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Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenming Zhang

students so they canhave successful careers in bioprocess related industries, such as food, biochemical, andbiopharmaceutical. Unit Operations in Biological Systems Engineering (BSE 3524),hereafter referred to as “Unit Ops”, is offered to the students in the second semester oftheir junior year, and it consists of two 50-minute lectures and one 165-minute laboratorysession per week. This course is the first technical elective course for students electingthe Bioprocess Engineering option. Before taking this course, the students will havetaken the following courses: calculus, physics, freshman chemistry, mathematics,Biological Systems Engineering Laboratories (sophomore); Thermodynamics ofBiological Systems (first semester in junior year); and

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Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ali Kashef; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

, it is criticalto get familiar with what the department expects at the beginning of their career. Nevertheless,the current system does not help to build upon the unique strength of individual faculty,contribute to department cohesiveness, or to fit current needs as evaluation strategy.The main elements for the evaluation process can be research, teaching, and service. In researchinstitutions, the emphasis is placed more on research than teaching. However, it is very importantto do a good job in teaching even in primarily research-focused institutions. An employee needsto find out what the chair expects from the faculty in these three areas. For research, areas ofnational presentations, proceedings, refereed and non-refereed journal articles

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

today’s technology, utilizing and integratingcomputers within the control loop is essential. An innovative feedback control laboratory has been developed in the department ofengineering technology at University of Central Florida to fill this need. The laboratory isequipped with some of the most frequently used control systems in engineering and industry. It isdesigned to bridge the gap between theory and real-life problems, and to give the studentsvaluable hands-on experience to help them better prepared for their careers. A number ofpractical feedback control system experiments are being developed that will allow students anopportunity to develop appropriate transfer functions and control programs for closed-loopsystem with a computer in

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Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

industry in the SiliconValley in California. Professor Agrawal is the Founder Advisor to Agni Networks Inc., San Jose, California. Hisexpertise includes optical networking at Physical and Data link layers, optical and WDM interface, SONET andGigabit Ethernet and analog electronic systems. He is the author of a Textbook in Power Electronics, published byPrentice-Hall. His professional career is equally divided in academia and industry. He has authored several researchpapers in IEEE journals and conferences.ESSAID BOUKTACHE is a member of the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Technology Department at PurdueUniversity Calumet. Dr. Bouktache received his MS and Ph. D in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio StateUniversity in 1980 and 1985

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Eschenbach

large pieceof equipment seemed to make the first year female engineering students comfortable as well.K-12 Outreach ActivitiesAs part of the grant requirement, HSU SWE madeeight outreach visits with the flume during the 2000-2001 academic year. The SWE President VicePresident insured the success of this portion of theproject. Over the course of the year, the flume wastaken to the local indoor shopping mall; two middleschools; one high school; the elementary school forthe Hoopa Native American reservation; the highschool and community college career fair; a workshopfor junior high school girls; a SWE organized icecream social for science fair attendees and lastly, theflume was presented to the Redwood DiscoveryMuseum. Over 750 children

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vedaraman Sriraman; Dugan Um

. Page 9.1166.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationReference[1] Benjamin C. Kuo, Farid Golnaraghi, "Automatic Control Systems",John Wiley & Sons; 8th edition Sep. 2002[2] Katsuhiko Ogata, "Modern Control Engineering (4th Edition)", Prentice Hall; 4th edition, Nov. 2001[3] http://www.coe.neu.edu/set/listserv.htmlDugan UmDugan Um achieved his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering in the University of Wisconsin atMadison. After his dissertation, he joined Caterpillar Inc as a research engineer. After about 4years of industrial experience he started teaching career in the Texas State University at

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ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lorraine Stanton; David Murphy

Society for Engineering Educationoffer a degree in Fire Safety Engineering Technology. Of these, only a few institutions offer firesafety engineering classes via the web. A 2000 survey of metropolitan fire departments by Sturtevant indicates thatapproximately three-quarters of fire service professionals currently possess some type of 2-yeardegree, and that less than 25% of the same group has a four-year degree1. However, many ofthese professionals feel the pressure to obtain a four-year degree in order to increase theiropportunities for career advancement. For instance, Deputy Chief Hannan of the Charlotte FireDepartment has stipulated that a four year degree is mandatory beginning 2005 for advancementto a chief officer2.Distance Education

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Gu

which students will have high motivation. They are described as follows2: 1. Enthusiasm: Teachers in these classes have high energy levels, and their interest in and enjoyment of the subject matter are obvious. As the students often put it “how can teachers expect us to be interested in a topic if they don’t seem interested in it” 2. Relevance: The students see course material as relevant, applicable, and important. They can relate it to their experiences and career goals. Teachers often make this relevance explicit to students through explanation and examples. 3. Organization: Teachers of these classes do not “wing it”. Their classes are organized, and their

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Douglas Christensen

students each assemble an electrical circuit analog of the same system. With the models,they make measurements of pressure and flow for both healthy cardiovascular parameters andfor several common diseases.Introduction – We developed our two freshman biomedical engineering courses around three goals: 1) tointroduce beginning students to our Department and the field in general; 2) to teach basicconcepts and principles that underlie several specialties in biomedical engineering; and 3) tochallenge the students with real-world problems, giving them a chance to assess their interest andskill level early in their academic careers. The purpose of this paper is to describe how weaddressed these goals in the first-semester's class by incorporating

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Heaslip

focused.Program Participants (Students)ADMI program participants represent a wide range of industry sectors and large corporationsthrough to smaller companies. They typically carry position titles such as "Project Engineer","Design Engineer", "Maintenance Engineer", "Development Engineer" and various"Manager" titles. As well, a small portion of program participants hold senior positions (VicePresident, President, etc.) in their companies or run smaller entrepreneurial businesses.Most students indicate that they are involved in the program to develop enhanced skills tofurther their career opportunities as well as to pursue academic and professional interests andto develop enhanced professional and industry engineering credentials.Most participants receive

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Hallacher

and technical colleges.Complementing these programs, 2+2+2 nanofabrication education pathways have beenestablished linking 41 secondary-level Career and Technical Institutes to communitycollege associate degree programs and baccalaureate programs. To promote the 2+2+2pathways, the NMT Partnership offers enormously popular summer Nanotech Camps formiddle and high school students (grades seven and above) at the Penn StateNanofabrication Facility. To date, 479 students have attended Nanotech Camps. Inaddition, intensive, three-day professional development workshops for educators andindustry personnel have been offered continuously at the Penn State NanofabricationFacility since 1999. To date 270 Pennsylvania educators and 275 industry

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Keshav Varde

Rates,” NACME Research Letter, Vo. 2 (2), 1991. 6. Snyder, N., and Bowman, B., “Improving the Pre-Engineering Education of Low-Income Minority Youth: Lessons from a Demonstration Project,” ASME Tech. Soc. Publ., Vol. 2, 1-6, 1989. 7. Baker, G., “Pre-College Preparation of Minority Students for Careers in Engineering,” Trans. of the American Nuclear Soc., Vol. 46, 35-36, 1984. 8. Das, M., “Novel Summer Camp for the Underrepresented Minority High School Students,” Proc. ASEE Annual Conf., Washington, D.C., 1997. 9. Engineering Institutions Ranked by Minority Retention Rates and Relative Retention Index, NACME Research Letter, Vol. 4, 1997. 10.Bibliographical InformationKeshav S. Varde is a Professor of

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Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hazem Said

” Page 9.1252.3For the seminars, students and faculty found a forum outside the classroom to interact andcommunicate. The guest speakers for the seminar helped the students to better plan for Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationtheir career. There is no doubt that the project did have considerable impact on thestudents who participated in it. Some students wrote in their evaluation “We as IT students need more seminars relating to the business end. Diversity is an excellent investment” “The seminar makes you think what you should do in the future”It should be noted here that

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Arthur Brodersen; Cordelia Brown

model. The study alsocaptures the instructors’ and teaching assistants’ responses to the effectiveness of both modes ofinstruction. This study provides strategies on how to maintain effective instruction whileapplying the learning model beyond this research study. Methods to apply sustainableinstruction while utilizing the learning models are explored on other courses. This paper willpresent the underlying details of the learning model, and an analysis on the study performedduring the 2003-2004 academic year.IntroductionFor many students, the Introduction to Digital Logic course serves as the first engineeringcourse. During this crucial time in an engineering student’s educational career, it is imperativeto provide an environment that is

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ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Seyed Zekavat

theinterdisciplinary coursework that is essential to preparing highly-qualified engineering graduateswho will be successful and productive in their future careers [3]. To this end, it is generallyrecognized in the academic environment that an introductory course in EE should be offered tothe non-electrical engineering (non-EE) students. As a result, almost all engineering institutionsoffer at least one “service course” for non-EE majors through the EE department. It is theresponsibility of the academic programs to ensure that these service courses remain relevant tothe real world of engineering that their graduates will encounter.Therefore, in this contemporary context, it is reasonable to ask the following questions

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Theodore W. Manikas; Gerald R. Kane

communicate their findings. The primary application is the development and defense of athesis; however, these skills will also be useful throughout the student’s graduate and post-graduate career. A common approach for developing research and communication skills is theassignment of research papers as part of graduate coursework. Typically, the assignment willrequire each student to select a topic that is related to the course material, and write a paperbased on specific format requirements. The instructor may offer additional information such as alist of suggested topics. However, it is the responsibility of the student to find the necessarybackground material and compile this information into an acceptable paper.An important part of formal reports

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Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jason Keith

Session 1475Teaching vs. Research: Perspectives from a 4th Year Assistant Professor Jason M. Keith Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931AbstractThis paper describes the experiences of a chemical engineering assistant professor overthe first four years of his academic career, particularly the balance of teaching, research,service, and outside life. The paper will describe the following topics: ‚" tips for success in the classroom, in the lab, and at home ‚" things that went wrong

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

2001-2003 2.00 1.50 1.00 a b c d e f g h i j k Outcomes Figure 3: Importance of program outcomes according to alumniimportance of the program outcomes to their employment (5 - extremely important to 1 - notimportant) as well as their level of preparation (5 - very well prepared to 1 – not prepared)during their college education with respect to the same outcomes. Figure 3 shows that alloutcomes are considered as important to very important for the careers of the alumni. It isworth noting that the areas related to

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Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Avitabile; Jeffrey Hodgkins

play a very critical role in validating analytical models and hypotheses. Studentsmust feel comfortable in a laboratory environment and must not feel foreign to lab equipment,instrumentation, etc. Students must also feel comfortable formulating solutions to realengineering problems using all of the STEM tools available to them. The STEM must become anintegral part of their learning process throughout their entire educational and professional careers– the students must, in essence, “live the material” every day and in every course.Real engineering problems are rarely solved by “looking up answers at the back of the book”.Yet many engineering courses are taught this way and students feel that they can push the “resetbutton” after each class

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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Arvid Andersen

completion. The group concluded with the following statement. The EPS, European Project Semester, is a great way to learn efficient team working skills and gain a large amount of practical experience. Too many students seem to go to school and obtain a degree without participating in any practical experience. The practical experience though, is most important, and that is why the EPS is such a good program to participate in. The semester has contained much project work, but also great amounts of cultural experiences and new friends. This is what makes EPS such a unique program; it provides students with practical experience in a setting less formal than an actual career setting would be. On the other hand, students are treated as

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Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

Engineering Education, written in 1968, contained a discussion of theimportance of lifelong learning.1 In 1978, the theme of the ASEE Annual Conference was“Career Management – Lifelong Learning.” Over the years there have been a number of studiesto investigate the types of activities involved in lifelong learning, their frequency of use, the typesof support systems required for lifelong learning, barriers to lifelong learning, and impact oflifelong learning for individual engineers. Many of these studies are summarized in a 1985report by an NRC panel.2Lifelong learning is an issue of importance for engineers around the world. UNESCO sponsored

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Stratton; Maureen Valentine; Carol Richardson

on theengineering team. IntroductionRochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private university in upstate New York that enrollsmore than 15,000 full and part-time undergraduate and graduate students preparing for technicaland professional careers in more than 200 different academic programs. RIT attracts studentsfrom every state and more than 80 foreign countries and offers students work experience throughthe university’s co-operative educational program. RIT, a pioneer in career-oriented educationand a leader in cooperative education since 1912, has one of the oldest and largest co-opprograms in the world, with more than 1,300 employers and 2,500 students participating. RIT’seight colleges

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rodger Dalton; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

Session 2004-761 TECHTRONICS: HANDS-ON EXPLORATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE Paul A. Klenk, Gary A. Ybarra, Rodger D. Dalton Duke University Pratt School of EngineeringAbstractTechtronics is an after school science enrichment program that encourages at-risk middle schoolstudents to pursue careers in engineering and technical fields. A joint venture between the PrattSchool of Engineering at Duke University and Rogers-Herr Middle School in Durham, NorthCarolina, Techtronics seeks to stimulate intellectual curiosity in engineering through exposure tofour engineering

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

throughout their professional engineering careers in industry (See appendix C).5. Drawing the Right ConclusionsA new paradigm has evolved for the modern practice of engineering that has outmoded the previousmodel of 1945. Because of the distinctive professional characteristics, types of knowledge, experience,methods, and skill-sets that differentiate the modern practice of engineering for excellence in technologydevelopment from that required for excellence in scientific research, it is now evident that thesedistinctive features prescribe different organizational cultures and types of advanced education at thegraduate level. The professional engineering thought process and supporting culture that is required toconceptualize and lead the continuous

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

from theoutset of their professional career while simultaneously having immediate value in helping themto manage a research project and capstone design project in their senior year. An integral part ofthis innovation was the development of a web-based project management tool. While the mainobjectives of the new course design were achieved, a number of important lessons were learnedthat would guide the further development and continuous improvement of this course. The mostcritical of these is the need to achieve the optimum balance in the mind of the students betweendoing the project and critically analyzing the processes used to accomplish the work.IntroductionIn most industries, engineering is increasingly managed through projects. As a new

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Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Doug Schmucker, Trine University

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationtechnical problems and team dysfunction. An alumna of the university summarized the teamproblems with: I thought that by doing well in my coursework at Vale, I was preparing myself for my career. However, it obviously wasn't enough. The whole project was a disaster; we were perpetually behind, constantly duplicating or overlooking important tasks, and even when we finished, none of us were satisfied with the design. A few of us slaved over this project, but it is obvious that the amount of "effort" did not ensure

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ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Janet L. Yowell; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan; Lawrence E. Carlson

possibilitiesprovided by engineering and technology careers. Toward that end, the ITL K-12 Engineeringinitiative continues to hone the teacher workshop model to prepare teachers to eagerly takeengineering back to their classrooms.AcknowledgementsThank you to the National Science Foundation’s GK-12 Program (grant #9979567), the U.S.Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (grant#P116B010922), the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, the Daniels Fund, the CUOutreach Committee and generous college alumni and donors for their generous support of theITL Program’s K-12 Engineering initiatives.Bibliography[1] Morrison, Kathryn L. and Carol Sue Marshall, “Universities and Public Schools: Are We Disconnected?” Phi Delta

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

delivery of writing instruction within the context of regularengineering coursework. By introducing the importance and relevance of technicalcommunication at the beginning of each student’s academic career, in a required engineeringcourse, we are able to overcome the skepticism many young engineers have about how muchwriting they will need to do. They don’t need to come to us, something they incorrectly assumeis unnecessary; we go to them.IntroductionThe most effective strategy for teaching technical writing is open to debate. The options can beboiled down to four lines of attack. 1. Technical Writing Course: Students can be required to take an introductory technicalwriting course, where they learn the fundamentals of the discipline by

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ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

instruction session.”18Patterns and preferencesCommonalities in the way engineers and business students interact with information are likely toapply to the entrepreneurship community. Both groups have strong preferences for resourcesavailable on the World Wide Web. Each group tries to strike a balance between speed or ease ofaccess and the quality of information that is likely to be gained. A resource that is “goodenough” is worth more to them than spending time to find an excellent resource. In both theiracademic and professional careers these students will need to gather and evaluate and analyzeinformation to support both collaborative and independent work

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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanagaratnam Baskaran; John Long

masters and doctoral programs. The general trend has beenfor longer periods of formal education prior to full-time employment in professional fields. Moreand more professionals are undertaking post-graduate courses to aid their career advancement. Page 9.546.1* In Australia, the standard bachelor’s degree program (a “pass” degree) in arts and sciences is three years of full-time study, with the option of continuing into a fourth, “honours” year. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering