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Craig Gunn

housed together, take classes together, act in teams, network, and process elementsnecessary in the design activities of the graduated engineer in the real world.The importance of looking at freshmen as excited but sometimes poorly guided individuals willbe addressed. As Parker Palmer states "Everyone must be educated into a capacity forconnectedness." This connection of reality, academics, impressions, and misconceptions must beaddressed in order for the student to truly learn the material for a career in whatever branch ofengineering that they choose. A model for incorporating design into the total education of thestudent will be described. The presently offered course for residential option students will bedescribed in regard to the design

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Robert Engelken

circumvented as not having a sufficient“benefit to cost/risk ratio.” When multiplied by hundreds or even thousands of new/youngfaculty in engineering and science, these lost/missed opportunities for true, lasting contributionsin “research, teaching and service” really add up. This is especially true since it is generallyaccepted that the first ten or so years of one’s technical career is the time of greatest creativity,energy, and, hence, potential contributions. In addition to these missed opportunities, the emphasis on quantity also compels theaverage new/young faculty to spend huge amounts of time (often up to 60-70 hours per week) inpursuit of such. Often one’s life is deliberately restructured to accommodate this “busy” work

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David B. Beyer

Session 3586 Associate Degree Program in Telemedia Communications Technology David B. Beyer P.E. Middlesex County College, Edison, N.J.IntroductionUnder a grant from the National Science Foundation, Middlesex County College faculty isdeveloping a two-year associate in applied science degree program in TelemediaCommunications Technology (NSF grant 9602375). As the name implies, telemedia is thetransmission of multimedia information over distances. This program will prepare techniciansfor careers in the telecommunications industry, and indeed, in any organization where technicianlevel

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Samuel P. Clemence; Daniel J. McGinley

Session 2515 Issues in Professional Practice and Their Implementation in Engineering Curricula Samuel P. Clemence, Daniel J. McGinley Syracuse University/Institute for Professional PracticeA successful career in engineering is dependant not only on the engineer’s technical expertise,experience, and ability to solve problems, it is also imperative to have the acumen to foresee andmanage many of the nontechnical issues which are integral to the successful management of anyproject. Until recently, most engineering students and young practicing engineers have not

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-datespecializations from which students may choose. C. DepthA limited degree of specialization in at least one area of the major is desirable in order to preparethe graduate adequately to enter the engineering profession. D. BreadthBreadth in the major field is of prime importance to engineers involved in the development of theinnovative products in today’s rapidly changing workplace. E. DesignThe EE graduate must have the capability to delineate and solve in a practical way theengineering problems which are encountered during his/her career. Engineering design is usuallya major component of the solution process; thus, the undergraduate curriculum should include asubstantial design experience

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Mohammad M. Asoodeh; Carl W. Steidley

education facility, using existing equipment andfacilities as a basis upon which to build. This facility will be used in courses that emphasizecomputer-aided manufacturing, computer-controlled systems, robotics, and real-time physicalsystems with the goal of incorporating the concepts of teamwork, communication, concurrentengineering, and continuous improvement as a major part of the curriculum as well as developinga steady supply of students interested in science, engineering, and technology.As part of our effort, we are incorporating an outreach component to encourage local students tostudy science and technology and to learn about the career potentials in these fields. We believethat modern computer integrated technology needs to be incorporated

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Richard H. Barnett; Mary A. Eiff; D. Perry Achor; Troy E. Kostek; William J. Hutzel; Bruce Harding

Session 2525 Sharpening Pencils and Young Minds William J. Hutzel, D. Perry Achor, Richard H. Barnett, Mary A. Eiff, Bruce A. Harding, and Troy E. Kostek, Purdue UniversityAbstract The School of Technology at Purdue University has undertaken an ambitious project toincrease the number of students who eventually pursue careers in science and technology. The"Techmobile" is an interactive traveling exhibit for Indiana eighth graders that introduces a widearray of scientific information in the context of manufacturing and sharpening a pencil. Theevents are

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Kathryn A. Neeley

integral part ofprofessional engineering education, we will need to go beyond generalizations and readyexplanations to inquire into (1) the specific knowledge, skills, and experiences that constitute the Page 2.442.1ability to communicate effectively about technical matters and (2) the cultural and historicalcontexts that have shaped contemporary views of engineers and technology.We need a new vision of technical communication that is interdisciplinary and integrative andestablishes strong links between communication and intellectual activity. It should have severalkey components.1.) It should be consistent with the notion of career preparation

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Kara B. Wright; Charles T. Wright; Christine L. Collier; Lawrence Genalo

-web site was developed which highlights these Page 2.445.1efforts. It can be viewed at http://www.ee.iastate.edu/Mobile_Robot/mobiler.html. Thesestudents were directly supervised by two undergraduate women, co-authors Kara Wright andChristine Collier.The purpose of the internship program is to give young women experience in researchlaboratories under the mentorship of an Iowa State professor, thereby stimulating and solidifyingtheir interest in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (SEM) careers. The program allowstalented high school women to explore research opportunities in science and engineering and tobuild their confidence in SEM related

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Mary Kathryn Mathis; Duane Stucky; Ahad S. Nasab

, NASA, and NSF. He has recently been coordinating theelectromechanical engineering technology program at Middle Tennessee State University.DUANE STUCKY received his doctorate in mechanical engineering. He has taught engineering coursesthroughout his career and has served as vice president of finance and administration at severaluniversities. He oversaw the expansion of a 55 megawatt, coal-fired co-generation plant at theUniversity of Missouri, and initiated the design of a gas-fired co-generation plant at Middle Tennessee Page 2.457.3State University on which construction will begin later this year.

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Jens Jorgensen; Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; John Lamancusa

: Industrial Advisory Board (IAB): • 68% of industrials think that the local IAB provided strategic and operational guidance to their respective local institutions. • 79% and 90% of industrials and faculty, respectively, believe that the IAB provided support (financial and non-financial) to MEEP activities. • 95% of industrials consider that MEEP students would be more useful to their respective industries, and 79% are more likely to hire a MEEP student over a typical student.RE: Faculty issues • 71% of faculty received release time for the project. • 50% of faculty understand that their participation in MEEP was beneficial to their careers; 62% were provided with positive

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Jens Jorgensen; Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; John Lamancusa

MEEP students would be more useful to their respective industries, and 79% are more likely to hire a MEEP student over a typical student.RE: Faculty issues • 71% of faculty received release time for the project. • 50% of faculty understand that their participation in MEEP was beneficial to their careers; 62% were provided with positive feedback from their supervisors. • 14% received better student evaluations compared to regular courses. • 64% said the had a better experience with MEEP courses, compared to regular courses. • 57% believe that their participation in MEEP was an element for teaching/education awards and recognition; but only 10% think that their

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Jane M. Fraser; Dina R. Ismail

amount of data is overwhelming, so we chose to focus on trying toidentify factors that distinguish among the three groups: ENG, OTHER, and DROP,with emphasis on two types of factors: (1) data known before the student enters OSU(ACT, SAT, and rank) and (2) da ta known early in the student’s career at OSU. Inthe latter category we focused on performance in the first math, physics, and englishcourses.Table 2 shows how the percent in each group varied with factors known when the studententers OSU. With each factor, the ENG percent increases as the factor improves and theDROP percent decreases, as would be expected. The effect on the OTHER percentdepends on the relative size of the increase in the ENG percent and the decrease in theDROP percent.Table

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Robert F. Kubichek; Eskild T. Arntzen; Donald S. Warder

teaching of our undergraduate student - withfar reaching consequences. Additionally, it could be unpleasant enough for the graduate studentso as to convince them that a teaching career is not in their best interest. In either circumstance,the graduate student will have missed a growth opportunity.At the University of Wyoming, graduate students may enter into a program specifically designedto prepare them for college or university teaching careers. The Program in College Teaching(PCT), first initiated in 1994, introduces participants to the latest thinking in the teaching of thespecific subject area. The ability to teach effectively is paramount at all universities today, evenresearch institutions. It is no longer safe to assume that an individual

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Michael A. Paolino; Leonard A. Van Gulick

was the high point of theirundergraduate years. Now that the program at Vesalius is firmly established and featured inadmissions materials, students frequently indicate that its availability played a major role in theirdecision to attend Lafayette.INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEGREE PROGRAMContinuing globalization of industry and technology is leading to increasingly attractive careeropportunities for engineers with the strong foreign language proficiency and understanding offoreign culture needed to support an internationally oriented career. The Lafayette InternationalStudies degree program enables highly capable and highly motivated B.S. engineering students toprepare for these opportunities. It recognizes their accomplishment in doing so by

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Patrick L. Walter

2.352.1ground receiving station for demodulation and interpretation. Although hypothetical innature, this scenario represents a typical challenge encountered by the author during hisindustrial career. The design of the acceleration and pressure measurement systems served toprovide a basis for a two semester Capstone experience for the first TCU senior engineeringclass.The fact that measurement systems can provide logical design projects to a general (electrical& mechanical emphases) engineering program is explained as follows. The input to ameasurement system is typically a mechanical measurand, e. g., temperature, pressure,acceleration, strain, displacement, humidity, etc. The mechanical measurand is observedwith electromechanical transducers. The

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Lisa A. Riedle; Jill M. Clough

their academic careers. In developing a groupproject for new students, several desirable attributes were identified. 1) A successful project would beviewed by students as interesting and challenging. 2) Students would have ready access to information.3) The project’s scope would allow for some in-depth investigation, but not require detailed analysis. 4)The project would be open-ended and encourage students to be creative as well as analytical. 5) Theproject would provide a hands-on experience related to engineering. 6) Students would be able toprepare informative reports to build written and verbal communication skills. 7) Students would giveshort, oral presentations using at least two different visual aids.With such a project, students might

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

Session 2313 Introducing Under-represented Students to Research Through Funded Programs Deran Hanesian, Angelo Perna New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractA good source of both graduate and undergraduate students to assist with or develop “research”efforts is from programs designed to introduce under-represented students to research. Some ofthese programs available to students are the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees forMinorities in Engineering and Science, Inc. (GEM), Alliances for Minority Participation (AMP),and Minority Academic Career (MAC

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implementation. IntroductionThe mission statement for the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program at Oregon instituteof Technology (OIT) states that "this program is to offer an education that will provide the greatestopportunity for rewarding and successful careers" in this field. Students become well versed in thetheory of manufacturing science through classroom activity. Extensive laboratory experience isprovided so that the student becomes equally well versed in the applications of manufacturingscience theory.In a manufacturing engineering technology program, labs are used extensively, which serve toprovide an applied emphasis to the students educational activity. At Oregon Institute of Technology,all

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their daily lives as well as their inputs into the processesof democratically controlling technology (e.g. through voting or purchasing products). Mostscience and engineering graduates will implicitly, if not explicitly, deal with risk assessmentduring the course of their careers. In the context of STS education, few topics are more germaneto the relationship of contemporary technology and human values than the issues of riskassessment and equitable risk management.The course addresses all three goals for the STS component of the General EducationRequirement at NC State. The course helps students develop an understanding of the influenceof science and technology on civilization by considering how complex technologies aredeveloped and operated

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George H. Sehi

strategy for implementing the mostproductive changes in the most effective manner.The final workshop report has been completed, printed, and distributed to a predeterminedmailing list. In additional, more than 600 independent requests for copies have been received asthe result of an internet posting. Comments on the quality of the report have been universallypositive.The workshop participants and the follow-up editorial team identified a number of desirableinitiatives in seven broad areas: evolution of the educational environment; program assessment;the changing nature of program accreditation; the education-career continuum, interacademicarticulation, and the importance of lifelong learning; promotion and marketing; the changingnature of

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

withnew baccalaureate programs. As a specialized college, Farmingdale has been challenged toreengineer the traditional concept of the technical college and to restructure itself so as to be apivotal element in transforming the regional economy to a non-defense, high-technology base.Farmingdale redesigned its academic offerings to create career-oriented programs in thoseapplied sciences and technologies directly related to the needs of restructured regional economy.The paper also discusses core curriculum issues, external supports, initiation of high schooloutreach programs, initiation of distance education, and other relevant issues. IntroductionThe state of the State University of New York at

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Sherman K. Ward; Dan Budny; William LeBold

career decisions.This paper discusses the use of self-reports of beginning engineering students using theMathematics Science Inventory (MSI). The MSI is used in placing students in beginningmathematics and chemistry courses and to evaluate their perceptions of their achievements inthese courses.IntroductionThis paper reports on the mathematics and chemistry phases of a comprehensive research effortconducted at Purdue University to measure the background, achievements and self-perceptions ofbeginning engineering students. Initial efforts to examine the differential computer abilities ofengineering, science and technology students demonstrated the feasibility of using self-reports tomeasure computer literacy, knowledge and competency[1]. Later

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Jeffrey G. Sczechowski

students the research skills they need to complete a quality Senior Project and prepare themfor similar work in their future careers, we employ the following:The Dedicated Course Option: ENVE 551Currently our unit operations lab (ENVE 551) is part of our graduate program but severalundergraduates take the course as a technical elective. For various resource reasons, the coursewas not taught for 5 or 6 years prior to my arrival. When asked to revive the course, I found theequipment in a state of neglect and disrepair. To make things operational again, I pulled theclassic academic trick of having the students enrolled in the course do the work for me. We haveall probably been the “victims” of this approach during our undergraduate education. I still

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Jon E. Freckleton

Session 2563 CASE STUDIES IN ENGINEERING ETHICS Jon E. Freckleton, P.E. Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York 14623ABSTRACT The case studies presented in this paper are based on 22 years of experience at two majorUS companies, four years on active duty in the military, and 11 years of teaching. Cases arepresented first as the situation, with the results of action taken in a later section so that they canbe used for discussion with students. These occurred over a career that started as a new collegehire and

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to the development of a student’s technical skills and knowledgeand must be in direct support of the student’s major or minor. Students pursuing the IndustrialInternship are typically employed in such jobs as electronics, construction, manufacturing, designand engineering graphics, computer-integrated manufacturing, graphic arts, etc. The IndustrialInternship is designed to provide university credit for relevant work experiences under actualemployment conditions. Such intern experiences are appropriate for students pursuing careers inbusiness and industry. Goals and ObjectivesThe goal of the intern experience is to encourage students to obtain meaningful off-campuspositions related to their future

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Robert P. Taylor; B.K. Hodge

Computers3 Changing nature of the job market4 ASEE5 ME career expectations and prestige6 Industry expects ME education to be more responsive to industry’s needs7 No more amateur programming8 Computer applications and utilization9 Reduced hours for BS degree10 Teaching/research balance for faculty11 International considerations12 Back to basics13 ABET14 Lifelong learning15 Remote instruction16 Design education17 Team projects18 MTV generation19 Ethics20 WWW versus the library21 Faculty aging22 Curriculum difficulty23

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T.R. Kurfess; M.L. Nagurka

must be made clear to the sponsors that the needs of the academicpartner are somewhat different. For the university partner it is key that the research conducted ispublishable. The publication of a thesis is essential for a graduate student to complete a degree(at most schools), while archival journal publication is important for the faculty advisor’s career.It must be made clear to the industrial partner that the research content of the work must beworthy of a thesis and that it will (upon completion) be published in the public domain. There-fore, the supervising faculty member must ensure that the work performed simultaneously aidsthe industrial partner and supports his/her academic career as well as that of the student.Scheduling One

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, synchronous machines, and inductionmachines. Over the years this has been a good course which introduced students to the principlesof the basic types of electric machines.This is no longer good enough. Many if not most electrical engineers will not actively deal withthese large machines during their careers. As a result, many universities have dropped this coursefrom the required curriculum. A course that is more relevant to the majority of electricalengineers would not only be more interesting to the students but also would be taught as arequired course at more universities.The question is, "What is a more relevant course?" We propose that the ideal Introduction toElectrical Energy Conversion course would discuss all forms of energy conversion that

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David J. Lilja

hands-on experience” [3]. Additionally, the experience of writing a research proposal, competing with other studentsfor a limited number of positions, and learning to handle unexpected research problems providesthem with practical skills that will enhance their future employment prospects. The closeinteraction with a faculty member that this type of research experience provides students helpsthem to begin establishing contacts in their field of interest, and it connects them with a mentor Page 2.377.4who can provide career and educational advice. Finally, it allows students to test whether theyare capable of performing research, and