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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Satinderpaul Devgan

, complemented bybasic and applied research and public service, to prepare its graduates for startingpositions in industry, government and/or pursue graduate study in related fields.Development of Program Educational Objectives and Program Outcomes ABET EC 2000 criteria has two new criteria (Program Educational Objectivesand Program Outcomes and Assessment) in addition to the six criteria for programassessment in the old ABET criteria 1, 2 . The B.S. in Electrical Engineering programoffered by Tennessee State University developed its Program Educational Objectives(PEO), as shown in Table 1, that are consistent with the mission of the University, and itsCollege of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science, address the requirements ofits

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Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

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John McMasters

Boeing-University Relations - A Review and Prospects for the Future John H. McMasters, Narayanan Komerath The Boeing Company / Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Boeing Company has been noteworthy within the aerospace industry for its ambitiousuniversity relations program originally conceived in the early 1990s. This program has aimed atnot only creating strong company relations with universities important to its business interests,but also to lead broader industry efforts to enhance engineering and related technical andbusiness education programs across the nation. This paper reviews the development of theBoeing program, discusses important lessons learned from the overall effort, and

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ismail Jouny

Evaluating the Program Educational Objectives of an Engineering Program at a Small Institution Ismail Jouny Electrical and Computer Engineering Lafayette College, Easton, PA AbstractThis paper focuses on processes and methodologies for evaluating the ProgramEducational Objectives (PEO) of an engineering program according to ABET2000Engineering Accreditation criterion. The paper will review existing processes forevaluating PEO’s at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) ofLafayette College. These processes will be compared with those at other institutions.Lessons

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

X X 2) Develop systems containing hardware & software components X X 3) A&D of Complex electrical & Electronic Devices X XProcesses used to assess each of the program outcomesThe electrical engineering curriculum and the steps taken to effectively implement thecurriculum are the main vehicles that ensure the program outcomes (ABET criteria anddepartment-specific competencies) are met. Because of the importance of the curriculum inmeeting the criteria, the faculty regularly update a curriculum matrix to describe how each of thecourse objectives for all required courses relates to the

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

An Alternate Route For a Career Related to Engineering Education: A Kumon Franchise Doreen Lawrence†, and Barbara Oakley†† † Kumon North America, Inc. Glenpointe Centre East- 5th Floor, 300 Frank W. Burr Blvd, Teaneck, NJ, 07666/ ††School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 48306 AbstractKumon North America, Inc. (KNA) is North America’s largest supplemental educationprovider. In studying the relation between KNA and engineering, it has been found thatnearly ten percent of all Kumon mathematics instructors have left successful engineeringpositions to run their own Kumon

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Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joseph Shaeiwitz

Food Processing: Another Case Study in Biologically Related Product and Multi-scale Design Joseph A. Shaeiwitz, Richard Turton West Virginia UniversityIntroductionThe profession of chemical engineering is in the midst of a change. Biology is joining math,chemistry, and physics as an “enabling science.” Chemical engineers are more often required todesign new products rather than new chemical processes. The past generation has seenenormous research advances in the enabling sciences in colloid-scale, nano-scale, molecular-scale, and atomic-scale technology.In response to this expansion of the skills and knowledge required of the 21st century

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

Session XX60 Fishing Engineering: A Customized Engineering Program Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and SciencesAbstractIn order to form professionals committed with the creation and development of science,principally in engineering field the research team of COPEC – Council of Researches inEducation and Sciences has conceived and implemented a different kind of engineering program.Brazil despite the low investment in education system is a Country, which in biological andengineering areas is not behind other developed Countries. It is a five years

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Loendorf

Student Affairs; • Work with high school guidance counselors in ethnically and culturally diverse areas to develop a formal school to university relations and transitions program for EE; • Develop or expand working relationships with the region’s Gear-up, Upward Bound, Talent Search, MESA (Math, Engineering, Science Achievement) and HAAP (Hispanic Academic Achievers Program) programs to develop initiatives that pique student interest and participation in EE; Page 10.434.8 • Work with Washington State Achiever’s Program (funded by Washington Education Foundation) advisors/mentors to recruit and retain scholarship

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kanti Prasad

A case study of eradicating weakness in accreditation owing to vital role played by industrial and government leaders in academia Kanti Prasad, Ph.D.; P.E. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell MA 01854 Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduIntroduction In the fall of 2000, we were visited by ABET for regular accreditation forour Electrical Engineering Program. We were cited ‘weakness’ in our course16.499 Capstone Project. Although the design content was of great quality, but itlacked in elucidating the design impact on society, its environmental implication,ethical content, and economic

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Lord

developing a general education course for engineers4, a senior engineering Page 10.1484.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationseminar5, providing opportunities outside the classroom6, identifying existing courses throughoutthe curriculum7, or incorporating within a core class8. Upper-division undergraduate electivecourses are good candidates for incorporating these ABET 2000 criteria in EE curricula. Thispaper describes the implementation of these criteria in such an elective.In the EE program at

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Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey LaCombe; James Detweiler; Daniel Loranz; Eric Wang

Page 10.1133.3low-cost experience in space systems. For 2005, there are two separate competitions: the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationundergraduate (rookie) mission for teams new to CanSats and the graduate (advanced)competition for teams with prior CanSat experience.While dozens of websites can be found relating to various aspects of CanSats, only a fewarchival publications have been found concerning CanSat programs [17, 18].2.3 CubeSatThe ultimate goal of the National Student Satellite Program is envisioned to be a 52 spacecraftflotilla to Mars composed of student built spacecraft (one

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IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jane Fraser

Session xxxx Benchmarking IE Programs Jane M. Fraser Colorado State University - PuebloIntroductionBenchmarking is the process of determining what others in the same business as yoursare doing. Benchmarking is usually done to determine (and apply) best practices. I havereviewed 101 industrial engineering (IE) programs, by location, size, and otherdescriptors and I have reviewed the content of their programs. I do not support argumentsof the form “we should do it because everyone else does” and I hope that these data willnot be used in this way, but these results may

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jane Fraser

Session xxxx Benchmarking IE Programs Jane M. Fraser Colorado State University - PuebloIntroductionBenchmarking is the process of determining what others in the same business as yoursare doing. Benchmarking is usually done to determine (and apply) best practices. I havereviewed 101 industrial engineering (IE) programs, by location, size, and otherdescriptors and I have reviewed the content of their programs. I do not support argumentsof the form “we should do it because everyone else does” and I hope that these data willnot be used in this way, but these results may

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

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Keshav Varde

programhave motivated them to pursue advanced degree or a career in research and development field.The research project of one of the teams resulted in a technical publication; more can beexpected in future.ConclusionsThe undergraduate research program in combustion engines and related areas at the University ofMichigan-Dearborn has provided excellent research experience to undergraduates, both fromresearch universities and 4-year colleges. Working closely with the supervising faculty andgraduate research assistants the participants have excelled in acquiring knowledge, techniques,skills and inquisitive mind needed to be good researchers. The research program has resulted in Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

engineering education and lead to fundamental reforms of engineering programs and how they are designed and presented to learners (formerly referred to as “students”). This is both a challenge and an opportunity, which must be approached with creativity, willingness to take risks, respect, and determination.Challenges• Vocabulary. Two major issues related to vocabulary have emerged. o One issue is obvious – the vocabulary inherent in our relative disciplinary knowledge bases. Engineers have a vast vocabulary related to the science, mathematics, and culture of engineering. Educators’ vocabulary is deeply connected to theories of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Pat Leelani; Hector Estrada

issomething other than conducting trains. In this paper, we present materials developed for asummer engineering program to educate high school students about the academic andprofessional opportunities engineering has to offer. The educational materials have been used thelast three summers and 49 high school students have participated. The students are selected fromseveral area high schools based on their academic interest, with the highest priority given tothose interested in mathematics and science. They are brought to Kingsville to experiencecollege life (including college admission and other college related activities) and to participate inseveral educational activities designed to familiarize them with civil engineering, includingconstruction

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ram Mohan; Narayan Radhakrishnan; Guoqing Tang; Kenneth Murray; Ajit Kelkar

in thefuture. The goal of this track is to produce technologists with a focus and training incomputational sciences, and in their primary technology domain area. Students withundergraduate degrees in engineering, mathematics, physics and computer science may also beadmitted and must meet the course and curriculum requirements in technology.Educational Objectives of the ProgramThe educational objectives of the program are as follows:o Educate and graduate students with a mastery of high performance computer programming tools as well as processing, data acquisition, analysis techniques.o Acquire, educate and train in computational modeling, simulation and visualization.o Relate acquired computational science and engineering knowledge

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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T.M. Wildman; M. L. Wolfe; Jr., O.Hayden Griffin, O.Hayden Griffin,; J. Muffo; G.T. Adel; G.V. Loganathan; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

AC 2005-552: USING ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOS IN A LARGE ENGINEERINGPROGRAMG.T. Adel,G.V. Loganathan,J. Muffo,Jr., O.Hayden Griffin,Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityM. L. Wolfe,Marie Paretti, Virginia TechT.M. Wildman,Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityVinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Page 10.1407.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Using Electronic Portfolios in a Large Engineering Program T. W. Knott, V. K. Lohani, G.V. Loganathan G. T. Adel, M.L. Wolfe, M. C. Paretti, K. Mallikarjunan

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Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brianno Coller

Advanced Programming in the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum B.D. Coller Department of Mechanical Engineering Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 601151. IntroductionWe are in the process of developing an advanced computing and programming trackwithin the undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum at Northern IllinoisUniversity (NIU). We are introducing our mechanical engineering students to conceptssuch as object oriented programming, data structures, complexity analysis, and elementsof software design that are normally taught to computer scientists. Rather than ship ourengineering students to

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Linda Scherr; Bevlee Watford

2005-274 WEPAN The Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network Bevlee A. Watford President, WEPAN Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity 215 Hancock Hall (0275), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 540-231-3244 FAX 540-231-1831, ceed@vt.edu Linda Scherr President-Elect, WEPANAbstractWEPAN, Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network, is a non-profit organizationfocused on strengthening the engineering workforce by

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

Engineering Entrepreneurship Courses Enhance Engineering Management Program at Florida Tech Carmo D’Cruz, Muzaffar Shaikh, Wade Shaw Department of Engineering Systems, Florida Tech, Melbourne, Florida, 32901AbstractInnovative Engineering Entrepreneurship courses in the Department of Engineering Systems atFlorida Tech have greatly enriched the Engineering Management students’ educationalexperience, broadened their perspectives, served as community outreach forums and integratedholistic experiential learning with academic programs. The four well-balanced and appropriatelysequenced courses in Engineering Entrepreneurship

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brij Agrawal

Spacecraft Design Program at the Naval Postgraduate School Brij N. Agrawal Distinguished Professor Department of Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93943 agrawal@nps.eduABSTRACT This paper presents a review of the spacecraft design program at the Naval PostgraduateSchool. This program is part of the space systems engineering curriculum. In this curriculum, thestudents take at least one course for each spacecraft subsystem. The spacecraft design is a threecourse design sequence. The first

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Farison

engineering (although the institution may have doctoral programs inother disciplines).A third institutional variable is its public or private status. There are also five U.S. militaryinstitutions in the list that are identified as a third group. Since these classifications are notnumerical, they were assigned numbers to facilitate the visualization. Solely because the highestranked programs followed that order, but otherwise arbitrarily, the numerical assignment shownin Figure 4 is: 3 = private, 2 = military, and 1 = public. Based on the relatively frequency ofoccurrence, one could say that the private and military institutions dominate the higher rankings.An interesting aspect of this graph is whether any of this effect is related to the relative

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

through this newaccreditation process and numerous assessment systems, processes and tools have beendeveloped as illustrated by recently reported studies2-8, among others. The American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE) provides links to the assessment-related activities of severalprograms9.To encourage creativity and uniqueness within the engineering education community, ABET EC2000 criteria provide significant flexibility towards developing an outcomes-based assessmentsystem10,11. For example, programs are required to define their own PEOs and demonstrate theirachievement through outcomes-based assessment. To contribute to the creativity and uniquenessas demanded by ABET, in the present paper, the assessment system developed at the Charles

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Myers; Jack Byrd; Robin Hensel

Designing a Freshman Program to Support Student Success Robin A. M. Hensel, Jack Byrd, Jr., Warren R. Myers, College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia UniversityAbstractThe WVU College of Engineering and Mineral Resources has implemented severalprogrammatic changes to the freshman year experience in an effort to support students in theirattempt to attain the College’s high academic standards and to improve retention of studentsfrom the freshman to the sophomore year. This paper describes several of these programmodifications, presents an analysis of the data indicating the results of these changes, and makesrecommendations for further study.The changes made to the freshman program

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Johnson

from the Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program will demonstrate: • A professional work ethic, a commitment to lifelong learning, quality and continuous improvement through the clear ability to assume increasing levels of technical and/or management responsibility. • Leadership and participation in teams that act as change agents and innovators in product design and manufacturing related organizations. • The ability to drive the design of manufacturable products, design effective and efficient new production processes and improve the performance of existing operations. • Effective communication with all levels of the organization.Developing the Original Program Outcomes:The original set of PO’s for the

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Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Chenoweth; Donald Bagert

related fields, computerengineering and computer science. Each of these fields now enjoys a mature curriculum, withbaccalaureate degrees offered at a large number of institutions. In the U.S. in 2004 there were173 ABET-accredited computer engineering and related baccalaureate programs5, and 206ABET-accredited computer science baccalaureate programs4. (Computer Science programs wereinitially accredited starting in 1986 by the Computer Sciences Accreditation Board; ABET andCSAB “integrated” in 2002, with CSAB now existing as the lead professional society forcomputing and software engineering programs.) The early growth of both these programs,however, was at a slow rate:• From 1971 to 1979, the number of ABET-accredited computer engineering and

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Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvonne Ng

to the gathering, 2) educatingscience faculty about the engineering process so they can better identify successful engineering studentsand relate their courses to engineering students, 3) making the program into a 1-credit course that couldbe taken by students each semester during their 2-3-years of engineering preparation at the College, 4)tracking the participants’ success in the engineering part of their education, and 5) assisting otherinstitutions interested in creating a campus-wide, women-friendly recruitment and retention program attheir campuses.1 “Tasting” EngineeringHistorically, engineering students took scienceand mathematics pre-requisite courses in thefirst year of college. It wasn’t until thesophomore year that students were

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Saeid Motavalli; Helen Zong; Farnaz Ganjeizadeh; David Bowen

DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW M.S. DEGREE IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT David Bowen, Farnaz Ganjeizadah, Saeid Motavalli, Helen Zong California State University, East Bay dbowen@csuhayward.eduAbstractThe objective of the graduate program in Engineering Management at California StateUniversity East Bay is to train professionals for leadership roles in engineering,manufacturing and service industries. This program will enable individuals with a degreein engineering, science or related fields working in manufacturing and

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. L. Kolar; K. M. Dresback; E. M. Tromble

one research proposal; encourage them to submit an article or conference paper related to their teaching experience. 9 Require Fellows to develop and maintain a portfolio of their research and teaching experi- ences and help graduating Fellows secure teaching or research appointments. 10 Ensure proper use of program funds, following all relevant Federal regulations.2. A little bit about the chosen theme of OUr GAANN project.While physicists often speak of the grand challenge of a unified theory, we believe that CEES Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education