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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Toby Boulet; Joe Iannelli; Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Richard Bennett; Arnold Lumsdaine

2003-1508The Use of Asynchronous Web Modules for Review and Just-in-time Learning of Mechanics Jack Wasserman, Richard Bennett, Toby Boulet, Joe Iannelli, Richard Jendrucko, Arnold Lumsdaine, Doug Logsdon University of Tennessee at KnoxvilleIntroductionThis paper presents the concepts and plans for developing a set of asynchronous web modulesthat are designed to provide an effective way for a student to review, discover misconceptions,and extends his/her understanding of mechanics to a more realistic level. The process wasdeveloped using examples from an Interactive

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dennis Kroll

; Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationnightmare.Three different course types have been taught as web-based by the author. The first is asenior/grad seminar/writing course dealing with basic research in production planning andmanagement. The second is an engineering economy course for sophomores. The third type is anhonors seminar either covering engineering ethics or the relationship of engineering andtechnology to society. (These seminars are 1 hour credit courses that provide a sidebar to variousparts of the students’ education.) Any level undergraduate may be in the course. Each of thesecourses provided a different set of challenges to be considered.With each of these courses different types administrative

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Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yanfeng Gong; Mike Collum; Noel Schulz

electricalengineering. Two developed laboratories will be discussed and future plans for otherdemonstrations and laboratories will be outlined.Goals of the CollaborationThe decline in university support for power engineering programs across the U.S. has caused adecrease in available engineers with training on basic principles in power engineering.Additionally many entering engineers perceive power engineering as a mature field that does notrelate to new topics such as computer engineering, digital signal processing, and fiber opticscommunications.While electric utilities have had lower levels of hiring over the last ten years, support industriesfor electric utilities are becoming more prevelant on campus. Companies need students with astrong background in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chris Gwaltney; Mark Valenzuela

of County Commission • Brad Mills, Area Plan Commission • Pat Keepes, Evansville City Engineer • Mike Feltz, Chairperson of Transportation Committee of the Metropolitan Evansville Chamber of CommerceIn addition, students had time for organizing ASCE activities, attending public hearings for amajor interstate project, and also planning for the Spring semester.By having exposure to what the different agencies do, students could choose a specific agency to Page 8.1104.3follow during the Spring semester. Several of these boards meet either just every month or every “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Friedman; Durgamadhab Misra; Fadi Deek; Kamal Joshi; Vladimir Briller

4.06 3.78 4.00Mean Score 3.00 2.00 1.00 0.00 Research experience helped student develop problem solving skills Research experience helped student to develop own ideas Research experience improved students' analytic skills Research experience helped develop planning skills Overall average score Page 8.161.11 Proceedings of

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rose

Session 3275 Advice on Covering Classes during a Prolonged Instructor Absence: Keep the Students Learning Andrew T. Rose University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownIntroductionCareers in academia have some situations different than careers in industry. One difference is thegeneral ease of taking a prolonged trip at any time during the year. In industry, vacation orpersonal time can typically be scheduled by employees when needed. In academia, vacations andlong trips are usually planned between semesters or during the summer. Occasionally aconference or committee

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Gautier

. Students in the class realized that subjectsthey currently do not enjoy as students may become more enjoyable once in the workplace. A CEO of a local Human Resource Services company spoke to an InformationManagement class. He discussed how his company incorporated information technology into itslong term strategic planning. He first showed the students a strategic plan for his company from 5 Page 8.175.7years ago and discussed how the company fell short, met, or exceeded the plan in terms of its“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition AnnualCopyright © 2003, American Society

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gabriel Ferrer; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

2002 and resultswill be presented at the 2003 ASEE meeting in Nashville, TN.There are several other courses from which to draw resources and ideas. The SwarthmoreCollege course, entitled “Building Intelligent Robots”9, is an introduction to bothcomputer science and artificial intelligence. This course uses the C programming language.Students read and discuss research papers from the literature in addition to the laboratoryexperience of robot building and programming. In the Hendrix course, we plan toemphasize issues in robot construction to a greater degree, leaving less time for in-depthreadings from the robotics literature. We also intend to emphasize the relationshipbetween reactive and traditional symbolic artificial intelligence in our

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Lord

encouraging younger students to consider engineering careers.Walk On Water at USD is a great learning experience that serves several purposes. It is a designproject for freshmen engineering majors at USD, a project for high school science classes, anevent which creates awareness of engineering in the local community, a forum for interaction ofhigh school and college students, and a vehicle for upper-class engineering students to developskills in planning and executing an event including fundraising and publicity.The paper will introduce the WOW event and then show how the competition provides a vesselto promote engineering and applied science throughout many areas within the local community.IntroductionThe annual Walk On Water (WOW) competition has

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Saumitra Mishra; Boris Ramos; Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

developing our approach,we examined how lean principles were taught in a number of settings and reviewed pedagogicalapproaches.Teaching Process Design and Lean Principles. We reviewed courses taught in IE programs ata number of universities and found that relatively few had developed a separate course focusingon with lean topics at the undergraduate level. Those that had lean courses typically geared thesecourses to upper-level undergraduates or graduate students. More typically, courses had beenrevised to address the individual tactics associated with lean design, but typically as an add-ontopic (for example, in production planning and control, one might add a session on kanban). Wehad traditionally taken this approach at WPI. As a consequence, we

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Lundstrom; Ram Chandran; Arnaldo Mazzei

. We plan to move from a content-intensive, faculty-centered wayof delivering information and skills to a problem-driven, inquiry-based approach with embeddedassessments of student’s outcomes throughout a series of integrated courses. A new set ofintegrated core curriculum is planned which emphasizes the development in stages of specificlearning skills such as critical thinking and collaboration between students and instructors in anactive mode of learning. The integration of a knowledge set involving dynamics, vibration, systemmodeling and analysis, and control systems is the subject of this text. It is believed that thisintegrated experience will culminate in an integrated capstone or specialty experience in which thestudents will apply

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Philip Chmielewski

not a raft; it is a ribbed boat thatrequired planning and careful execution. (Odyssey 5:244-231) It is the sort of tight work thatAthena upholds. And, for the Greek mind, it is the technology that makes cities, centers for theexchange of goods and ideas, possible. A ship is a system tool that enables the mind and thecommon life to move out and learn.13:121-122 Building a boat, however, is only one example of “metis” at work. Cunning intelligencemust be carefully distinguished from craft activity. “Metis” involves sizing up a problem, setting agoal, and securing the execution of each directed step. Such planning and one specific form ofexecution required Odysseus’ metis when he had to face the plague of suitors and, thereby

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ashraf Ghaly

construction involves certain challenges that must be tackled in a well-planned manner.For non-engineering students, the module intends to make a meaningful contribution to theircomprehension of the complicated nature of construction. This will be coupled with assignedtechnical readings on simple principles of load-supporting structural components. It is hoped thatthis module will serve as an eye opener for those who have never had any exposure to the buildingindustry. It is also anticipated that the technical content planned for this course will help non-engineering students achieve a reasonable level of understanding of what could be a life-longuseful knowledge

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sundiata Jangha; Richard Peltier; Pamela Reid; F. Scott Cowan; Christal Gordon; David Woessner; Douglas Edwards; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

chapter representing these highschools, GTSBE is responsible for planning programs, events, and activities that cater to the highschool students. GTSBE also provides mentors and access to a leading research institution thatotherwise would not be available.Although GTSBE does programmatic planning for the NSBE Jr. chapters, it is the goal of theorganization to have independent and self-sustaining NSBE Jr. chapters at local high schools.The collegiate mother chapter, ideally, should only serve as a guide and advisor. The NSBE Jr.chapters aim to replicate the structure, mission, and programs of the collegiate chapters, whichincludes active planning and ownership by the students themselves.Implementation: What does NSBE Jr. do?StructureNSBE Jr. at

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Theodore Dibble; Carrie Hernandez; Abbie Wells; Steven Barrett

advanced embedded controller concepts.Funding Efforts: In July 2001 one of the co-authors (sfb) submitted a $200K proposal to theNational Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Divisionof Undergraduate Education (DUE), entitled “Motivational Robot-Based UndergraduateComputer Engineering Laboratory”. This proposal provided a plan to incorporate the vitalconcepts listed above into the existing curriculum via creation of a comprehensive laboratoryexperience based on robot technology. Using robots to teach digital design and non-technicalconcepts in a motivational environment has been used at many institutions [1,2] with greatsuccess including Trinity College in Hartford, CT [3,4]; MIT [5], and the US Air Force

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Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nihat Gurmen; John J. Lucas; Dean R. Malmgren; H. Scott Fogler

; Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 2. Process flow sheet of MicroPlant in the feed and preheaters subsystem The user is given a limited amount of money to be spent on diagnosing themalfunctions. The limited resource is intended to encourage the user to plan the diagnosiscarefully. The user is therefore charged a fee for each diagnostic technique. A list ofdiagnostic techniques for the second heater in the feed and preheater subsystem is shownin Figure 2. Similarly, Figure 3 shows the diagnostic techniques available for the reactorsubsystem. Appropriate diagnostic techniques are available for all the other units as well

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Voigt; Robert Ives; Jesko Hagee

believed, at the time, that the proper sizefor such a room would accommodate 60-70 students. We did not have the funds or the room tobe able to set up our version of the studio classroom in this manner. We had already planned topurchase new benches to replace our aging benches from the circuits course which had been inuse since the 1960s. We also have always had class sizes of around twenty and were not willingto sacrifice our low student-to-teacher ratio. The teaching concept of the studio classroom waswhat we really wanted for our students. The students in this course were not engineers so we feltthat this format for learning was an obvious choice. The students would get more hands-onapplications-oriented learning than we could offer in a

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tarek A. Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

learned by engineering faculty as aresult of offering the course and finally the future plans for other GE courses.RationalIt is widely accepted that increasing the technical literacy among all students is critical as oursociety becomes increasingly dependent upon science and technology. A technically illiteratepopulation is not capable of understanding and making the informed decisions necessary tomaintain our quality of life. The overall decline in B.S. degrees in engineering during the period1996-2000 as documented by the Engineering Workforce Commission of American Associationof Professional Societies highlights this problem1. Policy makers often lack understanding oftechnical issues due to a lack of training in technical fields. For example

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Urban; James Collofello; Doris Roman; Faye Navabi; Mary Anderson-Rowland

continuation of a piloting activity begun in the Summer of2001. The pilot project was funded through a special legislative proposition in the state ofArizona (Proposition 301) designed to improve public education. The pilot project involvedthree Arizona high schools working with ASU personnel to develop and pilot softwareengineering curriculum materials at the high school level. The teachers in the programparticipated in a one-week software engineering workshop in which they learned softwareengineering concepts. The teachers then continued to work with ASU personnel in developinghigh school appropriate lesson plans for integrating the software engineering concepts into theircurrent courses. The pilot project demonstrated the feasibility of teaching

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Hata

Instructional Resources for a Technician-Level Plasma Technology Course David M. Hata Portland Community CollegeAbstractText materials, training systems, and supporting laboratory exercises have been developedby Portland Community College to support a technician-level course in plasmatechnology. Faculty workshops are planned for 2003 and 2004 to equip communitycollege faculty to teach technician-level courses in plasma technology. The project isfunded through an Advanced Technological Education Program grant from the NationalScience Foundation.IntroductionPlasma technology, although not as pervasive in the wafer fab as vacuum technology

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yurtseven Oner; Fox Patricia; Stephen Hundley

Management (RCM) is a financialmanagement philosophy that focuses on operational decentralization, and is designed to supportacademic priorities at the lowest possible levels – usually academic units and departments. RCMpermits administrators to allocate fiscal resources in line with current and longer-term strategicinitiatives of the campus or academic unit, and helps to align authority with actual responsibilitiesof deans, directors, and department heads. RCM differs from traditional financial models in several ways. Historically, authority forfinancial planning and monitoring was held centrally; income was controlled and resourcesallocated centrally; reallocation of resource was determined centrally; and surpluses or deficitswere dealt

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Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eli Fromm; Jack McGourty

education, instituted professional development activities,and institutionalized assessment and continuous improvement in all partner schools aswell as actively disseminated these innovations to institutions external to the Coalitions[1]. These developments have served as the elements around which systemic change atindividual institutions can be planned and implemented. An unexpected consequence ofthis intense focus on external dissemination is the facilitation of the Coalition’s ownchange and innovation processes.This paper explores how the goal of establishing a digital repository greatly facilitated thefinal stages of the innovation process throughout the Gateway Coalition. Based on thestructural definition of the repository and the standards

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

organizations such as the US Department of Health and Human Services, Engineers Without Borders, the Namlo Foundation, Golden Independent School, and the Federal University of Santa Maria in Brazil, we anticipate an increase in students participating in these endeavors. Furthermore, we plan to establish additional agreements with similar agencies during the course of the project. Our goal is an ambitious 30% increase in students participating in these internships by the end of the project.Background:The Engineering Division at CSM is an interdisciplinary program, offering a Bachelor ofScience in Engineering degree with specialties in civil, electrical, environmental andmechanical engineering. In 2001, the

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Fahmida Masoom; Abulkhair Masoom

1 How Well Are We Doing? Focusing on Program Assessment Fahmida Masoom, Lecturer Abulkhair Masoom, Professor General Engineering University of Wisconsin-Platteville masoom@uwplatt.eduAbstractThe very first step in planning for an accreditation visit by ABET or other agencies usuallyinvolves deciding on assessment methods that can be readily included in the self-study reports.For a non-degree-granting department such as the General Engineering Department at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Platteville, where do

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Alec B. Scranton

students tointegrate their course with their off-campus jobs or other activities. In addition, a coursespecifically designed for the Internet can be more engaging and interactive than printededucational materials. Indeed, the features offered in a multimedia computing setting can beused to create a highly effective learning environment through well-designed audio-visualcontent. A well-designed Internet course can provide an added level of communication of thescientific concepts through carefully planned audio-visual content (including voice, simulations,animations, pictures, and video) that can be continuously updated and improved. Finally, anInternet course allows each student to control the pace of the course to suit his or her uniquestyle of

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert Bruce Kelsey

theperformance [Varela]. When faced with an ethical decision, we project ourselves into a courseof action based on our values, our vision of what our actions will produce, and most importantlyfor our purposes here, our knowledge of the means to achieve our desired ends. For the mostpart, software practitioners in the industry today don’t know the means to the end. They learnedthe programming and modeling languages. They can recite the PMI project phases. But theydon’t know how to manage software development or how to improve the development process.They don’t know how to proactively plan for, or how to mitigate, negative consequences, eventhough that is perhaps the most critical skill required in software development!So I whole-heartedly agree with

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

via scheduled classes voluntarily chosen bystudents. The control group was made up of 153 freshman students enrolled in a requiredcalculus subject. The control group was screened via pre-activity survey for any engineeringdesign-related activities in which they might have taken part during their freshman year. The pre-activity survey also screened for another variable that could potentiallyconfound results: plans to major in engineering. Indeed, it was found that nearly all students inthe experimental groups planned to major in engineering (81% and 84% for the Mentored andWeb-guided groups, respectively). Hence, the control group, which originally contained only60% of students who planned to major in engineering, was further cut to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

8.340.6opinions of the engineering profession. These results will be compared to students’ attitudes andopinions at the end of the semester, and will help us analyze how well the ICEE met its objectivesand how it fared as compared to the GE102 sections. Thus, the results from this portion of thesurvey do not allow us to assess the ICEE course, but are included in this annual report for thesake of completeness.Perhaps the most interesting result from this survey is that 96% of all respondents felt that theywere able to obtain an engineering degree from UWP and 93% planned on continuing theirstudies in engineering. This is an interesting result because historically about half of first semesterstudents enrolled in engineering at UWP persist in engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

8.339.6opinions of the engineering profession. These results will be compared to students’ attitudes andopinions at the end of the semester, and will help us analyze how well the ICEE met its objectivesand how it fared as compared to the GE102 sections. Thus, the results from this portion of thesurvey do not allow us to assess the ICEE course, but are included in this annual report for thesake of completeness.Perhaps the most interesting result from this survey is that 96% of all respondents felt that theywere able to obtain an engineering degree from UWP and 93% planned on continuing theirstudies in engineering. This is an interesting result because historically about half of first semesterstudents enrolled in engineering at UWP persist in engineering

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chow Michael; Barry Farbrother

about communicationand working with others in a team situation beyond what we do in a typical classroom setting. After working in thisprogram I would highly recommend that anyone who has the chance to take this opportunity. Student #3, Jason Bandy: Senior – Electrical EngineeringI have gained valuable experience through working for MAP EiR program while pursuing my undergraduate degree.I am currently also participating in ONU’s Senior Design. I feel that I have developed project planning skills andinformation gathering skills while working for MAP. Project planning and information gathering skills are crucial to mySenior Design experience and any other engineering projects in the future. Mike Chow, the director of