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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Hobson; Esther Hughes

course (Introduction to Engineering) and upper level coursesare also discussed. Finally the instructors give an assessment and evaluation of the courses andspecifically address the active collaborative activities.IntroductionIndustry has made it clear to engineering programs that they want graduates who not only haveexcellent technical skills, but these new engineers must also have teamwork, communication,negotiation, and conflict resolution skills. Productivity in industry is not just a function of howwell an individual can solve a technical problem, but how an individual can work together in agroup to accomplish a complex task. As a result engineering educators today are finding itnecessary to teach students not only the technical fundamentals

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gorman; Edmund Russell III; Donald Brown; William Scherer; Kathryn Neeley

the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) and administered by theSEAS humanities and social science faculty (Technology, Culture, and Communication/TCC). Asmentioned earlier, both experiences emphasize the integrated, comprehensive approach favored byABET as reflected in EC 2000. The similarities suggest opportunities for maximizing studentlearning and overall efficiency by using written products of undergraduate research to achieve anddocument the achievement of multiple educational objectives. Moreover, the two groups of facultyhave a history of successful collaboration at the graduate level2 and had worked together from thebeginning to design the capstone project to be compatible with the undergraduate thesis project.There

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Chin; Kamran Qamar; Gary Krikorian; Joel Weinstein

education program provides students with a limited timeframe in whichto develop teamwork capabilities and learn how to deal with other people. In industry, poorteamwork skills or lack of skills result in team failure.Teamwork skills require the ability and confidence to deal with any situation. Perhaps the bestexample of how teamwork was built comes from the student team’s own log: “What we found out was that the small details that were important to each individual play a major factor in building a successful team and how well they work with one another. One of the first things we did was to create positions and business cards for each member of the team. This gave us individual identity inside the team structure yet also

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lucas; Catherine Latterell; Andrew Vavreck

educators have addressed theindustry-driven desire to help students work more effectively on teams and on projects, includinglarge center-based multidisciplinary efforts involving engineers from different fields,1 programsvertically integrated by courses,2 classroom-based integration of students within and outsideengineering in the sciences,3 teaming between business and engineering students in a capstonedesign course4 and graduate product design with business and engineering students.5 In addition,of course, many cross-disciplinary business and engineering programs and minors in other fieldsfor engineering students are available at many campuses.A means has been developed at Penn State Altoona to address many of these student and facultyissues

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Copes; Willard D. Bostwick; Kenneth Rennels; Douglas Acheson

material. After successfully implementing this curriculum with his studentsfor the second year, and realizing potential redundancy should his students pursue the TG degreeoption at IUPUI, he approached the TG Program Chair to inquire about the potential for collegecredit for graduates who had now completing an almost identical High School course. It wasthrough this relationship that the dialogue first began in connecting these two educationalinstitutions through this unique articulation agreement.Note: On June 9, 2000, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education approved the four-yearBachelor of Science degree program in Computer Graphics Technology (CGT) at IUPUI. Allreferences throughout this document are that of the former Technical Graphics