Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Keating

engineers grow as lifelonglearners, creators and leaders of new technology development to meet societal needs. Whereas manydistance graduate education programs have extended research-based graduate curricula to off-campusengineers in industry, graduate curricula often have not been designed specifically to match the growthneeds of engineers relevant to the practice of engineering and the leadership of technology developmentfor continuous innovation. A systemic deficiency in graduate engineering education exists across thenation. Because of this deficiency, the nation’s graduate engineers have been inadequately educated toassume engineering leadership roles and U.S. innovative capacity for competitiveness has declined. More than ever it is

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

acandidate to have connections to the state of Arkansas was given extra weight. Experience hasshown that individuals with ties or connections to the state will fit more readily into theenvironment and be more committed to the broader goals. Experience has also shown that thereare many qualified candidates that have ties to Arkansas. Arkansas has excellent higher -leveleducational institutions, but in the past has had little industry to employ graduates from scienceand engineering programs. A large number of previous graduates have left the state to findemployment simply because there were no local alternatives. There is often a latent desire toreturn to Arkansas, and this results in a recruiting opportunity. Individuals that are at a naturalcareer

Conference Session

Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

of our potential students would be fromthe metropolitan Washington D.C. area, this would preclude the problem of lodging. Faculty andstudents would then travel as a group to Riva San Vitale and the Center for European Studies andArchitecture. The period of study at CESA would be July 14-24, 2002, and would include bothtraditional classroom instruction as well as visits to Milan, Italy and Ecole Polytechnic Federale duLausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Concurrent visits to industry are in the planningstages. A short portion of an email from a CESA student best typifies the attitude of thosestudents who participate at CESA: “ The program over here at CESA is wonderful. I'm here with the International Studies program

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

of US educators in the SEFIannual meeting. US participants were engineering faculty and administrators who want tobring greater familiarity with international issues to their teaching and serviceresponsibilities at their home institutions.The short, concentrated workshop took place in the day and a half preceding the SEFIconference – on Monday evening, 10 September and all day Tuesday, 11 September2001. Participants attended presentations and discussions providing a comprehensiveoverview of current trends and issues in European engineering education. Particularattention was paid to explaining the relevance of these topics to US higher education atboth the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, selected sessions of the SEFIconference

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Amey; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

practice of engineering.· It stimulates the improvement of engineering education.· It encourages new and innovative approaches to engineering education and its assessment.· It identifies accredited programs to the public.For purposes of accreditation review, ABET defines an academic program in the context of threeintegrated components—objectives, outcomes and curriculum. The new Criteria for Accrediting Page 7.451.1Engineering Programs—a.k.a., EC2000—encourages institutions and programs to Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik

thefreshman-level engineering design and communications courses, principally about 2/3 through thefirst semester at the University.2. Our Adaptation and Use of Manufacturing SimulationsIn the fall semester of 1996, three of the authors (RJ, MAS, JPO’C), became interested in usingclassroom simulations as one experience in the UVa Professional Development Program 4 forbeginning students in Engineering Design. We approached Aviat, a subsidiary of ORIONInternational in Ann Arbor, MI, about trying their manufacturing simulation, Paper Planes, Inc.,which was created by W.C. Musselwhite for business use. We were attracted to it because itcould involve as many as 30 participants simultaneously (about the size of our classes), requiredthe production of a

Conference Session

Comparing National Styles of Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Thibault; Rene Hivon; Danielle L'Heureux; Noel Boutin

of the traditional modus operandi coined "the two solitudes": "soft" courses taught bynon-engineers on one part, and technical courses taught by engineering professors who are ill-equipped to dwelve to any meaningful depth in such topics as ethics, team work, communication,leadership, creativity, critical thinking, engineering management, etc. on the other part. Thisarticle then describes how, after an exhaustive survey of the literature, a grant from theUniversity’s Major Pedagogical Innovations Program is being used to devise ways in which thedevelopment of the interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies of engineering students will beintimately integrated throughout the whole undergraduate programs with that of the scientificand