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Outside The Classroom: Gender Differences In Extracurricular Activities Of Engineering Students, Debbie Chachra, Helen Chen, Deborah Kilgore, Sheri Sheppard
Outside The Classroom: Gender Differences In Extracurricular Activities Of Engineering Students, Debbie Chachra, Helen Chen, Deborah Kilgore, Sheri Sheppard
Debbie Chachra
Data from the Academic Pathways Study, a component of the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, were used to investigate engineering student involvement in extracurricular activities. The study design used a variety of methods: the results presented here are from longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys of engineering students as well as interviews with graduating seniors. Quantitative data from both surveys suggest that women place higher importance on extracurricular activities than their male counterparts, as well as reporting higher participation in both engineering-related and non-engineering-related extracurricular activities. In addition, the importance of non-engineering extracurricular activities and the level of involvement …
Philosophy As Engineering, Lynn Stein
Philosophy As Engineering, Lynn Stein
Lynn Andrea Stein
Ours is a field in crisis. Artificial Intelligence cannot make up its collective mind whether it is a discipline of Science or of Engineering. It is unclear from our literature and from our research whether our goals are to explain intelligence or to create it. A researcher who hypothesizes about the structure of intelligent behavior is accused of constructing theories without hope of instantiation; one who creates a seemingly intelligent artifact often sees it derided as "mere hackery." The theorists among us confer in an ever more arcane language, grasping for the idealized agents and environments for which our formal …
2011 Scholars And Artists Bibliography, Mark Tebeau
2011 Scholars And Artists Bibliography, Mark Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
This bibliography was created for the annual Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library Scholars and Artists Reception, recognizing scholarly and creative achievements of Cleveland State University faculty, staff and emeriti. Mark Tebeau was the guest speaker