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Steven Brown; Sarah Mouring; Patricia F. Mead; Marjorieanne Natishan; James Greenberg; Corinna Lathan; David Bigio; Indranil Goswami; Linda Schmidt

environment and a proving ground. Great engineering professionals exhibit excellencein work content and team process skills. Unfortunately, standard engineering curricula do notteach skills for successful team performance. The BESTEAMS Project was formed to developengineering project team training systems to breach this gap in our curricula. “BESTEAMS” isBuilding Engineering Student Team Effectiveness and Management Systems.The BESTEAMS Project seeks to transform the professional engineering environment into onecomfortable for all by training engineering students to recognize and accept diverse learning,communication, and behavior styles in their colleagues. BESTEAMS Partners are The CatholicUniversity of America (CUA), Morgan State University (MSU

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Gerald J. Thuesen

Session 1639 ENGINEERING ECONOMY PIONEERS (John Charles Launsbury Fish) Gerald J. Thuesen Georgia Institute of TechnologyJohn C.L. Fish provided the important bridge between the pioneering effort of ArthurWellington in his engineering economy work of the 1870’s and the first publication of thePrinciples of Engineering Economy in 1930 by Eugene L. Grant. The development of the fieldof engineering economy over this 50 year period was pivotal to the integration of economicanalysis as a necessary element in engineering education. Eventually, the need

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Albert L McHenry; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

over 200,000 students around the world currently by offering video and Internet-based courses (1). However, Some leaders in education believe that not the number ofstudents served matters but the content and quality of education that is provided throughvarious delivery mechanisms must take central stage. At a recent conference, held atNorthern Arizona State University, The Role of Universities in the Future InformationSociety, Utah State Governor, Leavitt comments that Higher education ought to befocused on content, not hardware (2). Distance education via Internet is creating new learning opportunities withflexibility to students anywhere in the world and at the same time it poses a threat to

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P. K. Mallick

materials technology for improving fuel efficiency,crashworthiness and performance of future vehicles is the lack of engineers with knowledge anddesign experience in the application of advanced materials. Many universities offer graduatelevel courses on materials science. These courses provide fundamental knowledge on thestructure, mechanics and physics behind advanced materials. The emphasis on these courses is“science”, not “engineering”. Students graduating with a materials science degree acquire theknowledge on the fundamentals of materials science and very little on materials engineering. Ingeneral, they do not acquire the proper background to design with these materials or to selectmaterials based on their design and processing

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Shawna L. Fletcher; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1392 Developing Retention Strategies for Women that Promote Student Success in Engineering and the Applied Sciences Shawna Fletcher, Dr. Mary Anderson-Rowland Women in Applied Science and Engineering Program, Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-5506AbstractThe Women in Applied Science and Engineering (WISE) Student Success Program wasdesigned as a comprehensive approach to increase the retention of female undergraduate studentsin the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) at Arizona State University (ASU).Goals of the program include establishing contact with

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Zhao Liang; Ye Tao; Xiang Bo Wang; Ke Qin Li

Session Number: 1369 Assessing Chinese Engineering Graduates’ Abilities for Problem-Solving, Scientific Discovery and Technological Innovation  from a Professoriate Perspective Tao, Ye (Presenter) Associate Professor International Business School Hunan University Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China Wang, Xiang Bo Research Scientist Law School Admission Council

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Ayyagari Janaki Rao

Session 3460 Engineering Education in the Next Millennium in India Prof. A. Janaki RaoEmeritus Professor, Andhra University/Secretary, UNISPAR Working Group of India 22-HIG, Lawsons Bay Colony, Visakhapatam, Pin 530 017 (India) e-mail : ajanaki_rao@hotmail.comIntroductionEngineering Education in developing Countries (More so in India) is neither able to meet thevaried and changing Industrial demands nor socially relevant and productive. The Industrialneeds are many and varied. The local, national and global needs are rapidly changing. TheIndustry complains that Engineering