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Robert Engelken

regional entities.It may also decrease the popularity of engineering and science majors and careers among incomingstudents and the pool from which to recruit research assistants.In some cases, such schools are in the shadow of flagship research institutions and are not even"supposed to" be aspiring to be research institutions; this may be reflected in the state fundingformula as well as general public perception. A misconception that high-level laboratory researchand instruction cannot be performed at such schools may develop not only in the region or statebut also in the university administration and faculty. Faculty may begin to feel that it’s not worththe effort. This is particularly prevalent with senior faculty who have attempted research

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Anthony J. Muscat

perception that thestudents have of a professor as a teacher. One possibility is to distribute articles or internet linksrelated to career issues, aspects of the course, or to the discipline as a whole. I prepare a career-related handout for the last day of class each week. Good sources are ASEE Prism, the businesspages of a local newspaper, and the “Managing Your Career” column by Hal Lancaster thatappears on Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. These sources are part of my normal readingroutine so do not require extra time to prepare. I often say a few words about the careerperspective offered or the reason for an article given out on a particular day. Regular office hoursare a necessity, especially in a core course, but holding a special

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Kay C Dee

? Have they won awards?). Including somedetails about the achievements of the student group as part of your personal portfolio ofaccomplishments does not meant that you are using the students to further your career – instead,you are giving yourself fair credit for the time and patience you have invested in the studentorganization, and are providing documentable evidence of student mentoring/advising skills.Very few new engineering educators receive training on mentoring and advising students, andyet we are expected to perform in an advisory/coaching capacity. Therefore, techniques foreffective advising of students (as individuals and in organizations) are certainly “tricks of thetrade outside the classroom” that we need to share with each other

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Peter J. Shull; Joseph C. Hartman; Jerome P. Lavelle; Robert Martinazzi

engineering management division of ASEE. His publications have appeared in The Engineering Economist, Journalof Engineering Valuation and Cost Analysis, Journal for Education in Business, International Journal of IndustrialEngineering, Industrial Management and Production and Inventory Management Journal.PETER J. SHULL is an assistant professor of engineering at Penn State University, Altoona. Peter received hisundergraduate degree from Bucknell University in Mechanical Engineering. His Masters and Ph.D. degrees are fromThe Johns Hopkins University department of Materials Science and Engineering. Peter’s primary research area is sensordevelopment for quality control and nondestructive evaluation. Prior to his current academic career, Peter was

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John R. Wagner; David Finley

’ performance and the students’satisfaction with the program. Accreditation Boards Co-oP Employers Accr Registrar Career Student

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Kevin Schmaltz; Morrie Walworth; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

integration and laboratory prerequisite structuresought in the ISEL, charts were constructed to show student use of the ISEL specializedstations while working toward their degrees. Courses in each curriculum option wereexpanded under each piece of equipment to develop a laboratory prerequisite structure.Each lab is intended to allow a student to study different aspects of a particular integratedsystem, so that they may understand the workings of the entire system. Figure 4 showsthe vertical integration for the Inverted Pendulum. Students in any of the Mechanical orElectrical Engineering options, as well as Computer Engineering will utilize thisapparatus at least three times during their academic careers. Mechanical - Design

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Voula Georgopoulos; Constantinos Vassiliadia; Brian Manhire

one due to both secondary and post-secondary education reforms. An example ofan Engineering Program was discussed. Employment opportunities are not sufficient for thegraduates produced each year because the supply is much higher than the demand. However,many choose and succeed in careers that are alternatives to strict engineering. The number ofwomen engineers is increasing in Greece and ways to gainfully employ them while they have afamily are being explored. Systematic graduate studies are currently in place leading primarilyto the Ph.D. degree.Bibliography1. Technical Chamber of Greece: Free mobility of engineers, Information Bulletin TEE, #1926, 21 October 1996, pp. 34-37 (in Greek language).2. Ministry of National Education and

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Omar Barkat

develops oral and writtencommunication skills, team building, and decisions making skills. Students learn projectmanagement, coordination, cooperation, work assignments, and how to approach a real lifeproblem. If it is a pure research problem, students learn to make their own path in a dark tunnel,accept time consuming tasks without sometimes any apparent results, and discover how to applythe theory studied in class to real situations. In general, it provides a golden opportunity for thestudent to combine theory and practice in his/her last undergraduate course to help them make asmooth transition toward an engineering career or graduate school.Most of the engineering departments graduate more than 50 students per year. It has been verychallenging

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Sean J. Cannon; John H. Grubbs

fundamental knowledge of environmental policy, new and emerging technology,and environmentally sound warfighting doctrine to insure that the actions of the UnitedStates Army, in peacetime training or during operational deployments, are consistent withsustaining the environment. Depending upon their eventual career track, they will beable to expand their knowledge and influence in a matter consistent with serving both ourCountry and its natural resources. Those who go the technology route will still be able tounderstand the environmental policy implications of bringing forth new technology intothe Army arsenal. For those who continue in command and operational staff positions,they will be able to understand where technology fits into the overall

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Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

an important achievement for their careers in the future. Whenthey finish the course they will be able to report to everyone with confidence, no matter thenumber of people.Assisted Training Period, which is basically the experience of working in an Enterprise. Thestudent works effectively fulfilling a program developed by the Faculty and the Enterprise. The Page 4.522.4student is assisted by a Professor and a supervisor of the enterprise until to complete the work.This subject gives the practical experience that show the student not only the “know how to do”and the “Why to do” but also the practice.Management Strategy provides the future

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Albert Lozano-Nieto; Willie Ofosu

not only practical hands-onexperience, but also with the critical thinking and technical skills to solve the problems andchallenges that graduates will face in their professional careers. Engineering Technologyprograms need then to anticipate the future needs of industry in order to be abreast of the ever-changing market in technological fields.Our experience in the Biomedical Engineering and Telecommunication Engineering Technologyprograms show that Electromagnetic Compliance and Interference (EMC/EMI) will be a keyissue for the US industry in the very near future, if not today. We can expect in the futureregulatory agencies will issue new Standards in a manner similar to the European experience,which will result in a demand of graduates

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Jess Everett; Kauser Jahan

provides 100% oxygentransfer efficiency at reasonable power input. This experimental project allows students toevaluate the feasibility of membrane aerators in comparison to conventional ones. The studentswere also involved in predicting mass transfer performance of the membrane system.DiscussionThe Junior Engineering Clinic Class provides a great environment for teaching students aboutreal open-ended design problems in environmental engineering. It helps foster critical thinkingskills and a direct application of coursework material. The course also sets the groundwork forgraduate research if a student should pursue a graduate career. Students also enhance theirproject management skills by working with time constraints and a large range of

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

number ofuniversities have begun offering a Master of Engineering Degree Program for graduate students.Programs such as those at Cornell University are generally designed to prepare students forprofessional practice rather than careers in research4. For example, the professionally-orientedMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Degree at Cornell has been offered for many years. Thisprogram features a strong emphasis on professional practice and design. Real-life projects arebrought to the campus by prominent practicing engineers who return to campus several timesduring the year to interact with the students and participate in the design project. The degree isusually obtained in nine months, which includes an intensive three-week design session heldduring

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Ilya Grinberg

data and the ability to analyze them from a different locationCompanies hiring prospective candidates require them to possess skills in machine/systeminstallation and maintenance, selection and programming of AC/DC drive systems, and dataacquisition and analysis techniques. In addition, they must be capable in the areas ofdocumentation, proposal preparation, and specification writing.The proposed methodology would prepare our students for the multi-skills demanded by thepower/electronics industry and for the challenging careers in the next century.7. AcknowledgmentsThe author would like to acknowledge support of Ronald Matusiak who provided design anddevelopment of hardware components, David Andruczyk for his outstanding softwaredevelopment

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Mahmood Nahvi

thepedagogical side, the course requires interaction, sharing of results, cooperation, competition anddivision of labor among students. These objectives are considered to be important not only forachieving the technical objectives but also in preparing the graduating engineer for a productiveand satisfying professional career. Organizing students in groups of two or three is necessary, butby itself is not sufficient to achieve some of the above objectives. The strategy is to suggest andassign group activities that illustrate the need and benefits of interaction, sharing of experiencesand cooperation.On the technical side, digital signal processing is like the elephant. From a mathematical andcomputational point of view, the core of DSP is transformation

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K. A. Korzeniowski; J. L. Rice

movement anddecision-making of the robot. This laboratory is very successful, however, it is important thatstudents understand each step of the process before moving on to the next more difficult part. Theinstructors enjoy the seminar too, because it requires student participation which always enhanceslearning.Students were canvassed during the summer seminar, with an overwhelming positive response tothe robot laboratory. The seminar generated quite a few questions about robotics, computerinterfacing, electronics and programming which was the primarily purpose of the seminar in the firstplace. This was our main objective: to capture the interest and imagination of pre-college studentsand get them to think about a career in engineering.III

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Kip P. Nygren; Wayne Whiteman

of the interesting applications thatlie ahead in their engineering education.I. IntroductionTypical early undergraduate vibration courses focus on background theory that is used inlater, more senior-level design projects and course work in the engineering curriculum.Our experience is that students are motivated at all levels of learning by real worldproblems that demonstrate relevance of the material. The challenge is to craft designprojects at this early stage in the engineering student’s career that are within theircapabilities to complete, yet offer a taste of the interesting engineering applications thatlie ahead.A first course in vibration engineering is historically a content based, engineer scienceoffering with limited time and

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David Whitman; Sally Steadman

, studyskills, and career development. Programming efforts conducted for both floors by the RAshave included picnics and ice cream socials, finals study sessions, resume writing/internships,and information sessions on tutoring and advising. The RAs have also met with the residentsand discussed academic progress, how to improve academic performance, where to get help,and provided information on stress relievers.Costs associated with the engineering floor are minimal. The computer network is providedand maintained by the university, while the computer equipment, four PCs and a printer foreach floor, is provided by the engineering college. Funding for programming events isprovided by Housing & Residence Life. These expenditures are more than justified

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Robert Douglas; Dean Lance Smith

in the code segment must be out of the flow ofexecution.A colored rectangle is drawn on the video display in Exercise 6. The students are expected towrite and link several procedures. One will set the display to the proper mode (video or text).Another procedure will put a pixel on the graphics display. A third will draw a horizontal line onthe graphics display. A fourth procedure will draw a vertical line. The linking of procedures isfairly complicated for students at this stage of their career, particular the weaker students.However, the visual output seems to motivate many of the weaker students to at least produce aworking solution, if not a well designed working solution.A program is written for Exercise 7 that asks the user for two

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Ingrid H. Soudek

solving problems. To be able to workin interdisciplinary teams also requires that a person can take a stand on an issue and resist fallinginto $group think.# Thus effective team work requires learning to be morally autonomous, usingmoral imagination, as well as thinking analytically, and then communicate persuasively; all this isnecessary for a successful professional career. The aims of teaching Engineering Ethics then are to help students understand what itmeans to be and how to become ethical practitioners of engineering. To act ethically on the jobrequires an integrated belief system, accepting personal responsibility for our actions in both ourpersonal and professional life. As ethical practitioners we have be reflective, develop

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Frank E. Falcone; Edward Glynn

, environmental, geotechnical, water resources,and transportation engineering. Measurements serves as an introduction to the program and is Page 4.119.1designed to stimulate the students’ interest in CE by introducing them to the types of projectsand tasks they will encounter during their professional careers. The course is offered in the fallsemester of the sophomore year and therefore cannot address problems in structures, hydraulicsor engineering geology with great technical rigor, but it does provide an overview of engineeringmethods by presenting some of the techniques used to model problems. One of the moreimportant objectives of the course is to

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Robert Spradling; Robert Hayes; Ahmad Zargari

, computer applications, and financial and business aspects of manufacturingConclusions and Implications Based on our preliminary evaluation of the survey results, the following conclusionscan be drawn: 1. Career positions for industrial technologists in the 21st century will include:Quality Control, Materials Management, Production Supervision/Management, ProcessControl, Project Management, Systems Management, Project Design, ApplicationsEngineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Industrial Sales/Purchasing. 2. Programs required for preparation of Industrial Technologists in the 21stcentury will include: Electrical/Electronics Technology, Graphic CommunicationsTechnology, Manufacturing/Robotics Technology, Packaging Technology

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John E. Nydahl; Colin K. Keeney; Ann Peck

Figure 2. Pre-and Post- Interview Responses to “Expected Types of Page 4.218.4 Professional Technical Writing Tasks”Hearing first hand from their interviewees and then from their peers leaves the students with apowerful impression of just how necessary effective communication skills will be in theirprofessional careers. Based on the interview assignment, students find the amount of timeengineers spend writing may vary from writing just one memo a week to almost full time forproject engineers and managers. But, on the average

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Ronald A. Lessard

hardware timer. This effectively introduces the studentsto all the 6811 features and most of the principles needed in their future career regardingmicrocontroller embedded applications.Tool concepts include using a breakpoint to determine not only register state but alsorobot system state. The robot system state can be determined easily by customizing thememory map and dump. This is easy with the MCX11 Real Timer Kernel as the TaskControl Blocks are already organized to hold that information. An external data analyzerused to trigger an oscilloscope and an internal emulator bus analyzer document executionsequences and times. Interrupt density and response times can then be determined. Thisis especially important when interrupts are competing to be

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Robert L. Powell; Michael J. McCarthy; Michael H. Buonocore

lectures of each MRI course in digitized form, links to information on theNMR facilities on the campus, and help with administrative and financial aspects of theirgraduate study program.I. IntroductionOne of the main objections raised by engineering and physical science graduate studentsplanning careers in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was that the typical MRI textbooks didnot give them adequate technical details. Discussions of MR physics, MRI system design, anddata collection and image generation were typically “watered-down” for casual reading, andwere inadequate for preparation for careers in MRI technical research and development. Thecourses offered on the Web site to be discussed in this paper provide a rigorous technicaleducation in MRI

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Walthea V. Yarbrough; Sarah J. Rajala; Richard L. Porter; Hugh Fuller; Laura Bottomley; Mary Clare Robbins

allow students to discover the responsibilities of varioustypes of engineers.In-class presentations by outside faculty and/or student services were minimized with theexception of Co-Op, Study Abroad, and the Career Center in an effort to minimize the "talking-head" visitations that usually had little or no connection with the remainder of the course.However, some class presentations were used as the basis for other discussions. For example,the faculty from the Civil Engineering robotics laboratory discussed materials selection andequipment design for a lunar mining operation. This was a basis for discussion on projectwork, technical presentations, evaluations, data analysis, etc. Another presentation was from astudent group working on the

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Gloria Rogers; Julia Williams

they prepared for their careers or graduate education.After a review of literature on a variety of data collection methods, we determined thatportfolios would best meet the criteria established and should be the primary source ofdata collection for assessing student outcomes and provide us a means to evaluate theeffectiveness of our programs. The stated purposes of adopting the portfolio process areto: • Provide students with a mechanism to document their progress toward achieving Institute learning outcome goals. • Provide students with a means to showcase their work in a multi-media format. • Engage students in reflection about their own learning as students at RHIT. • Engage faculty in

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Ismail Orabi

Expectations of FacultySix things that students would like their professors do for them in addition to providing them withclassroom instruction are: Page 4.409.7 1. Be a role model. 2. Provide guidance and challenges. 3. Help find job/internships. 4. Show real life experience. 5. Give career advising.. 6. Assist in networking.VI. End of the Semester SurveyAt the close of the semester, an extensive survey was administered to the students in three sectionsof 100 students. The survey focused on 11 areas.Topics Covered in the Course:The first part of the survey asked

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Kenneth Bryden

time and energy, this isgood advice. However, it is likely that the path new professors learn early in their academiccareer will be the path they will follow through the rest of their career. Because of this, it isessential that the value we set on teaching be clearly identified and supported throughout thetenure process. It is unlikely that the demands of research and service will lessen followingtenure. If we do not make time to pursue teaching excellence during the tenure process, it islikely that we will not find time to pursue teaching excellence following tenure. Both ourstudents and we lose if this happens. Recognizing the importance of teaching, some universitieshave begun to change the tenure process to more clearly recognize

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Rama K. Vedachalam; George L. Engel

graduating seniors and a core coursefor those graduate students wishing to pursue a career in IC design. The course was introducedfour years ago and is offered once per year but may soon be offered every semester. The coursehas evolved over the past four years in hopes of keeping up with the changing nature of VLSIdesign. It became clear to us that it is no longer appropriate to teach VLSI the way it was taught Page 4.496.1over ten years ago, where the focus was almost exclusively on low-level circuit issues.. It hasbeen our observation, however, from a review of WEB course listings and discussions withcolleagues that this is frequently the way VLSI