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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Olds

thoughtful, educated citizens. In addition, on a more practical level,when we look at the ABET Criteria 2000 5, several of the outcomes in Criterion 3 are eitherdirectly or indirectly tied to a person’s ability to be reflective. For example, the ability to designand conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (3b) may require the designerto reflect on his/her preferred learning style, ability to interact effectively with others, etc. Inaddition, outcomes 3d (an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams), 3g (an ability tocommunicate effectively), 3h (the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global and societal context), and 3j (knowledge of contemporaryissues) all require a degree of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

: programoverview and philosophy, the curriculum and impact upon faculty, and, finally, the perspectivesof facilitators and participants with some statistical analysis of program impact on studentretention and academic performance.Program Overview and Philosophy To set the program in context, Cal Poly Pomona is a large,urban campus drawing mostly students from middle- and working-class homes in the greaterLos Angeles area. The “typical” student expects to commute to campus and to work whileattending college. The challenges to faculty are several: -The variability of the high school and community college preparation of incoming students does not equip many of them for the much higher level of competition and intellectual

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James C. Hermanson; David J. Olinger

, there have been dramatic changes in the way engineering principlesare applied to practical problems. Increasingly, an integrated approach using analytical,experimental, and computational approaches is being utilized. The development of compact,powerful digital computers has been one prime mover in these changes, with computationalalgorithms now often replacing experiments as primary analytical tools. However, experimentsstill play a crucial role in developing in students an understanding of complex thermofluidphenomena. Additionally, the analytical (exact solution) approach still has an important place inbringing intuitive insight into a problem. For these reasons, engineering programs in academia

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mitchell; Katherine Sanders; Chris Carlson-Dakes; Patrick Farrell

interest in a topic.We consider workshops to be a learning environment that is rather short-term. That is, peoplewould come together for a period ranging from two hours or one-half day to one or two days tolearn together. The expected outcome is for the participants to apply what they learn at the endof the time period. Workshop environments, in our experience, might have people dropping in Page 5.293.1and out, perhaps coming and going to teach classes, work in their offices, answer email, or go toanother meeting. The people in attendance are typically faculty and faculty development staff,sometimes graduate students, but very seldom are