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Ronald K. Goodnight; Gary B. Randolph; Dennis O. Owen

are employed, they have not formally entered theworkforce with a career mindset. Most view their employment in much the same manor as theydid their high school part time jobs. They still consider themselves primarily students and arenot in a career path.Another group of traditional students beginning to use the Anderson facility are universitystudents who cannot get majors or courses they desire at the conventional campus locations.Demand for courses at Purdue’s main campus in West Lafayette, IN has exceeded the availableresources. Students are finding that courses and majors that are closed at main campus areavailable at Anderson and other regional campuses. Similar situations have occurred at otheruniversities in the area, and students from

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Raul Ordonez; Harriet Benavidez; Anthony J. Marchese; James A. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Beena Sukumaran; Ravi Ramachandran; Julie Haynes

not only proficiency in the technicalprinciples, but, as importantly, require a mastery of written and oral communication skills and theability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team. In the sophomore year, the attempt is made tointegrate design and communication (written and oral) by serving the dual purpose of introducingstudents to formalized engineering design techniques and providing them with the necessaryfoundation for their careers as technical communicators. The course is team-taught by faculty fromthe College of Communication and the College of Engineering. In the fall semester, the thrust is onintegrating discipline specific design modules with communication [3] by applying the principles ofTotal Quality Management (TQM) [4][5

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Sheikh A. Akbar; Prabir K. Dutta

more of one at the expense of the other? Also, in research, there is a growing trend ofmultifaceted partnerships involving academia, government, national laboratories and industries.Such partnerships in education are almost nonexistent. With changing societal needs anddemands, the way we educate and train the future generation of engineers will evolve. We willneed to integrate the latest research developments into students’ curriculum more readily andtrain students in a cooperative environment with involvement from industries. This will helpstudents appreciate the impact of their education on society and will also help develop skillsuseful for their future careers. This paper describes a novel curriculum development that grewout of what

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John S. Mullin; James J. Alpigini

experience in a professional environment. While many ofthese candidates have had some exposure to information systems, their goal is to either expandtheir current capabilities and responsibilities or to transition their careers into an informationsystems area.At PSGV it has been observed that people desiring to make this type of career transition haveoften relied on the continuing education. The primary goal of these continuing education courses isto augment the skill set of students already involved in the industry. While these professionaldevelopment courses are invaluable to people in the field, they do not provide the needed depth ofunderstanding for people making the transition to the information science field. To address thisproblem, PSGV has

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John I. Hochstein; Deborah Hochstein

used at the professional, managerial, technical, skilled, and semi-skilled levels. It hasbeen used by educational agencies, business/industry, and government agencies, both in theUnited States and abroad1. It has proven to be effective in the: development of new programs;revision of existing programs; evaluation of worker performance; creation of job descriptions;development of process descriptions (ISO9000); and conceptualization of future jobs. There areseveral advantages of using the DACUM process. It is a team-based project where membersfreely share ideas and hitchhike on each other’s contributions. People enjoy talking about theirwork with others in similar careers. As a result, a synergy develops and members empower eachother to arrive

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Nicholas A. Scambilis

year to enter the Tech Prep Environmental program. Students then take an environmentally based curriculum during their junior and senior year and upon graduation, can enter Sinclair’s Environmental Engineering Technology program with a $1,000/year scholarship. Two high schools (Bellbrook and Miami Valley Career Technical Center) started the Environmental Tech Prep program in 1998. Approximately 30 students at each school, who entered the program, graduated in 1999. Some of these students enrolled in environmental courses at Sinclair. Two other high schools (Miamisburg and Centerville) started the program in 1999 with two additional schools contemplating a Tech Prep program in 2000. Ten Tech

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Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill

Part I of the Alumni Survey.Students were asked to rate Importance of each item and their current Ability. Part IIIEducational Experience at Ohio State made use of the same structure as Part II of the AlumniSurvey with the addition of two questions related to Coop/Intern and Career Services. Since thesurvey form was not finalized until end of winter quarter 1998, spring quarter 1999 graduateswere generally the only ones available for this survey. As with the all surveys, use by eachDepartment/Program was at the discretion of the program.4. Populations Surveyed and Return DataFor the Alumni and Supervisor/Manager Surveys (Years 2, 6, & 15), available addresses fromthe OSU Alumni Association were used. Alumni graduates were based on calendar

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Scott Johnson; Barbara Nepote; Shirley J. Dyke; Juan Caicedo; Euridice Oware

courses will be extended to ask the stu-dent’s views of these experiences. In addition, students will be asked questions to determine inwhat ways they benefited from these exercises, and how these experiences may have influencedtheir career goals. Furthermore, evaluations will be made available on the web page to allow stu-dents to submit comments on the courses and others to submit suggestions/questions. Feedbackprovided by these sources will indicate directions for improvements in both the coursework andthe web page.5. Expansion of the Education ProgramThis program provided inspiration for the University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tablesprogram (UCIST). The main goal of the UCIST project is develop a set of undergraduate-level,“hands

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Sara Washburn; Amy Hossain; Elizabeth A. Parry; Rachel Meyer; Laura Bottomley

. An innovative new program in North Carolina’s Wake County is attemptingto influence the academic choices of the elementary student, particularly young girls andunderrepresented minorities. This is the pilot year of an NSF funded program that places collegeof engineering students as resources at public elementary schools.By using graduate and undergraduate engineering students as science resources, the children areexposed early to the idea of science, math and/or engineering as a college, and therefore career,choice. The engineering students benefit as well, learning valuable communication skills thatwill enhance their marketability upon graduation. The ability to explain complex science tochildren requires confidence and technical knowledge

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Karim M. El-Dash

demand a synchronous mutation in the engineeringeducation. Particularly, educators need to overcome the traditional perspective of courses withconcentrated subjects to widely needed integrated courses and integrated education. Interdisciplinary education collaborated by communication skills is very important forengineers with managerial functions in their technical ventures and even for engineers pursuingtheir careers in nontechnical trends. A constant growth of interest in nontechnical educationamong engineers is commonly observed and reflected in the design of engineering curricula inthe United States where some innovative curricula assign as much as 50-60% of the requiredcredits to be fulfilled by free or directed elective courses(5

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Kisha L. Johnson; John Albert Wheatland; Grace E. Mack

Fall 1998 and Fall 1999 indicate that 1)freshman like hearing the information from other engineering students, 2) recommend theprogram for all new students in engineering, and 3) feel the information is helpful to them asengineering students. The Fast Track to Achievement program is a viable, relatively inexpensiveretention effort. It is easy to organize and easy to replicate. It provides freshmen with a quality,first-time peer group experience as a means of encouraging them to stay linked to theengineering community, motivating them to earn the best grades, and providing resources toassist them in making the freshman year a foundation for achievement in engineering.Bibliography1. L. Crockett. Starting Off Right: Career Planning and Academic

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Igor M. Verner; Jacob E. Mendelssohn; David J. Ahlgren

list of motivation factors is presented below in Table 3.In the last section of the questionnaire the participants were asked to estimate the contribution ofthe contest to development of their attitudes towards robotics and engineering. The list ofattitudes included: interest to designing, building and programming robot systems, interest tolearn science and technology subjects, and interest in entering an advanced level engineeringprogram. The senior division form included also attitudes towards career opportunities andhobby subjects.A personal interview form was addressed to people involved in the robot contest. With this formthey were asked to present their opinions on robot contest involvement and to providesubstantiating examples

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Scott White; Kirsten Lowrey; George M. Bodner; Dawn Del Carlo; Ala Samarapungavan; William C. Oakes

uncooperative.• There is little that can be done to change the students’ expectations before they come to the college classroom. However, their expectations should be challenged early and often, particularly in their first year of college.• The chronological gap between the presentation of basic concepts and their application is often too long. Students should have problems to solve that are not well defined earlier in their academic careers.• Students are typically told that they would do well in engineering because they have done well, or have a knack for, math and science courses in high school. Some students may find that they do not want to study a particular type of engineering, or engineering at all. However they may

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Duane D. Dunlap; Niaz Latif, Purdue University - Calumet

career growth. The graduateenrollment figures for two academic years at NKU and Purdue shows that the MST programattracted many students having undergraduate degrees in areas other than technology ortechnology-related fields (Table 1).Course need and justification“Core courses were designed to emphasize fundamental skills and knowledge deemed importantby regional industrial employers and technology managers while program tracks provide depth instudents’ area of specialization1.” The course goals, objectives, and related course topics areselected to meet the program objectives and to serve the students in the program. The coursegoals are: • To investigate and to identify industry standard software in a chosen field. • To identify hardware

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Karen Horton

. Materials for diversity topicsincluded films, and articles and reports about the status of women in engineering careers.10-15Students wrote reports about how people from diverse backgrounds are included in teams. Theyworked in teams to present oral reports describing a 4-point plan that a company could use toestablish work teams and to attract a diverse workforce.After the unit “Success Working in Diverse Teams” of eight class sessions students were askedto respond anonymously to a variety of questions about the unit goals, materials, and classroomclimate. Some aspects of the unit worked well while others did not. Student feedback towardthis first unit was generally positive. The class consisted of twenty Caucasian men from thenortheastern U.S. One

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Bruno Ramond; Abir Z. Qamhiyah

Submitted to the International Division of ASEE for presentation at the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Session 2660 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN MECHANICAL COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN EDUCATION Abir Z. Qamhiyah, Bruno Ramond Iowa State University / The Universite de Technologie de CompiegneAbstractMechanical engineering design and manufacturing is increasingly becoming a global enterprise.The success of our ME students in their future careers will therefore depend on their ability towork effectively with engineers from both the local and international business climates. Thispaper describes a collaborative mechanical

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Bruce A. DeVantier; John W. Nicklow

’ employment obligations, classes meet once per weekfor two and one-half hours during the evening. Although the time required to complete theirdegree may be more than that of the full-time student, the remote students generally appreciate theopportunity since they are not required to temporarily suspend their professional career. Inaddition, the majority students have found managing a full-time job along with two collegiateclasses leaves little time for research activities. Consequently, many have decided to pursue a non-thesis option, which requires six additional semester hours of course credit beyond that of thethirty-hour thesis option.Although students in the Springfield MSCE program are coping with significant time constraints,they have

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Sankar Sengupta; Ronald J. Srodawa; Robert P. Van Til; Michael J. Latcha

Remote Design/Manufacturing Program projects andtraditional university engineering, or high school technology, team-based projects is that team members are locatedat different facilities. In this case, Oakland University and Seaholm High School (the distance between the twofacilities is approximately fifteen miles). Hence, intra- and inter-team communications is conducted via variousmedia such as e-mail, video conferencing and the internet (using computers with interactive video, audio anddocument sharing capabilities).These interactive projects provide high school students with a first-hand opportunity to observe and understand thedifferences between a career in technology and one in engineering. They encourage the participating high

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Patricia B Spencer; Kathryn Hollar

Program. Co-facilitation provides a safe, supported structure for students exploringteaching as a career. Using TA Fellows to deliver components of undergraduate training forgesanother link in a mentoring network, leading to future faculty in engineering. This paperdescribes the professional development of students through mentoring and teaching networks atCornell Page 5.3.1University’s College of Engineering. It also highlights the value of co-facilitation which modelsthe teamwork outcome so desired in ABET 2000.Key to terminology as used in the College of Engineering at Cornell University:• TA - graduate teaching assistant• TA Fellow

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Jerome A. Atkins

among groups--women, minorities, and the disabled-- traditionally under-represented in S&E. The expanding need for technically trained workers in C&IT demandsexpanded access programs to offer technical training and education to members of these groups.At the same time, the massive structural shift of America’s corporate workplace to a serviceeconomy has created a glut of displaced workers, many of whom are mid-career professionals nowin need of technical re-training and re-education to re-enter the workplace. Ironically, somestudies even show a severe problem of civilian under-employment of highly-trained individualsemerging from the U.S. military services, arguably the most technologically advanced fightingforces in the world. The U.S

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Richard Barke

communications skills, and to make them better teamplayers. Such proposals for reform continue: “the key parameters of the new context ofengineering are globalization, ‘sustainable development’ replacing ‘development,’ continuouschange in both practice and education, rise in the social value accorded to nature, theenvironmental focus on an increasing number of new technologies, greater technologicalchoice, and the need to monitor the relationship between technology and society” (WorldFederation of Engineering Organizations, 1993).Not only is the social role of the engineer changing, but lifetime career patterns indicate a needto reassess some aspects of engineering education. At age 30 about seventy percent of thosewith at least one engineering degree

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

engineers at various sponsoring companies. Future visions of PEDE and plans foroperating PEDE in the 1999-00 academic year are also presented.1. IntroductionOne characteristic of the engineering discipline that distinguishes it from the science disciplines isengineering design. Practicing engineers in industry spend a considerable amount of time involvedwith design of a product, process, or system. It is, therefore, essential that undergraduate studentspreparing for professional careers in engineering be exposed to the concepts of engineering design.The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)1 defines engineering design as “… the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. It is a

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Nathan Stott; Gregory B. Markus; Diann Brei; Deanna M. Winton Hoffman; William W. Schultz

goal of this project was to create hands-on educational equipment that introduces engineering principles tomiddle school students, especially girls. This module allows the girls to work in teams and requires problem solving.However, the module is non-competitive and allows the girls to feel a sense of accomplishment. The purposes ofthis project were to foster interest in math and science and encourage engineering as a future career.3.3 - Pi Tau SigmaCentral to the infrastructure of ProCEED is Pi Tau Sigma, the National Mechanical EngineeringHonor Society. ProCEED is unique in that it is the only student run curriculum program of whichwe are aware. ProCEED expands the numerous activities Pi Tau Sigma already engages in forthe benefit of the

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David R. Haws

feel an obligation to discussdifferent types of academic and career options, particularly as he finds things that he enjoys inhis other classes. His (at least temporary) selection of engineering probably has as much to dowith his older brother (who is finishing his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering).However, my son’s learning style (he is more abstract random than concrete sequential) maymake engineering a difficult field. As his mentor, I need to be mindful that his academicprogress and ultimate career may take him in different directions. This means that these areasshouldn’t be neglected, and as his mentor, I need to have diverse interests. Consistent with thisidea, when his theatre class was discussing Hamlet, we rented and

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Nisreen Ghaddar; Nassir Sabah; Jamal Abed; Fouad T. Mrad

by its faculty and students, and to provideservices to the community at large, with special consideration to the needs and circumstances ofLebanon and the region. The FEA prepares its students, in a challenging and intellectuallystimulating environment that undergoes continuous improvement, for life-long learning,innovation, and leadership in their chosen careers and empowers them for a richer personal andprofessional life.C. Prototypical Educational ObjectivesThe following objectives have been suggested by the Committee to the various departments inFEA as a starting point in developing educational objectives for the various programs offered:“The Bachelor’s degree programs of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEA)rigorously

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Joanne M. Goode; James B. Stenger

the information at their convenience outside of class time. Class time, of course, isalready fully utilized, given the material needed to be covered in typical courses and with thedesign component that should be a part of engineering classes. With a web-based informationresearch workshop, students could access the information early in their academic careers andrefer back to it as their needs progress.As pointed out by a faculty member in response to the survey question concerning the best wayto work on improving information skills, "only when we require it in multiple classes will theystart to get good at it." It is our goal, through the workshop and web-based instruction, tointroduce students early to the skills needed to access information

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Rafic Bachnak

the responsibilities of technicians, technologists, and engineersworking in various technical positions. Another goal is to give students the opportunity to expandtheir vision of their chosen careers by observing the operations and organization of industrialfacilities.A great deal of preparation is needed to ensure that field trips are successful. Here are thesteps that the author normally follows to arrange them. Identify a company appropriate for the type of tour desired. This includes finding background information about the company. Establish communication with the company (normally the Human Resources office) to identify a person who can organize or help in conducting the field trip. This task is

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell

theirapplication to the exciting field of drug delivery. Students are introduced to concentrationmeasurements and simple analysis of rate data. Through this experiments students explore manyconcepts and tools that they will use throughout their engineering careers: • Novel application of chemical engineering principles • Concentration measurement • Calibration • Material balances • Use of spreadsheets for calculations and graphing • Parameter evaluation • Semi-log plots and trendlines • Comparison of experimental concentration data to predicted concentrations • Testing a transient model at the limits of initial time and infinite timeDrug DeliveryThe experiment begins with a short lecture on drug delivery, in

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Tim O'Neill; Gregory M. Maxwell

of Energy’s Industrial Assessment Center Program hasprovided opportunities to enhance engineering education while at the same time providing aservice to U.S. manufacturers. It would be impossible to determine the total impact this programhas had on the education process for students involved with the program due to the diversity ofcareer paths students have taken upon graduation as well as the total number of students (1000+)who have participated in the program nation wide. However, from the feedback we receive fromsome of our own students, the IAC program provided them with career opportunities they feelthey would not have otherwise had. Overall, the IAC proves to be a winning combination forstudents, faculty and industry

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Robert D. Knecht

costs.ConclusionI submit to you the advantages that a four-year engineering design curriculum offers theengineering student. The Design Stem not only reinforces technical skills that engineeringstudents develop through their content curriculum but also builds an understanding andconfidence in the engineering design process. This learning takes place throughout theireducational career in a sequence that follows their technical learning as well as models theengineering design stages of a project life cycle. The project-based curriculum serves as anexcellent method if built around the foundation of a four-year design stem. This foundationmodels the engineering cycle these engineers will experience throughout their technical careers.Bibliography1. Dixon, J.R