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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Erick Froede; David Saint John; Richard Devon

riding and highly skewed contributions.”8In The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Raymond outlines the basic tenets of open design as evident in theLinux experience with no small sense of wonderment: “Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago (1991) that a world- class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand developers scattered all over the planet, connected only by the tenuous strands of the Internet? ... Linux overturned much of what I thought I knew. I had been preaching the Unix gospel of small tools, rapid prototyping and evolutionary programming for years. But I also believed there was a certain critical complexity above

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Dean C. Millar

provides one academic credit for pre-employment classes withinstruction on how to get the right job, culminated by presentations from experts from industryand academia who enlighten students on essential career success subjects. Dean Millar has taughtthe course for 17 years and has just written a textbook for ECI, Ready for Takeoff! -- A WinningProcess for Launching Your Engineering Career, published by Prentice Hall/Pearson in August,2010. This textbook will be used in future ECI classes. The following syllabus is offered in thispaper as a model for supplementing technical coursework with logical steps for getting a rightjob/career launch.4 Pre-employment Subjects-- can be taught in spring or fall semester. Some subjects can becombined into one

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jaime D. Alava; Keith M. Gardiner

their professional career. The fundamentals and theory of project Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova Universitymanagement is discussed in class, which can be applied in the lab sessions and in future projectwork. Some lecture sessions are reserved to explain the limitless opportunities available forengineers at Lehigh University. Programs such as Integrated Product Development (IPD),supporting entrepreneurship, and working with Fortune 500 companies in the Co-Op program,are only some things that make a Lehigh engineering education unique. Many lectures focus onthe programs of the engineering departments. Representatives from the seven departmentsprovide information on topics such as curriculum, salary