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Colleen Symansky; Hudson Jackson; Kassim Tarhini

providing more depthinto management, ethics, entrepreneurship, business communications and financial management.Chinowsky argues that this will establish a professional knowledge base that will be capable ofresponding to both technical and managerial issues. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceInformation literacy is infused throughout the civil engineering curriculum, including theConstruction Project Management course, to ensure that students not only develop the requiredcommunication skills but also identify the need for life-long learning3. In

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Michael Geselowitz; John Vardalas

, the EC2000 Standards of ABET require that studentsreceiving the bachelor’ s degree “ understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global,economic, environmental, and societal context, while other national bodies have similarstandards2. We argued that history of technology and engineering, rather than ethics oreconomics—the common non-engineering courses taken by engineers—is the ideal lens throughwhich to address ABET’ s recognition that that, by its definition as the application of scientificknowledge to the solution of real-world human problems, engineering must respond to changingeconomic, political and social contexts.From 1990 to 2014, The IEEE History Center was located at and formally co-sponsored byRutgers, the State University

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Jeffrey R. Mountain

field that meets performance,constraints such as economic, environmental, social, cost, time, safety, quality, materials, andpolitical, ethical, health and safety, manufacturing requirements.manufacturability, and sustainability(d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams 4. Function as a member of a multidisciplinary team and be able to assume leadership roles on the team.(e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve 5. Identify, formulate, critically analyze, and solveengineering problems engineering problems in energy conversion and

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Kathryn Schulte Grahame; Diane Schilder; Christos Zahopoulos

ethics, and practices.The Engineering Design course offered to the ECE high school students has covered the samecontent as the college course described above but the course was modified in two importantways. First, the time over which the course was offered was extended over two semesters for thehigh school students, whereas it was provided in one semester for the college freshmen. Thischange was made to accommodate students’ schedules because each of the selected high schoolstudents were taking a full, rigorous high school course load. Secondly, for the 2014-2015 cohortof students, the major design project subject matter was a clean energy real-life design project,whereas college students and previous cohorts of ECE students had been assigned a

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David Willis; Jeremy Vaillant

expose engineering freshmen to a survey of thediscipline through a FYE seminar or guest lectures4-7. Often these courses are characterized by alecture or seminar series that highlights the fundamentals of the discipline and/or the opportuni-ties that students might pursue after graduation. These courses may include some combination ofcomputer programming, computer aided design, economics, ethics, and/or overview of discipli-nary topics. These courses are typically offered in larger student cohorts and are more easilyscaled than project based courses. In these courses, guest lecturers or seminar speakers are acommon feature.There are several freshman year experience courses that encourage students to pursue a personalinterest in the field of

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Moses Tefe; Tara Kulkarni

Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferencestudents. Many academic programs also provide some form of preparatory training programs andorientations for new faculty, even though these vary in quality, content and duration6,9 . Thesetraining programs range from half-day pre-semester workshops to year-long courses on teachingand may cover topics ranging from course design, creating syllabi, classroom managementpractices, active learning techniques lecture preparation, teaching ethically, student assessment,and course evaluation6. Apart from this, there are other training programs that are organized forthe training of engineering professors, and notable among these programs are: The ASCE ExCEEd

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Leonard Anderson; Michael Davidson

design criteria andformulating appropriate design solutions. The open-ended design/ build projects must include a designcomponent in each of the following civil engineering sub-disciplines: Geotechnical Engineering Structural Engineering Civil/ Site Engineering Environmental EngineeringAdditional topics covered include value engineering, cost, safety, construction feasibility, constructionscheduling, engineering ethics, and a wide range of engineering design elements.The course format is one – one hour lecture and two three-hour studio/ labs per week. The total creditsassigned to this course are four. Multiple faculty advisors each with specific expertise in the abovementions

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Sigrid Berka

.)” 9 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference On the cross-cultural level they had to demonstrate society and cultural understanding to embrace diverse view-points including “an understanding of the ethical dimensions and business norms” and had to apply “norms effectively (in a specific industry, context, and country.)” Furthermore they definitely had time throughout their five years of learning the German language and taking German culture and history classes as well as conducting their research and internships in a German environment, to develop “an international/ global perspective”; after their year abroad they will furthermore “possess fluency in at least two languages.” The fact