GC 2009-127: A DIRECT METHOD FOR TEACHING AND MEASURING THE ABET PROFESSIONAL SKILLS: RESEARCH FINDINGS FROM THREE YEARS OF COLLEGE-WIDE PROGRAM-LEVEL ASSESSMENTS

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Robert G. Olsen is Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture and theBoeing Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Washington State University,Pullman, WA, USA. He received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers Universityin 1968 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado,Boulder in 1970 and 1974 respectively. Prof. Olsen has been a member of the electricalengineering faculty at Washington State University since 1973. During that time he has been avisiting scientist at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, MA, at ABB Corporate Research in V?ster?s,Sweden and at EPRI in Palo Alto, CA and a Visiting Professor at the Technical University ofDenmark. His research interests include electromagnetic interference from power lines, theelectromagnetic environment of power lines, electromagnetic wave propagation, electromagneticcompatibility and electromagnetic scattering. His work in these areas has resulted inapproximately 75 publications in refereed journals. His most recent work has been supported bythe Bonneville Power Administration, the Boeing Defense and Space Group, the Electric PowerResearch Institute, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Navy. He is a Fellow of theIEEE and an Honorary Life Member of the IEEE EMC society. Presently, he serves as Co -Technical Program Chair of the 2007 EMC Zurich in Munich, Germany Symposium. He is alsopast Technical Editor of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Newsletter, TechnicalPaper Committee Chair for the 2006 Portland EMC Symposium, United States NationalCommittee representative to CIGRE Study Committee 36 (Electromagnetic Compatibility) andchair of the IEEE Power Engineering Society AC Fields and Corona Effects Working Groups. Heis also past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility andRadio Science.