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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

is in combining technical expertise with entrepreneurship. This paperalso discusses the current as well as the future need in engineering and technology to integratehigh technology entrepreneurship into the curriculum as an essential component. Several meansto achieve it are explored. The end result will prepare them to launch tomorrow’s successfulbusinesses while earning their degrees. It will definitely have a positive impact on the overallhealth of the economy.IntroductionEconomic globalization has put a tremendous pressure on our engineering and technology Page 9.1405.1education program to explore several aspects of

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Heer

, the engineering curriculum was formed in response to the workforce needed for thecurrent technology. Today, the technology is changing too fast for the engineering education tokeep up with. A new way of teaching engineering must be devised [8]. The engineeringgraduates of the future must be able to continuously reeducate themselves, adapt to changingconditions, integrate knowledge from various disciplines, and then apply this knowledge ininnovative and active ways [4]. In words of Dr Joseph Bordogna, a National Science FoundationLeader: “We all acknowledge that scientific and mathematical skills are necessary for professional success. An engineering student nevertheless must also experience the "functional core of

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Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tom Davis; Maximillian Peeters; John Curtis; Jennifer Miskimins

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering and Technology (ABET) requires that “Students…be prepared for engineeringpractice through the curriculum culminating in a major design experience based on theknowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work….”1 In numerous curricula, this majordesign experience is reserved for the last semester of the final year of the undergraduateprogram, while in other curricula, the course can span an entire year of the final undergraduateexperience.In addition to being mandated by ABET, industry representatives of potential employers thinkhighly of capstone courses. This support is demonstrated by assistance for such

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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M. Grant Norton; Charles Pezeshki

called intellectual economies of scale. Through multiple agreements with othercompanies around the world regarding intellectual property, Boeing gains access toproprietary information and specific areas of expertise in a la carte fashion. This resultsin cost savings regarding development of those technologies, and also shortens the time-to-first-flight of an airplane. Cost savings regarding engineering labor are not theprimary driver in outsourcing at Boeing. However, Boeing has maintained its focus onretaining the higher-level competencies of engineering integration, which place its focusup the engineering skill pyramid. Boeing is especially placed in a competitive crunch incommercial aviation, as their primary competitor is Airbus, which is

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

probation, which requiresa planned pro-gram. If this program is not met, a written request must be made to thedepartment’s Committee for Admission and Retention Appeals explaining why satisfactoryprogress has not been made and what circumstances have changed to indicate futureimprovements [2].Program Educational ObjectivesThe UF-Civil Engineering program and curriculum permit a graduate to enter practice andcommence life-long learning through professional activities or to continue his/her preparationthrough graduate studies. An early engineering identity is established through a freshmanengineering lab and participation in the student chapter of the American Society of CivilEngineers. Design integration is continued throughout the program. The

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

ABET EC 2000 recommend the developmentof technical and non-technical professional abilities as part of an undergraduateengineering education (ABET, 2001).MIT alumni and senior survey data reflect the changing needs of the professionalworkplace. MIT’s constituents supported the need for development of non-technicalprofessional abilities of undergraduate engineering students. In a 2000 survey ofengineering alumni who had graduated in 1994, alumni called for increased emphasis on“workforce skills.” In addition, 1998 and 2000 Senior Exit Surveys revealed studentdesire for greater internship opportunities and interaction with engineering practitioners.Designing a comprehensive, integrated curriculum that addressed the technical and non-technical

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Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Obadiah Ritchey; John Clark; Jim White; Tim White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers

“flown” in the classroom.EyasSAT literally means “baby FalconSAT,” where FalconSAT is the name of the flagshipsatellite program at USAFA. Students work as a team their senior year to design, build, launch,and/or operate a real satellite performing Department of Defense science. To prepare for thisinterdisciplinary experience, students take the prerequisite course titled “Spacecraft SystemsEngineering.” Students in this course work in small teams to build up an EyasSAT system,subsystem by subsystem, after the design issues are covered in the classroom.The premise is simple: EyasSAT is composed of intelligent, stand-alone hardware modules builtwith commercial components that are integrated through a flexible data and power bus. Insteadof designing

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

semester along with the prior semester’s survey data at a special faculty meeting.The matrix provides information on overall program evaluation and completeness. It also servesas a basis for illustrating how the courses that constitute the program collectively meet theprogram outcomes defined in Table 1.As part of the assessment improvement process, this curriculum matrix was presented to an industrialmembers committee on July 18 and July 29, 2003 respectively. This committee was asked toassess the program for its effectiveness in meeting the program educational objectives. Afterreviewing the information provided in complete curriculum matrix and supporting materials, thecommittee was convinced that the program looked effective, and would achieve

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Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tsung-juang Wang

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"consider a transfer from and stop taking any other subjects offered by the department ofarchitectural facilities(3) Students from department of electric engineering, refrigeration or environment when havingfound their aptitude and competence appropriate for them to take up the course of architecturalfacilities may take up all the subjects offered in the course of architectural facilities witharchitecture as the second major.Bibliography:Chang, T. (2001). Knowledge Economy and Higher Education Development. Journal of Teacher Education. 409(7). pp11-16.Chen, I-Ling. (2003). Integration of cross disciplines curriculum. http://www.ss.qesosa.edu.hk/susdev/curriculum

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State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

the course, the goals wereto help retain students, provide for close industrial participation, and to provide an integrativevehicle at a critical stage in the student’s educational career.Rapid Prototyping Technology as an Integrative SolutionWhereas textbooks have traditionally defined the boundaries between engineering disciplines,engineering education reform will require packages that integrate diverse concepts –“containers” providing the resources for student-initiated, hands-on, problem-based learning.These containers must be constructed around a topic that captures the imagination of studentsand encourages them to view technology with a holistic perspective. They must show theinterrelationships between engineering disciplines and link

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

interventions. Assessing Student Attitudes toward BusinessAn integrated concept in ethics was discussed for student’s individual and professionaldevelopment of business ethics. Students exposed to such ethics courses with stimulating ethicscases faced hard questions to answer, when placed in an ethical dilemma. They learned one thingimportant: “Deciding what’s right: a prescriptive approach.” The outline of the class discussionwill be presented in thirteen ethics development modules and they will be integrated by acomprehensive case study to address the ethical dilemma of engineers and managers faced at thevery design implementation stage. Under condition of simulated input via a case study, theirbehavioral reactions will be

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Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

1998. Hiscurrent primary teaching interest is integrating process simulation throughout the chemical engineering curriculum,and he received the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award for work in this area. Page 9.1176.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationRavi P. Ramachandran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atRowan University. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1990 and has worked at AT&T BellLaboratories and Rutgers

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The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Ford; Jana Goodrich; Robert Weissbach

initial course offering, the faculty identified two principal areas ofimprovement. The first area concerned student team dynamics. Engineering and technologycurricula often focus on the technical abilities of students, neglecting the “soft skills” that willoften determine success or failure for a graduate when (s)he enters the workforce. As anexample, project management skills are often neglected in an engineering curriculum, requiringadditional training for those engineers who end up in management positions6. Skills such as theability to lead and work effectively as a member of a team are frequently identified as critical tothe success of an engineer, but typically are lacking in new engineering graduates7. The same istrue of business students

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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley

interdisciplinary group of humanities and social sciencesfaculty located within SEAS. The students take roughly 40% of their humanities and socialscience requirements (4 courses) in interdisciplinary HSS courses designed for engineeringstudents. (The remaining 60% of the HSS hours are selected from those offered by departmentsin the College of Arts and Sciences and designed for a general student population.) The STScourse work provides an integrative framework and intellectual foundation that help studentsdevelop an in-depth understanding of the contextual aspects of engineering practice.STS also manages the undergraduate thesis project that has been a graduation requirement ofSEAS for nearly 100 years and a major part of the engineering curriculum since

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamara Knott

other datacollection methods. Brodeur12 provides a motivating example of ePortfolio utilization at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in assessing student learning in their Aeronautics andAstronautics program along with a good literature review. She points to the mapping betweenthe ABET accreditation standards (learning objectives) and their curriculum reform and the roleof the ePortfolio as a measure of the student achievement in the objectives. Rogers andWilliams13 have discussed various stages of the development of an ePortfolio system at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, called RosE-Portfolio, through the two and a half years ofplanning, design, development, testing, and improvement, leading to implementation.Despite the

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

continually supports learning communities as a systemic approach toimprove educational outcomes7-8. The most important aspect of the learning community is that itprovides an opportunity for students to build relationships with one another and with facultywhile being immersed in the content. Moreover, it also calls for faculty to interact with oneanother more frequently and to provide quality personal attention to students The concept of learning community was implemented through the development of atested curriculum, taught by knowledgeable faculty, and delivered through a seamless pathwayfrom high school, through the community college, to the university. Table 1 shows the coursessequence for the first cohort students recruited in Fall 2002

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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B. Terry Beck; David A. Pacey

measurements in an airflow situation. This approachrepresents a potentially very useful tool for enabling students to become intuitively Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conferencefamiliar from an experimental point of view with a number of important laboratorysampling issues, without the need for prerequisite courses which are difficult andimpractical for them to acquire in the usual undergraduate mechanical and nuclearengineering curriculum. Thus far the results appear to be very promising, and furthertesting of this approach, along with possible ways of implementing such an approach inthe engineering laboratory classroom, are currently under

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Merredith Portsmore; Kaitlyn Conroy; Melissa Pickering; Emily Ryan; Brian Gravel

the K-12 curriculum, there are offshoot benefits to the undergraduate studentswho participate in outreach efforts, especially females. Capitalizing on a student’s freshengineering knowledge and young ambitions to make an impact, outreach programs sendundergraduates into K-12 classrooms to introduce the engineering discipline to young children.Female engineers demonstrate a large interest in these outreach efforts, and subsequentlyenhance their overall undergraduate engineering experience. Beyond the initial self-satisfactionof working with young children, which gratifies the female instinct, the young women engineersare able to gain a greater confidence in the technical discipline that is often difficult to obtain inthe male-dominated college

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Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

response to ABET’s criteria8. A recent (May-June,2003) Prism cover title warned, “The Graduate: Educators struggle to prepare well-rounded engineers for today’s workplace.” In an article of the same name, an Exeloncorporate vice-president, is quoted: “I think universities are honestly trying to change andwork closely with corporations to do so, but I am not sure that the process has been set upto allow them to change as fast as business is.”8 This article continues by saying whilesuccess in engineering curriculum depends on ability to complete problem sets andexams, success in business classes depends on ability to analyze case studies, succeed ingroup projects, and develop and conduct effective presentations. Well ahead of thecurve, ABET warned

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Mills; William Cleghorn

Session 1566 Linkages of Undergraduate Students with Industry: The MMO Connections Program at the University of Toronto W. L. Cleghorn and J.K. Mills Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department University of TorontoIntroduction This paper presents an initiative instituted in 1990 at the University of Toronto, Department ofMechanical and Industrial Engineering whereby students in their final year study take on a thesis that haspractical significance with local industries. This initiative, entitled the Materials and Manufacturing

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Tolan; James Hurny

and Teachnologywhere she is responsible for students, facilities, and curriculum issues and teaches in the areas of career theory,organizational development, and management. She is currently pursuing her PhD at Andrews University inLeadership.JAMES J. HURNY is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and TelecommunicationsEngineering Technology where he teaches a wide variety of courses in analog electronics with additional experiencein value analysis and engineering economics. In addition, he has had over 33 years experience in industry atEastman Kodak company and serves as a program evaluator for TAC/ABET

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Richard E. Smith

“machinelanguage” programs. SimpleCPU has two advantages over “black box” CPU simulations,like the “Little Man Computer.” First, SimpleCPU is integrated into the spreadsheet thatis already part of the course curriculum, which simplifies matters for novice computerusers as well as the instructor. Second, students can examine any part of the simulationdirectly by looking in spreadsheet cells and reading the single page of macro definitions.Nothing is hidden in object code or an unfamiliar language. The package can also beused with a computer architecture course, giving students a low-cost way to build andtest their own simple processor designs. Introduction Introductory computer literacy has always posed a challenge to instructors. Althoughstudents

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Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

Session 2158 Analysis of Computer Networks Courses in Undergraduate Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Science Programs Maurice F. Aburdene, Xiannong Meng and Gregory L. Mokodean Bucknell UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an analysis of computer networks courses offered by universities andcolleges in the departments of computer science, electrical engineering, or information science.The results are based on the information collected from course web sites from twenty-sevenuniversities and colleges in computer science, electrical

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Showkat Chowdhury

lawsuit. The program was designed for fullimplementation to occur five years after the start date. The program encompasses thetraditional roles of Mechanical Engineering in areas of analysis, design, manufacturing,and testing of mechanical and thermal systems, while also including system integration,propulsion systems, concurrent engineering, and other competitive manufacturingpractices. Based on the local demand, the program has two options: Manufacturing andPropulsion. The Mechanical Engineering Department at AAMU is committed to preparestudents in these options, to work efficiently for various industries and government.The basic criteria of Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) forthe engineering program’s outcome and

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Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

by breaking the barriers of traditional course boundaries and rigid curriculumrequirements and placing students in contexts that provide learning opportunities consistent withour mission. Evidence seems to indicate that entering college students do not have anappreciation of their role as engineers in society, as they are most often not involved in solvingreal problems that have an immediate impact on the world in which they live. Generally, theyhave a diminished knowledge of their place in the global marketplace as engineers (2). Ourexperience shows that our students develop a more realistic picture of the world, its needs, itsopinions and its sensitivities by participating in our global program.We desire student-learning outcomes that are

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanourios Chalkiadakis

the operation of software packages that most likely they will have touse after they join the workforce. In that spirit, the Department of Industrial Technology hassupported the efforts of the EIET faculty for curriculum development with significant classroomrenovations, installation of new multimedia equipment and purchase of laboratory apparatus,including hardware and software tools.Due to the intensity of the program, a substantial portion of the classroom projects that requirethe use of advanced software is assigned mostly to senior and graduate students in the form ofindependent studies, and/or final projects. In addition the authors use frequently these software

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Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suguna Bommaraju

SESSION NUMBER: 1102 Effective Writing Assignments to enhance student learning in “Introduction to Circuit Analysis” Suguna Bommaraju Miami University, OHABSTRACTIn facing challenges of declining enrollment, retention, incorporating higher technical content,and improving student learning, an integrated reconstruction of pedagogy and curriculum isbeing sought. This paper describes the design and development of short writing assignments. Theshort writing assignments are designed based on three strategies: ‘Mock Presentation to HighSchool Students’, ‘Web Search to linking the subject to real world

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pete Hanlon; John Hill; Bryan Goda; Lisa Shay

, Page 9.975.1illustrated in Figure 1, which differs from, yet is complementary to, the ABET AssessmentProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationModel. The mission of USMA is "To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that eachgraduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor,Country; professional growth throughout a career as an officer in the United States Army; and alifetime of selfless service to the nation.1" Therefore, our primary constituency is the UnitedStates Army and our academic program goals reflect this. The overarching academic goal is

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Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

between the two in the epistemological tools they use to solve problems.At the secondary level the design and analysis tools are primarily practical and craft orientedusing trial and error, whereas, at the collegiate level these tools are theoretical and based on arigorous scientific paradigm.The Creative Crane Competition was first held as part of an ASEE Regional Conference inSpring 2000. One of the goals of the competition was to foster a paradigm shift in theepistemological tools that secondary technology educators use in the design and problem solvingprocess. This paper will present the theory, with supporting data, for using this designcompetition as an instrument for pedagogical change at the secondary level over a three-yearperiod. It

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

teamwork, problem solving, professional and ethicalresponsibility, communication skills and the use of modern tools received relatively higherratings, which reflects the trends in the workplace requirements. Figure 4 clearly shows thevarying levels of satisfaction of graduates with respect to their preparation in the college. Thedata is stratified with five-year increments (nominal duration for graduation). The collegegraduates prior to 1995 consider themselves not prepared for most of the outcomes.Significant improvements in the level of satisfaction of the graduates after 1995 is due to theefforts of the college to improve design education and its integration in the programs.Furthermore, in the latter years, there has been an increased awareness