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Michael H. Gregg; Dr. Deidre Hirschfeld; Dr. Bevlee Watford

alreadyemployed as engineers do not see female role models to indicate that advancement for women ispossible.’6 (The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) recognizes ten women asengineering deans.7 Dr. Vetter referenced other studies that : 1) ‘found that women in engineeringare under-utilized, and that their career advancement is stymied by a number of remedial barriers.’;2) ‘Women are leaving engineering because they aren’t allowed to succeed’; and 3) ‘Networking andsupport groups for women are not encouraged.’ Dr. Vetter’s first recommendation for ‘removing thebarriers’ was that ‘women should form or join networks for women. Employers should encourage,rather than discourage such activity, developing formal mentoring programs to provide

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Mary Kantowski; Marc Hoit; Matthew Ohland

guiding students into engineering careers. The survey primarily measures interest andbackground knowledge, with a few questions which specifically evaluate the program as a whole which areincluded in the survey administered at the completion of the institute. Many survey questions were taken directlyfrom an instrument previously used at the University of Pittsburgh[1] and the University of Florida[2] in order toprovide the opportunity for cross-comparison. Additional questions were added to suit the particularcircumstances of those in the teaching profession. A five point (Likert) scale was used to assess studentagreement with survey statements. The scale is shown in Table 1. Table 1: Definition of survey

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Richard A. King; Jack Van de Water

the world as easily as withthose in the same office complex. Beyond the simple act of “keeping up” with colleagues, it has become feasibleto share projects and research in the same manner. This capability will have a profound effect on professional lifein the future.This paper describes a program initiated by the higher education system of Oregon, to foster changes in theeducation paradigm which will embrace the coming global design arena. This new program - Global Graduates:the Oregon International Internship Program - is designed to improve the educational preparation for the“borderless” careers that present students will encounter upon graduation

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William T. Brazelton

summer session, 10men and 10 women. The students attended classes in mathematics, chemistry with laboratory, computerscience, communications skills (both written and oral), study skills and career planning. Pre-testing inmath, chemistry, and writing was used to identify individual strengths and weaknesses, allowing attentionto those areas needing further development and for others the opportunity to provide additionalchallenges. Post-testing along with instructor evaluations enabled the diagnostics necessary to appropriateplacement in the freshman year sequences and provide, as well, some measure of the summer’saccomplishments. The summer session also introduced the students to dormitory living and the campus where theybecame familiar

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Dr. John W. Nazemetz; Dr. John B. Solie; Dr. David R. Thompson

Experience in Solving Open-Ended Problems Introduce the Student to the Ethical Considerations in Design Assisting the Student in making Career Decisions The committee developed a possible course syllabus based upon a two credit hour course that wouldhold a one hour lecture and a two hour lab each week. Key concepts for the course included the design andconstruction and physical display (testing) of the solution to a semester long design project. Of the fifteenweeks of instruction, nine lectures and eight labs focused upon CAD and the remaining classes (five lectures,seven labs and a midterm) were used in pursuit of the design project. The faculty assigned to teach the classwere to meet the spirit of

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John Kinney

‘..*,Hly’,?regression, fitting curves to data, and the design of experiments have been made in the past10 years. It is not surprising then that statistics has only recently been recognized asimportant for the engineering curriculum. Engineers in industry are increasingly called upon to design efficient experiments and toperform statistical analyses of the data gathered. Short courses by universities as well asprivate vendors are easily available, attesting to the need for retraining existing industrialengineers. It is then most sensible to produce engineers who are trained in statistics in thefirst place, rather than to produce a product that must be re-tooled early in its career. Some manufacturing processes demand that the resulting

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Walter C. Vodrazka

Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..,,~yllc:: The classes devoted to student participation start with any questions or comments about thepractitioner presentations. This is followed by a presentation and discussion of current professional issues.The point is made that virtually all their engineering and science courses deal with strictly technical issues.However, this course is concerned with professional issues that may not seem too important to them nowbut which will affect their careers and be quite important later on. Current professional issues are easy to find. All one needs are several copies of Engineering Times(ET), the NSPE publication, and perhaps the editorials found in technical society

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Robert C. Waters

since 1979. After a 16-year industrial career, which included the GE ManufacturingManagement Program, he joined the University of Missouri-Rolls as an associate professor. Seven yearslater, he moved to GWU. He was department chair, 1984 to 1989. Also, he was chairman of ASEEEngineering Economy Division, 1976-1977.1. W. J Bruns, Jr., Diversity in Accounting Principles: A Problem, a Strategic Imperative,or a StrategicOpportunity?, Harvard Business School Publishing Div.: Boston, MA, 9-193-045, Revised May 26, 1993.2. R. S. Kaplan, A. P. Sweeny, and J. Dearden, Peoria Engine Plant (A), Harvard Business SchoolPublishing Div.: Boston, MA, 9-193-082, Revised June 29, 1993.3. J. H. Hertenstein, Wilmington Tap and Die, Harvard Business School

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James D. van Putten Jr.

spending only a year at a traditional engineering school. The reasonwas not ability to compete but a discovery that engineering was not the career for them. We decidedto begin teaching introductory engineering courses with the purpose of helping students make a moreenlightened choice of a vocation. An engineer with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering was recruitedas a member of the Department of Physics and given the task of teaching two engineering courses asemester plus assisting in the programs of Mathematics and Physics. A demand for additional courses arose almost immediately. With only one faculty member inengineering to teach many different courses, a decision was made to teach sophomore level courses(after a year of physics and calculus

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Larry C. Burton; Jeffrey G. Soper; Jack V. Matson

I .— - ...... Session 2432 .. . . . The Engineering Leadership Development Minor at Penn State Larry C. Burton, Jack V. Matson, Jeffrey G. Soper The Pennsylvania State UniversityABSTRACTPenn State’s College of Engineering has begun anew, interdisciplinary minor to help engineeringundergraduates develop the practical leadership skills they’ 11 need throughout their careers. The EngineeringLeadership Development Minor

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Lueny Morell de Ramírez; Carlos Velazquez

pilot with the course was so rewarding that it helpedexperiment were overall good, despite the fact him make an important career decision: hethat this was the first structured effort engaged decided to earn a Ph.D. in Chemicalusing this teaching methodology. Student Engineering to become a full time professor. Heresponses to a survey at the conclusion of the is now completing his graduate thesis at thesemester included remarks like: University of Connecticut. “... (this method) forces one to be up-to- The AMP project group expanded the date in the class and always know ifyou experience to other SEM faculty. Since 1992, understand the material... I

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Mohamed I. Dessouky; Murali Krishnamurthi

availability of people with these skills is making it difficult for U. S, industries to compete in the international market. To function effectively in today’s technological society, contribute to its growth, reap its benefits, and minimize its hazards, knowledge of the technology is essential. This is true whether one is pursuing a career in business, economics, law, education, health care, mathematical, physical or social sciences, humanities or the arts. Academic institutions, particularly engineering schools, have the primary responsibility for producing new graduates in sufficient numbers and with adequate knowledge of science and technology and skill to meet the needs of the industry and the society. However

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Karl D. Stephan

that food keptinside her icebox might stay a few degrees cooler than the ambient temperature in her kitchen. And all toooften, even that hope was denied, with the result that lettuce or eggs which had traveled thousands of miles,perhaps, in refrigerated boxcars carefully maintained at the proper temperature, came to bad ends in animproperly designed and insufficiently iced refrigerator, and had to be thrown out.” She was clearly speaking of something close to her heart. I had done a little reading on her career, soI was able to ask her next, “You had something to do with those refrigerated boxcars. You performed someof the first scientific studies of refrigerator car cooling efficiency, starting around 1910. Did you actually ridein the

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Paul J. Turinsky; Kuruvilla Verghese

of the lull in nuclear powerplant orders.REFERENCES1. Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers, p.78, National Academy Press, WashingtonD. C., 1995.2. “Careers 95: The Future of the Ph.D.”, p. 129, Science, v. 270,6 October, 1995.BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONPAUL J. TURINSKY is Professor of Nuclear Engineering at NCSU. He also is Faculty Coordinator of theInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Computational Engineering and Sciences and Technical Director of theNuclear Program Area of the NCSU Electrical Power Research Center. He received his Ph.D. from theUniversity of Michigan.KURUVILLA VERGHESE is Professor of Nuclear Engineering at NCSU. He also is Graduate Administrator ofthe Department of Nuclear Engineering. He received

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R. Papannareddy

semiconductorcharacterization,” Proceedings of ASEE Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 565-569, 1994.RAJAPPA PAPANNAREDDYReceived the Bachelor of Engineering degree in electronics from Bangalore University, Bangalore, India in1975. After a year of undergraduate teaching career, he joined Indian Space Research Organization SatelliteCenter, Bangalore, where he worked as an Engineer in the field of satellite communication systems. In 1983, hereceived M.S.E.E. degree from the university of Maryland and the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering fromSouthern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1987. In 1988, he joined Purdue University North Central andcurrently, he is an Associate Professor in the department of engineering and technology. His teaching areasinclude circuit theory

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PhD, Charles E. Tinney

PSPICE was used early in thestudents’ programming coursework, the students used it more as a crutch, relying too heavily on it to do alltheir math labor work. In most cases, their math enhancement and resulting coursework scores actuallydropped. Using PSPICE midway in their engineering career made negligible difference in their understanding Page 1.393.1or their scores; and using it later in their program appeared to have no effect. @iii”-’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,yllyp

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Scott R. Short

. Page 1.161.1 {hxii~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..plly’..’ One reason that I chose to begin my pedagogical career with NIU was that the College of Engineeringhad no materials engineering facilities at the time that I was hired. One of my personal career goals thereforebecame to establish a well-equipped laboratory where students could learn about engineering materials. I feltconfident in my ability to achieve this goal due to my previous work experience in private industry, federalresearch laboratories, and academia. As a research engineer with ARMCO, Inc.’s Research and TechnologyCenter, I was able to obtain a first-hand look at how an industrial research

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Silvia G. Middleton; Monika Lumsdaine; Kimberly A. Buch; J. William Shelnutt

development of these thinking styles in students whosemajor strength is in quadrant A or with strengths in quadrants A and B. Although it is too early to draw any conclusions about the effectiveness of the HBDI in forming teams,there is evidence that it has significant value as a self-awareness tool in developing team and individual skills.One author uses the results of the HBDI in counseling students about academic and career issues. For manystudents this is a first serious look at their thinking and learning styles and can be a strong personal affirmation.For several it has given them an indication that success in a technical career is well within their reach but willrequire additional effort to focus on Quadrant A, which is not a dominant

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Z. T. Bieniawski

corporations and the .Universities of Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe, Nagoya and Hiroshima, and having discussions with MITI officials. Inaddition, a premier private high-school in Tokyo, Musashi School, was visited. Most of all, the author had therare privilege of being invited to two Japanese homes and spent weekend outings with three Japanese familiesand their children. This, combined with numerous visits to museums, gardens, kabuki theater, tea ceremonies,and even sumo and baseball games, provided a great insight into Japanese society, history, and culture. Engineering education in Japan is a career-long process. In discussing the Japanese system we must look atthe total educational, cultural and professional environment that affects Japanese engineers

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W. Max Lucas

and integrated with his architectural design throughout his career were thesubjects of the remaining lectures in this series. The first facility discussed in the final series of lectures was the Municipal Stadium in Florence,built in 1929-1932. This is actually the first major project Nervi designed, and he won the commissionthrough a competition. Of particular interest is the resolution of the internal forces in the stadium canopyby the configuration of the structural elements and the design of the exterior stairs, which are helicoidalspirals. Mathematical methods to predict accurately the stresses in these double helix, exterior stairswere not available at the time, so Nervi reduced the system to statically determinant elements

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Judith E. Miller; James E. Groccia; David DiBiasio

has been the successful implementation of a heavily project-based curriculum. The recent reclassification (by the Carnegie Foundation) of the Institute as a comprehensive university indicates that its doctoral programs have developed to a significant degree. However, until the initiation of the project described in this paper, the school did not provide any opportunities for fiture faculty to learn about teaching. This meant that Ph.D. graduates fi-om WPI hwo pursued academic careers, had no teaching preparation and probably had little knowledge of the strengths of our undergraduate program. Objectives It was our intent to address the general and local problems outlined above by developing

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Benoit Cushman-Roisin; Elsa Garmire

been able to rely for a long time on peopleseparately trained in engineering and management, the ever increasing complexity of technology and itsever accelerating pace of development have now combined to require that managers, in variousindustrial sectors and particularly in the manufacturing sector, possess a practical understanding oftechnology. One way to satisfy this need has been to move engineers into managerial positions in theirlater career (the German model), another to include a technical component in the education of managers(the so-called Techno-MBA). Each approach is predicated on the belief that the missing educationalcomponent can be successfully retrofitted in the person’s career: It is assumed that the engineer canacquire on

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III, John J. Bausch; Fredric M. Gold

. Ensuring continuity of student groups and topics has become a primary concern. Again, the students, employees and faculty are partaking of separate cultures and need to be aware of the cultural differences and avoiding the miscommunication that can develop.Project Based Learning According to Acuna et.al. there has been a resurgence of interest into project based learning, both froma practical side and a theoretical side, “As students struggle to solve design problems together, they areforced to negotiate shared meanings of their problem solving experience while using common mediationaltools.’’(Acuna 1996). Every engineer, except perhaps those that own their own company, work withother engineers on projects during their professional career. It

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Rick L. Homkes

exceptional (whatever that is) attributes inone or two areas. It is an error, however, to neglect an area. Regarding publishing, an ex-professor wrote toPrism that: This past year I won the Dow Award from ASEE’s Gulf Southwest Section for my work with undergraduates--both in the classroom and in independent study. Unfortunately, I paid for these [4] activities with my job and, for now, with my academic career. Cecilia Campoverde, a professor of social work at Florida Atlantic University, obtained tenure withoutany publications. This occurred, however, only after a bitter, divisive battle that included newspaper editorialsand a resignation from the tenure

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Vinay Govande; Kristine Laubach; Jr., Dr. Emory W. Zimmers; Jennifer Montemurro; Dr. Roger Nagel; Alice Swanger

overall educational process that will, inthe long run, better allocate the time and money often spent retraining and reeducating the workforce aftergraduation. The skills and specific knowledge the student takes away from the university increases his or hercompetitiveness in the work place and in a career. The change in the organization of the university will allowfor future changes as interests of the customer (the student) evolve. The flexibility involved in such anuniversity structure nurtures an entrepreneurial and innovative atmosphere that encourages the creation ofmutually dependent relationships. Students will understand the importance of leveraging the impact of peopleand information while they are undergraduates because of the

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Stephanie L. Blaisdell; Peggy Fussell; Manuel Aroz; EIT, Maria Reyes; Catherine R. Cosgrove; Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

andassigned the task of planning a career research paper for English using Project Management skills. Thestudents identified goals and itemized tasks and time requirements. A projected date of completion wasidentified by students. The students were able to observe the value of such an easy tool. Discussion was heldon the process and students did an excellent job of detailing how to accomplish the projects. The major advantages of this workshop are that students gain confidence in their management skills,know how to get started and can observe their progress from start to finish. In addition, projects areaccomplished with the desired results. This session was held from 2:10 - 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon andnearly 70 students attended.Time

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James V. Masi

the physically challenged. Through cooperative programs with Shriners Hospital, Baystate Medical (.Tufts), Monsanto Chemical Co., and (for certain devices) NASA Technology Utilization, students from Western New England College, School of Engineering enter into design experiences which have as their goal the solution (via bioengineering and biophysics) of problems unique to the handicapped individuals. The experience related in this paper is that of an engineering professor’s teaching involvement in this merger of physics,bioengineering, industry, government, and student/patient in one of the most rewarding experiences the author has observed in overthirty years of his career. This experience is from the perspective of some of the problems

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Barbara Blake Bath

, physical and social Science, and engineering course-work. It is sponsored by the Fund for Post Secondary Education of the United States Department of Education. The program is designed to address two areas: 1) poor integration of humanities and social science into technical curricula, and 2) freshman-level instruction that discourages students from pursuing careers in engineering and mathematics, By enhancing higher order thinking abilities, the hope is that the students will discover important connections among their various courses and that the learning will be deeper and more complete, The Connections program proposal promised that it will allow students to: . discover and develop significant connections among their freshmen

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Peter K. Liaw; N. Yu

determine the importantphysical properties, and to characterize the thermo-mechanical and fracture behavior as well as microstructuralevolution of CMCs; (3) have the capabilities of predicting and explaining the material behavior based onmechanics analyses; and (4) be able to perform basic compositional and microstructural designs of advancedCMCs. Even if the students’ future careers are not focused on CMC-related fields, they will have thecapability and strategy of approaching mechanics and materials problems in a systematic manner. Numerous multimedia techniques, together with computers, are utilized in the present program. Theyinclude videotapes, on-line lecture notes with audio/video effects under world wide web (WWW), computersimulation

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Erdogan Sener

engineering education is the development of intellectual skills and knowledge that willequip graduates to contribute to society through productive and satisfying careers as innovators, decision makers,and leaders in the global economy.” It is expected that today’s engineeringkehnology graduates will bechanging jobs several more times compared to a deeade or two ago. This inevitably leads to the requirementthat emphasis given in higher education to skills and attributes that are transferable from one type of endeavorto another be as much as, if not more, than that given to purely technical skills, which beeome obsolete quicklyin face of rapidly evolving and changing technologies. In line with above, it is anticipated that the following would be the