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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Nutter

Virtual Simulation Curriculum Integration Paul Nutter Ohio Northern University Department of Technological StudiesAbstractManufacturing simulation is being used extensively to model, analyze, and optimize complexmanufacturing operations by many major corporations, including Boeing, Lockheed-Martin,Daimler-Chrysler and Toyota. Companies are utilizing these advanced 3D digital manufacturingtools as a component of their product life-cycle management. In many cases a simulation ismandatory prior to any significant new operation, project or process implementation.Manufacturing technologists and engineers will

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Boehm; Brackley Frayer; Joe Aldridge

Establishing an Entertainment Engineering Curriculum Robert F. Boehm Mechanical Engineering Department and Joe Aldridge and Brackley Frayer Theatre Department University of Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV 89154AbstractA new, multidisciplinary program in Entertainment Engineering and Design is being establishedat the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The name of the program could be defined in a numberof ways because few programs of this type exist and the field is so broad. Our

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter; David Elizandro

An Integrated Systems Lab and Curriculum to Address IE Program Criteria Jessica O. Matson, Kenneth W. Hunter, Sr., and David W. Elizandro Tennessee Technological UniversityAbstractABET program criteria for industrial engineering require programs to demonstrate that“graduates have the ability to design, develop, implement, and improve integrated systems thatinclude people, materials, information, equipment, and energy” and to include “in-depthinstruction to accomplish the integration of systems using appropriate analytical, computational,and experimental practices.” Faculty in the industrial engineering program at TennesseeTechnological University have

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen

vehicle, the nature of unstructured problems is defined andapproaches for engaging this issue in an engineering curriculum are suggested. In particular, theneed for the development of strong professional skills and global awareness are identified asbeing essential. Increased integration of professional skills development into an engineeringcurriculum is detailed.IntroductionU.S. engineering students have historically enjoyed relatively high employment rates ongraduation. Recent trends in the offshore outsourcing of high technology jobs are introducinguncertainty about the long term future of U.S. engineering employment. The globalization ofcareer competition, while well-recognized by now1, is nevertheless an issue that is diffused anddifficult to

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Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marlin Thomas

engineering and operations research and related areas toprovide new tools and skills for homeland security. Homeland security should be integral to industrial engineering design. Industrialengineers need to be as security conscious as they are cost and quality conscious, and includesecurity as part of continuous improvement strategies in cost and quality. The author recognizesthat many IE educators are already actively engaged in updating courses and materials to addresshomeland security in the curriculum. This paper is an attempt to encourage and perhapsmotivate others to get engaged and to stimulate further discussion on concepts and approaches toaddress this important revision to our program.References[1] ALDRICH, J.G., 1912

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Bryan Norman; Jayant Rajgopal; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

readily recognize and apply theirengineering background to solve unstructured problems, both locally and beyond US borders.Beginning in September 2003 we embarked on an innovative approach to curriculum reform thatcontains four overarching objectives, namely (1) the integration of concepts across thecurriculum; (2) teaching students to synthesize different concepts to solve unstructuredproblems; (3) providing problem solving methods and strategies within a societal framework thatallows for their application within a local as well as a global context; and (4) creating a portabledevelopment methodology that can be readily adapted to other engineering disciplines. Thispaper reports on the development and implementation of a new course IE 1091

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sunil Sinha

,regulations, etc. [17]. Thus, if an engineer complies with his/her contract, they are in compliancewith many ethical standards. Compliance with regulations covering professional registrationcovers more non-ethical situations.The authors believe is that ethics cannot be taught; rather what can be taught is a framework forevaluating ethical dilemmas and making decisions. Because ethics instruction covers multipledimensions, an integrated approach to the framework seems appropriate. In this paper the authorspresent a model for encouraging the student to compare and combine personal, legal, societal,and professional ethical models into a decision-making framework. The role of Penn State ethics

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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nancy Fouad; Tarek Rizk; Fouad Fouad

Integrating a Construction Engineering Management Focus in the Civil Engineering Curriculum Fouad H. Fouad, Tarek Rizk, and Nancy Fouad Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Alabama at Birmingham AbstractA large number of civil engineering graduates have to work with contractors on almost a dailybasis or are employed by construction companies. To produce students who are better preparedto fulfill this role, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at University ofAlabama at Birmingham (UAB) is introducing construction engineering management courses atthe

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Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christopher Byrne

Session 2166 Integrated Materials Science Lab Experiences in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Chris Byrne Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KentuckyAbstract This paper describes the ongoing efforts to teach materials science in two differentcourses within a mechanical engineering program at Western Kentucky University. The WKUmechanical engineering curriculum has several components that are integrated experiences overmultiple semesters. The objectives for integration of experiences is to provide an alternative tothe model where courses

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BME Research and Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ka-yiu San

Session Integration of undergraduate research in the BIOE curriculum at Rice University Ka-Yiu San Department of Bioengineering, Rice University Houston, Texas 77005AbstractOne of the special features of the Bioengineering Undergraduate program at Rice University isthe ample opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in independent research projectsunder the supervision of faculty members. Various mechanisms have been developed tomaximize such opportunities. Most students take advantage of these opportunities by

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Arif Sirinterlikci

Integration of Virtual Instrumentation into a Compressed Electricity and Electronic Curriculum Arif Sirinterlikci Ohio Northern UniversityBackgroundOhio Northern University Technological Studies Department has a Technology Program thatoffers Industrial Technology curriculum under its Industry Track. Students in this track, takeonly two technology courses (TECH 261: Fundamentals of Electricity and Electronics,TECH 362: Digital Electronics: Concepts and Applications) relating to electricity andelectronics before taking higher-level courses with automation and robotics emphasis. Thecurriculum is very compressed and it is a challenge for the

Conference Session

Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nathan Ekstrom; Joseph Ekstrom

Session 2658 DOGMA: An Open Source Tool for Utilization of Idle Cycles on Lab Computers Nathan H. Ekstrom, Joseph J. Ekstrom Brigham Young UniversityAbstractOrganizations often have many computers that are unused for much of the day. Thedesire to utilize these idle machines has spawned systems that attempt toharness the unused computer cycles for useful work. These include SETI, Globus,Condor, DOGMA, and recently SLURM. In the late 1990’s the Distributed Object GroupManagement Architecture (DOGMA) project was begun in the Network Computing Labin the Computer Science department at

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joseph Musto; William Howard

Session 1348 Computer-Based Skills in an MET Curriculum William E. Howard and Joseph C. Musto Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThe TC2K criteria of ABET accreditation for engineering technology programs has allowed forgreater flexibility in many areas of curriculum content. Previous requirements included thestipulation that at least one computer language be taught in a BS program, followed byexperience using programming skills in technical courses. In the TC2K requirements, a programoutcome specifies that students must have “mastery…of the modern tools of

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Piechota; Shashi Nambisan

objectives that thestudents will have: “participated in a strong design experience throughout the professionalcomponent of the civil engineering curriculum and have the ability to identify, formulate, andsolve open-ended civil engineering problems,” “the ability to function on multi-disciplinaryteams,” and “an awareness of social and contemporary issues as related to civil engineeringpractice.”Community PartnersAn essential element to successfully integrating service learning into the curriculum is having thebuy in, cooperation, and support of community partners. Community partnerships can benefitstudent learning by exposing them to diverse settings and realistic problems. As noted earlier,service learning is a balance of community service and

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Goedert; E. Terence Foster

in the integrative ConE program is recognizedand appreciated. Within the SAEC the construction management faculty has played animportant part in supporting the non-engineering construction courses in the ConstructionManagement Program and ConE.Conclusion and Future Plans for Construction EngineeringThe ConE bachelors program described in this paper marks a major step forward for theUniversity of Nebraska CET and the SAEC. Their students will be able to take advantageof an engineering curriculum in construction for the first time in the CET’s history. Theconstruction industry will be a major benefactor as it receives an infusion of well trainedengineers able to secure a P.E. license through the soon-to-be acquired EAC-ABETaccreditation.A

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Powell

Engineering Education: An Integrative Experience Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Powell, Ph.D. Department of Systems Engineering United States Military AcademyAbstract – Academicians have noted a deficiency in engineering education offered by collegesand universities. The deficiency is that a majority of engineering graduates are taught byengineering faculty with little or no industry experience. Faculty far removed from advances inindustrial practice will miss important opportunities to tailor the curriculum to crucial industrialneeds. Regardless, employers yet expect colleges and universities to provide specifically trainedgraduates or graduates that

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mahmoud Quweider

Document: 2005-940Division: Computers in Education Integration of Educational Methodologies in the C o m p u t e r S c i e n c e C u r r i c u l u m b a s e d o n t h e B e o wu l f Curriculum Enrichment Integrated Lab (B-CEIL) Dr. Juan R. Iglesias, Dr. Mahmoud K. Quweider, and Dr. Fitra Khan jriglesias@utb.edu; mkquweider@utb.edu; khan@utb.edu CS/CIS Department, University of Texas, Brownsville Eighty Fort Brown Brownsville, TX 78521 U.S.A. 1-956-574-6616Abstract Over the past two years, the Computer Science faculty have been hard at workimplementing BCEIL (the Beowulf based Curriculum

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

computational environments are replete with many“features” that can each be leveraged for a given class of problem. However, this “high power”comes at a high price: a steep learning curve for students. A typical engineering undergraduatehas a difficult time in applying the tools of a computational environment like MATLAB in otherthan cookbook fashion unless the student has systematically developed an understanding of thecomputational environment from an integrated viewpoint.The use of MATLAB through the entire undergraduate experience can be thought of as a verticalslice through an engineering curriculum. Ideally, this vertical slice would touch all individualcourses that a student would take. The development of such a vertical slice through

Conference Session

Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leonid Preiser

the gaps betweentraditional forms of problem-solving in the classroom and the prevailing practices and expectationswithin a highly competitive IS industry environment.Since learning is not limited only to the acquisition and understanding of concepts but, to a greaterextent, actually relies on construction of meaningful links among them, the concept maps can belooked at as o a learning strategy, o curriculum planning strategy, and o a student assessment tool.Especially valuable this approach might turn out to be in the situations when students with diverseexperiences and levels of prior knowledge would enroll in the same class, so that it might becomedifficult for an instructor to assess what students do and do not understand.In general

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Lehman; Asad Yousuf

Session xxxx Supplementing EET Analog Labs with Switched Capacitance Integrated Circuits William Lehman, Advanced Systems & Materials Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University Muniyappa Venkatesha, Savannah Technical College Chung-Ling Huang, Southern University Abstract Programmable Analog Integrated Circuits (IC) provides designers the capability to change analog circuits in the field. Although Programmable Switched Capacitance circuits are a technology that deserves study by itself, our main focus

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Milo Koretsky

Integrating Micro and Nanoscale Materials Processing into the Core ChE Curriculum - Examples in Radiation Heat Transfer Milo D. Koretsky Department of Chemical Engineering Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-2702IntroductionThe chemical engineering department at Oregon State University (OSU) is committed todeveloping strength in microelectronics processing within a context of the fundamental skills ofthe discipline. In this vein, we are integrating examples from this industry into the classroom andthe laboratory.1 These topics are not only useful towards the

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Glenn Wrate; Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen

(an ME course) that was dropped from the curriculum. b. Systems Interfacing – one of the most fundamental long term trends is the higher level of integration used in design. There is a major increase in the use of specialized integrated circuits and design at the system or subsystem level. c. Digital Signal Processing – the dominance of digital signals and the need to process such signals make this course essential. This course will precede the traditional continuous-time signal processing course. d. Electromagnetic (EM) Waves – with the advent of wireless technology, the critical importance of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stewart Prince; Robert Ryan

Development of Engineering Case Studies for Integrating Finite Element Analysis into a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Dr. Robert G. Ryan, Dr. Stewart P. Prince California State University, NorthridgeAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering Department at California State University, Northridge usesSolidWorks and related analysis applications such as CosmosWorks and FloWorks as thecomputational tools of choice for solid modeling (CAD) and finite element analysis (FEA).Originally the use of these tools was concentrated in the senior design capstone course, but oneof the Department’s goals is to integrate the use of this

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Krumholz; Robert Martello; Jonathan Stolk

. Acurriculum revision in 2003 eliminated the second year ICBs and sparked a major re-design ofthe Paul Revere course block. Under the new curriculum specifications, the Foundation ProjectIII course disappeared, and the previously integrated science and humanities courses becameindividual courses. Students were no longer required to register for an ICB in the second year,but provisions were made to accommodate faculty who wished to offer integrated two-courseblocks. The Paul Revere faculty took advantage of these special registration provisions andplanned to offer the Paul Revere course block in the fall 2004 semester. They required cross-registration of the history and materials science courses, but they were left with an issue: insteadof the

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thanassis Rikakis; Jiping He; Hari Sundaram; Andreas Spanias

sensing andderived data (joint velocity, acceleration, synchrony of reversal etc) drove a part(rhythmic or melodic line) of a unified polyphonic composition. Fig. 2. Integrating engineering and arts; A rehabilitation applicationWe were thus able to show that allowing the patient to map the experience of movingtheir arm into an interactive, coherent multimedia experience has the potential of helpingthem rebuild the internal model of their arm. In other words, we allowed the patient toreacquire knowledge of their arm through a mediated experience. Rehabilitation is onlyone of the many areas that can benefit from experiential media systems. Our researchsection shows that the development of such systems can produce major advances in

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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H. Jung; Anthony de Sam Lazaro; Amanie Abdelmessih

409-415.(4) Jenkins SR., Pollock JB., Zuraski PD., Meade RB., Mitchell ZW., Farrington JJ., “Capstone Course in an Integrated Engineering Curriculum”, Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Apr 2002, pp 75-82.(5) Hines PD., and Christie RD., “A Capstone Design Project to Meet the Needs of the Changing Power Systems Industry and Satisfy New Accreditation Standards”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 17, No 3 August 2003, pp 535-542.(6) Reddy GB., and Lantner JS., Introduction of Concurrent Engineering Methods in an Undergraduate Capstone Design Course”, Journal of Engineering Technology, Vol. 12, 1995, pp 32-36.(7) “Instrumented Air Conditioning Bench Experiment,” Mechanical Engineering

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Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

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Doug Tougaw

SESSION 944 Integration of Active Learning Exercises into a Course on Probability and Statistics Douglas Tougaw Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Valparaiso University 1. Introduction The benefits of active and cooperative learning exercises have been promoted in workshops, education journals, and entire scholarly monographs.1-8 In particular, the benefits of these teaching methods have been studied and endorsed in recent years,9-12 including publication of results that show these methods to increase the effectiveness of teaching and the retention of the material by the

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Eisenbarth; Kenneth Van Treuren

Session 3461 An Evaluation of Humanities and Social Science Requirements in an Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum Ken Van Treuren and Steve Eisenbarth Baylor UniversityAbstractEngineering design is a structured, creative process, where engineers strive to develop solutionsto perceived problems or needs by the application of theoretical and practical knowledge. Thedesign process is a quest for technological objects, wherein the solution to the posed problem isintrinsic or inherent in the resultant object. However, the design solution [object] must exist in areal

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Clifford Mirman

Session 1648 An Engineering Technology Capstone Course Which Integrates Theory, Design, and Construction in an Open-Ended Project By Cliff R. Mirman, Professor and Chair Department of Technology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill. 60115 Abstract The culminating experience in many engineering technology programs is typically aone or two-semester capstone design experience. The underlying premise for this type ofsenior design course is that at the submission of the final

Conference Session

Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

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Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

certificates upon graduation. In this paper, we examineinstitutions which integrate certificates in their IS curriculum. Moreover, we examine the IS2002 report and ABET requirements to identify IS tracks that can lead to a particularcertification. Popular IT certificates are identified and for each certificate a series of IS coursesare developed to include the objectives of that particular certificate. For example, we will showhow to integrate the Sun Certification for Java Programmer into programming courses, the CiscoCCNA or Network+ certificate into networking course, the A+ certificate into the IT Hardwareand Software course and an operating system course, and the MOUS certificate into the personalproductivity with IS technology course. Other