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New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

restructured to meet the growingglobal competition and to keep pace with the changes in the field.”5As PS465 suggests, ASCE believes that the engineer of two decades hence will need anew skill set and a new mind set. The fundamentals of science and mathematics willcontinue to be the foundation for engineering. But engineering will have additionaldimensions. It will be information and molecular based using new and differentmaterials. Moreover, it will be an interactive global enterprise. The future engineer mustunderstand project/activity management, how businesses function, and the social contextof engineering practice. The design space has expanded, and now includes social,economic, and policy-related consequences.In short, ASCE believes the

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charles Feldhaus; Kenneth Reid

social good of engineering and demonstrating how it is relevant to the real world 2. Interdisciplinary approach: Add a technological component to all subjects and lessons, and implement writing guidelines in math and science courses 3. Standards: Involve engineering in K-12 lessons that map to state standards for math and science. Further, states should follow Massachusetts and enact state standards for engineering 4. Use/Improve K-12 Teachers: Engage more K-12 teachers in outreach efforts and curriculum writing, and increase teacher salaries to attract the best technological Page 10.219.1 minds to teaching

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Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Houghtalen

Session xxxx Can ASCE Cover the “E” in the MOE? Robert J. Houghtalen, P.E. Department of Civil Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology John A. Casazza Department of Continuing Education, ASCEAbstractThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is beginning to move the profession in thedirection of requiring a certain body of knowledge (BOK) for professional licensure. This BOKwould be obtained through a baccalaureate (BS) degree, work experience, and a master’s degreeor equivalent (MOE). The “or

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jung Oh

Connecting Learning with Students’ Interests and Daily Lives with Project Assignment: “It is My Project.” Jung Oh Kansas State University-SalinaAbstractThe General Chemistry course is a required or elective science course for engineeringtechnology programs at Kansas State University at Salina. A hands-on ‘Periodic Table’project in the General Chemistry course was assigned (1) to respect a variety of learningstyles, (2) to foster connection between the basic science and engineering technologyprogram courses, and (3) to connect student learning to personal interests and to havethem enjoy an “ownership” of learning. The outcomes of this non-traditional

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lennard Lema; Zbigniew Prusak; Peter Baumann

Session 3649 In-common Methodology for Objective- and Outcome-based Programs Assessment Lennard F. Lema, Peter F. Baumann and Zbigniew Prusak Central Connecticut State UniversityAbstractThis paper reviews the development of continuous quality improvement plans for three closelyaligned engineering technology programs at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU).Many of the goals for the three programs are similar thus allowing for the development ofcommon learning objectives and learning outcomes which may be assessed simultaneously. Thelearning

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Thomas R. Marrero; Andrew K. Beckett

colleges and universities, U.S. News and World Report highlighted the potentialbenefits of such programs by stating that “reform-minded colleges across the country are turningto innovative programs like learning communities and intensive semester-long freshmanorientations to engage students in academics and hopefully offer measurable success in the formof higher retention rates and higher graduation rates”9At the University of Missouri-Columbia, residentially-based engineering FIGs have become amajor component of the first-year experience. Since the program’s inception in 1995, over 1000engineering students have participated. During the fall semester of 2004, 150 of the 426 (35%)incoming students chose to participate in one of the nine engineering

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Bertoline; Dennis Depew

? How can it be helpful to individuals as well asinstitutions?' " and further " 'Can social problems themselves define an agenda for scholarlyinvestigation?' " He goes on "...the term itself may be misleading if it suggests that knowledge isfirst 'discovered' and then 'applied.' The process we have in mind is far more dynamic. Newintellectual understandings can arise out of the very act of application" (p. 23).This comes as nosurprise to those working at a more applied level. It is precisely the richness of understandingfrom application of ideas to real problems that attracts us to work in engineering and technology.Our colleagues find joy in the scholarship of discovery and we find satisfaction in the insightfrom application.Boyer goes on to

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Jouny

demonstrated by inputfrom hundreds of graduates. Furthermore, small programs should be mindful of the valueof the relationship between them and their graduates, and the significant impact it mayhave on the determination whether PEO’s are being achieved.Lesson’s LearnedMost of the evaluation tools listed above in addition to few other creative methods wereattempted at Lafayette College, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Page 10.594.4Surveys returned by graduates and employers were not equal in number, and feedback Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

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Craig Somerton

An Ethical Puzzle for University Administrators Craig W. Somerton Michigan State UniversityAbstractIt has long been recognized that ethical behavior is an essential element of an engineer.Considerable attention has been given to ethics in engineering education. Some programsinclude a full course in ethics, while others integrate ethical issues throughout their curriculum;but all programs need to create a culture where ethical behavior is prized and unethical behavioris not accepted. This culture must be grounded in the behavior of the faculty and administrators.With rampant student cheating and plagiarism, the faculty and administration must set

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

, Engineering Education for a Changing World: Project Report, . 1994, ASEE: Washington, D.C6 Starrett,S., Morcos,M., “Hands-On, Minds-On Electric Power Education”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 90, No. 1, pp93-100, January 2001Peter Avitabile is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Director of the ModalAnalysis and Controls Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is a Registered ProfessionalEngineer with a BS, MS and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering and a member of ASEE, ASME, IES and SEM.Stephen Pennell is a Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.John R. White is a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

multidisciplinary teams, life-long learning, communications, andcontemporary issues. The paper discusses the how attendance at the 2003 and 2004AIChE National Student Conferences was used to meet objectives for courses at all levelsof the chemical engineering curriculum at the University of Kentucky Extended CampusPrograms in Paducah, Kentucky. Students from multiple courses were assigned roles aspart of a start-up bio-tech or nano-tech company with indecisive management. Thestudent’s role was to determine ahead of the conference a product or process in which thecompany should engage, keeping in mind the opportunities available at the conference.Students attending the conference then collected information from technical talks andfrom exhibitors relevant to

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stefani A. Bjorklund; Norman Fortenberry

] Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. 2003-2004 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Baltimore, MD: Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., 2002.[3] Moore, Paolo Davidian, S. M. Cupp, and N. L. Fortenberry. “Linking Student Learning Outcomes to Instructional Practices – Phase II.” Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, Boulder, CO: ASEE/IEEE, 2003.[4] Chickering, Arthur W. and Z. F. Gamson (Eds.). “Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.” New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Vol. 47, 1991.[5] Bransford, John D., A. L. Brown, and R. R. Cocking, eds. 2000. “How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.” National Academy Press, Washington, DC

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Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

. Forexample, faculty members are told to set goals, but they should also be told how to goabout choosing correct goals. This paper describes a process for setting specific careergoals and building a hierarchy of objectives to complete them. This makes long termgoals easier to handle by dividing them into smaller manageable goals (month-to-month). Since faculty members are only human, state of mind effects productivity. Lowmorale often leads to low productivity which in turn leads to time inefficiency. Burn-outand low morale are factors that can be accounted for with good goal setting. Forexample, instead of setting a goal in number of dollars of grant/contract money, set a goalwhich the faculty member has control over like number of proposals

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanton Cort; Gary Wnek

particularly opportune time to highlight the topic of innovation is through a courseon product and process design. A specific example is the two-semester course entitledProduct and Process Design, Development and Delivery (P2D3), an integral part of theMaster of Engineering and Management (MEM) curriculum at Case Western ReserveUniversity.3 Briefly, the MEM degree involved a one-year, 42-credit curriculum forB.S.-degreed engineers and computer scientists. It was launched in 2001 in thoughtfulresponse to much input from industry about the need for ‘business-minded innovators.’We currently have students from a broad spectrum of technical disciplines, includingbiomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, mechanical and systems engineering, aswell

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Bern; Brian Steward; Amy Kaleita-Forbes; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

top of anyone’s priority list. Also, weunderstand that not every faculty member is involved with the day-to-day mechanisms ofassessment. We needed to expose them to smaller pieces of the entire process, in a logicalmanner (we are engineers, after all), over a long period of time (years), in order to bringeveryone “up to speed.”With these two principles in mind (caution about additional workloads, and frequent but smallchunks of information), we’ve used a number of different methods to involve faculty in a mannerthat we believe are not threatening. These are: (1) Investing outcomes assessment in thecurriculum committee; (2) involving individual faculty as part of the courses they teach; (2) theABE Learning Circle; (3) faculty workshops; and (4

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tony Casalena; Matt Weinstein; Borna Ghavam; Blake Robertson; Karen Thornton; David Barbe; James Green

with like-minded entrepreneurs—friends and apartment-mateswhom they have developed and grown a business with. Arkhon hopes to expand in 2005by adding its first full-time technical and sales staff, as the executive team prepares tograduate from the university.2.3. Low-Tech Service Model - Key Success Factors: Mentoring, Experience57th Avenue Advertising, LLC is a direct-mail-based advertising company operating inthe Greater Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. 57th Avenue serves theadvertising needs of restaurants in the city of College Park through MenuTeaser™, anexclusive advertising publication distributed to both College Park residents andUniversity of Maryland students. A Hinman CEOs electrical engineering student, BornaGhavam, working

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Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Willette; Larry White; Garry White

WORKING WORLD PROBLEMS AND COMMUNICATION FOR THE CLASS ROOM Larry L. White, Garry L. White, William W. Willette Dept. of Engineering Technology, Texas A&M- Corpus Christi/ Dept. of Computer Information Systems, Texas State University - San Marcos/ Dept. of Information Systems, University of Texas - ArlingtonAbstractEngineering problems in the working world can differ from what students encounter in theclassroom. The communication of the results also differs. For some engineering problems, e-mail has become the major method of communication.This paper discusses the differences between the classroom and the working world. The paperalso introduces a method

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McMasters

“what could happen (if wanted and nounknowable events intervene)” rather than attempt to predict the future.One successful example of this approach was its use in the construction circa 1993-94 of theBoeing list4,5 of “Desired Attributes of an Engineer” (Fig. 1). The original purpose in creatingthis list was to establish a basis for an on-going dialogue with academe at a time when muchlegitimate criticism was leveled at various potential employers for a seeming propensity for“changing their minds all the time” and sending often contradictory messages to schools Page 10.265.2regarding “what industry needs”. Rather than provide schools with

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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ana Kennedy; David Ollis

andinstitutionalization of this cross-college collaboration between engineering and foreignlanguages.Course Design Page 10.375.1Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Spanish: Culture, Language, Technology (FLS 212) was designed specifically toencourage engineers to study a foreign language. Components of the course wereincorporated with just this end in mind. First, the prerequisite for the course wasdeliberately set at two years of high school Spanish: a level that would not intimidateprospective students. At the

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

comprehensive review inherent in capstone design projects, the paper describes theproject portfolio approach that expands the traditional project report into a broader spectrum ofcommunication activities to more fully capture the design cycle. It provides strategies formeaningfully implementing such assignments and summarizes the results of portfolio use overtwo years of capstone design sequences in a materials science and engineering curriculum. Thisapproach leverages and expands the kinds of assignments common to many design courses(proposals, progress reports, final reports) to provide assessment information directedspecifically to ABET. By carefully designing and evaluating capstone assignments with the fullrange of Criterion 3 outcomes in mind

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

AC 2005-509: IMPACT OF A NSF ATE FUNDED HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGY OUTREACH PROGRAM: EVALUATION OF H.S.T.I.MATERIALSAndrew Hoff, University of South FloridaEric Roe, Hillsborough Community CollegeMarilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community CollegeRichard Gilbert, Page 10.716.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Session 1526Impact of a NSF ATE funded High School Science and Technology Outreach Program: Evaluation of H.S.T.I. Materials Eric A. Roe1, Andrew Hoff2, Marilyn Barger1, Richard Gilbert3 1 FL-ATE (Center for

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Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Graunke; Jeffrey Will; Peter Johnson

Session 1160 Virtual Reality for 3D Visualization in a Statics Course Peter E. Johnson1, Jeffrey D. Will2, and Christopher R. Graunke2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Valparaiso University 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Valparaiso UniversityIntroduction Learning subjects in the sciences or engineering require the ability of students to think inthree dimensions. However, this is one of the greatest challenges to students [1]. Even in thebest students, these skills are typically underdeveloped [2]. There is a great need for students tobe

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Engineering Education”students in the class; this aspect has to be taken into account in the delivery of instruction forsuccess.Evaluation of student progress is made on a continuous basis and corrective action implementedimmediately. With this in mind we implemented a process we called “ten minute quiz” in threelower level courses in fall 2000. The ten minute quiz was given at the beginning of every classhour that covered concept oriented problem that was taught in the previous class hour. Abenchmark of 95% of the students scoring at least 80% in every quiz was established as the basefor the instructor to either review the concepts for the entire class or proceed with the next itemin the learning objective. Individual cases were handled through

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

developed with theneed to reform upper level engineering education in mind. The goal of the course is to enable thestudents to identify the appropriate joining technique to join two materials for a givenapplication. This involves not only analyzing the functional requirements of the joined apparatus,but considering cost associated with a current or potential joining process and the potentialbenefit of a change-over. The former involves synthesizing knowledge learned in fundamentalengineering courses (e.g., statics/strengths, thermal sciences, and engineering materials), thelatter requires the non-technical skills required of engineering graduates9 (e.g., communication,business).A brief comparison between two welding processes and a soldering

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Noah Salzman; Christopher Emery; Kevin Kloesel; Sandra Cruz Pol; Omnia El-Hakim; Kathleen Rubin

tracking and prediction. Over the course ofthe week, the teachers learned about electronics, networking, radar, meteorology, and complexengineered systems. They also learned about diversity and grant writing, and gained familiaritywith the Massachusetts science frameworks, one of the first state frameworks in the country toinclude engineering as a core focus. The summer content institute was sponsored by CASA, theNational Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensingof the Atmosphere. CASA is developing a distributed network of small, low-cost radars andother sensors designed to observe weather phenomena in the lower part of the atmosphere. Thisnew sensing system will allow for better observation, tracking, and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Richter

-Year Integrated Engineering Curriculum on Graduation Rates and Student Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study,” in Journal of Engineering Education, January 2004.[2] Starrett, S. and M. M. Morcos, “Hands-On, Minds-On Electric Power Education”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 1, pp 93-99, January 2001.[3] Higley, K. A. and C. M. Marianno, “Making Engineering Education Fun,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No.1, pp 105-107, January 2001.[4] Seymour, E. & Hewitt. N. Talking About Leaving: Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates Among Science, Math and Engineering Undergraduate Engineering Majors. Final report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on an

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Podlasek

Tacit Knowledge in the Innovation Process Robert J. Podlasek, PH.D, PE Department of Mechanical Engineering Bradley UniversityAbstractTechnical innovation and entrepreneurship drive economic growth and prosperity. The successof the innovation process depends on utilizing new and existing technical knowledgeexpeditiously and in novel ways. Many new ideas are the result of the convergence of knowledgefrom seemingly unrelated domains and/or fields of interest. Moreover, innovative ideas tend toemerge from a combination of experience, published information, and dialogue. This process ofcollaboration and team science to

Conference Session

Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Michele Summers; Donna Evanecky

,” comes to mind when thinking Page 10.1260.3about women working in more non-traditional or male-dominated fields like engineering“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” ETD 2142technology. A woman may face things like, inappropriate jokes, unwanted touching, and evenrequests for dates. An article by Nelson and Burke discusses the impact of these stressors. Each of these stressors links to increased

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Dees; Megan Perkey; Karen Davis; Nicholas Harth

engineering, we have to also make sure that they fit within the standards that have been issued for that grade level. Recent emphasis on standardized testing also relates to these standards as a political constraint. It is important that as we are developing our own lessons and activities, we keep those test concepts in mind. They should be incorporated wherever possible. These factors also contribute to a time constraint. Our project is designed to supplement current curriculum. Therefore, we need to be mindful about the amount of time that we are using in each classroom, so as not to compromise the goals of the primary instructor. (M. Perkey

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruno Osorno

equation forAmpere’s law. III. TRANSFORMATIONS d For practical engineering use, we carry on∫c H • dl = ∫s J • dS + dt ∫s D • dS (3) some simplifications in order to reduce the complexity of the equations and be able to apply them to our engineering problems. WeWhich can be explained as follows; the must keep in mind that if our graduatingflow of current in a wire will induced a students get involved in a sophisticatedmagnetic flux electromagnetic problem, they should at