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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

relevant local industries and the students’ learning styles. We havedeliberately focused on building a new curriculum centered on the need for successful practicingengineers while not attempting to simply replicate existing engineering programs from otherschools. Project-based learning model was adopted for this purpose2. Project-based learning isgaining more support in the American undergraduate engineering education3,4. Our ElectricalEngineering program has strong emphasis on the implementation of design experiences at alllevels of the curriculum. The program is committed to producing graduates who are wellprepared for the start of productive, successful careers as practicing engineers. An engineeringprogram is a living entity, not just a list

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Koren Aragaki; Daniel M. Ferguson; Margaret Huyck

designed to providestudents with much-needed practical experience in a way that reinforces their theoreticalknowledge through applications within a multidisciplinary exploratory project-learninga As the term is applied at IIT, interprofessional signifies the linking of professional disciplines in the educational process -- a linking thatfosters greater understanding of the complex, multifunctional problems faced by tomorrow's professionals, tomorrow’s leaders, in careers that are Page 10.615.1swept by waves of change in information technology, science, engineering, and organizational structure, and are

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Laura Kramer

culturally conservative than faculty in other disciplines. Engineering professors in the United States have generally chosen teaching rather than amore lucrative career path. Doctoral candidates have often spent time in engineering practicebefore returning to school and then joining faculty ranks. Part-time consulting is one way thatfaculty shrink the economic gap between these paths. Faculty also host corporate visitors whoare recruiting future graduates, sponsoring the study of some of their own employees, orcollaborating on some aspect of an academically-based project. Most successful engineeringstudents (at every degree level) will go into private sector employment. And many (or most)successful engineers are promoted into managerial

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Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

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John King; Dae-Wook Kim; Tom Stoebe

connection between manufacturingtechnology education, student career goals, and private sector demand. The goal of thePSCME has been to develop an enhanced manufacturing curriculum for manufacturingtechnology programs in high schools and in two-year institutions. PSCME works withhigh schools and community/technical colleges in Washington State to gather and reviewexisting manufacturing curricula, and to communicate with local industry leaders toclarify regionally developed industry skill standards and curriculum needs. This paperwill discuss this deliberate cooperation and the resulting development of a new,modularized curriculum model. Based on the curriculum research, 19 modules weredeveloped: Interpersonal Effectiveness, Introduction to

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BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Waugaman; Brian Self

A New Biomedical Engineering Course Based on Aerospace Applications Brian P. Self and William A. Waugaman United States Air Force Academy, ColoradoAbstractEngineering students at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) have an extremely fullcourse load. Because of this, creating a new course that can fulfill an elective option and berelevant to their future Air Force careers is quite challenging. In order to accomplish this, amechanics professor and electrical engineering professor teamed to create a new Introduction toBiomedical Engineering course, open to all senior level engineering students. The first block ofthe course

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Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Saeid Motavalli; Helen Zong; Farnaz Ganjeizadeh; David Bowen

service industriesto advance their careers by preparing for management positions. Also, professionals inmanagement positions will benefit from this curriculum by obtaining a formal educationin engineering management. The San Francisco Bay Area is a prime location for offeringsuch a degree because of the large concentration of high tech engineering, manufacturingand service industries.This paper details the development of the M.S. Degree program. We discuss the resourceconstraints that had to be overcome by developing a curriculum that pulls resources fromvarious departments on campus. The designed curriculum allows us to offer the programwithout requesting additional faculty positions.Other considerations include issues such as specific needs of

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Erdinc Acar; Faruk Taban; Ismail Fidan

, momentum, inertia,equilibrium, structural stability, sensors, etc. were covered. In addition, some club membersworked on other aspects of the competition like writing a research paper, presentation,fundraising, web design, etc.3. FIRST Robotics Competition for High School StudentsThe FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams,professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense andcompetitive way. The program is a life-changing, career-molding experience and a lot of fun. In2004, the competition has reached more than 20,000 students on over 900 teams in 27competitions. The teams come from Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Great Britain, and almostevery U.S. state. The competitions

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mehria Saffi; Mariana Alvaro; Diana Mejia; David Bowen

isunlikely to be feasible for most faculty to accomplish given time constraints [3].Mentoring is the long term guidance and counsel between (typically) less experienced and moreexperienced individuals. It is usually between two that are following a similar career path, butare at different stages of their careers. Mentoring of all undergraduates in an academic setting isdifficult to accomplish beyond a certain level due to student faculty ratios. In a professionalsetting a mentor may have one or two, or at most a handful of mentees. In an academic settingthe reality is that for each student to have a mentor, each faculty member would have scores ofmentees. While mentoring is common between faculty and graduate students, it is much lesscommon at the

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

2005-2130 The Integration of Hands-on Team Projects into an Engineering Course to Help Students Make the Transition from Student to Professional Engineer Craig J. Hoff, and Gregory W. Davis, Kettering UniversityThere is considerable concern that current engineering education practices do notadequately prepare students for the practice of engineering. This statement goes farbeyond the often stated requirements that to be successful in their careers engineeringgraduates must have good communication skills, must be able to work inmultidisciplinary teams, etc. There

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrea Ogilvie

Session 1370 Capturing Young MINDS with MITE – A Pre-College Residential Program Generating Results Andrea M. Ogilvie The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Minority Introduction to Engineering (MITE) program at The University of Texas at Austin(UT Austin) is a five-day summer residential program designed to spark students’ interest inengineering as an exciting career choice. MITE offers 100 high school juniors and seniors theopportunity to discover engineering through hands-on experience and interaction withengineering students, faculty

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A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marc Garland; Abdel Bayoumi; Travis Knight

participate in and contribute to new and growing national research initiatives innuclear engineering. The program covers a broad spectrum of academic interests through therecruitment of faculty with differing research backgrounds and interests and the strategic use ofadjunct faculty from the surrounding professional nuclear community. Both internal andexternal funding is leveraged to provide support for the hiring of tenure-track faculty, adjunctfaculty, and graduate student assistants. A dynamic and innovative distance educationcomponent is built into the program enabling students to enroll in classes and obtain degreeswithout having to relocate. This serves well those nuclear professionals seeking post-graduatedegrees to further their career goals

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

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Pierre Larochelle

Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career” [21]. • NSF Sponsored Chautauqua Short Course by Prof. Landis (May 1998). Goal: “To develop and document an Introduction to Engineering course designed to enhance student success by addressing five primary themes: community building; professional development; academic success strategies; personal development; and orientation to the university and the engineering program.”These themes have lead to the development of a curriculum that is based upon providinga foundation cornerstone design experience to first year students. This cornerstoneexperience lays the foundation for the engineering sciences and the capstone designexperience of mechanical engineering students

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Marshall

Document 2005-744 Programmable Logic Controllers in the High Schools Improves College Enrollments John Allen Marshall, Ph.D. School of Applied Science, Engineering, and Technology University of Southern Maine Gorham, Maine 04038IntroductionToo few high school students understand that a technical career path can genuinely beexciting and neat. Some have the short-term view that good paying jobs are plentiful, sowhy take the really difficult courses. Many sell their own abilities short and convincethemselves that it is too difficult a

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Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Justin Davis

moneystarts arriving. Many funding resources are available for new faculty which can help kick-startyour research program. Research Initiation grants are common within academia throughuniversities, conferences, and societies. Often the funding rate is much higher on thesethan from the standard funding agencies, although the dollar amount is usually fixed andis much lower. The length of the written proposal is also shorter, enabling many more tobe written within the same time. Early in a new professor’s career, quantity of grants ismore important than the dollar amount on them. Once you get tenure, then the dollaramounts are expected to go up.6. Advertise A part of a new professor’s success is networking. Successful professors

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Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Howard Evans; Shekar Viswanathan

development of both ‘in classroom’ andinternet-based ‘online’ delivery formats are highlighted.Introduction Engineering Management leadership has become a highly sought out skill intoday’s competitive global technological marketplace. It is now a well recognized professionin most industries. Almost half of all engineers enter a management position within 10 yearsof graduation. In addition, an average engineer changes careers about five times as a result ofbeing trained on different skills and areas of specialty during her/his professional life time [1].Half of all registered professional engineers primarily utilize management skills rather thanpurely technical skills [2]. From small companies to giant global institutions

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Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Powell; Michael Kwinn

different levels18% Gained an appreciation for other cultures12% Learned value in teamwork 9% Insight gained on direction of future military programs 9% Realized the role civilians (commercial companies and academic institutions) play in military readiness 9% The AIAD experience assisted in determining military career field 6% Need better two-way communicationThe feedback reveals the AIAD program is a very rewarding experience for cadets; and areflection of the direct correlation between the objectives desired in a work-based educationprogram. There were additional unforeseen benefits not articulated in a work-based educationprogram such as insight into career field designation and the valuable role of a

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fengfeng Zhou

knowledge essential for a career in science andengineering. It showed clearly that mathematics played a very important role in an engineeringscenario. Quite obviously, integrating math and physics together in an engineering circumstanceis an effective teaching approach. Its advantage can be seen more clearly by comparing it with aroutine teaching approach. The author once observed a class of teaching Coulomb’s law inwhich the teacher asked students to solve problems one after another using the law. In eachproblem, three or four electric charges with different quantities were placed at arbitrary locations.Although variations were made as to each charge’s quantity and location, students soon becametired because they were just repeating a tedious work

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stuart Bernstein

though they are teaching it totheir peers, which increases their own understanding.Role PlayingRole playing can be fit into any engineering class in different degrees. In Personnel andSupervisory Methods, role playing is instrumental in having the students apply what they arelearning to pseudo real life simulations. It is not as effective as an internship or a servicelearning project, but it does afford the students the safety of the classroom. In design and theoryclasses, role playing can be used where team projects have been assigned, if, at the completion ofthe project, the students are required to make a presentation in the role of designing engineer.This is a real life situation in which they will find themselves during their careers. Role

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Wangping Sun; J. M. Zhang; Z. J. Pei

meet the challenges in their future careers. In thispaper, the instructors of IMSE 564 will share some experiences in teaching the course, anddiscuss how the learner-centered environment was established for the class.KeywordsEngineering education; Lean manufacturing; Learner-centered environment.1. IntroductionAt Kansas State University, Product and Process Engineering (IMSE 564) is an engineeringcourse offered once a year to the senior undergraduates by the Department of Industrial &Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE). It is a required course for the students whose majoris Manufacturing Engineering, and the students with other majors may take it as an elective. Inthe course, the students learn how to design the economic production

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michele Auzenne; Jeanne Garland; J. Phillip King; Ricardo Jacquez

-supported opportunities, and 3) year-round advising support on career opportunities. This paper focuses on the challenges we faced indeveloping and maintaining the META program and presents the positive outcomes, such asstrengthened industry and community college relationships, engaging student activities, studentinternships, and the increase of students entering SMET fields, particularly civil engineering.The paper reflects plans for sustainability by further collaborations with our community collegeand industry partners.IntroductionRepresenting a joint effort of New Mexico State University, Santa Fe Community College(SFCC), Luna Community College (Luna CC), and five regional civil engineering industrypartners, the Minority Engineering Transfer

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

10.538.9responding to the prompt below, Emma, a sophomore student, spoke about how important her “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”industrial mentor was to the team, and to her. She learned a lot from her mentor, making her feelmore like an engineer herself. Prompt: One goal for PMT/VITDP is to prepare students for engineering careers. Describe some specific examples of what you are learning about engineering practice. How are you learning this (or how did you learn this) and from whom? I feel that this project is very helpful in giving me an idea of what a real engineering

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tia Sharpe; Robert Maher; James Peterson; James Becker; Bradford Towle

Engineering Educationexperience this year creating the new course and give several suggestions for other universitiesthat might be interested in creating a similar robot-based freshman course.Rationale for the new courseAs mentioned above, at nearly all of the nation’s universities freshmen engineering students takean introductory laboratory course.4,5,6 The manner in which the introductory material ispresented can profoundly influence a student’s enthusiasm and interest in subsequent coursework and, ultimately, a successful professional career. Realizing this importance, the MontanaState University ECE Department has devoted a considerable amount of time and effort refiningthe content of the freshman course, EE 101, and its method of presentation

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Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

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John McMasters

truly student-centered approach with quality rather than quantity being anobjective at the undergraduate level, with much of the specialization in current programsdeferred to the graduate level and continued career-long learning opportunities.At the undergraduate level, we need to adopt a modern systems engineering perspective and do amuch better job of determining what really needs to be presented (and how to present it) in ourefforts to educate students to operate in a modern engineering environment, rather than merelythinking about what specific skills they may need in order to gain their initial job assignments, oras preparation for a graduate program in research. Instead of creating courses to meet specific(and too often parochial) needs

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Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Devine

. Initial aspects of this career change were not completely positive. The visiting appointment was accepted much due to the loss of a job with an engineering consulting firm and occurred with less than 3 weeks before the first class began. This made the work of preparing to teach 3 classes for a first time instructor all the more challenging. Syllabi were prepared, classes were held, and grades were assigned for this first semester of teaching but the effectiveness of teaching was suspect and the amount of learning by students was questioned by the instructor. Student evaluations and comments from the Page 10.601.1 first year of teaching were below

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Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Deborah Sharer; David Murphy; Stephen Kuyath

Engineering EducationIntroductionThe United States is facing a shortage of engineers because white female, African American,Latino, and Native American high school students traditionally have had little encouragement orhave exhibited little interest in pursuing careers related to these subjects1. Although they do notrealize it, these students are depriving themselves of many technical and scientific careerchoices, as well as access to high salaried occupations2.In 1995, women made up about 46 percent of the U.S. labor force but only about 9 percent of theengineering labor force3. If more women and minorities can be persuaded to purse a degree inengineering the imminent shortage can be averted. Although women currently comprise 52percent of high

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

, meetings, contact details, and schedules. • Project allows you set up project management information.The Microsoft Office Specialist exams evaluate and qualify your overall comprehensionof Microsoft Office or Microsoft Project applications, your ability to use their advancedfeatures, and your ability to integrate them with other software applications. Thisqualification helps to set students apart in today's competitive job market, bringingemployment opportunities, greater earning potential and career advancement, in additionto increased job satisfaction. Some research reveals: • Up to 83% of employers feel their Microsoft Office Specialist certified employees are more productive. • Up to 82% of employers believe Microsoft

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Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yvonne Ng

Taste of Engineering INTEGRATING ENGINEERING INTO A LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTION Yvonne Ng Mathematical Sciences and Faculty co-Leader of Centers of Excellence for Women, Science and Technology College of St. CatherineAbstractStudies show that exposing students to engineering early in their college career increases their retentionin engineering programs. But how can such an experience be created at a liberal arts partner institutionthat has no engineering department? The College of St. Catherine, the largest Catholic women’sinstitution in the US, is the liberal

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Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Askew; Cari-Sue Wilmot; Colley Hodges; Richard Bannerot

m ean to tal Statements Statements 5 4 3 2 1 A. Teaming skills will be very important to my career. 40 10 1 1 1 53 4.64 B I better understand how the audience of a report dictates the manner in which it is presented. 22 19 12 1 54

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Northrup

has instructed his students that they will be able, throughstaying in contact with their Capstone project advisor, to be part of a larger network of studentswhom they don’t personally know. They may, however, need each other at some point in thefuture. Swearengen et. al. states that “As outsourcing captures an increasing percentage ofengineering work, engineers will become ‘free agents’ in a professional services market. Long-term employment at a single company may become an exception. Thus responsibility for careerdevelopment shifts from employer to individual.”9 The network developed and maintained bystaying in touch with one’s former students may be beneficial to the students who findthemselves in a sudden career change. The sudden career

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Myers; Jack Byrd; Robin Hensel

experience for all students.• Implementation of a five-day Calculus 1 course comprised of three lectures and two recitations per week.• Continual tracking of student academic success and provision of academic advising and mentoring throughout the freshmen year.Beginning in the 2002/03 academic year, WVU College of Engineering and Mineral Resourcesinitiated a mandatory 1-credit hour engineering orientation course, ENGR 199, which met theuniversity requirement for an orientation course. All incoming engineering students took theengineering orientation course instead of the general university orientation course. In thiscourse, students were taught college and career “success skills” such as study skills,prioritization, and time management