Conference Session

EM in a Global Environment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Halvard Nystrom, University of Missouri-Rolla

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

, and peer review and final selection are based solely on your application and accompanying materials. • Do your homework. A thoroughly researched, well-planned application for a carefully chosen award (the best match of applicant to award) will have a considerable advantage over its competitors. • Realize that collaborative projects between a U.S. and an overseas scholar are more compelling to reviewers • Have a clear strategy. Make sure all parts of your application work to form an integrated whole. • Your application should o Highlight the aspects about you and your career that will give reviewers a focused yet well-rounded view of your candidacy o Convince

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Krupczak, Hope College; James Heisler, Hope College; Thomas Ludwig, Hope College; Roger Nemeth, Hope College; James Piers, Hope College; Neal Sobania, Pacific Lutheran University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

prior to entry into the demanding world of work2. Page 11.1142.3While some hold that Japanese undergraduates work less hard than their UScounterparts6,7, others conclude that workloads and effort expended are comparable8.Japanese education has also been characterized as a more dispersed life-long processcompared to the US, especially in technical fields6. It consists of rigorous broad-basedtraining before college, focused study as an undergraduate, and acquisition of applied orpractical knowledge on the job. In contrast, most aspects of career training in the UnitedStates are concentrated almost entirely into the undergraduate program. While

Conference Session

IP and Supporting Student Startups

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Moore, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; David Shepard, Engenius Solutions

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

development organization, at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.This paper provides an update to a paper written in 2004 titled Engenius Solutions: ChangingHow Undergraduate Engineers Think by Batta, Andrew, et al.Traditional engineering education + EntrepreneurshipThe mixing of engineering education with entrepreneurship and new product development hasbroadened the career pathways and knowledge base for many students. The growth ofconferences focused solely on entrepreneurship in engineering and engineering+businesseducation provide an indication of the importance many engineering and business leaders areplacing on this integration. The Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education (REE)[http://ree.stanford.edu/] and the National Collegiate Inventors

Conference Session

Reforming the Industrial Engineering Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ana Ferreras, University of Central Florida; Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida; Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida; Luis Rabelo, University of Central Florida; Kent Williams, University of Central Florida; Pamela McCauley-Bell, University of Central Florida; Edward Hampton, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

, Engineering Leadership, and Ergonomics.Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida Dr. Crumpton-Young is an accomplished academician who has excelled in the areas of teaching, research, and service to the engineering community. Currently, Dr. Crumpton-Young is PI of the NSF Engineering Education sponsored grant for Departmental Reform. Dr. Crumpton-Young’s research record includes hundreds of technical publications and presentations. Her research endeavors have received external support from NSF, ONR, NASA, DOE and private industries, such as UPS, IBM, Caterpillar, Intel, LA-Z-Boy, Lockheed Martin, Garan Manufacturing, and Southwest Airlines. She was also an NSF CAREER award

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gul Kremer, Pennsylvania State University; Madara Ogot, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

” activities encourage the development of curiosity, proficiency and manualdexterity, three desirable traits of an engineer.14 Dissection gives the students early exposure tofully operational and functional products and processes. Introducing these experiences early inthe students’ academic careers has been shown to increase motivation and retention.17 Inaddition, dissection can be used to provide an awareness of the design process.9Dissection activities are used in engineering education to fulfill one of two needs: to exposestudents to and give them a better understanding of physical artifacts or to inspire students in Page 11.428.4engineering (see

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raluca Rosca, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

) felt that people with advancedMATLAB experience that are enrolled in this class should be offered the option of a project ormore complex programs. Students commented favorably on the integration of MATLABprograms in PowerPoint presentation, as well as on the rapid feedback provided by thediscussion of the homework problems in class.From the nine students answering the open-ended question regarding the strengths of thecourse (EML 4920), 6 students commented positively on MATLAB. One senior level studentwent on to say “MATLAB is a crucial tool in the future of any engineer. Providing studentswith a basis of its features and workings early in their college career is imperative.”Other Students’ Opinions on MATLAB Teaching and Miscellaneous

Conference Session

International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nina Dahlmann, Technische Universitat Berlin, Inst. f. Mathematik; Sabina Jeschke, Technische Universitat Berlin, Inst. f. Mathematik; Christian Thomsen, Technische Universitat Berlin; Marc Wilke, Technische Universitat Berlin

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

) who are not completely sure about what area of natural sciences is most appealing tothem, often causing them to “default” to courses like Biology and Chemistry. Furthermore, thesestudents tend to pursue a career in teaching, not as a researcher, later on.The structure of these studies with its multidisciplinary contents derived from Mathematics,Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Computer Sciences, are furthermore especially directedtowards the preferences of women. One potential problem of these courses may arise from thestrong experimental component of the studies. Due to their socialization, women oftenunderestimate their abilities7 and do not possess the same degree of experience inexperimentation as men. As mentioned above, experiment and

Conference Session

Teaching Innovation in Architectural Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suzanne Bilbeisi, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

students are typically visual learners, drawnto this profession because of a desire to design and bring order to a visual field of information.Most begin this career path, however, with very little knowledge of current architecture andarchitectural engineering practice. Though teaching via a case study method has been utilized formany years in the medical and legal fields, its application as an educational process for thearchitectural field demonstrates increasing merit. In the highly visual “Introduction toArchitecture” course, students are stimulated to understand how actual architects and engineershave grappled with the various graphic conventions, fundamental ordering systems, visualprinciples, and design processes as they relate to the

Conference Session

The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Large Seagrave

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

practicalprofessional practice issues. Thus, the major focus of this course really falls on multitasking.Reaveley states "everybody has to learn some aspects of multitasking; the students have tomultitask between their course loads. They’ve got an obligation here, and here, and here. If theydon’t learn to multitask they will be limited in their career advancement…when I was runningmy office, in a month’s time I’d work on 25-30 projects"8. The goal of the CLEAR and CVEEN4910 instructional team is to produce graduates who are prepared for a multitasking environmentwith solid written, oral and teamwork communication skills besides the science and technicaltraining traditionally expected of engineering programs.Although the program, in its third year, has not

Conference Session

Hurricane Katrina

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Chen, University of South Alabama

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Ocean and Marine

Highway Administration. Dr. Chen is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and a member of ASEE, ASCE, AGU, and ACE. Page 11.60.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Lesson from Hurricane Katrina: Meeting the Need for Coastal Engineering Education and Research in the Gulf Coast RegionAbstractOne of the important lessons from Hurricane Katrina (2005) is the pressing need for coastalengineering research and education along the Gulf Coast. There are 21 universities offeringgraduate programs in coastal engineering nationwide. However, most of the coastal engineeringprograms are located on the East and West

Conference Session

FPD1 -- Implementing a First-Year Engineering Course

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dana Elzey, University of Virginia

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First-Year Programs

component of the curriculum. These changes include increasing numbersof women and minorities in engineering (and the need to increase them further), better preparednessof high school graduates for college-level study, and heightened competition among institutions andfields for the best students. Entering engineering students are therefore more diverse, moredemanding, and more ‘consumer-conscious’ and sophisticated in the evaluation of career alternativesthan ever. So in addition to providing students with the fundamentals of technical problem solving,the intro to engineering course must now provide an effective learning experience for a much more

Conference Session

Customizing Courses for Industry Training Needs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Kuprenas, University of Southern California; Elhami Nasr, California State University-Long Beach

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

2006-1862: PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION FOR APUBLIC SECTOR ENGINEERING ORGANIZATIONJohn Kuprenas, University of Southern CaliforniaElhami Nasr, California State University-Long Beach Page 11.1043.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Project Management Training and Certification for a Public Sector Engineering OrganizationAs engineers progress through their careers, many engineers perform less traditional technicalengineering and spend more time acting as engineering project managers who perform little orno traditional engineering work. Engineers functioning in both roles, however, are essential tosuccessful

Conference Session

Engineering Education & Capacity Building in Developing Countries

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinay Kumar Domal, UWA; James Trevelyan, UWA

Tagged Divisions

International

Page 11.1312.4‘specifications and constraints’ is used to discuss the types of facts and laws that rule over thedesigner’s practices that limit their development of design solutions. Third, the notion ‘designdiscourse’ is developed taking into an account of the importance of negotiation from differentviewpoints during the design and production of artefacts. It is evident Bucciarelli has a clearmind-set ‘that design is a social process’ and informal social structures determine theeffectiveness of work activity.Based on a pre-conceived model of technical work in terms of problem solving, craft skills,networking and integrating, (Solomon and Holt 1993) interviewed engineers at differentstages in their career to gain a picture of mechanical

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Durward Sobek, Montana State University; Susan Freeman, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

career and job advancement opportunities. Introductory coursesserve to expose student to the breadth of the field and help recruit students to a little knownmajor. Ideally, these courses prepare students for follow-on courses and future IndustrialEngineering (IE) jobs.The IE programs at Northeastern University (NU) and Montana State University (MSU) haverecently developed introductory courses to attract students to the IE major, expose them to thebreadth of the field, and prepare them for future coursework. The instructors of these courses(and authors of this paper) independently developed hands-on and other interactive activities tointroduce core IE topics. It is well documented that active learning techniques enhance learningand the student

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Gene Gloeckner, Colorado State University; George Morgan, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Book” and co-author of “Technology and Society: Crossroads to the 21st Century” and “Technology and Society: A Bridge to the 21st Century.” He is a member of IEEE, ASEE, ASQ, and LIA.Gene Gloeckner, Colorado State University Dr. GENE GLOECKNER is an associate professor in School of Education, Colorado State University. He has authored a number of research articles and books. During his 30 years of professional career, he has held various teaching, research and administrative positions at Colorado State University, Montana State University, Ohio State University, and Illinois State University.George Morgan, Colorado State University Dr. GEORGE MORGAN is a Professor emeritus in School of

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marc Christensen, Southern Methodist University; David Willis, Southern Methodist University; Scott Douglas, Southern Methodist University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Engineering Education at SMU. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. Dr. Douglas' is a recognized expert in the fields of adaptive filters, blind source Page 11.71.1 separation, and active noise control, having authored or co-authored two books, six book chapters and over 150 journal and conference papers in these fields. He was the recipient of an NSF CAREER (Young Investigator) Award in 1995 and has received significant research funding from the U.S. Army, other U.S. governmental organizations, the State of Texas, and Raytheon© American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ernest McDuffie; Elaine R. Milliam; Robert Kavetsky; Ronald Bennett; Eugene Brown

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

degrees to ensure the economic future of the nation;• To foster stronger ties between the university researchcommunity and the Navy in order to apply the latest research in amore timely fashion;• To provide new pathways for talented STEM professionals toenter careers at Navy research and development centers.The focus of the NNCS Leadership Symposium is having an initialgathering of students from several different universities across thenation. They will come together to form learning communitiesacross boundaries. Each student will engage with teams oflearners, mentors and advisors from differing backgrounds andinterests. These teams will provide an environment for learningsupport, for deep inquiry and encouragement for stretching oneselfto take

Conference Session

Promoting Scientific and Technological Literacy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Douglas, Southern Methodist University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

CAREER (Young Investigator) Award in 1995 and has received significant research funding from the U.S. Army, other U.S. governmental organizations, the State of Texas, and Raytheon E-Systems Company. He is highly active in professional societies. He has been an Associate Editor of both the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and is past Chair of the Neural Networks for Signal Processing Technical Committee and Secretary of the Signal Processing Education Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is regularly involved in organizing professional meetings, most notably as the Proceedings Editor of the 1999 International

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Schreier, University of Dayton; Carl Eger, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

International

one-or-more other ETHOS facilitated programs. These other ETHOS facilitated programs will bediscussed throughout this paper. These quotes reflect the enhanced quality of student educationthrough such experiences.  “The experience was extremely rewarding and has changed me as a person…I feel I can affect things globally now.”  “Not only did I get work experience in my specific career field, but I got to experience a different culture and interact with new and interesting people.”  “I learned so much about myself, another culture, and the world around me.”  “This experience has helped me develop as an engineer. I have gained real-world knowledge of how things work…I feel like I am better able to picture how things should

Conference Session

Ensuring Access to K - 12 Engineering Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tremayne Waller, Virginia Tech; Sharnnia Artis, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech; Tasha Zephirin, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 11.92.2Many studies have examined non-cognitive variables to better understand student academicachievement. These studies have several the following experiences in shaping the pre-collegestudent’s academic success at the university. The experiences are (a) cultural awareness, (b)personal values, (c) interpersonal skills, and (d) career objectives.1,9 These experiences areimportant issues to examine when working with pre-college students due to the students’different experiences within secondary education. Therefore, pre-college students’ adaptation toa college environment may vary depending on their encounter with higher education.Thus, it is critical that administrators in higher education and other stakeholder groups (i.e.faculty, staff

Conference Session

Technology in Classrooms - Construction Engineering Perspective

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhili (Jerry) Gao; Russell Walters, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

fielddue to their increasing availability due to the evolution of these technologies. With the currenttrends in 4D CAD, more construction companies are integrating GIS with scheduling. Therefore,more and more contractors and transportation agencies are expecting the GIS and GPSknowledge and capability from new graduates of construction engineering and managementprograms. Introduction of GIS and GPS to the undergraduate students in constructionengineering and management program will bring them a positive element for their career infuture. Some programs of civil engineering have incorporated GIS courses in their curriculum1; 2.In the area of undergraduate construction education, however, it is very hard if not impossible toestablish an independent

Conference Session

Standards Based Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Levelle Burr-Alexander, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

preparation programs. Are there a sufficient number of teacher preparation programs to put qualified and knowledgeable teachers in our classrooms?1. IntroductionOver the next few years the demand for engineers is expected to increase three times faster thanfor all other occupations combined [1] but the number of students pursuing careers inengineering is not increasing adequately to meet this demand. In fact the number of studentscompleting baccalaureate degrees in engineering has increased very little over the last decade [2].Engineering plays a major role in shaping the world today. Yet many bright, capable studentschoose not to pursue sciences in high school, and therefore have no opportunity to enter highpaying engineering and technology

Conference Session

Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

free ofgender-based discrimination.29 Moreover, an educational institution that provides career andplacement services has an obligation to ensure that employers who use campus facilities torecruit students for employment also abide by relevant nondiscrimination laws in theirrecruitment and employment practices.19 Usually, a statement assuring that the employer doesnot discriminate, signed by an appropriate employer representative, will suffice for thesepurposes. However, when confronted with evidence that an employer has not lived up to itsnondiscrimination obligations, an educational institution may have to take corrective actions thatcould include banning the employer from recruiting on campus or terminating a co-oparrangement with that

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wells, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

2006-16: ON THE STRUCTURING OF THE GRADUATE ENGINEERINGDISQUISITIONDavid Wells, North Dakota State University David L. Wells has been a manufacturing engineer for over four decades, roughly equally divided between industrial and academic employment. He has been Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at North Dakota State University since January 2000. Prior to this appointment, he served in a manufacturing engineering and education post at Focus: HOPE for six years and on the faculty of University of Cincinnati for fifteen years. His early career included some twenty years in research and development, manufacturing engineering and production management in the power generation

Conference Session

Engineering Education & Capacity Building in Developing Countries

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Alice Abreu, OAS; Marta Cehelsky, InterAmerican Development Bank; Teofilo Ramos, Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey; Daniel Marcek; Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC; Luiz Scavarda Do Carmo, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; John Spencer, Microsoft Corp.; Jorge Yutronic, Conicyt - Chile

Tagged Divisions

International

national science and technology. She served in a number of senior policy positions at NSF, NASA, and on the staff of Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC). She was a member of the faculty of Brooklyn College, CUNY and the University of Houston and holds a doctorate from Columbia University in political science.Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC RUSSEL C. JONES is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services in engineering education in the international arena. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: faculty member at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering at University of Massachusetts, academic vice

Conference Session

Assessing K - 12 Engineering Education Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gordon Kingsley, Georgia Institute of Technology; Monica Gaughan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and has taught in the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She focuses on equity issues in education and K-12 educational reform. Marion is co-PI of the STEP NSF grant.Monica Gaughan, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Monica Gaughan is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy. Her research currently focuses on higher education policy and administration, and scientific careers and labor force. She was awarded an NSF CAREER award to investigate the effects of university-level personnel policies and practices on the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women faculty in science fields

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

in the processare also included. This paper reviews different types of assessment, examines specificassessment measures and certain issues associated with them, and evaluates assessment data todetermine the extent to which program outcomes or objectives are being achieved.I. IntroductionThe basic premise of the accreditation process for engineering technology programs, inaccordance with the technology criteria 2000 (TC2K)1 adopted by the TAC/ABET, is that everyprogram must demonstrate, through documentary evidence, that program educational objectivesand program outcomes are achieved. The program educational objectives are defined as broadstatements that describe the career and professional accomplishments that the program ispreparing

Conference Session

Design Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cesar Luongo, Florida A&M/Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M/Florida State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

capstone course we have limited the ability of the studentto choose projects and instead the instructor assigns the teams and forces students to work ingroup without the comfort level of picking teammates. The process is somewhat complicatedbecause certain constraints need to be observed: • Allow members of students chapters (e.g., SAE, ASME) to work on specific projects sponsored by such organizations • Allow students on the BS-MS (co-terminal) track to work on projects sponsored by certain industrial partners that also serve as hosts for summer internships • Consider the student’s career interest or objectives as much as possible (e.g., students going into a bioengineering program in graduate school, students

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey Wood, Southwest Tennessee Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

2006-789: A DISTRIBUTED LEARNING NETWORK UNITES THE MID-SOUTHGeoffrey Wood, Southwest Tennessee Community College Geoffrey A. Wood is the Program Coordinator of the Manufacturing program and an assistant professor in the Engineering Technologies department at Southwest TN Community College in Memphis Tennessee. Degrees include a M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering Technology and a M.A. in Technical Writing from the University of Memphis. Mr. Wood worked in the inspection and NDE field prior to joining the teaching staff at Southwest. In addition to his academic career, he maintains a regular consulting business. Mr. Wood was awarded the State of Tennessee's Innovations in Distance

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Gershenson, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

for the day, one student turned to me and said, “That wasincredible. I have never had the experience where I was the one that everyone else wanted to be.I never thought that would happen in engineering or school.” This past year, we had one studentwho had set plans to get an MBA and go into marketing after graduation, assuming that theywere not a good engineer and they were therefore uninterested in doing it as a career. At ourfinal lunch the team member said, “I never knew I was this good of an engineer. Now I have torethink my whole career plan.” Competition programs run well give these sorts of opportunitiesmore readily than the typical industry sponsored programs. Competition programs run poorlygive no such opportunities.One other