Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Engineering Clinic: teaching engineering design and technicalcommunication. New assessment results quantifying student success on the entrepreneurialprojects, both in terms of developing student interest at the beginning of the semester and inconvincing faculty at the end of the semester that a project merits additional effort in the junioryear, will also be presented.I. Background and IntroductionProject-based learning has been gaining popularity in engineering curricula to address theprofessional skills component (or A-K criteria) introduced by ABET in the 2000 criteria2. TheCollege of Engineering at Rowan University has adopted an eight-semester sequence of courses,known as Engineering Clinics, which are integrated through the curriculum for all

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry B. Santoso, Utah State University; Raymond E. Boyles, Utah State University; Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University

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Design in Engineering Education

has been involved in the International Technology Education Association and T.E.A.C. His current interest involves robotics, education and student motiva- tion with curriculum development. His goal is to design a robotics based system that allows all to achieve their educational goals with enjoyment.Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University Oenardi Lawanto received his B.S.E.E. from Iowa State University, M.S.E.E. from the University of Dayton, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering and Technology Education at Utah State University. Before coming to Utah State, Dr. Lawanto taught and held several administrative positions

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Claude M. Hargrove, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

Electrical Circuit course.James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte James M. Conrad received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and his master’s and doctorate degrees in computer engineering from North Carolina State Uni- versity. He is currently an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has served as an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas and as an instructor at North Carolina State University. He has also worked at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Houston, Texas; at Ericsson/Sony Ericsson in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; and at BPM Technology in Greenville, South Carolina. Dr

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Alan Gow, Alan Gow and Associates; EunSook Kwon, University of Houston

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Design in Engineering Education

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Interactive Design and Technology Research: From Ideation to ImplementationAbstractThe growth and acceptance of interdisciplinary education has blurred the boundaries associatedwith more traditional and insular curricular models. In this environment, multidisciplinaryprojects are fast becoming the norm. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the framework andworking process of a new interdisciplinary capstone course that creates a dynamic new learningcontext by combining an Industrial Design Studio with a Computer Engineering TechnologyLaboratory. Integrating two core courses, senior students in Industrial Design and ComputerEngineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology and the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing; Wesley Francillon, Ph.D., Connectiuct Community College; John Birch, The Birch Group, LLC

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Design in Engineering Education

improving life on thisplanet. In addition, the LSSL Program continues to implement recruitment and retentionstrategies identified in the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Sciences Page 22.868.2(IWITTS), an NSF funded project, which addressed gender equity and the recruitment andretention of underrepresented populations in non-traditional fields. The structure of the LSSLProgram has impacted not only students enrolled in the Program but also educators and industrypartnerships through innovative education techniques, particularly the integration ofprofessional/soft skills with PBL.LSSL Program project teams have been

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Laguette, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

results and the continued evolution of the process and the design program.A successful Capstone Design program including companion design courses has beendeveloped2,3 that has become an integral and important component of the MechanicalEngineering curriculum. A variety of challenging projects are created each year to appeal tostudent academic and career interests. Students work in teams with the assistance of a facultyadvisor to tackle a significant mechanical engineering design project. The formation of studentteams can be a challenging and time consuming process that is critical to the success of thedesign project and the course experience. Attention continues to be focused upon the formationof student teams and the selection process in the

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Mary A. Moriarty, Smith College; Apurva Errabelli

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

individual written assignment and the team transfer map activity were formallydocumented as part of a module for the Integrated Design Engineering Assessment and LearningSystem (IDEALS). More information about IDEALS and its current NSF-funded initiative todevelop assessments and instructional materials that support student and team growth in design-based courses can be found at http://ideals.tidee.org and through recent publications.6,25,26 Bothassignments can be downloaded after creating an account on the IDEALS website(https://secure.tidee.org). The Instructor's Guide within the Transferring Knowledge moduledescribes the learning objectives and assignment structure; the transfer activities follow Path B.Pilot Study ContextThe pilot study was

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zeshan Hyder, Virginia Tech & UET Lahore; Zulfiqar Ali, Virginia Polytechnic State University; Janis P. Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

professor at Virginia Tech with a joint appointment in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Education and is a faculty affiliate of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is currently on assignment as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Di- vision of Undergraduate Education. Dr. Terpenny’s research is focused on engineering design and design education. She has been the principal or co-principal investigator on over $7 million of research funded by NSF and industry, and has published several book chapters, and over 130 peer reviewed publications. She is a Fellow in IIE, a member of ASME, and ASEE.Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech Richard M. Goff is an Associate Professor

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teodora Rutar, Seattle University; Brandon Shuman, MS

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

through seminars, etc. Hence, we developed sixteen outcomes for thesecourses that we map to ABET’s a-k criteria and mechanical engineering-specific criteria. Theseoutcomes are: students work in teams to solve an open-ended engineering problem, useengineering judgment, consider economic factors, implement project planning and management, Page 22.68.2create written documents, give oral presentations, communicate with people of various technicalbackgrounds, incorporate environmental, economic and social constraints into the projectsolution, integrate knowledge obtained in mechanical engineering and core classes, apply variousmechanical engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Grantham, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Ryan Arlitt, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

areas with poor usability. Initial improvements to theinterface were made based upon feedback from the questionnaire. Page 22.652.2 1. INTRODUCTION The goal of this research project is to test usability of the Risk in Early Design(RED) application when used as an expert knowledge source for tasks previously thoughtto require engineering experience. As technology progresses, it is critical that educationalefforts focus on preparing students to build on the new developments, rather thancontinuously teaching them to “reinvent the wheel.” The teaching of new technology isnot limited to the integration of novel

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jitesh Panchal, Washington State University; Sammy Haroon, The RBR Group; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

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Design in Engineering Education

to attain a net zero energy / eco footprint in the built environment. His cur- rent education focus is on creating and implementing, in partnership with industry, a curriculum for educating Strategic Engineers those who have developed the competencies to create value through the realization of complex engineered systems for changing markets in a collaborative, globally dis- tributed environment. It is in this context that he enjoys experimenting with ways in which design can be learned and taught. Farrokh is a Fellow of ASME and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. Email URL http://www.srl.gatech.edu/Members/fmistree

Conference Session

Design Spine

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Design in Engineering Education

visit their decisionabout scales afterwards. The team had an opportunity to engage in intentional learning from thisinteraction with their project partner, but this opportunity was not pursued.DoingEngagement with situation/differences:Teams practicing in the “working together” category engage in the iterative communicationpractice, and take responsibility for being effective communicator. The team with the divide-and-conquer approach did not initially talk a lot about the difference perspectives that they can take,and instead jumped very quickly to implementation. It was not until later when the situationabout testing rose did they realize they needed a more integrative approach. They startedcommunicating by trying to learn more about what

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University ; Philip Samuel, BMGI

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Design in Engineering Education

. Dr. Jablokow is the architect of a unique 4-course graduate-level module focused on problem solving lead- ership and is currently developing a new methodology for cognition-based design. She also founded and directs the Problem Solving Research Group, whose 50+ collaborating members include faculty and stu- dents from multiple universities (e.g., Penn State, Temple, Virginia Tech, U. Florida), as well as industrial representatives, military leaders, and corporate consultants.Philip Samuel, BMGI Dr. Phil Samuel is a Senior Vice President at BMGI, Inc., a management-consulting firm specializing in performance excellence and design thinking. An integral part of BMGI’s management team since 2005, Phil brings more

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

ofliteracy over time and highlights the ways in which a sophomore level design course at a technological university inthe Middle East has incorporated an explicit focus on Academic Literacy in order to enhance the progress ofundergraduate engineers towards the competencies and attributes needed by professional engineers.IntroductionToday’s global economy is fueled by rapid innovation and technological breakthroughs. Tofunction in such an economy, engineers require a full set of professional skills in addition totechnological know-how. The effective engineer in industry is one who has excellentinterpersonal skills, is able to work on multi-disciplinary teams, possesses a broad knowledgebase, is aware of global issues, possesses information and

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

(Ruth) Jill Urbanic, University of Windsor; Susan S. Sawyer-Beaulieu, University of Windsor

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Design in Engineering Education

Industrial Engineering Students1 Introduction1.1 Introduction to capstone design project workshopsThe classical senior capstone design course consists of establishing an environment wherestudents are given the experience in solving a substantial problem while working in a teamenvironment. The engineering design problems to which Canadian engineering students areexposed must be open-ended, and require the integration of curriculum elements1. In theIndustrial Engineering (IE) program at the University of Windsor, industrial sponsors from avariety of sectors (automotive, food, recycling, hospitals, and so forth) are engaged to providereal open ended projects to the industrial engineering students over a two term period. Withrealistic ill defined opened

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobin Le, Wentworth Institute of Technology ; Anthony William Duva, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Richard L. Roberts, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Ali R. Moazed, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

, 2011 Instructional Methodology for Capstone Senior Mechanical DesignAbstract: The capstone design project is a big event in every mechanical program. Thecapstone design project serves as a bridge to help students migrate from an academicenvironment to an industrial environment. Any school normally don‟t have the full capability toconstruct and physically test each capstone design project due to limited equipment, limitedfunds and limited time, which is the primary difference between the industrial environment andthe academic environment. Due to this defect in the academic environment, there are twocommon major problems in lots of capstone designs. Some capstone projects couldn‟t providethe supporting documented analysis to answer whether

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Gregory J. Kowalski, Northeastern University

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Design in Engineering Education

, the twosemesters follow each other directly, with students taking the first semester in late summer,followed immediately by the second semester in the Fall. In the other sequence, the students takethe first semester in early summer, and then spend 6 months on co-op before returning in theSpring to complete the second semester of Capstone. Although these two sequences weredeveloped simply to accommodate student schedules, this fact provides an opportunity todetermine whether the lag between semesters hinders, aids, or has no effect on whether studentsgenerate quality designs and use good project management techniques. Students who take theconsecutive sequence have the advantage of working continually on their design problem for 2terms

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole E. Genco; Katja Holtta-Otto, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin

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Design in Engineering Education

skill can facilitate creative thinking because a highly skilledperson is better able to develop new techniques and skills. Highly skilled individuals are betterable to adjust their behavior to demands that arise, suggesting that skill is an importantdeterminant of the capacity to restructure.18 In engineering, this trend could be exemplified bysenior engineers approaching a problem breadth first, looking at many design solutions beforenarrowing on one, as opposed to junior engineers’ less creative depth first strategy19.In this paper, we focus on investigating the differences in creativity between freshman and seniormechanical engineering students. It is assumed that the differences between these two groups areprimarily due to their skill

Conference Session

Automation Subjects in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

Page 22.558.3assessment from the introduction to engineering course are presented. A brief section on thecurrent state of the summer camps is also covered before the conclusions.ENGR 1010 Introduction to Engineering Course ProjectThis section presents the most recent attempts on integrating animatronics into ENGR 1010Introduction to Engineering course with a semester long project. The main objective of thisopen-ended team project is to design and develop an animated robot or puppet. The teams arecomposed of three to four students and required to follow a process based on product design anddevelopment. Main stages of the process are described below in their actual sequence: Concept Development: Through a brainstorming activity students

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn P Gross, Villanova University; David W Dinehart, Villanova University; Joseph Robert Yost, Villanova University; Aleksandra Radlinska, Villanova University

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Mechanics

more integrated sequence.Courses in the classical areas of Statics, Mechanics of Solids, and Civil Engineering Materialswere repackaged into a pair of four-credit mechanics courses which combine content from theseareas. The first course (Mechanics I) integrates elements of Statics and Mechanics of Solidsalong with a few topics from Civil Engineering Materials. The second course (Mechanics II)integrates the remaining elements of Mechanics of Solids with the majority of Civil EngineeringMaterials.A key pedagogical component in this integrated curricular restructuring is a structuredimplementation of problem-based learning: the use of overarching problems. An overarchingproblem is a common design and/or analysis problem encountered in the

Conference Session

Innovative Program and Curricular Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Frances Ibes, Saint Catherine University; Yvonne Ng, St. Catherine University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

other some foundational understanding and a basis to ask more in-depth questions. This was an important first step to finding common ground. The Montessori expert saw that systematic problem solving was an essential part of engineering that had great promise within the Montessori program while the engineering expert saw the balance of sensorial experience and spiral learning was fruitful for teaching engineering foundations. 2. Curriculum-specific brainstorming: In the next phase, the Montessori expert took the engineering expert through a typical set of lessons. Through this, two Montessori content areas were identified as the richest potential for the seamless integration of engineering: the Great

Conference Session

Distance and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University; Jabulani Nyathi, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the curriculum, as every class is coupled with a laboratory. Labs are always team-based and, whenever possible, a “real-world” problem is assigned as a final project. The AeA involvement with the project ensured that a vast number of local and regional industrial partners were available from the very inception of the program, thereby simplifying the initial contact with local and regional industry. This aggressive solution intends to provide students with a much more seamless transition into the labor force, and to better prepare them for the changing engineering profession [8].ii. Serve place-bound students. In an effort to fulfill the needs of both the industrial community and of those

Conference Session

ETD Design V: Classroom Delivery, Course Content, and Assessments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

suggestions32.The more proactive an institution is by creating a culture that embraces part-time faculty byproviding both opportunities and responsibilities for them, the less hostile the climate towardspart-time faculty. This lack of hostility results in greater satisfaction for part-time faculty. Whenpart-time faculty are not engaged and treated with respect, the coherence of academic programsand quality of instruction can be damaged32.Another issue with the integration of part-time faculty relates to time on campus. Many part-timers are hired to teach evening, weekend, and off-campus classes. Lack of department officespace is another constraint5. Part-time faculty often work without normal support services thatfull-time faculty take for granted such

Conference Session

Educating Students for the 21st Century: History, Reflection, and Outcomes

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Swaminathan Balachandran, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

. STUDENTS F P A A C R U T L N T E Y R Sound Instructional Methods, Program Accreditation Criteria, Curriculum Design Figure 1: Basic Components of Experiential Learning When EL is used in courses, faculty will be able to engage all learners, help students tostructure and act on knowledge, facilitate critical synthesis and learning, enhance

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center; John Vardalas, IEEE

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

integrated social impact into the engineering curriculum.Virginia Tech, which boasts of having “the only STS program in the U.S. that is situated withinan engineering school at a national, comprehensive university,” provides a four-course sequencethat is required of all engineering majors. At Princeton, Dave Billington developed a two-semester history of technology course that—by having engineers take reading and writingsections and non-engineers take an laboratory section—fulfills requirements for each whilesuccessfully integrating the two topics. Although not technically required, it draws a huge Page 22.1622.5percentage of the freshman class.The

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patsy Hulse, University of Auckland; Dahlia Dantang Han, University Auckland, Engineering Library; Emil Melnichenko, University of Auckland; Susan Brookes, University of Auckland, Engineering Library

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Engineering Libraries

. Individual help from theappropriate subject librarian is also offered.It had always been difficult to integrate information literacy into the third year programme. Onlyone paper was common, and compulsory, for all 550 third year students. This is EngGen303 whichcovers “An introduction to modern theory and practice of management, including project, qualityand financial management appropriate to the engineering profession”. When there was a change ofdirection in the course, the new teaching staff were receptive to the idea of library collaboration.They realised that the students need to find and use information that is not necessarily strictly‘engineering’, and need to know how to do this quickly and efficiently.Subject librarians and faculty

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Yang, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University; Aaron K. Ball, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

as the Page 22.847.13interface realms. Although it was a valuable learning experience that may even be closer to thereal world situation, the compounded complexity inevitably prolonged the lab sessions and inone group case the standard three-hour lab session became an over six-hour adventuring ordeal.This complication can be largely reduced in the future when a full LabVIEW thread isimplemented in the PBL enhanced curriculum. There we will have sufficient dedicatedLabVIEW sessions as well as integrated lab and LabVIEW sessions on a learning curve withmuch reduced slope throughout the curriculum. Additionally, integrating some basicrequirements

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Ludwigsen, Kettering University; Janet Brelin-Fornari, Kettering University; Joseph Neal, Kettering University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

. Project Description - Coordination of research efforts between physics and the crash safety center to fulfill the obligations of the funding agency in the redesign of the PHYS-115 lab curriculum. Create, edit, and integrate data and multimedia for use in lab curriculum. Assess curricular materials and student feedback for improvement in lab activities. Perform research in Kettering University’s Crash Safety Center Page 22.389.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Crash Safety in the Introductory Physics LabIntroductionIntroductory Physics labs would seem

Conference Session

International Experience, Effective Instruction, and Student Exchange Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Braun Riggins, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

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International

work oran internship as a replacement for an exchange experience. With the large number of students Page 22.949.6studying abroad, spaces were limited and competitive. Academic advisors matched students withcountries based on class ranking and student preferences.Campus Life: INSA-Lyon was proud of its tradition of integrating sports and music in theengineering curriculum. The preparatory filière “sport-études” combined competitive sports withengineering classes. All students were required to participate in a sport for two hours per week.The preparatory filière “musique-études” combined music studies with the first two years ofpreparatory

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James McConnell, North Carolina State University; Brian D. Koehler, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Global Programs

, because of its unique historical mixing of Christian, Jewish and Muslimcultures, is an ideal focus for students who are considering questions of the relationship betweentechnology and culture and in finding their place in our global society.Curriculum IntegrationAt NC State University, international study is increasingly integrated into the curriculum. It isessential for a students’ international experience to be integrated into their plan of study 6whereby differentiating themselves from the more than 1,000 that will graduate from just thisCollege of Engineering, not to mention the 70,000 plus graduating with an engineering degreenationwide and the over 1/3 million engineering graduates worldwide – just in one year alone