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The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Ford; Jana Goodrich; Robert Weissbach

Session 1654 Lessons Learned and Best Practices in Multidisciplinary Teamwork and Teaching of a Small Product Realization Course Robert S. Weissbach, Jana G. Goodrich, Ralph M. Ford Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeIntroductionThe Small Product Realization course has been offered for two semesters (Spring 2003 & Fall2003) at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. The course is 3 credits, meeting for 50 minutes3 times a week. In addition to the scheduled class periods, the students spend one weekend at thebeginning of the semester attending a seminar at an off-campus location. This weekend

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kimberly Barron; Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Robert Pangborn; Thomas Litzinger

Criteria.1 This proposal defines the educational objectives as “statements thatdescribe the expected accomplishments of graduates during the first few years after graduation.”The survey responses for Penn State alumni two to three years following graduation show thatdifferent kinds of achievement and measures of accomplishment apply to the different early-career paths. This raises questions that may need to be considered for curriculum design. Forinstance: What actions should we be taking to prepare our students for the broader aspects oftheir professional careers? What competencies and abilities should we emphasize in acurriculum constrained by a limited time frame? Examining the data from our surveys of recentgraduates, which include information

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Marshall; Steven Budd; Michael Fountain; Paul Givens

the potential for technology andproduct development and commercialization.Strategic Market Assessment for New Technologies (SMA) was developed to integrate many ofthese goals in one setting, utilizing a graduate level course and inter-disciplinary format. Thecourse was designed to allow science/medical, engineering, and business graduate students towork in inter-disciplinary teams, in conjunction with university investigators. This would occurunder the direction and supervision of business, engineering and science/medical faculty withsignificant professional experience as practitioners, academicians, and entrepreneurs in theirrespective fields.SMA introduces the student and investigator faculty teams to intellectual property (IP

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ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Baladi; P. David Fisher

Session 3232 Embedded Computer System Design: A Framework P. David Fisher, Michael Baladi Michigan State UniversityAbstractThe area of embedded (computer) systems represents a very fertile framework for electrical andcomputer engineering students to acquire their major design experience. Analog, digital, andmixed-signal technologies continue to evolve at a very rapid pace, with a large gap existingbetween fundamental topics covered in introductory courses and the integrated knowledge andskills needed by practicing engineers to design embedded systems. Consequently

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Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Duesing; David Baumann; David McDonald

key junctures in the process.The students are required to complete at least three design reviews. In previous years, a singlereview was used, however this was inadequate for providing a quality product and giving thestudents adequate practice in conducting a design review. The SPFB settled on incorporatingthree design reviews. In addition, a multistage process was initiated to better match theprocesses similar to those cited in the background section. Specifically, in the first two reviews,the student teams must present technical designs and/or technical research results. These reviewsare directed toward design and selection of system components. In the third review the studentsmust present their technical test plans that will be used as they

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

mathematical and scientific tools of analysis,experimentation and design on which the practice of engineering is built. There were a total of11 Technical learning outcomes. The Social learning outcomes category neither means “hard tocharacterize” nor “non-essential but a good idea anyway.” These outcomes reflect the very realneed for engineers to have “soft” people skills in addition to the traditional “hard”cognitive/technical skills. The new global market place demands engineers that are ambassadorsfor the profession and who are able to convincingly communicate to diverse and non-technicalaudiences. “An understanding and experience dealing with engineering practices and principleswill only get you so far” comments Kerry Hannon in The Graduate

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Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Oktay Baysal; Mehti Koklu; Ahmed Noor

accomplish are: (i) Automated design optimization with minimal need for designer-in-loop in a given try. (ii) Reduce the need for the design expertise and the prerequisite database. (iii) Improve accuracy, efficiency and practicality. (iv) Information on the most influencing parameters, which leads to a reduced CFD analysis matrix, requires sensitivities of objectives and constraints with respect to design variables. (v) The ability to design with a variety of aerodynamic and geometric constraints and geometric flexibility, i.e. the type and the number of design variables and efficient parameterization. The next required step is the education and the training of the graduate engineering students,practicing engineers and the researchers so

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karl Stevens; Sharon Schlossberg; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

combining scholarships, professional development activities, intervention,and academic support in a coherent program designed to help empower students to takeresponsibility for their own success. Organization, management, objectives, andaccomplishments of the project are discussed. Recommendations and suggestions for programreplication at other sites are provided. Additional information is available from the project website at http://www.eng.fau.edu/step.htm.Significance of the ProjectThe STEP project impacts upon five issues of national interest and importance, all associatedwith human resource development: The future engineering and computer science workforce Under-representation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in

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Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lee Harper

Session 3261 The Social Consequences of Design: PBL Workshops for Undergraduate Researchers Lee Ellen Harper The University of Maryland In Summer 2003 the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), a permanent institute of theUniversity of Maryland, within the A. James Clark School of Engineering, and National ScienceFoundation Engineering Research Center, piloted two day-long workshops on “The SocialConsequences of Design: Requirements and Trade-Offs in Large-Scale Engineering Projects,”for the first 15 participants in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

impact of the project. This paper will help othersin planning similar experiences for engineering undergraduate students.1. Introduction This paper describes the experiences provided in a Site for undergraduate research in"Structural Engineering" in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at theUniversity of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati, Ohio. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates(REU) Site was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The purpose of this REUSite was to encourage talented undergraduates to enroll in graduate school by exposing them toresearch, and to increase their interest in graduate research. In this paper, first the basic approachadopted to plan the REU Site and associated activities are

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

Science (AAAS). 2001. Chautaqua, NY.20. AWIS, A hand up: Women mentoring women in science. 1993, Washington, D.C: Author.21. Boice, R., New faculty involvement for women and minorities. Research in Higher Education, 1993. 34(3): p. 291-339.22. Boice, R., The new faculty member. Higher and adult education series. 1992, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.23. Boyle, P. and R. Boice, Systematic mentoring for new faculty teachers and graduate teaching assistants. Innovative Higher Education, 1998. 22(3): p. 153-179.24. Boyle, P. and R. Boice, Best practices for enculturation: Collegiality, mentoring, and structure, in New Directions for Higher Education, M. Anderson, Editor. 1998a, Jossey-Bass Publishers: San

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Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robin Adams; Reed Stevens; Lorraine Fleming; Cynthia Atman; Sheri Sheppard; Theresa Barker; Ruth Streveler

Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.4. Cuff, D. (1991). Architecture: The Story of Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.5. Shulman, L.S. (1987). The Wisdom of Practice: Managing Complexity in Medicine and Teaching. In D.C.Berliner and B.V. Rosenshine, (Eds.), Talks to Teachers: A Festschrift for N.L. Gage. New York: Random House.6. Bucciarelli, L.L. (1996). Designing Engineers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.7. Henderson, K. (1999). On Line and on Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphicsin Design Engineering. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.8. Minneman, S. (1991). The Social Construction of a Technical Reality: Empirical Studies of Group EngineeringDesign Practice. Report SSL-91-22. Palo Alto: Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sara Ross; Patrick Giordano; James Blanck; Dona Johnson; Peter Jansson

real world engineering problems eachsemester. He teaches Networks, Sustainable Design, Power Systems and research includes renewable powersystems. He received a PhD from the University of Cambridge, MSE from Rowan University and BSCE from MIT.JAMES BLANCK is a senior electrical and computer engineering student at Rowan UniversityPATRICK A GIORDANO, JR. is a junior electrical and computer engineering student at Rowan University whoenjoys the practice of "hands-on" engineering and excels at it. His plans include achieving his masters at Rowanafter graduating with his BSECE with minors in math, physics and computer science.DONA JOHNSON is a junior mechanical engineering student at Rowan University and a member Society OfWomen Engineers (SWE), the

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan Hassan

innovation skills, which will enhance their careers.Case studies and examples on how to produce new innovative ideas and patents are given.1. IntroductionThis paper is meant to be a hands-on opportunity for professors and students to experience andpractice the creative problem solving process throughout all undergraduate and graduate coursesin the Electrical and Computer Engineering curriculum. Certainly, the benefit of this paper canbe extended and used in all engineering education disciplines including, but not limited to,mechanical, chemical, and civil engineering.The framework of this paper is also very useful for practicing engineers, project managers, andexecutives. The ideas presented in this paper intend to enhance students’ creativity

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Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joel Sokol; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Judith Norback

Academic Communication in Industrial and SystemsEngineering and a faculty member at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on workplace communication skillsneeded by practicing engineers. She has led the workplace communication research, coordinated the activities in thelab, and co-authored the communication instruction for undergraduate engineers.JOEL S. SOKOLDr. Joel S. Sokol is an Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Hiseducational research interests include communication and the teaching of modeling. His technical work is in linearprogramming, inverse optimization, and combinatorial optimization, as well as the application of operationsresearch techniques to logistics, biology, and network design

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Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Christopher Long

encourages the students to take control of the discussion as much as possible. Staff-leddiscussions are most common in situations when the student seems to be unsure of what to donext, or has questions about best practices, such as effective information arrangement and designfor posters, slide show presentations, and technical papers. In the Fall 2003 semester, forexample, the RCS had three studio groups of four students, each of which met weekly for 75minutes. In one group, all four undergraduates experienced problems with their research thatkept them from moving forward for several weeks; as a result, this group spent more time thanthe other two on professional issues such as creating a resume and discussing what happens in ajob interview. In

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; H. Michael Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Session 1153 Impact of Vertically Integrated Team Design Projects on First Year Engineering Students Helen K. Qammar1, H. Michael Cheung1, Edward A. Evans1, Sandra Prettyman Spickard2, Francis S. Broadway3, Rex D. Ramsier4 Department of Chemical Engineering1/ Educational Foundations and Leadership2/ Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies3/ Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering4 The University of Akron Akron, Ohio

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Rogers; Phil Lunsford; Paul Kauffmann

Session 1793 A Case Study: Development of a Practice Oriented Engineering Program with Implications for Regional Economic Development Paul Kauffmann Ralph Rogers Phil Lunsford East Carolina University, Greenville, NCIntroductionThis paper describes an engineering program planned for implementation at East CarolinaUniversity in fall 2004. The program presents a unique design synthesis of concentration areasrequired to enhance regional economic development and the best practices

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

of engineering graduate education in context, organization, andculture to build complementary graduate programs of a professional nature that enhance creativeengineering practice for technology development and leadership of innovation in industry.Since implementation of the 1945 – Vannevar Bush report (Science: The Endless Frontier)1 andincreased federal funding to accelerate the advancement of science at the end of World War II, thenation’s schools of engineering have placed an increased emphasis on high-quality graduate educationfor academic scientific research. During this same time period, however, U.S. engineering education hasnot placed a balanced emphasis on high-quality professionally oriented graduate education for

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

America’stechnology competitiveness, but if engineering graduate education has anything at all to do with thedevelopment of our creative intellectual capital, responsible for the engineering advancements of newtechnological developments and innovations, then the present health of U.S. engineering graduateeducation itself must be included as a major contributing factor in the loss of US competitiveness.1.4 Technology Matters The Changing Practice of Engineering for Systematic Technology InnovationThe assumption that federally funded basic scientific research (performed at the nation’s researchuniversities) is the principal generator of US technology for economic growth and national security hasbeen fundamental to U.S. science policy since the end of World

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

design projects—and in assessing the educational impactof robotics projects and competitions. We show that one particular assignment, the developmentof autonomous mobile robots, ties together interdisciplinary design, experiential learning,teamwork assessment and other topical educational subjects in powerful and unique ways. Weidentify best practices taken from our experiences, focusing on (a) undergraduate experiences infire-fighting robotics and in the AUVSI Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition; (b) integratingrobotics into the first year engineering design courses, advanced research project teams, andsenior design projects; (c) robot design as a medium to promote teamwork; (d) methods ofevaluation and assessment of robotics curricula and

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Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Leon Chuck

Educationthe societal, economic and environmental impacts of engineering decisions. 1,2, 5, 6 Experientiallearning can provide an opportunity for students to develop both soft and technical skills.Additionally, it has been shown that students engaged in experiential learning have betterretention of technical knowledge and are better able to apply what they have learned in collegecourses to real life situations after graduation. 1, 5, 7 One form of experiential learning is service-learning. In service-learning, studentsbecome involved in a project that meets specific educational objectives while providing a neededservice to the community. A critical component of service-learning is structured reflection.Structured reflection provides the students

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

challenges faced by the experienced, new faculty member. Lastly, we present somesuggestions for the new hire and explain the rationale for these guidelines.Industry-Academic DifferencesBefore we review the differences between the industry and academic environments, lets considerwhat the Ph.D. in industry has been doing. Many have been involved in technology or advanceddevelopment, and some with revenue product design. The first area contains a far greaterresearch component and the latter a significant application component. But the big question formost academics is: why would a successful professional want to leave industry? Generally, thesuccessful Ph.D. looks at the tradeoff between 1) salary, and 2) research flexibility and/or lessstress. Since

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Heaslip

Manufacturing was prepared and submitted to the OntarioCouncil for Graduate Studies. OCGS approval was received and the ADMI program wasinaugurated in the fall of 2000 with promotion of the program to engineering alumni of thefour founding partner universities. Program admissions began to take place in late 2000 andthe first course, Design for Manufacturability, was presented in March/April of 2001.ADMI Operating StructureAs the ADMI program concept took shape, it was determined that effective management ofthe program would be best accomplished through a separate umbrella structure to manageoperation of the program on behalf of the partner universities. The ADMI office, which islocated at a neutral site rather than on the campus of one of the partner

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Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daniel Jensen

in terms of meeting CNs. Students study failed products and determine which CNs CV#3 = A.4 & B.1 were poorly met. Solutions for these CNs are proposed and implemented in a virtual prototype using a rapid prototyping machine. CV#4 = A.4 & B.2 This is the same option as described directly above except the prototype is implemented using simulation software.3.5 Design Decision MatrixIt is standard practice in design decision making to use some sort of matrix to organize thedecision-making process. A common form of this uses the weighted CNs as a basis forevaluating the quality of different CVs. An example of this, which

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Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Horvath; Cecilia Lucero

Session No. 2492 Graduate Student Socialization in Science and Engineering: A Study of Underrepresented Minorities’ Experiences Cecilia Lucero, Ph.D. The National GEM ConsortiumIntroductionSince the early 1970s, when the underrepresentation of females and U.S. racial/ethnic groups inthe engineering professions became an exigent national concern, academia, industry, andgovernment agencies have undertaken practices that have improved the participation of minoritygroups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This improvement,however, has been questionable. Recently, for example, Dr

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

basic civil engineering skills to prepare graduates for immediate productivity upon graduation. • A background in management skills as they relate to working with financial matters as well as with people from diverse backgrounds. • The ability to communicate ideas, processes, and designs effectively.”“The teaching philosophy of this program will focus on project based learning. This will beachieved by placing competent, practicing engineers in the classroom as professors, engagingstudents in the practice of civil engineering through hands-on class projects, and involvingstudents in faculty consulting and applied research activities.”Development of the CurriculumExpression of the mission for the CE program established a

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

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

education literature for discussions and studies of the impact of assessment, changes ininstructional practice, curricular change, and the role of faculty culture in college and universitycontexts. These reviews led to 1) the development of a set of course and program level changesthat might be expected in engineering programs preparing for an EC200 review, and 2)identification of potential survey items that might be used to assess the a-k learning outcomes.The team also examined self-study documents from selected engineering programs for surveyinstruments designed to measure changes in program curricula, faculty teaching, and studentlearning. The team gratefully acknowledges the inspirations for several survey items, includingitems on curriculum

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Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Leake

of this research for use in the GE curriculumwill also be made available to other educational institutions via the Internet.As a start, a GE master’s thesis candidate is currently working to create an instructional softwarepackage to assist in the development of competent design analysts. Using Design Simulation incombination with Autodesk Inventor, best practices, guidelines, and rules of thumb relevant tothe use of CAD-embedded FEA have been identified. Virtual models and simulations arecurrently being developed to illustrate these guidelines, as well as for software training purposes.The completed interactive multimedia package is being developed using Macromedia’sAuthorware, and includes structured learning objectives, hypertext links

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Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

educationalleadership as a head/chair and how a good leader can make a difference in assisting new andespecially younger faculty to obtain tenure and promotion.IntroductionImportant aspects of departmental leadership have been identified as dealing with politics ofacademia, encouraging teamwork, faculty recruitment/retention, faculty professionaldevelopment, and motivating senior faculty to maintain their research activities. The otherimportant issues for department heads/chairs are: providing new faculty with start-up money tofacilitate initiation of their research, summer funding opportunities for research, travel money forpresentation, assigning a graduate assistant, assigning a senior faculty as a mentor, released time,summer teaching, involving a faculty