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suggested by Bogdan and Biklen 12 (page156). Some data were clearly related to academic practices, such as rigid course structuresand the high value placed on mathematics, and others related to social behaviors andpractices both inside and outside the classroom, such as the heavy workloads, binge drinkingand the importance of supportive relationships. From this coded data, and Schein’sframework as a starting point the proposed framework emerged.Framework for Defining CultureFigure 1 is my proposed framework for analyzing and defining the culture of engineeringeducation as exemplified in a particular institution. It is, in essence, a working model, liableto change and further refinement.Schein and later researchers named the first level of culture

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) 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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Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

to the success of an engineer, but generallylacking in new engineering graduates. These attributes include • strong skills in communication and persuasion • the ability to lead and work effectively as a member of a team • a sound understanding of non-technical forces that affect engineering decisions • an awareness of global markets and competition • demonstrated management skills and a strong business senseThis list of attributes clearly identified the educational objectives defining the Enterprise Pro-gram. Many of these skills and expertise are not easily taught within a traditional classroom set-ting. In fact most, if not all, of these abilities are best developed in practice. The engineeringprograms at MTU took

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Zdzislaw Kremens

Session 2650 University - Industry Relationship Zdzislaw B. Kremens Central Connecticut State University New Britain, ConnecticutAbstractThe paper discusses university-industry relationship. All presented examples are based onCCSU experience. There is a common tendency to focus on research and development projects.Although they are very important, contacts with industry should not be limited to R&Dexclusively. The four-year programs are very often criticized for not providing graduates withabsolutely up-to-date

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disciplines of engineering and applied science,including Mechanical, Civil, Environmental, Petroleum, Aeronautical, and ChemicalEngineering, Meteorology, Oceanography, Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, EngineeringMechanics, and Bioengineering. As the demand for understanding of transport processesincreases, fluid mechanics is being required for students in materials and semiconductorprocessing, thus involving students from Materials Science and Electrical Engineering. It is alsotrue that many graduate students in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geophysics, and Applied andCondensed Matter Physics take an advanced undergraduate courses in fluid mechanics asimportant background to their thesis research. It is clear that by its nature, fluid mechanics

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-wide assessment committee. This workis gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. "Preparing for ABET 2000: From Curriculum Mission to Assessment Planning", Engineering Assessment Committee,School of Engineering, Report, December1998.2. Website of the Stevens Engineering Assessment Center: http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/assess/3. "Integrating Grading and Attitudinal Analysis in Engineering Assessment", A. B. Urken, Best Practices in EngineeringAssessment, Presentation, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2000.4. "Integrating Self-Assessment and Grading via the World Wide Web", C. Christodoulatos and A. B. Urken, AmericanAssociation for Higher Education, Presentation, Denver, 1999.5. "Assessment Update", G. B. DeLancey, Engineering Assessment

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Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

for and hold theAirframe and Powerplant License (hereafter referred to as an A&P license). This license allowsthe holder to perform various inspections, repairs, and maintenance to aircraft and return them toservice. The final four semesters require the student to complete a truncated aerospaceengineering curriculum. All major topics are covered with varying levels of detail. Aeronauticsand structures are emphasized and general sciences such as physics and chemistry are introduced.In the aviation community, AME graduates can look forward to possible careers involving designof repairs and alterations, developing maintenance procedures and techniques, design ofmaintenance programs and technical service publications, flight test evaluation

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Frank Hughes

support the schools. Universities need to examine the recognition and reward structure and the impactof this structure on operating decisions which are made. Does the current heavy emphasison research and on publication give the proper balance to the educational mission of theuniversity and to the needs of the students? Is the guarantee of lifetime employment for asignificant element of the university workforce still the best way for the university tomanage its workforce? These are internal university business decisions, but all of thecustomers are greatly influenced by them. All funders of the university enterprise haveboth a right and an obligation to express their opinions on these business decisions. Changes which will impact

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

a different developing country.The invitations originated with overseas friends, but the U.S. colleagues were brought inas official paid consultants. The assignment in Jordan was long-range and specific:“Help us design a new engineering college that will meet ABET standards.” In the formerSoviet Republic of Moldova, the assignment was short-term and generic: “You have twohours to teach us about the credit hour system in American higher education.” And so wewent and received appropriate compensation and gratitude for our contributions, but anagging question remained: “What aspects of U.S. higher education should be exportedoverseas and what are the U.S. practices that, like some wines, do not travel well?”The seminar in Chisinau, capital of

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Medhat Morcos; David Soldan

distance learning is at an all time high especially with the popularity of the WorldWide Web, Internet, and Intranets. This interest has led many authors to report in the literatureon best practices, technology used, personnel roles, company policies, design methods, andteaching methods. In distance learning, it is not enough to do one course as an experiment. Aone-time experience is costly and time-intensive, but when a course is offered for the third orfourth time, initial time and cost investments become worthwhile. It should be realized thatwhether the course is distance-learning or otherwise, it takes time to prepare it, it takes time todeliver it, and there are only so many students that a faculty member can handle reasonably anddo a good

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April Brown; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

faculty. For example: The Institute (in particular the College of Engineering) had concentrated on hiring women at the assistant professor level in the early 1990’s and many of these women had v not yet had time to progress through the system. The tenure and promotion process did not recognize different career trajectories and different career rates of advancement. Both men and women perceived institutional v practices and processes as being unnecessarily political and arbitrary. The lack of attention to family-friendly policies, specifically in the areas of maternity leave and on-site day-care, had a significant impact on all faculty who aspired to balance family and

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William Watkins; John Sullivan

Astronautics(Engineering) (AAE) has joined forces with the Aeronautical Technology Section (AOT) of theUniversity’s Department of Aviation Technology (AT) on experimental basis to provide seniorlevel students with a design/build/text experience in an interdisciplinary team environment. Thepaper identifies the two types of projects (specific objective and research) used in support ofinterdisciplinary activities. It describes previous projects and discusses some of the successesand difficulties experienced in pursuit of this effort. Industry’s reaction to these interdisciplinaryteam activities is discussed, as well as, future plans for the expansion of interdisciplinarydesign/build/test team projects.IntroductionPurdue University provides a unique

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andfinancial professionals who are extremely important to increase the use of solar energy, yetwho are least familiar with it. There is a great deal of K-12 solar energy educationalmaterials that has been developed in different parts of the world. Advanced informationtechnologies can be used to compile and make this material available throughout the world.1. IntroductionThe oil crisis of the mid 1970s was mainly responsible for creating the awareness todevelop solar energy applications. Large-scale solar energy research programs were startedat universities in the U.S.A. and other parts of the world. Research programs at theseuniversities created a need and an opportunity for solar energy education for science andengineering students at the graduate

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Roli Varma

, and so forth. IT-enabled workers include bankteller, business project managers, product developers, marketing managers, and so forth. I focuson reasons women are detached from pursuing education necessary to join the IT workforce; I donot consider the IT-enabled workforce.In identifying IT educational fields, I limit along two dimensions—the nature of IT work andeducation needed for such work. The Computing Research Association (CRA), a nonprofiteducational organization to promote research and advanced education in computing, hascategorized IT jobs into four classes: (1) conceptualizers, those who conceive of and sketch outthe basic nature of a computer system artifact; (2) developers, those who work on specifying,designing, constructing, and

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Nicholas Cain; Julia McLees; Jason Bara; Gary Wnek; Bradford Crosby; Gary Huvard

curriculum give students valuable and marketable engineering skillsafter only two years in the program. Our students, with some faculty guidance, are running anengineering consulting practice and working on a myriad of interesting and educational projects.Appropriate projects for student consultants are generally of the following types: diagnostic,development, or design. Diagnostic problems address questions such as “What is the oilymaterial that is contaminating this filter?” or “Why is the flooring material in our factoryfailing?” or “Why does our fiberglass preform process produce scrap during the summer monthsbut not during the winter?” Almost any phenomenon that needs an explanation fits thisChemEngine project profile. Development projects

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Vijay Arora; Lorenzo Faraone

that theeducation of the future must be relevant, attractive, and connected to the needs of society atlarge. Considering this paradigm, the U. S. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) in its well-researched ABET Engineering Criteria 20005 (EC2000) proposed that thespirit of technopreneurship be integrated within the curriculum of all programs. It forcesuniversities to develop a process of assessing learning outcomes of programs that are consistentwith the original mission of the institution. The Criteria can be easily adapted to embrace alldisciplines. The desired attributes or outcomes for graduates of a baccalaureate program includean ability to:✔ apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering.✔ design and

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Sarah Irvine; Mary Anne Lesiak; Andrea Prejean; Teresa Larkin-Hein

addressing research design, methodology, and evaluation, placingemphasis on evaluating the summative and formative impacts of technology on the teaching learning process.Dr. Irvine can be reached at: American University, School of Education, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW,Washington, DC 20016-8030. [sirvine@american.edu]ANDREA I. PREJEANAndrea I. Prejean is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at American University. She earned herdoctorate from the University of Central Florida in Curriculum and Instruction in 1996. Dr. Prejean taughtin the public schools for 10 years and was a mathematics specialist for the Florida Department of Education,providing professional development for K-12 mathematics teachers. Her research interests include

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virtual models, andautonomous 3-D navigation within the interactive virtual engineering domain.The virtual engineering and construction science curriculum should become more experiential.Virtual lessons should incorporate the real world whenever possible. Hands-on activities arepremium opportunities for learning and teaching. Inclusions of self-directed virtual activitiesallow for the personal development of the learner. Therefore, students should be encouraged tocreate their own learning experiences using these virtual tools. Research in the fields ofcognition, artificial intelligence, and learning science solidifies what common sense indicateslearners learn best when they can practice and experience failures in their lessons with theguidance of

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is an ABET accredited, non-traditional, interdisciplinary, Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering with specialties in civil,electrical, environmental, and mechanical engineering, as well as graduate degrees (M. S., M. E.and Ph. D) and research in engineering systems. The Gourman Report ranks the CSMEngineering Division fifth among general engineering programs2. Primary goals of the programare to provide students with a solid foundation in engineering fundamentals, the skills to adapt torapidly changing and advanced technologies, and an aptitude for life-long learning. Uniquenessof the program is particularly evident with respect to its multidisciplinary span, heavyexperimental component, large credit-hour requirement, and use of advanced

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Carl Zorowski

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationCD ROM Preparation The graduate offering selected for this experiment was a course that deals with theprinciples and methodology used in mechanical product design to insure ease of assembly in themanufacturing process. This course was selected for the experiment since it is a requirement inthe on campus Master of Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering program and is ofpopular general interest among practicing engineers enrolled in the VBEE program. Thisprovided a balanced enrollment of both on and off-campus students for assessing the acceptanceand academic effectiveness of this delivery approach. In addition

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Bruce Perlman; Roli Varma

ethics as having little to do with real lifeand engineering practice 2. This attitude stems for the greater part from the assumption thattechnology is efficient, predictable, logical, rational, value-free, objective, and a sign of humanprogress. In such situations, teaching engineering ethics through case studies makes studentsreconsider this positivist philosophy of technology, recognize the negative impact of technology,imagine ethical conduct, and then apply these insights to engineering situations. Moreover, whensome cases touch students, they are likely to remember the lessons learned from those cases.One major shortcoming of the case-based method of teaching engineering ethics might be calledthe problem of "professional distance". One

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time,we were also learning Morse Code and about different things that have to do with radioand radio communications. We also did a lot more things, but this is just a vagueoverview of how Tech Camp was. I thought that it was really fun and if there will be aTech Camp for General Licenses, then I will definitely go. My favorite part of TechCamp was being a fox, but I also thought that learning more about ham radio was veryfun and educating.”Wendy Masters(Grade 8)“My name is Jordan Goldblatt. I am a graduate of Tech Camp 2000, Session 1. I hadmany good experiences there and learned a lot of things about Amateur Radio. Probablythe best experience was being the "fox" in the fox hunts. Being the fox means that Itransmit a signal for about 20

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Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

. Page 6.1002.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe ETW experience made such a dramatic impact on the team’s teaching performance3 thatthey felt motivated to pass along these hints for successful teaching. The teaching hints, whichcan be categorized into four areas: organization, preparation, practice, and rapport, weredeveloped after review of the journals kept by each team member during the workshop and thediscussions of common experiences at their respective universities during the year followingETW. The journals not only stimulated reflection by each member (material, methodology

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card as our“technologies.” We were educated in an environment that was in transition as aresult of the Grinter Report,2 New Math and the Cold War. In time discussionsbegan to focus on the effects these changes made on our product -graduates.3Technological education was changing from a practitioner-oriented to a science-based pedagogy. In the ‘60’s we entered the space age where mathematics andscience began displacing practice and design in the majority of engineeringcurricula.II. Engineering Educators and Instructional TrainingSince 1960 the need for more science compelled universities to seek youngPh.D.'s as new faculty members. Like their predecessors, they entered theirteaching positions without formal training in educational sciences and

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Robert Tener; Michael Winstead; Edward Smaglik

be compelled to use all styles. Individuals whose preference for a givenstyle is particularly strongcan determine the niches within which they will be more likely to succeed. According to Wankat andOreovicz51, accommodators tend to move toward management, sales and marketing; divergers movetoward personnel and creative positions. Convergers tend toward hard-core engineering jobs such as plantoperations, design, and construction. Assimilators gravitate toward research, development, and planning. Page 6.486.9 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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William de Kryger

Session 2260 International Exchange Programs: Getting Started William J. de Kryger Central Michigan UniversityAbstractInternational academic exchange programs have long been enjoyed by those in pursuit of the finearts. More recently, with the globalization of many industries, international exchange programshave taken on new importance for our technical graduates. Engineering and manufacturingactivities are often a collaborative effort with international partners. If international partnershipsare common, even required in many industrial endeavors, this same type