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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

," 1993—ASQ Quality Congress Transactions--Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1993, p. 428-434. 3. Anderson, M.R. and Wilson, G. N., "Faculty Women's Association, An Instrument for Change," Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 41, No. 4, 1985, p. 73-83. 4. Anderson, M.R., "Graduate Career Change Program: A "Win-Win" Proposition for All," 1988 College Industry Education Conference Proceedings, San Diego, California, February 1988, p. 138-147. 5. Anderson, M.R., “Understanding Freshman Engineering Student Retention Through a Survey,” Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June1997, Session 3553, CDROM, 7 pages. 6

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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Juan Lopez; Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

Is a successful r esear ch labor ator y possible with under gr aduate students alone? Roger V. Gonzalez, J uan Lopez, and Paul Leiffer LeTour neau Univer sityAbstractDeveloping a successful research laboratory with qualified graduate students is a demandingventure. Trying to accomplish this with undergraduate students alone, given the demandingacademic load and steep research learning curve is daunting. Nevertheless, during the past eightyears the Biomedical Engineering Faculty at LeTourneau University have managed to develop asuccessful undergraduate research program and secure multiple external funding sources.Laboratory research has

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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Suzanne Kresta; Alan Nelson

Session 3675 Team Teaching of Thermodynamics: Rapid Instructional Development in Young Academics Alan E. Nelson and Suzanne M. Kresta University of Alberta Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G6 CanadaIntroduction A large undergraduate teaching service course is often viewed as a teaching ghetto,where young academics learn how to teach by doing without any substantial guidance ormentoring. New faculty are often assigned to such courses during the first term of appointmentand are expected to perform in the

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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J. Fredericks Volkwein; Linda Strauss; Lisa Lattuca; Patrick Terenzini

additionally stress thedevelopment of professional skills such as communication, teamwork, and group problemsolving. The new standards also shift focus away from a checklist approach that emphasizedmeeting standards for curricula, resources, faculty, and facilities, and encourage a new focus onstudents’ educational outcomes. The new standards, known as EC2000, are expected tostimulate significant restructuring of curricula, instructional practices, and assessment activitiesin engineering. Evidence of student learning, specifically, those outcomes articulated inCriterion 3, is now a central requirement for accreditation5.In spring 2002, ABET contracted with members of the faculty at the Center for the Study ofHigher Education at Penn State to assess

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Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rita Caso; Ibrahim Karaman; Jeff Froyd; Terry Creasy; Winfried Teizer

module focuses on two approaches to manufacturing macroscalesystems using nanoscale technologies: top-down and bottom-up. The third component consistsof two one-hour modules that will be integrated into MEEN 360 Materials and ManufacturingSelection in Design, a junior-level course offered by the Mechanical Engineering department butavailable to all students who have taken the prerequisites. The module expands on the top-downand bottom-up approaches to nanoscale manufacturing and provides students with hands-onlaboratory experience. The fourth component will be a new elective course that will be availableto all engineering and science students who have completed the prerequisite courses. Theelective course, which will be taught by three faculty

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Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

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Donald Visco

quantitative student evaluation atthe end of the semester for a course instructor and these values are normally a required part of atenure dossier. However, such evaluations can be affected by things unrelated to teaching suchas whether the instructor bought pizza for the class prior to administering the assessment or thephysical attractiveness of the instructor. In an effort to improve student evaluations (andfeedback) in a more meaningful way, the author will present several steps suggested at recentworkshops and implemented over the past year by the author to demonstrate concern forstudents. These steps include: adding a recitation portion of a class to answer class questionsand “talk” about student issues, forcing students to pick up their first

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

Session 2155 Issues Driving Reform of Faculty Reward Systems to Advance Professional Graduate Engineering Education: Expectations For Core Professional Faculty D. A. Keating,1 T. G. Stanford,1 J. M. Snellenberger,2 D. H. Quick,2 I. T. Davis,3 J. P. Tidwell,4 A. L. McHenry,5 D. R. Depew,6 S. J. Tricamo,7 D. D. Dunlap 8 University of South Carolina 1/ Rolls-Royce Corporation 2 / Raytheon Missile Systems 3 The Boeing Company 4/Arizona State University East 5/ Purdue University 6 New Jersey Institute of

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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim Healy

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Page 9.45.1opportunity throughout the four years to reflect on and take account of the relation oftheir technical studies to broader concerns addressed by the eight ABET considerations.Hence, the value of the Handbook to the student is that it provides a source ofinformation on issues that are often difficult to research, and furthermore, helps studentsto see the interrelationships among the various considerations.The value of the Handbook to the faculty at Santa Clara University, and to other facultywho may wish to use the material

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

Western Carolina University 7/New Jersey Institute of Technology 8 AbstractThis is the second paper in the special panel session focusing on issues driving reform of faculty rewardsystems to advance professional graduate engineering education for creative engineering practice and tostimulate leadership of technology innovation to enhance U.S. competitiveness. This paper addresses thecharacteristics that differentiate the pursuits of basic academic scientific research and of professionalengineering practice for the systematic creation, development, and leadership of new and improvedtechnology for purposeful innovation in industry and government service.1. Background and HistoryWhereas in the last

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dennis Depew

D. A. Keating,6 T. G. Stanford,6 Purdue University 1/Arizona State University East 2/ Western Carolina University 3 St Thomas University 4 / New Jersey Institute of Technology 5 University of South Carolina 6 AbstractThis is the first of four papers in the special panel session focusing on issues driving reform offaculty reward systems to advance professional graduate engineering education for creativeengineering practice and leadership of technological innovation to enhance U.S. competitiveness.This panel session is in direct response to the urgency of engineering education reform andimprovement of faculty reward systems, voiced by Wm

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

passionate engineering faculty from working in this field. However, changes inculture are occurring due to increased press for engineering education reform on many fronts andan increased availability of funding for engineering education research. The Schools ofEngineering at Purdue University are proposing a new framework in which such faculty canthrive; they are evaluating the creation of programs to support engineering education. Thispresentation will address these issues and present for discussion a vision to legitimize,institutionalize, and advance the establishment of formal academic programs in engineeringeducation.I. Engineering in the 21st CenturyOur future engineering graduates will enter into a world marked by rapid and global

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Devenport; Terry Wildman; Glenda Scales

2004-307 THE ENGINEERING STUDY GROUP INITIATIVE AT VIRGINIA TECH: INVOLVING ENGINEERING FACULTY IN THE DISCUSSION AND EXPLORATION OF EDUCATIONAL ISSUES William J. Devenport, Glenda R. Scales, Terry M. Wildman Virginia TechAbstractAn initiative to promote the formation of voluntary study groups amongst engineeringfaculty at Virginia Tech is described. The groups provide an opportunity for faculty tofreely discuss and exchange their teaching ideas and collaborate with more and lessexperienced colleagues, thus reducing the isolation they often experience

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rafiqul Islam

semesters if it covers both electronics and industrial engineeringtechnology areas. The faculty advisors mainly help them towards the technical aspect of it, asthere is no formal course describing the basics of entrepreneurship. So, the students take all theinitiatives in their own time and pace. The entrepreneur sprit of the students is not recognized bythe system. The students with contacts (part time employees in the industries) have better luckfor project topics. Most of the students are interested in making a prototype to get over with it.All other phases of new product development including innovation, patent law, product liability,business, sales, marketability and venture capital are left out. Eventually most of the successfulprojects are

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Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Kane; Carla Purdy

Session 2492 Achieving Diversity in Graduate Engineering Education--What Are the Major Issues?Carla Purdy, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Computer Science, Univ. of Cincinnati (Carla.Purdy@uc.edu), Ronald Kane, Dean of Graduate Studies, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Ronald.Kane@njit.edu)AbstractWhat are the benefits of diversity in graduate engineering education? Reasons for increasingdiversity among undergraduates also apply at the graduate level--a larger pool of highly trainedworkers, increased technical expertise among the

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EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

concepts. It was also determined that knowledge of a particular industry andmastery of special tools and skills were important but could be acquired on the job. A successfulprogram was described as one in which students are “learning critical thinking and specific skillsby examining real-world business cases and issues, ideally in a manner that forces students towork together in groups, present their findings, work against deadlines, etc.”A few themes (teamwork, communication, systems thinking) showed up repeatedly as answers toquestions, which can be attributed to their importance in obtaining and maintaining a job. As faras teamwork is concerned, the distinction must be made between simply working together andactually being a team. A team is not

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nigel Middleton; Barbara Olds; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

. Each of the Mini-Grants awarded to EPICS went to funding course revision, materials and coursedevelopment, and assessment strategies that would make the course more uniform acrossthe sections.In 2001, the Faculty Mini-Grant supported faculty salary to create a week-long seminaron various aspects of trainer-training and materials development. Each of the topics hadarisen in faculty meetings the prior year as areas of classroom concern. Because thecourse is taught by adjuncts and/or faculty on loan from other departments, consistencyacross sections proves to be challenging. Furthermore, because most disciplinary facultyhave not had extensive experience in addressing issues of teamwork, frequently,difficulties in teaching the course arise from

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jerry Samples

engineering faculty member spent an entire career as a professorteaching surveying, photogrammetry and land management to include the current software tomake maps. The currency in these fields came from a private consulting where one day perweek was spent during the academic term, and four months during the summer working withlocal builders, construction companies and the Department of Transportation. Most of thisfaculty member’s work was in the area of general surveying in support of builders and real estatedevelopers. Although an excellent surveyor and great teacher, new techniques were seldomintroduced in class. As time progressed, currency became an issue with some graduates. Ingeneral, graduates of these courses were well versed in the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

-funded engineering education projects are highlighted in this paper toillustrate the variety of reform-oriented projects supported by NSF as well as evaluation issuesthat challenge the success of these efforts. The projects include: (1) an engineering designcurriculum development project that specified the design expectations for the first two years ofengineering education, (2) a new master’s program in opto-electronics, and (3) an IGERT projectin environmental engineering. Evaluation issues faced by these projects are both technical andnon-technical in nature and are central to useful evaluation work. These issues are not onlypresent in NSF-funded projects but also within engineering programs more generally and thus,the NSF-funded projects

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Kavetsky

New Paradigms in Naval Science and Technology R. Kavetsky, D.K. Anand, J. Short, G.E. DieterDirector, S&T Revitalization, Office of Naval Research/Professor of MechanicalEngineering, University of Maryland, College Park/Defense Laboratories ProgramAssistant to the Deputy Director Defense Research & Engineering/Dean of Engineering(Emeritus), University of Maryland, College ParkIntroductionThrough the years the Department of Defense (DoD) has been able to provide its forces withsuperior warfare capabilities with their innovative use of human resources. These significantadvances in warfare capability were brought about in large part by successful transformationsintroduced through the

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Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Ollis

Installing a “Technology Literacy” Course: Trials and Tribulations David F. Ollis Chemical Engineering Department North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7905 ollis@eos.ncsu.eduAbstract The creation of a new technology literacy course for non-technical students isdescribed. The author, an experienced engineering faculty member, describes his sojournthrough several less-than-familiar landscapes, including the regions of “finding funding”for this non-traditional subject, “and navigating the bureaucracy” of course

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Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

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Raymond Tavares; Anthony Duva; Mansour Zenouzi

Session 3159 Modernization and Integration of New Technologies in a Thermodynamics Lab Mansour Zenouzi, Anthony Duva, Raymond Tavares Electronics and Mechanical Department1 Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, MA 02115.Abstract:Significant advances in digital data acquisition and data reduction in industry, enhancement andimprovement in energy system simulation software such as Engineering Equation Solver (EES),recent interest in fuel cells and concern for protection of the global environment are among

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Johnson

Session 2550 A New Engineering Degree Program for Secondary School Teachers Thomas G. Johnson Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department California State University, Long BeachAbstract In April 2000, the International Technology Education Association and its Technology forAll Americans Project published Standards for Technological Literacy1. These standards havebecome a major focus in the revision of primary and secondary school curricula across thenation. A renewed emphasis is being placed on teachers to

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Andrew Wo; Pei-Fen Chang

Mechanics National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan 106Abstract Although the outcome-based approach of Abet EC 2000 is widely used in the UnitedStates as a tool to enhance learning and teaching processes, and to assure qualityimprovement, it is a brand-new phenomenon in the engineering education of Taiwan. It is anincreasing concern that the traditional lecture-based instruction is failing to fulfill the needsof development of active learning skills of engineering students in Taiwan. Through a carefulliterature review, this paper first summarizes the crucial events in engineering education thatled to the formation, implementing, and assessing of a team-based faculty

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joseph LaLopa; Mara Wasburn

Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Benefits of Mentoring, with Some CaveatsWhen asked to reflect on their career successes, many if not most people point to role modelswho helped and/or influenced them. In academe, mentoring programs for new faculty, bothformal and informal, have grown in number in recent years.5, 6 Many of those embarking on newcareers have concerns about their competence, their ability to succeed, and their understanding ofand ability to navigate the organizational culture in which they find themselves.6, 7 They oftenfeel isolated in their new milieu, and uncertain of exactly how to fulfill their job requirements,8, 9which can ultimately lead to feelings of alienation.6Research indicates that mentored

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

earlier authors: A wide variety of possible projects are included forconsideration and ultimately selection by student teams. Industrially sponsored projectsare included as are collegiate-design competitions. Faculty and students are able tosuggest their own projects with the only requirement being that an engineering facultymember agrees to serve as an adviser. The course is used as a mechanism to focus on improving students’ oral andwriting skills. Lastly, a dedicated and determined effort is made to address many issues Page 9.932.3that have been identified by ABET EC 2000 (Criterion 3 and 4) as important for Proceedings of the

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Dettman

of the new engineeringbuilding at WKU, which broke ground in May of 2002 and will be ready for students in the Fallof 2004. The paper will discuss how the new facility was designed and built around the studentin a project-based environment. The programs are currently scheduled for the first ABET visit inthe fall of 2004. The faculty involved in the program feel that the end of the beginning has beenreached and that the program is well on it’s way to developing an “engaging experience” whichis student focused and meshed very closely to ABET and the outcomes assessment process.2. History of Development of the Engineering Programs at WKUThe initiative to establish engineering programs at Western Kentucky University has developedover a

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

Session # Integrated Technical Writing Instruction in Freshman Engineering Elisa Linsky, Gunter Georgi. Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York.Convincing freshman engineering students that acquiring technical writing expertise is critical totheir success is central to the mission of the writing program in General Engineering. Bydeploying writing consultants to each section of our benchmark introductory course, EG 1004,we teach the fundamentals of good writing within the context of regular engineering coursework.EG 1004 is a survey course designed to introduce various engineering disciplines to ourincoming freshmen. Teamwork

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

Dartmouth (UMD), and the Universityof Wisconsin at Madison (UWM)2-11. The FC, one of six NSF “engineering educationcoalitions” received a ten-year grant to support the design, implementation and adoptionof new and innovative undergraduate curricula in their engineering colleges. Based onexperiences of these schools, we have learned that the process of curricular change is alsovery important and requires consideration before undertaking a change effort. As aresult, the FC initiated a study of the processes of curricular change as they occurredacross the six member institutions. In a recent paper12, we presented several issues thatappeared from a series of qualitative case studies. In that paper we stated thatassumptions held by faculty about how

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Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Barbara Stewart; Carole Goodson; Susan Miertschin; Luces Faulkenberry

health of an academic program.The phased implementation plan includes revising and retesting instruments, adding additionalmeasurement elements annually. A data warehouse to house the data will be designed and built.Program evaluation represents a long-term commitment. It is anticipated that as the process isincrementally implemented by the faculty, new issues will arise, plans will change, andinstruments will be modified, developed and discarded. The whys and wherefores will moreclearly emerge and continuously lead to program excellence. References[1] Anderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. R. (Eds.), Airasian, P. W., Cruikshank, K. A., Mayer, R. E., Pintrich, P. R., Raths J., & Wittrock

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

” Page 9.366.1examination, the university freshman writing course. Some engineering schools required aspeech course and/or an ethics course but this was as far as it went. Looking over the curriculumat the highest level, the breakdown might have been 90-95% analysis, 0-5% synthesis, and 5%social. Clearly, such a curriculum did not meet even the goals of engineering faculty let alonethe business and industrial needs. Beginning in the early 1980s much discussion ensued aboutreforming engineering education and with it, the engineering curriculum. These curricularreform discussions were initiated by engineering educators, industrial leaders, and theprofessional societies.A new emphasis was placed on the acquisition of synthesis knowledge, that is