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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Elizabeth McCullough; Kimberly Rogers; Joseph Hickey; Andrew Hoff; Eric Roe; Marilyn Barger

their normal state mandated scienceinstruction. In addition, the team thinks that augmenting the high school science curriculum withtechnology content material has a positive impact on students, is attractive to the science andmathematics teacher, and is an effective, efficient and appropriate approach to connectingtechnology to fundamental science concepts and mathematics principles. Therefore, the goals ofa HSTI module are to: 1) Facilitate the teaching of fundamental science and math skills throughhigh technology applications and presentation techniques. and 2) Increase both the teacher's andthe students' awareness and appreciation of the interdependence among science, mathematics,technology, and society.The background premise driving all

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Krouglicof

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationWith an underlying focus on integration, the new mechatronic course at Union Collegeemphasizes the fundamental technologies on which contemporary mechatronic designs arebased; sensors and actuators, system dynamics and control, analog and digital electronics,microcontroller technology, interface electronics and real-time programming.The laboratory sessions focus on small, hands-on interdisciplinary design projects in which smallteams of students configure, design, and implement a succession of mechatronic subsystems,leading to system integration in a final project. For example, as an introduction

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2002 Annual Conference

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Enno Koehn

problems. The secondary goal is to present the concept that engineersare moral agents for society and must be ethically responsible for the effects of their products.V. Summary and ConclusionEngineering ethics, in a limited sense, may be considered a discipline dealing with an obligationto confirm to a set of rules such as an engineering code of ethics. However, it should alsoinclude elements to promote ethics and integrity in the work place as well as in the generalcommunity.The findings of this study suggest that students with limited engineering experience do notperceive that ethical problems may be serious. Nevertheless, they are concerned with thefrequency of improper political or community involvement, alcohol and drug abuse, and failureto

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Comparing National Styles of Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Thibault; Rene Hivon; Danielle L'Heureux; Noel Boutin

technical competencies. This entire process is under the responsibility of engineeringprofessors. In order for this ambitious goal to be achieved, the group of faculty put together astrategic plan based on the professional aspects of engineering practice and which calls for fiveseparate but complementary courses of action: a continuous technology watch, a researchprogram, the design of appropriate pedagogical material, the training of engineering professorsin the use of this material, the online classroom use of same material and, lastly, the publicationof results. The article ends with an analysis of the results achieved so far and an optimistic lookat the future that this novel approach allows to envisage.Key words: integrated curriculum, human

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Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Crowe; Sally Schwartz; Mary Marrs; Luis Occeña; Jose Zayas-Castro; Douglas Moesel; Cathleen Burns; Bin Wu

learning, reducing or eliminating traditional lecturing. Interdisciplinary teams ofstudents work together in generating ideas for product development, creating the business andoperational plans of an enterprise that delivers a product or service to its customer base.Throughout the sequence, the teams are encouraged and required to use EMILE and othersupport facilities to insure that they integrate technology from conception to operation. EMILE’smain hub is a 3,143 square-foot high-bay mini-factory whose equipment and resources are beingconfigured and enhanced for production and to induce active learning. To insure proper progressand continuous improvement the team-designed assessment plan spans program evaluation tostakeholders’ opinions, to class

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jordan Rosenthal; James McClellan

user interfaces (GUIs) programmed in MATLAB. In the following sections, we willdescribe features of the GUIs, and some different scenarios where they have been successfullydeployed. In this section, we show why MATLAB [2], or an equivalent language, should be chosenfor developing of high quality GUIs. Another consideration for our curriculum is that our studentsalready use MATLAB for many courses, so they have universal access to MATLAB.GUIs that illustrate engineering concepts typically require an advanced numerical engine, asophisticated plotting package, and professional user-interface capabilities. When choosing acomputer language for developing GUIs, these requirements must be balanced with other issues suchas the complexity of the

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Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert B. Stone; Nancy Hubing

: Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Design, Prentice-Hall.Otto, K., Wood, K., Bezdek, J., Murphy, M. and Jensen, D., 1998, “Building Better Mousetrap Builders: Courses to Incrementally and Systematically Teach Design,” 1998 ASEE Conference Proceedings, Session 2666.Sheppard, S., 1992, “Mechanical Dissection: An Experience in How Things Work,” Engineering Foundation Conference on Engineering Education: Curriculum Innovation & Integration, January 5-10, Sacramento, CA.Stice, J., 1987, “Using Kolb’s Learning Cycle to Improve Student Learning,” Engineering Education, 77(7):291- 196.Tett, R. and Jackson, D., 1991, “Personality Measures as Predictors of Job Performance: A Meta -Analytic Review,” Personnel Psychology 44

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William M. Pottenger; Soma Roy; Shreeram A. Sahasrabudhe; Qiang Wang; Jeffrey J. Heigl; G. Drew Kessler; David R. Gevry

courses, we conducted experiments, surveys and focus groups to determine whether thealpha version of our multimedia actually improves learning, and to determine whatimprovements should be made for our beta version. We found significant learning effects in themore focused study in the OOSE course and marginal results in the broader study in theCS0/CS1 course.In addition to our studies on the multimedia course material, we are developing an inquiry-basedlearning framework. In the CIMEL system, we are integrating a text mining and visualizationframework for the detection of incipient emerging trends in order to facilitate inquiry-basedlearning. An emerging trend is a topic area for which one can trace the growth of interest andutility over time. An

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Dulin

session, the participants provided input on revising andupdating a graduate engineering curriculum designed primarily for working professionals.Although the group stressed the importance of keeping their engineers up-to-date with rigoroustechnical courses that reflect the newest technology, an overwhelming majority of the managerskept returning, again and again, to the importance of other professional skills such ascommunications, leadership, and the ability to both identify and work within the confines ofpolitical and social institutions. While not phrasing their answers explicitly in terms of “publicpolicy,” when pressed for examples, the engineering managers often referred to situationsinvolving the public policy process, including the

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Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Lake; John Anderson; Charles Yarnoff; J. Edward Colgate; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

involves all of these people in a high-level designprocess that fosters excitement about engineering and pedagogy and thus lays a solidgroundwork for the detailed design that students undertake in their majors.Course overviewEngineering Design and Communication (EDC) is a key part of Northwestern’s integrated freshmanengineering curriculum, called Engineering First. Engineering First comprises two courses. InEngineering Analysis, students study math and physics from an engineering perspective in a four- Page 7.514.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

learn towork well in teams to design and develop products to meet specified needs. University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) offers an ABET accredited engineeringprogram in collaboration with University of Maryland College Park(UMCP). In responseto the new criteria UMCP developed a team based design course for the freshmanengineering majors. The course has been adopted with suitable modifications at UMES.The course is designed to introduce field of engineering and engineering design processto freshman engineering majors so as to enable them to realize how individual courses inan engineering curricula are integrated together under a common objective.In this paper we describe the highlights of design efforts by the students in developinghuman

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Wallace; David Adams

Session 2793 Small Steps and Big Strides: a Department-Based Plan for Integrating Technical Communication into an Engineering Curriculum David Adams, Roger Wallace Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Michigan State University (MSU)AbstractProviding technical communication instruction within existing courses can challenge thehuman and financial resources of a department. Such a challenge becomes even moredaunting in the absence of university or college funded programs. The Department ofCivil & Environmental Engineering at MSU has undertaken a three-year plan to

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Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gordon Silverman

in the professional population (e.g., bioengineersmoving on to other specializations), the ratio of supply to demand reflects an imbalance betweencurrent employment needs and the aggregate available supply.Many of the programs introduced during this period exhibited a ‘characteristic’ curriculum builton a basic course sequence in electrical engineering supplemented by several courses related toBiology and Physiology; these courses typically replaced elective alternatives available tostudents within the electrical engineering major. In recognition of these programs, theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accordingly developed ProgramCriteria(5) with its principal provision as follows: “The program must demonstrate

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

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Caroline Baillie; Adam Mannis

-style questions, which can be the case for relatively less mathematical subjects. Even in the first year concept-based questions are necessary.Implementing an innovation --- the case for PBL (Problem Based Learning):1) PBL involves students working in teams on case studies in which realistic industrial problems are solved, the aim being: § to integrate knowledge and skills (multidisciplinary) § to acquire knowledge through self-study (learning to learn) § to teach students to work in groups § to improve communication skills § to improve problem solving ability.2) Every student is part of a small team (of approx six), supervised by a tutor. § Important that the tutor does not impose their own knowledge and standards

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeff Turk; David Gattie

own problem using instructor criteria thatgears the student toward identifying a community need for disadvantaged individuals. Thispaper reports on the framework for this effort and the results for Fall 2001 and Spring 2002.IntroductionIdentifying needs and improving the quality of life for society are paramount in the ethicalresponsibilities of an engineer. Freshman students entering an engineering curriculum aretypically drawn to the program based on the lucrative and professional aspects of the field itself.However, as society becomes increasingly dependent on technology and as the hard sciences ofengineering become more integrated with the soft science aspects of politics, economics andcultures, there is a increasing need for students to

Conference Session

How are We Faring with EC2000?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Miller

very valuable consensus building among the faculty.Aligning the Curriculum with Program Goals and Objectives Ø The curriculum may not completely cover all relevant program objectives and a discussion about how to fill in the gaps is a worthy program-level activity. Ø Some faculty members tend to overstate the number of program objectives addressed in their courses. An honest appraisal of the contribution of each course to program goals and objectives must be conducted. Ø Co-curricular activities (e.g. participation in student professional societies, internships, study abroad programs) are important facets of a student’s educational experience but are harder to assess and include in the

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To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nick Glumac; Gregory Elliott; Madara Ogot

Laboratory Work from Extinction?" Research and Development in Higher Education, vol. 15, pp. 420-425.10. Komerath, N., "Experimental Curriculum in Diagnostics and Control of Unsteady Flows", ASEE Journal of Engineering Education, July 1996, pp. 263-268.11. Ertugal, N., "New Era in Engineering Experiments: An Integrated and Interactive Teaching/Learning Approach, and Real-Time Visualization." International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 14, 1998, pp. 344-355.12. Livshitz, V. and Sandler, B., "Teaching Mechatronics in a Mechanical Engineering Department", European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 23, 1998, pp. 353-364.13. Magin, D. and Kanapathipillai, S., "Engineering Students' Understanding the Role of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Williams; Robert Doty

are discussed. Finally,results of an alumni assessment survey are presented. The goal of the practice-based seniordesign experience at Baylor University is to produce engineering graduates who have the self-confidence and practical knowledge necessary to become immediately productive in today’sproject-oriented workplace. Interpretation of these assessment results supports the conclusionthat this goal has been met.I. IntroductionEngineering design is integrated throughout the curriculum at Baylor University, and meaningfuldesign work is required of students in many courses beginning with the introductory freshmancourse and progressing through the senior electives and laboratories. However, EGR 4390Engineering Design II is the capstone design

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary John O'Hair; Mark Nanny; Teri Rhoads

, self-paced learning modules that will assist in solving computational problems, supply background information and data, and help facilitate execution of the projects.· To motivate and educate teachers to use electronic multimedia for curriculum design.III. Recruitment and Selection of FellowsEngineering Fellows are recruited both locally and nationally. As well, science and mathematicseducation senior undergraduate and graduate Fellows are recruited, both locally and nationally.The rationale for including education Fellows is the same rationale for encouraging interactionsbetween science and technology Fellows and K-12 teachers in the NSF Graduate TeachingFellows in K-12 Education Program; integration of those who know how to teach

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James McCowan; James Mason

plans, some renderings, and a great deal of information about the building may be foundon the web site at http://ilc.queensu.ca/News/gallery.shtml . What follows is a summary of themajor features.(a) teaching studio The studio approach has been the norm in schools of architecture, where the teaching of theoryand its application to design have long been well integrated. While most institutions will haveexamples of such teaching in engineering, few have pursued the issue as consciously as RensselaerPolytechnic Institute. A progression of studio types has led to circular and semicircular designs inwhich the students slip back and forth between a lecture mode, facing inward, and an applicationmode, facing outward. One such studio

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Liezl Van Dyk

change: 1. There is a drive towards modularisation of the study programme in order to offer customised degrees and enhance student autonomy. Similarly, mass production strategy is based on the principle of economies of scale, whilst flexible manufacturing concerns economies of scope and integration. 2. Distance learning programs have been introduced as part of the regular studies in an institution. Markets for all products are becoming global. 3. Inter-institutional programs have been developed and collaborative product development is enabled through information technology.McClellan7 distinguishes between core business functions and support functions in theexecution layer:2.1 Core functionsThe core

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Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

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Karim Nasr; Raymond Berg

outcomes L-S based onprofessional societies input and departmental requirements. In preparing for this new curriculumand related assessment practices, the senior-level M. E. capstone design course “Plant andFacilities Design” was selected in October 2000 as a pilot course, for the development of thestudent capstone portfolio concept and the capstone outcomes assessment process.In particular, the M. E. Department wished to determine best methods of demonstratingachievement of seven “difficult” or “non-traditional” program educational outcomes which havenot classically been “taught” as part of the M. E. curriculum. These include: 1) an ability tofunction on multidisciplinary teams; 2) an understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibility; 3

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Morris; Hesham Shaalan

Session 2559 Using a Microcontroller for Sonar Ranging Hesham Shaalan, Ph.D., and Darrell Morris School of Technology Georgia Southern University Statesboro, Georgia1. Introduction The Senior Project is the capstone course in the Electrical Engineering Technology (EET)curriculum at Georgia Southern University. It consists of an individually chosen project that istaken from concept through design to a finished state. It includes related CAD, specifications,theory of operation, and oral/written

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

social stresses over acurrent 90-year cycle. Each cycle normally has four types of generations; each cycle has fourturning slightly out of phase with generational changes. 3 Historians Strauss and Howe employthe generational types of Idealist, Reactive, Civic, and Adaptive. These historical generationsfollow each other and average 22 – 23 years in length. The 90-year cycle (or to use the Latinword, saeculum 2) extends back several centuries.The characteristics of the four generations theory types are: 2,3 Ø An Idealist generation grows up as increasingly indulged post-Crisis children, comes of age as the narcissistic young crusaders of an Awakening, cultivates principle as moralistic mid-lifers, and emerges as wise elders guiding

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Beena Sukumaran; Paris von Lockette; Douglas Cleary

positive an impact onstudent learning in courses the Mechanical and Civil Engineering programs and theinterdisciplinary design clinic sequence as well as benefit students with various learning styles.Introduction Statics and Solid Mechanics are typically taught at the sophomore level in lecture format.Several multimedia courseware initiatives in these subject areas have been developed that focuson theory, problem solving, or drill and practice. 1,5,9,10 Hands-on or computer-aided simulationshave also been used in engineering education. 2,4,6,7,12 The investigators have found that curriculumimprovement is needed in the areas of problem formulation and integration of hands-on forceinput with computer visualization tools. In entry-level

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Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Wild; Michael Ryan

graduates. Engineeringprograms have been affected by these enrollment trends and have become sensitized tothe issue of retention.Two of the major potential reasons for freshmen encountering academic difficulty orleaving engineering stem from insufficient academic preparation for the curriculum orunrealistic expectations. Conventional university admissions criteria, such as high schoolaverage and SAT score, correlate with academic success only in a broad sense. Thesemetrics are unreliable in identifying individual at-risk students. An accurate method forpredicting academic success of an individual student has recently been developed basedupon a detailed analysis of the student’s high school performance in mathematics andscience. This insight

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Skubic

, and embedded systems. Developing successful, event-driven software requires aparadigm shift from traditional program development, and new curriculum approaches areneeded to help computer science and engineering students develop competencies. In this paper,we describe an effort to address this problem through hands-on projects that provide experiencein developing dynamic, event-driven systems and let the students physically see the results oftheir efforts. We describe our project testbed and exercises, based on the smart home theme, andreport our experiences with using the testbed in an actual course setting. Although the proof ofconcept is being evaluated in a software engineering course, the project theme and testbed couldbe used in other

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vipin Kumar; Scott Eberhardt

engineering at Boeing. The following six weeksconsisted of individually-tailored "shadowing assignments," centering around eachfellow’s respective area of technical interest. During this time, the fellows wereindividually exposed to different management and technical programs and lived amongBoeing engineers and staff engaged in the day-to-day dynamics of engineering practice. Page 7.821.1These activities included participation in Integrated Product Teams, customer and partnervisits, planned tours of Boeing facilities, demonstrations of rapid prototyping, advancedProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

aredefensive about what constitutes leadership and how to integrate it into the classroom.Moreover, a common belief is that leadership cannot be taught but is instead an inherent gift thatyou either do or do not possess. Crucial components of effective leadership such as properspeaking, articulate writing, active listening, skillful negotiating, and efficient time managementcan be taught and are imparted through university courses, workshops, and publications such asASCE Leadership and Management in Engineering and Harvard Business Review, both of whichregularly publish articles on effective leadership. 18, 19, 21 The problem is that leadership skills arenot consistently taught to civil engineering students. To be sure, some students participate

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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Arthur Kney; David Brandes; Mary Roth; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

Engineering Ethics: Teaching Moral Theories to Engineers Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Mary J.S. Roth, David Brandes, Arthur D. Kney Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Lafayette CollegeIntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has long required thatengineering programs address professional issues, including ethics, in their curricula. Whileengineering programs have approached this mandate from a variety of perspectives, adding code-based “ethics components” to existing courses in the curriculum seems to be the most commonstrategy.1The Engineering Division at Lafayette College, a small, undergraduate institution, has chosen toaddress this requirement with a course