Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Meyer, United States Military Academy; christopher conley, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Steven Hart, United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Page 15.115.1 Director in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at West Point where he teaches and supervises five senior level design courses. His current areas of emphasis are infrastructure analysis, protection, and resiliency, capstone course development, and integrated structural analysis and design. He is currently teaching a new course in Infrastructure Analysis and© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Protective Design and is supervising a faculty team developing another new course in Infrastructure Engineering.James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy Led Klosky is an Associate Professor and acting Deputy Head in the Department of Civil and

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Slaton, Drexel University; Mary Ebeling, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

manufacturing economic base lost to theservices and financial sectors over the past decades. [M]aking ‘things’, and not simply relying on a service and financial products economy, is critical to a nation’s economic resiliency. A country must have the technology infrastructure needed to compete on the world manufacturing scene. ...For the good of a country and its citizens, workers must have the educational background that allows them to move from job to job as sectors wax and wane. These points necessitate a strong workforce—–strong across the board from researchers to manufacturing-floor technicians.12Fonash points to the need to develop a technician class of nanoworker, an area that has been longoverlooked by workforce