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Steven L. Cohen; Dennis P. Slevin; David I. Cleland; Kim LaScola Needy; Heather Nachtmann

Session 3242A Proposed Model for the Incorporation of the Enterprise Governance Topic in an Engineering Management Curriculum Kim LaScola Needy1, David I. Cleland1, Dennis P. Slevin2, Heather Nachtmann1, Steven L. Cohen1 University of Pittsburgh Department of Industrial Engineering1 1048 Benedum Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15261 412-624-9830 (phone); 412-624-9831 (fax) Katz Graduate School of Business2

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Duane D. Dunlap; Niaz Latif, Purdue University - Calumet

AC 2000-271: A Graduate Course on Computer Applications in TechnologyDuane D. Dunlap,Niaz Latif, Purdue University - Calumet Page 5.25.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2000 Session 3247 A Graduate Course on Computer Applications in Technology Dr. Niaz Latif, Dr. Duane D. Dunlap Purdue University, West Lafayette, IndianaAbstract This paper discusses a course on Computer Applications as a part of a graduatecurriculum in Technology. Purdue University and Northern Kentucky University developed andoffered two

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William R. Hendee; Steven R Krogull; Jay R. Goldberg

experienced engineers to update their technical skills.Medical device companies, hospitals, and healthcare consulting firms need engineers withtechnical and business training, and an understanding of the economic and regulatory aspects ofhealthcare delivery. In order to develop, promote, and retain their key employees, they need toinvest in employee training and education.Most undergraduate biomedical engineering curricula include courses in math, physics,chemistry, physiology, design, and the engineering sciences. Biomedical engineers working inclinical or industrial environments have some unique additional educational needs that are notaddressed by most undergraduate or graduate biomedical engineering programs. The Healthcare

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Graciela Munoz Padilla; Francisco J. Gonzalez

for the Faculty of Engineering, its existence waswell known after the first module, but, unfortunately, engineering educators became a minority.Figs. 2 shows the percentage of graduated participants in the 5 complete generations to date. Fig. 2 Engineering Participation 30 25 20 Number of Participants 15 Engineering 10 Total 5 0 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

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Karan Watson; Jeffrey Froyd

Welch, CEO of General Electric, "If you can't operate as a team player, nomatter how valuable you've been, you really don't belong at GE."Recognizing the importance of teams to industry, engineering education has begun tostress this desired student outcome. 2,3,4,15,29 The engineering accreditation criteria,EC2000, now state that engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have,among other attributes, "an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.1While it is important to develop the team skills of engineering students so that they canmake the transition from academe to the workplace smoothly, developing these skillswhile still in college also increases students' potential for improved academicperformance. This is the case

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Yann Guezennec; Stephen Yurkovich; Gregory Washington; Giorgio Rizzoni

Session 2255 The OSU-GATE program: development of a graduate program in hybrid vehicle drivetrains and control systems at The Ohio State University Yann Guezennec, Giorgio Rizzoni, Gregory Washington, Stephen Yurkovich, The Ohio State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the development of a Department of Energy DOE) Graduate AutomotiveTechnology Education (GATE) Center focusing on Hybrid Drivetrains and Control Systems.A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) combines an electric drivetrain with an auxiliary power unit(APU). The APU is

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William Peterson

continue their education locally and in as seamless amanner as possible.WMU’s presence in Muskegon is the Muskegon Regional Center (MRC), a branch of WMU’sDivision of Continuing Education. The MRC offers courses toward a bachelor's degree inengineering technology, a BA/BS in General University Studies, several masters’ degreeprograms (including engineering management and industrial engineering), and a teachingcertificate program. These WMU programs are primarily for part-time evening students. TheMRC uses regular WMU faculty members, who commute from Kalamazoo one night a week, aswell as local part-time instructors. Only one WMU faculty member (a tenured professor from theDepartment of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering teaching courses in

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T. Michael Keinath; Sara B. Soderstrom; Christian D. Lorenz; Trevor Harding

of the challenges of the fellowship program ispublicizing the application process to both graduate students and faculty. Another challenge isfinancially sustaining the fellowship. We are considering both applying for grants and solicitingcorporate sponsorship to fund this program in the future.5 ConclusionsOver the course of the past year, the ETDP Project has proven to be integral in supportingteaching innovation and scholarship among GSIs. By inviting renowned educators to speakabout topics such as cooperative learning, multiculturalism in the classroom, and assessmenttechniques, we have provided a forum for graduate students, faculty, and administrators to learnabout and discuss these educational issues. After the “Enhancing

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Kirk H. Schulz; Noel Schulz

, but at Michigan Tech,these discussions had usually occurred during the senior year in selected classes or as part of anundergraduate engineering society meeting. Indeed, there is little if any direction given tofreshman and sophomore engineering students that graduate school can be an integral part of aclearly defined career path with an emphasis on careers in research and development.One of the primary challenges in having students consider graduate school as part of their career Page 5.317.1path is to dispel many of the myths about graduate school that exist in many students’ minds.Students typically do not fully understand topics related to

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Katherine A. Liapi

anumber of geometric topics, which are inherently related to the architectural engineeringeducation, and which I have integrated into my instruction of the ArchitecturalEngineering courses at the University of Texas at Austin.IntroductionGeometry plays a central role in the design of buildings in the broad sense (Motro,1992). The abstractions, definitions, and symbols of the world of solid geometry havealways been among the essential mental tools required for the invention, discovery andmodeling of buildings and spatial structures in general.(Ristine,1997). Complex andsophisticated knowledge and use of geometry underlies the conception, design andconstruction of the most significant achievements in the history of buildings: Japanesejoinery

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Joseph D. Torres; Tom Cummings

Session 2570 Minority Education in Engineering, Mathematics and Science Joseph D. Torres and Tom Cummings School of Engineering University of New MexicoAbstractThe University of New Mexico (UNM) Minority Engineering, Mathematics and Science(MEMS) Program is a uniquely comprehensive program designed to increase the number ofminority students enrolling, graduating and pursuing careers in Engineering, Mathematics andScience (EMS) by: 1) improving retention rates of students in EMS disciplines, 2) fosteringrelations with industry and the technical community to

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Bruno Ramond; Abir Z. Qamhiyah

engineering education experiment titled “Computer-Aided Design Across Universities” (CADAU) between the mechanical engineering (ME)department at Iowa State University (ISU) and the mechanical systems (MS) department at theUniversite de Technologie de Compiegne (UTC). The objective of the experiment is thedevelopment and assessment of an international collaborative infrastructure between the twodepartments at the undergraduate level.1. IntroductionEvery four years, ASME sponsors the Mechanical Engineering Education conference. The themeof the conference depends on the general consensus regarding the critical issues facingengineering education in the following years. The theme for the 1997 conference, which washeld on March 19-21 in San Diego

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

available forcovering costs of studying – to be returned during 10 years after graduation. In Italy, thetuition fees have been generally increased. In Norway, Spain and Sweden, the level ofsubsidies, transferred from the State budget to the IHEs, has been related to the effects ofeducation (e.g. to the number of graduates).The first symptoms of a severe financial crisis of higher education appeared in Poland in theearly 90’s. As a response, based on the analysis of the world situation, the idea of partialpayment for studies, coupled with individually-granted loans available to all interestedstudents, was put forward. It was being justified in numerous discussions in the followingway:! it should increase availability of higher education by

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Noellette Conway-Schempf; H. Scott Matthews; Francis C. McMichael; Chris Hendrickson

are available on the world wide web at:http://www.ce.cmu.edu/GreenDesign/education.html. The course materials are suitable for use inupper level undergraduate and graduate level engineering programs. A number of themodules/case studies are also suitable for use in business curricula or in technologyoriented courses in public policy and history. The materials were developed fromindustry-oriented research in green design and pollution prevention conducted atCarnegie Mellon University over the past 5 years. Topics highlighted in the educationalmaterials include: 1) green design, 2) life cycle assesment, 3) full cost accounting, 4)design for disassembly and recycling aids, 5) recycling and waste management, and 6)material flows and mass balance

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Gouranga Banik

Marietta, GA 30060 Introduction Implementation of safety and health programs on construction projects requires a well-educated workforce that is knowledgeable in safety requirements and procedures. Suckarieh andDiamantes (1995) indicated that time dedicated to construction safety training is not adequate.He mentioned that formal training could have a significant impact on students’ performance assoon as they graduate. Coble et al. (1998) mentioned that safety education for the BuildingConstruction Management students has not often been a high priority in US universities. J.Christian (1999) observed that teaching a class like safety is sometimes difficult as the studentsregard its regulatory nature as is "boring". The need for

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Scott Johnson; Barbara Nepote; Shirley J. Dyke; Juan Caicedo; Euridice Oware

Session 1426 Earthquake Engineering Education: A Modern Approach S.J. Dyke, B. Nepote, J.M. Caicedo, S.M. Johnson and E.A. Oware Washington University in St. LouisAbstractCurrently civil engineering undergraduates have limited opportunities to gain an understanding ofthe principles of structural dynamics or exposure to the innovative new structural control meth-ods. “Hands-on” experiments seem to be particularly effective for teaching basic concepts indynamics and control. The objective of the educational program described in this paper is to sys-tematically integrate these topics into the undergraduate

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Shirley J. Dyke; Phillip Gould; Kevin Truman

Session 1526 Current Directions in Earthquake Engineering Education: The University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables S.J. Dyke, K.Z. Truman, and P.L. Gould Washington University in St. LouisAbstractAlthough considering the dynamic behavior of buildings and bridges is of fundamental impor-tance in modern structural design, undergraduate civil engineering students seldom develop anunderstanding of the way that these structures respond when acted upon by time-varying loads.Because this topic is of great social and economical importance, there is a need in current

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Willam G. Curley; Sohail Anwar

providing professionaltraining to their employees. Many organizations are addressing the professional training needs oftheir members by joining forces with academia.Through partnership with regional business and industry, Penn State Altoona Office ofContinuing & Distance Education provides customized services such as:1. Training needs assessment2. Job profiling3. Organization assessmentPrograms that can be customized to meet the training needs of a customer include:• Supervisory management and leadership development• Front-line employee skill development• Quality and process improvement• Computer/information technology training• Programs on selected topics in engineering• Graduate course work for educators• Training for healthcare

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

education.One of the greatest challenges that most students face during the course of their higher educationis relating classroom topics to real-life situations. Students in the first circuit analysis course, forexample, may be engaged in solving series and parallel circuits that are rarely linked to realindustry-based problems. In addition, team approach and active learning are not widely used intechnical programs in the higher education. For this reason, many engineering and engineeringtechnology students often find themselves frustrated and sometimes loose interest in pursuingtheir degrees in technical fields. Furthermore, students who finish their education may not bewell prepared to face industrial challenges such as working in multi-disciplinary

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Pannapa Herabat; Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

graduate (or advanced undergraduate) classes. Therefore, thesecourses in civil infrastructure systems have evolved in parallel with research in the area. One ofthe basic premises of our civil infrastructure research is that many of the same principles apply tobridges, railroad track, pavement, roofs, buildings, and other types of infrastructure. This hasproved to be an excellent foundation for the course in civil infrastructure systems. Topics, tools,and techniques are not characterized by the application area but by the process.A Retrospective Look at Civil Systems EducationCivil systems education has its roots in urban engineering and pavement management courses.In the preface to his book Infrastructure Engineering and Management, Neil Grigg

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Z. Yuan; T. Tang; Pratibha Gopalam; N. Liu; Chu R. Wie; Alexander N. Cartwright

applications of these theoretical and educational materials. In this way, thedeveloped web-based courseware provides excellent engineering educational value by providinginstructors and students with a context for the specific topic. That is, the consumer productapproach effectively provides a link from the study of microelectronics and photonics to realworld applications.A user of the courseware enters at a high level view of an everyday real-world consumerproduct, selects components of that product to investigate, and can interact with the Java appletsthat describe the details of the operation of the selected component. Moreover, the developedweb-based courseware allows the user to choose the level of educational materials that he or shewishes to

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Paul I-Hai Lin; Hal Broberg

titles: Computer Engineers: Computer Systems Hardware Analyst Computer Support Specialists: User Support Analyst Supervisor, User Support Analyst, Microcomputer Support Specialist All Other Computer Scientists: Supervisor of Network Control Operators, Data Communications Analyst, Network Control Operator, Technical Support SpecialistOther jobs for which graduates will compete are in the fields of industrial controlnetworking, programmable logic controller networking, network administration, networkservicing, network upgrading.III. Description of the CurriculumThe curriculum described in Table 3 below provides a technical education in the area ofcomputer networking. The core courses provide the student

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Jagannathan Sankar; Devdas M. Pai

novel engineeredcomposites affords undergraduate students a unique opportunity to be exposed tothe state-of-the-art in terms of the applications and science of non-metallicmaterials. The growth of the research programs led recently to the formation of anNSF CREST Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS).In the past two years, CAMSS has generated considerable infrastructural supportfor the development of undergraduate curricular content and for the training of aqualified pool of potential graduate students and researchers in materials scienceand engineering. This paper discusses the nominal structure of the curriculum, aswell as the role of CAMSS in providing in-class and extramural opportunities forstudents to observe and

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Richard Barke

Foundation established the Engineering Education Coalitionsprogram to “stimulate bold, innovative, and comprehensive models for systemic reform ofundergraduate engineering education.” Sixty colleges have participated in eight such groups,receiving nearly $100 million in grants from NSF and other federal agencies. Butundergraduate enrollment in engineering has dropped by 20 percent since 1985, and programsreport growing difficulties in recruiting women and minorities and retaining students. At thesame time that employers’ demand for engineering graduates is growing, the interest ofstudents in the topic is shrinking. Thus, any innovations in engineering education will occur ina context of self-examination and other reform initiatives.Sustainability

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Barbara Adams; Monica Bruning; Lawrence Genalo

-on activities to K-12 (primarily targeted at upper elementary students)students around the state. It provides an engineering experience for children and practiceteaching experiences in a technologically oriented subject for college students.“Investigations Through the Iowa Cable Network (ICN)” is a non-credit class, offeredthrough distance education to high school students around the state, relating topics fromhigh school chemistry, physics, and mathematics to applications in engineering. Eachsession includes a faculty-led, hands-on engineering experiment and an interactive careerawareness component conducted by a current ISU engineering student. Future projectsinclude development of for-credit engineering courses taken by high school

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Ron Humble; Michael Caylor

. In particular, our program requires a substantial commitmentof faculty expertise, laboratory resources, and funding. Nonetheless, overcoming these inherentchallenges enables substantial student learning to occur. Our experience is that both grouplearning and independent thinking are enhanced, and that the curriculum provides first-handexperience in the development of aerospace technology.IntroductionAn ongoing challenge in engineering education is to provide students with meaningful design Page 5.533.1projects that help them synthesize what they have learned in the classroom and to better preparethem for their future careers. The United States

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Douglas Mattox; Bahador Ghahramani

Session 2793 Learning-Style, Oriented Web-Based Support Modules for K-12 Education Douglas M. Mattox, Bahador Ghahramani Ceramic Engineering Dept., University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO/ Engineering Management Dept., University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MOAbstractRecognition of the importance of learning styles in math and science education holds thepromise of improving education delivery in grades K-12. It is felt that teachers and studentsin K-6 are at the greatest disadvantage in having learning-style oriented lesson presentations,due in part, to the general absence of

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Hrishikesh Potdar; Kurt Gramoll

, including K-12,industrial training and higher education. This paper focuses on the application of educationaltechnologies and the Internet for industrial engineering education. In particular, an online reviewsystem developed by the University of Oklahoma for the morning and afternoon session of theFundamental of Engineering Exam for Industrial Engineering is presented and demonstrated asan effective use of the these new electronic communications tools and networks. This workforms a part of the Fundamentals in Engineering Review project carried out by the University ofOklahoma. The online review is web-based and can be freely accessed over the Internet.Currently, all topics in the morning General Exam are completed and both the IndustrialEngineering

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Qiuli Sun; Kevin Stubblefield; Kurt Gramoll

Session 3230 Internet-based Simulation and Virtual City for Engineering Education Qiuli Sun, Kevin Stubblefield, Kurt Gramoll Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering The University of OklahomaAbstractThis paper presents the results of integrating a virtual city into the ongoing program“Sooner City” at the University of Oklahoma. One of the objectives of the “Sooner City”program is to develop multiple multimedia modules over a series of basic courses to helpcivil engineering students better understand engineering topics and how they areintegrated together in a real engineering task. In order to

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Jeffrey B. Hargrove

. Page 5.215.1Kettering University, formerly GMI Engineering & Management Institute, has an eighty-yearhistory of educating exceptionally talented and motivated engineers. Central to its success isKettering’s unique full cooperative education experience. This world-renowned trademark ofKettering University requires all students to alternate 12-week semesters between school andindustry throughout their undergraduate experience. The outcome of this program isengineering graduates that are firmly rooted in the foundations of engineering, and are also wellprepared for innovation and leadership in all aspects of industry.For Kettering University’s mechanical engineering graduates, who have traditionally beenplaced in positions of leadership in