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Shamil F. Daghestani; William G. Sullivan

, “Teaching Engineering Economy in the Context of Design,” Frontiers in Education Conference of IEEE, November 1994, pp. 669-673, (invited paper).WILLIAM G. SULLIVAN is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute andState University. He is the author/co-editor of eleven books and over 120 technical papers. One of Dr. Sullivan’sbooks, Engineering Economy (Macmillan), is now in its tenth edition. Dr. Sullivan’s current research interestsinclude justification of advanced manufacturing technologies and activity-based costing applied to the designprocess.SHAMIL F. DAGHESTANI is a graduate student in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and State University. Shamil expects to complete

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K. P. Brannan

, Page 2.495.4this opportunity would be lost. Ideally, a Campus Representative should be a person who is personally motivated topromote engineering education. It is important that he or she understand and believe in thebenefits offered by ASEE such as publications (Prism, Journal of Engineering Education,Directory of Engineering and Engineering Technology Undergraduate Programs, and Directoryof Engineering Graduate Studies and Research), meetings and conferences (Section meetings,National conferences, technical sessions offered by various professional interest divisions),projects such as Summer Faculty Fellowships, and national and sectional awards. Through avision of how these can positively impact the activities of faculty members and

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Shane Henderson; Leslie A. Olsen; John Birge

Session 3657 Improving Quality in Introductory Industrial Engineering through Case Studies and Communication John Birge, Shane Henderson, Leslie Olsen University of Michigan AbstractWe describe an introductory course in industrial engineering that uses case studies, teamwork,public policy issues, and a focus on the communication demands on engineers to provide —atthe beginning of a student's career—a synthetic view of the role of industrial engineers in society.The course covers typical industrial engineering

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Thomas R Phillips

, Mexican programs devote less time to thehumanities and social sciences. Some schools offer thematic “technology and society” courses. Inaddition to Communications skills, all students take English as a second language, whilecomparatively few U.S. engineering students go as far in “foreign” language.Mexican students must complete up to 480 hours of social service. The SEP-approved graduationrequirements for a professional title may also include a thesis or final project, or in some institutions,a professional examination formulated by the faculty. As previous stated, very few programs appearto have an internship or formal work experience, probably due to the time needed for social serviceand insufficient industrial support.Some engineering schools

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Thomas G. Stanford; Donna J. Michalek; Donald Keating

Session 2275 The Tenure and Promotion Dilemma at the Nation's Professional Schools of Engineering Thomas G. Stanford and Donald A. Keating University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 Donna J. Michalek Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931 Abstract With today's emphasis on research at the nation's engineering schools, there exists anincongruence between graduate research

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Jim Morgan

, math andphysics taught in an integrated just in time fashion using technology and delivered in an active-collaborative environment to students working in teams of four. Through our thrusts ofintegration, teaming, active learning and technology we hope to produce engineers who can moreeffectively solve increasingly complex problems. This enhanced problem solving skill demands:• increased appreciation and motivation for life-long learning;• effective oral, written, graphical, and visual communication skills;• increased capability to integrate knowledge from different disciplines to define problems, develop and evaluate alternative solutions; and• increased flexibility and competence in using modern technology effectively for analysis

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Mark A. Shields; Bryan Pfaffenberger

Session 2561 Teaching Engineering Career Literacy and Teamwork Communication Skills in the First-Year Writing Course Bryan Pfaffenberger, Mark Shields Technology, Culture, and Communication/University of VirginiaOne of the challenges that has long faced engineering education is to adaptcommunications instruction to the needs of engineering students. English compositioncourses, while appropriate for liberal arts students, do not focus on the communicationskills prized by the organizations that hire engineering students. Such skills include thecapacity for clear technical exposition (including process analysis and

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C. Dianne Martin; Edmund Tsang; Rand Decker

, sharingideas and working in a group, designing a project to suit others, the importance of total groupinvolvement, the ability to communicate with team members, and the recognition of roles withinthe group.Concerning the objective that engineering students will learn to team effectively with middle-school teachers, they became more bothered on a series of items measuring teaming during thewinter quarter and less bothered during the spring quarter. The spring quarter improvement wasstatistically significant.Integrating Service Learning into an Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceCurriculumAs part of new curriculum guidelines to incorporate social and ethical implications of computertechnology into the required curriculum, a Technology and

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Barbara Tedesco; Sanford Bordman; Iftekhar Hasan

Session 2642 An Assessment and Teaching Strategies of An Integrated Model For Management and Economics Instruction for Engineers1 Sanford Bordman, Iftekhar Hasan and Barbara Tedesco New Jersey Institute of Technology Recent rapid advances in technology, fierce corporate competition, and tremendous uncertainty in today's economy have made the engineering function more complex and multifaceted than conventional or traditional forms of organization. Organizations are continuously trying to adapt to changes not only in technology but also in markets, regulations, financial innovations

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John K. Brown

Session 2661 Refashioning the First Year Introductory Course on Communications Skills and Engineering Practice John K. Brown Division of Technology, Culture and Communication School of Engineering and Applied Science University of VirginiaLike most engineering colleges, the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at theUniversity of Virginia confronts two novel curricular challenges. We must reconfigure ourprograms to conform to the ABET 2000 proposals while also seeking to boost institutionalproductivity

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Wayne C. Christensen; Robert B. Roemer; Donald S. Bloswick

is to prevent the existing major safety and health 3problems.” More recently, in 1993, Kavianian, et al suggested that engineers must: ...develop a scientific approach to solving safety and environmental problems. This scientific approach must be incorporated into all aspects of engineering and management of hazardous technology. From conceptual design, feasibility studies, pilot plant operation, semi-works 4 and commercial operation, to product shipment and waste disposal.They also noted that this can be accomplished only if engineers and managers, through propertraining and education, are knowledgeable in a variety of safety

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M. Giger; K. M. Siddiqui; C. Loukides; F. Coowar

Session 1260 Employment Pattern and Educational Standards of Engineering Graduates in the Lao PDR F. Coowar, M. Giger, C. Loukides and K. M. Siddiqui1 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland c/o National Polytechnic Institute, Vientiane, Lao PDRABSTRACTThe National Polytechnic Institute (NPI) is the only tertiary institution in the Lao PDR thatproduces engineering graduates at the Bachelor’s level in the major engineering fields ofCivil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Since its establishment under a UNESCO-sponsored project in 1984, a total of

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Shelly D. Burnside; Oliver K. Tse; Laura L. Beecroft; Jeffrey A. Smith; Eric D. Rodeghiero; Emmanuel P. Giannelis

among highschool students and incoming university freshmen. Members of the Department of MaterialsScience and Engineering at Cornell University have produced the Materials by Design web site(http://www.mse.cornell.edu/engri111/) to provide a broad introduction to materials science andengineering. Via a series of interesting examples, the web site illustrates the importance ofmaterials to our lives and provides an introduction to materials and their properties.IntroductionDespite the importance of materials in all technological developments, few students enroll inundergraduate programs in materials science and engineering at many U.S. universities. Severalobservers have reported a significant lack of awareness among high school students of

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Rosa Gerra; José L. Torres

Session 2470 Reaching for the Stars: 20 Years of Success in Advising Potential Latino Engineering Students José L. Torres, Rosa Gerra Indiana Institute of Technology/United Hispanic Americans Inc.IntroductionAccess to higher education has long been considered one of the cornerstones upon which trueracial and social equality must be built upon (Morrison, 1995.) Unfortunately, even after mostsignificant social and legal barriers have been torn down, college enrollment among the twolargest minority groups still lags behind that of the majority population. As shown in Figure 1

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Hamid Khan

Session 2660 Universal Leadership Education And Development for Managers and Engineers (U LEAD ME) Hamid Khan Ball State University Four years of undergraduate engineering education is not a panacea of success forengineers. Evidence suggests that most engineers need to learn the art of management when theyhave become successful as engineers but poor as managers of people, and must move on as moresuccessful managers of technology and people. [Drucker (1991)] But, such characteristics must be developed by programming and intervention and

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Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree; Wendy Newstetter; Jennifer Turns

Session 2230 Learning Essays and the Reflective Learner: Supporting Reflection in Engineering Design Education Jennifer Turns, Wendy Newstetter, Janet K. Allen, and Farrokh Mistree Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstract: Learning engineering design requires more than simply having design experiences.Design experiences provide a context for students to practice design skills and an opportunity forstudents to learn deep lessons about the nature of engineering design. Reflection on theexperiences is necessary in order to recognize and realize these lessons. Student questions like“Why do we

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Fazil Najafi

share results of new curricula among institutions. In the content of new curricula to goal it is already set b the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET). It is under ABET criterion that the engineering programsmust demonstrate that their graduates have2 : a) An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics science and engineering b) An ability to design and conduct experiments as well as to analyze and interpret data c) An ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs d) An ability to function on multidisciplinary teams e) An ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems f) An understanding of professionalism and ethical responsibility g) An ability to communicate

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Sheela N. Yadav-Olney; Jill M. Clough

Session 2325 FIRST - Engineering Partnerships Between University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Platteville High School Jill M. Clough, Sheela N. Yadav-Olney University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleAbstractThe University of Wisconsin-Platteville College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science haspartnered with Platteville High School and Wisconsin Power and Light to participate in theFIRST National Robotics Competition for the second year. FIRST, which is an acronym-- ForInspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is a program initiated by Dean Kamenof New Hampshire to

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Robert J. Beichner; Hugh Fuller; Richard M. Felder; Philip R. Dail; Leonhard E. Bernold; Ernest E. Burniston

, and J.E. Gastineau, IMPEC—Integrated Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, and Chemistry Curriculum: 1996 Annual Report, November 1996.RICHARD M. FELDER is the Hoechst Celanese Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina StateUniversity. He is co-author of the introductory chemical engineering text, Elementary Principles of ChemicalProcesses and codirector of the National Effective Teaching Institute. His papers on various aspects of engineeringeducation can be viewed at http://www2.ncsu.edu/effective_teaching/ .ROBERT J. BEICHNER is Assistant Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University. His interests centeron research and development of technology for physics instruction. Further information can be found athttp://www2

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Robert Engelken

tight engineering education job market and significant changes in the philosophy and“modus operandi” of engineering education (and practice). One simply cannot fall behind incomputer technology and educational “innovations” such as multimedia, distance learning, etc. orhe/she may become unemployable or unable to adjust to a “higher-tech” environment at anotherinstitution. Again, this makes it difficult to sit back, rest on ones laurels, and watch the world goby; one will be left behind unless time and effort are expended to stay up-to-date in theexplosively changing engineering profession. After 10-15 years of working “in overdrive,” subtle realizations begin to creep in. Onebegins to occasionally resent the never ending and often

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Anton Pintar

Session 3213 THE USE OF PROCESS FLOWSHEET SIMULATORS IN SOPH. AND JR. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING COURSES Anton J. Pintar Michigan Technological University ABSTRACTProcess Flowsheet Simulation Software has been used since 1990 in sophomore and junior level chemicalengineering courses at Michigan Technological University. MicroCHESS Process Simulation (by COADE) wasused in the mass balance course in 1990. Starting in 1991, HYSYS/HYSIM (by Hyprotech Ltd.) has been usedin the mass balance, energy balance

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Susan C. Grant; Sarah A. Rajala; Richard L. Porter; Kristine C. Lawyer; Hugh Fuller

mathematics andscience in high school.A report prepared by the Office of Technology Assessment (4) stated that if one were tofollow a group of 2,000 boys and 2,000 girls through their middle and high school years,one would find that by age twelve about half in each group would be sufficientlyprepared to undertake the courses in mathematics which would further prepare them toenroll in college to study in a quantitative field. However, by the end of high school,only 280 of the boys and 220 of the girls would have actually completed the necessarymathematics courses. Finally, the report states that of the original pools of 2,000, “only140 of the boys and 45 of the girls will actually enter college with plans to major inscience or engineering” (p. 115

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D. Raj Raman

. 943592. ASAE, 2950 Niles Rd.,St. Joseph, MI 49085-9659 USA.Walker, L. P. Course notes for Agricultural and Biological Engineering 451: Biomass Conversion Processes forEnergy and Chemicals. Unpublished. Biographical InformationD. RAJ RAMAND. Raj Raman received his BSEE from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1986, and his PhD in Agriculturaland Biological Engineering from Cornell University in 1994. He is currently Assistant Professor of AgriculturalEngineering at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with a 70% research, 30% teaching appointment. Hisresearch interests are in the area of biological waste treatment systems

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T. Hannigan; James E. Simon; K. Koenig; G. Cruse; K. Poh

concerning ventilationand cooling optimization in poultry houses. Ph.D., Clemson University.KEITH KOENIG is a professor of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University, focusing on fluidmechanics, aerodynamics, structural dynamics and propulsion. He is also active in outreach activities to K-12, andnon-traditional applications of aerospace research, such as sports applications. Ph.D., Aeronautics, CaliforniaInstitute of Technology.GREG CRUSE served as engineering technician in the senior aerospace engineering laboratories. He assistedstudents with individual seminar project development, and with the conduct of general laboratory experiments andresearch. B.S., Electrical Engineering Technology, University of Southern Mississippi, M.S

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Sumit Ghosh; Raymond Kuo

Session 2532A Study of the Admissions Criteria into the Sc.B. Engineering Program at an Ivy League School Sumit Ghosh Department of Computer Science & Engg Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287 sumit.ghosh@asu.edu Raymond Kuo Cambridge Technology Partners 304 Vassar Street

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Ronald E. Yoder; D. Raj Raman

”,Proceedings, 1995 Annual Conference, ASEE, 1995, pp. 120-128.Johnson, B. “The Use of Windows-Based Spreadsheets to Teach Engineering Economics Concepts”, Proceedings,1995 Annual Conference, ASEE, 1995, pp. 744-749.Miller, G. R., and S. C. Cooper, “Something Old, Something New: Integrating Engineering Practice into theTeaching of Engineering Mechanics”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 59, no. 4, 1995, pp. 105-115.Miller, J. W., and B. Sepahpour, “Design in the Engineering Curriculum”, Proceedings, 1995 Annual Conference,ASEE, 1995, pp. 2591-2597. Biographical InformationD. RAJ RAMAND. Raj Raman received his BSEE from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1986, and his PhD in Agriculturaland Biological

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Mark A. Shields; John P. O'Connell

engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.University of Virginia Professional Development AttributesGraduates beginning their careers should have certain qualities (related ABET Criteria): Technological Capability: Know and be able to practice the fundamental technical facets of engineering (a, b, e, k) Leadership/Cultural Competence: Become leaders in a diverse, complex world (h, j) Industrial Readiness: Appreciate functions, dynamics and evolution of "industry"; understand the expectations about their roles, contributions and attitudes (c) Individual/Team Effectiveness: Understand themselves and others; thrive in diverse and ambiguous situations (d) Ethics/Values

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S. L. Ceccio; G. Tryggvason; Dawn M. Tilbury

increasing mobility of the average engineer requires more emphasis on teamwork experience and communication skills. These skills must be emphasized in the curriculum.While these two factors were the primary reasons for change, the committee felt therewhere a number of other drivers for change, some of which would be better addressed atthe level of individual courses. Those included the following:• The proliferation of new problem solving tools (such as engineering software packages) which permit more emphasis on design and optimization.• Rapidly changing technology that necessitates introduction of new material into the core curriculum that may not have been traditionally considered "mechanical." Students should be given the opportunity to

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Zoran S. Filipi; GuoQing Zhang; Dennis N. Assanis

", SAE Publication P-155, Proc., 22nd Automotive Technology Development CCM, Dearborn, MI, Oct.29.-Nov.2, 1984., pp. 297-3163. Filipi, Z., Assanis, D. N.,"Quasi-Dimensional Computer Simulation of the Turbocharged Spark-Ignition Engine and its Use for 2- and 4-Valve Engine Matching Studies", SAE Paper 910075, SAE Transactions, Vol. 100, 1991.Blizard, N. C., Keck, J. C.,"Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Turbulent Burning Model for Internal Combustion Engines", SAE paper 740191, SAE Transactions, Vol. 83, 1974.4. Agarwal, A., Filipi, Z. S., Assanis, D. N., Baker, D. M.,”Assesment of Single- and Two-Zone Turbulence Formulations for Quasi-dimensional Modeling of Spark-Ignition Engine Combustion”, submitted for

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Vivek Badami; Mike Allen; Johnny Graham; Howard Phillips; David Schmidt; Curtis Ensley; Art Edwards; Silvia G. Middleton; Kimberly A. Buch; J. William Shelnutt; Patricia Tolley

Session 3253 A Multidisciplinary Course Sequence Stressing Team Skills, Conceptual Design, Creative Problem Solving, Professional Practice, and Computing Skills for Students Entering The William States Lee College of Engineering by William Shelnutt, Mike Allen, Vivek Badami, Kim Buch, Art Edwards, Curtis Ensley, Johnny Graham, David Schmidt, Silvia Middleton, Howard Phillips, and Patricia Tolley of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Monika Lumsdaine of Michigan Technological University