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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tarek A. Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

Session 2407 Improving Technical Literacy in the General Student Population Tarek A. Shraibati, Ahmad R. Sarfaraz California State University, NorthridgeAbstractThis paper addresses some of the challenges of teaching engineering courses to non-engineeringmajors at California State University, Northridge. One of these courses is Introduction toComputer-Aided Graphics Tools offered by Manufacturing Systems Engineering andManagement department (MSEM). This course was designed to enable computer illiteratestudents to achieve success in the use of a CAD

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Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sageev Pneena; Kathy Bernard; Carol Romanowski

Session 3430 Recommending and Implementing a General Model for Technical Communication (TC) Instruction in an Engineering Curriculum Pneena Sageev, Carol Romanowski, Kathy Bernard University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New YorkAbstractIn response to pressing industry demands, revolutionary new ABET* requirements,recommendations from professional engineering organizations, and suggestions from recentengineering graduates, we identify a general model for technical communication (TC) instruction.When flexibly implemented in an atmosphere of collaboration among engineering professors

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Michael Klein; Matt Walker; Kevin Organ; Dan Gerbus

Session 2793 Graduate Student Team Formation for Promoting Broad-Based Engineering Skills Dan Gerbus, Michael Klein, Kevin Organ, Matt Walker, Steven Beyerlein, Edwin Odom, and Karl Rink University of Idaho Mechanical EngineeringAbstractGraduate education is highly focused on the development of technical and analytical skills, buttypically provides minimal experience in team formation and interpersonal growth. To assure amore balanced graduate school experience, Idaho Engineering Works

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Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Austin Asgill

Session 3550 DELIVERING TECHNICAL EDUCATION THROUGH INTERACTIVE DISTANCE DELIVERY INSTRUCTION 1 Austin B. Asgill, 2G. Thomas Bellarmine Southern Polytechnic State University1/ Florida A&M University2Abstract Despite the recent downturn in the nation’s economy, the demand for well-trainedengineers and technologists who are prepared to make immediate contributions to the industrycontinues to be at an all time high. Recent innovations in communications and networkingtechnology have produced an explosion of distance delivery methods and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeanette Garr

Session 2793 Critical and Unconventional Analysis of General Education Requirements for Engineering Students Jeanette M. Garr, PhD Chemical Engineering Program, Youngstown State UniversityAbstractEngineers are deemed “logical problem-solvers”, a trait that attracts students to the field.However, the students’confidence-building skills in their ability to solve generalized “flow orbalance” problems, requiring “follow-through” and “logical set-up” are being ignored throughouttheir college years. Outside of the realm of end-of-the chapter problems, ABET sets protocol

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

Carolina. Itspopulation of approximately 14,000 undergraduates is drawn largely (65%) from in-state highschools. Originally a technical school, Clemson is still considered to be largely technicallyoriented, and the College of Engineering and Science is the largest college in the University.Clemson’s General Engineering program has coordinated a common first-year engineeringcurriculum since 1985. 1 The program was known as Freshman Engineering until 1993.In 2002, our freshman class of about 800 in engineering had an average SAT score of over 1240.Our students are generally quite capable and most are hard workers. Despite this, about one ineight did not have high school physics. Further, about 25% did not qualify to begin directly in ourCalculus I

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K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

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Amanda Young; Richard Brow

Session 2164 Recruiting a New Generation of Ceramic Engineers William G. Fahrenholtz, Richard K. Brow, and Amanda L. Young Ceramic Engineering Department University of Missouri-RollaAbstractStudents at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) were awarded a grant to develop kits thatcould be used by high school science teachers to promote interest in ceramic materials to theirstudents. The proposal was funded by the Associated Glass and Pottery ManufacturersAssociation (AGPMA) with the intent of increasing the visibility of Ceramic Engineering as acareer to high

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

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2003 Annual Conference

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Can Saygin

Session 2963 A Generic Control Architecture for Web-Based Manufacturing Dr. Can Saygin Assistant Professor Director, Integrated Systems Facility University of Missouri – Rolla Engineering Management Department 1870 Miner Circle Rolla, Missouri 65409 Phone: 573 – 341 – 6358 Fax: 573 – 341 – 6567 E-mail: saygin@umr.edu http://web.umr.edu/~saygin/AbstractThis

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Madhukar Vable

Session 2368 Intuition, observations, and generalization in mechanics of materials Madhukar Vable Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThe introduction of advanced topics as means of modernizing engineering curriculum, the needfor interdisciplinary research and education to meet societies challanges, the time constraint thatengineering students graduate in four years while getting a modern-interdisciplinary-education,are some of the factors driving the evolution of basic engineering courses such as mechanics

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ashraf Ghaly

Session 2793 Using computer simulation to teach technical aspects of construction in a liberal arts setting Ashraf M. Ghaly Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308AbstractThe general education curriculum at Liberal Arts colleges requires students to take courses inhistory, literature, civilization, social sciences, sciences, and cultural diversity. These coursescomprise almost a third of the entire curriculum. All students, including engineering students, arerequired to take these

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Cecelia Wigal

Session 2793 A Systems Approach to Integrating Technical Communications Instruction with the Engineering Curriculum Cecelia M. Wigal, Ph.D., P.E. The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractPracticing engineers, industry representatives, and ABET recognize the need for technicalcommunication instruction in the engineering curricula. There are various means for introducingand exposing students to technical communication. In 2000, the faculty at the University ofTennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) initiated an integration of the technical communicationsinstruction (ITC

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Summers

use these same test questions to generate examinations, ormodify questions from the pool. Through the CD media, complex drawings and scientific symbols can beused in the test. Pictures, illustrations, and even animations can be added if desired. THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSThe initial phase of the project identified the hardware and software needed to accomplish the goal ofmaking the on-line experience as informative and encompassing as the live classroom. The selectedprograms and equipment had to do the following:1. Capture both the writing and sound of live white board lectures and compress the captured lectures into smaller blocks of data that preserve each session. The final data format had to be

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Alice Scales

Session 1338 Profile of Students Who Enroll in a Technical Graphics Program Alice Y. Scales North Carolina State UniversityAbstractFor several years the Graphic Communications Program at North Carolina State University hasenrolled students into an informal major through the Technology Education Program. Becausethe major is now in the process of being formalized, determining the needs of the students hasbecome a priority. With this information, course offerings can be tailored more closely to theneeds of the students. Along with the needs of industry, a profile of

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abdel Mazher

and well defined,polices to achieve these goals can be established, curriculum and education technology can bedeveloped. Also, methods of instructions are selected and methods for evaluation and assessmentare adopted.The goals of technical dimension of engineering education as outlined above are general andqualitative. It describes the qualities of the end product, i.e. the future engineer of the systemshown in figure 1. These general goals must go through transformation process that transformgoals into abilities, skills, characters, and knowledge bases that can be observed and measured.This process will produce, for the technical dimension, the necessary skills and engineeringknowledge. The main underlying hypothesis is that the above

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marlee Walton

Session 2615 The Integrated Civil Engineering Curriculum: The Gap Between the Blackboard and Business Marlee A. Walton Iowa State UniversityAbstract:Civil Engineering curricula have been criticized for not effectively preparing engineering studentsfor the workplace. Industry wants technically competent students who also can work as part ofteams, manage projects, communicate well and understand the economic, social and politicalcontext of their professional activities. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET), with

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Ross

consensus of opinion seemed to be thattechnical leadership was something different and much more interesting overall toprofessional engineers. For one thing, mny engineers have studied management as abusiness specialty and are aware that it is a huge subject; additionally, it is not what manyengineers wanted to discuss. Note that MEPP is offered as a technical alternative to anMBA; participants in MEPP have self-selected themselves away from businessmanagement at least for the purposes of this program.Technical leadership is no less a large topic, but it is not in general well discussed inspecific detail. In the responses to question #1, there is recognition that business needsboth management and technical leadership and that they depend on each

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chu Chen Chen

Session 0953 THE NEXT GENERATION OF HVAC ENGINEERS AND TRAINING IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Chu – Chen (C. C.) Chen Southern University and A&M CollegeAbstractProfessionals in the Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) industry have notedconcerns regarding the appropriateness of the coursework offered at universities across the nationto students seeking an education in HVAC systems. At the core of this concern lies the issue ofwhether or not an adequate curriculum is being offered on a regular basis to these students atacademic institutions since 1986

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anthony Hotchkiss; Slade Gellin

develop, utilize and assess the impact of a piece of software that satisfies botha technical and pedagogical need in an established CAD/CAM course?The authors believed that the necessary enhancements to VAL-CAM should be incorporated in amultiple path approach. The two primary paths were in (1) CNC coding for the variousmachines, and (2) functional and graphical enhancements of the program. After muchdiscussion, it was decided that the two paths should be housed in separate programs. In order toaccomplish this, VAL-CAM would now have as its output a set of “generic” instructions forprocess and tool selection, as well as the appropriate geometric data, while a new, stand-alonepost-processor, tentatively named BSC-POST, would take this output and

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Herbert Hess

Session 2233 Expected Future Technology Direction for Small Electric Generator Sets Herbert L. Hess University of Idaho Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Moscow, IdahoAbstractA summary of a recent study into the future of small, portable electric generation technologies.The changing character of the load is identified and a set of basic principles for design andanalysis are developed. A number of candidate technologies are considered and evaluated

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Brian Thompson; Craig Gunn; Craig Somerton

Session 2425 The Role of the Faculty Advisor in the Capstone Design Experience: The Importance of Technical Expertise Craig W. Somerton, Brian S. Thompson, and Craig Gunn Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityIntroductionThe capstone design experience in the mechanical engineering program at Michigan StateUniversity is achieved through the Mechanical Engineering Design Projects course: ME 481.This course utilizes industrially sponsored design projects for which the company makes both afinancial investment ($3500) and a personnel investment (a staff engineer is

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

Session 2209 Involvement of Clinical Medical Professionals as Technical Advisors in Biomedical Engineering Design Projects Monica A. Schmidt, Richard Jendrucko, and Anthony E. English Biomedical Engineering Program, The University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleIntroductionA new two-semester senior design course sequence has been developed as part of the under-graduate Biomedical Engineering (BME) degree program begun in 2000. These design coursessatisfy much of the ABET 2000 Criterion 4 for the Professional Component—specifically themajor design experience. The course format involves multiple student teams

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rex Ramsier; H Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

Session 2625 Focusing on Teamwork Versus Technical Skills in the Evaluation of an Integrated Design Project Helen K. Qammar, H. Michael Cheung, Edward A. Evans, Department of Chemical Engineering Francis S. Broadway, Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies Rex D. Ramsier Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering The University of Akron Akron, Ohio 44325Engineering educators

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

Session 1141 Learning To Write: Experiences with Technical Writing Pedagogy Within a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Beth Daniell1, Richard Figliola2, David Moline2, and Art Young1 1 Department of English 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29631AbstractThis case study draws from a recent experience in which we critically reviewed our efforts ofteaching technical writing within our undergraduate

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eric Roe

Session 2530 Content Generation: Lessons Learned From a Successful High School Science and Mathematics Outreach Program Eric A. Roe1, Joseph D. Hickey1, Andrew Hoff2, Richard A. Gilbert1, and Marilyn Barger3 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 3 Manufacturing Technology, Hillsborough Community College, Brandon, FL 33619AbstractThe High School Technology Initiative

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Byron Newberry; James Farison

Session 1380 The Current Status and Uses of the General (Undesignated) Engineering Program with a Case Study James Farison, Byron Newberry Department of Engineering, Baylor University, Waco TXAbstractIn this paper we discuss several important aspects of the category of engineering programs namedsimply Engineering (or General Engineering) or Engineering Science, in contrast to programs witha designated disciplinary focus, such as Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering. Ourpurpose is to explore the role such undesignated, or general, engineering programs play

Conference Session

ELD Technical Papers Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

Society for Engineering Educationstudent learning experience. Positive student learning experiences are activities typicallyencouraged and measured by organizations that seek to evaluate and codify the collegelearning experience. Therefore, treating this skill set as an after-thought marginalizes thenoble concepts of both lifelong learning and information literacy. This paper isconcerned with “the characteristics of undergraduate education, which enable andencourage graduates to participate in formal and informal learning throughout theirlives.” 1 Much of our discussion centers on technical strategies for transferringinformation literacy skills by impacting the course syllabi. The information presented here is based in part on some of the

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Davis

Session 2306The Department of Architecture faculty have a working and ongoing relationship with professional organizations inConnecticut including the American Institute of Architects Connecticut chapter (AIA/CT). The AIA/CT runsseminars and workshops relevant to the profession including sessions on each section of the Architectural LicensingExam.The proximity to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, a forty-minute drive from the University of Hartford,provides further opportunities for the students to expand their architecture education. Students have taken advantageof the Yale School of Architecture, library, lecture series, open juries, student shows, and general interaction withthe Yale graduate students. We anticipate that this

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stan Guidera

design and nurturing artistic expression can result in the exploration ofrelated technical issues such as structures and construction being relegated to a more cursory role.Architecture schools have been criticized for failing to provide sufficient technical education andpreparation for the realities of practice [1]. Deficiencies in knowledge-development related toconstruction and building technologies has often been a specific point of criticism. This is basedin part on the perception that the emphasis in design studio on aesthetics, history, and theoryresults in the students graduating with limited knowledge base in building technology andconstruction. In response, some argue that the mandate of architectural education is to cultivateskills in

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Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Carol Diggelman; Michael McGeen

Page 8.978.12 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAPPENDIX 5. AE1231 BUILDING CONSTRUCTION MATERIALSSAMPLE DAILY LESSONAE1231. WEEK 1. Day 3.Topic-Aggregate.Objectives 1. Define aggregate. 2. What is the difference between a natural and a synthetic (artificial) aggregate? 3. Explain the three sources of origin for aggregate and compare specific gravity, porosity and compressive strengths, in general. 4. Explain the difference between a continuous, uniform or gap graded aggregate. 5. Explain how the particle shape impacts properties of Portland

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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R Wane Schneiter

well. Inmany, and possibly most, professional settings, this becomes obvious as the writers advance andthe non-writers languish.A survey conducted of the VMI civil engineering graduating classes from 1973 to 1998, basedon 662 respondents, shows that as one matures professionally, the time devoted to engineeringwork diminishes as time devoted to management increases.8 The survey results are presented inFigure 1 and allow a general conclusion. In particular, it is reasonable to expect that as onemoves from mostly technical work to mostly management work that writing and other forms oftechnical communication acquire increasing importance.To enable engineering students to become better technical writers, engineering faculty mustconsistently