Conference Session

Environmental engineering pedagogy and innovation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sukalyan Sengupta, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Jeffrey A Cunningham, University of South Florida; Sarina J. Ergas, University of South Florida; Ramesh K. Goel, University of Utah; Dilek Ozalp, University of South Florida; Teri Kristine Reed, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Environmental Engineering

instructionalmethods and pedagogical frameworks in the FEE curriculum. Another important outcome will bethe formation of a FEECI Development Team, a strong community of faculty, trained in the useof the FEECI and dedicated to improving FEE instruction.ProcedureThe planned approach to achieve the objectives of this project is as follows.1. Form an FEECI Development Team – a group of faculty members from 10 universities who have taught FEE courses for multiple years;2. Conduct an online Delphi study of the FEECI Development Team to identify concepts in FEE courses that are critical but prone to misconception among students;3. Conduct student interviews and brainstorming sessions to generate a list similar to that developed in stage # 2;4. Reconcile

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Boyd Cartwright, General Electric; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida

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Mathematics

Teaching (CFAT), and the 2011 ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Award.Dr. Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida Prof. Ali Yalcin received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick New Jersey in 1995, 1997 and 2000. He is currently an Associate Pro- fessor at the University of South Florida, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department, and an Associate Faculty member of the Center for Urban Transportation Research. His research interests include systems modeling, analysis and control, production planning and control, information systems, data analysis and decision support in healthcare, and engineering education research. His work has

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education Cross-Cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madelyn Espinosa, The Pavlis Institute - Michigan Technological Univerisity; Helena Keller, Michigan Technological University; Nicole Westphal, Michigan Technological University

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International

theireducation in graduate programs or pursue research opportunities report feeling more confident in theirability to work with fellow graduate students and colleagues from other parts of the world. “I plan on going to graduate school and pursuing a career in scientific research, which will require me to collaborate with members of the scientific community from all across the world. Pavlis has taught me how to better communicate with other people, no matter where they're from.” (B2) “I am going into the research field, where international collaboration has become increasingly essential over the years, so I look forward to applying the cross-cultural communication skills I learned through my international

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John C. Anderson, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell, Northwestern University; Barbara Shwom, Northwestern University; Stacy Benjamin, Segal Design Institute; John Andrew Lake, Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

design problem and their plans for future work. The attention to specific wordsand their consequences forces students to clarify their thinking about their problem as they revisetheir statements.Example: Mid-term status reports and claims assignmentThe following example demonstrates how one team used mid-term status reports and claimsassignment to make a good design decision. The goal of the team’s project was to design apressurized tank, for use by veterinarians at Shedd Aquarium. The veterinarians will use thetank, similar in function to hyperbaric chambers used for treating decompression sickness inscuba divers, to experiment with a novel approach to treating Gas Bubble Disease in sea horses.During their status report presentation, one

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

assessment of theeffectiveness of the national workshop, and the future plans to sustain the network.Introduction: Penn State’s Engineering Ambassador Program Penn State established an Engineering Ambassador Program in 2009 with anoutreach mission by employing the marketing lessons from the National Academy ofEngineering’s Changing the Conversation through the partial support from the National Page 23.495.2Science Foundation (http://www.engr.psu.edu/ambassadors/index.html). After havinglearned advanced presentation skills and the messages of Changing the Conversation,select undergraduate engineering students, mostly females, traveled to high

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Talbot; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineeringconcepts to explain to students. The undergraduates also gained leadership, management,and communication skills from building and presenting lesson plans. Each year at Gannon University since 2008, an average of 66 middle schoolstudents have participated in the “Mechanical Engineering Day.”13 The ASME StudentChapter, the SWE Student Chapter, and the Mechanical Engineering faculty at GannonUniversity have hosted the event. Again, the feedback from the participatingundergraduate students showed an improvement in leadership, communication, andteamwork skills. In addition to these skills, Gannon reported that their students were alsoexposed to executing a project with budget and time limitations. The students gainedthese skills from working in

Conference Session

Real and Virtual - "New" Approaches to Teaching "Old" Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason M. Keith, Mississippi State University; Gerald C Nelson, Mississippi State University; Abby Thompson, Mississippi State University ; John Louis Gazzini, Nimbus Mobile LLC; Read Sprabery, Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University

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Chemical Engineering

accomplish the formation of an entrepreneurial culture at Mississippi State Uni- versity. Nelson is also the director of the Entrepreneurship Program in the College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. He implemented the Entrepreneurship program at MSU in March 2001 to establish relations and invite entrepreneurial leaders and experts to Seminar Series. He mentors students involved in the program, plans and executes Project Teams, and markets the program to students. He advises the Entrepreneurship Club and the Engineering Toastmasters Club. From July 1999 to March 2001, Nelson was the chief operating officer at Deka Medical Inc. in Columbus, Miss. In this role, he was responsible for manufacturing operations

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Multidisciplinary Instruction

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey R Seay, University of Kentucky

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

requested.The questions were grouped into 3 categories. The first group of questions were designed todetermine the student’s self-assessed belief in the importance of sustainability to themselves, thecountry and industry. The second group of questions was designed to determine the student’sself-assessed knowledge of engineering job functions as well as their how sustainability might fitinto their future career plans. Finally, the third group of questions was designed to determine thestudent’s self-assessed knowledge of key concepts in sustainability. The assessment questionsare illustrated in Figure 5 and the results are given in Figures 6 – 8. The demographics of theassessment included 22 chemical, 4 mechanical and 1 biosystems and agricultural

Conference Session

Electrical Energy Courses, Labs, and Projects II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Ferris, Portland State University; Robert B Bass, Portland State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Power Systems Protection Teaching Laboratory for Undergraduate and Graduate Power Engineering EducationAbstractThe Electrical & Computer Engineering faculty at Portland State University has redesigned itsBS- and MS-level electrical engineering power systems programs. This paper focuses on thedevelopment of a new education laboratory for the redesigned 400/500-level power systemprotection course. Specifically, we discuss the educational goals of the laboratory, thecurriculum presented during the inaugural offering of the course, results from student surveysand our plans for refining the curriculum and expanding the laboratory.IntroductionMotivated by the growing

Conference Session

ETAC/ABET RELATED OUTCOME BASED ISSUES

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University; Guanghsu A. Chang, Western Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

eightEE students. The grading for the projects is a collaborative effort with input from the facultymentor, project sponsor, and lead instructor with three milestone presentations each semester.In the previous five years, 63 projects have been initiated. In order to frame and demonstrate thecomplexity and varied nature of the addressed problems, several are highlighted as follows: (1)LED Lighting System to Assist Prostate Cancer Treatment. Brachy therapy treats cancerousprostate tissue by implanting radioactive seeds into the prostate. A student team developed adisposable light-emitting diode (LED) lighting system and software to connect a physiciantreatment plan to seed implantation. A second team improved the design by making the systemwireless

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Geselowitz, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Lyle Feisel P.E., Binghamton University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

respondents on the preference of covering recenttechnology or the entire history of technology combined with the desire for modularity suggeststhe possibility of developing a sequence of two or three chronologically-based courses.Therefore, the authors intend to work with their association to develop a business model that willenable such a course to be planned and delivered. A critical component of the business plan willbe the development of metrics (besides such obvious ones of number of institutions that sign onand number of students to take the course) to assess the efficacy of the course. In fact, a coursedelivered to multiple institutions has the potential to provide a test bed for the assumedimportance of history in engineering education, since

Conference Session

Information Literacy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeanine Mary Williamson

needsto plan with both types in mind. 1. For intuitive students, mention the principles illustrated in the lecture. For example, when teaching about “and” and “or” the librarian could mention that these operators follow Boolean logic. Also, in preparing an outline, make sure that it is not overly detailed. Have some “big categories” organizing the lecture that are indicated, while also providing a wealth of factual information. 2. For sensing students, make an effort to provide at least one real-world example for every generalization made. Luckily the database demo forces the librarian to go step-by-step and to

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norb Delatte

demonstrated how specific cases may be linked to engineering mechanicscourse topics2, 3. Later, a more comprehensive plan linking courses, topics, and cases within theUSMA civil engineering curriculum was developed, although this has not been published.Based on this earlier work, a more comprehensive master plan was published in 20004. Theplan was developed further, adding more topics and cases, and the revised version was published Page 8.1250.4in 20021.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Table 1: Courses, Topics, and Case

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Travis Harrington; Keith Coleman; J. Douglas Sterrett; Robert LeMaster

temperaturerange of 60 to 90 oF. These cooling towers are shown in Figure 2. The domestic hot water(DHW) system for these guilds is provided byelectric resistance hot water heaters. Theexpense of operating and maintaining thechiller/boiler system and the age of the heatpumps prompted the Department of Correctionsworking with the Tennessee EnergyManagement Office to examine alternativemethods for providing HVAC and DHW to theguilds. In 1999, a decision was made to run ademonstration project by replacing the heatpumps in one guild with new heat pumpsconnected to a closed-loop, vertical well,geothermal system. The UT at Martin wascontacted during the design of the geothermalconversion to develop a plan to determine the Figure 2. Cooling towers

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Englebert; Tom Owen; Stephen Kuyath

programs weresurveyed to determine how many of them would pursue a baccalaureate degree if the opportunitywere available. The survey results showed that many students were interested in completing thefinal two years and obtaining the degree; however, significant numbers of them were unable toattend one of the two universities where the program was available because of distance, job,family obligations, etc. To meet this demonstrated need, the Engineering TechnologyDepartment in UNC Charlotte’s William States Lee College of Engineering developed andimplemented a plan to offer the instructional courses that comprise the junior and senior years ofthe BSET, via the web to students where-ever they happen to be located.The University’s Distance Education

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

that if, in fact, Women in Technology were to survive, it would have tomove from a faculty-driven to a student-driven organization. Hence, we decided to let thestudents plan and implement all of the programs the members wanted. As we would soondiscover, too much responsibility can be as detrimental to a student organization as too little.Planning the Outreach WorkshopDuring the spring 2001 semester, the Women in Technology officers decided to fulfill theoutreach portion of the organization’s mission by holding an on-campus workshop. Theobjective was to recruit more women into the School of Technology. As faculty advisors, theauthors applied for and received funds from General Motors to underwrite the workshop, whichwas to be held the following

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Bittner

Session 2560 Diversity in Transportation Workforces: A Summary of the September 2002 Midwest Regional Workshop Jason Bittner Midwest Regional University Transportation Center University of Wisconsin-MadisonSeveral organizations sponsored the Midwest Regional Diversity in Transportation WorkforcesWorkshop September 23-24, 2002, in Milwaukee Wisconsin. The Workshop focused onrecruitment, retention, and mentoring success stories for diverse groups in transportationworkforces in the upper Midwest region. Pre-college programs, college level plans, and post-college, employer based programs formed the structure for the Workshop

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arunsi Chuku

of the global ecology are among today’s pressing goals. This first ever-solardecathlon event has forced the students to seriously consider renewable technologies, inparticular solar energy for sustainable living. It has demonstrated to administrators andeducators the following: • The importance of working with nature in developing national priorities • The importance and practicality of developing sustainable energy technologies. • Efficient energy utilization as a cardinal component of future national energy planning. • The importance of interdisciplinary cooperation between engineering, architecture, computer science and business students. • The importance of involving students in future

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

monitoring the project schedule the faculty mentor is responsible to ensure thatthe planned course objectives/outcomes are met. Also the faculty mentor serves as aresource to the student and the industrial mentor through the course of the program. Thisprocess provides a two way sharing of information between the two mentors, whichbenefits everyone involved. The program budgets for twenty days during the summer,although this time commitment can be adjusted upward if desired by both parties. It isexpected that all students will have the option of working full time for the summer. Asmentioned earlier, the student participating in the program enrolls in a three-credit coursein each of the two semesters of the program. The student normally takes four

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering programs to have published goals and mission statements. Furthermore, engineeringprograms were required to have an assessment plan to measure the effectiveness of the programs.This has been replaced by criteria 2 and 3 of the EC2000.ABET Criterion 2. Program Educational ObjectivesEach engineering program for which an institution seeks accreditation or reaccreditation musthave in place:(a) detailed published educational objectives that are consistent with the mission of the institution and these criteriaABET has reduced its rigid descriptive requirements so that educators can establish theirprograms uniqueness that are consistent with the institution’s mission

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Wang; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

contribution by groupmembers in completing the project. The low student to teacher ratio ensures that students aregetting individual attention and encouragement.Although the goals for Techtronics I and Techtronics II are the same, the composition of eachclass makes the curriculum development slightly different. Since many students returned fromlast year, Techtronics II is created in part as a continuation course with more challenging hands-on projects that build on what was learned in Techtronics I. Consequently, mostly 7th and 8thgraders fill this class while Techtronics I is composed entirely of sixth graders.There are four units that focus on the four different engineering disciplines offered at Duke.Units are approximately five lesson plans in

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

know how to be creative and think outside of the "box" of conformity.§ We want Americans to be prepared to compete effectively in the new global economic environment.What is Entrepreneurship Education? Entrepreneurship education is the process of providing individuals with concepts andskills to help them: 1) Recognize opportunities that others have overlooked, and 2) Have theinsight and courage to act where others have hesitated. It includes instruction in opportunityrecognition, marshaling resources in the face of risk, and initiating a business venture. It alsoincludes instruction in business management processes such as business planning, capitaldevelopment, marketing, and cash flow analysis. We want to impact collegiate

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

-mediapresentations that enhance traditional lectures. (3)This becomes even more important, given other factors such as the variety of students’backgrounds, visualization natural abilities, the wide range of subject matter content, therelatively limited time for lecture, lab, or homework, and the teaching styles of instructors --all of which require more insight, flexibility and careful planning to accommodate.Multimedia is a powerful instructional, pedagogical tool for the teaching of ArchitecturalDrafting and Blueprint Reading. (4) Lecturing on architectural engineering theories andconcepts in a tangible way polishes the students’ imaginative ability, helps them visualizeobjects more easily, and leads them to a better comprehension of the subject matter

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Govind Puttaiah

the instructor.Sometimes the problem was the time taken by the instructor to realize that a student has aquestion, since it involved watching for audio or visual signs on the system rather thanrecognizing a physical sign such as a raised hand. However with passing time and growingfamiliarity with the arrangement, these problems became easily manageable.Preliminary Planning and Preparation Teaching a course in this mode requires extensive planning and preparation. Ithas been the author’s experience that it takes about four hours of instructor’s time foreach hour of class presentation, particularly the first time the course is taught. A majorpart of this time is for the preparation of hand-outs for distribution at the start of

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Micheal Hanyak; Matt Higgins; Marie Wagner; Ed Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Michael Prince

their modules eitherwith other faculty or on small groups of students. The value of starting small andprototyping activities is also emphasized here. The Catalyst team has found that havingfaculty present their instructional plans and receive feedback from their colleagues is aninvaluable part of the course design process.Implement Instructional Activities: Here we stress with faculty the value of not Page 8.497.5implementing collaborative or problem based learning alone. The Catalyst team has “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Neal Armstrong, University of Texas at Austin; Sherry Woods, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

, tenure and promotion related sessions,particular attention was given to develop new faculty’s pedagogical expertise. Topics such asaligning teaching plans with learner objectives and an introduction to the “How People Learn”model were addressed. 3 In addition, the new faculty participated in two, videotaped microteachesor mini-teaches which gave them an opportunity “to get a glimpse of their teaching by placingsmall aspects of instruction under a microscope” in a safe environment among peers. Themicroteaches also helped faculty, “become aware that a paradigm shift, from a teaching paradigmto a learning paradigm, is underway in higher education.”4 Although the new faculty did notreceive specialized training with respect to ABET EC2000, outcome

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Michael Klein; Matt Walker; Kevin Organ; Dan Gerbus

targetedat the development and use of these non-technical skills such as trust, leadership, organization,personal accountability, and management skills. One of these developing activities completed inthe initial team-building stage of the group is a rope course that is used to cultivatecommunication, trust, and teamwork within the group. Other activities include coursework, inwhich organization, planning, and mentoring skills are developed; a shop introduction andpractical whereby valuable shop skills are developed and employed; and BHAG projects that drawon the developed trust and communication skills from the ropes course and allows the group tocomplete an amazing assortment of challenging projects.Unified CommitmentThe majority of those involved

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Poling; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske; Glenn Wrate

. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationMilwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) InvolvementMSOE (www.msoe.edu) is involved with Focus on Energy at two levels. MSOE is the primarycontractor for the Business Programs segment of Focus on Energy. As such, it handles theadministrative aspects of the program and the awarding of contracts to subcontractors. Alongwith other entities, MSOE faculty and student teams can bid on Focus on Energy projects.This paper focuses on the teaching opportunities and the student involvement in one suchproject. It is planned that subsequent papers, addressed to business and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerrolyn Hebert; Dawn McKinney

(AT), a division of Mentor Graphics, is an internationalcompany based in Mobile and is focused on embedded real-time processing. It was recognizedthat a partnership would be mutually beneficial to both parties by providing much neededequipment, resources and expertise to the university as well as giving students - potentiallyfuture AT employees - practical experiences using state of the art equipment to supplement theircourse concepts. It was understood and planned that no theoretical changes would be made to thecourses but that practical laboratory experiences would be integrated in order to reinforce thecore concepts. The following courses were targeted for this joint venture: operating systems,networks, real-time systems and advanced

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

other thanthe post World War-II countries of Europe. The difference here was that the human resourcesthat already existed in these countries allowed the influx of new capital from the U.S. to beabsorbed with ease. The Marshall Plan assistance was employed effectively to jump-start theirstalled national industries and economies.(3)The problem with LDCs is multifaceted. Generally, there is a lack of adequately skilled workers,technicians, and entrepreneurs, complete lack of allocated capital, and government corruption andcentralization. Innovative human resource development through engineering education presents aviable breakthrough for nations trapped in the vicious circle of underdevelopment andtechnological stagnation. Proposition 1