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MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Friedman; Fadi Deek; Howard Kimmel

, software engineering,programming environments, problem solving/cognition/learning theory, and computerscience education. He is currently Project Director for the $2.5 million N. J. Information-Technology Opportunities for the Workforce, Education and Research Project.ROBERT S. FRIEDMANRobert S. Friedman is a Research Professor in the Information Technology Program. Hiscurrent research includes computer mediated communication systems, asynchronouslearning systems design, multimedia technologies, and communication theory. He iscurrently Investigator and Project Manager for the $2.5 million N. J. Information-Technology Opportunities for the Workforce, Education and Research Project.HOWARD KIMMELHoward Kimmel, Professor of Chemistry and Assistant Vice

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Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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Juan Lucena

experienceglobalization, and how globalization impacts their education, hiring, daily practices, and designs.In this paper, I outline a theoretical and methodological framework to analyze the impact ofglobalization on the education, hiring, practices, and designs of engineers in aerospace industriesin the US, Europe, and Latin America. Next, I present preliminary ethnographic data that showshow engineers in different US corporate locations view and experience organizational change asone of the features of globalization. Illustrating the differences among engineers’ experiencescould help upcoming generations of engineering students and professionals understand ways inwhich they might experience globalization in the workplace. I conclude the paper by

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Matt Gates; Mary Lamont; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

. Freuler received the B.S. and M.S.degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering in 1974, a B.S. in Computer and Information Science in1974, and a Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering in 1991 all from The Ohio State University.MATTHEW S. GATESMatthew S. Gates is a recent graduate from the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University and a formerparticipant in the Freshman Engineering Honors (FEH) Program. While working as undergraduate teachingassistant for the FEH program, he designed and implemented the electronic journal systems used in FEH. Thesystems employed specialized PERL scripts to handle incoming journal email messages and custom web-based on-line forms to accept on-line journal submission via the web. Mr

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Storch; Catherine Scott; Cynthia Atman

“screwed” insociety—in the world—by helping others. It may be impossible to look at the global aspect ofnot harming anyone, because your supervisor may fire you for not doing it the way the companywants the IE to do it.When the group defines understanding the impact of engineering solutions, then the last part ofthe outcome—in a global and societal context—seems to grow dimmer or to take on a morerestricted meaning. A mid-program student says that IEs need a broad education in order to seeopportunities for IEs within companies that would call forth their IE skills and to explain whatIEs can do for the companies. The graduating student says that with a broad education, an IE canvoice an opinion on whether it was a good engineering design and why

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Krueger

, the need for individual commitments of time andenergy to enhance community life, and, most of all, the importance of working collaboratively toresolve community concerns” (p. 246). Gregory et al. (2001) provide an example of service learning in a research methods course.The course, entitled Art, Community and Politics, sought to teach the principles of socialresearch to undergraduates at Chapman University in California. Rather than teach researchmethods in the abstract, the instructors had students evaluate efforts by the city of Santa Ana,California, to promote community development via the arts. The objective of the course was tohave the students assess “what impact the arts had on the community development and the city ofSanta Ana” (p

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Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Litzinger

Engineering· Ability to design something that does not already exist.· In short – engineers are problem solvers.· Engineers develop new technologies to make life better or more enjoyable.· Engineers transform natural resources into valuable products.· Engineering seems to blend technical knowledge with creativity.· Engineering is the practical application of accumulated scientific knowledge. … I consider it to be as much of an art form as it is a science.· Engineers push society in new directions by applying the knowledge and technology at their fingertips.Goals of Engineering – Why do engineers do what they do?· To make life in general easier for the client (not necessarily society), whether that means designing a better ballistic missile or

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sören Östlund; Johan Malmqvist; Ingemar Ingemarsson; Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

system skills in design-build courses · benchmark best practice in assessing non-technical learning outcomes · conduct surveys of student perspectives at entry and exit points of programs · measure and document achievement of learning outcomes at exit from programs · compare self-assessment with demonstrated performance data · conduct surveys of instructor perspectives on courses and programs · identify best practices for gathering data about instructor satisfaction, professional development needs, and opinionsSummaryIn June 2001, a team of three external evaluators conducted a review of the first year ofthe Wallenberg CDIO Project. The review was held at MIT with all partners participatingin the presentations and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Russell Taylor; Randal Goldberg; Oleg Gerovichev; Ian Donn; Anand Viswanathan

].Utilizing the advantages of machines to overcome human limitations, these robots promise tomake surgery faster, safer, and more efficient. These tools also open a wide variety of newsurgical solutions to doctors, increasing their ability to treat their patients. Research in this fieldbrings biology, anatomy, surgery, and biomedical engineering together with a variety ofdisciplines already present in general robotics. One way of involving students in computer-integrated surgery is a surgical robot competition used as a practical educational tool that isenjoyable for the students.The CISST ERC is a multi-university, multidisciplinary center whose focus is on thedevelopment of computer-integrated systems that can work cooperatively with surgeons

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Uriel Cukierman; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Ciristián Vial; Miguel Torres-Febus; John Spencer; Lueny Morell

best practices that enhance engineering and Page 7.736.9science education. In fact, the five countries under the Microsoft Research pilot program have Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationestablished a Latin America Advisory Board with the purpose of providing strategic guidanceand synergism to the collaborative initiative. Countries are looking for ways to sponsor activitiesthat bring faculty from various countries to share best practices and experiences. The privatesector, a most critical

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Miers; Carl Anderson; Paula Zenner

. Enterprise implementation flow chartCredits taken for the Enterprise replace fifteen traditional credits; three credits of generaleducation, six credits of senior design, three credits of technical electives and three credits of freeelectives. Students who chose the Enterprise option graduate with one additional credit.Enterprise elective requirements can be satisfied through a diverse offering of modules. Topicsinclude engineering ethics, economics, industrial health and safety, design for manufacturing anda variety of additional subject matters.Enterprise Structure and OperationsThe Clean Snowmobile Enterprise design team of 20-30 students is divided into groups that areresponsible for specific areas of the snowmobile, to ensure an effective learning

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MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Denise Hayman

andgraduation while non-minorities loose 1217. When looking at the research in regards topredicting which institutions did the best job, it was noted that for both minority and non-minority engineering schools, selectivity was the most important predicator of degree attainment.Additionally, the more expensive institutions with higher selectivity had the higher graduationrates for all students18. These graduation rates have remained unchanged since the 1980’s. Based on the information here one would think that engineering schools would havesome idea as to why their numbers continue to decline. But this does not seem to be the case. Page 7.4.5

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Charles McIntyre

, and civil engineering). During theSpring Semester of 1998, a single overall departmental capstone course was created. The intent wasto provide a true “capstone” experience, where students in each degree program could combine theirskills to achieve the successful completion of a project. The primary objective of the capstoneexperience is to combine all aspects of the planning, design, and construction phases of a project intomeaningful education experience which mimics “real-world” design and construction practices.Students are required to use all of the knowledge and skills that they have acquired throughout theireducational experience to develop the documentation required for actual project construction (designdrawings, cost estimates

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Yusuf Khan; Wei Sun; Mohamed Attawia; Michele Marcolongo; Frank Ko; Dhirendra Katti; Cato Laurencin

internship.Extramural/International Reach of the CurriculumThe curriculum that has been developed was designed to incorporate the necessary aspects ofmany fields and provide a comprehensive education for future tissue engineers. We believe thatthis new and innovative program in Tissue Engineering research may become a national modelfor interdisciplinary teaching in the field. Many of the co-authors of the curriculum serve asadvisors to NSF sponsored centers for engineering research and education and/or departmentalvisiting committee members at schools with significant NSF funding. Through formal andinformal presentations, the curriculum will be described and discussed. We believe the impact ofour proposed program will be high and far reaching.The incorporation

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Barbara Bernal; Sheryl Duggins

learning.“ISEUC is based on international best SE education practices, accreditation standards, creditprograms and professional education” and provides undergraduate and graduate credit courses,as well as post-graduate professional education courses 11. The goal for the ISEUC is to provideaccess to software engineering education for software-intensive industries on a global scale frominternational universities with established programs or degrees in software engineering. Thecourses are primarily delivered asynchronously using Web-based technology, but also includesome synchronous delivery, including either face-to-face, video conferencing, or interactivesessions. For more information or to consider becoming a member, visit www.iseuc.org.Current

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Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Creese

Session 2002-359 Major Differences in Education Systems – Is it Time for the US to Change? Robert C. Creese, Ph.D., PE, CCE Industrial & Management Systems Engineering Department College of Engineering and Mineral Resources West Virginia UniversityIntroduction The US higher education system has been recognized as one of the best educationalsystems in the world as thousands of international students come each year for graduateeducation and a higher percentage of US students go to college for baccalaureate degrees thananywhere else in the world. The majority of universities in the US are

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Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Mickelson

Page 7.1292.4“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”which that competency is correlated. Then we asked that, after considering the key actions, thatthey assess the probability that a student and/or graduate would have the opportunity to actuallytake those actions in each of the settings. Finally, we asked the degree to which the ISUCompetencies collectively cover ABET Criterion 3 and the degree to which all fourteen of theISU Competencies cover the practice of engineering at the professional level. Figure 3 alsoshows an example assessment form for one of the ISU Competencies, “Analysis and Judgment”,that was part of the

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Ethics across the Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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William J. Frey; Halley D. Sánchez; Jose Cruz-Cruz

ABETaccreditation visit.II. How EAC contributes to ABET 2000 ComplianceEthics enters into the ABET 2000 accreditation process particularly in criterion 3f and 3h of thewidely discussed a-k criteria of outcomes and assessment for all engineering programs. Thesestate that all engineering graduates must have: · an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (3f) · the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context (3h).Ethical considerations are also relevant to criterion 4, which states that all engineering studentsshould have a "major design experience"… based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier coursework and incorporating

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Oerther

appropriate knowledge of first principles of biologicalsciences? Finally, what role will introductory courses in biology play in future engineeringcurricula?A new course for a new era.At the University of Cincinnati, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and theauthor are developing a course currently entitled, “Molecular Methods in EnvironmentalEngineering.” The objective of the course is to teach limited fundamentals of molecular biologyin the context of quantitative engineering design and practice. The course was offered for thefirst time in the Spring of 2001 with an enrollment of fifteen graduate students from the Programof Environmental Engineering and Science of the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering. The course

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dennis Field

positions with superior performance over thecourse of a semester. Faculty members—one each from the Colleges of Business, Education, andEngineering—provide support to students during their work in the Laboratory. The faculty alsoteam-teach an undergraduate Business Administration course (BusAd 392) associated with theBusiness Lab experience. The course is offered in seminar format and is comprised ofinstructional components (see Table 1) designed to provide students with some of the skills theyrequire for technological problem solving, innovation, and integration. Table 1: Instructional components Team Skills Faculty Marketing Research Methodology

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Goff

the learning process master thematerial. Students who are not engaged generally do not succeed. The best way to engagestudents is to create an exciting active learning environment.Life for students today is different than it was twenty years ago. Today there are manyconcurrent distractions competing for their attention. Television, cell phones, relationships,Internet, and world events impact them simultaneously. To compete with this constant barrageof information and distraction, we need to create a learning environment that speaks to studentswhere they are and how they are listening. One-dimensional, lecture classes have a very hardtime competing for the attention of today’s student. A multidimensional approach is called for.One that

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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sami Ainane; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer

established ofrepresentatives of the Dean’s staff and each program. This committee determined that while therewere unique programmatic aspects that required unique assessment, there were other outcomesthat “cut across” programmatic specialties. So to that end, the Director of St udent Research wascharged with creating and coordinating assessment for the college (as described below).Individual departments also assessed their majors as they wished. The work of one ABETaccredited program (Mechanical Engineering) will be described in Section III. Assessment surveys were designed for entering freshmen, graduating seniors, and Schoolalumni (one year and five years after graduation). The freshman and senior surveys were designedwith input from a

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Cathryne Stein

is a program of KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, a private non-profiteducation and research organization that uses robotics as a means to engage students inscience, engineering, math, and computer programming. In Botball, teams of middle andhigh school age students are given two challenges: 1) build and program a team ofautonomous mobile robots to play the current tournament game; 2) create a website thatmeets this year’s defined challenges.The mission and purpose behind BotballBotball’s mission addresses three populations:For Educators: Botball exists to provide educators with knowledge, resources andequipment with which to foster an engaging and continuous hands-on learningenvironment for science, technology, engineering and math.For

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Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Erdogan Sener

tuition, research, consulting, and other activities and for what itspends, in terms of salaries, expenses, travel, recruitment, etc. As such, a culture for living withina budget is being increasingly promoted. This approach provides a medium conducive toimplementation of some popular practices employed by businesses and companies. SSBS is onesuch practice that promises to be of value in this respect in the opinion of the author, who is theChairperson in the Department of Construction Technology of the Purdue School of Engineeringand Technology. Without really employing the terminology of SSBS and scaring the faculty andstaff with the notion that this is a business and not an academic department, the SSBSmethodologies are being employed for some

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Comparing National Styles of Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Thibault; Rene Hivon; Danielle L'Heureux; Noel Boutin

(ethics,communications, team work, creativity, ...), students tend (consciously or not) to develop a beliefthat engineering is nothing but a mixture of science and technology and that complementarystudies are just a necessary evil to get easier access to professional recognition upon graduation.4Thirdly, in supporting the two solitudes, or even in allowing it to exist, engineering schools givestudents a wrong signal, a somewhat distorted view of engineering in which ethics seems to haveno bearing on design, creativity has no impact on problem solving, and team work has no impacton the quality of the work performed. In a way, it is as if engineering schools sometimes gavetheir students the implicit message that it is possible for engineers to work

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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George Havener

knowledge introduced to the cadetsduring the first quarter of the course. Experience 2 shows that students learn and develop problemsolving skills best through a three-step process: (1) Introduction: knowledge of the skill or toolis introduced in a traditional lecture manner. (2) Bridging: understanding the skill begins byusing it, generally on a familiar situation. (3) Application: confidence and competence with theskill are strengthened by extending the use to a new situation. In Engr 110Z, Mini-Workshops4,5and structured homework assignments were used to accomplish Steps (1) and (2). For Step (3),strengthening the skill was inherent in applying it to the Mars mission project.Mini-Workshops – Each mini-workshop was designed around an Assignment

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christopher Jeruzal; Brenda Henderson; Ahmad Pourmovahed

and conduct experiments, as well as, to analyze and interpret data.c. An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs.d. An ability to function on multi-disciplinary 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 environment.i. A recognition of the need for 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.Kettering

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International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

with a base of well-educated engineering graduates to fuel technicalindustriesThe post-conferenceThe ASEE took the lead in organizing a post-conference designed to be held in Berlindirectly after the close of the SEFI meeting in Copenhagen, on September 15 – 18. Theintent was to allow US participants in the SEFI meeting, and others, to take advantage ofan additional conference while in Europe. With travel money becoming increasinglyscarce in universities, it is important for participants in international conferences to beable to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of the expenditure.“Global Changes in Engineering Education” was the title of the ASEE post -conference,and included as its main topics. Ø National Accreditation / Global Practices