Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for New Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Dahm, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

/Senior Clinic as the capstone design experiences in their programs. While theChemical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering departments haveseparate capstone design courses, these departments also recognize Junior/Senior Clinicas a course that well reflects engineering practice. Consequently Junior/Senior Clinicfigures prominently in the assessment efforts of all four programs. As noted in theprevious section, the Junior/Senior Clinic final reports were included in the portfolios ofstudent work that were reviewed at the end of every year. While the department obtainedvaluable data from the portfolio evaluation, an inefficiency in the process was alsoevident: each paper was being read by the project supervisor(s), who assigned a

Conference Session

Launching Successful Academic Careers

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

in Engineering Management.” Proceedings, 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, June 2002, Montreal. (CD-ROM).16. Tilbury, D.M., Ceccio, S.L., and Tryggvason, G. “Restructuring the Undergraduate Curriculum of the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department at The University of Michigan.” Proceedings, 1997 ASEE Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI.17. Badiru, A.B., Slagley, J.M., and Smith, D.A. “Project Management Application for Engineering Program Accreditation Preparation.” J. Profl. Issues in Engrg. Educ. and Pract. 136(1), January 2010, pp. 39-47.18. Sobek, D.K. and Jain, V. “Two Instruments for Assessing Design Outcomes of Capstone Projects.” Proceedings, 2004 ASEE Annual Confernece, June 2004, Salt Lake

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

safety, speed, and productivity, (3) to ensure uniformity, reliability, and excellence of product quality, (4) to achieve overall efficiency and economy. Page 15.1088.3Subramanyan states that the topic covers a “variety of documents including standards,specifications, codes of practice, recommendations, guidelines, nomenclature and terminology,and so on.” A document may also be a “composite” of these.Linda Musser (1990)4 wrote a straight forward overview of “Standards Collections for AcademicLibraries” including why a library should collect standards and described ways to build thecollection while Taylor (1999) does a similar project but