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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

and a Research Associate for theInstructional Software Development Center at the University of Missouri–Rolla. Dr. Philpot received a Ph.D.degree from Purdue University in 1992, an M.Engr. degree from Cornell University in 1980, and a B.S. from theUniversity of Kentucky in 1979, all in Civil Engineering. Dr. Philpot teaches mechanics of materials and is theproject director of the U.S. Department of Education grant that supported this work. Dr. Philpot is the author ofMDSolids – Educational Software for Mechanics of Materials.DAVID B. OGLESBYDavid B. Oglesby is a Professor of Basic Engineering and a Research Associate for the Instructional SoftwareDevelopment Center at the University of Missouri–Rolla. Dr. Oglesby received a B. S. degree in

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Issues of Concern to New Faculty

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Andrew Rose

may Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationbe. Feel free to add anything else about hobbies or other interests you may have that will help me to get to knowyou better.Please submit this assignment on Wednesday, August 29, 2001.Bibliography1. Lowman, J. Mastering the Techniques of Teaching, 2nd Ed., Jossey-Bass, Inc., San Francisco, 1995.2. Wankat, P. and Oreovicz, F., “Building Better Rapport.” ASEE Prism, November 1998.3. Welch, R., Baldwin, J., Bentler, D., Clarke, D., Gross, S., Hitt, J., “The ExCEEd Teaching Workshop: Participants’ Perspective and Assessment,” Proceedings

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New Information ET Programs

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Gordon Goodman; Edith A. Lawson; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

(BYU) focus on a strong technology core and provide theoption to pursue an application area. At the present time even the term Information Technologyis interpreted differently by many in academia and industry.The development of IT as an academic discipline is similar to the process that Computer Science(CS) went through in the 70's and 80's. In fact, looking at the placement of Computer Scienceprograms in academic institutions around the U.S. illustrates the debate that swirled around thediscipline as its core was being defined. Some CS programs are in departments of Mathematics,others are in Engineering schools, and many others have become freestanding programs withinnewly emerging colleges of computing.Information Technology, as it is

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Jiang Li; Matthew Lee

” Page 7.369.2CD-ROM Drive 24xMax CD Drive Weight 7.3 lbsDiskette Drive 3.4” 1.44 MB Battery Hi-capacity NiMH batterySecond, the environmental equipment should also be fast, compatible, and inexpensive.The basic components for the environmental equipment were selected from the NationalInstrument Co. and listed as following: 1) NI-DAQ Card (DAQCard-AL-16E-4 with 16 inputs, scanning rate 500 kS/s and 12 bit Multifunction I/O). 2) NI-DAQ Driver Software 6.5.1 for Windows 9X & Windows NT 3) NI-DAQ I/O Data connecting board (CB-68LP) 4) NI-DAQ Shielded Connecting cables (SH68-68-EP 184749-02) 5) NI-DAQ Converter for cable-card connection (1835698-01)Third, the portable DAQ system has been

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

population”.The throughput of engineering programs (present situation) in non-judgmental terms can bestated as: “the outcomes” of present practices that has led to a shortage of U. S. engineers tomeet the needs of our industry during these critical times as the U.S. industry competes toexpand in a global economy. As a result of this shortage U.S. corporations, both large andsmall have to import engineering support from abroad to stay viable in the market place.The question at hand is: What can be done to increase attracting and retaining engineeringstudents in their respective programs?. Fortunately there have been a significant number ofstudies and analysis to sort out the elements that cause students to leave engineering programs.One of them

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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Rachel Shinn

impractical – 28 x 10 x 7 = 1,960 datapoints. A computerized system would make this scheme reasonable to implement.On the positive side, the data gives an average estimate of the team’s perception of eachindividual performance. This can be communicated back to individuals so that they can see whatareas they need to improve.The number of categories was reduced in later evaluations and the categories modified. This hasyet to be assessed. Also, a system of a finite number of bonus point s has been implemented, butthe results of this have not yet been assessed. This system, used in addition to the categoryevaluations, has each team member distribute a fixed number of points amongst the team membersso that if each team member is contributing equally, this

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Mary Cardenas

, 1997.10.) Cornwell, P.J., Stienstra, D., and S. Smith, "Fast Forward--An Adventure in Engineeringfor 7th and 8th Grade Girls", ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education 95 Workshop, IEEE Catalog #95CH35867, 1995.11.) Wilson, D., Hudson, T., Fletcher, S., Harris, B., Knight, C., Morris, T., Patel, G., and S.DeWeerth, "Establishing the Foundations for Engineering Education in K-5", ASEE/IEEEFrontiers in Education 95 Conference, IEEE Catalog # 95CH35867, 1995.12.) Polaha, M.V., and A.R. Ingraffea, "Cracking Dams: An Interactive Web Site for K-12".Submitted for review, 2000. Page 6.1153.8 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education

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Tricks of the Trade for Research

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Richard Felder; David Ollis

. Most new Ph.D.’s who join faculties have only beenprepared to work on a research problem someone else has defined. They are expected to figureout for themselves how to plan a course, teach it effectively, assess the learning of their students,define their own research problems, identify and approach potential funding sources, form aresearch team of graduate students and possibly faculty collaborators, write successful proposals,carry out the research, disseminate the results, balance the competing time demands imposed byteaching, research, and service, and integrate themselves into their campus culture. Page 7.668.1 Proceedings of the

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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Zdzislaw Pawlowski; Krzysztof Zaremba; Roman Morawski

TECHNICAL ELECTIVE COURSES 10 DIPLOMA 18 Page 7.1224.5 S 96 48 48 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe list of courses, presented in Table 2, comprises required and free elective courses. Thecourses should be taken in sequences that are proposed for students in the

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Nashwan Younis

facultymust apply the results to the educational objectives as well as the outcomes of the programs. Thedesign content in the curriculum is not an isolated issue from other attributes. It is recommendedto analyze the overall effectiveness of the program in regard to preparing the graduates for aprofessional career in general. This is should be done in conjunction with assessing a desiredattribute. The result from our alumni is shown in Fig. 5. 50 % Numb er o f Res pon s es 40 30 20

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Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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William Dempster

opportunity for the student to investigatethe integration of mathematics and engineering science in an open-ended design problem.Unfortunately this often ends in failure with either minimal analysis being carried out or themajority of the time being devoted to technical analysis as an end in itself instead of being atool within the design process.A review of the literature and engineering curricula from many other universities indicatedlittle attention has been given to these issues. This is surprising since, a requirement forteaching engineering analysis in a design context had been ident ified by the ASEE in the1950’s, (Nicolai, 1998) but rarely implemented in any formal way. However, Tavakoli andMariappan, (Tavakoli and Mariappan, 2000

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Michael Duarte; Brian Butz

as assignments.When the student feels that s/he knows the solution, s/he emails it back to the supervisor. Thesupervisor acknowledges that the assignment solution is either correct or offers additional help tosolve the assignment. A description of the IMITS learning mechanism has been givenpreviously14 and will not be repeated here.Project StatusThree of the six modules, DC Analysis, AC Analysis and Transient Analysis have beencompleted. Consequently, the intelligent tutoring system is able to assist students in their firsttwo courses in circuit theory. The assignment is the basis of learning within the IMITS softwarepackage. The assignments have to be done in a linear fashion—one assignment completed ormastered before the next assignment

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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David Loker

1 1 1 0 pushbutton * is pushbutton 0 is pushbutton # is depressed depressed depressed Table 1. Keypad Truth TableAs the truth table indicates, all three DAQ input terminals (M,H, and E) will be read as all logic 1'swhen all logic 1's are written to the four DAQ output terminals (A,B,F and G), regardless of thestate of any one of the pushbuttons. When a logic 0 is written to any one of the output terminals,then terminals M,H, and E will be read as all logic 1's unless a pushbutton is depressed. In order todetermine which pushbutton is depressed, it is necessary to read all three input terminals (M,H, andE

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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Rosanne Simeone; Dan Pearce; P. Paxton Marshall

this environment is maximizing“perceived sales value” relative to “production cost”, and in thi s case thecustomer’s perception is limited to a walk through. Only after the first energy billsarrive does this perception shift. By then the manufacturer has been paid.(Commercial real estate is dominated by lease -holders where customers aremore cognizant of operating costs. New commercial construction strikes abalance between amortized purchase and energy costs.) Only during periods of Page 7.1102.2high and/or rapidly increasing energy costs does the pursuit of energy efficiencybecome a dominant factor in the engineering efforts applied to houses ascomplete

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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Thomas Morel; Jerry Schumacher; Ed Mattison

., Krikke, J., Dieter, S., and Sandro, S. “Using Handheld Computers in the Classroom: Laboratoriesand Collaboration on Handheld Machines” SIGCSE 2001, 2, 1, 2001, p. 169 – 173.3. Gardner, J., Morrison, H., Jarman, R., Reilly, C., and McNally, H. “Learning with Portable Computers.”Computers and Education, 22, 1/2, 1994, p. 161-171. Page 7.1256.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Techniques for Improving Teaching

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Cindy Finelli; Trevor Harding

Session 2230 Suggestions for Establishing Centers for Engineering Education Trevor S. Harding and Cynthia J. Finelli Kettering UniversityIntroductionAt the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference, a group of individuals gathered for a session entitled “ARoundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Developing Centers for Engineering Education,Teaching, and Learning”. The event was part of the Breakfast of Champions session, regularlysponsored by the Educational Research Methods division of ASEE. Eleven people directlyinvolved in existing centers for engineering education were invited to

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New Trends in ECE Education

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Mohammad Alim

institution, established in 1890’s to serve theneeds of the minority population of the State of Alabama. During the 1970’s, the Universityentered into a lawsuit to acquire the necessary funds to carry out its land-grant mission. In1995, the court order authorized the University to establish two new engineering programs,one in Electrical Engineering and another in Mechanical Engineering. The Electrical andMechanical programs became a part of a larger legal desegregation law suit resolution in thecivil case CV 83-M-1676. This situation brought to AAMU both challenge and uniqueopportunity to develop VLSI and Microelectronics option in the Department of ElectricalEngineering.The Electrical Engineering program offers BS degree. In addition to the general

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Issues in Computer Education

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Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Amy Gross; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

Session 1320 A Case Study of Interdisciplinary Teaching at Kansas State University M. Mizuno1, D. Lenhert2, M. Neilsen1, G. Singh1, N. Zhang3, and A. Gross4 1 Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University (KSU) { masaaki, neilsen, singh}@cis.ksu.edu* 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KSU, lenhert@ksu.edu* 3 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, KSU, zhangn@ksu.edu* 4 The IDEA Center, 211 S. Seth Child Road, Manhattan, Kansas

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ET Student Design Teams

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Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

Advanced Materials: A Team-Orientated Inquiry Based Approach. Journal of Engineering Education, vol.90, no.4, October 2001, pp. 637-6405. McKeage, K., Skinner, D., Seymour, R.,M., Donahue, D., W., and T., Christianson. Implementing an Interdisciplinary Marketing/Engineering Course Project: Project Format, Preliminary Evaluation, and Critical Factor Review. Journal of Marketing Education, vol. 21, no.3, December 1999, pp217-232.6. Nowaczyk, Ronald H. Perceptions of Engineers Regarding Successful Engineering Team Design, NASA/CR- 1998-206917, ICASE Report No. 98-9, February 19987. URL: http;//www.sae.org/students/aero2002.pdf8. Alden, S.,D., Laxton, R., Patzer, G., L., and L., Howard. Establishing Cross-disciplinary Marketing Education

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Hong Zhang

Exhibition, Charlotte, North Carolina, Session 2225, June 20 – 23,1999. 4. H. Zhang and J. P. “Ostrowski, Visual Servoing with Dynamics: Control of an Unmanned Blimp”,Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 1999, pp618-623, May, 1999 5. E. Paulos and J. Canny, “Designing Personal Tele-embodiment”, Proceedings of IEEE InternationalConference on Robotics and Automation 1998, May, 1998 6. A. Elfes, S. S. Bueno, M. Bergerman and J. G. Ramos, “A Semi-Autonomous Robotic Airship forEnvironmental Monitoring Mission”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics andAutomation 1998, pp3449-3455, May, 1998

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Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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Patricia LaCourse; Barrett Rock

, vol. 15, no. 1, 1985, pp. 43-47.8. Kramberg-Walker, C., "The Need to Provide Writing Support for Academic Engineers," IEEE Transactions onProfessional Communication, vol. 36, no. 3, 1993, pp. 130-136.9. Hill, S. T., 2001. "Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards: 2000, NSF 02-305" National Science Foundation,Division of Science Resources Statistics, Table 4. Accessed on: January 30, 2002. Available athttp://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf02305/start.htm10. Desruisseaux, P., "Foreign Students Continue to Flock to the U.S. Annual report finds that economic turmoil inAsia did not lead to a decrease in enrollments," The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 10, 1999, p. A57.11. Allison, D., Cooley, L., Lewkowicz, J., & Nunan, D., "Dissertation

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David Probst

Session 1380 The Experience of a First ABET Evaluation David K. Probst Southeast Missouri State UniversityAbstractSoutheast Missouri State University has had an Engineering Physics Program since the early1980’s, but only recently became positioned to request evaluation for accreditation by ABET.Two sets of circumstances, one intentional and one fortuitous, enabled this; namely, the additionof a third bona fide engineer to the faculty and the implementation of Criteria 2000 by ABET. Inthis paper, we describe our program, the preparation for the visit by ABET

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Lynn Nored; David Compton

Asession1454@ From Senior Design to Starting a Company-A Model for Entrepreneurship Lynn S. Nored, P.E., David Compton Oklahoma Christian University / Commack LLCAbstractEntrepreneurship and education have gotten engaged in the last few years, and will either enjoy ablissful marriage or require some counseling to prevent a breakup. Some universities might rejectthe idea of creating new companies or products based on faculty or student research. There couldbe nostalgia for pure research, where scientific research funds do not depend on businessmarketing

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Mark Worden; Carl Lira; Daina Briedis

a recent period of nine years. Of these students, 16 became M.S. students (some of ourcurrent M.S. students may continue for a Ph.D.), three became Ph.D. students, and fivediscontinued after the bridge course. Those who completed the subsequent required collateralcourse, Process Design and Optimization I, received an average grade of 3.56. For the bridgingstudents continuing in the graduate program, their average graduate GPA was 3.68. Based onthese gradepoint averages, we have concluded that the bridge program is successful in providingthe fundamentals necessary for strong performance at the graduate level.In the mid 90’s, the courses were offered via satellite through the National TechnologicalUniversity (NTU), which increased the

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Macy Reynolds; Joseph Untener

-2097. Gunn, Craig James Approaching communication skill awareness ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. V.21995 p.2467-24708. Harney, Mick Is Technical writing an engineering discipline? IEEE Transaction on Professional Communication,June 2000 V. 43, No. 29. Hendricks, Robert W.; Pappas, Eric Writing and communications-across-the-curriculum in the materials scienceand engineering departments at Virginal Tech Proceedings - 29th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, v2,1995,p708-712.10. Mahan, John; Jayasummana, Anura, Lile, Derek; Palmquist, Mike. Bringing an Emphasis on Technical Writingto a Freshman Course in Electrical Engineering. IEEE Transaction Education. Feb. 2000, Vol. 43 #1 IEEDAB. P.36-4111. Manual-Dupont, S. Writing-across-the

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William Schultz; Marc Smith; Marc Perlin; John Foss

. Benedict, B.A., Napper, S.A., & Guice, L.K., “Restructuring for Strategic Outcomes,” Journal of Engineering Edu-cation, April 2000.2. Caughey, D.A. & Liggett, J.A., “A Computer-based Textbook for Introductory Fluid Mechanics,” 1998 ASEEAnnual Conference Proceedings, 1998.3. Hailey, C.E. & Spall, R.E., “An Introduction of CFD into the Undergraduate Engineering Program,” 2000 ASEEAnnual Conference Proceedings, 2000.4. Henderson, B.S., Navaz, H.K., & Berg, R.M., “A New Approach to Teaching Compressible Flow,” 1999 ASEEAnnual Conference Proceedings, 1999.5. Hodge, B.K., “The Use of Mathcad in Viscous-Flow Courses,” 1997 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1997.6. Homsy, G.M., Aref, H., Breuer, K.S., Hochgreb, S., Koseff, J.R., Munson

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David Hergert

Carrier Detect Option (CD) is specified, the program waits a specific period of time. Thedefault time is 1000 milliseconds.A simple program that suppresses the Request To Send and times out the Carrier Detect after1000 ms is shown below. The program prints the string “5” to the COM 1 serial port and waitsfor an input. The input is stored in a 20 character buffer before being transferred to the memoryaddress pointed to by A$.OPEN “COM1:9600,N,8,1” FOR RANDOM AS #1PRINT #1,”S”;CHR$(13)A$=INPUT$(20,#t)PRINT A$CLOSE 1The specifications are: Baud: 9600 Parity: None Number of bits: 8 Number of stop bits: 1Implementing RS232 communication in Visual Basic 6.0 requires similar coding. To begin, theComm Control component must be loaded. To do

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Mang Tia; David Bloomquist

thecapacitor, and V the applied voltage. Again, if you think of electrons as water molecules, thenthe amount of charge(s) stored in a capacitor is equivalent to the number of water molecules inTANK B. And this is dictated by the size (diameter) of the tank, C and the water supply height,or voltage V. In hydraulic terms, the amount of water in the tank is D x H or the diameter timesthe height.So before we derive the above equations using electrical concepts, let’s rewrite them substitutingVS and VC for H (voltage for water heights), R for valve G (electrical resistance in Ohms, for thevalve opening) and C for D (capacitance, in farads for the tank diameter); VC = VS (1 - e-t/RC) for voltage across the capacitor as a function of time.and IC

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Georg Mauer

Educationstudent is thus encouraged and required to understand and actively practice the concepts leadingto successful completion of assignments. The presentation of pertinent facts and concepts incombination with a GUI environment for their immediate application should facilitate theiradaptation and practice and facilitate the training of students in practical scientific problemsolving.ReferencesBarrett Steven F., D. J. Pack, G. W. P. York, P. J. Neal, R. D. Fogg, E. Doskocz, S. A. Stefanov, P. C. Neal, C. H.G.Wright, A. R. Klayton (1998) “Student-centered Educational Tools for the Digital Systems Curriculum,” Proc. 1998ASEE Annual Conf., Session 1620.Beer, F.B. and E.R. Johnston (1997) "Vector Mechanics for Engineers," Sixth Ed. McGraw Hill

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Marion Hagler; John Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

Engineering learn about issues ofprofessional practice by reading award-winning books about engineering written for thegeneral reader and then discussing them in structured on-line synchronous andasynchronous discussions. These books include: • The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder 1. This book describes an actual engineering effort by a group of engineers at Data General during the late 1970’s to save the company after archrival Digital Equipment beat them to the market with a 32-bit minicomputer. Chapter-by-chapter notes provided by the instructor identify issues in the workplace for practicing engineers. The notes discuss people and events that relate to such issues as the inevitability and practicality of