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, students attend a formal class that alternated between building design skills andhearing speakers from local industry. Skill building was comprised of instruction in teambuilding and design, while industrial speakers were brought in to help students prepare for jobinterviews and career path selection.The weekly topics were as follows:Week #1: Course guidelines and descriptions of projects that students may select, and formation of teams.Week # 2: Design emphasis in bioengineering. The objective of this topic is to introduce the students to an area of applications not normally discussed in a traditional electrical and computer engineering program. ECE students have had signal

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Technologycourses. He joined the university after a career in the information technology industry, working in management andtechnical positions in the Industrial Sector and as a consultant with IBM. Mark received an A.A.S in ComputerTechnology and B.S. in Management from Purdue University, and an M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Page 6.850.8 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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lecture portion of Freshman Clinic I focuses on developing students’ problem-solving skills,engineering ethics, history of engineering, and career-building skills such as resume writing andmock interviews for summer internships.The overall theme of the lab-portion of Freshman Clinic I is Engineering Measurements4. Thelaboratory portion allows the students an opportunity to experience each of four engineeringdisciplines for three weeks. In the Civil and Environmental Engineering laboratory sessions,students are presented with a different laboratory module each of the three weeks:Environmental, Structural, and Water Resources Engineering.Water Resources Engineering ModulesTo date, two different modules relating to Water Resources Engineering have

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organizational meetings 4. A facility which serves to supplement classroom and laboratory instruction with tutoring, workshops, and miscellaneous resource materials 5. A satellite for Tutoring and Learning Services, Career Services, Graduate Services, Scholarships and Financial Aid, and other student-support offices on campus 6. A location for students to utilize the presentation aids via computers/software, e.g. POWERPOINT, and then use the facility to rehearse for presentationsThe Center also serves as an important resource for the students by inviting speakersfrom on and off campus to do workshops, presentations and training sessions. In addition,the student team maintains a comprehensive library

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. Page 6.151.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering Education • By the end of the final year, all 6 universities would have a recognizable specialty construction option in place.The project envisioned support from the industrial partners not only financially, but also in kind,through assistance in developing the course materials. The academic programs agreed to developthe infrastructure including such things as student associations, academic and career advising,and internship and summer job programs. The national associations provided both direct supportand local contacts with chapters and

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and technology components of the business as they are withdesign or construction fundamentals. Introducing breadth into the university education is thekey to this comfort level. Universities must recognize that the civil engineering industry isbroad enough to attract students with different views of the same career choice. With manyuniversities witnessing declining civil engineering enrollments, it is time to recognize thatsupporting these different views may be the path to reversing the enrollment trend.Unfortunately, embarking on such a path will reignite the debate over where this flexibility canbe inserted into the curriculum. There are no easy answers to this debate, however the safe pathof returning to a tightly controlled, old-economy

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to high school students participating in the Engineering andScience Summer Institute (ESSI) at KSU. The ESSI Program is offered to high school students(and high school instructors) as an opportunity to learn about engineering, as well as physics,chemistry, biology and mathematics. Lectures and laboratory activities are given to illustrateimportant problems and challenges faced by society presently and into the future. The programis also designed to aid the students in determining their career interests. In addition, students aregiven opportunities for leadership activities and for learning about life on campus at a university.Further information about the ESSI Program can be obtained by contacting the College ofEngineering at Kansas State

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EngineeringDepartment at Bradley University in Peoria, IL. He currently teaches the undergraduate control theory sequence,senior and graduate laboratories, and artificial neural networks.EUGENE S. McVEYEugene McVey received the Ph.D. degree in engineering from Purdue University in 1960. He was Instructor andAssistant Professor from 1957 to 1961 at Purdue University. From 1962 to 1994, he was Associate Professor (1961-1966) and Professor (1966-1994) at the University of Virginia. He is the author of over 140 archival publications, holds18 patents, and supervised 30 Ph.D. dissertations and 55 Master Theses during his teaching career. Page

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and analyzing data, which is then presented in a technical report format. The reportproduced is the essence of the laboratory experiment and serves as an indicator of the student’sability to collect and analyze data and present it in an acceptable engineering report format. InCET 400, students are required to work independently with the software.Engineering technology programs are frequently promoted as providing students with “hands onexperience”. However, even a student who chooses a materials testing career path will probablyfind that equipment and methods used in the professional laboratory are different from thoseused in the educational laboratories. Any methods or procedures used previously will have to bemodified to the equipment

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo Perna; Vladimir Briller

. Page 6.157.3Proceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright @ 2001, American Society of Engineering Education FacultyThe Faculty appreciated the importance of real engineering exposure, good oral and writtencommunication skills, and team concepts in project development. StudentsOur students wanted to start engineering studies very early in their academic careers. Theywanted interesting and exciting programs but they have always complained about “to muchwork”. Nevertheless, they would ask, “where is the beef”? In other words, when are we going tostart studying “real” engineering problems instead of only chemistry, mathematics, physics

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requirements cited by aviation industry experts (including members ofthe Aeronautical Management Technology department Industry Advisory Board), the faculty, Page 6.228.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationand from criteria specified in CAA accreditation guidelines. The CAA aviation managementcapstone course guidelines, under the Aviation Management Option states: Focus This area MUST be defined by the institution and SHOULD provide preparation for a career. It

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, and economic units within their environment.” Engraved in the arch over theentry to Bowman Hall are the words “Industry, Skill, Trade, and Honor.” The original missionof the Stout Institute and these four core values are still practiced in this unique University ofWisconsin Institution. The University of Wisconsin-Stout, the only system institution bearing anindividuals name, serves a unique role within the state of Wisconsin. UW-Stout preparesindividuals for professional careers in business, industry, and education. James Huff Stoutbelieved every individual was entitled to an education, and the manual training schools weredeveloped with the intent to actively train individuals in the manual arts and domestic sciences,thereby allowing

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evaluations and retention trends it appears to besucceeding in its goals.Bibliography1. R. B.Landis, Studying Engineering A Road Map to a Rewarding Career. Burbank, CA: Discovery Press 1995.2. K. Donaldson, The Engineering Student Survival Guide. Boston, MA.: WCB McGraw-Hill 1999.3. D. White, & R. Doering, Electrical Engineering Uncovered. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall 1997.4. URL: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu:80/~ee1/ Home page for UC Berkeley introductory course EECS 1.5. K. Craven, S. Wayne, & A. Stiller, The Freshman Engineering Experience at West Virginia University. 1999ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Charlotte, NC.6. URL: http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/ugrad/happy.html Description of Univ. of Illinois’ introductory course ECE

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100 Fall 2000 (2 sections) 2.89 2.43 37 Fall 1999 (3 sections) 2.83 1.79 63Table 3 provides information that gives an interesting look at how students in different programsperform in MEMT 201. We need to consider the classification of the students that complete the coursein each of the disciplines. The biomedical and industrial engineers generally do not need to completethe course early in their careers at Louisiana Tech, so many of them wait until they are seniors to enroll.These two disciplines also have the greatest differential between average overall GPA and averageMEMT 201 grade. However, these 21 students are a very

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Junio Junio Soph Soph Soph Introduction to Engineering Design, Team Formation, & Project Assignments Maintaining an Engineering Logbook Design Team Meetings and Management Resume, Memos, & Report Writing Use of Matlab, pSpice, Visio software Scientific Calculator Usage Literature Searching; Product & Component Literature Project Management Concepts Patent Process & Patent Searches BE Career Opportunities Developing Test Procedures & Experiments Design Process Modeling Obtaining Project Funding Team Conflict

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other stakeholders, and work across stakeholder groups towards consensus. Through this learning process, the faculty intends that students develop those criticalthinking and evaluation skills important to them as they move forward both in their careers andas educated citizens. Below is a list of course goals from the faculty perspective:Course Goals• Development of critical thinking skills, oral and written communication skills, and technical research skills. Page 6.253.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American

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grades on individual quizzes orassignments designed to test the influence of a new course components 13, 14, and regular courseevaluations 15. Administering surveys is also common16. IE 323 and 424 were taught before theproposed changes were implemented in Fall 2000, allowing a comparison between sections usingthe traditional laboratories to those using the revised laboratories. The formal evaluation usesfour techniques:1. Student Surveys: Anonymous surveys were administered twice in each course, for comparisonbefore and after the laboratory changes. Survey questions are shown in Table 1. We expected,due to the changes, that the laboratories would be seen as more relevant and applicable tostudents’ future careers, and that this effect would

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Technological University (aspiring to be the MIT of the East) for giving VKAan opportunity to interact with so many wonderful strategic planners picked from prestigiousinstitutions around the world to engineer the future of NTU. We are fortunate to be able to offera number of courses on techno-entrepreneurship and exchanging ideas during our travel. Manyof the ideas in this paper are a direct result of our interactions with diverse group of people, toonumerous to name here, during our travel around the world. We thank them all for sharing theirwisdom with us which in turn we are sharing with our engineering colleagues in other parts ofthe world.Bibliography1. Hissey, T. W., “Education and Careers 2000,” August 2000, Vol. 88, Number 08 (http

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. (1993). The effects of cooperative learning and the use of an instructional self-learning guide onabstract concepts in genetics. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut.5. Johnson, D. W. (1991). Human relations and your career (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.6. Johnson, D.W. (1993). Reaching out: Interpersonal effectiveness and self-actualization (6th ed.). Needham Page 6.302.9Heights, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Education7. Johnson, D.W., &

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societies, and –consequently – towards engineering education:− New technologies become out of date after ca. 3 years while the cycle of reaching full professional efficiency by a graduate is 6–8 years (4–6 years of study and 2 years of initial professional experience). Consequently, it seems to be useless to base the education of the future engineers on the ideas that will become obsolete at the beginning of their professional careers. The rapid advancement of technologies is accompanied by an exponential growth of the volume of engineering knowledge that cannot be unlimitedly added to the engineering curricula. This should be the reason for more synthetic and methodical teaching of the fundamentals.− The main competence of an

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,the students will also begin to develop skills appropriate to their professional careers. Instructorscan use rubrics to track the effectiveness of the instruction and to document the progress of thelearners.Rubrics in the laboratory courseThree faculty designed rubrics that were used in two multiple-section sophomore level laboratorycourses. One laboratory course complimented the basic strength of material course and the othercourse was an introduction to aerospace instrumentation. The two main goals for using therubrics were to provide students with explicit guidance in the preparation of their reports, oralpresentations, and laboratory notebooks and to permit more consistent grading across sectionsand instructors. Rubrics allow instructors

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outside method in order to acknowledgerisk in the first place.To illustrate the hubris of method, we first return to Edison and consider one of the majorprojects of his career. For over a decade in the 1890s, Edison tried to take over the iron industryin the Eastern United States by building a mammoth plant for processing low-grade iron ore.Edison believed that, if he systematically analyzed the problem and developed large-scalemachinery, he could produce iron ore that would be cheaper than what was currently shipped toPennsylvania blast furnaces from Cuba and other parts of the US. Focused on his methodology,Edison downplayed how new iron mines in Michigan and Minnesota altered the industry and hefailed to understand how grinding iron ore into a

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Space Flight Center in Huntsville before beginning his teaching career in 1975. His interests are in controlsystems, computer simulation, and signal processing.SPENCER L. BRINKERHOFF (Spencer.Brinkerhoff@nau.edu)Spencer Brinkerhoff is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Northern Arizona University. He is a graduate of TheUniversity of Arizona (BSCE) and of Arizona State University (MS, PhD). He is a registered professional engineerwith experience in structural design. Other courses taught include statics, mechanics of materials, structural steeldesign, and reinforced concrete design. He has been teaching at NAU since 1978, having previously spent six yearsin the Department of Civil Engineering at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas and several

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engineeringwere male. The minority student population constituted 62% of the total enrollment. Theclassification of students in Table 1 is created by the university and is based on the total numberof credit hours completed. It does not represent a true standing for many engineering students.For example, the largest group of students in Table 1 is classified as seniors. However, many ofthese students are taking engineering courses at freshman, sophomore, or junior levels.The majority of engineering students at UTSA work while attending school. A large number aremarried and support a family. Some have been out of school for several years and are pursuingengineering education to qualify for a career change. The engineering programs at UTSA havebeen

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of the word). We describe a unique and innovative curriculum that solves anumber of difficult problems. It: • develops a process to expose large numbers of students to the excitement of microelectronics as a career very early in their undergraduate education; • provides a clear educational pathway for students who start their education in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS); • provides and opportunity for those so inclined to obtain a superior education in the field through a university option in microelectronics; • improves on the standard course-based undergraduate education by providing team-based research projects; and • encourages the best of our students to continue

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students succeeded in completing a very complex design challenge. Through this process the participants realized the importance of team work and have developed a unique set of skills for distributed team projects.• The Academy Cadets had an opportunity to experience working on a geographically- distributed multidisciplinary team, which they’ll do frequently throughout their Coast Guard careers and beyond.• The high school students received mentoring from both college students and professional engineers. This experience has hopefully provided them with the interest and confidence to Page 6.646.13 pursue advanced education in math

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Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationthat with the ever growing body of knowledge needed for a successful career, the centuries oldeducation model of one master and few apprentices had become largely insufficient. Education ofa goal-minded individual who uses technical knowledge as a principal tool and communicateseffectively with non-technical personnel became the emphasis of the education in that institution.The principles of today’s engineering work have not changed much since. Increasingly more oftenfunctioning of an engineer is viewed in context of the entire scientific and economic environment. Several reports by professional societies and papers published in the last

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yield versusprocessing parameters will clearly assist us in improving our mask sets and processes to assurethat each student group is successful in producing a wafer with working devices—an essentialgoal if we are to excite students about pursuing careers in microelectronics. Other usefulenhancements include automation of cleanroom performance measures. The capability to soundalarms and take preventative measures regarding elevated particle counts and inadequate DIwater quality should be automated to the point where lab managers need only receive updates onwhat is occurring in real time, thus allowing corrective action in a more timely fashion.V. AcknowledgementsWe thank LabWare, Inc. (http://www.labware.com) for donating a copy of LabWare and

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American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationteam also introduced the students and faculty to many aspects of group dynamics, a relatively newexperience for the team members.2. Group DynamicsDealing with group dynamics helps students to polish their “soft skills,” which are vitally importantin today’s business world. Soft skills, including oral, written, and interpersonal communications, areoften the most important skills that a person must possess in order to advance one’s career. Workingin large groups as a part of the undergraduate curriculum provides students with a chance to honetheir people skills, which generally occurs only

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to a Rewarding Career, Discovery Press: Burbank California, p. 11.Polya, G., (1973) How to Solve It, Second Edition, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.Wales, C. E., (1972a) “Guided Design: Why & How You Should Use It,” Engineering Education, 62, (8).Wales, C.E., and Stager, R.A., (1972b). “The Design of an Educational System,” Engineering Education, 62 (5).Wales, C. E., (1979) “Does How You Teach Make a Difference?” Engineering Education, 69 (5), 81-85.Wales, C. E., Nardi, A.H.,Stager, R.A., (1986) Professional Decision-Making, Center for Guided Design, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.Wales, C. E., Nardi, A.H., Stager, R. A., (1987) Thinking Skills: Making a Choice, Center for Guided Design, West Virginia