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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

catalog entrymade available alternate spring semesters to remote, and on campus graduate students in theManufacturing Systems Engineering MS Program and other programs in engineering andbusiness. Examples of student projects, course philosophy and management strategies aredescribed.IntroductionThere is an increasing focus on conservation. Looking in the rear view mirror we may posit thatthe Industrial Revolution left us with many ills, brown fields together with social and workforcedeprivations. Now “Green” is coming to the fore accompanied by “Sustainability.” Are ideas ofthis nature germane for consideration in an engineering curriculum, or are they obsolescent butfashionable passing fads?In fact, a review of economics history reveals many

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gary P. Halada

)which respond to particular outcomes in a measurable sense.Introduction to the broader issues in comprehensive engineering education is often a dauntingtask, falling outside the expertise (and in many cases interests) of engineering faculty. Thedifficulty in meeting these “professional skills” area in engineering education has been cited asbeing particularly challenging and requiring new approaches (for both teaching and assessment).4Shuman, et al., categorize these skills as “process oriented” (communication, teamwork andethics) and “awareness oriented” (global and societal context, knowledge of contemporary issues,life-long learning). A number of different approaches have been taken to enhance the learning ofthese skills in undergraduate

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Erick Froede; David Saint John; Richard Devon

codify what we know about open (source) design with a view to using thisknowledge to develop and evolve new courses and projects with these methods. We take opensource to be a transparent, collaborative process for developing public knowledge that is free atthe source, whether for a design or otherwise. The most well known examples are Linux andWikipedia, but there are many enterprises that qualify such as the Open Source Initiative, theElectronic Frontier Foundation, YouTube, Scribd, Creative Commons and Firefox. Here we willtell the story around the case of Linux.1The paper maps the philosophy and concepts of Open Design,2 linked historically to a distinctsocial philosophy frequently dubbed libertarian in the United States but which has equal