez

Coalition. Free access to Greenfield’s courses and resources is extremely beneficial tothose engineering programs that are not equipped with adequate facilities to offer students hands-on experience.For more information about Greenfield Coalition courses, visit the website athttp://www.greenfield-coalition.org.Bibliography 1. Albanese, M., and Mitchell, S. (1993). Problem-Based Learning. Academic Medicine 68, pp.52-81. 2. Bonk, C. J., and Cunningham, D. J. (1998). In Electronic Collaborators: Learner-Centered Technologies for Literacy, Apprenticeship, and Discourse C. J. Bonk, K. S. King, Eds. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 25-50. 3. Duffy, T. F. J. and Jonassen, D. H. (1992). Constructivism

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Construction Engineering Advances II

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Zeena Pinto; Richard Burt

depth of surface opening cracks, and to determine theProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationdynamic modulus of concrete. During 1970’s considerable attention was given to gaining further knowledge in this field.Researchers continued to explore the relationship between compressive strength and pulsevelocity. However, there was no such valid relationship found. Studies showed that type and thequantity of aggregate had major effects on the pulse velocity but not on the combined strength ofconcrete. All the above-mentioned methods formed the basis for new-age tools for nondestructivetesting of concrete. The fields of

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Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

Session 3413 Program Improvements Resulting from Completion of One ABET 2000 Assessment Cycle S. L. Simon,1 T. F. Wiesner,1 and L. R. Heinze2 1 Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University 2 Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, Texas Tech UniversityIntroductionWith the advent of ABET 2000, self-assessment of engineering programs has become important.To this end, it is essential to define the assessment methods and metrics against which a programwill be judged. Various assessment tools exist

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Experienced-Based Instruction

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Ronald Meade

. EBI was placed in eachcourse to support the teaching of important course objectives. Three types of EBI, introductory,content, and summary EBI were described and illustrated. The specific EBI tool for eachoccasion was chosen by considering the readiness of the student to formulate and considersignificant questions regarding the course material. No formal procedure is suggested todetermine choice of the tool but the instructor should consider the type of student questions thathe would like to prompt from the EBI.Bibliography1. Bloom Benjamin S. and David R. Krathwohl. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification ofEducational Goals, by a committee of college and university examiners. Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. New York,Longmans

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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John Schmalzel; Jennifer Kadlowec; Anthony Marchese; Shreekanth Mandayam; Stephanie Farrell

between different 0.5portions of the wave, as well 0as the ratio of amplitudes of 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50different portions of the wave -0.5 Tim e (s)will be made. Students willobserve differences in ECGoutputs with increased or Figure 1. Electrocardiograph. Heart rate can bedecreased signal sampling determined by counting the number of cycles per minute.rates, and differences inresting versus exercise ECGoutput. A typical ECG is shown in Figure 1.Module #6: Work and Power This module provides an introduction to the calculation of work, power, and efficiencythrough measurement of light weightlifting

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Graduate Student Experiences

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

is not what they expected 9 and that there is a need for providing more training to engineering graduate students who are assigned teaching duties10. These issues can be effectively addressed in the PFF teaching seminars.• Student diversity. While most undergraduates in engineering programs are domestic students, many Ph.D. students are foreign nationals. For example, in 2000 7.9% of B.S. in Engineering degrees and 49.9% of Ph.D.'s in Engineering were awarded to foreign nationals; in 2001 these percentages were 7.4% and 45% respectively11. Thus in the engineering field it is especially valuable to have a forum for discussing cultural differences and respect for diversity. The quarter-long seminar on Effective Classroom

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

codeISRoutine: cmp [ctrlcount1], '9' je Count10s ; jumps to increment 10's spot inc [ctrlcount1] ; increments ctrlcount1 by 1 iretCount10s: mov [ctrlcount1], '0' ; resets ctrlcount1 back to 0 inc [ctrlcount2] ; increments ctrlcount2 by 1 iret;----------------------------------------------------------; Displays prompt, waits for character input; Goes to first of new line, outputs character that was inputStart: call GetChar ; calls routine to accept input character

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Using Web-Based Engineering Information

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Nicole Clark; David Radcliffe

-connected databases and dynamic Web sites (collectively known as the “deep” Web), there areover 550 billion web-connected documents, of which 95% are publicly accessible. These sites arenot widely known among average surfers, even though the information available is 400 to 550times larger than the information on the “surface” 4. In addition, 7.3 million pages are addedevery day to the total Web.Subject Gateways: Evolution and AdaptationThe first generations of subject gateways were an evolutionary or adaptive response to what wasperceived in the mid 1990’s as the growing dysfunction or anarchy of the Web. One commentatorwriting at the time termed the Web a “chaotic repository for the collective output of the world’sdigital printing presses

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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Fazil Najafi; Nick Safai

. services, Busines s workshops for all funding th at avoids • Provide active services acquaint colleges within the excessive and participation of students with IHE to bring them redundan t costs. faculty in th e units. graduat e school together for• Recruit, develop and • Introduce graduate services, Thesis & presenting their retain high quality students in the Dissertations/ strategic plan to meet minority graduate academic life of the Editorials, program

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Harold Hultman

individual labsrepresentative of potential design challenges (with scope and complexity commensurate with thestudents’ current level). It was deemed essential to introduce the students to this "real world"engineering experience as early in their academic career as their capability allowed as an "careerinterest grabber". A second objective of this approach was to "encourage" the students to callupon a broad range of previous course(s) experience(s) to successfully complete each weeklydesign challenge. The final objective of the course was to maximize the opportunity for thestudents to have an early "hands on" experience with actual industry-standard components,equipment and software.The curriculum offering sequence of the lab course follows the

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Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

Engineering Education, Biloxi,Mississippi, November 6-9, 1999.8. Cumberland, R. R. (2001). The foundation of a progressive engineering graphics curriculum: A directed projectreport. Unpublished masters thesis, Purdue University, West Lafayette.9. Sorby, S. A. (1999). Developing 3-D spatial visualization skills. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 63 (2), 21-32.10. Sorby. S. A. (2000). Spatial abilities and their relationship to effective learning of 3-D solid modeling software.Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 64 (3), 30-35.11. Ref. 8.THEODORE J. BRANOFFTed Branoff is an assistant professor of Graphic Communications at North Carolina State University and has been anASEE member since 1986. He has taught courses in introductory engineering graphics

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John Pearce

cleverly designedto hide the identity of the culprit from even the host(s) of the game, and each character is fullysketched with both overt and covert motivations.The classroom role-playing problem is designed to approach a hypothetical situation from atleast three separate and often contradictory (or at least potentially adversarial) points of view.The class was divided into instructor-selected groups and individuals were assigned roles withinthe groups. Each group was provided with common information about their collective situation.Individual students were given specific information which they should reveal, about themselvesand others, and information about themselves which they do not want to be generally known.Clues designed to lead the

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Robert Floersheim; Stephen Ressler; Margaret Bailey

for Engineering Education.” Journal of Engineering Education. 87.4 (October 1998):355-361.6 “Best undergraduate engineering schools without Ph.D. programs.” US News On-Line. 2000.http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/cat13wo.htm. (28 July 2000).7 USMA Office of the Dean, Educating Army Leaders for the 21st Century, US Military Academy. WestPoint: DOIM, 1998.8 Forsythe, George and Bruce Keith. “Curriculum Design and Academic Assessment: The EngineeringThought Process.” Best Assessment Processes in Engineering Education: A Working Symposium. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Indiana: 1998.9 Ressler, S. J. “AY98-99 Civil Engineering Program Assessment.” (1 November 1999).10 Ressler, S.J. and T.A. Lenox, “The Time Survey: A

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Robin Burt; Krishna Athreya; K-Y. Daisy Fan

Session 2793 The CURIE River Basin: Introduction to Engineering in a Social Context K-Y. Daisy Fan, Krishna S. Athreya, Robin J. Burt School of Civil & Environmental Engineering/ Women’s Programs in Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New YorkAbstractThe Elements: 40 academically gifted high school girls; a nationally recognized engineeringcollege, seven days.The Task: Create a sense of excitement about and an awareness of the limitless possibilities inengineering.Cornell’s Strategy: The CURIE Academy, a week-long, residential summer