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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

is a key factor in enabling graduatesin making a successful transition from academic life to engineering careers. A variety ofprograms exist for providing this experience, including summer internships, co-opprograms, and industry-university educational programs. Cooperative education has comea long way since 1906, the year this unique pedagogy was implemented in educationalinstitutions. Sam Sovilla [3] reviewed its history, current status, and the outlook for thefuture in a paper published in ASEE in 1998. Jeff Meade [4] listed co-op program as atool to improve retention and enhancement of the educational experience of students. Itwas noted that the extra time required by co-op programs, typically one year, and theextra cost associated to

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Enno Koehn

2.8 – 2.1An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice 3.6 3.0 – 2.7Composite score based upon 4.0=strongly agree/high; 3.0=agree/average; 2.0=neither agree nor disagree/unsure; 1=disagree/lowReviewing the data it appears that graduating seniors in Civil (Construction) engineering at LamarUniversity perceive they have obtained a much stronger background in professional issuescompared to the students involved in the benchmarking study. It is hoped that this additionalbackground information will assist the Lamar students in their future career as engineeringpractitioners.VI. Summary and ConclusionsEngineering

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

Session 2268 A New Approach to Teaching and Learning Statics Paul S. Steif, Anna Dollár Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 / Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Department Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056IntroductionAs engineers need to be increasingly flexible in their careers and adjust to an ever-widening rangeof technologies, a firm command of basic engineering subjects, such as mechanics, is increasinglyimportant. Such a command must include the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lynn Wang; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

part of Techtronics. Each of the Saturday sessions gives the parentsa chance to see what their children are working on.Women in EngineeringWomen are not proportionally represented in engineering careers or in engineeringundergraduate and graduate programs in the United States. In 1990, only 9% of engineers werewomen6, which barely increased to 10.6% by 19997. In 1994, only 14.9% of bachelor’s degreesin engineering disciplines were awarded to women8. The impressions students form regardingmath and science are formed at an early age. Research has suggested that the middle schoolyears are an important time to reach girls who might lose interest in mathematics and sciences9,10.In fact, students begin differentiating their perceptions of activities

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Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Janet Schmidt

Page 8.1173.1and seminar. Unlike in years past, juniors and seniors are encouraged to apply to the TF Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationprogram. We have observed that junior status students have enough engineering background andmaturity to be successful TFs. And because students are paid a stipend for their role as TeachingFellows, the position is seen as desirable. More than just seniors thinking about a career inengineering education, many students see this program as an enjoyable way to help assist withcollege expenses. From the standpoint of the program administrators, having students

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Diversity in Materials

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Miller; Oscar Barton

graduates who are dedicated to a career of naval service and have potential for futuredevelopment in mind and character to assume the highest responsibilities of command,citizenship and government”. The Academy’s 4100 midshipmen are provided the opportunity topursue studies in one of several broad areas including engineering, math, science or the socialsciences. The Engineering and Weapons Division includes aerospace, electrical, mechanical,ocean, systems and weapons engineering and naval architecture, with each maintaining ABETaccreditation. The Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department provides a broad exposure inengineering. The department provides five tracks in which midshipmen can focus their selectionof major elective courses to provide

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Peter Idowu

Page 8.961.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright @ 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationteaching careers, teacher’s craft knowledge appears to stabilize, leading to the formation ofconceptual frameworks,” and that these beliefs are not easily altered.The major components that presents substantial dilemma for the instructor dealing withcurricular revision issues include: (a) the teacher’s past experiences (education, work, rules ofpractice, values, etc.), (b) the current teaching situation (expectations of students, colleagues,administrators, community, curriculum, resources, etc.), and (c) how the teaching situationshould ideally be.As expected, the ideal

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Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Erik De Graaff; Gillian Saunders-Smits

-the-job learning and training. Final objectives 1-8 must guarantee that the recently graduated aerospace engineer will achieve the following: - A broad engineering education - Accessibility to broad range of employment positions - Sufficient flexibility as regards professional career - Ability to think critically and creatively; - Understanding of the context in which engineering is practiced - Good communication skills - Ability to function as a member of a team - Curiosity and a desire to engage in life-long learning”By stating these new objectives Aerospace engineering already took into account the changingdemands of future employers on their students.In an effort to achieve those

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Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eric Wiebe; Aaron Clark

needed for future coursework and careers in engineering and allied technology areas.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation, grant #ESI-0137811. Page 8.1189.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography 1. ITEA, International Technology Education Association. (2000). Technology for all Americans project. ITEA. URL: http://www.iteawww.org/AA/TAA.html 2. Wiebe, E. N. (1992). Scientific visualization: An experimental introductory course for

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Raymond R. Hagglund; Eben C. Cobb; William O. Jolley; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

, Sixth Edition, McGraw Hill Book Company, New York, NY, 1997.WILLIAM O. JOLLEYWilliam O. Jolley is currently a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He receivedhis B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in May of 2002. His interests in research have focused on using finite element methodsfor analyzing solid mechanics problems, vibrations, and accident reconstruction. He has held the position of anundergraduate teaching assistant and currently is a graduate teaching assistant. Through these activities he has found aninterest in teaching. Ultimately he is planning on pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a career in academia. V-mail: 508-752-1220; E-mail: woj@wpi.eduJOSEPH J. RENCISJoseph J. Rencis has

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

major. Of the students whoparticipated in the computer-based format, only 3% stated their project experience helped themdecide on a major. Ninety-one percent of the entire freshman class completed the end-of-semester survey.Major Panel Series Overall the major panel series was a great success. Overwhelmingly, the respondents statedthat the sessions were extremely helpful and would recommend them to classmates and friends.Several students recommended that more practicing engineers should sit on the panels to give apicture of the various types of careers available. While this is good feedback, a smaller number ofpanelists allows for more discussion time. Based on information provided in the end-of-semester surveys, students were asked to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Neal Armstrong, University of Texas at Austin; Sherry Woods, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

withthe University’s overall orientation. An additional day of training was added to give the newengineering faculty more opportunities to participate in discipline-specific sessions. Based on theCollege of Engineering’s FASTStart program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, thegoals for the UT Austin engineering track were to help new faculty: • Manage their careers as a faculty member at UT Austin; • Promote a student-focused learning environment: o What do we want students to be able to do? o How can we help them do it? o How can we know if they do? • Participate in a culture of dialogue and a network of formal and informal faculty support.Although the engineering track included research

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rufus Carter; Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit

. 37% 88%My current math professor and/or TA is helpful in 41% 60% enabling you to understand material.Introduction to engineerin g class has positively or 42% positive 76% positivenegatively influenced your view of e ngin eering as a career choice. How many hours per week do you work. 13% work over 10 hours per week 9% work over 10 hours per weekDo you belong to one or more engin eeringrelated student organiz ations? Yes

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Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

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W. Carlson

models. But as we are well aware, humanmemory can be weak and faulty. As a resul t, Locke advocated that humansenhance their memory by using external aids--notebooks, sketches, and models.By writing things down or drawing pictures, individuals can store information thatcan then be studied and analyzed. Ryan Tweney (1991) has argued thatLocke's ideas about notebooks inspired Michael Faraday to maintain a series ofnotebooks through his career as an experimenter. For Faraday, to knowsomething about electricity meant that he was able to represent it in his Page 8.1203.2notebooks; he had a mental model of the experimental phenomenon when he

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Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ramesh Gaonkar

who are not sure of their career path. Page 8.1072.5Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering2. Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students. Theses interactions among students are mini feedback paths, and they can help students in two ways: learning from each other and social integration. Tinto12 argues that individuals are more likely to persist when they are either academically or socially integrated and even more likely to persist when both forms of integration occur. This type

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Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ramesh Gaonkar

who are not sure of their career path. Page 8.1073.5Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering2. Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students. Theses interactions among students are mini feedback paths, and they can help students in two ways: learning from each other and social integration. Tinto12 argues that individuals are more likely to persist when they are either academically or socially integrated and even more likely to persist when both forms of integration occur. This type

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mukasa Ssemakula

off-campus students.1. IntroductionA variety of social, economic and technological factors are converging to transform the nature ofhigher education today. Some of the key symptoms of this change have been noted by leadingacademics and social commentators. James Duderstadt, President Emeritus of the University ofMichigan - Ann Arbor, has this to say: "Today’s undergraduate student body is composed also ofincreasing numbers of adults from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, already in theworkplace, perhaps with families, seeking the education and skills necessary for their careers” 1.Sir John Daniel, Vice-Chancellor of Britain's Open University says, "Higher education is in crisisworld-wide. The ingredients of the crisis are access, cost and

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Dantzler; Kevin Whitaker; Jim Richardson

lack of discourse on race andgender in colleges can lead to less tolerant graduates at the end of their college careers. Left totheir own devices, college students are not well equipped to develop their awareness of the valueof diversity. Tatum22 discussed this sentiment along with the observation that students may not beable to effectively process their emotional responses to issues related to diversity. According toTatum, simply presenting the cognitive issues of oppression to students without addressing theemotional responses is not effective. She identified three sources of resistance to learning aboutand discussing racism: 1) Race is considered a taboo topic especially in racially mixed settings, 2)students have been socialized to think

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Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Carolyn Hogan; Barbara Goldberg

their career goals.Most importantly, a mentoring environment demonstrates to the learner that s/he “matters” to theinstitution. Rosenberg and McCullough speak of the importance of “mattering” and define it as“a motive – a feeling that others depend upon us, are interested in us, are concerned about ourfate, or experience us as an ego-extension.” 11 Feeling that they “matter” keeps students engagedin their learning. Beal and Noel found that a strong retention factor is the caring attitude of facultyand staff. 2 Within a supportive and caring environment, faculty and peer mentors encourage andprompt struggling students with strategies that enable them to cope with competing demands. Asa result, mentoring is a strong layer of support in an

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Howell; Pat Shamamy; Feierfeil Greg; Chris Reidel; Tarek Rizk; Lisa Anneberg

, as writing Page 8.523.7Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationrequirements in an engineering program are typically confined to the humanities and arts.However, all students expressed an appreciation for the importance of writing andcommunication and also identified this as a need in their programs of study and careers. Theentrepreneurial faculty commented that the quality of student writing improved considerablyduring the duration of these courses.Engineering Enterprise 1The course was

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Amir Karimi

Engineering Machine Shop and has served at that position for 12years. Dr. Eftekhar also founded the student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) atUTSA in 1987 and served as the SAE faculty advisor from 1987-2002.RANDALL D. MANTEUFELRandall D. Manteufel is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UTSA. He received his Ph.D. degree inMechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. His teaching and researchinterests are in thermal sciences. In 1999 he was awarded the Dow Chemical Outstanding New Faculty Award forASEE Gulf Coast Southwest section. He is currently the faculty advisor for SAE and ASHRAE at UTSA.YESH P. SINGHDr. Singh after 23 years of productive career and "hands-on" broad-based

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Barbara Masi

was envisioned that a website could support the work of the curriculum committee byproviding a central repository for material required for formal program evaluation (Figure 3).The material included the program assessment plan (in matrix format) used for measuring eachprogram learning outcome, the subjects in which each program learning outcome is addressed (inmatrix format), and constituent data (standard program assessment and evaluation data collectedfrom senior, alumni and employer surveys; graduate career tracking data). Assessment andevaluation data were embedded into an easily accessible EXCEL spreadsheet so that programofficers could manipulate display the data as needed. A sample graphical output for constituentsatisfaction with

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Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

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E. Jansen

Sciences. Whether students pursue careers in Biomedical Engineering researchcenters, biomedical companies, or go on to the medical professions, they are almost certain toencounter optical technologies for diagnosis, sensing or therapy. It is expected that opticalscience and optical technology will be at the forefront of development of new enablingtechnologies and devices both in the basic science labs as well as in a clinical setting. Thus,several programs around the country, including ours, are actively working on coursedevelopment in the area of Biomedical Optics. Typically courses in Biomedical Optics are aimedat upper level (senior) undergraduate students and first-year graduate students while a real needfor continuing education has been

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Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Edmund Goll; Andrea Wittchen; E. Zimmers; Gregory Tonkay

andsystems engineers (I&SE). By putting the freshmen within the context of an IE projectenvironment, they can more accurately understand and evaluate their interest in an industrialengineering career. This enables the student to make a more informed decision regarding whichengineering discipline to follow after the freshman year.The six-week module engages students in an industrial engineering project as the means ofintroducing them to: 1) experiential problem-solving; 2) the engineering method of design,construct, measure and test; 3) typical aspects of people, process and technology that are foundwithin IE projects, and 4) the necessity for good leadership, communication, and teamwork.Class sessions include an introduction to agile enterprise

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jerry Samples

the conditions fortenure. Faculty members certainly want to, and need to, know how to avoid these unpleasantsituations. Administrators, senior faculty members and academic organizations spend a lot of timerecruiting these new faculty members and want to retain the good ones.What can be done to help? An unscientific survey of the tenure stream faculty in the EngineeringTechnology Division at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown was administered over a fiveyear period. Faculty polled were at various stages in their careers and no administrators wereincluded. None of the faculty mentioned their industry experience or their reasons for leavingindustry. The following comments were gathered and generally apply to the use of mentors andteaching

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Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

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E. Duco Jansen; Sean P. Brophy; Stacy Klein; Patrick Norris; Ming Wang, Vanderbilt University

Page 8.98.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”expressed the concern that we are not providing enough exposure to the field of Engineering as awhole, or to specific Engineering disciplines, to allow our freshman to make an informed choice.In addition, freshman are not exposed to the excitement and rewarding experiences of theengineering profession but instead get submersed in basic science courses. For the most part theyare unable to relate material learned in these courses to their career choice, which could have anegative effect on retention rate. Certainly for a relatively new discipline

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Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yi-Wei Huang; Nikos Kiritsis; David Ayrapetyan

learning objectives,complements and expands the previous presentation and illustrates the open-ended aspect ofquality engineering education. 2. IntroductionThe Engineering Department at McNeese State University offers an ABET accredited Bachelorof Science in Engineering degree with concentrations in four major disciplines: Chemical, Civil,Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. The Department excels in undergraduate engineeringeducation and is committed to preparing students for careers in both industry and graduate Page 8.77.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Mulvihill

existing today.They also indicated that there was much work to be accomplished and a career in the waterindustry would be challenging and rewarding.Next, the students toured the Culver City water distribution system. Mr. Michael Gutierrez,(class of 1978) from the Southern California Water Company, gave the students an overview ofhow a small private water company supplies and maintains the distribution systems for severalsmall cities. He presented a schematic of the Culver City distribution system and then led a tourof a pump station and the equalizing storage tanks in the city. This provided the students withphysical examples of components they would utilize in designing a distribution system.Following this tour, the design of a water distribution

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

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Aaron Gold; Walter Banzhaf

Polytechnic Institute in an era whenall EE students knew the filament pins for a 12AX7. A senior member of IEEE, Banzhaf is the author of two bookson computer-aided circuit analysis using SPICE.AARON GOLDAaron Gold just graduated with B.S.E.E.T. and A.S.C.E.T. degrees from the University of Hartford's Ward Collegeof Technology with a minor in Computer Science. While taking courses himself, he taught laboratory sections ofcourses in both algebra-based physics and electronic engineering technology, including three sections of the EL 110course described in this paper. Gold was a president’s list student for all eight semesters, and plans to pursue agraduate degree as well as a career in Information Technology, while likely continuing to teach at the

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Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

potential sources offunding. The classes should be multidisciplinary because ethics does not depend on a particularconcentration. Also, it should always depend on students who want to learn and apply it to thereal world. Faculty must teach them by example as well as by lectures. Page 8.735.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEvery student is going to face ethical issues throughout his/her career. It is critical that they beprepared for these decisions. They must understand the impact their