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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Cook; Jim Lyons; Kenneth Gentili

critical thinking. He has won numerous teaching and service awards.JIM LYONSJim Lyons worked for the Boeing Company for seven years and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation for thirty-one years as an engineer and engineering manager before retiring in 1999. In 2001 he began a second career as anengineering instructor at Green River Community College and Tacoma Community College. He is an activeparticipant in developing and testing curriculum and assessment tools in engineering design.MARY COOK Page 10.527.7Mary Cook is the Course Manager for the Introduction to Engineering Design at the University of Washington, atruly

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Nutter

10.1455.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationProgram BackgroundOhio Northern University (ONU) is a private, comprehensive, United Methodist affiliated, liberalarts university with approximately 3300 students. The ONU Department of TechnologicalStudies is in the College of Arts and Sciences, and prepares students for careers in professional,technical fields throughout industry and education. Graduates of this program are ideally suitedfor advancement into management and leadership positions in industrial organizations.Technology BS degree concentrations include advanced manufacturing, construction

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Anna Lambert; Aaron Robinson; Charles Camp; Jeff Marchetta; Laura Lackey; Stephanie Ivey

science, mathematics, and engineering.” Report of the Wingspread Conference. Racine: WI, 1989. 9. Kolb, D. Learning Style Inventory. Boston, MA: McBer & Co., 1985. 10. Kolb, D. A. Learning style inventory technical manual. Boston, MA: McBer and Co., 1976. 11. Perry, W.G. Forms of Ethical and Intellectual Development in the College Years: A Scheme. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999. 12. Cross, P.A., and Faulkner, P. The Learning Style Inventory: Convergent validity study in an applied career setting. Public Service Commission of Canada: PPC, 2004. 13. Kolb, D. A. Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. 14. Philbin

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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

Teaching and Learning Program andLaboratory. She received her Ph.D. in environmental health physics and toxicology from Purdue University. Shespent the first 13 years of her career in leadership positions in the energy and software industries, and served nineyears as the director of a CU water resources engineering simulation and optimization research center.MALINDA SCHAEFER ZARSKE is the curriculum outreach coordinator for the Integrated Teaching and LearningProgram’s K-12 Engineering Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former middle and high schoolmath and science teacher, she received her MAT in secondary science from Johns Hopkins University and her MS incivil engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

and faculty busy withnon-student work during prescribed office hours. In one case, a negative interaction with afaculty member during office hours had shaped a female student's career path. She changed hermajor to IE because a faculty member in her former major offended her by suggesting that she"wouldn’t want to work [and that she] would maybe want to stay home and have kids".In contrast, several participants compared the student-centered attitude of the IE faculty to their Page 10.1268.6experiences with faculty in other departments. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Macy Reynolds

for their learning problems inaddition to the content instruction they so often receive. Finally, gifted students with learningdisabilities must understand their unique pattern of academic and learning strengths as well asweaknesses in order to learn to compensate for these discrepancies.” Page 10.145.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Can these students perform in engineering careers?It is not uncommon for faculty to look at students with learning problems and wonder if theyreally

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Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Mullett

design, open-ended problem solving, development ofmanagement and communications skills, professional development, and career-long learning areall included in this call for change. This response was in reaction to a perceived need to correct adecade’s long emphasis on engineering science that occurred post-World War II tilting theengineering education field away from engineering practice and the new realities of a globaleconomy that demands skill sets not emphasized at the time. In a similar manner, the technicaleducation community at the two-year college level has, in a synergistic manner, started toembrace similar elements of the Scans report [3] (usually, problem solving skills and life-longlearning) with efforts to infuse these so-called

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Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Joslyn

Space” experience while at the Air Force Academy. Theexposure to solving ill defined problems in the FalconLAUNCH program prepares themfor the challenges of a professional military career. The lessons learned and pride ofownership in the program are the finishing touches on officers joining the cadre of spaceprofessionals who make the United States Air Force the world’s preeminent air and spacepower. That being said, there is no reason why a similar program at a civilian universitycouldn’t provide the same systems engineering capstone experience to theirundergraduate or graduate programs so valuable to young engineers embarking on theircareers.VII. AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge the contributions to the success of this

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Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bruce Thompson

value they found in thethesis, it had become a major barrier to graduation. Many students who had satisfied the courserequirements did not have the degree because of the thesis. This problem was converted to acrisis in the 1990's by two decisions. The first was a campaign to model thesis requirements onthose typical of programs aimed at preparing their students for a career in academic research andteaching. The second was a policy prohibiting academic credit for paid work, eliminating thesesbased on issues at the student’s employer. Students came to regard the thesis as an unscalablebarrier. The employer of the largest number of students threatened to stop supporting theprogram upon discovering that none of its employees had graduated in the

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New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

. Demographic information about the engineers and their workplace contexts arepresented in Table 1. The interview focused on a single job or project that had beencompleted by the engineer during their career. We made no attempt to influence the nature ofthe story that was recalled. We asked questions regarding the engineers’ academicpreparation, the organizational context in which they worked, the nature of the project, howthey analyzed and represented the problem, how they generated solutions, and howsuccessfully the job was completed. A total of 98 interviews were transcribed (technicaldifficulties affected the remainder).Engineering education: civil (39), electrical (18), chemical (10), mechanical (13), structural(5), industrial, nuclear (1), other

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Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Phillip Cornwell; Richard Layton

Cognitive Domain,” New York: McKay, 1956.PHILLIP CORNWELLPhillip Cornwell is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received hisPh.D. from Princeton University in 1989 and his present interests include structural dynamics, structural healthmonitoring, and undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Cornwell has received an SAE Ralph R. TeetorEducational Award in 1992, and the Dean’s Outstanding Teacher award at Rose-Hulman in 2000.RICHARD LAYTONRichard Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelveyears in consulting engineering, culminating as a group

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Harold Evensen; Paula Zenner; Edward Lumsdaine

in terms of tenure-track teaching and for promotion and tenure. Unfortunately, these constraints would most likelyexclude young faculty trying to build their careers in research. On the other hand, engineeringexperience is a valuable asset. This type of teaching is a great opportunity for faculty who arenot ready to retire and want to try something new—an enterprise that leaves room for new waysof doing things—in other words, an application of creative problem solving.References1 W.R. Shapton, P.F. Zenner, W.W. Predebon, J.W. Sutherland, M.A. Banks-Sikarskie, L.A. Artman and P.A. Lins, “From the Classroom to the Boardroom: Distance Learning Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Programs— A Global Partnership of Industry and

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2005 Annual Conference

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Theo Brower; Meredith Knight; Chris Rogers

at Purdue University by having ashorter project duration (2 vs. 4 years) and a smaller, more intimate team (5-10 vs. 8-20)where there is limited vertical integration. The creation of the Robotics Academy was motivated by the desire to help juniorsand seniors develop personal and interpersonal skills, which are essential for successfulprofessional careers. To this end, we want to answer three main questions: First, doessolving a “real world problem” help motivate students learning? Second, does engagingin an interdisciplinary, student-led project allow students to develop personal andinterpersonal skills more effectively than traditional coursework? Third, what are theimpacts of participation in the Robotics Academy? These

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Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jill Lane; Sarah Rzasa; Richard Behr; Christine Masters

related to engineering.At mid-semester, approximately 73% (n=243) felt that the course helped to see the relevance ofstatics to their future career. This was very similar to the perceptions in the second survey, forwhich 72% (n=280) agreed or strongly agreed.At mid-semester, approximately 56% (n=189) of the students felt that the software exerciseshelped to understand the connection of statistics with engineering. At the end of the semester,students’ perceptions had increased somewhat. A total of 239 (62%) agreed or strongly agreedthat the software exercises had helped their understanding. Approximately 52% of the studentsfound that the physical lab had also helped their understanding on the second survey. This wassimilar to the responses on the

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Matthew Panhans; Joseph Musto; William Howard

The Engineer of 2020, biological applications offer a potential career path for the“next generation” engineer. Whether at the level of bioengineering (tissue engineering, drugdelivery), biomedical devices (pumps, filters), or bio-inspired applications (bio-inspiredcomputing), a further convergence of traditional engineering and the life sciences is expected1.ASME echoes this sentiment, implying that biology “warrants formal recognition as a foundationscience of mechanical engineering along with chemistry and physics”.2 While this has not yetbeen reflected in the Mechanical Engineering program-specific requirements by ABET4, whichstill require only “chemistry and calculus-based physics”, it is reasonable to assume that abiology requirement may

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Rosalind Hale; Renee Akbar; Ramona Travis; John Fulwiler

aspect of the Institute.The definition of PBL that was used was taken from Dr. Howard Barrows and Ann Kelson ofSouthern Illinois University School of Medicine (www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl/info.html). “PBL is both a curriculum and a process. The curriculum consists of carefully selected and designed problems that demand from the learner acquisition of critical knowledge, problem solving proficiency, self-directed learning strategies, and team participation skills. The process replicates the commonly used systematic approach to resolving problems or meeting challenges that are encountered in life and career.”Each group had to design a lesson from the problem that was provided. The problem includedskills

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Bertozzi

School in the annual FIRST robotics competition. In this program companies and colleges help high school students build robots for regional and national competitions in an effort to help them realize how exciting careers in science, engineering, and technology can be. The competition rules are generally unveiled on the first Saturday in January, after which time

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Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nathan Klingbeil

Education and Centers, under program solicitation NSF-03-562,"Department Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education," Grant Number EEC-0343214. This work has also been supported by the College of Engineering & ComputerScience and the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Wright State University.Bibliography1. Adelman, Clifford, 1998, "Women and Men of the Engineering Path: A Model for Analyses of Undergraduate Careers," U.S. Department of Education Report, May, 1998. Page 10.1340.112. Pomalaza-Raez, C. and Henry Groff, B., 2003, "Retention 101: Where Robots Go... Students Follow," Journal of

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Lamancusa; Laura L. Pauley; Thomas Litzinger

important that the students graduating from our program have the skills required to seek answers and learn on their own. An engineer’s education must continue throughout his or her career.2.a. New and emerging technologies. Give students increased flexibility to focus elective courses or pursue a minor in areas important to the current industry needs: MEMS, nanotechnology, biotechnology, automotive, fuel cells, health science, etc. One way to increase the flexibility in the curriculum, for example, is to reduce the number of required ME core courses and create a four-credit advanced engineering course option. Some topics currently being considered for the advanced engineering course include Manufacturing for Designers

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Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

beparticularly attractive to engineers interested in making a career change, a group that has alwaysshown interest in TE, but has not heretofore had access to a licensure program tailored to theirspecific needs. Engineers choosing this option will be ideally suited to carry out the goals andideals outlined by the mission statement for the ASEE’s new K12 Engineering EducationDivision, as well as those enumerated in great detail in the ITEA’s Standards for TechnologicalLiteracy: Content for the Study of Technology.The TEMLP is an intense 15-month program, with full time coursework throughout twosummers and the academic year between. Students beginning in May earn a masters degree andTechnology Education licensure the following summer. Their coursework

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Board; April Brown; Joseph Holmes; Hisham Massoud; Steven Cummer; Jungsang Kim; Michael Gustafson; Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel; Gary Ybarra

Page 10.1341.9interdisciplinary, goals [7]. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The final three courses in the revised curriculum will consist of two track-specific coursesand one track-independent design elective. The track-specific courses will be chosen bystudents to complement their career goals. While development of these track-specificcourses is not a primary component of this application, such courses may emerge as thenew core curriculum is developed. The track-independent elective will be an advancedcourse, ECE Design, that will provide hands-on experience with real-world applications ofECE

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Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Moore; Mary Raber

of global markets and competition • demonstrated management skills and a strong business senseMany of these skills and expertise are not easily taught within a traditional classroom setting. Infact most, if not all, of these abilities are best developed in practice. With the EnterpriseProgram, MTU has created a new and different experience designed to educate and preparegraduating engineers for more productive and successful careers. The Enterprise Curriculum isoffered as a 20-credit minor or a 12-credit concentration, typically completed over two to three-years. The curriculum is two-pronged and consists of 1) participation in the operation of abusiness (project work) and 2) completion of concentrated course material

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IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

improvedupon.Motivation and InspirationIn teaching any course, much of what is developed and tried with students comes from our ownclassroom experiences, from talking to other faculty about teaching, and from receiving feedbackfrom students, both verbal and non-verbal. In addition, attendance at teaching workshops andconferences that focus on teaching inspires growth. Recently in my teaching career, manycolleagues started to use the term active learning. The workshop run by NETI solidified someideas – In-Class Teams, Problem Based Learning Exercises, Group Work – and added some newmethods to some already in use. Work on active learning [3], [5] describes how students learn.Half of the four-part learning cycle is “feeling” (Concrete experience) and “doing

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Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

improvedupon.Motivation and InspirationIn teaching any course, much of what is developed and tried with students comes from our ownclassroom experiences, from talking to other faculty about teaching, and from receiving feedbackfrom students, both verbal and non-verbal. In addition, attendance at teaching workshops andconferences that focus on teaching inspires growth. Recently in my teaching career, manycolleagues started to use the term active learning. The workshop run by NETI solidified someideas – In-Class Teams, Problem Based Learning Exercises, Group Work – and added some newmethods to some already in use. Work on active learning [3], [5] describes how students learn.Half of the four-part learning cycle is “feeling” (Concrete experience) and “doing

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William White; George Engel; Cen Karacal; Ai-ping Hu; Jerry Weinberg

; Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationabout having taken the course, as well as strong positive feelings regarding the benefits of havingdone so. A number of students from each discipline expressed the opinion that this course pro-vided them with the most practical experience of any course thus far in their college careers.5. Future Work and EnhancementsThe multidisciplinary robotics design course will be taught again in Spring 2005. The assign-ments and course material shall be altered to reflect the student feedback and instructor percep-tions of what did and did not succeed in the pilot version of the course.5.1 Lab Assignment RestructuringA common complaint from students in the pilot

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IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hartmann

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ann Marie Flynn

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Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pierre G. Lafleur; Jean-Paul Bailon; Bernard Clément

Journal of Educational technology, Vol. 30, n° 4, pp. 323-329,1999.[5] GROW Gerald, Teaching Learners to be Self-Directed, Adult Education Quaterly, vol. 41, n° 3, Spring1991, pp. 125-149.[6] CANDY Philip C., Reframing research into “self-direction”: A constructivist perspective. DoctoralDissertation, University of British Columbia. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, Canadian Theses, Microfiche: 0-315-40011-0, 1987.8. BiographiesJean-Paul BAÏLON is full professor of materials science in the dept. of Mechanical Eng. at Ecole Polytechnique ofMontréal. He is a co-author of a book entitled “Des Matériaux” (see ref. [1]) and, during his career of teacher, he hasexplored several approaches for improving the efficiency of teaching (lap

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Anthony; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

,supplemented by issues such a contributions to the community, diversity and so on. For examplepart of BYU’s mission statement is, “BYU seeks to develop students of faith, intellect, andcharacter who have the skills and the desire to continue learning and to serve others throughouttheir lives.”7 MIT’s mission statement is “The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge andeducate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve thenation and the world in the 21st century.”8 RIT’s statement of vision is, “RIT will lead highereducation in preparing students for successful careers in a global society.”9 These institutionalstatements are broad and reflect the character of the institution. They seldom include any detailsof

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New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

Fun, good atmosphere Enjoyable 10 Interesting I like when the material learnt is interesting To stay on the central topic but have enough diversions to keep the subject interesting Just thorough information, but not too much to bore me 11 Obtain a better understanding of the material Forces you to learn, but helps you learn it 12 Useful Use it later in my career Take away more than just the skills from the course Course that can change the way you look at people Course that can change the way you work with people You are