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Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Wang

careers. Both degree-granting and continuing education programs must integrateenvironmental, ethical, and aesthetic values as well as an understanding of political, social,and economic issues that affect public policy. Sustainable development must be a value that isencouraged at all levels of professional training and practice. Thus, while education in any ofthese areas might be carried on independently, education and professional practice in manyfields will be more closely attuned to community and national needs if they are approached ina unified manner. Often, it seems, faculties from other countries are more capable of accurately assessing andpredicting new trends in the global business environment. This author believes this is becausethey

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brian Manhire

(San Fran- cisco, California: Encounter for Culture and Education, Inc., Encounter Books, 2001), passim. (Reviewed by Paul Hollander in the Summer 2002 issue of Academic Questions.) 18. Paul Hollander, Discontents: Postmodern & Postcommunist (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Pub- lishers, 2002), passim. 19. John Kekes, “Academia . . . and the Truth,” Kneller Lecture delivered to the North American Philosophy of Education Society meeting in Toronto, Canada on 27 March 2004. Published online, April 2, 2004 by Front- PageMagazine.com, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=12837 20. Mark Bauerlein, “Liberal Groupthink Is Anti-Intellectual,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 November

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gillian Saunders-Smits

faculty of aerospace engineering will be approached with a questionnaire askingthem to answer questions on their activities on the job for each competence or skill as well asother information such as job responsibility level, salary and information and feedback on theirtime studying in Delft.The results of this survey should yield a description of the aerospace engineering alumnipopulation in the Netherlands, which is currently lacking, and give the faculty an idea of howsuccessful its alumni really are. At the same time the results will allow us to select a new, smallerresearch population who will be interviewed in more detail about their educational experience atDelft University of Technology and its relevance on their career as well as any

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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R. William Graff; Paul Leiffer

. Copy-pasteplagiarism is a serious issue in English classes around the country. Many students havedownloaded and shared movies and music files. Reserve books may be removed from thelibrary if a student “needs them” for a project. A survey from the Management EducationCenter at Rutgers found that 75 percent of high school students admitted to cheating19.Cheating is on the rise – this is also related to the change in students’ performance, andcalculator use. High-tech cheating has become a new challenge for highereducation20,21,22. If it is permissible, and even encouraged, to work in groups, to consultwith others, and to depend on one’s calculator to perform calculations, the line between

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tobia Steyn

the curriculum of the extended study program so that the students can comply with the exitlevel outcomes for engineering graduates set by the Engineering Council of South Africa. Faculty is faced with thechallenge to redress and enhance the under-prepared students' understanding of the fundamentals underpinning astudy in calculus, to develop their personal, academic and communication skills and to introduce them to basic skillsin information technology.To meet this challenge and address these aspects, a developmental course, Professional Orientation, is presentedduring the first year of study. The main pedagogical approach in the Professional Orientation course is to develop theacademic potential of the under prepared students. Therefore, the

Conference Session

Issues of Building Diversity

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2005 Annual Conference

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Carla Purdy; Mara Wasburn

Diversity in Engineering Education--What Are the Perceived Issues? Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati (carla.purdy@uc.edu) Mara Wasburn, Purdue University (mwasburn@purdue.edu)AbstractAt the Annual ASEE Conference in June 2004, three ASEE divisions--the Graduate Division,Women in Engineering, and Minorities in Engineering--co-sponsored a panel session on"Recruiting and Building Diversity". In this paper we summarize the issues raised by the panelmembers and by members of the audience in June 2004 as an introduction to a further discussionof diversity, along with a plan for action, by leading engineering educators. Issues of concern atthe 2004 session

Conference Session

Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Roger Painter

The Role of Environmental Justice Issues in Environmental Engineering EthicsRoger Painter Ph.D. P.E. and Lashun KingDepartment of Civil and Environmental EngineeringTennessee State UniversityNashville, TN AbstractThe engineering accreditation agency, ABET regards engineering ethics as an importantcomponent of engineering education. ABET’s Criterion 3(f ) states that “EngineeringPrograms must demonstrate their graduates have an understanding of professional andethical responsibilities.” Limitations on credit hours in engineering programs oftenpreclude ethics being taught in a separate course and engineering faculty must includeethics topics in traditional engineering courses.Teaching engineering

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Biwu Yang; Tijjani Mohammed

been offering several Internet-based graduate programssince 1995. This paper focuses on the Master of Science in Industrial Technology (MSIT) thathas several concentrations, including Computer Networking Management, DigitalCommunications, and Information Security. All courses in the MSIT program are delivered100% online, with majority of the technical courses having lab-intensive, hands-on components.This paper shares information pertaining to some of the issues and experiences of offeringgraduate, hands-on programs in information technology (IT) completely online.IntroductionDistance education, by nature has several unique issues, but making it online and lab-intensivewith real equipment creates new challenges1,3,5,13. The availability and

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jerry Samples

Engineering TechnologyDivision of ASEE is looking into this issue and plan to present, Professional developmentguidelines for Engineering Technology faculty, at CIEC next February. This idea of ETguidelines versus university guidelines will not work at most universities and can lead toproblems in the promotion and tenure of new ET faculty, and in the overall collegiality of thefaculty across campus. Simply put, the University does not care what ABET or ASEE says, theUniversity has its own rules and practices which govern tenure and promotion, and ET facultymust abide by these rules just as other faculty within the University do. The collegiality issueslips in when ET faculty separate themselves from the rules of the University.For some years

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Hassan Alfadala; Andrew Wilson

programs first attempting to develop assessment processes, surveyswere relied upon heavily. The results of these surveys identified general concerns. However, theinformation obtained did not have sufficient detail to effectively pinpoint the problem areas anddevelop specific remedies.Faculty were sent to ABET program evaluator training sessions, ABET international facultyworkshops conducted in Istanbul and Singapore, the ABET annual meetings, and the “BestAssessment Processes Symposium” at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.Additionally, consultants with ABET experience were engaged to help train the faculty, reviewthe processes established, and review the materials prepared for a future ABET visit. AnInternational Academic Advisory Committee was

Conference Session

Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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JoDell Steuver; Michele Summers; Donna Evanecky

ETD 2142 The Balancing Act for New Educators Donna J. Evanecky, JoDell Steuver, Michele Summers Purdue University College of Technology Kokomo/Columbus-SE Indiana/LafayetteAbstractTenure-track positions in the field of Engineering Technology give new faculty many advantagesincluding benefits, status, prestige, a say in governance, job security, legitimacy and academicfreedom. These positions make hard demands on personal relationships and family as the newfaculty member is asked to embrace his new passion—academe. Some have suggested

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

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Clair Nixon

of seven weeks of interviews, a presentation of the results wasmade to Boeing representatives in St. Louis. The focus of the presentation was two-part,namely, identification of key business competencies for the new engineers and a modelfor a new employee orientation program. Both Boeing representatives and the otherBoeing Welliver Fellows provided a critique of the presentation. The results belowinclude their comments and reflections. Page 10.284.2Results As expected, there was a diversity of opinion concerning the most valuablebusiness competencies to enhance the potential for success among new engineers. In fact,there were fifteen

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”complexity of new software); issues regarding graphics as an area of study (curriculumchanges, fitting into engineering programs, and the increased emphasis on research); and theneed to maintain practices, such as sketching, rather than focusing on teaching software.Other concerns mentioned more than once were teaching content verses software and thecomplexity of software increasing faculty workloads. In the 1998 survey, the four mostfrequently mentioned concerns in order of importance was adequate funding, softwareemphasis over basic skills, difficulty in staying up-to

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lisa Frehill

The NSF-ADVANCE Program and the Recruitment and Retention of Women Engineering Faculty at New Mexico State University Lisa M. Frehill, Ph. D. New Mexico State UniversityRecruitment and retention of women engineering faculty has become an increasingly importantissue as baby boomers hired in the 1970s and early 1980s have begun to retire. In general,higher education has difficulty competing with the lucrative salaries, benefits, and workingconditions offered by industry, which is especially the case with engineering. Concern for theprofessorate has led to a number of programmatic efforts at the National Science Foundation(NSF) to improve access to the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kramer

, and African American faculty,as well as a fraction of junior and senior male faculty from other racial-ethnic groups. Mostinterviews were between 60 and 90 minutes long. Following the "grounded theory" approachdeveloped by Glaser and Straus, I pursued a research strategy in which the questions I posedevolved through the course of the research.9 Furthermore, given my selection criteria forinterview subjects and concerns about the representativeness of those who agreed to participate,it is more appropriate to think of these individuals as informants, in the ethnographic oranthropological sense, rather than as respondents. The design more closely resembles a"naturalistic inquiry" than a survey;8 the findings of qualitative research such as this

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lisa Rosenstein; Jeffery Donnell; Christina Bourgeois

institutional context helps to inform how communication instruction ishandled at the school level, local/departmental issues of enrollment, funding, and faculty attitudes andperceptions of technical communications ultimately shape the genesis, development, and growth of eachschool’s communication program. Page 10.701.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”This paper will describe three in-house engineering communications programs that have beenimplemented at the Georgia Institute of

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Warren; Diana Mellar

Education”Each year, Vermont Tech hosts two graduations, the traditional graduation day in May, and thePractical Nurse graduation day in June. During these events, most of the campus academicbuildings are locked. This seems to be one of those classical CQI issues: "Why have you beendoing it this way?" With the Recruiting CQI team taking a fresh look at how graduation isconducted, the team put forth recommendations to make graduation day more of an open houseevent with displays and demonstrations in the academic labs. With graduation day possiblybeing the last day students spend on campus, an open campus provides for a much morememorable impression for new graduates, their parents, family, and friends. This leads toimprovement in the word of mouth

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Baurin; Annita Alting; Ardie Walser

Engineering and Technology(ABET) in its Engineering Criteria 2000, requiring engineering programs to produce Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationengineers with skills to function on multidisciplinary teams, and a broad education tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions on society and the world.The new criterion is a challenge for engineering programs and students alike and withoutproper attention from faculty and staff it could be another barrier between members of anunderrepresented group and the attainment of a degree.Underrepresented GroupsWhile much has been written about the obstacles to

Conference Session

Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patricia Mosto; Gina Tang; Courtney Richmond; Joseph Orlins; Catherine Yang; Demond Miller; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Anthony Marchese; Mariano Savelski; Paris von Lockette; Stephanie Farrell; Yusuf Mehta; William Riddell

for three consecutive summers. Theinitiative is based on current global initiatives to integrate sustainability into the science andengineering curriculum. Students need to be exposed to enriching experiences that require themto have concerns for human conditions and the environment that are conservative and protective.The REU site allows eleven undergraduates to participate in pollution prevention andsustainability research activities at Rowan University for eight weeks during the summer.Engineering and science faculty participate in mentoring activities along with Rowanundergraduate and graduate students. Social building skills such as community outreachseminars, workshops, social picnics, field trips and communication strengthening

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Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

constituent programs --- Civil, Industrial, Mechanical and Metallurgical &Materials Engineering. Increasing graduation rates of minorities and women in these programsalso has the potential to impact Lower Division engineering programs in the other engineeringcollege academic components, namely, Electrical & Computer Engineering and ComputerScience.Increasing graduation rates has been chosen as the focus because it creates a “win-win” situationfor everyone concerned. In successfully undertaking this project we are “making a difference,”and in so doing are promoting new and appropriate paradigms for engineering education that arebeing recognized nationally as a model for other minority-serving institutions

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amy Miller; Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi; Andrew Rose

Spaghetti Factor,” where peers have stepped forwardto encourage, guide and lead others toward success in the tenure process. The peerleadership model implemented by the untenured faculty at UPJ has created anenvironment of collaboration and cooperation, rather than competition.This cooperative attitude has been passed down from each tenure stream faculty memberto the next. It serves as a vital component of the model. As issues arise for the untenuredfaculty, the advice of peers, who are farther along the tenure stream, is easily sought andwillingly shared. The cohesiveness of the new strands of “spaghetti” at UPJ is especiallyimportant since the senior tenured faculty are all quite removed from the tenure process.In fact, the tenured faculty and

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kevin Brewer; Johannes Boehme; Glenda Scales; Cheryl Peed

applied to human medicine. The SBES combines resources of twomajor universities to create an ideal venue for this new educational initiative. The school isadministered jointly by Virginia Tech College of Engineering, the Wake Forest UniversitySchool of Medicine, and the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine andfocuses on collaborative research and educational opportunities for faculty and students on bothcampuses.2The SBES graduate programs enable students to earn M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in BiomedicalEngineering, a joint M.D./Ph.D. degree through the Wake Forest University School of Medicine,and a joint D.V.M./Ph.D. degree through the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of VeterinaryMedicine. The mission of the SBES is “to

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ryan Dupont; Mary Feng; Hailey Christine

Hailey, Associate Dean in the College of Engineering,Christine Hult, Associate Dean in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, RobertSchmidt, Associate Professor in Environment and Society, and Kim Sullivan, AssociateProfessor in Biology. Mary Feng serves as the ADVANCE project leader. Ryan Dupont is theleader of the Science and Engineering Recruitment Team (SERT).Initial ConditionsAs the ADVANCE team developed the Utah State ADVANCE project, we realized that weneeded to know the local issues concerning recruitment and retention that were important towomen faculty in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) at UtahState. In 2002 and 2003, the ADVANCE team interviewed current and recent women faculty(n = 42

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; Barbara Masi; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

criteria were not met, faculty were understandablymuch less enthusiastic. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTherefore, as part of a planning process to develop an infrastructure and curriculum for thebroader integration of service learning in the mechanical engineering department, we sought tobetter understand faculty knowledge of, enthusiasm for, and concerns about service learning. Inpart, we needed this information to create a tailored educational workshop on service learning forthe faculty. To this end, structured interviews were conducted to gain insight into MITmechanical engineering

Conference Session

Professional Development & Women Faculty

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

F. Carroll Dougherty; Cheryl Schrader

collaborative grantwith faculty in the geosciences department to study the effects of spatial and temporal variabilityof soil properties on watershed processes. One of her major research interests continues to be thedevelopment of a new cone penetrometer tool for determining the hydraulic properties ofunsaturated soils, for which she has received a NSF CAREER Award and an ARO younginvestigator award while at South Carolina. Dr. Gribb also received DURIP and NSF Idaho-EPSCoR equipment grants while at Boise State to obtain a truck-mounted direct push system andthe associated tooling to further this research. She has taught introduction to Civil Engineering,hazardous waste engineering, groundwater contaminant transport, hydrogeology, vadosezone hydrology

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberley R. Breaux; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

32 40 8 80 significant cost- savings. As the studygot underway, the APS methodology continued to be refined; thus, informed-consent needs keptchanging. Audio-taping, photography, and issues such as duration of surveys and interviewswere among the concerns fine-tuned as APS evolved. Internal Review Boards operate slowlyand deliberatively, making for some months the signed consent status out of sync with hoped-for Page 10.1074.5data collection methods. This also meant that students needed to sign several different versionsof the

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackson Denise; Charles Aikens

radical change. An integrated learning experience will replacedemonstrate-then-emulate methods. The focus will be on problem-based, cooperative, andservice learning exercises; research; information technologies; and faculty teaming.The design methodology described begins with the creation of a knowledge base consisting ofprogram learning outcomes, content elements, and teaching resources. From the knowledgebase, a process is implemented leading to a new modularized integrated curriculum that will beteam-taught, will include innovations in teaching and assessment methods, and will use graduateteaching assistants in a novel way. The paper is organized in four sections: making the case forchange, a proposal for innovation, a paradigm-changing

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

as well as a technical education.The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) Engineering Division with funding from the HewlettFoundation has undertaken a new initiative that will prepare engineering students for careers thatwill benefit the international community. Specifically, the Engineering Division is collaboratingwith the Liberal Arts and International Studies Division at CSM to create courses that will helpengineering students to understand their obligations as engineers to the well-being of the U.S.and other societies. One of the primary goals of this effort is to create a culture of acceptance andvalue of community and international service activities throughout CSM faculty and students.The efforts of the “Humanitarian Engineering” program

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

Measuring the Effectiveness of a Series of Workshops Focused on the Retention of Underrepresented Engineering Faculty Norma Jean Mattei, Ph.D., P.E. University of New OrleansAbstractWith a workforce that is heavy with engineers nearing retirement age and an engineeringundergraduate population growth rate that is fairly flat, administrators will have to focus moreand more on recruitment and retention. Women and minorities have long been underrepresentedin engineering and are a potential source of future engineers. A diverse faculty would, of course,be an asset in getting and keeping a more diverse student body. However, the pool of women andminority

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

design anddesign-related courses is repeatedly emphasized by ABET during accreditation visits and byother engineering organizations, such as ASEE, in conferences and through relevantpublications. Thus, directions for proper merging of professional experience with engineeringscience in design courses are a concern that comes up often in educational forums. How bestcould such “a merging scenario” be planned and implemented, depends on: faculty foresight,available resources, and the commitment-on the part of the faculty and the administration-to themission.The paper reports on a success story of such a merger in a geotechnical/foundation class. Thesuccess achieved was attributed, in large measure, to the proper coordination that precededcourse