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New Program/Course Success Stories

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Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

overwhelming array of offerings for Page 10.544.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationengineers seeking cross-disciplinary skills to better manage product designs and fostertechnological innovation.These programs teach engineers how to bring together different disciplines and practiceengineering in a team environment.3 Most of these Engineering Management programs are in theUnited States although some European schools are beginning to follow suit.At Florida Tech, some of the MSEM graduates start their

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Course and Program Assessment

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Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

] “Criteria for Accrediting Technology Programs” TAC/ABET[2] Sekhar, C.R, Farook, O, Jai.Agrawal, “Academic Quality Management” 2004 ASEE AnnualConference Proceedings. [3] Assessment Forum; 9 principles of good practice for assessing student learning. AmericanAssociation for Higher Education.[4] A Model for Engineering Technician Education: Teaching What the Marketplace Needs.Regional Conference, Las Vegas, NV-2003. NJCATE.BiographyCHANDRA R. SEKHAR is a member of the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology atPurdue University Calumet. Professor Sekhar earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from the University ofMadras (India), a Diploma in Instrumentation from Madras Institute of Technology and Master’s Degree inElectrical

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Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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Howard Evans; Shekar Viswanathan

discipline, it focuses on the tools, processes, and methods needed to design,implement and test complete systems, and to adapt existing systems as their environmentevolves. This academic program combines the engineering management area with the field ofsecurity and safety. This curriculum identifies the common fundamentals and practices thatdefine the theory and effective practice of asset and people protection, and it communicatesthese principles through a sound academic forum. The highlights of the program includeproblem identification, assessment, risk reduction and control engineering. Graduates areacademically prepared to appear for both the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certificationadministered by the American Society of Safety

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Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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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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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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Douglas MacIntosh; Susan Conry

Software Engineering Design: A Laboratory in Building Team Management Skills Susan E. Conry and Douglas J. MacIntosh Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Clarkson University Potsdam, NY 13699-5720Introduction “Engineering is problem recognition, formulation, and solution. In the next 20 years, engineers and engineering students will be required to use new tools and apply ever- increasing knowledge in expanding engineering disciplines, all while considering societal repercussions and constraints within a complex landscape of old and new ideas. They

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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Rafael Landaeta; Kawintorn Pothanun; William Peterson

programs at offeringinstitutions. As a final check society uses the PE designation to certify individual competencyand this is done by a body of the state government in which the engineer practices. Iscertification to become a substitution for education?What stance should we as representatives of engineering management take on certificationwithin our own field? Several paths are open to us. We can ignore the practice and hope it goesaway. We can get involved in these certification programs and try to strengthen them to reflectthe discipline as we teach it. We can hold up the degree as a “gold standard” for the discipline bypushing the quality of our programs and our products – students, research, and the positiveimpact of “good” engineering

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Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Science Foundation (DUE9555401) to enhance instruction and learning inmathematically based disciplines. Interconnected learning in construction management was part ofthis initiative. The paper will focus on the construction management department's effort of thismultidimensional project. It will detail how the department’s faculty members organized andinteracted among themselves as well as with faculty members from the other departments. Some ofthe specific activities that would be discussed in the paper are: restructuring of a surveying course tolink it to mathematics courses, restructuring of a departmental computer programming andapplication course to make it relevant to other courses, restructuring of a statics course to link it tophysics and

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Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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Bruce Thompson

The MS in Engineering Management at Milwaukee School of Engineering An Update Bruce R. Thompson Rader School of Business, Milwaukee School of Engineering Abstract: At the 1990 ASEE annual conference a paper titled “Evolution and Projections for the MS in Engineering Management” described the experience of the Master of Science in Engineering Management at Milwaukee School of Engineering, one of the oldest graduate engineering management programs in the United States. Since then, the program has faced a number of challenges, including the introduction of the MSEM at Milwaukee’s two largest

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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Brian Sauser

Using Self-Assessment to Evaluate the Effectiveness of an Engineering Management Course with Cross-Functional Teams Brian J. Sauser Stevens Institute of Technology Systems Engineering and Engineering ManagementAbstractA self-assessment tool was used to measure the effectiveness of an undergraduate capstonecourse in systems design/engineering management taught at Rutgers University. To quantify theimpact of the course, a self-assessment behavior-oriented survey was used called the TeamDeveloperTM, which measured the student team members on several cognitive and behavioralskills. The foundation of the course was built around an

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Design and the Community

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Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

partner.The EPICS model for service-learning seeks a balance between the learning experience of thestudents and the services it provides to the local community. To improve the experience for thestudents and the community partners and produce better designed projects (see Table 1), theEPICS program has adopted a systematic approach to managing all of the designs. This paperdocuments the design process and approach of the EPICS program and discusses the initial Page 10.578.2results in the first year of implementation. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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Pierre Larochelle

Session #XXXX State of the Art in Freshman Programs Unifying Assessment of Freshman Design Teams With Team Project Management Pierre Larochelle Florida Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 150 West University Blvd. Melbourne, FL 32901AbstractThis paper discusses efforts to unify the assessment of first-year engineering designproject teams with the project management skills and techniques employed by the teams.Assessment of the performance of individual design project team members is always

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Pedagogy

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Charles Pezeshki

Session 2566 Managing a Capstone Design Clinic—Strategies for Pedagogic and Financial Success Dr. Charles Pezeshki School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2920 pezeshki@wsu.eduMany ABET-certified programs in mechanical engineering have a team-orientedpracticum involving projects generated by outside industrial sponsors that are supportersof the university. A smaller subset of these programs are financially successful, andgenerate

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; George Wright; Joseph Morgan

Session 1347 Managing Senior Design Projects to Maximize Success: The TAT Team J.A. Morgan, G. Wright, J. R. Porter Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Introduction The typical engineering technology curriculum culminates in a capstone senior designcourse or sequence. The goal of this course/sequence is to have students demonstrate theirmastery of the concepts they have learned throughout their degree program. While manydifferent approaches to senior design courses exist, most

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Kicher; Frank Adamo; Dale Flowers

requirements. By making use of summers for both coursework and internships, the degree is completed in one additional year beyond the BS, for a total offive years. Students complete a total of 42 credit hours for the program, with 12 beingcompleted in a summer term, and 15 each in a fall and spring semester.The core courses (with credit hours in parentheses) for the MEM degree include: ProfessionalDevelopment (3); Project Management (3); Accounting, Finance and Engineering Economics(3); Materials and Manufacturing Processes (3); Product and Process Design, Development andDelivery (6); Information Technology and Systems (3); Engineering Entrepreneurship (6); andUnderstanding People and Change in Organizations (3). For the Technology

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Constance Kampf; Dave Kmiec

, J.C. & Dwight W. Stevenson. 1991. Designing Technical Reports: Writing for Audiences in Organizations 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan.[3] Kampf, Constance, et.al. 2004. “The Triple Constraint of the Document: Coordinating Concepts in Rhetoric and Project Management for Engineering Students.” IPCC Proceedings. Minneapolis, MN.DAVE KMIEC is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication at theUniversity of Minnesota where he is teaching and developing modular engineering communication curricula forseveral Civil Engineering courses. Before coming to UMN, he was at NC State University developing and teachingdiscipline-aware technical communication for Chemical Engineering. He can be reached at kmiec004

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

policy;those who wish to teach at non-research colleges and universities; engineering students with astrong interest in educational research; corporate training management; and universityassessment staff or research faculty. Another sector of our target Ph.D. audience may includepeople with interest in a teaching career who hold BS and/or MS degrees in engineering withgood industrial experience, but who do not wish to pursue a Ph.D. degree in their traditionalengineering discipline. This degree is primarily designed with the following issues in mind: i) alarge increase in requirements for assessment of academic programs and difficulty in findingfaculty with that expertise and ii) shortage of quantitative academic assessment professionals

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Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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Jeffrey LaCombe; James Detweiler; Daniel Loranz; Eric Wang

primer for students desiring to becomeinvolved in their larger-scale CubeSat program (both CanSat and CubeSat are described below).According to the National Space Grant Student Satellite Program [1]: Across America, Space Grant students are learning from the ground up-- Page 10.1133.1 literally—by designing, building, flying and operating a broad range of spacecraft. Students come with an interest in Space, but with different levels of Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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Brij Agrawal

Spacecraft Design Program at the Naval Postgraduate School Brij N. Agrawal Distinguished Professor Department of Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93943 agrawal@nps.eduABSTRACT This paper presents a review of the spacecraft design program at the Naval PostgraduateSchool. This program is part of the space systems engineering curriculum. In this curriculum, thestudents take at least one course for each spacecraft subsystem. The spacecraft design is a threecourse design sequence. The first

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jason Wolter

Development of an Acquisition Management Course Jason Wolter, M.S., Roger Burk, Ph.D., Bob Foote, Ph.D., Niki Goerger, Ph.D., Willie McFadden, Ph.D., Timothy E. Trainor, Ph.D. United States Military AcademyAbstract In response to external feedback and a continual desire to increase the diversity andapplicability of the curriculum for our students, the Engineering Management Program at USMAwill offer an acquisition systems management course for the first time in Spring 2005. Thiscourse will provide graduates with relevant skills related to the acquisition goals of strategicallymanaging, planning, and implementing acquisition programs and reforms. Topics will

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Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Robertson

Session 1147 Managing the Industry-Academic Interface John Robertson, Jon Weihmeir Electronics & Computer Engineering Technology Department, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ/ Freescale Semiconductor, Chandler, AZAbstractThe microelectronics technology program at ASU has been totally restructured over thepast three years with substantial industry input. As a result, we have been able to executea strategy that aligns the capabilities of graduates with the workplace skills required byour supporting companies. Using that benchmark, a modular program has

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Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

Engaging Students in Civil Infrastructure Management Adjo Amekudzi, Sue McNeil, Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt Georgia Institute of Technology / University of Illinois at Chicago / Lafayette CollegeIntroductionMost civil engineering courses focus on design of new facilities rather than on management ofexisting facilities. However, existing facilities need the attention of civil engineers who aretrained with lifecycle concepts and techniques for managing infrastructure, as evidenced in partby the D+ grade awarded to U.S. infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers’2003 Report Card on America’s Infrastructure1. Interest in infrastructure management

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

engineering design as well as how to function moreeffectively in industry design environments. Material related to theories of student learning andappropriate pedagogical approaches to teaching an open-ended subject such as engineeringdesign are included. Having successfully completed this course, students are able to describeengineering design process and compare and contrast design across engineering and non-engineering disciplines. Students develop a syllabus for a design course in their own discipline,including assignments and projects. They also learn about effective project management and areable to characterize and demonstrate effective means of teaching/coaching/mentoring of variousdesign projects. As future educators, students are able to

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Warren Myers; Jack Byrd; Robin Hensel

Designing a Freshman Program to Support Student Success Robin A. M. Hensel, Jack Byrd, Jr., Warren R. Myers, College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia UniversityAbstractThe WVU College of Engineering and Mineral Resources has implemented severalprogrammatic changes to the freshman year experience in an effort to support students in theirattempt to attain the College’s high academic standards and to improve retention of studentsfrom the freshman to the sophomore year. This paper describes several of these programmodifications, presents an analysis of the data indicating the results of these changes, and makesrecommendations for further study.The changes made to the freshman program

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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JoDell Steuver; Donna Evanecky

products. Othersources of fad promotion include business schools, consulting firms, and mass-mediaproductions.4Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s successes in Japan finally garnered American interest in his theories.The success of the Japanese economic recovery after World War II and the change in the qualityof Japanese-produced goods caught Americans’ eyes. While Americans enjoyed a cushy marginin trade in the early 1950’s, it soon became discernable that Japanese goods were disturbingAmerican markets. Engineering management became part of the quality revolution whenJapanese parts and products began to cut into the U.S. trade balance. By 1980, U.S. automotivemakers were embarrassed by the NBC documentary If Japan Can, Why Can’t We? Deming wasinsistent that

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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nancy Fouad; Tarek Rizk; Fouad Fouad

background to act as owner’s representatives or to supervise thework of contractors. Courses taken towards the certificate can also apply to the master’s degreein civil engineering. Graduate students who are interested in pursuing a career in construction orwho would like to learn more about the construction industry can also enroll for the certificate.This describes the construction focus in the civil engineering curriculum that was developed atUAB to produce graduates who are better prepared to tackle the challenges of the future.Highlights of a newly developed construction engineering management (CEM) certificateincluding the coursework and logistics of the program are presented.The Importance of the Civil Engineer in ConstructionCivil

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sven Hvid Nielsen

presented in the frame ofMechanical Engineering and Industrial Design curriculums. Innovation as suggested is the creationof a new product-market-technology-organisation-combination (PMTO-combination) consisting ofthree key elements: 1) Innovation is a process and should be managed as such, 2) the result is atleast one new element in the company’s PMTO-combinations. 3) The extent to which theinnovation is new may range from incremental, small step innovation, through synthetic innovation,i.e. the creative recombination of existing techniques, ideas or methods, to discontinuous, radical,quantum-leap innovation. Often new means: new, somewhere on the continuum. The company inthis case - a very small business - wanted just an aluminium

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Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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R. Keith Stanfill

Paper 2005-2287 Expectation Management: Lessons Learned in Establishing a Start-up Multidisciplinary Technology Entrepreneurship Program* R. Keith Stanfill University of Florida Department of Industrial and Systems EngineeringAbstractThe University of Florida Integrated Technology Ventures (ITV) program is designed to provideengineering and business students with an intense, immersive entrepreneurial experience.Participating students learn the entrepreneurial process as members of a virtual company led by aserial entrepreneur who acts as a volunteer CEO. The company is composed of a CEO

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zbigniew Pasek

Winston8. Baker, E. H, Paulson, S. K., 2004, Experiential Exercises in Organization Theory and Design, Thomson Learning9. Films for Humanities & Science website http://www.films.com10. Oakley, B., R.M. Felder, R. Brent, and I. Elhajj. "Turning Student Groups into Effective Teams." Journal of Student Centered Learning. Vol. 2, No. 1, 2004, pp 9 –34BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONZBIGNIEW J. PASEKDr. Pasek is the operations manager and an assistant research scientist in the NSF Engineering Research Center forReconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, College of Engineering, University of Michigan. His research interestsinclude systems engineering, manufacturing automation, global product development, and informal technologyeducation. He is a member of

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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

Teams Proceedings, Thomas Walter Center for Technology Management, 1996.[2] Bowen, D.M., Site visit to Colorado University, 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boulder, Colorado, November, 2003.[3] Bowen, D.M, Alvaro, M., Mejia, D., and Saffi, M., “Team Skills of Engineers – Do We Teach What Industry Wants?,” International Conference on Engineering Education, Gainesville, Florida, October, 2004.[4] Caenepeel, C., and Wyrick, C., “Strategies for Successful Interdisciplinary Projects: A California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Perspective,” International Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 391-395, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2001.[5] Hirsch, P.L., et.al., “Engineering Design and Communication: The Case for

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrew Vavreck; Rebecca Strzelec

applicationsthroughout the program and across the campus, as the centerpiece of a unique partnershipbetween art and engineering faculty. “CAD for Artists”, an introductory level art course thatincludes the use of the FDM machine, is taught concurrently with the capstone design course.Ongoing faculty research in conjunction with the FDM machine provides invaluable “real world”models for the students. In addition to the use of rapid prototyping technology amongundergraduate students, and for faculty research, outreach occurs each spring in the form of aprogram for several dozen middle school (11-13 year old) female students from south-centralPennsylvania, with an interest in science and engineering. In teams, the students design their ownconsumer product and use