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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Ann McKenna
generate another report for presentation at the quarterly Director’s meeting to take place in Maui, Hawaii, in November. Figure 2. Example of one challenge used in Bioprocess Technology, fall 2001.Topics addressed in this challenge include microbial kinetics, stoichiometry of growth andproduct formation, biomass formation and substrate utilization. Similar to the bio-optics and Page 7.230.7biofilms courses students worked in teams to solve the challenge and engaged in class “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for
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Engineering Economy Classroom Tips
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson
Analysis Financial Statements Simulation methods Bottom Tier (< Financial Statements Bottom Tier (< Valuing Stocks, Bonds, and IPs 2.6) Valuing Stocks, Bonds, and IPs 3.5)Bibliography1. Farragher, Edward J., Robert T. Kleiman, and Anandi P. Sahu, “Current Capital Investment Practices,” TheEngineering Economist, Vol. 44, No.2, 1999, (pp. 137-150).2. Klammer, T., B. Koch, and N. Wilner, “Capital Budgeting Practices – A Survey of Corporate Use,” Journal ofManagement Accounting Research, Fall 1991, (pp. 113-130).PAUL KAUFFMANNPaul J. Kauffmann is Professor and Chair in the Department of Engineering Technology at Old DominionUniversity. His
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Engrng Edu;An International Perspective
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Zbigniew Prusak
. IntroductionSignificance accorded to engineering knowledge, engineering skills and inventiveness vary fromcountry to country. Learning process starting in early childhood and teaching methods usedreflect functioning of the society a person is raised in. The result is formation of a professionalmolded by the society to its cultural and ethical environment and largely to its self-perceivedneeds. Technological competition on the global market requires a deeper insight into asignificance of various aspects of engineering knowledge and inventiveness. Different approachesto the education of engineers should be scrutinized and recognized for their strengths andweaknesses.It is widely accepted in North American culture, that reasons a person is gifted intellectually
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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
David Haws
“professional” degrees are in Civil Engineering (an undergraduate degree from the University of Utah; and amaster’s and Ph.D. from Brigham Young University). I also have an undergraduate degree in English from theUniversity of California at Berkeley, and a master’s in Instructional and Performance Technology from Boise StateUniversity. I will complete a third master’s in Technical Communication this coming winter at Boise State. Page 7.957.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education
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Real-World Manufacturing Education
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Syed Azmat; Snehamay Khasnabis; Richard Darin Ellis; Pratap Srinivasa Murthy; Frank Plonka; Diane M. Schuch-Miller
manufacturing engineering curricula that produces engineers whocan problem solve and are ready to face real issues from the manufacturing engineering field, theGreenfield Coalition (GC) needed to develop a methodology for incorporating course contextualinformation and issues into all three of its degree programs. Furthermore, candidates at theFocus: HOPE Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT) have a unique learning environmentwhereby they work in a manufacturing environment in addition to attending classes.Manufacturing engineering students from other colleges and universities generally do not havethe same opportunity. Therefore, GC devised a blended learning system including threecomponents:· Facilitated classroom activities and discussions
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Trends in Mechanical Engineering
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng
Session 1566 Developing Assessment Tools for Outcome Based Engineering Courses Drs. Z.T. Deng, Ruben Rojas-Oviedo and Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian Mechanical Engineering Department, Alabama A&M University P.O. Box 1163, Huntsville, AL 35762 Voice: (256) 858-4142, E-Mail: AAMZXD01@AAMU.EDUAbstractThe implementation of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)Engineering Accreditation Criteria 2000 (EAC 2000) into Mechanical Engineeringundergraduate curricula is critical to the success of the education program. The EAC Criteria2000 emphasizes an outcome
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Capstone Design
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Robert Rabb; Ronald Welch
Oar Design USMA Crew Team Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationCompetition projects are conducted at regional and national levels. Funding for these projects isprimarily through our alumni organization, the Association of Graduates (AOG). These design,build, and compete projects usually involve various technologies and bring out the best effort inthe students. Students are very knowledgeable about their project, and the competition designteams are structured and very organized. Competition projects are highly desirable to thestudents since they are
Conference Session
ASEE Multimedia Session
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Ricardo Teixeira; Pedro Portela; Maria Restivo; Jose Marques
recourse toless sophisticated technology (see Figure 10). Figure 10 – Can prepared for dome reversal investigation Page 7.330.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe numerical simulation could be improved by using thin shell elements, by refining the lidseam modelling allowing for separation and by performing a fully three-dimensional analysisbased on very precise geometrical and material data. In order to completely account
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Information Guidance/Navigation/Control
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Sandra H. Kajiwara; Lisa Taber; Cecilia Mullen
teach the use of majorengineering resources. As technology has advanced, more publications and research toolshave become available, but the one-hour lecture in the engineering class has remained thesame. The result is that the students are significantly shortchanged in their introduction to Page 7.491.1the key tools for engineering information retrieval. Dissatisfied with these circumstances, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationour solution to these deficiencies was to develop an alternate tool—an
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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Sami Ainane; Chandra Thamire
acknowledge the help of Ms. Linda Steele, who prepared Tables 1 and 2 -Undergraduate Programs in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering - Curricula, respectively.References1. McIssac, M.S. and Gunawardena, C.N., Distance Education, in Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology: A Project of the Association for Educational communications and Technology, Jonassen, D. H. (ed), pp. 403-437, Simon, Schuster & MacMillan, New York, 1996.2. Jepson, N.A. The Beginning of English University Adult Education - Policy and Problems, Michael Joseph, London, 1973.3. Jones, E.C., Jr., Distance Education, Undergraduate Programs, and Accreditation, Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual
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Trends in Mechanical Engineering
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo
Session 1566 Addressing Manufacturing Challenges in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum A. R. Jalloh, A. A. Mobasher, Z. T. Deng, R. Rojas-Oviedo, X. C. Qian Mechanical Engineering Department Alabama A&M University Huntsville, Al 35762 Phone: (256) 851 5891 email: ajalloh@aamu.edu; amobasher@aamu.edu; aamzxd01@aamu.edu; rojaso@aamu.edu, cian@aamu.eduAbstractEmerging technologies in engineering challenge the new generation of engineers to workin more specialized environments
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Novel Classroom Environments
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell
Chemical Technology, vol. 6, K. Othmer, Ed., 3rd ed. NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1979, pp. 177-199.Biographical InformationKATHRYN A. HOLLAR is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. Shereceived her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and English at North Carolina State University in 1993, and herPh.D. in 2001 from Cornell University. Page 7.599.5MARIANO J. SAVELSKI is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. Hereceived his B.S. in 1991 from the University of Buenos Aires, his ME in 1994 from the University ofProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual
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Web Based Laboratories and Classes
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Richard Jerz
-snippet.avi.RICHARD JERZDr. Richard Jerz is the Director and an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at St. Ambrose University inDavenport, Iowa, where he has interest in teaching industrial engineering and computer related courses. He has aB.S. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, an MBA from St. Ambrose University, and a Ph.D. in IndustrialEngineering from The University of Iowa. In 1995, he was awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the United StatesDepartment of Energy (DOE) in “Integrated Manufacturing.” He has more than 15 years manufacturing engineeringexperience primarily with John Deere, and 12 years teaching experience
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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
John Demel
of the freshmanprograms, a summary of changes accomplished, and the retention statistics for the College ofEngineering.IntroductionIn 1988, at The Ohio State University the retention of engineering students to the junior yearranged between 40 and 50 percent. See Figure 1. This followed the national norms. In the early1990’s the Ohio State College of Engineering became part of the NSF funded GatewayEngineering Education Coalition. The other members of the Coalition were Drexel University,Columbia University, Cooper Union, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University ofPennsylvania, University of South Carolina, and Florida International University. One focus ofthe Coalition’s efforts was to improve retention to the junior year by using
Conference Session
Graduate Student Experiences
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Michael Reischman; Eugene Brown
result, the United States needs to fill this void by importing them from foreign countries. This has the potential of jeopardizing the quality of undergraduate engineering education as well as putting the United States at a technological disadvantage in comparison with other countries. ASEE needs to help promote the importance of graduate level engineering education.I hope that the Society will accept Gerry’s challenge and find multiple opportunities in itsCouncils, Divisions, and meetings to explore, debate, and formulate appropriate actions on thisimportant topic. However, any discussion needs to be well grounded in the data which concernsthis topic. With this end in mind, to stimulate discussion of the trends in
Conference Session
Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Ofodike Ezekoye; John Doggett; J. Nolen; John Butler; Steven Nichols
in a business firm, it is required that he/she focus on the central purpose ofthe firm; this most often is maximizing shareholder equity. As has been widely quoted, thebusiness of business is business. Leaders of technology-based firms should have technicalcompetence and business savvy. There have been notable cases of engineers who have risen tothe top of major corporations. In recent history, Jack Welch, Andy Grove and Lou Gerstner arewidely known as engineers who have leveraged their technical capabilities while also clearlysucceeding in business. There are unfortunately many more counterexamples of engineers whohave entered corporations with strong technical capabilities and interest in promotion within thecorporation, but who have
Conference Session
Techniques for Improving Teaching
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Cindy Finelli; Trevor Harding
; Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcolleges in the United States whose centers have web sites. However, few centers exist whichfocus specifically on engineering education. In a report for the National Academy of Engineering[3], nine universities with centers for engineering education are listed, as are three proposedengineering education centers. The nine established centers and their associated websites arelisted here.¨ Arizona State University: Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (www.eas.asu.edu/~cresmet/)¨ Colorado School of Mines: Center for Engineering Education (www.mines.edu/research/cee/)¨ Georgia Institute of Technology
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Focus on Undergraduate Impact
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Gul Okudan Kremer
from Engineering EducationThe course now has two design projects, a technology push project ba sed in the strain gage thathas its origins in the laboratory curriculum developed in the late 1970s and a market pull projectusually from industry. Occasionally the second project is in the public sector. Documentation ofthe second project is now web based.In hindsight, the changes seem to have happened slowly but they have been far reaching andgraphics is now only about 15% of the course with perhaps 20% devoted to CAD. Of what hasbeen lost, there are a few casualties that stir second thoughts. The lab-based curriculum used tobe rather more extensive and it is hard to give up any of that. Also, tolerancing is not taught byall instructors and
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ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Sheryl Duggins
of the organization’s standard software process fordeveloping and maintaining software.4. Managed: Detailed measures of software process and product quality are collected. Both thesoftware process and products are quantitatively understood and controlled.5. Optimizing: Continuous process improvement is enabled by qualitative feedback from theprocess and from piloting innovative ideas and technologies.” Page 7.944.3Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education
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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi; Ibibia Dabipi
cannot avail themselves to access the stateuniversities with engineering programs. The non-existence of an engineering school onthe Eastern Shore coupled with the constant demand for skilled workers in the arearesulted in the collaborative program between UMES, SU and UMCP. These demandswere well documented in the form of the results of the industry survey conducted byUMES/SU. The survey result shows that 95% of the respondents indicated that theywould support the development of a cooperative engineering program at UMES/SU. Thechosen engineering programs are electrical engineering and mechanical engineering with65% and 45% need for the respective programs. The premise for the collaborativeprogram is to use technology to access the remote areas
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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot
Missouri-Rolla. Prior tojoining the BE department in August 2000, she was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.at UMR from 1989 to 1999, and taught high school physics 1999-00. She completed her Ph.D. in ECE at NC StateUniversity in 1989. Dr. Hubing enjoys research involving educational methods and technology in the classroom.RICHARD H. HALLRichard H. Hall, Associate Professor of Psychology at UMR, will be moving to UMR’s new Information Scienceand Technology program in the fall of 2002. He received his BS degree in Psychology from the University of NorthTexas, and PhD degree in Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. He is the director of UMR’sMedia Design and Assessment Laboratory, and his research
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Marjorie Skubic
Session 1526 Event-Driven Computing Projects for Software Engineering Education Marjorie Skubic and James LaffeyComputer Engineering and Computer Science Department / School of Information Science and Learning Technologies University of Missouri-Columbia skubicm@missouri.edu / laffeyj@missouri.eduAbstract There is a growing need in the software industry for the development of systems with adynamic, event-driven behavior, such as interactive human-computer interfaces, client-serverarchitectures
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Women in Engineering: New Research
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Naphysah O. Duncan; Gerardo Del Cerro
competency, we see a similar pattern. More females say that theydeveloped an ability to use technology, teamwork skills, life-long learning skills, and humanistic values"to a very great extent" than the males. Tables 4, 5 include data from the Engineering Student Council Survey conducted during thespring of 2000. In Table 4 we see the results by gender of a question asking the students to evaluate thequality of a number of aspects of Cooper Union. Table 5 presents the responses to a question asking torate preparation on a number of competencies. If we look at the average figures at t he bottom of thetable, we see that no significant gender difference is noticeable. There are of course some individualcases where the differences are greater, but
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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Steven Krumholz; Steve Schiffman; Sean Munson; John Bourne; James Krejcarek; Dan Lindquist; Susan Fredholm
Olin and Babson and theinitiation of many projects between the two schools designed to create the premierengineering/technology entrepreneurship curriculum in the world.IntroductionOlin CollegeThe Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, located in Needham, MA, was foundedin 1997 through a generous grant from the Franklin W. Olin Foundation. Scheduledto open in the fall of 2002, the College admitted 30 “Partners”, or students, in the fallof 2001 who have helped the faculty design the curricula, co-curricula and otheraspects of student life. Along with an additional 46 students, the Partners will Page 7.379.1become part of the first class. The Olin
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Retention: Keeping the Women Students
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Paige Smith
Session 1392 Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) Paige E. Smith, Dr. Janet A. Schmidt, and Dr. Linda C. Schmidt A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of MarylandAbstractIn science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, the low presence of womenhas been well documented. Barriers contributing to the problems have been identified asexternal or contextually based, and internal or individually based. 5, 10 These barriers include thelack of female role models, the shadow job expectation for female faculty and low self-perceptions of ability by undergraduate women
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Cross-Section of Construction Education
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Osama Abudayyeh
Technology, NISTIR 5536, 1994.2. “The Challenge of the 90’s,” Civil Engineering Magazine, American Society of Civil Engineers, October, 1990.3. Sheehan, J., “Dilemmas Facing Construction Education and Research in 1990s,” Discussion, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume 117, Number 4, 1991, Pages 795-797.4. Tener, B., “Industry-University Partnerships for Construction Engineering Education,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume 122, Number 4, 1996.BiographyOSAMA ABUDAYYEH. Dr. Abudayyeh is currently an associate professor of Construction Engineering atWestern Michigan University. He was a
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Curriculum Development in Graphics
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
John Demel
that education research and development can be done against anational norm. This has proved valuable to Physics and other disciplines. The second one wouldmeasure skills and knowledge at the end of a period of instruction and could potentially providea diagnostic for professionals on strengths and weaknesses. There is concern that we need todevise a strategy that allows such tests to grow and change as advances in technology changethat ways that people work. Page 7.426.3“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for
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ASEE Multimedia Session
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Donna Shirley
is addressed Page 7.833.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Educationthrough exercises where teams of two interact to reflect on what enhances and what detractsfrom each person’s ability to be creative.Communicate – The glue of the creative system is communication, which must be constant,effective, information rich, and well managed. Communication technology is burgeoning andthe extraction of information from data is becoming ever more difficult, but if they can be dealtwith effectively these
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Pre-College Programs
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Liv Ramstad; Ferd Schneider; Audeen Fentiman; Artemus Herzog; John Merrill
explore that option while developing skills important for success in an engineering curriculumand building confidence in their skills. However, the course is designed so that most of the skillstaught will be valuable to the students regardless of which career or college major they choose.Examples include teamwork, written, oral and graphical communication, computer, and problemsolving skills.Another reason to offer IE in a high school is to reach a broader audience than can be found incollege engineering classes, which are predominantly white and male. As our nation becomesmore reliant on technology, the demand for engineers and other people with technical skillsincreases. In order to meet the increased demand, we must attract women and minority
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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
David Wood; David Shallcross
empowerengineering graduates to meet the challenges of the new century.· Should chemical engineering become more oriented towards perceived societal needs such as environmental protection and sustainability ?· Should it move to embrace developing disciplines as exemplified by information technology, nanomaterials and tissue engineering ?· Should the education processes focus more on people, teamwork, leadership and communication skills ?· Should it broaden to more hybrid degrees of financial engineering ?· Or should chemical engineering education focus not so much on the design of new processes but more on the development of new products ?Wei in his “search” for the third paradigm suggests Product Engineering, Bioengineering, TissueEngineering and a