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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn

Writing: A Case Study", Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol.24, No.1, Winter 1994, p.9. Andrew Goodwyn, English in the digital age: information and communications technology (ICT) and the teaching of English, London: Cassell, 2000 Page 9.554.5 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Ronald L.Miller and Barbara Olds, "A Model Curriculum for A Capstone Course in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design". Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.83

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

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Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

his B.S. in Physics from The College of William and Mary, his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University ofVirginia. Dr. McLeskey is certified by the State of Virginia to teach high school Physics and Chemistry.JOHN SPEICH is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. Heearned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University and his M.S. and Ph.D. inMechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.JUDY RICHARDSON is a Professor in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. She earnedher B.A. degree in English from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro

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Learning & Teaching Issues

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Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

Session 1331 The Engineering Problem-Solving Process: Good for Students? Durward K. Sobek II, Vikas K. Jain Montana State UniversityAbstractAs part of an ongoing effort to better understand student problem-solving processes to open-ended problems, we have coded 14 mechanical engineering projects (representing about 60journals) according to abstraction level, design activity, planning, and reporting. We alsodeveloped quantitative outcome measures that are reported in a separate submission to thisconference. We then developed a computer model of the journal data that correlates

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Assessment Issues II

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Kenneth Cox; Janice Bordeaux; David Caprette; Beth Beason; Ann Saterbak

technology.” National Research Council, Center for Science Mathematics, and EngineeringEducation, Convocation report, National Academy Press, Washington, D. C., 1996.[4] “Improving Engineering Design: Designing for Competitive Advantage.” National ResearchCouncil, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Academy Press,Washington, D. C., 1991.[5] Millis, B. J. and P. G. Cottell Jr. Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty.American Council on Education, Oryx Press, Arizona, 1998.[6] Hall, P. and L. Weaver. 2001. “Interdisciplinary Education and Teamwork: A long andwinding road.” Medical Education, 35(9):867-875. Page

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

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Sami Ainane; Joseph Hoffman; Gary Pertmer; Chandra Thamire

their major is performed by themechanical engineering faculty. For those who may not have declared their major, as oftenhappens in the first semester of the freshman year, advising is performed by the AdministrativeSpecialist at FSU.D. ResourcesD.1. Faculty and Professional StaffThe mechanical engineering program currently uses a faculty consisting of UM faculty, onejointly appointed FSU faculty member, and seven adjunct faculty for required course offerings.The projected FSU faculty necessary for the mechanical engineering program has been estimatedto be two, with one position filled by the program coordinator. This number, supplemented byinstruction from UM faculty through use of distance learning technology will be adequate tooffer the

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Lighting the Fire: REU

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Anant Kukreti

Session 3215 Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students in Structural Engineering Anant R. Kukreti University of Cincinnati1. Introduction This paper describes the experiences provided in a five-year Site for undergraduate researchin "Structural Engineering" with a special focus on techniques to study the "Development ofEnhanced Materials, Structural Components and Structural Assemblages Used for SeismicPerformance Evaluation Studies." The Site was offered at the School of Civil Engineering andEnvironmental Science

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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Thomas Johnson

Session 2550 A New Engineering Degree Program for Secondary School Teachers Thomas G. Johnson Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department California State University, Long BeachAbstract In April 2000, the International Technology Education Association and its Technology forAll Americans Project published Standards for Technological Literacy1. These standards havebecome a major focus in the revision of primary and secondary school curricula across thenation. A renewed emphasis is being placed on teachers to

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sadie Miller; Donna Riley

Session 3661 Global Development Engineering and its Discontents: An interdisciplinary project-based course Donna M. Riley and Sadie R. Miller Smith CollegeAbstractRecent discussion in engineering has focused on the importance of preparing students for aglobal future, but rarely do we examine the profession’s role in globalization with a critical eye.An interdisciplinary project-based course and upper-level engineering elective, open to studentsin a variety of disciplines, seeks to initiate critical study of the technological, cultural, and

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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Krishna Vedula

well as with the need for fosteringmore diversity of the student body in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering andMathematics) disciplines and in the S&E (Science and Engineering) workforce in the country.During recent years several programs have been initiated with focus on learning and teachingand on improving the quality of undergraduate engineering education. In all NSF programsemphasis is on better integration research and teaching, assessment of outcomes as well as thebroader impact of the outcomes. A particular focus of NSF is on recruiting and retaining youthfrom underrepresented groups into the STEM disciplines and on technological literacy ofeveryone.Several programs at NSF encourage partnerships between higher education, K

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Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elton Graves

The Impact of Calculus Reform as Seen by Engineering Seniors Elton Graves Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractDuring the academic years of 2001-2003 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology participated in aNSF sponsored project to determine The Impact of Calculus Reform on Long-term StudentPerformance. The project was broken down into three major components. The first componentwas to compare registrar data for students who had taken a traditional calculus curriculum withthose who had taken calculus in a “reformed” curriculum. The second component was aquestionnaire to discover the views of graduating seniors to the use of

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rajeswari Sundararajan; Bradley Rogers

course, and several students intend to concentrate their graduatework in the fuel cell area.IntroductionToday’s cutting edge technologies are tomorrow’s commercial technologies. Fuel cells have the potential to solvemany of the dilemmas created by the energy demands of our society. With clean, quiet and efficient outputs, thepotential importance of fuel cell technology cannot be overemphasized. However, the technology is yet to mature,there are many technical problems that need to be addressed. This has created a need for qualified scientists,engineers and technologists. An important goal of this course is to train engineering technology graduates, both atthe undergraduate and graduate levels, who can contribute in an immediate and meaningful

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Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wafeek Wahby

Session 2549 Industry and ET Education Collaborations From A Construction Engineering Perspective Wafeek Samuel Wahby, Ph.D., B.Th. Professor, Industrial Technology Program Coordinator Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IllinoisAbstractThe preparation of ET graduates who can make a smooth transition from their academic traininginto the work force with confidence and maximum productivity in areas of education, research,and business can be achieved through well defined, carefully designed, and appropriatelyimplemented academia

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Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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Mahbub Uddin

INTEGRATION OF “SIX SIGMA” INTO THE UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Mahbub Uddin, Department of Engineering Science, Trinity University And A. Raj Chowdhury, School of Technology, Kent State UniversityAbstractQuality Management using the “Six Sigma” approach is a fact based, decision making tool formany operations to improve quality, reliability and productivity in an organization. Six Sigmaensures that quality functions meet customers’ needs and that the chosen operation reduces wasteand defects, while improving product, processes and services and increasing customersatisfaction. Six Sigma

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Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daniel Frey; Marisa Wolsky

Session # 3425 A Television Program to Engage Children in Engineering Design Daniel D. Frey, Marisa Wolsky, Nathan Ball, Derik Thomann, MIT / WGBH / MIT / MITIntroductionThis paper describes a television program entitled LAZYBONES which is currently underdevelopment by WGBH, a leading producer of children’s (e.g. ZOOM) and scienceprogramming (e.g. NOVA). The purpose of the program is to allow children, especially 10- to14-year-olds, to become intellectually engaged in engineering design. By this means, it is hopedthe program will improve technology literacy and encourage more young people to pursueengineering as a profession. The concept of the

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ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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George Westrom

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringwell known that “doing science” results in basic understanding and long term retention, and yetthere has been a steady movement away from “hands-on” to lecture and ineffectivememorization.GoalsThere are four major goals for this model K-12 program. 1. To provide for these needs with a program that has the potential for being available in every public and private school in America. 2. To make a systemic change both in participation and in assumption of responsibility in teaching Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, (SMET). It is imperative to get local colleges

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New Ideas in Energy Education

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Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

of energy and its many aspects such as energy conservationtechnologies and environmental impacts of energy generation, in the educational curriculum ofscience, technology, and engineering students is essential. In order to address this need, a newelective course, Energy Engineering, was developed and implemented in the MechanicalEngineering Department at Lamar University. The course was designed in order to demonstratehow knowledge from junior level thermal/fluid science classes could be used to design anddevelop energy systems. The course topics and contents were based on similar courses at otheruniversities1-3. However, more emphasis was placed on the design procedure and calculationsrelated to different energy systems in order to increase

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Real-World Applications

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John Robertson

Page 9.1069.3 15. Future technology development Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe 8 italicized topics are best taught in a class/lab context.System contextThe approach taken to cover sputtering technology is illustrated in Figure 2: Layer deposition (UET411) Anelva 1015 Industry Cluster-tool $5M tool Operational MRC tool Figure 2. Anelva sputter tool as a bridge to industry practiceThe operational sputter tool in the clean

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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Taryn Bayles

Session 1793 Integration of Engineering Principles in High School Algebra Courses Taryn Melkus Bayles Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Anne M. Spence Department of Mechanical Engineering Claudia Morrell Center for Women and Information Technology University of Maryland Baltimore CountyAbstractIn 2003 the state of Maryland implemented an education initiative which requires all Marylandstudents to enroll in algebra classes and

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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David Heaslip

2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Salt Lake City, Utah June 20-23, 2004CAPS Document ID: 2004-1735Title: Bridging the Gap between Post-graduate Engineering Education and Industry NeedsAuthor: David Heaslip, Executive Director Advanced Design and Manufacturing Institute___________________________________________________________________________In today’s industrial business environment there is increasingly high demand for engineerscapable of integrating modern business practices with enhanced skills in engineering designand manufacturing processes, and knowledge of rapidly changing technology

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Novel Courses for ChEs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Brian Dickson

Session 1091 The Engineer Ought To Be A Man Of Business B R Dickson Department of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.1. IntroductionDuring the first decade of the 20th century, Dr Alex C. Humphreys, the President ofthe Stevens Institute of Technology, gave an address on ‘Business training for theengineer’ in which he began with an axiom: “Self-evident should be the truth of the proposition that the engineer ought to be a man of business, or at least informed of, and prepared to conform to, business conditions and business

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Web-Based Instruction

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Mukasa Ssemakula

Session 3549 Development of a Fully Online Course in Engineering Economic Analysis Mukasa E. Ssemakula Division of Engineering Technology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.AbstractA variety of social, economic and technological factors are converging to create increaseddemand for online and long distance education. This demand is in turn transforming howknowledge is delivered to students. New technologies are emerging to help address this need.From the instructor’s perspective, this presents a challenge to keep abreast with the technologiesand to

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Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alice Pawley

majority of gender-proportionality efforts employ one of two general strategies. The first has been described(usually by critics) as the “add-women-and-stir” method. Using the metaphor of plugging aleaky “pipeline,”5 these programs and models concentrate on directly encouraging more womento enter science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields through camps, specialclasses, printed and internet-based advertising, and/or “girl power” media programming. Thesecond strategy addresses the “chilly climate” issues recently highlighted by the landmark MITstudy.6 When applied to undergraduate education, chilly climate models encourage instructors toredesign engineering education using different classroom techniques more congruent withcurrent

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Naomi Gomez; Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

researchers about the “reality” of research, not just the media version, in orderto gain a thorough understanding of topics such as genetic research, the Columbia experience,and alternative energy sources. The teachers then developed lesson plans for their specificcontent area that utilized an engineering/technology application or example from the NSFsponsored program.Educational discussions formed an important part of the on-campus experience as well. Venuesfor these interactions were facilitated peer discussions on the impact of culture on learning, andgroup work on how to incorporate their experience into the classroom. In addition, industry fieldtrips were provided to develop further engineering and technology awareness. In the future

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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kanagaratnam Baskaran; John Long

Session 1603 Engineering Education Down Under: Distance Teaching at Deakin University, Australia John M. Long, Kanagaratnam Baskaran School of Engineering and Technology Deakin University, Victoria, AustraliaAbstractDeakin University in Australia is one of the leading providers of distance education in the SouthPacific region. The School of Engineering offers four-year professional engineering-degreeprograms and three-year technologist programs. The over 600 total students studying

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

education and lifelong learning • Rapid technology development and change • Shrinking product life cycles • Quality and cost dominated products/processes • Material and process dominated designs • Enterprise-oriented organization Page 9.79.1 • Increasing role of “integrated” engineering Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering • Sustainability for natural resources • Growing concern for biodiversity • Increasingly biologically oriented processes/productsTo successfully

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Recruiting and Building Diversity

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Ronald Kane; Carla Purdy

Session 2492 Achieving Diversity in Graduate Engineering Education--What Are the Major Issues?Carla Purdy, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Computer Science, Univ. of Cincinnati (Carla.Purdy@uc.edu), Ronald Kane, Dean of Graduate Studies, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Ronald.Kane@njit.edu)AbstractWhat are the benefits of diversity in graduate engineering education? Reasons for increasingdiversity among undergraduates also apply at the graduate level--a larger pool of highly trainedworkers, increased technical expertise among the

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The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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kenneth weaver

flexibility. The technology spine consists of acovered trench in classroom and laboratory modules. This trench contains utilities and cables forready-use in the modules. Computers networked throughout the building allow students andfaculty to make optimum use of computer technology.Today, the College of Engineering at Rowan University is composed of four programs: ChemicalEngineering (ChE); Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE); Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE); and Mechanical Engineering (ME). Each program has been designed toserve 25 to 30 students per year, resulting in 100 to 120 students per year in the College ofEngineering. The size of the college has been optimized such that it is large enough to providespecialization in separate

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Judith Miller; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

AC 2004-463: A UNIVERSITY/PUBLIC SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP IN K-6ENGINEERING EDUCATIONJoseph Rencis, University of ArkansasJudith Miller, Page 9.122.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2004 Session 1793 A University/Public School Partnership in K-6 Engineering Education Judith E. Miller, Joseph J. Rencis Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA 01609AbstractMassachusetts introduced technology and engineering into its K-12 curriculum frameworks in2001. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Worcester

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Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ethan Brue

theseapproaches are counterproductive. Both approaches only solidify in the minds of engineeringstudents the false notion that while engineering and history may be both good to study, thesedisciplines are independent from one another and not inseparably intertwined. The developmentof an integral historical component in the engineering curriculum requires more than just newcourse development or old course modification; it necessitates interdisciplinary communicationand thematic continuity across the boundaries of every course taken by engineering students.Carefully crafting a history of technology “hub” course that enables integral historical reflectionin all subsequent engineering courses is only a first step. As an example, I will briefly outline

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Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis

1994, coined the term, “Socioengineering” to describethe combination of the contextual and process skills with the elements of traditionalengineering education needed for the twenty-first century. This study will focus onABET Accreditation and how it has expanded in recognizing this “socioengineering” byincluding professional skills in the quality assurance of engineering higher education. ABET DefinedTo be ABET (The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accredited is tobe recognized as an institution or program with high standards. This accreditation isimportant as it provides prospective students and their parents assurance of a quality, bestpractice, education. In addition, future