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Recruitment Strategies for Industrial Technology Programs
Author: O'Meara, Ron
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Enrollment Management,Technology,Employment Opportunities,Enrollment,Student Recruitment,Industrial Education,Technology Education,Careers,Academic Persistence,School Holding Power,Higher Education,Surveys

Today's competitive marketplace requires many colleges and universities to search for ways to maintain or increase their program enrollment numbers. One method is to focus on an enrollment management program with an emphasis placed on retention efforts for existing students. Although this is one important issue facing many colleges and universities, it is not the only method for maintaining or enhancing enrollment figures. The need is to focus on both retention efforts as well as the recruitment of prospective students to provide the foundation to build enrollment numbers. The interest in the field of industrial technology is evident, but it is imperative to make students aware of both industrial technology programs and career opportunities. Educators need to be proactive in recruiting students to meet society' increasing employment needs and for maintaining or strengthening their enrollment numbers and even more so ensure the quality of the students. In order to meet the challenging demands of student recruitment, industrial technology educators must leverage their recruitment strategies that specifically highlight industrial technology disciplines. The general focus of this article is to share a broad overview of several recruitment strategies that have proven effective at a regional university located in the Midwest. (Contains 2 figures.)
Is the Serpent Eating Its Tail? The Digital Divide and African Americans
Author: Horton, Jacqueline
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Access to Computers,Disadvantaged,African Americans,Community Centers,Libraries,Social Change,Motivation,Computers,Internet,Expertise

The Digital Divide is alive and well in America. What this means is the technology haves and the have-nots are continually growing further apart. Due to the pace of change in the field of computer technology, this divide widens faster in less time. Playing catch-up becomes an increasingly more difficult game to endure, with the government, public, and private sectors trying to invent ways to level the playing field. However, many of those who are left behind (Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, those with education below the high school level, single parent families, those with income less than $25,000/year) are trying to catch up themselves by accessing computers in community centers and libraries. The purpose of this study is to look at racial overtones to Internet access. It is assumed that it is important to have both computer and Internet access to compete in both school and work. By looking at how the Web is being used, ways can be suggested to make computer access easier and more convenient for African Americans, thereby increasing their interest in computer technology and information. The author provides a discussion on content and the Internet. He suggests three stages of the Digital Divide in America. The first stage is lack of computer access. The second stage is lack of access to the Internet, and the third stage is lack of expertise.
Student Perceptions of Web-Based Supplemental Instruction
Author: Freeman, Steven A.
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Supplementary Education,Teaching Methods,College Outcomes Assessment,Delivery Systems,Blended Learning,Student Attitudes,Occupational Safety and Health,Safety Education,Student Surveys,Questionnaires,Web Sites,Instructional Effectiveness

The Internet is changing the way in which education is delivered, and in fact, some predict that the Internet will become the dominant distribution system for distance education and training. Many faculty members are expanding their traditional delivery methods (lecture, laboratory, face-to-face discussion) to include educational options ranging from Web-based course supplements to the complete delivery of courses online. While the primary focus of Web-based delivery has been in the development of stand-alone Web-based distance education courses, more faculty members are beginning to use the Web to supplement and enhance on-campus instruction. Data collected by The Campus Computing Project (1999) revealed that 28% of higher education courses have an associated Web page compared to 9% in 1996. The authors have chosen to augment a traditional face-to-face on-campus safety course with an online supplement. This article describes the assessment process used to gauge student perceptions of this new online supplement.
PC-Based Virtual Reality for CAD Model Viewing
Author: Seth, Abhishek
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer Simulation,Computer Assisted Design,Computers,Cooperation,Optics,Computer Software,Industry,Models

Virtual reality (VR), as an emerging visualization technology, has introduced an unprecedented communication method for collaborative design. VR refers to an immersive, interactive, multisensory, viewer-centered, 3D computer-generated environment and the combination of technologies required to build such an environment. This article introduces the current status of VR applications in industry and the technologies involved in the low-cost VR systems. The number of companies producing low-cost VR-related hardware and software is continuously increasing. New hardware and software technical terms are confusing or meaningless to people without any prior background in VR. Thus, choosing the right VR tool for a particular application is challenging for potential users. This article introduces different available stereo image rendering techniques, such as anaglyphic, page flipping, and sync doubling, and major low-cost VR hardware and software tools available for CAD model viewing. The purpose of this article is to help CAD users and product designers have a better understanding about VR technology so that they can develop their own VR systems to increase the efficiency of design communication. (Contains 6 figures.)
Technology Profile: An Assessment Strategy for Technological Literacy
Author: Gagel, Charles W.
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Interest Inventories,Profiles,Technological Literacy,Technology Education,Educational Technology,Measurement Techniques,Achievement Rating,Classification,Personality Measures,Psychometrics,Evaluation Methods,Evaluation Research

Given the scope of technology and the inherent difficulties of measuring such broad phenomena, this article explores two strategies for assessing technological literacy. One approach is drawn from a multiple measurement strategy often used to assess achievement, the test battery approach; the other is based on well-known interest inventories and personality type indicators, the typology approach. Shared between these approaches is the notion of a profile. One's performance or rating could be reported through a profile, that is, "a formal summary or analysis of data, often in the form of a graph or table, representing distinctive features or characteristics" (The American Heritage Electronic Dictionary, 1992). In principle, a technology profile could provide a means by which one's technological prowess or disposition could be indexed or classified according to a determined scale or system. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
A Comparison of Industrial and Academic Perceptions of Quality Control Education
Author: Callahan, R. Neal
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Industry,Quality Control,Engineering Technology,Technology Education,Graduate Surveys,Employer Attitudes,Teacher Attitudes,Occupational Surveys,Educational Needs,College Faculty,Achievement Rating,Competence,Education Work Relationship,Specialists,College Outcomes Assessment

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of both industry professionals and faculty members of technology-based programs concerning the preparedness of recent graduates as they began a quality related position. To gain this information, surveys were administered among managers and technical leaders in industry and compared with surveys of faculty members from four-year industrial technology and engineering technology programs. Recent graduates were evaluated with regard to both theoretical knowledge and applied skills. By analyzing survey results, recent literature, and in-depth conversations with industry professionals, recommendations are made for improving quality control curricula and better serving industry needs. (Contains 3 figures and 1 table.)
Student Behaviors in the Context of Computer Aided Learning in Design and Technology Teacher Training
Author: Atkinson, E. Stephanie
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cognitive Style,Computer Assisted Instruction,Prior Learning,Foreign Countries,Teaching Methods,Gender Differences,Program Attitudes,Learning Modules,Design,Achievement Gains,Feedback (Response),Predictor Variables,Student Behavior,Electronics,Engineering Education,Teacher Education Programs

This article discusses the relationship among an individual's cognitive style, attitude to learning, and his or her achievement in the context of computer aided learning (CAL). The results of a small-scale study involving 32 students (18 male and 14 female) studying their first electronics module during an Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Design and Technology degree program at a university in England are reported. Data concerning cognitive style, gender, attitude to CAL, appropriate prior knowledge, and the test results from a unit of work that used a CAL package as the main teaching strategy are analyzed and the relationship between selected variables are discussed. Conclusions pertinent to the students in this study are then drawn.
The W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington Debate: Effects upon African American Roles in Engineering and Engineering Technology
Author: Johnson, Keith V.
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Racial Discrimination,Engineering Technology,Engineering,Engineering Education,Technological Advancement,Technological Literacy,African American Achievement,African American Education,Intellectual History,Change Agents,Educational Development,African American History,African Americans,Educational Philosophy

The messages of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois could not have been more diverse. The philosophical rivalry between Washington and DuBois has deep historical roots. To be on the same side fighting for the same purpose, progress, and uplifting of the Black race, these two Black intellectuals harbored radically divergent views on how to assist African Americans to free themselves from their often subhuman conditions. Both men were aware that technological advancement was of foremost importance to the advancement of African Americans. Washington's (1901) "Up From Slavery" and DuBois' (1903) "The Souls of Black Folks" were immediately hailed as classic commentary due to their efforts to address the then "Negro" problem in America. There were a number of Black Americans who made a valiant effort to mitigate poverty, illiteracy, racial discrimination, high mortality rates, and other desolate conditions that plagued many African Americans, particularly at the turn of the century. However, due to their influential appeal among certain constituencies, both Washington and DuBois garnered ample attention from many segments of the American intelligence, many of which were European in ethnic origin. Thus, acknowledgment from the White power structure (this was particularly true in the case of Washington) provided both men a platform to promote their message. In this article, the authors discuss the effects of the debate upon African American roles in engineering and engineering technology. Both Washington and DuBois were aware that the need for African Americans to become technologically literate was paramount. However, whereas Washington advocated a hands-on external approach, DuBois promoted a paternalistic form of advancement of the Black race. Both men's philosophies are still being argued and applied in the technological arena today.
A Multiple-Regression Model for Monitoring Tool Wear with a Dynamometer in Milling Operations
Author: Chen, Jacob C.
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Manufacturing Industry,Economically Disadvantaged,Measurement Equipment,Prediction,Machine Tools,Computers,Quality Control,Multiple Regression Analysis,Models

A major goal of the manufacturing industry is increasing product quality. The quality of a product is strongly associated with the condition of the cutting tool that produced it. Catching poor tool conditions early in the production will help reduce defects. However, with current CNC technology, manufacturers still rely mainly on the operator's experience to operate and monitor machines to avoid defects from poor tool conditions. Since operator experience can be unreliable, recent research has focused on integrating a tool condition monitoring system within the machine to allow online, real-time monitoring to reduce the dependence on human judgment. The purpose of this study was to develop an in-process tool wear monitoring (ITWM) system using cutting force as a sensing signal and integrating the multiple regression approach as the decision mechanism. In order to develop the proposed ITWM system, the following two research outcomes were expected: (1) Identify the cutting force representation that could best predict tool wear; and (2) Build and test an in-process tool wear prediction system, which was a multiple-regression model in this study, with the cutting force identified from the first task. Conclusions of this study are presented. (Contains 6 figures.)
Holistic Assessment of Students in Undergraduate Industrial Technology Programs
Author: Field, Dennis W.
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Technology Education,Undergraduate Students,Student Evaluation,Holistic Evaluation,Action Research,Program Effectiveness,Technology,Graduates,Design,Cooperating Teachers

The nature and assessment of education is changing significantly, and the assessment trajectory is away from sole reliance on the traditional perspective of student grades. Technology faculty must respond to the changing requirements of student assessment and ensure that graduates of the program meet both the expectations and standards of the institution as well as those of other stakeholders, particularly the private sector that typically employs those graduates. A well-structured program should include assessment by a variety of methods and from a more holistic perspective than is often currently employed. Efforts to design and implement a more holistic assessment of students in industrial technology programs are certainly timely and in keeping with the spirit of the recommendations by the National Research Council and others. This article discusses how the authors formed an action research collaborative with the central goal being to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative forms of assessment that document student growth in a holistic manner. The authors' work represents an initial step towards capitalizing on some of the innovation that reflects singular enhancements. Their goal was also to integrate several of these innovations into a more systematic approach. To this end, the authors have conceptualized a framework for moving forward, they have established the feasibility of using the Work Keys[R] employability skills instrumentation, and they have described some necessary implementation steps.
Technologies Applied in the Toshka Project of Egypt
Author: Wahby, Wafeek S.
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Earth Science,Hydraulics,Water,Ecology

The Toshka Project, located in Egypt, involves excavating a canal to carry about 380 billion ft[supercript 3] of water every year from Lake Nasser to the Toshka Depression, southwest of Aswan. This will eventually create a new valley to the River Nile in the western desert of Egypt in addition to the currently existing prehistoric river course. The Toshka Project is an integral part of a much larger, mega project, the Southern Valley Development Project (SVDP), that aims at doubling the amount of cultivated land in Upper Egypt through developing the Toshka, East El-O-Wee-Nat, and the New Valley Oases. In this article, the author discusses the Toshka Project and the Southern Valley Development Project. The author first identifies the following: (1) Toshka Region; (2) Toshka City; (3) Toshka Depression (in Arabic: Mon-kha-fadd Toshka); (4) Toshka Bay (Khore Toshka); (5) Toshka Spillway (Ma-feed Toshka); and (6) Toshka Canal (Sheikh Za-yed Canal). He then describes the Toshka Project infrastructure and the controversy surrounding the project. (Contains 2 figures.)
Service-Learning and Anthropology
Author: Keene, Arthur S.
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Anthropology,Service Learning,Case Studies

This special journal issue is devoted to an exploration of the intersection of service-learning and anthropology. We are interested in the contributions that the field of anthropology can make to community service learning (CSL) and we are interested in how service-learning can and does inform anthropological practice. The assembled papers, 8 case studies and a commentary, illustrate that both anthropology and CSL are enhanced when incorporating the sensibilities of the other. Yet,despite strong affinities with CSL, anthropology as a profession has been surprisingly slow, if not reluctant, to explore this approach. We point out the common ground shared by anthropology and CSL and explore some ironies associated with the apparent invisibility of CSL within anthropology. (Contains 3 notes.)
Strengthening Pedagogy and Praxis in Cultural Anthropology and Service-Learning: Insights from Postcolonialism
Author: McCabe, Maryann
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Culture,Anthropology,Service Learning,Theory Practice Relationship,Community Attitudes,Group Dynamics,Power Structure,Reflection,Social Change,Social Justice,College Students,Expectation,Social Class,World Views,Expertise,Role

This article argues cultural anthropology would make a good partner to service-learning pedagogy because it offers students a theoretical approach for understanding community life and its power structures. Anthropologists have been dealing with power vis-a-vis the people they study using concepts relevant to the reflection process in service-learning. A liaison between anthropology and service-learning would help orient students toward systemic change in society. This responds to a desire among service-learning educators to prevent perpetuation of power imbalances and social injustices. The rich experience of service-learning would help anthropology further its interest in praxis. (Contains 2 figures and 18 notes.)
Power and Privilege: Community Service Learning in Tijuana
Author: Camacho, Michelle Madsen
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Community Development,Social Class,Mexican Americans,Service Learning,Learning Experience,Social Scientists,Power Structure,Advantaged,Student Role,Qualitative Research,Foreign Countries,Migrant Workers,Racial Differences,Student Attitudes

As social scientists engage their own subjectivity, there is greater awareness of their own touristic &quot;gaze,&quot; or at least the power relations that are evoked in the researcher-subject interaction. In teaching students involved in community service learning, the challenge is to provide a learning experience that addresses power inequities between student and served. How do we teach students to recognize axes of privilege, be critical of their roles, and be sensitive to the multiple dimensions of power relations among and between server and served? This article proposes to examine how service-learning can be a catalyst for examining the important issue of subjectivity. Drawing from qualitative data of students working in migrant labor camps and community development projects in the context of Tijuana, I discuss how students viewed power differentials and came to consider their relative social class and racialized differences in the context of the Mexican border zone. (Contains 4 notes.)
Acompanar Obediciendo: Learning to Help in Collaboration with Zapatista Communities
Author: Simonelli, Jeanne
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Service Learning,Foreign Countries,Summer Programs,Field Experience Programs,Experiential Learning,Cooperative Planning,Cooperation,Ethnography,College Students,Teaching Methods

Joint service-learning programs of Wake Forest University and the University of Texas-El Paso are working to develop an anthropologically-informed service model for/with the authors' Universities, our students, and our community colleagues. Building on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and experience leading experiential programs, the model results from consultation and communication with the communities we &quot;serve.&quot; This paper provides a case study of the authors' experience in Chiapas, Mexico, where collaboration with community partners is producing a refined theory and practice of service. It begins with the community's own definition of assistance and service, and continues through a commitment to acompanar (accompany) the group before, during, and after the service experience, producing a program and relationship based on symmetry and sustainability. (Contains 9 notes.)
Teaching Critical Reflection through Narrative Storytelling
Author: Chin, Nancy P.
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Service Learning,Story Telling,Anthropology,Economically Disadvantaged,Teaching Methods,Medical Students,Best Practices,Models,Medical Education

Anthropological concepts and methods provide an important framework for organizing community service learning. Critical reflection is central to both anthropology and community service learning. However, an anthropological approach to reflection stimulates the learner to consider their own cultural background. Little is understood about how to teach critical reflection. This article explores narrative storytelling among medical students, as a pedagogical process for reflection on cultural assumptions and to spur subsequent action toward social change in the practice of medicine among the poor. Students generated stories based on their own experiences to illuminate how unconscious cultural assumptions can create medical care that is harmful or useless to patients on the margins and stimulate a re-thinking of how unexamined assumptions may render care not in the patients' best interests. The article concludes with "best practice" recommendations for teachers in community service learning programs.
Public Interest Anthropology: A Boasian Service-Learning Initiative
Author: Sanday, Peggy Reeves
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Anthropology,Service Learning,Program Descriptions,Multicultural Education,College Bound Students,Global Approach,Global Education,Social Action,Social Attitudes,Social Development,College Students,College School Cooperation,School Community Programs,Program Effectiveness

This article describes the theoretical rationale and practice related to two connected anthropology courses at the University of Pennsylvania and University City High School, a predominantly African-American school on Penn's border. The courses are part of Penn's ABCS (academically-based community service) program. Grounded in the Boasian legacy of cultural anthropology, the courses share much in common with the principle of service-learning to &quot;link community service and academic study so that each strengthens the other.&quot; It is suggested that anthropology is uniquely relevant to the educative function of community service learning because of the role the concept of culture plays in the development of multiculturally-sensitive citizens.