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E-Learning in Chemical Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Pawan Agrawal, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

1, the students in ourmaterial and energy balance are no different, showing a strong preference for a visuallearning style (average score = - 5 on the Felder-Silverman scale). By creating a tool toaid in transforming written information into visual images, we believed that we couldhelp students develop an essential skill that they will need not only in the material andenergy balance class, but throughout their careers as engineers. Visual/Verbal 25 20 20 15 15 12 12 12 10 9 6 5

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susana Lai-Yuen, University of South Florida; Kingsley Reeves, University of South Florida

injury or handicap. The increasing life expectancyand the search for better health care and preventive therapies have influenced the demand growthfor medical devices. To remain competitive in the global market, medical device manufacturersneed highly qualified engineers to develop innovative and functional products.Undergraduate engineering students are often taught theoretical concepts without having theopportunity to actually apply these concepts in a real-world context. The National Academy ofEngineering (NAE) made the following two recommendations that are relevant to academicinstitutions: (1) academic institutions should take the steps to cultivate U.S. student interest, andaptitude for careers in engineering, and (2) academic institutions

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara MacAlpine, Trinity University; Mahbub Uddin, Trinity University

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Engineering Libraries

as part of project reports in a design class at the first year,sophomore, and junior level.Conclusion and future plansInformation literacy instruction for engineering science students at Trinity University hasprogressed from at most one class period in their four-year career to a planned sequence offormal meetings at least once a year. Almost all of the faculty have included either libraryinstruction or one-on-one consultation with the librarian for the students in their classes,suggesting that they see the value of this process and support the information literacy goals of thelibrary and the university as a whole.In terms of the design classes, the senior year has been less structured, with librarian-studentinteraction left to the students

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

AC 2009-1609: A DESKTOP EXPERIMENT MODULE: HEAT TRANSFERAdrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University Adrienne Minerick is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. She received her PhD and M.S. from the University of Notre Dame and B.S. from Michigan Technological University. Since joining MSU, Dr. Minerick has taught the graduate Chemical Engineering Math, Process Controls, Introduction to Chemical Engineering Freshman Seminar, Heat Transfer, and Analytical Microdevice Technology courses. In addition, she is an NSF CAREER Awardee, has served as co-PI on an NSF REU site, PI on grants from NSF and DOE, and is the faculty advisor for MSU’s

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shekar Viswanathan, National University, San Diego; Howard Evans, National University, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

experience encompassing engineering and environmental consulting, research and development, and technology development. Career experience includes teaching at the University level, conducting fundamental research, and developing continuing educational courses.Howard Evans, National University, San Diego Dr. Howard Evans was appointed founding Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology, National University, in October, 2003. He received B.S. degrees in Physics and Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Evans has over 20 years of executive and senior technical management experience at 3M

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

degree program. It also reflects Rose-Hulman’s emphasis on service activities. In addition to “leadership,, Rose-Hulman recentlyadded “service” to the institutional student learning outcomes. Thus, underlying theme in theLeadership Academy is that leadership skills are applicable in all areas of one’s life, not just atwork.In the Post-Course Survey, the participants were asked “In what areas of your life do you thinkthis leadership training will help you?” Every participant identified at least one area in additionto work. Their responses included the following: ≠ Student ≠ Family ≠ Extra curricular ≠ Friendships ≠ Career ≠ Follower & Leader ≠ CommunitySeveral

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Moore, Petroleum Institute; lana El Chaar, Petroleum Institute; Lisa Lamont, Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

women’s’ hands. Family attitudes about femaleemployment and a woman's ability to combine both work and family responsibilities areoften identified as key to accessing work and remaining within the labor force.Second, and this is particularly relevant for our study, social conditions often dictate thatwomen need to abide by what is known here as a "code of modesty". This recommendssegregation of men and women in the quest to guard family honor. This code is adheredto in varying degrees by different groups within the society and often confines women toseeking work in predominantly female work environments, such as schools. Engineeringundergraduates who wish to pursue their chosen career will have no choice but to workwith male counterparts.As we

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sundararajan Madihally, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

,management skills, economics, intellectual property protection, and teaching methodology thatcould be considered as seminar topics. We had few seminars on ethics, legal studies andengineering attributes. Within the department, we have a faculty member who has degrees inlaw as well as chemical engineering. This individual discusses topics such as importance ofmaintaining a laboratory notebook, issues with intellectual property, and how to apply for apatent. Another faculty member who worked in the industry prior to academic career discussedon difference between academic environment and industrial practice, and plagiarism in themodern digital world. One could rotate between topics by assessing interest of students throughsurveys. This also reduces the

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melissa Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; David Torick, University of Pittsburgh; Joe Marriott, University of Pittsburgh; Amy Landis, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

of DfE too older chairs that can be found through university surplus. The entirelearning lab experience is developed to offer the learners the opportunity to apply what they havelearned in lecture. The designed and controlled lab experiences provide a beneficial learningenvironment to apply or reinforce the new knowledge before application to their design projects.We will use both formative and summative assessments to evaluate our course objectives.Utilizing internal curriculum development resources, we will ensure that assessments andlearning activities align with the overarching learning outcomes of the course and program.Assessments focus on assessing attitude changes toward sustainability and related careers,development of skill sets to

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Welker, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

students to pursue both knowledge and wisdom, and to aspire to ethical and moral leadership within their chosen careers, their community, and the world. We value a spirit of community among all members of the college that respects academic freedom and inquiry, the discovery and cultivation of new knowledge, and continued innovation in all that we do.The mission statement of the University is reflected in these mission statements. In addition,these mission statements guided the development of our objectives, which are presented later inthis paper.FacultyA full-time teaching load in the College of Engineering at Villanova is 12 contact hours persemester. If a faculty member is an active scholar, this load is reduced to 9

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Tseng; Thompson Sarkodie-Gyan, University of Texas, El Paso; Jianmei Zhang, University of Texas, El Paso

schools andprograms, and promote interdisciplinary education. Yet current education models areprimarily based on the learning in the classroom with a clear delineation betweendisciplines. Students attend the lectures and are evaluated through homework problems,class projects and exams. Even though the importance of team work has been stressedover the years for the successful engineering career development, the extent ofimplementation is limited to the team projects in the classroom. Manyengineering/business courses are pure lecture-based, and do not usually containcomponents that help student to boost their communication skills within the frameworkof engineering problems. The limited exposure to this critical success skill has resulted inisolated

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships, Teaching Strategies & Collaborative Networks (IUCEE, IFEES, LACCEI.... )

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claudio Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences; Melany Ciampi, Organization of Researches in Environment, Health and Safety

Tagged Divisions

International

Research New Graduation Program: The Manufacturing Engineering(ME) Program. It has been specially designed in order to fulfill the lack of formation ofdedicated professionals to work hard with the goal of promoting the development ofManufacturing and Management researches. The program fits the necessities of professionalsand enterprises interested in the improvement of career and quality performance. It is a flexibleprogram that is developed in according to the needs for the accomplishment of the main goal ofthe group. It is important to point out that it has also hands on study totally developed in teams,which is not easy but necessary. No doubt that it is the most difficult part of the program, towork in teams, but as much as possible the groups

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Brakora, University of Michigan; Brian Gilchrist, University of Michigan; James Holloway, University of Michigan; Nilton Renno, University of Michigan; Steven Skerlos, University of Michigan; Toby Teory, University of Michigan; Peter Washabaugh, University of Michigan; Daryl Weinert, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

training, exposure to global health issues and a medically-themed designcourse. As a result the expectation is that they will continue to cultivate these issues throughouttheir career, generating a new mindset within both the technology developer communities andthe medical community that uses technology. A key feature of the GHD program is immersionwithin a community where global health issues are prominent, leading to a problem formulation Page 14.766.8and specification process that is then the target of the two-semester design sequence. Studentsare expected to return to the field site well before the end of their program so that direct

Conference Session

Automation and Robotics Subjects in Manufacturing Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuqiu You, Morehead State University

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Manufacturing

technologyprogram for their future careers in modern manufacturing companies, a new curriculum inRobotics Application Engineering has been developed and applied in the semester of spring 2008.This paper describes the course and laboratory of Robotics Application Engineering for studentsof manufacturing technology program (ITMT) in the Department of Industrial and EngineeringTechnology (IET).There are four Robotics courses offered in the IET Department spanning from 100 level to 400level to teach concepts, operation, programming, maintenance, interfacing, and applicationdevelopments of industrial robots. Robotics Application Engineering is taught as a 400 levelcourse for senior undergraduate students in the ITMT program. This course teaches

Conference Session

New Research and Trends Related to Minorities in Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terrell Strayhorn, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2009-2473: MEASURING THE EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS OF DIVERSITY INSTEM EDUCATION: A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL SURVEY ANALYSIS OFWOMEN AND UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIESTerrell Strayhorn, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dr. Terrell Strayhorn is Associate Professor of Higher Education, Special Assistant to the Provost, and Director of the Center for Higher Education Research and Policy (CHERP) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Recipient of a 2008 NSF CAREER Award (EHR #0747304) for his research on minorities in STEM, Strayhorn is author of several books and over 50 chapters, refereed articles, reports, and analyses

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gouranga Banik, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Construction

specifications are usedin this area, contractors make serious safety and economic mistakes dealing with these works.Most construction engineering and management programs in the United States require thestudents to learn structural design principles. Often the students do not realize the importance ofthe practical applications of the structural concepts covered in these courses. In many cases,course instruction emphasizes theory and abstract concept. Many students do not understandmath-oriented coursework, probably due to their marginal background in analytical skills. Evensome students understand the structural courses but they can not visualize the necessity of theseclasses in their career, and therefore feel it is ‘irrelevant’. These same students

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations and Interactions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Voice, Michigan State University; Volodymyr Tarabara, Michigan State University; Mark Wiesner, Duke University; Merlin Bruening, Michigan State University

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International

Program Objectives, we have developed several additional objectivesspecific to our project. • Enable international opportunities for career growth and collaborative research • Evaluate water treatment alternatives across a range of economic, geographic, climate and water composition contexts • Advance applications of nanotechology to membrane science and water treatment • Investigate potential for membrane applications in developing economiesA group of international partners were invited to participate in the project by identifyinginternationally prominent groups who brought specific expertise complimentary to thecapabilities of the U.S. team. For example, a group in Toulouse, France was well known fortheir ability to produce

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brenden Mervin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Guillermo Maldonado, University of Tennessee

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

fundamental principles are now embedded in variouscomputational software packages developed by nuclear fuel vendors, software companies,universities and national laboratories. These software packages have become a larger componentof nuclear engineering practice, and therefore a gap presents itself as nuclear engineers transitionfrom the classroom to the workplace. Furthermore, the currently increasing demand for nuclearengineers is persuading more nuclear engineers to explore their career opportunities immediatelyafter receiving their undergraduate degree. This implies that most of these engineers will enter Page 14.484.2the workplace with little to

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1996 Annual Conference

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Richard Wall; Kathy Belknap

recognize that many students lack the industrial experience to make qualityassessments of the course value or to assess the ultimate contribution the senior design experience will make totheir careers. We recently took the opportunity to further examine the value of industry sponsored senior designprojects and look for suggestions to improve the course by means of a survey of the graduates and industriesinvolved over the past five years. We acknowledge that this experience is not possible without industries whovalue the opportunity to contribute to higher education by direct involvement.COURSE PHILOSOPHY The capstone design course focuses on team building and cooperation. Students are introduced to theDemming philosophy. This approach

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Dennis Mikkelson

students will not see such a system again when they begin their career or graduate school. In an effort to address these concerns as completely as possible, it was decided to use astandard graphics system. In order to do this as quickly as possible on the hardware available atthe time, a version of GKS was implemented, carefully following the PASCAL language bindingspecification. This was eventually developed to a level 0b GKS implementation. This locallydeveloped version of GKS provided a quite effective environment for teaching computer graphics. 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Page

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1996 Annual Conference

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Rosida Coowar

. Somestudents were exposed for the first time in their career to PLDs, FPGAs and the development tools, starting withPLDAsm and then “graduating” to ViewLogic and Xilinx.. All students were able to finish their projects,download and test the actual hardware. This was a very compressed and very lab-intensive course. Theevaluations from the students for the course were 4.9 out of 5.0. The majority of the technology students whotook that course got jobs in industry through their exposure and hands-on experience with the development toolsused.The student, conversant with these tools and not requiring a substantial learning time upon entry into thatindustry obviously has quite an advantage. There are in fact several examples where a job was obtained due

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley

ofengineering and the appreciation of technology. To begin with, they should find it easier to tap their capacity for visual and holistic perception andevaluation. These capacities are directly applicable in engineering design and are useful in a number of othercontexts as well, especially when they are understood as complements to, not substitutes for, analytical andquantitative understanding. This should lead to a richer sense of the role of creativity and the potential forpleasure in engineering design, provide much needed motivation for engineering students, and set them on thepath to greater lifelong satisfaction in their careers. It can also make it possible for them to integrate any artisticabilities or interests they possess into their

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Bryant; Howard Seidel; David L. Barrow; Dante DeBlassie; Arlen Strader

, mainly through pre- and post-testing of students inthe program and in comparison groups. In all tests used, achievement by students in the integrated program wasequal to or above that of the comparison groups. In addition, we have put test items from traditional courses onour mathematics exams. The performance of our students has been a bit better than that of students in thetraditional sections. We cannot say at this time if this is due to chance or our program. We plan to track ourstudents through their college careers and see how they perform in upper division courses relative to studentsnot in our program. The remainder of the paper will describe some of these features in more detail, and will conclude withsome specific examples of

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Geraldine B. Milano; Richard Parker; George Pincus

Proceedings ‘?.,~yy’,.$ Professionals from industry were invited as guest speakers to present lectures on several topics, toenhance student understanding about an engineering career. For example, guest speakem discussed:industrial design and sketch renditions presented by a professional designer and owner of his own consultingbusiness; safety in design presented by a certified safety expert; copyrights and patents of original designsdiscussed by a patent attorney who is a board member of NJIT; design of prosthetic devices for humanlimbs presented by a technician from the Kesseler Institute for Rehabilitation; and a discussion of consultingin engineering by a distinguished NJIT professor. In the current

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1996 Annual Conference

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Sandra L. Bishop; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre

of engineering fields of interest, have no idea what engineering is,or have misconceptions about the various fields of engineering and the departments offered. For this reason, studentsare introduced to three of the six departments through formal department visitations. During these sessions theyreceive information on career opportunities, curriculum requirements, and in some situations, hands-ondemonstrations. In additio% students choose a special lecture to attend exposing them to faculty research. Aside fi-om introducing the students to the various engineering disciplines, the content of the seminar focuseson the survival skills necessary for success in the fieshrnan engineering program. These include: goal setting, timemanagement

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William W. Predebon; Peck Cho; Diana George; Linda M. Ott; Philip Sweany

focus of new faculty orientation will not do much to change the status of pedagogyacross campus. Once the quarter or semester begins, issues raised in orientation are rarely a priority as newfaculty struggle to find time to begin research projects, to learn and help do the business of the department, andto prepare new classes for a new student population. The pressures of beginning a university career, we wouldargue, too often make the talk of classroom practice infrequent and devalued. New faculty, in particular, taketheir cue from tenured colleagues and from university administrators. If there is little concern about ongoing 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

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1996 Annual Conference

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Steven H. Chin; MaryJac Reed; Ardoth Hassler

25 students in each of the three years.II.C. Discover Engineering A three-hour evening program, patterned as a "mini" Engineering 2000, is held specifically at the requestof a high school at the CUA facilities. It provides an opportunity for a targeted group to visit the School ofEngineering and meet with faculty and students and hear about its programs. This Open House activity need notbe restricted to affiliated High Schools.II.D. Telecommunications 2000 This summer enrichment program provides an guided tour of the information superhighway and themany career opportunities in the telecommunication industry to selected high school students. The programprovides a diverse experience to participants by providing seminars, hands-on

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim J. Manner

manufacturing and analysis, use of this category of software strongly supports amove toward concurrent design principles. Whereas early solid modeling systems required full dimensional specification for modelconstruction and hence could only be truly used as a design documentation tool, the dimensionally-driven systems allow the user tomodel in terms of “design intent”. 2) This software represents the tools which the student will be using in their professional career. By providing an introductionto its use and the theory behind it functionality, the student will be better prepared to enter the work force as a design engineer

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer M. Jacobs; Elizabeth A. Eschenbach

workshops. Thisintense experience provides a strong teaching foundation for individuals who plan to teach as apart of their careers. Introduction Many academics view Teaching Assistant development programs as one way to prepare thefuture professoriate. The College of Engineering at Cornell University, along with a number ofother engineering institutions, offer or require Teaching Assistant training for noviceengineering TAs. 3 These programs are geared for novice teachers, and as such, can only providerudimentary advice. A unique feature of the Cornell TA Development Program is that it is designed and executedby top graduate student instructors called Teaching Fellows (TFs). While preparing

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

George A. Bohlen; Donna C.S. Summers

of these teams. Educational institutions, unlike business, continues to educate students within particular functionalareas. While education serves many purposes, including stimulating students to acquire and utilize knowledgeto think critically, from a more practical viewpoint, education should assist students in developing skillsapplicable to their future careers. To prepare graduates for work in an interdisciplinary environment, cross-functional courses should be developed at the undergraduate level to expose students to the types ofinterdisciplinary problem-solving and team activities they will encounter in industry. At the University of Dayton, the Department of Industrial Engineering Technology in the School ofEngineering