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Trevor B. Davey; Ngo Dinh Thinh

Session 1260 ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN VIETNAM Trevor B. Davey, Ngo Dinh Thinh California State University, SacramentoVietnam has begun to implement a reorganization of its higher education system. From 1979through 1989, Vietnam was strongly influenced by the Soviet Union and higher educationfocused on Soviet Studies, Russian language instruction, and science and engineeringcurriculums dominated by work done in the Soviet Union. In 1989, the Vietnamese governmentembarked on a policy that would shift it away from a dominant Soviet influence and movetoward a market economy featuring private property

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Ralph O. Buchal

Session 2358 Engineering Education in the 21st Century Ralph O. Buchal The University of Western OntarioAbstract Changing educational needs and reduced funding for traditional educational institutions are forcing a re-examination of the educational process. At the same time, emerging information technologies are enabling atransition from traditional instructor-centred teaching to a new model based on student-centred collaborativelearning. The importance of the physical university is diminishing as information technology

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Erdogan Sener

the system for the better.Bibliography1. Barr, R. B. & Tagg, J., "From Teaching to Learning - A New Paradigm for UndergraduateEducation." Change, Nov/Dec 1995, pp. 13-25.2. Sener, M. E., "Collaborative Learning in the Construction Technology Curriculum." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference on CD-ROM, Washington, D.C, June 23- 26, 1996.3. Sener, M. E. & Stein, R., "Mini-horizontal Directional Drilling Manual," First Edition printed by: North American Society for Trenchless Technology, March 1995.4. Sener, M. E., " To Add or Not to Add Water: Using Microwaving Techniques for Determining Water- Cement Ratio for Concrete Mixes." Journal of American

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Ian R. Simpson

Session 2560 INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN EUROPE Ian R. SIMPSON ENST de Bretagne/France1. INTRODUCTION.In the November 1996 edition of ASEE's excellent Journal, "Prism," Russel C. JONES,Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Engineers in the USA,published an article entitled : " The World as Workplace." He concluded this article withthe following paragraph :" The era of international practice for engineers has clearly arrived, and eachengineering education system must revise its programs to adequately prepare itsgraduates for work in the global

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Gerald R. Frederick; Benjamin Koo

. Moving toward the new century and beyond, global competition will become moreintense, particularly in the areas of business and technology. These conditions, viewed in thelight of limited human and natural resources, will call for engineering innovation. This willrequire co-operation and collaboration among the nations of the world. Now is the time toaddress changes to engineering education incorporating global perspectives in response to thesenew challenges. The key action items serving as a guide for revamping or reforming the systemare close relationships among universities, engineering societies/institutes, internationalcorporations and governmental agencies. While many far-sighted advocates of engineeringeducation have already begun

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Dale Ross; Bill Taylor

Session 2470 An Integrated Approach to Engineering Education in a Minority Community Bill Taylor, Dale Ross New Mexico Highlands UniversitySummary: Northeastern New Mexico epitomizes regions which are economically depressed,rural, and predominantly Hispanic. New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU), with a studentpopulation of approximately 2900, offers a familiar environment attracting students who mightotherwise not attend college.An outreach computer network of minority schools was created in northeastern New Mexico withNASA funding. These

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

. 252-257, St. Paul, Oct. 1995.9. J. P. Th. Kalkwijk, "Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Netherlands", in A. Craft (ed.), Proc. International Conf. Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Falmer Press, London 1991.10. H. R. Kells, Self-Regulation in Higher Education: A Multi-National Perspective on Collaborative Systems of Quality Assurance and Control, Higher Education Policy Series 15, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1992.11. A. Krasniewski, E. Toczylowski, "A Methodology for Development of Flexible and Adaptable Engineering Curricula", Proc. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conf., pp. 929-938, Anaheim, June 1995.12. A. Krasniewski, J. Woznicki, "Flexibility and Adaptability of the System

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C. Dianne Martin; Edmund Tsang; Rand Decker

Session 3230 Service Learning as a Strategy for Engineering Education for the 21ST Century Edmund Tsang, C. Dianne Martin, Rand Decker University of South Alabama /The George Washington University / University of Utah ABSTRACT Service learning is an effective strategy to enable engineering schools to attain the objectives outlined in recent reports on reforming the undergraduate engineering curriculum for the 21st Century. service learning is a method under which students learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully

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Tom Mase

. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe author would like to thank Jerry Fluegge of Ford Motor Company for working closely withthis course and for his strong commitment to educating engineers. Also, thanks go to Erich Mauand Scott McGinn, Sandlewood Enterprises, Inc., Gary Becka, PGA Tour, and Joe Braly, Braly& Associates, for their support and time in helping with the design projects. REFERENCES1 Ladesic, J. G. and Hazen, D. C., “A Course Correction for Engineering Education,” Aerospace America, AmericanInstitute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, May 19952 Viets, H, “Designing Across the Curriculum,” Engineering Education, vol. 80 no. 3, 1990, p. 5653 McMaster, J. H. and Ford S. D., “An Industry View of Enhancing Design

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Marsha King; Eric Spielvogel; Carol Dwyer; Dhushy Sathianathan

NSF sponsored Engineering Education Coalition have efforts 1,2underway to redesign the first-year engineering course as a design course . This is also one ofthe missions of the ECSEL (Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence in Education andLeadership), where Penn State plays a leading role in developing a model for course coordinationamong multiple campuses.The 19 campuses of Penn State provide access to 1800 engineering students per year. Thesestudents can take the first-year engineering course at any of the 19 locations. This presents aserious challenge in terms of ensuring consistency in course expectations, competencies, content,and types of learning

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Mark A. Shields; John P. O'Connell

.3. Shields, M.A., (1997). Enhancing cross-cultural understanding among engineering students: The Technology andHuman Development Project. ASEE Annual Conference, Session 2660, Milwaukee, June.4. Briggs, K.C., and I. Briggs Myers, (1977). Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Form G Booklet. (1984). MBTI Form GProfile Report. Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, CA.5. Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Junior, University, (1994). Strong Interest Inventory of the StrongVocational Interest Blanks. Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, CA.6. Woods, D. R. and P. E. Wood (1996). The future of engineering education: A Canadian perspective. Presented tothe New Approaches to Undergraduate Education VIII Conference, Kingston, ON, July 23-27

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Cynthia Atman; Harvey Wolfe

of a diverse setof knowledge and skills. Further, the faculty must demonstrate that the program’s graduates are,in fact, acquiring these knowledge and skills, and, where deficiencies exist, they are being cor-rected. This is a substantial challenge, which requires a comprehensive evaluation system.Clearly, an effective engineering education evaluation program must be multi-faceted, employingan array of methodologies which measure a variety of outcomes, and provide the requisite feed-back for making programmatic improvements. We discuss three approaches to outcomes as-sessment that we are developing and testing. We then describe how these assessment approachescan be integrated into a formal evaluation program. These methods involve

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

that students do not always have to work alone and thatlearning, itself, may be enhanced by communal interaction.9It has been observed in some institutions that students appear to enroll in engineering withexpectations of high economic reward. However, failure to link acceptable academicperformance to economic rewards has often resulted in a degree of disillusionment andsubstandard academic performance.5 Here, a broad-based curriculum that focuses on engineeringas a whole might be needed to stimulate student interest.This concept has also been adopted by the joint task force on engineering education assessmentwhich has proposed that undergraduate engineering education must be a foundation for lifelonglearning. In fact, it has been recommended

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Ward J. Collis; Shih-Liang Wang; Esther A. Hughes; John Chen

engineering curriculum, however, there is currently adearth of courses and activities which call on students from various engineeringdisciplines to collaborate in any way or form. In recent years, mainly driven by accreditation requirements and industrydemands, engineering departments have devoted substantial effort and resources tointroduce engineering design into their respective curricula. This trend can beinterpreted as a major paradigm shift in undergraduate engineering education fromthe previous method which relied heavily on repetitive solution of ‘closed-ended’problems usually performed individually, without collaboration with one’s peers.The wide adoption of ‘capstone design’ courses across the U.S. is borne out by thegreat amount of

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Clifford R. Mirman

to various analysis techniques which are demanded in industry.IntroductionThe goal of any engineering educator must be to produce marketable students which have the ability toundertake a variety of engineering tasks. That is to say that we, as engineering educators, must supply thestudents with the necessary skills which will allow them to tackle difficult industry problems[1-4]. Ingeneral, engineering students graduate with the necessary theoretical skills, however, when it comesdown to experimental skills, or application of theory in an experimental environment, many of thestudents are not as well equipped. To solve this problem, the Mechanical Engineering Department atWilkes University has developed a capstone Mechanical Design Laboratory

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thecourse in this new format.References1. Clark, Kim and S.C. Wheelwright Managing New Product and Process Development: Text & Cases, Free Press, New York, 1993.2. DeGarmo, E.P., Black, J.T. and R.A. Kohser Materials and Processes in Manufacturing 8th Edition, Macmillan Publishing Company. New York, 1996.3. Dixon, J.R. and G. Poli, Engineering Design for Manufacturing, Field Stone Publishers, Convoy, Mass. 1995.4. Engineering Education Coalition-Meeting the Need for Reform. NSF, Publication NSF 93-58a.5. Ettie, John and H. W. Stoll Managing the Design-Manufacturing Process, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1990.6. Koen, B.V. Towards A Strategy for Teaching Engineering Design Engineering Education, 83 (3), July 1994, pp. 193-202

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Charles H. Dowding; Joseph J. Biernacki

, concentration of resources and application. Dahir (1993)summarizes a recent survey of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)that indicates that 80% of employers feel that being able to work in teams is an importantattribute in new graduates while only 25% of the respondents felt that new graduates areadequately trained to work in teams. The engineering education community is, however,responding to both the movement towards interdisciplinary activities in research and the Page 2.257.1need to better prepare students to work in team environments. Masi (1995) reports that,overall, universities in the U.S. emphasize teaching students to work as teams

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Randall L. Kolar; David A. Sabatini

experience, we have identified five key measures to easethe transition and enhance the educational experience: 1) use "real-world" projects to motivatethe learning process and introduce them at the beginning of the semester; 2) follow establishedkeys to using groups successfully; 3) ensure sufficient "coverage" by having students learn basicmaterial outside the classroom, which also fosters life-long learning; 4) team teach courses; and5) use laboratory sessions for group-learning activities. While the concepts have been tested onupper-level courses (junior, senior, graduate), we feel they are appropriate for lower-divisioncourses as well.INTRODUCTIONLocal and national surveys consistently point to several weaknesses in engineering education

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Karen Frair; Karan L. Watson

Session 2670 The NSF Foundation Coalition: Curriculum Change and Underrepresented Groups Dr. Karen Frair, Dr. Karan Watson University of Alabama/Texas A&M UniversityAbstractThe Foundation Coalition was funded in 1993 as the fifth coalition in the National ScienceFoundation's Engineering Education Coalitions Program. The member institutions are developingimproved curricula and learning environment models that are based on four primary thrusts:integration of subject matter within the curriculum, cooperative and active learning, technology-enabled learning, and continuous

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Kathryn A. Neeley

.“’ Although many scholars have joined Meehan in identifying the artistic dimensions ofengineering, many engineering students have no experience or awareness of these dimensions.The problem, then, is not to establish the common ground shared by art and engineering, butrather to overcome the cultural biases and pressures within engineering education that leadstudents to overlook the aesthetic dimension of engineering.This paper describes a set of experiences designed to help engineering students experiencetechnology as an art. The heart of the strategy is an innovative approach to using art museums asa context for exploring the aesthetic dimensions of engineering. Two interactive tours of an artmuseum are combined with preparatory and follow-up

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

Session 3225 Design in the Rowan University Freshman Engineering Clinic A. J. Marchese, R. P. Hesketh, K. Jahan T. R. Chandrupatla, R. A. Dusseau, C. S. Slater, J. L. Schmalzel School of Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701 Session 3225, Paper No. 4 1997 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education Milwaukee, WI, June 15-18, 1997ABSTRACTFreshman engineering students at Rowan

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John T. Bell

# DUE-9555094. ( Views expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of thefoundation. ) The author would also like to thank and acknowledge the co-director on thisresearch project, Vennema Professor H. Scott Fogler of the Department of Chemical Engineeringat the University of Michigan.References 1. Bell, John T., and H. Scott Fogler, "Vicher: A Prototype Virtual Reality Based Educational Module for Chemical Reaction Engineering", Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 4(4), October, 1996. 2. Bell, John T., and H. Scott Fogler, "The Status and Prospects of Virtual Reality in Chemical Engineering", Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers

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Henry W. Kraebber

Session 2263such as ASEE, SME and the CIM in Higher Education Alliance provide opportunities formanufacturing educators to learn from each other about multimedia and the best ways to utilizeit. More and more instructors at all levels are starting to give IMM a try in some form. It is timeto bring the exciting world of IMM into manufacturing classes. The key is planning! Educatorsstill need to understand the fundamentals of learning and instructional design that lead toeffective courses. References Chang, P. C., McCuen, R. H., Sircar, J. K. (1995). “Multimedia-based instruction in engineering:Strategy.” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice. 121(4). 216-219

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James L. Neujahr; Herbert Seignoret; Gary Benenson; Ed Goldman

Industrial Arts to Technology Education has been difficult in NewYork, and engineering graduates would bring real expertise in technological design and analysis.Furthermore, there are few remaining programs for training technology educators, andengineering schools could be an important new source of teachers. In addition, the NYSEDwelcomes the involvement of engineering educators in setting new standards for technologyeducation.As an outcome of these meetings, the NYSED has agreed to approve ABET-accreditedengineering programs as teacher education programs in Technology Education, provided thatstudents also complete 12-15 appropriate credits in Education, plus student teaching. Six of theEducation credits will be a specially designed, project

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Tracy Vogler; Nelson Jaramillo; Lia F. Arthur; Jeff Gray; Irem Y. Tumer; Frank Serpas; Eric Matsumoto; Ronald Barr

interested faculty, participation in regular seminars, lunches,forums and workshops with interested faculty, access to up-to-date resources such as library files,web resources, and PRISM, and participation and networking opportunities at regional andnational conferences. These services are focused on a wide range of academic issues, fromeffective teaching methods to initiating research programs to obtaining academic positions.Academic institutions and National ASEE also profit from an ASEE student chapter. In additionto the distinction of producing well-prepared academics, institutions can use an ASEE studentchapter as a means to help current faculty develop professionally in engineering education. Forexample, the chapter creates many more

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Gary Benenson; Benjamin Liaw

. ProfessorM. Lucius Walker, Jr. of Howard University is the P.I. and Dr. William S. Butcher of NSF is theProgram Manager. The authors would like to extend their most sincere gratitude to all colleague,students and industrial partners participating in this ECSEL effort on manufacturing education.References1. G. Benenson, B. M. Liaw and E. Schaefer, “Undergraduates as Course Developers, Instructors and Evaluators: The New Manufacturing Course at CCNY,” Investing in the Future, 1995 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Anaheim, CA, June 1995, pp. 2784- 2788.2. G. Benenson, “Teaching Apprenticeships for Engineering Students,” Engineering Education for the 21st Century, Frontiers in Education 25th Annual Conference, ed. by D. Budny

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

Session 2326 Multidisciplinary Experimental Experiences in the Freshman Engineering Clinic at Rowan University R. P. Hesketh, K. Jahan, A. J. Marchese C. S. Slater, J. L. Schmalzel, T. R. Chandrupatla, R. A. Dusseau Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701 Session 2326 Introducing Freshmen Students to Engineering Paper No. 3 1997 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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team for the FoundationCoalition. His research is in the areas of engineering education, structural dynamics, earthquakeengineering and highway safety. He is a member of the faculty of the Civil EngineeringDepartment and is an Associate Research Engineer with the Texas Transportation Institute. Page 2.16.7

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psychological intimidation and lack ofexperience problems that plague an undergraduate’s first independent research project. Severalmethods for developing such a program at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) arediscussed below.The UniversityCal Poly is known for its excellence in undergraduate engineering education. Its educationalphilosophy of “learn by doing” has been the underlying reason for this success. Our studentshave a heavy lab component in their curricula to encourage “hands-on” skills. The strongest“learn by doing” component, however, is the required Senior Project course sequence, similar toa Bachelor’s thesis.The Environmental Engineering Program (ENVE)The undergraduate Environmental Engineering (ENVE) Program is unique in

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Jens Jorgensen; Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; John Lamancusa

students projects 4c. What was the impact of MEEP (courses, the LF, Industrial Partnership))on other courses, programs, projects, etc. at your Q or FG F, O institution? Page 2.281.16Manufacturing Engineering Education PartnershipMEEPINDUSTRY SURVEYThe Learning Factory is a new practice based curriculum and physical facilities for product realization that hasbeen developed at three institutions: Penn State, the University of Washington, the University of Puerto Rico atMayagüez in collaboration with Sandia National Labs. Its goal is to provide an