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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

Session 1793 A Graduate Seminar Series for Dual BS/MS Degree Students Elizabeth A. DeBartolo and Edward Hensel Mechanical Engineering Department, Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractAt the Rochester Institute of Technology, undergraduate students have the unique opportunity topursue a dual BS and MS degree in engineering. Many outstanding students take advantage ofthis opportunity but in order to obtain both degrees in a reasonable amount of time, work on thethesis must begin during the student’s third or fourth year. While the students are technicallycapable of completing the early stages of

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Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

School of Technology at Purdue University, New Albany. Dr.Dean holds a Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in Clinical Psychology, a Master of Public Administrationfrom IUPUI, and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville. He is an ASQ CertifiedQuality Engineer and a Registrar Accreditation Board Certified ISO 9000 Quality System Auditor.DONNA EVANECKYDonna Evanecky started teaching as an assistant professor for Purdue University School of Technology in 2001 afteran eight-year career in the field of quality management. She teaches Organizational Behavior, Managing Change,Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Occupational Health and Safety and Team Development for the Department ofOrganizational Leadership and Supervision

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Moody

and company commander, A Company, 864thEngineer Battalion, Fort Lewis, Washington. Paul is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a1994 Science Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and a 1996 Science Masters degree in Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering. Paul lives in Monroe, New York. Page 9.626.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Term 04-1 Course Feedback, ME362

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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John Adams; Vance Poteat

second class would be created by eliminating theCivil Engineering class.External ReviewAs part of its Continuous Program Improvement, the ECE department has created an advisoryboard (AB), composed primarily of practicing Electrical Engineers from local industry.Engineers with varying responsibilities, from one recent graduate working at Raytheon to a topmanager in New England of Lucent technologies make up the 10-member board. Most ABmembers are Merrimack Alumni. An electronic technology department chair from a localcommunity college also serves.The AB met in October 2002 with members of Merrimack’s ABET committee, and was askedthe same question as the department asked itself: what are the strengths and weaknesses of thecurriculum. The AB was

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Li Bai; Saroj Biswas

Engineering Education”Teaching evaluation is as important to instructors as to their students, and is equally critical asstudents ability to grasp knowledge. American Board Engineering and Technology (ABET)accreditation guidelines recommend engineering education evaluation as a three-loop process [3]:i) process of teachers evaluating students, ii) process of students evaluating teachers, and iii)process of employers evaluating students. These three-way evaluations provide a full feedback todetermine how effectively a student can apply the material learned into real world applications.As a college teaching profession, processes (i) and (ii) are easily assessed by the facultymembers in an ABET accreditation program.Most universities can determine the

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ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mark Cambron; H. Joel Lenoir

Session 1363 INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION, A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COURSE AT WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY Mark E. Cambron and H. Joel Lenoir Western Kentucky UniversityAbstractThe design of contemporary industrial systems and consumer products is increasingly blurringthe boundaries between electrical (EE) and mechanical (ME) engineering. Many commercialsystems are an appropriate blend of technologies from both disciplines. Traditional approachesto strengthening the educational experiences of engineering students have utilized

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lumsdaine Arnold; Jack Waserman; J. A. M. Boulet

development of distance education vibration courses for graduate training. JACK WASSERMAN Jack Wasserman is a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering where he has taught in the biomedical option. He is the winner of 7 teaching awards and is a Fellow for the Center for Undergraduate Excellence and a Fellow of the Interactive Technology Center. He has served as an officer in the ASEE Biomedical Division and as mentor for various Process Education Institutes. ARNOLD LUMSDAINE Arnold Lumsdaine is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering. He has collaborated with numerous institutions nationally in the

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Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shahnam Navaee

have to be rewritten to be utilized. Note that MATLAB is a popular and powerful computing tool which is currently used in many engineering and engineering technology schools around the country and across the world. The utilization of MATLAB in solving engineering problems was discussed in a few earlier publications of the author5,6. The Page 9.331.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright À 2004, American Society for Engineering Education capability of importing MATLAB script files into LabVIEW is demonstrated in the block

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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Howard Smolleck

(manufactured by LabVolt, Inc) is shown in Figure 2, and consists of: • A test bed in which motors and generators can be installed, • Controllable power supplies, • Metering and a computer based data acquisition system • Additional consoles containing transmission lines. These consoles have the capability of creating a complete, conventional electricpower system as illustrated in Figure 2. The existing laboratory thus has the capability ofsupporting our introductory power system class. It can also serve lower-division circuitsclasses, as well as classes in engineering technology. It was found that additionalconsoles were needed to serve the fairly large enrolment in these classes. The presence ofadditional consoles and equipment

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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Mesut Muslu

the curriculum.IntroductionA wide variety of methods for teaching engineering design are in use today. A number ofuniversities have begun introducing design problems into lower level undergraduatecourses.1,2,3 Miller at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a number ofsmall, hour long, design-like exercises that aim to give sophomore engineering students a feelfor some of the engineering concepts. Other approaches to using design early in thecurriculum include the Tip-A-Can project at Rochester Institute of Technology,4 and MIT’sLighter-Than-Air project in a first year aerospace engineering course.5One approach that is popular with educators is incorporating “hands-on” projects intoengineering courses.5,6,7 These “hands-on

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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Rhona Moore; James Strueber

: Page 9.1429.7Figure 1, Sample Abstract Format Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education1 Strueber, J. V. and Nelson, D. C., Writing Assignments in Architectural Courses that Enhance Teaching Effec- tiveness, Making Environments: Technology and Design, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, (1992). This paper is an update of that paper showing the developments in the assignment since publication.2 Yinger, R. J. and Clark, C. M., Reflecting Journal Writing: Theory and Practice, Institute for Research on Teaching, Michigan State University (1981)3 Allan A Glatthorn

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Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kun-jung Hsu

Construction Technology, Leader University. He isalso a senior lecturer of the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, Taiwan University. Dr. Hsu has twentyyears’ experience in professional practice as a senior architect and construction manager. Current researchinterests include housing economics, construction economics, community design and special topics on projectevaluation. Page 9.1229.10 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Dennis Kulonda; Thomas O'Neal

required in the business school curricula. Even the single combined courseoffered in some business schools seems too a large price to pay according to manyengineering faculty. Since the students usually find the accounting material uninterestingand in their view, unimportant, they tend to side with the latter faculty group creatingeven more impetus for the technology driven argument, i.e., avoid the topic altogether. Page 9.411.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright , 2004, American Society for Engineering

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Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zuhdi Aljobeh; Aaron Jennings

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliographic InformationADEC (Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Spill Prevention and Response Contaminated Sites Remediation Program), (2002), “Cumulative Risk Guidance”, Nov., www.state.ak.us/dec/dspar/csites/guidance/cumrisk02_10_07.pdf.CDPH&E (Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division), (1997), “Proposed Soil Remediation Objectives Policy Statement”, Dec., www.cdphe.state.co.us/hm/soilplcydraft.asp.Cox, A. (2002), Electronic Nose Technology Applied to Environmental Odors, Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, Case Western Reserve

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma

the commands areavailable on any computer running Windows 9x except for NSLOOKUP andPATHPING, which are available on any computer running Windows 2000 or XP. Withsome variations in use and output, these commands are also used in UNIX environments.These ten basic commands for troubleshooting computer networks should be part ofComputer Engineering Technology curriculum.Bibliography 1. RFC 1001; Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on a TCP/UDP Transport: Concepts and methods ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1001.txt 2. RFC 1002; Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on a TCP/UDP Transport: Detailed specifications ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1002.txt 3. Microsoft Knowledge Base Article – 119493; NetBIOS

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Dettman

majority of the first cohort of graduatingseniors took the FE exam with a 100% pass rate. While this piece of data alone is only thebeginning, it is a good indication that the program is on the right track.References1. Olds, B.M., and R.L. Miller, “Lesson Learned in Developing and Implementing a Program Assessment Plan”, International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 217-234, 2002.2. Western Kentucky University Undergraduate Catalog, 2003 – 20053. ABET, Engineering Criteria 2000: Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in the United States, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, http://www.abet.org/criteria.html4. Olds, B.M., and R.L. Miller, “An Assessment Matrix for Evaluating

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Charles Higby; Brandon Rogers; Joseph Ekstrom

implementations. Mail server software is configured on identical hardware wherepossible and tested for reactions to various simulated load conditions. For each configuration,throughput characteristics are measured and presented so that objective comparisons can bemade.IntroductionIn 2003, Brigham Young University’s School of Technology began building a laboratory forhardware and software testing and performance analysis. The lab contains 20 workstationcomputers, a few high-speed machines and switches, and one Itanium 64-bit computer. Thepurpose of this lab is to provide students and faculty with a means to perform research that canbe used to characterize the performance of a system. This experimental environment is ideal forcreating and performing

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Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bruno Osorno

Engineering Education” 3265 24. Bruno Osorno, “Innovative (new teaching technique) Computer Simulation of Rotating Magnetic Fields in Three-Phase Induction Motors Using MatlabTM Animation,” ASEE annual conference. Proceedings. Alburqueque New Mexico. June 22 to 28, 2001. 25. Bruno Osorno, “Introduction of Technology in a Power Systems Program,” ASEE/PSW Proceedings. March 1999. University of Las Vegas Nevada. 26. Bruno Osorno, “Harmonic Analysis of a Typical Commercial Load,” XX International Congress of Engineering Electronics. Proceedings. Chihuahua Mexico. October 27-31

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joe Hartman

Session 1532 Using a Request for Proposal (RFP) Methodology to Enhance Engineering Design Courses JOE HARTMAN Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boise State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a novel teaching technique that uses a “Request for Proposal” (RFP) as adesign tool to add practical real-world engineering design experience in upper level electricaland computer engineering courses. Design examples and student survey responses from aComputer Architecture and Computer Networks course are described.RFPs are used in government and industry for

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gregory Tonkay

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationimprove according to their plan. Later in the program, they assess the success and/or progress oftheir plan.Individual Interaction with Industry and Faculty Mentors. Throughout the four years, ISELPstudents interact closely with a team of mentors consisting of faculty, industry experts, andresearch engineers. Close interaction with mentors and industrial projects in systems engineeringand information technology ensures that the students can apply what they learn in the classroomto real-world problems. Mentors also help students assess their leadership capabilities and planactivities to improve their leadership

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Horch; Douglas Christensen

ofcoursework. Our experiences with the first three years of the program have been positive, withsome accomplishments but also challenges.Introduction – Advances in bioengineering technology during the past decade have increased pressure toinclude more and more topics in the curriculum leading to the bachelor's degree in the field ofbiomedical engineering and to increase the rigor of such undergraduate studies. This trend oftenresults, in practice, in a lengthening of the time that a student takes to earn the B.S. Yet at thesame time, many educators and employers consider the master's degree to be the minimaltraining needed to adequately prepare modern bioengineering student for practicing theprofession.1,2 This presents a long and sometimes

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Smith; Joseph Ekstrom

Information:MATTHEW Z. SMITHMatthew Z. Smith is an Information Technology major at Brigham Young University. Prior to returning toschool, he worked as Systems and Quality Assurance Manager for About Web Services. In addition tobeing a full-time student, he continues to contribute to online development on a contract basis. Page 9.107.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationJOSEPH J. EKSTROMJoseph J. Ekstrom (Ph. D. Computer Science, BYU 1992) has been Associate Professor of InformationTechnology at BYU since

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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Zac Bunnell; Garett Scott; Sundararajan Madihally

plants. This has necessitated the integration of novel technologies Page 9.765.1into traditional courses, particularly into the Unit Operations Laboratory (UOL).Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 1Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session # 1793 A laboratory course on Unit Operations is a critical component in the chemicalengineering undergraduate curriculum, because it provides hands-on experience on theapplication of the theoretical concepts

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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David Cottrell

first hands-on design experience. In particular, this article features ET 200,“Graphic Communications,” a three-credit course taken by all students in the StructuralDesign and Construction Engineering Technology Program, generally during the fallsemester of their junior year. The course content is conventional and develops basicskills in the student aimed at reading and interpreting commercial and residentialconstruction drawings. For most students, ET 200 is their first engineering course withthe potential for a design component. These design projects presented in this paper weredeveloped and implemented with specific objectives in mind: • To stimulate interest in engineering and design; • To provide the user with an

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Arthur Brodersen; Cordelia Brown

, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.8. Soloman, Barbara and Felder, Richard, “Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire”, http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html. Last accessed November 6, 2003.Biographical InformationCORDELIA M. BROWN is currently enrolled as a doctoral candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. She is a student member of ASEE and IEEE. Her interests includeemploying learning models in engineering classrooms and laboratory.ARTHUR J. BRODERSEN is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienceat Vanderbilt University. His recent technical interests have been the use of computer and network technology toenhance engineering

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ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kishore Kotteri; Joan Carletta; Amy Bell

an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech.She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan. Bell conducts research in waveletimage compression, embedded systems, and bioinformatics. She is the recipient of a 1999 NSF CAREER awardand a 2002 NSF Information Technology Research award; she has also received two awards for teaching excellence.JOAN E. CARLETTA is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at theUniversity of Akron. She received her Ph.D. in computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University in1995. Her research involves the design of digital hardware for applications that require intensive computation

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Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stan Guidera

Session ____ Assessing the use of digital sketching and conceptual design software in first-year architectural design studio Dr. Stan G. Guidera College of Technology Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Computer aided design software has supplanted traditional drafting in architecturalpractice as well as in most related design and engineering disciplines. However, both educatorsas well as many design practitioners continue to rely on traditional sketching during conceptualdesign. This has been

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Bowen

grumble about having tolearn programming, as they frequently did when Fortran was taught, introduction of the bridgedesign project has injected an element of enthusiasm and energy into the class, which arecertainly desirable outcomes for an introductory class in Civil Engineering.Introduction At the University of North Carolina at Charlotte there are three engineering departments(Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Computer) and an Engineering Technology Department. Inthe freshman year, all engineering majors take a common first semester course (ENGR 1201).This course, whose content is relatively new, serves as an introduction to the engineeringprofession and training in some of the skills needed for professional success1. The course has a

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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Andrew Wo; Pei-Fen Chang

Session 1610A Workshop on New Trend of Implementing the Engineering FacultyImprovement Workshop in Taiwan: A Multi-institutional perspective Pei-Fen Chang Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction National Central University Chung-Li, Taiwan 320 Dau-Chung Wang Department of Mechanical Engineering National Yunlin University of Science and Technology Touliu, Taiwan 640 Andrew M. Wo Institute of Applied

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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Joseph LaLopa; Mara Wasburn

advisor to Women in Technology. Her research interests focus on mentoring with an emphasis on women intechnology-related disciplinesJOSEPH M. LA LOPA is an Associate Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue University. Heholds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He teaches introduction to foodservice, lodging, and tourism;organizational management; and a sophomore honors course. His research focuses on tourism, hotel management;and operational analysis. Page 9.219.13 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright