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specialties. 5 "The engineering manager is distinguished from other managers by the fact that he possesses both an ability to apply engineering principles and a skill in organizing and directing people and projects. He is uniquely qualified for two types of jobs: the management of technical functions (such as design or production) in almost any enterprise, or the management of broader functions (such as marketing or top Page 2.174.3 management) in a high-technology enterprise." (p. 240)Engineering Management ProgramsIn a 1994-5 study, Dr. Kocaoglu noted that of the 166 EM programs identified, 77 were

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• Finance • Manufacturing* • Information Handling* • Marketing* • Employee and Public RelationsEngineers are to be found in those functions (departments) marked with asterisks. In this paperwe will be discussing engineers and managers in the engineering department. These people maybe employed on three kinds of engineering work (as viewed by engineering managers): • Projects • Programs (groups of related projects) • Functions (work that supports the projects, e.g., materials engineering, testing, failure analysis, etc.) Page 2.494.1Definitions of these terms are given in

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questions from students, practitioners, industrial advisoryboard members as well as others on this issue. This paper explores the perceptions of studentsand professors (in Engineering Management and MBA programs) as well as other stake holdersas to the distinguishing characteristics between the two disciplines. An informal survey was runto decipher some of the current views. Content rich data was collected and analyzed using bothtraditional survey questions along with content analysis of participant responses. The results arepresented and analyzed with a discussion on the implications of the results obtained. In addition,some anecdotal data is provided on the running of the project which has some value to educators.The objective of this exercise is

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The Research Questions This research examined management education from a quality assurance perspective,paying attention to measurable ends of such education. The purpose of this research was toevaluate the effectiveness of the Purdue University Engineering/Management Program (EMP) asthe managers were impacted by the program. Evaluation criteria established from the statedobjectives of the program (taken from the brochure), were used as bases for measuringknowledge, skills and attitudinal change. This evaluation study attempted to measure those changes that occurred in the knowledgeskills and attitudes, from before to after participation in the Purdue University Engineering/Management Program. Further research questions of

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the part of the faculty.IEP students have access to the necessary humanities and social sciences (H&S) coursesconducted at other colleges in the University. The engineering curriculum has to meet rigorousABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) requirements for engineering,humanities, and social sciences courses. The IEP curriculum had to be tailored to meet theseconstraints. One course, Japanese Management Style, was also made available to studentsfocusing on Japan.International Design ClinicInternational Design Clinic conducted design programs with an international perspective.Clearly, in this global market, manufacturers cannot afford to ignore the revenue potential offoreign markets, the necessity of competing abroad

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: Teamwork8. Graduates are able to structure effective multi-disciplinary teams, manage and perform team roles, and assess and improve team performance so that the productivity and quality of team contributions to design activities exceed that which could be accomplished by the same individuals working independently.This set of design outcomes may be used as a starting point for defining program outcomes forother engineering degree programs. Once defined, achievement of these outcomes can beassessed by writing measurables (as defined in an earlier section) and by gathering the datanecessary to make these assessments.CONCLUSIONSThe categories-levels structure for design education outcomes offers a way to define specificoutcomes for intermediate

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Richard Gilbert; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

waste management and environmental fateand transport. She is also involved with program development of Environmental Engineering education. She is aregistered professional engineer and a member of several professional organizations.RENATA ENGEL is an Associate Professor of Engineering Graphics and Engineering Science and Mechanics. Shehas a BS in Engineering Science from Penn State and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from the University of SouthFlorida. She has developed a research program in composite processing and development and has conductededucational research as it relates to instructional software development and implementation.RICHARD GILBERT is chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida

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to show there are similarities and differences.HistoryComparing the histories of the two disciplines shows a clear distinction. IE is a significantlyolder program. The first Industrial Engineering degree program was established in 1908 at PennState. The much younger Engineering Management discipline began with the University ofMissouri-Rolla program in 1967. (10) However, other sources note MIT began a program similarto Engineering Management in about 1915. (11,12) The first Industrial Engineering Ph.D. awardedin the United States went to Ralph M. Barnes from Cornell University in 1932. His thesis lead tothe publication of the "Motion and Time Study" textbook. (7) The University of Missouri-Rollaawarded the first Engineering Management

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Hamid Khan

Session 2660 Universal Leadership Education And Development for Managers and Engineers (U LEAD ME) Hamid Khan Ball State University Four years of undergraduate engineering education is not a panacea of success forengineers. Evidence suggests that most engineers need to learn the art of management when theyhave become successful as engineers but poor as managers of people, and must move on as moresuccessful managers of technology and people. [Drucker (1991)] But, such characteristics must be developed by programming and intervention and

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Barbara Tedesco; Sanford Bordman; Iftekhar Hasan

concerns.Exposure to the overall topic of business, its management, and its operation isdifficult to affect within the ABET approved four year curriculum. A large numberof ABET accredited engineering schools have adopted business managementeducation requirements under an engineering management major [Sarchet andRobert (1986); Babcock and Lloyd (1992)]. Such programs, designed to link thegap between engineering and management knowledge, are typically housed inindustrial engineering departments and include many courses that stress thetechnical aspects of management - production efficiency models, schedulingmodels, quality control, etc.— all of which meet ABET's definition of appliedtechnology, but treat subjects such as accounting, finance, marketing

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Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

where the ISO 14000 standards may betaught and perhaps, even implemented is in a senior design course. It is in these courses thatsenior environmental engineering students are expected to solve an open-ended design problemincluding all the externalities, i.e., social, ethical, economic, and political issues. Obtaining localand state permits, doing Environmental Impact Assessments, and general project managementcan all be used as examples of environmental management. Additionally, the evaluation ofalternatives of a project, is also an intrinsic activity of the ISO 14000 standards.CONCLUSIONSThe ISO 9000 Standards for Quality Management are fast becoming the norm for globalorganizations dealing with products and services. It is very likely that

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Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

quality, diversity goes on the web,” ASU Insight, Vol. 17, number 22. December 6, 1996.11. Anderson-Rowland, Mary R., “Service Learning With Student Organizations,” Proceedings: Frontiers in th Education, 25 Annual Conference, Atlanta Georgia, November 1995, pg 4b3.8-4b3.10.12. “Campuses Adapt to Financial Belt-Tightening”, ASEE Prism, January 1997, Volume 6 number 5, pg 11.MARY ANN MCCARTNEYMary Ann McCartney serves as the Director of the Office of Minority Engineering Programs in the CEAS at ASU.Prior to joining ASU, she spent 18 years at IBM serving her last five years as Program Manager Academic andCommunity Relations. For two years she served as corporate liaison between IBM and the headquarters of theMathematics

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Session 2242 RE-ENGINEERING OF THE ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT’S OUTREACH GRADUATE PROGRAMS AT UMR Bahador Ghahramani, Ph.D., P.E., CPE 206 Engineering Management School of Engineering University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, Missouri 65409-0370 (USA) E-mail:ghahrama@shuttle.cc.umr.eduINTRODUCTION Rapid change is a feature of today’s competitive environment in the technology drivenEngineering Management (EMGT) academic programs. The EMGT outreach graduate

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Follow-up Project. Inthe Lab Development Project, the students are customers of each other and must improve theirproduct, a laboratory exercise, based on other students feedback. The TQM Follow-up Project isa means for the students to further apply the concepts and tools of Total Quality Management toanalyze and recommend improvements to a common process.IntroductionIn the Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management programs at Miami Universityin Oxford, Ohio, the Quality Planning and Control Course (EGR 334) is a required course in thejunior year of study. For many years, the content of the EGR 334 had focused on statisticalcontrol of processes and the use of linear measurement tools. A relatively recent addition to thecourse content

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M. N. Borges; F. H. Vasconcelos; M. Lewis

changes in the market place demanding that engineers beprepared to change functions and even careers throughout their professional life span.This paper addresses these issues by describing a novel methodology of designing curriculum. Itadvocates that by using a Knowledge Based System as a partner it is possible to achieve a moreeffective and manageable curriculum design and implementation. The flexibility of the Page 2.306.1Knowledge Based System is capable of allowing for local, national or international needs whichmay vary due to the different contexts of the issues being addressed. A major aspect of thisKnowledge Based System is that it

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

. Page 2.151.4 Comparisons to ABET CriteriaTable 1 also show the many similarities between the customer derived outcomes and the “EAC2000”(27) criteria. Criterion Three, Program Outcomes and Assessment, states that engineeringprograms must have an assessment process demonstrating that outcomes, important to thatprogram, are being measured and monitored. According to the criteria, engineering programsmust demonstrate that their graduates have the following abilities. A. An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. B. An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. C. An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet

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Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 2630 Transferring the Knowledge in a Bridge Program: Engineering Students Become Coaches Maria A. Reyes, Mary Ann McCartney, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Arizona State UniversityAbstractA unique, very successful summer bridge program was held for incoming underrepresentedminority freshman and transfer engineering students at Arizona State University (ASU) duringthe summer of 1996. The Minority Engineering Program (MEP) Summer Bridge Program was atwo week residential program designed to ensure academic success for the 44 studentparticipants. The program was supported by a

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,interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills, and techniques for promoting motivation. All recruitssuccessfully completed the training program and, subsequently, worked as ELC coaches. Thisprogram is in its second year and, while a quantitative assessment of the program cannot be madeat this stage, anecdotal evidence indicates a need to sustain this program.INTRODUCTIONThe objective of the program described in this paper is to help under-represented minoritystudents to be successful in a number of fundamental engineering courses during theirsophomore year and make a smooth transition to the junior and senior level courses inengineering design and analysis. The need for a special program arises for several reasons. Adisproportionate number of minority

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will carry overinto their professional lives. Courses in the program are team-taught by a member of theengineering faculty and a member of the Liberal Arts and International Studies faculty, each anexpert in his/her own field, each knowledgeable in the others’.As the two faculty who received the funding from NEH, we have been involved in the HumEnProgram since it was first taught in Spring 1989. The course has evolved over the years from asingle course with a chemical engineering designation which carried 4 credits rather than theusual 3, to two separate 3-credit courses (one in chemical engineering and one in humanitieswhich were co-requisites for each other), to a completely stand-alone three-credit humanitiescourse that accepts students

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Justin R. Chimka; Karen M. Bursic; Cynthia Atman

flexible methodical style is more effective thantop-down decomposition for design problems. Our data also suggest that more adequate timespent in the Problem Scoping stage of design will lead to stronger solutions. This is consistentwith Brockman's 26 finding that more successful programmers (those needing less debugging)produced stronger conceptual designs for their programs before coding, compiling, and testing. We will run full multiple regression models once additional process variables have beenfully analyzed to determine what process variables most adequately predict product quality. Thisdata set is very rich, enabling an unusually detailed look at engineering student design processes.One obvious observation is the variation with

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Jeffrey G. Sczechowski

Session 2313 Building an Active Environmental-Chemical Engineering Research Program with Undergraduate Students Jeffrey G. Sczechowski Civil and Environmental Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 ABSTRACTWith a University-wide theme of “learn by doing”, all Cal Poly undergraduates are required tocomplete a Senior Project. Environmental Engineering students are encouraged to conduct anexperimental or an applied design project

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Thomas R Phillips

Session 2560 Planning Engineering Exchange Programs From The Proposal To Final Evaluation T.R. Phillips Managing Director, Collegeways Associates (USA)Recent History: Since 1992 we have seen increased support for engineering exchange programsthat involve coursework, internships, faculty exchange, curriculum development, and learningtechnologies. But given the actual needs of our students and institutions, these new grant funds arespread very thin.The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE/USDE) is now conducting itsthird round of

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Robert H. Willis

admission policies and race based scholarships, others arereviewing all programs that utilize race as a factor. At the federal level, the ClintonAdministration has indicated they will support the department of Justice fight againstProp 209. Charles Canady (R-Fla) has indicated that he will reintroduce a bill to repealaffirmative action at the federal level.In this climate there are those of us who implement, direct, supervise, manage,affirmative action initiatives and programs. What impact will the attacks on affirmativeaction have on the minority engineering programs? In states where minority programs get public funding support there will be an increased effort to eliminate this funding. There will be efforts to dismantle or

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T. Chang; R. Barat; J. F. Federici; H. Grebel; A. M. Johnson

Session 1526 CRCD Multi-Disciplinary Optical Science and Engineering Program at NJIT J. F. Federici, A. M. Johnson Dept. of Physics H. Grebel, T. Chang Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering R. Barat Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Environmental Science New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102As part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Combined Research/CurriculumDevelopment (CRCD) program

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Richard Campbell; Irma Becerra-Fernandez; Gustavo Roig; Gordon Hopkins

] Peng, P., & Hill, S. (1994). Characteristics and educational experiences of high-achieving minority secondarystudents in science and mathematics. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 1(2),137-152.[9] Valadez, J & Duran, P (1991). Mentoring in higher education. (American Educational Research Association, 1991Annual Conference Proceedings, Microfiche Ed331451, 13(1), 1-12) Chicago.BibliographyIRMA BECERRA-FERNANDEZ is Director of External Programs for the College of Engineering and Design atFlorida International University. Dr. Becerra-Fernandez holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from FloridaInternational University, and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from University of Miami. Dr. Becerra-Fernandez hasover

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Mark A. Pagano; Christine L. Corum

Session 1247 Continuous Improvement in an MET Program Christine L. Corum, Mark A. Pagano Purdue UniversityAbstractIn 1995, the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation board for Engineeringand Technology (TAC of ABET) approved a new criteria which places direct responsibility oneach engineering technology program to plan and implement continuous improvement andfurthermore, they must demonstrate achievements. The criteria (V.A.3.) and (V.A.4.) appearedin draft form in the 1996-97 criteria release; and since there have been no serious objections todate, this

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Integrating Design in Electrical Engineering Curriculum (1232)

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editor to connect the sub-systems in a top-level schematic. This top-level design was compiled into a targeted CPLD and simulated fully.Most of the 1994-96 ENGR221L CPU designs were tested further by creating simulated ROMScontaining virtual programs, connecting these ROMS to the processor, and executing thoseprograms using the Max+Plus II simulator.RESULTSThe first group of six tackling the CPU221/96 project (Group A) consisted of six engineeringmajors or prospective engineering majors. Group A organized themselves efficiently andcompleted the planning matrix without delay. They modified the instruction set by replacing theleft- and right-shift instructions by a NOT instruction and a NAND immediate instruction. All

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with algorithms and protocols. An alternative approach to the expense of an actual laboratory is to use softwaresimulators. However, while useful, this instructional technique limits the availability ofimportant problems and solutions commonly encountered with network systems, as clearlyshown in a paper by Mengel, et al,[4]. At the Penn State - Altoona, a different approach to data communications and networkinglaboratory is being developed in conjunction with a traditional class on the subject. Thislaboratory is designed to meet the needs of a new four year Bachelor of Science program inelectro-mechanical engineering technology, BSEMET. The particular emphasis of this programis on automated industrial manufacturing. To achieve

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Nicole F. Barde

Session 2570 Creating An “Architecture” For Success In Managing And Balancing The Needs Of The Corporation And Its Employees. Nicole F. Barde Intel CorporationBACKGROUND In 1968, when the Beatles were singing about revolution, Gordon Moore and RobertNoyce were starting one of their own – a technology revolution that would forever change thecomputer industry and the world. The new company – called Intel Corporation (which stood for“integrated electronics”) – focused on the design and production of large-scale integrated (LSI)memory. Gordon and Bob were

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Session 1232 Senior Design Project Course Sequence Electrical and Computer Engineering James A. Reising University of Evansville AbstractThis paper describes the senior design project course sequence at the University of Evansville.The two-semester sequence of courses (along with a non-credit seminar) serves as the capstonedesign course for electrical and computer engineering students. It combines a senior designproject, practice in oral and written presentation of a design proposal