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2000 Annual Conference

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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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2000 Annual Conference

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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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2000 Annual Conference

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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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2000 Annual Conference

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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

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Mark W. Fitch; Joel G. Burken; Craig D. Adams

education, which aids in their military advancement and heightens their technical skills.Captain Preston Funkhouser was in the first class to go through the course (UMR M.S. GraduateMay, 1998). His comments on the program follow: “My graduate studies at UM, Rolla helped me to re-affirm my long-term goal of being a civil engineer. The program offered many insights into the civil and environmental engineering fields that broadened my career horizon. The program also offered me the opportunity to prepare myself to pass the Civil Engineering Page 5.451.5 Professional Engineer Exam. The courses at UMR help to ingrain in the engineer's

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2000 Annual Conference

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Joseph D. Torres; Tom Cummings

Session 2570 Minority Education in Engineering, Mathematics and Science Joseph D. Torres and Tom Cummings School of Engineering University of New MexicoAbstractThe University of New Mexico (UNM) Minority Engineering, Mathematics and Science(MEMS) Program is a uniquely comprehensive program designed to increase the number ofminority students enrolling, graduating and pursuing careers in Engineering, Mathematics andScience (EMS) by: 1) improving retention rates of students in EMS disciplines, 2) fosteringrelations with industry and the technical community to

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2000 Annual Conference

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Paul I-Hai Lin; Hal Broberg

Signal Processing ApproachFaculty knowledge of current engineering workgroup practices is important to helpprepare students to enter the workplace as technicians and engineers. The totaldependence of most industries on contracts and the resultant possible layoffs andreorganizations that result when contracts are not won is also valuable knowledge whenadvising students on career options. Experiencing the inner turmoil during companylayoffs, buyouts, mergers, or divestitures is also an experience that can be valuable whenadvising or just chatting with students. Recent faculty work in industry is vital tomaintaining a knowledgeable faculty and a viable program in engineering technology.Faculty members need to keep up technically, but also need to

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2000 Annual Conference

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Warren R Hill

typically done annually. Certainly periodicreviews should not be something new to engineering technology faculty.One final note regarding rationale. A very reasonable argument can be made that the faculty arethe heart and soul of the educational enterprise. Any mechanism, including post-tenure review,which helps them to continue to be productive and motivated throughout their careers should be abasic part of institutional policy and practice.ApproachesBroadly speaking, all employee reviews including those of tenured faculty, fall into two maincategories, summative and formative and may contain elements of both. Summative reviews arefor the purposes of some kind of personnel decision including such things as promotion, payraises, or tenure. Such

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ralph Carestia; J. Robert Burger; Doug Lynn

decades now, the standard model of a graduate education is one that culminates with adoctorate at the top. There are good financial reasons for this, although some are nowevaporating. Graduate schools have been driven by money from the government for big projects,including space exploration, missile defense, and military research. For financial and otherreasons, graduate students are engaged directly and indirectly to help with the research. Theneed for funding has directed many a career in academia, and government funding obviouslyaffects the material that is actually taught.This research-based, doctorate-driven model has disadvantages for an MS student. To bepractical, MS and Ph.D. candidates must share the same classes with the same

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Angie Hill Price

to the students at an early age, so that the degree becomes a part oftheir concept of career goals.IntroductionIt is recognized that the public has a great interest in science and a growing level ofunderstanding in the subject.1 There are a number of large scale technical outreach programsthat successfully address this desire to learn in areas across the U.S.2,3,4,5,6 Why should anythingelse be done? Because there is still a problem – not everyone is benefiting from these as yet, andas the saying goes, every little bit helps. Small scale programs can be very rewarding to thestudents and to the faculty member. Service is one of the components of a successful tenurepackage, though a small one, and K, 1 outreach certainly qualifies as a

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2000 Annual Conference

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Joan A. Burtner

module as needed.V. ConclusionGenerally speaking, the Introduction to Engineering Design course has been a success since itsinception in 1987. The course gives students an opportunity to learn about the process of designas well as the art of working together in a team. The freshman design course helps students tosee that engineering can be rewarding as well as challenging. In fact, many students tell us thatthis course helped them confirm their choice of engineering as a career. Hopefully, the additionof a teamwork module that emphasizes assessment of self and others has made the course evenmore valuable.References1. Burtner, J. (1997). Nine years of freshman design projects at Mercer University. American Society for Engineering

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paula Zenner; Charles Van Karsen

to that he had a twelve-year career as a practicing engineer in the MachineTool, Automotive, and Software industries. He specializes in Experimental Vibro-Acoustics, NVH, and StructuralDynamics. His research efforts have concentrated on experimental noise and vibration methods related toautomotive systems and subsystems, large home appliances, machine tools, and off-highway equipment. Chuckregularly presents seminars and short courses on Experimental Modal Analysis, Digital Signal Processing, AcousticMeasurements and Sound Quality, and Source-Path-Receiver methods. At Michigan Tech, Chuck teachesMechanical Vibrations, Experimental Vibro-Acoustics, Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis, MechanicalEngineering Laboratory, and Controls. He

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Cyrus Taylor

to help address the question as to what we shoulddo to improve our graduate programs, we turned to our alumni. Here the feedbackquickly identified physics entrepreneurship – a program preparing physicists forentrepreneurial careers – as a major national need, and a target of opportunity for theCWRU Physics Department. A second thrust was to similarly query industrial leaders.This identified a desire on the part of high-tech industry to improve connections with theuniversity, and in particular suggested long-term and intensive student internships as anapproach with both significant pedagogical value while providing a new mechanism forfunding graduate students.Having identified a potential opportunity, there remained the question of how to

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Farris; Jeffrey Ray

engineering. Thecurriculum emphasizes design while preparing students for careers in industry. All students arerequired to complete three four-month cooperative education experiences before graduation. Afour-credit manufacturing processes class is offered to junior level mechanical andmanufacturing engineering students. The class consists of three hours of lecture and three hoursof laboratory work each week. In the past, the laboratory experience has consisted of traditionallaboratory exercises and tours of local industry. In the laboratory students gathered data and thencompared the data to theoretical predictions. Unfortunately, this approach lacked relevance tostudents with industrial experience. On the other hand the tours of local industry were

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Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jean Paradis

Education, Halifax, Nova Scotia : Dalhousie University, 1998, p. 633-640 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.107.7 Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationJEAN PARADISAfter a career in the construction industry as a project manager and estimator, Jean Paradis is now a projectmanagement professor in the construction engineering department of l’École de technologie supérieure del’Université du Québec. He teaches courses in planning and control, estimating and project management. His mainresearch interests are in the use of the

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ed McCaul; Alfred Soboyejo; Robert J. Gustafson

12 P8 Encourage Attendance at Professional Conferences, Trade 12 Shows and Short Courses P9 More Focus on Business, Management and Finance 9 P10 Increase COOP/Internship Participation 8 P11 Promote Professional Registration 6 P12 Improve Career Advising 3Within Category P1 - Curriculum Content comments revolved around two principal areas. Thefirst was bringing in more real world examples, often by the means of industry connections. Thesecond dealt with keeping the curriculum current with industry

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

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Prathivadi Ravikumar

Mechanical Engineering majors in their final semester beforegraduation. It is a required course for all Mechanical Engineering majors. The course is centeredaround industry sponsored team design projects. In conjunction with the design projects,instruction/learning on engineering design and related content such as engineering managementare emphasized. The manner of conducting the design projects and teaching the subject matterare aimed at achieving the objective of providing a transition for students from conventionalengineering education to the practice of engineering in the real world.WHY ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT IN THE SENIOR DESIGN COURSE ?It is often the case that engineering majors start their careers as engineering professionals andthen, after

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Timothy Anderson; Rufus Carter; Brian Thorndyke; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

academically no different than thosethat remained. They reported students left for reasons relating to perceptions of the institutionalculture and career aspects.Perceptions and attitudes of engineering students have been examined in the literature. Page 7.619.1Besterfield-Sacre, Moreno, Shuman and Atman developed the Pittsburgh Freshman EngineeringAttitude Survey (PFEAS) 3. They administered the survey at the beginning of the students firstsemester and again at the end of the first semester or the end of the first academic year. Theyreport gender differences for female engineering students on the pre-survey. Female engineeringstudents began their

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Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

leaving the student unable to perceive the presence of a force or moment ina real life situation. Moreover, students cannot learn Statics in a very abstract way and then beexpected in later courses to apply those ideas to real artifacts. Along with many faculty, we aredisappointed with the extent to which students are able to use Statics in the analysis and designof mechanical systems and structures which they confront in their subsequent education1, andlater in their professional careers. We believe that physical experiences with forces andmoments that act between, or within, objects must be part and parcel of the very earliestexposure to Statics.Statics is taught traditionally in the context of rigid bodies, and it is logically consistent

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vipin Kumar; Scott Eberhardt

improvements inengineering education. The goal of the WFSF Program is to keep mid-career engineeringfaculty abreast of the rapidly changing industrial environment for the purpose ofimproving engineering education. As such, it is the only program of its kind in thenation. Boeing expects participants to disseminate what they learned to the academiccommunity (through papers such as this) and to increase the awareness of institutions ofhigher learning about modern trends in engineering practice in corporations striving toremain globally competitive.The WFSF participants typically spent the first week together in Seattle, where they wereintroduced to a broad array of issues related to the key elements of globalcompetitiveness and the practices of

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Learning Styles of Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Eugene Rutz; Cathy Maltbie

grades for the Mechanics I students and Basic Strength of Materialsstudents when results for both groups are combined.Univariate ANOVA's for MBTI type groups indicate that there is no significant overallinteraction between course instructional format and MBTI type for course grade whenresults for students in both Mechanics I classes and Basic Strength of Materials classesare combined.On the other hand when we separated the results using MBTI Type Mental FunctionSubgroups into four subgroups related to career choice (ST, SF, NF, NT), UnivariateANOVA's indicate that there are significant overall interaction effects between courseinstructional format and MBTI subgroup for course grade for students in both courses.(Mechanics I: F(12) =2.369, p

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

of graphical programming tools to simulate, design, and implement systemsfor communications, DSPs and control has increased rapidly in industry. Suchprogramming tools are easier to use and are effective teaching tools in learning difficultconcepts in electrical engineering and engineering technology courses. Theintroduction of graphical programming tools in our courses has given the studentshands-on experience with the same design tools used by practicing engineers, enhancingtheir career options in the current technological environment. The professional copiesof some of these software packages are expensive, but some of the manufacturers oftenhave special discounted prices for academia and are willing to donate them forteaching

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Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

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Randy Lewis

Chemical Engineering atOklahoma State University. Randy is currently the Vice-chair of the Career and Education Operating Council ofAIChE and is a past chair of the AIChE Student Chapters Committee. Research interests include biomedicalengineering applications and conversion of renewable resources to liquid fuels and chemicals. Page 7.1198.5 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Expositi on Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”

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James Barrott

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationChattanooga State Technical Community College was founded in 1967 at the urging of a groupof engineers who were influential with local and state politicians. They needed a technicalcollege that produced high-quality engineering technicians. Since then, the college has grown toover 9,000 students with over 45 different career programs. Over the years, Chattanooga Statehas demonstrated to the Chattanooga community its commitment to quality educationalprograms and services.As is Chattanooga State, Dupont is committed to staying competitive and producing qualityproducts. Training and education are important pieces of Dupont’s commitment

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donna Summers

conceptionto completion takes serious commitment. Without the passion to commit to a project ofthis magnitude many texts remain in outline form. And, in the midst of all the hard workthat needs to be done, be sure to keep your sense of humor.Bibliography1. “An Author’s Guide to Developing a Manuscript”, Pearson Education, Inc. Prentice Hall, Career andTechnology, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001.2. “Author’s Guidelines, A Guide to Success in Publishing”, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000.3. Funston, J. H. “What Makes a Good Introductory Textbook? What is Good Textbook Writing?”Amesbury, MA, 1988.4. Michaelson, H.B. How to Write and Publish Engineering Papers and Reports, ISI Press, Philadelphia,PA, 1982.5. Pfeiffer, W.S. Pocket Guide to

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Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Gardner; Harold Ackler; Anthony Paris; Amy Moll

CivE CM ECE Disciplines 6.6 6.1 7.8 7.2 6.9 Design 6.2 6.9 4.8 6.2 7.1 Prob. Solving 4.9 4.5 3.2 8 5.7 Spread Sheet 4.6 5.5 6 6.7 2 Team Work 4.3 4.5 4.2 4.7 4.4 Presentations 4.2 4.5 4.2 4.2 4.4 Career Paths 3.7 5.2 2.3 0.5 5 Societal Context 3.3 4.2 2.8 4.2 2.5 Word 3.3

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Alejandro Scalise; Dan Budny; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

questions into seven categories: • Engineering as a career, • Engineering ability, • Enjoyment of math, • Engineering as an exact science, • Perception of the work engineers do, • Compatibility with engineering and • Ability to work in groups.These seven measures were used as the input variable for the LVQ model. The output variables,class status, were represented as a “1” for freshman, “2” for sophomore and “3” for junior. Thesize of the training set was determined by the amount of data available for each class and thedesire to provide an equal number of data points for each target response group. 150observations were used to train the network, with 45 observations (15 observations for eachclass) used to test the

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Dunning

, electric drives, and industrial automation. As part of University of Maine’s continuous improvement process, this input served as adriver to revise traditional coursework in power systems analysis to courses introducing state ofthe art technology in industrial automation, controls and communications. This paper will discussthe course content covered in the new “power” courses and will also discuss the laboratoryimprovements made to support this effort.Previous Courses Historically, the Electrical Engineering Technology program at the University of Mainehas provided excellent training for students interested in careers in electric utilities andmanufacturing. Firms such as General Electric, Rockwell Automation, ABB and

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Capstone Experiences in OME Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hang Choi

the kind of career path awaiting themafter they finish the undergraduate course, which they have chosen. Under the framework of theintroductory course, each major is allowed to hold 12 hour lectures.However, many faculty members of our department are already doubtful of such system, i.e.theyexpect that the effect will be minor, simply because high techs like IT, BT and NT are tooattractive for young people to think otherwise. They are concerned about a clear divide betweenpopular and unpopular majors. Unfortunately our major belongs to the latter case, irrespectiveof the fact that the shipbuilding industry in Korea is booming. Nevertheless, most faculty