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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fazil Najafi, University of Florida

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International

of resources. The curriculum components areimportant in supporting student retention. There should be student support servicesincluding tutoring, counseling, career advising, and employer encouragement. At thegraduate level, there are many minority students of superior ability who demonstratefinancial need and plan to pursue a PhD degree in a designated area of national need.The IHE Diversity Model should offer fellowships to such students and increase theirnumbers by aggressively promoting recruitment, retention and orientation of thosetalented students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. Page 11.47.3 Institute of

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Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Aultman-Hall, University of Connecticut; Britt Holmen, University of Connecticut

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Women in Engineering

Associations can contribute to increasing the number of women in engineering leadership roles.Advice to Individual Women EngineersThese accomplished women panelists from all types of organizations providedpersonal advice to individual women engineers that was valued by all. Thisguidance is also helpful for those who want to encourage or mentor individualwomen engineers. Women were encouraged to take risks and accept challenges.These challenges were identified as taking the form of technical challenges in newprojects as well as learning about other disciplines such as public policy orfinance. Knowledge of these other disciplines is needed for successfulengineering leadership. Young women were encouraged to develop a career planas soon as possible

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Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sorraya Khiewnavawongsa, Purdue University; Edie Schmidt, Purdue University; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

years and it has the potential to be moreFrada (1996) concluded that the growth of industrial distribution in the last few years has createdmore jobs and the need for more highly educated employees. Industry experts contend that manycollege graduates could have successful careers in industrial distribution if they were only morefamiliar with it.Industrial distribution has changed from time to time. Anonymous (1998) suggested thatdistribution is in the process of redefining itself. The Internet may be the largest singlecontributor to change in the industry and may manage to eliminate costs from the supply chain.Distribution today and in the future was also stated.What is industrial distribution?According to the industrial distribution program

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Biology in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Coppinger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon Sexton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

provide additional comments. Students werealso asked questions pertaining to future career plans, and whether or not the genetics courseinfluenced these plans.Survey resultsAn ANOVA was run to test for differences between the three majors; biology, biomedicalengineering, and other. The other category was made of students majoring in engineering orscience fields other than biology or biomedical engineering. There were no statisticallysignificant differences at the p < .05 value between biology, biomedical engineering, or otherstudents on survey results or grades. Therefore, the data reported here will be central tendenciesand frequencies only and will focus only on applied biology and biomedical engineering studentsas this is the sample of

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Innovative Partnerships

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Arizona State University; Debra Banks, Consultant

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Two Year College Division

the career opportunities in engineering, especially for women and minority students.Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Arizona State University CAROLINE VANINGEN-DUNN is a consultant with CVID Consultants for the past 11 years.. She earned a Bioengineering Degree from the University of Iowa and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Standford. She worked as an engineer for 14 years in industry specializing in the design of seats for comfort and support during crashes. She is currently the half-time director of the METS (Maricopa Engineering Transition Scholars) program, overseeing activities both in the Fulton School of Engineering and the Maricopa County Community College

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Outreach and Recruitment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marsha Lee, Texas A&M University; Jan Rinehart, Texas A&M University; Scott Starks, University of Texas-El Paso; Karen Villatoro, Texas A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering

currently working on the Space Engineering Institute CubeSat team and is on the Texas A&M Rugby team. She served as the day-to-day coordinator on the Discover Engineering Conference. Page 11.487.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Discover Engineering - A High School Conference for Students and TeachersIntroductionThe Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University held its first DiscoverEngineering conference on Saturday, October 22, 2005. The goals of the conference were tointerest high school students in a career in engineering and inform parents and

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Women & New Faculty Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Jessop, University of Iowa

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Women in Engineering

ticking, and you’re getting antsy. You’ve delayed starting a family because youwanted to get settled into your academic position; however, that doesn’t seem such a good ideanow that you’re approaching your mid-30’s. What factors should you consider in making thedecision to start your family? Once you’ve decided to take the plunge into family life, what arestrategies you can use to strike a balance between your family and career? Here, personalexperiences of several female engineering faculty members from the University of Iowa will beshared, along with tips from other resources. Topics include: (1) Negotiating with your supervisor [how will baby’s arrival affect your contributions to the department/college?]; (2

Conference Session

1st Year Retention Programs for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Amanda Martin, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

. Watford received the ASEE 2003 Minorities in Engineering award due to her efforts to increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of under-represented students in engineering. She is currently working for the National Science Foundation as a rotator in the Division of Undergraduate Education.Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech WHITNEY A. EDMISTER is the Assistant Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Sate University. She received her M.S. in Counselor Education, Student Affairs Administration from Radford University, and M.S. in Career and Technical Education and B.S. in Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise both from

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Charlene Yauch, Oklahoma State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

increasingly important.Trends in engineering enrollment show that beyond the enrollment highs of the 1980s,the numbers of students entering and remaining in the field have either decreased orremained constant1. Positive perspectives of engineering help to increase thepersistence of students studying engineering2.Multidisciplinary approaches have been used recently as a method to increase bothrecruitment and retention3. Froyd and Ohland state that the multidisciplinary approachimproves retention by making explicit connections to engineering, engineering practiceand engineering careers. Second, it allows students to see connections between theirmathematics and science courses and their future careers in engineering. Third, facultywould also like the

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ChE: Departmental Issues and Integrating Freshmen into the ChE Program

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Follman, Purdue University; George Bodner, Purdue University; Mica Hutchison, Purdue University

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Chemical Engineering

D. Treistman, "Relation of ContextualSupports and Barriers to Choice Behavior in Engineering Majors: Test of Alternative Social Cognitive Models,"Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 50, no. 4, 2003, pp. 458-465.3. Schaefers, K. G., D. L. Epperson and M. M. Nauta, "Women's Career Development: Can Theoretically DerivedVariables Predict Persistence in Engineering Majors?," Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 44, no. 1997, pp.173-183.4. Brainard, S. G., S. Laurich-McIntyre and L. Carlin, "Retaining Female Undergraduate Students in Engineeringand Science: 1995 Annual Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation," Journal of Women and Minorities in Scienceand Engineering, vol. 2, no. 1995, pp. 255-267.5. Eccles, J. S. and A. Wigfield

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Education Through Outreach and Collaboration

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zbigniew Pasek, University of Windsor

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Manufacturing

. Page 11.305.2Exhibit GoalsThe main purpose of the exhibit is to educate visitors about the processes in three fields essentialto industrial production – product design, manufacturing, and marketing – and how these fieldsare intertwined in development of manufactured goods. A secondary goal of the exhibit is tointroduce children, especially girls, to the types of professions found in these areas so they mayconsider them as future career choices.3 For either of these goals to be attained, the proposedexhibit must accomplish three tasks: (1) attract visitors, (2) motivate them to become engagedwith the exhibit, and (3) facilitate the acquisition of the knowledge, understanding, and attitudesthe exhibit is designed to convey.Exhibit OverviewThe

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Schreier, University of Dayton; Carl Eger, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

and effectiveness of ETHOS programming onstudents post graduation, efforts were made to survey all alumni having participated ininternational technical immersions. This survey was designed to capture results of programmaticgoals and understand the role of service-learning programs on engineers’ career and life paths. This paper will describe qualitative results of international technical immersionexperiences through alumni surveys and interviews. Review of these data will provideassessment of the ETHOS program’s international technical immersions, classroom instruction,course resources, course facilitation and requirements. Recommendations for futuredevelopment and assessment will be considered.Background:Academic institutions are

Conference Session

Ensuring Access to K - 12 Engineering Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amit Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; GWEN EBERT, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

studies and b) how thesecourses work together to help students develop engineering skills. Assessment instrumentsincluded beginning, middle, and end-of-design experience questionnaires, videotapes of studentpresentations, and a reflective letter to their parents. Through the data collected, the paperanswers the following questions: a) Are real-life student design projects an effective means ofintegrating different courses? b) Did the real-life student design projects provide better studentunderstanding of engineering in general? c) Did the exercise of designing and presentingprojects, stimulate student interest in science and engineering careers? This pilot assessmentplan will be used to improve the program as well as to assess student learning

Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma; Susan Walden, University of Oklahoma; Tyler Combrink, University of Oklahoma; Lindsey McClure, University of Oklahoma; Deborah Trytten, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

described through this metaphoricframework. Our students instruct the new collegians to: • set the college stage early by knowing their desired major and being adequately prepared to pursue that major; • engage a supporting cast of peers, patrons and programs to become thoroughly involved in their academic careers; • accept the role of director by assuming academic responsibility including improving time management and study habits, and • anticipate and overcome critic’s reviews in the form of external grades and internal doubts.The data suggest differences in advice given by male and female students and students fromdifferent classifications (i.e., lower division students versus upper division students

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Jacobson, Iowa State University

are undergraduates. We also offer one undergraduate security course. ISU facultymembers are also participating in development of national standards for security education andIowa State University was named as a Charter Center of Excellence in Information AssuranceEducation by the National Security Agency in 1999. Our initial target audience for theComputer Security Summer Camp is high school students who will be entering their senior yearof high school in the fall.Goals and ObjectivesThe primary goal of the computer security summer camp is to raise awareness of computersecurity issues and career possibilities. When the camp was first designed the goal was toprovide students with an overview of many of the important issues in computer security

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mica Hutchison, Purdue University; Deborah Follman, Purdue University; George Bodner, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

intervention techniques for the promotion of positive self-efficacy beliefs among students, aimed at ultimately increasing their achievement, success, andretention.Bibliography1. Bandura, A., Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1997.2. Pajares, F., "Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Academic Settings," Review of Educational Research, vol. 66, no. 4, 1996,pp. 543-578.3. Lent, R. W., S. D. Brown, J. Schmidt, B. Brenner, H. Lyons and D. Treistman, "Relation of ContextualSupports and Barriers to Choice Behavior in Engineering Majors: Test of Alternative Social Cognitive Models,"Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 50, no. 4, 2003, pp. 458-465.4. Schaefers, K. G., D. L. Epperson and M. M. Nauta, "Women's Career Development

Conference Session

Climate Issues for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Sheila Edwards Lange, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of climate, including whether gender was abarrier to a successful career in science, and whether women have to prove themselves more thanmen. Although the men and women in Ferreira’s study also had similar perceptions of the cultureof science, most of the data in general pointed to the perception of science as a masculinized andinflexible career.Department climate in terms of STEM graduate education is characterized by departmentaldifferences in the orientation and support provided to students, faculty expectations of andrelationships with graduate students, and the quality of student peer relationships2,6,16-18.Graduate education is decentralized and occurs under the auspices of academic disciplines anddepartments. Graduate students are

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wells, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

2006-17: A FRAMEWORK FOR STUDENT LEARNING IN MANUFACTURINGENGINEERINGDavid Wells, North Dakota State University David L. Wells has been a manufacturing engineer for over four decades, roughly equally divided between industrial and academic employment. He has been Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at North Dakota State University since January 2000. Prior to this appointment, he served in a manufacturing engineering and education post at Focus: HOPE for six years and on the faculty of University of Cincinnati for fifteen years. His early career included some twenty years in research and development, manufacturing engineering and production management in the power

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Nelson, Mississippi State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

2006-76: DEVELOPING ENGINEERS WITH AN ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRITGerald Nelson, Mississippi State University Gerald Nelson, an industrial engineering graduate (1974) with an MBA (1985) from Mississippi State University, began his career with a co-op experience at Rockwell International. Nelson worked five semesters with Rockwell before joining them full time after graduation as a Project Engineer and Program Manager. Nelsons career includes former positions as Plant Manager, Trinity Industries; President and Chief Operating Officer of the Wear Resistance Group of Thermadyne Industries, Inc.; Executive Vice President of Operations, Viasystems Group, Inc.; and Chief Operating Officer of

Conference Session

Emerging EM Areas

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Parden, Santa Clara University

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Engineering Management

2006-629: ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCYRobert Parden, Santa Clara University Chair and Professor Department of Engineering Management and Leadership Santa Clara University Page 11.975.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 2006-629: ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCYAbstractThe motivation of engineers, and other technical professionals, includes two significant factors:enhanced, personal career development, and, expanded responsibility in their firms. Leadershipof continuous improvement, in the search for productivity and organizational efficiency, cansupport these two ambitions. Organizational Efficiency is

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roy Hamilton, Purdue University-Calumet; Harvey Abramowitz, Purdue University-Calumet

the Proficientlevel on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessment. Thisis of great concern considering that in order to pursue careers and study in areas of national needsuch as mathematics and the sciences, students need to possess proficiency in mathematics.2Profile of Purdue University Calumet StudentsOf the 8,283 undergraduate students enrolled during the 2004 Fall Semester (which is typical ofthe pool from which eligible applicants are taken): • 4,680 (56.5%) attended full-time, while 3,603 (43.5%) attended part-time • 5,582 (67.4%) were Caucasian • 1,251 (15.1%) were African American • 1,234 (14.9%) were Hispanic • 115 (1.4%) were Asian Pacific Island

Conference Session

Women & New Faculty Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Cory Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Melissa Zaczek, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

studentsto support research and teaching activities. Often, new faculty are assigned graduate studentassistants for research projects or are given TA’s from a pool of applicants. Sometimes theseworking relationships turn out to be productive for both the faculty member and the student, butmany times this is not the case. This paper will present a method of identifying students early onin their academic careers and developing good working relationships that are beneficial to bothfaculty and students.Over the past five years, students who have done well in lower-level classes have been hired asgraders, lab instructors, and – in some cases – MS students. By hand-selecting students andintroducing them gradually to the instructor’s side of class

Conference Session

Industrial Collaboration & Applications in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

current and relevant to their chosen field. It can be further stated that existing employees, through either undergraduate or graduate studies can also further their education and make themselves more valuable to their employers. This being said, universities want to provide their students with practical experience so that they are better prepared to start their careers. Business, likewise, wants students with relevant knowledge thereby reducing training time.It is for these reasons, and others, that the amount of University/Industry collaborations haveincreased in the last ten years. As Powers et al. (1988) stated “the most fundamental reason thatinstitutions of higher education want to collaborate with businesses

Conference Session

Emerging EM Areas

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin Brown, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

resultsof these efforts and lessons learned over several years of recruiting engineers to becomeengineering managers.2. Benefits of Engineering Management Education for Engineering StudentsIt has been recognized for a number of years that every engineering graduate should possesssome knowledge about the world of business, and that those competencies can serve to help themadvance their careers.1-2 The benefits of learning about the fundamentals of engineeringmanagement are numerous, including developing skills in leadership and teamwork that arevaluable to the student even in other undergraduate courses.3,4 Furthermore, developing skills inthis area can promote entrepreneurship, which is a natural complement to engineeringmanagement skills.5

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Capstone Courses I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Smith, University of Kentucky-Lexington; Jamey Jacob, University of Kentucky; Suzanne Smith, University of Kentucky; James Lumpp, University of Kentucky

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

Mars aircraft and a prototype high-altitude test-bed UAV that is launched in high Earth atmosphere. In essence, students involvedin BIG BLUE joined the aerospace workforce while participating in the project, whichinfluenced their decision to choose and pursue an aerospace career. Opportunities were alsoavailable to visit and work with practicing aerospace engineers in industry and at NASA. Annualsupport and expenditures, student and faculty involvement in project management and aerospaceworkforce development results are included. With three successful flight experiments in threeyears, a review of BIG BLUE reveals the effort, cost and results of experiential systemsengineering and aerospace workforce development.IntroductionBIG BLUE is a high

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stanley Rolfe, University of Kansas; Francis M. Thomas, University of Kansas

the freshman level. The focus throughout the freshman, sophomore, and junior years is on theacademic ethics from the CEAE Department’s viewpoint, regardless of what the students’personal ethics may have been prior to entering the University of Kansas.During the senior year, professional and international ethics are discussed in all design classes.Because personal ethics are developed from a variety of sources, it seems obvious thatprofessional ethics also must be presented in a variety of design classes so that the students willsee that this is a very important aspect of all phases of an engineering career. In each designclass, at least one lecture will be devoted to a case study in which the importance of engineeringethics is emphasized

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Haws, Boise State University

of certainty by emphasizing something other than the teaching/research track record ofapplicants. The past performance of prospective faculty is less important than the futureperformance of our graduates. Our most informed guess is that the performance of alumni wouldbe expected to improve if our faculties were to become more demographically inclusive.The question is not whether men are more generally inclined towards careers in engineering thanwomen. The question is how, in accordance with Rawls’ Second Principle of Justice, we insurethat careers in engineering—including careers as engineering professors—are open to all. Wecan’t deny the fundamental human need to believe that society cares enough about us to afford areasonable basis for our

Conference Session

Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gearold Johnson, Colorado State University; Dueb Lakhder, Consultant to UNESCO; Thomas Siller, Colorado State University

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International

Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a faculty member at Colorado State University since 1988. Page 11.415.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Designing a B.S. Degree Program in Engineering for Globally Sustainable DevelopmentA new degree program for careers in international engineering is proposed. This degreeprogram starts with a foundation of engineering science courses that are typical of mostundergraduate engineering degree programs. Then, courses directly related to the practiceof engineering in a global environment for sustainable development are added. Tocomplement the engineering

Conference Session

Emerging EM Areas

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Peterson, Old Dominion University; Morgan Henrie, University of Alaska Anchorage; Shannon Bowling, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

, the operations manager, thematerial control manager, the accounting manager, the sales manager). Engineering managementcould thus be the management of engineers (and other similar technical types) or what anengineer does when he/she advances in their career. Similarly, project management can beconsidered a sub-set of engineering management when engineering skills are required to managethe project (or when an engineer manages the project). Some1 define engineering management asthe skills, knowledge, abilities, and attitude needed to manage and problem-solve in a technologydriven organization. Kotnour and Farr2 give a description of engineering management fieldwhich places engineering management as the bridge between engineering and management

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New Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

, strategies, and projects to support the aforementioned items. In classwe look at the strategic plans of a couple of organizations and then for a homework assignment,the students select a company of interest (for profit or non-profit, big or small, domestic orinternational, etc.) and study its strategic plan. As an extension to this exercise, students arechallenged to reflect upon how strategic planning is critical for themself personally. Thismaterial is rooted in the work of Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.3 Specifically,students are asked to develop a personal mission statement and a five-year strategic plan. Theirstrategic plan must contain not only career-based objectives and goals, but also personal-basedobjectives and goals