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A panel presentation on the state and progress of engineering workforce development in San Diego County. Like many other high-tech communities in the U.S., the San Diego County area faces a challenge in attracting an engineering/technology-trained workforce. A coalition of local industry and schools has formed to address this problem by promoting and supporting a pre-engineering program for middle...
As a group, we will explore issues related to the fact that engineering and computer science is still very much a male dominated profession. We will explore these issues through a process of reflection and challenge. An interactive format will be utilized with attendees assigned to smaller discussion groups each led by a facilitator. Facilitators will be both female and male. A series of open-ended...
What role do department chairs and deans play in ensuring faculty diversity? This panel presents strategies developed in several contexts including those that were the focus of a year-long collaborative project on increasing the diversity of engineering faculty. While there are many guides to diversity, quite often these guides are prescriptions written by diversity consultants and rarely by academics...
To provide a framework for discussing the future of the Frontiers in Education (FIE) conference while recognizing the contributions of a diverse group of participants with different interests and needs, the FIE06 organizers added a category section for submissions to FIE06. These included scholarly teaching, scholarship of teaching and learning, engineering education research, and other. The categories...
Since all NSF proposals are evaluated using the intellectual merit and broader impacts criteria, applicants need to address these in a convincing way to make their proposal competitive. The goal of this interactive workshop is to increase the participant's ability to design projects and write proposals that respond effectively to these two criteria. The workshop consists of a series of small group...
The purpose of the workshop is to introduce faculty to the advanced pedagogical features provided by jGRASP for teaching and learning Java, especially for first year students. This includes the traditional CS1 (introduction to programming) and CS2 (introduction to data structures and algorithms). jGRASP is a freely available lightweight integrated development environment (http://jgrasp.org) that provides...
This interactive hands-on workshop demonstrates the use of 50-minute mini-labs to replace lectures in courses where such substitutions are appropriate. To illustrate the approach, mini-labs for a mechanical measurements course are used, but the purpose of the workshop is to give participants an experience they can adapt to courses in their own disciplines. Workshop attendees perform all activities...
Participants in this workshop will learn how to use Lab VIEW to teach digital signal processing concepts. LabVIEW is a graphical-based programming language. This is a hands on BYOC (bring your own computer) workshop. Exercises are based on the text Signal Processing First
Summary form only given. The goal of this panel session is to share the firsthand experiences of African American women faculty in engineering. It will facilitate a dialogue between African American women faculty and other faculty and administrators on the challenges they face as members of the academy. The dialogue will also discuss how these challenges might be addressed as future African American...
In the commercial world, there are cycles of innovation. New products are developed, marketed, improved, and most eventually die. Products succeed by meeting customer needs and desires, and customers often decide to purchase based on marketing and advertising. Customer satisfaction depends on performance, value, novelty, and quality. Inferior products die quickly in the competitive marketplace, and...
This panel presents evidence from the Engineering Change study, indicating that implementation of the EC2000 learning criteria has had a positive impact on engineering programs and student learning. Compared to their 1994 counterparts, 2004 graduates report higher ability levels on nine measures of learning. Outcomes are linked to changes in program curricula, instruction, faculty culture, administrative...
This proposed special session will include "in their own words", a short video that reflects information gathered in interviews with 24 engineering students and draws on qualitative data to explore themes from transcripts of these student interviews. The video and following analysis of the issues and possible solutions have proved to be powerful learning resources. In addition, two or three...
The microprocessor course has been a keystone course in electrical and computer engineering curricula for decades now. Historically, commercial off-the-shelf processors such as the microchip PIC and Motorola 68HC12 have been used in this course. Following the migration from discrete components to programmable logic devices in introductory digital design courses we expect to see a similar, yet more...
Engineering education has been a focus of interest in the national and international engineering community as seen by the increasing number of universities (i.e. Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University, Tufts University, Utah State University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) that house programs that confer engineering education degrees. Despite the...
Computer trustworthiness continues to increase in importance as a pressing scientific, economic, and social problem. In today's environment, there is heightened awareness of the threat of well-funded professional cyber hackers and the potential for nation-state sponsored cyber warfare. An accelerating trend of the last decade has been the growing integration role of computing and communication in...
In the first workshop held at FIE 2005, we identified the elements of an engineering education that would promote social justice. After an identification of these elements, participants were challenged to identify how well their particular institution aligned with these components. The Ideal Final Result from TRIZ, a problem identification technique, was used to identify the fundamentals in a highly...
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