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Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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George Zion; Ronald Fulle; Carol Richardson

Session Number: 1348 Building Ethics and Project Management into Engineering Technology Programs Authors: Ron Fulle, Carol Richardson, George Zion Affiliation of All: Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)AbstractOur Industry Advisory Board (IAB) strongly suggested that we include more managerial skills inthe Engineering Technology curriculum. Revised ABET criteria now require such skills. Ourprograms were already so long that they adversely impact student retention. The dilemma washow to implement more so called “soft skills” without adding more hours to the

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ghanashyam Joshi

engineeringmanagement course will be described in this paper. The future plan of utilizing SAP softwaremodules1 in the graduate level engineering management course and in the selected undergraduatelevel engineering courses will be described. This plan is based on collaboration between thecollege of engineering and the college of business at Southern University in association with theSAP university alliance program.I. IntroductionA desirable attribute of engineers is an understanding of business issues including management.The rapid changes in technology and globalization of trade require engineers to be astutemanagers. They must be able to integrate business knowledge into the engineering design-manufacturing process. College of engineering at SUBR is

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What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Patrick Crago; Dale Flowers

major companies nationwide, including leading biomedicalcompanies. In addition, representatives from University schools and departments includingengineering, management, medicine, and the Health Systems Management Center participated inthe design. The input from the companies indicated that industry needs engineers with not only asolid foundation in engineering but also additional knowledge and skills in management andbusiness.After extensive competitive benchmarking with many of the leading programs in the country thatwere joint business and engineering programs, we decided to take a different approach. Virtuallyall other programs take advantage of existing business and engineering courses and double countthem in such a way that the student

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bianey Ruiz Ulloa; Stephanie Adams

use in designing team training programs. Performance & Instruction, 31(2), 33-37. Page 9.23.11 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”BIANEY C. RUIZ-ULLOA is a doctoral candidate in Industrial Management Systems Engineering at the Universityof Nebraska-Lincoln. She holds a M.S. degree in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received a M.B.A. and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the NationalUniversity of Tachira

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Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ron Darby; Jane Fraser

proficiency,while maintaining technical knowledge and adding business knowledge. We then discusshow the AIM program has been designed to respond to those needs in the automotiveindustry. We finally discuss articulation problems with this model.We distinguish throughout the paper between technical knowledge and technicalproficiency. By “technical knowledge” we mean fundamental, theory-basedunderstanding and by “technical proficiency” we mean the ability to perform skill basedtechnical tasks.What businesses wantFor some technical jobs, businesses would accept reduced technical proficiency in newgraduates in return for more business education. Since our program is AutomotiveIndustry Management, we begin by discussing the needs of the automotive industry

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Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session: 2147 Academic Quality Management C. R. Sekhar, O. Farook and Jai. P. Agrawal, E.Bouktache Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University CalumetAbstractThis Paper describes the implementation and outcome results of an Academic QualityManagement (AQM) program and one of the tools used in three of the courses taught in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) program at Purdue UniversityCalumet, Hammond, IN. A number of papers have been presented at the ASEE and otherprofessional society meetings on the subject of

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

from theoutset of their professional career while simultaneously having immediate value in helping themto manage a research project and capstone design project in their senior year. An integral part ofthis innovation was the development of a web-based project management tool. While the mainobjectives of the new course design were achieved, a number of important lessons were learnedthat would guide the further development and continuous improvement of this course. The mostcritical of these is the need to achieve the optimum balance in the mind of the students betweendoing the project and critically analyzing the processes used to accomplish the work.IntroductionIn most industries, engineering is increasingly managed through projects. As a new

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Daughton

2542 An Analysis of the Career Value of a Graduate Engineering Management Degree Revisited William J. Daughton Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractThe Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program in the College of Engineering andApplied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder has been granting graduate degrees for16 years, and in that time well over 200 engineers have graduated. The focus of the graduateprogram is to prepare individuals who have been

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zhanmin Zhang; Susan Tighe; Gerardo Flintsch; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

Academia is to train engineers who are knowledgeable in various infrastructure management areas, such as deterioration modeling, life cycle economic analysis, management tools, statistics, planning, design, construction, maintenance, and in-service evaluation and monitoring. It should also conduct state-of-the art research and provide courses that encourage inquiry-based learning and are up-to- date, interesting, and relevant to the industry. • The Government can provide support to universities in the form of research contracts and grants; support for teaching programs, including guest lecturers and government publications and literature for possible use on

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bianey Ruiz Ulloa; Stephanie Adams

Enhancing teaming skills in engineering management students through the use of the Effective Team Player – Training Program (ETP-TP) Bianey C. Ruiz Ulloa – M.S., Stephanie Adams - PhD University of Nebraska-Lincoln Recent trends in business have pointed to teamwork as an important tool forachieving success in the workplace. This has motivated organizations to start looking forteaming skills in new employees 1,2,3,4. Although employers may be willing to provide onthe job training, they expect that their new employees, at least, possess the understandingof why this skill is important in the organization 5. For this reason accreditation boards at the collegiate level such as

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Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Prathivadi Ravikumar

new courses. A course on Systems Engineering Management is beingdeveloped by the author and will be offered online beginning in 2004. The Master of Science inProject Management program is also exploring the possibility of including the course in itscurriculum. Key elements in the development of the Systems Engineering Management courseare addressed. They include an overview of the Master of Engineering curriculum, backgroundof Systems Engineering Management, the role of Systems Engineering Management in thecurriculum, major topics planned for coverage in the course, strategy for teaching / learning, andaddressing other factors relating to the online mode of offering the course.Why Systems Engineering Management in the Program?The American

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Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

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Aaron Blicblau

Computer Managed Learning and Assessment Integrated Within a Materials Engineering Program for Non-Majors Aaron S Blicblau Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, AustraliaAbstractThis paper reports on an on-line learning initiative in Engineering Materials for first yearstudents in diverse disciplines of engineering. This initiative was developed for general firstyear engineering students to incorporate an on-line assessment system for the major aspects oflearning and teaching: lectures, tutorials and laboratory work. This teaching approachrequired the availability of a data delivery system (using a proprietary brand of software), forprovision of pedagogical

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

Session 3625 Incorporating Project Management Methods into Engineering Design Projects: A Spreadsheet-based Approach Madara M. Ogot and Gül E. Okudan School of Engineering Design and Professional Programs The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper introduces a spreadsheet-based method of integrating project managementtechniques into project-based engineering courses. The use of a spreadsheet approachalleviates (1) the need for institutions to purchase additional commercial projectmanagement software and (2) additional training of faculty and students on how to usethe

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Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Potter; Brian Knight; Antoine Ataya

marketplace and, byextension, to improve the client base senior design project products.This paper presents the development and implementation of this unique integration with apreliminary assessment of the results.Introduction:During the summer of 2003, discussions were held between the School of Engineering,Computing and Construction Management (SECCM) at Roger Williams University and theRhode Island Center for Performance Excellence (RICPE) regarding the possibility ofengineering students working with regional companies that were involved with the BaldrigeNational Quality Program. The RICPE had previously recruited students from other regionalinstitutions to participate in this program but, heretofore, these students had been undergraduateor

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Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

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Luke Nicholson

continue to grow in prevalence.The student of any of the building sciences needs to be aware of the new and growingfield of environmentally sensitive design and construction.INTEGRATING GREEN BUILDING/SUSTAINABE CONSTRUCTION INTOEDUCATIONAL PROGRAMSIn order for students to be able to implement sustainable design and constructionprinciples into the working world when they graduate and become involved withindustry, we must integrate this knowledge into our educational programs. Although alleducational programs would benefit from exposure to the concepts of sustainability, thespecific majors suited to immediate improvement are Construction Management,Construction Engineering, and Civil Engineering Technology programs. Many largeconstruction contracts

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dilia Alcalde; Stephanie Adams

. Eightytwo percent (82%) of companies with 100 or more employees use teams3, new job designs andpractices require teamwork4 and organizations consider teamwork skills a prerequisite for thegraduates they hire1,2,5. Unfortunately, a large number of newcomers to organizations do notposses the required skills and capabilities. Specifically, as Adams, et al., (2002) point out,“engineering students are not effectively prepared to work in teams…. A gap exists between themastery of teaming skills expected and those demonstrated by new engineering graduates.”6 Research on teams in the corporate field has produced a body of literature that amongother things identifies team design, and critical team processes or teamwork skills and behaviorsrelated to

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Roslyn Smith; Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

SESSION 1621 A Senior Project in Construction Management Technology Based on Work sampling Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, Roslyn Smith SUNY Farmingdale, NY AbstractOne of the problems we face in 4-year engineering technology programs is to motivatestudents to work on a senior project that is based on the research methodology. Moststudents choose instead traditional design projects. The design projects are good forintegrating knowledge from various courses, but students do not get a chance to work onnew innovative areas where they have to

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Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gouranga Banik

integrate design, procurement, and construction into one total process through totalquality management (TQM), value engineering and constructability analysis. Based on previousand existing industry conditions, the author foresees that numerous issues and challenges thatwill dominate the near future (Banik and Barnes, 2002) such as:• There are now and will continue to be shortages of resources, including skilled workers, and Page 9.1191.2technical and supervisory staff. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alene Harris; Chad Washington; Patrick Norris

generated in only a few minutesfollowing a classroom session. The VOS Data Manager takes a significant step towardachieving these and other goals to improve teaching by providing instructors with timelyfeedback based on classroom observation data.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Center Program of the NationalScience Foundation under Award Number EEC-9876363.Bibliography1. Harris, A.H. (1988). Sources of Treatment Effects in a Teacher Effectiveness Training Program. Unpublished dissertation. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.2. Banville, D. & Rikard, L. (2001). Observational tools for teacher reflection. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, & Dance, 72, 4, 46-49.3. Bowman

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Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

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Doanh Van

Session 2171 Design and Startup of an ABET General Engineering Science Program. Doanh Van, PhD., PE., CEM Associate Professor and Chair Engineering Union UniversityI. AbstractUnion University started up its new engineering program in 2001. The program offers aBachelor of Science in Engineering with a specialty in either Mechanical Engineering orElectrical Engineering. The first graduating class will be in May 2005, which will pave the wayfor the application for ABET accreditation1 (EAC) in 2006.This paper presents a case study to discuss and

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Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daniel Frey; Marisa Wolsky

Session # 3425 A Television Program to Engage Children in Engineering Design Daniel D. Frey, Marisa Wolsky, Nathan Ball, Derik Thomann, MIT / WGBH / MIT / MITIntroductionThis paper describes a television program entitled LAZYBONES which is currently underdevelopment by WGBH, a leading producer of children’s (e.g. ZOOM) and scienceprogramming (e.g. NOVA). The purpose of the program is to allow children, especially 10- to14-year-olds, to become intellectually engaged in engineering design. By this means, it is hopedthe program will improve technology literacy and encourage more young people to pursueengineering as a profession. The concept of the

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Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tom Davis; Maximillian Peeters; John Curtis; Jennifer Miskimins

Session 2425 Capstone Design in the Earth Engineering Sciences: Case Study of a 10-Year Interdisciplinary Program Jennifer L. Miskimins, John B. Curtis, Thomas Davis, Maximillian Peeters Colorado School of MinesIntroductionThe capstone design course entitled Multidisciplinary Petroleum Design has been in existence atthe Colorado School of Mines (CSM) for ten years. Since its inception in 1993, approximately400

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Satyajit Verma

Session number : 2238 The Design Challenge Program in Support of the Engineering Design Graphics Course Satyajit Verma Texas A & M University – Corpus ChristiEducators strive to empower students by providing them with a wide set of skills, so that theymay become effective contributors to the society and their employers. These skills include notonly an understanding of scientific and engineering principles along with their applications, butalso skills to interact smoothly and effectively in human environment. These skills ensure thatour graduates will be

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI / Department of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI / Building Construction Management Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MIAbstractIn recent years study-abroad experience in collegiate education has become highly valuedby both academia and non-academic employers. For a variety of reasons, developing thistype of program in engineering education is particularly difficult. This paper presents aninnovative study-abroad program in engineering education recently developed atMichigan State University in collaboration with the Volgograd State University ofArchitectural and Civil

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EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hamid Khan

emphasized. • Is there a right of an employee (an engineer, designer, doctor, production specialist or manager) to blow the whistle when he or she feels the civic responsibility, as in this case of dangerous implants.8. Aggressive Marketing, Deceitful Advertising and Product Safety • Ethical issues in marketing a potentially a dangerous product which has been tested on animals. • Cosmetic Consumerism, Faulty Design and the Aggressive Marketing Concept • Persuasion and behavior control/ deceptive design and marketing • Theories of product liability/ due care theory/contractual theory/ strict liabilityThen the students were given the Implant Case after theories of ethics were discussed. Business

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Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Todd; Spencer Magleby

Session Number xxxx Creating a Process to Design a Capstone Program that Considers Stakeholder Values* Robert H. Todd and Spencer P. Magleby Department of Mechanical Engineering Brigham Young University Provo, Utah, USAAbstractDesigning or redesigning a Capstone Program is a difficult and complicated task since theseprograms often embody complex relationships internal and external to the department and/orcollege, and can be costly in terms of funding, space and faculty time

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Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

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George Catalano

program is centered on the courses entitledDiscovering Engineering I & II, a two-semester sequence that integrates instruction inengineering graphics and design, computer applications and tools, oral and writtencommunication skills. Considerable attention is also given to the development of problemsolving skills (including both critical and creative thinking skill development), andacademic survival skills (i.e. time management, test taking and test preparation).Additionally students confront the value-laden nature of the engineering professionthrough a careful consideration of professional and engineering ethics, and anexamination of the impact of technology in societal and global contexts. The first offering of the newly revised form

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State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; H. Michael Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

opportunity to learn something they perceive as valuable, and 5. accomplishing all of the above while keeping the time required manageable for the students.The specific topic for the project has turned out to be less important than one might supposeprovided it meets the above criteria.The problem statement includes a spectrum of design tasks that require the teams to find andinterpret a range of information about the subject area in addition to performing traditionalchemical engineering design tasks. The categories that apply most often include: technologyreviews (especially utilizing the patent literature), market forecasts, price analysis, safetyanalysis, and a general analysis of HSE (health, safety, and environment) implications of

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Kissoff

Design Course”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, June 1999 10. “Web-Based Workflow and the Construction Change Process”, BC-2114 Class Tutorial, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, ProjectVillage, LLC, February 2003.NICHOLAS V. KISSOFFDr. Kissoff received his B.S. (‘80) and M.S. (’83) in Civil Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering Science majoringin Transportation (’88) all from The University of Toledo. His industrial experience includes eleven years at SSOE,Inc. in Toledo, Ohio as a transportation design engineer and project manager. He is currently an assistant professorand the Director of the Construction Engineering Technology Program at The University of Toledo

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Bradley; Walter Bradley

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationtime management and study skills instructions and the other with such instruction incorporatedinto the course.Incorporating Time Management and Study Skills into Freshman EngineeringOne of the challenges to incorporating time management and study skills into a freshmenengineering course is the need for it to take minimal time, but nevertheless, be effective inreshaping the habits of the freshmen students. At Baylor University, we adopted an inexpensiveprogram (∼$10/student) called Success4Students that has been designed for engineering students.The program is a video/workbook seminar that can be presented in three hours