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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

broadlearning helps persuade the student that engineers, the designers of technology, do not design ina vacuum and the products they create reflect their creators. Thus they learn that technology isnot neutral.4 Fourth, breadth encourages a focus on fundamentals that are broadly applicable.Even when the technological details change (as they frequently do), the student in full commandof fundamental principles is well prepared to tackle the next big thing, whatever it might be.Fifth, a broader experience prepares students to work in more than one area (perhaps evenoutside of engineering). In today’s work world, career changes are common, so this preparationcan be vital. In fact, employers who hire for a very narrow set of skills may consider thatemployee

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rafael Landaeta; Bryan Magary; William Peterson

Education”Opportunities abound for change. Some of the opportunities are basic to the teaching ofengineering. Others are discipline specific. Which ones do we embrace as a discipline? Wewould like to propose an in-depth look at the presentation of the discipline to the futurepractitioner in which we take a practitioner-centric view, take advantage of technology and thestudents’ comfort with it, and add-in those active learning elements which are most effect. Wesee this as an ambitious proposal but see it as critical to the health of teaching the discipline sothat its benefits are realized and applied.Bibliographic Information1. Young, Donovan, Modern Engineering Economy, John Wiley and Sons, 19932. Nenan, Donald G., Ted Eschenbach, and Jerome

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Leiffer

Five Curriculum Tools to Enhance Interdisciplinary Teamwork Paul R. Leiffer, R. William Graff, and Roger V. Gonzalez LeTourneau UniversityAbstractAn ability to function well in a multidisciplinary team has become an expectation of modernindustry and a major goal for engineering students. Since LeTourneau University offers a generalengineering degree with five concentrations, multi-disciplinary design projects naturally arise atall levels of the curriculum. Current capstone projects involve student teams from up to threeengineering disciplines, plus computer science, design technology, and marketing. Obstacles tomulti-disciplinary teamwork, including disciplinary competition

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Carol Hasenberg

and may inspire some of thestudents to pursue a design oriented career. Students are given the opportunity to explore theirown areas of interest in a two term, self selected and defined design project. The course is alsointended to soften the barrier of required technical courses that freshman technical students take,by welcoming the student into a learning community of design professionals. Students withinterest in science, technology and engineering find Design & Society far more attractive thanother FRINQ themes. Technical students, like any other university students, will also benefitfrom studying in a multidisciplinary setting. For example, engineering courses sometimesdiscuss social responsibility and ethics, but spending a full

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Virendra Varma

discipline. Itcompares the present-day BOK with the BOK of the future for construction engineeringstudents. It puts the construction engineering students at a level comparable to the levelof a civil engineering student. It defines the need for an integrated constructioncurriculum, and an integrated BOK for the future construction engineering students.Present-Day Body of Knowledge Taught in a BS-Level ConstructionEngineering/Technology DegreeConstruction professionals are builders. In recent years, the term constructor has beenused to define individuals who are builders, yet their expertise goes beyond that of homeor commercial builders. Constructors are essentially contractors who know how to buildunlike engineers who know ‘Why’ that goes with

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

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José O Valderrama; Carolina Ponce; Zenaida Otero Gephardt

Department at the Universidad de La Serena. Engineeringclinics were first developed at Rowan University. Students take an engineering clinic courseevery semester and work on projects in their junior and senior years. Some of these projects canrelate directly to courses or be industrial projects funded by regional and national companies.International collaborations offer students an excellent opportunity to experience the globalinteractions and technology exchanges. This is becoming more important as engineers are moreinvolved in the dynamics of the global economy.introduction and backgroundRowan University, as all institutions of higher education in the United States, strives to provide awell rounded engineering education. A well rounded education

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Mork; Leonard Bohmann

evaluation.Bibliographic Information1. Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program: Wind Powering America, U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/, 2005.2. U.S. Solar Radiation Resource Maps, National Renewable Energy Lab, Renewable Resource Data Center, http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/redbook/atlas/, 2005.3. Criteria For Accrediting Engineering Programs, ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission, November, 2003.4. EE 3120 Term Paper, Leonard J. Bohmann, Michigan Tech, http://www.ece.mtu.edu/faculty/ljbohman/Courses/3120F04/Wind_Design.htm, 2004.Biographical InformationLEONARD J. BOHMANN is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering with a

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramakanth Mandalika; Enno Koehn

Session : Curriculum Outcome Assesment using Subject Matter on the FE Examination. Enno “Ed” Koehn, Ramakanth Mandalika Lamar UniversityAbstract:In engineering education, assessment has become a major topic as a result of the adoption of EC2000 by The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). In particular, theutilization of a nationally-normed examination is one method recommended by the ABETcriteria1. In this regard, an effective and recognized tool for assessing engineering education is theFundamentals of Engineering (FE

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Kardys; Abraham Michelen

technology classes at HudsonValley Community College. Methods provide students new tools to deliver accurate partsfor design purposes. With Globalspec, users can search by specification more than 75million parts representing over 1.2 million product families from more than 13,000 suppliercatalogs. By using the Globalspec search capabilities and tools, engineers can savecountless of hours of non-productive time because there is no need to use the old way ofmanually searching for precise products attributes by browsing print or PDF catalog aftercatalog for many hours, in order to find the precise electronic part needed for my project.Often individual suppliers present their product specifications using different formats orterminology. On GlobalSpec

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kedmon Hungwe; Seyed Zekavat; Sheryl Sorby

theinterdisciplinary service course Introduction to Electrical Engineering for all non-EE majors atMichigan Technological University. The curriculum optimizes the current 3-credit service courseby addressing: (1) the general needs of all majors through in-class lectures and lab experiments,and (2) special needs of all majors by designing a web-based teaching and lab system. In order tospecify the general and special needs of non-EE majors and form an overall curriculum for them,a survey was designed and distributed to universities and industry. Faculty members, studentsand industrial personnel responded to the survey. This work presents an analysis of the surveyand describes a preliminary overall curriculum for this course

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

employees at the start of their career.Introduction:Engineering education in the Arab Gulf States (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, United ArabEmirates, Qatar, and Sultanate of Oman) faces many challenges today. Changes in the externalenvironment (e.g. reduced funding, increased costs, demands by industry for well-seasonedgraduates, and rapid advances in technology) coupled with the quest for educational relevance inundergraduate engineering, are forcing colleges of engineering in the Region (the Arab GulfStates) to “rethink” engineering education and to undertake constructive steps towards reformingthe current systems 1,2,3,4The higher education arena interacts in a complex way with a variety of external partners whoserole, participation, and

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

Approaches to Undergraduate Instruction in Computer Security Luiz Felipe Perrone†, Maurice Aburdene‡, and Xiannong Meng† † Dept. of Computer Science / ‡Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Bucknell UniversityAbstractAlthough economies of scale have turned the networked computer into a commodity, its usabilityat large is determined by the levels of security and privacy the technology can offer. Thisphenomenon has created a new landscape in which the demand for trained professionals incomputer security is extremely high. Colleges and universities are still adapting to this realityand different approaches to computer security instruction are being used throughout

Conference Session

Vendor Partnerships with Engineering Libraries

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charles Paulsen; Amy Van Epps; Lisa Dunn; Jay Bhatt

are encouraged toensure participants understand the technology, and short assignments reinforce learning. Knovelworks with librarians to promote these sessions and continues the dialogue with attendeesafterward. On-site demonstrations are one of the most effective ways to educate users about newtechnologies and new content. The Information Services Librarian for Engineering at DrexelUniversity will discuss Knovel's use of on-site workshops to promote electronic engineeringinformation awareness. Librarians at smaller institutions often do not have the time andresources to devote to a full-scale on-site workshop. They need an "out-of-the-box" solution thatis quick to deploy with an interface that is self-evident to users. Complete integration

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Crowe; Kris Wood; Richard Crawford; Daniel Jensen

An Evaluation of the DTEACh Robolab Summer Institute for 2004 – Assessment of Instructional and Hands-on Learning Correlated with MBTI types Dan Jensen Kris Wood & Rich Crawford Kathleen Crowe US Air Force Academy Univ. of Texas, Austin Technology Coordinator Dept of Engr Mechanics Dept. of Mechanical Engr. Pflugerville Independent Dan.jensen@usafa.af.mil School District1. Overview of the InstituteDuring a 2 week period the summer of 2004, the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) hosted theDTEACh ROBOLAB Automation and Control Institute. The institute is sponsored by NationalInstruments; the maker of

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rick Homkes; Henry Kraebber; Donna Evanecky

Analysis. Quality Press: Milwaukee, WI.7 Bowles, J., & Wan, C. (2001). Software failure modes and effects analysis for a small embedded control system. 2001 Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. IEEE: Washington, DC.8 Pressman, R. (2001). Software engineering: A practitioner’s approach. McGraw Hill: New York, NY.9 Recommended Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for non-automotive applications. (2000-10-18). Aerospace Recommended Practice ARP5580. SAE: Warrendale, PA.Biographical InformationRick Homkes is an associate professor of Computer Technology for the Purdue University College of Technologysite at Kokomo, Indiana. He has participated as a faculty intern for many years at Delphi Electronics

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Farison

pm Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs 1671 4:30 - 6:00 pm Business Meeting Tuesday, June 22 2171 7:00 - 8:15 am Multidisciplinary Programs: A Look Ahead 2471 12:30 - 2:00 pm Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by DesignThe business meeting, chaired by Dr. Gosink, was attended by 9 members. The following werethe primary items of business: Dr. Gosink announced that, on Sunday, June 20, the ASEE Board of Directors had approved the concept of assuming the role of “Lead Society” for “EAC programs in engineering (without modifiers), engineering physics, and engineering science(s), and TAC programs in engineering technology (without modifiers).” The ASEE

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Virgilio Gonzalez; Ahmed Musa; Mehdi Shadaram

Development of a Communications Course Integrating a Virtual Laboratory and Complex Simulations Virgilio Gonzalez, Ahmed Musa Assistant Professor/ Student, ECE, University of Texas at El Paso Mehdi Shadaram Professor and Chairman, EE, University of Texas at San AntonioAbstractFaculty in the Electrical Engineering Department at UTEP created a new course incommunications to complement the preparation of students in advanced technologies. Theyimplemented a cost-effective solution by the construction of a computer-based laboratory formodeling and simulation of communication systems linked with a customized lecture. Thecourse

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Lagace; Earll Murman

Aircraft System Design Graduate Curriculum: A Lifecycle Focus Earll M. Murman, Paul A. Lagacé Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Engineering Systems Division Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139AbstractAircraft system design encompasses technical, social and lifecycle topics, and is suitable forgraduate studies at the masters level and beyond. Several degree programs in MIT’s School ofEngineering offer opportunities for students seeking subjects and degrees in this area. Theseprograms are summarized, and one subject on

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Guidera

Session ____ Assessing applications for Solid Modeling (CSG) in Architectural education Dr. Stan G. Guidera College of Technology Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Abstract This paper discusses the functionality of solid modeling and proposes approaches toutilizing solid modeling to develop course content that emphasizes the conceptual applications ofcomputer modeling over application-specific CAD coursework. More importantly, the paperdiscusses

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

made.Students completed a short pre-test intended to measure basic understanding and a post-testcomposed of three parts: the pre-test repeated, more complex questions similar to a traditionaltest, and module specific "near-transfer" questions. On all three test sections, the experimentalgroup significantly outperformed the control group (p<0.02) as measured by ANCOVA in the2003-2004 school year. Additional field test studies are underway in the 2004-2005 school year.These results indicate that this biomedical engineering curriculum appears to have a positiveeffect on students' ability to master and apply fluid dynamics.IntroductionThe VaNTH Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies isfunded by the National Science

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kishore Sirvole; Jennifer Mullins; Jeff Kaeli; Jason Snook; Hayden Griffin; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

appreciated.Bibliography[1] Engineering Workforce Commission Report. 2002. "Engineering & Technology Degrees." Report from theAmerican Association of Engineering Societies Inc.[2] Personal Communication with Dr.Wanda Dann, Ithaca College, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York.[3] Papert, S., MindStorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. New York: Basic Books, 1980[4] Wanda Dann, Stephen Cooper, Randy Pausch: Making the Connection: ProgrammingWith Animated Small World. Proceedings of the 5th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation andtechnology in computer science education. Helsinki, Finland, July, 2000.[5] Byron Weber Becker: Teaching CS1 with Karel the Robot in Java. SIGCSE 2001 2/01 Charlotte, NC, USA[6] Richard Zaccone, Stephen Cooper

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

Evolution of a Freshman Software Tools Class Garth E. Thomas Jr., Michael V. Minnick, Dianchen Gang Chemical and Civil Engineering Departments Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136AbstractThree years ago, the Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering replaced a traditionalprogramming course for engineers with an applied software tools course. This course wasexpected to better prepare the students for later courses as well as develop skills that would beuseful in their professional careers. Students learn the basics of Excel

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

decisions. Speakers from ASCE and ASEE were also added. The ASCE presentation included information on the submission process of articles to ASCE journals, a topic of great interest to untenured faculty. Information was also given on the availability of Page 10.929.8 ASEE summer research fellowships for young faculty. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education”Question eight post-workshop results indicate that 2001 participants were more aware ofimportant technology growth areas than

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McDonald

, pp. 1-5.Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC), Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs Page 10.1392.102005-2006, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., November 1, 2004,http://www.abet.org.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationGunn, D. Wayne, Corleto, Carlos R. and Kimball, Jorja L. The Portfolio As a Tool to Evaluateand Assess the Effectiveness of a First-Year Integrated Engineering Curriculum, 1997 Frontiersin Education Conference, p. 1114.Joint Task

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Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

, national, and international levelsand locations around the world in need of “smart” technical assistance. We are achieving thisgoal through the development of a comprehensive humanitarian engineering curriculum thatteaches engineering students how to bring technical knowledge and skill to bear on the real-world problems of the less materially advantaged in order to promote development of thecommon good. We focus on our existing strengths -- in energy systems, geotechnical andgeoenvironmental engineering, remote sensing, signal processing, and image processing, andnew technologies for “Sustainable Engineering,” and in emerging engineering disciplinesincluding, bioengineering, information systems, and micro-nano systems. These capabilities

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

Circuit-X: Circuit Analysis meets the X Files Glen E. Archer, Leonard J. Bohmann Michigan Technological UniversityCircuits education is one of the cornerstones in educating an electrical engineer. AsDavis points out1 there is a need to relate analysis skills to the real world. Other authorshave done this by incorporating design into the circuits lab2, 3, 4 or by integratingcomputer tools into the lab5, 6. An additional strategy is to challenge the students with acircuit identification task, one where they have to design test procedures and from theresults synthesize the unknown circuit. Most lab experiences consist of opportunities tobuild circuits from homework problems

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

higher education.1 Its reporthas just been released and it notes: Global leadership in higher education by American colleges and universities—a hallmark during the past century—is increasingly at risk, ironically by the very forces our institutions helped to create. Advances in technology and Page 10.423.1 telecommunications and a remaking of the global economy have created a world Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society of Engineering Education in which interdisciplinary, cross-border

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Anderton; Karim Salman

the way our methodology is implemented. The CPU is implemented on anAltera FPGA/CPLD Flex10K device using schematic approach with the AlteraMAX+Plus II software CAD. The design was simulated and tested using Altera UP2board.IntroductionCPU design for engineering/engineering technology students varied widely in objectivesand approach1-7. For a long time, block diagrams of simple CPUs have been used inbeginning computer courses, mainly to allow students to visualize how a CPU functions.To meet this need, many textbook authors1,6,7 have devised simple CPUs at the blockdiagram level to illustrate how instructions are executed and data are manipulated.Obviously, omitting many of the circuit details allows an overall understanding that isusually

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Technology andCommunication areas of the Design World standards are addressed here.EvaluationSeven high school juniors and seniors were invited to work on a paid basis with the project team30 hours/week for a period of two weeks. Prospective participants were informed of the projectby their science teachers and were required to fill out an application form that included a brief Page 10.1239.7essay. Selection was based on student essays and teacher recommendations. No information Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society

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Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodor Richardson; Jed Lyons

of the time devoted to thetechnology. This paper will present and discuss the complete decision process of creating thesoftware as well as a thorough analysis of the success or failure in meeting the gatheredrequirements and evaluating the student testing. The information gathered in this study is used tocreate a reusable template for educational software engineering and evaluation that can beapplied to software specific to the elementary classroom environment.1. IntroductionA growing area of focus for teachers in all fields and at all educational levels is the incorporationof technology into classroom instruction. Though educational software is available, its use andincorporation into the classroom is not always guaranteed or successful. In