Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Kadlowec; Dexter Whittinghill; John Chen

Concepts Learning Using Technology for Rapid Feedback and Student Engagement John C. Chen,* Jennifer A. Kadlowec,* and Dexter C. Whittinghill Departments of *Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics Rowan University, Glassboro, NJAbstractIn this project our goal is to improve student learning in the foundation mechanics course Statics.In this case improved learning is defined as knowledge retention (durability) and knowledgeapplication in a different environment (transferability). We aim to do this by providing rapidfeedback to students of their understanding of key concepts and skills being presented. Thefeedback system acts as the focal point and

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dawson Plummer; Sheldon Jeter

Multiple Fuel and Current Collector Testing in Direct Water Methanol Fuel Cells MAJ Dawson A. Plummer Sheldon M. Jeter, P. E., Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Dept of Civil & Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering School of Mechanical Engineering United States Military Academy Georgia Institute of Technology West Point, NY 10996 Atlanta, GA 30332 dawson.plummer@usma.eduAbstract Testing of fuel cells, in particular Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC) is an excellentlaboratory exercise that involves chemical

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jason Wolter

Development of an Acquisition Management Course Jason Wolter, M.S., Roger Burk, Ph.D., Bob Foote, Ph.D., Niki Goerger, Ph.D., Willie McFadden, Ph.D., Timothy E. Trainor, Ph.D. United States Military AcademyAbstract In response to external feedback and a continual desire to increase the diversity andapplicability of the curriculum for our students, the Engineering Management Program at USMAwill offer an acquisition systems management course for the first time in Spring 2005. Thiscourse will provide graduates with relevant skills related to the acquisition goals of strategicallymanaging, planning, and implementing acquisition programs and reforms. Topics will

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Wangping Sun; J. M. Zhang; Z. J. Pei

meet the challenges in their future careers. In thispaper, the instructors of IMSE 564 will share some experiences in teaching the course, anddiscuss how the learner-centered environment was established for the class.KeywordsEngineering education; Lean manufacturing; Learner-centered environment.1. IntroductionAt Kansas State University, Product and Process Engineering (IMSE 564) is an engineeringcourse offered once a year to the senior undergraduates by the Department of Industrial &Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE). It is a required course for the students whose majoris Manufacturing Engineering, and the students with other majors may take it as an elective. Inthe course, the students learn how to design the economic production

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tobia Steyn

the curriculum of the extended study program so that the students can comply with the exitlevel outcomes for engineering graduates set by the Engineering Council of South Africa. Faculty is faced with thechallenge to redress and enhance the under-prepared students' understanding of the fundamentals underpinning astudy in calculus, to develop their personal, academic and communication skills and to introduce them to basic skillsin information technology.To meet this challenge and address these aspects, a developmental course, Professional Orientation, is presentedduring the first year of study. The main pedagogical approach in the Professional Orientation course is to develop theacademic potential of the under prepared students. Therefore, the

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jayakumar Narasimhan; Erick Jones

Methodology for evaluating Simulation Software for Engineering Management Courses Erick C. Jones and Jayakumar Narasimhan Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.Simulation has proven to be an efficient tool to reproduce industrial environments without theactual cost of construction. Simulation is a process of enacting the actual or conceptual situationin a computer based environment and enables assessment, understanding and decision making ofthe situation under study. Simulation software uses previously collected data and

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sharon Mecum; Leslie Wilkins

the Maui Economic Development Board, a private, non-profit organization. While most federal funding for such programs comes from either the National Science Foundation or the U.S. Department of Education, WIT is the first program of this kind to be funded by the U.S. Department of Labor as a workforce development project.During its initial assessment phase, a review of the existing literature on the under representationof girls and women in STEM and an analysis of best practices and model programs wasconducted. This review convinced the WIT team to focus on systemic change by addressingequity issues directly through equity training for educators and employers and through gender-equitable programs to encourage girls in

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

strategies and processes, as well as typical courses on industrial controland machining design, analyze known situations and consider given design goals.By contrast, RMS methodologies are based on design for a future change and a future re-use of components. With the RMS, the essence of decision making involves aconsideration of the future. The future is inherently unknown, and the forces conspiringto produce the future often lie well outside the conventional designer and managerpurview. The essential question was how does one make engineering decisions in thiscontext? The new decisions would depend on the following facts: • The forces shaping the future of a particular industry are not understood. • The rate at which these facts

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

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Frank Jacobitz; Kathleen Kramer; Rick Olson

Do Engineering Freshmen Find Value in Extracurricular Seminars Designed to Enhance Collegiate Success? Rick T. Olson, Frank G. Jacobitz, Kathleen A. Kramer University of San DiegoAbstractTo improve retention and student success, freshmen at the University of San Diego participate ina preceptorial program. Through this program students are ensured to have one regularacademic class having fewer than 20 students taught by a professor having particular interest inhelping first-year students succeed. All freshmen students expressing an interest in engineeringenroll in a preceptorial section of ENGR 101: Introduction to Engineering. Recently, an optionalPassport

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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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Russel Jones

successfully piloted an ambitious entrepreneurshipprogram for a group of its students, consisting of formal instruction and an internship with a successfulMoldovan entrepreneur. This paper describes the project and the place of the program within theframework of the new International Center for Entrepreneurship in Moldova. The authors present thisreport with reference to the challenges of teaching entrepreneurship in a former soviet socialist republic,one which today is struggling to find its feet in the fast moving global economy.Introduction: The Republic of MoldovaEntrepreneurship education has taken on a new role in the past several years, as the internationaldevelopment community has begun to realize its importance in rebuilding and reorienting

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Scott Jiusto; David DiBiasio

Nontraditional Learning Environments: Do They Prepare Our Students for Life-Long Learning? D. DiBiasio, Department of Chemical Engineering and S. Jiusto, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractRecent research indicates that traditional academic structures may not promote learningconsistent with self-directed learning.1,2 This work investigated whether Worcester PolytechnicInstitute’s (WPI) nontraditional interdisciplinary projects program increased readiness for life-long learning (LLL) and self-directed learning (SDL) using three methods: a calibrated, validatedinstrument called the Self

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kendrick Aung

Session 3266 Lessons Learned in Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Classes Kendrick Aung Department of Mechanical Engineering Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas 77710Abstract For all engineering students, senior capstone design course is a required course forcompletion of their bachelor degree. With more emphasis on the design contents in engineeringcurricula, the importance of capstone classes for students cannot be overemphasized. This paperdescribed the author’s experiences in conducting

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jeff Frolik

Session 1526 Laboratory Enhancement of Digital and Wireless Communications Courses Jeff Frolik University of VermontIntroduction Over the past decade, the field of wireless communications has come into its own and isposed to become a ubiquitous technology with the recent arrival of 3G cellular, wireless localarea networks and wireless sensor networks. As such, today’s graduating electrical engineersneed marketable skills which are typically not developed in undergraduate curricula. This paperdescribes an ongoing program at the University of Vermont (UVM

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Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman; Mark Gunty; Leo McWilliams; Carrie Graf; John Uhran; Catherine Pieronek

Session 1991 Monolith or Mosaic: Using Demographics and Detailed Surveys to Understand the Many and Varied Dimensions of First-Year Female Engineering Students Catherine Pieronek, Leo H. McWilliams, Stephen E. Silliman, John J. Uhran, Mark Gunty, Carrie Graf University of Notre DameAbstractThe observation of substantially different retention rates of men versus women in a requiredfirst-year, two-course “Introduction to Engineering Systems” sequence at the University of NotreDame motivated an examination of demographic and survey data to

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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tze-Chi Hsu; N. Yu

THE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN TAIWAN Tze-Chi Hsu, N. Yu Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yuan Ze University Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C.AbstractThe objective of the present article is to give a brief overview on the international cooperation of engineeringeducation in Taiwan. The scope and different types of existing international cooperation programs are outlined fromvarious perspectives. The role of government funding agency – National Science Council (NSC), as well as itssupporting mechanism to enhance international cooperation is described. Readers who are interested in

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ramesh Chawla

3651 Use of News Stories as Case Studies for Teaching Engineering Analysis Ramesh C. Chawla Department of Chemical Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059 Chawla@scs.howard.eduAbstractFreshman engineering students take a two-course sequence of Introduction to Engineeringcourses in their first two semesters. The first course is a general course common to all disciplinesand the second course is discipline-specific.In the first course, the students are introduced to various topics including career options invarious engineering fields, communication skills, ethics, intellectual property

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Powers; Mary Fran Desrochers

2148 Teaching Instrumentation for MET and EET using LabVIEW™ software with Vernier® and National Instruments® hardware Desrochers, M., Powers, M. Michigan Technological UniversityAbstract:Measurement, data collection and interfacing are a critical part of the everyday manufacturingand engineering world. It is important that today’s technology students are exposed tomeasurement and data acquisition. This paper summarizes two courses, one from theMechanical Engineering Technology curriculum and one from the Electrical EngineeringTechnology curriculum, where LabVIEW

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Sekmen

/industry partners come together with faculty members to design projects for the courseswe offer. A typical project for a course is shaped with collaboration of the faculty and thecorresponding industry partner for that course to fit it into the course contents and objectives.Industry partners actively participate in developing project, evaluating students’ progress,guiding students, communicating with students, and assessing students’ performances. This kindof active learning highly improves the student learning outcomes by providing additionalmotivation, professionalism, feedback from real industry partners, and strengthening team spiritamong our students. The DoCS has successfully completed three (3) such projects in Fall-2003and Fall-2004

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Martin Johnston; Christopher Greene; Jeff Jalkio

Session xxxx Customers on Campus – Building Successful Collaboration between Physics and Engineering through Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Jeffrey A. Jalkio, School of Engineering Martin E Johnston, Department of Physics Christopher S. Greene, School of Engineering University of St. ThomasAbstractThe educational benefits of collaborative student – faculty research and real-world designprojects in engineering are well known. In particular, engineering students benefit from theexercise of design skills and from working with

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stanislaw Maj; Anuradha Sutharshan; D Veal

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE – BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN BUSINESS, IT AND UNIVERSITIES A. Sutharshan, S P Maj, D Veal Department of Computer Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia Email: anu.sutharshan@dli.wa.gov.au, s.maj@ecu.edu.auIntroductionAdvancing technologies, emergent software development approaches, and economicconditions influencing corporate budgets are creating new challenges for theApplication Services manager [4]. In one of the studies [10], Enterprise Architecture(EA) was ranked near the top of the list of issues considered important by the chiefinformation officers. Enterprise Architecture is a distinct and developing discipline inthe Information

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

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Frank Liou

An Advanced Manufacturing Workshop for High-School Teachers and Students Todd Sparks, Vinay Kadekar, Gail Richards, Frank Liou, Venkat Allada, Ming Leu, Faisal Anam, and Siddharth Shinde University of Missouri-Rolla and Ashok Agrawal and Dale Gerstenecker St. Louis Community College at Florissant ValleyAbstractPresented in this paper is an analysis of the experience of teaching advancedmanufacturing technology to groups of teachers at a workshop sponsored by NSFduring the summer of 2004 at the University of Missouri-Rolla. The purpose of theworkshop was to expose teachers to manufacturing technology

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

support materials by CD-ROMand Internet streaming, to students at the IIIST in Shanghai. All courses are taught inEnglish by PSU faculty, with classroom assistance provided by local faculty drawn fromFudan and Shanghai JiaoTong Universities. IIIST provides classroom and administrativeinfrastructure, and collaborates with Fudan as well as Shanghai JiaoTong for most of thelower division non-technical program for the student. IIIST also provides instruction inEnglish as a Second Language. Students who successfully complete the lower divisionprogram requirements can apply to become fully admitted to PSU at the junior year (upperdivision), and progress toward graduation from Portland State University. The programfosters faculty exchange between the

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Hartin; Henry Kraebber; Nancy Denton

Developing an Educational Process for an Engineering Technology Program Henry Kraebber, Nancy Denton, John Hartin Purdue UniversityAbstract The new criteria for engineering technology accreditation by ABET known as TC2Khave been evolving for several years. The TC2K criteria create an outcomes-based assessmentprocess rather than the traditional input-based ABET assessment process. There are fundamentalchanges in the accreditation criteria that make them significantly different. These changeswarrant a new design of the processes used to prepare for accreditation. These new processesmust clearly define and embed quality and self-assessment into engineering

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Schrage

Teaching Graduate Rotorcraft Design Based on Twenty Years of Experience Dr. Daniel P. Schrage Professor and Director Center of Excellence in Rotorcraft Technology School of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0150IntroductionRotorcraft is a general term for rotary-wing aircraft and includes all aircraft that include anyrotary-wing device for generating lift or propulsion for a portion of the aircraft’s flight envelope.Therefore, rotorcraft includes helicopters

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gregory Watkins

Engineering Graphics: The Fate of Pencil, Paper, and the 2-D Drawing Gregory K. Watkins William States Lee College of Engineering The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223AbstractThe Engineering Technology (ET) department at UNC Charlotte began offering the first twoyears of its BSET curriculum in the fall semester 2004, having previously been exclusively a“two plus two” program. Although much of the first two years includes basic studies outside thedepartment, a major portion of the new curriculum delivered by the department is the study

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Toni Doolen; Rungchat Chompu-inwai

a dynamic and competitiveenvironment1. Each engineering program seeking accreditation must have in place a processbased on the needs of the program’s various constituencies in which the objectives aredetermined and evaluated1. For this purpose, a systematic approach for educational processimprovement and reengineering is needed. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a quality improvement tool for determiningcustomer requirements and translating them into product or service specifications. QFD hasbeen applied for extracting customer requirements, as well as for designing elements based onthose requirements in both university settings and other educational institutions in previousstudies 2,3,4,5. However, only the question of what is

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. C. Clifft; Shivan Haran

Enhancing Undergraduate Engineering Laboratory Experience Dr. R. C. Clifft, Professor of Civil Engineering, and Dr. Shivan Haran, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Arkansas State University, P. O. Box 1740 State University, Arkansas 72467-1740 ABSTRACTThe importance of experimental activities is being increasingly recognized as integralelements of engineering curricula today. A reflection of this trend is evidenced by thereview criteria applied by educational accreditation boards such as ABET. The crucialrole that laboratory experiments play in providing a meaningful engineering experienceto the

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jacqueline Isaacs

Undergraduate and Graduate Education Plan for theNanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing C. M. F. Barry, J. A. Isaacs†, J. L. Mead, N. E. McGruer†, G. P. Miller*, A. A. Busnaina† † Northeastern University / University of Massachusetts Lowell / *University of New HampshireAbstractThe academic partners in the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN), an NSF-sponsoredNanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC), have created a comprehensive education program forthe Center. All three core academic institutions, Northeastern University (NEU), the University ofMassachusetts Lowell (UML), and the University

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

in the School are technical professionals(mostly engineers), it is kind of in our nature to try to optimize everything we do and try tosee whether what we do makes economic sense. Inevitably, we are looking for economicfeasibility, break-even points, and a benefit/cost ratio that is feasible and defendable also inthe case of assessment activities that the School is involved in. I usually get the feeling thatone reason why I see some resistance to assessment undertakings from some of my colleaguesis probably due to the fact that they are not sure whether there is also an economicjustification to all this even though we do not much of a choice.So far assessment work has progressed with the premise that this is a good thing to do, andthat we

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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rusk Masih

COOPERATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND CORPORATIONS Rusk Masih The University of Connecticut, Avery Point Campus, Groton Email r_masih@yahoo.comAbstract This paper treats the role that can be played by both the universities and the industrytogether in shaping continuous engineering education, nationally and internationally. Itrecommends forming a joint committee from the industry and academia to define the plan toenhance the cooperation between the universities and corporations, and the execution of suchplan. It also treats the interest of each