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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Collins; Alisha Youngblood

any disciplineof engineering. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a benchmarking studyconducted on other MSEM programs in a variety of universities, do comparisons to identifytrends and specialties, and design a MSEM program that meets the needs of a targeted group ofengineers.The first section of this paper examines the process of evaluating other programs already offeringa Master of Science in Engineering Management degree. Of interest in these programs are theadmission requirements, graduation requirements, and courses offered. Also of interest will beany core course requirements, as well as if a thesis is required, optional, or not available. Theprograms evaluated include a mix of those offering distance education and

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bob Twiggs

StanfordUniversity there was a need to give students in the graduate programs in Aeronautics andAstronautics ‘hands-on’ experience to learn systems engineering. To provide this experience,the Space Systems Development laboratory was started in 1994 to take students through the fulllife cycle of a project. In this case it was designing, building, launching and operatingmicrosatellites in space. The program now is finishing the third generation of microsatellites andstarting a new program concentrating on building picosatellites called CubeSat (10 cm cube,weighting 1kg).Although the program has successfully launched two of their microsatellites and have launchesfor three more, it was determined that the best education value could be obtained by building

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ken Vickers; Ronna Turner; Greg Salamo

Session 3142 Graduate Student Practice of Technology Management: The Cohort Approach to Structuring Graduate Programs Ken Vickers, Greg Salamo, Ronna Turner University of ArkansasBackgroundMany conferences have been held to discuss the skills needed by engineering and technologyprogram graduates to be successful in technology based careers. These conferences strive tounderstand the full spectrum of job requirements by typically including representatives ofacademe, government, and industry. A common result of these conferences 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 has beenlists of

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan Kremer

Session 1327 Embedding Engineering Management into Product Design Education Gül E. Okudan and Richard Devon Department of Engineering Design and Graphics The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802Abstract __ This paper first discusses the evolution of the Introduction to Engineering Designand Graphics course (ED&G 100) at the Pennsylvania State University from a skill developmentcourse to a product design oriented course. Then, it focuses on embedding engineeringmanagement subjects to the course due to new

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Farr

Session 2342 Involving Industry in the Design of Courses, Programs, and A Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Department John V. Farr and Dinesh Verma Stevens Institute of TechnologyABSTRACTOn July 1, 2000 Stevens Institute of Technology created a new Systems Engineering andEngineering Management (SEEM) department. Through a unique partnership with industry andselected government agencies in the area of short courses, graduate programs, and appliedresearch, the department has grown to over 60 masters and 30 PhD students in one year. Interms of revenue from

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Safford; Andres Sousa-Poza; David Dryer; Charles Keating; William Peterson

Session 3242 Systemic Issues in Asynchronous Delivery of Graduate Engineering Management Programs Charles Keating, David Dryer, Andres Sousa-Poza, William Peterson, Robert Safford Old Dominion UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to exa mine systemic issues that impact the design, delivery,and maintenance of asynchronous engineering management educational products.Asynchronous education continues to rapidly evolve as an alternative to traditionalclassroom delivery. An asynchronous educational system requires the effectiveintegration of technology

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

Session 2642 ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT CONTENT FOR A SENIOR DESIGN COURSE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING P. B. Ravikumar Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department University of Wisconsin, Platteville, WIABSTRACTMechanical Engineering students at UW-Platteville take the Senior Design Project Course in thefinal semester of their undergraduate program. Most of the team projects for the course, often allprojects, are provided by industry. The course is designed with the primary objective of providingstudents an experience that serves as a transition

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Vavreck

and to other fields’content.2 Project management techniques can help enable multidisciplinary group projects, in anorganized way, to enhance the learning experience for students3 Consequently, many facultyhave decided to incorporate project management or multidisciplinary teams to augment design intheir engineering or engineering technology programs.Project Management CoursesIt has been found4 that project managers need to have the following skills, in decreasing order ofimportance: communications, organization, team building, leadership, coping and technologicalexpertise. To help develop these skills, many engineering programs have implemented projectmanagement courses. For instance, a dual-track project management and engineering design

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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David W. Miller; Doris Brodeur

sequence, describes the project in the context of the learning experience, providesan assessment of the educational innovation, and suggests future modifications of the concept.The current capstone experience will also be described briefly. Overall, the first capstoneexperience was quite successful: a highly motivating project, a cohesive team of students, and aproduct that is being used nationally to advance space technology.IntroductionMost engineering programs include senior design capstone courses because they provideopportunities for upper-level undergraduate students to apply what they have learned to real-world problems. 1-3 The MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics has broadened thescope of a capstone design course to provide

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eric Lachance; Ronald Welch

this exercise. Many of the students said they did not consider starting with these key engineering fundamentals because they were just playing with toys. Most realized towards the end of the design stage that these skills are essential and used them to repair structural problem areas.V. SUMMARY Student feedback emphasized the need for formally taught and continuously developedcommunication skills in engineering programs. The K’NEX Project Management exerciseallows faculty or event coordinators to demonstrate to their students the importance of clear,concise communication of ideas without a large investment of student time or resources. It isrecommended that this exercise be implemented in a design course prior to

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Pamela Neal; Erlind Royer; Kenneth Soda

Session 2425 Learning Project Implementation and Management Skills in the Culminating Design Experience Pamela J. Neal, Kenneth J. Soda, Erlind G. Royer Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy, CO1. IntroductionThe contemporary undergraduate curriculum of an Electrical Engineering program is packedwith required courses, making it a challenge to complete in four years. By necessity, nearly allof this work is theoretical, supported by laboratory work that is too often limited in scope. Themore practical aspects of

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Timothy Lawrence; Michael Warner; Douglas Bayley

the USAF Academy to haveexperienced some form of engineering design whether he/she was a technical major or anon-technical major. Engineering 410 is the course that fulfills this requirement. Theofficial educational goals and outcomes of Engr 410 are listed below, excerpted from theDepartment of Astronautics Course Goals and Requirements. Operational Goal: By the end of this course, you will be able to: (1) Apply knowledge acquired in previous core engineering courses to design, build, test, and deliver an operational engineering prototype system. (2) Apply knowledge acquired in previous management courses and leadership experiences to form a contractor team and successfully meet all milestones of the

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

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Resit Unal; Charles Keating; Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

start an engineeringmanagement graduate degree, and the bridging of the competency gaps identified in severalnational surveys. This paper addresses the benefits of the minor to engineering managementprograms.I. IntroductionOld Dominion University’s College of Engineering and Technology, like many otheruniversities, allows students in its bachelor’s programs in engineering and engineeringtechnology to minor in another field of engineering or engineering technology. At ODU the mostpopular engineering minor is the minor in engineering management offered by the Department ofEngineering Management. Approximately 150 students each year graduate with this minor.The Department of Engineering Management offers no undergraduate degrees in

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Raper

. The new criteria specify that engineering programs shouldseek to continuously improve their degree offerings through an ongoing assessment processthat includes constituent input. Our own department has specified undergraduate alumni asone of the prime or key constituents that will be queried for input into our own processes.For the first time in our history, we sent a detailed survey to all of our undergraduate alumni.We also solicited salary information that could be submitted anonymously. The results fromthe survey will be presented and discussed.IntroductionThe Department of Engineering Management at The University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR)has been in existence for over thirty years, and was among the first degrees of its kind in theUnited

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Short

of industry practice in using five present performanceappraisal types relative to scientists, engineers, and technologists; review a new innovation inindividual performance appraisals, the individual balanced scorecard; and identify factorsimportant to a successful performance assessment program for scientists, engineers, andtechnologists.I. An Introduction to the Problem and Report ObjectivesIt starts with the prescribed form sent to each engineering manager with the little check boxesand a No. 2 pencil. The manager begins, “On a scale from one to five evaluate the engineer’sproblem-solving ability.” Immediately the manager struggles to remember key instances in thelast year where the engineer exhibited good or poor problem-solving

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Adams

. Despite industrial trends and employers’expectations, a gap exists between the mastery of teaming skills expected and thosedemonstrated by new engineering graduates. Employers expect college students to possess theseskills and often complain that college graduates have not learned the team approach to problemsolving.1 Employers, along with the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET),expect better preparation in these areas to be incorporated into the engineering curriculum at thecollege and university level. 1, 2 ABET stated in EC 2000, Criteria for Accrediting Programs,that one program outcome and assessment measure for engineering programs is to demonstratethat their graduates have an ability to function on multi

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Loc Vu-quoc; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; R. Keith Stanfill

multidisciplinary design (9 fields of expertise) and cultivating industrypartnerships. With an annual 25+ project activity, 150+ student and 20+ faculty, many lessonshave been learned and codified in the areas of project recruitment, project scope definition andproject management. Industry praises the program as an outstanding experiential education, withbenefits for students, faculty and industry. Between 1995 and 2001, 133 projects and $2 millionin support were provided by industrial sponsors. Two thirds of the projects each program yearcome from repeat sponsors. Since 1996, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Pratt & Whitney and theUSAF have sponsored 25 aerospace-related projects. Lessons learned in design projectmanagement and funding are explored in the

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder

features of virtual, collaborative engineering environments, state-of-the-artsimulation tools, and advanced learning management systems. An integral part of this projectinvolves the development and teaching of a new, two-semester senior level design course that isoffered synchronously at both institutions and which emphasizes teamwork, collaboration at adistance and multidisciplinary activities. One long-term goal of the project is that the courseprovides the context for feedback on the nature of virtual interactions, and therefore on how toimprove the AIDE. In addition, we aim to study whether multifaceted instructional methods thatleverage emerging information technologies can enhance student learning on fundamentaltechnologies, systems-level

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Billy Smith

on conceptualization and design of a workable spacecraft.For many years, the design experience was limited to paper studies. The Astronauticsfaculty felt that this program could be improved by giving Midshipmen the opportunity todesign, build and fly real satellites. The USNA Small Satellite Program (SSP) wascreated in 1998 for that purpose. The SSP actively pursues flight opportunities for Page 7.1185.1miniature satellites designed, constructed, tested, and commanded or controlled by Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Lamont; John Merrill; Richard Freuler

Session 3553 The Potential & Pitfalls of Online Course Management: Experiences in a Large-Scale Freshman Program John A. Merrill, Mary Lamont, and Richard J. Freuler The Ohio State UniversityIntroductionIn the past two academic years, the Freshman Programs at The Ohio State University's Collegeof Engineering have incorporated an online course management system to help with theimplementation of a curriculum for over 1,000 first-year students. The instructional teamconsists of faculty, graduate teaching assistants, undergraduate peer mentors, lab supervisors,and a

Conference Session

ET Capstone Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Behbood Zoghi; Joseph Morgan

demanding graduates thathave the ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal formats. These new hires will, inall likelihood, become members of project teams and participate as team members and eventually asproject managers. The Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Technology (EET/TET)Programs at Texas A&M University have established a mandatory technical project managementcourse that is closely linked to its capstone senior design course. With assistance and participation froma number of large and small companies, EET/TET students now learn about the fundamentals of projectmanagement while they prepare for entry to their senior design project. The new course provides theopportunity for students to form teams

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zohar Herbsman; Cristina Cosma

Session 2342 DEVELOPING AN “IN-HOUSE” GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT – A CASE STUDY Dr.Z.J.Herbsman1, Dr.E.E.Middleton 2, and C.Cosma 3 1&3 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Florida/ 2 Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville DistrictIntroductionThe engineering management profession these days is facing a major problem. In most cases,engineers leave universities after completing their Bachelor’s degree, and a few years later, afteraccumulating practical experience, they express the desire to continue their education

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Osama Abudayyeh

required formal education must be the research training of undergraduate civil andconstruction students to encourage them to pursue advanced education and research careers.With this in mind, the author developed a funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates(REU) summer training program for undergraduate civil and construction students that focuses onconstruction engineering and management issues and problems. This paper describes the structureof the REU program and the types of activities undertaken by the REU participants. Page 7.1223.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Shirley

executives. However, it has been adapted successfully toteaching the end-to-end process of engineering to college students. The paper describes theCreative System which is the basis of Managing Creativity, outlines the class structure andsubjects covered, and describes the overall process. Positive student evaluations and continueddemand for the course are used for assessment. The course covers all aspects of a creativeenterprise, from assembling a creative team, to generating original ideas, to alignment of theteam and its customers and suppliers, to planning, design, risk management, production, anddeployment into the market or operational environment. All classes include business planningand a hands-on engineering project (usually designing and

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Helene Kershner; Debra Burhans; Deborah Walters; Carl Alphonce; Barbara Sherman

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationA CMS should be flexible in terms of uploading and downloading grades from other programs ina variety of formats. There are two aspects important in grading. First, grades come frommultiple sources in a variety of formats. Some may be in plain text files, while others may bestored in spreadsheets. A university computing center may provide scoring services for tests thatemploy scan-able forms, and the data may be returned to a professor in a variety of formats. It iscritical to be able to merge grades from multiple sources into a single grade file. While grademanagement is not a focus of CMSs, it represents a time

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Cecere

Capstone Course in Construction Management Joseph J. Cecere , Ph.D., CPC Pennsylvania State University/ HarrisburgABSTRACTCapstone courses offered in most construction engineering programs are designed to pull together much of whatthe student has already learned in previous courses. This will enable the student to gain an appreciation of howthe different aspects of a construction project come together. The course is not an in depth study of any onefunction or technical aspect, but rather a synergistic overview of the project

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anthony Trippe

discusses the events and experiences associated with thedevelopment and initial conduct of this sequence of C++ programming courses. Itdetails how the courses were designed to assist ET students to better succeed in higherlevel courses taken later in their program sequence. Foundation elements of thesecourses include C++ procedural and object oriented grammar and syntax, programmingstructures and data structures. The paper illustrates how secondary elements of atechnical programming course can be selected so as to additionally promote andencourage student learning of techniques for applied technical problem solving, technicalwriting, software engineering, project management, team dynamics and ethics.IntroductionComputer Programming skills are an

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dardy; William Krantz; Kettil Cedercreutz

Division of Professional Practice at the University ofCincinnati. Participation in the co-op program is mandatory for undergraduate students in theCollege of Engineering and the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. It is optionalfor students in the College of Business Administration, College of Applied Science, College ofArts and Sciences, and University College. The focus of this article will be on the co -op programin the College of Engineering and College of Applied Science.The University of Cincinnati operates on a quarter system, in part because it lends itself so we llto the co-op program. All students in the co-op program are enrolled in the Division ofProfessional Practice, which is administered by Professor Kettil

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edgar Blevins

stillmostly based in the same departments. This information is based on university catalogs anduniversity course listings for the programs examined.Opportunities for EM UndergraduatesMost employers do not directly hire recent bachelor’s level engineering graduates as managers.Many engineers do not move into any management type of position until they have gained atleast five years or more experience with the exception of military officers. The United StatesMilitary Academy EM program is designed to give its graduating officers the skills needed to besuccessful in today’s highly technical military. These graduates are the only ones that willdefinitely be responsible for making decisions and solving problems immediately upongraduation. However, all of

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Sterrett; Richard Helgeson; Robert LeMaster

Session 2125 Integration of Design Throughout the Curriculum of a BSE Program Robert LeMaster, Richard Helgeson, and J. Douglas Sterrett Department of Engineering College of Engineering and Natural Science University of Tennessee at MartinIntroductionAlthough fundamental to the engineering profession, design is one of the more difficult subjectsto teach. Design by its very nature is broad in scope and draws on the creative talents,management skills, and engineering knowledge of those involved. Design problems are typicallyopen ended, have