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Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Dyrud

Ethics 101 Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyIntroductionEthics training, now somewhat formalized as ABET EAC criterion 3f and TAC criterion2i, is by necessity becoming a more integral part of engineering and technology curricula,whether via stand-alone ethics courses or inclusion in technical courses and programs.Instructors new to the field, however, may find themselves in a quandary as to coursecontent and methodology; ethics is an enormous and ancient field of study, and tailoringphilosophical content to fit a technical class poses a challenge. Pedagogy in philosophy,too, varies a great deal and tends to be

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Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Carpenter

Session Number Teaching Engineering Ethics with The Engineering Ethics Challenge Game William C. Carpenter University of South Florida1. IntroductionMost engineers will agree that students should develop a sound grasp of engineeringethics so as to be able to handle ethical situations that arise in the workplace. IndeedABET 1, recognizing this need, has stipulated as a student outcome that graduates musthave an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. Thus, most engineeringcurriculums have either a course on engineering ethics or have the subject of

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Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

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Craig Somerton

An Ethical Puzzle for University Administrators Craig W. Somerton Michigan State UniversityAbstractIt has long been recognized that ethical behavior is an essential element of an engineer.Considerable attention has been given to ethics in engineering education. Some programsinclude a full course in ethics, while others integrate ethical issues throughout their curriculum;but all programs need to create a culture where ethical behavior is prized and unethical behavioris not accepted. This culture must be grounded in the behavior of the faculty and administrators.With rampant student cheating and plagiarism, the faculty and administration must set

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Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Matthew Carroll; Nael Barakat

Globalization of Engineering Ethics Education Nael Barakat, Ph.D., P.Eng., Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Matthew C. Carroll, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Lake Superior State University 650 W. Easterday Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, MI. 49783 Voice: 906.635.2031 – Email: nbarakat@lssu.eduAbstract Borderless ethics and the attempt to develop a global engineering code of ethicshave formulated significant driving forces behind trends in engineering ethics education.This is because engineering is no longer limited by borders and therefore the differencesin culture and values from one country to another become

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Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

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June Marshall; John Marshall

Facilitating the Development of Student’s Personal Ethics in Cultivating Professional Ethics in Engineering Classrooms Dr. June Marshall, Dr. John Marshall Saint Joseph’s College/ University of Southern MaineThis document focuses on how ethics education, more globally referred to as charactereducation, is being implemented into an undergraduate college program. Very successfultechniques are discussed that have been proven useful in providing instruction to futureprofessionals in national character education curriculums involving morals, values andethics. Suggestions for integrating character education into the engineering ethicsrequirement are highlighted.Engineering programs across the

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Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sunil Sinha

INTEGRATING ETHICS INTO THE ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTION CURRICULUM Sunil K. Sinha, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, 231 Sackett Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802. H. Randolph Thomas, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, 206 Sackett Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802. John R. Kulka, President, HRI, Inc., 1750 West College Avenue, State College, Pennsylvania, 16804

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Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

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Norma Mattei

Is Covering Ethics in an Analysis Class Effective? Norma Jean Mattei, Ph.D., P.E. University of New OrleansAbstractMost engineering educators will agree that engineering ethics is an important component of acomplete undergraduate engineering education. There are many approaches as to how to coverethics in an engineering curriculum. Some programs have elected to cover ethics in a requiredthree credit hour lecture course, sometimes taught by a philosophy department instructor. Manyothers have a piece-meal method of delivering ethics education to students. In this scenario, thestudents may have an introductory lecture as part of an intro to engineering class

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Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Roger Painter

The Role of Environmental Justice Issues in Environmental Engineering EthicsRoger Painter Ph.D. P.E. and Lashun KingDepartment of Civil and Environmental EngineeringTennessee State UniversityNashville, TN AbstractThe engineering accreditation agency, ABET regards engineering ethics as an importantcomponent of engineering education. ABET’s Criterion 3(f ) states that “EngineeringPrograms must demonstrate their graduates have an understanding of professional andethical responsibilities.” Limitations on credit hours in engineering programs oftenpreclude ethics being taught in a separate course and engineering faculty must includeethics topics in traditional engineering courses.Teaching engineering

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Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Hole; Day Radebaugh; Kurt Soschinske

Strategies for Industry and University Cooperation in Engineering Ethics Education Lawrence D. Hole, P.E., Fellow ASME, Fellow NSPE Mechanical Systems Engineer The Boeing Company Wichita, Kansas 67210 USA Day W. Radebaugh, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas 67260 USA Kurt A. Soschinske, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Mechanical

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BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Roberta Berry; Jonathan Olinger; Paul Benkeser

Challenges and Opportunities in Ethics Education in Biomedical Engineering Paul J. Benkeser1, Roberta M. Berry2 and Jonathan D. Olinger3 Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University1 / Schools of Public Policy2 and Aerospace Engineering3, Georgia Institute of TechnologyI. IntroductionThe challenges of interdisciplinarity—integrating bioscience, biomedical, and bioengineeringknowledge and skills—are well known to biomedical engineering (BME) educators.Undergraduate BME engineering educators face the additional challenge of preparing theirstudents for diverse professional career paths in a

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Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Griffin; Julie Swann; Robert Kirkman; Matthew Drake

Engineering Ethical Curricula: Assessment of Two Approaches and Recommendations Matthew J. Drake*, Paul M. Griffin*, Robert Kirkman+, Julie L. Swann* *School of Industrial & Systems Engineering + School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0205AbstractIn this paper, we assess two approaches for delivery of engineering ethics: a full semesterethics course and an engineering course that includes a discipline-specific ethics module. Weuse the second edition of the Defining Issues Test (DIT) to measure moral

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Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Magun-Jackson

Integrating Ethics in Engineering Education Utilizing a Psychological Model Susan Magun-Jackson, Ph.D. The University of MemphisIntroductionAs the engineering profession has become progressively more complex, ethics has become anincreasingly important issue. Engineers must sometimes make significant decisions that are oftenbased upon what appears to be what they believe to be morally correct and what appears to bebest for their employers or themselves. Engineering education, however, does not alwayssufficiently prepare students for the ethical conflicts that face them when they join theworkforce. Consequently, engineering

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

Session Ethics for Industrial Technology Majors: Need and Plan of Action K. A. Rosentrater USDA, ARS, NGIRL, 2923 Medary Ave., Brookings, SD, 57006, USA Phone: (605) 693-3241; Fax: (605) 693-5240; Email: krosentr@ngirl.ars.usda.gov R. Balamuralikrishna Department of Technology, Northern Illinois University, 206 Still Hall, DeKalb, IL, 60015, USA Phone: (815) 753-4155; Fax: (815) 753-3702; Email: bala@ceet.niu.eduABSTRACTThe recent introduction of sessions dedicated to “Industrial Technology” in the annual ASEEconference is testimony

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Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

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D'Arcy Randall; Hillary Hart

Whose Words can we Trust?: PRiME’s Modules for Teaching and Assessing Undergraduate Learning in Information Ethics Hillary Hart, D’Arcy Randall Department of Civil Engineering/ Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at AustinMost undergraduate engineering programs in the United States face a common problem indesigning curricula that develop students’ professional responsibilities as well as theirmathematical, scientific, and technical skills. As Thomas K. Grose explains,1 ABET’s EC 2000standards, which require that graduates possess such skills as “an understanding of professionaland ethical responsibility,”2 pose particular challenges to

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Hani Tohme; Enno Koehn

Body of Knowledge: Ethical Responsibility in Engineering and Construction Education and National/Global Professional Bidding Practice Enno “Ed” Koehn, Hani Tohme Lamar University/City of Beaumont Water Utilities DivisionAbstractThe efficient management of the cost and duration of a project involves the utilization of aproductive labor force. This is true in both economically developed and developing countries. Itis important, therefore, that ethically responsible decisions are required of project personnel.Some areas throughout the world, however, are experiencing a problem with ethics andcorruption. Numerous firms, agencies, individuals, and

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas DiStefano; P. Aarne Vesilind; Richard Kozick; Thomas Rich; James Baish; Xiannong Meng; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

Ethics for First-Year Engineers: The Struggle to Build a Solid Foundation Margot A.S. Vigeant, James W. Baish, Daniel Cavanagh, Thomas DiStefano, Xiannon Meng, P. Aarne Vesilind, and Ronald D. Ziemian All: Bucknell University College of Engineering. Departments: Chemical Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering/ Biomedical Engineering/ Civil and Environmental Engineering/ Computer Science/ Civil and Environmental EngineeringAbstract Exploring Engineering is a first semester course taken by all incoming engineeringstudents at Bucknell University. The instructional objectives for this course include

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

Cheating in College and the Workplace: An examination of engineering undergraduates’ ethical behavior T.S. Harding, D.D. Carpenter and C.J.Finelli Kettering University, Flint, MI / Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI / University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIAbstractResearch has demonstrated that engineering undergraduates report higher rates of cheating thanthose in other disciplines and that students who cheat in college are more likely to makeunethical decisions as professionals. Therefore, better understanding the decision-makingprocesses of engineering students and professionals who engage in dishonest behavior could leadto effective college

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christy Moore; Stephanie Bird; Steven Nichols

The PRiME Project: Developing Educational Materials to Train Responsible Engineers O. Christene Moore, Senior Lecturer, Steven P. Nichols, Professor and Associate Vice President for Research The University of Texas at Austin Stephanie J. Bird, Editor Science and Engineering EthicsIntroduction Engineers have a profound impact on society and a resultant responsibility tosociety. Statements in codes of conduct for engineering professionals support thisposition. The Code of Ethics for the National Society of Professional Engineers statesthat “Engineers shall hold

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Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Gehringer

Session 1440 The “Memogate” Affair: A Case Study on Privacy in Computer Networks Edward F. Gehringer North Carolina State University efg@ncsu.eduAbstractPrivacy is one of the core issues in any Ethics in Computing course. It is important for systemadministrators to keep sensitive data private, but suppose they don’t? Then what are theobligations of someone who accidentally gains access to this data? This is the crux of the issuein last year’s “Memogate” case involving the Senate Judiciary Committee. Files on the Judiciarycomputer

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christy Moore; Billy Koen

Using the Engineering Method To Research and Write about Corporate Practice: A Model for Teaching Engineering Ethics O. Christene Moore, Senior Lecturer Billy Vaughn Koen, Professor The University of Texas at AustinIntroduction The pressure to include, if not emphasize, the importance of ethics in the engineeringcurriculum is one of the most perplexing challenges facing engineering educators today. For onething, it is difficult to decide where exactly to put ethics in the curriculum. With courserequirements that are already bursting at the seams, it’s hard, as Michael Davis suggests in hisarticle “Teaching Ethics Across the

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Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dean Schroeder; Doug Tougaw

enormously successful for many years, but changing technological and global competitive realities make such a limited approach no longer appropriate. With the emerging need for multidisciplinary teams, non-technical design constraints, and the ethical implications of engineering projects, it has become evident that engineers must understand and consider the larger context of their work and have the knowledge and attitudes necessary to foresee the potential impact of their work on society and the natural environment.1 Achieving this important goal begins with the way we educate our students. The question is how can we go about doing this? The authors of this paper found useful insights into this question from an unlikely source – a graduate program

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kanti Prasad

A case study of eradicating weakness in accreditation owing to vital role played by industrial and government leaders in academia Kanti Prasad, Ph.D.; P.E. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell MA 01854 Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduIntroduction In the fall of 2000, we were visited by ABET for regular accreditation forour Electrical Engineering Program. We were cited ‘weakness’ in our course16.499 Capstone Project. Although the design content was of great quality, but itlacked in elucidating the design impact on society, its environmental implication,ethical content, and economic

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John McGuire; John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

musician. Why wouldn’t a theater want avirtual orchestra?Some say that virtual orchestras do not give the same quality performance of livemusicians, but isn’t it possible to measure the quality of a performance based onengineering principles? Isn’t a note a vibration and thus quantifiable? What about theethical responsibility of engineering technology? Shouldn’t we as engineers beresponsible for our inventions?These are just some of the questions, mirroring the subjective and objective issues raisedby the use of virtual orchestras, that this paper addresses. Included are discussions of thecurrent trend of virtual musicians, the possibility of virtual orchestras, and the ethical

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rosalyn Berne

across the United States. They and their institutions’ names are held inanonymity.Originally, 50 individual researchers were asked to participate. Thirty five said, ‘yes,’ andmet with me once. Twenty three have met with me twice, and I anticipate that by the timeof this writing, eighteen of those will have completed or were scheduled for a thirdconversation, and one will have had a fourth. It could be argued that the group of twentythree continuing participants is a self-select group. It is likely that those who continue tomake themselves available for these discussions probably have a genuine interest inreflecting on the meaning and ethics of their work in nanotechnology. They may havebeen predisposed to participate. I began meeting with

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sara Tracy; Jason Immekus; Susan Maller; William Oakes

integratesengineering design with meeting the needs of the local community through a multi-disciplinaryservice-learning curricular structure. The EPICS courses can be counted for a wide range ofcourses in several disciplines, including capstone design in electrical and computer engineeringand computer science. The approaches of EPICS to conceptualize and measure specificprofessional skills for program evaluation purposes are discussed. These include: social-responsibility, awareness of ethical issues, teamwork, and communication competence.Specifically, the theoretical framework used for scale construction, preliminary results, andevidence of the scales’ psychometric properties are provided. The aim of this paper is to provideinformation regarding the use of

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

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Louise Yates; Maura Borrego

to identify, formulate, and solve (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems engineering problems (through “brain-teasers”) (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility* (g) an ability to communicate effectively* (g) an ability to communicate effectively* (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Eisenbarth; Kenneth Van Treuren

sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective. … Further, it is essential to include a variety of realistic constraints such as economic factors, safety, reliability, aesthetics, ethics and social impact.” 8Other Influences on DesignOne concept being studied at Baylor University is how a designer's worldview influences thedesign process and design artifacts9, 10. They have found a definition of technology and designused by Monsma et al. to be very helpful in the understanding of design11. Technology is theproduct of the engineering design process. Monsma, et al. define technology as: “a distinct human cultural activity in which human beings exercise freedom and responsibility ... by forming and

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joseph Holles

students. To help address this problem, a graduate course titled “Theory and Methods of Research”has been developed and is now required for all chemical engineering graduate students. The goalof this course is to systematically present to the students many of the common situations thatmake up the graduate school experience. This includes communication skills such as outlines,abstracts, proposals, journal articles, and oral presentations. Research oriented topics includediscussion of the scientific method, research methods and instruments, and critical reviews ofjournal articles. Professional ethics as a student and researcher are also discussed. Otherinformative lectures cover subjects such as copyright, patents, and research notebooks

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sucharit Koontanakulvong; Direk Lavansiri

procedures used. QA scope covered all operations and all Based on our quality policy to units of the Faculty including affiliatedpursue upgrading teaching and institutes. Working team from eachlearning, research process with good unit had been setup to review thequality taking into considerations both existing system. The procedures werecultural and ethics, the Faculty of then drafted to match withEngineering has therefore adopted the requirements and practices. Staff andCUQA system which comprised of 14 faculty were trained on requirements,basic and 7 progressive requirements. procedures and internal audit practices.The Faculty had then

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Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patricia Mosto; Gina Tang; Courtney Richmond; Joseph Orlins; Catherine Yang; Demond Miller; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Anthony Marchese; Mariano Savelski; Paris von Lockette; Stephanie Farrell; Yusuf Mehta; William Riddell

exercises arealso an integral part of this REU experience. Environmental ethics, diversity and communityimpact of engineering activities are the topics of mini workshops. All these topics havetremendous relevance to pollution prevention and sustainability but can be absent from atraditional engineering curriculum. It is anticipated that the undergraduate research experiencepromotes interest in pursuing graduate school and strengthens leadership skills and self esteem.IntroductionMany engineering programs worldwide are integrating pollution prevention, green engineeringand sustainability modules in their traditional curriculum. The College of Engineering at RowanUniversity is taking numerous innovative measures to integrate environmental education