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Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

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

international experiences before coming toMSOE. For them the MSOE degree opens significant career opportunities for employment andpossible graduate school studies in the US.MSOE students are not required to have any prior knowledge of German in order to participate inthe exchange program. All courses taken at the FHL are taught in English, except for theirGerman language class. This is a key program component since typically few US engineeringstudents have sufficient language skills in German to survive being thrown into an instructionalsetting of a foreign tongue. A second significant component of the program is that it providesthe best aspects of an immersion type program while in the company of fellow student from one’shome institution. The students

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Materials and Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sanjeev Khanna

in capstone design projects,undergraduate research, and percentage of students pursing g raduate studies in such areas. Thus, Page 7.76.6the total impact of the developed curriculum will be known clearly over a span of about 4-5years.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSupport of the National Science Foundation under grant NSF- CAREER 0196390 is gratefullyacknowledged.REFERENCESAngelo, T. and Cross, K. (1993), Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers(2ed.),Jossey-Bass.Davies, M. L. and Crowther, D. E. A., “The Benefits of Using Multimedia in Higher Education: Mythsand Realities”, Active Learning, V3, Dec. 1995.Herman, J.L. (ed.) (1987

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Information Guidance/Navigation/Control

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sandra H. Kajiwara; Lisa Taber; Cecilia Mullen

breadth of the literature that they incorporate intotheir class projects; 3) develop an expertise in the students’ capabilities to search theliterature; 4) extend the students’ critical thinking to include the ability to critically analyze avariety of print and electronic sources to determine their validity and reliability; 5) instillexpert research techniques in the students which will serve them throughout theirprofessional careers and in later life; 6) learn the basics of citing references, includingcitation elements and formats; and finally, 7) allow engineering librarians to have more timefor individual student and faculty consultations on advanced research methods andtechniques. Leckie and Fullerton (1999), and Cannon (1994) in separate

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Farr

located in New Jersey, Stevens was ideallysuited to take advantage of the regional industries. More importantly, no other university in thearea offered a systems engineering program and only one other regional university offers anengineering management program.We chose to separate the department into two distinct but related disciplines: systemsengineering (SE) and engineering management (EM). When the department was formed theuniversity had a renowned undergraduate program in EM. However, no graduate programsexisted. We chose to develop our graduate programs using the career model shown in Figure 2.In lieu of competing with the MBA programs, we chose to focus on the engineer who was 3 – 5years out of their undergraduate program who was still

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Shawna Fletcher; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

prepares themfor their future careers. WIN provides monthly networking meetings throughout the semester.Each meeting covers a different topic of discussion and includes a free lunch. Topics in the pasthave ranged from life/ work balance for females in engineering to resume review workshops.This partnership is very popular with WISE students.Society of Women Engineers (SWE)SWE is a national organization striving to stimulate women to achieve their fullest potential incareers as engineers and leaders. In addition, SWE strives to expand the image of theengineering profe ssion while demonstrating the value of diversity. Meetings are held twice amonth for interested female engineering students. Each meeting has a corporate sponsor thatfacilitates a

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Balmer

it ain't broke, don't fix it.' But, believe me, that attitude is the exact antithesis of what excellence is all about. If, at the end of the day, your own chimneys, your own red tape, your own conceits or your own plain inertia is standing in the way of developing programs or curricula that are going to help prepare students as well as humanly possible for productive careers, then I think you've got some soul-searching to do.” * The student outcome goals of the new F.W. Olin program are: rigorous background in engineering science; broad base in liberal arts, writing and communication; superior computational skills; experience in small team project design and project based problem solving; exposure to

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Christa James-Byrnes

Materials has been offered, but due to low enrollment has recently beentaken off the courses being offered to our students. Courses that are being contemplated foroffering via DE are GRA 113 – Engineering Graphics and EGR 106 – Technical Communication.EGR 100 – Introduction to EngineeringThe purpose of EGR 100 is to introduce students to Engineering as a career and to help themprepare to become a successful engineering student. Topics covered in EGR 100 include StudySkills, Test Taking, Time Management, Engineering Majors, UW Engineering Campuses, Ethics,and Transferring Guidelines.Method of DeliveryOne of the factors faced by Engineering students is that they do not have direct contact with afaculty member regarding their specific major. One of

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Traci Kelly

education in theservice of society as we move into the twenty-first century." As we all know, employers seek to hire individuals who understand andappreciate the value of diversity and have the critical thinking and interpersonal skills todeal effectively with ambiguity and complexity in a highly technical and rapidlychanging world. The EPICS program is being designed to provide the interdisciplinary,broadly-based service-learning experiences. And while we hope that students learn welland learn deeply so to better function in their careers, we also hope that the EPICSjourney starts them on a parallel path of civic responsibility, too.Some passages from this paper are sections crafted by Dr. Kelly, Dr. Bradley, and their intern

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Charles McIntyre

. • Team skills (the ability to work with others). • Ability to use all of the above to address problems in a complex real-world setting.Problem-based learning (PBL) techniques help students develop the above skills necessary in order tosucceed in their post college careers. Students in PBL courses are challenged to "learn to learn" sothat they can achieve their highest potential in their chosen professions. Students work cooperatively ingroups, seeking solutions to "real world" problems by asking and answering their own and their peers'questions. In helping to teach each other, students achieve a high level of comprehension of theconcepts of the course.PBL - Roles and ProceduresPBL is an instructional method characterized by the use of

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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S.P.K. Sternberg; G.G. Botte

andexcited about their prospects. However, they were unable to find all the information theyneeded to satisfy their curiosity. The students asked their professors for more informationand several members of the faculty decided to include fuel cell technologies into theirbasic course material, either as example problems or even just as discussion points.Many of these students may spend their careers working on or with fuel cells if theyreach commercial success. The possibilities include applications for cell phones,computers, remote sensing equipment, automobiles and transportation, residential powersupply, as well as commercial and industrial scale power generation. The material is stillnew enough to be a contemporary issue but not so undeveloped as

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Comparing National Styles of Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Thibault; Rene Hivon; Danielle L'Heureux; Noel Boutin

thefollowing: a) Reasons for choosing engineering as a career (male students, Université deSherbrooke); b) Reasons for choosing engineering as a career (female students, Université deSherbrooke; c) Reasons for dropping out of engineering (male and female students, Universitéde Sherbrooke); d) Peer training for the 1st co-op work term; e) College students’representations of the engineering profession; f) Role of faculty members as models forengineering students. It is expected that the first essay to be completed will be so in late winter2002. COMPETENCIES IN S & T METACOMPETENCY IN COMMUNICATION

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

traditional programs will be tracked over time for surveying perceptions ofstudent creativity and overall success. After six months managers will be surveyed regarding theirperceptions of early career effectiveness of the students they hired. These evaluations will includecharacteristics such as job performance, creativity, interpersonal skills, team buildingeffectiveness, and leadership skills. Follow-up questionnaires will continue to be administered toemployers at yearly intervals for five years. The longitudinal tracking of student performance isintended to provide a measure of long-term success and career advancement. Program graduateswill also be surveyed on the same schedule regarding their perceptions of their academicpreparation for the

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Hemminger; Ralph Ford

the senioryear. We have successfully introduced fairly advanced DSP concepts in the junior yearincluding FIR and IIR filter design. Introducing DSP tools and concepts earlier provides abenefit in that the software and hardware tools can be used in multiple courses (Signals, ControlSystems, Communication Systems, Digital Signal Processing). MATLAB, which is commonlyused in many curricula, is an example of this. However, the use of a real-time developmentsystem, provides the advantage of allowing rapid real-time DSP systems to be created that hasnot been available in MATLAB until recently. This allows students to experience real-time DSPapplications earlier in their academic career than is typical. This work has successfully shownthat advanced

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the CEAS at ASU. She received her PhD instatistics from the U. of Iowa. Her awards include the YWCA Tribute to Women 2001 Award (Scientist/Researcher) and ASEE Fellow in 2001. A frequent speaker on the career opportunities in engineering, especiallyfor women and minority students, she is a faculty member in Industrial Engineering and does statistical consulting. Page 7.1018.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Billy Koen

“procrastinator” and taken measures to intervene. It is worth noting, that if all of the 120 freshmen in the course were graded on a Figure 5. Novice Student curve based on examinations offered at stated times, the high school computer gurus would get most of the A’s, leaving the competent, butless experienced student to begin their college career with a lesser grade. 7. Conclusions As they used to say on television before

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeanne Garland; Christine Helfers; Ronald Roedel; Sarah Duerden

weimpressed with the depth and comprehension exhibited in the students’ responses. For example,one student noted “during the first month of my college career I believed that all the professorswould teach their classes the same way, much as they did in high school. This proved to be ahindrance to my grades. The first few assignments in English were designed to teach us thatcollege is different from high school and that each professor has their own way of teaching aclass. Once I caught on to this, I was able to adjust my work and study habits.” Another studentnoted that “the laid-back , indifferent tactics I used in high school did not prove to be sufficientany more.” Students agreed with one peer who said that “every class in the FIPE program

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Reffeor; Jeffrey Ray

submission media. Please staple all problems in a given assignment together in numerical order.Academic Honesty: In order to learn this material, each individual must do homework problems. Since there is no absolute right answer when designing, many questions arise in performing even the simplest of problems. If you have not done your own homework, you will not have overcome these obstacles and will not know how to approach a different problem on an exam. In addition, and more importantly, you will not know how to approach these problems when you are faced with them during your career

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

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Julia Williams

of their undergraduate career students engage in developing a full range of ethical skills. These include not only making judgments about whether some action is ethical, or which of a set of multiple choices is the best (or least bad), but skills such as the ability to: · Find statements of ethical standards by reputable bodies and evaluate the legitimacy Page 7.674.2 of those standards Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education · Conduct an ongoing

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Hietpas

longer adequatelyprepares undergraduate students for a career in power engineering. The effective integration ofpower electronics, electric drives, and system related issues into the EMEC curriculum demandssignificant redesign of both the course and laboratory exercises. One such redesign is currently beingsupported under the Adaptation and Implementation track of the NSF’s CCLI program at SouthDakota State University3. Emerging from this work is an efficient pedagogical approach forintegration of power electronics, drives and the permanent magnet DC motor.Using a "just-in-time" strategy, successfully developed at University of Minnesota4 and furthermodified at SDSU3, four laboratory exercises and corresponding lecture material associated with

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Vavreck

Page 7.952.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationof electronics, mechanics and computers/microprocessors which have been covered during theirundergraduate career. In addition, it is an opportunity to hone project management elements suchas teamwork and communications skills, with students usually in teams of two and the courserequiring weekly status reports and a final report, as well as three presentations and anacceptance test.1 8 One of the additional project management elements of the course is therequirement that the students learn how to use Microsoft Project® 2000 (a three

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachel Shinn

] Colorado State University, URL http://www.colorado.edu/ASEN/ASEN_SOPH/ASEN2004/EL3.1.html and URL http://www.colorado.edu/ASEN/ASEN_SOPH/ASEN2004/EL4.1.htmlDR. RACHEL SHINNDr. Rachel Shinn is an assistant professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University inPrescott, AZ. She received her PhD in Applied Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena,California. Before beginning her teaching career, she spent five years in the space industry, at Hughes Aircraft Co.(currently Boeing), working as a spacecraft systems engineer, with a specialty in spacecraft attitude dynamics.DR. RONALD MADLERDr. Ronald Madler is an associate professor and chair of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle AeronauticalUniversity

Conference Session

Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ann Saterbak

discussed.Bioengineering Curriculum at Rice UniversityThe Bioengineering undergraduate program at Rice University is designed to prepare studentsfor careers in the rapidly developing areas of biomedical engineering and bioprocessing. Theundergraduate educational program in Bioengineering has the goal of producing a new type ofbiomedical engineer, fully conversant with modern biochemistry and cell and molecularbiology.1-2 This type of biomedical engineer translates bench-scale scientific advances inbiological sciences into cost-effective new products and processes. New and innovative curriculain lecture and laboratory courses are being developed to educate bioengineers who not onlycreate new tissues and cell-based therapies but also deliver them at a cost

Conference Session

Design and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

violating the public trust. Designsshould be dependable and live up to the expectations of those who use them. Roger Boisjoly andother engineers who pointed out the O-ring deficiencies before the launch of the space shuttleChallenger exemplify the norm of trust.6 Expanded Decision MatrixA common design tool introduced to engineering students early in their academic careers is theuse of a decision matrix (sometimes called a “design matrix”). The matrix allows the designer toquantify and rank the merits of multiple alternative solutions to a specified problem. The columnsof the matrix represent the various potential solutions. The rows of the matrix are the criteria bywhich the alternatives will be judged. The criteria can include “low cost

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steve York

between“MacGyver” and a miniature “Junk Yard Wars”. This approach to introducingengineering design results in an experience that the students find both engaging andeducational.MacGyver Learning ObjectivesThe concept of the MacGyver box can be extended to incorporate any number of specificlearning objectives by changing the nature of the assignments and/or the contents of thebox. However, several primary learning goals remain constant: · Develop teamwork skills among the engineering student body that may be carried forward in their academic and professional careers. · Help students to appreciate the value of input from peoples of different backgrounds and cultures. · Introduce the design process including, brainstorming

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Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Scott; Robert Knecht

desired specifications.” Bieniawski5 recognized that manyskills required for engineering design, frequently not taught in formal classroom settings, aredeveloped only through practice. He describes a process of developing behavioral standardsnecessary to produce a quality product. Our sequence, on the cutting edge of engineering designmethodologies, provides students with a broad-based introduction concerning engineeringdesign, technical communications and teamwork early in their academic career. This report summarizes several years of research and engineering activities conducted byundergraduate students to fulfill their requirement for engineering design throughout theircurriculum. During the past 4 years 42 undergraduate students at various

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi; Jerry Samples

who has more to offer than just excellent instruction onthe course content. Candid and sincere responses by the professor begin the critical process ofdeveloping mutual trust, and respect so essential for success in the teaching component of theprofessor's academic career. Page 7.852.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionThe successful integration of a new untenured faculty member into the university communityrequires mentoring beyond the traditional interpretation of that

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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bonnie McCormick; Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

program. high technology professional laboratory programs. environment. Pursue Pursue graduate Chemistry professional studies in a --Environmental career in natural

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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Stan Napper; Bill Elmore

, and what is the basis for drawing the line at a given point.All decisions within the engineering ethics domain fundamentally appeal to an authoritative source. Onecommon authority is the engineering code of conduct. The various professional societies have alladapted codes of conduct. So have the state boards of registration. The state boards have the powerof government behind their rules and their rules need to be treated with respect. However, we believewe need to ask the question of whether these codes of conduct are sufficient in themselves to be usedas a basis for engineering ethics decision making.In this paper we analyze the legitimacy of these codes of conduct. Are they really a sufficient basisupon which to build an engineering career

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Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Dixon

along in their careers, they may beresponsible for divisions or entire companies that are producers of goods. To understandthe production of excellent products, one must understand the essence of excellence fromthe perspectives of both producers (from the design and manufacturing vantages) as wellas consumers. The course fits well within a manufacturing program because it highlightsthe importance of design. If the design is poor, average or good at best, manufacturingcannot make it better than it is. If excellent, manufacturing can certainly make a designless than it should be.Excellence in Product Design – A Unique ApproachI graduated in 1994 from St. Thomas having earned the Master of ManufacturingSystems Engineering (MMSE) degree. I was

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

Discuss case where employer’s interests conflict with the interests of the public Give step-by-step Discuss the need for a professional code of Control description of ethics Post-Module solution Discuss the importance of engineering ethics in the career Control