Engineering Design Graphic Journal (ASEE - American Society for Engineering Education)
Not a member yet
430 research outputs found
Sort by
Message from the Chair - Looking Outside Our Comfort Zone
Get PDFI would like to thank the EDGD membership for allowing me to serve as your Chair. It has been interesting, fun and nerve-wracking! At the Mid-Year Conference in Norfolk, VA, the EDGD Executive Committee took a hard look at where the Division is. Bottom line: we are not attracting as many new members as we would like and a majority of our committees are no longer reporting any activity for valid reasons; we need to restructure. Between the Mid-Year Conference and the Annual ASEE Conference held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, there were several flurries of EDGD list-serve email discussions concerning the future of the Division. Do we stay as we are; focused strictly on engineering graphics, or do we open our doors and embrace all forms of graphics? To be the best in our field, we must look outside our normal comfort zone or we will miss the exciting, changing world of graphics around us. If we limit the Division to only engineering graphics we will never grow as a Division, or on a personal professional basis. We would miss opportunities to partner with colleagues who have skills we don’t possess. Most of us have been teaching for many years, but still strive to improve our teaching methods – especially with today’s students having different expectations than students twenty years ago. If we move backwards to focusing only on engineering graphics, we will miss information that can help us become better professors. With the introduction of computers into our classrooms our world continues to change. One trend I see locally is the move from supplying tool and die workers, machinists, etc., with computers and 3D CAD models for dimensions instead of 2D drawings. The Division can no longer afford to have tunnel vision and isolate itself in our comfortable engineering graphics world. This means exciting changes are in the works for the Division! Here are a few: several of the Directors are revising their committee charges, an on-line journal ad hoc committee was created to select the software we will use, and several members are brainstorming a new Division and Journal name that will reflect our willingness to embrace all forms of graphics. Serving as your Division Chair has been a great experience! The members are what make the Division so special! I would like to extend a huge thank you to those of you that volunteered your time to help with the Division and participated in the Division discussions. A special thanks to Nick Bertozzi for doing a great job as this year’s ASEE Annual Program Chair, Judy Birchman for designing a striking one-page EDGD information card, Steve Schroff and Marie Planchard for distributing the new EDGD information card, Bob Chin for pursuing our status with ERIC, Moustafa and Company for a great Mid-Year conference, La Verne Abe Harris and Nancy Study for the smooth running of the Journal, Alice Scales and Mary Sadowski for answering my endless list of questions, and Tim Sexton for guiding me through this year. Hope to see you in Berkeley, CA for the 63rd Mid-Year Conference January 4-7, 2009
Message from the Chair
No full textIt was your volunteering that made my leadership easy and rewarding. Thank you all. As I end my short 12 month sting as Chair of the Engineering Design Graphics Division I want to thank the DIvision membership for your confidence in me. Over 100 division members and non members have been involved in division activities this past year. It was your volunteering that made my leadership easy and rewarding. Thank you all. Reflecting on my year in office, I see two special accomplishments for the division. First, at our 60th Mid-Year Technical Conference, our By-Laws were changed to comply with ASEE policy. For the first time, the complete document appears on the ASEE Web-Site. Second, thanks to the efforts of Jon Duff and Donna Hull, a Graduate Student in Graphic Information Technology at Arizona State University, we have a new look to our Division Web-Site. As you read this article, my year in office has already ended. But as I write the article, the 2005-2006 EDGD officers are preparing for the ASEE Annual Conference in Chicago and also getting ready to pass on our offices to your newly elected Executive Committee. There are a few Graphics Division Members who deserve my special recognition. Pat Connolly, thank you for your efforts as Program Chair for the summer conference. In addition to planning the divisions four technical sessions (with twenty presentations) and two business meeting, Pat has also arranged for our first off site Division Banquet in many years. I am sure we will honor Pat by having many off site Banquets in the future. Pat was rewarded for his efforts by being elected to a three year term as a Divisions Officer - Director of Zones. This EDGD Journal Issue is the last one assembled by the team at North Carolina State University. For the past three years Eric Wiebe, Editor and his crew of Ted Branoff, Associate Editor; Aaron Clark, Associate Editor; Alice Scales, Associate Editor; Bethany Smith, Layout and Design; and Nayo C-G Mack, Layout and Design, have produced a wonderful and lasting tribute to our Division. Thank you all. The next Journal staff has a lot to live up to. Katherine Holliday-Darr will continue as Journal Circulation Manager. This position is ongoing so she will need an assistant next year. That is because Kathy is one of the three newly elected division officers. Congratulations Kathy on being elected Vice Chair/Chair Elect. Publication of the EDGD Journal will shift back to Arizona State University-East. Congratulations to newly elected Director of Publications, La Vern Abe Harris. La Vern is assembling the Journal production staff for the next three years of issues so I urge those of you who have not been involved in division activities to contact her and volunteer. The other newly reelected Division Officer is Tim Sexton. Tim begins another three year term as our Division Secretary/Treasurer. We are very fortunate to have someone so willing to take on this detail oriented position for another term. Thank you Tim. Theodore J. Branoff will be our leader next year. In addition to those individuals already mentioned, continuing in office are yours truly as Past Chair, Director - Liaison Doug Baxter, Director - Membership Jon Duff, Director - Programs Frank Croft, Technical Professional Nate Hartman, and already mentioned Director - Zones Pat Connolly. Thank you all. Support your offices by volunteering to serve on a Division Committee. Contact Chair Ted Branoff and became a part of a great group of volunteers. Two division members are stepping down from their elected positions. Leaving your Executive Committee are Past Chair Holly Ault and Director - Publications Eric Wiebe. A special thank you to Holly and Eric for their many years of dedicated service. As you read this Journal, your division officers are planning for the 61st Mid-Year Technical Conference. It will be held in San Diego, California January 13-17, 2007. If you have not already done so, respond to the Call for Papers that appears elsewhere in this Journal. I have enjoyed being the Engineering Design Graphics Division Chair this past year. I look forward to seeing you at the Mid-Year Conference in San Diego. Ronald C. Paré, 2005-2006 Engineering Design Graphics Division Chair
