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ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Aldrich; Michael Webber; Scott Dunning

of improving thequality of life provided to their students. The project is also important to the teachers becausenow they have another tool to use in their students' physical and mental development. Thisproject is important for the department since it may lead to a grant from the LemelsonFoundation through the Assisted Technology Development Center at Hampshire College.1 Thegrant would allow us to pursue other adaptive technology projects in the future.Bibliography[1] www.lemelson.orgBiographySCOTT C. DUNNING is an Associate Professor and Department Coordinator for the Electrical EngineeringTechnology program at the University of Maine. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

6.1100.5Copyright ® 2001, American Society for Engineering Education.Bibliographies1. Fotouhi, M., Eydgahi, A., and Cavey, W., Design of a Programmable Logic Controller Trainer, Computers in Education Journal, pp. 17-20, Vol. X, No. 1, Jan/March 2000.2. Webb, J.; Programmable Logic Controller: principals and Application, 4Th edition, Prentice Hall, 1998.3. Simpson, C.; Programmable Logic Controller, Prentice Hall, 1994.MOHAMMAD FOTOUHIDr. Fotouhi is a Professor of electrical engineering technology at University of Maryland Eastern Shore.He received his Ph.D. in power System Engineering from University of Missouri-Rolla, M.S. fromOklahoma State University, and B.S. from Tehran Polytechnic College. He has been conducting a practicalresearch on the

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Carl B. Dietrich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicholas F. Polys, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christian W. Hearn, Weber State University; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis; Joshua Alexéi García Sheridan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Electrical and Computer

-based learning.Further, it has potential to help students, including students who have visual impairments,develop spatial skills that are not only valuable but required in many engineering careers.1. IntroductionThe continued optimization of wireless communications and other radio frequency (RF) systemsis an essential technological effort that has enabled the advancement of modern society.Antennas are an indispensable component of myriad vital RF systems, with applicationsspanning science, industry and commerce, personal communication and entertainment, publicsafety, and national security. Thus, antennas, along with electromagnetics more generally, “willcontinue to be the heart and soul of many modern technology advances ranging from

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Black; Robert Weber; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira

selection of an immersive system for a particular application. Several case studies willbe given to students to work on them from the concept to the final application.Courses like this are rarely available in Computer Engineering curriculum. Today's "VR experts"are self-taught professionals coming from a variety of backgrounds: computer scientists,psychologists, engineers, and artists. However, as the field grows and the technology becomesmore complex, it is no longer feasible to have this ad-hoc learning approach. There is a strongdemand to produce formally trained VR specialists. To date, very few universities in the U.S.offer courses specifically oriented towards virtual reality development. Many of our industrialcontacts have expressed a

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Nicholas Brown, Western Michigan University; Johan Fanas Rojas, Western Michigan University; Alyssa K. Moon, Western Michigan University; Ali Alhawiti, Western Michigan University; Pritesh Yashaswi Patil, Western Michigan University; Parth Kadav, Western Michigan University; Kira Hamelink, Western Michigan University; Wendy R. Swalla, Western Michigan University; Zachary D. Asher, Western Michigan University

Civil and Construction EngineeringWestern Michigan UniversityKalamazoo, MI 49008aliatallahe.alhawiti@WMich.eduPritesh Patil and Parth KadavDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringWestern Michigan UniversityKalamazoo, MI 49008Pritesh.Patil@WMich.edu, Parth.Kadav@WMich.eduKira HamelinkDepartment of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Engineering and Engineering ManagementWestern Michigan UniversityKalamazoo, MI 49008Kira.K.Hamelink@WMich.eduZachary D. AsherDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringWestern Michigan UniversityKalamazoo, MI 49008Zach.Asher@WMich.eduProceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2024, American Society forEngineering EducationAbstractAutonomous vehicle technology has tremendous

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Arnav Kavadia; Sanjna Pawar; Tomislav Bujanovic

Distributed Generation And Related IssuesThe Smart Grid is a modern and advanced electrical power A multitude of operational issues are faced by renewable One of key components of a Smart Grid include the The major issues with implementing various aspects of thegrid which uses various forms of communication systems energy sources which constitute to distributed generation. regulation and reduction of peak demand. This peak Smart Grid are technological and many are non-along with advanced infrastructure to improve efficiency, These issues are related to the generational characteristics, demand of energy puts

Conference Session

Student Approaches to Problem Solving

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica E. S. Swenson, University at Buffalo; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder; Mary Rola, University at Buffalo; Hoda Koushyar

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Educational Research and Methods

elementary school engineering teachers.Dr. Aaron W. Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder Aaron W. Johnson is an Instructor in Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Col- orado Boulder. He teaches courses in structures and vehicle design, and his research focuses on how mathematical models are taught in undergraduate engineering science courses and how these models are used in analysis and design. Before CU he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michi- gan and the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014 and a bachelor’s degree in aerospace

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ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Susan Freudzon, Fairfield University

for this device. This addresses the secondAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) student outcome, “an ability toapply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration ofpublic health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, andeconomic factors” [2].Medical Device Design is a one-semester course; therefore, each student is required to completea feasible design that is not necessarily production-ready. The projects range from mechanicalmedical device projects to electrical projects to mobile app design. If students are working on amechanical-focused project, they are strongly encouraged, but not required to manufacture aprototype. If a project is electrical

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Karl D. Schubert; Leslie B. Massey; Carol S. Gattis

ScienceFoundation has funded the authors (Schubert (PI), Gattis (co-PI), et. al.) with a Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) grant to provide scholarships combinedwith research on best practices for recruitment, retention, and development of innovation skills fora diverse group of low-income undergraduate students. Students in the program come from STEMdisciplines in engineering and the physical sciences, however, business students are also integratedinto innovation courses although they are not funded by the S-STEM grant. Design, development,and implementation of the grant-funded program’s first innovation related course, a 2-week fallintercession course, will be presented. This first-year course is designed to provide the

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Jansen

Sciences. Whether students pursue careers in Biomedical Engineering researchcenters, biomedical companies, or go on to the medical professions, they are almost certain toencounter optical technologies for diagnosis, sensing or therapy. It is expected that opticalscience and optical technology will be at the forefront of development of new enablingtechnologies and devices both in the basic science labs as well as in a clinical setting. Thus,several programs around the country, including ours, are actively working on coursedevelopment in the area of Biomedical Optics. Typically courses in Biomedical Optics are aimedat upper level (senior) undergraduate students and first-year graduate students while a real needfor continuing education has been

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Henry

labs and five for unit operations labs.Experimental SetupsThe system dynamics and controls experiments include a shell-and-tube heat exchanger, a pumpand tank system, a motor-generator set, a blower and duct system and a pump and piping Page 6.673.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationsystem. The unit operations systems include a packed bed absorption unit, a distillation column,a set of packed bed porous-flow paths, a batch dryer, a pressure-swing-absorption unit and aFreon-cycle

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Rush Leeker, University of Colorado Boulder; Lyndsay Rose Ruane, University of Colorado Boulder; Marlene Sulema Palomar, University of Colorado Boulder; Hannah Sanders, University of Colorado Boulder

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education: From engineering to tinkering with theory for eco-social justice. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 18, 187-192. Metro-Roland, D. (2015). Knowledge, power, and care of the self: The many faces of Michel

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Stice

Science Foundation, and it currently isinterested in improving both undergraduate science and engineering education. And it now haspeople who know something about technological education and about the problems in highereducation today. One such is Norm Fortenberry, the Director of the Division of UndergraduateEducation at NSF. He is going to give us a peek at the future, and tell us about some studiesand projects the NSF would like to encourage. So here are some more descriptions of the hot ideas of the past 30 years in engineeringeducation, together with a look at where we might be going in the near future. It seems a fittingway for us to provide closure for an exciting century in engineering education.JAMES E. STICEJim Stice is Bob R

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2020 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Michael E. Kuhl

Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Systems Simulation Michael E. Kuhl Industrial and Systems Engineering Department Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623AbstractSimulation is tool frequently used by companies when designing systems to evaluate alternativesystem designs. In particular, simulation is employed when the dynamic behavior of a system isnot well understood and the decisions that are being made have significant economic or socialimpacts. However, courses in systems simulation typically focus on the technical and statisticalaspects of model building and the comparison of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Rajai; Mel Mendelson

” Page 6.634.3Management TeamOur management team consist of three men and one woman whose background consist of 15years of marketing with Focus Enterprises and 15 years of corporate development with FocusSystems Enterprises.Our management team also includes 4 men and 1 woman with over 10 years of engineering anddesign within the technology industry, a chief financial officer with 20 years of accounting,administrative, merger and acquisition, and banking experience with Focus Enterprises.Marketplace AnalysisTo determine the success of the Guardian, we looked closely at the environment and society intowhich we will introduce our product. If we first look at a world with a rising crime rate, we willget a clear view of the potential success our

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Carpinelli

Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education4. Tanenbaum, Andrew S. Structured Computer Organization, 4th edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall(1999).5. Mano, M. Morris. Computer Systems Architecture, 3rd edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall (1993).6. URL: www.awl.com/carpinelli; Companion web site for Computer Systems Organization and Architecture7. URL: www.awl.com/info/carpinelli; Companion web site for Computer Systems Organization and ArchitectureJOHN D. CARPINELLIJohn D. Carpinelli is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer and InformationSciences, at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received the B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Instituteof Technology in

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

George F. List; Simeon Komisar

analysis. In conjunction with the local office of the USGS, the NYS Dept. of Transportation and theinnovative facilities of the RPI Technology Park, we are using this course as the first stage in thedevelopment of a comprehensive ongoing laboratory effort stressing information collection andmanagement. This lab will serve, then, as a practical "capstone,” preparing students for the newinformation-rich workplace. As a companion course to the traditional senior capstone design class, this lab emphasizes thevery necessary step of problem definition, as opposed to problem solution. By integratingtraditional civil engineering concerns with environmental concerns, the class explicitly preparesthe future civil/environmental engineer for the expanded

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2022 CIEC

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

time. While it is not necessary to be intimately familiar with moral theoryto successfully teach ethics, some knowledge is essential. To prepare themselves, faculty canvisit some of the many engineering ethics websites, examine engineering ethics textbooks, attendappropriate lectures, even audit an ethics class. The results can be illuminating. This author, forexample, first directly encountered engineering ethics at a 1988 ASEE annual conference thatfeatured Roger Boisjoly from the Challenger disaster as a main speaker. With that as a startingpoint, she read incessantly; attended an NSF-funded ethics across the curriculum workshopoffered by Michael Davis and Vivian Weil, two distinguished ethics educators at Illinois Instituteof Technology

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Willette; Larry White; Garry White

WORKING WORLD PROBLEMS AND COMMUNICATION FOR THE CLASS ROOM Larry L. White, Garry L. White, William W. Willette Dept. of Engineering Technology, Texas A&M- Corpus Christi/ Dept. of Computer Information Systems, Texas State University - San Marcos/ Dept. of Information Systems, University of Texas - ArlingtonAbstractEngineering problems in the working world can differ from what students encounter in theclassroom. The communication of the results also differs. For some engineering problems, e-mail has become the major method of communication.This paper discusses the differences between the classroom and the working world. The paperalso introduces a method

Conference Session

Evidence-based Practices in Faculty Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Cadwell, Syracuse University; Michelle M. Blum, Syracuse University; Julie M. Hasenwinkel, Syracuse University; Carol Elizabeth Stokes-Cawley, Syracuse University

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Faculty Development Constituency Committee

Paper ID #22158A Gateway Course Redesign Working Group ModelDr. Katie Cadwell, Syracuse University Katie Cadwell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University, where she has taught Chemical Engineering core courses since 2011. After receiving Chemical Engineering degrees from the Missouri University of Science and Technology (B.S.) and Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.), she pursued a postdoctoral position in engineering education and outreach with the Interdisciplinary Education Group of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at UW-Madison

Conference Session

Faculty Development I: Attitudes Towards Teaching

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Kari L. Jordan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach Dr. Kari L. Jordan earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2006 and 2008 respectively. In undergraduate school she was an active mem- ber of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and served on the Board of Directors. She was also the president of the ASEE student chapter at Michigan Tech. The recipient of a King-Chavez-Parks graduate fellowship and GEM Fellowship, Dr. Jordan completed a master of arts degree in Education and a Ph.D. in engineering education at Ohio State University. She is currently finishing her second year as a post-doctoral research associate and adjunct professor at Embry-Riddle

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram AlRawi; Faouzi Bouslama

assessment that play an essential role in the continuous process ofimprovement.ZULOs, which form the framework for the APM, are designed to help students develop higherorder intellectual abilities needed for lifelong learning and success. All students must demonstrate Page 8.1240.4accomplishments in the following ZULOs before they graduate: Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education 1. Critical Thinking and Reasoning 2. Information Literacy and Communication 3. Information Technology 4

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Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning through Laboratory Experiences

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tim Dallas P.E., Texas Tech University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

the University of Chicago and an MS and PhD from Texas Tech Uni- versity in Physics. He worked as a Technology and Applications Engineer for ISI Lithography and was a post-doctoral research fellow in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas, prior to his faculty appointment at TTU. Page 24.897.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 MEMS-based Educational LaboratoryAbstractThe advent and widespread utilization of micro and nanotechnologies necessitates thedevelopment of innovative instructional and research tools that will educate the next

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

George G. Karady; Daniel Tylavsky

. Students like these technological exercises.They feel that they learn practical engineering. Particularly popular is the disassembly of thehard drive motor. We find that the students’ understanding of motors improves significantlybecause they are able to connect the theory to the construction of the motors.In addition, the students visit a power plant and a 500 kV substation on a Saturday morning. Thevisit duration is 3 hours and concentrates only on the major components. It is aimed at giving animpression of how the energy is produced and transported. The details are not required in thislevel. We found that the students get bored if the visit lasts longer.4. ConclusionWe believe that the use of animation significantly improves student

Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mihaela Albu; Keith Holbert

. IntroductionDistance learning (DL) is already part of many university programs, and its impact is increasingdaily. Such an educational delivery mode intends to serve the desire of both students and theirinstructors for increased scheduling freedom. Presently there is a technology gap between non-laboratory and laboratory classes, because the lecture-only courses were the first addressed bydistance learning (since the conversion is more straightforward). Further, engineering educationalso has a costly component that is not directly time related: the use of sophisticated (andoftentimes expensive) equipment. A subset of DL efforts is that of web-based laboratoryexperiments.This paper first examines the work of others in establishing remote instrumentation-based

Conference Session

Internet Delivery of Mechanics Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Gramoll, University of Oklahoma

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Mechanics

Engineering Statics eBook fulfills majority of the evaluation criteria. The designphilosophy of Multimedia Engineering Solid Mechanics eBook is essentially the same as that ofMultimedia Engineering Statics eBook, hence it has most of the important pedagogical featuresthat St. Clair and Baker identified. The eBook was also tested with an actual online class wherethe only textbook was the Statics eBook15. Some of the key features of Multimedia EngineeringSolid Mechanics eBook include user-friendly navigation, attractive interface, theory related toreal world applications, visual appealing multimedia technology usage, and constructivesimulation. Detailed discussion of these features is given in the subsequent section

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C Morales, Universidad del Turabo; Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Idalides Vergara-Laurens, Universidad del Turabo; Miguel A. Goenaga-Jimenez, Universidad del Turabo

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

assessment plan that he helped devise and implement as ABET Coordinator. Address: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad del Turabo, PO Box 3030, Gurabo, Puerto Rico, 00778. Tel. 787-743-7979 x 4182 E-mail: jcmorales@suagm.eduProf. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) where he teaches courses on electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, plasma physics, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photon- ics, biomedical sensors, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Kovanen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior; John R Gallagher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; John S Popovics P.E., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Laboratories from 1988-1990. His research interests include optical spectroscopic studies of novel magnetic and superconducting materials at high pressures, high magnetic fields, and low temperatures. Since 2013, he has co-taught (with Celia Elliott) a graduate-level technical writing course each spring to physics and engineering graduate students.Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Zilles is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She received her B.S. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to research at the intersection of

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

or change). Although the dependency onincreasingly complex devices will continue to grow, some knowledge principles and basic skills needto be taught in order to prevent a total dependency on many narrowly specialized professionals.Narrow specialization inevitably brings about a risk of not thinking in terms of a whole system and adifficulty in communication with specialists from other disciplines. There are strong voices inacademic community calling to provide solid interdisciplinary knowledge to all graduates [2]. Technical rationality, the traditional base of engineering knowledge and skills will still remain acorner stone of all technology-related professions [3]. However, ways of teaching this engineeringknowledge base have

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

David Anthony Rogers; Attilio Jose Giarola; Darlene Hicks Rogers

Moorhead, Minnesota 56560 ABSTRACT Bold new graduate programs have been established in recent years inBrazil in an effort to reduce national dependence on foreign education.Over a dozen institutions now offer quality graduate programs in Elec-trical Engineering at the Master's level. Ambitious doctoral programs inElectrical Engineering exist at four major graduate schools. The gradu-ate programs at both levels at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)have been exceptionally successful in terms of the quality of instructionoffered as well as the quantity of graduates produced. Results can beseen in the implantation of technological competence for the benefit oflocal industries and in terms of the