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What's New in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ahmad R. Sarfaraz; Tarek Shraibati

© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2639Industrial Engineering. His research concerns operations research, AHP, economic analysis, and lean manufacturing.Prior joining to California State University, he taught at Amirkabir University of Technology over 10 years.TAREK SHRAIBATI is a full time lecturer of the Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Managementdepartment at California State University at Northridge with 17 years of full-time teaching experience in engineeringcourses. He received his M.S. degree in Materials Science from USC. Prior joining to California State University, heworked at Rocketdyne

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Placid Ferreira; Martha Atwater; Kenneth Roberts; Jagannathan Sankar; Deborah Bartz; Dhananjay Kumar; Devdas Pai; Cindy Waters

achieved in the bread-and-butter sophomore-level Materials Science course required of all engineering majors. This two-credit course now has asone of its primary objectives that ‘The student will have an understanding of, atomic and crystalstructure and chemical bond types, and understand how these affect material properties and aspectsof nanotechnology.’ This is being achieved by supplementing the classroom lectures and text4 withguest lectures by researchers from UIUC as well as A&T’s CAMSS.Manufacturing Processes (MEEN 446)This junior-level course, required of all mechanical engineering majors, uses a textbook5 thatdevotes a chapter to small-size manufacturing technologies and discusses the two approaches ofmolecular engineering and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Bazzoli; Blair Rowley

Engineering and Director of theFreshman Engineering and Computer Science Program. He holds the Ph.D. from the University of Missouri,Columbia and is a PE. He has been in academia since 1970. Among his many activities he served as the Chair of theASEE/BMD 1987-1988 and is a reviewer for NSF. His research focuses on rehabilitation engineering and teaching.THOMAS L. BAZZOLI is Assistant Dean for Fiscal Affairs and Research. He holds the MS in Nuclear Scienceand Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. During his Air Force career he directed diverseresearch programs in modeling and testing of system performance, compositional mapping of submicron materialsand machine translation of text. He was instrumental in establishing the college’s

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed

educational processdetermines the quality of the educational outcome. Educational quality, however, is themost difficult attribute to define, measure and properly control. In the following thefactors causing the difficulties in defining educational quality in the receivers domain arediscussed. By following the lean thinking approach an educational quality measures andcontrol are discussed.Lean Academics ApproachUnder the pressure to stay competitive improve quality and eliminate waste and focus onthe end customer several industrial institutions adopted the lean thinking methodology[1]. With increasing pressure to produce high quality industry ready engineers, reducethe curriculum time, and include mastery of new technologies educational institutions

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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Douglas MacIntosh; Susan Conry

Software Engineering Design: A Laboratory in Building Team Management Skills Susan E. Conry and Douglas J. MacIntosh Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Clarkson University Potsdam, NY 13699-5720Introduction “Engineering is problem recognition, formulation, and solution. In the next 20 years, engineers and engineering students will be required to use new tools and apply ever- increasing knowledge in expanding engineering disciplines, all while considering societal repercussions and constraints within a complex landscape of old and new ideas. They

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Loralee Donath; Nadia Craig; Nancy Thompson; Michael Matthews

the College of Engineering and Information Technology. WithDr. Rhonda Grego, she developed the Writing Studio Program, which provided an early prototype for the ResearchCommunications Studio. She continues to pursue her academic research interests in applying cognitive andmetacognitive learning theory to communications instruction. She participates actively in the education of graduateteaching assistants.LORALEE DONATH is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the University of South Carolina and a graduate assistantfor the RCS. Her research interests span the sub-fields of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and linguisticanthropology.MICHAEL MATTHEWS, Principal Investigator for the Research Communications Studio, is a Professor ofChemical

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

College — The roles of an upper division service-learning course, such as OutreachCorps, in the overall college-wide curriculum lies in its interdisciplinary nature, in itsrequirement that students integrate subject matter from a wide range of prior courses, and that thecourse itself has embedded assessment to ensure that it is challenging. The Outreach Corps classfurther fits into the college curriculum because it advances science and math through engineeringin the K-12 setting, and it aligns with the national priority of boosting the nation’s science,mathematics engineering and technology workforce.For Undergraduate Students — This course provides an upper-division service-learningexperience that puts junior and senior engineering students in a

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mei-yi Lau; Ming-yin Chan

peers, but also through interacting with other people in different kinds ofout-of-class contexts by technology-based activities such as discussions and forums in web,workplace or even community-based experiences in partnership with different professionalsacross disciplines so as to widen their scope of horizon in learning. This kind of teaching andlearning belief is compatible with a constructivist approach. It must be firmly held by teacherswhen group project-based teaching strategy is adopted. Page 10.699.11 “Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Jeanine Casler; Bugrahan Yalvac; H. David Smith; Gulnur Birol; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

. studies at Penn State, he majored in Curriculum and Instruction and minored inScience, Technology, and Society (STS).JEANINE CASLER is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at Northwestern University. She received her B.A. fromRosemont College, her M.A. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. from theUniversity of Georgia.JOHN C. ANDERSON is the Instructional Technology Coordinator for IDEA, Northwestern University's Institutefor Design Engineering and Applications. He is also a Lecturer in the Writing Program. He received his B.A. fromthe University of Michigan, and his M.A. from Northwestern University.JOHN B. TROY, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University, chaired the undergraduateprogram for

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Shane Brown

. Recommendations are made toaddress student concerns that include active and cooperative learning approaches, and thedevelopment of learning communities.Introduction In today’s technological society the need for engineers in the workplace is at an all timehigh. In the next ten years it is estimated that the United States will need to train an additional1.9 million workers in the sciences [1], a significant portion of which will need to be engineers.Not only it is important to train larger numbers of engineers, it is also necessary to attract a moreprevalent representation of women and minorities in the engineering workforce. Identification ofthis need is certainly not new or unique to this study, yet simply highlights the need to beinterested in

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stanislaw Maj; Anuradha Sutharshan; D Veal

have to deal with increased complexity. Increasedcomplexity is being driven by many factors: new technologies, shorter applicationdevelopment life cycles, iterative development, more geographically distributedprojects and resources, increased tool diversity and higher risks [7]. In addition,business executives are placing increased emphasis on making sure that the solutionsdeveloped by IT are aligned with the business’ needs. Page 10.575.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEA issues, Changing

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Engineering Change for Women in Engineering: The Role of Curricular and Instructional Change Sandra Spickard Prettyman, Helen Qammar, Edward Evans, and Francis Broadway University of Akron, Akron Ohio 44325IntroductionWomen currently make up 56% of all undergraduates but remain underrepresented in almost allscience, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs. This trend certainly holds true inengineering at the University of Akron, where women constitute only 18% of the engineeringstudent population. In addition, while women’s representation in the workforce has increased,their representation in the science and engineering workforce has

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozgur Eris; Tori Bailey; Helen L. Chen

understandhow engineering learning and educational experiences vary across populations and institutions,identifying significant factors related to gender, ethnic, and geographic diversity.APS addresses the following fundamental research questions: • SKILLS: How do students’ engineering skills and knowledge develop and/or change over time? How do the technological and mathematical fluencies of engineering students compare with those found in professional engineering settings? • IDENTITY: How do these students come to identify themselves as engineers? How do students’ appreciation, confidence, and commitment to engineering change as they navigate their education? How does this in turn affect how these students make

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amanda Runciman; Lisa Christensen; Katherine Chen

Department at Cal Poly StateUniversity, San Luis Obispo, CA. She received her bachelor degrees (in Chemistry and Materials Science &Engineering) from Michigan State University, and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At CalPoly, she teaches undergraduate students Structures of Materials, Kinetics of Materials, and various other courses.LISA CHRISTENSENLisa Christensen graduated from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 2004 with an MS inEngineering, specializing in Biomedical Engineering. Her thesis research focused on understanding fracture andfatigue behavior in cortical bone. Prior to her graduate studies, she earned her BS in Materials Engineering in 2002.Currently, Lisa works as a design engineer in

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Suchora

theproficiency exam procedure was instituted since so few students actually passed the exam. Page 10.645.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education Youngstown State University College of Engineering and Technology ENGR 1555—Engineering Drawings and Visualization Proficiency ExamBase BracketSketch Sketch isometric andfront, top

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Goodwin

. B.S., Industrial Engineering, M.S., Civil Engineering, Ph.D. student inIndustrial Technology. Address: 110 Marston, Iowa State University, 50011. Email: goodwinm@iastate.edu Page 10.172.8 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Hole; Day Radebaugh; Kurt Soschinske

ethics learning and practice, professors need to interlace ethicaldecision-making skills into their various engineering classes. The Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology criterion three, part f requires that ethics topics be interlacedthroughout the various courses2. For example, a material science course could have studentswork problems and case scenarios about materials selection not only on stress properties but alsoon effects to the environment and resource sustainability. Another factor could involve the initialand long term cost of the decision involving the same environmental areas. This is especiallytrue where product design priority has been for lower cost, which makes the product easy tothrow away but too expensive to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Brodersen; Cordelia Brown

currently enrolled as a doctoral candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. She is a student member of ASEE and IEEE. Her interests includeemploying learning models in engineering classrooms and laboratory.ARTHUR J. BRODERSEN is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienceat Vanderbilt University. His recent technical interests have been the use of computer and network technology toenhance engineering education. Page 10.200.9 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viveca Deanes; Olakunle Harrison

greatly enhanced.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge and thank the Ford Motor Company for its sponsorshipand continued support of the annual robotics competition at Tuskegee University. In addition,Ford Motor Company engineers have provided input through design reviews and encouragementto the student body.References[1] D. McGraw, "My Job Lies Over the Ocean," in Prism, December 2003, pp. 25-29.[2] "Profile of an Engineer," Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education. [Online]. Available: http://www.tidee.wsu.edu/assets/engineer-profile.html[3] "2005-2006 Criteria for Accreditating Engineering Programs," Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology (ABET). [Online]. Available

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Murphy; Jamie Phillips

Mentoring Graduate Students In Engineering Education Through Team Teaching Jamie Phillips and Timothy Murphy The University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109AbstractThe preparation of science and engineering graduate students for careers in academia is ofconcern due to the lack of formal professional training in teaching required for new science andengineering faculty members. In this paper, a team teaching project resembling a teachinginternship is described. An undergraduate electrical engineering course was team taught by afaculty member and graduate student in the goal of preparing the graduate student for a futurecareer in academia. The

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malur Srinivasan

processes available for making the product using this material may then beconsidered and the best process chosen based on the technological and economic feasibilities ofthe process. Unfortunately this exercise is seldom simple on account of the enormous progress inthe development of materials and processes in recent times [1]. Fortunately, the monumentalwork done by Ashby and his associates [2] has paved the way for not only making these taskssimpler, but provide unambiguous guidelines for completing these tasks. A course with exampleshighlighting these aspects would be of great benefit to mechanical engineering students inlearning how to apply the knowledge in their profession. This paper was written as a preamblefor this goal.In this paper the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

Economics,” Journal of SMET Education, 4, 3&4 (2003).Biographical InformationKevin Dahm in an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. fromWorcester Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. Hiscurrent primary teaching interest is integrating process simulation throughout the chemical engineering curriculum,and he received the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award for work in this area.Ravi P. Ramachandran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atRowan University. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1990 and has worked at AT&T BellLaboratories and Rutgers University prior to joining Rowan

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Piechota; Shashi Nambisan

engineering education, is the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) programat Purdue University (http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu) that partners undergraduate students and localcommunity not-for-profit organizations to solve engineering-based problems in the communityService-learning is a type of experiential education where the students learn through "real-world"experiences that meet a community’s needs4. In the engineering curriculum, other forms ofexperiential learning include projects, clinics, internships, laboratory classes, field trips.Moreover, service-learning promotes student understanding of the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global/societal context, a requirement in the Accreditation Board of Engineeringand Technology (ABET

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei

An approach for in-class learning of mechanical engineering design subjects Arnaldo Mazzei Kettering University Mechanical Engineering Department 1700 West Third Av Flint, MI 48504 USAAbstractThe objective of this paper is to present a simple approach currently being used by the author forteaching mechanical engineering design courses at Kettering University.Most basic engineering design courses currently being taught at the university are four-creditcourses. These usually follow a format of two blocks (two hours

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian; Bruce Dunne; Andrew Blauch

Professor in the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing at GrandValley State University. He received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. His interests includedigital signal processing and communications systems.ANDREW J. BLAUCHAndrew J. Blauch is currently an Assistant Professor in the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing at GrandValley State University. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Messiah College, M.S. in Electrical andComputer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the PennsylvaniaState University. He has taught courses on digital systems

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; Barbara Masi; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

Learning, Spring 2004, pp. 21-33, 2004.6. E. Abes, G. Jackson, and S. Jones, “Factors that Motivate and Deter Faculty Use of Service-Learning,” MichiganJournal of Community Service Learning, Fall 2002, pp. 5-17, 2002.7. S. Adams and F. Pereira, “Measuring Faculty Preparation to Lead Teams in the Engineering Classroom: A PilotStudy,” Proceedings, 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2002.8. M. Zwyno, “Engineering Faculty Teaching Styles and Attitudes toward Student-Centered and Technology-Enabled Teaching Strategies,” Proceedings, 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, Nashville, TN, 2003.9. J. Mitchell, “Time Professors Spend Improving their Teaching,” Proceedings, 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers inEducation Conference, IEEE, Savannah

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IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

, with emphasis on human performance in occupationalenvironments, physical performance of special populations, technology and learning, and engineering educationfocusing on recruitment and retention. She can be contacted at rlshehab@ou.edu.TERI REED RHOADS is associate dean for education of the College of Engineering and assistant professorin the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include learning in theengineering classroom, web-based learning in statistics, cognitive and affective learning and their assessment, andrecruitment and retention focusing on successful students. She can be contacted at teri.rhoads@ou.edu.TERI J MURPHY is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the

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Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

, with emphasis on human performance in occupationalenvironments, physical performance of special populations, technology and learning, and engineering educationfocusing on recruitment and retention. She can be contacted at rlshehab@ou.edu.TERI REED RHOADS is associate dean for education of the College of Engineering and assistant professorin the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include learning in theengineering classroom, web-based learning in statistics, cognitive and affective learning and their assessment, andrecruitment and retention focusing on successful students. She can be contacted at teri.rhoads@ou.edu.TERI J MURPHY is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Ismail Orabi; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

2 3 4 514 Engineering graduates have no difficulty getting good jobs. 1 2 3 4 515 There is no real difference between work done by engineers and scientists. 1 2 3 4 516 Engineering has contributed greatly to fixing problems in the world. 1 2 3 4 517 On balance, technology has had a positive impact on the world. 1 2 3 4 518 I enjoy figuring out how things work. 1

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tia Sharpe; Robert Maher; James Peterson; James Becker; Bradford Towle

Development and Implementation of a Robot-based Freshman Engineering Course Robert C. Maher, James Becker, Tia Sharpe, James Peterson, and Bradford A. Towle Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717-3780 USA rob.maher@montana.eduAbstractWe describe the background and rationale for a new freshman course incorporating constructionand testing of a small mobile robot. The custom robot kit is assembled in stages as the novicestudents learn basic electrical principles, the terminal characteristics of circuit