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New Learning Paradigms II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chandra Austin, Utah State University

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Educational Research and Methods

students: Are there urban/suburban differences? Journal of Career Assessment, 1999. 7(3): p. 227-237.27. Hollingshead, A.B. Four factor index of social status. 1975; Available from: http://www.yale.edu/sociology/faculty/.28. Rubin, D.B., Inference and Missing data. Biometrika, 1976. 63(3): p. 581-592.29. Batista, G. and M. Monard, An analysis of four missing data treatment methods for supervised learning. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2003. 17(5/6): p. 519-533.30. Betz, N.E. and K.M. Taylor, Manual for the career decision self-efficacy scale and CDSE-short form. 2006.31. Crites, J.O., Career maturity inventory. 1 ed. 1978, Monterey, CA: CTB/McGraw-Hill.32. Taylor, K.M. and J. Pompa, An examination of the

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University; Alice Pawley, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

have significance. Itdepicts her as a passive actor whose fate is determined by an outsider with the power to open ornot open doors at junctures along the career path. These “doors” also represent critical junctures Page 15.882.7along women’s career pathways. A shut or open door changes the direction or course of one’scareer path.Another participant explained that while in graduate school she had one mentor who “facilitated”her career goals and mentor who “obstructed” her career goals. The student is a passive actorcontrolled by faculty who influence and direct her through graduate school. Unlike therandomness of doors opening or closing for

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Measurement Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dina Banerjee, Purdue University; Alice Pawley, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-839: INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY: A RESEARCH METHOD TOINVESTIGATE THE WORK-LIFE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN FACULTYMEMBERS IN STEM DISCIPLINESDina Banerjee, Purdue University Dina Banerjee is a post-doctoral researcher in the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group. Her primary responsibility is the study of the career-related experiences of the women and minority faculty members of the STEM disciplines of Purdue University. She graduated with her PhD from Purdue University in May, 2009. After her admission in Purdue University in 2002, she graduated with her third Masters with sociology major in 2004. Her areas of specialization are gender, work and occupation; development and social change

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Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samantha Brunhaver, Stanford University; Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Micah Lande, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-118: SUPPORTS AND BARRIERS THAT RECENT ENGINEERINGGRADUATES EXPERIENCE IN THE WORKPLACESamantha Brunhaver, Stanford University Samantha Brunhaver is a second year graduate student at Stanford University. She is currently working on her Masters in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include engineering education and design for manufacturing. She earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University in 2008.Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Russell Korte is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a Fellow with the iFoundry project in the College of Engineering at

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erika Murguia, Arizona State University; Erin Kube, Arizona State University; Jennifer Bekki, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Bianca Bernstein, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

. Page 15.263.914. Fortenberry, N.L., Sullivan, J.F., Jordan, P.N., Knight, D.W. (2007). Retention: Engineering education Research aids instruction. Science, 317(5842), 1175-1176.15. Rhoten, D., Pfirman, S. (2006) Women in interdisciplinary science: exploring preferences and consequences. Research Policy, 36, 56-75. Page 15.263.10Appendix ACareerWISE: An Interdisciplinary Experience for Graduate StudentsQuestions for Team Members The following questions will be used to help us better understand the experiences of students and faculty members who work on a large, interdisciplinary research team. Please respond to the

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Faculty Development for Distance Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Continuing Professional Development

little or no accountability or decision reached on the success or failure of "service" activities. ≠ Accountability would have to be performance and output based. The outputs would include items such as: publications in archival journals, generation of trademarks, patents, and/or copyrights, invited presentations to discipline-specific industry/trade conferences, and generation of funded activities, including scholarships, tuition remission programs, faculty buy-out, equipment purchases, maintenance offsets, and related issues. ≠ Again I think for research and scholarship efforts it requires funding, publications, and graduate student production, where those students have also published their work

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Chris Groscurth, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

program for an average of 2.8semesters. All participants were born at the end of Generation X (1961-1981)1 or at thebeginning of the Millennial Generation (1982-2002)1. Their average age was 27 years old.Because of this, they may share characteristics commonly associated with one or bothgenerations.In comparison to the population of graduate student instructors in the College of Engineering, theEGSMs in our study have taught for more semesters on average and are more likely to expressinterest in a tenure or tenure-track faculty career (Table 1). Moreover, EGSMs are as likely toexpress interest in pursuing a career in industry. Survey respondents were allowed to choosemore than one potential career path (Table 1). Table 1. Comparison of

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Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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College-Industry Partnerships

, internships are really the only way to make sureyou get on the career track of your choosing.” 1Engineering programs and the hosting industries also benefit in many ways. “Theprograms possess several advantages and provide benefits to all stakeholders.” 2 TheInternship program is a perfect vehicle to network into many different types of businessesand industries. This working relationship often results in program benefits such as state-of-the-art equipment donations, sources of student scholarships, recruiting tool for currentindustrial employees wishing to upgrade their skill set, a job placement highway forgraduates, faculty industrial sabbaticals, advisory board members, and an excellentvehicle for some great community public relations.Internships

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Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiffany Simon, Columbia University

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Minorities in Engineering

, blackadministrators, or professionals that worked with the student in an undergraduate research orinternship program were credited with encouraging informants to pursue the doctoral degree. Forexample, Lance identified two faculty members who encouraged him to continue his educationbeyond the baccalaureate. Lance said, …Dr. [Dixon], she’s the first African American woman to get a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from [graduate school]…she was one of my teachers at [undergraduate school] and she encouraged me to go onto graduate school. The other would be another professor of mine, Dr. [Campbell] … who actually was instrumental in me going to the [graduate school] where I eventually ended up going. Parents were also

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University; Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University

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Aerospace

Education. He has numerous journal and conference proceeding publications in the aforementioned areas, and was the winner of the ASEE Mechanics Division Best paper Award in 2006. He has an extensive experience in Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems (HVAC) design. Dr. Al-Masoud is very active in many Professional Societies. He serves on the Board of Directors of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Hartford Section; he is also the Faculty advisor of CCSU-ASME Student section. He is a member of the American Institute of Astronauts and Astronautics (AIAA), IEEE, ASEE.Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Viatcheslav Naoumov – Ph.D., Dr.Sc

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Focus on Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Katie Corner, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amber Shoals, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cindy Cabrales, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Women in Engineering

students in my classes 4.97 1.37share my same personal interests.I can relate to the people around 5.31 1.48me in my extra-curricularactivities.Table 2: AWE Exclusion and Isolation Ratings for Women in EngineeringThe only concern with respect to self-efficacy is for the item, “I can succeed in an engineeringcurriculum while not giving up participation in my outside interests (e.g. extracurricularactivities, family, sports),” where women rated their self-efficacy markedly lower than otheritems with only 40% of respondents agreeing or strongly agreeing with the item. These findingspoint out the challenges faced, even by high performing women, of maintaining a life

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Holsapple, University of Michigan; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Janel Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Kelley Walczak, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University

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Educational Research and Methods

, enrollment prediction, modeling responses to institutional financial aid, and developing an integrated model of student persistence within Carnegie Mellon's six undergraduate colleges. She is currently a member of ASEE, the Association for Institutional Research, and the Association for the Study of Higher Education.Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan Cynthia Finelli, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Research and Learning North at U-M. In addition, she actively pursues research in engineering education and assists other faculty in their scholarly projects. She also is past Chair of the Educational Research and Methods Division of ASEE and guest co-editor for a special issue of the

Conference Session

Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Renee Baker, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Minorities in Engineering

opportunities when qualified candidates are found ≠ Serve as a bridge in the transition from graduate student to faculty member ≠ Assist in preparing future faculty for a career at the university.Future Faculty Career Exploration Program StructureSince the program’s conception in 2003, a certain procedure has taken place to execute thenecessary planning and preparation of each year’s program. These procedures are set in stagesthat stretch throughout the entire year, beginning at the end of the current year’s program. Table1 provides a breakdown of these stages. FFCEP Highlights (Table 1) PHASE STEP ACTION Recruitment of applicants: Advertising

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for New Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology; Scott Anson, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mario Castro-Cedeno, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Christopher Greene, University of Alabama; Carol Romanowski, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Slifka, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Larry Villasmil, Rochester Institute of Technology; James Lee, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

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New Engineering Educators

will discuss what drove the need to form UFAST and the practicaladvice which has been developed by the UFAST team. This paper will also provide an accountof individual experiences in developing scholarship agendas as new faculty. The authorsconclude with the advice that operating as a collegial and collaborative scholarship team,especially one whose members’ existence depends on the team’s success, allows the untenuredfaculty members to quickly share, support, and achieve individual scholarship success.IntroductionBeginning a new career as a faculty member in higher education has many challenges, amongthese is developing new course material, completing your service goals, attracting andsupervising student assistants, and developing your

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alisa Clyne, Drexel University

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New Engineering Educators

compensate for weaknesses in style, with the end goal of creatingmore productive and fun classrooms and workplaces. An additional faculty-only sessionaddressed cross-cultural mentoring to assist female faculty in finding and being effective mentorsto men, women, and minorities. Alternative workshops were created for graduate students only.These included a panel discussion on Research Careers in Industry, a research writing workshop,as well as a series on how to apply and interview for academic positions.However, the majority of workshops were available to both faculty and graduate students. Overthe past two years, the WERN group members learned about negotiation, time management,impression of women in leadership roles, and work/life balance from

Conference Session

Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten Hochstedt, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

denoted they teach graduatestudents (15.4%), or both graduate and undergraduate students (19.2%). The faculty membersinterviewed identified a range of roles including full professor (15.4%), associate professor(11.5%), assistant professor (7.7%), instructor (19.2%), lecturer (23.1%), and faculty (7.7%).Approximately 81% of the faculty members interviewed had worked for a small start-upcompany and 53.8% had worked in an “innovation” segment of a large company. A little over athird of those interviewed held patents. When asked if they have any close relatives (i.e.,parents, siblings, etc.) who are entrepreneurs, more than two thirds of the faculty membersinterviewed responded that they did. The most frequent family member listed was father (19

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Shauna A. Morimoto; Anna M. Zajicek; Valerie H. Hunt; Joseph J. Rencis

. students in sciences face a higher degree of isolation and morebarriers to integration into departmental cultures, faculty members play an especially importantrole in shaping the experiences of female students. Herzig’s13 examination of the experiences ofgraduate women in mathematics is instructive on these issues. Herzig13 notes that students whoare more integrated into the academic and social communities of their departments are morelikely to persist in graduate school. Faculty play an important role as mentors and as agents ofsocialization for graduate students; moreover, negative interactions with faculty have pervasiveeffects on women in science.  Women described their limited or negative relationships withfaculty, including: feeling

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs & Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michele Strutz, Purdue University; Matthew Ohland, Purdue University; Erin Bowen, Purdue University; Eric Mann, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, integrating engineering conceptsand engineering college education and career options into the K-6 curriculum are a necessarychange.One way to determine if engineering is a good fit is for a student to use a self-assessmentinstrument. A self-assessment tool helps an individual discover more about him/her self55. Inmaking career choices, an assessment of one’s skills, interests, personality, and values influencescareer decisions9. Exploration of the literature reveals that an instrument for self-assessment ofyoung engineering talent, interest, and fit does not exist.The purpose of this research is to create an instrument to help fifth and sixth grade studentsidentify themselves as having engineering interest and potential. The purpose of this

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

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International

, skills,attitudes, norms, and knowledge needed for membership in a professional community; in thecase of engineering, as a professional researcher or faculty member 26-32. In the case ofinternational students, socialization may also encompass an understanding of the socialexpectations and cultural norms of the host country. Socialization plays an important role in thegraduate school experience, and when unsuccessful, may contribute to the decision to depart thedegree program. Where graduate student socialization differs from professional socialization isin the requirement that graduate students become socialized not only to the graduate schoolenvironment, but to the professional role as well 33. Issues relating to graduate studentsocialization

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brenda Hart, University of Louisville; Fashaad Crawford, University of Louisville; Katheryn McAnulty, University of Louisville

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Minorities in Engineering

enrollmentfor fall 2007 was 1,293 students and only 218 were female (16.86%). Overall enrollmentof female students at the Speed School has averaged 18 percent since 2006 and finallyrose to 20 percent for fall 2009. National statistics reflect the same patterns.For more than 20 years the Speed School has had an active chapter of the Society ofWomen Engineers (SWE) with the Director of Student Affairs serving as its long termfaculty advisor. Various programs have been conducted to introduce young women andother under-represented minorities (URMs) to careers in engineering with varied amountsof success. In 2005, the president of the SWE chapter approached the faculty advisorwith a new idea – the notion of inviting incoming female students to an

Conference Session

ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Grant, North Carolina State University; Jessica Decuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University; Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University

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Women in Engineering

) had so few opportunities in their professional careers totalk and network with other minority women scientists and engineers” (Nelson & Rogers, 2005).Cross boundary mentoring. Anecdotal information suggests that most underrepresented minoritywomen in this group were not mentored by a person that “looks like” them (i.e., of the samegender and race). An article by Stanley and Lincoln (2005) found that junior and senior facultyand administrators alike were often not sure how to foster effective mentoring relationships. Theauthors stated that this was particularly true when faculty of color were recruited topredominantly white colleges and universities (Stanley and Lincoln, 2005). These same peoplewere perplexed as to how to proceed due to

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Atchison, Drexel University; Dorothea Holmes-Stanley, St. Cyprian's School; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

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Educational Research and Methods

Head in the Drexel University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and an Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Co-Director of the A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, an affiliated member of the Materials Engineering Department, a member of the Center for Educational Research, and his research focuses on the area of nanophotonics. He is the recipient of a NASA New Investigator Award, the Drexel Graduate Student Association Outstanding Mentor Award, the Drexel University ECE Outstanding Research Achievement Award and the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize. In 2003, he received a NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship to research NEMS/MEMS adaptive optics in

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Olaleye, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Emmanuel Abiodun, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Joseph Olusina, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Francis Derby, Pennsylvania State University-Lehman

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International

Surveying and Geoinformatics at the University of Lagos. Mr. Abiodun emerged as the best graduating student in the Department of Surveying, Federal Polytechnic, Idah in 1994 and the best graduating M.Sc. student, Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, University of Lagos in 2004. He has many papers to his credit both local and international. He is a member of many professional organizations in Nigeria. He is married with children.Joseph Olusina, University of Lagos, Nigeria Dr. J. O. Olusina is a Senior Lecturer and the current Head of Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, University of Lagos. He obtained his Ordinary National Diploma in Surveying in 1984 and

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen Facciol, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Jason Foster, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

. Engineering graduates are expected to contributeeffectively as members of multidisciplinary engineering design teams. Enabling this successrequires that engineering design educators develop an understanding of the diverse disciplinaryperspectives on engineering design and of the evolving perspectives of their students.This paper first describes the disciplinary perspectives that emerged as a result of somepreliminary research on engineering design education, and then describes the development of aninstrument for evaluating individual understandings of engineering design. Disciplinaryperspectives were explored through interviewing the instructors of four capstone design coursesin different engineering disciplines within a large engineering Faculty

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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Educational Research and Methods

attempted to measureglobal citizenry. This group developed an instrument to test the constructs associated with globalcitizenry for students preparing for diverse professions. Through review of this instrument, it wasposited that perhaps global preparedness was domain (or career trajectory) specific. Accordingly,this researcher set out to utilize some of the constructs associated with the generic globalcitizenry instrument that she had co-designed and tested, to design a domain specific globalpreparedness instrument. As previously described, two fields (domains), which often requiredglobal foci were of primary interest: engineering and business. Global preparedness in these twodomains or fields is compared in this paper. Accordingly, the primary

Conference Session

Classroom Engagement

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Parikh, Stanford University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Kenneth Goodson, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

?” Answering this question wouldallow educators to make more informed decisions about how to encourage learning.There is an extensive history of pedagogical research on student engagement, much of which hasmade progress on defining the concept of engagement. There are many different aspects ofstudent engagement in university courses as engagement stands at the crossroads of interest,involvement, excitement, choice, attitude, behavior, and opportunity. Pace used the term qualityof effort and, in his view, “quality of effort describes voluntary behavior. It reflects initiative. Itdescribes the strength and the scope of personal investment that students are making for theirown higher education.”[3] Astin used the term involvement and considered the

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin Micomonaco, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

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Educational Research and Methods

extracurricular activities, informal conversations inthe residence hall and social events.20 These types of activities combine to cultivate membership in a community for thestudent.21 The degree of integration in the community impacts the student’s commitment torelated goals and persistence in that domain. For example, students who participate inengineering-related events outside of class are more likely to feel connected to the community ofengineers and see more value in persisting to degree completion. In addition to the structuralobstacles of curriculum and pedagogy, Seymour and Hewitt noted that a lack of identificationwith STEM careers was an additional factor influencing students’ decisions to leave thediscipline.22 This is an element that

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Valerie Young, Ohio University-Athens

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Chemical Engineering

Page 15.1118.7open the question of whether non-participants did not hear from their peers about the EFLCs, orwhether they were uninfluenced by what they heard.The general agreement between the electronic survey results and the EFLC course evaluationresults lends confidence to some tentative analysis of the remaining electronic survey data, inspite of the low response rate.Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) at Ohio University denotes an optional, limited-enrollment, 1-credit class associated with a regular course. PLTL sections are led by upperclass students whohave succeeded in the course, with an experienced faculty member coordinating sections,training peer leaders, and providing study exercises. Questions on the electronic survey coveredPLTL

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

ranks are solely based on voluntary student reports.  http://www.studentsreview.com/• Forbes publishes America's Best Colleges based on variables such as student satisfaction, post-graduate employment success, the likelihood of graduation from college within four years, the estimated average four-year student loan debt, student and faculty success in winning national and international awards. They refer to both affordability and productivity criteria.  http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/94/colleges-09_Americas-Best-Colleges_Rank.html• The Global Universities Ranking seems to be a newly emerging and rudimentary attempt at ranking based on self-reported data. It does, however seek to include information from Russia, CIS and Baltic country

Conference Session

Retaining Women Engineering Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Suzanne Brainard, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Women Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington. Suzanne’s research has focused on issues of recruitment, retention and advancement of women of all ethnicities in engineering, science and the workforce.Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler is the Director for Research at the University of Washington (UW) Center for Workforce Development (CWD) and a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the UW. Her research interests include the educational climate for undergraduate and graduate students, gender stratification in education and the workforce, and gender and families. Liz is the research