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Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

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Carol Mullenax

Session 1355 Obtaining an Academic Position – Job Hunting Strategy and Resources Carol Mullenax Tulane UniversityAbstractEven in this age of seemingly endless information available on the internet, job postings foracademic positions can be difficult to find and even more difficult to evaluate.Contrary to the industrial job hunt, potential employers do not generally come looking for entry-level faculty members. Academic positions are not handled at career fairs, and headhunters areseldom employed to find an entry

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Graduate Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shahram Varzavand; John Fecik; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

communication and presentation skills, and scholarlydiscussions of current technological or educational issues related to the students research interests.These first two aspects should also include the exploration of new ideas and issues.Courses and experiences needed in the technical area can be built into the student’s program of study.This characteristic is especially crucial to the college or university faculty member who sees the needfor technical competencies as part of the doctoral program. Individuals with the career intent ofteaching in the discipline of industrial technology, at the collegiate level, will find ample opportunityto take technical courses and gain experiences to build upon their previous degree work and upontheir teaching

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Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

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Holger Dahms; Stefan Bartels; John Gassert; Jens Thiedke; Owe Petersen

with a primary focuson applied engineering, business, and the natural sciences. Both institutions are teachinginstitutions with similar missions.Issues and Resolutions 1. Issue: Student Profile Resolution: Engineering students typically are determined to achieve constant academic progress towards graduation. They are less inclined to explore the world at large for the sake of the experience that might be provided. They are reasonably settled on their immediate career path and any exploration should at least provide useful result. Hence, in order to be successful the program had to provide very specific benefits in order to attract a sufficient number of students. Therefore, the program was designed to insure

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Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

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Angela Linse; Rebecca Bates

engineering students titled "Active Learning inEngineering Education." The objective of the course was to provide engineering graduatestudents with information about the learning process and resources on teaching and academia tohelp them make informed decisions about teaching as a career and to help them be betterteachers. We believe this course is unique because it provides a curriculum taught to graduatestudents by a graduate student. This work was funded by a Huckabay Teaching Fellowship, aprogram that provides support for teaching projects conducted by graduate students paired withmentors.1I. IntroductionPreparing engineering graduate students for a future in academia should include providingmethods and support for teaching as well as guidance in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Haley; Calvin Mackie; Sundiata Jangha

Alumni - Each year approximately 20 -25 former FOCUS Scholars, whomatriculated and received an advanced degree from Georgia Tech return to take part inthe program. In addition to the informal interaction with the FOCUS Friends and FOCUSScholars at various events, alumni panels are convened. Topics discussed are industrialcareers, academic careers and entrepreneurship as well as life at Georgia Tech. In additionto the FOCUS alumni, all of the African American Georgia Tech graduate alumni areinvited to attend the weekend's events. Alumni events include: • Enjoying the President's dinner along with the FOCUS Scholars, Fellows andFriends and current Georgia Tech faculty, staff and students. • Attending a State-of-the Institute with the

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Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Teresa Cutright; Helen Qammar

to enter college I entered college after age 20 Both parents attended college At least one parent graduated from college Both parents graduated from college One parent earned an engineering degree At least one relative earned an engineering degree9. Please check one box that most accurately describes the person who influenced you in selecting engineering asyour major: It was my own choice A member of my immediate family A friend from the community or school School guidance counselor Chemistry teacher Math teacher Physics teacher Previous work experience Other

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Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Claire Lynne McCullough

, Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationprogram serves has an average per capita income of only $11,634, and over 91% of adults haveless than a high school education. These statistics, combined with a per student expenditureamong the lowest in the nation, make programs like PRISM vital to breaking the cycle ofpoverty in this area. The program includes an academic year component of weekly classes,including areas such as SAT/ACT preparation and career exploration, in addition to academictopics like computer science and English Composition; cultural enrichment to broaden thehorizons of the students; a mentoring component; and mandatory tutoring for participants whomake grades of C or below in their academic subjects. A six-week

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Candice Stefanou; Karen Marosi; Margot Vigeant

a number of years, Bucknell Engineering participated in the General Electric Faculty for theFuture (GE-FFF) program in which female students along with other under-represented groups inengineering were encouraged to pursue graduate studies and academia via a summer-longresearch and mentoring partnership with an engineering faculty member. In this paper, weexamine the success of the GE-FFF program at Bucknell. We also analyze the results of a surveydesigned to reveal what programs might be needed in addition to summer research in order toencourage more female students to careers in academia, and finally we discuss the programsBucknell is developing based on these findings.Data collection and analysisData for this study was obtained by

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Musiak

conducted by theschool of engineering and the Office of Freshmen and Transfer Students as well as observations by the faculty whoteach the first-year engineering students the following information has been collected on our learning environment. a. Housing students who have similar career goals and study demands in the same proximity was preferable (by the students) to mixing students with a diverse set of interests and levels of commitment. b. Although not the sole reason for student persistence and academic achievement, peer mentoring and tutoring works based on the results of an annual assessment of the campus-wide process by the Office of Freshmen and

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sandra Courter; Rebecca Cors; Pat Eagan

Integration of Research,Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are building alearning community of faculty, staff, and students who can respond to this kind of need.Because links with similar projects in the Netherlands and New Zealand were germane to theinvestigation, project results can inform similar efforts in other countries to augment engineeringcurricula.IntroductionIn an effort to cultivate an organizational culture that supports performance improvement andinnovative stakeholder collaboration, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR)and other natural resources agencies worldwide are exploring organizational change approaches.The University of Wisconsin, Engineering Professional Development (EPD

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Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abi Aghayere

management skills, communication skills, and design and constructionskills.The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Institute for SteelConstruction (AISC) sponsors regional and national concrete canoe and steel bridgecompetitions on an annual basis. The Civil Engineering Technology (CET) students at theRochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have participated in these competitions for the past nineyears. These competitions give students a chance to apply what they have learned in theclassroom.To assess the impact of the concrete canoe and steel bridge competitions on student learning anddevelopment, the authors carried out a survey of current students and graduates of the CETprogram at RIT who have been members of the concrete

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Schemmel

Session 2530 Development of Engineering Focused Lesson Plans for K8 Teachers and Students John J. Schemmel University of Arkansas, College of EngineeringIntroductionWhile the entire population continually benefits from the work of engineering professionals,there are still relatively few graduating high school seniors electing to pursue a bachelor's degreein engineering. The fact that an engineering degree is not widely considered by enteringfreshmen is not a new development. However, it is becoming a more serious problem as thenumber of

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stuart Walesh

teaching andlearning of most outcomes. Furthermore, based on its breadth and depth of knowledge, skills, andattitudes, that BSCE could provide an attractive and appropriate liberal education for the 21stCentury. On earning the broader BSCE, a graduate would have many varied attractive options.Examples are: • Working in the civil engineering public or private sector in a support role not requiring a license. • Gaining experience creditable toward licensure with the intent of eventually earning a practice-oriented masters degree or “30” as a full or part-time student and doing so in a traditional manner, via distance learning or in some combination of the two

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Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sageev Pneena; Kathy Bernard; Carol Romanowski

,technical communication specialists, industry advisors, university administrators, alumni, andother stakeholders, this robust model can consistently produce engineering graduates who haverelevant, defined TC competencies. Further, the model does not stress an already overcrowdedengineering curriculum. In fact, engineering professors who have integrated the model elementsinto engineering classes report a variety of benefits that include better organized lab reports,improved engineering solutions to case study problems, and more time to help students masterengineering theory and practice.*ABET: Accreditation Board for Engineering and TechnologyThis article will cover the following six sections: 1. A Message from Recent Engineering Graduates in the

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Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

. This program has languageproficiency and summer internship requirements, and study abroad opportunities.As background, Lehigh is a Carnegie Research II institution with approximately 4500undergraduates, 1900 graduate students and 400 full-time faculty. Ranked among the top 40national research institutions by US News, Lehigh is also rated in the “Most Competitive”category by both Barron’s and Peterson’s college guides. The first IBE class entering in 2000had 33 students selected from over 600 applicants with a combined average SAT of over 1400.The second class in 2001 had 55 students with an average SAT of 1450. The third class in 2002has 43 students, with a similar academic profile. Now approaching steady state, the program isexpected to

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Connie Della-Piana

for all STEMstudents, a center for teaching and learning (faculty and student assistant professionaldevelopment), an academic support center for STEM students, research and peer teachingexperiences for STEM undergraduates, and support for evaluation and assessment of MIEproject activities.In this paper we describe the design of the model for entering students and the findings of thefive-year longitudinal evaluation study of student retention in STEM and at the university.Student and institutional outcomes are linked to project activities through the use of an input-activities-output-outcomes program logic map of the entering students program. First, webriefly describe the entering students program. Secondly, we describe how the program logic

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What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Silliman Stephen; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

offers this course within an overall academic structure at Notre Dame that imposes anumber of constraints. Notre Dame engages in an "intent-blind" admissions process. Whilestudents might indicate a proposed major on their applications, the Admissions Office bases itsdecisions on student credentials, with no consideration of any proposed major. Further, theCollege of Engineering has no control over whether individual students may enroll in the collegebeginning in their sophomore year. First-year students begin their academic careers within andreceive all first-year academic advising through the First Year of Studies, an academic unitdesigned to assist students in the transition from high school to college. All first-year studentsmust complete

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

to use the program SolidWorks to create solid models ofsimple machines. They will translate their designs into kinematic models using a fuseddeposition of material rapid prototyping machine (Stratasys FDM1650) at the University, andalso build soap and wax models that emulate lithography and micromachining at the K-12school.The project also includes an assessment portion to assess its effect on the students. At thebeginning and end of the program, the students will fill out a questionnaire based on the Test ofScience Related Attitudes (TOSRA). The test is designed to assess changes in student’s attitudetoward scientific inquiry. An additional method of assessment, the review of students'comments in their personal portfolios, should indicate

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

the integrated projects. Obtaining an internship tocomplete the program is comparative to a job search – st udents compose resumes and undergointensive interviewing – and some internships result in job offers for the participants upongraduation. An ILTM participant from the class of 2004 said “the on campus portion of ILTMexposed me to many aspects of the business world that I was not aware of. It also gave me manywonderful experiences to talk about in my job interviews. I don't think that I would have gottenthe job I have now without the ILTM background.”The internships provide valuable work experience and often have an impact on the career pathchosen by students. A member of Bucknell’s class of 2003 who completed an ILTM-approvedinternship

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Emily Mowry

project,each group will turn in a written Institutional Review Board (IRB) proposal and defend the studybefore a panel of students and/or faculty members. Groups will be evaluated on the authenticityand clarity of the IRB proposal and the presentation of a safe and effective clinical study.Conclusions Our hope in creating a bioethics course for the undergraduate BME curriculum is to helpstudents develop a clear definition of bioethics an understanding as to why a knowledge ofbioethics and the ability to make informed ethical decisions is crucial in biomedical engineeringtoday. Our primary goal is for students to learn to critically and subjectively identify and evaluatedifferent ethical situations in bioengineering, research, and medicine

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

to facilitateeducation reform and assist in the delivery of science education aligned with accepted standardsand benchmarks. The Fellows commit 15 hours each week to this project, so they play a key rolein the delivery of science education that is well outside what can be expected of faculty orcommunity volunteers. As an example, Oregon has mandated a CIM (Certificate of InitialMastery) and CAM (Certificate of Advanced Mastery) system which will become a necessarycomponent for high school graduation in the near future. There are various requirements for eachCAM, but the main component is a “professional work experience” for each student. A GK-12Fellow has worked with North Eugene High School to develop the CAM Engineering program,by helping

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Waddah Akili

engineeringgraduates (nationals & expats) is very clear: good communication skills, grasp of fundamentals, agood understanding of design and manufacturing, desire to learn, and ability to work as a memberof a team. According to our industrial partners, the major responsibility of creating an educationalenvironment, which produces graduates with these attributes, is that of the college of engineering.Engineering faculty are poised to take an active role in meeting the challenge head on. The natureof such an exercise requires synergies between faculty members within the college, members fromdifferent colleges, and between students and faculty members. Since students are the primarybeneficiaries of reform, their input is vital to the success of the

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International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tim Mizen; Robert Baldwin; Ronald Miller

degree program.Mission Statement and Graduate ProfileAs the Petroleum Institute takes its place in international academic and engineering circles, it isenvisaged that it will become known in the following way: The Petroleum Institute is committed to the education of students, and their development as a whole-person, in those fields of engineering and applied science that support and advance the petroleum industry in the United Arab Emirates and surrounding regions. Focal areas extend from on- and off-shore exploration and field development to oil, gas and petrochemical production and processing, and are coupled to appropriate health, safety and environmental management systems. Accordingly, the Institute offers specialized

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Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Meade

Session 3515 Experience-Based Instruction in Engineering Education Ronald B. Meade, PhD, PE, Associate Professor Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USAF AcademyStudents mature during their engineering education moving from being a student of science andtechnology to becoming an apprentice engineer. This process will occur regardless of thepractical experience held by the engineering faculty. However, maturation may be deepened bythe apt use of experienced-based instruction (EBI). This paper examines the usefulness ofengineering experience as a teaching tool.Assessment of student readiness

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tricia Berry

Texas at Austin’s WE@UT program isa two-day residential program designed to increase participant knowledge and understanding ofengineering and technology through faculty presentations, student mentorship, and hands-on,technology-based team projects so well informed and solid educational and career decisions aremade. Rising high school senior women who have indicated an interest in engineering or thesciences and who are invited to The University’s Honors Colloquium, an on-campus honorstudent recruitment program, are invited to participate in WE@UT prior to the start of theHonors Colloquium. By limiting participation to this invited group of students, WEP is able to

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yell Inverso; Rachelle Heller; Dave Snyder; Charlene Sorenson; Catherine Mavriplis

primarygoal of this project. Finally, the topic of the Moon and space exploration is fascinating,exciting and current, as live data from the Lunar Prospector mission is available to thestudents through Moonlink (www.moonlink.com).Use an interdisciplinary team of faculty who are concerned about women andunder-represented minorities: the current team consists of four faculty members indifferent science and engineering departments and different universities. As such we havechemistry, physics, computer science and mechanical and aerospace engineeringrepresented. This allows for a broad pool of expertise in equally important areas thatoften interplay. Our resource pool is even larger through our respective contacts andresearch areas. Information from all

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wagdy Mahmoud; Tom Timmermann; Bonita Barger; Ahmed Elsawy

resolutions, and discuss the coursemanagement using WebCT®.Course DescriptionThe Industrial Projects course represents the practical execution of the technological skills andknowledge the students have gained from all sources throughout their personal experience,college and professional careers. It is the capstone experience that requires both teamwork andindividual skills in solving an industrial problem. The students are taking the course during theirsenior year and only when they are prepared for it. Upon completion of this course, the studentwill be able to: 1) apply the principles and skills in solving a real-life industrial problem, 2)analyze an industrial problem by breaking it into component parts, each of which can be studiedseparately as

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Howell; Pat Shamamy; Feierfeil Greg; Chris Reidel; Tarek Rizk; Lisa Anneberg

integration of “business skills” throughout thecurriculum in the form of “just in time one unit modules” combined with a capstone experienceparticipating in the operation of a student run enterprise. Therefore, a graduate of theEntrepreneurial Program will receive a B.Sc. in engineering degree with the same total numberof credits as a student in the traditional path to a B.Sc. degree. The Entrepreneurial Programincludes an extensive multi-disciplinary design experience. Thus, the College of Engineering hasestablished a number of engineering/business entities, called Student Engineering Enterprises,where students form a “company” and work with other students, faculty, and industry partners tomanage a real company. The employees (students) solve real

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

Education ’98 Conference Proceedings, November 1998, Tempe, Arizona, pp. 500-504. 31. Anderson-Rowland, Mary R., “Service Learning With Student Organizations,” Frontiers in Education ’95 Conference Proceedings, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1995, pp. 4b3.8-4b3.10.BiographyMARY R. ANDERSON-ROWLANDMary R. Anderson-Rowland is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the CEAS at ASU. The Society of WomenEngineers named her the Distinguished Engineering Educator for 2002. She has received diversity support awardsincluding the YWCA Tribute to Women 2001 Award (Scientist/Researcher) and the University Achievement inGender Equity Progress Award, Faculty Women’s Association, 1995. An ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speakeron the career

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

Enterprise Program at MTU was a direct result of industrial assessment ofengineering degree programs across the nation. Survey after survey of university, college anddepartmental industrial advisory boards identified the same shortfalls in today's engineering edu-cation [1-3]. Technical competence is seldom an issue with industry and it is typically considereda 'given' for ABET accredited engineering programs. However, several other personal andprofessional attributes are consistently identified as critical to the success of an engineer, butgenerally lacking in new engineering graduates. These attributes include • strong skills in communication and persuasion • ability to lead and work effectively as a member of a team