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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Tamer Ceylan

. Normally the evaluator focuses on a predetermined set of issues based on the program self study reviewed prior to the visit and on previous communication. Normally the program evaluator schedules a short meeting with each faculty member and asks several questions. The evaluator might speak casually; however, the evaluator tries to obtain information on predetermined key issues. It would be helpful if more experienced faculty members in the program shared their experience from previous visits with new faculty members. The exact nature of the questions depends on the personality of the evaluator and the focus chosen before the visit based on the self study. For this reason, the following list of possible questions from an evaluator is provided only

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K. R. Haapala; M. J. Hutchins; J. L. Rivera; V. Kumar; A. R. Clarke; T. D. Eatmon; R. A. Harris; M. H. Durfee; J. R. Mihelcic; D. R. Shonnard; J. W. Sutherland

highlight fundamentaldifferences in attitudes towards societal issues, environmental concerns, and industrial activities.Rarely do the discussions promote convergence on approaches or key concepts. To harmonize Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference 2the views and attitudes of disparate fields across campus, establish a common working language,and nurture the development of science base in support of sustainability, faculty, staff, andstudents at Michigan Technological University (MTU) formed the Sustainable Futures Institute(SFI) in 2003. SFI education, research, and outreach activities consider both the policy

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Matthew Roberts; Philip Parker; Christina Curras; Michael Penn; Max Anderson

the current emphasis on creating new in-frastructure. Unfortunately, the influence of civil engineers in infrastructure management andplanning has been waning in recent years.2To better prepare our students to participate in the planning and management of public works,we (the faculty of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at UWP) are revamp-ing our curriculum with the goal of educating “citizen engineers.”3 Citizen engineers will bemore in tune with the needs of their communities and of the nation, and will be able to effec-tively address the technical and non-technical issues related to the infrastructure. To meet thisend, we are infusing an infrastructure theme throughout the curriculum. The revised curricu-lum will include

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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David A. Rogers

of manydifferent departments or colleges, it is not unusual for it to be a course that has had the specialinterest of the dean of a college of engineering. As such it might have been taught with thecourse prefix of General Engineering or Engineering. At some institutions the purpose mighthave been to involve engineering faculty in social issues that went beyond their narrow technicalinterests. Today this approach or concern is less likely to be the case since the course hasdeveloped a life of its own and has, today, broad acceptance in the academic world. This generation’s technology and society course explores the place technology has in societyand the various viewpoints held concerning technology. A course might emphasize the benefitsa

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Michael A. Rother

to their choices. However, I give them a limited amount of time to make theircontacts after November, since they have already been given ample opportunity. Their otheroption is to do an academic project with at least one reactor and two separation steps. In the lastthree years, no group has chosen an academic project, although the Verso/NRRI project in 2006-7 (see Table 1) amounted to an academic project when the group and company made the mutualdecision to stop the originally suggested work on bleach-water treatment. The issue of why it is difficult to get new industrial sponsors remains – and whether abetter solicitation method exists. As discussed above, the difficulty seems to reflect an attitudeon the part of industry that the

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Kurtis G. Paterson

memorable for the students. Considerable resource challengesmust be confronted by the faculty and solved by university administrators before thiseducational approach can be widely adopted, unfortunately. Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference.1. BackgroundIn Fall 2005 one in six college students took at least one course online. That’s 850,000more students than the year before, an increase of 40%.1 This rapid growth is beingfacilitated by easier to use computer-based learning content creation tools, and a growingcomfort of using information appliances.Podcasting, a technology that lets anyone create and distribute radio- or TV-like showsover the Internet, is growing at an exponential rate. Current estimates

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Chinweike I. Eseonu

1 Managing without authority; the effect of leadership style on team dynamics and leadership strategies for the engineering manager Chinweike I. Eseonu Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth Introduction The practicum in engineering management is a new course run by the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering faculty at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Four Master of Science in engineering management (MSEM) candidates managed two senior design teams tasked with the performance of an “industry-style

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Richard Smith

from faculty members with industry experience in informationsecurity with input from former students and from computing professionals in the USTcommunity to produce a curriculum for a Bachelor of Arts in Information Security. Theprincipal constraints were to 1) fulfill IACEP certification requirements and 2) bepractical to implement within the existing computer science programs at UST.If we compare the UST program with Whitman and Mattord’s (2004) categorization ofinformation security programs, the new program is essentially a Scenario 2 technicalprogram. Two courses form the centerpiece of a program that focuses on technicalsecurity topics. In addition to these courses, several important elements of the IACEPrequirements are fulfilled by