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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Drummer; James Frendewey; Sheryl Sorby; Kris Mattila; John Sutherland; Leonard Bohmann

better serve society and students for work in the21st century, we believe that it is essential to provide them with an engineering career pathaimed at the service sector.In response to the need for a service systems engineering curriculum, the authors received aplanning grant from the Department Level Reform program of the National Science Foundationin September 2003. Through this grant we conducted a Delphi Study to define a newengineering discipline – Service Systems Engineering. The remainder of this paper outlines theDelphi technique as we applied it to this project and presents our results obtained to date.Delphi Technique for Curricular DesignA Delphi Study is a consensus-building forecasting technique that has been used byorganizations

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ganapathy Narayanan

Page 10.1101.6of learning the MATLAB control commands is with regard to his increased ability todesign any control system in his professional career, without getting bogged down with Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationmany numerical calculations. Of course, the use of MATLAB commands did boost hisability to perform numerical calculations needed in other areas of his engineering study.References 1) Bateson, R. N., “Introduction to Control System Technology”, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002 2) Dorf, R. C., “Modern Control Systems”, Ninth edition, Prentice Hall, 2001 3) Kuo, B. C. and

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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Cook; Jim Lyons; Kenneth Gentili

critical thinking. He has won numerous teaching and service awards.JIM LYONSJim Lyons worked for the Boeing Company for seven years and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation for thirty-one years as an engineer and engineering manager before retiring in 1999. In 2001 he began a second career as anengineering instructor at Green River Community College and Tacoma Community College. He is an activeparticipant in developing and testing curriculum and assessment tools in engineering design.MARY COOK Page 10.527.7Mary Cook is the Course Manager for the Introduction to Engineering Design at the University of Washington, atruly

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Nutter

10.1455.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationProgram BackgroundOhio Northern University (ONU) is a private, comprehensive, United Methodist affiliated, liberalarts university with approximately 3300 students. The ONU Department of TechnologicalStudies is in the College of Arts and Sciences, and prepares students for careers in professional,technical fields throughout industry and education. Graduates of this program are ideally suitedfor advancement into management and leadership positions in industrial organizations.Technology BS degree concentrations include advanced manufacturing, construction

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Pamela Dautenhahn

careers because of the small classsizes in engineering at McNeese; therefore, the selection of team members does not seem toaffect the performance of the team.To help the students learn more about effective teamwork, advantages and disadvantages ofteams are developed by the students. The students also develop what they feel are importantqualities for teams to be successful. The students are required to buy The Team MemoryJogger A Pocket Guide to Team Members 1. Different aspects of the guide are discussed inclass and each team develops specific goals for their team.Before each team receives its project, the professor emphasizes that the information provided bythe companies may be confidential and each student needs to treat all of it as

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

the very top is the standard IEEE menu bar. Version 1 of thePathfinder includes 350 sites organized under eleven categories: • International Perspectives (33) • Major Resources on energy and Power (31) • Associations (48) • Regulation and Deregulation (21) • Education and Careers (20) • Publishers and Databases (27) • Conferences (30) • Environmental Issues, Conservation, and Sustainability (41) • Glossaries (28) • Sites for Students and Teachers (36) • Sites with Links (31) • Communities and Discussion Groups (12) Page 9.1266.6 • Power Quality and Reliability (12

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Raju has received many awards throughouthis career including NSF Novel and Expedited Research Award (1989), NASA InnovativeResearch award (1991), Auburn University Outstanding Faculty Award (1993), United NationsExpert Assignment (1995-1996), Birdsong Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996), theThomas C. Evans Instructional Award for the Outstanding paper in Engineering Education fromthe ASEE Southeastern Section (1997), the ASME Distinguished Service award (1997), PremierAward for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware (1998), and the Birdsong SuperiorTeaching Award for Innovation in Classroom Teaching (1999). He is a member of the ASME,ASEE, INCE, ASA, ASNT, INCE. He served on the executive

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Anna Lambert; Aaron Robinson; Charles Camp; Jeff Marchetta; Laura Lackey; Stephanie Ivey

science, mathematics, and engineering.” Report of the Wingspread Conference. Racine: WI, 1989. 9. Kolb, D. Learning Style Inventory. Boston, MA: McBer & Co., 1985. 10. Kolb, D. A. Learning style inventory technical manual. Boston, MA: McBer and Co., 1976. 11. Perry, W.G. Forms of Ethical and Intellectual Development in the College Years: A Scheme. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999. 12. Cross, P.A., and Faulkner, P. The Learning Style Inventory: Convergent validity study in an applied career setting. Public Service Commission of Canada: PPC, 2004. 13. Kolb, D. A. Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. 14. Philbin

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

Teaching and Learning Program andLaboratory. She received her Ph.D. in environmental health physics and toxicology from Purdue University. Shespent the first 13 years of her career in leadership positions in the energy and software industries, and served nineyears as the director of a CU water resources engineering simulation and optimization research center.MALINDA SCHAEFER ZARSKE is the curriculum outreach coordinator for the Integrated Teaching and LearningProgram’s K-12 Engineering Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former middle and high schoolmath and science teacher, she received her MAT in secondary science from Johns Hopkins University and her MS incivil engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

and faculty busy withnon-student work during prescribed office hours. In one case, a negative interaction with afaculty member during office hours had shaped a female student's career path. She changed hermajor to IE because a faculty member in her former major offended her by suggesting that she"wouldn’t want to work [and that she] would maybe want to stay home and have kids".In contrast, several participants compared the student-centered attitude of the IE faculty to their Page 10.1268.6experiences with faculty in other departments. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Macy Reynolds

for their learning problems inaddition to the content instruction they so often receive. Finally, gifted students with learningdisabilities must understand their unique pattern of academic and learning strengths as well asweaknesses in order to learn to compensate for these discrepancies.” Page 10.145.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Can these students perform in engineering careers?It is not uncommon for faculty to look at students with learning problems and wonder if theyreally

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Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Mullett

design, open-ended problem solving, development ofmanagement and communications skills, professional development, and career-long learning areall included in this call for change. This response was in reaction to a perceived need to correct adecade’s long emphasis on engineering science that occurred post-World War II tilting theengineering education field away from engineering practice and the new realities of a globaleconomy that demands skill sets not emphasized at the time. In a similar manner, the technicaleducation community at the two-year college level has, in a synergistic manner, started toembrace similar elements of the Scans report [3] (usually, problem solving skills and life-longlearning) with efforts to infuse these so-called

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Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Joslyn

Space” experience while at the Air Force Academy. Theexposure to solving ill defined problems in the FalconLAUNCH program prepares themfor the challenges of a professional military career. The lessons learned and pride ofownership in the program are the finishing touches on officers joining the cadre of spaceprofessionals who make the United States Air Force the world’s preeminent air and spacepower. That being said, there is no reason why a similar program at a civilian universitycouldn’t provide the same systems engineering capstone experience to theirundergraduate or graduate programs so valuable to young engineers embarking on theircareers.VII. AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge the contributions to the success of this

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Thompson

value they found in thethesis, it had become a major barrier to graduation. Many students who had satisfied the courserequirements did not have the degree because of the thesis. This problem was converted to acrisis in the 1990's by two decisions. The first was a campaign to model thesis requirements onthose typical of programs aimed at preparing their students for a career in academic research andteaching. The second was a policy prohibiting academic credit for paid work, eliminating thesesbased on issues at the student’s employer. Students came to regard the thesis as an unscalablebarrier. The employer of the largest number of students threatened to stop supporting theprogram upon discovering that none of its employees had graduated in the

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

. Demographic information about the engineers and their workplace contexts arepresented in Table 1. The interview focused on a single job or project that had beencompleted by the engineer during their career. We made no attempt to influence the nature ofthe story that was recalled. We asked questions regarding the engineers’ academicpreparation, the organizational context in which they worked, the nature of the project, howthey analyzed and represented the problem, how they generated solutions, and howsuccessfully the job was completed. A total of 98 interviews were transcribed (technicaldifficulties affected the remainder).Engineering education: civil (39), electrical (18), chemical (10), mechanical (13), structural(5), industrial, nuclear (1), other

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Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Phillip Cornwell; Richard Layton

Cognitive Domain,” New York: McKay, 1956.PHILLIP CORNWELLPhillip Cornwell is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received hisPh.D. from Princeton University in 1989 and his present interests include structural dynamics, structural healthmonitoring, and undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Cornwell has received an SAE Ralph R. TeetorEducational Award in 1992, and the Dean’s Outstanding Teacher award at Rose-Hulman in 2000.RICHARD LAYTONRichard Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelveyears in consulting engineering, culminating as a group

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Harold Evensen; Paula Zenner; Edward Lumsdaine

in terms of tenure-track teaching and for promotion and tenure. Unfortunately, these constraints would most likelyexclude young faculty trying to build their careers in research. On the other hand, engineeringexperience is a valuable asset. This type of teaching is a great opportunity for faculty who arenot ready to retire and want to try something new—an enterprise that leaves room for new waysof doing things—in other words, an application of creative problem solving.References1 W.R. Shapton, P.F. Zenner, W.W. Predebon, J.W. Sutherland, M.A. Banks-Sikarskie, L.A. Artman and P.A. Lins, “From the Classroom to the Boardroom: Distance Learning Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Programs— A Global Partnership of Industry and

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2005 Annual Conference

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Theo Brower; Meredith Knight; Chris Rogers

at Purdue University by having ashorter project duration (2 vs. 4 years) and a smaller, more intimate team (5-10 vs. 8-20)where there is limited vertical integration. The creation of the Robotics Academy was motivated by the desire to help juniorsand seniors develop personal and interpersonal skills, which are essential for successfulprofessional careers. To this end, we want to answer three main questions: First, doessolving a “real world problem” help motivate students learning? Second, does engagingin an interdisciplinary, student-led project allow students to develop personal andinterpersonal skills more effectively than traditional coursework? Third, what are theimpacts of participation in the Robotics Academy? These

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Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Reinhard

all team members of not only the content and theapplication of the content but also on methods that would facilitate inquiry-based, collaborativelearning reflective of higher level career patterns. Within this multi-stage cyclical model fordeveloping curriculum, several components were noted as key to the development of soundinstructional modules. These included the following: · Need for content and instructional design/technology reviews. The use of standardized content and instructional design/technology reviews were seen as fundamental to the process of developing validated curriculum. The information provided by outside reviewers allowed developers and project staff to design material that would interface

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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kristin Wood; Daniel McAdams; Robert B. Stone; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

to deliver a working product. We justcouldn’t disappoint them.”In addition to high student motivation, service-oriented projects provide other positivecharacteristics. They often provide a satisfying closure within the constraints of the academiccalendar. A well-scoped project allows students to experience a complete product developmentcycle, from gathering customer needs to delivering a functioning prototype. Additionally,service-learning offers opportunities to broaden engineering education into a “global and societalcontext23,” exposing students and faculty to new outlets to pursue humanitarian interests throughresearch and career opportunities

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The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

clock, students prefer todo their work on their own computers. For about 50% of the course, this need is easily answeredby Excel, a standard package on their computers. Many students elect to acquire Mathcad for astudent price of about $125. Fewer choose to buy the student edition of Matlab, although manydo this later in their academic careers when the software package comes into more frequent use.From our alumni and employer surveys, we find that Mathcad and Matlab are not generallyavailable to practicing ChE’s. Of course, Excel is available to all. So, the former packagesanswer mainly educational and academic needs.An example of the pedagogical approach used in the courseThe engineering computing course in ChE at Colorado introduces students

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Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosanne Simeone

transfusion of blood, and in addition, was known to be doing valuable work on morbid growths. Then suddenly his career was closed. He had to leave England. (21)Indeed, as Moreau explains his research to Prendick, he justifies it in terms of its connection toprevious, well known, and well regarded research: “These creatures you have seen are animals carven and wrought into new shapes. To that, to the study of the plasticity of living forms, my life has been devoted….I see you look horrified, and yet I am telling you nothing new. It all lay o n the surface of practical anatomy years ago, but no one had the temerity to touch it. It’s not simply the outward form of the animal which I can change. The

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Krumholz; Steve Schiffman; Sean Munson; John Bourne; James Krejcarek; Dan Lindquist; Susan Fredholm

take on leadership roles, engineers must have a firmgrasp on business and entrepreneurial skills at the outset of their careers. This Page 7.379.3integration of engineering and business will begin as an undergraduate student at OlinProceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationrather than requiring additional education after graduation. Olin is not just trainingengineers; indeed, we envision the institution as training the business leaders thatpropel tomorrow’s technologies.Gauging the reality of the visionAs a first

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kara Bliley; Emily Mowry; Amy Gray; Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson; Sean Brophy

. in BiomedicalEngineering.AMY GRAYAmy Gray is a recent graduate in biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University.CRISTINA MAHTIESONCristina Mahtieson is a student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TN. In summer 2001 she served as an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates summerintern in bioethics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ms. Mathieson plans a career inbiomedical engineering with an emphasis in research on female reproductive diseases.EMILY R. MOWRYEmily R. Mowry is a rising senior in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering (VUSE). She hascompleted several internships in both the VUSE and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC),including research in

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Simon Ang; Fred Barlow; Alan Mantooth; Sean Mulvenon

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Mixed-Signal/Telecommunications Courses To be prepared for careers in design, test, or CAD of MST circuits and systems, studentsneed to be exposed to the latest techniques and methods being employed in the designcommunity. Three MST courses with novel features are under development to promote studentexcellence in these areas: • Mixed-signal/telecomm modeling and simulation, • Mixed-signal/telecomm test, and • RF / Microwave circuit design. These courses are being coordinated, developed, and taught initially at the UA. Furtherenhancements aimed at

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Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Gary Downey

themselves forced to consider photoelectric‘scanning’ as one alternative. It seemed a natural. They were frustrated, however, because theirscience courses in mechanical engineering and one required technical elective in circuit theoryhad not equipped them to understand the complexities of a scanner. Were they abandoning theiridentities? As Thuy complained at the end of one team meeting, “This design shit has becomeEE.”Resisting the advisor’s efforts to extend them: Dr. Harris lived his career on the boundarybetween mechanical and chemical engineering. In one meeting with students, he reportedexcitedly that different plastics respond differently to the heat in a transparency machine, whichworked on a thermal basis. It had something to do with the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Risa Robinson; John Wellin

is based on the belief thatexperimentation is a critical element of the engineering profession, continuous experiences inexperimentation are desirable from a pedagogical point of view, and early hands on experiencesenhance student interest and motivation toward engineering at a time when career decisions arebeing made. These principles are supported by recent data from the educational literature. 5,6,7,8,9Since its inception in 1988, several colleges have adapted versions of the E4 program to theircurriculum. One study conducted in 1999 indicates that the retention rate of E 4 schools compared Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

necessary. L'Ecole Polytechniqueestablished in 1794 in Paris, is considered to be the first engineering institution with a structuredprocess of engineering knowledge transfer. The founders of that institution recognized that forfuture technological leaders (still primarily military, but increasingly civilian) knowledge and skillsneeded for a successful career, could no longer be provided by the centuries old education modelof one master and few apprentices. Education of a goal-minded individual who uses technicalknowledge as a principal tool and communicates effectively with non-technical personnel becamethe emphasis of the education in that institution. The principles of today's engineering work haveremained virtually unchanged. Increasingly

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Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

another project theme with which to teach engineering students theDesign Process Methodology (DPM). After all, or so it is reasoned by the Instructor, ifthe Design Process Methodology could be applied to this problem, then it can be appliedto any problem that the student may be exposed to in their engineering careers. Certainly,the human sleep attendant solution offered by the magazine writer could be replaced bysome electrical-chemical-mechanical device in order to have some reasonable attempt todemonstrate the strengths of the Design Process Methodology to a mechanical system.Once again, after suitable time is spent in determining a precise Problem Statement,determining the customer and engineering specifications, conducting a

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Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Rogers; Ferdinand Walbaum

. 2Most Fachhochschulen have included a practical placement program in their courses, which meansone semester of [practical training in a company. Mostly during the main study program, studentsare expected to practice what they have learned with tasks and problems they will face duringtheir future, everyday professional experience. A degree thesis or final project covering a concreteprofessional problem to be completed in the last semester is often being developed in cooperationwith a company through this type of practical training. Small and medium-sized businesses areoften involved in these contacts with students, who frequently get their first career opportunitythrough their practical placement and degree thesis.The normal duration of studies