Conference Session

Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Zbigniew Czajkiewicz, Robert Morris University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Conference Session

History and Future of Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Digendra Das, SUNYIT

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Engineering Technology

the possibility ofestablishing a Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) in the emerging field of Nano andBio Information Technology. All the participants agreed that in order to achieve this goalan initial organization would have to be formed for a period of two years, which wouldbe located at SUNYIT, Utica, NY, and named “New York Nano-Bio-MolecularInformation Technology (NYNBIT) Incubator”.The mission and purpose of this organization is to set up a plan to establish a Center forAdvanced Technology (CAT) focused on fostering an environment of research,development and education and creating a new industrial base in New York State in thisunique technology area.The collaborating Institutions are: 1. SUNYIT 2. SUNY- Geneseo 3. SUNY

Conference Session

Electromechanical Curricula

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores, Alfred State College; David Hunt, State University of New York, Alfred

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Engineering Technology

that meets for three one-hourlectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. The course learning objectives are shown inTable 1. The EMA course is team taught, the lectures are taught by a MET faculty member andthe laboratory is taught by an EET faculty member. The topics covered in the lectures mainlyinvolve theoretical analysis of statics, dynamics, and strength of materials. A summary of thetopics covered in the lectures is given in Table 2. Course Learning Objectives • Apply basic methods of statics, dynamics and kinematic analysis • Analyze the characteristics of common mechanisms • Be able to work with, describe and use the common types of mechanical to electrical transducers used in this

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anca Sala, Baker College; Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

methodology for assessing student achievement in one of the Physicscourses in the calculus-based Physics sequence, and the results we obtained for the past twoacademic years. Achievement of each Student Learning Outcome was determined quantitativelyusing a spreadsheet program. A special focus was placed on Student Learning Outcomes directlyrelated to the a)-n) ABET required program outcomes for Mechanical Engineering programs. Wefound the methodology to be very helpful in assessing topics of difficulty for students, and year-to-year trends in student learning.1. IntroductionDirect assessment of student learning outcomes1 is a practice now embraced by a majority ofcolleges and universities with ABET accredited engineering programs. The way

Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Sgro, Eastern Kentucky University; Steve Freeman, Iowa State University

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Engineering Technology

as the “Backward Design Process”. This is an approach to develop technical courses thataim to cultivate higher-order skills in students. By incorporating recommended critical thinkingdesign features, this article provides examples and a framework for the development of newcourses or the revision of current courses. A list of websites devoted to critical thinking andUnderstanding by Design tools is included at the end of this article for additional information.Critical ThinkingCritical Thinking can be defined as, “the art of thinking about thinking in such as way as to: 1)identify its strengths and weaknesses, and 2) recast it in improved form (where necessary)”3 (p.22). Chaffee1 defines critical thinking as, “An active, purposeful, organized

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies / Pedagogies

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Chris Collins, University of Cincinnati; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Continuing Professional Development

environments.WikiA wiki is a piece of software that resides on a server and permits individuals to create and editcontent of web pages using a web browser. They support hyperlinks and generally incorporate asimple mechanism for creating new pages and links between internal pages. In addition to addingand modifying content, individuals may also be able to change the organization of the content.The first wiki – wikiwikiweb – was developed by Ward Cunningham in 1994. (1)The key value of a wiki is that multiple users can easily add, edit, and amend a collective pool ofknowledge, all while preserving a record of how, when, and by whom the information wasadded. This “history” mechanism of the wiki page allows the co-authors to analyze and debaterevisions, revert

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Clifton, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

retrieve semester start-up data from a university database and populate the tool’s SQL databaseTool Functionality for StudentsStudents access the tool via the secure web link: https://gamma.uwplatt.edu/SE_Tools/. They Page 13.105.4are prompted for their university e-Directory login name and password. Upon a successful login,the student is presented with drop-down lists to select the course and project within the course.At that point, the project page comes up, defaulted to the Timelog tab as shown below. Figure 1: Student Time Log and PlanTime log entries are generally made using the “Punch In” / “Punch Out

Conference Session

Web-Based Learning in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

situations as many exercises are prepared as warranted by the topic addressed. Threeexamples are presented in this paper (see Appendix). Two exercises are presented in Example 1pertaining to the topic of internal reactions at two different locations of a beam shown in Figure1. The feedback information is also included in each exercise. The reason for providing thesetwo exercises on the same topic is for the students to recognize that there is a fundamentaldifference in terms internal forces between these two locations, which in turn would translate todifferent stress conditions at these two sections (1-1 and 2-2). Example 2 is on calculation ofstresses using the same beam in Example 1. Two exercises are shown – one for normal stress atpoint A at

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Curtis Welborn, Utah Valley State College; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley State College

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Information Systems

. Temporal logic[1],[2] defines a basic set of primitiverelationships that can exist between intervals in time. These same primitive relationshipscan be used to express temporal relationships between business objects. The EnhancedEntity Relationship (EER) notation allows business rules to be shown in a graphic formusing action assertions which keep the business rule at a conceptual level withoutspecifying how the rule will be implemented. In this paper we will show how the EERnotation can be augmented to allow a software engineer to specify temporal-basedbusiness relationships in a relational data model.IntroductionThere are three common types of business rules[6]: structural assertions, action assertionsand derivations. A structural assertion is

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; Omar Elkeelany, Tennessee Tech University; Larry Goolsby, Tennessee Tech University; Sandra Serkownek, Columbia State Community College; Tim Dean, Nashville State Community College

as well as several years experience as a consulting engineer in the field of industrial and manufacturing automation. Page 13.260.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Broadening Rapid Prototyping Awareness via P16 STEM Teacher WorkshopsAbstractThe Objectives of the NSF CCLI Phase 1 Award 0536509 are to provide exposure to, anddissemination of, state of the art rapid prototyping technology to educational institutionsthat do not otherwise have access to such technology. These objectives are accomplishedthrough the development of an Internet based remotely accessible rapid

Conference Session

Learning about Electric Energy Conversion

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilya Grinberg, Buffalo State College; Carl Spezia, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Herbert Hess, University of Idaho

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

machineat steady state. Figure 1 shows an induction motor torque-speed plotted together with blowertorque-speed curve that was generated from the E-book. Students use E-book content to find theelectromechanical system operating point, which is the intersection of the two curves, anddetermine if the motor is overloaded. The interactive nature of the E-book allows students tochange motor and/or load parameters and repeat the problem in a short time.Buffalo State College recently acquired new electromechanical laboratory equipmentmanufactured by Lucas-Nulle12. It consists of a variety of 0.37kW motors, a servo-brake, andcomputerized control equipment. The computer system controls the servo-brake, provides dataacquisition, and graphing capabilities

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Willis, Southern Methodist University; Paul Krueger, Southern Methodist University; Alice Kendrick, Southern Methodist University

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Mechanical Engineering

each participating laboratory were included on the website. Matching ofselected participants with faculty mentors was performed by the principal investigators (PIs)based on project preferences. The program lasted eight weeks during the summer of 2007. Since the students werematched with various laboratories and were not all working with the same research group, thePIs felt that it was important to maintain a cohort experience among the participants. Severalgroup activities outside of the laboratory were organized to facilitate this endeavor. The primaryactivity was a seminar series on various aspects of experimental methods, taught by the PIs. Thetitles of the seminars and a brief description of each are listed in Table 1. Group trips

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer - I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Troy Dent, University of Alabama; Keith Woodbury, University of Alabama; Robert Taylor, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

engineering software packages. The wide availability of MS Excel contributes toits use. With this in mind, an Add-in for MS Excel is being developed to provide a usefulpackage of engineering functions for heat transfer instruction. The initial Add-in was developedto calculate the dimensionless temperature for 1-D transient heat conduction in a solid. TheAdd-in includes 4 functions which handle a plane wall, infinite cylinder, sphere and semi-infinitesolid. Additional modules have been developed to calculate the local or average Nusselt numberfor internal or external flows and the view factors for different 3-D radiation heat transfer set-ups. Currently, these three modules are presented separately as part of a Heat Transfer course,but could be

Conference Session

Computer ET Innovation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Koontz, Rochester Institute of Technology; Chance Glenn, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Indelicato, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

. Page 13.736.2The Local Access NetworkThe local access network is sometimes referred to as the “last mile” of the information highway.It has also been known as the local loop network or the “outside plant”. It is the part of thetelecommunications network that connects individual subscribers (residential and business) to anetwork node (e.g., a telco central office). The local access network was originally designed toprovide analog voice service. It was required to transmit a limited range of audio signals (up toabout 4000 Hz), DC control signals (on/off hook and dial pulses) and ringing voltage (about 90VAC @ 20 Hz) over a distance that normally ranged up to about 13 miles (1). The traditionalmedium of choice has been twisted pairs of copper

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anca Sala, Baker College

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

library of motions foranalysis, and adding a laboratory experiments component are some of the future goals for thecourse.1. IntroductionExposing our undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students to wider engineering topics, andspecifically to Biomedical Engineering, was one recommendation made to us by ABET as partof the continuous improvement process of our program. Biomedical Engineering is an area ofhigh growth according to the U.S. Department of Labor projections data for 2006-20161. Inresponse to this continued demand, many Biomedical Engineering programs have been added inuniversities across the United States. In addition, Biomedical Engineering is taught as part of thecurriculum of other engineering disciplines as well2, benefiting the

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Spezia, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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Engineering Technology

technicalproficiency, and also understand the mission and goals of their employer to remain in theworkforce. Current engineering technology accreditation requirements recognize these demandsand focus on measurable student outcomes. The new requirements seek to develop life-longlearning skills, written communication skills, and oral communication skills along with technicalproficiencies in all graduates. Satisfying these goals requires new teaching methods that are morestudent-centered.1 One technique being applied is project-based learning.2,3Project-based leaning provides enriching educational experiences that help motivate students tobecome self-learners.1 Project-based learning experiences give technology students a chance toconstruct their own knowledge

Conference Session

Focus on IE Course Design and Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Paul Griffin, Georgia Tech; Garlie Forehand, Georgia Tech

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Industrial Engineering

froma new cohort which expands results previously reported are now available. Included in theinstruction are 1) a tutorial, 2) a number of sessions for practice and feedback on the workforcepresentation skills in a Workforce Communication Lab, and 3) a senior executive paneldiscussion on communication skills needed to move up the career ladder. The evaluation criteriainclude student-perceived confidence and competence. Also described are data on student needsreported at the beginning of the course and student benefits reported at the end of the course.The results provide substantial evidence that the instruction in workforce presentation skills iseffective in the eyes of studentsIntroductionOver the past decade, multiple studies have indicated

Conference Session

Physics Education Research (PER) Relevant for Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Maloney, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng)

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Educational Research and Methods

1 Given Familiar Given Page 13.1092.2 2 Given Unfamiliar Given 3 Incomplete Familiar Given 4 Incomplete Unfamiliar Given 5 Given Familiar Open 6 Given Unfamiliar Open 7 Incomplete Familiar Open 8 Incomplete Unfamiliar

Conference Session

Philosophy of Engineering Education: Epistemology and Ethics

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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Liberal Education

of the essay “TheRhythm of Education.” He distinguishes between three stages of mental growth – romance,precision and generalization. “Education should consist in a continual repetition of suchcycles.”53 They may be of a long duration or of a short duration. Thus in the long term thestages shown in exhibit 1 can be related to primary, post-primary and higher education. ButWhitehead would argue that we approach problems however simple or complex in this way. Sounderstanding the stages leads to particular types of curriculum and instruction. There is animmediate lesson for those promoting the teaching of engineering in elementary and post-elementary schooling: that is, that the emphasis should be on the stage of romance. This is notto say that

Conference Session

Design Project Based Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Matsson, Oral Roberts University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

technician. All five students were working together during testing of theapparatus including flow visualizations and measurements of temperatures for determination ofRayleigh numbers.TheoryThe instability of the flow between two parallel plates heated from below is governed by theRayleigh number Ra. ( g2 T1 T2 ) L3c ✁ Ra = Pr (1) 32where g is acceleration due to gravity, 1 is the coefficient of volume expansion, T1,T2 are thetemperatures of the hot and cold surfaces respectively, Lc is the distance between the surfaces,Pr is the Prandtl number and 1 is the kinematic

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Mueller, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne; Hossein Oloomi, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne; Elizabeth Thompson, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne; Jiaxin Zhao, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne; Steve Walter, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng)

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Graduate Studies

assistance of the engineeringdepartment’s industrial advisory board and posted on the internet. Seventy on-lineresponses were obtained, along with sixteen paper copies. Employees of companies suchas International Truck & Engine, Raytheon, UnderSea Sensors Inc., ITTAerospace/Communications Division returned most of the surveys. The results aresummarized in Table 1. Table 1. Results of industry surveys. B.S. Computer Engineering 6% B.S. Electrical Engineering 27% Degree obtained B.S. Mechanical Engineering 29% B.A./B.S. Computer Science 20

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly Matusovich; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

thesecharacteristics that they define as important to success? Results show success beliefs do changeover the four years. First-year students give generic responses that are not specific toengineering. By the third and fourth year, students who have interned have: 1) more specific,concrete beliefs about success that are grounded in personal, authentic experiences, and 2) canmore accurately assess their abilities citing specific evidence. Additionally, the data demonstratethat students who lack confidence in skills they perceive to be important to successful engineerscan still have a positive expectancy of success in engineering. The results generally supportEccles’ model with one modification.IntroductionEngineering students have been described as “dogged”. 1

Conference Session

Novel Energy Applications in Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Swedish, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

freezer example was reexamined. Here is a case where the water has been taken out ofequilibrium with the environment by lowering its temperature, not raising it. The students wereshown that a calculation of the heat transport of exergy showed that exergy was transported fromthe freezer to the water; that is, in the opposite direction to the energy transport (see Figure 1).But this was precisely what intuition suggested about the process. The Second Law is apowerful model indeed. freezer exergy energy H2O Figure 1A

Conference Session

Successful K-12 Programs for Girls & Minorities

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Tolley, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Anthony Brizendine, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Michael Phillips, Department of Engineering Technology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Adam Harris

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Carolina at Charlotte(UNC Charlotte), the National Science Foundation, and local partners. NCJETS involves over 30middle and high schools from seven counties. The purpose of the program is to engage studentsin educational, interesting, and challenging activities that: (1) introduce them to variousdisciplines and career opportunities afforded by the engineering profession; (2) inform themabout two- and four-year college admission requirements and actions they need to ensure theireligibility for admission; and (3) establish a sense of community with Lee College students andfaculty prior to their graduation from high school. Week-long resident summer camps areprovided for middle and high school students, where the high school students receive a

Conference Session

International CIase Studies: Collabs, Exchanges & Interactions

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Willie Ofosu, Pennsylvania State University - Wilkes-Barre

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International

contend with. The local conditionsare therefore being highlighted in a curriculum to ensure that the engineers, technologistsand technicians have adequate training to operate, service, and where possible, modifythe equipment to suit local conditions.References[1] http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts[2] “Ministry to Promote ICT in Schools” www.ghanaweb.com, Friday, December 21, 2007.[3] “Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide,” National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), October 2000.[4] Sarnoff, Alvin P., “Closing the Digital Divide”, ASEE Prism magazine, April 2001, pp. 17 – 21.[5] “Digital Gap Has Generated New Social Inequalities” www.ghanaweb.com, Friday, November 17

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Janice McCain, Howard University; Helen Chen, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

sample of the students at the four institutions (n=842). These studentshad not previously taken the longitudinal survey and represented a comparable sample ofstudents from these institutions. Data analysis for each of the methods is ongoing.I: Survey Questions on Group IdentificationA series of questions (items) designed to assess group identification with engineers andengineering students was administered to the longitudinal cohort of students twice, once in thefirst year and then again in the sophomore year. Four constructs comprised a number of items; afull list is given in Table 1. Three of the constructs used to explore specific dimensions ofengineering identity are based on constructs found in the Multidimensional Inventory of Black

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Samir Hefzy, The University of Toledo; Mehdi Pourazady, The University of Toledo; Abdollah Aliakbarkhan Afjeh, The University of Toledo

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Design in Engineering Education

lectures and guest lectures on topics Page 13.521.2such as the design process, creativity, product liability, patents, and the business world. Thefrequency of the class meetings is determined by the Course Director. Attendance is taken at thebeginning of each class period. Part of the grade is determined by attendance. Students areresponsible for all materials, announcements, schedule and grading policy changes discussed inclass.Organization of Senior Design Projects:1. Project Identification:Senior Design projects are typically proposed by local industries, faculty and students. Eachproject is supervised by one or more faculty advisor and

Conference Session

Innovations in Biological/Agricultural Education-II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Schreuders; Sara Driggs

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Biological & Agricultural

are quantitativelydifferent as to degree, betweenness, and closeness.IntroductionMen and Women in Engineering Much research has been conducted about women in engineering, ascertaining the socialimpacts, interactions and affects of women in a male dominated workplace.1 However, theintimate details of these issues will not be discussed here. The focus of this research is to studythe structure of the social networks and the impact of gender on position within these structures.Biological engineering, like many engineering disciplines, faces challenges recruiting andretaining women at all levels of the profession, from freshman undergraduate to professor. Whencombined with a strong move toward teamwork in the educational process, the question

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard McGinnis, Bucknell University; Alexandra Coleman, Bucknell University; Jacqueline Denning, Bucknell University; Joseph Smith, Bucknell University

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International

-09 activities will be included in thepresentation at the Annual Meeting in June.BackgroundThere is no question that today’s engineering student must be prepared to work in a globaleconomy. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires thatengineering programs provide “the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global and societal context.”1 The National Academy ofEngineering’s report on educating the “Engineer of 2020” includes similar guidance.2 TomFriedman’s recent popular book, The World is Flat, describes in detail the globalization of theworld’s economies and repeatedly shouts the need for understanding this phenomenon.3 Animportant part of our university’s strategic plan

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Theis, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; patricia watkins, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Library; Mary Angela Beck, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

“principles of sustainable development”1 as primary to the ASCE’s code of ethics to beimplemented in engineering education. Previously, in June of 1999, the Board of Directors forthe American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) approved the following statement onsustainable development in education: Engineering students should learn about sustainable development and sustainability in the general education component of the curriculum as they are preparing for the major design experience. . . . Engineering faculty should use system approaches, including interdisciplinary teams, to teach pollution prevention techniques, life cycle analysis, industry ecology, and other sustainable engineering concepts.2ASEE has aligned