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Pacific Southwest Section (PSW) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
ASEE/PSW Meeting at USC on March 20&21, 2003
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2003 annual American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific Southwest Section (ASEE/PSW) Conference will be held on Thursday and Friday, March 20 & 21, 2003 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. This is a call for papers to be refereed and presented at the Conference. The theme for the Conference is "Developing Tomorrow's Workforce".
Topics
Specific topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Diversity issues
· Attracting and retaining women & minorities to engineering
· Diversity programs for undergraduates
· Diversifying the faculty
2. Pre-College Education
· Informing and preparing students for engineering
· K-12 Education
· Industry/Academia Partnerships
· Model Summer programs
3. The Continuum: ABET Assessment
· Current/Model Practices
· Meeting the Needs of Industry
· Social Impact of Engineering Design
· New Instructional Technologies
· Incorporating Ethics into Engineering
· What do undergraduates need to know
4. Retention of Undergraduates in Engineering
· Keeping the students we enroll
· Educational programs designed to retain students
· Curriculum innovation and improving undergraduate education
· Model freshmen year programs
Abstracts (150-200 words) should be submitted electronically by January 31,
2003 to:
L.A. Yates, ASEE/PSW Conference
University of Southern California
School of Engineering
OHE 106
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1455
E-mail: Yates@usc.edu. Phone: (213) 740-4530
FAX: (213) 740-8690
Deadlines:
January 31, 2003 - Abstracts Due
February 10, 2003 - Notification of Acceptance
March 10, 2003 - Camera Ready Copies Due
For questions and comments about this web site, please contact: Dr. Sima Parisay.
Last updated: April 2003