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Benoit Cushman-Roisin; Elsa Garmire

‘..,,Ry~’,.:—‘ In the Course of-these projects, students are brought into close contact with engineers and engineering management in participating companies. The resulting experience is an essential~rnponent of the program. Table 2. Industrial perceptions of weaknesses in engineering graduates ● Technical arrogance ● No understanding of manufacturing processes ● A desire for complicated and “high-tech” solutions ● Lack of design capability or creativity ● Lack of appreciation for considering alternatives “ No knowledge of value engineering ● Lack of appreciation for variation ● All wanting to be analysts

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1996 Annual Conference

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George A. Bohlen; Donna C.S. Summers

of these teams. Educational institutions, unlike business, continues to educate students within particular functionalareas. While education serves many purposes, including stimulating students to acquire and utilize knowledgeto think critically, from a more practical viewpoint, education should assist students in developing skillsapplicable to their future careers. To prepare graduates for work in an interdisciplinary environment, cross-functional courses should be developed at the undergraduate level to expose students to the types ofinterdisciplinary problem-solving and team activities they will encounter in industry. At the University of Dayton, the Department of Industrial Engineering Technology in the School ofEngineering

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1996 Annual Conference

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Leevones Dubose; Jean Newman; Cecil Ramage; Burke Johnson; Brenda Litchfield; Edmund Tsang

instruction and hands-on learning in middle-school classrooms. Course content andimplementation plan are described in the paper, and results of student and teacher assessment will bepresented at the conference.INTRODUCTION The faculty of the Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department at the University of South Alabama(USA) began, in Fall 1993, an evaluation of the undergraduate program to meet the challenge of engineeringeducation for the 21st Century. Restructuring of the mechanical engineering curriculum at USA is alsoprompted by the changing ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) requirements fordesign. Under the current criteria, design is defined as "an experience that must grow with the student'sdevelopment," and "the

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1996 Annual Conference

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Richard W. Crain; Michael S. Trevisan; Kenneth L. Gentili; Dale E. Calkins; D. C. Davis

effective design education.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSupport from the National Science Foundation, programs in Course and CurriculumDevelopment and Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement (grant #DUE 9455158) has been helpfulin facilitating the collaboration leading to this manuscript.REFERENCESABET. “Engineering Criteria 2000,” Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology,111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012, 1995.Black, Kent M, “An Industry View of Engineering Education,” Journal of EngineeringEducation, Vol. 83, No. 1, 1994, pp. 26-28.Byrd, Joseph S., and Jerry L. Hudgins, “Teaming in the Design Laboratory,” Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol. 84, No. 4, 1995, pp. 335-341.Calkins, D.E. “The ECSEL Program and the Mechanical Engineering