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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek

BEYOND EQUATIONS: TEACHING ORGANIZATION THEORY TO PRACTICING ENGINEERS Zbigniew J. Pasek University of MichiganINTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATIONIt has been long recognized that skills needed by the engineers in the technical workplacecomprise not only of the technical competence and familiarity with various types of technology,but also have to encompass communication, teamwork, ethics, and many other issues.Interestingly, many of these skills are activated only in the work-setting and universities ingeneral some of these skills are hard to acquire during an academic training. The alumni surveycarried out annually by the College of

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Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

, American Society for Engineering Education”Course requirements include three assignments to cover the following topics: (1)Professional, ethical, and social responsibilities; (2) Recognizing the need for, and anability to engage in lifelong learning; and (3) Recognizing the need for timeliness,quality, and continuous improvement. These assignments consist of having students readhandouts, perform library and Internet searches, and submit two-page reports thatdemonstrates their understanding of these issues. Week Number Topics and Activities Course requirements 1 Life long learning Professional, ethical, and social responsibilities

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Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

common design seminar and in effortsto encourage development of multidisciplinary design teams.The primary result of this effort was the initiation of a senior design seminar2. Thecatalog description for the course was posed as: “Elements of Professional EngineeringPractice. Professionalism, licensing, ethics and ethical issues, intellectual property,contracts, liability, risk, reliability and safety, interdisciplinary teams and team tools, therole of codes, standards and professional organizations, career, entrepreneurship, humanfactors and industrial design.” The stated intent of the seminar was “… thedevelopment of design skills through lectures about elements of the design process. Thiscourse will include seminars on: professionalism

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

, which require working knowledge of procurement, financialanalysis, sales and marketing, and other non-technical matters.The employer evaluation is a measure of student’s competence, and therefore can be used toassess the program outcomes. The IPFW cooperative education employer evaluation consists oftwo parts: Performance factors survey and comments. The performance factors assess theachievement, during work terms, in theses areas: • Professionalism • Academic Preparation • SkillsThe achievement of understanding the professional and ethical responsibility (ABET outcome f),and the ability to use techniques and skills (ABET outcome k) are difficult assessment tasks foreducators when it is done solely based on academic performance

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Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hjorth; Barb Eichler; John Morello; Ahmed Khan

students to realistically assess technological implications within the worldstage and to bridge the gap between the developed world and the developing worlds. The coursefalls into the inter-disciplinary STS classification (a field known as Science, Technology andSociety whose main focus is to explore the influences of technologies on society and therelationships between societies and technologies). The course emphasizes an integration of alltheir previous studies at DeVry in addition to professional group work, research, researchpresentations and technical reports, communication, critical thinking and analysis, solutions andapplications of the moral and ethical dilemmas the use of technology sometimes presents. Thecourse also identifies conditions

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi; Dan Dimitriu

successful careers in industry. The courses at the freshman-engineering levelmust contain special features designed to enhance the educational quality of the materialspresented, improve student retention, develop ethics and problem-solving abilities, and provideearly design experience that motivates students to study.The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is an urban, state-supported university. TheCollege of Engineering offers BS and MS degrees in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Page 10.618.1Engineering. It also offers Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

standards in keeping with the ethics and practices of other professions2.Approved education, appropriate experience, and examination, commonly called the Three E’s,are required in order to become a licensed professional engineer11. This paper describesexperiences related to the operation of a Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) review course Page 10.1085.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationdesigned to assist individuals to become Engineers-in-Training (EIT). Successful completion ofthe

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Neal Ninteman; John Natzke

, computerprogramming, engineering graphics, the visualization and modeling of real-world systems, andthe history and ethics of the engineering profession. The course also equips the students incomputer aided design tools, solid modeling and simulation software, and mathematics softwareapplications. Though the subject matter is somewhat traditional, innovative ways have beenintroduced of structuring the class and engaging the first-year engineering students. The primaryfocus of the course is on five major team design projects during the year, in which the studentsutilize all of their gained knowledge and training, and apply the various engineering designmethodologies and skills/tools. The design projects are presented in a variety of communicationforms

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Whelan; Sharon Jones

suggested by NAE with the assumption that ASCE’s recommendations are included in this combination. For comparison, two sample undergraduate civil engineering curricula are shown from the top undergraduate engineering programs according to the 2004 US News and World. The authors do not endorse this ranking system, but merely use it for illustration purposes. The authors also took the liberty of assigning named courses to various ABET/NAE skills which may be controversial given our significant lack of knowledge of the details of each program. We recognize that some of the skills may be obtained in a variety of courses that cannot be interpreted from the name of the course e.g. ethics may be incorporated in design courses. In addition

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Meyer; Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

example, “anunderstanding in most of the following: biology, geology/geomorphology, engineeringeconomics, mechanics, material properties, systems, geospatial representation, and informationtechnology.” There is an increased emphasis on ethics, leadership, social awareness, politicalunderstanding, public policy, and business practice. The outcome that requires an understandingof asset management suggests the use of tools and techniques that include “design innovations,new construction technologies, materials improvements, geo-mapping, database management,value assessment, performance models, web-based communication, and cost accounting.” Thereis a clear emphasis on breadth at the undergraduate level with much of the specializedknowledge deferred

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

(GD&T),sketching, animation, descriptive geometry, desktop publishing, website development, ethics,and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM). Questions related to ethics and on-line anddistance education courses were added to the current survey at the suggestion of themembership of EDGD.The second major category examined student populations, especially in regards to gender andthe majors of students taking courses related to engineering/technical graphics. This categorywas unmodified from the previous study.The third category concerned the backgrounds of faculty teaching engineering/technicalgraphics, professional activities and development as well as major concerns in the professionand future trends. New areas added to this category were

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Jung; Anthony de Sam Lazaro; Amanie Abdelmessih

students usetheir knowledge from all previous courses and creative improvisation. Additionally, socio-economic and ethical issues are addressed as part of the design paradigm. Team work isemphasized. Problem recognition and statements, definition of the problem, constraints,alternative solutions and their evaluation, considerations of economics and manufacturing,scheduling, and meeting deadlines of the project are stressed. The distinctiveness of this programis the integration of students from the School of Business and the 'end-user' into the design team.The design project further hones oral and written communication skills of the team. This paperdiscusses the learning objectives and outcomes, structure of the class, organization of the

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Armstrong; Donna Riley

throughout the semester to plan their contribution tothe installation, which included fabricating art objects (including a representative circuit andcapacitor) and producing a GIS map of materials flows in capacitor production. Each class hadits own set of conventional deliverables including term papers, ethnographic research projects,ethics essays, and formal project reports.The collaboration process is discussed, including how such projects are generated, how twodistinct cultures of students can be brought to work productively together, and how to work wellwith off-site collaborators, which include a Sprague engineer as well as the art collective. Finally,reflections are offered about the impact of this collaborative project on students, the

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satinderpaul Devgan

EducationThe Program Educational Objectives (PEO) of the Electrical Engineering (EE) programare:1 To provide the student with the knowledge of natural sciences, mathematics, engineering and computer science so that the student has the ability to systematically delineate and solve electrical and related engineering problems.2 To provide the student with a broad-based background in electrical engineering with experiences in the design, development and analysis of electrical and computer systems, subsystems and components.3 To provide the students with an engineering education to function as educated members of a global society, with awareness of contemporary issues, professional responsibility, ethics, impact of technology on

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

together onto a printed circuit board. In modern digital systems design, softwarecode describes the functionality of each chip. The code for these chips is available(usually for purchase) so multiple chips can be fabricated in one chip (called a System-on-a-Chip). Our digital systems design course incorporates this concept. Students learnto integrate 3rd-party modules into their own digital designs and are encouraged to useany free modules they find on the internet. However, every module must be documentedand cited correctly for good engineering ethics. Students may use modules developed byother students in previous semesters as long as proper documentation is included.Since previous laboratory work is available to next semester students, the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Carl Eger

-learning) program. Thiscourse spanned the winter and summer semesters and included language preparation, culturalimmersion and appropriate technology readings and a six to sixteen week summer service-learning experience doing technical or engineering related work in a developing country. Theoverall goals of this course were to provide undergraduate engineering students with anopportunity to prepare for, choose and then participate in an international technical serviceplacement to enable them to experience another culture, apply the knowledge gained in othercourses to solve unique engineering problems, gain a greater understanding of appropriatetechnology and contemporary issues related to global development, engineering ethics, programmanagement

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cote

Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationc. an ability to conduct, analyze and interpret experiments and apply experimental results to improve processes,d. an ability to apply creativity in the design of systems, components or processes appropriate to program objectives,e. an ability to function effectively on teams,f. an ability to identify, analyze and solve technical problems,g. an ability to communicate effectively,h. a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in lifelong learning,i. an ability to understand professional, ethical and social responsibilities,j. a respect for diversity and a knowledge of contemporary professional, societal and global issues, andk. a commitment to quality, timeliness, and

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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

. Table 1: ABET Outcomes (a through k). (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (g) an ability to communicate effectively (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues (k

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Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

, Subject-Specific Computer Software, Power Point, etc.All this has to be accomplished with in a 4-year span of course work. Each program triesto deliver what it can to meet the needs of their students. Ethics, and team work areincluded, so are oral and written skills in the breadth of the program. It may seem fromthe surface that essentially every aspect of the curriculum is covered. But it is not. Sometopics are mentioned but not covered. Some topics are covered in breadth but not indepth. Each program has its own strengths and weaknesses.Basic Elements of the 21st Century Body of Knowledge for a Construction ProfessionalThe body of knowledge for the 21st century constructional professional should parallelthe body of knowledge required of the

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Walker; Hayden Griffin; Tamara Knott; Richard Goff; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

computer science bound students. The primary problem with the existing coursewas that instruction using Matlab, which is inherently procedural, was viewed as aninappropriate first programming experience for computer science and computer engineeringstudents, who will ultimately program in Java and C++, respectively. Moving directly into anobject-oriented programming (OOP) environment was desired.5,6Design of the new course involved faculty from all engineering departments, with computerscience and electrical & computer engineering being more involved since the primary changewas at their request. After considerable discussion a syllabus was arrived at that involves generalproblem solving, ethics (formerly engineering ethics, now expanded to

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Drnevich

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education30 years. Mr. Law was given access to the course through a fictitious student and could monitorcourse progress and provide advice to the faculty and students from his west coast office. Healso made several visits to the class during the semester and sat as one of the panelists for someof the presentations.Professionalism and Ethics - Rather than the traditional student-teacher relationship, theapproach taken since the spring 2001 semester was a professional one. For all activities exceptthe presentations, the course instructors played the role of principals in the firm. The

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McDonald

complete the BSSE program at Monmouth University must havedemonstrated: a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data c) an ability to design a software system, component or process to meet desired needs d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve software engineering problems f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility g) an ability to communicate effectively h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of software engineering solutions in a global and societal context i) a recognition of the

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff; Paul Leiffer

facts and ideas. The public for whom it is intended is generally competent to manage such discourse.” 1310. Expectation of high grades, motivationMany students have an expectation of higher grades without a corresponding effort.Students are often prepared in high school to expect high grades with little homework andmodest effort. “Grade inflation”, experienced in grades K-1214, and now shown to beevident in universities15,16,17accelerates this tendency over time. This accompanies a“consumer” mentality, which works against the idea of the university as a community oflearners. There is a lower incidence of work ethic, a lower motivation to learn, and thetendency to cheat is higher18. As a logical consequence of all these traits

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs

and for use assenior electives. The Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (Rice) has developed anumber of interdisciplinary graduate-level science courses, including “Science Policy and Ethics;”1 newmasters programs in Nanoscale Physics, Environmental Analysis and Decision Making, and SubsurfaceGeoscience2,3; undergraduate courses such “Nanotechnology: Content and Context;” undergraduatemodules4; and modifications to existing senior and graduate-level courses5,6. While the Center forIntegrated Nanopatterning and Detection Technologies’s website7 (Northwestern) lists no courses, a Page 10.1365.2number of courses with

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ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerri Burke; William Krantz; Joel Fried

Research Traineeship (IGERT) program; inclusion of freshman and non-engineering students; effective inter-college participation; strong ethics component; timelyprogram evaluation; technical papers competition; and financial support to present a subsequentpaper at a regional or national meeting. Metrics of the program’s effectiveness along withstudent evaluations and comments on the program are also given.1. Introduction1.1 The NSF REU Program:The goal of the NSF REU program is “…to expand student participation in all kinds of research− whether disciplinary, interdisciplinary, or educational in focus − encompassing efforts byindividual investigators groups, centers, national facilities and others.” 1 The NSF REUprogram has two components

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Joseph Herkert

Colleges of Agriculture andLife Sciences, Textiles, Management, Design, and Natural Resources). The earliest of theseprograms were founded in the mid 1980s and early 1990s in order to enable “graduates who areknowledgeable not only in technology and science, but also in human affairs.” [4] The FranklinProgram, which accepted its first “cohort” of students in 1990, is the largest and second oldest ofthe dual-degree programs. Its goal is the “integration of engineering, the humanities, and socialsciences throughout the program [to develop] the students' technical skills and ethical, historical,political, and economic insights which are so essential to the conduct of national and globalaffairs.” [5]C. Relationship of Program to Overall Mission of the

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University; Shane Palmquist, Western Kentucky University

programs implements the project-based mission in a differentway. The mechanical engineering program has a design course at each level (first-year, second-year, etc.) with students receiving instruction and practice in design, communication, computertools, and ethics. In addition, other courses integrate projects directly into the course delivery.5The project-based mission in the civil engineering program is seen primarily via studentdeliverables rather than in the organization or description of the curriculum. In most courses,students work in either formal or informal group structures. Deliverables typically requireprofessional style formats. Students also see the project-based emphasis through case studies.Projects are often selected so that

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifford Mirman

of social impact and ethical considerations • Development of projects which are relatively inclusive of skills learned in programIn addition to the department faculty, the Departmental Manufacturing and ElectricalIndustrial Advisory Boards were asked to assist in developing this important course. As theadvisory board discussions progressed, some important additional goals started to emergelike requiring the student teams to make many presentations and reports as well as the needto have some industry interaction, application of economic analysis, and goal setting andtracking by all of the teams. Once the basic goals were developed, the course had to be structured, and the author,as department chair, was placed in charge of this

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Vendor Partnerships with Engineering Libraries

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruth Wolfish; Rachel Berrington; Andrew Wheeler; Jay Bhatt

because now that we know exactly what it is, we will not get into serious trouble by infringing off of someone’s invention.” “Personally think the Drexel links were the most valuable because they allow you to research patents on your own.” Drexel's engineering curriculum includes courses and exercises to emphasize the ethicalobligations of engineers.11 The focus of the patent discussion was not ethics pre se, but ethics-related concepts and relevant research skills were introduced during the event. The comment on‘infringements’ clearly indicates the student gained insight into the ethical aspects involved withany invention. The presentation about patents also emphasized acceptable ethical behaviorwhich has always been a critical