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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Deborah A. Moore-Russo, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Phillip M. Cormier, SUNY - University at Buffalo; Amy M. Johnson, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Wei Chen, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Charles Kim, Bucknell University; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Education, 2014 Paper ID #8971 Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1994. His research interests include product family and product platform design, product dissection, multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO), and addi- tive manufacturing, and he has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers to date. He teaches courses on Product Family Design, Concurrent Engineering, Mechanical Systems Design, and Product Dissection, and he serves as the Director of the Product Realization Minor in the College of Engineering. He is a recipient of the ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Award and a NSF Career Award. He has received

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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul C. Lynch, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Cynthia Bober, Penn State University; Jennifer Louise Mines, The Pennsylvania State University

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Industrial Engineering

agree at all)- 10 (I agree completely). A. The class topics interested me. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 B. The class focused material on “real-world” applications. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C. The skills I learned will be applicable to my future career. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 D. The course material was understandable. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 E. Grading procedures were clear. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 F. I received timely and productive feedback on my work. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 G. I knew my grade throughout the semester

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Pedagogical Approaches in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiong Hu, Texas State University, San Marcos; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos; Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos

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Construction

career in engineering working with companies such as General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Microsoft, she pursued a Master’s degree in Education from Michigan State University. Later, Araceli completed a PhD in Engineering Education from Tufts University. She is also experienced in education policy and prior to joining the Professoriate, she was Director of Educator Preparation - focusing on STEM education projects at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. In 2013, she was named Director of the Texas State University LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Re- search. Her research interests include studying the role of engineering as a curricular context and problem- based learning as an instructional

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Teaching Mechanics of Materials

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez ; Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez ; Genock Portela-Gauthier, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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Mechanics

of manual or spreadsheet calculations to verify the resultsfrom simulations in SAP2000. Overall, we believe that from a the perspective of “engineeringculture”, it is important to engage students at the earliest stage possible with the “real” tasks andhabits of engineers and engineering analysts at the earliest possible stage in their careers. Weintend that our project is an advance in eliciting such mature behaviors from students.2. Description of Simulation & Design Projects in MoM We expose students to simulation software and design codes in a sequence of four MoMprojects that are completed in groups of 3-4. The following is a description of each project.Project 1: This project is a re-visitation of a project initiated in the

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Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cynthia Wise Barnicki, Milwaukee School of Engineering; James R. Kieselburg II, Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

into freshman-level humanities course and a junior-level technical course allowed students to make connections with what they learned earlier in their college careers. • Not insignificant is the fact that this interdisciplinary project brought together three people from very different academic areas to exchange ideas.The Museum - Contributions to the Synthesis of Art and EngineeringWhile the seeds may have been planted much earlier, the synthesis of art and engineering atMilwaukee School of Engineering formally began in 2001 with the gift of the Eckhart G. Page 24.784.2Grohmann Man at Work collection to the University

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DEED Melange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University; Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University

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Design in Engineering Education

misconceptions, the overall benefit of gaining this technicalknowledge will have longer term benefits. The ability of students to familiarize themselves withcurrent technical advances through research will be a valuable tool moving forward in anyengineering career. Figure 6 provides a graphical visualization of the results from Question 3.Figure 6: Question 3 Assessment ResultsQuestion 4: Based on your experiences so far, do you think you have the ability to become anengineer?The goal of this lone first-year engineering course was to introduce students to engineeringdesign and how it utilizes talents from all aspects of a student’s academic repertoire. Manystudents come in apprehensive about their abilities to succeed and this question aimed to

Conference Session

It's Elementary

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eduardo Alfonso Suescun-Florez, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Ryan Francis Cain, PS 3 The Bedford Village School; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander P.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

conference papers. He has mentored four doctoral students, eleven masters students, 25 undergraduate research students, and eleven undergraduate senior design project teams; over 300 K-12 teachers and 95 high school student researchers; and eighteen undergraduate GK-12 Fellows and 53 graduate GK-12 Fellows. Moreover, he directs K-12 education, training, mentoring, and outreach programs that currently enrich the STEM education of over 2,000 students annually.Dr. Magued G. Iskander P.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York University Dr. Magued Iskander is a professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU-Poly. Dr. Iskander is a recip- ient of NSF CAREER award, Chi Epsilon (Civil Engineering Honor Society) Metropolitan

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

community and for the public good. Students will be expected to address both thetechnical and the human aspects of the problem. Public costs versus benefits must be determinedand weighed requiring students to think critically about the community and their professionalphilosophies. Students will also critique and evaluate what aspects of the project were difficultand why, what aspects of the project they were unprepared for, and how the project related totheir coursework and career goals.The trend in engineering education is converging technological education and liberal artseducation [1]. This article further states that students need to “be prepared for a life in a worldwhere technological, scientific, humanistic, and social issues are all mixed

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College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Nicola Ferralis; Leanne Avery; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

using a pre- and post-participation test approach as well as an attitude toward science pre- and post-participation survey. While information gained from surveys can be very valuable it wasfelt that the deeper, fine-grained information available from qualitative methods mightbetter measure the attainment of the project goals in a useful manner. A change inmiddle school and high school students’ attitude toward science careers that is revealedby a pre- and post-participation attitude survey of all 7th graders might or might not be aresult of this project’s intervention. Since the project involved changes to the experienceof school students in the particular classes where graduate fellows used “hands-on”activities to convey important science

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Fontaine

lead a design team of a company and grow as technology advances, to express himself/herself in written and oral form, to be able to function as a project engineering immediately upon graduation, or undertake graduate studies in a variety of professional fields.The three primary objectives of the program are: 1. To produce an engineer capable of functioning as a project engineer upon graduation. 2. To develop professional design skills. 3. To produce and engineer capable of professional-level written and oral expression.We recognize that many of our students will not become or remain designers. While theirtraining will allow for this option, and certainly many take this route, many others will pursue adifferent career

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ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Bilodeau

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Scholarship in Engineering Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Ahmed Khan

4-year institutions had 589,000 enrollments (10 percent of the total) (p. iv) The Internet and two video technologies were most used as primary modes of instructional delivery for distance education courses during the 12- month 2000-2001 academic year (p. v)With this mushrooming growth of distance education programs (online asynchronous/synchronous and mixed/hybrid) in private and public institutions, faculty technical currency thusbecomes a pivotal factor for the design, implementation and delivery of effective onlineprograms that can promote student learning/success.Faculty in purely teaching institutions (non-research environment), especially those teaching intechnology-based and career-oriented programs

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Crossing the Discipline Divide!

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Krumholz; Robert Martello; Jonathan Stolk

to American history may have been his manymetallurgical endeavors: beginning his career as a silversmith apprentice and eventually theowner of a successful silver shop, Revere sought additional prestige and income after theAmerican revolution and started iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, malleable copperworking, and copper sheet rolling enterprises until his retirement in 1811. This proved an almostideal backdrop for an interdisciplinary project. Student teams selected one of “Revere’s” alloysystems (silver, iron, copper, or silver) and a process applicable to the alloy (casting, drawing,rolling, or forging). Students learned new laboratory techniques and designed experiments thatused state of the art technology and laboratory

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith; Adrienne Minerick

frankly discussed difficulties encountered on the tenure track and touchedon strategies the authors used to overcome them. A variety of external resources inteaching, research, and service were also provided. Although a new faculty member isexpected to do above average in research, teaching, and service, being a professor is atruly noble career. Remember your mission statement and why you chose this careerpath; focus your memories on the students you impacted and your enjoyable experiencesalong the way. Also make sure to schedule time for family, friends, yourself, and toexercise. The key is to remember to find people willing to help you and ask for theiradvice. Strong mentors can be your most valuable tool.Bibliography1. "Survival Kit for New

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John R. Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

secondary schools what they expect incoming first-yearstudents to know and be able to do to succeed in college. Nor do they make clear tocollege-bound students why the expected preparation matters”1. Texas Tech Universityis addressing these issues by working with K-12 teachers and administrators to developthe engineering resources, content, and training for teachers so that they will be betterprepared to prepare their students, especially women and minority students, for careers inengineering.By providing engineering resources, content and training that meet state standards for K-12 teachers, higher education can make a difference in the number of students applying toengineering colleges and a difference in the success rate of those students.The

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

research opportunitiesfor undergraduate students through its REU Sites program. An REU Site consists of agroup of about ten undergraduates who work in the research programs of the hostinstitution. Each student is associated with a specific research project, where he/sheworks closely with the faculty and other researchers. Students are granted stipends and, inmany cases, assistance with housing and travel. Undergraduate students supported withNSF funds must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possessions.An REU Site may be at either a US or foreign location. The program seeks to attract adiversified pool of talented students into careers in science and engineering and to helpensure that they receive the best education

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Mathematics in Transition

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

. WEP and EOE will leverage several of the existing programs they offer toinform pre-college students about engineering careers and attract women and minorities to UT’sCollege of Engineering. Programs such as Girl Day, Un Sabado Gigante, Minority Introductionto Engineering (MITE), World of Engineering, Consider Every Option, and Your Opportunitiesare Unlimited (YOU@UT) give students the opportunity to interact with industry representativesand engineering faculty and students. WEP and EOE report that students from the target schoolshave participated minimally in these programs in the past. The additional AIM funding allowsWEP and EOE to direct a concerted recruiting effort toward the target schools. The extra fundingwill also be used to provide

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CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationachieved excellence in engineering education.Selected Educational Awards to Members of the Project Team: • 3 NSF CAREER Awards (integrating research and education) • ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) Fred Merryfield Design Award • 3 ASEE Dow Outstanding New Faculty Awards • NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers) Design in Education Award • 6 OU teaching and research awardsRegional Awards: • Oklahoma Regents Instructional Technology Excellence Award (1999) • Oklahoma Williams Faculty Innovator Award (2000)Other Project

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Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming-Sung Koh; Mick Brzoska; William Loendorf

provide appropriate technologies, such as wireless Internet access, a high-tech classroom, and a computer lab. On-site support and programming will include a dedicated Academic Advisor/Career Counselor, tutors and cluster classes, where students from all over campus can come to take classes. Housing Scholarships will be offered to students who demonstrate academic potential and financial need.The ETMD Departmental level activities include: • Identifying industry mentors and establishing culturally relevant internships for underrepresented students (i.e., minority owned businesses, businesses located in the student’s home community, etc.); • Expanding traditional recruitment activities such as site visits

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry; James Farison

littledifference but realize others outside think there is” and “similar to other programs” to “findprogram challenging and rigorous in comparison to others” and “students remain attracted byinterdisciplinary approach.”A9c). Respondents reported that alumni views of the program ranged from “see little differenceand liked the degree they received” and “positive” to “passionately in favor of the general natureof the program” and “strongly believe program gives them an advantage in their career.”A9d). Respondents reported that employers’ views of the program ranged from “prefertraditional degrees but see little difference with our grads” “generally favorable” to “employersreturn to hire more of our grads, appreciate their skills” and “with gratitude for a

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Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Blat

students may stay in the program their entire academic career. Most otherretention programs typically invite or require students to participate during their first year only.Third, the program was developed with significant input from students and is still operated,assessed, and continuously improved by students with faculty oversight. This approach hasproven to have other benefits besides optimizing use of resources. Students involved in theprogram have assumed ownership for its success. They also have the opportunity to developnon-technical skills highly valued by employers, such as leadership, project management,communication, and teamwork skills. Fourth, the program recognizes and addresses criticaltransition stages experienced by students

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Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

indicative of their knowledge and skills. Current digitaltechnologies enable the storage and presentation of such materials in an easy to createand easy to access format. At the University of Texas at Austin, we are developing aweb-based tool for undergraduate engineering students that provides an environment forthem to display and reflect on their engineering accomplishments. The electronicportfolio system (http://pf.engr.utexas.edu) is now available to all students in the Collegeas a result of three years of development. While we are confident that the portfolio system will enrich our students’university experiences and prepare them for a career in engineering, we have faced anumber of challenges that we would like to share in this paper

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Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

career. At you will find links topapers that provide extensive information on the Felder-Silverman model, includingcharacteristics of students with different styles, teaching methods that address each style,suggestions for achieving the desired balance, and an on-line instrument to assess preferences oneach of the four dimensions of the model. Other papers on the same site provide information onother learning style models and cite references to their applications to engineering education.Active LearningDuring a traditional lecture, the only one who is active is the lecturer—talking, writing on theboard, showing transparencies, asking questions and often supplying the answers when there isno response from the class. The students are

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Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bruno; Alistair Greig; Robert Mayer; Jennifer Waters

Shipbuilding.The mission of ACCeSS is establishing an international design environment where thedisciplines associated with hull, machinery, weapon and control system design can be broughttogether within the context of the total ship system design, thereby facilitating the creativeknowledge development, educational changes and discipline integration required for trueinnovation. Secondly, ACCeSS seeks to utilise this unique education and research environmentin the recruiting, training and long-term career development of the best and brightest youngengineers in the US (and UK). The latter initiative is expected to contribute to countering thecontinued downward trend in recruitment and retention in the marine industry being experiencedin both countries.1.1

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Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

the “Other” category do not fit strictlywithin the Boyer model but are still potentially valuable sources of improvement. For example,Chickering’s recommendation 55to “Advise students about career opportunities in theirmajor/field of study” is not describing an innovative application of knowledge, the developmentof new knowledge, the synthesis of different strands of knowledge, or teaching new knowledge;however, it may be categorized in our remaining dimensions as “Encouraging faculty-studentcontact” for the purpose of “changing the environment,” with the intended goal of enhancingcommunity.3. Category: PurposeThree major categories divide the practices into their purposes: improving teaching, redesigningcourses, and changing learning

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Writing and Communication II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

+0.8One surprising result of the evaluation questions at the end of the report were the popularity oftechnical report projects in the course. A large number of students reported that the courserelated directly to their major and their career goals because they predicted that they would haveto engage in a great deal of communication in their careers. A sizeable number also mentionedthat what they learned from the course was that engineers needed to write much more than theyhad ever imagined, and they did not know that there were so many different kinds of technicalcommunication. Clearly, one of the aspects of the course elucidated by this survey was the extentto which we can be perceived to be a valuable part of their education. As students who

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

thefinal week of classes, to see if there had been any change in attitude. The hope was that therewould be improvement in four areas—enjoyment of science lessons, leisure interest in science,career interest in science, and normality of scientists. To insure that students answered honestlywithout concern for their grades, the tests were given completely anonymously. The students Page 8.831.8Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwere asked not to put any identifying marks on their papers. This also precluded

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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Malicky

, psychology, women's studies,linguistics, career counseling, human development, government, and engineering. This reviewaims to integrate the empirical findings from these diverse viewpoints, especially as they apply toretention. The primary articles of this review were selected based on relevance, empirical rigor,and variety of scientific methods. Page 8.62.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationGender Differences in PersistenceThere is little question that matriculation decisions are primarily

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Edward J. Coyle; William Oakes

construct a test wetlands area to clean up runoff from cattle, dairy and swine farms to treat creek water Impact: Improved water quality. New techniques for mitigating agricultural runoff. Facts: Begun fall 1998, Disciplines: CE, EE, IDE, Chemistry, Biology13. Project Title: Discovering Engineering Careers Partner: Purdue Office of the Dean of Engineering and local K-12 schools Tasks: Develop portable, hands-on demonstrations of engineering principles and practice that will spark interest in engineering careers among elementary, middle, and high school students Impact: Helping youths make decisions about high school course selection, attending college and career choices. Increased awareness of engineering and interest in

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore F. Smith; Sharif Rahman; P. Barry Butler

engineers at various sponsoring companies. Future visions of PEDE and plans foroperating PEDE in the 1999-00 academic year are also presented.1. IntroductionOne characteristic of the engineering discipline that distinguishes it from the science disciplines isengineering design. Practicing engineers in industry spend a considerable amount of time involvedwith design of a product, process, or system. It is, therefore, essential that undergraduate studentspreparing for professional careers in engineering be exposed to the concepts of engineering design.The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)1 defines engineering design as “… the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. It is a