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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

COURSE REVIEW IN THE ASSESMENT PROCESS Mark E. Cambron and Stacy Wilson Department of Engineering Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101AbstractA joint program in Electrical Engineering has been created with Western Kentucky University(WKU) and the University of Louisville (UofL). The program resides at WKU with UofLfaculty delivering 16-24 hours into the curriculum through distance learning methods. The focusof the new EE program is a project-based curriculum. WKU’s Electrical Engineering Programhas developed an assessment plan to insure a systematic pursuit of improvement. A

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Rogers; Phil Lunsford; Paul Kauffmann

identifiedrecommendations for best practices in new engineering curricular models and the bullets belowsummarize these points. • Implementation of “engineering up front”: the exposure of freshmen to hands-on, real- world engineering practice early in their undergraduate education, ranging from ‘professional level’ laboratory facilities to realistic design projects. Many engineering programs have postponed this experience until the junior or senior year. • Integration of students working in teams rather than independently, including cooperative learning, especially in the earlier undergraduate years. Although the study found an emphasis on a team approach as a difficult process (including problems related to team composition, organization, methods

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

complete with a challenge to map boundariesand trails for the National Park, to reduce erosion, or to improve water quality; all critical issuesto the infrastructure of the Island. Contracting by the Department of Environment and Tourism,teams from the International (EPICS) course practice engineering design in a culturally diverseenvironment. The Design (EPICS) program at CSM Technicalintroduces multi-disciplinary teams of first Process Knowledgeand second year engineering students to Knowledge Valuesdesign, technical communications, andteamwork through an open-ended, client- Researchbased project. The program emphasizes an Skills Design

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

in today’sindustry (6).According to a recent informal survey of two and four-year engineering technology programs(1), 39 of 77 responding institutions (~51%) still teach some form of instrument drawing.Reasons given in support of this approach varied widely, but some central themes do emergefrom the data. They are broadly summarized as follows: • Can introduce fundamentals without simultaneously teaching software commands • Students with only CAD training lack visualization skills • Learning instrument drawing first eases later instruction in CAD • Concepts such as orthographic projection and tangency are best learned manually • Manual drawing teaches the thought process necessary to produce working drawings

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Wilkins

Excite Camp 2004: An Updated Look at Integrating Science and Native Hawaiian Tradition Leslie Wilkins, Jenilynne Gaskin, Sheryl Hom, Christine L. Andrews Maui Economic Development Board/Women in Technology ProjectBackgroundLaunched in 1999, the Maui-based Women in Technology Project (WIT) is funded by the U.S.Department of Labor as a workforce development project. Its mission is to encourage womenand girls to pursue education and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)in the state of Hawaii. WIT has been successful at creating systemic change by working directlywith educators and employers to make them aware of the return on investment of recruiting andretaining a

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael Flynn; Gordon Carichner; Dennis Sylvester; David Blaauw; Catharine June

Session 2632 VLSI Design Curriculum Richard B. Brown, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, Michael Flynn, Gordon Carichner and Catharine June Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2122Abstract—The Intel Foundation has funded a project at the University of Michigan to develop,document, and disseminate a world-class VLSI curriculum. This paper, which is the first presen-tation of the project, describes the overall curriculum at a high level

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson; Bob Wilkins

the GEAR-UP program were from area middleschools including Sulphur Springs, Greenville, and Commerce, Texas, an area of roughly 250square miles. Transportation, snacks, and the mid-day lunch were provided to the students whoattended class for three consecutive weeks (Monday through Thursday) between 9:00 AM and12:00 noon. Students participated in an engineering project to design, build, test, market, andcompete in a paper airplane competition. The program resulted in 36 classroom contact hoursbetween the faculty and the students in the program. Three full-time engineering, technology, and educational administration faculty membersfrom TAMUC were involved in daily events that included project management, cost engineering,design

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Krishna Vedula

, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) -This program seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents)receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Two types of proposals are solicited: Type 1proposals provide for full implementation efforts at academic institutions, and Type 2 proposalssupport educational research projects on associate or baccalaureate degree attainment in STEM.Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) - The CCLI program seeks toimprove the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education forall students, based on research concerning the needs and

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

the senior students and carefully evaluate theactivity. Students were allowed to practice their teaming skills through the planning andimplementation aspects of the assignment and their communication skills through the reportingphase. This paper provides the relevant assignments and student feedback on the experience.The ProgramIn the week before classes began in fall 2003, careful planning went into the pairing of incomingfreshmen mechanical engineering students with senior capstone design teams in the Departmentof Mechanical Engineering. The projects in the capstone design course ranged from automotive Page 9.1031.1 “Proceedings of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwith math, physics, communication or graphic arts [Pearson, 1999] 3 [Wood et. al., 2001] 5 [Goffet. al. 2001]2. Other approaches entail consecutive classes where one class of students utilize thereports of a previous class’ work or team taught labs with instructors from different disciplines[Drake et. al., 2002]1.At Kettering University, collaborative efforts have been tested involving a selected number ofstudents in two non-concurrent courses or utilizing reports from previous course work to developa project in another class [Scheller, 2000]4. There has not been any attempt in conducting a trulyinterdisciplinary

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Peterson; Barry Mullins

BattleBots. A television show sponsored byBattleBots Inc. showcases these BattleBots in a radio-controlled robotic combat competition.The show is televised by Comedy Central within the United States. Competitors design, build,and test a fortified robot in hopes of attending the biannual, single-elimination tournament,incapacitating the competition, and walking away with the top prize. During the spring of 2001,two electrical engineering students at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) built tworobots as their capstone senior design projects and subsequently competed in the May 2001tournament. This paper describes the background of BattleBots, the process by which thestudents completed their robots, how the students were able to attend the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Holger; James Melsa; Loren Zachary

, visiting faculty should be housed near—but not with—their students. It is important tonote that the visiting faculty will probably have a greater role in the students’ lives than they wouldhave when the students are resident at their home institution. The visiting faculty may also becalled on to play a greater disciplinary role than at home.It is important to leave time for cultural experiences or to specifically schedule them into theprogram. Industry visits in the host country are an excellent way to introduce the students to workprocesses in other countries and therefore should be an integral part of summer programs.International project experiencesIn this model, students are sent to another country to conduct project work under the supervision

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

ZT DENG; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

fluidsystems and consideration to the economics of fluid systems performance. The student will beable to identify the parameters that characterize the operation of fluid flow in incompressible andcompressible flow problems and its application on turbo-machinery systems. Computer programin FORTRAN or in C, MATLAB, and Lab View will be developed and used to support designand Lab projects and analysis. The faculty of the mechanical engineering department at AlabamaAAMU adopted SEAARK [2,3,4,5] system approach for instruction and teaching. It starts fromthe basic to the complex levels of learning. SEAARK stands for (in reverse order) Knowledge,Repetition, Application, Analysis, Evaluation and Synthesis. At the “Knowledge” level, studentsneed to define

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

3648AN AIR-FILTER SENSOR FOR HOME-USED AIR CONDITIONERS Cheng Y. Lin, Gary R. Crossman, Alok K. Verma Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion University Norfolk, VirginiaAbstract This paper presents a successful senior project of instrumentation developed in aMechanical Engineering Technology senior capstone course. Students were encouraged toapproach the problem of designing an air-filter sensor and to propose an optimum

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ryan

in the conditioned space, and dampers are provided for controlling air flow rate andoutside air induction. Sample results for temperature and humidity throughout the system arepresented. This project was completed with the assistance of a Senior Project Grant from theAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).I. IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Department at California State University, Northridge (CSUN)requires students to take a laboratory course devoted to thermo-fluids experiments. Some of theequipment supporting this laboratory includes a subsonic wind tunnel, a York Trainerrefrigeration system, a pipe flow bench, a centrifugal pump test bed, and a centrifugal fan andduct system. It was

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

P. Watta; N. Narasimhamurthi; Adnan Shaout

and bring a product tomarket. These software and hardware tools include hardware descriptive languages,such as HDL and VHDL, field programmable gate arrays, and digital simulationpackages, such as PowerView. The goal of this project is to integrate some of these design tools in a consistentand pedagogically sound manner throughout the ECE curriculum, thereby exposingstudents to current industry practice and state-of-the-art design technology. 1 Introduction The primary goal of this project is to expand the ECE laboratory facilities toprovide our undergraduate students with high quality experiments and design projectsin the area of Digital Design and Computer Architecture. In particular, our aim is toexpose

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Clark Merkel

Session 2793 Modeling the Mouse Trap Car Clark T. Merkel, Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstract:Most students have the ability to build a car powered by a mouse trap. However, atypical student who has completed their sophomore dynamics course will still havetrouble modeling and analyzing their design. This paper presents a structure to aid incompleting the modeling and analysis of a mouse trap car project. It discusses a twelvestep design process that could be provided to students to guide them through difficultieswith the design analysis before they

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

Angeles found about one-third of all college students took a course thatrequired them to do volunteer work [5]. Two large-scale studies -- one published in 1998[6] and another in 1999 [7] -- found positive impacts of community service projects onstudent development and learning.Though small in number, some engineering educators have integrated service-learninginto their curricula and demonstrated positive impacts on some of the student attributesdescribed in Criterion 3 of Engineering Criteria 2000. The Proceedings of the 2000Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) listed12 papers on service-learning in engineering, and The American Association for HigherEducation (AAHE) has published in Spring 2000 a monograph

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Morel; Jerry Schumacher; Ed Mattison

can request a PDA to personally use. Faculty whoteach the introduction to computing course that all freshmen must take are highly encouraged touse a PDA. Instructors can also sign out additional PDAs, folding keyboards, GPS modules,camera expansion modules, and wireless ethernet modules for classroom projects, exercises, anddemonstrations. The department has also set up a wireless network so that students in computingcourses can access the school’s local area network and the Internet wirelessly. The department’swireless network is part of the school’s plan to eventually interconnect the entire campus via awireless network.3. Motivation Despite the fact that all freshmen have PDAs, we found that, for the most part, thefreshmen were

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Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christopher L. Brace, University of Wisconsin; Willis J. Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Biomedical

established the 10 educational program outcomes listed in Table 1. AnAssessment Committee was formed in 2006 and charged with developing a continuousimprovement process linked to educational objectives that could provide quantitative feedbackon strengths and potential areas of improvement of the program and assess the impact of changesto the curriculum.Our curriculum is unique nationwide. Design courses throughout the curriculum form a uniquefeature of the BME undergraduate degree program3, 4. Every BME student registers for a designcourse and works on a client-based design project every semester for six consecutive semesters.These design courses are supervised by faculty advisors and meet for two hours per week.Therefore, every BME student has

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Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael K. Swanbom, Louisiana Tech University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

capability while exploding in popularity. Most digital cameras provide for thecollection of digital video at a rate of 30 frames per second, and a new series of inexpensivecameras that can collect at much higher frame rates are beginning to hit the market. The videocapabilities of these cameras provide an effective method of acquiring position versus time data.Louisiana Tech University has partnered with three high schools in our region to develop aproject-based physics curriculum. One module of the curriculum involves an empirical analysisof falling body data to estimate the local gravitational acceleration. The project is designed sothat high school students collect video footage of the object against the backdrop of a lengthscale. Students

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Curriculum and Facility Developments for Innovative Energy Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarma V. Pisupati, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Yaw D. Yeboah, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

consumption both continue to grow significantly. Also, dueto global uncertainties, energy is becoming increasingly important. The United States, forexample, increasingly relies on imported energy (32.9 % in 2006)1. Projections from DOE’s Page 25.295.2Annual Energy Outlook indicate that primary energy use in the United States will climb to 134Quadrillion Btu in 2030 from 98 in 20102. Despite increases in electricity generation efficiencies,total electricity consumption is also predicted to increase. President Obama has called for energyinitiative based on the development of clean coal technologies, renewable energy (solar, wind,geothermal, biomass etc

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Recruitment and Retention Matters in Engineering Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason K. Durfee, Eastern Washington University; William R. Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Donald C. Richter, Eastern Washington University; Terence L. D. Geyer, Eastern Washington University; Doris M. Munson, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the University of Arkansas. He holds a Professional Engineer certification and worked as an Engineer and Engineering Manger in industry for 20 years before teaching. His interests include project management, HVAC, robotics/automation, and air pollution dispersion modeling.Prof. Terence L. D. Geyer, Eastern Washington University Terence Geyer is the Director of Distance Education in the Department of Engineering and Design at Eastern Washington University. He obtained his B.S. in manufacturing technology and M.Ed. in adult education in a specially combined program of technology and education at Eastern Washington University. His interests include collecting and re-manufacturing older

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Course and Curriculum Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

AJ Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Jean-Celeste M. Kampe, Michigan Technological University; Amy E. Monte, Michigan Technological University; Brett Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Douglas E. Oppliger, Michigan Technological University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Monte has a B.S. and a M.S. in environmental engineering from Michigan Technological Univer- sity.Dr. Brett Hamlin, Michigan Technological UniversityMr. Douglas E. Oppliger, Michigan Technological University Douglas E. Oppliger is currently a Senior Lecturer at Michigan Technological University. His work at this post was preceded by eleven years as a K-12 math/science teacher Michigan’s public schools. He is a Professional Civil Engineer with several years experience working in the marine construction industry. His most recent efforts have focused on using project-based learning to recruit a diverse body of K-12 students to STEM studies beyond high school

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Innovative Uses of Technology and Techniques for Laboratory Exercises

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eniko T. Enikov, Universiy of Arizona; Giampiero Campa, MathWorks

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2012-3183: USB-POWERED PORTABLE EXPERIMENT FOR CLAS-SICAL CONTROL WITH MATLAB REAL-TIME WINDOWS TARGETDr. Eniko T. Enikov, Universiy of Arizona Eniko T. Enikov received his M.S. degree from Technical University of Budapest in 1993 and Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1998. His research is focused on the design and fabrication of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) as well as developing theoretical models of multi-functional materials used in MEMS. As a Postdoctoral Associate at University of Minnesota, Enikov has worked on several projects in the area of micro-assembly, capacitive force sensing. Currently, Enikov is an Associate Professor at the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Kullgren; David Pape

professionals, a graduate program designed to addtechnical knowledge, leadership and management strategies to existing workplace skillswas initiated. This degree, called the Master of Science in Technological Processes,includes coursework in both technical and professional disciplines, and is targeted atindividuals with undergraduate degrees in science, engineering, computer science,mathematics, or engineering technology. The program is offered entirely on campus withevening classes and concludes with an industry-based capstone Field Project. In thispaper the first two plus years of the program are presented and analyzed. The studentpopulation, which has developed into an interesting mixture that includes a significantinternational population and a

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Belle R. Upadhyaya

activitiesinclude lectures, laboratory experiments, field trips, and team-based projects that areselected from different engineering disciplines. Distance education modules, with directteacher-student interaction, are being developed. This new educational activity augmentsand broadens students’ capability in problem solving, with an opportunity for their careerenhancement.1. IntroductionThe College of Engineering at The University of Tennessee established the Maintenanceand Reliability Center (MRC) in 1996, with the vision of promoting education, research,information dissemination, and industry-academia networking in the field of maintenanceand reliability engineering. This industry-sponsored Center provides a unique steppingstone through its certification

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay S. DeNatale; Gregg L. Fiegel

been consistently identified as one of the nation’s topstate-funded engineering programs. Its “learn by doing” motto, while cliché to some, is takenvery seriously by the students, faculty, and staff. Undergraduates are required to take numerouslaboratory classes as well as a two-quarter, capstone senior research/design project. The hands-on experience gained in these activities stimulates self-discovery and creativity while preparing Page 3.307.1students for the rigors of professional practice.Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentThe Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEEN) Department is housed within the College ofEngineering. The

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Nachtmann Umphred; Kim LaScola Needy; Jerome P. Lavelle

% OtherDiscp. 5% Unreported 1% 15% Figure 1. Breakdown of Students by DisciplineStudent Grading Policy Respondents were asked to list the percentage of weight placed on various assessmenttools on determining the students’ final grade. Overall, the non-normalized breakdown byweight for each item is as follows: exams - 68.8%, homework - 16.6%, projects - 15.1%, casestudies - 13.4%, and pop quizzes - 10.8% on average. Tables 3 - 7 summarize this informationby discipline and class size. Overall results show that exams are by far the primary factor used ingrade determination. Table 3 shows that there is no

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard A. King; Jack Van de Water

the world as easily as withthose in the same office complex. Beyond the simple act of “keeping up” with colleagues, it has become feasibleto share projects and research in the same manner. This capability will have a profound effect on professional lifein the future.This paper describes a program initiated by the higher education system of Oregon, to foster changes in theeducation paradigm which will embrace the coming global design arena. This new program - Global Graduates:the Oregon International Internship Program - is designed to improve the educational preparation for the“borderless” careers that present students will encounter upon graduation