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Ryan G. Rosandich

level necessary to maintain the competitive position of the United States in the world. Graduates lack the professional skills (project management, business practices, communication ability, and multicultural awareness) to be effective engineers. Graduates do not fully appreciate the impact of engineering decisions on environmental and/or economic sustainability.The academic perspectiveMechanical engineering educators were also heavily involved in the information-gatheringprocess used by the Vision 2030 Task Force. The task force assembled the following statementson the weaknesses of current mechanical engineering programs based on the informationgathered from this group. Proceedings of the 2011

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R. Nelson; J. Bumblis; C. Liu; A. Turkmen; N. Zhou; D. Olson; R. Rothaupt

futuremanagement career track. Over the years, the industrial technology program evolved into the present-day Engineering Technology program, which currently has an enrollment of approximately 400students spread out over six concentration areas in electrical, facilities, mechanical design,nanotechnology, plastics, and production operations. In 1995 Stout received permission to offer theManufacturing Engineering Degree. With an enrollment of 230 students, this program is currently thelargest ABET-EAC accredited undergraduate program in manufacturing engineering in North America.Although the Engineering Technology3 (ET) and Manufacturing Engineering4 (MFGE) programs bothinclude aspects related to electrical / computer engineering (e.g., circuits

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Lisa Anneberg; Jiao luo; Suyun Luo

. The initial phase of the collaboration has been a certificate program for SUESstudents. The SUES students receive a certificate recognizing their achievement of five courses that aretaught by LTU American professors, who teach the courses in English in Shanghai. The SUES studentundergraduate programs are the Automotive Engineering BS degree and the Electrical Engineering BSdegree. The courses include Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Electrical Engineering, QualityControl, Automotive Microcontrollers, VLSI design, Project Management, Engineering Cost Analysis,Electrical Machines, and Control Systems. This program is ongoing and has been since 2005. Eachyear, continuous improvements and enhancements are made to the program

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Eric Musselman

Ci i E gi ee i g a he U i e i f Mi e a Duluth is to prepare graduates for professional practice and graduate study through a program firmly based in strong technical skills, fundamentals, hands-on learning, sustainability, and professionalism. To meet this goal, the Civil Engineering curriculum vertically integrates oral and written communication, contemporary issues, successful teamwork, significant design experience, and the skills needed to engage in life- g ea i g i ge e a ed ca i a d e gi ee i g c e. 2 Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section ConferenceThe projects that will be discussed within this paper both incorporate many of the principlesdescribed in this mission statement

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James Allert

—Engineering education, ABET, accreditation.The challenge of ABET accreditation is one that no engineering program can take lightly. Itinvolves the collection of direct measures from every course in a program and from a variety ofother sources to document and provide evidence to support the claim that course and programobjectives are being met. The data stream feeding into this process comes from multiple sources,in multiple formats and must somehow be managed and made sense of. Ultimately it must becondensed down into meaningful summaries of objectives, outcomes and performance criteriasatisfaction at both the course and program level. The stream of data does not end with program accreditation either. Accreditation involvesongoing monitoring of

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William R. Peterson; Guanghsu Chang

Engineering Economics Course without TablesTeaching and engineering economic course without the use of tables requires that certain issuesbe addressed in course preparation and design. These issues include: 1. If the students are to eventually take the FE exam, how will they be prepared to use tables to address the problems they will need to do on it? 2. How will the students access the spreadsheets in the classroom? 3. What text will be used since the texts use the tables? 4. What are the outcomes desired?In the course we designed (and in an interim course in which project management andengineering economics were combined) we addressed these issues as follows.The environment in which our course was offered was in an engineering

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Neil J. Hutzler; Joan S. Chadde; David Heil; Mia Jackson

Family Engineering for Elementary-Aged Children and Their Parents Neil J. Hutzler1, Joan S. Chadde1, David Heil2, and Mia Jackson2 1 Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 2Foundation for Family Science and Engineering, Portland, ORAbstractThe goal of the Family Engineering program is to engage, inspire, and encourage elementarystudents to learn about and consider careers in engineering and science through hands-onactivities with their parents at Family Engineering events. This program is designed toaddress the United States need for an increased number, and greater diversit , of studentsskilled in math, science, technology, and engineering. The Family Engineering program for6-12 year-olds and

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Christa James-Byrnes; Mark Holdhusen

course would be titled EngineeringFundamentals (EGR 105). It would be a 3-credit course where 1/3 of the course would bedevoted to an introduction to computer science and computer applications, specificallyspreadsheets. The course description is as follows: This course is designed to equip engineering students with the necessary tools and background information to prepare them to be successful engineering students as well as a successful practicing engineer. Topics covered in this course include project management, team work, technical writing, working with data and using spreadsheets, creating presentations, engineering design, and a thorough understanding of the engineering profession.The EGR 105 course was

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Waddah Akili

The Role of Adjunct Faculty in Undergraduate Engineering Education: A Cohort Needed to Enhance the Practice Waddah Akili Geotechnical EngineeringAbstract:This paper examines the status quo of adjunct faculty in engineering institutions and argues thatadjuncts could enrich an academic engineering program by bringing in their practical experienceand by introducing relevant applications and design venues to the classroom. Adjunct faculty doalso help in setting up linkages with the industrial sector, which often leads to: employmentopportunities for graduates, co-op activities, and potential development of collaborative researchprograms. Nevertheless

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Kristine Guzak; Kurt Paterson

In someinstitutions, this service involvement has fueled the creation of courses and programs thatoffer Learning Through Service (LTS) which seems to attract a wider range of students toengineering. A growing body of evidence advocates that LTS may provide significantadvantages to engineering students, but studies to date are quite limited.11-15 Asuniversities play catch-up to these trends, a fundamental question remains unexplored:What motivates engineering students to be engaged in service?2. ObjectivesThis paper presents findings to the above question of student motivation from two LTSprograms at Michigan Technological University: (1) iDesign, an international senior-level capstone design program, and (2) Peace Corp Master s International

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Seraphin C. Abou

tendency of general management tothink in terms of more formal safety related organizational training and global safety trainingprograms to prepare personnel to deal with multidisciplinary nature of mode n i kmanagement. Unfortunately, existing safety training programs along with the safetyprofessionals who conduct them, are often not prepared to deal with this global organizationapproach to safety. Systematic safety training reflects the major theme of this paper. Our desireis to maintain a position of organizational credibility and to implement safety training programsin the modern management environment. Therefore, in the proposed method, an implicitemphasis is placed on the need for formality and rigor in designing and conducting training

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Robert G. Feyen; Todd W. Loushine

i (ee a he ASP e a ) ad a ced(relevant to the CSP exam) and listed the knowledge items along with an additional 298 skillitems under a hierarchy of domains (e.g., risk management) and tasks (e.g., design effectivemethods to reduce or eliminate risk ). Relevant to this initiative, the BCSP also undertook ageneralized curriculum mapping effort, linking the skills and knowledge items with 15 bjec 8 a e d ai typically taught in a safety program (see example for Measurement andMonitoring in Figure 1) but provided no guidance on how to adapt this generalized curriculummap to a specific program. However, in a separate publication, one of the individuals involvedin the

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Byron Garry

and responsibilities, including a understanding understanding respect for diversity (j) a knowledge of the impact of engineering technology solutions in a societal and global contextFigure 8 ABET Professional Skills Rubrics Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section ConferenceThe Design Review is an important professional fact of life in the field of engineering andengineering technology practice. In our program we use it when there is a little less than twomonths to finish the project. The students are given this rubric to see, Figure 9, to help themprepare the appropriate material for the review. The review is done by a panel of faculty,including the Capstone course

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Marian S. Stachowicz

formal lectures were taught. However the students received an intensive reviewcovering the topics of the 68HC12 microcontroller [6], sensors, and twelve hours lectures and three labsrelated to Fuzzy Logic Control [5]. During this workshop, the students worked in small groups and wererequired to design, build and program the controller with intelligent behaviors using fuzzy logic. TheProblem Based Learning (PBL) principles [1], [2], [3] were applied. As results, students obtainedspecific technical knowledge, got group work and managing the project experience as well as presentingthe poster and final report. It improved also their communication skills.Fuzzy Logic has emerged as a practical alternative that provides a convenient method toimplement

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A. Hoxie

commonconditions such as thermal resistance of different types of soil and U-values of insulating materials thusproviding a manageable level of knowledge and effort required for building and site data. After all therequired data is en e ed he f a e e ifica i age a i e he hea i g a d i a e e grequirements to determine whether the design meets Passive House standards for certification.Applicability to Mechanical Engineering StudentsArchitects and builders are the primary people currently being certified as Passive House consultants.When paired on a Passive House project with a mechanical engineer there is often conflict over thesizing and type of mechanical systems to be installed The architect or builder is not trained in heattransfer and

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M. S. Stachowicz; L. B. Kofoed

ence .This paper is dealing with the pedagogical principles of Aalborg University PBL model and how it canbe used as a pedagogical approach for a workshop where engineering students are completing a firstsemester project as well as a senior design project. The Design Workshop at the ECE program,University of Minnesota, Duluth [1] is used as one case and a first year workshop at the Medialogyprogram, Aalborg University is the second case [6]. The focus will be at the process competenciesconnected to PBL in the workshops and the evaluation methods. Finally evaluation methods arediscussed.Problem Based Learning and the theoretical background for teaching and learning.Problem Based learning (PBL) is very often an abbreviation for both Problem

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Waddah Akili

) Pedagogical studieshave demonstrated that the case study/ case history approach to engineering education provides agreater understanding of the multifaceted nature of civil engineering.(7,8) They can be used tosimulate a variety of learning protocols such as: design and analysis experiences,interdisciplinary issues and concerns, costs, hazards, owner preferences, and compliance withstandards and guidelines. Cases, by and large, describe situations, projects, problems, decisions,etc., and are primarily derived from actual experience, and do reflect thoughts, outlook, andconcerns of: managers, professionals, regulatory agencies, communities, and owners. Cases arealso widely used in other disciplines such as: education, medicine, and law. Cases

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P. B. Ravikumar

CIVILENG 4930-01 Civil and Environmental 14 Engineering Design Project3 BILSA AGINDUS 4500-01,02 Agribusiness Management 114 LAE THEATER 1130-01 Introduction to the Theatre 65 LAE THEATER 1130-02 Introduction to the Theatre 7As can be seen in the above table, all sections of each particular course have been combined in the studyexcept for the two sections of the Introduction to the Theatre class. This was because it was felt that moreinsight can be gained by treating these two sections separately due to the fact that

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Lisa Watrous; Mari Buche; Susan Bagley; Jason Keith

School of Chemical Engineering Dr. Keith's research uses mathematical modeling to improve air quality and energy efficiency through the applied fields of reactor design and alternative energy. He has also spent time studying, evaluating and implementing faculty development programs. Prior to joining Mississippi State University, Keith was a faculty member at Michigan Technological University, most recently as an associate professor. Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section Conference