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Margarita Takach; Yiyuan J. Zhao; Reza Langari; Ray Taghavi; Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad; Luigi Martinelli; Linda Ann Riley; K. Krishnamurthy; Janet M. Twomey; Degang Chen; David Radcliffe

5.714.3Curriculum reform can not stop at the freshman level however, or remain limited to one or twoengineering design courses. In order for engineering education to provide the rich set of skills thatare necessary for a successful career in engineering, one must evaluate and potentially revise themanner in which engineering students are educated throughout the traditional four-yearengineering program. Such reform must be, in our vision, multifaceted and will likely impact boththe form and content of engineering education as discussed below.3.1 Impact on Engineering SciencesA key feature of our vision addresses the manner in which fundamental scientific concepts ofengineering are introduced in the classroom setting. In particular, we believe that, it is

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Thomas Stanford; R.J. Bennett; R. Jacoby; M.I. Mendelson; D.A. Keating

the context of research, the American system of graduate education has set the world standard for preparing scientists and engineers for research careers in academe, government, and industry.” 21.4 Changing the Context of U.S. Graduate Education for EngineersAlthough the U.S. system of graduate education for research has proven to be a world leader, “and is one of thenation's strengths in carrying out graduate education where a large portion of the nation’s best research is done”, it isnow evident that a change is required.2 The change that is required is not a change in the graduate education of thenation’s scientists and engineers for academic research. Rather it is a change in the advanced professional educationof the nation’s

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Richard A. Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

group,the Tech-4 High Technology Industrial Educational Consortium. The partners of this consortiumare representatives of the high tech industries, community colleges and universities in centralFlorida roughly along the interstate 4, which runs east to west from Daytona Beach throughOrlando to Tampa. The Tech 4 Education consortium was founded to ensure a highly skilledworkforce for business in central Florida. Tech 4 promotes training for high school students,community college students, university students, as well as individuals seeking a career change.Beyond education offerings the Tech 4 Education Consortium provides awareness programs thatseek to increase the general public’s knowledge concerning high tech careers. Additionalindustry

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Craig Gunn

education. The idea of networkingand developing strong links to individuals who can supply help and counsel in future work canand should be instilled early in the college or university career. Strategies for dealing with teamactivities, elements for creating a team environment, activities that will allow teaming to be partof the natural engineering education, and ideas concerning the type of students who may enterengineering programs (and their teaming potential) will be discussed. The incorporation ofproblem solving as a team activity will also be reviewed. Attitudes towards the teaming activitiesand their benefit to the students will be explored through the students’ assessments of theactivities.Every fall thousands of freshmen join the ranks of

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Loren W. Zachary; Janet M. Sharp; Barbara M. Adams

field of study in which to integrate thesetwo practices is engineering. “The component of technology most closely allied to scientificinquiry and to mathematical modeling is engineering”4.A surprisingly high percentage of middle school students express a desire for a career in scienceor engineering. That preference, unfortunately, declines as students move to upper level classes5and find science, mathematics, and engineering courses as “dull and unwelcoming”6. For manystudents, “The way science and math are taught critically affects their interest and laterparticipation in science and engineering”7. If this is the case, then the responsibility fallsprimarily on the teaching profession. A report to the National Science Foundation recommendsthat

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Richard Gilbert; Wayne E. Wells; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

the module will simply demonstrate that necessary fact related tolearning pre-engineering and/or engineering topics. Practice is a required element of thislearning process for most if not all students. Practice is particularly pertinent for minoritystudents. If a minority student is faced with difficulty with a concept, it is anticipated that asignificant reason for this situation is the student’s lack of exposure to the preliminary structureassociated with this knowledge. At this point in their student careers, extensive practice willexpedite their learning process.Although the practice component will involve repetitive exercises, it is not simply a studentworkbook type of learning experience. The unique characteristic of this component of

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Duane L. Abata

-disciplinary engineering training for bothundergraduate and graduate students specializing in this important area of national need. Now init’s second year, ICAP has significantly stimulated team teaching and research across departmentaland college boundaries and provided a unique opportunity for students in mechanical engineering,chemical engineering, electrical engineering, and metallurgical engineering to pursue theirinterests and develop careers in an otherwise traditionally mechanical engineering area. Althoughdifficulties existed at the onset, and problems still exist, traditional barriers are being bridged by asuccessful teambuilding.I. The Nature of Interdisciplinary WorkAlthough interdisciplinary teambuilding within the academic setting makes

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Robert Sumrall; Nuggenhalli S Nandagopal; Gilbert J. Groendyke

piping professionals. Their activities have a synergistic effect and significantly benefiteach other. The graduates of the piping program are highly sought after by the industryand many of them have progressed rapidly in their careers. The program received itsinitial accreditation in 1984 and was re-accredited in 1990 and 1996. SPED has grownto be a well-recognized international organization and includes members from Canada,UK, Venezuela, Mexico and Australia. Educational videotapes produced by SPED havebeen sold all over the world. A description of how SPED and UH-D support each other’sactivities follows.• UH-D has provided office space for SPED. In addition, UH-D is the fiscal agent for SPED. Some SPED funds are maintained in an agency

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Lucy C. Morse

Session 2642 Using E-Teams Lucy C. Morse University of Central FloridaAbstractTeams have become a mainstay in the workforce and teamwork is essential within modernindustry. As more and more companies require employees to function in teams, engineeringschools have begun to use teams as part of the training for careers in industry. The formation ofteams can easily utilize the talents from different functions, locations, and organizations. Nowthe functioning of industry in a global environment has led to formation of virtual teams. Asmore schools

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Richard E. Pfile; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto

interfacing, all focusing on thepropulsion system. Unlike traditional power electronics courses where the design methods areapplied to generic scenarios, focusing on such a high-profile modern plant helps motivatestudents because they see the lessons as real, relevant, and career oriented. The paper includes acomprehensive description of the high-power electronics subsystems and the solid state devicescommonly used in power electronics, and it discusses the range of laboratory experiments andprojects that students are assigned throughout the semester. The paper also discusses the dataacquisition system that was developed using LabView for students to safely monitor highvoltages and currents from the propulsion system and the ABC150 battery charger

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Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

1999, and has submitted the Ph.D. in Microelectronics-Photonics into the approval processfor implementation in May 2000.These degree programs are designed to give their graduates not only state-of-the art researchtraining and deep level subject knowledge, but also provide them with the soft skills necessary toefficiently utilize their knowledge early in their professional careers. Unique elements of theprogram created to support these design objectives include: a) An interdisciplinary curriculum of applied physics and chemistry courses, as well as engineering courses from multiple departments. b) Students grouped together as a pseudo-industry engineering group, with each student reporting both to their research professor

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Winston Conway Link; Carlos G. Spaht II

college awareness seminars, and fieldtrips to local businesses and industries. Professionals in the engineering and technological fields,including many minorities, discuss career opportunities.The program has been very successful in identifying and educating high ability middle schoolstudents. Evaluations by the participants, their parents, and by local and state officials who havevisited LaPREP have been excellent. No current or former participant has dropped out of highschool and 84% of exiting participants have indicated that LaPREP has increased their desire tostudy math and science. Moreover, all 55 former participants who have graduated from highschool have enrolled in college and more than 90% of those responding to a survey indicated

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Rosa Buxeda; Ramon Vazquez Espinosa; Jorge I. Velez; Lueny M. Morell

student’sacademic career. The program’s outcome is a graduate that is knowledgeable of the RS/GIStechnology and applications, and, possesses the necessary skills either to enter graduate school orbecomes a professional in these areas with success.The program also aims at developing values such as diversity, teamwork, global awareness andcommunication. PaSCoR goals will be achieved through five tasks, namely: 1) curriculumdevelopment, 2) undergraduate research & student mentoring, 3) industry collaboration, 4)outreach, and, 5) assessment. This paper describes the curriculum development strategy andexpected major outcomes.II. The PaSCoR ProgramOne of the principal objectives of PaSCoR is to provide an “alternative track” or “option” forundergraduate SMET

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Robin H. Lovgren; Michael J. Racer; Anna P. Phillips

prepared in 1993, well before any mention of ABET2000 criteria. Since then,the statement has been an integral element in the development of course curricula and is includedin the INSE Faculty Orientation Handbook.3.2 Assessment of Agreement Between College and University Mission StatementsIn our case, the INSE Mission statement was complementary to the University of MemphisMission Statement. Both statements share a common explicit commitment to qualityundergraduate education, with the need to prepare undergraduates for both careers in theworkplace and the ongoing nature of life-long learning. Specifically, both statements alsoaddress the importance of teaching problem solving skills in the academic realm, which willtransfer into the student’s post

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Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

was“Career Management – Lifelong Learning.” Over the years there have been a number of studiesto investigate the types of activities involved in lifelong learning, their frequency of use, thetypes of support systems required for lifelong learning, barriers to lifelong learning, and impactof lifelong learning for individual engineers. Many of these studies are summarized in a 1985report by an NRC panel [2].Lifelong learning is an issue of importance for engineers around the world. UNESCO sponsoredseveral significant studies including “Advances in the continuing education of engineers” [3].The report resulting from this study summarizes practices in continuing education in a numberof countries, both developed and developing, and also delivery

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Peter J. Graybash

. Profession Awakens to the NeedContinuing Professional Education is especially critical in the engineering profession, whereknowledge has a generally accepted five-year half-life. That is, half of what a new graduate haslearned is obsolete within five years. Engineers become obsolete, how do we get that overcome? The need for career-long continuing engineering education was formally recognized byindividual engineers, industry experts, academicians and professional societies when a panel ofthe National Research Council recommended that the National Science Foundation (NSF)establish learning objectives for career-long engineering education.In 1992,the NSF funded several engineering educational institutions to define the learningobjectives, and to test

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Mike Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ken McNichols

Role PlayingRole playing can serve teaching engineering and technology to K-12 students as it has servedscience education. The applications to science education presented in Section III serve as anexample and inspiration to those interested in developing role playing games for K-12engineering and technology education. We identify three clear modes of using role playing forthis purpose and discuss them in this section.IV.1 Teaching the functions and duties of various engineers and technologistsOur experience has shown that, Many students and K-12 teachers have no idea what engineersactually do. There is a strong need to inform them of the variety of activities involved inengineering so that more students can consider engineering as a career

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Arpita Gupte; Patricia F. Mead; Marjorieanne Natishan; James Greenberg; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt

team work will be important in their careers.• Students agree that learning skills to help teams be more effective is important.• Without defining what is meant by style diversity, 37% of the students responded that teams work best when members have the same style, while the remaining 63% responded that teams work best when members have different styles. By the conclusion of the workshop however, almost all students tended to express that teams should be more robust when members have different styles, where styles generally referred to learning style.The responses of men and women students were not statistically different, but it is notedthat the graduate students had the least positive attitude about working in team. Also

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Frances S. Johnson; Carlos C. Sun; Anthony J. Marchese; Heidi L. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Roberta Harvey; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

students to formalized engineering design techniques and providing themwith the necessary foundation for their careers as technical communicators. In order toachieve both of its key goals and meet university-wide general requirements, SophomoreEngineering Clinics are team-taught by faculty from the College of Engineering and theCollege of Communication [2]. This paper will focus on Sophomore Engineering Clinic I,which integrates the engineering clinic with a specialized version of the required secondsemester composition course. (Sophomore Clinic II incorporates a public speakingcomponent.) From the inception of the program four years ago, it was agreed that the writingcourse would be designed to meet the needs of both colleges

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Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

. He also feels that since he is thefirst generation out of his family going to college, his parents are very supportive and committedto his education. He feels that through a strong commitment to himself, he will be an engineerand this will allow him to do want he wants to do in his career. Going to high school, eventhough he had very little exposure, he liked computers a lot. He also feels that the CEASenvironment is free of discrimination. He also stated that he has never felt the need to see hisfaculty professors. He feels that the MEP SBP gave him a head start in ECE 100, but he wouldhave liked the program to include more on corporate politics and culture.Ken is a commuter student and usually leaves school when his ride has to leave, but

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Thomas Regan; Katherine Sanders; Donald Evans; Chris Carlson-Dakes; Cesar Malave; Ardie Walser; Jack McGourty; Richard Felder

experienced faculty members provide guidance to new faculty members on matters such as planning and effectively presenting courses, starting and building research programs, and balancing the inordinate time demands that are part of every faculty member’s life.Programs for graduate students• Orientation workshops and/or periodic seminars are offered to teaching assistants and graduate students contemplating academic careers, covering topics such as student learning styles, effective lecturing techniques, active and cooperative learning, dealing with common student problems, and survival skills.• Mentorships are organized in which graduate students interested in teaching are paired with experienced faculty to complete short

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Sandra Yost

, it was agreed that facultymembers would select their own preferred design activity to conduct. The mini-capstone projectwas used by the author to introduce students to concepts in mechatronics, and will be describedin more detail in the next section.Topics and activities common to all sections include an overview of different engineering majorsand careers, an introduction to the design process, teaming skills, time management and projectmanagement, competitive product assessment, criteria testing, and reverse engineering of acommon household item. In addition, each instructor prepares a one-week hands-on designactivity that is relevant to his/her discipline. A four-week segment of the course is devoted toconducting each of the discipline

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Douglas Mattox; Bahador Ghahramani

, 70 (1993) 5. Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain, Longmans, Green, NY,(1956).DOUGLAS M. MATTOXDoug Mattox is Professor of Ceramic Engineering in the Ceramic Engineering Department of the University ofMissouri-Rolla, Rolla Missouri. He received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Ceramic Engineering from RutgersUniversity. Following graduation he began a twenty-five year career in industrial research and management,mostly with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA. He came to the UMR in 1989 where hefirst served as Department Chair. He is particularly interested in the use web-based technologies and experts toassist in K-12 education.BAHADOR GHAHRAMANIDr. Ghahramani is Associate

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William C. Oakes; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

. Project Title: Constructed Wetland Partner: Purdue Department of Forestry and Natural Page 5.281.4 Resources Tasks: Develop and construct a test wetlands area to clean up runoff from cattle, dairy and swine farms to treat creek water Impact: Improved water quality. New techniques for mitigating agricultural runoff. Facts: Begun fall 1998, Disciplines: CE, EE, IDE, Chemistry, Biology13. Project Title: Discovering Engineering Careers Partner: Purdue Office of the Dean of Engineering and local K-12 schools Tasks: Develop portable, hands-on demonstrations of engineering principles and practice that will spark interest in engineering

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Pamela Schmaltz; Kevin Schmaltz

direct them to ameaningful career by giving them a better appreciation for what engineers do. We havebegun to administer a number of surveys to the students to gauge the effectiveness of thecourse goal as a retention tool. We administer typical end-of-course surveys to obtainfeedback from the students, the Study Behavior Inventory11 (SBI), and an AcademicSuccess Skill Survey.12Results from the end-of-course student surveys taken last year (Fall 1998) were generallyfavorable toward the material covered – though there was some dissatisfaction with thenumber of different faculty members involved. A few of the topics (such as the moredifficult computer assignments) were rated lower, and in general, the week 11 – 14 topics(one-week electrical and

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Elaine L. Craft; James C. Wood

those students who do place in the entry-level courses, the retention rate in thefreshman year for courses taught in the traditional-lecture, "stand-alone" mode is low (30–60percent.) This retention rate is not sufficient to have a graduation rate that will meet industrydemands. Many students in the "stand alone" course mode will postpone the freshman courses inmathematics, physics, and/or communications to later in the students' academic career, whichresults in the students' not having the benefit of the mathematics, physics, or communicationcompetencies in their major courses. The graduation rate for engineering technology programsfor the South Carolina Technical College System for the years of 1992 to1998 is 10 percent.Curriculum ChangeThe

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

individuals from which manufacturers can choose. Both full and part-timeprograms are now in place to ensure that those individuals who work full-time jobs can also takecourses and complete the program that will enhance their skills levels and allow them to furthertheir careers. The program is now offered in multiple locations, at both Huntington andBridgeport Manufacturing Technology Centers. The first full-time, formal class at the RCBIBridgeport Manufacturing Technology Center began November 1, 1999 with eight participantsand part-time evening program enrolment in Huntington and Bridgeport Centers arerespectively eight and sixteen participants as of January 10, 2000. In addition to the formal fulland part-time training programs, RCBI provides

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

academic programs in Engineering Technology should be two-fold: to teach thestudents the theoretical and practical principles in their future professions and to give them aninsightful vision of the industry in which they will develop their careers. While the first goal hastraditionally been well addressed and solved, the second one is not addressed by all institutionswith Engineering Technology programs. This paper describes my experiences developing andcarrying out an internship for the Biomedical Engineering Technology (BET) program at PennState University, Wilkes-Barre Campus (PSU-WB). Although some of the issues discussed inthis paper are specifically for this particular program, I firmly believe that most of the topicsdiscussed here are

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Wade Kenny; Kevin Myers; Heather Cornell

by Louis9 as those activities thatcommunicate to organizational newcomers the roles and behaviors they should adopt. Theintroductory Material and Energy Balances (MEB) course to be studied is, in itself, anenculturation process where students learn the basic skills they will use for at least the rest oftheir academic career, if not for the rest of their lives. Dr. Richard Felder hypothesizes that muchof the difficulty in MEB courses arises because the basic concepts are inherently simple.Students may feel at first that they need not learn the engineering approach to a problem, and,instead, use other methods learned in algebra and chemistry to solve the problems.Unfortunately, as problems become more difficult and new concepts are introduced

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Deborah Hwang; D. Blandford

State University2 - A summer course for high school women to encourage them to pursue science and engineering careers, and an education course to teach K-12 science teachers about engineering careers. Robotic Design Studio at Wellesley College3 - A course that introduces the application of engineering and design concepts to everyday life. Artificial Intelligence Robot Building Lab at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges4, 5 - Explores artificial intelligence by building an autonomous vehicle. Autonomous LEGO Robotics at Case-Western Reserve University6, 7 - A junior-level engineering and science design course that “teaches critical thinking and interdisciplinary teamwork by building your own animal