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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ryan Owen; Robert Knecht; Abel Feltes

, theDesign (EPICS) Division prepares them for careers in the engineering disciplines. This projectsatisfies the following objectives of the Design (EPICS) Division mission: ♦ To develop and demonstrate creative engineering technologies ♦ To build effective teams of engineering students ♦ To communicate design products to a societal marketThese skills must evolve from practice centered on a project they solve as a team. The Versatile Weather Station Challenge provided an exciting environment for students to Page 10.104.9develop not only their engineering skills but also their creative and critical thinking

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Matson; David Elizandro; Jane Fraser

Program Objectives that characterize the “career and professional accomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve.” 2. An articulation of Criterion 3 a-k Program Outcomes that support one or more Program Objectives and reflect the students’ technical competence and understanding of engineering at the time of graduation. 3. An assessment process for Program Objectives and Outcomes.In Criterion 2, Program Objectives characterize program graduates within the first few yearsafter graduation. According to the Criterion1, accredited programs must have: (a) detailed published educational objectives that are consistent with the mission of the institution and these criteria (b) a process based on the needs

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tina Hudson; Laurence Merkle; Joshua Holden; Richard Layton

Conf., Salt Lake City.2. MUPEC 2004 conference website, www.rose-hulman.edu/MUPEC2004/RICHARD A. LAYTONRichard Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His interests include student teambuilding and laboratory curriculum development. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelve years Page 10.1373.10in consulting engineering, culminating as a group head and a project manager. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

success ofgraduates from the USA ECE department is a successful career in engineering. All constituents Page 10.1145.9benefit from this outcome. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Bibliography1. Engineering Accreditation Commission, Criteria for accrediting engineering programs. AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology, Inc. Baltimore, MD, November 2000.http://www.abet.org/images/Criteria/eac_criteria_b.pdf2. M.R. Parker, W.A. Stapleton, T.G. Thomas, “Post-assessment evaluation of

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jacki Stewart; Peter Jansson

the paper, we can easily express the large amountof multidisciplinary knowledge we have gained from working on this team. Working with a mixof electrical, civil, and chemical engineers, each discipline shines new light on the project andadds to the value of our common goal. We have learned everything from the chemistry ofelectrons to the physics of the structural support of the system. Along the way, we have helpedour peers enhance their learning experiences and learned from them as well. The skills we havelearned this year, working with engineers from different backgrounds, will not only help uscomplete this project, but will also help us better adapt in our careers when we will have to workwith people from many different backgrounds

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christy Moore; Stephanie Bird; Steven Nichols

issues in the responsible conduct ofresearch and on mentoring and other responsibilities of science professionals.In 1990 and 1991, Dr. Bird served as President of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), anational organization with 5000 members and over 80 chapters across the US. She was Director of the firstAWIS Mentoring Project which was designed to encourage and support undergraduate and graduatestudents in their pursuit of careers in math, science and technology.Dr. Bird is an active member of the Society for Neuroscience and currently chairs the Social IssuesCommittee. In 1983, she initiated the annual Social Issues Roundtable which examines ethical and policyramifications of various aspects of neuroscience research. She is an active

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Garth Thomas

Evolution of a Freshman Software Tools Class Garth E. Thomas Jr., Michael V. Minnick, Dianchen Gang Chemical and Civil Engineering Departments Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136AbstractThree years ago, the Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering replaced a traditionalprogramming course for engineers with an applied software tools course. This course wasexpected to better prepare the students for later courses as well as develop skills that would beuseful in their professional careers. Students learn the basics of Excel

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Martinazzi

great concept. My only suggestion would be to speed things up a little bit. Without the think method you’d be able to go over more problems in class, but probably not as effectively, finding a middle ground would be my advice. This concept works, it is extremely critical to think about a problem before attempting it. This concept is important in all aspects of a professional career, not just statistics. If I ever teach a class, I will insist on this concept. It is a very good method of learning, but sometimes it really made me stuck on things to the point where I couldn’t finish. It was a challenge at first since I was used to the traditional way where teachers give you the equation and show you how to use. But it’s better now since I

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Samuel Daniels; Ismail Orabi; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

Neutral Agree Agree Select the response which best reflects your opinion and feelings:1 I expect engineering is a rewarding career. 1 2 3 4 52 I expect that studying engineering is rewarding. 1 2 3 4 53 The future benefits of studying engineering are worth the effort. 1

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Hebrank; Glenda Kelly; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

Page 10.1213.8Interest and Achievement in Science.” Paper presented at the National Association of Research in Science TeachingAnnual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2000. ERIC number ED440885. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education[13] Gibson, H. L., “Case Studies of an Inquiry-Based Science Programs. Impact on Students. Attitude towardScience and Interest in Science Careers.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association forResearch in Science Teaching, San Diego, CA, April 1998, ERIC number ED417980[14] Radford, D.L., and Ramsey, L.L., “Experiencing Scientific Inquiry and

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Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman; Mark Gunty; Leo McWilliams; Carrie Graf; John Uhran; Catherine Pieronek

Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education (1) Important people in my life expect me to study engineering; (2) Engineering will make the best use of my skills, interest and abilities; (3) Engineering will lead to a high-status career; (4) Engineering will best enable me to serve my community and help others; and (5) Entering college as an engineer leaves my future study options open.Overall, 54 percent of all women selected (2) as their first choice, and 26 percent selected (4) fortheir second choice. But looking at female EG and nonEG admits, as well as at female leaversand stayers, points out

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ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Hassan Alfadala; Andrew Wilson

that the students have actually become more “sophisticated,” and are moredemanding in their expectations of the program performance as noted by the general declinefrom 2003 to 2004.Figure 5 shows that the students have a generally high level of satisfaction in the career choicethey have made. Page 10.493.9 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Table 3. Assessment Schedule Method Persons Being Responsible Evaluation Review and

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Graduate Education in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Biwu Yang; Tijjani Mohammed

been the launching pad to my career in the Information Security Field. Thanks again you are a credit to the field and to the university.” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education • “I would like to let everyone know that I was just selected to fill the position of Wireless Systems Engineer for the telecom that employs me. The selection is a direct result of completing the MSIT program …, I will be working with the rollout of a 2.5G/3G network, and research, development, & implementation of applications (project management

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Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Moffitt; Jennifer van Rij; Jeffrey Wolchok

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Introduction:IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating Ph.D. scientistsand engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, andpersonal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze acultural change in graduate education by establishing new, innovative models for graduateeducation and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcendstraditional disciplinary boundaries.The Utah Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award

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Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

participate in MIMIC are enrolled in a capstone course, IntegratedBusiness Operations, required in their Associate in Applied Science degree programs. Theyare from a variety of career fields, including marketing, accounting, management, computersystems and information systems, which allows the makeup of the "companies" to berepresentative of an industry. Integrating students from various disciplines not only fulfillsthe technical needs of the student teams but also provides valuable interaction andcommunication opportunities. Acting on the advice of the advisory committees for theircareer programs and utilizing a list of essential workplace skills1 endorsed by the area TechPrep consortium, the instructors who organize the project make the development

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Miguel A. Padilla; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

proceedings on CD-ROM, paper 436, 9 pages (indexed by the ERIC database with accession number ED452047).[26] Agresti, A. (1996) An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.[27] Adelman, Clifford. (1998) Women and Men of the Engineering Path: A Model for Analyses of Undergraduate Careers. U.S. Department of Education, PLLI-98-8055. Available at http://www.erc-assoc.org/nsf/engrg_paths/[28] Dunn, David W., Joan K. Austin, Jaroslaw Harezlak, and Walter T. Ambrosius (2003), “ADHD and epilepsy in childhood,” Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 45, 50–54. Page 10.658.11

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BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Warren; Jason Yao

also motivatethese capable students to pursue careers in an expanding biomedical industry.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to acknowledge Jerry T. Love, Sandia National Laboratories (retired), for theoriginal design of the light feedback circuit. Portions of this material are based upon worksupported by the National Science Foundation under grant BES–0093916. Opinions, findings,conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the NSF. All studies addressed in this paper that involve humansubjects have been approved by the Human Studies Board at Kansas State University underprotocol #2211

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

career, orconsidering the option, who were previously intimidated by the stereotypical image ofengineering as nothing more than a burdensome drudgery of equations.”ConclusionsBased on the assessment data presented above, we draw the following conclusions: • The concept of a wholly Internet-based engineering design competition is viable. • The format of the West Point Bridge Design Contest—a simulation-based design experience coupled with web-based judging and feedback—can potentially attract large numbers of student participants and can stimulate a high level of engagement. • By leveraging information technology, a small project staff can deliver high-quality, accessible engineering outreach at a reasonable cost. • The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Drummer; James Frendewey; Sheryl Sorby; Kris Mattila; John Sutherland; Leonard Bohmann

better serve society and students for work in the21st century, we believe that it is essential to provide them with an engineering career pathaimed at the service sector.In response to the need for a service systems engineering curriculum, the authors received aplanning grant from the Department Level Reform program of the National Science Foundationin September 2003. Through this grant we conducted a Delphi Study to define a newengineering discipline – Service Systems Engineering. The remainder of this paper outlines theDelphi technique as we applied it to this project and presents our results obtained to date.Delphi Technique for Curricular DesignA Delphi Study is a consensus-building forecasting technique that has been used byorganizations

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ganapathy Narayanan

Page 10.1101.6of learning the MATLAB control commands is with regard to his increased ability todesign any control system in his professional career, without getting bogged down with Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationmany numerical calculations. Of course, the use of MATLAB commands did boost hisability to perform numerical calculations needed in other areas of his engineering study.References 1) Bateson, R. N., “Introduction to Control System Technology”, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002 2) Dorf, R. C., “Modern Control Systems”, Ninth edition, Prentice Hall, 2001 3) Kuo, B. C. and

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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Cook; Jim Lyons; Kenneth Gentili

critical thinking. He has won numerous teaching and service awards.JIM LYONSJim Lyons worked for the Boeing Company for seven years and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation for thirty-one years as an engineer and engineering manager before retiring in 1999. In 2001 he began a second career as anengineering instructor at Green River Community College and Tacoma Community College. He is an activeparticipant in developing and testing curriculum and assessment tools in engineering design.MARY COOK Page 10.527.7Mary Cook is the Course Manager for the Introduction to Engineering Design at the University of Washington, atruly

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Nutter

10.1455.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationProgram BackgroundOhio Northern University (ONU) is a private, comprehensive, United Methodist affiliated, liberalarts university with approximately 3300 students. The ONU Department of TechnologicalStudies is in the College of Arts and Sciences, and prepares students for careers in professional,technical fields throughout industry and education. Graduates of this program are ideally suitedfor advancement into management and leadership positions in industrial organizations.Technology BS degree concentrations include advanced manufacturing, construction

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Anna Lambert; Aaron Robinson; Charles Camp; Jeff Marchetta; Laura Lackey; Stephanie Ivey

science, mathematics, and engineering.” Report of the Wingspread Conference. Racine: WI, 1989. 9. Kolb, D. Learning Style Inventory. Boston, MA: McBer & Co., 1985. 10. Kolb, D. A. Learning style inventory technical manual. Boston, MA: McBer and Co., 1976. 11. Perry, W.G. Forms of Ethical and Intellectual Development in the College Years: A Scheme. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999. 12. Cross, P.A., and Faulkner, P. The Learning Style Inventory: Convergent validity study in an applied career setting. Public Service Commission of Canada: PPC, 2004. 13. Kolb, D. A. Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. 14. Philbin

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

Teaching and Learning Program andLaboratory. She received her Ph.D. in environmental health physics and toxicology from Purdue University. Shespent the first 13 years of her career in leadership positions in the energy and software industries, and served nineyears as the director of a CU water resources engineering simulation and optimization research center.MALINDA SCHAEFER ZARSKE is the curriculum outreach coordinator for the Integrated Teaching and LearningProgram’s K-12 Engineering Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former middle and high schoolmath and science teacher, she received her MAT in secondary science from Johns Hopkins University and her MS incivil engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

and faculty busy withnon-student work during prescribed office hours. In one case, a negative interaction with afaculty member during office hours had shaped a female student's career path. She changed hermajor to IE because a faculty member in her former major offended her by suggesting that she"wouldn’t want to work [and that she] would maybe want to stay home and have kids".In contrast, several participants compared the student-centered attitude of the IE faculty to their Page 10.1268.6experiences with faculty in other departments. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Macy Reynolds

for their learning problems inaddition to the content instruction they so often receive. Finally, gifted students with learningdisabilities must understand their unique pattern of academic and learning strengths as well asweaknesses in order to learn to compensate for these discrepancies.” Page 10.145.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Can these students perform in engineering careers?It is not uncommon for faculty to look at students with learning problems and wonder if theyreally

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Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Mullett

design, open-ended problem solving, development ofmanagement and communications skills, professional development, and career-long learning areall included in this call for change. This response was in reaction to a perceived need to correct adecade’s long emphasis on engineering science that occurred post-World War II tilting theengineering education field away from engineering practice and the new realities of a globaleconomy that demands skill sets not emphasized at the time. In a similar manner, the technicaleducation community at the two-year college level has, in a synergistic manner, started toembrace similar elements of the Scans report [3] (usually, problem solving skills and life-longlearning) with efforts to infuse these so-called

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Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Joslyn

Space” experience while at the Air Force Academy. Theexposure to solving ill defined problems in the FalconLAUNCH program prepares themfor the challenges of a professional military career. The lessons learned and pride ofownership in the program are the finishing touches on officers joining the cadre of spaceprofessionals who make the United States Air Force the world’s preeminent air and spacepower. That being said, there is no reason why a similar program at a civilian universitycouldn’t provide the same systems engineering capstone experience to theirundergraduate or graduate programs so valuable to young engineers embarking on theircareers.VII. AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge the contributions to the success of this

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bruce Thompson

value they found in thethesis, it had become a major barrier to graduation. Many students who had satisfied the courserequirements did not have the degree because of the thesis. This problem was converted to acrisis in the 1990's by two decisions. The first was a campaign to model thesis requirements onthose typical of programs aimed at preparing their students for a career in academic research andteaching. The second was a policy prohibiting academic credit for paid work, eliminating thesesbased on issues at the student’s employer. Students came to regard the thesis as an unscalablebarrier. The employer of the largest number of students threatened to stop supporting theprogram upon discovering that none of its employees had graduated in the

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

. Demographic information about the engineers and their workplace contexts arepresented in Table 1. The interview focused on a single job or project that had beencompleted by the engineer during their career. We made no attempt to influence the nature ofthe story that was recalled. We asked questions regarding the engineers’ academicpreparation, the organizational context in which they worked, the nature of the project, howthey analyzed and represented the problem, how they generated solutions, and howsuccessfully the job was completed. A total of 98 interviews were transcribed (technicaldifficulties affected the remainder).Engineering education: civil (39), electrical (18), chemical (10), mechanical (13), structural(5), industrial, nuclear (1), other