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Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Said

” Page 9.1252.3For the seminars, students and faculty found a forum outside the classroom to interact andcommunicate. The guest speakers for the seminar helped the students to better plan for Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationtheir career. There is no doubt that the project did have considerable impact on thestudents who participated in it. Some students wrote in their evaluation “We as IT students need more seminars relating to the business end. Diversity is an excellent investment” “The seminar makes you think what you should do in the future”It should be noted here that

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Brodersen; Cordelia Brown

model. The study alsocaptures the instructors’ and teaching assistants’ responses to the effectiveness of both modes ofinstruction. This study provides strategies on how to maintain effective instruction whileapplying the learning model beyond this research study. Methods to apply sustainableinstruction while utilizing the learning models are explored on other courses. This paper willpresent the underlying details of the learning model, and an analysis on the study performedduring the 2003-2004 academic year.IntroductionFor many students, the Introduction to Digital Logic course serves as the first engineeringcourse. During this crucial time in an engineering student’s educational career, it is imperativeto provide an environment that is

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ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Zekavat

theinterdisciplinary coursework that is essential to preparing highly-qualified engineering graduateswho will be successful and productive in their future careers [3]. To this end, it is generallyrecognized in the academic environment that an introductory course in EE should be offered tothe non-electrical engineering (non-EE) students. As a result, almost all engineering institutionsoffer at least one “service course” for non-EE majors through the EE department. It is theresponsibility of the academic programs to ensure that these service courses remain relevant tothe real world of engineering that their graduates will encounter.Therefore, in this contemporary context, it is reasonable to ask the following questions

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Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jason Keith

Session 1475Teaching vs. Research: Perspectives from a 4th Year Assistant Professor Jason M. Keith Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931AbstractThis paper describes the experiences of a chemical engineering assistant professor overthe first four years of his academic career, particularly the balance of teaching, research,service, and outside life. The paper will describe the following topics: ‚" tips for success in the classroom, in the lab, and at home ‚" things that went wrong

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

2001-2003 2.00 1.50 1.00 a b c d e f g h i j k Outcomes Figure 3: Importance of program outcomes according to alumniimportance of the program outcomes to their employment (5 - extremely important to 1 - notimportant) as well as their level of preparation (5 - very well prepared to 1 – not prepared)during their college education with respect to the same outcomes. Figure 3 shows that alloutcomes are considered as important to very important for the careers of the alumni. It isworth noting that the areas related to

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Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Jeffrey Hodgkins

play a very critical role in validating analytical models and hypotheses. Studentsmust feel comfortable in a laboratory environment and must not feel foreign to lab equipment,instrumentation, etc. Students must also feel comfortable formulating solutions to realengineering problems using all of the STEM tools available to them. The STEM must become anintegral part of their learning process throughout their entire educational and professional careers– the students must, in essence, “live the material” every day and in every course.Real engineering problems are rarely solved by “looking up answers at the back of the book”.Yet many engineering courses are taught this way and students feel that they can push the “resetbutton” after each class

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arvid Andersen

completion. The group concluded with the following statement. The EPS, European Project Semester, is a great way to learn efficient team working skills and gain a large amount of practical experience. Too many students seem to go to school and obtain a degree without participating in any practical experience. The practical experience though, is most important, and that is why the EPS is such a good program to participate in. The semester has contained much project work, but also great amounts of cultural experiences and new friends. This is what makes EPS such a unique program; it provides students with practical experience in a setting less formal than an actual career setting would be. On the other hand, students are treated as

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Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

Engineering Education, written in 1968, contained a discussion of theimportance of lifelong learning.1 In 1978, the theme of the ASEE Annual Conference was“Career Management – Lifelong Learning.” Over the years there have been a number of studiesto investigate the types of activities involved in lifelong learning, their frequency of use, the typesof support systems required for lifelong learning, barriers to lifelong learning, and impact oflifelong learning for individual engineers. Many of these studies are summarized in a 1985report by an NRC panel.2Lifelong learning is an issue of importance for engineers around the world. UNESCO sponsored

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Stratton; Maureen Valentine; Carol Richardson

on theengineering team. IntroductionRochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private university in upstate New York that enrollsmore than 15,000 full and part-time undergraduate and graduate students preparing for technicaland professional careers in more than 200 different academic programs. RIT attracts studentsfrom every state and more than 80 foreign countries and offers students work experience throughthe university’s co-operative educational program. RIT, a pioneer in career-oriented educationand a leader in cooperative education since 1912, has one of the oldest and largest co-opprograms in the world, with more than 1,300 employers and 2,500 students participating. RIT’seight colleges

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rodger Dalton; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

Session 2004-761 TECHTRONICS: HANDS-ON EXPLORATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE Paul A. Klenk, Gary A. Ybarra, Rodger D. Dalton Duke University Pratt School of EngineeringAbstractTechtronics is an after school science enrichment program that encourages at-risk middle schoolstudents to pursue careers in engineering and technical fields. A joint venture between the PrattSchool of Engineering at Duke University and Rogers-Herr Middle School in Durham, NorthCarolina, Techtronics seeks to stimulate intellectual curiosity in engineering through exposure tofour engineering

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

throughout their professional engineering careers in industry (See appendix C).5. Drawing the Right ConclusionsA new paradigm has evolved for the modern practice of engineering that has outmoded the previousmodel of 1945. Because of the distinctive professional characteristics, types of knowledge, experience,methods, and skill-sets that differentiate the modern practice of engineering for excellence in technologydevelopment from that required for excellence in scientific research, it is now evident that thesedistinctive features prescribe different organizational cultures and types of advanced education at thegraduate level. The professional engineering thought process and supporting culture that is required toconceptualize and lead the continuous

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

from theoutset of their professional career while simultaneously having immediate value in helping themto manage a research project and capstone design project in their senior year. An integral part ofthis innovation was the development of a web-based project management tool. While the mainobjectives of the new course design were achieved, a number of important lessons were learnedthat would guide the further development and continuous improvement of this course. The mostcritical of these is the need to achieve the optimum balance in the mind of the students betweendoing the project and critically analyzing the processes used to accomplish the work.IntroductionIn most industries, engineering is increasingly managed through projects. As a new

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Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Doug Schmucker, Trine University

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationtechnical problems and team dysfunction. An alumna of the university summarized the teamproblems with: I thought that by doing well in my coursework at Vale, I was preparing myself for my career. However, it obviously wasn't enough. The whole project was a disaster; we were perpetually behind, constantly duplicating or overlooking important tasks, and even when we finished, none of us were satisfied with the design. A few of us slaved over this project, but it is obvious that the amount of "effort" did not ensure

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ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Janet L. Yowell; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan; Lawrence E. Carlson

possibilitiesprovided by engineering and technology careers. Toward that end, the ITL K-12 Engineeringinitiative continues to hone the teacher workshop model to prepare teachers to eagerly takeengineering back to their classrooms.AcknowledgementsThank you to the National Science Foundation’s GK-12 Program (grant #9979567), the U.S.Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (grant#P116B010922), the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, the Daniels Fund, the CUOutreach Committee and generous college alumni and donors for their generous support of theITL Program’s K-12 Engineering initiatives.Bibliography[1] Morrison, Kathryn L. and Carol Sue Marshall, “Universities and Public Schools: Are We Disconnected?” Phi Delta

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

delivery of writing instruction within the context of regularengineering coursework. By introducing the importance and relevance of technicalcommunication at the beginning of each student’s academic career, in a required engineeringcourse, we are able to overcome the skepticism many young engineers have about how muchwriting they will need to do. They don’t need to come to us, something they incorrectly assumeis unnecessary; we go to them.IntroductionThe most effective strategy for teaching technical writing is open to debate. The options can beboiled down to four lines of attack. 1. Technical Writing Course: Students can be required to take an introductory technicalwriting course, where they learn the fundamentals of the discipline by

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ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

instruction session.”18Patterns and preferencesCommonalities in the way engineers and business students interact with information are likely toapply to the entrepreneurship community. Both groups have strong preferences for resourcesavailable on the World Wide Web. Each group tries to strike a balance between speed or ease ofaccess and the quality of information that is likely to be gained. A resource that is “goodenough” is worth more to them than spending time to find an excellent resource. In both theiracademic and professional careers these students will need to gather and evaluate and analyzeinformation to support both collaborative and independent work

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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanagaratnam Baskaran; John Long

masters and doctoral programs. The general trend has beenfor longer periods of formal education prior to full-time employment in professional fields. Moreand more professionals are undertaking post-graduate courses to aid their career advancement. Page 9.546.1* In Australia, the standard bachelor’s degree program (a “pass” degree) in arts and sciences is three years of full-time study, with the option of continuing into a fourth, “honours” year. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering

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A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lance Calvert; Michael Shannon

master the subject. Another challenge within the core physics program is how to instruct the same coursematerial to 850+ students that are split into 64 sections taught by 16 different instructors. Cadetclass standing is an immensely important aspect of the cadet experience at West Point. Itimpacts the cadet’s choice of military specialty and first duty assignment upon graduation, andwill continue to follow the cadet throughout their military career. Therefore, consistent gradingacross the board is imperative. To overcome this challenge, the Department of Physics hasdeveloped and implemented a pedagogy that is adhered to by all faculty and a well-definedgrading rubric in which standards for performance are clearly defined and understood

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

the engineeringcurriculum.Globalization of engineering careers also places new demands on social knowledge. Becauseengineering graduates now compete for jobs around the world and with graduates frominstitutions in many other countries, all of our graduates must have basic knowledge of foreigncultures and languages.The launch of the Sputnik satellite by the Russians in December 1957 was a ‘defining moment’for U.S. engineering schools and its curricula. This event was externally supplied and resulted inthe change of engineering curricula to be based almost entirely on analysis courses. Insubsequent years, the various stakeholders of the curricula have chipped away at individualcomponents without consideration of overall integration or a

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Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Henry; James Bandstra

careers at CTC aswell as other industry and engineering organizations. Thus was born this unique opportunity forUPJ to leverage local resources to develop the planned materials and manufacturing laboratorycourse.Organizational Roles and ExperienceUPJ faculty determined the types of laboratory experiments that were germane to the materialsand manufacturing laboratory course. For each of these experiments, the educational objectiveswere defined paying particular attention to the aspect of materials technology that would beuseful to the engineering graduate. For example, a basic tenet of the materials course it to teachthe student that the engineering properties of a given material are dependent on the internalstructure of that material - and

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Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heather Sheardown; Donald Woods

is about performance and not aboutyou as a personM Assessment is based on evidence and not on gutfeelings or wishful thinking Table 2 is given to the students to help them monitor progress in the development of the skill. (Similar tables of target skills have been developed for the other skills in the MPS program.) Now consider more details of the four to six hour workshop used in the sophomore course to develop the skill. The workshop has the following set of activities: define, provide rationale, pretest awareness and skill (using the test in Table 1), read over objectives and target skills (using the material in Tables 1 and 2), consider where self assessment fits in with other career, or higher order skills, address misconceptions

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IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taz Daughtrey; Edgar Sibley; Anne Marchant

attack and defense exercises. We therefore intend to graduate students capableof excelling in careers as information security engineers or as computer science graduates with aspecialization in computer and network security and, by collaborating and integrating work fromother institutions, reduce costs in duplication of curricula.3. Security Lab ArchitectureA considerable amount of energy has gone into the design of a security lab to support thecapstone cyberdefense exercises. We are studying both the IWAR6 (Information WarfareAnalysis and Research) laboratory at the US Military Academy at West Point and the PEN4(Portable Educational Network) at George Washington University. While our plans continue toevolve, certain elements are clear: • Since

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Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Margaret P. Battin; Gordon B. Mower; Angela R. Harris; JoAnn Lighty

communication skills. In addition, part of the goalfor getting students to participate in the project of exploring an ethical dilemma and arguing forone course of action over another was to prepare them for the kinds of experiences they arelikely to encounter when they go to work as an engineer, and the grading criteria were intendedto promote the skills they will need when faced with difficult situations. During the course of Page 9.550.4their career they will almost certainly find themselves in situations where they disagree with the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

needs-driven technology development. Among the issues that William Wulf,president of the National Academy of Engineering, pointed out in the main plenary address to the 2002ASEE – Annual Conference at Montreal, is the need for reform of faculty reward systems at the nation’sschools of engineering and technology to better reflect the modern practice of engineering.As Wulf pointed out in his address: “I don’t especially want to engage in the teaching vs. research debate. I suspect, like most of you, I believe that teaching and research complement each other. And, by and large, there is a high correlation between good teaching and good research. Good people are good! In my admittedly idiosyncratic career, the number of cases of genuinely

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Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

and curriculum), and organizational development (focus onstructure and process) [10].Faculty in purely teaching institutions (non-research environment) especially thoseteaching in technology-based and career-oriented programs, generally lag behind the paceof technological change in terms of their professional development activities due to theirnon-association with research activities. They face two major challenges: how toincorporate and teach new applications of new technologies in the curriculums they teachand how to maintain their professional currency.Therefore, in summary, the rapid pace of technological change mandates that facultyremain current in their technical areas of specialization as technology leapfrogs and newdomains of

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

9.1214.4 for a new Core course that would fit in the technology quadrant. We set up several challenges so that when students had completed the course they would have gained some of the knowledge and Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexperience to help them in making smart choices about technology – for their career and forthemselves. We wanted students to know what questions to ask about such things as costs,power, safety, reliability, ethics, usefulness and consequences of the technology theyrecommended or purchased. The course had to be seen as clearly useful to each student. In sum,we

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

were composed of both ME and IE students. In 1991 after retiring from Shell (anda career as a drilling engineer and with many years experience working in Shell’s internaltraining programs), Ross Kastor was hired as a lecturer to teach the class. Five years agothe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) added the course as adegree requirement for all students entering in the fall 1998 and thereafter. Since thensome ECE students have taken the course as an elective. That number has grown over the Page 9.805.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition

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Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Eli Fromm; Jay Bhatt

reasoning.Teaching social and political responsibilities increases awareness of the complex waystechnology impacts society, both positively and negatively. It increases the professional’s senseof empowerment with respect to the choice of engineering as a potential career. Students becomeaware that, as engineers, they have the potential to do both great social benefit, but also to dograve social harm.The first quarter of the ethics component in the sophomore year introduces the students to theconcepts of professionalism, engineering codes of ethics, code-based reasoning, and case-based Page 9.552.3reasoning strategies. Many micro-case studies are referenced

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Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Cecil

areasincluding Anthony in Texas. The first phase of this outreach approach involved (a)introducing students in grades 4 – 12 to virtual reality technology through miniworkshops (duration: four to eight hours) and use it as a vehicle to kindle their interest inengineering careers, (b) introducing teachers in middle and high schools to cutting edgesoftware technologies and train / educate them in virtual engineering so that they can inturn train/educate their colleagues and students.As part of Soaring Eagle, a collaborative partnership is being undertaken between theVirtual Enterprise Engineering Laboratory at NMSU and the Mescalero Apache Schoolsin the Mescalero Apache Reservation. While Native American students from otherreservations have also

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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gabriele

educate students for careers innew product invention and development with a sense for both the technical and social issues.PDI is a dual major program satisfying the requirements for the Bachelor of Science programs inMechanical Engineering, and Science, Technology and Society (STS). PDI prepares students tobecome innovative designers who can integrate contemporary technologies with changing socialcontexts for a new generation of advanced product designs.PDI aims to balance the traditional approaches of Architectural/Industrial Design andEngineering Design - often governed by the aesthetic and the technical - with the approach ofScience and Technology Studies (STS) - the social. Students develop a set of general engineeringskills through meeting