Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William R. McShane; Joanne Ingham

result of unclear individual goals or intentions, a lack of connectedness with theinstitution or academic underachievement. Tinto (1993) further suggested that by identifying theproblems students encounter and offering appropriate interventions, a resulting increase inpersistence might result. Several interventions with students on probation have been described with varied coursecontent including study skills, time management, goal setting, and career orientation (Lipsky &Ender, 1990; Carver & Smart, 1985; Newton, 1990). Few programs were mandatory forsecond-semester freshmen placed on probation. Some programs were based upon differingtheoretical frameworks (Coleman & Freedman, 1996; Simmons, Wallins, & George, 1995

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Rona Colosimo Warner; Paul J. Warner; Kim LaScola Needy

manufacturing center to trainpeople interested in machining/tool and die making careers. The major steps taken followedbasic systems analysis. The needs of local manufacturers were assessed, objectives and goals ofthe program were defined from these needs, then a team was assembled to define, assign, budget,schedule, and execute the various tasks to develop this program through the use of classicalproject management techniques.3.1 Needs AssessmentThe preferred employees sought by southwestern Pennsylvania manufacturers are experienced,journeyman machinists or tool and die makers. Pennsylvania’s journeyman certification is anextensive four year program consisting of classroom theory and 8,000 hours of hands-onmachining for a manufacturer. The

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard R. Schultz

in the frequencydomain. More contemporary DSP textbooks, such as the text by Mitra2, use MATLAB and othercomputer tools to aid in the visualization of sampled signals in both time and frequency. For these texts,a high degree of mathematical proficiency--particularly in the area of complex variables--is required to* This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development(CAREER) Program, grant number MIP-9624849. In addition, this material is based upon work supported in part bythe U.S. Army Research Office under contract number DAAH04-96-1-0449. Page 3.37.1understand the concepts and to

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Huggans; Halvard E. Nystrom

), TechnologyManagement (2) and Technology (1). The most common career objectives of the students inthese programs as perceived by the respondents were technical management (42%), operations(20%), consulting (13%), and R&D management (8%). The other career choices received lessthan 5% of the responses.Courses:The courses sought were those that had significant technology management content. Thisevaluation is subjective and the respondents were asked to make that evaluation. Most programshad one to four of these courses. Seven of the schools felt they offered a number of coursesranging from nine to eighteen that fit these criteria since most of the courses in the program hadsignificant technical content. These schools generally service regions in which most of

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ece Yaprak; Attila Yaprak; David Wells

embarkupon professional careers. The candidate’s hands-on manufacturing skills and theirinterdisciplinary knowledge at the CAT Center during their tenure, will be applied toacquire the capstone design project validation. We have incorporated the key competencies into a portfolio of three modules. TheProcess Module (PM), includes those competencies which demonstrate learning about theprocesses involved in engineering design, modeling systems, and specifications ofexperiments, Our validation goal for this module is twofold: to measure the degree ofacquisition and internalization of the more technical, and therefore the more quantitative,skills acquired in the design process and the appropriation of that knowledge to otherprocesses the candidate

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Muhammad M. Rahman; Antonio J. Bula

interest and will be more effective in retaining the ideas learned compared to any conventional form of instruction.3. The use of a computer solver for numerical calculations will greatly reduce time required to solve problems, particularly design or open-ended problems where students are required to do several calculations.4. The reduction of calculation time will allow students to be more creative in their assignments. They will be able to explore new and non-conventional ideas.5. It will be possible to incorporate more design or open-ended problems in the course to better prepare our students for their professional career.6. The software will allow more efficient use of class time and will

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano-Nieto

StateUniversity, Wilkes-Barre Campus (PSU-WB) are required to take a clinical internship at anapproved hospital. The objective of this internship is to have the students exposed to situationsand equipment that they will encounter in their professional careers. The clinical internship iscarried out for not less than 400 hours, with the students rotated as much as possible among thedifferent services in the hospital, increasing their exposure to different medical equipment.The grade that the students receive for this course is mostly based on the evaluation provided bytheir clinical engineering supervisor, but also considering the instructor’s criteria about theequipment they worked on, and the problems that they had to solve daily in the hospital. It

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry W. Kraebber

, faculty, and even graduates of the CIMT program.Assignments were made early in the course that required students to look at CIM related sites onthe World Wide Web. The students were assigned to visit the web sites of the major corporatesponsors of the CIM program. Links to these sites were included on a special course page forCIMT students to assure easy access. Students found the information at the corporate sites to bevery interesting and informative. Information found included current news from our industrialpartners, product information, company overviews, career information, and often job postings.The corporate sites have proven to be a great source of relevant information for the CIMTstudents. See the following URL: http

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

G. F. Paskusz

bridge program to ease the transition from high schoolto college. In an urban environment where high school graduates can find summer employmentrelatively easily, and with financial aid starting only in the fall, bridge programs at the Universityof Houston cannot reach those students most in need of them. Our program for disadvantagedstudents (PROMES- PROgram for Mastery in Engineering Studies) therefore built the bridgeprogram concept into the freshman year. In the fall semester we teach this problem solvingcourse and a student development course based on Ray Landis’s book “Studying Engineering : ARoad Map to a Rewarding Career” [10] In the spring, these courses are followed by a one credithour laboratory where the student has a choice of a

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William M. Clark; Anthony G. Dixon; David DiBiasio

tools used.The assessment program includes a balance of formative and summative measurements,and qualitative and quantitative analyses. Results from the first year data collection willbe discussed. These cover comparison of student comprehension of basic fundamentals,performance on open-ended problem solving, communication skills, and attitudes andsatisfaction with group work and chemical engineering. IntroductionEngineering education in the United States today faces many challenges including: (1)attracting students with a diversity of backgrounds, learning styles, and pre-collegepreparations to engineering careers, (2) maintaining interest and motivation during a four-year undergraduate education, while at

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John R. Williams; Dr. Martin Pike

questions that should be asked are offered for the candidates at every level of theprocess. While this paper discusses the Purdue University tenure process, these keys should beadaptable to other schools and universities.The authors have written two previous papers on the topic, and this paper completes the trilogy,on a successful note. However, even failure to achieve promotion and tenure should be seen assimply another opportunity, and can be utilized as a tool toward career development. IntroductionThe authors have presented two papers in previous sessions1,2 dealing with mentoring and theprocess of promotion and tenure. This paper completes the story of a successful tenure andpromotion effort. Each of

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie G. Adams; Karan L. Watson

contributors in team ventures. This article will chronicle the evolution of teams, the emergence of teams in highereducation and the expectations for engineering faculty members with regards to teamwork. Thisinformation will be beneficial for new engineering faculty as they embark on a new career wherethe infrastructure is changing.Introduction In recent years, organizations in the United States have searched for ways to improvetheir overall effectiveness. No topic has garnered more discussion as an option than that ofteams. The results from the use of teams are numerous. Teams are often recognized as aneffective way to manage change, improve overall effectiveness, reduce costs, increaseproductivity and increase employee satisfaction

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard E. Pfile; William R. Conrad

Session 1348 Bring Realism Into the Classroom Through Your Consulting Richard E. Pfile Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology William R. Conrad Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology Indiana University-Purdue University at IUPUI Indianapolis, Indiana Abstract The half-life of an engineering degree is said by some to be approximately five years. Ina teaching career that may span

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Wallace B. Whiting; Joseph A. Shaeiwitz; Ph.D., Richard H. Turpin; Richard C. Bailie

that company.Now, students say that they would have no problems accepting the better offer. The most oftencited justification is lack of corporate loyalty to workers (“They would not hesitate to fire me ifthey had to.”), and that it is now rare for someone to spend their entire career with one employer(“People quit jobs all of the time.”). In the discussion, the faculty resist giving their opinions ofright and wrong, unless there are clear legal issues. The goal is for the students to confront theirown values and learn to solve their own ethical dilemmas. An added benefit from thesediscussions is that faculty learn more about their students’ values and concerns. Videos and movies are also a rich source of material for class discussion

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

George H. Staab

to a heightened enthusiasm andconcentrated involvement on the part of the high school students. Additionally, universitystudents interacted with high school students as peers. High school students admired andrespected the abilities of their college peers who were almost the same age. It made some re-visittheir career choices. A student who applied to, and will likely be accepted to Harvard, did notapply to MIT for fear of being stereotyped. As a result of this project requiring her to work withengineering students and an MIT graduate, she is considering taking some courses at Harvardand going part time to MIT until she can be admitted there. As mentorees, the university studentsgained valuable experience in several critical aspects of

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Dava J. Newman; Amir R. Amir

editor or word processor by thestudents to take notes was not observed. The obvious danger in having students sit in front of a computer is that students might not fol-low the lecture, but instead read/write e-mail or surf the Web. The experience in this regard wasvery positive with students’ attention focused on the computer lecture. One helpful factor may bethat access to workstations at MIT is readily available and that the hardware/software in the elec-tronic classroom is identical to that provided to all students campus-wide and thus, did not repre-sent a distraction.C. Various Backgrounds The students enrolled in the course possess a wide range of backgrounds. While some studentswill certainly select a career in aerospace and have

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

J. C. Sener; R. R. Mirsky; David R. Haws; Stephen B. Affleck; J. L. Mason; L. C. Aburusa

Session 1421 Using Web Technology to Promote Student Internship/Cooperative Education in College of Engineering at Boise State University J. C. Sener, R. R. Mirsky, D. R. Haws, S. B. Affleck, J. L. Mason, L. C. Aburusa Boise State University ABSTRACT The Internship/Cooperative (Co-op) Education Program in the College of Engineering,Construction Management Department of Boise State University (BSU) provides an opportunityfor students to apply firsthand what they have learned in the classroom. Students gain practicalexperience in their chosen career

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Cynthia A. Mitchell; Caroline Baillie

female engineering student: The biggest difficulty studying in Australia in this chronic endeavour to single out females; pro and con. Accepting oneself as equal is the only true barrier to equality. Then just do it.For Caroline, Cynthia, and most of the young women who choose engineering today,essentially all the role models are males, and a very high proportion of their colleagues aremales. Most of us start out in the mindset of wanting to be equal. Those who don’t, probablyleave engineering, as evidenced by this quote from an interview with a young woman talkingabout her decision to leave engineering to take up another career. She described the people inthe engineering milieu, both the work place and the education system, as

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Krzysztof Malinowski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

institutions which make the state support for public universities dependent on the number of students rather than on the actual costs of running the programs of study (as before);• unattractive career prospects for university employees: academic staff, especially talented young people, are attracted by significantly higher salaries offered by private or even state- owned industrial or business enterprises;• bad shape of most Polish industrial companies resulting in a diminishing number of research and development projects supported by industry and little demand for staff training programs offered by the universities, but also affecting decisions of candidates to university studies.More information on changes in engineering

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard P. Long; Kandace Einbeck

cultures and languages from which to choose.How can an engineering school intending to make these opportunities available to its students,identify the best way to proceed? An analysis of local industry indicated that German was thebest choice for the State of Connecticut. The need for engineers educated to function in the global marketplace is well known inindustrial circles, but to make engineering students aware of the career advantages of this path isdifficult. One of the problems is the demanding nature of the engineering undergraduateprogram. The limited career vision of young students beginning the freshman year ofengineering requires that the opportunities be packaged in an enticing program and properlypresented. To overcome these

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Gulcin Cribb

of the sources later in my career;• The information I learnt will help me especially for obtaining research information when I am in the industry.The main issues identified by respondents were:• Appreciation of the usefulness of the skills learnt for retrieving specialist information;• Appreciation of the usefulness of the skills and knowledge acquired for use after graduation during an engineering career;• Information skills would have been more useful if introduced in 2nd or 1st year;• Databases were regarded as the most useful component of the training;• Biobase was regarded as the next most useful component of the program;• Internet training was regarded as the least useful component of the program.Planning has already begun to design

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John G. Nee

greatest change has really occurred in the last 10 Page 3.565.2years. PROGRAM STRUCTUREAs programs evolved there were critical programmatic factors to consider such as: 1) industrialneeds and expectations, 2) staffing requirements, 3) financial resources, and 4) constantassessment and evaluation requirements. Course titles appearing in bold type are at least 50percent EDG/CAD/CAM content- based. The resulting program structures as of 1997-98,follow:Engineering TechnologyB.S.E.T. degreeThe engineering technology majors are designed to prepare students who aspire to careers relatedto electronic, manufacturing or

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Kent Curtis, Northern Kentucky University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University - Calumet

individuals to support this growth andensure continued advancement.Program Objectives MST Task force surveyed (Table 2.) graduates of NKU for the proposed MST program.Fifty five percent indicated Engineering Technology as the major area of interest and 51%indicated Technology Administrator/ Manager as the primary career goal. The majority (88%)indicated that they were primarily interested in part-time (3-6 semester hours), evening courses.Based on these responses, the Team determined the following objectives for the MST program:1) Enhance the ability of graduates to move into technical management; Page 3.399.62) Enhance the ability of graduates

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

J. A. Isaacs

employers are nowplacing “high value on engineers and scientists who can communicate, collaborate and workacross disciplines.” The report recommends a degree program that enhances career options whilebroadening students’ horizons. It encourages greater versatility by avoiding overspecializationand by promoting experiences that supply skills that are desired by both academic andnonacademic employers. This includes ability to communicate complex ideas and to work in Page 3.31.2teams. The report also recommends that students be given better career information andguidance so that they can make good decisions in planning their professional careers

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert E. Zulinski; Jon A. Soper; Dennis O. Wiitanen; David Stone; Allan R. Hambley; Martha E. Sloan; Noel Schulz

high standards of professional ethics.13. Provides a forum for students to intensively practice oral and written communication skills.14. Conducts periodic seminars to educate our student participants regarding career and diversity issues.Accommodation of Student Cognitive PreferencesSeveral studies have shown that a variety of preferred approaches to learning exist amongengineering students.17,18 Traditional courses favor some learning styles and discourage others.Many creative students have left engineering as a result of mismatches between their cognitivepreferences and the way that many engineering courses are taught. We feel that such studentswill remain in engineering as a result of the curriculum changes we are making (such as

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul D. Schreuders; Arthur T. Johnson

been implemented. In the remainder of this paper,we will compare and contrast these two project paradigms and examine their impact on studentlearning. The project structure described in the left-hand column is that used in BiologicalProcess Engineering. The structure described on the right-hand side is that used in teachingBiological Responses to Environmental Stimuli.The Motivations and Benefits for the Project StructuresA major motivation for the structure of our projects is to, within the confines of an academicsetting, provide design experiences and develop skills that are directly applicable to our studentsneeds after graduation. Career choices for Biological Resources Engineering graduates are asdiverse as the program. Our graduates have

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon M. Schlossberg

Session 2653 TECHNOLOGY CONNECTION-A PROGRAM FOR PRECOLLEGE ORIENTATION AND RECRUITING Karl K. Stevens and Sharon M. Schlossberg Florida Atlantic University ABSTRACTRecruitment of top-quality engineering students and orientation of K-12 students toward studiesand careers in engineering are challenging tasks. One of the ways the Florida Atlantic University(FAU) College of Engineering is working to meet these challenges is through its TechnologyConnection (TC) summer program for middle and

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon A. Leydens

desire to learn. I want to do everything I can to make sure we donot lose you at the beginning.”Nature and Human Values (NHV) is a writing-intensive course in part because we at theColorado School of Mines (CSM) do not wish to lose our students at the beginning. This courseintroduces students to many of the tools they will need to meet the expectations for writtencommunication in their academic and post-academic careers. Writing is also pivotal in thiscourse since it provides a means for students to process the environmental, economic, and ethicalramifications of the issues they encounter in readings and in lectures as well as an opportunity toexplore the issues they find most intriguing. Our hope is that the writing will kindle the kind

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhang Wenxue; Yuan Dening; Chen Zhi

two kinds of courses should play is concerned, we think that the previous basiccourses should not only or even not mainly serve for the specialties teaching and specializedcourses. Instead, the basic knowledge should be mixed with students’ potential and power ofunderstanding to become internalized as students’ scientific and cultural accomplishments,with which students can open new areas and adapt to new careers. The training of thespecialized courses which signifies a certain specialized direction and the training ofspecialties are necessary. However, for many specialties, they are not the bounds of careers,that is to say, specialties are not equal to careers; they are just indispensable “carriers” whichcan train students’ abilities. With

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Thalia Anagnos; Michael W. Jennings

continuing studies in engineering or other professional areas.2. Prepare students with sufficient breadth of knowledge to enable them to practice in a variety of civil engineering areas.3. Provide a practice oriented curriculum that prepares students to apply theory to real world problems.4. Provide students with the problem solving and communication skills needed to be successful and advance in their careers.5. Provide opportunities for students to exhibit leadership skills.6. Promote service to the profession and to society.It is important to remember when developing mission statements and educational objectives that ABET requires thatthe “constituencies” be involved. Thus students, alumni and industry are participating in