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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education inclusion of communication activities in the courses.Fresh. ATL – American Thought and Language EGR 291– Freshmen DesignYear (Tentative) Remembered Events Paper, Proposed Solution Paper, Justified Evaluation Paper, Writing Profile Paper Tools: None EGR 291 – Residential Option for Science and Engineering Students Resumes, email, short engineering focused reports, engineering writing demands, problem solving, speaking, ethics, and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Blaine Lilly; John Merrill

of the items.This Conveyor Sorter System project improves students’ project management and teamworkskills, and also introduces them to concepts in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,Product Design, Testing and Reusability and Engineering Ethics. Although the project is verychallenging and demanding for the students, the faculty has recognized certain drawbacks in thecourse material. In evaluating the designs of the student teams the instructional staff hasdocumented the effects of redundancy in design and lack of innovation. The challenging aspectof the design is also diminished as students share and discuss ideas between teams acrossquarters. This has led to final designs that are very similar and are completed ahead of

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Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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J.W. Bruce

efficiency is measured in LoC/workday, where a workday is definedas eight person-hours of effort. Assuming a contract hourly wage of $75/hour, each student deter-mins their development cost in $/LoC. Code quality is measured as number of defects per thou-sand LoC.At several points during the semester, I collect data from each team and compare the productivityof each team at the next lecture. This allows me to (i) give feedback to each student to ensurequality data collection, (ii) identify teams with a poor team dynamic, (iii) promote a friendly com-petition between teams to operate with maximum efficiency and lowest coding defect rate, and(iv) motivate engaging discussion on ethical, economic, and design methodology issues.4. Observations and

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Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas J. Brumm; Larry F. Hanneman; Brian Steward; Steven Mickelson

work our tail off then there’s no other reasonfor them to spend time with you. That’s the kind of mentality that I had. Being in Milwaukeeand not knowing anybody --- you really don’t have anything else to do but work.Student 2: So I would say the expectations are more than not. If you have the work ethic and thewill to do what you need to do. I haven’t talked to a lot of people that they didn’t say they didn’tdo what they were expected to do nor had a bad experience so.Student 8: I guess for me they really had really high expectations of me coming in and I think Imet those expectations coming in. Some parts that were difficult for me was I was working inFrance and my supervisor was German and it was very hard to adapt to his style and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wook-sung Yoo; Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

, component, or process to meet needs √ d) Function on multi-disciplinary teams e) Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems √ f) Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility g) Ability to communicate effectively h) Broad education necessary to understand impact of engineering solutions I) Recognition of need to engage in lifetime learning j) Knowledge of contemporary issues k) Ability to use techniques, skills and modern tools √ IEEE competencies for ECE department related degree programs: Knowledge of Probability & statistics & applications Knowledge of Discrete Mathematics Knowledge of

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education • An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data • An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs • An ability to function on a multi-disciplinary team • An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems • An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility • An ability to communicate effectively • The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context • A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in, lifelong learning

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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

-time learning (students gain skills asneeded). Thus, students learn technical material using the latest hardware and software, while atthe same time learning how to communicate (design reports/presentations), how to functioneffectively on a team, how to balance the political/social/ethical aspects of engineering projects,how to teach themselves (researching design solutions/new analysis skills), how to engage inhigher level thinking skills (critical analysis of multiple design alternatives), how to self-assess(learning portfolios9), and how to be effective leaders on projects.Sooner City's web-based nature facilitates distance learning and outside-of-class activities.31Included in the development are content-rich multimedia modules that

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

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Taryn Bayles

academic and personal success and the methods of (and resources for) developing these skills o know how to use the computer and internet responsibly o appreciate the value of lining and working in a diverse community o understand the importance and ethics of collaborative learning and collective work • Library Skills o have been oriented to UMBC’s AO Kuhn Library and understand how to use its resources o understand the nature of library research • Major/Career Decision Making o have examined personal and academic goals and values in terms of how they relate to their chosen major and to the world of work

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stephen Krause

of the world which falls nicely into the definition of technology and itscomponents.”The Societal Relevance of Engineering category indicated that students found ways to integratehistory of technology with social studies in the classroom, and they realized the importance oftechnological literacy in everyday life.Isabel: “First, the goal of technological literacy for all. I agree with this idea because like manyscience educators who would argue the same for science literacy, we need to be able to makeinformed decisions concerning the environment, ethics and politics. Oftentimes we can be easilyswayed to jump on a popular bandwagon, such as getting a smallpox vaccine, without knowingwhat questions to ask.”As a result of applying the Technical

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

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Can Saygin

,” Manufacturing Engineering, vol. 125, no. 4, pp. 54-63, October 2000.23. Shaw, M.J., Seidmann, A., Whinston, A.B., “Information Technology for Automated Manufacturing Enterprises: Recent Developments and Current Research Issues,” International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, no. 9, pp. 115-120, 1997.24. Perry, W.G., Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wiston, 1970.25. Kolb, D.A., Experimental Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1984.CAN SAYGINDr. Can (John) Saygin is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Management and Director of the Integrated SystemsFacility at the Engineering Management

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Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abi Aghayere

andCanada participate in 20 regional competitions.3At RIT, the concrete canoe and steel bridge teams exist within the ASCE student club. The mainfocus of the club is on professional development, engineering ethics, hands-on learning, andcommunity service. Both the concrete canoe and the steel bridge are yearlong projects that beginin September and culminate in a regional competition in April, and a national competition inJune. The student design teams at the RIT consist of undergraduate students in their first throughfifth year of study.The new Engineering Technology Criteria of ABET, ET2K, as well the Engineering CriteriaEC2000, now require continuous assessment of all program activities to ensure that the programoutcomes and educational

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Urban; James Collofello; Doris Roman; Faye Navabi; Mary Anderson-Rowland

recognition that the need for computer science education in comprehending theinformation age is analogous to the need for natural science education in understanding thenatural world. The ACM curriculum recommendations take the form of a one-year coursetargeted for students to take in the tenth grade. The curriculum identifies the following sevenareas that are appropriate for secondary school students: 1. algorithms 2. programming languages 3. operating systems and user support 4. computer architecture 5. social, ethical and professional context 6. computer applications 7. additional topics (such as software engineering, artificial intelligence and graphics)More recently, secondary school curriculum guidelines have been

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

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Francis Di Bella

ultimately succeed. They get their job done and return home with their prize! Can this story taken from Greek methodology be actually ametaphor for an engineering team’s efforts to complete the project professionally and ethically; to get the job done? CASE STUDY No. 2 Page 8.727.5 WHY ISN’T GOOD DESIGN ENGINEERING ALWAYS ENOUGH TO SUCCEED? Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society of Engineering EducationConsider the following

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Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Phillip Rosenkrantz

software, use of scientific equipment, finding technical information, etc.)? 15 How would you assess the coverage of issues 1.91 2.13 1.93 related to professional behavior and ethics in this (n = 47) (n = 38) (n = 15) course? 16 How would you assess your improvement in 2.15 1.98 2.00 communications skills (either written or oral) from (n = 40) (n = 45) (n = 20) your experience in this course? 17 How would you assess your improvement in 1.95 1.98 2.17 teamwork skills from your experience in this (n = 19) (n = 50) (n = 24) course?Note: * = Chi-Square test

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

, the AHC3 developed a set of “coreconcepts” for the College. The core concepts include: - design and process-modeling experience Page 8.45.4 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” - open-ended problem solving - teamwork and project management skills - oral, written, and graphical communication skills - contemporary computer usage - multi-disciplinary experience - ethical, professional, social and global awarenessThey are intended

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gerson de Oliveira

pedagogicalpractices renewal and the “reorganization (th rough new approaches) of the teaching-learning process”. The author also says that isolated technology will not change anything orwill replace an updated teacher. According Lampert, “the computer has to be at the sametime super-esteemed and under-esteemed, it is not a panacea that will solve all teachingproblems” 25. The college teacher, in its educator role, has to be aware that “whentechnology is used with ethics, methodology and in a pondered way, it will be at mankindservice, bringing him a lot of benefits and updates”. It is also important, according to theauthor, to be aware of knowledge dynamics and its pratically explosive expansion. Theteacher must realize that, in this aspect, “only through

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Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ottis Hoskins; Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala

Page 7.905.9entire undergraduate experience. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society of Engineering EducationFaculty who teach senior engineering courses may be used to gather data on many of theprogram’s outcomes. For example, the capstone senior design course may be use to gather datarelated to, not only engineering ability, but also on ethical consideration, impact of engineeringin global and social context, and how well students function on multidisciplinary teams.As shown in Figure 3, the data collected in some courses may already be available on thecomputer through electronic coursework submissions using tools

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

courses are developed,the progression of courses must provide more design as the students progress through theprogram. The designs should become more and more unconstrained and address other concernssuch as ethics and social impact. Additionally, choice of textbook is an issue. As mentioned previously, ThermalEngineering now has integrated textbooks on the market. Some may argue that these books donot integrate the topics well enough, but rather pull very separate chapters from already existingtexts without much change. For other tracks within this proposal, appropriate textbooks are notyet available. As an example, there is no combined dynamics, vibrations, and controls textbookcurrently on the market. The Dean’s Policy and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Linda Almstead; Karen Williams; James Hedrick

General Electric. One goal of this programcomponent was to launch a mentoring program matching female engineers with girls interestedin particular engineering fields.D. On-Campus Presentations by Guest Speakers: Students had the opportunity to hearpresentations by therapists who work with children at Northwoods, a philosophy professorwhose specialty is biomedical ethics, a chemistry professor who had suffered a traumatic brain Page 8.128.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationinjury, and a

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

important, you are encouraged to HAVE FUN. Be creative, and use your ingenuity. Use the rules to your advantage; after all, this is business. However, remember that you are engineers and work within a set of ethics defined by the profession.3.2 The Project SpecificationsProbable success for the students is directly affected by the specifications. An overly specific setof constraints will block creativity and interest, while an under-specified situation will lead todecision-making problems and frustration.3.2.1 Development of SpecificationsSpecifications are developed using a team approach, with the team being composed of facultymembers and TAs. Due mainly to their direct experience, the input of these TAs is veryimportant to the definition

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Malicky

workforce depends on attractinggreater numbers of scientists and engineers: the current workforce is aging at the same time thatjob skills are becoming increasingly technical3. The shortfall of women in SME fields has at leasttwo implications for this productivity. First, they represent an untapped reservoir of potentialemployees, and second, they may bring new perspectives and ideas to meeting new challenges4-6.Beyond the economic and productivity implications are social and ethical motivations. Scientificliteracy is increasingly important to health and environmental issues. But the understanding ofSME fundamentals by most Americans—particularly women due to their under-representation inSME—is inadequate to fully participate in these issues7

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DEED Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan Kremer

the packet. This is a created page, which conforms with all of the rules of evaluationbut is a planted page with false information. Web evaluation is complex and vitally important. Itis a fun example that usually generates some discussion while making an important point.The assignment requires the team to look for a Web page, a newsgroup, and a list service on thetopic selected in assignment two and for a more general engineering topic such as internships,scholarships, engineering ethics, etc. They perform each of the two searches twice. The firstsearch is with a search engine of their choice, for example Google or Dogpile. The second isthrough an evaluated search guide like the Evaluated Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL). A listof evaluated

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2001 Annual Conference

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Devdas Shetty

professional design as practiced by engineers. Designing is providing a set of rules forreorganizing the elements of creation toward some greater purpose, known as “design intent.” Itis the design intent that has ethical and moral dimensions.The product creation process is very much influenced by the process of designing, as well as theoverall product cost. The cost of a product grows from conception, through the stages oftechnical research, design, development, market testing, use, maturity, until finally, its disposal.An organization has greatest control over a product at the early stages of its creation, when themarket, its factory cost, operational cost and life cycle are determined. At this stage, a product’sstatus can be unstable as the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Wei-Chiang Lin; Mark A. Mackanos; E. Duco Jansen; Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Sean P. Brophy

; µa = 0.24 cm-1; µs = 129 cm-1; g = 0.79), and layer 3 representing blood in the ectaticblood vessels (i.e. blood layer) (d = 0.1 mm; µa = 191 cm-1; µs = 467 cm-1; g = 0.995); 500,000photons.Additionally, this challenge brings out the various aspects of this type of medical laserprocedure: the art (clinician’s skills versus the variability and unpredictability of patients), thepsychology (the patient and clinician’s objective and subjective assessment of the cosmeticresult), the biology (or the body’s response to the laser radiation), and finally the physics whichis mostly what we are concerned with here and which forms the basis for engineering and designissues. In addition, this challenge lends itself to include discussions on ethics of

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2001 Annual Conference

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Leah Jamieson; Edward J. Coyle; William Oakes

) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs(d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams(e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems(f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility(g) an ability to communicate effectively(h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context(i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in, life-long learning(j) a knowledge of contemporary issues(k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice

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2000 Annual Conference

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William C. Beston; Sharon B. Fellows; Richard Culver

Organizational Behavior: Utilizing Human Resources: 5th Ed. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988.4. Culver, R.S. “Who’s In Charge Here? Promoting Self-Managed Learning,” Engineering Education, 1987.5. Culver, R.S., J.T. Hackos. “Perry’s Model of Intellectual Development,” Engineering Education, Dec. 1982.6. Culver, R.S. “Optimum Academic Performance and its Relation to Emotional Intelligence,” Proc.-Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, P.R, November, 1999.7. Perry, W. Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Devel. in the College Years, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY, 1970.8. Goleman, D. Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books, New York, 1995.9. Sackman, G.A., S. Fellows, R.S. Culver, “DTeC – A Technology-based Freshman Design Course Sequence

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2000 Annual Conference

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Theodore F. Smith; Sharif Rahman; P. Barry Butler

specifications, consideration of alternative solutions, feasibility considerations, production processes, concurrent engineering design, and detailed system descriptions. Further, it is essential to include a variety of realistic constraints, such as economic factors, safety, reliability, aesthetics, ethics, and social impact. ”In the engineering curricula at The University of Iowa, which are similar to those at other universitiesin the U.S., undergraduate students are exposed to engineering design concepts in several courses.Their design experience at the undergraduate level culminates with the capstone design course in thesenior year2,3. The goal of the capstone design course is to integrate all knowledge gained by thestudents

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2000 Annual Conference

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David R. Haws

. He is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the states of Idaho, Utah and Mississippi. Hiscurrent “non-engineering” interests are in technical writing and applied ethics. His “engineering” interests are inteaching and structural response to permanent ground failure. He is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering atBoise State University Page 5.576.13

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Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

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Timothy Hoffman; Christopher Zappe; Steven Shooter; Michael O'Donnell

51-L,” IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 36-51. 3. Pinkus, R.L.B, Shuman, L.J., Hummon, N.P., Wolfe, H. (1997) Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Schedule and Risk; Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 4. Winsor, D.A. (1988) “Communication failures contributing to the Challenger accident: an example for technical communication,” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 101- 107. 5. Tufte, E.R. (1997) Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Graphics Press, Cheshire. 6. Lighthall, F.F. (1991) “Launching the space shuttle Challenger: disciplinary deficiencies in the analysis of engineering data

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Smith; Anneliese Watt; Caroline Carvill; Julia Williams

to your audience Page 7.707.11why your topic is of interest to them. For example, discuss its history and past use. Discuss othertechniques that are used to achieve similar ends. Explain the impact of the topic in other places, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationperhaps in other countries. Discuss the global impact of the topic and its possible futures.Discuss its economic, political, or ethical implications.To effectively communicate, that is, so that your voice will be heard, it is not