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2001 Annual Conference

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John Field; Janelle Tonti; Eric Beenfeldt; Isaac Horn; Edward Williams

presentations, working in groups, using the library, faculty research projects, various typesof engineering employment, and ethical situations faced by engineers. Some of the generalengineering module activities are described next.Twice during the early part of the semester we deviate from our split period approachand have full 50-minute periods on Monday and Wednesday. First, on Monday of thesecond week of classes, half the students meet for breakfast in the cafeteria while theother half have a lecture, then on Wednesday they switch. This informal gatheringgives the students an opportunity to get to know each other and, with some guidancefrom the TAs, to talk about roommates, classes, or anything with which a peer might behelpful.The second time we

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2001 Annual Conference

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Paul Duesing; Kevin Schmaltz; Dan Goodrich; Pamela Schmaltz

years. She lectures on engineering design, project management and engineering ethics at LSSU.KEVIN SCHMALTZKevin Schmaltz teaches thermo-fluid courses and is Chair of Mechanical Engineering at LSSU. Hecoordinates the Freshman Introductory Engineering course and is the past coordinator of the SeniorEngineering Design course sequence. Prior to teaching at LSSU, he was a project engineer, designing andbuilding oil and gas production facilities for offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.PAUL DUESINGPaul Duesing teaches mechanics, manufacturing and FEA courses in Mechanical Engineering at LSSU. Heis the faculty coordinator of the Senior Engineering Design course sequence and the LSSU Co-Op programcoordinator. He is a licensed professional engineer

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1998 Annual Conference

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S. A. Tennyson; R. J. Eggert; D. Bunnell

process: 1. formulate / specify 4. optimize / iterate 2. synthesize 5. present / document 3. analyze & evaluateDETAIL SKILLS:1. problem formulation & function specification: scope out the design problem determine what functions are important to the customer establish thorough design specifications (functional) determine applicable constraints (physical, social, ethical, economic) plan for the solution (of open-ended problems)2. synthesis: generate alternatives for how specified functions are met (concept design) define applicable governing equations and analytical models resource use (corporate files, experts, library, networks

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1998 Annual Conference

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Walter Vincent; Nipha P. Kumar; Craig A. Bernecker

6.3 subject matter.8. Rate the effectiveness of the instructor’s discussions of 6.4 5.5 5.0 professional ethics and responsibilities.9. Rate the organization of course material. 5.6 5.3 5.510. Rate the effectiveness of the instructor in demonstrating 5.6 5.0 5.1 the significance of the subject matter.11. Rate the fairness of the overall grading system in the 5.2 3.9 4.7 course.12. Rate the appropriateness of the instructor’s 5.6 5.3 4.2 encouragement of student participation and instruction.13. Rate the amount of

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1998 Annual Conference

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

Academic environment S S S W Cultural diversity W S S Table 2. Elements Used to Achieve Program Outcomes EE Program Outcomes Resources and Strategies 2 3 9 11 15 17 22 Curriculum Requirements Required ECE Core X X Major Design Experience X X X Technical Writing & Public Speaking X Ethics Course X Co-op and Internships

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1998 Annual Conference

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

X Ethics Course X Co-op and Internships X X X X Academic Advising Office X X X GT Student Orientation and Retention X X Programs Faculty and Staff Professional X X Development Activities Table 3. Current Assessment Methods Used to Monitor Program Outcomes EE Program Outcomes Assessment Method 2 3

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1998 Annual Conference

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David Wells

of the learners. Candidates in this environmenthave assimilated a highly-disciplined work ethic, with some notable differences from the typicalcampus situation. High standards are applied in attendance, professional dress, behavior andpersonal habits. Distractions from the learning process are minimized. Moreover, people whoadopt the discipline of a Focus: HOPE-like environment will be self-selected as dedicated to their Page 3.275.6task. The sub-set of the learner population that was selected for the bursts had identifiedthemselves through superior prior achievements during normal learning schedules.Both bursts were also strongly supported by

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1998 Annual Conference

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Ronald J. Bennett

environment. This degree program, like othergraduate degree programs at the University of St. Thomas, fulfills a niche market need forspecialized knowledge and skills.There are some key objectives that are part of each course in the curriculum, without which theprogram will not completely fulfill its mission. In addition to specific knowledge and skillsdeveloped in each course, all have embedded the following: - Develop confidence - Increase risk-taking ability - Instill quality in every aspect of the enterprise - Build ethical responses into all decision-making Page 3.337.10It is through the selection and training of faculty

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1998 Annual Conference

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Gulcin Cribb

critical attitude towards information. They should always ask themselves how reliable the information is;• Graduates will have an ethical attitude towards the use of information. This includes: - attributing sources - respecting confidentiality - copyright and intellectual property.Some of the academic staff who will be teaching the new curriculum will need to updatetheir own information skills to ensure they are able to set the projects and assignmentswhich require the students to locate, use and evaluate a variety of information sources andsynthesise and present what they found. Librarians will be involved to make sure trainingof academic staff takes place via active liaison and training programs especially designedfor

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1998 Annual Conference

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Christopher D. Pionke; J. Roger Parsons

realized. This paper describes a program, which through an immersion into the engineeringdesign process, combines fun and competition with realistic information about the career ofengineering.The Tennessee Governor’s School for the Sciences is a four-week summer program for risinghigh school juniors and seniors who are among the best and brightest in the state. Morningsessions of the program consist of a common curriculum for all 150 students with courses oncomputer skills, technical writing, and professional practices and ethics. In the afternoon, thestudents attend one of six specialty areas with approximately 20-30 students enrolled in eachspecialty. Each student attends only one specialty area for the entire four weeks.Engineering is one of

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1998 Annual Conference

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Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs; Alan Demmons

more verbal and written interaction than is typical of most classrooms. Many, butnot all, of the modules developed include engineering design activities. This is an inherently iterative and integrativeprocess that includes ambiguity, optimization, critical thought, argumentation, ethics, aesthetics, and foresight.Contrary to perception, engineering is not an exact “science”. Our survey tools - both post event and post courseprovide students an opportunity to comment regarding how effectively the course has enabled them to develop“engineering judgment” - our name for attitudes.Assessment:A critical part of the course is the evaluation and assessment scheme. Faculty assess student learning and satisfactionafter each module, and in a summative

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1997 Annual Conference

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Parris C. Neal; Donna E. Peterson; Cindy L. Lynch; Cameron Wright

Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.[7] Pavelich, M.J. and Moore, W.S., “Measuring the Effect of Experiential Education Using the Perry Model,” ASEE Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 287-292, Oct. 1996.[8] King, P.M., ed., Liberal Education, vol. 78, no. 1, Jan/Feb 1992, Special issue on reflective judgment.[9] King, P.M. and Kitchner, K.S., Developing Reflective Judgment: Understanding and Promoting Intellectual Growth and Critical Thinking and Adolescents and Adults, Jossey-Bass, 1994.[10] Kitchner, K.S. and King, P.M., “Reflective Judgment: Concepts of Justification and Their Relationship to Age and Education,” Journal of

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1997 Annual Conference

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Michael H. Gregg

computer.EF1005's syllabus includes an introduction to the profession, examination of ethics and ethicaltheories and traditional pencil-and-paper problem solving techniques. These pencil-and-papertechniques are then translated to computer solutions via TK SOLVER. Exposure to TKSOLVER provides the student with needed familiarity with the computer and helps to preparethe student for FORTRAN programming. Although 'C' is also offered by the EF department,FORTRAN is the language used in our introductory courses. FORTRAN is a high levellanguage and moderately easy to learn. The learning of a programming language by our studentshelps reinforce the logic and step-by-step approach required for all engineering problem solving.The use of subprograms -- subroutines

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1997 Annual Conference

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Deborah Hochstein

engineering and science. If America’s universities recognizethe strength they gain from the diversity of their student population and faculty, and they rewardfaculty for all forms of scholarly activity, they will continue to grow and serve as models for theworld of higher education. REFERENCES1. Ernest L. Boyer, Scholarship Reconsidered, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ, 1990.2. Theodore M. Benditt, “The Research Demands of Teaching in Modern Higher education,” in Morality, responsibility, and the University: Studies in Academic Ethics, ed. Steven M. Cahn, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1990, 94.3. Frederick Rudolph, The American College and

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1997 Annual Conference

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

to unify these topics and provide an innovative Page 2.297.1multidisciplinary team laboratory experience for our engineering freshman. In addition, a majorfocus of this clinic is on problem solving skills, safety and ethics. In summary these activities (i.)demonstrate the role of laboratory experiments in the engineering decision-making process; (ii)show the interrelationship of engineering and science required for the design and fabrication of asingle product; (iii) give stimulating and challenging experiments that relate the laboratoryexperiments to a consumer product with which most students are familiar.The freshmen engineering clinic

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1997 Annual Conference

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Wade C. Driscoll

meet desired needs; function on multi-disciplinary teams; identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems; communicate effectively; and use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.In addition, Engineering Criteria 2000 also specifies that engineering programs must alsodemonstrate that their graduates have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; Page 2.315.1 the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context; a recognition of the need for an

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1999 Annual Conference

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Gulser Kosal; Hasan Nadir Derin

¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ 6,1 6Professionalism,trustworthiness andwork-ethics 17 ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ 7,2 4Consciousness ofcost, quality, time,human and society 18

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1999 Annual Conference

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Philip Doepker

discussion with the attributes recommended forengineering graduates in Criteria 2000 as developed by the Engineering AccreditationCommission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s (EAC of ABET)Criteria 2000. These attributes have been widely publicized and include not only the ability toapply knowledge of the sciences, conduct experiments and design systems and components butto also function in multidisciplinary teams, understand the importance of lifelong learning andunderstand their professional and ethical responsibility. He states that this is a good start but notthe final word. Page 4.515.1The Technology Accreditation

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1999 Annual Conference

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

competitive environment has perhaps become unpredictable to the pointthat challenges the even well run organizations 17. No longer do engineers work independently,and employers are looking for more quality-minded and customer-oriented work teams. Mostresearch shows that when the learner is actively involved in acquiring knowledge, theacquisition occurs much more rapidly and is more effectively retained. Therefore, howseriously should educators take the training of social, ethical, human values, andcommunication skills? Perhaps one answer would be the inclusion of cultural diversity that isbrought into the classroom by international students.Cultural diversity is the beginning of prosperity in society. It is the notion that differences canprovide for

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1999 Annual Conference

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Phillip C. Wankat; Frank S. Oreovicz

Individual Make-up] 717 Communication Skills I18 Student Mini-Lectures Gp A. Also Evening19 Student Mini-Lectures Gp B. Also Evening20 Informal Oral Reports on Web Project Arrange to watch videotape.21 Testing 1122 Testing & Grading 1123 Disruption and Cheating 12 SPRING BREAK24 Intermediate Project Reports/Writing Exam25 Computer Simulations 8 + Handouts26 Professional Concerns and Ethics 17 (Student Exams Due)27

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1999 Annual Conference

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Allen Leybourne

words in the title.The reader may have already suspected this, however, the analogy continues. Perspirationresults biologically in humans to enable them to keep cool when work is being done. Fewaspirations will be realized without an adequate work ethic. There is an old Indian saying that inorder to dig a well, you must at least dig in one place for a while. Enough said? But even here, alittle reflection is useful. If the well is being dug in a quick sand area, an obvious source ofwater, it first becomes necessary to shore up the sides of the well. Simply digging in one placefor a long time would be fruitless.Gellerman 2 concludes that, “ . . . There is an underlying order to human behavior on the job.People do constantly seek to serve their

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1999 Annual Conference

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Vincent R. Canino; John D. Gassert

design, prepare design memos covering the work completed in each quarter, attenddesign team meetings, and attend design team meeting(s) with the Chief Engineer, as directed bythe Chief Engineer. Design team performance is graded by the Vice President of Engineering,and that grade is factored into the final grade assigned for BE-400 by the Chief Engineer.During the summer between the junior and senior year each member of the design team isexpected to spend at least 20 hours working on assigned design team activities. In BE401, which is taken during quarter ten, the PM is responsible for making sure thatdesign specifications, ethical, moral, legal, and economic issues are resolved by the members ofthe team. An Oral Presentation and Formal

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1999 Annual Conference

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Peter Rosati

added bonus would be that any changes made toaccommodate E_F_ learning preferences would appeal especially to female students who aresignificantly more E_F_ than the male students.Specific suggestions10 for modification of the program would be to incorporate more activegroup work (E and F); more spontaneous discussion, informal problem-solving and creativediscovery tasks (P); discussion of aesthetics, ethics and social factors, work with mentors andgroups (F); and more specific, practical, hands-on realistic tasks (S). Insofar as studentwithdrawals from the engineering disciplines are highly P, the single most important change toincrease student retention would be to help students to organise their time, systematicallyallocating it to different

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1999 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes; William LeBold; William Oakes

faculty member, lead and teach ENGR 195F. Students inthese courses earn a grade of A-F based on attendance, participation, and completion ofassignments.In ENGR 195D, faculty members meet with groups of approximately30 students for one houreach week and actively engage students in career related experiences. This instructor-led courseinvolves the student in resume writing, job fairs, career planning, internet searches for careerand academic information, ethics games, communication exercises, and engineering problem Page 4.287.3solving. This course has been well received by students.7In ENGR 195F, two upper-class-engineering students lead discussion

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1998 Annual Conference

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M. R. Foster; H. Öz

Page 3.568.1to explain the phenomenon, but provides no remedies.Faced not only with these changes in students, but also with new and more persistent voices fromindustry about the teaching of design, in particuar2, 3, 4, and a level of dissatisfaction inside aca-demia for some of the reasons already noted, a number of institutions have undertaken significantchange in their undergraduate courses of study, with the Michigan 2000 study among the mostprominent5. A number of themes emerge from such studies, principally these: Design should beintegrated more fully through the curriculum, and more emphasis should be given to what haveoften been called “softer” skills like communications and ethics, for example. The dialogue hasled to new accreditation

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1998 Annual Conference

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Randall L. Ness; Carl A. Erikson

in my life are; I have high morals, I have a good self-esteem, I’m always on time, and I’musually very determined. These seem to be the things that help me in life, and that I don’t have to work at verymuch.” Professional Development - Students are motivated by a clear understanding ofengineering as a profession and conduct themselves ethically and in a professional manner at alltimes. One student writes about an electronic kit she was building: “Today I had my first soldering experience. I have no prior experience with this type of thing andI have had doubts about my ability and interest in such things. However, while making my Decision Maker I had awonderful time. I was completely absorbed and preoccupied with

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1998 Annual Conference

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Marybeth Lima

, students are working withengineers and architects to prepare detailed design specifications. They have also created a website at http://gumbo.bae.lsu.edu/TIGER, where the proposal to university administration can beviewed. Page 3.456.6References.1. Wankat, P.C. and F.S. Oreovicz. 1993. Teaching Engineering, McGraw Hill, New York, NY.2. Pavelich, M.J. and Moore, W.S. 1996. Measuring the Effect of Experiential Education Usingthe Perry Model. J. Eng. Edu. 85(4): 287-292.3. Perry, W.G. 1970. Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years. Holt,Rinehart & Winston, Inc. New York, NY.4. Johnson, D.W. and Johnson, R.T. 1989

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1998 Annual Conference

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Fathi Finaish

which engineering is practiced, including economics, history, the environment, and customer and societal needs.5. Good written, verbal, graphic, and listening communication skills.6. High ethical standards.7. Critical and creative thinking, both independently and cooperatively.8. Ability and self confidence to adapt to rapid and major change.9. Curiosity and the desire for lifelong learning.10. Understanding and commitment of team work. Page 3.38.1These attributes require the university to alter its engineering curriculum and place moreemphasis on combining engineering skills & disciplines, communication skills, and

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1998 Annual Conference

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Sal Arnaldo; Fazil Najafi

local governments. Thisprocess is also similar in other countries with a democratic government. A three-credit hour, undergraduate course in public works engineering and managementpractices is proposed in this paper to introduce civil engineering students and coastal andenvironmental engineering students to basic principles of organization, including organizationpolicies and the engineering code of ethics, along with other topics including personnelmanagement; planning, finance, risk management and legal review; communications; records;emergency management; safety; municipal engineering; engineering design; the bid process;construction; right-of-way permits; utility coordination; buildings, equipment, and grounds; solidwaste management

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1998 Annual Conference

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William Peterson

frequent class meetings). Toallow the part-time non-traditional student to complete the program in a reasonable period oftime at least 5 courses need to be completed in each calendar year. For non-traditional students a2-2-1-0 (Fall-Winter-Spring-Summer) or 2-2-0-1 schedule appears appropriate. This allows thestudent one extended period per year without classes. The courses offered during the shortsemesters are typically 3 credit courses without laboratory requirements. The required upperdivision philosophy course (PHIL 316 - Ethics in Engineering and Technology) is a primecandidate for this offering since it meets the profile of an appropriate course and full-time WMUfaculty are available to teach the course during this time period. A typical