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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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

AC 2003-22: BEYOND SOLUTION FIXATION: A SHORT COURSE ONENGINEERING AND BUSINESS CONCEPTSJustin Cone,Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at AustinOfodike Ezekoye,Tushar Patil, Page 8.266.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2003 Session 3554 Beyond Solution Fixation: A Short Course on Engineering and Business Concepts Ofodike A. Ezekoye, Kathy J. Schmidt, Justin Cone, and Tushar Patil The University of Texas at AustinAbstractWhile most graduating

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Karen Horton

included supporting campers’ feelings ofcompetence and being part of the group. Camper feedback from girls and boys clearly indicatedthat these two goals were met through the program.IntroductionThe University of Maine hosted two weeklong CAD Camp sessions during July and August2002. The unique camps provided high school students with half-day instruction modelingobjects in three dimensions using the engineering design software MicroStation. For example,campers created a still life of a table with a transparent bottle with liquid in it, a glass or glasses,and other items of their choice. They applied materials and colors creatively. Later campersmanipulated each other’s images on globes to create swirled faces, faces with pointed heads, orfaces

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Barbara Masi

Session 2132Beyond ABET: A new school-wide process for continuous improvement in engineering education Professor Dick K.P. Yue and Barbara Masi, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstractHaving brought 13 programs successfully through ABET’s challenging new EC2000accreditation requirements, the most interesting outcome of that process was the identification ofhow much more could be done to create a streamlined, effective continuous improvementprocess for all. In the year following MIT’s 2001 ABET review, the School of Engineeringbegan implementation of a new school-wide continuous

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Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rosa Cano; Howard Kimmel

provides an enhanced learning environment for thestudents of these teachers. Systemic reform that will: a) change the teaching of science at allgrade levels in all classrooms; and b) provide the integration of science with mathematics andin other subject areas in each school is needed. Such systemic reform must extendthroughout the K-12 pipeline.The Center for Pre-College ProgramsSince its inception, the Pre-College Center has sought to become a driving force in providingincreasing access to scientific and technological fields to all students. Through its carefuland thorough planning the Pre-College Center has been remarkably successful in reaching,those populations that are traditionally underrepresented in STEM areas.1-2 All pre

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Denise Carlson; Janet Yowell; Jacquelyn Sullivan

curriculum that canbe easily understood and implemented by non-engineering trained teachers. According to the 2002National Panel Report of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, K-12 schoolsoften do not graduate college-ready students due to various factors, including new accountabilitydemands (standards-based learning), an over-reliance on educational traditions, sub-standardcurricula and poor resources3. Through a comprehensive K-12 engineering curricular experience,all students, including those typically underrepresented in engineering — women and students ofcolor — can be exposed to the possibilities of engineering and technology as lifelong pursuits. Students can effectively learn and

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

limited resource base dictated little beyond a basic educational role.However, it was time worth spending as it gave our new faculty group a chance to develop acoherent EET program view. Another useful outcome was reaffirming the curriculum contentswith regional industry needs.By the end of the year, guidelines for TC2K self-study[2] were available from TAC of ABET. Itwas now becoming clear how much work remained to be accomplished. In addition to the self-study guidelines, representatives from each of our five Engineering Technology programs wereinvited to attend TAC of ABET’s pilot visit evaluator training session in January of 2001. Wewere afforded the opportunity to shadow our program's visitors as they made their preparations totrain for

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid

entering grades 5 through 10 through the ‘Young Scholars’ summer on-campus program, andS deployments of the Mobile Electronics Manufacturing Line (MEML) to schools in the area, exposing additional students to electrical engineering / electrical technology with hands-on experiments. These deployments were coordinated with the help of K-12 teachers.We were able to reach 111 students through our summer workshops as part of the Young Scholarsprogram at IUPUI, and just over 800 students through deployments of the MEML.The paper will summarize the efforts within the project, address funding, discuss results and emphasizelessons learned when approaching a large scale K-12 project. Many roadblocks were encounteredover the two

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Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Beaman; Philip Schmidt

effort was a major achievement. The planning period culminatedin a full-day workshop in January 2001 which was attended by about two-thirds of thedepartment's faculty. At this workshop, a set of desired curricular outcomes, similar but notidentical to ABET's "a-through-k" outcomes, was established and an intial list of pilot projectswas laid out.Phase 2 was carried out during the spring and summer of 2001; thirteen pilot projects weredefined in detail, actively involving about 20 faculty members. Budgets were established, initialcorporate contacts were made, and supporting materials were prepared to permit pilotimplementation in experimental sections of the respective courses in the 2001 fall semester.Pilot implementation began with the 2001-02

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Cyr

development and engineering internship opportunities for teachers,with a varied assortment of programs in between. Each type of program brings a level of success,through the inclusion of engineering as a commonly used word and the introduction of learningabout engineering as a concept for all types of students. But what kind of programs need to be inplace to create a sustainable inclusion of engineering in the K-12 curriculum? And, how do wemeasure that sustainability in an area that is still in its infancy?DiscussionThe most common type of K-12 outreach program in engineering is a direct experience for thestudents to participate in a project that involves some engineering, often along with science.These programs have a fair amount of variation

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K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

improved mathematics and sciencepreparation and problem solving skills of our students today. It is our belief that part of theproblem with K-12 science education is that teachers do not know how to relate the science theyare teaching to real world experiences. To deal with that issue, we created a new three-hourcourse in engineering problem solving specifically designed for education majors. They areshown how to solve real world engineering problems and how to teach such subject matter totheir own future students.Using the theme “Our Material World”, the authors integrated concepts involving the physical,mechanical and chemical behavior of materials as a means to teach engineering problem solvingskills. Through the use of frequent laboratory

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Middleton; Cheryl Gengler; Antonio Garciq; D. L. Evans; Sharon Robinson Kurpius; Peter Crouch; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

theperiod from the years 1990 to 2000, but 12th grade scores, after rising from 1990 to 1996, fellbetween 1996 and 2000. The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)results show a significant difference in performance of students in affluent schools compared tostudents in poorer neighborhoods, showing that we have yet to democratize education. 2Another troubling aspect of current science and mathematics education is that too large a fractionof K-12 students are “turned off” by science sometime in the middle grades (4th through 9th ).This loss of interest is particularly severe in female students and students from underrepresentedsegments of the population. 1 As documented by 3 , the curriculum reform movement thatfollowed

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Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tarek Rizk; Donald Carpenter; James Hanson

compressive forces through the rock mass with bolts. Although the mechanicswere beyond the students’ conceptual understanding, they enjoyed assisting shoveling the graveland tightening the bolts as well as hearing stories about tunneling for subways. Theeffectiveness of reinforced soil was demonstrated by hiding paper discs within one pile of sandnext to a “control” pile of sand. The students could not guess why the reinforced sand pile(which appeared identical to the control pile) was able to hold substantially more weight beforefailing. The soil reinforcement demonstration was quite rapid because it had to be entirely set upahead of time to maintain the element of surprise. This activity prefaced showing the studentssamples of geosynthetics and

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

fundingthrough a grant from the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE 9979507; Arp, PI).NSF Fellows (14 graduate fellows per year) supported through this program play a critical role inreaching our goal. They join Departmental Liaisons, Outreach Coordinators and GK-12 Teachers(one for each Fellow) in a project designed to enhance the delivery of science education (definedhere as education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics or STEM) in the publicschools. Our efforts focus on eleven target schools (K-12) in three school districts in Oregon. Page 8.905.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education

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Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Bruning

effortsand more innovative thinking. It will require that companies move beyond “feel-good”partnerships with individual schools to systems-level partnerships where business expertise canhelp meet K-12 needs. This new partnering paradigm will require leadership at both the industryand K-12 level that requires considerable cooperation and understanding among groups that maynot always agree on goals or methods (Jackson & Davis, 2000).The Project – Inquiry and ObjectivesThe project focused on increasing the flow of technically skilled workers through enhancedstrategic educational partnerships in the state of Iowa. It involved developing and electronicallyadministering two surveys—one for K-12 teachers in Iowa and one for technologically

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Ed Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

neglect the fact that engineeringstudents need to demonstrate an acceptable level of understanding of the basic topicstraditionally covered in such courses. A preliminary report of our successes and failureswas published a couple of years ago,2 and since then we have continued to modify andimprove the course by listening to student feedback and using more efficient coursestructure and management, as well as through cross-college collaborations. Briefly, thesechanges have resulted in a course that better addresses the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) criteria and gets students to take a more active rolein their own learning.There are many well documented methodologies for improving student learning ofclassical physics, 3-6

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

Session 2530 A Survey of Authentic Teaching in Secondary Math and Science Classrooms Tamy L. Fry1 , Teri Reed Rhoads 1 , Mark Nanny 2 and Mary John O’Hair3 The University of Oklahoma School of Industrial Engineering 1 School of Civil Engineering and Enviro nmental Science 2 Center for Educational and Community Renewal3Abstract The Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) is a project funded through the National ScienceFoundation GK-12 program in which University of Oklahoma Fellows from engineering andeducation

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K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

betweenepoxy-glass composites and southern yellow pine. During the six-week program, the teachers learned to conduct literature research in thelibrary, to design experiments, to fabricate composite material overlays on wood beams, to testthe beams to determine strength and stiffness improvements and to test the bond strength aftervarious environmental exposures. Through these experiences, the teachers gained increasedcontent knowledge, design of experiments skills, and useful instructional materials.IntroductionThis project was made possible by a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Supplement1 tothe University of South Carolina’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) grantfrom the National Science Foundation. The objective of

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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

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

almost any field. Studentsparticipating in group projects get experience beyond the subject matter of the curriculum. Indeveloping countries, there is a high competition among students for getting into universities.Therefore, some students may not be willing to share information in that environment and do notrealize the fact that they will learn more by sharing their information and discussing their problems.A cooperative teamwork environment should be created for the student to understand that thestudents will benefit from being exposed to each other’s perspectives and will learn from each otherin addition to learning from the instructor. In this paper we want to share our experience ofteamwork projects given to our students in a database

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Roe

pastseveral years have resulted in three clear messages. First, teachers will not integrate a set ofdisjointed high technology materials and examples into their courses. Second, any materialsprovided must match the time constraints associated with typical lecture formats. Finally, anynew educational resources must be consistent with the guidelines of a state approved curriculum.Cognizant of these constraints, our team of educators set about the development of technologybased modules that could be used by high school faculty to enhance the presentation of theirscience and mathematics topics.This paper presents some of the lessons learned in the development of our first two modules.Insights gained through the module development process are presented

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Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Conference Session

A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Juan Lucena

Session 2322 up those rodents. So, they bring that animal in and they overpopulate, and it causes another problem. It’s the whole, how everything is interrelated. And you can’t really change one piece of the puzzle without affecting everything else. (Ohio 2000)As a software developer for the US Air Force, Pat explained how her knowledge of ecologyfacilitated the way she developed visual databases. Through ecology Pat came to understand that“you can’t really change one piece of the puzzle without affecting everything else.” Applying thislesson to a new technical problem –the limitations of the system—Pat said: Well the systems weren’t good enough for that. You basically had, you know, some almost triangular thing

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Smith; Angela Quick

was an independentcommunity. However, the Metro Atlanta region is one of the fastest growing US cities and isbeginning to include Conyers as a suburb. Because the county hosts many technology-orientedbusiness firms and has various ties to the nearby Georgia Tech community, Rockdale businessand community leadership decided to implement a specialized high school and entered into adialog with Georgia Tech near inception.Like most research universities, Georgia Tech continuously searches for and fosters anindigenous pool of well prepared applicants. Georgia Tech has an active center for K-12outreach. However, the liaison between Georgia Tech and the magnet high school was to bedifferent. In dialog with the Rockdale County Public Schools (RCPS

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Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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

Session A Longitudinal Study of Retention and Grade Performance of Participants in an Engineering Entrepreneurs Program Matthew W. Ohland, Clemson University Guili Zhang, University of Florida Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Thomas K. Miller, III, North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at North Carolina State University is a program in whichundergraduate students participate in design teams formed around corporate technology start-upcompany themes. Through funding from the

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Turner; Glenn Ellis

-based physics course. Even though Figure 2 maybe a simplification, the fundamental structure of the knowledge remains identical to Figure 1—itis only the details that are simplified. Thus students can begin with an algebra-based approachusing Figure 2 and then easily transition to a more sophisticated approach using Figure 1. Ellisand Turner5 discuss how the transition between an algebra-based approach and a calculus-basedapproach is made easier through the use of graphical analysis. We also feel that when studentswork from the beginning with graphs of time-varying forces and time-varying motion, it helpsthem think beyond the equations of constant acceleration to more generalized motion. Anotherbenefit of the framework in Figure 1 is its use

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

Session 2630 The Sooner City Project: A 5-Year Update C. C. Ahern, L. D. Fink, K. K. Muraleetharan, R. L. Kolar University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019AbstractThe Sooner City project at the University of Oklahoma (OU) seeks to reform the traditional civilengineering curriculum by including design projects at every level of the curriculum, not simply asa senior capstone project. The project can be implemented without changing the traditional coursesequencing, which enhances faculty buy-in. It is part of a larger movement to reform engineeringeducation by teaching students to

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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

the software allowsfor open-ended design requirements that enable each team to search for feasible solutions thatmeet design guidelines of the American Association of State Highways and TransportationOfficials (AASHTO) or the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT). Differentteams may end up with different design solutions. The students understand through a semester -long project that they are the designers and not the software. They also learn that using thesoftware is a process, which is likely to help them when using other highway design software.Senior students who have used the software in their senior design projects have produced highquality design reports and drawings.This paper describes the process of integrating the LDD

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

require 128 semester hours. • There shall be a set of common core courses that enables students to enroll in engineering with an undeclared major and to change majors without loss of credit through the end of the third semester. • To ensure education beyond technology, provide flexibility for students to develop thematic options, and complement the technical content of the curriculum, all programs shall have a pool of 36 semester hours of elective courses. The student’s portfolio and plan of study guide the selection of appropriate electives. The electives are used to fulfill two College Page 8.45.2

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Page 8.60.1 Education”distinctions between models and real-world behaviors. 5. Recognize problems and iterate to anappropriate experimental method. 6. Address open-ended situations. 7. Select, alter and operatepertinent engineering tools and resources. 8. Deal with health, safety and environmental issues. 9.Communicate effectively with a variety of audiences, both orally and in writing, ranging from peercommunication through executive summaries to comprehensive technical reports. 10.Demonstrate the ability to work in teams, including structuring

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

, University ofConnecticut. Our objective involves defining the concepts of science and engineering andlaying down a foundation for exploring the differences, similarities, and interdependenciesof these notions. We aim to develop and crystallize the philosophy driving our efforts tooffer K-12 students a meaningful exposure to engineering concepts and principles, and toexpand the scope of students’ eventual career choices to include engineering.An Overview of the History of Modern Engineering EducationEngineering education in Europe and the United States has gone through at least threedistinct phases in the past 50 years. Soon after declaring war on Germany in 1941, theU.S. Congress authorized the Engineering Science Management War Training Program