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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russel Jones

for Engineering Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education_______________________________________________________________________Academician DATO’ IR. LEE YEE CHEONG, is President 2003-2005, of the World Federation ofEngineering Organisations. During his career he has served with the National Electricity Board Malaysia,Tenaga Ewbank Preece (M) Sdn Bhd (TEP), and CEO, KTA Tenaga Sdn Bhd. He is a Coordinator of TaskForce No.10 “Science, Technology and Innovation” of the UN Millennium Project, 20O2-2005.RUSSEL C. JONES is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services inengineering education in the international arena. Prior to that, he had a

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Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marlin Thomas

practice for many industrial engineers. IE is diverse, much more so than otherengineering disciplines and it is practiced widely throughout private and public sectors ofsociety. IE managers influence decisions at strategic, management control, and operationallevels of organizations. The overall systems perspective and the experiences that industrialengineers develop through the key elements of operations and organizations prepares them wellfor upper management as a career option. The basic strategy for homeland strategy is to detect, prevent, and respond to threats andacts of terrorism. So the first initiative is awareness to terrorism. Employees should understandthe types of terrorist events that could occur and the appropriate

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Yates; Maura Borrego

, American Society for Engineering Educationto provide a framework for students to see how the challenging technical content in theirother courses will be applied later to creative careers which impact society. Engineeringstudents are often motivated by practical significance, and these seminars provide broadercontext for their required math, physics and chemistry courses.A key element of the courses is small class size, enabling faculty to facilitate originalteam projects. In the four introduction to engineering courses which feature projects, thesection size is 50 or more students. Each team uses an identical set of raw materials tomeet identical design specifications. These projects have powerful instructive value in thecontext of discipline

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell

Page 10.793.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”have learned in school.1 The same can be said for some college graduates. Wherever educationis inadequate:1 Students know little about work. Students have no clear idea about what they must do to enter a particular career or occupation. Students do not know what might be expected of them at work since the teaching environment bears little to no resemblance to the engineering environment found in industrial companies. Schools do not teach the attitudes and maturity needed on the job. Schools isolate young people from adults who

Conference Session

New Endeavors

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivian Bergel; Jean Fullerton; Troy McBride

topics of history of engineering,engineering majors and career paths, problem solving, design, project management, teamwork,oral presentation skills, technical writing, and some basic computing skills using a spreadsheet(statistics, solution of equations, and optimization). Most of these skills are relevant to allengineering majors and can be introduced without the need for a rigorous mathematicalframework. To connect all of this material together, team-based engineering projects aretypically assigned. A significant challenge for first semester first year engineering students is tofind projects which are both challenging enough to require real teamwork and projectmanagement, while not having unreasonable time and skill-level demands. We feel

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Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

individual’s outcomes are affected by others’ actions3. A study performed by Forbes etal.12 on the students’ perception of group-based PBL showed that students felt group work waseffective at focusing them on the reality of their roles as future clinical practitioners. It isreasonable to assume that students whose educational strategy focused on group interactions andbelieve they are preparing for their eventual career roles are more prepared to work in groupenvironments that mimic real world conditions. The second benefit stems from the discovery ofthe individuals’ roles in the group. In self-directed problem based learning, students are Page

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Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kirk Schulz; Adrienne Minerick

discussed for both experiments andavailable for instructor use.Keywords: Freshman course, Electrophoresis, Bioreactor, Experiment, Inexpensive equipmentIntroductionAt Mississippi State University, our 1-credit hour freshman seminar course has been designed tointroduce students to the Chemical Engineering field. The class meets once a week for 50minutes with about 15 contact sessions in the fall semester. The objectives of the course aremultifaceted and include having the students • Gain an appreciation and knowledge of chemical engineering as a career, • Perform laboratory activities that illustrate key chemical engineering concepts, • Gain experience in oral and written communication skills, • Gain an appreciation for chemical

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sarah Leach; Heather Cooper; Bill Hutzel

, consider a typical adult student pursuing an MET Associates degree atthe Purdue statewide location in New Albany, IN. Career and family obligations limit his/hercoursework to two evening courses each semester. The experimental work at New Albany islimited because the energy lab, hydraulics lab, and controls lab occupy the same space. It wouldstrengthen the overall Purdue MET program if sophisticated laboratory equipment were suppliedin a format that meets the constraints of this non-traditional student. In a stroke of good fortune, the key technology for improving energy efficiency incommercial buildings is also supplying a ready-made solution to the challenge of providingmodern laboratory equipment to large numbers of undergraduate

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

asinstructional staff include increasing their knowledge and core understanding of course materialby learning through teaching. Other benefits include improving their communication skills,practicing their mentoring skills, and gaining more confidence in their leadership skills. Gettingundergraduates in STEM fields to think about teaching at the college level early in their careersmay make them more aware of the possibility of continuing their education in graduate school orfaculty careers. In addition to these higher level professional outcomes, undergraduate teachingassistants and tutors are typically compensated for their work through hourly pay rather thanteaching appointments. With some training, advanced undergraduate teaching assistants

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

this project and with their academic careers. It was something I knew, but didn’t know, if that makes any sense. (JJ-IV: 11)Students like Jennifer and Joshua are moving toward fuller participation2 in this engineeringcommunity of practice, and recognize their role in helping newer students feel confident asnovices in the community. Such mentorship is crucial to help more novices feel valued aslegitimate participants.Novice students often feel as if they have nothing to offer the group and no role to play in thecommunity. Without help from more expert participants, their learning will suffer, since they arenot recognized as legitimate participants. Lave and Wegner argue that for newcomers,participation in a community of practice provides

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Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Wayne Burleson; Theodore Djaferis; Paul Dobosh; Orin Hoffman

% of women drop out of engineering beforegraduation, many citing lost confidence, the competitive culture, and lack of interest inthe subject material as reasons [3]. As we look at the demands that will be placed onengineers in the upcoming century, traditional engineering methods will retain theirimportance, but engineers will also be faced with emerging problems that are morecomplex, multi-layered, and encompass a large number of disciplines [2]. Traditionallysystems courses are taught towards the end of an undergraduate career, but we proposethat explicitly integrating a “systems perspective” into an introductory course will offer amore honest view of modern engineering as well as significantly aid the student grapplewith the complexities

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Rene Reitsma; Martha Cyr; Nancy Shaw; Michael Mooney; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Paul Klenk

quality of life; and the need fortechnological literacy for all of our citizens.In spite of soaring U.S. college enrollments in the last 25 years, the number of undergraduatescompleting degrees in engineering has declined dramatically after peaking in 1988,1 and is stillbelow the number of new B.S.-level engineering graduates in 1988.2 An engineering educationcreates access to a successful and rewarding career and personal future, and people from allbackgrounds should have ample opportunity to share in that future.The participation of women in engineering and technology programs has stagnated, with femalesaccounting for fewer than 21% of B.S. engineering graduates. Sadly, as society has become moretechnology driven, the representation of women

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

for the U.S. engineering profession or academiawithout massive growth in demand for aerospace products.Much recent attention has been devoted to this gloomy scenario.5,6,7,8,9 Mercer5 notes that the jobsbeing advertised by Administration officials as signs of economic recovery are far from beinggood replacements of engineering / technology careers. She warns of the disastrous effects ofdiscouraging American youngsters with aptitude in the mathematical sciences by telling themthat the “hot’ occupations of the future do not require such aptitudes. Economist Paul CraigRoberts is quoted as saying that “only labor involved in non-traded goods and services is safefrom foreign substitution." This is a replay of what happened to engineers and factory

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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

powerful computing technology and team-centered, interactive learning, Rensselaer pioneered the use of studio classroom environmentsthat are collaborative, learner-focused, supported with sophisticated technology, and directlyanalogous to career work and learning. In the NSF-sponsored and award-winning (2001 ASMECurriculum Innovation Award, 2000 NEEDS Premier Award for Excellence in EngineeringEducation) Project Links - Mathematics and its Applications in Engineering and Science,modules were created that integrated mathematics, science, and engineering. We are building onboth previous successes and on-going work in undergraduate engineering education atRensselaer. Rensselaer is determined to maintain its leadership role in undergraduateengineering

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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R. William Graff; Paul Leiffer

Student Observations over the Last 25 Years R. William Graff, Paul R. Leiffer LeTourneau UniversityAbstractMost engineering faculty who have taught for over ten years have raised a question atsome point: “Is it me, or have students changed since I began teaching?”Using input from university statistics, faculty, staff, and student surveys, publishedliterature, and course grade records over twenty-five years, the authors have identifiedtwelve trends and observations regarding current students that impact student success andpreparation for engineering careers. While many of these trends are positive and shouldbe encouraged, a few are disturbing and should be

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs

of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”EvaluationUnder the direction of Eric Heller, Ed.D., the Research and Evaluation Group of the University ofMassachusetts’ Donahue Institute will conduct the evaluation of the courses. The evaluation will beorganized around the questions of the extent to which the education activities of the CHN increase publicawareness of the importance of science and technology to society and prepare undergraduate and graduatestudents in the participating institutions for careers in research as well as manufacturing related tonanotechnology. The assessment will be addressed from both an

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Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

learning: 95% SL versus 77% CL • Knowledge is structured around major concepts/principles: 100% SL versus 46% CL • Learning is shaped by the context in which it appears: 53% SL versus 0% CLIt was very apparent that while the CL students were aware that they were doing something, theSL students were more aware that they were learning and of how that learning impacted theirengineering career. It is likely that the SL first-year students have created a better understandingof the major concepts that create the structure for learning engineering because of theirinteraction with the upperclassmen and mentors.Attitude Toward ExperienceThe last element we considered in our comparison was the attitude of the students toward theexperience. Cronbach

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Glen Livesay; Kay C Dee

the change observed in the same student population between the testand retest administrations of the ILS. Overall, students reported the same general preference forthe visual learning, but were less active, more sensing, and less global in the retest as comparedwith the test. It seems expected that learning style preferences of engineering students mightchange to some degree throughout a college career, since as faculty we would expect studentexperiences and skills (e.g. problem solving, etc.) to develop with time (we hope!). However,for test-retest administrations within the same semester, large changes in the learning stylepreferences would likely not be expected. At the same time, the 1st administration in the presentwork was conducted on

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

resources mature. The stated goal of thismodel is to allow undergraduate majors in Information Systems and Computer Science toassume positions in careers that evolve through technical knowledge areas and into management Page 10.215.4of information security. The resulting curriculum draft defines programs of one to four coursesand presents a linear spectrum of options that has in one extreme the single-course approach and “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”the track approach in the other. The

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Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sonia Sanchez; S. Khalid Latif; Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler; Kazem Kazerounian

date. These content areas are dynamic in nature and will evolve astechnology itself evolves.In the second section, Engineering Tools, its focus is to address the necessary tools required toimplement the Content Standards. As stated, the goals outlined in the Engineering Toolssection consist of the following statements. “Engineering tools are essential in the simplification, management, and communication of complex tasks ranging from academic inquiry to personal application. Due to the complexity of these content standards, many of these tools are required for their meaningful exploration. Proficiency with these tools is expected to be acquired cumulatively over the tenure of a high school career.”It is important

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ken Ports

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 1) The senior design sequence of courses are core courses and must be taken by all undergraduate engineering students, regardless of their career interests or abilities and 2) Even on entrepreneurial teams, not all team members are intending to follow an entrepreneurial path after graduation The authors observe that the teams and individuals which do better in their performance on these deliverables are always a combination of bright, excited and diligent. This also is a fair description of the student entrepreneurs in the classes

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Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; P.K. Imbrie; Tamara Moore

exposure to nanotechnology, including innovations implemented at University of NotreDame (NSF 0304089), California Institute of Technology (NSF 0304713), and Ohio StateUniversity (NSF 0304469). The NSF Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education (NUE)program continues to support the development of first-year course innovations.With the support of a 2003 NSF NUE, a nano-themed seminar was implemented in the PurdueUniversity First-Year Engineering (FYE) Program to raise first-year engineering students’awareness of nanotechnology and related educational and career opportunities. The developmentof this nanotechnology theme across all of the introductory engineering discipline seminars alsoserved the purpose of providing a model for the introduction of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Robert Hinks; Mark Henderson; Chen-Yaun Kuo; Chell Roberts; Darryl Morrell; Robert Grondin

. Courses are delivered not as lengthyexercises in theory but as integrated opportunities to apply knowledge in real-world projects. The Page 10.429.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Table 2. Student Objectives and OutcomesStudent Objective AGraduates will successfully transition into a broad range of flexible career options, including industry, government,and graduate engineering and professional education.Student Objective BGraduates will apply their strong

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Davari; Amir Rezaei

decadeof the 80’s and the first half of the 90’s brought changes in the service region, including changesin the mix of business and industry employing graduates and major changes in the technology,mainly in computer technologies found in the workplace. As a relatively small state-assistedinstitution with an open admission policy, WVU Tech provides access to higher education forthe citizens of the nation, state and its local region who seek careers in engineering, engineeringtechnologies, sciences, business, general education and health professions. Graduates,particularly in engineering have been very successful in their careers and the alumni support isvery strong and widespread. The rigorous curricula and the dedicated faculty at WVU Tech

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Thermal Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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Pamela J. Théroux; Gary Gabriele; Brad Lister; Deborah Kaminski

student characteristics influence which successful learningoutcomes, and how. Yet, the sheer weight of evidence acknowledging that learners bring amultitude of approaches to learning compels the educator to be responsive to learner needs.According to Felder & Silverman (1988), receiving an education that is mismatched to theirlearning style can hinder an engineering student’s performance in the classroom as well as theirattitude toward engineering as a field of study and career. Armed with the information that acertain percentage of students learn in a manner often ill-served by the traditional engineeringclassroom and curriculum, this study carefully examined evidence of a link between studentlearning characteristics and student academic

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Thom; James Thom; Dennis Depew

graduates successful in industrial careers. These “sub-professional skills”were instead what provided engineers with the potential to be successful professionals.Academic Acceptance From the 1960s through today the question of the value of technology andapplication-based education in the university setting has been raised. Grinter suggested that theapplication-based content belonged in the Technical Institutes as opposed to the traditional four- Page 10.560.5year university program. It has been suggested that engineering is intrinsically better than “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Erekson; Kurt Becker; Maurice Thomas; Christine Hailey

fellowships. The fellows begin the programin stages: 12 fellows starting in Fall semester 2005 (three at each institution), four fellowsbeginning in Fall semester 2007 (one at each institution), and similarly, four fellows beginning inFall semester 2008. The 12 fellows beginning in 2005 are expected to mentor students admittedin 2007 and 2008.Doctoral fellows will be awarded based on the following criteria. First, each doctoral universitywill utilize their own admission standards for initial consideration as a doctoral fellow. Second,doctoral candidates will be asked to submit a 1-3 page statement of their career goals, why theydesire to participate with the Center, and their level of commitment/availability to the Center.NCETE will consider the

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Ward; Robert Busch; Abhaya Datye; David Kauffman

students.The idea of offering BSChE degrees in specialty areas is not new. Most of us have been doing itfor many decades, but by default we usually offered only one specialty area: the traditionalchemical and petrochemical industry characterized by large-scale continuous processes. We dothis because it’s the way most of us learned, whether or not our current interests are in thosefields, and because most textbooks are structured with this type of curriculum in mind. The jobmarket, however, is much broader, and our students’ interests follow their perceptions of the jobmarket as well as their own views of productive, interesting careers. If we want to continueattracting students to chemical engineering programs, we must accommodate these

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jerome Lavelle; Joseph Herkert

arrive at satisfactory solutions.” “True engineering considers not only what we can do, but also what we should do. Today's engineer must understand the social, political, and environmental impacts of technology to achieve true progress.” “Books by Volti and Teich: $32. Alarm clock to wake up for service activities: $4. Extra coffee for Capstone all-nighters: $6. Earning the right to call oneself a Franklin Scholar: Priceless.” “Being able to approach a problem from two directions is a feat in itself, but being surrounded by such an amazing group of people for five years is beyond compare.”Franklin Scholars have gone on to careers in engineering and management consulting in suchareas as

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IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Solt; Ashbjorn Osland; Anuradha Basu

Competition The SJSU Silicon Valley Business Plan Competition (SVBPC) spans the academic year andculminates with the final round of judging each year in June on the SJSU campus. The primarypurpose of the SVBPC is to create start ups. This creates a real world emphasis that encouragesstudents to think about entrepreneurship as their career of choice as opposed to seeking thesecurity of a salaried position. The SVBPC also encourages innovation on the SJSU campus, rewards student participationin new venture creation, and increases recognition of SJSU’s contribution to entrepreneurship inthe greater San Jose metropolitan area. As such, the SVBPC is a regional competition, and each team submitting a business planmust have at least one SJSU currently