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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Carlson

Session #____ Rapid Prototyping to Cement CAD Modeling Skills Lawrence E. Carlson Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at BoulderIntroductionAn important aspect of contemporary mechanical engineering education is mastery of a modernsolid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) software package. This important skill is vital tofuture engineers’ careers and gives students immediately marketable skills for summeremployment. Students also need to learn

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Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

underrepresented minoritystudents. This comparison focuses on changes in student drawings and interview data over timeamongst both groups. This comparison includes a discussion of both groups in terms of theirdeveloping understanding of engineering processes, engineering tools, and engineering fieldsrepresented by the generic term “engineering”. Also included is a discussion of results in termsof implications for future policies and decision-making related to K-12 STEM education.IntroductionDespite efforts to increase student interest in engineering-related fields, the number of U.S.citizens choosing engineering related careers is declining [1]. At the same time, the number offoreign nationals traditionally used to fill voids in U.S. engineering fields is

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Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hisham Abdulmallik Al-Shahabi

government- sponsored outof whom 210 were taking engineering or engineering- related courses and all of them studyingabroad.Oil industry created the need for skilled & semi-skilled worker as well as engineers. The recruitscame mainly from the Indian sub-continent.To meet the growing demand and to encourage young Bahrainis to seek careers in the oilindustry, the Bahrain Petroleum Company started an apprenticeship scheme in 1956 wherebyprimary school graduates were offered four –year programmes to prepare them for work in thevarious operations associated with oil exploration & refining..Having seen the benefits of the apprenticeship scheme, the Company went further by offeringtheir young & bright employees the opportunity to continue their

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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Roberto Montoya

majorsare a valid and pertinent alternative, so long as a difference can be made in regards to the social,economic, educational and job market value given to technological professions. Otherwise, wewill continue to have first and second class careers. The main task that we must undertake in thisrespect is the consolidation and identity of a modern, first class technological education thatqualifies young men and women to be competitive in the workplace and to be able to continuetheir studies at a higher level. This education is key to the development of productive forces andthe modernization of our country.The professional practice of Engineers in ColombiaThe manner, in which the engineering profession is practiced, not only in Colombia but also

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

theeducational community.Selected Educational Awards to Members of the Project Team: • 3 NSF CAREER Awards (integrating research and education) • 3 ASEE Dow Outstanding New Faculty Awards • 4 OU teaching and research awardsAwards for the Sooner City Project • NSF Course and Curriculum Development Award (seed money for concept) • NSF Action Agenda for Systemic Engineering Education Reform (major funding source) • Oklahoma Regents Instructional Technology Excellence Award (1999) • Oklahoma's Williams Faculty Innovator Award (2000)Other Project/Individual Recognition • 5 Invited Presentations at National Conferences (1998 and 1999 ASEE/NSF Project Showcase, 1998 and 2002 ASCE

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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell; Joseph Cecere

destined to join. This paper discusses thetransition from the current single-tracked curriculum into a program with three separateacademic options – Structural Design, Construction Management, and GeneralEngineering and provides a comparative analysis of the separate tracks.Current Curriculum Supporting a Bachelor of Science Degree in SDCET This program is designed to ultimately prepare students for careers in a highlyspecialized construction industry. Table 1 details the current academic requirements forgraduation from the program. SDCET is currently accredited by the TechnologyAccreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technologyenabling graduates to continue their professional development by sitting for

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IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

skills development, certification,licensing, professional development, professional societies and code of ethics.Necessity of IT Professional CertificationsProfessionals generally begin their careers by completing a university program in theirchosen field, such as computer, medicine, engineering, or law. Then they may choose topursue other important field, for example, certification. Certifications used to be anoption to most of professions. Today there have always been debates on whether or notone should pass a certification test and get certified. There are still a few employers andsome educators who see little value in licensure or certification and don't require orencourage it.But recently it becomes clear for one to get certified in a

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Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

concerned with theirpersonal vocational interests and material goals and uncaring about society at large, particularlythe plight of the developing world.1,3,6-8 Arguably, the development of humanitarian engineeringprograms will enhance the role of the engineer in society, and, while not necessarily increaseoverall enrollments, will act as a magnet for excellent students, who might otherwise refrainfrom careers as engineers.In order to address these issues, a project has been initiated at CSM to develop a new cadre ofengineers, sensitive to social contexts, committed and qualified to serve humanity bycontributing to the solution of complex problems at regional, national, and international levelsand locations around the world in need of “smart

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BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Harris; David Cordray

D ia g ra m sFigure 1: Assessment and Evaluation of Teachers and Students in VaNTH ProjectsAssessments of Affective ChangeThis is a highly-used method that relies on surveys or interviews to determine the attitudes andperceptions of the subjects. We have used surveys to examine the views of students regardingparticular courses and have measured changes in HPL content in the courses3. This has beenextended to teachers’ perceptions and has also been used with students to measure theirperceptions of the profession of BME and the maturation of their career goals as they movethrough the curriculum. These surveys have also contained items reflective of desired ABEToutcomes. The surveys are also being used to measure the time progress of change in

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Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abi Aghayere

Page 8.243.6“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”in the design, construction and competition. Both teams strive to give every student anopportunity to lead a subgroup assigned to a specific task. Whether it is acquiring material forthe steel bridge or constructing the canoe mold, every task is critical to the successful completionof the project. Completing tasks correctly and on time enable the students to develop confidencein their abilities to lead a team.Project management is a prominent career track for civil engineers. Therefore, it is importantthat students acquire some project management skills and experience

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Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

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Angela Linse; Rebecca Bates

engineering students titled "Active Learning inEngineering Education." The objective of the course was to provide engineering graduatestudents with information about the learning process and resources on teaching and academia tohelp them make informed decisions about teaching as a career and to help them be betterteachers. We believe this course is unique because it provides a curriculum taught to graduatestudents by a graduate student. This work was funded by a Huckabay Teaching Fellowship, aprogram that provides support for teaching projects conducted by graduate students paired withmentors.1I. IntroductionPreparing engineering graduate students for a future in academia should include providingmethods and support for teaching as well as guidance in

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mustafa Abushagur; Harvey J. Palmer

sciences“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”and engineering which should prepare the student for a successful career. RochesterInstitute of Technology offers a unique educational and research program that leads to aPh.D. in Microsystems Engineering. This multi-disciplinary program builds on thestrengths in microelectronic fabrications, photonics, imaging and micro-power researchprograms at the institute. The program is designed to be application oriented withoutsacrificing the scientific and engineering fundamentals. Students will be involved incutting edge research and have access to modern facility, the largest of its

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

, entitled Women and Men of theEngineering Path: A Model Analyses of Undergraduate Careers. This study confirms therelative scarcity of liberal arts courses in the undergraduate experience: “only four coursesoutside of science, mathematics, and technology—introduction to economics, Englishcomposition, general psychology, and introduction to management—turn up frequently ontranscripts” (Adelman 1998). The authors’ study confirms these findings, except the presence ofa psychology course, of which only two civil engineering schools specifically require. This islikely a difference between civil and other branches of engineering. The USDE study went on toreport that although “all branches [of engineering] encounter problems brimming withambiguities and

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Lugowski

, understanding of the basics, and oftenhard work. That’s why many students avoid it. History is full of examples of scientists,researchers, and engineers who avoided critical thinking in their careers. Those who did applycritical thinking, contributed to the progress in their disciplines. It may seem that lack of criticalthinking occurred only in the past. We often are so deeply engaged in solving problems that weoverlook that there often is another possible approach to a problem. In the bibliography1-9, severalreferences are given to publications that deal with critical thinking as a way of living. In thispaper, only limited experiences are presented that relate to a few courses in the MechanicalEngineering Technology Department at Purdue University.2

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

variouscontexts and reflect on their actions throughout the project. 3-5At Miami University, the senior design project course is also used to establish bridges with localhigh schools by participating in FIRST robotics comeptition. Started in the year 2001, this coursehas been successful in collaborating with local high schools participating in the competition. TheFIRST robotics competition 6 engages university students in a challenging 'design-build-and test'project, while working side by side with industrial engineers and high school students. Throughthe competition, university students complete a demanding engineering project and motivate anew cadre of students to follow their career footsteps.After a brief description of FIRST competition, the paper

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2001 Annual Conference

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Winston F. Erevelles

, Logistics Engineering, Software Engineering, and EngineeringManagement and will also be available to faculty from different departments and programsacross campus.The facility will also be used for tours, career fairs, programs for middle and high schoolstudents, and other similar recruitment efforts. These will include teacher/counselor educationand outreach, and initiatives aimed at K-12 students with an emphasis on women andunderrepresented minorities. The Learning Factory will be used to support contract research andas a test bed for ideas that may generate external funding. A significant purpose of the facility Page 6.330.2will be the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Wayne LePori; Scott Osborn; Marty Matlock; Cady Engler

them." In this sense, innovation is the task of breaking the economic rules and being rewarded, over and over again…The "rule- breaking" theory of economics was actually developed in 1942 by the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpter. He described the hallmark of technological innovation as "the perennial gale of creative destruction," or in today's holistic thinking, "the great lever of creative transformation."We must teach our students the methods for “breaking the rules,” i.e., the methods that willprovide the most rigorous (defensible) path to innovation in their professional careers. Page 6.360.3Proceedings of the 2001

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2001 Annual Conference

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Rodolfo Molinari

experimental teachingmethodology, in face of the high costs of laboratory facilities that only a few Schools of Engi-neering can afford. As a consequence, a significant number of professionals are not really pre-pared after finishing their courses, demanding a long time of training after graduation and, fre-quently, a personal deception with the career. It is in this scenario that the availability of compu-tational resources adapted for mathematical simulation appears as a methodological alternative toexperimental classes, with the creation of virtual laboratories that imply in a very significant re-duction in costs.Introduction. With the accelerated development of computers technology verified especially in the lastdecade of 20th century and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Alan Gomez

know I wouldn't be headed in the professional direction I am today. The fun thatI had, the things that I learned and the hours that I put in made me realize what I wanted to do withmy career. Not only did it help me realize what it is that I wanted to do, but it also gave me a headstart with my personal as well as engineering skills. It taught me leadership, teamwork anddiplomacy as well as rewarded me for my efforts. From the moment I began college up to today Ihave felt like I have had the advantage over most everyone else coming out of high school. It is agreat program and I plan to support it myself any way that I can.”Emery Sanford, Freshman at the University of California at Berkley in Mechanical Engineering."The Principles of

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2000 Annual Conference

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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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2000 Annual Conference

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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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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Singli Garcia-Otero; Isaac Crumbly

cooperative program between FVSUand private and governmental sectors of the nation’s energy industry that focuses on therecruitment and placement of academically talented minorities and females into professionallevel careers in the energy industry. The CDEP program established 3+2 dual-degrees inmathematics/engineering and mathematics/health physics with the University of Nevada, LasVegas (1992) and mathematics/engineering with Georgia Institute of Technology (2000). CDEP Page 7.843.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Todd Rasmussen; Matt Smith; David Gattie

rated the course as one of the most enjoyable learningexperiences of their college careers. They report benefits to their learning experience that comefrom the diversity of the students and instructors, the hands-on nature of the course, and the rareopportunity to watch and participate as instructors from different disciplines disagree (generallywith good humor) about the causes, interpretations, and significance of various observations. Atypical comment from student evaluations is “The practical applications of course materials to real world examples are invaluable. The combination of instructors was very helpful in understanding the various principles covered well. Besides being a great educational experience it is

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip Henning

project funded by the National Science Foundation under its GK-12 (Graduate-K-12) program to enhance science, math, engineering, and technology skills and career choices.The Penn State side of the partnership involves graduate and undergraduate science andengineering students at Penn State who are involved with researching and developing HEV(hybrid electric vehicle) technology. On the K-12 side of the partnership are two middle schoolsand one high school in Pennsylvania.The three anchors of this joint National Science Foundation-University-School partnership arementoring, motivation, and manipulatives or M3. The M3 approach was developed by the lateDr. Donald Streit, Penn State. Graduate students from Penn State’s Graduate AutomotiveTechnology

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

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Resit Unal; Charles Keating; Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

president of theAmerican Society for Engineering Management.PAUL KAUFFMANNPaul J. Kauffmann is Professor and Chair in the Department of Engineering Technology at Old DominionUniversity. His previous position at ODU was in the Department of Engineering Management. Prior to hisacademic career, he worked in industry where he held positions as Plant Manager and Engineering Director. Dr.Kauffmann received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and MENG in Mechanical Engineering from VirginiaTech. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State and is a registered Professional Engineer.CHARLES KEATINGDr. Keating is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director for Engineering Management at Old DominionUniversity. Dr. Keating's

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New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Lucy Morse; Jack Selter

to market the new program are notrevolutionary, but are quite ordinary. Yet, in the context of the traditional educational model,this model involves leaving the office and meeting potential program users (customers) fact-to-face. Having an idea of whom those customers are and how to reach them can be very helpfultools in this process.Some strategies that might be used include: · Work with local and regional IST employers to define and describe internships and career paths for two and four year IST degree holders. · Work with local and regional IST employers to determine improved corporate performance and capacity through the use of four-year IST degree holders.Evaluate and improve.Following the process described in

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New MET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Slade Gellin

engineer with the information that that engineer may request; and he can effectively communicate the results to management and the customer.While it is recognized that a mechanical engineering technologist could become proficientenough in finite element analysis to possibly make a career move in that direction, the rolesdescribed above assume that finite element analysis knowledge is another tool in the toolbox of acareer engineering technologist.Course ObjectivesIn recognition of the above roles of the mechanical engineering technologist, the followingcourse objectives were established: · To understand the purposes and uses of the finite element analysis process in industry and the possible roles of the mechanical

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Feldman; Wayne Mackey

courses. College Algebra at the University of Arkansas is a pre -requisite for FiniteMathematics and Survey of Calculus, courses required for graduation for most students notpursuing careers in science. In the two-course sequences of College Algebra to Finite or CollegeAlgebra to Survey of Calculus the success rate for modular algebra was 33% higher than that oftraditional algebra students. At the time of the study both Finite Mathematics and Survey ofCalculus were taught in a traditional manner. Page 7.318.2 2In the Fall of 2000, we began instruction in Finite Mathematics using the IMME method. In

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2001 Annual Conference

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Robert Tener; Michael Winstead; Edward Smaglik

Page 6.486.10 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcooperative education student learning is extended into the workplace. For nearly a century in U.S.engineering education, co-op students have enjoyed the significant benefits of irreplaceable experientiallearning, preparating them for their engineering careers. In “Co-op’s 90-Year Odyssey,” Sam Sovilla haschronicled the history of and the key issues in co-op programs in engineering education48.The authors believe that the analysis and conclusions presented in this study can be found applicable andrelevant to co-op learning in the civil and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Oral LaFleur; Matthew Govindsanny; Joshua Hill; Daniel Jones

performance.BackgroundThe Renewable Energy and Environmental Protection (REEP) academy is an annual summerprogram held at Texas Southern University (TSU).1 The mission of REEP is to expose inner-citystudents to technology and to motivate them to pursue careers in math, science, technology, andengineering. Over 50 high school students gathered at TSU during summer 2000, with collegestudents serving as mentors.2This paper discusses one of the projects of REEP, the installation of a new solar refrigerator inSouth Africa. This was the result of collaboration between: 1. The environmental engineering technology program at TSU, 2. The mechanical engineering technology program at Central Michigan University, 3. The electrical engineering program