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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong-Kyu Jung

classroom and industry?This question has been asked many times. In this paper we consider only the differences in thegoals, the quality and the scale of work between industry and academia. Because delivering themost marketable products in the shortest amount of time is critical in industrial projects, workingengineers are usually more interested in learning application-specific knowledge and skills as Page 10.179.1quickly as possible. On the other hand, engineering education usually deals with more general Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Powell; Michael Kwinn

personnel to workon engineering projects, and by having the opportunity to expose future Army leaders to the vitalfunctions performed by their organization.This paper explores the uniqueness and nature of our work-based education program, itspurpose, our process for matching cadets with a participating agency and follow-up feedbackfrom students. The feedback is used to assess the viability of the program for future students andparticipating organizations. Additionally, this paper provides practical guidelines forimplementing such a program in any engineering curriculum to enhance a student’s engineeringeducation and learning.IntroductionIn the early 1980s, reformers became increasingly preoccupied with the effects of inadequateeducation of U.S

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Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationactual projects, but because most projects last one year, ultimate conclusions must waituntil the early May submission of the final reports.Background and Pedagogical TheoryBehavioral scientists classify thought processes into cognitive and affective domains [1].The cognitive domain includes higher order thought processes such as logic andreasoning and is the primary (and in many cases, the only) target of engineering curricula.The affective domain includes attitudes, values, and self-concept. These attributestypically cannot be measured directly through exams and other classroom instruments,yet they are essential components

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

project is themodeling and design of a hot air balloon, which students built and tested. The hot air balloonhad to meet specific size, cost, time aloft and payload criteria. The program is a scaled-downversion of the Introduction to Engineering course that the authors teach at the University ofMaryland Baltimore County. At each seminar, the high school students learn engineeringfundamentals that relate to their design project and participate in hands-on activities andcompetitions. The students compete for prizes provided by Northrop Grumman. In most of thesessions, a technical expert presents material on topics related to their design project; examplesinclude: the Engineering Method, Buoyancy, Materials Testing and Properties, and

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Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lonnie Welch; Karin Sandell; Chang Liu

-technical coworkers and clients throughin-depth discussions on software requirements, design, and implementation. Clearly,communication skills are an important skill set to software engineers. Yet computerscience undergraduate students, many of whom will become software engineers after theygraduate, receive little training in teamwork and communication skills, especially in thecontext of computer science coursework and projects. As a result, many computerscience students do not recognize the importance of communication and do not possesssatisfactory communication skills. For example, in Spring Quarter 2004, on ananonymous comment card collected from CS456/556, a software engineering courseoffered at Ohio University, one student complained that: “I

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Giles; Donald Roberts; David Mitchell; Anthony Richardson

Using Robotics Competitions to Teach Teamwork Principles And Fundamental Engineering/Computer Science Concepts James Giles, Anthony Richardson, Donald Roberts, David Mitchell University of EvansvilleAbstractAll freshmen in the electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer scienceprograms at the University of Evansville take a common “Introduction to Engineering” courseduring their first semester. The course is focused on exposing students to team-based,multidiscipline, and project-oriented learning. Two robotics contests are used to teachfundamental principles in electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science.The contests have also been very

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ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerri Burke; William Krantz; Joel Fried

: supplements to new or on-going NSF research grants; and, REUSite Grants based on a proposal to support a larger number of students on projects having a well-defined focus. NSF encourages REU Site programs to involve students from institutions whereresearch programs are limited. REU students must be either U.S. citizens or permanent residents.A significant number of the REU students should be from outside the host institution.An REU Site program typically involves participation of 10−15 students and is funded at a level Page 10.968.1of approximately $100,000 per year, usually for a period of three years. Renewal proposals from Proceedings

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Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Coleman; Hisham Alnajjar; Hesham Elsaghir; Alan Hadad; Donald Leone

Teaching Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Including Laboratory Sessions, using a Combination of Distance Learning and Distance Teaching Techniques. Donald Leone, Alan Hadad, Susan Coleman Hisham Alnajjar, Hesham Elsaghir University of HartfordAbstract The primary objective of this project was to teach sophomore engineering students thefundamental concepts of geographic information systems (GIS), but with the teacher andstudents in different locations. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems is a 2 credit half semester course with 6contact hours including 3 hours of laboratory work

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Dees; Megan Perkey; Karen Davis; Nicholas Harth

Session 1510 STEPing into the Classroom: An Alternative Capstone Experience Karen C. Davis, Megan L. Perkey, Nicholas B. Harth, Nathan Dees Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030This paper describes the experiences of three Electrical Engineering seniors who chose analternative to a traditional capstone design project; they applied their undergraduateengineering education in high school math and science classrooms as NSF STEPFellows. Project STEP: Science and Technology Enhancement Program is sponsored bythe

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Hasenberg

and apply design skills to solve real problems while alsoconsidering the related societal, cultural, and historical dimensions. The objectives of the coursefrom the college’s perspective were to give students an overview of and experience in design anddesign professions, give students an opportunity to do hands-on design projects, encouragestudents interested in majoring in design-related professions, including engineering, usepedagogical techniques from engineering, and introduce non engineering students to anengineer’s way of understanding and creatively engaging with the world. With its emphasis oncritical thinking, communication, diversity, and ethical issues and social responsibility, Design &Society was envisioned as a means of

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State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman; Leo McWilliams; Mark Gunty; Carrie Graf; Catherine Pieronek

have a loweroverall opinion of the first-semester engineering course. There was no statistical differencebetween group 2 and group 3 responses (at 5%) with respect to the evaluation of quality oflearning in the six aspects of the course.Two other areas where differences were observed between group 1 and the other two groups ofstudents related to student evaluation of the two projects completed in the first semester andstudent experience with respect to interacting with other students in the course. With respect tothe projects, the students are asked to rate the amount of learning, amount of effort, and interestlevel experienced in each of the projects using the following scale: 1 = Very high; 2 = High; 3 = Medium; 4

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

. The MTF is located onthe ASU campus at Mesa, Arizona. The curriculum uses a modular design, and is competencybased, and industry validated with the goal of producing work ready graduates.The intent of this paper is to cover the underpinning philosophy of the module developmenteffort designed to maximize the effectiveness of the development and delivery of a laboratorycurriculum for Microelectronics. The paper describes the in depth process involved in this effortby taking one module as an example to illustrate the salient features of this approach. Inaddition, a distinctive delivery tool that is developed under this project will be discussed toexplain how remotely situated students in two-year institutions will get access to the materialprior

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Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Dunn

reliableand accurate schedule updates using popular application software (Primavera Systems Inc.).Detailed ‘means and methods’ employed when updating schedules are described. In particular,the paper describes the software settings and approaches for configuring the settings in an effortto achieve accurate, reliable schedule updates.Introduction:Creating CPM (Critical Path Method) schedules for construction projects is commonplace.Construction schedules include a group of activities which must be performed in order tocomplete, say, a new building. Every activity in a construction schedule has an estimated timeduration to complete the activity. Examples of activities might include, ‘Erect Structural Steel’(with, for example, a ten day duration) or

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Millard

Session 1526 Impacting the Future by Leveraging the Past Don Lewis Millard, Ph.D. RensselaerAbstractThe paper presents an overview of a pilot project that utilizes the rich historical archives ofGeneral Electric’s (GE) science & technology to augment the production of new educationalmaterials; including a wonderful series of 23 scientific comic books that GE produced between1946 and 1959. The paper discusses how images of physical artifacts and historical documentshave been integrated with the comics and other archival pieces to produce interactive

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Singer

Collaborative Design across the United States Thomas M. Singer Sinclair Community CollegeHow 2 design programs have linked up in developing curriculum and student projects inusing collaborative design methods in the classroom.Project / presentation overviewwww.designcollaborative.orgThe design of manufactured parts at times requires a team effort. This team effort may alsorequire having to work with other design teams that are separated by a great distance. Gettingdesign and drafting programs to simulate this type of commercial interaction has beentraditionally difficult. Our Design program at Sinclair Community College and the Designprograms at

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Carriere

nation'sscientific and technological enterprise. One of the principal strategies in support of NSF's goalsis to foster integration of research and education through the programs, projects, and activitiesit supports at academic and research institutions. These institutions provide abundantopportunities where individuals may concurrently assume responsibilities as researchers,educators, and students and where all can engage in joint efforts that infuse education with theexcitement of discovery and enrich research through the diversity of learning perspectives. Thisapproach emphasizes the strong bond between learning and inquiry. It recognizes theimportance of building a solid understanding of math and science principles, as well asdeveloping skills for

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Internet Computing and Networking

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

Analysis of Wireless and Mobile Computer Networks Courses Maurice F. Aburdene, Xiannong Meng, L. Felipe Perrone, and Gregory L. Mokodean Bucknell UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an analysis of wireless and mobile computer networks courses. The resultsare based on information collected from course Web sites of universities and colleges incomputer science, electrical engineering and information science departments. The dataanalyzed include course titles, course structure, textbooks, major topics and their presentation,projects, and laboratory exercises. We found that wireless and mobile computer networkeducation can be divided into three

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Aller; Edmund Tsang; Andrew Kline

. These include projects for a classroom playhouse; an apparatus illustrating Archimedesprinciple; an apparatus to teach and experiment on electromagnetism, which has been throughseveral developmental iterations in the engineering design process involving students fromCEAS, COE, and K-12 teacher customers; and an interactive wind tunnel. Materials developedduring a joint workshop for practicing and pre-service K-12 teachers are discussed, where theparticipants worked with university faculty to develop their own STEM-related curriculummodules for classroom usage. Efforts continue to build and enhance a service-learningconsortium with academic units within WMU, other educational institutions, and communitygroups, including a project with Goodwill

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Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Deborah Sharer; David Murphy; Stephen Kuyath

the two one-week Summer Campsoffered by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s (UNC Charlotte) EngineeringTechnology Department as a part of its Diversity in Engineering Technology project, funded bythe National Science Foundation. The purpose of the camps was to involve high school studentsin an intensive week-long program and show them that engineering and engineering technologycould be fun and rewarding.The Engineering Technology Department at UNC Charlotte has four disciplines: ElectricalEngineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Civil Engineering Technology,and Fire Safety Engineering Technology. Faculty from each of the disciplines developed aneducational, but engaging, hands-on activity designed to pique the

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TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

Session 2150 Assessing the Assessments: Sometimes the Results are Surprising Joy L. Colwell, Jana Whittington, James Higley Purdue University CalumetABSTRACT: The Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision Department atPurdue University Calumet has been actively involved with course embedded assessmenttechniques for more than three years. The assessment project has spanned the engineeringtechnologies programs, the computer graphics technology program, and the

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

laboratory isdesigned to continuously evolve. Each semester has ten one-week fixed assignmentswith a three-week design project at the end of the semester. The fixed assignments areindividual and have specific learning objectives dictated by the course outline. Thedesign projects are team-based and use the same learning objectives as the fixedassignments. The finished design projects are then used as next semester’s fixedassignments. This paper will provide the details and evaluate the effectiveness of thisapproach.1. Introduction The development of the Internet has created a very efficient method ofdisseminating information. It is so efficient, that stopping the flow of protectedinformation is extremely difficult. This has been proven in many

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

degree andcreate a “project team”. For example: in a CGT bachelor’s degree program,develop six performance assessments (critiques) and rubrics, two in each of threesuccessive courses within the program.This approach uses six flexible, adaptable assessment tools, consisting of acritique and rubric for two projects in each of three successive courses. Theproject team produces valid, reliable assessment tools in the form of performanceassessment based critiques and rubrics which document student learning. Theteam documents the validity and reliability of the developed assessment tools, in away appropriate for this type of assessment tool, and also prepares all necessarydocumentation to prepare other faculty to use the assessment tools in

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

criticalobjectives are to increase retention of undergraduate students to graduation and to decrease thetime to graduation. The project described in this paper is focused on these two objectives. Page 10.1346.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The CircLES ProgramIn 1995 the National Science Foundation funded UTEP and five other minority-servinginstitutions as Model Institutions for Excellence in an effort to develop models for undergraduatescience, technology, engineering, and

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kerry Kinney; Tricia Berry

GLUE: Sticking with Engineering through Undergraduate Research Ms. Tricia S. Berry, Dr. Kerry A. Kinney The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) isin the third year of developing, managing and expanding a hands-on, seminar-basedundergraduate research program, Graduates Linked with Undergraduates in Engineering(GLUE). GLUE undergraduate student participants are matched by major and interest area witha graduate student for the spring semester. The undergraduate participant works with thegraduate student on a research project three to five hours per

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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

. Page 10.429.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe data gathering and analysis process included a forecast of engineering education demand forASU and an assessment of projected economic trends and needs for the state of Arizona.Engineering education literature was collected and examined and an analysis of non-disciplinespecific engineering programs was performed. In addition, site visits were made to five of theprograms. A team of Tempe Campus and East Campus faculty members conducted anassessment of Strengths, Opportunities, Weakness, and Threats (SWOT) of a new engineeringprogram and

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder

School of Science and Technologyprovided an opportunity to teach a hands-on, high school engineering elective course, targeted atinspiring students to explore engineering as a future career path. Through the support of an NSFGK-12 grant, the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program developed an engineering electivethat submerses ninth-grade students — most from populations traditionally underrepresented inthe field of engineering — in the creative engineering design process, including emphasis oncooperative teamwork, engineering design/build projects and making technical presentations.The goals of the Creative Engineering elective are to enhance student learning throughexperiencing relevant, hands-on, inquiry-based engineering; to instill

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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Harris; M. Bramhall; Ian Robinson; David Hick

undertake. This module develops the students’ teamwork andleadership skills away from the university, by participating in a series of indoor and outdoortasks, with an inter-disciplinary design focus, spread over a weekend. Assessment is by bothstaff observation and student self-reflection with a ‘portfolio style’ evidence-based final report.The second module described in this paper uses ‘video conferencing’ between higher educationinstitutions, with postgraduate students at each university undertaking joint project work. Thesejoint projects are multi-disciplinary, for example engineering students working with businessstudents, or materials engineering students working with design students. This leads to thestudents’ greater understanding of the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

. Professional organizations are available but are nationwide andeven though Universities can have student chapters, the bond that is built by having a universityconnection does not exist. It is the author’s observation that these students need the nurturingfactor which can be achieved by creating a club they can relate to in their undergraduate years.There are a number of successful efforts that have worked on increasing the number of femalestudents in SET fields. GISET is a club that tries to provide the community outreach found in thefollowing projects while keeping the connection/bond to the school. These projects include: 1) The Northwest Girls Collaborative Project (NWGCP) [11]: This project brings together organizations in Washington and

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Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Christensen; Scott Dunning

The University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center: Lessons Learned During the First Two Years of Operation By Thomas E. Christensen, Scott C. Dunning University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing CenterAbstractThe University of Maine’s College of Engineering has created an Advanced ManufacturingCenter with a student-oriented mission. This center provides a distinctive engineering approachto solving manufacturing problems and gives Engineering Technology students hands-onexperience working on engineering and manufacturing projects. With much of the center’s workcoming from off-campus businesses; the students gain

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nastasi; Leslie Brunell; Keith Sheppard

Designing an Enclosure for the Concorde – A Novel Multidisciplinary Team Project J. Nastasi*, L. Brunell** and K. Sheppard*** *Industry Professor – Product-Architecture Program ** Lecturer and Design Coordinator – Civil Engineering *** Associate Dean Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030 The evolution of methods and materials of design and engineering increasingly requirearchitects, engineers and manufacturers to work collaboratively from the outset of a