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Melvin Cherno

Session 3661 STARTING AN INTEGRATED HUMANITIES/SOCIAL SCIENCE PROGRAM FOR AN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM: CURRICULUM AND COURSE DESIGN Melvin Cherno Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Virginia Anyone interested in establishing a cross-disciplinary program that integrates thehumanities and social sciences into an undergraduate engineering curriculum will have to makeat least four major decisions. This paper offers some advice based on the

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Thomas G. Stanford; Donald Keating

professional level for graduate engineers inindustry. At present, graduate education in engineering is primarily a byproduct of research,based on a science-driven model of technology, largely set in place in 1945 by the Bush report,“Science: The Endless Frontier.”1It is now apparent, after 50 years, that this model is only partially correct. Based on a newunderstanding of the technology innovation process, it is now evident that technology innovationis primarily a deliberate and systematic needs-driven process using the creative engineeringmethod. While research-driven graduate education has served the nation well in the education offuture academic researchers, it is now recognized that a different graduate education alternativeand approach is

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Krzysztof Malinowski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

Session 2260 Shortening a Path to PhD – Impact on Quality of Engineering Education Andrzej Krasniewski, Krzysztof Malinowski, Jerzy Woznicki Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology Warsaw University of Technology1. INTRODUCTION1.1. Engineering education in PolandIn Poland, a university is an art and science oriented institution and has no engineering college orengineering departments. Programs of study in engineering are offered by other academicinstitutions: technical universities (also referred to as universities of technology or polytechnicinstitutes), technical academies

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Rosemarie M. Evans; Madison Daily; Susan L. Murray

completingher dissertation regarding the effectiveness of Internet-based technology in engineering education. She received herM.S. in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from StevensInstitute of Technology. She has over three years of engineering experience in government and industry.MADISON M. DAILY is a Koplar Professor in Engineering Management at The University of Missouri-Rolla. Hereceived his Ph.D. in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He has been involved withtechnology in the classroom and distance education for several years, teaching on NTU and the University ofMissouri Video Network. In 1997, he developed and began teaching his first Internet-based course.SUSAN L

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Dominique McMillan

Session 2570 Introducing High School Students to the field of Civil Engineering: The ASCE/MESA Summer Institute Dominique McMillan California State University, Los Angeles Mathematics Science Engineering Achievement Program (MESA), MSP Program DirectorSince 1996, the Department of Civil Engineering and the Mathematics, Engineering, ScienceAchievement (MESA) Program of the School of Engineering & Technology at California StateUniversity, Los Angeles conducted a two-day Saturday Academy "style" program designed tocreate a "pipeline" to direct college-bound high school

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Stephen E. Binney; Andrew C. Klein

Engineering Technology (NET). The NET program playeda very important role in the Department for approximately nine years, until it was suspended in1981. A total of 84 B.S. degrees in Nuclear Engineering Technology were awarded at OSUbetween 1972 and 1981. The suspension of this degree program was in large part due to limitedfinancial support and to a misunderstanding by industry of the difference between a B.S. levelNET graduate and a two-year trained nuclear technician.Separately, a Radiation Health program functioned in the General Science Department of theCollege of Science at OSU from 1963 to the late 1980s. During this time the programtransitioned from an x-ray technology program to a modern health physics program. Due to adwindling nuclear

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Do Ba Khe; Ngo Dinh Thinh

1996-97 CGS offers six programs orientedtoward different majors, as follows [Ref. 2]: Programs of Majors I Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Technology, Civil Engineering, Technology of Communication, Computer Science,... II Agricultural Machinery, Wood Processing, Printing Technology, Sewing Technology, Home Economics,... III Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Breeding and Veterinary Science, Aquatic Culture, Food Processing,... IV Agricultural Economic, Land Management

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Suzanne Keilson

a diverse workforce and pipeline. From elementary school science to the highestranks of the professorate, the numbers are dismal. Many faculty and practitioners remainresistant to these issues. What may eventually change the national situation is the very practicalfact that engineering and technology firms can no longer afford to operate under the status quo.Engineers and scientists are no longer sole inventors, but must work in teams, which arebecoming increasingly international. It is a pragmatic argument that we must train our studentsto operate in the global marketplace, in whatever career they choose. To prepare all of ourstudents to function in the larger world, our own view must become more global or diverse.Numerous sources sound

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Randal S. Martin; Clinton P. Richardson

throughout theUnited States. Of these, 1911 and 235, respectively, are enrolled in an environmental engineeringprogram at one of 14 colleges and universities accredited by the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET)1,2. As can be seen in Table 1, these schools represent awide geographic area and contain a varying number of students enrolled in environmentalengineering curriculums. Additionally, Table 1 shows other schools which offer similar or relatedprograms accredited under ABET’s Environmental Engineering Group (e.g. Civil &Environmental Engineering).The Department of Mineral and Environmental Engineering at the New Mexico Institute ofMining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) in Socorro, New Mexico has awarded Bachelor

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Terry Hrudey; Stanley Varnhagen; Shelley Lorimer; Roger Toogood; Bill Lipsett; Art Peterson

Session 3666 Computer Based Learning for Engineering Mechanics: “If we build it, will they come?” Roger Toogood, Bill Lipsett, & Shelley Lorimer Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Terry Hrudey & Art Peterson Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Stanley Varnhagen Academic Technologies for Learning University of AlbertaAbstractThis paper

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Kassim M. Tarhini; Gerald R. Frederick; Benjamin Koo

University of ToledoINTRODUCTIONApproaching a new century, increasing world-wide industrial and technological competitivenessdemands excellence in engineering and technical education. The U.S. is priviledged to enjoy theeconomic and technological advances required to excel in global competition. Therefore, youngpeople from around the world come to this country for studying and training at universities and othereducational institutes to prepare themselves for future leadership roles in science and engineering.Their educational and cultural experiences gained in the U.S. will assist them in enabling their nativecountries to compete in global enterprises.During the mid-1990's, a significant portion of the engineering student population in the U.S

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J.P. Agrawal; Omer Farook; Chandra R. Sekhar

6'#/$7+.&+0)#56*'(1%75+0#%1745'10 '.'%6410+%241,'%6'0)+0''4+0) ,2#ITCYCN1OGT(CTQQMCPF%45GMJCT 2WTFWG7PKXGTUKV[%CNWOGV *COOQPF+0 The paper presents the teaching methodology of a new course in Electronic Project Engineering in the Bachelor degree program of the Electrical Engineering Technology. This course is a precursor to the course in Senior Design Project. The course contains two components: (1) Introducing the principles and concepts of project planning and engineering and (2) the execution of a demonstrable project that is run very close to the principles learned. The first component is conducted through a

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Peter A. Koen; Pankaj Kohli

Session 3257 ABET 2000: What are the most important criteria to the supervisors of new engineering undergraduates? Peter A. Koen, Pankaj Kohli ASEE/ Stevens Institute of Technology and Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey AbstractEngineering curricula in the next millennium will be guided by outcome assessments. ABETEngineering criteria 2000 establishes 11 proficiencies. Which attributes are more important? Thisstudy focuses on determining the critical attributes from supervisors of Stevens Institute

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Zbigniew Prusak

processconcentrate on teaching ‘specialists’ or ‘generalists’? What do we know about the knowledge andskills that will define a successful engineering professional? Product Realization Skills (PRS) -knowledge and skills that form the core of presently demanded engineering competencies aredescribed along with problems in effective teaching of PRS. The paper analyzes various skillsvalued by engineering and technology professionals and educators, as well as the changes in theimportance of these skills. Weaknesses in preparation of engineering graduates as seen by industrialleaders and engineers from different countries are also presented.1. INTRODUCTION Many highly industrialized regions of the world continuously transform activities leading togeneration

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Jack Swearengen; Hakan Gürocak

technologies in greater depth to provide theskills needed for advanced manufacturing 3.CurriculumThe new degree provides an opportunity for WSU to tailor the curriculum in phase with ABETEngineering Criteria 2000 4 and guidance from manufacturing industry 5-9. We are following thatapproach in concert with an Industrial Advisory Board. The curriculum is designed to providepractical training and business skills without compromising solid science and engineering.WSUV will offer upper division courses and electives as listed in Table 1. Technical electiveswill be specific to particular manufacturing industries. Graduates who choose will be able togain admission to reputable graduate programs in manufacturing or mechanical engineering. Theupper-division

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Lara Relyea; Joan A. Burtner

Mills 4 writes about a civil engineering technology class offered as part of Western Kentucky University's two-week long program called "Summer Camp for Academically Talented Junior High School Students". Mattmuller 5 describes a three-day summer mini-camp designed to introduce high school Page 3.615.1 aged women students to the field of electrical engineering technology. In the summer of 1996, ASU's Women in Applied Science and Engineering (WISE) Program conducted a two-day commuter program consisting of hands-on engineering activities, career information, and team building exercises. 6 Last year

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Jacob E. Mendelssohn; David J. Ahlgren

Session 3520 The Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest: A Medium for Interdisciplinary Engineering Design David J. Ahlgren, Jacob E. Mendelssohn Department of Engineering Trinity College, Hartford CT 06106IntroductionIn this paper we introduce the Trinity College Fire-fighting Home Robot Contest, describe someof the engineering design problems it presents, and discuss examples of work done at Trinity.Held annually on the Trinity College campus in Hartford, CT since 1995, this is the largestrobotics competition in the U.S. open

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

Report, November 1996. Page 3.598.6RICHARD 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

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Robert A. Hall; Mark W. McK. Bannatyne

and begin an effort to move ahead inthe waning years of the twentieth century in an effort to create a technological society that willparallel the West. Such a review could not be adequately done in hundreds of volumes let alonetens of pages.What we will witness in the next ten years is anyone's guess. Our own experiences in Russiahave allowed us to share life's experiences with Communist leaders, hyper-inflation, the threat ofcivil war, unemployment, an elevated crime rate, homelessness, a close look at medical practices,and the birth of computers in the public schools. What we anticipate we will see is a return to therigorous engineering programs that once were the pride of the Soviet educational system. Indeed,it was the work of its

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Nancy Y. Amaya; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Cynthia Atman

/acredit/abet/abet.html.2 DeVor, R.E., T. Chang, and J.W. Sutherland, Statistical Process Control, Macmillan (1992), pp. 138-150.3 Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, http://www.abet.org/EAC/eac2000.html4 Karapetrovic S., and D. Rajamani, "Quality Control in Engineering Courses," paper submitted to The Journal of Engineering Education, 1997.5 Dusharme, D., "Control Charts Improve Students' Test Scores," Quality Digest, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Jan. 1994) pp. 8.6 Collins, A., "Quality Control as a Model for Education: It Would Improve Our Output," Engineering Education, May 1990, pp. 470-471.7 Ref. 2, pp. 255-278.8 Ref. 2, pp. 138-150, 443-448.9 Ref. 2, pg. 133.10 Willemain, T.R. and G.C

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Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

only motivated by the subject matter but were also capable of fundamental engineeringdesign and problem solving.I. IntroductionOver the past few decades our society has become increasingly technologically advanced. Thissocietal change has required a more technologically savvy workforce and has produced anincreasing demand for skills such as a capacity with open-ended problem solving, a facility withcomputers, an ability to manage and make sense of large amounts of data and information, andan ability to work in interdisciplinary teams to solve increasingly complex problems. Since theseare skills that are typically associated with the practice of engineering, there has been a great dealof interest in introducing engineering to students at the

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David G. Martin; William G. Sullivan

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.DAVID G. MARTIN received a Bachelorís Degree in Industrial Engineering in 1989 and a Masterís Degree inIndustrial Engineering in 1992. Both degrees were conferred by West Virginia University, Morgantown, WestVirginia. He is currently working towards his Doctorate in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech

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S. A. Tennyson; R. J. Eggert

. Custom-designed assessment instruments were found toproduce valuable information as to the effectiveness of adding a design component and mayshow the strengths and weaknesses of the course instruction (Cahill, Eisley, and Guarino, 1995).Also, during the project, Professor Guarino developed an interesting hypothesis for the creationof learning modules, that the number of target concepts (i.e. engineering science concepts to belearned) should be equal to the number of changeable design elements (i.e. parts, or componentsin the mechanical system).Professor Guarino prepared a follow-on proposal entitled “Design-Based Engineering Educationon the Internet” which was subsequently funded by the Idaho State Board of Education in 1996,under the Technology

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Ann D. Christy; Marybeth Lima

Page 3.584.1The Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) recently publishedEngineering Criteria 2000, which sets new standards for evaluating, assessing and accreditingengineering programs in North America [1]. The criteria are purposefully vague in nature toencourage innovation in engineering education [2]. Proceedings from the National Conferenceon Outcomes Assessment for Engineering Education [3] reflect educators’ frustration with thisissue. The process for implementing new means of assessment will be iterative in nature, andwill involve collaboration among educators, industry leaders, accreditors, and stakeholders [2].Engineering Criteria 2000 cited the student portfolio as a means for meeting criterion three:program

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Carolyn L. Dull; A. George Havener

Session 1253 AN INFORMATION RESOURCE WEB-PAGE FOR A FRESHMAN PROBLEM BASED LEARNING ENGINEERING COURSE A. George Havener and Carolyn L. Dull USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, CO 80840 INTRODUCTIONAn information resource web-page has been constructed to support an experimentalfreshman engineering course at the USAF Academy (USAFA)1,2. The intent of thecourse is to use Problem Based Learning (PBL)3 to begin developing problem solvingskills while concurrently introducing engineering fundamentals to cadets. The coursedoes not have a textbook or a syllabus. Instead, the cadets

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Joan A. Burtner; Laura Moody

, and Ph.D. (HumanFactors Engineering), all from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the coordinator of the engineeringeconomy course.JOAN A. BURTNER is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Mercer University. She is the coordinator of thefreshman design course, faculty advisor for the Society of Women Engineers, and the Director of Mercer’s SummerEngineering Camp for middle school students. She holds a BSE (Industrial Egr.) and an MSE (Egr. Management)from Mercer, as well as a BA (Psychology) and an Ed.S (Guidance and Counseling) from the Univ. of Florida. Page 3.609.6

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Jeffery McDowell; Sandra Yost

providing support in the form of tutoring and mentoring, they willexperience less of the isolation often experienced by women in traditionally male disciplines.Because the program requires very little funding, it represents a very low-risk investment in theretention of first year students.References[1] Seymour, E., & Hewitt, N. M. (1995) Talking about leaving: Why undergraduates leave the sciences. Boulder, Co. Westview Press.[2] Seymour, E. (1995). The loss of Women from science, mathematics, and engineering undergraduate majors: An explanatory account. Science Education. 79(4): 437-473.[3] Henwood, F. WISE Choices? Understanding Occupational Decision-Making in a Climate of Equal Opportunities for Women in Science and Technology

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

graduates have anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibilities,” (2) the trend of campuses to includesome variation of ethics as a campus general education principle, and (3) the increasinglycomplexity of the working world which necessitates the inclusion of professional ethics in thecurriculum. It is not surprising, then, that the call for engineering schools to offer ethics relatedcourses has been sounded by Stephen H. Unger1 . He goes so far as to say, “Every engineeringstudent should be required to take such a course in the freshman year. Engineering facultyshould teach the courses so that students ill get the message that ethics are important.” Heinz C.Luegenbiehl2, Professor of Philosophy at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Michael B. Cutlip; Mordechai Shacham

). APPENDIX E - The Mathematica solution is located on pp. M41 to M45 in docu-ment* Mathemat.pdf and authored by H. Eric Nuttall, Department of Chemical andNuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87134-1341(nuttall@unm.edu). APPENDIX F - The Maple solution is located on pp. 38-43 in document*Maple.pdf and authored by Ross Taylor, Department of Chemical Engineering,Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699-5705 (taylor@sun.soe.clarkson.edu). APPENDIX G - The Excel solution is located on pp. 22-25 in document* Excel.pdfand authored by Edward M. Rosen, EMR Technology Group, 13022 Musket Ct., St.Louis, MO 63146 (EMRose@Compuserve.com).APPENDIX A - PROBLEM 99. REVERSIBLE, EXOTHERMIC, GAS PHASE REACTION IN A CATALYTIC

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laboratory, kinematics and dynamics of machinery, machine design, freshmanseminar for engineers, and ME laboratory. He received his B.S.M.E. in 1977, M.S.M.E. in 1979 and Ph.D. inEngineering in 1984 from Tennessee Technological University. Dr. McDonald was a NASA-ASEE Summer FacultyFellow for four summers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He is a member of ASEE,ASME, NSPE, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Tennessee. Page 3.414.13