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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Swiezynski; Don Myers; Ray Luechtefeld

Enhance Career Enhance Skill Obtain Promotion Personal Growth Change Background Number of Respondents Figure 7When those who have not yet pursued a master’s but were interested in doing so (a total of 76respondents) were asked the same question, “Personal Growth” was considered very importantby more respondents, though it was closely followed by “Personal Growth”. (See Figure 8). Page 9.151.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

Session XX60 “Let’s Go Folks!”: A K-12 Special Program Beyond Social Parameters Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and SciencesAbstract“Let’s go Folks!” This is the appealing name of a project which main goal is to help students ofK-12 to develop the necessary skills to choose careers like engineering that for many reasons isso necessary for the development of a country. São Vicente City Hall present administration hasdecided to implement a special program for K-12 in public schools of the city, which resulted inthis

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Hadgraft; Mike Xie

Development – Be conscious of their own values; Adhere to professional ethics; Plan their career; Reflect on experience; Improve their own future practice; Engage in Lifelong learningSustainabilityA key graduate capability that emerged was the need for an understanding of and operationalskills in the use of sustainability principles in each engineering discipline. This was stronglysupported by industry participants. It represents a significant departure from traditionalengineering programs that tend to focus on detailed knowledge of engineering scienceprinciples. Such a shift is supported by Johnston [9] and others.Nevertheless, sustainability has been a key issue within the School of Civil and ChemicalEngineering for some time. The

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jule Scarborough; Conard White; Promod Vohra

objectives to achieve the above stated goal included: (1) providing in-service education onup to 65 different topics each year; (2) providing in-service education to administrators abouttheir leadership role and responsibilities in leading reform; (3) partnering with local business,industry, and community organizations to support secondary MSTE education and change; (4)producing a systemic model for improving MSTE; (5) developing teacher knowledge and skillsin using computer technology and other discipline specific technologies; (6) developing teacherand counselor knowledge and strategies for infusing career and educational pathways into thecurriculum and learning experiences, especially through partnerships; and (7) internally andexternally

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Houston

initial period of course development and acclimation to the newenvironment can be overwhelming.This paper presents ideas to help the new educator develop systems to track all the daily, weeklyand semester requirements that he may face in the early part of his career. In addition, themethods used to collect and maintain information serve as an aid to the future refinement ofcourse materials in subsequent semesters. Suggestions are made from the writer’s personalexperiences and examples of sample spreadsheets are given to aid in the organizational process.Several topics pertinent to the new educator are examined, including 1) how to prepare for theinitial move onto campus, 2) developing a smooth transition from previous instruction, 3)building on

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordy Skattum; Clifford Mirman

mustprovide educational programs, there is an overriding need to provide accessibility to studentsfrom all of the communities served. To provide students with this type of access, in which theycan chose the career direction, Rock Valley Community College (Rockford, Illinois) andNorthern Illinois University (NIU) have developed a unique series of programs within theTechnology realm. As part of this program, students can choose their desired degree path andstopping point; after 2-years or 4-years. In addition the students can determine the appropriatelevel of Technology that will suit their educational needs. As a result, students will be able toobtain the needed technical knowledge to obtain employment after two years at RVC or continuetheir education

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Visser; Carrie Steinlicht; Teresa Hall

industry jobs has been in response to wage differentials,valuation of the dollar, and a shortage of engineering and technology program graduates.1 Thetraditional career path sought by engineering technology program graduates was to seekemployment at a mid-to-large size corporation with the implied opportunity to climb thetechnical/managerial ladder during a lifetime of commitment to that single employer. Thisscenario is a thing of the past as multinational corporations downsize, outsource, and streamlinemanagement hierarchies and thin the ranks of technical professionals.At the same time, the growth in small businesses by entrepreneurs and small start-ups providingcomponents to larger companies has provided an alternative career path for newly

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Olufemi Omitaomu; Adedeji Badiru

information system projects' unique characteristics and cautions to take whenusing available techniques. Such inclusion will help to place engineering students in a morecompetitive position for their future career goals.Intr oductionThere has been a continued integration of information systems into all fields of engineering,especially industrial engineering. Several academic departments have changed their names toreflect this integration and others have started courses that integrate information systems intotheir traditional areas of teaching and research. Information systems (IS) are powerful andvaluable tools that support communication and decision making in an organization1. They useinformation technology (hardware and software) to capture

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Todd; Spencer Magleby

successful in an engineering career. They are alsointerested in learning things that will be of value to their prospective employers and will be seenas such on their resumes.Engineering students have heavy demands on their time and as a result have limited time toinvest in activities that they see as irrelevant to their interests. They also value flexibilityconcerning when they will need to spend time on school work and predictability in how theyshould spend their time to achieve good grades. We have also found that engineering studentsfind fulfillment in fabricating hardware to test their ideas, although this may be very intimidatingto them if they have not had successful experiences doing it previously. Related to this, they arevery interested in

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

) to analyze, solve, and present solutions to engineering problems. 2. Become an effective team member. 3. Develop the communication skills necessary to package acquired technical and professional abilities that are required to succeed in engineering practice. 4. Understand the engineering profession enough to commit to a major and create an education/career plan. 5. Develop motivation for self-responsibility, life-long learning, and self-development of a person of good character.Course Outcomes: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to 1. Document a rational for selection in their chosen major

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Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

balance between a number of opposingforces. A minimum of fundamentals in science and math are required to prepare students fortheir sophomore engineering coursework, and exposure to the nature of engineering and itsopportunities is needed to enable students to identify an appropriate career path. However, theacademic rigor of the first year in engineering is overly challenging and even shocking for manystudents. Still, calls for engineering education reform speak of educating students in areas ofcommunication, ethics and professionalism, design, working in teams, leadership,entrepreneurship, and global understanding (to name a few), all of which vie for curriculum time.As we seek to transform the first year we also need to keep an eye to current

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Shaw; James Gidley

at Geneva College. Ourprimary vehicle for doing this has been a term paper assignment requiring the students to relatethe second law of thermodynamics to issues that are ordinarily the domain of the liberal artsfaculty. While the particular contours of the assignment are unique to the mission of Geneva, theauthors believe that their approach is adaptable to a wide variety of institutions.The first author developed a term paper assignment in 1991 requiring students to “consider thedevelopment of technology in terms of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics” in thelight of biblical teaching and requiring them to consider how their conclusions would “influencetheir career choice and professional activities.” The second author began

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Fredericks Volkwein; Linda Strauss; Lisa Lattuca; Patrick Terenzini

careers in engineering thanthose who graduated before implementation of EC2000?”A major focus of the study is the examination of student learning outcomes, defined by EC2000Criteria 3.a-k, for engineering graduates educated in pre-EC2000 and post-EC2000 programs.The study also assesses the impact of EC2000 on engineering program curricula, instruction,faculty cultures, and administrative policies and practices.Seven disciplines - aerospace, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, industrial, mechanicalengineering – were selected for study. Because there is little existing data that can be used toassess the a-k outcomes, surveys and interviews are being used to collect original data.Approximately 1400 program chairs and faculty members in more than

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dara O'Neil; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

partners satisfytheir needs through interacting with the school system partners.Stage Two: Partnership FormationPartnership Goals • To use the unique talents and energy of the Georgia Tech students to help address the pressing needs at the schools; • To promote long-term, mutually beneficial, and multi-faceted partnerships at these schools; and • To provide the Georgia Tech students with a teaching internship experience that will benefit their professional growth and subsequent career, whether in academia, industry, or education.Partnership AgreementsThe Science Coordinator or Deputy Superintendent for Curriculum from each participatingschool system selected schools to participate in the STEP Program. The schools

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Nichols; Margaret Pinnell

scienceand engineering. Additionally, it provided the school age students with positive role models.Introduction: According to Census 2000, less than 25% of engineers were non-Caucasian.1, 2 Manyefforts to achieve a more diverse workforce in engineering include both recruitment andretention. Effective recruitment strategies include a variety of outreach programs that encourageelementary and high school age students from under-represented ethnic groups to becomeinterested in science and math and to pursue that interest when making career choices. 3 Thisencouragement can come in many forms including mentorship, role models and teachingmethods that make science and math exciting and fun while stimulating students to become moreactively involved

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

across-section of information sources for the reader interested in pursuing the topics further, butmay also be read without attention to the footnotes.IntroductionA few years ago when concerns were being raised about the impact of the global marketplace onthe employment of US engineers, the authors drafted a paper entitled “Are current engineeringgraduates being treated as commodities by employers?” 1 We questioned whether engineering inthe United States was still an attractive profession offering productive and satisfying careers andlifestyles. One of the important problems we noted was the churning in engineeringemployment, with more experienced engineers living under the constant threat of being replacedby younger, more recent graduates, and

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

LTC Robert Powell

found that in “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering”Germany and Japan, the workplace played a crucial role in the education system. A close look atAmerica’s education system revealed that U.S. schools were not teaching the skills needed forwork and that the transition from school to a stable career-oriented job was a haphazard anddisorganized process.The reformers identified many problems with U.S. schools. Essentially, they were failing toprepare the nation’s workforce. U.S. schools were not doing their job because 1) they providedno incentive for students to work hard; 2) did little to help students find good jobs

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Kissoff

project course which is designed to encompass and exhibit the skills and knowledgeobtained by graduating seniors during the four years in their program. The project is consideredto be a culmination of the students’ education and a springboard for the type of work that theymay encounter in their chosen careers. Programs within The University of Toledo’s Engineering Page 9.1099.1Technology Department are no different. In order to gain an economy of class size and maintainconsistent guidelines for the projects and presentations between disciplines, students in each of Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

for upper elementary and middle school teachers has been initiated at Kansas State University to enable teachers to become agents of change and engage their students in the engineering process at an early age – before high school. This is the time when many students begin formulating career directions, and we want them to consider computing sciences and engineering as viable career options. This paper describes the structure of our Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site in real-time embedded system design, and the lessons we have learned during its first year in operation.1 IntroductionThe number of embedded

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

) resources, globalization, and shifts in social and governmental practices, foretell majorchanges in the career needs for tomorrow’s young civil engineer. The Civil EngineeringDepartment at Colorado State University (CSU) has been defining and implementing changes inthe curriculum to respond to needs of today’s and future graduates as an ongoing task. Thedepartment more recently has worked with the ASCE Body of Knowledge Committee as anexample of a civil engineering program in a large public university, and the lead author servedon that committee. Relevant activities at CSU are described. Three program features at CSUfacilitating the curricular changes needed to achieve consistency with the desired BOK are anundergraduate program including an

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

. traditional science andengineering graduate programs are recognized world wide for their strength in giving theirstudents excellent technical knowledge. The evidence of the power of these traditional graduateprograms is in the high number of students from around the world who apply to the programs ona routine basis. The microEP program has maintained the full scope of academic methods inthese traditional programs in transferring technical knowledge, while adding new methods andtechniques to improve its students’ ability to utilize that knowledge effectively in their earlyprofessional careers. These new methods and techniques include: • Creating a natural work group of all students entering the program in one academic year (the Cohort

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

appreciation forinterpersonal and presentation skills, leadership, professional ethics, organizationaldynamics, product development, and statistical quality control; 2) Knowledge 2- InSpring, students attend alumni-led workshops on career development; 3) Experience- InSummer, students complete 12 weeks of employment where they will be able to realizeUPOP’s educational objectives; 4) Reflection 1- During the summer, students complete astructured journal that permits exploration of engineering teamwork, communication, andorganization; 5) Reflection 2- In Fall, students meet to discuss their experiences withother students and faculty. Assessment and evaluation of the new program includedactivity feedback surveys completed by students, ability self

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Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

to learn in order to keep up.” • “We learn how to do time management and realize the importance of self-learning.”It is encouraging to receive this kind of feedback from students as it suggests that they seem tobe practicing higher-level learning skills when they talk about time management, understandingteacher’s perspective, self-learning, etc.Based on our experience and the documented positive impacts of active learning, we propose thefull integration of the LTT program into the ME core curriculum. This complements ouroutreach program by systematically stimulating our students with higher-level learning skills tonot only prepare them for their future careers but to also prepare them to be competent

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Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

not planning to work as an engineer give the fact that “they could not likeand adopt this profession during their studies” as the reason to it. This is another negative effectof the university entrance exam pushing the students to make their preference list based on theirgrades and not on their aspirations and/or skills.The second reason of the girls not wishing to work as engineers is their intention of following auniversity career. Among the replying students to this question 50% of the girls stated their wishto follow a university career while it is only 3.3% among the boys. This resulted is supported bythe findings of previous research in Turkey [17]. The increase of female participation in graduatestudies faculty and researchers is

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Said

was good to get to know you…” “…He was also very conscious of my career aspirations and experience needs. He provided me with projects that would be most favorable to me. These projects were always things that were meaningful and necessary, but they were also projects that fit my knowledge-level and capabilities perfectly..” “.. He knew what I was capable of and gave me time to learn new things/concepts..” “..It helped me realize that I could use the skills learned in class to create a final product.” “.. We have freedom to learn, experiment and create..” “.. By having a faculty member as my supervisor, they knew what I was

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Darby; Jane Fraser

for Field Service with technical knowledge and business knowledge. Entry-level positions for college graduates open at this time included an Assistant StoreManager at Sony, a Technical Manager of Product Repair Services at Sears, and aService Support Manager for John Deere. The last job (at John Deere) called forBachelors degree in engineering, business, marketing or related field required, implying,we believe, that a combination of those areas of knowledge would be attractive to thecompany.Design of AIM programThe mission of the AIM program is to prepare students for entry-level automotiveindustry management careers by providing automotive management skills supported bythe business and technical background requisite for success in the

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Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hisham Abdulmallik Al-Shahabi

government- sponsored outof whom 210 were taking engineering or engineering- related courses and all of them studyingabroad.Oil industry created the need for skilled & semi-skilled worker as well as engineers. The recruitscame mainly from the Indian sub-continent.To meet the growing demand and to encourage young Bahrainis to seek careers in the oilindustry, the Bahrain Petroleum Company started an apprenticeship scheme in 1956 wherebyprimary school graduates were offered four –year programmes to prepare them for work in thevarious operations associated with oil exploration & refining..Having seen the benefits of the apprenticeship scheme, the Company went further by offeringtheir young & bright employees the opportunity to continue their

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberto Montoya

majorsare a valid and pertinent alternative, so long as a difference can be made in regards to the social,economic, educational and job market value given to technological professions. Otherwise, wewill continue to have first and second class careers. The main task that we must undertake in thisrespect is the consolidation and identity of a modern, first class technological education thatqualifies young men and women to be competitive in the workplace and to be able to continuetheir studies at a higher level. This education is key to the development of productive forces andthe modernization of our country.The professional practice of Engineers in ColombiaThe manner, in which the engineering profession is practiced, not only in Colombia but also

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell; Joseph Cecere

destined to join. This paper discusses thetransition from the current single-tracked curriculum into a program with three separateacademic options – Structural Design, Construction Management, and GeneralEngineering and provides a comparative analysis of the separate tracks.Current Curriculum Supporting a Bachelor of Science Degree in SDCET This program is designed to ultimately prepare students for careers in a highlyspecialized construction industry. Table 1 details the current academic requirements forgraduation from the program. SDCET is currently accredited by the TechnologyAccreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technologyenabling graduates to continue their professional development by sitting for

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IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

skills development, certification,licensing, professional development, professional societies and code of ethics.Necessity of IT Professional CertificationsProfessionals generally begin their careers by completing a university program in theirchosen field, such as computer, medicine, engineering, or law. Then they may choose topursue other important field, for example, certification. Certifications used to be anoption to most of professions. Today there have always been debates on whether or notone should pass a certification test and get certified. There are still a few employers andsome educators who see little value in licensure or certification and don't require orencourage it.But recently it becomes clear for one to get certified in a