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William W. Predebon; Peck Cho; Diana George; Linda M. Ott; Philip Sweany

focus of new faculty orientation will not do much to change the status of pedagogyacross campus. Once the quarter or semester begins, issues raised in orientation are rarely a priority as newfaculty struggle to find time to begin research projects, to learn and help do the business of the department, andto prepare new classes for a new student population. The pressures of beginning a university career, we wouldargue, too often make the talk of classroom practice infrequent and devalued. New faculty, in particular, taketheir cue from tenured colleagues and from university administrators. If there is little concern about ongoing 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

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M. Hailey; G. Garrison; E. Parkinson

mechanisms. Thus,the quality of education via distance learning education can become an issue. The institution’sreputation “identity” for delivery of quality education can be harmed if the teaching effectivenessof its faculty goes down. [ quality issues ( perception of need lack of workload adjustment ) \ lack of financial incentive / lack of recognition Figure 4. Sources of Resistance Distance learning provides a larger student base. This becomes a potential benefit forfaculty to serve more customers. Faculty have the added challenge of providing lectures thatare being televised. With this, the institution may not have adequate

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Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Carol L. O'Loughlin

for freshman engineering students under a Department of Education FII?SE grant. The new course,Introduction to Erzgineen”ng Methodology, represents a broader set of goals course than the old course, Eng”neen”ngProblem Solving, which was originally intended as an introduction to engineering problem solving. This existingcourse was based on traditional engineering topics such as circuit analysis, thermodynamics, and computingand students learned basic skills in a conventional lecture-recitation format. The existing course was found tobe lacking as a motivating and exciting experience for first year engineering students. Since these two factorsplay strong roles in student retention and persistence, an interdisciplinary team of faculty decided to

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Mariesa L. Crow; Kirk H. Schulz; James L. Drewniak; Noel Schulz

. While the approaches for solving thechallenges of dual career hires are varied, the issue is becoming more and more a concern. Departments willfind dual career issues one of the top concerns for the recruitment and retention of faculty in the next ten tofifteen years. In fact, the issue is now rising beyond faculty hiring into the searches for department chairs,deans, vice presidents and presidents [5].In order to gain some insight into attributes of successful dual career searches, a survey was sent to dual careercouples at universities in the United States where both spouses were placed into tenure track faculty positions.Unfortunately, no data base of dual engineering faculty couples exists, and thus, the list was assembled frompersonal

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John R. Williams; Dr. Martin Pike

found in this relationship, emphasizing both the new faculty’s pointof view and the mentor’s point of view. The authors have found that there are many advantages, thoughdifferent ones, for each individual faculty member. New faculty need to establish a mentoring relationshipfrom the very start of the teaching experience. Many newcomers to the field of education believe they arecapable of teaching, but are naive concerning the operative details of the teaching profession. A mentor canhelp chart the path that the new faculty member must follow, as well as help establish other professionalrelationships with other faculty. The mentor gains from the relationship by the insights, different backgroundand outlooks, and skills and knowledge the new

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Robert P. Morgan; Nirmala Kannankutty; Donald E. Strickland

emerging or re-emerging, particularly in the area of research. Yet the views of engineering faculty on these issues havereceived scant attention as these important changes are taking place. In this paper, we report the resultsfrom a survey of a national probability sample of ----’---- engmeermg Iacuq-“--- ‘1-- “ --aspecw on several -’ -- --’- -r” ‘ ‘ or mausmyinvolvement in the academic research enterprise.Background The demise of the Cold War, concern over cutbacks in federal funding for university research

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Paulo S. F. Barbosa

policies. While most Brazilian universities claim that teaching and research are equally important,there is considerable evidence to the contrary. Since we adopted a “research university” model, it is commonknowledge among faculty members that the primary criteria are fimded research and articles published inrefereed journals. On this issue, we have some similarities with the US experience, since the ideal profile of aBrazilian faculty member usually requires the following characteristics: a Ph.D. degree, preferably from aprestigious university; interest in publishing papers and obtaining research grants and the desire to work withgraduate students. Of less importance is the ability to teach and a concern for the problems of undergraduates. In

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Jay Brockman; Stephen Batill; John Renaud; Jeffrey Kantor; David Kirkner; Peter Koggel; Robert Stevenson

students have less of an understanding of thephysical principles and techniques used in other disciplines, a more serious issue is that students are less famil-iar with the interfaces between disciplines. This leaves students unprepared to confront the most difficult prob-lems faced by practicing systems designers: how to simultaneously meet all the constraints imposed bydifferent concerns, and how to effectively make trade-offs between concerns to optimize system performance. To address this issue, we have developed a multidisciplinary engineering design laboratory course forsenior-level undergraduates. The main goal of this laboratory is introduce both faculty and students to interdis-ciplinary group design projects. Projects were

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John A. Fillo

and technologyadvances to the market and economic growth. Fault has been placed at the doorstep of engineering education,both graduate and undergraduate. To deal with present concerns there have been any number of studies as well as articles written on thegeneral theme of new ways of thinking about graduate education. Two important reports on this subject are thereport by the National Research Council, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, “Reshapingthe Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers, ” and the National Academy of Engineering, “AcademicEngineering Research in a Changing World: Issues, Problems and Solutions. ” Another important report thatfocuses primarily on undergraduate education but has implications

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Tomasz Traczyk; Krzysztof Antoszkiewicz; Eugeniusz Toczylowski

resourcemanagement in universities. The managerial and organizational issues are more complex for those universities which have introducedthe modular system of studies, or so called Flexible Indiuidua~ Enrolbnent System (FIES) for students.The Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology is the first academic institution in Poland to haveintroduced FIES, in 1990. FIES allows all students to study individually. It gives substantial flexibility of studies, where studentscan select their own menu of lectures, as well as the individual workloads and timetables. They also mayselect some variants of similar or equivalent lectures. Credit points are attached to courses, and studentsindividually select courses and collect the required credits by the end

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Paul S. Chinowsky; Jorge A. Vanegas

construction practice. One result of this move is the increasing fragmentation andspecialization in courses and educational experiences. This paper introduces one approach currently beingimplemented in the Construction Engineering and Management program at Georgia Tech to alter this change.This paper describes the primary components of this approach including the integration of courses, thecooperation required to support the interdisciplinary emphasis, and the establishment of an innovativeacademic/industry partnership to provide a state-of-the-art physical and technological infrastructure tosupport the program goals.Introduction Construction engineers and managers focus on many issues of concern to society. Foremost amongthese issues is the

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John K. Brown

will likely dominate in the program, it will be available toundergraduates from across the university. Likewise, Engineering, Commerce, and Government will providethe bulk of the teaching staff, but faculty from other units are also participating actively. The curricular structure of the program seeks to leverage student’s experience in their major fields withsignificant exposure to courses that are truly interdisciplinary in their focus and methodologies. The programopens with two new synthetic courses, each to be team taught. The first, “Technology and the ProductDevelopment Lifecycle,” is a micro-level course combining concerns from engineering and commerce. Thesecond introductory offering is “Science and Technology Public Policy

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Sara McComb; Linda Blevins

they can begin doing now to ensure future success, and prepare questions to ask prior toaccepting a faculty position.Two panel discussions have been held offering different perspectives on issues such as innovative teachingmethods and expected course loads, promotion and tenure, starting a research program, getting research funding,and academic interviews. The first panel was comprised of the department heads of different engineeringdisciplines at Purdue University. A second panel consisted of new faculty members from neighboringinstitutions that cover the spectrum from institutions with a high research emphasis to a high teaching emphasis.The importance of research funding is very high on the graduate student’s list of concerns. Two lectures

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R. H. Parsons; S.J. Steiner; K C Dee; G. Judd

multiple answers to specific situations, however it is important that the new TAs know thatthere are answers and that they should communicate with the faculty to clearly establish their responsibilitiesand the faculty members policy on issues such as cheating, re-grading, etc. To stimulate discussion the new Page 1.150.6 1996 ASEE Annual Conference ProceedingsTAs are divided into small groups (15-20) and shown a videotape with short (1-2 min.) vignettes of thesesituations. The MTAs then lead a discussion on the various topics and try help the new TAs see problems thatthey may encounter and suggest

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Merl Baker

day. Like the first, it too rests on a radical transformation of many of our institutions of learning. Like the first, it too involves a cooperative effort of the federal and state governments, as well as of the private sector of American life. And, like the first, it too involves a new form of technology transfer, anew way of bringing the lessons of the library and the laboratory to bear on the economy of the nation. Dr. Bloustein offers a challenge to faculty and administrators to respond to new demand in higher education inresearch, eduction, training, and national involvement. The redirection’s of Ph.D. programs proposed in this paper areprompted by changing national priorities and employer needs, and

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Norbert L. Ackermann; Anthony G. Collins

prevented them fromyet forming mission and goals statements that meet with faculty consensus. Goals were sometimes expressions of remedial strategies required to more effectively accomplishthe department’s mission. For example, several institutions described self-assessment procedures whichidentified department deficiencies. In such cases goals and objectives were established in an effort toremedy these perceived deficiencies. Following on from the self-assessment process the department’simmediate goals dld not always relate to the department strengths but instead focused on “Goals” asagents of change that addressed areas of immediate concern or weaknesses. ANALYSIS OF MISSION AND GOALS STATEMENTS There was not

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Jerry W. Samples; C. Conley; Thomas Lenox

department as beingabove average, if not outstanding, in an institution where teaching is considered to be the faculty’s primaryresponsibility, and where many departments provide training for their incoming faculty. Teacher training is such an issue at West Point because the majority of the faculty are on a 3 year tour ofduty. In the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering every year, some 25 percent of our faculty areteaching for the first time. With this many new instructors coming on board every year, they cannot be left todevelop their teaching on their own if the Academy’s intent is to provide its students with the best educationpossible. Several factors led the authors to seek funding for a modified version of ISW to be

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Robert Madar; David L. Huggins

. Evaluations for Improvements V I . In-class ex~eriences VII. Summary “ I. General Considerations for Delivery of Information: Colleges and universities around theworld are being asked to deliver more for less cost: Downsizing cost effectiv~techni ques, distant learning,multimedia presentations, home based education, are all part of our life style today. The authors believeconsideration needs to be given to the learning curve of all these changes coming so rapidly. Are students as well,better-off, or worse with these new techniques. Is distant learning another way for universities to teach underprescribed sections with a single faculty and a couple of interactive computer based delive~ systems. The costs of PictureTel units

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R. Rinker; J. Peterson; H. Hess; Richard Wall; Kathy Belknap

unity and itscurriculum. This experience suggests this cooperative model is a realistic alternative to the proliferationof multiple, but isolated, engineering colleges in a state or a geographic region.Introduction ASEE Prism recently noted a proliferation in the number of engineering programs offered in theUnited States.[1] Many of these are new, independent colleges or programs. While expressingappreciation for the increased recognition of engineering education's importance, concern for the survivalof so many schools did appear in the Prism article. Very practical people have questioned the wisdom ofbuilding a new engineering school in every city that demands one. [1] The issue centers around the highcost of engineering education

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Wayne E. Wells

order to change the way engineers are educated, we must startwith the engineering faculty. Most faculty members were educated and trained during a peciod when en-vironmental concerns were not important. These faculty members, even though they may have good intentions,do not have the necessary background or resources to bring these concerns into the classroom. Our educationalproject centers around providing that resource to the faculty, Project Strategy We have assembled six teams of educators, industry experts and government representatives from theUnited States, Canada and Mexico to identifi and organize resource materials in the form of issues papers, casestudies, laboratory experiments

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T.C. Young; S.E. Powers; Norbert L. Ackermann; Anthony G. Collins

difficulty isthe fact that institutions place constraints on engineering curricula in order to meet very restrictiveaccreditation requirements. The institutions, however, derive substantial benefits from accreditation.Consequently, relevance and suitability are critical issues that will always confront attempts to reviseengineering curricula. Curricular constraints, therefore, must be addressed explicitly by new or emergingprogrammatic directions, such as expanding the availability of environmental engineering course work tostudents enrolled in other programs. Institutions could respond in a variety of ways to the needs of engineering students to have bettercomprehension of environmental issues and, more specifically, how these issues

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Mohamad Qatu; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

faculty involvement in both types of courses hasbeen encouraged by the recent American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) report, “EngineeringEducation for a Changing World.”b These courses, however, frequently require the special expertise ofmultiple instructors in a team-teaching format. The team-teaching format is also frequently necessary to meet the demands of engineering coursesthat cover a wide range of topics, especially introductory courses and senior level capstone project courses.Engineering educators are concerned today about helping first-year students to succeed. As a result, thereis an emphasis on the development of introductory courses designed to support and encourage entry levelstudents in engineering.’ These

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Sanford Bordman; Iftekhar Hasan

efficiency and product differentiation may be the key to the new Page 1.72.1 1 We thank Bruce Kirchhoff for helpful comments. The authors are responsible for any remaining errors. {hi&’> 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘. 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘yml.? .by redesign of course content and instructional materials, The emphasis of the integrated courses hasbeen broadened to include manufacturing and industrial concerns as well as social and policy issues. The faculty

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Craig Gunn

to either reduce papers, cut feedback, or find another way to provide the neededcomments that all writers need in order to improve their text production. The already existing body ofteaching assistants was tapped to act as readers and evaluators. The issues regarding communicationintegrated into an engineering department, faculty support for the plan, preparation of the graduate students,orientation for the undergraduates who are impacted by the plan, and an evaluation of the process thus farwill be addressed.Introduction Communication skill has always been one of the first things that is considered when deficiencieswithin engineering programs are evaluated. Over the past years many strategies have been undertaken toaddress these

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William Peterson

Session 2542 Selling The Solution: A Key Skill for Engineering Managers William R. Peterson, Ph.D. University of Minnesota Duluth Improving competitiveness is a common concern for most manufacturing operations. Competitivepressure in manufacturing increases each year, and business-as-usual approaches do not work. Innovation isthe order of the day. Companies must respond to competitive challenges in new and innovative ways or findtheir products losing ground in the market place. Innovation takes many forms from hardware (such asrobotics

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Michael S. Leonard; Donald E. Beasley; D. Jack Elzinga

different from campus to campus. In this paper, we present a framework for continuous improvement concepts that can be applied toengineering curriculum innovation and renewal. While it is neither possible nor desirable to develop a universalengineering curriculum, a systematic means of assessing and continuously improving an existing curriculum as awhole should be valuable to department chairs and engineering faculty. This methodology has been developed to enhance efforts by a department's faculty, led by its chair, toanalyze and understand an existing curriculum, to measure and assess input from a variety of informed sources,and to design an improved curriculum in response to the input received. This method delivers a new

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George A. Bohlen; Donna C.S. Summers

requires an understanding of all facets of the organization. Havingdecided upon the course, the decision was made to team teach the course to ensure that the students wereexposed to quality management concepts from both a business and an engineering perspective. This paperprovides insights into the creation of such a course and the lessons learned from team teaching aninterdisciplinary course. The lessons learned concerned logistics and administrative issues, course preparationand course conduct.Introduction The development of this interdisciplinary team taught course had its roots in a discussion held byseveral faculty members during graduation exercises. The discussion centered on the problems associatedwith exposing students to all of

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Joseph A. Heim; Gary M. Erickson

confronting the companies, but alsoprepared to respond appropriately.Course Structure and Organization At the University of Washington, the Integrated Product Development course is open to both MBA andgraduate engineering students. We try to enroll an equal number of engineering and business students in theclass, since product development project teams need the talents of both groups. The material presented throughout the quarter focuses on the three primary issues: the tools andtechnologies available to IPD teams; the organizational and cultural context in which IPD is most effective; andthe importance of considering the entire product life cycle when developing new products.Selection and Use of Appropriate Tools and Technologies

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L. F. Borjón; F. Martín del Campo

accomplishing the program's title (about 4.5 years) whenthe minimum general, and particular requirements are covered. In the event of detecting that one or two of thisminimun requirements are not covered but the particular ones are, accreditation is given for two years, afterwhich this particular problems are once again analyzed by CACEI evaluators. If the minimum requirementesare covered but the evaluators find problems on covering the particular requirements, the accreditation term isdetermined by the evaluation team; when this term is due a new revision of the problematic issues. If theproblems are not solved no accreditation is granted. One of the main concerns of CACEI refers to the amount of engineering schools that are potentialcandidate

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Craig Gunn

in bringing freshmen into the departments of engineering much sooner than in the past.An overview of the ROSES program and specifically the required engineering course will be addressed.Introduction Moving from life as a high school student into the arena of the university where there may be 6,000other freshmen preparing for positions in the future may be traumatic and career threatening. Concern withthe environment that is created for these students has become one of the most important topics ofconversation among individuals and departments where the student really does have significance. It isvitally important that all schools of higher learning make an effort to create a smooth transition for studentsentering the new experience