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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tze-Chi Hsu; N. Yu

futurecollaboration with NSC may get more comprehensive information from the official website of NSC(http://www.nsc.gov.tw) and its science liaison officers. Despite the fact that the first author served as the directorgeneral for the International Cooperation Department of NSC between 03/1999 to 02/2001, and some of thecomments and recommendations are made based on his administrative experience, the opinions and suggestionsappearing in this paper are the authors’ own, and should not to be considered as representing those of NSC.Introduction Due to the global competition and the subsequent industry restructuring, engineering practice today haschanged dramatically. The rapid changes of technology due to the advancement of internet applications can

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Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bryan Laffitte; David Ollis

and the use ofmaterials. One of the expected outcomes of the third year studio is that the projectsdemonstrate the students ability to effectively apply what they learned aboutmanufacturing to the design of their projects. This studio therefore seemed a good placeto include course content related to the technology embedded in the product itself.The Use of the Laboratory The new course was to begin by assigning the students to choose between twoprojects, a portable CD player, or an electric guitar. The industrial design students wereto ‘dissect’ the product they chose as a group, under the guidance of the teachingassistants, who were graduate students in engineering. Once they understood the existingproduct and it’s underlying operating

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Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Baurin; Annita Alting; Ardie Walser

students had the necessary requisites forengineering courses. Since that time the method has been refined and has become apowerful tool for advisement and curriculum development. This paper will explore someof the advantages of using such a process by presenting both qualitative and quantitativeanalyses.IntroductionThe forever changing and increasing demands of a technology hungry society has theacademic community straining to keep pace with developing engineers that are ready andable to get the job done. Engineers are expected to have a much more extensive tool setwhen dealing with today’s technical and non-technical challenges. Employers are askingengineers to work more and more in teams consisting of members from dissimilardisciplines and often

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Bender; Amy Hoover; OraLynn Manweller

evaluated after three years.IntroductionCentral Washington University (CWU) is a state-supported university that serves approximately8,000 students, including graduate students. In the Industrial and Engineering Technologydepartment, there are eight majors offered to students. Among these choices are MechanicalEngineering Technology, Flight Technology and Construction Management. In all of theseprograms, women are underrepresented. It became important to work towards a more diversecomposition of students. The ACE Academy evolved from this necessity.In the summer of 2004, 23 girls (age 13-16) were accepted at the workshop. Next year, the campwill be expanded to 36. The academy begins on a Friday afternoon with girls getting to knoweach other and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Stephan; Matthew Ohland

Session 1526 Using Real-Time Sensors in the Engineering Classroom: The Ongoing Development of an Engineering Education Experiment Matthew W. Ohland and Elizabeth A. Stephan General Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634AbstractClemson’s NSF-sponsored EXPerimental Engineering in Real-Time (EXPERT) project isinvestigating the effect of using real-time sensors on student learning through graphicalrepresentations of various physical concepts and to facilitate learning the concept itself. Thispaper will address the development and adaptation of the experiment as a model for otherengineering

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

ADAPTING ENGINEERING COURSEWORK FOR INCREASED GLOBAL RELEVANCE* Bopaya Bidanda, Larry Shuman, Kate Thomes and Ozlem Arisoy Department of Industrial Engineering/Bevier Engineering Library University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261AbstractThis paper emphasizes the need for enhancing engineering curricula in response to the rapidlychanging landscape of the global engineering environment. In particular, rapidly changingtechnology, particularly information technology, corporate downsizing, outsourcing, andglobalization are dramatically changing engineering and the engineering workplace. As a result,the need

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

Session #### Creating a Community for Women Engineers at RIT Margaret Bailey and Elizabeth DeBartolo Mechanical Engineering Department, Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractAt the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the number of women engineering studentsgraduating each year from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering is approximately 11%,significantly below the 2003 national average of 20.4%. However, unlike the national trends inengineering student attrition, the overall retention rate for this relatively small group of RITwomen is actually higher than the retention rates associated

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Scherr; Bevlee Watford

strengthening the diversity within it.WEPAN was established to effect a positive change in the engineering infrastructure conduciveto the academic and professional development of women and men. WEPAN’s mission is to be acatalyst for change that enhances the success of women in the engineering profession.Since 1990, WEPAN has worked to ensure that a full range of talent – including women from alldemographic groups – choose to enter the engineering profession and will have the supportnecessary to succeed. With new technologies, global competitive pressures, and shiftingemployment patterns, that work has become even more critical. WEPAN has members fromover 200 engineering schools, corporations including Fortune 500 companies and non-profitorganizations

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Bertozzi

Center for Advanced Technological Education (MCATE). Participants presented their modules in October of 1997 at Purdue. After participating in this workshop we were more convinced than ever that we needed to give our students a concurrent engineering experience, and we began to acquire the various software tools necessary for this work and to outfit a machine shop to support it. In December 1997 we obtained an examination copy of Pro-Engineer and hoped to use it that spring for the FIRST robot design. We found that the learning curve for this software was too long, so we continued with AutoCAD AME. This is not to speak badly of Pro-Engineer. It is a very powerful software package, but for our purposes

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Hebrank; Glenda Kelly; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

Fellows and recommendations from theNational Science Education Standards on best practices for teaching K-12 science, the PrattSchool of Engineering created the MUSIC Program (Math Understanding through ScienceIntegrated with Curriculum). MUSIC is a GK-12 track 2 program funded by the NationalScience Foundation. The MUSIC Engineering Teaching Fellows receive intensive and pairedteacher/fellow training in inquiry-based instruction. The Pratt School of Engineering, partneredwith the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the North Carolina Science,Mathematics, and Technology Education Center, GlaxoSmithKline, Progress Energy and nineNorth Carolina school systems, has also developed a K-8 teacher training initiative known asTASC: Teachers

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Teaching Experiences in OME

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kevin Bower; Timothy Mays

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. ABET, ABET 2004-2005 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, MD.2. Black, J.M., Bower, K.C., Mays, T.W., and Dion, T., “Multi-Disciplinary Capstone Design Class: Integrating Specific Civil Disciplines, Teaching Styles, and Teaching Effectiveness to Meet ABET Criteria,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Southeastern Section Conference, Auburn, AL, April 4-6, 2004.3. Catalano, G.D., “Developing an Environmentally Friendly Engineering Ethic: A Course for Undergraduate Engineering Students

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MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

Session 3170 GUIDE: Helping Underrepresented Students Succeed in Engineering Amy E. Monte, Gretchen L. Hein Department of Engineering Fundamentals Michigan Technological University Houghton, MIAbstractThe Graduate, Undergraduate Initiative for Development and Enhancement (GUIDE) programcreates a supportive environment for first year engineering students from underrepresentedgroups. GUIDE provides first year students with undergraduate and graduate student mentors,financial

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Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer; Matthew Ohland

, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgementsOhland’s work was supported by NSF DGE-9809663, “NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship inScience, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education.” He also notes the mentors whohave helped him bridge the worlds of education and engineering—Tim Anderson (his post-doctoral mentor at the University of Florida), Marc Hoit (his Ph.D. advisor), and the entireSUCCEED leadership, particularly Rich Felder and Carl Zorowski.Palmer would like to thank the sponsors of RPI’s Electronics Manufacturing, his PhD AdvisorsMartin E. Glicksman and Krishna Rajan; and those who mentored him during the post-doctoralposition: Don L. Millard and Robert W. Messler Jr.Author BiographiesMATTHEW W. OHLANDis an Assistant

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Smith

encourage placement of graduating engineers in a global environment?Objectives: • Profile engineering/technology academicians from China, India, South America and the Middle East to enhance understanding of country differences • Share Fortune 500 transnational engineering recruitment preferences • Explore marketing techniques to successfully attract international students • Create an environment for retention of all studentsProfile 1: ChinaHigher education opportunities in China are very limited as compared to the United States (US).1The Chinese government heavily funds economic growth, yet this is not the case for education.The government of China invests merely 2.3% of its GNP 2 into the educational system, ascompared to an

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Denny Davis

students’ actual performance at the time of graduation andtheir predisposition for growth and adaptability upon employment. The development processfollowed that defined above, with multiple iterations and participation of multiple focus groupsrepresenting both academic and non-academic engineering perspectives. Major stages ofdevelopment are described below.Engineer attributes and performance expectations were compiled from sources including: 1. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Engineering Criteria 3 and 4 educational outcomes and their expansion6,15, 2. Desired attributes and codes of ethics from engineering education consortia and professional societies1,2,4,5,16,17, 3. Core competencies and performance

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kendrick Aung

: energy resources, energy conversion systems,energy conservation, and environmental pollution. During the course, exercises and teamprojects were assigned to design renewable and traditional energy conversion systems. Thispaper describes the assignments and projects used in the course to enhance the design experienceof the students. Detailed descriptions of each design project and the student design solution weregiven.Introduction Energy affects the lives of everyone in so many ways, economically, technically, andenvironmentally. Thus, integration of energy and its many aspects such as energy conservationtechnologies and environmental impacts of energy generation, in the educational curriculum ofscience, technology, and engineering

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Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yifat Kolikant; Bugrahan Yalvac; Ann McKenna

Cultivating a Community of Practice in Engineering Education Yifat Ben-David Kolikant1, Ann F. McKenna2, Bugrahan Yalvac11 The VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies/Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science2, Northwestern UniversityAbstractOver the past several years, as part of an NSF supported engineering research center, we haveworked in cross-disciplinary teams to enhance learning and instruction in the field of biomedicalengineering education. Our collaboration involved working with faculty and consultants withexpertise in learning science, assessment and evaluation, learning technology, and engineering.As cross-disciplinary teams we worked

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ronald Krahe

2005-2548-1119 Software Engineering Standards in the ECET curriculum Ron Krahe Penn State Erie, Behrend CollegeAbstractThis paper introduces the need for including software engineering standards in the ECET(Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology) curriculum today, and discusses the desireddepth of coverage. ECET comprises a broad array of topics, including both hardware andsoftware design and development. Many current electrical and computer systems containembedded controls of one sort or another, and in nearly all of them, the control affects the safetyof the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Kicher; Frank Adamo; Dale Flowers

technology entrepreneurship track.In 2002 we introduced a concentration in biomedical entrepreneurship within the MEM program.The educational objective of both tracks is to provide engineers with the business andmanagement context required to enable them to drive innovation within their companies whileserving in a technical capacity. In interactions with our corporate partners, we refer to graduatesof this program as “business minded engineers.”The program includes the academic coursework as well as an experience component (e.g., aninternship). Students may enter the program as undergraduates with senior status, typically inthe summer between the junior and senior years, and the program does not interfere withcompleting the undergraduate degree

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bassem Ramadan; Karim Nasr

the starting point. PBL is known fornaturally combining classroom learning with real-life applications. This approach places theburden of knowledge acquisition on the students and utilizes the instructor as a facilitator. It is astudent-centered approach emphasizing self-confidence and creativity. This paper presents theimplementation of PBL curricular materials (modules) in Engineering Thermodynamics that aresupported by technology through simulations and target higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy ofLearning. Undergraduate students go on to future courses with enhanced thinking skills andgreater retention of knowledge. Thermodynamics is restructured as modules presenting practicalapplications first whereas principles are introduced just-in

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Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard Amadei; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt

dire need for a transformative modelof engineering education and practice for the 21st century that: • Unleashes the human mind and spirit for creativity and compassion; • Expands engineers’ professional and personal commitments to include both technical and non-technical disciplines; • Inspires engineers to embrace the principles of sustainable development, renewable resources management, appropriate technology, and systems thinking; and • Prepares engineers for social, economic and environmental stewardships.A 2004 workshop at CU on “Integrating Appropriate-Sustainable Technology and Service-Learning in Engineering Education” further expanded on these ideas.Earth Systems Engineering is a general concept that embraces

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Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Bernal

-phase 2 goals were development of the Iron Man version of the Guide Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationbased on the feedback gathered in sub-phase 1 and an extensive review process similar to thereview process for the Stone Man phase.126 Accreditation Initiatives In order to understand the accreditation initiatives for software engineering, it is worthwhileto examine the accrediting agencies here in the United States. The Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) is a federation of 28 professional engineering andtechnical societies. Representatives from these societies, who

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Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Conrad Newberry

), espoused by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) [5], has required manyengineering education professionals to consider the detailed articulation of educational objectivesand their assessment for the first time. Accordingly, a number of seminars and symposia havebeen developed to address these issues [6]. After some six years, many engineering educationalprofessionals still have many questions concerning educational objectives and their assessment;in many cases because they are unaware of the work of, for example, Bloom [7], Krathwohl [8],Harrow [9], and Mager [10,11].Educational objectives, and methods for their assessment, have been around for many years.Many of our so-called objectives are, in reality, goals and, as such

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ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Refai; James Sluss

Session # 3432 A Laboratory Course for Telecommunications Systems Engineering Hazem H. Refai and James J. Sluss, Jr. School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Telecommunications Systems Program University of Oklahoma – Tulsa Abstract An integral part of the curriculum in the recently developed Master of Science in Telecommunications Systems program at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa is a laboratory course. The course is designed to enhance student understanding of fundamental computer networking

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Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

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John L. Falconer; Janet deGrazia; Al Weimer

all levels and sizes as indicated by Table 1. One of theinstructors has used clickers in classes outside the department with similar success. Class # students Level Chemistry for Engineers 400 freshman Creative Technology 450 fresh/soph Material & Energy Balances 75 soph MechE Thermodynamics 35 soph ChE Thermodynamics 55 junior Heat Transfer 55 junior Materials 65

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IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

forEngineering and Technology) or any other accreditation board criteria. In fact, it reinforces thegoals of accreditation; of the eleven criteria required under ABET Criterion 3, stating therequirements for engineering graduates, IP knowledge would be included in seven, including “anability to design,” “a knowledge of contemporary issues,” and “an understanding of professionaland ethical responsibility.” IP encompasses design and identifies the latest contemporary issuesassociated with engineering. More importantly, it is an engineer’s professional and ethicalresponsibility to research claims prior to publication or use. Also, it the engineering educator’sresponsibility to teach future engineers how to protect his or her rights of creation. For example

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Capstone and Senior Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary McDonald; Charles Knight

system related to mechanical engineering. During fall 2004, the class wasdivided into four design groups with the mission of each group being to demonstrate thedifference in exhaust emissions comparing old and new technology devices for one of thefollowing devices: chainsaws, weed trimmers, leaf blowers, and lawn mowers. Both fourand two stroke internal combustion engines, some with catalytic converters, wereincluded in the comparative testing project. This effort was related to EPA requiring thatthe Chattanooga area begin tailpipe emission certifications in 2005.Generally speaking, graduating student responses show that the design project is mostbeneficial in that it enables the students to see how their college experience can be usedin

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Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hung Tao Shen; Amy Zander

engineering programs within the department. The background and justificationfor the new environmental engineering degree program are given here, and the process ofobtaining the approval and support of the Departmental faculty. The curriculum of the newenvironmental degree program is also presented, along with how the curricula of the CivilEngineering and Environmental Engineering degree programs complement each other, thebenefits and problems associated with this new degree program, its impacts to students on theireducation and to faculty in both teaching and research.BackgroundClarkson University is a small, independent, technology focused, national university withprograms in business, communication, engineering, health sciences, liberal arts

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Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Julie Graf; Ann Christy

, and a fine art gallery provided by students, staff, and faculty. Evaluation methods includedparticipant interviews and a web-based survey of departmental undergraduates, alumni, faculty,staff, and graduate students that explored their attitudes towards poetry, engineering creativity,and the humanities.IntroductionPoetry is a compressed form of creative writing which incorporates concrete language, compleximagery, and rich sensory details. Poetry writing can benefit engineering students by enhancingtheir written communication skills, and giving them the opportunity to explore another side oftheir creativity. The Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) affirmed thevalue of several traits that can be enhanced by participation in

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New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

Everyday Problem Solving in Engineering: Lessons for Educators1 David Jonassen, Johannes Strobel, Chwee Beng Lee University of Missouri/Concordia University/Nanyang Technology University Many engineering programs have integrated problem-based learning (PBL) into their instruction. Quite often, the problems that are solved in PBL programs are not authentic. In order to develop more authentic problems that are required to prepare engineering graduates to solve complex, ill-structured workplace problems, we developed a case library of engineering problems as described by practicing engineers. The qualitative analysis of those stories showed that workplace problems are ill