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Linda Fontenot-Simmons; Chu-Chen (C.C.) Chen

answers isconsider the consequences of isolation, homogeneity and other barriers. Multi-culturalcommunication not only opens the door for both cultural and intellectual enrichment, butis the reality for the future and the exciting challenge and opportunity for the presence.CONCLUSIONInternational Projects provides numerous benefits by being part of such an ambitiousnationwide movement as published by many International programs. However, asuccessful International Cooperative program should not only be the adjustment of theculture difference for both sides.REFERENCESPerry, W.G. (1970), Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years,New York; Holt, Rineholt and Winston.Prater, Nancy, (1999), Egyptian Culture Has Lessons

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Leslie Pease; Edward Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Maurice F. Aburdene; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

involvement in the learning process and to introduce complex problems that promotedthe mutual interdependence required for cooperative learning. In addition, the use of open-endeddesign problems provided an additional benefit of allowing faculty to introduce broader issues,such as environmental and ethical considerations, not often incorporated into "content" coursesin the curriculum. For example, one of the assignments used in the heat transfer course wasstaging a debate about whether the U.S. should adopt the Kyoto protocols. In addition torequiring an understanding of global warming mechanisms, the assignment required students toconsider a number of environmental, ethical and political issues not generally encountered in anundergraduate heat

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in practice to the management of engineering projects. Modern business management techniques, skills, and tools will be used, particularly recognizing the role that computers play in engineering.Professional Throughout their college career, students will be encouraged to develop a strong workAttributes: ethic, and to be self-motivated to achieve excellence in whatever field they work. Part of a Page 6.204.2 student grade in every class will be for professionalism, which will include professional Proceedings of the 2001

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, there are no required textbooks, and only a minimal number of lectures. Experts fromindustry, patent law and government agencies typically provide the lecture material. Studentsintegrate and apply knowledge from their major field of study toward a specific project.A number of biomedical engineering programs, like the University of Connecticut2 , have a fullyear of required senior design courses, here referred to as Design I and II. The major deliverablein Design I is a paper design with extensive modeling and computer analysis. Over the semester,students are introduced to a variety of subjects including working on teams, the design process,planning and scheduling, technical report writing, proposal writing, oral presentations, ethics indesign

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Richard McNitt; Cliff Lissenden

: • initiate meaningful dialog between students and faculty, • inform students as to ethical expectations, • orient students as to particular options of study, • demonstrate via case studies what engineers ‘do’, and • provide laboratory awareness and experiences.Catastrophic FailuresEngineered systems sometimes fail in catastrophic ways.... bridges collapse, buildings burn,airplanes explode, ships break in two, spontaneous combustion occurs, autos crash, etcetera.Virtually all such failures occur because the designers, builders, and/or users have overlookedsome unexpected combination of inputs; they seldom fail due to simple overload. For example,a bridge designer may have overlooked the potential danger of aerodynamic loading andmechanical

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graded individually and collectively on the quality of theirparticipation. Third, each role should include both positive and negative character traits andmotivation factors: no character should be completely heroic or villainous. In fact real peopleare seldom either heroic or villainous, but rather disagree on which factors or values are the mostimportant. All are motivated by different concerns rather than by moral or ethical lapses in theseexercises. If this is not the case the exercise runs the considerable risk of quickly becoming“cartoonish”. I provided background information for individual characters which they both doand do not want to be made public. Other characters are given clues intended to provokequestions to bring out their

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”discussion will be focused upon important questions related to the “what if….”alternatives if different economic, social, and ethical decisions had been made.Students will be asked to write a short paper on the solution to the “digital divide” issuein the US. The paper will require historical research on the diffusion of computers andinformation technologies into personal use. The students will be asked to identifysocietal power structures that will be affected by the “digital divide” and proposedgovernmental, legal, or market mechanism for solution to the problem of a furthererosion of opportunity for the poor in US society.AssessmentAssessment methods will primarily be done involving self-evaluation by students andpeer-evaluation within groups

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thermodynamics courses. Emerging technologies, such as fuel cells,could eventually become required reading. Even if a discussion of renewable energy does notsupplant conventional course topics, it can influence how thermodynamic courses are delivered.Energy conservation has become an ethic, a professional standard that should be an integral partof every energy decision.2 The purpose of this paper is to provide an example of how energy conservation andrenewable energy topics can be integrated into a traditional undergraduate thermodynamicscourse. The context of this discussion is a solar energy experiment that has been developed bythe Mechanical Engineering Technology Department at the West Lafayette campus of PurdueUniversity. The experiment

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to an enrollment of about 20students. Both courses encourage student-teacher and student-student interactions. Thedetailed curricula are provided in the following sections.II. CurriculumENGS115:- Introduction of EngineeringThis course is organized around a semester-long design project. The emphasis is onengineering problem solving methodologies and computational techniques. Basicengineering concepts and analyses related to the design project are discussed on a need-to-know basis. The course includes five hands-on laboratory sessions; site visits to localengineering firms and manufacturing plants; ethics and professional responsibilities; andeconomic concerns associated with the engineering design process. Teamwork is stronglyencouraged. The

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, science, and engineering. The Department of Science andEngineering offers electrical and mechanical B.S. degrees, with specialization in Computer,Controls, Communications, and DSP available for electrical engineering. The focus of theengineering department is on developing engineers with professional, ethical attitudes. Theengineering professors come largely from industry, and this background carries over to thecurriculum. Page 6.514.1“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”One key way that the professors pass on their

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William Smyer; L. R. Johnson

. Clutch Design/Ergonomics ∆.…∆Task 6. ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Design ∆.…∆Task 7. Legal Aspects/Patent Search ∆Task 8. Ethics Case Study by Teams ∆Final Exam (PowerPoint presentation of ethics case by teams) ∆ Page 6.546.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001

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R. Williams; F. Edwards; E. Egemen; Adrian Hanson

short lecture from theengineer regarding engineering practice, the significance of registration, and ethics. The students were thengiven time to ask questions regarding their specific project, and achieved input on the construction andoperation of the project as the students have designed.At the UofA, each student group was assigned a different project and each team met many times with thepracticing engineer who designed the real project. The initial meeting was an orientation and datagathering meeting. Subsequent meetings were requested by the design team as deemed necessary by theteam. These meetings were held at the practicing engineer’s office as their schedule allowed.Mid-Design ReviewAs with many design firms, the students were required

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engineering skills, both specificsuch as soldering and enclosure-building ability, and general such as project management,alternate solution synthesis, economic analysis, and teamwork 7,8. They can also perforceintroduce other important topics not commonly considered in design courses such as reliability,maintainability, safety, user-friendliness, and end-user documentation. From a laboratory skillperspective, this expansiveness provides a good balance to the topic focus that can be achievedwith increasingly popular virtualized laboratories.CBPs address several of the ABET2000 Engineering Criteria, including awareness ofengineering solutions in a societal context, recognizing the need to engage in lifelong learning,professional ethics and

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Gurbax Singh; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Engineering EducationExperiments were also designed to study Archimedes’ principle to demonstrate whythings float or sink.The principal author of this paper provided orientation to the field of engineering to theSEBP participants. He offers Introduction to Engineering Design (ENES 100) - afreshman year requirement for engineering majors during the regular semester. In thiscourse the students work in teams to design and develop an engineering product andreceive instruction on different fields of engineering, project management, history ofengineering, engineering graphics, engineering ethics, technical writing and teamwork.SEBP provided an opportunity to involve the students with hands on activities andteamwork. Both soft and technical skill

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Miguel Torres-Febus; Jaime Pabon-Ortiz; Jose Cruz-Cruz; Jorge Velez-Arocho

strategy the areas of art, philosophy, ethics, economics and business administration will be touched upon. 3. Hands-on experience. In this strategy, the practical experience complements the traditional educational approach. Laboratories are synchronized with lectures. Field trips are scheduled where knowledge is applied. The student is exposed to multi- sensorial experiences that reinforce and internalize knowledge. 4. Balance between knowledge depth and breadth. Within the new educational model the student learns the foundations related to their field of concentration and is reinforced with exercises based on real problems. In addition to this the student is exposed to general knowledge that

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Trevor Harding

on self-reported student cheatingat a private mid-western university. One technique that is highly effective is the use oflearning objectives for test construction. Students reported cheating less often on testssince they appeared to be written more fairly. Other techniques include discussinglearning theories and engineering ethics in class, allowing students to use reference sheetsfor closed-book tests and having students work in cooperative learning groups onhomework. Discussion will include how to apply these techniques and why they mayreduce cheating.I. IntroductionIf one reviews the literature on academic dishonesty, they will find a rather alarming setof statistics. Maramark and Maline, based on 30 years of research on cheating in

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Willis Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

of faculty and senior student assistants(SA) from different departments. In addition, several graduate students are employed as teachingassistants (TA) to support the course by doing such tasks as maintaining the web site and helpingto procure parts to support the various design projects. All 250 students attend the lecturestogether. Some example topics of the lectures are the basics of the design process, maintainingan engineering lab notebook, industrial case studies by engineers from local industries, effectivepresentation techniques, engineers and society, and ethics. In addition, each of the 10engineering degree programs makes a short presentation about their particular brand ofengineering in order to acquaint the Freshmen with the

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Mitzi Vernon; Richard Goff

. The diverse vehicles and sites are documented. Further, there is adiscussion of the contributions of both the industrial design and engineering students – howteams defined their work ethic and division of labor. Finally the assessment process of theproject is discussed. This paper serves as a visual record of an exciting and creative foundationdesign effort.IntroductionIn the spring of 1997, we had a notion that a collaboration of engineering and industrial designstudents would bring about a new and exciting possibility for our students to experience theactivity of real world design in their foundation years at the university.The first year, we established teams of two students - one engineering student and one industrialdesign student. The

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Thomas McCormack; Franz Rad; Dale Richwine; Azad Mohammadi; Scott Huff

, construction, and socio-economic factors. Projects offered to the teams arereal projects, extracted either from those with which the practitioners have been heavily involvedin recent years, or from on-going projects at the time the course is offered.The current catalog course description is: “Synthesis of civil engineering specialties in a diversemulti-disciplinary project. Teamwork approach in design of components and systems to meetstated objectives. Consideration of alternative solutions, methods, and products includingconstraints such as economic factors, safety, reliability, and ethics. Preparation of designdocuments, including: memoranda, computations, drawings, cost estimates, specifications,bidding materials; written and oral presentations

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Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

in order to accomplish the assessment.ABET/EAC’s Criterion 3 states that students must demonstrate the following:a. an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineeringb. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret datac. an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needsd. an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teamse. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problemsf. an understanding of professional and ethical responsibilityg. an ability to communicate effectivelyh. the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal contexti. a recognition of the need for, and

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Christopher Ibeh

pursuant of set goals, syntheses, analyses and evaluation or development of intellectual skills, epistemology or role of the individual in the design, development and creation of knowledge, innovative application of acquired knowledge, ethical responsibility and accountability for developed or acquired knowledge.These espoused elements of critical thinking; particularly metacognition and the innovativeapplication of acquired knowledge are the “driving force” for industrial and societal productivity.“Productivity” as represented by the GDP (gross domestic product) and GNP (gross nationalproduct) has been cited as the leading criterion for civilization(4

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Robert Marine; Carol Colbeck; Alberto Cabrera

development Mean = 2.88 to understand engineers’ ethical responsibilities .81 Std. Dev. = .75 to understand the impact of engineering solutions in societal & .74 Alpha = .83 global contexts Engineering Range = 1-4a to understand and apply mathematics concepts .81 science Mean = 3.21 to understand and apply basic science concepts .91 fundamentals Std. Dev. = .61 to understand and apply engineering science .74 Alpha = .75 Own Skills Ill-defined Range = 1-4b I am good at identifying and redefining ill

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William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

pursue lifelong learning, 9. understand professional, ethical, and social responsibilities, 10. recognize contemporary professional, societal, and global issues and are aware of and respect diversity, and 11. have a commitment to quality, timeliness and continuous improvement. Page 6.559.3North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA)NCA, which accredits SMSU, defines five Criteria for Accreditation and “Patterns of Evidence” todemonstrate the criteria. Statements relating to assessment are:In determining appropriate patterns of evidence for (Criterion 3: the accomplishment of educationalpurposes), the Commission

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Mark Chandler; Kathleen McCollom

the protectionof their employer’s rights to this property.” A similar and relevant concern can exits in theuniversity classroom setting: “corporations restrict the flow of information in order to protectprofits. Professional societies urge technical communicators to do the same. Universitiesencourage the flow of information so that many may learn from it. All want ethical behavior31.”As observed by one author, leading edge companies and professional societies are promotingeducation. Undergraduate degrees, advanced education, and Master’s level technical degreestend to produce case study-type papers which are presented in a technical classroom setting4.All companies have proprietary information. Protecting it is a normal business activity

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Joseph Walsh; David Kelso; John Troy; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

many educators in composition, speech, and thelearning sciences. In these fields, proponents of “integrated” education remind us that writingand speaking are more than a set of skills, that good communication instruction, like othereffective instruction, should be firmly grounded and “contextualized” in authentic intellectualactivity1.Responding to these ideas, engineering schools have started to experiment with innovativecollaborative approaches to communication instruction, especially at the freshman andsophomore levels. As noted in a recent article in ASEE Prism, “Engineering schools across thenation are forging new connections with English, speech, and philosophy departments thatallow students to study communication, teamwork, and ethics

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Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

optimization ofbioreactors.LARRY V. MCINTIREDr. McIntire is the E.D. Butcher Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering and Chair of the Institute ofBiosciences and Bioengineering. Dr. McIntire received his B.Ch.E. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering fromCornell University in 1966 and his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 1970. Dr.McIntire has edited two texts: Biotechnology - Science, Engineering and Ethical Challenges for the Twenty-FirstCentury [Joseph Henry Press (NAS), 1996] and Frontiers in Tissue Engineering [Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd.,1998]. Page 6.372.6Proceedings of the 2001

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experienced individual ineach group increased the amount of class time the instructor spent discussing issues related tocosts, ethics, and constructibility. Students seemed to be less preoccupied with memorizing an Page 6.485.5analysis procedures that they could reproduce by rote on an exam and more worried about bigProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationpicture issues. The direction of learning has clearly shifted from the compartmentalizedapplication of design concepts learned only in the

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Juan Herrera; Stephen Stafford

, the poster displays are retained by the department andserve as future educational and case study displays for the course.ConclusionsThe control of failure continues to be an important problem for engineers and materialsscientists. This is due to the increased use of novel and high strength materials, thewidespread use of welded construction, the design of large structures, and operationsunder more extreme conditions in the interest of efficiency. In addition, as new areas oftechnology are developed, novel failure problems will inevitably appear. Should failureanalysis become a required topic in metallurgical and materials engineering curricula? Inall engineering curricula? Since failure analysis encompasses robust design situations,ethics

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Paul Givens; Anita L. Callahan

Industrial andManagement Systems at the University of South Florida. EM Policies and Strategies, Global Management ofTechnology and Engineering Information Processes are some of the courses she teaches in the MSEM program overthe Florida Engineering Education Delivery System (FEEDS). Dr. Callahan is also an Honors Program Professor. Page 6.498.5She teaches ethics to honor students.“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Mary Cummings; Tamara Knott

industrial engineering plants. After teaching atPennsylvania State University for the Navy, she joined the Virginia Tech Engineering Fundamentals Page 6.544.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationDivision as an assistant professor in August 1999. Her research interests include engineering ethics,learning communities, and gender stereotyping.TAMARA W. KNOTTTamara Knott received her B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech in 1984 and herM.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia