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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

, entitled Women and Men of theEngineering Path: A Model Analyses of Undergraduate Careers. This study confirms therelative scarcity of liberal arts courses in the undergraduate experience: “only four coursesoutside of science, mathematics, and technology—introduction to economics, Englishcomposition, general psychology, and introduction to management—turn up frequently ontranscripts” (Adelman 1998). The authors’ study confirms these findings, except the presence ofa psychology course, of which only two civil engineering schools specifically require. This islikely a difference between civil and other branches of engineering. The USDE study went on toreport that although “all branches [of engineering] encounter problems brimming withambiguities and

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jan Lugowski

, understanding of the basics, and oftenhard work. That’s why many students avoid it. History is full of examples of scientists,researchers, and engineers who avoided critical thinking in their careers. Those who did applycritical thinking, contributed to the progress in their disciplines. It may seem that lack of criticalthinking occurred only in the past. We often are so deeply engaged in solving problems that weoverlook that there often is another possible approach to a problem. In the bibliography1-9, severalreferences are given to publications that deal with critical thinking as a way of living. In thispaper, only limited experiences are presented that relate to a few courses in the MechanicalEngineering Technology Department at Purdue University.2

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

variouscontexts and reflect on their actions throughout the project. 3-5At Miami University, the senior design project course is also used to establish bridges with localhigh schools by participating in FIRST robotics comeptition. Started in the year 2001, this coursehas been successful in collaborating with local high schools participating in the competition. TheFIRST robotics competition 6 engages university students in a challenging 'design-build-and test'project, while working side by side with industrial engineers and high school students. Throughthe competition, university students complete a demanding engineering project and motivate anew cadre of students to follow their career footsteps.After a brief description of FIRST competition, the paper

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2001 Annual Conference

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Winston F. Erevelles

, Logistics Engineering, Software Engineering, and EngineeringManagement and will also be available to faculty from different departments and programsacross campus.The facility will also be used for tours, career fairs, programs for middle and high schoolstudents, and other similar recruitment efforts. These will include teacher/counselor educationand outreach, and initiatives aimed at K-12 students with an emphasis on women andunderrepresented minorities. The Learning Factory will be used to support contract research andas a test bed for ideas that may generate external funding. A significant purpose of the facility Page 6.330.2will be the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Wayne LePori; Scott Osborn; Marty Matlock; Cady Engler

them." In this sense, innovation is the task of breaking the economic rules and being rewarded, over and over again…The "rule- breaking" theory of economics was actually developed in 1942 by the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpter. He described the hallmark of technological innovation as "the perennial gale of creative destruction," or in today's holistic thinking, "the great lever of creative transformation."We must teach our students the methods for “breaking the rules,” i.e., the methods that willprovide the most rigorous (defensible) path to innovation in their professional careers. Page 6.360.3Proceedings of the 2001

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Rodolfo Molinari

experimental teachingmethodology, in face of the high costs of laboratory facilities that only a few Schools of Engi-neering can afford. As a consequence, a significant number of professionals are not really pre-pared after finishing their courses, demanding a long time of training after graduation and, fre-quently, a personal deception with the career. It is in this scenario that the availability of compu-tational resources adapted for mathematical simulation appears as a methodological alternative toexperimental classes, with the creation of virtual laboratories that imply in a very significant re-duction in costs.Introduction. With the accelerated development of computers technology verified especially in the lastdecade of 20th century and

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Alan Gomez

know I wouldn't be headed in the professional direction I am today. The fun thatI had, the things that I learned and the hours that I put in made me realize what I wanted to do withmy career. Not only did it help me realize what it is that I wanted to do, but it also gave me a headstart with my personal as well as engineering skills. It taught me leadership, teamwork anddiplomacy as well as rewarded me for my efforts. From the moment I began college up to today Ihave felt like I have had the advantage over most everyone else coming out of high school. It is agreat program and I plan to support it myself any way that I can.”Emery Sanford, Freshman at the University of California at Berkley in Mechanical Engineering."The Principles of

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2000 Annual Conference

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Sandra Yost

, it was agreed that facultymembers would select their own preferred design activity to conduct. The mini-capstone projectwas used by the author to introduce students to concepts in mechatronics, and will be describedin more detail in the next section.Topics and activities common to all sections include an overview of different engineering majorsand careers, an introduction to the design process, teaming skills, time management and projectmanagement, competitive product assessment, criteria testing, and reverse engineering of acommon household item. In addition, each instructor prepares a one-week hands-on designactivity that is relevant to his/her discipline. A four-week segment of the course is devoted toconducting each of the discipline

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2000 Annual Conference

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Douglas Mattox; Bahador Ghahramani

, 70 (1993) 5. Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain, Longmans, Green, NY,(1956).DOUGLAS M. MATTOXDoug Mattox is Professor of Ceramic Engineering in the Ceramic Engineering Department of the University ofMissouri-Rolla, Rolla Missouri. He received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Ceramic Engineering from RutgersUniversity. Following graduation he began a twenty-five year career in industrial research and management,mostly with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA. He came to the UMR in 1989 where hefirst served as Department Chair. He is particularly interested in the use web-based technologies and experts toassist in K-12 education.BAHADOR GHAHRAMANIDr. Ghahramani is Associate

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Singli Garcia-Otero; Isaac Crumbly

cooperative program between FVSUand private and governmental sectors of the nation’s energy industry that focuses on therecruitment and placement of academically talented minorities and females into professionallevel careers in the energy industry. The CDEP program established 3+2 dual-degrees inmathematics/engineering and mathematics/health physics with the University of Nevada, LasVegas (1992) and mathematics/engineering with Georgia Institute of Technology (2000). CDEP Page 7.843.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Todd Rasmussen; Matt Smith; David Gattie

rated the course as one of the most enjoyable learningexperiences of their college careers. They report benefits to their learning experience that comefrom the diversity of the students and instructors, the hands-on nature of the course, and the rareopportunity to watch and participate as instructors from different disciplines disagree (generallywith good humor) about the causes, interpretations, and significance of various observations. Atypical comment from student evaluations is “The practical applications of course materials to real world examples are invaluable. The combination of instructors was very helpful in understanding the various principles covered well. Besides being a great educational experience it is

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip Henning

project funded by the National Science Foundation under its GK-12 (Graduate-K-12) program to enhance science, math, engineering, and technology skills and career choices.The Penn State side of the partnership involves graduate and undergraduate science andengineering students at Penn State who are involved with researching and developing HEV(hybrid electric vehicle) technology. On the K-12 side of the partnership are two middle schoolsand one high school in Pennsylvania.The three anchors of this joint National Science Foundation-University-School partnership arementoring, motivation, and manipulatives or M3. The M3 approach was developed by the lateDr. Donald Streit, Penn State. Graduate students from Penn State’s Graduate AutomotiveTechnology

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

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Resit Unal; Charles Keating; Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

president of theAmerican Society for Engineering Management.PAUL KAUFFMANNPaul J. Kauffmann is Professor and Chair in the Department of Engineering Technology at Old DominionUniversity. His previous position at ODU was in the Department of Engineering Management. Prior to hisacademic career, he worked in industry where he held positions as Plant Manager and Engineering Director. Dr.Kauffmann received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and MENG in Mechanical Engineering from VirginiaTech. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State and is a registered Professional Engineer.CHARLES KEATINGDr. Keating is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director for Engineering Management at Old DominionUniversity. Dr. Keating's

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New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Lucy Morse; Jack Selter

to market the new program are notrevolutionary, but are quite ordinary. Yet, in the context of the traditional educational model,this model involves leaving the office and meeting potential program users (customers) fact-to-face. Having an idea of whom those customers are and how to reach them can be very helpfultools in this process.Some strategies that might be used include: · Work with local and regional IST employers to define and describe internships and career paths for two and four year IST degree holders. · Work with local and regional IST employers to determine improved corporate performance and capacity through the use of four-year IST degree holders.Evaluate and improve.Following the process described in

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New MET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Slade Gellin

engineer with the information that that engineer may request; and he can effectively communicate the results to management and the customer.While it is recognized that a mechanical engineering technologist could become proficientenough in finite element analysis to possibly make a career move in that direction, the rolesdescribed above assume that finite element analysis knowledge is another tool in the toolbox of acareer engineering technologist.Course ObjectivesIn recognition of the above roles of the mechanical engineering technologist, the followingcourse objectives were established: · To understand the purposes and uses of the finite element analysis process in industry and the possible roles of the mechanical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Feldman; Wayne Mackey

courses. College Algebra at the University of Arkansas is a pre -requisite for FiniteMathematics and Survey of Calculus, courses required for graduation for most students notpursuing careers in science. In the two-course sequences of College Algebra to Finite or CollegeAlgebra to Survey of Calculus the success rate for modular algebra was 33% higher than that oftraditional algebra students. At the time of the study both Finite Mathematics and Survey ofCalculus were taught in a traditional manner. Page 7.318.2 2In the Fall of 2000, we began instruction in Finite Mathematics using the IMME method. In

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Robert Tener; Michael Winstead; Edward Smaglik

Page 6.486.10 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcooperative education student learning is extended into the workplace. For nearly a century in U.S.engineering education, co-op students have enjoyed the significant benefits of irreplaceable experientiallearning, preparating them for their engineering careers. In “Co-op’s 90-Year Odyssey,” Sam Sovilla haschronicled the history of and the key issues in co-op programs in engineering education48.The authors believe that the analysis and conclusions presented in this study can be found applicable andrelevant to co-op learning in the civil and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Oral LaFleur; Matthew Govindsanny; Joshua Hill; Daniel Jones

performance.BackgroundThe Renewable Energy and Environmental Protection (REEP) academy is an annual summerprogram held at Texas Southern University (TSU).1 The mission of REEP is to expose inner-citystudents to technology and to motivate them to pursue careers in math, science, technology, andengineering. Over 50 high school students gathered at TSU during summer 2000, with collegestudents serving as mentors.2This paper discusses one of the projects of REEP, the installation of a new solar refrigerator inSouth Africa. This was the result of collaboration between: 1. The environmental engineering technology program at TSU, 2. The mechanical engineering technology program at Central Michigan University, 3. The electrical engineering program

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Best of Computers in Education Division

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Patrick Hogan, Missouri S&T; Dan Cernusca, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Computers in Education

Metamorphic Petrology; (2) Development of scientific skills which provide an opportunity for students to adopt the approach research scientists use to solve problems, and (3) Development of personal skills which are essential to any career and to lifelong learning. Page 22.907.2While this course is primarily designed for the training of the next generation of scientists,development of these skills is likely to transcend many disciplines. This course also focuses onproviding students with a strong foundation in fundamental technical skills needed to describeand classify igneous and metamorphic rocks as well as knowledge of how these rocks

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

Page 22.1683.2industry, and iv) support from service groups. The milestone documents for manufacturingeducation are listed below 1, 2, 3, 4, along with two forums 5, 6, and a summit 7. Curricula 2015 wasdeveloped using the content of these documents and input from many other sources to promoteimprovement of not only manufacturing-named curricula, but also to encourage other disciplineswhose graduates enter manufacturing-related careers to enhance the content of manufacturingtopics in their curricula. • Countdown to the Future: The Manufacturing Engineer in the 21st Century: Profile 21, Dear- born, MI: Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1988. • Ideal Models in Manufacturing Education – Proceedings of the Curricula 2000

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Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University; Qing Pang, Jackson State University

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Minorities in Engineering

). He has authored/co-authored over a hundred technical papers and reports during his career in private industry, government and academia. His current research interests are nearshore wave transformations, coastal structures, tsunami inundation, hurricane surges, high performance computing, and engineering education.Qing Pang, Jackson State University Ms Qing Pang is Research Associate in the Department of Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, College of Science, Engineering & Technology, Jackson State University. She earned her MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000. She worked for several private companies before joining Jackson State University in 2007

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Lessons for New Engineering Educators

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amani Salim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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New Engineering Educators

intend to pursue a career in academia.Typically PRs enter their faculty roles without teaching experience or the knowledge and skillsnecessary for course development. It is essential for PRs to acquire the needed knowledge andskills during their training to ease their transition to becoming a productive faculty member.This paper explores the experiences and challenges faced by a PR who had the chance to engagein instructional activities. She is a member of a team responsible for teaching assistantprofessional development with mathematical modeling problems taught in a first-yearengineering program. Model-Eliciting Activity TA professional development was the PR’straining site.I. IntroductionA career in academia continues to be the choice of many

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

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NSF Grantees

are unable to complete their lower-division course work, and are ata considerable disadvantage when they transfer to a four-year institution.Most importantly, a significant number of the students from educationally disadvantagedcommunities will never hear about engineering, much less consider it as a career option, withoutengineering courses, engineering programs and engineering faculty in community colleges. TheCalifornia higher education system has essentially dismantled a large portion of the engineeringeducation pipeline, barring access to those students least likely to find a detour around thebarriers that have been inadvertently created.With the uncertainty in the future of California community college engineering curriculum, andeven

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University; Johnny Thieken, Arizona State University; Lisa Stapley Randall, Arizona State University; Alison W. Smith, SRP

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NSF Grantees

humans have hadneeds. Engineering has to be viewed as an ethical human endeavor that addresses the needs of aglobal society. Engineers are inventors and designers; they apply science and mathematics; anduse their imagination and creativity to make ideas a reality. They create technical solutions tomeet societal needs. This forms the core of engineering activities.2 Yet, there is a decline in highschool students’ interest in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematicsresulting in a decline in engineering enrollment, both undergraduate and graduate. Engineeringdoctorates have declined in recent years and are still below the levels of the 1980s.3Adolescents seldom lack curiosity, but as they go into the teenage years their

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Engineering and Public Policy II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Cruz, Great Minds in STEM

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Engineering and Public Policy

and Technology (2012) 14 acknowledges increaseddeparture from STEM during the first two years of college due to perceived unwelcomingenvironments, lack of math preparation, and disengaging introductory engineering courses. Asstudents near their fourth year in college, they become dismayed not by the engineering content, Page 25.236.3but rather by an engineering education structure that emphasizes technical problem solving in aclosed environment and lacks preparation for professional practice and competencies (Sheppard,Pellegrino, & Olds, 2008) 15. Therein, only a third of engineering students actually persist intoan engineering career; 60

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Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G. Enriquez, Cañada College; Catherine Baker Lipe, Cañada College

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Two Year College Division

conference is in San Jose, CA  Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) national conference in Anaheim, CA  8th Annual MESA/PG&E Engineering Student Leadership Conference, Berkeley,  CAAMSA ARC Pre-Med Conference at University of California, Davis  University of California, Berkeley Biology Majors Fair  SHPE IBM Networking and Career Info  4th Annual Community College Honors Research Symposium, Stanford University  MESA Student Leadership Retreat at Happy Valley, Santa Cruz, CA  Stanford Med School’s Spring Leadership Workshop  SHPE Regional Leadership Development Conference  American Chemical Society National Conference, San Francisco, CAField Trips to Industry Sites and UniversitiesThe

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Retention and Two-year to Four-year Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret Krudysz, City College of the City University of New York; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York; Annita Alting, City College of the City University of New York

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Two Year College Division

engineering workforce due to inadequate secondary schoolpreparation, the absence of academic support at many institutions, lack of academically intensivesummer programs, and financial constraints, among others [1]. Numerous programs exist torecruit minority students into higher education [2]. Among these are early intervention programs,such as summer bridge programs; education and mentorship programs initiated by professionalassociations and private or government organization, dual or concurrent enrollment programsbetween high schools and community colleges; pre-college programs to attract students tospecific careers such as Precollege Initiative for Minorities in Engineering; school-collegecollaborative partnerships between community- or four-year

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Systems Engineering Education and K-12

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles S. Wasson, Wasson Strategics, LLC

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

operation and Mission event timelines (METs) • Development of multi-level design solutions • Analysis of alternatives (AoA) • Modeling and simulation • Integration and test engineering and specialty engineering – i.e., human factors, reliability, maintainability, et al - to avoid showstopper surprises that impact system acceptance, delivery, and user satisfaction. • Verification and validation (V&V) • Et alAnecdotal evidence based on the author’s experiences suggest that many engineers are estimatedto spend on average from 50% to 75% of their total career hours collaborating with othersconcerning the engineering of systems – i.e., SE - for which they have no formal education.Aerospace and defense tends

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Timothy Wheeler; Dr. Rose Marra; Dr. Jack Mitchell; Dr. Charles Croskey

minute flight. The payload was recovered and data analysis is ongoing bythe student participants.The story of the SPIRIT undergraduate sounding rocket project has two dimensions. First, wereport on the form and organization of this program. A description of SPIRIT, however, wouldbe incomplete without a further discussion of the effectiveness of the project as a teachingmethod. How does SPIRIT contribute to the formation of quality engineers? How does it affectthe lives and careers of the student participants? It is arguably in this second area that the realvalue of the project resides.By most any measure this first SPIRIT payload was a success. Pride and gratification wasevident on the faces of the students who had worked so hard on the project

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2001 Annual Conference

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John D. Cremin

experiments in a distancelearning environment. Once experiments have been developed, they can be used as a stepin evaluating and developing laboratory Internet courses that have a basis in real data.Bibliography1. Fluke Scopemeter 100 User’s Manual2. Hewlett Packard HP33120A Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator User’s Manual3. Tomasi, Wayne, Electronic Communications Systems,2nd Ed., Prentice Hall Career & Technology, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994, pp106,1114. URL:http://webctservice.slu.edu:8900/webct/SCRIPT/AVNP10001/scripts/designer/s erve_home?.PUBLIC ,information on WebCT courses at Saint Louis UniversityJOHN D. CREMINJohn Cremin is an Associate Professor, Avionics, at Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineeringand Aviation. He