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Thomas Stanford; R.J. Bennett; R. Jacoby; M.I. Mendelson; D.A. Keating

directly relevant to the progressive growth needs of the participatingengineering leaders in regional industry. The intent of this reform is to offer courses that meet the engineeringleader’s professional growth needs. In this manner, the participants, industry, and the regional university wouldcontinually grow together. The curriculum of professionally oriented graduate studies would include both thetheoretical work and the practical engineering work necessary to enhance the participant’s field of needs-drivencreative technological innovation. This high quality professionally oriented graduate studies program would beinitially designed, implemented, and continually improved at universities in strong partnership with regionalindustry to protect

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Robin H. Lovgren; Michael J. Racer; Anna P. Phillips

effort. In the last section, we provide someconclusions and identify our directions for the future.II. INSE - A Historical PerspectiveThis section discusses the evolution of the Industrial and Systems Engineering (INSE) Programat The University of Memphis from a graduate program to a combined undergraduate/graduateprogram. INSE began as a graduate program. In the early 1970’s, a group of industryrepresentatives approached the university expressing the need for a program to teach systemsengineering skills to people in industry who possessed technical knowledge in other areas.These local industries provided the first students as well as the adjunct faculty to teach thecourses. Thus, the connection to the "real world" was established at INSE’s

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Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

thus creating a more active learning environment as well as enriching the content beyond what the presenters bring. Page 5.430.24. Any faculty development activity must take into consideration the characteristics of its audience. New faculty members tend to be highly motivated and accomplished professionals. These are individuals who have not only completed a Ph.D. but also have chosen to go against the grain and pursue an academic position when positions in industry abound and generally pay better [3]. Given these characteristics, a faculty development curriculum should be designed to be challenging and stimulating. This provides

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Nisreen Ghaddar; Nassir Sabah; Jamal Abed; Fouad T. Mrad

engineeringdepartments subsequently approved educational objectives and outcomes for each of the fourundergraduate programs they offer: Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer andCommunications Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. As mentioned in the first paragraphabove, programs’ educational objectives should address the outcomes specified by EC 2000,based on the needs of programs’ constituencies. Accordingly, guidelines were prepared for theformation of External Advisory Boards to review and discuss matters pertaining to the variousFEA undergraduate programs, as well as research activities and professional development of theFEA departments.A. Vision StatementThe Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEA) will enhance its status as a world

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Richard Barke

Foundation established the Engineering Education Coalitionsprogram to “stimulate bold, innovative, and comprehensive models for systemic reform ofundergraduate engineering education.” Sixty colleges have participated in eight such groups,receiving nearly $100 million in grants from NSF and other federal agencies. Butundergraduate enrollment in engineering has dropped by 20 percent since 1985, and programsreport growing difficulties in recruiting women and minorities and retaining students. At thesame time that employers’ demand for engineering graduates is growing, the interest ofstudents in the topic is shrinking. Thus, any innovations in engineering education will occur ina context of self-examination and other reform initiatives.Sustainability