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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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MICHAEL HOLTZ; Chandra Sekhar; Ashfaq Ahmed; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Agni Networks Inc., San Jose, California. His expertiseincludes optical networking at Physical and Data link layers, optical and WDM interface, SONET and GigabitEthernet and analog electronic systems. He is the author of a Textbook in Power Electronics, published by Prentice-Hall. His professional career is equally divided in academia and industry. He has authored several research papers inIEEE journals and conferences.ASHFAQ AHMED is Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology Department at Purdue University Calumet.Professor Ahmed received his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Karachiin 1973 and Master of Applied Science degree in 1978 from University of Waterloo. He is the author of a Textbook

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International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mohamed Gadalla; Kamal Shahrabi

].The objective of this paper is to provide taxonomy of the CAD/CAM users, and introduce a newcategory of users named as intelligent users. In addition some academic experimentation was doneto prove that the new category of users is indeed an independent category. This research will haveanother phase where the industry will be contacted for possible participation in questionnaire typeof survey to get their feedback and suggestions.Fig. 1 shows the proposed Job taxonomy for careers in CAD/CAM and particularly in the usersection. The programmer section is left as an area of future research. As shown in the figure, theuser section is split into three categories: users, super users, and intelligent usersIn this paper each user category will be

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sheryl Sorby

pursuing a mechanical emphasis with aminor in manufacturing. A marketing survey was conducted among second-year engineering stu-dents during the fall semester. Through this survey, it was found that the primary barriers toincreasing the number of students who choose this degree seem to be: (1) lack of awareness of theprogram itself and (2) hesitation to enroll in a program with no proven track record for job place-ment. Of the students surveyed, sixty included their name and email on the form indicating thatthey wished to be contacted with further information on the program. We will also be workingwith staff in the Career Center regarding interfacing with corporate recruiters to ensure theemployability of the BSE graduates. Problems that we have

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Motivating students to achieve

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David Murphy

beenwritten on numerous pedagogical and androgogical research theories. It does not matter what weknow, if we are not able to convey it. Newly appointed faculty members should be daring asthey begin their new career. Your students will not only notice and appreciate your enthusiasm,they will respond to it.Joubert, Joseph. as quoted from 21st Century Dictionary Of Quotations . Dell Publishing. 1993.DAVE MURPHYDave Murphy retired from the Richmond (Kentucky) Fire Department as Assistant Chief. Upon retirement, heentered the industrial sector as a safety director for AFG Industries. He is currently an Assistant Professor in theFire Safety Engineering Technology program located at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dan Parshall; Anthony Buonaquisti; Anita Callahan

). Building theories from case study research. Academy of Management Review, vol. 14,no. 4, pp. 532-550.5) Gardner, H., (1999). Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st century. New York, NY: BasicBooks, c19996) Armstrong, R., (2002). Personal interview with Science for Success external program evaluator.7) Moffat, N., et al. (1992). Girls and Science Careers: Positive Attitudes Are Not Enough. National Associationfor Research in Science Teaching. Boston, MA (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 362 400)8) Hall, B., Armstrong, R., (2001). Evaluation of the MOSI/CitiGroup project “Science for Success: Making theGrade”. Executive Summary.9) Parshall, D., (2002). Science For Success: A Case Study of the MOSI/CitiGroup Project.10

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Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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Paul Miller

forms indicate the students enjoy the approachand alumni comments indicate they feel the approach is worthwhile.Introduction The USNA was established in 1845 and is the premier institution staffing the officercorps of the Navy and Marine Corps. Its mission is “to develop midshipmen morally, mentallyand physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty in order toprovide graduates who are dedicated to a career of naval service and have potential for futuredevelopment in mind and character to assume the highest responsibilities of command,citizenship and government”. The Academy provides the 4100 midshipmen the opportunity topursue studies in engineering, science or humanities. Due to a large focus in math and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gary Martin

to conduct smaller job searches on their own. To this end, we offer a 20-minutemotivational talk on how to network, how to utilize job ads, and how to identify potentialemployers through such resources as web career indices and the yellow pages.Interviewing Skills & Mock Interviewing Exercise: We devote one full class session tothe art of interviewing. We then spend the next week conducting video-taped mockinterviews. In student groups of three (plus a Co-op staff member), we have one studentinterview another while the third student observes. The Co-op staff member facilitatesthe exercise including asking a few interview questions him or herself (usually includingat least one question which the interviewee was not likely expecting). The

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Brougham; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger

compliments the students’ desirenot detract from the students’ educational experience. to prepare for subsequent entrance into their careers. METHODOLOGY acceptable progress, contribution and performance inParticipants the course.A total of 128 students enrolled in five sections of an All students took the weekly quizzes and the final examintroductory engineering course, Engineering Problem individually. Only the assigned homework programsSolving with Computation, participated in the study. were completed under the elective status conditions ofThis is a required course taken in the third quarter of paired or solo. All students

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Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

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Habibur Rahman

auspices, traces its historyto the foundation Saint Louis Academy in 1818, and was renamed Saint Louis University in1832, becoming the first university established west of the Mississippi River. The Universitysettled at its present site on Grand Boulevard in 1888. Saint Louis University is classified asResearch Level II institution by the Carnegie Foundation. The University enrolls more than11,000 students. Parks College of Engineering and Aviation, one of the twelve colleges orschools of Saint Louis University, prepares students for careers in engineering, aviation, Page 7.422.1computer science and related fields. The Department of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Hamilton

history of civil engineering, may be defined in severalways. Such a course would generate a point of contact with the student body at a point whenthey are half way through their college career and have seen little or nothing of their major. Thiscourse is a vehicle to present the students with an historical overview of the profession,illustrating the triumphs and failures through noted projects with name recognition that thestudents may be vaguely aware of. In addition this course will give faces and context to theaccomplishment of various individuals and their contributions to engineering and society as awhole.Bibliography 1. Retention Summary Statistics, Office of Institutional Research, Boise State University, 2002 2. “Commentary on EdAC

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Bryant; Paul Swamidass

entrepreneurialsuccess later in their careers. The program has two major components; one addressessustained development of cross-functional skills, and the other imparts business andengineering knowledge and skills to business and engineering students.An unique two-year joint minor (16 semester credits) for business and engineeringstudents in their junior and senior years is offered through the Thomas Walter Center forTechnology Management, Auburn University; the Center is a creation of the two colleges.This Business-Engineering-Technology (B-E-T) program, which began in fall 2001, is ajoint effort of the colleges of business and engineering. The program admits selected equalnumber of business and engineering students to the program each fall. The program

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rafael Rodriguez-Solis; Rafael Medina; Jose Colom

experiments are focused in five specialization areas: Power, DSP andCommunications, Control Systems, Electronics and Applied Electromagnetics.The laboratories are carefully designed so that freshman students have an understanding of thedifferent applications in electrical engineering early in their college career. In addition to thefamiliarization with basic laboratory equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, signal generators,etc.) during their freshman year, the students will be introduced to other important software toolssuch as Matlab, Excel, Power Point, and Cool Edit. The students will also attend seminars oneffectives oral and poster presentations as part of the requirements of the course.In this work, the course is briefly discussed, including

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Mason

are veryinterested in the students’ experiences, and the anecdotes they can tell show potentialemployers how much they have learned about being productive.CONCLUSIONSRose-Hulman Ventures has obviously been extremely fortunate to receive the injection ofresources from Lilly Endowment, but the results generated to date have produced lessonsthat should be applicable to other institutions with less funds. First, students really areexcited about the opportunities to work on new products, they learn a lot in the process, itoften affects their career goals and it helps them even when they take a traditional first jobin a large, established corporation. Second, faculty members can benefit from workingwith client start-ups to get hands-on experience

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kristoffer Findley; Mary Emplaincourt

from the defense contract industry . Touring these different types ofmanufacturing facilities allows the students to observe the industrial work environmentsand responsibilities of engineers and to make informed career decisions upon graduation.Extending the Classroom – The IAC presents a situation in which students are able toapply the theories and concepts learned in the classroom to real-life engineering problems.Students use the data obtained from the site visits and draw from a wide range ofacademic courses to calculate costs and energy, waste, and productivity savings for the Page 8.965.4assessment recommendations. The financial ramifications are

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marvin Needler; Anna Shiver; Elaine Cooney

project was also beneficial. I was in a group where I didn’t know anyone so I had tobecome acquainted with them. We were able to combine our separate parts together and makethe project work. This helped for me to see how this could work in a career. I thought the classwas interesting and valuable.” Gregory Cool. Page 8.728.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationSummary This project course is successful in bringing new technology into the curriculum. Sincethe course was introduced, the PC

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Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

?”), workshop simulations (e.g.,“How do we decide when to ship a product?”), journaling, and some unusual activities (e.g.,“Draw a picture of your team”). To gauge student progress we also used weekly reflectivewriting assignments as well as reflective questions on the take-home final exam. All of thesetechniques were well received by the students, as evidenced by anonymous, detailed end-of-course evaluations, as well as by feedback many students voluntarily provided four months afterthe course. Many have continued using several of the techniques after the course. Theexperience of applying reflective practices appears to have influenced a number of the studentsinto viewing their project, careers, social interactions, and life choices in a different

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Martha Cyr

within themselves, but a typical approach is forthe students to attend from one to several days of a 'learning camp' environment that guides themthrough a focused type of activity. In the state of Massachusetts, some examples of this are theScience Saturdays held by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Camp REACH held byWorcester Polytechnic Institute, Design Camp held by the University of Massachusetts, Lowell,and LEGO Camp held at Tufts University. The students who participate in these events all ratethem as fun, worthwhile, and indicate that the experience has made them either change thereopinion about engineering and science, or that they would now consider pursuing a career in theseareas. Both are highly worthy outcomes.Professional

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Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Russell Olsen; Jeffrey Peterson; Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

the Information Technology program with a Business Managementminor at Brigham Young University. He is a level 2 MCP and has several years of practical networkingexperience. Upon Graduation in August 2003, he will begin his professional career with Ernst & Young’sTechnology and Security Risk Services in Atlanta, GA.JEFF PETERSON is a senior in the Brigham Young University Information Technology program, will begraduating in the summer of 2003 with his Bachelors degree. He has had extensive experience withLinux networking and maintaining production networks. Upon graduation he will take a position with anas-of-yet undecided organization.JOSEPH J. EKSTROM is an Associate Professor of Information Technology at Brigham YoungUniversity in Provo

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Atlas Hsie; Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

successfullybeen graduated. The feedback from those graduates has been positive. They overwhelminglyliked the interdisciplinary nature of the program with some emphasis to make the program suitedto their needs. The program helped most of the students at work and helped some in their career advancement. The cohort nature of the program helped students to network and consult eachother in homework assignments and with technical problems at work. The proposed optionswill further meet the need of industry and help recruit more students which is the mission of thecollege. With the use of distance learning in some courses the program will be made available toa bigger pool of students and will make it easier for working students who can not commutefrom long

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Susan Lord

schedules do not stay constant in a given semester with work andother outside obligations including athletics, it is not clear how much can be done about thisproblem. However, this is representative of what students will face later in their careers asengineers.SummaryCooperative learning homework teams were included as a required part of a junior levelMaterials Science course in Fall 1999 and Fall 2000. Students worked throughout the semesterin a team that was assigned by the instructor. Overall, students reported that the cooperativelearning teams enhanced the course and should be continued. The largest number of reportedproblems had to do with scheduling conflicts making group work difficult. Students reportedthat their skills at problem solving

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John Watkins; Carl Wick; George Piper; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

Systems Engineering Department at theUnited States Naval Academy. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1989 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineeringfrom the Ohio State University in 1991 and 1995, respectively. His research interests includefeedback control systems, system identification, fault detection and isolation, magneticlevitation, and active noise control.CARL E. WICK received the BS degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1970, the MS degreefrom the Naval Postgraduate School in 1976 and the Doctor of Science degree from the GeorgeWashington University in 1993. A retired career Naval Officer and aviator, he has been with theWeapons and Systems Engineering Department

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Brenda Martin; J. P. Mohsen

Engineering EducationIII. CurriculumThe curriculum for the Design of Structures system uses a hands-on learning approach. Eachsubject is divided into segments of objectives with skills or activities to reinforce the lessons.Students typically work in teams of two or more to accomplish each task.The curriculum is divided into seven sub-modules.• Introduction to Civil Engineering This sub-module defines civil engineering and looks at the many of the careers available within the field. Students have the opportunity to investigate various civil engineering programs and professional organizations around the world.• Structural Design Concepts Structural Design Concepts starts off by introducing the basics of structures and structural elements

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2001 Annual Conference

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Glenn Wrate

also made very positive comments. The only problem has been that demand has beenso great that some of the local firms were not able to hire the interns that worked for them. Thiscaused some of the local firms to cut back on the number of intern positions offered to thecurrent students. Since that time, other firms, both locally and regionally, have increased theirnumber of intern positions, so that almost all of the current students work during the summers intheir chosen career field.SummaryThe design sequence seems to fill a niche that has been ignored for some time. The strongdemand for students in the design sequence is testimony to that proposition. Since some of thecourses offered can also be taken by EE and EET students, the critical

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2001 Annual Conference

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Tushar Ghosh; Sudarshan Loyalka; Mark Prelas; Dabir Viswanath

students topursue careers in counter terrorism. Page 6.385.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationTable I. Course OutlineTopics # of 1.5 h Lectures1. Introduction2. Nature of Terrorism 2 Origin of Terrorism and the Political3. Psychology Of Diplomacy 14. Biological Weapons

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Steve Schreiner; John Burns

’ curriculabecause of the multidisciplinary nature of the field (e.g. one can easily discuss the mechanical,electrical, or chemical properties of the cardiac system). Moreover, BME has the potential toattract students who may not be considering a traditional engineering career by showing howengineering principles can directly improve the healthcare of individuals. Many students havepersonal experiences that make solving medical problems of interest to them.Biomedical engineering as an undergraduate degree option is relatively new and not as widelyknown as the traditional engineering disciplines among pre-college students. Providingeducational material to K-12 educators is an effective and lasting way of exposing students to thefield. By incorporating BME

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Andrew Rose

shopping in andaround Bangkok. The vehicle traffic and pollution amazed us, yet we appreciated the opportunityto see such a different culture. The street bazaar shopping was an interesting experience and mywife and I enjoyed bargaining with the merchants. The economic conditions observed were quitevaried, yet the friendliness and respect shown by the Thai people made our stay quite memorable.VI. SummaryThe opportunity to participate in this long distance education experience enabled my wife and I totravel to Thailand. I found teaching the Transmission Line Design and Construction workshop arewarding career experience. The long trip (about 24 hours total travel time each way) was quiteexhausting and we wish we had more time to explore the

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Jr., Richard Mines

enhancelearning, some proponents still favor the traditional lecture. Barger et al.8 reviewed thecharacteristics of good information transfer procedure and showed how the traditionallecture meets those requirements.Some state university systems such as the state of Florida have instituted a TeachingImprovement Program (TIP) to enhance the quality of teaching, primarily at theundergraduate level. Recipients of this award receive an additional $5,000 to their basesalary as long as they remain employed in the State University System9. The authorreceived such an award while at the University of South Florida. Throughout histeaching career, he has tried a variety of techniques to enhance and improve learning inengineering education. This paper discusses the

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William Marcy; Marion Hagler; Juan Ramirez; Jose Tamborero

engineering degree. Texas Tech University gains additional students for itsengineering graduate program, and the industrial sponsor gains access to students with anunusually diverse academic background.An important potential outcome of this program with Texas Woman’s University is theattraction of students to careers in engineering who otherwise might not have considered thispossibility. Ordinarily the leveling requirements to enter a graduate program in engineeringweigh heavily against students with non-engineering baccalaureate degrees. Coordination ofprograms between the faculties of two cooperating institutions mitigates this issue to a majordegree. Graduates of these dual-degree engineering programs are very well prepared to enter theengineering

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2001 Annual Conference

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Joanne Lax

their college careers, many engineering professors still complain about the quality ofwritten work their undergraduate students turn in. An informal in-house survey administered inthe fall of 1999 to the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) atPurdue University revealed that professors commonly found the following problems in theirstudents’ writing, in order of decreasing frequency: cohesion, organization, grammar,punctuation, content, vocabulary, and spelling. Page 6.422.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Joanne M. Goode; James B. Stenger

the information at their convenience outside of class time. Class time, of course, isalready fully utilized, given the material needed to be covered in typical courses and with thedesign component that should be a part of engineering classes. With a web-based informationresearch workshop, students could access the information early in their academic careers andrefer back to it as their needs progress.As pointed out by a faculty member in response to the survey question concerning the best wayto work on improving information skills, "only when we require it in multiple classes will theystart to get good at it." It is our goal, through the workshop and web-based instruction, tointroduce students early to the skills needed to access information