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Daniel Walsh; Bob Crockett; Stacey Breitenbach

The 4+1 Accelerated Masters Degree Program: An Empowering Entry Level Degree for Professional Engineers Daniel Walsh*, Bob Crockett, Stacey Breitenbach *College of Engineering, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo dwalsh@calpoly.edu 805 756-2131AbstractThe 4 + 1 Program is an accelerated route to the professional MS degree. In many evolvingtechnical areas, four years is not enough time for the formal education of an engineer about toenter a lifelong career of professional practice, even when the individual is committed to lifelong learning. The 4 + 1 program started in

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Paul Blowers; Greg Ogden; Kim Ogden

through electronic sources has not led them to become bettersearchers for information or users of information they find. A series of both short- and long-termexercises and discussion points for exposing students to the need for and the skills to findrelevant information is presented in this work. Freshman engineering students can be introduced to on-campus library facilities, andequally importantly, on how to efficiently use the electronic library resources early in theiracademic careers. One way is to have one lecture designed to cover the major areas of electronicsearch tools like textbooks, online references, and peer reviewed journal databases. This lectureis appropriate in the context of a hands-on design project where students have

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John T. Tester; Perry G. Wood

instructionsfor use as teaching aids.A sampling of research in the use of RP in freshman engineering and technology classes givesinsight into how to use RP as a means of accomplishing educational objectives in the classroom. Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationSeveral technology-oriented departments implemented RP as part of their design classes.3,4,5They had various primary educational objectives in their assessments, but they all noted animproved students’ enthusiasm towards the RP technology as well as towards their curriculumand careers. Other authors have noted the use of RP in the classroom as a

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Taufik Taufik

project. Results to assess this approach through surveyconducted by students will be presented.IntroductionPower electronics is an engineering discipline that deals with the conversion of electrical powerfrom one form to another1,2. Power electronics has become increasingly important nowadayswhere billions of kilo-watts of electric power are being re-processed every day to provide thekind of power needed by loads3. At Cal Poly, the growth in power electronics industry has beenobserved by the increasing number of power electronics companies who came and visited on-campus career fair. This was further accentuated by the growing interest among our electricalengineering students in power electronics. Since 1999, the power electronics courses at Cal

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Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Kyle A. Watson; Maria Garcia-Sheets

educationally disadvantaged pre-college students so they will succeed in mathand science and go on to attain baccalaureate degrees in math-based majors. Through anapproach that includes hands-on activities, school site teacher support, leadership skills, career &college exploration, and parent programming, MSP students are empowered to excel. The goalof the Johns Hopkins/MESA collaboration is to attract students to major in engineering andultimately retain them in the discipline. Students have the potential of earning three units ofJohns Hopkins credit after completing this intensive four-week summer course. This paper willfocus on the findings developed from the classes held on the University of the Pacific site. Adescription of the objectives and

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Thomas N. Duening; Jeffrey R. Goss

) • FSE 598 Contracts and Negotiation in the Extended Enterprise • FSE 598 Intellectual Property Management • FSE 598 Corporate Venturing • FSE 598 Engineering Entrepreneurship • IEE 534 Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis • IEE 561 Production Systems (Factory Physics) • IEE 571 Quality Management • IEE 572 Design of Engineering Experiments • IEE 598 Introduction to Systems EngineeringThis curriculum provides ESIM program participants with flexibility to choose aconcentration in an area that suits their talents and career interests. Each concentrationculminates in a capstone project that students complete based on the needs of theirenterprise and their interests. Capstone projects will be pertinent to their

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Bryan Cooperrider

, anddesign notebooks.TeamingThere is an expectation that the words “teaming”, “design”, and “project” grouped together addup to creativity. Virtually every engineering student will work on a team project in a designcourse. At a 2003 workshop entitled “Advancing Inventive Creativity through Education” andsponsored by the Lemelson-MIT Program, Henry Petroski observed that students can go throughtheir entire college career without ever doing a project all by themselves. Petroski, a professor ofcivil engineering and history at Duke University, argues that there is too much emphasis onteaming. He suggests that we might be losing two inventors out of every team of three. Heobserves that the vast majority of patents issued in the US are single author