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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Peterson; Barry Mullins

Session 2620 BattleBots and the Electrical Engineering Education Barry E. Mullins, Brian S. Peterson Department of Electrical Engineering / Air Force Institute of Technology United States Air Force Academy, CO / Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OHAbstractThe use of robotics as a learning tool within computer/electrical engineering as well as computerscience curriculums is ever increasing for a variety of reasons including stimulating interest inengineering. This paper describes the educational experiences gained through the design,construction, and competition of two robots called

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Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jørgen Hansen; Arvid Andersen

Session no. # 2360 Engineers of tomorrow and beyond Knowledge, insight and skills needed to work across borders Arvid Andersen, Jørgen Hansen Ingeniørhøjskolen i København, Denmark.AbstractThis paper contributes to the perception of the future engineer and the competencies needed.Besides a good basic knowledge of engineering, business, technology and management ourstudents need training in softer skills such as international cooperation, collaboration,communication, teambuilding and teamwork, language and understanding of other cultures,their behaviour, costumes, habits and

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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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Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

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Heidi Loshbaugh

theirgraduating high school classes; they tend to be hard working and high achieving. In addition,these students tend to be attracted to practical applications of their studies; they want to see how Page 7.1093.2their work relates to a larger-world picture. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe campus community is heavily reliant on technology; students, faculty, and staff havewidespread access to cutting-edge computing systems and make use of them as a matter ofcourse in conducting classroom business

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Swaminathan Balachandran

projects prepare thestudents to undertake capstone design project of significant scope and also do well in their jobafter graduation. The excellent laboratories, dedicated faculty, and outstanding graduates havebeen recognized by the people in the region and the program has received much publicity due toits very high ranking in the review published in the US News and World Report last year. The author established the IE laboratories and was responsible for the first ABET(Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accreditation of the program in 1987. Hehas taught most of the courses in the IE curriculum. During the past few years he used theBlackboard Course Info system to enable students to submit their work electronically

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Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Palmer

Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology; National Science Foundation Document NSF 96-139, © 1996.3. Webster’s New World Dictionary; Guralink D. B. ed, Simon and Schuster, ©1980.4. Bloom B. S. and Krathwohl D. R.: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: the Classification of Educational Goals, by a Committee of College and University Examiners. Handbook I: Cognitive Domain; Longmans, Green New York, © 1956.5. Wnek G. E. and Ficalora P. J.: Relating the Macroscopic to the Microscopic - A Vital Way to get Freshmen to Understand Chemistry; Chemtech © 1991 pp. 662-6646. Hudson J. B, Palmer M. A.: Selection of Topics for an Integrated Materials Chemistry Course for Engineering Majors

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Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Gregg

disposal/recovery of that vehicle at the end of its productlife. In this country market forces determine the value of these vehicles - often requiring theowner to pay for its eventual disposal.Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Georgia Tech and the University of Windsor all have greenengineering WEB sites, and either formative or mature green engineering programs. VirginiaTech began its Green Engineering Program a decade ago. In 1992, the College of Engineering atVirginia Tech established a “Green Engineering” program. Green Engineering is defined withinthe context of the Virginia Tech program as environmentally conscious attitudes, values, andprinciples, combined with science, technology, and engineering practice, all directed towardimproving local and

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Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Diana Dabby

Session 1656 Leonardo as Artist, Scientist, Engineer Diana Dabby Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringAbstractStudents find Leonardo’s complex persona and the richness of his artistic and scientific inquiryvital for understanding Leonardo, ingegnere (the engineer). Taking his life and work as itsdomain, Leonardo as Artist, Scientist, Engineer develops the following skills in its range:discovery, discussion, identifying a monograph’s major points, building a scaffold of knowledge,individual research, and creative conveyance of information. It further addresses the time-honored

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Capstone Experiences in OME Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Consi

, been running aspring seminar class aimed exclusively at freshmen with the goal of introducing the broad sweepof ocean engineering disciplines in a way that is both engaging and tractable to the students. Thecore activity of this class is the construction and testing of a simple remotely-operated vehicle(ROV) made out of PVC pipe, toy motors, and other simple components. It is through thediscussion and analysis of this vehicle and its various parts that the many facets of OceanEngineering are introduced to the students. This paper outlines the course and our experiences inteaching it. The paper also describes some of the simple technologies have been developed toenable students to engineer underwater both easily and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Otto Helweg

should, in turn, increasecognitive dissidence when temptation toward unethical actions arise. Page 7.1075.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. ABET, "Engineering Criteria 2000 for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in the United States," 2nd ed.,Engineering Accreditation Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MDJanuary 1998.2. FLEDDERMANN, C. B.,. Engineering Ethics, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 19993. GORMAN, M. E., M. M. MEHALIK

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

faculty members. This aspect of the programkeeps the students in touch with the leading edge technology and state-of-the-artinnovative activities in the real world. Nevertheless, project development in each courserequire utilization of the computer programming.The requirement of the “project in each class” poses additional constraints on thestudents’ time, particularly in the junior level classes. These students typically take fourMechanical Engineering courses each semester along with two or three laboratorycourses. Therefore, effective utilization of time plays an important role in the students’performance. Page 7.655.2 Proceedings of the

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Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shehu Farinwata

, we emphasize engineering first,before the fancy technologies, or concurrently at best with these “technotoys” wherepossible.Take the “G” out of Diff EQThe “G” is for “guess”; we will discuss this shortly. That so much attention is given toDifferential Equations is not without bases. We feel very strongly about this. The realworld is dynamic. Everything we do has some element of time in it and so a rate quantitycan be attributed to it. Moreover, in engineering systems, we talk about variability,changes, robustness, sensitivity, reliability, dependability, operational envelope, and soon, all of which involve relative measures of one quantity to another. And when explainthese relative measures with respect to time, we end up with time-rate

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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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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hong Zhang; Jennifer Kadlowec

, it will still be a great opportunity to personally experience theother departments. Although even laypersons will have some vague idea associated witheach subject of the engineering, it is often beyond their imagination to realize what eachmajor is really doing. For example, when we asked the visiting high school students inthe university open house about what was their impression of mechanical engineering, acommon answer was to repair their cars. Indeed, few of them could recognize thatrobotics or even thermal and fluids were within the realm of Mech anical Engineering.Further, with the development of the technology, most projects today require cooperationfrom many disciplines. It will be advantageous to the students to have a broad

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patricia Shamamy

Session 2364 Team-based Learning in an Engineering Materials Course Patricia M. Shamamy, P.E. Lawrence Technological UniversityAbstractTo encourage teamwork, students in the traditional first course in Engineering Materials aredivided into groups of five, with the group further broken down into two teams of two studentsand one “manager.” Each team of two works together to prepare a “Competency Assignment”which usually covers 3-4 chapters. In the typical class of 25 students, the five “managers” worktogether to prepare one Competency Assignment. Every three weeks (in a 15

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jon Marvel; Charles Standridge

groups and activelearning techniques. The course is required of all engineering students and is nominallyscheduled for the second semester of the freshman year.I. IntroductionRecently, many statisticians have become involved in a movement to reform generalintroductory statistics courses2. This reform has focused on changes in content(more data analysis, less probability), pedagogy (fewer lectures, more active learning),and technology (for data analysis and simulations) 3. A principal objective of the reformmovement is to help students learn and apply statistical thinking. Statistical thinking has beendefined as thought processes that recognize that variation is all around us and present ineverything we do 4.A fundamental challenge is to

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Raper

; Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfooting to those with straight ME, ChE, or EE degrees. I have been a plant manager for the past 17years and have dealt with some of our most complex technologies. I have worked in both Europeand Asia and have been effective in cross cultural organization work. I have had experience in mycareer in product development, engineering, design, construction, and new plant start ups. Theengineering management background has provided the optimal base of skills to enable my successacross a broad range of opportunities.”A 1998 graduate, who is a six sigma quality – master black belt say this: “My engineeringmanagement studies prepared me for the real world of

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Cummings

Session 1430 Comparative Analysis of Virginia Tech Engineering Students with Learning Disabilities Mary L. Cummings Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University/University of VirginiaAbstractFrom 1988 to 1998, the numbers of learning disabled students entering college almost tripled,significantly impacting the student population in colleges of engineering. This study comparedthe performance of Virginia Tech (VT) College of Engineering learning disabled students withtwo groups: VT students from all other colleges with learning disabilities and VT engineeringstudents

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Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kris Dick; Don Petkau; Danny Mann; Myron (Ron) Britton

SystemsEngineering Inc., an engineering consulting company. His research interests are in the area of light-framestructures.DONALD S. PETKAU, MBA, P.Ag., P.Eng., is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineeringat the University of Manitoba. Apart from his teaching duties in the Department, he is the Manager of Engineeringof MESH Technologies Inc., an engineering consulting company. His research interests are in the area of processengineering and berry harvesting. Page 7.261.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002

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Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patricia LaCourse; Barrett Rock

. Page 7.38.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education5. Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Manufactuing Education Plan: Phase I Report -Industry IdentifiesCompetency Gaps among Newly Hired Engineering Graduates, Dearborn, MI, 1997.6. Engineering Accreditation Commission, 2000. "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs" ABET(Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. Accessed on: January 22, 2002. Available athttp://www.abet.org/images/Criteria/eac_criteria_b.pdf7. Loeb, H., "Writing Courses in the Engineering College Curriculum," Journal of Technical Writing andCommunication

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Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Dahm

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education5. Hartman, J.C., Galati, M. V. “A Revised Business Game for Use in Teaching Engineering Economy or Operations Management,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, St. Louis, Missouri, Session 1339, June, 2000.6. Theusen, G.J., “The Use of a Business Game in the Teaching of Engineering Economy,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, June, 1988.KEVIN DAHM is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his Ph.D. in1998 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the faculty of Rowan University, he served

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hedrick

helpstudents develop effective cooperative learning strategies we have begun integrating formalinstruction and exercises into the lecture, design studio, and review sessions.IV. Course FacultyFor a small college like Union it is hard to ensure that the same faculty can teach the course eachtime or that some faculty are as good at teaching the course as others. Special skills such asnurturing and interactive teaching are critical to engaging freshmen as opposed to “hardened”upper class students. This year the faculty consisted of the following instructors: one fromelectrical engineering, two from mechanical engineering, one from civil engineering, and onewith a background in the history of technology. I was the only one who had taught the

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Soulsby

,Jossey-Bass, Inc.[16] Mosteller, F. “The muddiest point in the lecture as a feedback device”, On Teaching and Learning 3 [April1989] pp. 10-21.[17] Mager, R. Preparing Instructional Objectives, 1962 Fearon Publishers, Inc.ERIC P. SOULSBYDr. Soulsby completed the B.S. in electrical engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control and communicationsystems with a specialization in man-machine systems at the University of Connecticut. He was one of the first tenrecipients of the State of Connecticut High Technology Graduate Scholarships in 1984. In 1985, he joined thefaculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department full-time as the Assistant Department Headand Lecturer of Electrical Engineering. In 1986, with the formation of

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International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Taylor; Emília Mironovová

United States were seniors in a two-semester capstone design sequence in Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) at PurdueUniversity. The MtF students were enrolled in a course entitled "English for Specific Purposes",allowing all communications to be in English. The students were paired and exchanged resumes(CVs), biographies, and technical works such as research abstracts and design proposals.Internet cameras facilitated on-line meetings throughout the yearlong project. The two groupswere from different disciplines, thereby requiring clear English communications. Both groupsbenefited by practicing reading, writing and speaking in English through their correspondenceand online meetings. One advantage of this collaboration is that it is not

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Panel on Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Norman Kaderlan; Mary Ann Rankin; John Butler; Steven Nichols

at Austin Austin Texas AbstractCommercialization of new technology (and new applications of existing technology)involves a complicated mixture of disciplines that require technical, financial, business,marketing, legal, and other expertise. Faculty in the College of Engineering at theUniversity of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) recently examined the philosophicaljustification of offering course material involving the technical enterprise(entrepreneurship) into the engineering curriculum. One of the important issuesconsidered by the faculty was the question of what should be taught in engineering andwhat should be taught in business and other disciplines.This paper

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Lockwood-Benet; Rosa Buxeda; Manuel Hormaza; Alejandro Ruiz Acevedo; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Lueny Morell

Page 7.878.1global, tax-advantaged super-manufacturing center. The world’s leading pharmaceuticals and Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationbiotech companies trust the successful product technology transfer, scale-up, manufacturing andquality control of their products to Puerto Rico human capital. A location analysis forpharmaceutical manufacturing indicated that PR has the highest location quotient (a measure ofthe relative importance of an economic activity in a particular geographic area compared to itsimportance in the US economy as a whole- between PR and states in the mainland) of 9.19

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naiqian Zhang

, “Bioinstrumentation and Controls” waslisted as a discipline core course of biological and agricultural engineering (BAE),together with “Properties of Biological Materials”, “Transport Phenomena”, and“Capstone Design Experience”. This report “expresses the collective opinion of theCommittee concerning the future direction of the undergraduate engineering programs”(ASAE, 1990). A decade has passed since the publication of this report. When we read ittoday, we are so much impressed by the vision of the people who participated in thewriting of the report.Computer and electronics-based instrumentation and control technologies have beenapplied in all areas within the discipline of BAE, including power and machinery, soiland water, food- and bio-processing

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Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

should be used by all engineers in their daily work. Using these methods will lead to a sustainable future for all. The need to introduce green engineering concepts to undergraduate students has become recognized to be increasingly important.1 This need is being driven in part through the US Engineering Accreditation Commission Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria 2000. Based on this criteria chemical engineering departments must incorporate “ethics, safety and the environment” into the curricula. An additional criterion that must be satisfied is to prepare students with a broad education to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global context. In addition, there has been a large amount of

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Turk; David Gattie

own problem using instructor criteria thatgears the student toward identifying a community need for disadvantaged individuals. Thispaper reports on the framework for this effort and the results for Fall 2001 and Spring 2002.IntroductionIdentifying needs and improving the quality of life for society are paramount in the ethicalresponsibilities of an engineer. Freshman students entering an engineering curriculum aretypically drawn to the program based on the lucrative and professional aspects of the field itself.However, as society becomes increasingly dependent on technology and as the hard sciences ofengineering become more integrated with the soft science aspects of politics, economics andcultures, there is a increasing need for students to

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Short

technologies and systems to build or refine products orservices [9]. For all these groups, the creative and innovative process involved in doing theirwork causes difficulty in establishing standards of work performance. The technical functionwithin an organization will encompass all the jobs defined as scientists, engineers, andtechnologists.II. B. Purpose and Types of Performance AssessmentsThere are numerous ways to evaluate employee work performance discussed in the literature.Many graduate engineering management students will be familiar with Deming and his beliefsthat the individual performance appraisal should be eliminated. The review of literature andpractice tend to show the performance appraisal can serve many useful purposes. Thesepurposes