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2001 Annual Conference

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Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili; Jr., Richard Crain; Jeffrey McCauley; Forrest Parkay; Denny Davis; Michael Trevisan

Introductory Engineering Design Class." Paper number 1356, Proceedings of Frontiers in Education conference, November. 19. Lumsdaine, E., M. Lumsdaine, and J.W. Shelnutt. 1999. Creative Problem Solving and Engineering Design. McGraw-Hill, Inc., College Custom Series, NY.Biographical SketchesMr. KENNETH L. GENTILI is instructor of engineering and physics at Tacoma Community College. Mr.Gentili has more than thirty years of teaching experience in higher education. During that time he hastaught more than twenty-five different courses in engineering, physics and math. He piloted fiveexperimental classes that included a freshman course in Introduction to Engineering Design, Ethical Issuesin Engineering, an X-ray Physics class for an

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2001 Annual Conference

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Roman Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

into account ecological, cultural and ergonomic aspects in designing technical objects and actions. Consequently, providing the graduates with opportunities for developing ethical views and attitudes becomes an obligation for the university. This is an objective of humanities and social sciences introduced in the curriculum, but it is also a role of the system of study to increase the students' responsibility for the effects of their professional activity and develop the culture of quality.How the above-outlined expectations towards engineering education are in every-day academiclife confronted with hard reality of declining students preparation for meeting them ?. Theintellectual distance to physical reality has been growing

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2001 Annual Conference

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Karim Nasr; Basem Alzahabi

engineering. A B C D E2. Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. A B C D E3. Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. A B C D E4. Ability to function in multidisciplinary teams. A B C D E5. Ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems. A B C D E6. Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. A B C D E7. Ability to communicate effectively. A B C D E8. Broad education that is

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

professor’s requirements for meeting their research goals.The microEP requirements include weekly operational meetings to provide a forum for opengroup discussions. Discussions include cultural issues such as comparisons of home countryculture to US culture, discussions of current interactions between technology and society, andprofessional ethics. Educational issues are included, such as group overviews of individualcurriculum choices as well as research discussions with microEP faculty. Some sessions are alsoused to discuss the most efficient usage of software tools for such things as creation andmanagement of their educational path in Microsoft Project.The intent of this methodology is to bring this diverse group of students rapidly together to

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2000 Annual Conference

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Marilyn J. Smith

did not understand all the details.The minority opinion that it was of no value came from students (with two exceptions) who didnot provide any positive comments on the class or their math experience.d) Group ProjectThis project was developed to provide exposure to the ABET 2000 outcomes of • an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams • an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility • an ability to communicate effectively • a knowledge of contemporary issuesGroups of four students were assigned together based on their common interests in several topicsprovided as project assignments. The topics were developed from current research topics, butwere designed to be broad in

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2000 Annual Conference

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Louis Cloutier; Jean-Francois Methot; Jean Brousseau; Bernard Larocque

. IntroductionFounded in 1969, the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), a constituent of the Universitédu Québec, has been offering an engineering degree program since September 1994. As a resultof a vast consultation that included the business, industry, public and parapublic sectors, theprogram has been geared towards training versatile engineers capable of designing,implementing and analyzing elements and systems of the physical environment using amultidisciplinary approach, while considering ethical, social and economic factors. In thedevelopment of the program, the Université du Québec à Rimouski recognized that the practice ofdesign is central to the education of the next generation of engineers. Engineering design is theprocess by wich raw scientific

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2000 Annual Conference

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Yvon Kermarrec; Ian R. Simpson

, economies are becoming increasinglyinter-dependent and no nation can now afford to ignore what is happening outside its ownborders. Globalization has arrived. Engineering is one of the most « global » and wealth-generating activities in any economy. It pervades every aspect of our everyday lives, frommaking the coffee, to plugging in to the Internet or using transport systems and othercommunication devices as we travel to our workplace. Training competent engineers who havea strong perception of all aspects of their profession (scientific, ergonomic, economic,ethical...) is surely an absolute necessity for those of us involved in engineering education.An American recruitment agency recently published a list of the « Top Ten Reasons to

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2000 Annual Conference

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Martha C. Wilson

) of ABET 2000 that “engineering programs must demonstrate that theirgraduates have: (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; (g) an ability to communicate effectively; (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context; (i) a recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in life-long learning; (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues; andThese represent nearly half of the criteria, and all are directly associated with liberal education.In this context, it seems promising that the liberal education component of engineering curriculawill have a large role to play. This will depend on how institutions organize the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Rosa Buxeda; Ramon Vazquez Espinosa; Jorge I. Velez; Lueny M. Morell

Program Starts Ethics Program EndsDiagram 2 and Table 1. Summer Station Internship

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2000 Annual Conference

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Lesley Jolly; David Radcliffe

;• the ability to communicate effectively, not only with engineers but also with the community at large;• the ability to function effectively as an individual and in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams, with the capacity to be a leader or manager as well as an effective team member;• an understanding of the social, cultural, global and environmental responsibilities of the professional engineer, and the need for sustainable development;• an understanding of and commitment to professional and ethical responsibilities;• the expectation and capacity to undertake life-long learning.The magnitude of the changes needed in engineering faculties and education programs to bringabout the aspirations expressed in the Review should

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2000 Annual Conference

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Karen Al-Ashkar

university policies relating to honesty,copyright, and the confidentiality of students’ records. Another section of these materialsaddresses program resources and policies specific to our degree program. The thirdelement covers the issues sometimes raised by distance learners, their employers, andtheir families.We collected formal policy statements about the confidentiality and availability ofstudent records, ownership of course products, and the ethical considerations essential tostudent/course interaction. These were already in place for on-campus studentpopulations, but needed to be made available to our off-campus students. These Page 5.569.6materials

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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George Havener

(ethics, sociological, health and safety). The teammanager was responsible for organization, maintaining schedules, and the written and oral t eamreports that were the products of the team. The task teams were responsible for educating theentire project team on the fundamentals of their respective task.Why the Mars Mission PBL-Problem – USAF graduates are Air Force Officers who, duringtheir careers, participate in and have responsibility for a variety of systems -programs. Suchprograms often present interdisciplinary ill-defined problems requiring expertise in engineering,economics, politics, sociology, medicine, psychology, and law. So in addition to device-orientedproblems, USAFA cadets need school-experiences working on multifaceted

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Klegka; Robert Rabb

Page 7.167.3 Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationon designing for fatigue. Case studies provide insight into the ethical responsibilities ofengineers. Projects provide opportunities to experience design and to consider reliability,economics, and judicious use of resources. A semester long design and build project reinforcesthe design process instruction and culminates in a student competition.e. ME402, Mechanical Design, focuses on simulation-based design with special focus onapplication of design methodologies to mechanical elements and assemblies of weapons. Itintegrates principles of multiple disciplines into design efforts involving target effects, projectileflight, gun tubes, recoil devices

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Feland

invaluable in the coming weeks as the students moved forward withtheir projects. Profile for John Feland Portrait of the Champion (eNFp) Copyrighted © 1996 Prometheus Nemesis Book Company. The Champion Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in accomplishing the ir aims, and informative and extraverted when relating with others. For Champions, nothing occurs which does not have some deep ethical significance, and this, coupled with their uncanny sense of the motivations of others, gives them a talent for seeing li fe as an exciting drama, pregnant with possibilities for both good and evil. This type is found in only about 3 percent of the general

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Schreiner

design process · Reduce & present data in an engineering manner · Work on a design team · Communicate technical information effectively · Articulate concepts of professional ethics and the social responsibility of engineersAlong the way to achieving these objectives, students learned key computer skills and improvedtheir two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualization skills by studying solid modeling andtraditional engineering graphics techniques (by hand).This course required two major design projects and emphasized hands-on, problem-basedlearning. In a shift from traditional classroom lectures, instructors delivered short lectures andsupervised hands-on activities in two

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Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik

andCommunications at the University of Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in systems engineering and an ethics and policyoption from the University of Virginia, a program completed in May 2001. His research area involves exploringsociotechnical network analyses for new technology and process designs.R. Jacques is a senior analyst at Veridian -PSR, Charlottesville, VA, and an adjunct professor in the Division ofTechnology, Culture and Communications at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.___________________Faculty interesting in trying the simulation may obtain the basic materials in electronic form fromJPO’C. Under certain circumstances, the authors may be engaged to facilitate these simulations.Contact jpo2x@virginia.edu

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Assessing the Humanities in Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Lee

Session 1089 Humanities Awareness: A Comparison Between Honors Program and Traditional Undergraduate Engineering Students William E. Lee III Department of Chemical Engineering University of South Florida Tampa, FL 33620IntroductionThe importance of the humanities in engineering education has not been without controversy.Reflecting current ABET criteria, engineering students are expected to develop a high level ofcultural, societal, and ethical awareness, with such awareness

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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

programs Open- Well- ended definedRef. Measure- Algorithms / Graphical problem problem # Dimensions Units ment Programming solutions Plotting solving solving Statistics Ethics 1 x x 2 x x x x x x x x 3 x x x 4 x x x x x x x 5 x x x x x x x x x 6 x

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Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Ressler

learned to deal with constraints like regulatory restrictions, historical preservation, aesthetic and environmental sensitivities, and the political influence on design and construction. · They learned that the engineer’s ethical responsibility to ensure public safety is something real. The prospect of having hundreds of people crossing a bridge they designed caused them to take the task far more seriously than might have been the case for a “paper design.” · They learned to use the Internet as a resource of “off-the-shelf” products that might contribute to their solution. · They learned that the engineer’s role is to serve society, and they drew immense

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NSF Opportunities for Undergrad Eng Ed

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeannette Neal

School-to-Work Programs sponsored by the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 [9].The infusion of workplace realism is comprised of several components. An important aspect ofworkplace realism is to expose students to the principles, projects, tools, and concerns ofindustry. This includes insight into representative projects performed in industry, how they areconducted and managed, the tools used, and concerns such as security, ethics, and privacy.Another aspect of the infusion of workplace realism is the use of examples and case studies fromindustry to provide concrete instantiations of the topics covered in class. The software solutionsrepresented by the examples and case studies are examined for strengths, weak nesses, logicalnext steps

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ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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P. James Moser; Biswajit Ray

3 3 0 0 3 17 21 8 6 9 Semester V, Fall 54.316 Digital Electronics 3 3 3 0 0 58.323 Quality Control & Experimental Design 3 3 3 3 0 53.322 Differential Equations 3 3 3 0 0 58.300 Career Orientation 1 1 1 1 0 Technical Writing or Public Speaking 3 3 0 0 3 Values, Ethics & Responsible

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marvin Dixon

conferencing equipment and the associated hardware & software, and thecost of long-distance phone time.ClosureThe multi-disciplinary capstone design course was judged best to meet the objective ofdeveloping the student’s skills in teaming, communication, and integrating the application ofhard engineering science with safe, ethical, and innovative design. The multi-university designactivity developed a higher level of self-confidence in the student’s technical ability. However,the additional cost of the multi-university may make it impossible to implement. Achieving theobjectives for the students as stated above were weighted against the cost of the various teamingcombinations as measured both in dollars spent and faculty members’ time. The various

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2001 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Patrick E. Devens

study students for the whole '98 and '99academic years, respectively.The EF1015 course teaches general engineering material required by most engineeringfields. Course objectives are that the student, having successfully completed the course,will be able to: • apply engineering ethics to real life situations, • apply the engineering method to problem solving, • apply basic physical and mathematical concepts to introductory engineering problems, • translate “word” problems into the mathematical statements that describe the physical situations presented; i.e., read, or listen to, problems and understand them, • graph numeric data and develop simple empirical functions

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2001 Annual Conference

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James Bean; Aparajita Mazumder

Organization and Integration, China’sEvolution under Communism, The Economy of the People’s Republic of China, BusinessAbroad, International Economics, International Trade Theory, International Finance.Business, Technology and Environment: The World Economy, International Management,International Finance and International Financial Markets, Business in Asia, Doing Business inChina, Politics, Economics, and Business in China, Management of International Firms,International Marketing Management, International Economic Policy and Industrial Strategy,Financial Management in the International Corporation, Introduction to Global Change I & II,Our Common Future: Ecology, Economics & Ethics of Sustainable Development,Environmental Justice: Domestic

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2001 Annual Conference

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Amir Karimi

solvingtechniques. The course is intended to begin the student’s preparation for future engineeringpractice. Students are introduced to a number of subjects that are necessary tools of engineering.Students are taught study skills, time management, the concept of teamwork, professional ethics,and oral and written communication skills. A series of exciting laboratory demonstrations orexperiments are planned for the course to maintain students’ interest in the program. Thecomputer application aspect of the course is designed with the strength of current students inmind. Students learn computer basics, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software, andcommunication through electronic mail as well as more sophisticated software packages such

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2001 Annual Conference

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Jan Rinehart; Jim Morgan; Jeffrey Froyd

evaluation of projects • Industry would serve as e-mail consultants to team/clusters • Deliver course lectures on subjects such as ethics, design process, documentation, teaming, and/or communications • Host cluster for a field trip to industry • Develop a case study to be presented by engineers in the classroom • Send new hires back to the classroom to discuss perceptions and realizations of the workplace • Send an experienced engineering to talk to the class about their projects • Conduct industry training like teaming, conflict management, communications, etc. • Industry do mock interviews, resume writing, dinner with discussionOnce different ideas had been generated, the faculty and college administrators met

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2001 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Jablokow

State Great Valley is aspecial-mission campus in the Penn State University system, tasked with serving the adultlearning community in the Philadelphia region. Since its introduction in 1998, Invention andCreative Design has been incorporated into several modules that support the Systems andSoftware Engineering degrees. It may be taken as part of a core skill-based module, which alsoincludes courses in communication and project management, or it may form one leg of a modulethat focuses on innovation and change. Other courses in the innovation module includeCreativity, Innovation, and Change and Engineering Ethics (both developed by this author).Invention and Creative Design also remains open to all students in the School’s three

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2001 Annual Conference

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Luiz DaSilva

, work ethic, and in-depth knowledge of practical implications of the subject;full-time students tend to have fewer time constraints and therefore are better able to focus on thetasks at hand, and are generally more familiar with theoretical and analytical methods. The riskexists, however, that when both on-campus and remote students are present in the same course,one of the groups may feel disenfranchised and therefore have a much less positive view of theoverall course than the other group, as reported in [5]. The challenge is to take advantage of thepotential for mutual learning among the entire student population while minimizing anyresentment about the extra level of effort required to overcome the additional obstacles. In anattempt to

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A Systems-Thinking Approach to Solving Problems

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald C. Rosenberg, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

; Page 22.763.2  an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; and  an ability to communicate effectively. Professional awareness skills  the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context;  a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in, life-long learning; and  a knowledge of contemporary issues.In the Besterfield-Sacre and McGourty study they ask two important questions: (1) Can suchprofessional skills be taught? (2) Can they be assessed? In this paper we address the issue ofassessing student growth in the ability to communicate effectively orally in the context of theundergraduate course Global Systems.Purpose

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Emerging Information Technologies

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Don Chen, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Computing & Information Technology

. The knowledge and skills associated with project administration include: a. understanding project delivery processes; b. applying principles of construction law and ethics; c. understanding contractor licensing requirements and procedures; d. understanding lien and labor laws as applied to construction; e. identifying appropriate construction codes and regulations; f. developing quality control programs and plans; Page 22.818.6 g. performing economic analyses and developing cash flow projections; and h. managing risks on a construction project.IV. The knowledge and skills associated with contract documents