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2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Tammy M. Lutz-Rechtin; Edgar C. Clausen

provide training and be on-site duringthe audits.In 2012, ACS published a report by the Safety Culture Task Force outlining seven elementswhich reinforce and promote a strong safety culture (University of California Center forLaboratory Safety 2012). A collaborative audit targets at least four of these areas and possiblymore. Specifically, this audit encourages: 1) leadership and management of safety, 2)cooperative interactions at multiple levels, 3) the development of positive safety attitudes, safetyawareness, and safety ethics, and 4) the promotion and encouragement of communication aboutsafety. The paper, Academic Leaders Create Strong Safety Cultures in Colleges and Universitiesby Robert Hill and David Finster, argues that the most important

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2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Hani Sait; Hamzah Raja

where “Students must . 2be prepared for engineering practice through a curriculum culminating in a major designexperience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work and incorporatingappropriate engineering standards and multiple realistic constraints”[3]. ABET requiresprograms to show evidences that students has developed the “ability to design a system,component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic,environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability”[2]. Available research suggests that project-based learning (PBL), appears to