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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Morgan; Beverly Davis

Promoting Engineering Education as a Career: A Generational Approach James Morgan, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory Beverly Davis, Purdue UniversityAbstractCurrently, there is a fundamental paradigm shift in society with regards to attitudestowards the sciences. In higher education, this shift is especially noticeable withinengineering programs. Many educators are encouraged to shift the traditional teachingfocus and concentrate on student learning. A disturbing trend finds many young peopleare unaware what a career in engineering entails, are unaware of the job opportunitiesafforded to them with an engineering degree, or for numerous reasons decide early on

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Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Johnson; Jason Lynch; Michael Butkus

breadth of material coverage while simultaneouslypresenting courses in a logical fashion so that they build upon and reinforce one another and notappear as individual, disjointed topics. Aligning courses and their content with the engineeringthought process is one approach that can achieve both objectives. This paper describes how thisconcept is applied to a three course engineering sequence offered as a part of a core curriculumto non-engineering students at the United States Military Academy. Engineering design stepssuch as problem definition, design and analysis are linked with fundamental environmentalengineering concepts like risk assessment, pollutant partitioning, and materials balance.Examples of how course objectives, laboratory

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Neal Ninteman; John Natzke

engineering design problems. Electrical and mechanical (machining)laboratory experiences are also in the process of being incorporated into the course. Thefollowing are the course objectives: 1. To learn and apply the processes, methodologies, and skills useful in engineering design. 2. To gain experience in and become skilled in the engineering problem solving process. 3. To become proficient in the various analyses often utilized in the engineering design process (e.g. cost analysis and graphical analysis in Excel). 4. To acquire a foundational understanding of engineering graphics and become proficient in the use of SolidWorks solids modeling software. 5. To become proficient in structured programming techniques, through the

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shumon Alam; Matthew Sadiku; Cajetan Akujuobi

Development, Training and Implementation of Test Automation for ADSL Interoperability and Reliability Studies Cajetan M. Akujuobi, Shumon Alam, and Matthew Sadiku Center of Excellence for Communication Systems Technology Research Electrical Engineering Department, Prairie View A&M University P.O.Box 4078, Prairie View, Texas 77446 Cajetan_Akujuobi@pvamu.edu, Shumon_Alam@pvamu.edu, sadiku@ieee.orgAbstractAt Prairie View A & M University (PVAMU), we developed a new Broadband (High-Speed)Access Technologies Research Laboratory (BATRL) over the last few years. This laboratory isused in helping our

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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KaMing Lai; James Webb; Robert Hendricks

Lab-in-a-Box: Experiments in Electronic Circuits That Support Introductory Courses for Electrical and Computer Engineers Robert W. Hendricks, Ka Ming Lai, and James B. Webb Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USAAbstract:The objective of Lab-in-a-Box is to give the student hands-on experience with wiring andanalyzing simple circuits, but in such a way as to allow the experiments to be performed at homeor at a study table with simple, relatively inexpensive, student-owned equipment rather than in atraditional university laboratory. Each

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

-level “program” (somewhat similar to our local Science & Technology StudiesProgram or our new School of Biomedical Engineering & Science), governed by faculty from allparticipating units, that will oversee the degrees. As a part of the creation of the Program, whichis currently being referred to as the “Education-Engineering Collaborative” (EEC), we plan toredefine and include our existing Technology Education graduate program, which has beenranked as one of the top such programs in the nation. This is not a radical combination, since asengineers, we feel an instant kinship when we visit the Technology Education laboratories andsee wind tunnels and polymer fabrication equipment in use. We have employed two TechnologyEducation Ph.D

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Throne

Paper 2005-493 Frequency Domain System Identification of One, Two, and Three Degree of Freedom Systems in an Introductory Controls Class Robert D. Throne Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractWe have developed a sequence of laboratories for our introductory controls classes to identifyand control one, two, and three degree of freedom mass-spring-damper systems. Initial estimatesof damping ratios and natural frequencies are made using the log-decrement method with onlyone cart free to move at a time. By exciting the system at various frequencies the magnitudeportion of the Bode

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilary Lackritz, Purdue University; Laura Demsetz, College of San Mateo; Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada-Reno; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University

1 Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, San Jose State University/ 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida/ 3Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno/ 4College of San Mateo/ 5Mechanical Engineering, Boise State UniversityAbstractThis paper will discuss the progress of curriculum development under an NSF, CCLI-EMDsponsored work, “Development of Project-Based Introductory to Materials EngineeringModules” (DUE # #0341633). A multi-university team of faculty are developing six lecture andthree laboratory modules for use in Introductory to Materials courses. This course is required bymost engineering

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Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Renee Rogge; Loren Sumner

students expected tobe evident in activities such as senior design. The impact of the project is being assessedsummatively through the school’s capstone senior design course. Preliminary assessmentfindings are discussed in the assessment section later in this paper.The project, funded by the W. M. Keck Foundation, establishes the Keck Engineering AnalysisCenter at MUSE and supports faculty efforts to design and implement active learning techniqueswith CAE. The Keck Center refers to the computational laboratory that houses 22 SUNworkstations, outfitted with state-of-the-art engineering software (Table 1). The Center alsocontains 2 personal computers, a projection system, printing facilities, and network capabilities.Eight faculty members from MUSE

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

. For example, participantsare introduced to concepts from calculus mathematics through an innovative approach known asVisual Calculus. By completing all three summers of TexPREP, students will have receivedinstruction in following subjects: • Logic and Its Applications to Mathematics: A daily lecture class required of Year 1 participants. • Visual Calculus: A visual, hands on approach to calculus concepts for Year 1 participants. • Algebraic Structures: A daily lecture class required of Year 2 participants. • Introduction to Engineering: A four-week daily lecture/laboratory class with topics in Engineering. This component incorporates design projects for Year 1 students. • Introduction to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Martini

been used to teach statics in architecture courses. Theprogram is also ideally suited to teaching concepts of structural redundancy and anti-terrordesign, since it is possible to see the response of a structure when members are removedinteractively: e.g. removing a member from a loaded truss by clicking on the member. The paperdescribes the program and the teaching methods that have employed it, including lecturedemonstrations, a homework problem, and a laboratory exercise.OverviewThere is a well established and sensible tradition in engineering education that a curriculumbegins with basic subjects and then incrementally increases the range of phenomena consideredand the sophistication of their analysis. In structural engineering education

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Brainard; Sheila Edwards Lange; Elizabeth Litzler

? Since entering your department, have you experienced isolation?Laboratory Climate How well are lab experiments explained prior to your participation in them? Extent other team members view you as a leader when working in small groups in the lab? How productive do you feel when working in a group lab setting? Page 10.308.4 Extent your suggestions or comments are taken seriously by the “Proceedings of the 2005

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ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gerri Burke; William Krantz; Joel Fried

applications. The goals of thisREU Site program are the following: • To provide a motivational research experience for promising undergraduates • To encourage women, minorities, and physically disadvantaged students to pursue graduate studies • To expose undergraduates to exciting research challenges in membrane science and technology • To facilitate the learning of research methods, laboratory skills, safety awareness, critical thinking, problem solving, research ethics, organizational skills, and oral and written communication skills • To provide an enjoyable and meaningful social/cultural program for the students • To provide financial support for undergraduate students during the summer • To couple

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Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Rosenstein; Jeffery Donnell; Christina Bourgeois

themotivation for creating them, engineering communication programs are commonly administered at theschool level, with each school having the freedom to implement instruction in a way that best fits withits particular sequence of laboratory, design, and capstone courses. As a result, within any oneengineering college, a variety of successful writing program models can exist. The choice of paradigmreflects not only the communications norms of the particular disciplines, but also the constraintspresented by the number of students enrolled in each school and by limitations on staff and resources.At Georgia Tech, several models of meeting the technical communications requirement have beendeveloped. Within the College of Engineering (COE), some schools

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

beliefs held by some ofthe very people on whom the nanotechnology initiative depends[1] . The intention hasbeen to elicit their ideas and concerns, beliefs, fears and motivations, as those pertain totheir work as researchers in nanoscale science and technology. The aim here is to help“disparately interested parties overcome their language differences in order to join in acommon cause.”aMy studies follow these scientists over a period of five years, as they move deeper intotheir own abilities and understandings, and as they make more discoveries, broaden theircollaborations and facilitate the development of new technologies. The participants areprincipal investigators who are conducting nanoscaled research in their own laboratories,at universities

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K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Tang; Linda Head

-on laboratory experiments. It is anticipated that this program, as well as themodules developed, will serve as a model to be readily adopted in a cost-effectivemanner.A Electrical Circuits and Electricity This module starts with an introduction of electrical products, showing electricity is everywhere in our lives. From that point, we lead students to think about how to drive such electrical products via producing a source of power. Electrical power generation is then demonstrated by making a simple battery. Several sample presentation slides are shown in Fig. 3. A kit with one zinc nail, one copper nail, a lemon and a hand- held meter is assigned to each group. Lemon juice acts as an acidic conducting medium between the two

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

theSummer Science Institute, is for high school juniors and seniors. The other program, calledSummer Odyssey, is for middle school students. Both programs explain what engineers are,explain what engineers do, and promote problem solving skills. The students also experiencevarious disciplines (or sub-disciplines) of engineering through a combination of presentations,laboratory experiences, and design work. In other words, much of the same material andactivities are used for both programs. Although neither of these programs are specifically forminorities or women, a large portion of the students are female and approximately half areminorities. A review of the material/activities for the summer of 2004 is presented. In addition,in the summer of 2004

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Internet Computing and Networking

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

Analysis of Wireless and Mobile Computer Networks Courses Maurice F. Aburdene, Xiannong Meng, L. Felipe Perrone, and Gregory L. Mokodean Bucknell UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an analysis of wireless and mobile computer networks courses. The resultsare based on information collected from course Web sites of universities and colleges incomputer science, electrical engineering and information science departments. The dataanalyzed include course titles, course structure, textbooks, major topics and their presentation,projects, and laboratory exercises. We found that wireless and mobile computer networkeducation can be divided into three

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ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

course.Current MERLOT Chemical Engineering ContentAs of January 2005, MERLOT catalogued 326 engineering learning objects, 24 in chemicalengineering. These include simulations, virtual laboratories, tutorials, calculation tools, andother collections of links and objects. For example, “McCabe Thiele Method” is a tutorial byVenkat R. Bhethanabotla of the University of Southern Florida that includes text background ondistillation, describes and illustrates the McCabe-Thiele method, and includes a self-test. Page 10.994.3“Chemical Reactivity Worksheet”, produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abul Azad

the student as a complement to the lectureand laboratory classes. The Matlab and its toolboxes work with the Guide in an interactivemanner to provide a flexible simulation environment where the user can observe the behavior ofan engineering system or process without going into detailed implementation of the algorithm(Marchand and Holland, 2003). Page 10.1221.1This paper presents the development of a highly interactive user-friendly environment for thesimulation of digital modulation and demodulation techniques. After this introduction, the first Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pat Leelani; Hector Estrada

importance of science, mathematics, and computers were emphasized. The participants resided on campus for the duration of the program. Most of the activitieswere conducted in the Civil Engineering Laboratory. The costs of room, board, and other costsrelated to the activities and prizes, were covered from public and private funds. Following is abrief description of typical activities.Introduction and Advisement The first day, participants were directed to the dormitories to situate themselves. Acoordinator assisted with the logistics of room and board. A brief introduction was made by thedirector, including a discussion and overview of the program. Also, with the guardians present, apresentation about the nightly activities and the dormitory

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Banzhaf

120 volt AC power cord Figure 2 - Prototype of Transmission Line Demonstrator Board Page 10.692.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationQuantitative ResultsSimple measurements of voltage and current, done with standard laboratory instruments, allowstudents to see the vast increase in efficiency (power out/power in) that using high voltageprovides. The table in Figure 3 provides quantitative evidence of

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Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

build deeper conceptual understanding of disciplinary skills. Theemphasis on building products and implementing processes in real-world contexts gives studentsopportunities to make connections between the technical content they are learning and their professionaland career interests.Standard 6 -- CDIO WorkspacesWorkspaces and laboratories that support and encourage hands-on learning ofproduct and system building, disciplinary knowledge, and social learningDescription: Workspaces and laboratories support the learning of product and system building skillsconcurrently with disciplinary knowledge. They emphasize hands-on learning in which students aredirectly engaged in their own learning, and provide opportunities for social learning, that is

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New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

integrate those courses thatsupport design of machinery with a challenging project and with supporting lectures. LECTURE SERIESThe lecture series in this course is divided into the following areas. • Safety • Project management • Process analysis • Introduction to plastics • Applications of heat transfer • Industrial Controls Basic relay circuits Motor starters Motor speed control Programmable logic controllers Wiring practiceThe first lecture session and part of the first laboratory session is dedicated to safety. Since students willbe expected to work with voltages as high as 220 volts and with pressurized, molten

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Patton; Daniel Crunkleton

electrical and mechanical systems. Thesestudents are excited about the opportunity to create the control strategy and beginimplementing this plan with actual equipment. The size and scope of the project appearsto be more appealing to them than the laboratory experiences they have seen so far.Finally, in Year One, ChE students have taken the first steps to designing a reformer forethanol that could eventually be used within the vehicle. The students have gathered datafrom the literature to learn the current state-of-the-art in reformer technology and haveinitiated contacts with researchers in this field. This information is being used along withHYSYS to create an initial design for a reformer. This technology is very new and,admittedly, ambitious for

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Kardys; Abraham Michelen

, design, specifications,materials, application notes, and many other important activities in the daily life of andengineer. Without Globalspec, or a tool similar to it, the essential task of locating a specificcomponent for a design would take many hours of browsing in manufacturer’s catalogs. Page 10.1409.1All these tasks are accomplished by just linking to the Globalspec site. This is the reasonwhy many engineers at important industrial manufacturers as well as research laboratories “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

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Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Young; Sanjiv Sarin; Xiaochun Jiang

inmathematics and calculus. Additionally, students were orientated to the college campusexperience through faculty and student mentored activities including group rap sessions,extracurricular activities, and industry tours. NC-LSAMP funding provided Allianceinstitutions the opportunity to increase the number of participants and facilitated thesuccessful recruitment of highly talented minority high school graduates.NC-LSAMP students participated in Summer Research activities at Alliance institutionsand national laboratories. North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina StateUniversity and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported LSAMP andother STEM students for summer research on their campuses. Students participated

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro; Jane Fraser

Society for Engineering Educationcounseling, university service, professional development, and interactions with industrial andprofessional practitioners, as well as employers of graduates.”Faculty must also have qualifications and authority “to develop and implement processes for theevaluation, assessment, and continuing improvement of the program, its educational objectivesand outcomes.” Indicators of faculty competency include “education, diversity of backgrounds,engineering experience, teaching experience, ability to communicate, enthusiasm for developingmore effective programs, level of scholarship, participation in professional societies, andlicensure as Professional Engineers.”From Criterion 61, “classrooms, laboratories, and associated

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Ben Lawrence; Cynthia Mann

stepinvolved an in-class group activity and a group homework assignment; many also had anindividual assignment unrelated to the Pizza or Ice Cream Project.Pizza ProjectThe first day of class, each student was given a notebook to serve as a journal and a laboratorynotebook for the project. Throughout the semester they were instructed to use the journal tocomplete some assignments, keep track of project related information (and data), and alsoprovide feedback about class activities through journal entries. This was found to be an effectivemethod of illustrating the importance of laboratory notebooks—a concept foreign to manyengineering students. The success of this project relied on the students’ comfort in interactingwith the instructors; the notebooks

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alvin Lester; Bruce Mutter

. Students must meet deadlines in an increasingly self-motivated environment. 11. Students must self motivate in general and avoid procrastination without traditional verbal reminders of assignment due dates. B. Disadvantages for Students: 1. Student must still meet in class for the regular scheduled class times for web facilitated courses. 2. Students uploading assignments to CART CMS may require more time than writing it out by hand. 3. Student must have access to compatible hardware, software, and high speed web connection. 4. Students may need to access computer laboratories at school, libraries or other places with public access to the web