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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Enos Charles Inniss

Session 1451 Environmental engineering fact sheets teach more than just facts Enos C. Inniss The University of Texas at San AntonioAbstractActive learning has become the new rule in effective education. As educators, we couple this ideawith the need for our students to develop technical communication skills. The result is the use of aclassroom management tool such as WebCT as a forum for having students teach each otherbased on fact sheets they have developed. These fact sheets are formatted in a manner similar towhat organizations such as the U.S. Environmental

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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W. Vincent Wilding P.E., Brigham Young University; James K. Archibald, Brigham Young University; Paul Richards P.E., Brigham Young University; Steven L. Shumway, Brigham Young University; Brian D Jensen, Brigham Young University

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New Engineering Educators

has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University. His current research interests include robotics and embedded systems. Archibald is a member of the IEEE, ACM, and Phi Kappa Phi.Prof. Paul Richards, Brigham Young UniversityDr. Steven L. Shumway, Brigham Young University Steven Shumway is an Associate Professor in the Technology and Engineering Education program at BYU. Much of his time is spent working with middle and high school teachers in the implementation of technology and engineering-related curriculum into secondary school programs.Prof. Brian D Jensen, Brigham Young University Brian D. Jensen has taught at Brigham Young University since Jan. 2005. He received a M.S

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Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Jianhong Ren, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; David Ramirez, Texas A&M University; Sheryl Custer, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Joyce Coleman, Academy High School

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

courses in science and/ormathematics thus further preparing them for careers in the science, technology, engineering andmath (STEM) related college degree programs3. As a result, there was a 25% drop inundergraduate enrollment reported during 1982-2000 period4. In the same study, it was notedthat over 800,000 students graduated from high schools in 2000; however, only 7,200 of thesestudents graduated with an engineering degree from a four-year institution 4. To furtheraccentuate the problem, the numbers of students in STEM related disciplines in underrepresentedgroups such as women, Hispanics, and African-Americans were at an even greater deficit asthey appear to select careers in programs such as the social sciences or complete their

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Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Messervey; MAJ Dave Borowitz; LTC Keith Landry; Ronald Welch

the world in which our future army officerswill be leading soldiers’ demands that each graduate of the United States MilitaryAcademy at West Point be a disciplined problem solver who has internalized theengineering thought process. In fact, Engineering and Technology is the first of sixdomains of knowledge listed under the Academy’s Academic Program Goals (Page 6 –Educating Future Army Officers for a Changing World1). As such, every future “armyleader” at West Point must take an engineering sequence, or “track,” as part of theiracademic program regardless of major or field of study.The Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering offers two of the six availableengineering sequences at the Academy: civil and mechanical engineering

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First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mike Elmore, Binghamton University; Koenraad E Gieskes, Binghamton University

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First-Year Programs

tostudents is through the use of a traditional lecture style class. However, in such a setting, keepinga large class engaged in the material can present quite a challenge. This challenge can be partlymet through the use of technology, student response devices, and/or carefully crafted lectures.Even so, some students will remain unengaged due to other factors like physical/mentalexhaustion or the many distractions a large room full of over 300 students can present. Thisbecomes an even larger challenge in the case of a first-year introductory engineering course dueto the varied backgrounds of the students; some of whom have completed high-schoolengineering programs and might have experienced similar subject matter previously. This paper presents

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Janet Ellzey; Ted Aanstoos, The University of Texas, Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

engineering technical elective and an American historycourse (satisfying institutional requirements). The engineering course “ME379M EngineeringStandards and Industrial Policy in a Global Environment” included topics such as national andinternational standards organization, ISO 9000, ISO 14000, environmental policy and regulation,engineering disasters and corporate responsibility, worldwide energy usage, and the relationshipbetween society and technology. Several lectures were given by visiting faculty or industrialrepresentatives. The instructor translated articles from Le Monde, the centrist Parisiannewspaper, related to business and technology in order to prompt discussion about varying viewson technical and political issues related to technology

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Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Potter; Brian Knight; Antoine Ataya

graduate students from their respective institutions’ business schools. The RICPE hadidentified a need for students with a technological background to participate with thosecompanies with a significant technological or engineering focus to their business.This opportunity for greater collaboration with the local business community was very timely.Over the past two years, the administration and faculty of the SECCM had been working totransition the senior engineering capstone design course to a “client-based” format. Under a Page 9.568.1“client-based” scenario, all of the projects offered to student teams for their capstone projects

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lewinski; William Hudson

variety of simple, non-threatening situations. Hisrequest of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology was to createa system that could display certain visual patterns on a Stimulus Box and record an individual’sresponse time to that visual stimulus by measuring the trigger pull on a training pistol. Toaccomplish this Dr. Hudson enlisted the assistance of two Electrical and Computer Engineeringgraduate students, Darwin S. David and Ross Loven.The Graduate StudentsThe graduate students were completing their second semester of their Master’s Degree study.Both students had completed their Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering at MinnesotaState University, Mankato in the previous year. The students had both completed

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationand non-sensor versions. The third lab module presented is a significant departure from thosethat can be developed in a parallel format. Some of the greatest gains of new classroomtechnology may be found in activities that cannot be reproduced without the technology. A bookchapter is in press that discusses much more extensively the expectations and evaluation oftechnology in the classroom.3Beam stiffness laboratoryThis laboratory allows students to continue their investigation of stiffness using force and motionsensors begun with the springs laboratory described in our earlier work. After confirming that thecantilever

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Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Stewart; David Elrod

Session Number 1338 Assessing Student Work in Engineering Graphics and Visualization Course David Elrod, Michael D. Stewart School of Civil and Environmental Engineering/George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GeorgiaAbstractAdvances in computer technology have led to significant changes in the content of the freshmanengineering graphics course. Course topics, textbooks, and software choices differ from oneinstitution to another, depending in part on the programs of study the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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puszynski jan; David Dixon; Bhavani Puli; James Munro

Engineering and Technology (ABET)accreditation criteria require that graduates of engineering programs possess "an ability todesign a system, component or process to meet desired needs."1The faculty of the chemical engineering program at South Dakota School of Mines andTechnology (SDSM&T) has begun developing open-ended laboratory DBT experimentsfor the chemical engineering laboratory. The first such experiment created was a DBTexperiment in pump selection and piping system design,2 which has been integrated intothe junior-level fluid mechanics laboratory course. The faculty has established a goal ofhaving at least one undergraduate DBT experiment in each of the three major areas (fluidmechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer) of transport

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Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhixue Wang; Guangpi Lai; Feiyue Wang; A. Terry Bahill; Jeff Goldberg

Session 2426 The platform allows faculty and students to develop and conduct Internet based labprojects and our development process provides a case study for constructing similar cost-effective systems in other areas for research and teaching based on Internet technology. Webelieve that this can significantly change the way science and engineering are taught andlearned in both secondary and post-secondary educational systems. The new approach is cost-effective, easily accessible by everyone, useful in promoting "learning by doing," and indeveloping a student’s capability and motivation to engage in lifelong learning. Our eventualvision is a National Internet-Based Laboratory for Research and Education that providesstate-of-art facilities and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

Session 2793 A Structure for Integration of Manufacturing and Mechanical Design Engineering Courses Lucy Siu-Bik King, Ph.D. , Jacqueline El-Sayed, Ph.D. Kettering University, 1700 West Third Ave Flint, MI 48504-4898AbstractRecent technological and industrial advancements have created a need for new initiatives in highereducation programs. Graduating engineers today must be well versed and proficient in manydisciplines other than their major fields. Not only do they need to be knowledgeable, but also beable to synthesize and apply their

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2001 Annual Conference

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Elsa Napoles

Session 2793 The integration of knowledge in the Mechanical Engineering career Elsa Nápoles University of Camaguey, CubaAbstractThe integration of knowledge into the scientific and academic disciplines is being increased as aconsequence of the scientific and technological achievement and the complex problems that mustbe solved by the society.This paper presents a study of the trenches on the integration of knowledge in the mechanicalengineering disciplines and its relationship with this specialty. A holistic curriculum model basedupon the integration of knowledge and

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Baha Jassemnejad, University of Central Oklahoma; Wei Siang Pee, University of Central Oklahoma; Kevin Rada; Montell Jermaine Wright, University of Central Oklahoma, Robotics Research; Kaitlin Rose Foran, University of Central Oklahoma; Evan C. Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma

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Engineering Physics & Physics

to provide anrobotics research project their first semester at theuniversity. Through a sequence of focused learning avenue for incoming freshman with STEM (Science,modules, each consisting of a lecture presentation Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) majorsfollowed immediately by correlated hands-on activities, to become involved in research early in theirstudents learn essential concepts, and develop basic academic career. The students must apply and belaboratory skills in electrical engineering and accepted into a research group of their choice. Themicrocontroller programming. After establishing the research group targeted by the Summer Bridge classfoundational knowledge

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2001 Annual Conference

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Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

and Administration of Industrial Design Projects for Engineering Design Courses”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, 1999.BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION M. PATRICIA BRACKIN is an Associate Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology whereshe teaches design, controls, graphics, and mechanical measurements. Her BS and MS are from the University ofTennessee in Nuclear Engr and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology in ME. She has also been anAssociate Professor at Christian Brothers University. Her industrial experience includes Oak Ridge NationalLaboratories and Chicago Bridge and Iron. She is a registered PE. J. DARRELL GIBSON is a Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech where he

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jacek Jarzynski; Sheldon M. Jeter

Session 2566 Development of an Innovative Engineering Sciences and Systems Laboratory Course Sheldon M. Jeter and Jacek Jarzynski Georgia Institute of Technology INTRODUCTION In the fall of 1999 Georgia Tech changed from a ten week quarter to a fifteenweek semester schedule. This change created the need and opportunity to revise theundergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum. An important overall curriculumchange was to discontinue the dual track curriculum that featured some concentration oneither mechanical systems or thermal energy and fluid systems. The curriculum

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ofodike Ezekoye; Min Liu; Derek Baker; Colleen Jones; Philip Schmidt

perceive the subject as dry and abstract. The material is not, by nature, as graphicas many other engineering topics (e.g., mechanics), so many students have problemsvisualizing thermodynamic phenomena and processes. Laboratories are virtually nonexistentdue to the expense of equipment and the slow process of gathering meaningful data. Whilemany excellent textbooks have been developed, conventional printed media are limited in theirability to elucidate complex concepts both by their inherent static and passive nature, and bythe high cost of graphics.Educators generally agree that hypermedia technology can be effective in teaching andlearning1; the ability to represent information in diverse forms can accommodate the needs ofvarious types of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Julia Williams

Session The Ability to Communicate Effectively: Using Portfolios to Assess Engineering Communication Julia M. Williams, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Technical Communication Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803This paper analyzes the difference between individual student assessment and programassessment, demonstrating the ways in which portfolios can offer important informationfor outcomes assessment at both levels. I discuss the basic principles of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Giorgio; Sean P. Brophy

cyclebegins with the presentation of“The Challenge” which isdesigned to engage students intoexploring multiple concepts ofthe domain knowledge. Studentsbegin by “Generating Ideas” Figure 1 - STAR.Legacy Cycle (Software Technology forabout potential solutions to the Action and Reflection)challenge and identifying Page 6.265.2additional information they need Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationto solve the challenge. They can record these ideas and return to

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Hussein Anis

, equipment installation, commissioning, andutilization, and curriculum development and the preparation of renovated coursewarematerial. PROJECT OUTLINE AND POLICIESActivities Supported by EEDPLoan support for engineering education development under the EEDP project includedprovisions for development of engineering curricula and engineering education technology,procurement and commissioning of laboratory equipment, supply of instructional materials,including textbooks and library resources, academic fellowships and industrial attachmentsfor staff upgrading (both teaching and technical support staff), consultants and visiting

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

E. H. Shaban

Session 2460 Electrical Engineering Education In Under Developed And Developing Countries E. H. Shaban Electrical Department, Southern University Baton Rouge, LA 70813 Email: eshaban@cluster.engr.subr.eduAbstract:Transfer of Technology in the classroom and/or the laboratory for engineering education inunderdeveloped and developing countries lags far behind developed and industrial countries.Personal computers, interactive multi user mainframe computers, engineering software forsimulation purposes

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

M. R. Foster; H. Öz

, New York, 1985.2 McMasters, J. H. & Ford, S. D. “An Industry View of Enhancing Design Education”, AIAA 90-3259. AIAA,AHS/ASEE Aircraft Design and Operation Meeting, Dayton, OH, September, 1990.3 Dym, C. L. Engineering Design: A Synthesis of Views, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1994.4 McMasters, J. H. & Match, L. A. “Desired Attitudes of an Engineering Graduate - An Industry Perspective”, AIAA Paper 96-2241, AIAA Advanced Measurement and Ground Testing Technology Conference, New Orleans, June, 1996.5 “Michigan Curriculum 200: Proposed Changes to the Undergraduate Curriculum” , Report to the Undergraduate Curriculum Task Force, College of Engineering University of Michigan,1996.6 Engineering Criteria 2000, Engineering

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sal Arnaldo; Fazil Najafi

Page 3.469.1relevant methodology1. The American Public Works Association (APWA), in cooperation with the NationalAssociation of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) and the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE), has developed detailed curriculum guidelines/formats foreffective public management, personnel, finance, and technology. Several institutions haveadopted these guidelines/formats for graduate study in public works. The APWA recommendsthat an appropriate public works engineering/administration graduate program should consist of33 semester credit hours. Course work should be flexible, including 12 to 18 hours of technicalcourses and 12 to 15 hours of management courses. A program may or may not require a six

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Campbell; Carol L. Colbeck

Session Number 3530 Teaching and Assessing Engineering Design: A Review of the Research Susan Campbell Carol L. Colbeck The Pennsylvania State UniversityAccording to the National Academy of Sciences (1995), undergraduate engineering education inthe United States currently focuses on the study of engineering science at the expense of design.In a brief history of engineering design education, Eder (1991) explains that in the 1950s theengineering curricula shifted from a focus on teaching students about technology used in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Soldan, Kansas State University; Noel N. Schulz, Kansas State University; Blythe A. Vogt, Kansas State University; Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State University; Rekha Natarajan, Kansas State University

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NSF Grantees

AC 2011-699: FROM DEFENSE TO DEGREE: ACCELERATING ENGI-NEERING DEGREE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MILITARY VETERANSDavid L. Soldan, Kansas State University David L. Soldan is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University. He recently spent a sabbatical at the United States Naval Academy serving as the ONR Distinguished Chair for Science and Technology. He served as Head of the KSU ECE Department from 1989 to 2004. As a member of the IEEE Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities from 1999 to 2007 he was active in new program evaluator training and new evaluator mentoring. He was a member of the ABET Engineering Accreditation Committee from 2003 to 2010 and served as an Executive Committee

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Educating Students for Professional Success

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ana T. Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida; Shree Frazier; Osman Cekic, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Edwin Cawthorne Jr., Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies, New Engineering Educators, Student

AC 2011-1396: ATTRIBUTES OF SUCCESS FOR ENGINEERING PH.D.S:PERSPECTIVES FROM ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRYMonica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monica F. Cox, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity. She obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Pri- mary research projects explore the preparation of

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Johm W. Duggan; Francis J. Hopcroft

the Wentworth environmental engineering program self-assessment for ABET 2000.I. IntroductionWentworth Institute of Technology has both a long tradition and a continued commitment to Page 4.114.1experiential learning. The environmental engineering program at Wentworth is a laboratory-based program that focuses on process fundamentals. Typically, courses offered in the programconsist of forty percent of contact time in laboratory and sixty percent of contact time in lecture. Upperclassmen in the environmental engineering program spend an average of 10 contact hoursper week in the laboratory for engineering courses.The environmental program at

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Blicblau

Session 3666 A Bias-Neutral Approach to Major Project Assessment in Mechanical Engineering Aaron Blicblau Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria Australia 3122AbstractAll engineering students completing the final year of manufacturing and mechanicalengineering at Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) must undertake a comprehensivefinal year project. The project may encompass many areas of design, analysis, research,development or management. Often the projects integrate a number of these aspects. It isoften

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina

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College Industry Partnerships, Graduate Studies

“NotApplicable” (0) was also provided. The second section concluded with two open-endedquestions, “What other abilities did you develop during your Ph.D. program?” and “What do youwish your Ph.D. program had better prepared you to do?”Ph.D.s in engineering who were not working in academia were the target population for thesurvey. The participant pool was initially populated with known contacts and subsequentlyexpanded though a snowballing technique. The known contacts consisted of alumni frommechanical and chemical engineering Ph.D. programs at University of South Carolina, GeorgiaInstitute of Technology, Florida State/Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University and theUniversity of Tennessee. It also included company contacts from the American