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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Cassel

Session 3554 Engineering Entrepreneurship at Penn Thomas A.V. Cassel School of Engineering and Applied Science University of PennsylvaniaAbstractPenn’s two Engineering Entrepreneurship courses receive the highest student ratings of allcourses offered in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. This paper discusses theimportance of engineering entrepreneurship, both from a global economic perspective and fromthe personal perspective of the engineer. The paper then discusses Penn’s approach to theirEngineering Entrepreneurship

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Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sarah Rzasa; John Wise; Elizabeth Kisenwether

Session ______ Assessing Engineering Entrepreneurship John Wise, Elizabeth Kisenwether, Sarah Rzasa The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractCross-disciplinary technology entrepreneurship programs are rapidly emerging in colleges anduniversities across the United States, as well as Europe and Asia. But what effect do theseprograms have on their students? How can these effects be measured? These questions arebeginning to be answered in the new Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor at The PennsylvaniaState University. We have brought together faculty from the colleges of engineering, business

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Wierman; Marybeth Camerer

Session 0897 Lessons from Starting an Entrepreneurship Program John C. Wierman, Marybeth Camerer The Johns Hopkins University1. IntroductionThe W. P. Carey Program in Entrepreneurship & Management is housed in the MathematicalSciences Department of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Itconcentrates on preparing undergraduates to become founders and leaders of major enterpriseslater in their careers. The academic program provides basic business education courses inaccounting, finance, ethics, and marketing, plus advanced courses in

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Taylor

Educationteam projects. At the Idea Fair, select companies are invited to present ideas for products orservices that may have commercial value. For those that generate significant student interest,interdisciplinary student teams are formed to develop the product or service. The participatingcompanies provide materials, guidance, and encouragement. The projects also provide credit fordesign or technical elective classes. Students may also form teams around their own entrepreneurialideas. A business plan competition is held each year with a small cash award. Vision of the Jack Hatcher Engineering Entrepreneurship Program • The engineering student who is in business can receive the education and experience to pursue a technical/business

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Harvey Wolfe

engineering, students have a good idea of what content will be contained.If they don’t have the prerequisites, there are other courses or books available that allowthem to prepare. In most survey type courses; i.e. courses that cover a large amount ofdiverse material, the topic do not require significant background. In comprehensiveentrepreneurship courses, the amount of material that would be prerequisite is far too vastfor a typical engineering student to have time to master and yet, the demand forunderstanding entrepreneurship is great.Obviously, some of the issues do occur in other courses, but they are exacerbated by thenature of entrepreneurship. In a typical class that uses teams, there are alternatives thatcan be considered for an

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Burt Swersey

Session 2125 Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship Through Design in Inventor’s Studio Burt L. Swersey Mechanical, Aerospace, Nuclear Engineering William Foley Decision Sciences & Engineering Systems Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteInnovation and entrepreneurship are two words that are often put forward as goals forengineering education. Although most of our students will not start new companies upongraduation we can prepare them to act in an entrepreneurial manner within

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

Lehigh University Session #3454 Lessons Learned in Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships in Entrepreneurship Education through Integrated Product Development (IPD) John B Ochs, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Todd W Watkins, Economics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Drew Snyder, Art & Architecture, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PAAbstractSince 1994 a team of Lehigh faculty have been developing and implementing a multi-disciplinaryeducational environment to enable undergraduates and graduate students to experience thechallenges and creative exhilaration of technical

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wierman John; Shoukas Artin; Robert Allen; Larry Aronhime

onthe development of a foot sensing system for a physical therapist, presented their project to a classin Entrepreneurship. One assignment for that class was to develop a competitive analysis for aproduct; the foot sensing system was one of the products. One student, himself a biomedicalengineering student, developed a competitive analysis that demonstrated a potential market nichein the rehabilitation industry. The technical team was able to benchmark better based on theresults of the competitive analysis and the business student used the technical aspects of theprototype under development to better understand the market. This interaction between thetechnical and business students was helpful in obtaining an NCIIA project grant.Because of the

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida; Carmo D'Cruz, University of Central Florida

technical entrepreneurship, facilitate technology transfer and make the Central Floridaarea a hub of high tech entrepreneurial activity. This program is strongly oriented into steeringundergraduate and graduate engineering students towards careers in entrepreneurship.The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a growing metropolitan research university withcomprehensive programs of teaching, research and service to more than 35,000 students. UCFconducts high-tech research in Optics, Lasers, Communications, Simulation, Alternative energy,Materials, and other branches of engineering. UCF has developed, in partnership with industry,world-class centers and institutes that focus on these strengths and other core competencies.UCF’s location in the heart

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

NSF-sponsored SUCCEED (SoutheasternUniversities and Colleges Coalition for Engineering EDucation) Coalition, the EntrepreneursProgram aims to retain student interest in engineering by exposing undergraduate students to thedesign process early in their academic careers and by providing upper class students as mentors.Secondly, it seeks to teach students “real-world” skills such as teamwork, leadership, and thedynamics of entrepreneurship.Multiple approaches to assessment—qualitative means such as surveys and focus groups as wellas quantitative methods such as longitudinal assessment of retention and GPA—triangulate on thebenefit of the program. The design of program is discussed, so that it may serve as a modelprogram. This model should be of

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Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jack McGourty

andquartiles.As reported in an earlier paper [13], course evaluations indicated that the capstone coursecontributed greatly to the students’ abilities in problem solving, design, teamwork andcommunication skills. The average rating for each of the five relevant statements for ENGR1050 exceeded the 75th percentile rating for all engineering classes taught during that semester.In total, the relevant ENGR 1050 ratings averaged 4.66 (on a 5 point scale) compared to theSchool’s 75th percentile rating of 3.40 – over a full point difference.Project Evaluation Rubric - A rubric was developed to score the ENGR 1050 projects. Therubric considered background of the project/product (scope and general goals); marketability(customer base, competition and market niche

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Howell; Pat Shamamy; Feierfeil Greg; Chris Reidel; Tarek Rizk; Lisa Anneberg

, working in small businesses, initiating jobs in largercompanies, or starting their own companies. A recent survey of Lawrence Tech industryadvisory members verified the view that business skills were as important to success as anengineer as technical expertise.Engineering students at Lawrence Tech. now have two options: the traditional engineering pathand Entrepreneurial path. The second option includes a greater emphasis on communications,leadership, and business aspects of the engineering profession. Both paths require 131 creditsand lead to a B.Sc. in engineering, however, students who successfully complete theEntrepreneurial Program also obtain an Entrepreneurship Certificate. A unique feature ofLawrence Tech’s Entrepreneurial program is the

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

hostility” with whichmost academic engineers view entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. He further notes that thespecialized nature of the university in general does not nurture academics that are synthesizers4.The types of obstacles noted by these authors are real. Nevertheless, there is a clear messagefrom industry and also implicit in ABET that the undergraduate learning experience forengineers must be modified to provide context for the theoretical knowledge. Business issuesand the marketplace are a valid context for engineering.Our SolutionEngineering students at UT Austin are benefiting from educational innovations5. Gains incognitive science and the proliferation of instructional technology resources are resulting inbetter instructional

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Carter; John Feland

Session 3554 Enabling Student Innovation By Leveraging Lessons From Industry J. M. Feland III and S. Carter Stanford University / Doblin, Inc.INTRODUCTIONNow that Engineering Entrepreneurship (E2) programs are emerging in universities all over theworld, the E2 Community’s focus can be shifted from why teach E2 to what should we teach andhow should we teach it? Current programs teem with courses on business models, marketing,accounting, etc. In some ways they resemble mini

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wilburn Clouse

Page 8.524.2during the fall and spring semesters. Composition of the class is primarily Human andOrganizational Development students and selected students from Engineering, Psychology andArts and Sciences.2) EDLS 3460, Humor, Creativity and Entrepreneurship -- This course is open to any graduatestudent in the Vanderbilt community who is interested in developing learning environments topromote creative and entrepreneurial thinking. The course combines the three areas of humor,creativity and entrepreneurship to develop a fun-loving but yet productive learning environment.A team entrepreneurial venture is required as part of the learning experience.3) ES 101, Engineering Entrepreneurship Seminar -- For the past three years, with the support ofthe

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Traig Born; Joel Glidden; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

this trend have been described in Suh’s Principles of Design1 and Hazelrigg’sIntroduction to Systems Engineering2, among others.There has been a growing trend to re-examine what skills are taught in a design class. Thistrend is driven primarily by industry’s need for project management and design decision-making skills, in addition to analytical skills.3Another skill set which has been disappearing is design by analogy. Emphasis is placed ondeveloping novelty in design (the “new and different”). In fact, a “new and different”design requires complete validation, which is more expensive than modifying an existingdesign to achieve new objectives. The costs of validation and reduction to practice mustbe considered in the decision to develop a new

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

-based companies to meetthe needs of their communities, but mostly exist as minors. Strong programs in this area areoffered at the University of Texas at Austin and Pennsylvania State University.Engineering entrepreneurship opportunities at UT-Austin are in the form of a special center and astudent-run organization that provide multidisciplinary programs to students. The Center forTechnology Entrepreneurship was formed in conjunction with the Ford Center of Excellence inthe College of Engineering (supported by Ford Motor Company) to provide resources in Page 8.902.3education, research, and public service programs at UT. In the spring of 2001

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Smith; Wayne Walter

ProgramEach year, the RIT Honors Program admits approximately 100 new students from the university's2,300 entering freshmen. These outstanding students represent the top 5% of RIT's acceptedapplicants in each participating college, or just over 1% of all students applying for freshmanadmission to RIT. In selecting students for the RIT Honors Program the Admissions Committeelooks for a combination of characteristics that will support the student in meeting the demandsassociated with being a member of the Honors Program. For entering students, this potential isdemonstrated largely by high-school grades, test scores, class standing, recommendations and arecord of extracurricular activities and personal interests.Students currently at RIT are able to

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Corradeschi; Raymond Carr; Lewis Natiello; Donald Carlucci; Albert Messano; Keith Sheppard

Page 8.1062.1rectification, filtering, feedback concepts, operational amplifiers, transducer operation, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationinstrumentation amplification, interfacing D/A and A/D and digital signal processing.The design laboratory is housed in a state of the art facility, the Hattrick Laboratory, which wasbrought online in Spring 2000, thanks to funding from a generous alumnus. Classes meet forthree hours a week. Section size is typically limited to 27 students, to provide for three-persongroups each using as separate instrumentation station comprising a suite of Hewlett

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Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Jo Cartwright; Allie Knowlton; Donald Falkenburg

IGreenfield can share an entire course; it can also share single learning activities, groups ofactivities (session) or a thread of conceptually related material (module). Therefore, anindividual who is interested in using a Greenfield activity need not have students navigate thecourse to find the activity. Rather, that activity can be accessed directly from the Greenfieldserver by pasting a reference to it on their own web page or within a learning managementsystem (e.g. Blackboard) supporting their class delivery. If a Greenfield session is accessed, the Page 8.337.9 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

ideas within and across fields of knowledge;• integrate classroom with out of class activities;• tackle complex problems in compelling situations (including community-based-learning);• produce work to be shared with multiple audiences;• be active directly in the discovery of knowledge;• collaborate with others in study and shared research;• demonstrate learning through active problem solving, applying concepts to practical situations; and• participate as active citizens in the broader community.The AAHE is far from alone in this chorus. In what has become known as the BoyerCommission report 5 of 1998, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching wasstrongly critical of the nation’s 125 research universities for the

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Jarosz; Ilene Busch-Vishniac

Marshall andDorward analyzed introductory physics classes and textbooks at Utah State University. Theyobserved that the work of Inge Lehman is highlighted in the four introductory physics-astronomytextbooks, but only one mentions her name. The two astronomy books highlight Vera Rubin’swork but neither mentions her by name. One physics text mentions 118 males and only 2 femalephysicists. No women are mentioned among the examples of ongoing work in those four texts.In a 1995 survey of 55 astronomy books, none mentioned all of the 10 most famous womenastronomers.15 This directly contrasts with recommendations of Rosser that curricular materialmust include contributions from women engineers acknowledged by name, and references to

Conference Session

Value Added Collection Management

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2003 Annual Conference

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Karen Grigg

havesome familiarity with the classification systems. Occasionally, faculty, students, and staffseek assistance related to specific known patents. For example, a history professor mayseek Thomas Edison’s first patent to display to a class or use in a publication.Undergraduates tend to be light users of patent and trademark information. Occasionally,upper-level students might encounter references to patents in database searches andrequest these patents to use for a paper or for a senior design project. These students alsotend to have a reasonable level of computer proficiency, and their requests can usually beaddressed easily by all reference staff.The most challenging stakeholders to serve are the general public. Independent inventorshave complex

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Larry Richards

/lower cost. If the projects are better, we allwin, we get better products, and the engineer probably will get promoted before those who do not thrive inthe long distance environment.”Should this class be offered again in this format? Yes, this is exactly the kind of courseengineers practicing in industry want. They are seeking practical courses focused onbusiness issues. Was the second on-line version better than the first? Yes! We havelearned what works, and what doesn’t. The next time will be even better.References[1] Ulrich, K. T. and Eppinger, S. D. Product Design and Development Second Edition. Irwin-McGrawHill, New York, 2000.[2] Bolanos, H. and Lewis, D. Entrepreneurship and Small Business: How to make money with YourIdeas The Big Purr

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Bryant; Paul Swamidass

nowhas a capacity of 15 business and 15 engineering students each year. The students enteringthis competitive program in their junior year have a minimum GPA of 3.0 and the classaverage GPA of the two entering classes has been about 3.5 (average GPA for thecolleges is about 2.8). See Table 1 for the composition of the group admitted in fall 2002.The high-achieving students in the program, by and large, have a broad perspectivecoming into the program, or they seek to broaden their perspective through the program.These students are flexible and adjust well to unfamiliar circumstances. They enter theprogram voluntarily. The program takes them out of their comfort zones defined bytraditional business and engineering curricula.The program stresses

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kimberly Coleman

interview exercise, but without fail, they are grateful forhaving gone though the experience. Following the mock interviews, the course shifts its focus slightly to emphasize the issuesthat arise once the student is ready to consider and evaluate job offers. Attention is also given todifferent career options such as research and development and entrepreneurship. Guest speakersare brought in to talk to the class about these options. During these lectures students areintroduced to the concepts behind funding a research project, Intellectual Property and Non-Compete Agreements, and the like. A good amount of time is also spent on salary negotiation strategies, weighing benefitspackages, and the importance of taking the whole compensation

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

Session 3454 The Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University Results and Assessment To Date Dr. Mark R. Plichta Mary B. Raber Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractIn 2000, Michigan Technological University restructured its entire curricular offering in associa-tion with an academic calendar change from quarters to semesters. As part of this restructuringthe university developed the Enterprise Program (www.enterprise.mtu.edu), a new andinnovative experience that provides all students on

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Haley; Calvin Mackie; Sundiata Jangha

Alumni - Each year approximately 20 -25 former FOCUS Scholars, whomatriculated and received an advanced degree from Georgia Tech return to take part inthe program. In addition to the informal interaction with the FOCUS Friends and FOCUSScholars at various events, alumni panels are convened. Topics discussed are industrialcareers, academic careers and entrepreneurship as well as life at Georgia Tech. In additionto the FOCUS alumni, all of the African American Georgia Tech graduate alumni areinvited to attend the weekend's events. Alumni events include: • Enjoying the President's dinner along with the FOCUS Scholars, Fellows andFriends and current Georgia Tech faculty, staff and students. • Attending a State-of-the Institute with the

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

much less rigidly than previously. Taking advantage of this opportunity, thefaculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University ofIowa has developed a new undergraduate curriculum that permits students exceptionalflexibility, consistent with their career goals as well as their possible additional aspirationsfor learning while at university.The process began in 1997, when the College of Engineering Faculty redesigned the corecurriculum. Math and science classes were modified, the engineering core courses werestreamlined, and the College Faculty introduced the notion of “Elective Focus Areas,” orEFAs. The concept of EFAs is that students should have between 15 and 21 semesterhours (out of 128 s.h. for graduation

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

Session 2625 Linking Student-Initiated Projects to Engineering Design Education Sven G. Bilén, Robert N. Pangborn, and Hanna Lee College of Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 168021. Introduction The engineering design process is paramount to the practice of engineering; hence,engineering programs have made increasing commitments to teaching design as part of designcourses, particularly capstone design classes. In the engineering colleges of most