Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Martin

Session 3532 PLC’s in the Control System Laboratory Terry Martin University of ArkansasAbstractThis paper describes how ladder logic, Programmable Logic Controllers, and operator interfaceshave been integrated into the analog/digital control systems laboratory at the University ofArkansas. This material is typically not taught to electrical engineering students during theirundergraduate education, but has been incorporated here due to demands from the manufacturingindustry today. A detailed course outline is presented and discussed. In addition, an

Conference Session

Addressing the NGSS, Part 3 of 3: Supporting High School Science Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering-Science Connections

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin L Autenrieth P.E., Texas A&M University; Cheryl A Page, Texas A&M University; Karen L. Butler-Purry, Texas A&M University; Chance W. Lewis, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering. A brief summary of the program objectivesand associated activities is outlined as follows. Additional program details can be foundelsewhere 31.  Objective 1 activities: Teachers are paired and then matched with an engineering faculty mentor. The mentor assists the teachers in understanding the current status of emerging technologies and engineering research, and provides informal instruction in research methodology and science theory appropriate to the teacher’s research experience.  Objective 2 activities: During the four-week summer program, each teacher prepares hands-on engineering-related instructional materials to integrate into their classroom curriculum. Support is provided by

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Marcel J. Castro-Sitiriche, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Joann M. Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Jeffrey Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Tyrone Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Ricardo Maldonado; Cristina Rivera-Vélez, GREAT IDEA; Davis Chacon-Hurtado, University of Connecticut; Pablo Jose Acevedo, UPRM

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Community Engagement Division

Professions. He and a team of ethicists have worked with different universities in the Latin American context on faculty development workshops for identifying issues in engineering ethics, developing course modules in this area, and designing curricular strategies for integrating ethics across the engineering curriculum. His publications cover moral psychology, moral pedagogy, and engineering ethics in Puerto Rico. Most recently, he has been working on the GREAT IDEA project, an NSF-funded project that explores research in appropriate technology and community development.Marcel J. Castro-Sitiriche, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico- ¨Mayaguez Marcel J. Castro-Sitiriche is a

Conference Session

Engineering and Other Disciplines

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Chang, United States Military Academy; Peter Hanlon, United States Military Academy; Kirk Ingold, United States Military Academy; Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

munitions, detect and disable ordnance in hazardous environments, maneuver inrelatively small areas, be used as a decoy or be sent to draw out opponent fires without riskingthe life of the operator. There have also been various universities that have integrated roboticsinto their curriculum or developed new courses that use robotic platforms as the center piece.Weingarten, et. al. used robotics as a vehicle to engineering education and to propel the studentsinto research and life-long learning5. Chung and Anneberg6 summarized how to use contests tostimulate learning in computer science and engineering education. Mehrl et. al.7 used anautonomous robotics capstone design project to enable students to used their preferred learningstyle to learn how to

Conference Session

Engineering Laboratory Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Schertzer, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Patricia Iglesias, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Kate N. Leipold, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); John D. Wellin, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Mechanical Engineering

study report at the Rochester Institute of Technology focused onchanges to the mechanical engineering curriculum during semester conversion identifiedEngineering Measurements Lab as an opportunity to develop a better understanding of (i)measurement techniques, (ii) experimental design, (iii) data acquisition, and (iv) sensors. Thesetopics were formally covered in courses that were discontinued during conversion from quartersto semesters in fall of 2013. As part of that process, Thermo-Fluids Lab I has evolved intoEngineering Measurements Lab. The goal of this change was to have students focus more ondeveloping proper measurement techniques and experimental design.The initial development of the Engineering Measurements Lab was described by the

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Putko P.E., University of Massachusetts - Lowell; Juliette Nicole Rooney-Varga, University of Massachusetts - Lowell

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Mechanical Engineering

optimization under uncertainty. She is a member of the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative.Juliette Nicole Rooney-Varga, University of Massachusetts - Lowell Juliette N. Rooney-Varga is Director of the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative and Associate Pro- fessor of Environmental Biology. Her microbial ecology research has spanned diverse topics related to carbon cycling, climate change, and energy; from feedback loops in microbial production of methane in the Arctic and the climate system, to harnessing electricity produced by anaerobic microorganisms in soil. She recently led the NASA-funded Climate Education in an Age of Media (CAM) Project to integrate student-produced media and climate change science, while

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Inez Hua, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

environmental engineering and science [10]. These authors call forand propose new paradigms, new practices, and new policies, as related to environmentalengineering and science. In this paper, we discuss the transformation of the EE undergraduate degree program atPurdue University. This program integrates a systems-based approach to studying anthropogenicimpacts on the natural environment, helps to embed themes of environmental sustainabilityacross different majors, and incorporates pedagogical innovation. In this paper, we discussspecific courses in the EE program that illustrate innovation of curriculum content. We alsopresent data demonstrating undergraduate engineering student participation and interest inenvironmentally-related courses

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Allison Wright, Texas Tech University; Ashley Nicole Haseley, Texas Tech University

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International Forum

 focuses on engineering and culture. Looking toward the future, IEP and Cultural Experience Abroad (CEA) are creating three geographically diverse programs while integrating engineering curriculum and cultural immersion.        Background Texas Tech University (TTU) was founded in 1925 and located in Lubbock, Texas.  The 2015 U.S. World and News Report ranked the Engineering program 94th as one of the “Best Engineering Schools” in the United States. Since 2010, engineering student enrollment has increased more than 32.3%. Within the Whitacre College of Engineering (WCOE)  there is an office dedicated to the International Experience Initiative (IEI) called International Engineering Programs Office (IEP

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven L. Cohen; Dennis P. Slevin; David I. Cleland; Kim LaScola Needy; Heather Nachtmann

Session 2242 Critical Factors in Successful Corporate Governance Kim LaScola Needy, David I. Cleland, Dennis P. Slevin, Heather Nachtmann, Steven L. Cohen University of PittsburghAbstractIt is hypothesized that a root cause of the success or failure of an enterprise is directly related tothe quality of its board of governance. This quality is reflected in the experience, leadershipskills and utilization of the board members as well as the board processes. This paper describesan ongoing research project that identifies potentially critical factors for successful

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Cecere

-qualifications, financial statements,RFP for CM services, project planning, bid packages and bidding, scheduling (bid and construction), valueengineering, safety policy, and other CM services. Industry presentations and involvement provide the coursewith real world experiences. The course also integrates written and oral communications throughout to stress theimportance of these skills for a successful manager.INTRODUCTIONThe goal of a construction related curriculum is to prepare graduates to be as marketable and useful to futureemployers as practical. To meet this goal, students are required to take courses in business, English, oral andwritten communications, computers, math and science, as well as core courses in structural design andconstruction

Conference Session

Distance and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University; Jabulani Nyathi, Eastern Washington University

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Electrical and Computer

the curriculum, as every class is coupled with a laboratory. Labs are always team-based and, whenever possible, a “real-world” problem is assigned as a final project. The AeA involvement with the project ensured that a vast number of local and regional industrial partners were available from the very inception of the program, thereby simplifying the initial contact with local and regional industry. This aggressive solution intends to provide students with a much more seamless transition into the labor force, and to better prepare them for the changing engineering profession [8].ii. Serve place-bound students. In an effort to fulfill the needs of both the industrial community and of those

Conference Session

Computers and Software in Teaching Mathematics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Tace Crouse, University of Central Florida; Alvaro Islas, University of Central Florida; Scott Hagen, University of Central Florida; Cherie Geiger, University of Central Florida; Melissa Dagley-Falls, University of Central Florida; Patricia Ramsey, University of Central Florida; Patrice Lancey, University of Central Florida

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Mathematics

Research, evaluator for an NSF CAREER Grant, and Coordinator of Assessment for the "EXCEL-UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence" grant for two years.Cherie Geiger, University of Central Florida Cherie Geiger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the UCF College of Sciences and a Co-PI of the NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the "Young Entrepreneur and Scholar(YES) Scholarship Program" as well as the NSF-funded STEP program entitled "EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence." Dr. Geiger's research interests are in the areas of developing novel materials and technologies for use in environmental remediation and degradation

Conference Session

Addressing the Human Dimension in Teaching Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

students. Statics’ position early in the curriculum for many engineering majorsresults in it being one of the first courses where students must synthesize knowledge gained inprerequisite math and physics coursework and apply it to higher-level analytical problemsolving. In addition to the technical skills emphasized in the traditional course content, students’ability to self-assess and regulate their own learning (i.e. metacognition) becomes increasinglyimportant. As Grohs (2015) writes in reference to Statics: Though the written learning outcomes of a typical undergraduate mechanics course may be exclusively technical, the timing and nature of the course in the overall scheme of an engineering curriculum position it as a course that also

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 15

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso; Heather Kaplan, University of Texas El Paso

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

essential knowledge and skills in 2015 and,while engineering is now a recognized subject, many K-5 teachers, especially, do not feelprepared to integrate engineering into their pedagogy [2]. The idea of early childhood makerspace as a place to facilitate engineering teaching andlearning is a relatively new notion. While the makerspace concept began in the early 21stcentury, it’s standing in higher education settings and high school curricular activity is steadilyincreasing in acceptance and practice. The idea of a makerspace in public school Kindergarten isnovel, and especially in the southwest region. This paper describes an ethnographic case study ofa kindergarten makerspace and researcher lead collaboration within a local elementary

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Wallace Fowler

Session 2230 Teaming in Engineering Design Courses Wallace Fowler The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe ability of new engineering graduates to work in teams is a skill that is highly valuedby industry. It is reported by campus interviewers and engineers at NASA and inindustry that students who have had experience in working in teams as undergraduatesmore readily adapt to the industry environment and usually advance faster than studentswho have no teaming experience. Teamwork exercises can be integrated into all levelsof the undergraduate experience, but the primary

Conference Session

Past and Future of Manufacturing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

43 55%A crude conclusion that can be drawn from the data suggests that the respondents feel as if theywill have an impact but are inconsistently receiving support or encouragement from outside themanufacturing community.4. Curriculum ContentIt is the authors experience that there are multiple opinions about what should be taught in theManufacturing Curriculum. Ideally all of these topics would be included in a program. Howeverthe reality is that given the current time limitations adding new content requires the reduction/ Page 15.946.4removal of other content, development of new teaching methods, increase of degree time, post

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Nagy N. Bengiamin

, controls, and sensorytechnologies. Typical experiments and design projects will be addressed in this paper to illustrate educationalobjectives and flexibility in equipment configuration. Challenges in accomplishing the stated educationalobjectives will also be addressed. II. The Senior Laboratory Motivated by the need to integrate design throughout the electrical engineering curriculum and to instillin students attributes of creative thinking, the new laboratory was developed. This laboratory takes the place of atraditional electrical machines and energy conversion laboratory. In the previous laboratory, students used toconduct classical experiments to characterize electric machines and

Conference Session

ERM: Design!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh; William Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Justin Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

Professor) William (Bill) Oakes is a 150th Anniversary Professor, Director of the EPICS Program, Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University, and a registered professional engineer. He is one of the founding faculty in the School of Engineering Education having courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering and Curriculum and Instruction. He was the first engineer to receive the U.S. Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning and a co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He is a fellow of ASEE and NSPE.Justin Hess Dr. Justin L Hess is an assistant professor in

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

David Wells

Session 1463 Experiences and Lessons in Accelerated Learning David L. Wells Academic Dean Focus: HOPE Detroit, U.S.A.Abstract: Focus: HOPE’s Center for Advanced Technologies and the NSF-sponsoredGreenfield Coalition are partnered in a program aimed at radical and systemic change inmanufacturing engineering/technology education. Among the targets for change are graduatesmore fully in-tune with the needs of 21st century manufacturing companies, integration ofexperiential and academic learning and

Conference Session

ETD Design V: Classroom Delivery, Course Content, and Assessments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

suggestions32.The more proactive an institution is by creating a culture that embraces part-time faculty byproviding both opportunities and responsibilities for them, the less hostile the climate towardspart-time faculty. This lack of hostility results in greater satisfaction for part-time faculty. Whenpart-time faculty are not engaged and treated with respect, the coherence of academic programsand quality of instruction can be damaged32.Another issue with the integration of part-time faculty relates to time on campus. Many part-timers are hired to teach evening, weekend, and off-campus classes. Lack of department officespace is another constraint5. Part-time faculty often work without normal support services thatfull-time faculty take for granted such

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

from low-cost experiments based on NE-2neon bulbs to more sophisticated studies using fiberoptic spectrometers and Langmuirprobes. This paper will describe experimental activities in plasma physics and describehow these activities are integrated into a technician-level course in RF Plasma Systems.IntroductionFor the purpose of this paper, “plasma” refers to an ionized gas. It is often referred to asthe “fourth state of matter.” In this state of matter, plasmas exist when enough energy issupplied to a gas to sustain the continuous creation of positively charged and freeelectrons. It is the creation of charged particles that makes the plasma useful inmanufacturing processes, e.g. etching, sputtering, and deposition.Plasma technology is one of

Conference Session

Broadening Participation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston; Cathy P. Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

socioeconomic groups [38, 43, 54,55] and students with limited proficiency in English [54]. One study found that middle-schoolstudents working on an engineering design curriculum outperformed students using a traditionalcurriculum and students engaged in an inquiry-science unit on an assessment of sciencereasoning [56].EiE is rooted in a belief that children should engineer, because hands-on work promotesengagement, interest, and learning. As one second grade teacher explained, “Our class wasthoroughly engaged [in the submersible design challenge]. We even discussed using dental flossto tie to the submersible and pull it up… So many changes over time, inductive, deductivereasoning…”Scaffold Student WorkStudents need guidance in order to learn complex

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry G. Richards, University of Virginia; Susan K. Donohue, University of Virginia

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Mathematics

. Figure 15 shows a student about to launch the projectile.At the end of our scheduled visits to his school, we were asked if we could leave all our materialsand supplies for a few weeks. Several weeks later, we learned that four teachers had developedand taught an integrated curriculum. The teachers’ areas were English, History, Science andMathematics (Algebra). The students learned about the history of medieval warfare, the scienceand engineering involved in building different types of structures and weapons, the mathrequired to determine how to aim the projectiles and maximize the distance traveled, and theyconducted research and wrote reports on their results. Figure 14: Standard Catapult Design

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tadeusz Majewski; Hector Cervantes; K. V. Sudhakar

context of the classroom, "active learning" may be defined as anything that "involvesstudents in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing". 8 When active learningactivities include the use of technology (e.g., multimedia applications), it is advisable to keep inmind that technology "tools" must be used in the framework of knowledge of learning andteaching for a particular application.9 Active learning approach consists of integrating innovativelaboratory techniques with computer modeling and visualization tools to create an interactive anda collaborative team-oriented environment for students to dynamically participate in their ownlearning. The goal of the "active learning" curriculum is to create an effective learningenvironment

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

Effective Practices in Robotics Education David J. Ahlgren, Igor M. Verner, Daniel Pack, Steve Richards Department of Engineering, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106 USA/ Department of Education in Technology and Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 32000/Department of Electrical Engineering, United States Air Force Academy/Acroname, Inc., Boulder, COAbstractLinked to the authors’ 2004 ASEE Annual Conference CoEd workshop on Educational Robotics,this paper evaluates educational strategies and activities from the perspective of four engineeringeducators who have extensive first-hand experience in integrating robotics in the curriculum—from first year courses through senior

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Sauer; Pedro Arce

certain aspects of chemical engineering majors. Forexample, the Unit Operation Laboratory (UOL) is one key place where students areheavily exposed to work that strongly depends on teams and, consequently, theassessment must be performed in a fashion that captures this mode of instruction. Theinstructor, here, needs to be skilled in assessing teamwork and in avoiding to let studentspass the course without reaching minimum standards. Therefore, the assessment ofteamwork has been around the curriculum for a number of years. However, because ofthe lack of integrating between the UOL and the “classroom instruction,” the situation inother non-lab oriented courses is not the same. In fact, there is a misconception (in manyfaculty) that team-based

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Blair J. McDonald P.E., Western Illinois University; Susan C. Brooks, Western Illinois University - Quad Cities

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

computed answer. Recently, a diligent statics student followed the author’s prescribedsteps to locate the centroid of the area under a parabola using equations found on the back coverof the text. The correct answer was computed; however, the student had no idea how, why, orwhat the meaning was. Figuring out how to find the abc’s in y=ax2+bx+c and then integratexdA to get the answer without using the equation on the back cover was not considered, eventhough the integration process had been the focus of a lecture two hours earlier and the studentwanted to know how the equation was developed. Was the math hard? No. Because the studentcouldn’t get beyond the equation in order to understand the phenomena (the moment of an areaabout an axis

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed B. Trabia, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Julie A. Longo, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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Engineering Ethics

2015, the College of Engineering decided tocontinue the workshops for incoming graduate students. Current activity includes updating thecontent of future workshops based on continuing assessment of student learning and thecontent of participant questions for the panelists.IntroductionIncorporating ethics teaching within the graduate curriculum has been a topic of continuingand active studies since society has an extremely high level of expectations from practicingengineers. In 2015, one of the revisions of the criteria for accreditation of engineeringprograms in U.S. academic institutions proposed by Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) included a change from the earlier, "understanding of professional andethical

Collection

Chemical Engineering Education

Authors

Joseph Holles; Lawrence Schmidt

) Lawrence O. Schmidt is an associate librar-when submitting proposals for funding. Thus, it is clear that ian at the University of Wyoming. He holds B.S. degrees in chemistry and biology, ana systematic and thorough education on RDM is appropriate M.S. degree in environmental engineeringand necessary for a graduate curriculum. Thielan, et al. also from Montana State University, and receivedpresent a case for how a RDM course can meet multiple an

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kramer

lives. Finally, I suggest some individual faculty characteristics that helpexplain the variation in outlook and behaviors among colleagues in the same departments andinstitutions. The literature suggests that the behavior and attitudes of faculty have an impact on theeducational success and even the retention of their students. Although engineering facultymembers are important actors, through their teaching, advising, and designing of curriculum,their professional lives tend to be described at the methodological extremes of either multi-disciplinary, national faculty attitude surveys or participant observation accounts centered onstudents’ lives34, 10. There is little available that focuses on the culture of U.S. engineeringeducators and