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Best of Computers in Education Division

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Patrick Hogan, Missouri S&T; Dan Cernusca, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Computers in Education

Metamorphic Petrology; (2) Development of scientific skills which provide an opportunity for students to adopt the approach research scientists use to solve problems, and (3) Development of personal skills which are essential to any career and to lifelong learning. Page 22.907.2While this course is primarily designed for the training of the next generation of scientists,development of these skills is likely to transcend many disciplines. This course also focuses onproviding students with a strong foundation in fundamental technical skills needed to describeand classify igneous and metamorphic rocks as well as knowledge of how these rocks

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

Page 22.1683.2industry, and iv) support from service groups. The milestone documents for manufacturingeducation are listed below 1, 2, 3, 4, along with two forums 5, 6, and a summit 7. Curricula 2015 wasdeveloped using the content of these documents and input from many other sources to promoteimprovement of not only manufacturing-named curricula, but also to encourage other disciplineswhose graduates enter manufacturing-related careers to enhance the content of manufacturingtopics in their curricula. • Countdown to the Future: The Manufacturing Engineer in the 21st Century: Profile 21, Dear- born, MI: Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1988. • Ideal Models in Manufacturing Education – Proceedings of the Curricula 2000

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University; Qing Pang, Jackson State University

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Minorities in Engineering

). He has authored/co-authored over a hundred technical papers and reports during his career in private industry, government and academia. His current research interests are nearshore wave transformations, coastal structures, tsunami inundation, hurricane surges, high performance computing, and engineering education.Qing Pang, Jackson State University Ms Qing Pang is Research Associate in the Department of Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, College of Science, Engineering & Technology, Jackson State University. She earned her MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000. She worked for several private companies before joining Jackson State University in 2007

Conference Session

Lessons for New Engineering Educators

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amani Salim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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New Engineering Educators

intend to pursue a career in academia.Typically PRs enter their faculty roles without teaching experience or the knowledge and skillsnecessary for course development. It is essential for PRs to acquire the needed knowledge andskills during their training to ease their transition to becoming a productive faculty member.This paper explores the experiences and challenges faced by a PR who had the chance to engagein instructional activities. She is a member of a team responsible for teaching assistantprofessional development with mathematical modeling problems taught in a first-yearengineering program. Model-Eliciting Activity TA professional development was the PR’straining site.I. IntroductionA career in academia continues to be the choice of many

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

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NSF Grantees

are unable to complete their lower-division course work, and are ata considerable disadvantage when they transfer to a four-year institution.Most importantly, a significant number of the students from educationally disadvantagedcommunities will never hear about engineering, much less consider it as a career option, withoutengineering courses, engineering programs and engineering faculty in community colleges. TheCalifornia higher education system has essentially dismantled a large portion of the engineeringeducation pipeline, barring access to those students least likely to find a detour around thebarriers that have been inadvertently created.With the uncertainty in the future of California community college engineering curriculum, andeven

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University; Johnny Thieken, Arizona State University; Lisa Stapley Randall, Arizona State University; Alison W. Smith, SRP

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NSF Grantees

humans have hadneeds. Engineering has to be viewed as an ethical human endeavor that addresses the needs of aglobal society. Engineers are inventors and designers; they apply science and mathematics; anduse their imagination and creativity to make ideas a reality. They create technical solutions tomeet societal needs. This forms the core of engineering activities.2 Yet, there is a decline in highschool students’ interest in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematicsresulting in a decline in engineering enrollment, both undergraduate and graduate. Engineeringdoctorates have declined in recent years and are still below the levels of the 1980s.3Adolescents seldom lack curiosity, but as they go into the teenage years their

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Cruz, Great Minds in STEM

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Engineering and Public Policy

and Technology (2012) 14 acknowledges increaseddeparture from STEM during the first two years of college due to perceived unwelcomingenvironments, lack of math preparation, and disengaging introductory engineering courses. Asstudents near their fourth year in college, they become dismayed not by the engineering content, Page 25.236.3but rather by an engineering education structure that emphasizes technical problem solving in aclosed environment and lacks preparation for professional practice and competencies (Sheppard,Pellegrino, & Olds, 2008) 15. Therein, only a third of engineering students actually persist intoan engineering career; 60

Conference Session

Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Cañada College; Catherine Baker Lipe, Cañada College

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Two Year College Division

conference is in San Jose, CA  Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) national conference in Anaheim, CA  8th Annual MESA/PG&E Engineering Student Leadership Conference, Berkeley,  CAAMSA ARC Pre-Med Conference at University of California, Davis  University of California, Berkeley Biology Majors Fair  SHPE IBM Networking and Career Info  4th Annual Community College Honors Research Symposium, Stanford University  MESA Student Leadership Retreat at Happy Valley, Santa Cruz, CA  Stanford Med School’s Spring Leadership Workshop  SHPE Regional Leadership Development Conference  American Chemical Society National Conference, San Francisco, CAField Trips to Industry Sites and UniversitiesThe

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Retention and Two-year to Four-year Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret Krudysz, City College of the City University of New York; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York; Annita Alting, City College of the City University of New York

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Two Year College Division

engineering workforce due to inadequate secondary schoolpreparation, the absence of academic support at many institutions, lack of academically intensivesummer programs, and financial constraints, among others [1]. Numerous programs exist torecruit minority students into higher education [2]. Among these are early intervention programs,such as summer bridge programs; education and mentorship programs initiated by professionalassociations and private or government organization, dual or concurrent enrollment programsbetween high schools and community colleges; pre-college programs to attract students tospecific careers such as Precollege Initiative for Minorities in Engineering; school-collegecollaborative partnerships between community- or four-year

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles S. Wasson, Wasson Strategics, LLC

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

operation and Mission event timelines (METs) • Development of multi-level design solutions • Analysis of alternatives (AoA) • Modeling and simulation • Integration and test engineering and specialty engineering – i.e., human factors, reliability, maintainability, et al - to avoid showstopper surprises that impact system acceptance, delivery, and user satisfaction. • Verification and validation (V&V) • Et alAnecdotal evidence based on the author’s experiences suggest that many engineers are estimatedto spend on average from 50% to 75% of their total career hours collaborating with othersconcerning the engineering of systems – i.e., SE - for which they have no formal education.Aerospace and defense tends

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wheeler; Dr. Rose Marra; Dr. Jack Mitchell; Dr. Charles Croskey

minute flight. The payload was recovered and data analysis is ongoing bythe student participants.The story of the SPIRIT undergraduate sounding rocket project has two dimensions. First, wereport on the form and organization of this program. A description of SPIRIT, however, wouldbe incomplete without a further discussion of the effectiveness of the project as a teachingmethod. How does SPIRIT contribute to the formation of quality engineers? How does it affectthe lives and careers of the student participants? It is arguably in this second area that the realvalue of the project resides.By most any measure this first SPIRIT payload was a success. Pride and gratification wasevident on the faces of the students who had worked so hard on the project

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John D. Cremin

experiments in a distancelearning environment. Once experiments have been developed, they can be used as a stepin evaluating and developing laboratory Internet courses that have a basis in real data.Bibliography1. Fluke Scopemeter 100 User’s Manual2. Hewlett Packard HP33120A Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator User’s Manual3. Tomasi, Wayne, Electronic Communications Systems,2nd Ed., Prentice Hall Career & Technology, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994, pp106,1114. URL:http://webctservice.slu.edu:8900/webct/SCRIPT/AVNP10001/scripts/designer/s erve_home?.PUBLIC ,information on WebCT courses at Saint Louis UniversityJOHN D. CREMINJohn Cremin is an Associate Professor, Avionics, at Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineeringand Aviation. He

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehdi Shadaram; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras

areoffering financially rewarding jobs. While graduates in the College of Science are formost part committed to pursuing post baccalaureate degrees, undergraduate enrollmentrates remain low. Meantime, Biology graduates frequently enter into medicine orveterinary school.I. IntroductionA plan initiated by the UTEP Model Institution for Excellence (MIE) is underdevelopment to increase the percentage of SEM graduates who enroll in graduate school.The main objectives of this task force are to identify and recruit cohorts of junior studentswho have the potential and desire to pursue careers in research and development, and topromote summer external research activities among SEM undergraduates. Eachparticipating student in the cohort will receive a research

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

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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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

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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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

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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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

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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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Zimmerman; Donna Dorminey

, studentmotivation for the design was increased. Fourth, several of the final design products will be usedin future semesters to enable students to more easily grasp fluid mechanics concepts.I. IntroductionThe United States Military Academy (USMA) must prepare its mechanical engineeringgraduates to meet diverse expectations in a technical army and in careers beyond the military. Aprimary mission of the academy is to develop “leaders of character” who have the capability toidentify and solve complex problems. In fact, the military decision-making process is strikinglysimilar to many versions of design (or scientific, or problem-solving) processes as demonstratedin Figure 1.The first step in any problem solving process is to define the need or identify the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard McNitt; Cliff Lissenden

resonance, or having a bridge mooring struck by a tugboat; the building designermay not have considered an earthquake; the ship designer may not have expected a combinationof very cold weather and large waves, nor ‘bad material’ etc. This seminar explores such designdeficiencies through the study of case histories of a number of infamous failures, such as theexplosion of the Challenger (modern era) and the sinking of the Titanic, which causedcatastrophic loss of life. A primary objective of reliving such failures is to alert students to thevarious factors that must be considered for a safe and effective engineering system, and toencourage them to broaden their education so that they will not repeat the mistakes of the past intheir own careers. An

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Beena Sukumaran

site. In this process, students areintroduced to geology and soil identification.In a laboratory component, the students learn about soil classification by performing particle sizeanalysis as well as visual identification.3 These have been areas in which practitioners as well asrenowned geotechnical engineers like Peck have voiced concern.4 By introducing the dilatancy,toughness, plasticity and dry strength tests early on, the students learn simple but practicalinformation early on in their career. It also provides them with the "hands on" experience thatwill be valuable when they become practitioners.Once all the suitable characteristics of a landfill site are identified, the students are expected toassess the suitability of the Lipari

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiaomin Li; Vasiliki Tzovla; Minaz Vastani; Li Yu; J. R. Cogdell; Chitra Phadke; Anju Bhagat; Agustinus Darmawan

for student and department, and canyield frustrating experiences for the student.In summary, our problem is that we must advise too many students in too little time withundertrained advisors. This paper presents our progress in developing an alternative.II. The HiTech Advising SystemThe basic idea is to use modern technology to perform the routine aspects of such advising, thusreleasing the trained advisors to deal with the nonroutine problems and releasing the faculty to dowhat they do well, the professional/career-oriented advising. Our goal is to have students beadvised over the World Wide Web (the web) in the routine aspects of course selection with asystem that simulates interaction with a trained advisor.Overview of the HiTech System

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

James A. Newell

that focuses on development of problem solving strategies andprovides an overview of chemical engineering as a major and a career. This course uses theexceptional textbook “Strategies for Creative Problem Solving” by Fogler and Leblanc4 as a guideand a hands-on project serves as the major experience of the semester. The various presentations(oral, poster, written report) that result from these project serve as the basis for the majority of thegrade in the class. The students have covered most of the material in the textbook prior toundertaking the major steps in the project. The freshmen are involved in seven distinct phases ofthis project. These phases are

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

William W. Predebon; Peck Cho

students come from disadvantaged school districts, andmost UP female students are from rural school districts. Preparation or encouragement to train Page 2.172.1for a science or engineering career may not have been emphasized during their secondary schooleducation and/or appropriate preparatory courses may not have been available. In addition, thesestudents in particular may find it more difficult to adjust to the University campus andcommunity environment, and to develop the critical personal connections that will provide themacademic support. Often the high expectations from faculty, peers and self that encourage highperformance from students

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen A. Raper; Susan L. Murray

Engineering & Management Press, 1988, p. 44.7. Niebel, Benjamin W., Motion and Time Study , Ninth Edition, Irwin Publications, p. 25, 1993.8. David Britton, Career Opportunity Center, University of Missouri-Rolla, Interview, February 20, 1997.9. Salary Survey, September 1996, National Association of Colleges and Employers, Bethlehem, PA.10. Sarchet, Bernard R., “Engineering Management - Key To The Future”, Engineering Management Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1989, pp. 4 - 7.11. Kocaoglu, Dundar F., “Strategic Opportunities For Engineering Management,” Engineering Management Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1989, pp. 8 - 10.12. Editorial, “Research and Educational Characteristics of the Engineering Management Discipline

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Blake Bath

on their own during the week and then meet on Fridayto present their weekly progress report. These weekly meetings enable the students to get an ideaabout all of the project areas. Some students determined last year that there was an area ofsoftware development in which they were not interested. Others found new areas of interest. Some field trips to local firms to determine career opportunities are planned. Once studentsget involved with their project, they are usually anxious to see it to conclusion and are notthrilled about having too many speakers or field trips.Reporting Requirements: Each team presents a ten minute oral report each week which gives abrief overview of accomplishments of the past week and plans for the next week

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn G. Mack; James C. Wood

behaviors of the faculty .Preliminary results to date demonstrate that the exemplary faculty are highly committed to thegoals and objectives of the SC ATE initiative and to changing their instructional and professionalpractices to improve the quality of education and career preparation of engineering technologystudents. Faculty are now communicating and collaborating across discipline and departmentallines to develop an integrated instructional system. The cultural change that occurred can beillustrated by the comment of one faculty member made after a workshop: "...faculty had beenmoved out of their boxes and they could not be placed back into them if anyone wanted to."ConclusionThe Exemplary Faculty Project is encouraging new approaches and

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert George; Allen Soyster; John Lamancusa

student’s academic career. Of the literally hundreds of such projects with which thisdepartment head has been involved, the students’ evaluation of their importance in theireducation is an almost universal A+. The industry involvement makes a real difference: like thedifference between practice and “playing in a real game.” It is an opportunity to innovate anddesign. Most importantly, there is a “customer” and someone who really cares - the sponsor. Inmany cases, such projects provide a pathway from the classroom into a productive job.This writer remembers his own undergraduate experiences with an “industry project” (severaldecades ago). The project involved the design of an inspection station for an automated line inthe production of cigars. Soon

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Dale Ross; Bill Taylor

the children who collect information about New Mexico'srivers and streams. On our annual Discovery Day, buses from all over northern New Mexicoconverge on Highlands University--since 1994. Students enroll in mini-workshops of interestwhich are conducted by Engineering faculty and students. Each participating high school studentreceives a NASA logo tee-shirt and an experience of the possibilities awaiting them inEngineering careers. We instituted a bi-weekly seminar series for student development. Speakersfor the Engineering students have included former graduates from the Engineering program andalso speakers from NASA, the National Laboratories, as well as from private industry.A student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professionals and

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Mumtaz Usmen; John Raad; Haluk Aktan

NDT technologies. The first stage of the plan was todetermine those NDT procedures which have the most potential use in civil engineering andcould readily be adapted to classroom applications. The second step was to locate suppliers anddetermine the financial cost vs. teaching benefits. The third step was simply the acquisition andde-bugging of the equipment. The final step was to develop lab procedures which could easilybe integrated into the current curriculum.NDT is still considered an emerging field in civil engineering, thus it is difficult to determine thefull impact of these procedures. However, on a smaller scale the success of these methods isindisputable. During the careers of the current generation of civil engineers NDT methods

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

P.E., Dr. Henry L. Welch

technical electives can leave anundergraduate too specialized for their potential career path. This paper will address the issuesof prerequisite material and specialization in the area of fuzzy set theory and its applications. Itwill be shown that there is little or no significant prerequisite material problems for mostengineering majors and that an appropriate breadth-based approach to application areas canaddress the specialization issue. The results of teaching a quarter-long course in fuzzy sets forthree years at the Milwaukee School of Engineering(MSOE) to electrical and computer engineerswill also be presented.IntroductionFuzzy sets or fuzzy logic, as they are most often referred to, suffer from a number of problems intoday's engineering