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Effective Tools for Teaching Engineering Economy

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Ryan, Iowa State University; John Jackman, Iowa State University; Rahul Marathe, Iowa State University; Pavlo Antonenko, Iowa State University; Piyamart Kumsaikaew, Iowa State University; Dale Niederhauser, Iowa State University; Craig Ogilvie, Iowa State University

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Engineering Economy

AC 2007-1929: STUDENT SELECTION OF INFORMATION RELEVANT TOSOLVING ILL-STRUCTURED ENGINEERING ECONOMIC DECISIONPROBLEMSSarah Ryan, Iowa State University Sarah Ryan is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University. She received an NSF CAREER award with its educational component to promote active learning and was part of the team that developed the PSLP under a National Science Foundation grant, pioneering its use in engineering economic analysis.John Jackman, Iowa State University John Jackman is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University. He brings to this project expertise in the

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Recruitment and Retention Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle Camacho, University of San Diego

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-1964: WHY PEDAGOGY MATTERS: FACULTY NARRATIVESSusan Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Associate Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, as well as feminist and liberative pedagogies. Dr. Lord served as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference. She has been awarded an NSF CAREER and ILI grants. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors

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Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carsten Ahrens, F.H. OOW

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Civil Engineering

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

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Design in Engineering Education

“involved.” Could it be that our own community ofdesign educators has not been able to persuade our own departments, that a solid designcurriculum will not only meet minimum ABET standards, but more importantly, prepare ourstudents for careers in a global work environment?Unfortunately the answers to these questions will have to wait for the next study.5.0 What design topics should we be teaching?We can argue that the thermal sciences in mechanical engineering include a core of fundamentalsincluding thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. We can suggest that for themotion/structures stem, mechanics of materials and machine design are brimming withfundamentals, too. And lastly, consider how engineering statics is important for both of

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Innovations in Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Collura, University of New Haven; Samuel Daniels, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; W. David Harding, University of New Haven

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Educational Research and Methods

of the National Academy of Engineering through The Engineer of 20201 andEducating The Engineer of 20202. To summarize very briefly, engineering educators are beingasked not only to preserve the level of analytical skill that has served society so well over thepast several decades, but also to help students develop a host of professional skills and a broaderperspective than has traditionally been associated with the engineering profession. At the sametime, we are faced with a looming crises as the current engineering workforce ages and thenumber of young people interested in an engineering career declines.In a traditional engineering program, the primary focus is on the content of a set of relativelynarrow disciplinary courses, generally

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hamad Albadr, Riyadh College of Technology

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Engineering Technology

graduated from King Abdul Aziz University in Biomedical Engineering from 1985 to2000 where 20% are non-Saudi national. 50% of the remains where joined the governmenthealth care facilities, 10% changed their professional career and the rest joined privatefacilities and/or medical companies .The Saudi Biomedical Engineers’ hands on working arevery low comparing to the number of health care facilities and/or medical companies. Fromthe above data, the number of graduates working within the health care facilities and/ormedical companies are very low which shows that the number of Biomedical engineers pernumber of hospitals and/or medical companies is one Biomedical engineer against five ormore hospitals and/or medical companies. Obviously, there is a

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Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Materials

working on teams o Confident about personal goals – wants balance between her career and family o Involved in many social activities, including the materials science professional society student chapter and other clubs ‚ Wilbur Needy o Transfer student from a local community college o Longs to succeed in engineering o Not able to self-assess needs or deficiencies o Quiet and works hard (but sometimes on the wrong stuff) o Inadequate background for immediate success in courses; needs guidance for success, but may be afraid to ask for helpAs we developed

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Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Brown, Virginia Tech; Owen Hughes, Virginia Tech; Leigh McCue, Virginia Tech; Wayne Neu, Virginia Tech; Betsy Tretola, Teaching and Learning,

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Ocean and Marine

engineering environment graduate students operate within. Asprofessionals and researchers, the students will be given problems to solve and they will beexpected to gather whatever information is needed to solve them. Therefore the problems thatare given in Distance Learning exams need to be realistic problems that are not answered byquoting some words from the textbook or plugging into a single equation from the textbook.Formulating such problems requires more work by the instructor yet serves the student greater intheir career.3.2 AOE 5314 and AOE 5994 – Naval Ship Systems Engineering and Ship Design3.2.1 Course philosophyThese two courses, taken together in the final two semesters of our Distance Learning MS, areintended as a capstone engineering

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ChE: Bioengineering, nanotechnology, and systems engineering in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Marlin, McMaster University; Andrew Hrymak, McMaster University; John MacGregor, McMaster University; Vladimir Mahalec, McMaster University; Prashant Mhaskar, McMaster University; Christopher Swartz, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

nearly all of the PSE requirements, but miss one or two courses so that they can take an elective that interests them. This was initially surprising to the faculty; however, we feel that all students benefit from the systems approach and can fill in any gaps later during their professional careers.• Preparation for further studies - Students completing the stream are well prepared to continue in graduate studies. They have applied the systems approach not only to PSE technical graduate programs, but also associated fields like MBA with concentration in operations research and public policy with emphasis on systems analysis.We note that this positive experience contradicts some “accepted wisdom” about PSE

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Intersdisciplinary Courses and Environmental Undergraduate Research

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helene Hilger, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Francis De Los Reyes, North Carolina State University; Warren DiBiase, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Len Holmes, University of North Carolina - Pembroke; Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Siva Mandjiny, University of North Carolina - Pembroke; Todd Steck, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Keith Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Chuang Wang, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Environmental Engineering

etc. Yes—this is the best class in my career I’ve learned more from this than any other Oh yeah, I’d say so I think so I’ve def. learned a lot; don’t know how much I’ll use in the field, but it’s been beneficial. I’d like interaction and group work. I think it would be beneficial sometimes but not every class; there is only so much your peers can teach you. Also Page 12.1083.8 I’d like some articles that are scientific but not in a research

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Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Gerry Galloway, Univ of Maryland; Thomas Lenox, American Society of Civil Engineers; James O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

of Engineering in the New Century” (NAE 2004). The second report isentitled “Educating the Engineer of 2020 – Adapting Engineering Education to the NewCentury” (NAE 2005).The second report validates ASCE Policy 465 by stating that: “It is evident that the exploding body of science and engineering knowledge cannot be accommodated within the context of the traditional four year baccalaureate degree.”In addition, the first recommendation of the second report indicates that: “#1 The baccalaureate degree should be recognized as the “pre- engineering” degree or “bachelor of arts” in engineering degree, depending on the course content and reflecting the career aspirations of the student.” (NAE

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Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julio Garcia, San Jose State University; Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

learning styles of minorities. Minority students were encouraged all the way alongthis course because they saw results and they learned by doing. They got very excited becausethey performed the experiments without following a strict sequence. They were allowed to usetheir previous knowledge and ingenuity to achieve the result when needed. They maintained theirinterest in every experiment knowing that if they got stuck they just needed to send themeasurements and the instructor would provide the needed assistance. When these students sawthe results, they became interested in pursuing careers in science, engineering and technology.ConclusionOne question being investigated in this study was the impact over time on attitudes and interestin electronics

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Technology Literacy for Non-Engineers

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Oakley, Oakland University; Lorenzo Smith, Oakland University; Yin-ping (Daniel) Chang, Oakland University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/birnbaum_v_henry_petroski.php. Accessed Jan 7, 2007.6. L. S. Anderson, K. A. Gilbride, "Image of engineering among Canadian high school students." http://www.ccwestt.org/cnu5news/images/Image_of_Engineering_Among_Secondary_Students.p df. Accessed December 28, 2006.7. C. Baillie, "Motivation and attrition in engineering students," European Journal of Engineering Education, 2000;25(2):145-155.8. P. Patel-Predd, "Careers: A League Of Extraordinary Women," Spectrum, IEEE, 2005;42(10):59- 61.9. G. Waterworth, "Renaming And Restructuring In Engineering Education." http://www.hull.ac.uk/engprogress/Prog1Papers/LMUgwaterworth.pdf. Accessed December 29, 2006.10. Heather B

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Recep Goktas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ulas Tezel, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

concerning as many master’s studentsin our program continue onto Ph.D. programs or pursue careers in engineering research upongraduation. Page 12.722.12Table 2. Selected assessed skill benefits as indicated in the 2004-05 and 2005-06 studiescategorized by degree program. Skill Program Benefit, 2005-06 Program Benefit, 2004-05 MS Res PhD MS Res PhD Concl Concl Mean SD Mean SD Mean

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Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University

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International

beenmet. As mentioned earlier, Georgia Tech is beginning an effort in this regard.45Colleges should be proactive in recruiting studentsStudents are yet learning what it means, in terms of their careers, for the world to be flat. Theystill need to be convinced that a study abroad program is not just “nice,” but a critical element oftheir education. To this end, the best institutions 1) use students who have been abroad to recruitstudents, 2) use the advising process to recruit students and 3) use industrial advisory boards torecruit students. Recommendations 1 and 3 involve groups (other students, employers, successfulalumni) which are highly credible with students. Recommendation 2 encourages a student to planahead. In one instance students

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University

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Mechanical Engineering

availability precludeoffering ME Lab each semester. Another concern is that the students’ major lab experienceoccurs in what is usually the last semester of their academic career. Recently, Baylor Universityhas increased its emphasis on faculty research. With the current curriculum, students are nottruly prepared to support the research initiatives until they graduate. This has prompted a seriesof discussions about shifting the lab experience to the sophomore year. Students would then bebetter prepared for future laboratory and research experiences. A one credit hour fluids/thermolab would occur in the fall of the senior year leaving the spring semester of the senior year totake the capstone design course. Schedule changes are being considered and

Conference Session

Climate Issues for Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

whenstudents are uncertain about their career path and not knowledgeable about the skills needed tobecome an engineer. Therefore, self-efficacy can fluctuate rapidly during the freshman year asstudents form judgments about their skills based on their vicarious and mastery experiences.Sherry’s perceptions of design projects as a success or a failure impacted her perceptions of herown abilities. It should be noted that her assessment of project success was based on her ownjudgment and was not necessarily aligned with the instructors’ judgment of her team’s success.The vicarious experiences that supported her self-efficacy were based on her observations of thestudents who were similar to herself. These students did not know how to use the tools but

Conference Session

Curriculum Reform with Cooperative Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Cates, University of Cincinnati; Kettil Cedercreutz, University of Cincinnati

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Postsecondary Education to Develop a Corporate Feedback System for Use in Curricular Reform.Kettil Cedercreutz, University of Cincinnati Born in Finland, Kettil Cedercreutz started his career in the United States as an Engineering Technology faculty member at the University of Cincinnati, OMI College of Applied Science (CAS). Since the fall of 2001, Cedercreutz is the Associate Provost and Director of UC’s cooperative education program offered by the Division of Professional Practice. Cedercreutz holds a Master’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Management from Helsinki University of Technology. He has conducted pedagogic studies at the Center of Pedagogic Training for

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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William A. Kline; Thomas Mason

, Ability to relate RHV project experiences to more engaged classroom performance, Experience on which to base career decisions – what they like to or don’t like to do, Internship experience and professional polish essential for job seeking. Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 6For faculty, the program offers professional development opportunities through the applieddevelopment projects. Some projects require additional depth of expertise on a particular fieldand faculty involvement ranges from advice, to short term consulting, to serving as a projectmanager for a

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Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Portia Sabin, University of Washington; Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle Oliver, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Laura Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Liberal Education

protection and resource sustainability. This decisionreflects, in part, our acknowledgement that a more formal course needed to more explicitly relateto ABET outcomes and to the concerns of our department’s industrial advisory board (seebelow).Moreover, it reflects our desire to stimulate engineering students’ critical thinking about thedirection engineering is heading and especially about some of the controversial emergingtechnologies they are likely to encounter and perhaps even work on during their careers. Thisdesire is consistent with Lewis Duncan’s admonition about the need for engineering students todevelop the social, political, economic, and ethical expertise necessary for effective leadership ina twenty-first century engineering landscape

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International Engineering Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Kelly, Dublin Institute of Technology; Mike Murphy

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International

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Daniel Amos, University of Washington; Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington; Lari Garrison, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

Engineering as Lifestyle and a Meritocracy of Difficulty: Two pervasive beliefs among engineering students and their possible effectsIn this paper we discuss a series of narratives collected from ethnographic interviews withengineering students concerning questions about what they wish to be an engineer. Our paperreports on two related beliefs that we have found among engineering undergraduates, mostcommonly in their first two years of four-year programs. These are: engineering as a lifestyleand a meritocracy of difficulty. Engineering as a lifestyle refers to the anticipated comfortablelife that students expect from their careers as engineers. In terms of a meritocracy of difficultywe are referring to how

Conference Session

Implementing the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge into Courses and Curricula

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Lynch, Dartmouth College; William Kelly, Catholic University of America; Manoj Jha, Morgan State University; Ronald Harichandran, Michigan State University

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Civil Engineering

state. In some cases the civil engi-neer will be the lead professional, and in other cases an important member of the team. In allcases the civil engineer must be an advocate for ensuring the sustainability of the overall system.Engineering practice is always evolving. Following Koehn, good engineering practice as exhib-ited in for example infrastructure is judged against the best state-of-the-art at the time of designand construction—Kohen’s “sota.” When we review infrastructure from another time, it is fair toask if it met or exceeded the sota of the time. The professional societies play an important role askeepers of the sota and in encouraging its improvement. ASCE’s mission is “To provide essen-tial value to our members, their careers, our

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Odete Lopes, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Vinhas, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

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International

Conference Session

Innovative K-12 Engineering Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shanna Daly, Purdue University; Kelly Hutchinson, Purdue University; Lynn Bryan, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Page 12.873.3Nanotechnology is an ideal vehicle for communicating concepts of engineering as well ashighlighting interdisciplinary work between engineers, scientists, and technologists.Since the inception of the National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2001, federal funding fornanotechnology research and development has increased substantially from $464 million to anestimated $1,081 million in 2005.Error! Bookmark not defined. The National ScienceFoundation has estimated that two million workers will be needed to support nanotechnologyindustries worldwide within 15 years.12 Thus, an obvious need exists for prepared engineers,scientists, and technologists. As many students opt out of science-related careers before theyenter college,13

Conference Session

Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Frank Kinney, Florida Tech; Vaidy Vaidyanathan; Tom O'Neal, University of Central Florida; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Grisselle Centeno, University of South Florida; Jose Zayas-Castro, University of South Florida; Lynda Weatherman, Space Caost EDC

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

)is to retrain and redeploy these skilled resources into careers in high tech entrepreneurship.Research indicates that teaming researchers and engineers from private industry and universitiescan help overcome the problem of the “Valley of Death” a dangerous portion of the innovationcycle where technological advances are established, but never put to productive use or brought tomarket.17 The conclusions from the 2002 AUTM Licensing Survey support this by showing thatthe academic and industrial technology transfer field is an integral part of the innovationeconomy. However, a key finding was that as federal research funding continued to climb, theindustrial funding grew at only one-third the rate, and that research funding linked to licensesand

Conference Session

Building Knowledge Based Economies: the Role of Industry-University-Government Partnerships

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Ramiro Jordan, ISTEC-ECE-UNM; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Javier Paez Saavedra

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International

academia, industry,government and private organizations for the benefit of the society and the nations.The goals and objectives of LACCEI include the following:Cooperation and partnerships among member institutions in the areas of engineering education,research, and technology advancement with emphasis on: ‚ Faculty and student exchange ‚ New and/or higher level academic programs ‚ Dual/joint degree and certificate programs ‚ Distance, continuing and e-education ‚ Laboratory development and sharing of resources ‚ Curriculum development, course equivalency and accreditation support ‚ Faculty development, including higher degrees ‚ Industry internship, cooperative programs and career development ‚ Joint training and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Rosemary Sutton, Cleveland State University; William Beasley, Cleveland State University; Joshua Bagaka's, Cleveland State University

meant that there was no way tohead off the impending collapse. A meeting was held to decide what to do, and the bridgecollapsed just as the meeting was breaking up. viii. Engineering Ethics – professional responsibility Mr. Cooper planned for the Quebec Bridge to be the crowning achievement of anillustrious career as a bridge engineer. However, by this time his health was poor and he wasunable to travel to the site. He was also poorly compensated for his work. Following thecollapse, organizations such as ASCE began to define better the responsibility of the engineer ofrecord. Unfortunately, the collapse of the Hyatt Regency Walkways three quarters of a centurylater showed that much remains to be done24. ix. Classroom

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Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education

metalworking career of Paul Revere Property • Collect and evaluate experimental data on microstructure, • Research the larger historical context of this question Connections properties, and processing, and compare to theory • Propose a thesis statement and support it with logical • Examine applications of an alloy system, and research argument and relevant technical and historical evidence 5 weeks modern alloys and processing techniques • Develop oral, written, and graphical communication skills • Develop oral, written, and graphical communication skills • Design and