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Provocative Presentations & Lunch

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Kleppe

Session “Developing Collaborative Relationships for Education Relating to Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship” John A. Kleppe Electrical Engineering Department University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557-0153 kleppe@ee.unr.eduAbstractThe Electrical Engineering Department (EE) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has since1986 been teaching a special senior level Capstone class. This multidisciplinary class involvesstudents from electrical and mechanical engineering, and students from

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Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Janet Schmidt

. (1996). A motivational investigation of group effectiveness using social cognitive theory. Journal of Applied Psychology, 81, 187-198.ROBERT LENT, Ph.D., Professor and Program Director, Counseling Psychology, University of Maryland CollegePark. Dr. Lent has written extensively in the areas of vocational development with particular emphasis on selfefficacy studies and important educational outcomes such as retention in STEM.JANET A. SCHMIDT, Ph. D., co-PI of the NSF sponsored BESTEAMS grant. A licensed psychologist, she isresponsible for administering and assessing the project. Her other interests include promoting the success of womenand minorities in science and engineering as well as and assessment activities related to ABET

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Victor Nelson

IEEE/CSComputing Curricula 1991 and develop a report that specifically addresses computer engineeringcurricula that build on developments in computing technologies in the past decade and willsustain through the next decade. The final CCCE report presents an overview of the discipline ofcomputer engineering, the computer engineering body of knowledge, and related engineeringpractice issues, and discusses issues affecting the implementation of a computer engineeringcurriculum. The bulk of the material in the report appears in three appendices: the body ofknowledge for undergraduate computer engineering programs, descriptions for recommendedcourses that comprise the sample curricula, and sample curricula that might appear at differentacademic

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hue Van Tran; Steven Reyer; James Friauf; Owe Petersen; Katherine Wikoff

Session 2004-2532 Evaluating the Communication Component of an Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study Katherine Wikoff, James Friauf, Hue Tran, Steven Reyer, Owe Petersen Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the evaluation process and findings for teaching and learning ofcommunication skills in the Electrical Engineering Program of the Milwaukee School ofEngineering (MSOE). While the teaching of both written and oral communication skills arefostered in a wide variety of courses, only writing can be claimed to be substantially integratedinto the curriculum. A

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Accreditation and Related Issues in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ann Christy

inventions as well as his paintings. Many engineering students think thatany time spent on non-technical subjects is not beneficial to their future careers. Over two years,the author assigned essays specifically inviting students to reflect on these attitudes. Fewer thanhalf expressed an appreciation for the value of their general education courses, especially in artsand humanities. This goal of this project was to explore Renaissance learning within a biologicaland agricultural engineering (BAE) program. The primary methods included weekly essayassignments and an annual departmental poetry contest. As a component of regularly assignedhomework, weekly essays were assigned to BAE seniors to give students the opportunity toreflect on various

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Keshav Varde

regionally by a country on economic welfare and environmental implications to other countries. 3. A clear sensitivity to the use of disproportionate resources by major industrial nations. 4. A need to design engineering products with global requirements and acceptance, high efficiency and low consumption of resources. 5. Issues related to life cycle and use of recyclable material.ConclusionsThe international program in the College of Engineering and Computer Science has providedopportunities for its undergraduates to get better perspectives on international issues. Althoughthe program has technical focus the learning opportunities provided by the program have shapedstudents’ views and attitudes that are more compatible with the

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Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Vennes; Phillip Smith

Session 2465 Computational Education within Mechanical Engineering Programs P. Smith, R. Pederson, and J. Vennes Mechanical Engineering Department New Mexico State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the experience in the Mechanical Engineering Department at New MexicoState University in introducing a sophisticated solids modeling software package at the freshmanlevel to replace the traditional computer aided mechanical drawing course. The package is thenfurther utilized within the upper level undergraduate courses at increasing degrees of

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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George DeSain; Farid Tranjan; Ken Burbank

of new equipment and infrastructure items to up-dateexisting electrical laboratory space and technology. New instrumentation and computers(including engineering workstations) have been purchased that will improve testing capabilitiesand provide for the integration of computer-based testing and measurement.Two new laboratories are being created for photonics and optoelectronics using DARPAresources. Equipment is being specified that will provide for undergraduate experiences withfiber optics, optical communication, and optical sources and detectors. Additional equipment isbeing purchased to support research on optical transceiver transmission rates and related bit errorratio testing. The technical electives in the EE program will focus on the

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Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chell Roberts

Multidisciplinary Programs: Session 2171 Developing a Multidisciplinary Engineering Program at Arizona State University East Campus Chell A. Roberts, Albert McHenry College of Technology and Applied Science, Arizona State University EaseAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to present an update on the planning of a new engineeringprogram and Arizona State University (ASU) East. Planning began in the Summer 2003and implementation is expected in 2005. This paper presents a background of ArizonaSate University East Campus and discusses the need for a new engineering program atASU. A draft set of program

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Pete Hanlon; John Hill; Bryan Goda; Lisa Shay

achieve by the time of graduation. At the program level, the primary assessmentmechanism is outcome assessment. The Electrical Engineering program at USMA has sixoutcomes, which relate to ABET EAC Criterion 3a-k for Engineering programs, but are tailoredto the needs of our constituents. Each outcome has a faculty member tasked to monitor ourgraduates’ achievement of that outcome. The faculty member analyzes the courses in thecurriculum and with the assistance of course proposals and summaries produced by each coursedirector, determines which courses in the program (or service courses from other programs)support the program outcome. The faculty member then gathers, collates, and analyzes datafrom the relevant courses. The faculty member keeps

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

representcourse material that strongly represents the course objectives and using these assignments todefine ‘minimum passing criteria’. The grading policy insures that no student passes the coursewithout demonstrating competence in all course objectives. Also, these key assignments becomethe objective evidence for the course meeting its program/EC2000 criteria. The result is amethodology that defines specific assignments to assess student learning outcomes and objectiveevidence of each student having meet course and program outcomes.IntroductionThe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Gannon University was challengedby their industrial constituents to correlate passing criteria with course objectives. To meet thischallenge, the ECE

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tom Thomas; Martin Parker

areas in whichstudents are having difficulty. Students having particular difficulty are identified early andmatched with a supplementary instructor. It was determined that course material offered in thismanner significantly increased the success rate of the students without compromising the level ofeducation.IntroductionThe University of South Alabama College of Engineering has five ABET-accreditedundergraduate programs.1 At the freshman and sophomore level, there are a number of serviceclasses that are taught to students in more than one program. Electrical Circuits (EG 220) is aservice class taken by students in Mechanical, Computer, and Electrical Engineering. The onlyprerequisite is one semester of calculus. The class is offered every

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Jalkio; Christopher Greene

Vocabulary of Basic and General Terms, 2nd edition,ISO Switzerland, 1993CHRISTOPHER S. GREENEChris Greene received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)and proceeded to a 25 year career in industry. At Honeywell, he did research on adaptive control and navigationsystems before becoming Program Manager for several large aerospace programs. At Horton and Nexen, he. wasresponsible for the development of industrial control products. In 2002, Dr. Greene joined the engineeringdepartment at the University of St. Thomas where he currently teaches classes in signals and systems, controls anddigital design.JEFFREY A. JALKIOJeff Jalkio received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

Session 1621 Satisfying ABET Accreditation: Program Assessment Enno “Ed” Koehn, Rajesh Malani Lamar UniversityAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has revised the accreditationcriteria that is designed to assure that graduates of accredited programs are prepared to enter thepractice of engineering and satisfy industrial requirements. The general criteria also specifiesthat engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates possess or satisfy eleven (11)educational outcomes generally known as “a” through “k”.This investigation

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Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shahnam Navaee

Session 2620 Computing and Programming with LabVIEW Shahnam Navaee Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractIn this paper an alternate approach in teaching various computing and programming principles toengineering students utilizing the LabVIEW software is discussed. LabVIEW, acronym for“Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench”, is a powerful and robust graphicalprogramming language developed by National Instruments, Inc. for use in various engineering andscientific related fields. At the present time, this software tool is mainly utilized in

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The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Roth

concrete example of implementing the ABET outcomes basedprocess defined within the ABET Criteria using an internship course. This course isoffered in a Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program. Discussion is directedat how the course is linked to its course outcomes, the MET program outcomes, and theMET program objectives. The paper demonstrates how an existing curricular element canbe reviewed and modified within the context of program objectives and outcomes. It alsoexplains how the ABET outcome based process has enhanced the MET program throughjust this course. Finally, the paper describes the added value of using the internshipexperience to further the delivery and assessment of program outcomes.IntroductionFaculty within the MET

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mahbub Uddin

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING SCIENCE PROGRAM AT TRINITY UNIVERSITY Mahbub Uddin Department of Engineering Science Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas1. IntroductionTrinity University is an independent, coeducational university in the tradition of the liberal arts andsciences. Trinity’s principal focus is on undergraduate education. Academic programs in the liberalarts and sciences and preprofessional and professional fields are consciously intertwined to providemutually reinforcing intellectual experiences for students and faculty.The mission of the Engineering Science Department at Trinity

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Sluss

, and/or Upper-division Electrical & Computer Engineering Lab. In lieu of taking these leveling courses,students may opt to demonstrate their proficiency in these subject matters by taking therespective final examination and scoring a minimum grade of B.5. Expected OutcomesWe expect to produce engineering graduates that are highly sought after for their ability to workat the confluence of telecommunications, computing and business. Early graduation results pointto initial success as all of our graduates, approximately 40, have found employment intelecommunications-related fields or have chosen to continue their graduate education bypursuing a doctoral degree. Another expected outcome of this program is that, by virtue of theresearch

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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E. Hirleman

, American Society for Engineering Education ‚ Increased study and work abroad participation by students. ‚ Increased exchange of first-rate US, Chinese, and German engineering students. ‚ Graduates of engineering programs at all partner schools who are better prepared to: - function in a global technical environment and relate productively to the challenges of a global marketplace - transcend cultural issues to collaborate effectively in diverse, international teams - incorporate best practices from global technical experience and a range of engineering and company cultures ‚ Development and demonstration of the GEARE model that can be adopted by other engineering

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdirectly require the scholarship of teaching, its adoption has led to a substantial increase in thenumber of engineering faculty members engaged in this form of scholarship, which has in turnled the engineering education journals to increase their sizes to accommodate dramatic increasesin the number of papers submitted.4The National Science Foundation has supported educational scholarship in engineering since thelate 1980's through the Division of Undergraduate Education and the Engineering EducationCoalitions program. Today, NSF support for engineering related education reform is in excess of$200M per year. Such support "has increased the status of educational research in

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Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daniel Chen; Albert Peng; Daniel Jones

Session 3249 Attitude of Students Entering Engineering Technology Programs Daniel Chen1, Albert Peng1, Daniel Jones2 Central Michigan University1/SUNY Institute of Technology2IntroductionThe purpose of this study is to learn more about the attitudes of engineering technology freshmenin terms of their educational backgrounds, orientations and experiences in ET programs. Asurvey was designed and conducted to carry out this study. It was used to measure attitudinaldifferences among engineering technology freshmen in the following areas: • Career goals and elements for career decision

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Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Joseph Goodman

Session 1120 OMEN: An Online Grader for Engineering Programming Courses T.D.L. Walker, J.K. Goodman Engineering Fundamentals Division1 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAbstractOMEN (Online Materials Education Network) is a system developed within the EngineeringFundamentals (EF) Division at Virginia Tech for the distribution and grading of programmingprojects in courses where programming assignments are made in C++ or Fortran 90. It can beused to distribute and grade programming projects in any language that supports command linecompilation, linking, and

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sami Ainane; Joseph Hoffman; Gary Pertmer; Chandra Thamire

. To provide a high quality undergraduate engineering education within a small university environment culminating in a degree in ME from a nationally recognized engineering program. 8. To facilitate and contribute to the economic development of the region.B. Program Outcomes and AssessmentIn this section, the assessment procedures that are being followed for this program are described:first, the student learning outcomes are presented; how the outcomes are related to ABET 2002Criterion 3 and program objectives is presented next; and finally the assessment procedurescurrently followed are presented in brief.B.1. Student Learning OutcomesUsing the ABET 2002 Criterion 3 and the program educational objectives as a guide

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Byron Newberry; James Farison

service-based team-oriented hands-on projects, mentoring relation our students who do very in regional and national competitions individual student attention, their accomplishment after graduation our engineering clinic program excellent students substantial no. of graduates now lead technology-based companiesA11. Are there other characteristics of your program and/or experiences you would like to add? Page 9.361.15 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

Session 1793 An Example of Course and Program Outcome Assessment Amir Karimi, Keith Clutter, and Alberto Arroyo College of Engineering The University of Texas at San AntonioAbstractThis paper describes a process for systematic evaluation and updating of the undergraduateeducational objectives and outcomes of the engineering programs at the University of Texas atSan Antonio (UTSA). It describes a set of assessment tools, which includes surveyquestionnaires, test results, and interviews. The course objectives are defined and evaluated foreach subject in the

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chia-Jeng Tseng

Session 1532 Clocking Schedule and Writing VHDL Programs for Synthesis Chia-Jeng Tseng Departmentf of Electrical Engineering Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837AbstractMost of the commercial tools for digital synthesis are designed for Register-Transfer-Level(RTL) and logic synthesis. Numerous wonderful books and papers are available forunderstanding the syntax and semantics of the VHDL language. There are also many books andpapers written for VHDL synthesis; these articles generally

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robbie Goins; Kiel Locklear; Gregory Watkins; Chad Spivey

Session 1793 NASA KC-135A Reduced Gravity Undergraduate Program G. K. Watkins, K.L. Locklear, R. J. Goins, C.W. Spivey William States Lee College of Engineering The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223AbstractThe Johnson Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) sponsors the Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. Thehighly competitive program affords undergraduate students the opportunity to propose,design, fabricate, execute, and evaluate reduced gravity experiments. NASA s KC-135Aresearch

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

interdisciplinary in nature. While engineering analysis is oftenfocused within specific sub-disciplines, design/manufacturing/construction usually requires aninterdisciplinary background. Thus, students are best served by a broad engineering foundationwhich gives them the language, methods, and applications related to a broad spectrum ofengineering disciplines. For the first two years of the program, all engineering students take a setof common courses introducing them to a variety of engineering topics. In addition tobroadening the student’s education, these courses result in a more informed decision of which ofthe four concentrations they will pursue in the junior and senior years. This decision is not madeuntil the end of the sophomore year when

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Fred Driscoll

the Provost); and (3) the cooperation of faculty from different departments who areencouraged to work together on program self assessments.The committee meets biweekly, or more often as needed, to discuss all aspects of the program.Since its inception, this committee has addressed many academic and managerial issuesassociated with operating an interdisciplinary program. Issues such as student advising,curriculum development, course changes, admission, re-admission, transfer credit guidelines,scheduling, preparatory courses for the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam, and facultyscheduling related to team teaching have been discussed and acted upon. The interdisciplinarynature of the committee has been very successful and it has moved the

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

Session 1471 General Engineering at Harvey Mudd: 1957–2003 Anthony Bright, Clive L. Dym Department of Engineering HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE Claremont, CA 91711–5990 E-mail: clive_dym@hmc.edu Telephone: 909–621–8853 Fax: 909–621–8967AbstractThis paper describes the genesis and evolution of the philosophy of the Harvey Mudd Collegegeneral engineering program. This program was established with a sound theoretical basestrongly coupled to the