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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Hancock; John Norton

scholarship of teachingand learning.Graduate student instructors (GSIs) are an important component of the CoE teaching staff.There are 318 faculty, including assistant, associate and full professors, as well as 62 non-tenuretrack instructors. An average of 215 GSIs supplement the instructional faculty each term, along Page 9.596.1with an untold number of graders. The duties of a GSI are varied and range from leading Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdiscussion and laboratory sections to holding

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Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

computer programming with the C/C++ and MATLABlanguages, and engineering problem solving involving computer programs and computer tools.Both courses have hands-on lab experiences designed to further explore the engineeringdisciplines, and both have a mini-design/build project usually carried out by 2-person teams overa one-week period at the end of the academic quarter.The last course in the FEH sequence is the Engineering Fundamentals and Laboratory 3, nowcalled ENG H1933. Prior to taking this course, the students will also have completed as a part ofthe FEH program two math courses and two physics courses, all of which are coordinated withthe engineering courses. As a culminating course for first-year engineering honors students, theENG H193

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

• Signal Flowgraphs • Schematics and Diagrams as necessary • Circuit Responses • Summary or ConclusionAdditionally, other pictorially descriptive materials that the student designer deems necessary toget the point across to the reader should also be included. This report must be grammaticallycorrect and organized as professionally as possible. These reports were not meant to be the quickand dirty physics laboratory reports of old, but rather state-of-the-art professional documents.Students must also produce a PowerPoint presentation and present it in front of their engineeringpeers (classmates). This may also seem trivial for those academics reading this article, but it isreally a traumatic experience for those students who take

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shaundra Bryant; David Cavallo; Arnan Sipitakiat; Anindita Basu

themselves as learners, problem-solvers, and creative thinkers. In this paper we will present the underlying concepts, describe some sample, discuss some of the issues,and our ideas for continuation. For the purposes of this paper, we combine a number of different initiatives of oursfrom a variety of settings. The principles of learning through design and construction of engineering projects isconsistent throughout. However, we have applied this in schools, in informal settings such as community centers inpoor, urban neighborhoods, and in projects with children in our laboratory. What is important is not the setting, butrather the nature of the activity and what the children accomplish. Significantly, children, including minoritychildren

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

partnerships for networking and leverage • A professional services referral network • Linkages to faculty consulting and collaborative proposals • Access to specialized equipment, laboratories and other university capabilities • Coordination and offering of curricula, courses and training • Other special activities Page 9.1152.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEntrepreneurial teams and students in senior design work directly with Florida TechStart to helpfacilitate the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Blaine Lilly; John Merrill

(OSU). His current responsibilities primarily include teaching courses andcurriculum development for the FE program. Mr. Masud received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from OSU in2002, and received in B.S from Florida Institute o f Technology in 1999.STUART H. BRAND is an Instructional Lab Supervisor for the First-Year Engineering Program at The Ohio StateUniversity (OSU) College of Engineering. His current responsibilities include lab support, curriculum development,and educational multimedia development. He received his B.S. in Physics from OSU 1997, after serving as asubmarine nuclear propulsion plant operator for the United States Navy.MICHAEL J. HOFFMANN is an Instructional Laboratory Supervisor at The Ohio State University (OSU

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

, American Society for Engineering EducationWILLIAM G. AGNEW received a Ph.D degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue. From 1944 to 1946 heworked at the Los Alamos Laboratory. He retired in 1989 from the General Motors Research Laboratories. He is amember of the National Academy of Engineers, ASEE, and SAE.Gerald R. Lane, is the Associate Director for Advanced Vehicle Technology in the Research Business Group at theU.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center, Warren, MI. He is a Director of theAssociation for Unmanned Systems International and a Director of the Michigan Chapter of the National DefenseIndustrial Association. Jerry is a co-founder and co-chair of the IGVC

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringEach form was returned to the instructor who evaluated the peer review. Then individualinterviews were conducted by the instructor to assess each student’s progress.In the last week a laboratory activity was conducted. A single-phase resistive-inductive-capacitive circuit was analyzed on paper with phasor diagrams and evaluated in the laboratoryusing an oscilloscope. A take-home final test was conducted, with comprehensive problems.At the end of the five-week period the instructor individually met with the students to discussthe problems of the final exam and assess their overall

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

learning in a course takes place in the context of projects, with lectures playing asubsidiary role or not taking place at all. The way the capstone design course is usually taught isproject-based learning, as is the engineering laboratory in which each experiment can beconsidered a project. Several engineering departments have shifted some of their traditionallecture courses to project-based courses, and a few universities have made the switch for all oftheir courses, the best known of which is the University of Aalborg in Denmark. Whetherproject-based learning or one of the forms of problem-based learning is adopted, if student teamsare involved, all of the methodologies of cooperative learning can be used to maximize theeffectiveness of the

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bruno; Alistair Greig; Robert Mayer; Jennifer Waters

Cockney College”, because of its aim to extend access to universityeducation from the very rich to the growing new middle class.The first academic sessions of the University started in October 1828. Chairs were established inseveral subjects which had not previously been taught in English universities, for instancemodern foreign languages and English language and literature. The systematic university studyof law began at UCL. Instruction at UCL was primarily by means of lectures and writtenexaminations - reflection of practice in Scotland and Germany rather than Oxbridge. Theteaching of engineering was pioneered at UCL, the first Professor of Mechanical Engineeringwas appointed in 1847. Also the first undergraduate teaching laboratories in

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas O'Neal; Carmo D'Cruz

technicallabs, facilities and equipment (4) Access to databases and researchers (5) Access to research anddevelopment financing through programs such as SBIR – federal grant funding is greatlyenhanced when incubator clients submit a joint proposal with a university or federal laboratory(6) Additional services and resources including patent knowledge, alumni who may act asadvisors, business contacts and strategic alliance facilitators or investors, access to a far-flungnetwork of laboratories and technical expertise, and access to investment by universityfoundations.All the above mentioned research findings and other issues and environmental factors wereconsidered when designing the entrepreneurship programs at the University of Central

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

Page 9.734.3distributed energy systems (fuel cells, solar cells, wind turbines), sensors for monitoring well Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwater levels and quality, and sensors for contaminant transport and containment. Thisknowledge and the associated technical skills will enable CSM engineering students to helppeople in remote communities improve their access to energy and power.Modifications to existing Engineering CoursesIn soil mechanics laboratory, civil engineering students will be introduced to sensor technologiesfor identifying and quantifying soil contaminant species and

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

course.20. I was able to understand the syllabus and grading procedures.21. The instructor followed the syllabus.22. Given the ease or difficulty of the material presented in this course, the exams represented the topics covered fairly.23. The course assignments were related to the material being covered.24. The laboratory assignments in this course help reinforce the topics being covered and make them easier to Page 8.329.9 learn. (Only for classes with labs.)25. My instructor returned graded material such as homework and tests in a timely manner. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

Regional Educational Laboratories 10 (1992). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 106· Equity Reality Check: A School Rating. Adapted from Science Education Reform for All. AAAS, (1996). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 109· Gender Audit of Physical Classroom Adapted from Science Education Reform for All. AAAS, (1996). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 112· Classroom Observations for Teacher/Student Interactions Adapted from Sadker, Sadker, Bauchner, and Hergert. Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 90· SummerScape Faculty-Student Interaction Observation Sheet. Created by SummerScape

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Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

department at Oregon State University (OSU) isaddressed at two levels. (1) a required introductory statistics course, Chemical ProcessStatistics, is offered in the sophomore/junior year, and (2) these concepts are reinforced in thesenior unit operations laboratory. To facilitate this connection, it has been found effective tohave the statistics instructor give two “refresher” lectures to the lab class.In this paper, some educational opportunities for a statistics course to address are firstanecdotally illustrated with a couple of examples pulled from student work. An overview of thechemical process statistics class at OSU is then presented. This overview includes the coursegoals, the course learning objectives, the industrial case studies which form

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

are identifiedby the team and community partner allowing the team to continue to work with the samecommunity partner for many years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit forseveral semesters, registering for the course for 1 or 2 credits each semester. The creditstructure is designed to encourage long-term participation, and allows multi-year projects ofsignificant scope and impact to be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso attend a common one-hour lecture each week. A

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2001 Annual Conference

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Alan Gomez

Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationrelated to materials science and technology3.VII. Details of Materials Science InstructionStudents in the materials science class have many different topics and experiments to go throughin the one-year class. Historical developments and manufacturing processes are major parts ofeach unit. The Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, WA and Batelle Institute developed thiscurriculum initially in the late 1980’s under support from the U.S. Department of Energy. Areasdiscussed include metals, ceramics, polymers and composites.In the metals unit, students explore the many

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

5.640.4Universities are adroit at publicizing relationships with industry to their advantage. Sometimessuch projects lead to patents and intellectual property agreements on which the university is apartner and even to royalties, licensing fees, or other ongoing revenue. Even in the case ofindependent consulting by its faculty, sometimes custom sharing agreements are worked out; forexample, the professor can use university laboratory space and nonconsumables such asequipment in return for giving the university a share of his fees, a “win-win-win” situation for allparticipants.There is also often a correlation between one’s involvement in consulting and standard universityresearch in that skills and successes in one often motivate involvement in the other

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

. Temperature effects, materials and manufacturing considerations in design; incorporation of ASME standards. 11. Review.Schedule: Two sessions per week of 120 minutesComputer usage: PC or Unix-based software will be used.Laboratory projects: Several laboratory exercises that are open-ended involving computersimulation and parametric studies on the modeling and analysis of machines and mechanicalsystems will be assigned. Page 7.1060.8Relationship to professional component: This course is 50 % engineering design. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vivian Vasquez; Andrea I. Prejean; Sarah Irvine; Teresa Larkin

the physics laboratory where they were given an opportunity to build their ownmotors. This activity was designed in a constructivist-based, interactive engagement format. Atthe conclusion of this session, the students were allowed to keep their motors and take themhome and share with their parents and other family members. The students really enjoyed thisactivity. On the third day of the institute, a session on using the web and unexpected internetadventures was presented. Internet resources were highlighted and shared and the many uses ofthe web as a teaching and learning tool. Several important caveats regarding use of the web ineducation were presented. Also on the third day, teachers and students had the opportunity to be involved

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

between the options within the AE and AST curricula· To develop team skills through the use of collaborative, learning-based assignments· To introduce students to various problems (areas of interest) within the agricultural engineering and technology field· To experience hands-on laboratories related to the AE and AST options· To increase involvement in professional societies and student branches· To introduce technical writing skills during the first year of study· To make first-year composition courses more meaningful to students· To establish career development/job preparation· To receive academic guidance related to curriculum issuesThese general and specific ABE LC objectives were designed to help our departmentmeet the following college

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Thibault; Noel Boutin

three-hour period dedicated to laboratory training. In the firstweek of the two-week schedule, students familiarize themself with new concepts they have tomaster in order to solve the problem they were assigned during the first meeting with a tutor. Inthe second week, they materialize and test the theoritical solution they found. A written report isrequired and is marked.Each week, a two-hour supervised period is dedicated to the semester-long design project. It iswithin those periods that workshops on different topics are sporadically held throughout thesemester. These include workshops on change, problem-solving process, active listening, teamconsolidation, brainstorming, arguing, feedback and conflict resolution, stress management andoral

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

Page 6.1003.1ETW. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII. OrganizationHow is ETW organized? ETW is a one-week short course (Figure 1) providing seminars on thebasics of excellent teaching (using Lowman3 and Wankat and Oreovicz4), demonstrations ofeffective teaching, laboratory exercises requiring the participants to teach lessons followed bygroup assessment, and discussions on how to apply the presented techniques at differentuniversity settings (laboratory, large classrooms or auditoriums, seminar groups, etc.). Figure 1. Workshop Schedule

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2001 Annual Conference

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Larry Cartwright

form of ablueprint and multiple communiqués. (The blueprint was actually the first floor of theCivil and Environmental Engineering Laboratories that had been relabeled to represent afloor of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.) The communiqués were a series of lettersbetween the Preposterous Mission Force (PMF) and Ethan Hunter, the man selected byMr. Phelps. (A 300-pound instructor portrayed Ethan Hunter.) All of the pertinentinformation concerning the mission was in the text of the letters. The letters were liberallystamped with “TOP SECRET”.The mission was to retrieve the computer disk. As per the movie, the computer facility

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine E. Winters, Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies, Student

decisions. Our results also show that despite a perceived lack of autonomy, some GTAscontinue to act autonomously when faced with decision-making in the classroom. These resultscan help inform faculty as they seek to support GTAs in the GTAs‟ teaching responsibilities.IntroductionFor many years, graduate students have served as laboratory assistants and graders forundergraduate engineering courses. Due to recent efforts to increase hands-on activities inengineering education, many institutions are now also employing graduate teaching assistants(GTAs) as course instructors and lecturers 1-3. While researchers have studied GTAs in thehumanities and physical sciences, little is known about GTA experiences in engineering. Thepurpose of this study is to

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yating Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Shen, Purdue University; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Hirleman, University of California, Merced; Eckhard A. Groll, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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ASEE Global Programs

, multivariate statistics, and nonparametric statistical techniques as well as qualitative analysis to measurement development and model construction for assessing learning and evaluating innovations in intercultural educational practice and global engineering programs.Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joe J.J. Lin is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interest includes: student success models in engineering, global engineering education, teamwork and team effectiveness, and production systems control and optimization. He worked as a production control engineer in Taiwan, and has taught laboratory classes in manufacturing engineering and freshmen engi

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Education and Workforce Development Challenges

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris R. Rehmann, Iowa State University; Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University; Mark Laingen, Iowa State University; Steven K. Mickelson, Iowa State University; Thomas J. Brumm, Iowa State University

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Civil Engineering

the undergraduate program in computer engineering at MSU. She also served as interim department chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2000 to 2001. She was a research staff member in the Scalable Computing Laboratory at the Ames Laboratory under a U.S-D.O.E. Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1989 to 1991. Her teaching and research has focused on the areas of embedded computer systems, reconfigurable hardware, integrated program development and performance environments for parallel and distributed systems, visualization, performance monitoring and evaluation, and engineering education. She currently serves as principal investigator for NSF STEP and S-STEM grants in the college. Dr. Rover is

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Praveen Shankar, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Valana L. Wells, Arizona State University; Wen-Ting Chung, Arizona State University

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Aerospace

flight simulator for education and research”, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit, 2002, Monterey, CA9. Rogalski, T., Tomczyk, A., Kopecki, G., “Flight simulator as a tool for flight control system synthesis and handling qualities research”, Solid State Phenomena, 2009, 147, 231-23610. Tomczyk, A., “The flying laboratory for aeronautics students’ education”, Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, 2010, 82(5), pp 320-33011. Frasca International, Inc., “Frasca CRJ: Regional jet flight training device”, www.frasca.com/pdf/CRJbrochure.pdf12. Hoak, D. E., et al., "The USAF Stability and Control DATCOM," Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories

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Design Spine

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salah Badjou, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

Page 22.912.2electromechanical engineering program at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Theelectromechanical engineering program is a faculty-driven, high-quality EAC-of-ABETaccredited five-year interdisciplinary electromechanical engineering program.1 It wasestablished in 1992 at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Under EAC rules, theelectromechanical engineering program had to simultaneously meet the accreditation criteria forelectrical engineering and for mechanical engineering. The graduates of this program are trueinterdisciplinary engineers proficient in tackling interdisciplinary projects in all their electricaland mechanical complexity. In addition, the graduates have excellent laboratory and machineshop skills. Recently,1,2 a

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel James Boland, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Michael V. Schaefer, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Carmen M. Langel; Taryn Michelle Tigges, University of Iowa; Fabienne Bertrand, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Marian Muste, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Zachary David Hingst; Timothy James Middlemis-Brown, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa

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International

region. First are visits to a variety of differentwater resources structures and laboratories. Advance arrangements are made for behind-the-scenes tours of these facilities and to interact with local engineers for discussion of their uniquechallenges. Second, each tour includes an opportunity for students to meet and interact withengineering students and faculty at one or more universities. This includes formal time together(which includes a presentation about IIHR by course participants) and unstructured timeinteracting with each other24. The previous course offerings showed that the field trips andassociated activities require a well structured management plan initiated at least one year fromthe date of the field trip. The yearly cycle of