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Eleven Modes of Thinking LOGICAL STRATEGIC/TACTICAL CRITICAL LONG-RANGE/SHORT-RANGE LARGE-SCALE SYSTEM ECONOMIC STATISTICAL CREATIVE TIME-RELATED ETHICAL Page 2.494.8There are many examples of important applications. Among these are turn-arounds; enlargementof existing businesses; restructuring enterprises by reorganizations; mergers; acquisitions anddivestitures; and establishing new businesses or product lines (the subject of the followingdiscussion

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subdisciplines such as engineering economics,operations research, inventory control, logistics, route planning, and location analysis. Instead ofsurveying a list of topics, the course provides some basic background on financial decisionmaking and then requires students to work in teams on public-policy oriented case studies. Thecase studies require students to apply technical tools in a "real-life" context, derived from actualconsulting experience; to deal with the ethical, social, political, and communication issuesinherent in real situations; and to communicate the results of their analyses to both managerialand technical audiences. The paper will describe the class, two cases, and the integration of thewriting component; provide a sample syllabus

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class participation. Typical literary “homework sets” this past semester were finding ten examples of irony in Oedipus Rex and briefly explain why/how each is ironic, rewriting Book 1.1 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in their own words and using their own examples, as well as exploring interpretive problems such as what does the Grand Inquisitor mean when he says, “But I awakened and would not serve madness.” • On the whole, they are very intelligent. • They are very practical in the way they think and the way they learn. They are used to Page 2.393.6 doing homework

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Barbara Tedesco; Sanford Bordman; Iftekhar Hasan

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, etc.). These carry a lot of weight inpromotion and tenure decisions, further broaden one’s contact network, and are important tomarketability. On the other hand, limit the number since they will often involve travel and a lotof time.24. Pick your battles carefully and don’t make enemies for nothing. They will often come backto haunt you. Don’t be confrontational unless the importance or ethics of the issue demands it.Don’t hold grudges. Be willing to apologize. On the other hand, if the issue does deserve it,stand your ground but as diplomatically as possible. Don’t be gullible or a “pushover” on issuesof real importance.25. Be extremely careful of what you say and, especially, write about anyone, especiallysuperiors’. Try to anticipate how

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Marilyn Dyrud

Approach." Proceedings of the 24th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, November 2-6, 1994, San Jose, CA: 721-3.MARILYN A. DYRUD is a full professor in the Communications Department, Oregon Institute of Technology. Sheregularly teaches courses in business and technical writing, desktop publishing, and public speaking. She is active inASEE as campus representative and contributes papers to the annual meeting. She is also active in the Associationfor Business Communication and the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Page 2.84.9 Appendix A: Writing Assessment Attitude Survey

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Richard M. Felder

grading problem butintroduces another set of problems, most of which have to do with the fact that the students in agroup may have widely varying levels of ability, work ethics, and senses of responsibility. If aninstructor simply tells students to get into groups and do the work, more harm than good mayresult. In some groups, one or two students will actually do the work and the others will simplygo along for the ride. In other groups, the students will parcel out the work and staple theindividual products together, with each student understanding only one-fourth of the assignment. To minimize the likelihood of these situations occurring, the instructor must structure theassignments to assure that the defining conditions of cooperative

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Jeffrey G. Sczechowski

GENERAL CONCEPTThe main objective in our approach is to “teach” students how to research. This differs frommost first experiences in research that involve “trial by fire”. This latter approach does work, butit has obvious drawbacks. For example, it is not necessarily that the strong survive but in somecases it is the headstrong that survive. Many potentially excellent researchers, without an egodriven work ethic, are lost to other professions. They simply did not enjoy floundering in the labor library, or on the computer, not knowing where to start. While I am not claiming the“excellent” moniker, I consider myself a solid researcher. I was, however, one of those whotossed in the towel (at least temporarily) after a frustrating Master’s experience

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Parris C. Neal; Donna E. Peterson; Cindy L. Lynch; Cameron Wright

Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.[7] Pavelich, M.J. and Moore, W.S., “Measuring the Effect of Experiential Education Using the Perry Model,” ASEE Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 287-292, Oct. 1996.[8] King, P.M., ed., Liberal Education, vol. 78, no. 1, Jan/Feb 1992, Special issue on reflective judgment.[9] King, P.M. and Kitchner, K.S., Developing Reflective Judgment: Understanding and Promoting Intellectual Growth and Critical Thinking and Adolescents and Adults, Jossey-Bass, 1994.[10] Kitchner, K.S. and King, P.M., “Reflective Judgment: Concepts of Justification and Their Relationship to Age and Education,” Journal of

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Michael H. Gregg

computer.EF1005's syllabus includes an introduction to the profession, examination of ethics and ethicaltheories and traditional pencil-and-paper problem solving techniques. These pencil-and-papertechniques are then translated to computer solutions via TK SOLVER. Exposure to TKSOLVER provides the student with needed familiarity with the computer and helps to preparethe student for FORTRAN programming. Although 'C' is also offered by the EF department,FORTRAN is the language used in our introductory courses. FORTRAN is a high levellanguage and moderately easy to learn. The learning of a programming language by our studentshelps reinforce the logic and step-by-step approach required for all engineering problem solving.The use of subprograms -- subroutines

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Deborah Hochstein

engineering and science. If America’s universities recognizethe strength they gain from the diversity of their student population and faculty, and they rewardfaculty for all forms of scholarly activity, they will continue to grow and serve as models for theworld of higher education. REFERENCES1. Ernest L. Boyer, Scholarship Reconsidered, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ, 1990.2. Theodore M. Benditt, “The Research Demands of Teaching in Modern Higher education,” in Morality, responsibility, and the University: Studies in Academic Ethics, ed. Steven M. Cahn, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1990, 94.3. Frederick Rudolph, The American College and

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

to unify these topics and provide an innovative Page 2.297.1multidisciplinary team laboratory experience for our engineering freshman. In addition, a majorfocus of this clinic is on problem solving skills, safety and ethics. In summary these activities (i.)demonstrate the role of laboratory experiments in the engineering decision-making process; (ii)show the interrelationship of engineering and science required for the design and fabrication of asingle product; (iii) give stimulating and challenging experiments that relate the laboratoryexperiments to a consumer product with which most students are familiar.The freshmen engineering clinic

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Wade C. Driscoll

meet desired needs; function on multi-disciplinary teams; identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems; communicate effectively; and use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.In addition, Engineering Criteria 2000 also specifies that engineering programs must alsodemonstrate that their graduates have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; Page 2.315.1 the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context; a recognition of the need for an

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Scott J. Amos; James L. Otter

year level. Senior estimators, project engineers, superintendents at thethird year level. Project managers, contract managers, etc. at the senior/graduate year. Projectteams would be developed from a cross section of the various levels of students. As thesemester/year progressed, special workshops and training sessions would be required for thevarious jobs and responsibilities (legal issues, ethics, safety, CAD, design concepts, etc.).Students needing to attend traditional courses like English, History and Calculus would inessence be attending a meeting for that period of time each day. The students would be requiredto be "at work" in some sense a minimum of 8-9 hours each day.The faculty involved in this project recognized the difficulty of

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Barbara Olds

. and Kathleen H. McInerney, Assessment in Higher Education: Politics, Pedagogy, and Portfolios, Praeger, Westport, CN, 1993.2. Belanoff, Pat, and Marcia Dickson, Eds., Portfolios: Process and Product, Boynton/Cook, Portsmouth, NH, 1991.3. Yancey, Kathleen Blake, “Portfolios in the Writing Classroom: A Final Reflection,” in Portfolios in the Writing Classroom, NCTE, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1992.4. Ballard, Leslie. “Portfolios and Self-Assessment.” English Journal (February 1992): 46-48. Page 2.481.65. Perry, William G., Jr., Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme, Holt

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Tom Mase

employees, contract workers, and consultants15. As pointed out by Deutch16, manyengineers are not accustomed to sitting on problem solving teams that change from year-to-yearor project-to-project. Because of this, another goal of the design experience is to get the studentsto work together in multifunctional teams. In this class, students formed their own teams(Method 5 from Bickell, et.al.17 ) Page 2.245.5 5 A final goal is to have the students work on a problem that involves as much synthesis,ethics and safety issues, creative thinking

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Vivek Badami; Mike Allen; Johnny Graham; Howard Phillips; David Schmidt; Curtis Ensley; Art Edwards; Silvia G. Middleton; Kimberly A. Buch; J. William Shelnutt; Patricia Tolley

clusters: • computing skills (e-mail, world wide web, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, information access); • personal development (Covey’s 7 Habitsiv and the HBDI); • team skills and tools (communication, valuing diversity in thinking preferences, brainstorming, and team roles);project planning (Gantt charts); • creative problem solving (conceptual design, Pugh Method, steps in problem solving); • an introduction to disciplines (Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, and Computer Science); • technical presentations (effective organization, visual aids, and establishing credibility); • professional expectations and ethics (sage advice from the Dean

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Roy C. Shelton

development of the MSyET Curriculum.Appendix A. Expanded Competencies of the Microsystems Engineering TechnologistA modified expansion of these competencies, reviewed by representatives from TexasInstruments and TwinStar Semiconductor, is presented below.1. Know Self & Work With Others A. Examine & Evolve Self B. Act Ethically Act Professionally C. Communicate Media Communicate Technical Data in Layman’s terms Foreign Languages D. Team Able to contribute effectively and develop into leadership of interdisciplinary and multicultural product/process team with understanding of group dynamics and

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Robert George; Allen Soyster; John Lamancusa

Page 2.233.8 8Lectures are given approximately once per week during the first half of the semester on basictools and skills which the students may need for their projects. Covered topics include: thedesign process, design for manufacture, project management (PERT, Gantt), optimizationmethods, decision tools (QFD, FMEA, Taguchi), communication skills, intellectual property andpatents, and ethics. The lectures become less frequent during the latter half of the semester toallow students more time to work on their projects. A second course meeting each week isgenerally devoted to an individual staff meeting between each group, the instructor and

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

-plinary team laboratory experience for our engineering freshman. In addition, a major focus ofthis clinic is on problem solving skills, safety and ethics. The current freshman clinic uses a cof-feemaker to demonstrate the fundamental principles of engineering (Hesketh[7]). This consumerproduct exposes students to engineering design through reverse engineering and introduces basicprinciples of momentum, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, electronics, process control,materials, and manufacturing.In summary these activities• demonstrate the role of laboratory experiments in the engineering decision-making process.• show the interrelationship of engineering and science required for the design and fabrication of a single product.• give

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Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree; Jennifer Turns

term (see Table 1) and takes the student through the stages of conceptual design and meta-design (planning), through detailed design, to construction, demonstration, and even a littlemarketing. Table 1. ME3110 Class Periods Because teaching such a course Period Weeks Description ID presents serious logistical, Bid 1.5 Bid: Newly formed student teams must submit a report detailing their team’s work ethic and their statement of the problem, resembling a contractor bid. cognitive, and motivational DR1 1.0