Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder

Janet L. Yowell College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractMany students who graduate high school are not prepared with the educational tools tosuccessfully pursue an engineering degree. Graduation from engineering colleges has declinedsignificantly from its peak in 1988, reflecting a national malaise in interest in the engineeringprofession by today’s youth. By fostering in high school students the skills and knowledge tomore fully understand the opportunities a career in engineering affords them, we hope to increasethe number of interested and prepared students who enter engineering colleges.Working with ninth-grade students at the new Denver

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions - Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Willis, Southern Methodist University; Paul Krueger, Southern Methodist University; Alice Kendrick, Southern Methodist University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

is a recipient of the Rolf D. Buhler Memorial Award in Aeronautics and the Richard Bruce Chapman Memorial Award for distinguished research in Hydrodynamics. In 2004 he received the Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation and in 2009 he received the ASME North Texas Section Young Engineer of the Year award. His research interests are unsteady hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, vortex dynamics, bio-fluid mechanics, and pulsed-jet propulsion.Alice Kendrick, Southern Methodist University Alice Kendrick is professor of advertising in the Temerlin Advertising Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Her research in advertising account

Conference Session

Engaging Minority Pre-College and Transfer Students in Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daryl Bryant Stone, Bowie State University; Quincy Brown, Bowie State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

middle and high school students to the breadth ofareas within computer science. Through this program, we aim to dispel the myth that computer science isfocused only on programming. Students experience, first hand, the variety of activities and career pathswithin the discipline. Through exposure to multiple topics, we provide participants with an opportunityto discover the aspects of computing that is of most interest to them. The goals of the summer camp areto: Expose students to the breadth topics within computer science Provide a low-cost summer program Expose students to role models who “look like them”(The program is open to all, but targets underrepresented members of Computer Science arena) Provide students with technical

Conference Session

Enhancing the Underrepresented Student Experience

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari L. Jordan, Ohio State University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Underrepresented Engineering StudentsIntroduction A degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) allows studentsan open door to every major successful career opportunity known to man (15). Students majoringin STEM during their undergraduate tenure go on to pursue graduate school, medical school, lawschool, work for Fortune 500 companies and the government. Additionally, careers in STEM areproving especially profitable for high achieving underrepresented minority students according toan article in Research in Higher Education (17). Among the Gates Millennium Scholars sampled,scholars majoring in STEM fields earned starting salaries between $8,000 and $17,000 more peryear compared with those majoring in the Social Sciences

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

PROFESSIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL MENTORING: OPENING DOORS TODEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH Adnan Javed1 & Dr. Fazil T. Najafi 2 1 Boyle Engineering/University of Florida, 2 University of FloridaAbstractMentoring is a counseling of students and young professionals/engineers byprofessors and senior licensed professionals. Mentor helps the mentee orprotégé achieve his or her career goals. In today’s modern world many privatefirms, professional institutions, and public organizations have developed andinstituted formal mentoring programs. A successful mentoring program canbecome the hallmark of an organization’s vibrancy, success, viability andrelevance. It helps to assimilate new talent into any

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Katie Sullivan

needs of the community and meet instructional objectives using action andcritical reflection to prepare students for careers and to become meaning members of a justand democratic society”. 2 The interdisciplinary aspect of the course is carefully planned out. There are 12college students in the course. Six of these students are from Chemical engineering, andthe others are from multiple disciplines such as biology, communication, geology andgeophysics. The multi-leveled nature of the course is due to the partnership of theAcademy of Math, science and Engineering (AMES) and the 12 high school students whoattend the class for college credit. AMES draws students from grades 9-12 from two different school districts. It isaligned with

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Lloyd Massengill; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

course. Since a new design instructor wasappointed for ME (DK) and the EE/CE instructor was also to change, the current andfuture instructors decided to get together in order to consider means by which interactionbetween the departments could be facilitated to the benefit of both the faculty and thestudents.The primary design effort that resulted from this effort was the initiation of a seniordesign seminari. The catalog description for the course was posed as: “Elements ofProfessional Engineering Practice. Professionalism, licensing, ethics and ethical issues,intellectual property, contracts, liability, risk, reliability and safety, interdisciplinaryteams and team tools, the role of codes, standards and professional organizations, career

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Dunn; John Brauer

executive.Advanced Topics in Integrated Engineering & Business builds on the foundation created in the“Fundamentals” course to build an understanding of the interrelationships of corporate functions.The course also develops the student’s personal skills beneficial to career success. Topicsstudied include a team based internet competitive business simulation CAPSTONE ManagementSimulation, effective business presentations, building business cases, emotional intelligencecompetencies and intellectual property. The course concludes with student presentations oncontemporary business topics of globalization, outsourcing, leadership, and successful businessmodels. A field trip to a company site is also included in the advanced course.The curriculum was

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Westrom

scientists to ensure that students will beentering the “Engineering pipeline” for future generations. The lack of motivating experienceand hands-on projects in the early K-12 grades in the American public school system turnsstudents away from careers in engineering. The paper presents a national award winning, after-school program where students 4th grade through high school become engineers and scientists,by building robots, bridges, boats, cars, airplanes, towers and scores of other hands-on projects.The Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA) curriculum consists of over 50 hands-onprojects. Engineers, companies, universities and communities, team with teachers and schools tomotivate and excite students with hands-on science, mathematics

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

for reference, and provide these tonew faculty upon their arrival. Rick Reis’s book [16] does a terrific job at introducingthe university, preparation for an academic career, finding a suitable academic position,and how to successfully jumpstart your academic career. Additionally, there are somevery good appendices with information on what to ask before accepting an academic job,and some helpful hints on successful proposal writing. There is some variation in whatmaterial is discussed based on the new faculty member’s background and interest areas.Table 1 gives a general idea of the chapters that we discuss.Table 1: Discussion Topics for Department Head/New Faculty MeetingsSession # General Topics Reference Materials

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Goff; Elizabeth McCullough, Kansas State University; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

teachers. Over 700 teachers from schoolsalong the Interstate 4 Corridor that runs from Tampa on the west coast through Orlando toDaytona Beach on the east coast have attended the camp. The two-day camp has a basicschedule that allows for variations to fit the local community where it is offered. The intendedaudience is primarily high school mathematics, science, computer science and technology teachersand curriculum specialists. The overarching goal of the event is to provide the teacher withinformation about the electronic microchip industry from the background science, themanufacturing or fabrication processes, employee qualifications for technical staff includingtechnicians, operators, engineers, etc., and career opportunities and business

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Baumann

section,which was easily filled.New activities introduced into the classroom could be classified into three categories:informative, instructional, and support services. Informative elements included a generalengineering technology curriculum review, a welcome and membership invitation by studentleaders of the technical student organizations on campus, and a session with the Career Servicesorganization. Instructional workshops were given on required academic integrity, proper timemanagement, and the role of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in design team buildingand team dynamics. Several student support services of the university were introducedspecifically those of The Learning Center and those offered by Prevention and

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Dickson

Session 2342 The Role of Masters degrees in Technology & Business to promote CPD for Engineering Professionals B R Dickson Department of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.AbstractThere is an increasing realisation that the MBA approach to career development is not the mostrelevant form of education & training for engineers. During the mid 1990’s, the UK’sEngineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) funded over 20

Conference Session

Retention of Minority Students

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough

increasingly more critical. To address this issue,many universities, schools, and organizations have put in place programs to encourage under-represented groups to pursue technical careers. This paper will present a sampling of the manydifferent programs and approaches being directed toward this goal, concentrating on thosecurrently being funded through the National Science Foundation's education-related programs,including such programs as "Gender Equity" and "Bridges to Engineering Education." Whilethese programs address many areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) education, this paper will concentrate on exemplars of programs which are successfullyaddressing under-representation of such groups as women, the economically

Conference Session

Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Nordin; Dana DeGeeter; Jenny Golder

Session #2002-1749 Creating Engineers For the Future Dana De Geeter, Jenny E. Golder, Terri A. Nordin Iowa State University of Science and TechnologyAbstractAs the demand for engineers continues to grow it is necessary to educate young students intechnology and science related careers. This challenges educators to make engineering excitingand interesting. The following briefly details the implementation of a youth-developmentprogram that is committed to preparing the engineers of tomorrow. The non-profit organizationFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST TM

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick C. Gee

Session 2470 MEAP at IUPUI Patrick Gee Indiana University-Purdue University at IndianapolisAbstractThe Minority Engineering Advancement Program (MEAP) was established in 1976 in responseto the small number of minorities in the engineering profession. MEAP strives to circumventsome of the inhibitors that prevent minorities from selecting engineering and technology aspotential careers. MEAP enhances the recruitment and retention of minority students at thePurdue School of Engineering and Technology (PSET) at Indiana University Purdue-Universityat Indianapolis (IUPUI

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux

[2], another assessment tool used by ABE.Table 1 lists the Program Outcomes for one of the ABE accredited programs: Food ProcessEngineering (FPE). The PO list appears in all surveys typically with two 5-point Likert scalesthat ask the respondent to assess for each PO the level to which the program addresses the POand the level of career importance (or anticipated career importance) of the PO. Table 1. FPE Program Outcomes (draft). Graduates of our program will demonstrate: Basic Engineering Skills 1. an understanding of the fundamental principles of mathematics and science; 2. an understanding of food process engineering principles; 3. the ability to design and/or conduct experiments to analyze food

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gretchen Hein; Sheryl Sorby

What’s an Engineer? Teaching Teachers about Engineering Gretchen L. Hein and Sheryl A. Sorby Department of Engineering Fundamentals Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931-1295 USA PH: 906-487-1968 FAX: 906-487-1620 e-mail: glhein@mtu.edu, sheryl@mtu.eduAbstractMany K-12 teachers do not know what an engineer does or what the different engineeringdisciplines are. Consequently, they are unsure of how to encourage their students to exploreengineering as a career. To address this issue, a three day workshop was held during the Summerof 2001 at

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Schumack; Leo Hanifin

students’interest in engineering and motivate their studies of areas important to their preparation for college levelengineering studies. Seventy teachers completed the survey.Some of the most significant findings of the survey were: • In general, high school students in Michigan are unaware of the magnitude of the opportunity for engineering careers today and for the foreseeable future. Page 6.1005.2 • Students are unaware of the demand for engineers and current high levels of starting salaries for Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda A Thurman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William F. Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

as Director of the Industrial Solutions Lab. Ms. Thurman, a Chicago native, earned her BS in Psychology from Western Illinois Univ. and her MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Roosevelt Univ. Moving to Charlotte in 1995, Ms. Thurman continued to work in the I.T. and Engineering recruiting field and then made a career change in 1999 to work in Higher Ed. She has worked for over 10 years at UNC Charlotte, with the past 6 years holding the position of Director for Student Professional Development and Employer Relations for the William States Lee College of Engineering. In March 2010, Ms. Thurman was appointed by the governor to serve on the NC Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors as the public

Conference Session

Engineering Design in Pedagogy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca N. Macdonald, University of Alabama; Beth Todd, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

K-12education remains in the forefront of today’s society. Even with years of inclusion, engineeringremains an enigma to many pre-college students. The 2008 National Academy of Engineering’sreport, Changing the Conversation, stated the case that many Americans do not truly understandwhat engineering is.11 Even with hundreds of millions of dollars annually spent on increasingunderstanding of engineering, efforts to promote engineering have been numerous and wide-spread yet there has been minimal impact.3,12 K-12 students can readily identify with writers,doctors, scientists, and other careers from their exposure to these fields yet struggle withengineering. Despite all these efforts, research has shown that K-12 students and teacherscontinue

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah M. Brown, National Society of Black Engineers; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

in nature, so immediate answers cannot be provided, but it is the hope that withintwo to three years those students who participated in TORCH programs will begin to enroll inengineering in college.There was opportunity to determine more immediate impact of the program on the mentors andvolunteers, which is the focus of this work. As most of the volunteers are college students inengineering at the time of becoming a mentor and influence on their goals could be moreimmediate. Initial expectations were that some mentors would begin to consider STEMeducation careers, may be more motivated in their own coursework by having a mentee, andpromote a greater sense of social responsibility for engineering students.Current Status and Research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pratibha Varma-Nelson, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Terri Tarr, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

training andunderstanding of appropriate teaching techniques that can foster learning.2. Engineering faculty insights into planning professional development programsEngineering “traditions” in the classroom may result in resistance to change and thus pose achallenge in planning professional development programs for this faculty group. Nevertheless,faculty in engineering disciplines have a sense of content issues that may be problematic forstudents, as well as the strategies that work effectively or don’t work for them in the classroom .Thus, there is a need to deliberately engage faculty at various levels of their career to help in theplanning of professional development programs targeted to needs at various points of a careerlifecycle

Conference Session

Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and 17 years of academic experience as a professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor. Foroudastan’s academic experience includes teaching at Tennessee Technological University and Middle Tennessee State University in the areas of civil engineering, me- chanical engineering, and engineering technology. He has actively advised undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, and minority students in academics and career guidance. Foroudastan has also served as Faculty Advisor for SAE, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Pre-engineering, ASME, Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP), and Tau Alpha Pi Honors Society. In addition to Foroudastan’s teaching experi- ence, he also has performed extensive research and

Conference Session

Ethics Education, Global Health, and Outreach in BME

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Rust, Western New England University; Steven G. Northrup, Western New England University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, healthcare workers, andpatients. In order to assess the impact of the new course on student interest and attitudes towardglobal health, a set of pre- and post-course surveys were developed and administered. Theresults from the surveys showed increased student-reported knowledge regarding global healthissues after completing the course. The students also reported an increased level of interest inpursuing further studies and careers in the area of global health, as well as a desire to becomemore proficient in a foreign language.IntroductionThe development of solutions to healthcare problems facing the global community is ofsignificant interest to biomedical engineers working in both academia and industry. Thesesolutions often require technologies to

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol E. Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stefi Alison Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

EFFORT@RIT project identified the following major barriers to the recruitmentand advancement of women STEM faculty at RIT; career navigation, climate, andflexibility/options for managing the work/life balance. To quote from Paper I [1]: “Issues related to career navigation could be caused by women’s self-agency and negotiation skills, coupled with a lack of “sponsorship” from more seasoned faculty and/or administration, hinder the success of female faculty in obtaining more advantageous starting packages, assignments, compensation, and promotion. Climate issues are exacerbated by women’s view of the workplace in personal terms, as opposed to a more male process-oriented view, meaning that issues of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi-Zun Wang; Mohammad Saifi

skills.Student learning and retention, particularly for the freshman year, are the priorities of ourprogram. Our goal is to help freshman engineering students understand engineering profession,select their major, learn creative thinking and the engineering design process, prepare for theupper level courses, and enhance their engineering and computer skills. Our strategies andmethods follow.StrategiesSetting GoalsWe help students set one-year academic goals, four-year academic goals, and career goals alongwith the process of learning. Students realize that engineering is a challenge and a rewardingcareer; it is a lifetime learning process. In order to reach their goals, they should make a plan ateach stage of learning. We have one-to-one meetings with

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

David M. Woodall

, rather than process oriented, and thesechanges respond to industry concerns about the purpose and value of accreditation. The mostimportant features of the new criteria are the requirements that each program develop specificprogram objectives and establish processes for regular self assessment of the program’sperformance in achieving those objectives. This new flexibility is a welcome change for ABET,which has sometimes been accused of having a “bean-counting” mentality, rather than beingconcerned about measures of the real success of a program, such as employability of graduatesand rewarding, life-long careers for graduates.Nuclear engineering programs have an opportunity under the new ABET criteria to carefullycraft objectives which are

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J. Herrick; Dennis R. Depew

Research Opportunities Each year faculty members and graduate students conduct nearly one million dollars inapplied research projects sponsored by business and industry through the School of TechnologyCenters for Excellence. These research projects provide many opportunities for graduate studentsto work with faculty members in their respective fields of specialization. These research projectsfocus on the solution of problems in the workplace through technology transfer, education andtraining, and strategies to improve businesses’ competitiveness. Page 2.415.2The Master of Science DegreeRealizing that each student has different career goals

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Daina Briedis

rapidly developing technologies and competitive economy require the continuoustraining and education of engineers throughout their careers. Engineers need new skills andcompetencies that will help them understand and meet new work-related requirements1. As moreengineers are employed in smaller companies and the work force in down-sized, individuals musttake on a wider variety of duties. In addition, since the number of students studying engineeringis decreasing2,3, the aging work force must be kept up-to-date in order to maintain high levels ofproductivity throughout their careers. In the U.S., the responsibility for this maintenance oftechnical competence and career growth has largely been the individual’s1. ABET EngineeringCriteria 2000 (EC2000