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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

in sales,service, maintenance, production, and installation of equipment, processes, and plants. Theengineering and engineering technology graduates of The US educational institutions must beprepared to work in multicultural teams in multinational corporations, some of the educationpreparation they need will come from international collaborative experiences that developabilities and familiarity with information technology, team work, international collaboration, anddesign methodologies in a global environment. The collaboration between Penn State Altoonaand IUT Bethune, France is a unique initiative to create an early educational awareness of theglobal implications of engineering education - engineering professional through the use

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Weber; Daniel C. Yoder; Christopher D. Pionke; J. Roger Parsons

alumni, The University of Tennessee College of Engineering is wellunderway in a major renovation / reconstruction of its Freshman Engineering program. Thiseffort is an integrated approach to the Freshman curriculum, with a 6-semester hour first-semester course emphasizing problem-solving, teamwork, design concepts, and computer tools(engineering graphics and computer programming), all based around the study of low-levelintroductory physics material. The second thrust is a second-semester 6-hour course integratingstatics and dynamics, while assuming and using mastery of the material from the first semester.Following the lead of educational theorists, the effort is trying to include as many different formsof learning opportunities as possible. The

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Dava J. Newman; Amir R. Amir

instructor’s job to assure that all teams successfully accomplish the designproject. This experience is exactly what Freshmen deciding whether to major in engineering need.Design is an integral part of the practice of engineering [11], [12] and we believe it should be anintegral part of students’ education during their entire undergraduate career. Design is introduced to the students formally through the lectures “What is Design?” and “TheDesign Process,” which are followed by the previously mentioned design exercise, the DeltaDesign Game that we find very useful in establishing teamwork and communication skills. Thenstudents receive an introductory drawing lecture, and finally embark upon the LTA vehicle designproject, which counts for 50 percent