AC 2011-1956: INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY AS A METHOD TOUNDERSTAND THE CAREER AND PARENTAL LEAVE EXPERIENCESOF STEM FACULTY MEMBERSMarisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University Marisol Mercado Santiago is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue Univer- sity, and a research assistant in the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group. She has a M. E. in Computer Engineering and a B. S. in Computer Science (with honors). Among her research interests are (1) culturally responsive education, (2) engineering studies, and (3) art and engineering education. Address: School of Engineering Education, Armstrong Hall, 701 W. Stadium Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907. mercado@purdue.edu.Alice L. Pawley
AC 2011-1244: PHENOMENOGRAPHIC STUDY OF HUMAN-CENTEREDDESIGN: EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONSCarla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette CARLA B. ZOLTOWSKI, Ph.D., is Education Administrator of the EPICS Program at Purdue Univer- sity. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue University. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette William Oakes is the Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue University, one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education and a courtesy faculty member in Mechanical Engi- neering and Curriculum
designed to provide timelyreminders of key concepts, processes, and equations that students are most likely to use in thecoming week. As previously mentioned, one of the primary purposes of the class is for teams toverify loads predictions through the manufacture and test of a test article representative of anaircraft component. Thus, one engineering lecture might be on how to undertake a materialstrade study, including calculation of strength-to-cost efficiencies and determination of the impactof various materials on the environment during manufacture or disposal; this lecture would begiven prior to the ordering of materials and manufacturing of the test article.The second activity is a communications lecture, given by the COM professor the