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Manufacturing Capstone and Design Projects

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chin-Zue Chen, Austin Peay State University; Adel Salama., Austin Peay State University

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Engineering Technology

offered,it was suggested to expand and add an Additive Manufacturing Option to the existingmanufacturing curriculum in order to encourage and prepare students to pursue careers in thisnew and expanding area. It is hoped that the students will come to have a positive influence onincreasing awareness and implementation of AM technology in the local industries where theyare employed.The manufacturing curriculum requires 125 semester hours, including 44 hours of Liberal Artscore, 45 hours of Engineering Technology core, and 36 hours of concentration courses. Withinthe concentration, there are 18 hours for the Manufacturing core and 18 hours, or 6 courses, forthe concentration, including 2 elective courses. See Table 1. “Manufacturing Curriculum

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IE Technical Session II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso; Abril Vazquez, University of Texas, El Paso; Olivia C. Moreno, University of Texas, El Paso

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Industrial Engineering

. OUTREACH TO MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS. In the Fall2009 semester, a presentation titled Sustainability Engineering and current initiatives at UTEPwas prepared by two of the graduate students supported under grant. This presentation was givento 36 high school teachers from Parkland High School with the main objective to interest highschool students in environmental related careers. Moreover, in summers 2009 and 2010 using theinfrastructure of the UTeach Miners Program, the project directors offered two modules to 50middle/high school teachers to introduce students to Sustainability related topics. Additionally, aSustainability Engineering Session was offered directly to 30 middle/high school studentsparticipating in the 2010 UTEP

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FPD I: Attacking the Problems of Retention in the First Year

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan D. Niemi, LeTourneau University; Robert W. Warke, LeTourneau University

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First-Year Programs

review was conducted to determine what other engineering programsacross the nation are currently doing to increase their retention and graduation rates. Mostarticles focused on freshman retention and the many efforts that have been undertaken toimprove first-year retention numbers. Unfortunately, in many cases it is still too early todetermine conclusively whether or not these have been successful. Therefore, this study focuseson efforts where substantial (two or more years of) increased retention have been documented.Successful efforts include:  First-year interest groups where students are clustered in common class sections.  Peer mentoring and/or supplemental instruction.  A first-semester, project-based, career-enlightening

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Biological & Agricultural Technical Session II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael E. Manoogian, Loyola Marymount University

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Biological & Agricultural

aplethora of other areas that link science and engineering. The course content at this levelserved to broaden engineering students’ understanding of the science of biology as itrelates to engineering, stimulate interest in technical careers, address an ABET sciencerequirement and to address at least one common engineering program outcome related tolife-long learning. ABET related assessment was conducted with respect to the researchassignment from the class.Introduction The interrelationship between the fields of Biology and Engineering presents agrowing opportunity for engineers and that biology should be a core science course forengineers according to the NSF, NIH and others (1, 2). Knowledge of biology specific tothe complex communities

Conference Session

Professional Development from a Distance

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell L. Springer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

, would propel the career minded intoincreasingly greater senior-level opportunities. It has been readily recognized in industry, whenyou take a technical individual and move them into a leadership/managerial position, withoutproperly training them in leadership/management skills and techniques, you lose on two counts;you lose a good technical person and gain a less-than capable manager. The corollary to thisscenario is what happens to a leader when they become under pressure and have not beenproperly trained in leadership/management skills and techniques. In this scenario, the untrainedleader tends to resort back to micromanaging their technical subordinates. The untrained leaderdoes this because they were first and foremost good technical

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven K. Mickelson, Iowa State University; Marcia R. Laugerman, Iowa State University

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Two Year College Division

thecommunity college level and 5) gateway engineering courses offered at statecommunity colleges to better engage students. Working with State CC and theSTEM Pathway project, student-centered advising is also being coordinated tobroaden the diversity of students enrolled in engineering and to make studentsaware of the various paths to successfully completing an engineering degree,including transfer from a community college. This study enforces the newAmerican Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation model ofoutcome based education13.Methods and ResourcesRetrospective research data was obtained from Institutional Research at ISU andthe Career Services office for the college of engineering for three recent semestersof engineering

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Research and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University; Tyler Lewis, Brigham Young University; Paul T Skaggs, Brigham Young University; Bryan Howell, Brigham Young University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and his MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology.Bryan Howell, Brigham Young University Bryan Howell received his MFA in Design from the University of Texas Austin in 2003 and his under- graduate degree in Industrial Design from Brigham Young University in 1984. He started his professional career working with frogdesign in Germany. He then worked at Dell Computer in Design and Engineering Management following which he successfully directed his own Design consulting business. He has re- ceived IDEA, ID and G-Mark design awards and has 29 utility patents. He has lived in England, Germany, Singapore and the USA. Since 2006 he has been teaching Design courses at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah

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ABET and Curriculum-Level Assessments

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larissa V. Pchenitchnaia, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University

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Chemical Engineering

following key issues: (1) what must undergraduateengineers learn/accomplish in the course string to be successful throughout their academic career Page 22.432.2and in the next generation professional settings; (2) what obstacles exist to providing thenecessary educational experiences, and (3) how can we effect change and what changes(integration) need to be made to an existing curriculum. Course string faculty committeescontinue to hold regular meetings every semester to address these questions. Syllabi analysisprovided invaluable information to enhance the alignment of the courses. As a result of coursestring faculty committees’ working sessions

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Topics Related to Telecommunications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuhong Zhang, Texas Southern University; Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Lawrence O Kehinde P.E., Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State

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Engineering Technology

22.457.10This kind of state-of-art laboratory and technology will help our engineering technologyeducation better prepare students for careers in industry.AcknowledgementsThis work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers DUE-0942778and HRD-0928921.References:1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_technology.2 http://www.coe.neu.edu/Depts/SET/set/whatisset.html3 http://www.careercornerstone.org/pdf/engtech/engtech.pdf4 M.L. Good, N.F. Lane, “Producing the Finest Scientists and Engineers for the 21st Century”, Science, Vol. 266, pp. 741-743, November 1994.5 http://www.ni.com/nielvis/6 http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/86577 Y. Zhang, “The Application of MATLAB to Teaching Communication Systems” Proceedings

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Student Learning and Teamwork

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nina Robson, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

Page 22.462.6 the subject matter and began to clearly see the important and needed applications of assistive devices that go beyond the manufacturing process. Each prototype that will be developed will surely demonstrate that our students can make a difference in the lives of their fellow man. What a difference projects like that make in the life of the targeted disabled individuals! Impacts Diversity in the workplace is essential in today's society. Individuals with disabilities have much to offer and need just that little boost to push them on their way to a successful and fulfilling career. Likewise, the future generations of engineers must understand that their studies mean something. The implemented

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Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chao Li, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Antonio J. Soares, Florida A&M University

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Engineering Technology

year (2010) the program is training 50students and will graduate its first class.The degree requires basic knowledge in engineering, electrical circuits, motors and generators,thermodynamics, heat transfer and the language of computers. Then there come specializedcourses in photovoltaics (solar energy research and technology), wind, biomass (the recycling ofbiological material), hydropower and geothermal energy development. After graduation, studentswould be applying their new Bachelor of Science degrees in a range of design, engineering,installation, auditing and programming careers in the region’s expanding green-power sector.In 2006, the State University of New York (SUNY) at Canton started a four-year degree programin alternative and

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1999 Annual Conference

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Mahmood Nahvi

thepedagogical side, the course requires interaction, sharing of results, cooperation, competition anddivision of labor among students. These objectives are considered to be important not only forachieving the technical objectives but also in preparing the graduating engineer for a productiveand satisfying professional career. Organizing students in groups of two or three is necessary, butby itself is not sufficient to achieve some of the above objectives. The strategy is to suggest andassign group activities that illustrate the need and benefits of interaction, sharing of experiencesand cooperation.On the technical side, digital signal processing is like the elephant. From a mathematical andcomputational point of view, the core of DSP is transformation

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1999 Annual Conference

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K. A. Korzeniowski; J. L. Rice

movement anddecision-making of the robot. This laboratory is very successful, however, it is important thatstudents understand each step of the process before moving on to the next more difficult part. Theinstructors enjoy the seminar too, because it requires student participation which always enhanceslearning.Students were canvassed during the summer seminar, with an overwhelming positive response tothe robot laboratory. The seminar generated quite a few questions about robotics, computerinterfacing, electronics and programming which was the primarily purpose of the seminar in the firstplace. This was our main objective: to capture the interest and imagination of pre-college studentsand get them to think about a career in engineering.III

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Kip P. Nygren; Wayne Whiteman

of the interesting applications thatlie ahead in their engineering education.I. IntroductionTypical early undergraduate vibration courses focus on background theory that is used inlater, more senior-level design projects and course work in the engineering curriculum.Our experience is that students are motivated at all levels of learning by real worldproblems that demonstrate relevance of the material. The challenge is to craft designprojects at this early stage in the engineering student’s career that are within theircapabilities to complete, yet offer a taste of the interesting engineering applications thatlie ahead.A first course in vibration engineering is historically a content based, engineer scienceoffering with limited time and

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1999 Annual Conference

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David Whitman; Sally Steadman

, studyskills, and career development. Programming efforts conducted for both floors by the RAshave included picnics and ice cream socials, finals study sessions, resume writing/internships,and information sessions on tutoring and advising. The RAs have also met with the residentsand discussed academic progress, how to improve academic performance, where to get help,and provided information on stress relievers.Costs associated with the engineering floor are minimal. The computer network is providedand maintained by the university, while the computer equipment, four PCs and a printer foreach floor, is provided by the engineering college. Funding for programming events isprovided by Housing & Residence Life. These expenditures are more than justified

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1999 Annual Conference

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Robert Douglas; Dean Lance Smith

in the code segment must be out of the flow ofexecution.A colored rectangle is drawn on the video display in Exercise 6. The students are expected towrite and link several procedures. One will set the display to the proper mode (video or text).Another procedure will put a pixel on the graphics display. A third will draw a horizontal line onthe graphics display. A fourth procedure will draw a vertical line. The linking of procedures isfairly complicated for students at this stage of their career, particular the weaker students.However, the visual output seems to motivate many of the weaker students to at least produce aworking solution, if not a well designed working solution.A program is written for Exercise 7 that asks the user for two

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1999 Annual Conference

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Ingrid H. Soudek

solving problems. To be able to workin interdisciplinary teams also requires that a person can take a stand on an issue and resist fallinginto $group think.# Thus effective team work requires learning to be morally autonomous, usingmoral imagination, as well as thinking analytically, and then communicate persuasively; all this isnecessary for a successful professional career. The aims of teaching Engineering Ethics then are to help students understand what itmeans to be and how to become ethical practitioners of engineering. To act ethically on the jobrequires an integrated belief system, accepting personal responsibility for our actions in both ourpersonal and professional life. As ethical practitioners we have be reflective, develop

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1999 Annual Conference

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Frank E. Falcone; Edward Glynn

, environmental, geotechnical, water resources,and transportation engineering. Measurements serves as an introduction to the program and is Page 4.119.1designed to stimulate the students’ interest in CE by introducing them to the types of projectsand tasks they will encounter during their professional careers. The course is offered in the fallsemester of the sophomore year and therefore cannot address problems in structures, hydraulicsor engineering geology with great technical rigor, but it does provide an overview of engineeringmethods by presenting some of the techniques used to model problems. One of the moreimportant objectives of the course is to

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1999 Annual Conference

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Robert Spradling; Robert Hayes; Ahmad Zargari

, computer applications, and financial and business aspects of manufacturingConclusions and Implications Based on our preliminary evaluation of the survey results, the following conclusionscan be drawn: 1. Career positions for industrial technologists in the 21st century will include:Quality Control, Materials Management, Production Supervision/Management, ProcessControl, Project Management, Systems Management, Project Design, ApplicationsEngineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Industrial Sales/Purchasing. 2. Programs required for preparation of Industrial Technologists in the 21stcentury will include: Electrical/Electronics Technology, Graphic CommunicationsTechnology, Manufacturing/Robotics Technology, Packaging Technology

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2000 Annual Conference

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John D. Enderle

addition to courseevaluations which are important metrics for individual instructor and course improvement.Another mechanism is to use national exams, such as the EIT exam; this exam also allows forcomparison among institutions. Alumni surveys that document professional accomplishmentsand career developments are another useful tool that can be carried out over a period of years(say 2 and 5 years after graduation). Employer surveys and placement of graduates are otherimportant metric of performance.Continuous improvement of the program is the ongoing responsibility of the faculty. This isevident by faculty meetings with this topic as the major theme, or periodic faculty retreats.Creating a working advisory board from industry and current students

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2000 Annual Conference

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Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

assessment embedded curriculum isclassroom assessment. Classroom assessment is a well-documented activity.19 It is perhaps themost difficult to implement because it usually requires faculty to change the lecture-orienteddelivery style they learned from in school, copied when they became professors, and havebecome comfortable with over their careers. Among the different learning styles discussed byFelder and Silverman20 (which is an adaptation of the Myers-Briggs type indicators toengineering and science), no one along the spectrum of active vs. reflective learners is served bythe lecture format, since taking notes, which is little more than stenography, neither lets activelearners be active nor reflective learners reflect. Examples of classroom

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2000 Annual Conference

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Enno Koehn

Education guidelines and still treats the B.S. as a professional degree. Nevertheless, a numberof universities have begun offering Master of Engineering Management, and Master ofEngineering Degrees for graduate students. These programs are generally designed to preparestudents for professional practice rather than careers in research. As an example, at someschools, real-life design projects are brought to the campus by prominent practicing engineerswho return to campus several times during the year to interact with the students and participate inthe design project. The degree is usually obtained in nine to twelve months for students with anacceptable background6.Requiring a five year engineering program for professional practice would be comparable

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2000 Annual Conference

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William Jack Altenhof; Peter R. Frise

. AcknowledgmentsThe assistance and financial support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc. in conducting this project is gratefullyacknowledged.PETER FRISEPeter Frise holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Queen’s University in Kingstonand a Ph.D., from Carleton University in Ottawa. He began his career in Nigeria as a Wireline Logging Engineerfor Schlumberger Wireline Services and later worked in R&D for Husky Injection Molding Systems in Bolton,Ontario. In 1988 he joined the Faculty at Carleton University in Ottawa and in 1993 he received the Ralph R.Teetor Engineering Education Award from the SAE. He serves on the Governing Council of the Association

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2000 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth A. Parry; Laura Bottomley

game. This approach is yet one more way to make thegeneral population, especially underrepresented groups, more comfortable and less fearful ofscience. The long-term expectation is that more children will choose careers in science, math ortechnology as a direct result of feeling more at ease and very familiar with science in everydaylife.[1] Laura J. Bottomley and Elizabeth A. Parry, “The Physics of Sports,” Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference1999 Conference, Charlotte.[2] Laura J. Bottomley and Elizabeth A. Parry, “Playground Physics,” ASEE Preconference Workshop, ASEEAnnual Conference 1998, Seattle.[3] Platt, Richard, Pirate, Eyewitness Books.[4] Liles, J. N., The Art and Craft of Natural Dyeing: Traditional Recipies for Modern Use.[5] Weiss

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2000 Annual Conference

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Nizar Al-Holou; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

,• Through workshops, train faculty members who typically teach courses in the digital area at the partner universities,• Train through workshops K-12 educators in the Detroit metropolitan area about digital design, and motivate youngsters in technical education and technical careers,• Update the WSU laboratories already developed and compile these with the other labs that will be developed into a Digital Laboratory Handbook and make this available on the project’s web-site.In addition, the WSU will coordinate and manage the project, and will assure that theproject will progress toward reaching its objectives. Each institution should have theproper computer facilities necessary to run the Altera system

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Enno Koehn

was very practical, but made me think. 2 Hazardous waste site design was my favorite course during my entire academic career. An oral seminar and written report was assigned to each student. In addition, a computer program and team design project was required. In brief, it covered many things with which an engineer should be involved. 3 This class gave me an understanding of temporary facilities and hazardous waste site remediation. It also gave me the chance to improve my public speaking skills. 4

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Enno Koehn

. 2 Hazardous waste site design was my favorite course during my entire academic career. An oral seminar and written report was assigned to each student. In addition, a computer program and team design project was required. In brief, it covered many things with which an engineer should be involved. 3 This class gave me an understanding of temporary facilities and hazardous waste site remediation. It also gave me the chance to improve my public speaking skills. 4 I would prefer the department offer

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2000 Annual Conference

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Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

currently offered. In this way academics willbe suitably rewarded in their career path. Yet reflection upon the effectiveness of teaching and Page 5.13.1learning has not always been a crucial practice for engineering academics and consequentlyattendance at formal courses has continued to be infrequent or non-existent. Staffdevelopment activities have also previously been boycotted by Australian academics forreasons of “lack of time available”, “anyone can teach” or “teaching is a personal matter”. Itappears that the Kugel Model of Development [2] can assist to explain this reasoning further.As the academic has been focussed purely on the teaching of a

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2000 Annual Conference

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Matthew Ohland; Richard Layton

Postdoctoral Fellowship for Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and TechnologyEducation, under which he is studying the impact of a wide variety of student programs on student success.RICHARD A. LAYTONRichard A. Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and he is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. Prior to his academic career, Dr.Layton worked 12 years in consulting engineering, with the final five years as a group head and project manager.His technical research is in the area of dynamic systems and control. He is a registered Professional Engineer in NC.AppendixSamples of the two peer evaluation instruments used in this study are given below. The first

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2000 Annual Conference

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Robert H. Mayer

ocean engineering education and practice is both prudentand necessary. A new environmental option within the ocean engineering major at the U.S.Naval Academy has begun to emerge. The essence of the program lies in the two foundationcourses, Ocean Environmental Engineering and Ocean Resources Engineering, but the curriculais ably supplemented by design projects in the capstone design course and by elective courseopportunities in other disciplines including environmental economics, environmentaloceanography, environmental security, and marine environmental engineering.Such a curricula is vitally important to the future careers of our midshipmen due to the liabilityof officers for discharges from Naval vessels and other environmental impacts, both