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) had also been following thedevelopment of the discipline closely, noting in May of 1985 that it was more correctlycharacterised as a specialist activity within the computer field than as a new engineeringdiscipline. Only eleven years later, in 1996, the University of Melbourne received IEAustaccreditation for its baccalaureate of Engineering in Software Engineering (the first in Australiato do so). By 1999 eleven of the 37 universities in Australia offering undergraduate computingdegrees were offering software engineering degrees under the auspices of IEAust.A further fifteen or so accredited professional engineering degree programs have sufficientsoftware content and coverage of computing topics to prepare graduates for careers in

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be exposed to a wide range of 3D computer graphics areas at the Page 6.296.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationfreshman level, so students will be able to make informed decisions about future careers. With thisin mind, one of the introductory courses was revised to include the following: 3D modeling,visualization, 3D coordinate systems, geometric entities, isometric sketching, solid modeling,surface modeling, multiview sketching, the design process, sections, creativity, and lettering 7

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sizable period between one’s undergraduate career and starting as anassistant professor. Cooperative group work in graduate courses will improve theeducation of graduate students and serve as a model the students can draw on after theygraduate and start teaching. And for students who do not experience these teachingmethods as undergraduates, their only chance to use coop group instruction methods willbe in graduate school. When asked if they had done group work in graduate courses, afew students raised their hands, but the majority did not. Page 6.304.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for engineering Education Annual Conference &

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, political, communication, ethical and economicconstraints that have an impact on whether a particular technical solution is implemented. Theauthors advocate introducing students early in their academic careers to the broad relevance andsocial impact of engineering. We suggest that such an opportunity would make for higherretention of women and minorities and would attract more non-traditional students to the field.References1. Women, Minorities, and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2000, National ScienceFoundation, September 2000.2. Land of Plenty, Diversity as America’s Competitive Edge in Science, Engineering and Technology, Report of theCongressional Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science

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Department P&T Committee as a significantcomponent of the third-year review of Assistant Professors. This provides the opportunity toaddress and improve teaching effectiveness early in an Assistant Professor’s career or to correctproblems if they exist. For decisions regarding tenure and promotion to Associate Professor orProfessor, the teaching portfolio will be sent to four outside reviewers from the same listdeveloped to evaluate research accomplishments. These external reviewers are to havesignificant teaching experience and may be the same persons who review a candidate’s researchaccomplishments. Reviewers will be asked to use the portfolios to evaluate the contributions ofthe candidates to the teaching mission of the university. They will

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Page 6.348.14Telecommunication Technology professor at Hudson Valley Community College inTroy, New York. He received his Ph. D. in 2000 from Rensselaer Polytechnic InstitueProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering 14 Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationin Troy, New york. Abraham main interests are in Petri Nets, Computer Simulations,and Computer Programming. In addition to is teaching career, Abraham is a consultantto the Internet Company Globalspec.com in Troy, New York. Page

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defined as engineering practice that provides solutions totoday’s problems so that future generations will have at least the same opportunities to liveand prosper that the present generation enjoys. By going through a four-year college-widesustainable/green engineering program, students would increase their understanding of 1)environmental issues and the global impact of engineering solutions; 2) the legalframework that guides engineering solutions and protects the environment and resources;and 3) the need for efficient and effective resource conservation and energy utilization. Inthe end, all engineering graduates will be introduced to the concept of sustainableengineering and practice those principles during their engineering careers. This

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the survey, it was decided to consider where the majorityof WMU’s Industrial Engineering (IE) students work after graduation, including type of industryand location. From a past survey completed by the College of Engineering and AppliedScience11, it was concluded that 64.9% of the graduating students with bachelors in engineeringaccepted starting positions in Michigan and a total of 73.3% started their careers in the Midwest.Based on these results, 60% of the questionnaires were sent to industries in Michigan, Illinois,Indiana, and Ohio. In the survey, statistics were also compiled on the type of employmentstudents initially accept. Out of 154 bachelor students surveyed 88.3% were employed bybusiness and industry. The remaining students had

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military engineers for Corpsde Ponts et Chaussées established in 1716. Although that education was a somewhat flexiblecompilation of independent studies, it is widely considered to be the first organized education thatdiffered from the centuries old education model of one master and few apprentices. In 1794L'Ecole Polytechnique was established to prepare engineering officers for French army andengineers for state service. It is considered to be the first engineering institution with a structuredprocess of knowledge transfer exposing students to various disciplines and points of view. Thefounders of that institution recognized that with the ever growing body of knowledge needed for asuccessful engineering career, the then present educational

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skill development, students will be muchmore effective in their future careers. Preliminary work to improve the curriculum hassought to provide students with a fundamental education as well as with training in areasnot traditionally taught in lecture classes. Most undergraduate classes do not includelaboratory experiments. Due to inadequate instructional equipment, most efforts toimprove the undergraduate educational experience have been limited to field trips,writing projects, presentations, and project simulations.The state-of-the-art laboratory course serves as a model for meeting the challenges oflinking teaching with engineering practice. Environmental scientists and engineers mustunderstand the basic concepts of many subjects: fluid

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undergraduate thermal power courses shouldcontinue to focus exclusively on “traditional” thermodynamic topics. At first glance, it seemsreasonable to emphasize topics that students will typically encounter during their early careers. wind coal 0.5% 23% solar 1% nuclear electric

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the TED grant (described in Section V), provided funds for programexpansion.For purposes of the Entrepreneurial Internship program, an entrepreneurial company isdefined as one with sales of less than $25M/yr and fewer than 200 employees. For suchcompanies accepting RHIT students as summer interns, Rose-Hulman pays 1/3 of thestudents’ wages which are required to be competitive (a minimum of $15/hr in summer2000).Students are selected by the Director of Career Services based upon results of an in-depthinterview and a creative essay written by the applicant. Selected students are required to(1) read Innovation and Entrepreneurship2 by Peter Drucker and write a three-page papersummarizing the salient points; (2) Enroll in VA453, The Entrepreneur

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areimportant to the careers of the practicing engineers. (add industry-centered approach) Results ofthe evaluation will be available during the spring of 2001 and presented subsequently.Course Module ScopeCourse modules developed within the pedagogical arena described above are generally subsets ofcomplete college courses in engineering design and various disciplinary areas normallyencountered in engineering design. As an example, one might consider breaking a 3 credit-hourfinite element analysis course into 4 course modules that combine to form the total course. Themotivation for a modular structure resides in the fact that students who enroll in off-campuscourses cannot always schedule sufficient contiguous uninterrupted time to allow completion of

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can, however, enhance thegeneral education received by these students. As an example, faculty can define capstoneengineering design problems in a broad context which not only requires students to "design asystem component, or process to meet desired needs" but also to realize the "broaderimplications" of their designs in a "global and societal context". Faculty can (and perhapsshould) teach engineering economics in the context of the engineering enterprise that manystudents will later experience in their professional career. Even during the freshman year,students can study the engineering design process in the context of the EngineeringEnterprise that helps them understand professional and ethical responsibility and the need tocommunicate

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forteamwork in course projects and leadership in student organizations and to build esprit de corpsin the department. For IME 490, Engineering Leadership, the program was designed to providestudents with opportunities to develop and practice leadership skills. It was conducted oncampus and utilized leadership reaction course activities and a rappelling tower. The underlyinggoals for this program were to better prepare students for engineering careers and/or graduatestudy. Page 6.438.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for

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the estimate. This project included significant cultural changes needed to implement switch to the using the new technique.4. Project: Developing an Engineer for Product Development Self-Reported Savings: $1,000,000 This paper accelerated the development of knowledge and capabilities of product engineers by improving their access to product development knowledge in a more effective fashion. As a result, younger engineers could tackle more complex designs earlier in their career effectively accelerating the creation of engineering expertise. This allowed faster and better designs, fewer delays, less redesign, and earlier deliver of new products.5. Project: Reductions in Receiving Inspection Testing Based on Closed Loop Testing

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4.00 4.20 skill Page 6.451.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. R.B. Landis, Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career, Discovery Press, 1995, pp.11-12.2. Adapted from a University of Florida survey conducted by T. Davis: www.cise.uf.edu/~davis/Renewal.KAREN C. DAVISKaren C. Davis is an Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer

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teachingsimulations and modeling, it is underutilized as a Live-on-line Resource. We think that once thecapability of using of live data is understood and utilized through the kinds of technology aselaborated above, further uses will only be limited by the creativity of the students and faculty.Bibliography1 The Business Roundtable Construction Cost Effectiveness Task Force, Confronting the Skilled Construction WorkForce Shortage- A blueprint for the Future, October, 1997.,2 Indiana Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, Indiana Department of Workforce Development,Indiana Career Cluster Guide, 2nd Edition, 199-2053 Sener, E. & Ward, R., “ Addressing the Workforce Shortage in the Construction Industry: A Vision” Proceedings onCD-Rom, ASEE

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DiagramProceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIV. Course Evaluation and ConclusionThis course provided students with an opportunity to acquire new knowledge that mighthelp their careers and prepare students for jobs in these challenging areas or in the areasof Internet, WWW, computers networking, Web programming, or electronics formeasurement and control. This lab designed for asynchronous learning mode enhancesIPFW’s ability to serve nontraditional students and distance learners. It also reachedstudents in other areas of the state. The students enrolled in this course for the Fall of2000 semester were: • 10 students

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to do, whether it is an individual assignment or a team project. • Including an evaluation section is necessary in order to know how the students’ work was to be evaluated. • A clear task is necessary. Some of the quests lacked a clear task; the students need to know what they will do with their information. • Including references to future careers in the field would be helpful to the students. • Extensions to some WebQuests would be useful; for example, it "could challenge students to investigate examples of chemical pollution in their own area." • Do not restrict the students to on-line resources, and the WebQuests need to indicate that, since "if you don’t tell kids they can use something

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WERC design contest is an excellent opportunity to expose students to the difficulties indeveloping solutions to complex environmental problems. Though presented as a competition,the educational value of the contest is enormous. In fact, the educational benefits of the contestshould be emphasized. These benefits to the students include problem selection decision; anappreciation of open-ended problems; development and participation in diverse, multi-disciplinary teams; and the value of time, people, and project management skills in a successfulprofessional career. These skills are not often taught in traditional engineering courses orlaboratories making participation in the WERC design contest a more valuable

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.” Page 6.478.8Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education• “Having someone finally explain a proven way to organize a class and engage students is the single most significant event in improving my professional career (10 years). I am only sorry I did not find the information sooner.”A post workshop assessment will be conducted in the spring of 2001 to determine howeffectively participants were able to implement new teaching concepts into their courses at theirhome institution. As part of that assessment the participants will be asked to fill out the samepre-workshop questionnaire they completed

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andmicrowave engineering, eventually making this their professional area of interest. The experimentis a stepping stone in preparing them for further work in microwave circuit design. Many do nothave this as their goal, but are more able to communicate with the microwave circuit designengineers they will interface within their careers. Students in both categories felt the highfrequency amplifier experiment was a valuable experience.References1. “S_Parameter Design,” Hewlett Packard Application Note 154, May 1973. This is one of the original and classicreferences for high frequency circuit design using s parameters.2. Gonzalez, Guillermo, Microwave Transistor Amplifiers: Analysis and Design, 2nd Ed. Prentice-Hall Inc., 1997.EARL F. OWENEarl Owen has

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Rachel Shinn; Ron Madler

Page 6.519.5 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationDr. Rachel Shinn is currently an assistant professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle AeronauticalUniversity in Prescott, AZ. She received her PhD in Applied Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology inPasadena, California. Before beginning her teaching career, she spent five years in the space industry, at HughesAircraft Co., working as a spacecraft systems engineer, with a specialty in spacecraft attitude dynamics.DR. RONALD A. MADLERDr. Ronald Madler is an associate professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle

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in engineering or a non-technical career, multidisciplinary describestoday’s workplace. For engineers this may mean working on a team of other engineers withdifferent specialties. Often times, however, it involves working with, or relating technicalinformation to, people with little or no technical background. For example, an engineer may beasked to give a presentation at a public meeting or may work with the business departmentregarding the economics of a particular project. As a result, engineering curriculums across thecountry are striving to prepare their graduates to better meet these challenges. But is it enough towork within the engineering community? As evidenced by this session whose objective is toreach out to non-engineering/non

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been accomplished in the field of computational fluid dynamics,in particular.II. Need for Minority Scientists in Computational Science “There is an urgent need to prepare an increasingly diverse population from a multi-cultural world for academic, government, and industry careers in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET). According to the US 1990 census, the total US population was 248,709,873 in 1990. Of these, approximately 51% were women, 29,986,060 (or 12%) were African American, 22,354,059 (or 9%) Hispanic, and 1,878,285 (or 1 %) Native American. As of 1995, of the total US civilian labor force (132 million), only 627,000 had Ph.D. degrees in SMET and only 341,000 of these were employed

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. Preparation for the future changes in electrical engineering 3. A solid understanding of the basic principles of electrical engineering 4. An understanding of appropriate mathematical concepts, and an ability to apply them to EE 5. An understanding of the engineering design process, and ability to perform engineering design, including the needed teamwork and communications skills. 6. Demonstration of in-depth understanding of at least one specialty within EE 7. Demonstration of oral and written communications skills 8. Understanding of options for careers and further education, and the necessary educational preparation to pursue those options 9. An ability to learn independently

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become extremely common in practice andcontinue to become more prevalent1. Today, electric machines are frequently only onecomponent in an EMEC system (frequently referred to as a “drive”). Clearly, the “traditional”education in EMEC, which considers electric machines in isolation and barely mentions powerelectronics, no longer adequately prepares undergraduate students for a career in powerengineering.The effective integration of power electronics, electric drives, and system issues into the EMECcurriculum demands a significant redesign of both the course and laboratory exercises. Such aredesign has been undertaken at South Dakota State University (SDSU) and supported by a grantfrom NSF under the A&I track of CCLI2, which began in January

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gathering, scientific interpretationand experimentation early in their careers. The experiments are written in Java and are fullyinteractive. The student needs to access them using Web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0or later operating within a 32-bit operating system.The cost of creating and maintaining these labs is less and students in certain cases like themmore than the real labs. The virtual lab despite being a valuable learning tool has limitation inrealizing a physical experiment. It is difficult to simulate features like repeatability, randomerror, equipment accuracy, analog to digital conversion, probe placement error and otherphysical phenomena which makes the experiment inherently “hands-on” 23. Through the use ofInternet, it is

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2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationOn the positive side, all the faculty members were pleasantly surprised at the students’ responsesand insights. While we allowed for a certain amount of end of term euphoria, our informalconversations corroborate the survey results—students enjoyed watching professors worktogether, and felt that their time spent in an “English” class was more clearly connected withtheir ultimate career goals.These combined classes are a significant step forward in meeting our objectives: helpingengineering students become flexible critical thinkers and effective communicators and writers.AcknowledgementThis work was