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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fazil Najafi

E-mail: fnaja@ce.ufl.edu And Alex E. S. Green Graduate Research Professor Emeritus ICAAS, CLEAN COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (CCTL) College of Engineering, University of Florida Weill Hall Rm 577 PO Box 116550, Gainesville, Florida 32611-6580 Phone: (352)392-2001 E-mail: aesgreen@ufl.edu Natural gas prices have increased significantly in the past four years. Natural gasaccounts for almost a quarter of the United States’ energy consumption. The increase in naturalgas prices may create an economic problem in the U.S. economy and the university’s budgetdeficits. The

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Hvid Nielsen

of basic research.That means, if a university leans against enterprise projects alone, the basic research together withthe students training in fundamental scientific methods will come to starve.As mentioned above, we are dealing with two different worlds, the life in an industrial enterpriseand in academia with different goals, criteria and success and reward systems. But, there is potentialsynergy in using industry as laboratories for lecturing, projects and research.A traditional contribution is a set of proposed decisions that represent an appropriate solution to awell-defined problem. However, an equally significant contribution may be structuring a complexissue and the pointing out of appropriate options available, leaving it to the

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marijke Kehrhahn; Kelli Vallieres; Alexandra Bell; Nicholas Massa

were to the contentsection, although learners also tended to share their classroom experiences in this section.Among a sampling of 150 postings, we found the majority of statements were characteristic oflearners sharing their classroom experiences; for example, “I use the Slinky demonstration in myclassroom when demonstrating waves.” Moreover, participants were more eager to responddirectly to the instructor’s technical questions, but did periodically offer suggestions to otherparticipants for additional resources such as websites, applets, and laboratory experiments. Whileseveral attempts were made by the instructor throughout the semester to get participants toengage in more learner-to-learner discussions in an effort to facilitate

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

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Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

provide thecritiques. Ultimately, the participant who taught the class provides a self-assessment. Eachparticipant receives a videotape containing all of his or her classes and critiques recorded forfuture reference.Social Events: While much of the evening time is spent in class preparation, social events weredeliberately planned to promote interaction, collaboration and the sharing of ideas. Anintroductory banquet, a Hudson River cruise, morning/afternoon snack breaks and lunches aredesigned as important learning activities.While the laboratory exercises and the demonstration classes are consistently rated as the mostvaluable activities, there are two seminar topics that standout in both the immediate and longterm workshop critiques

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TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

both traditional and onlinecourses. For purposes of this paper, the term traditional refers to a typical college course wherethe instructor and students meet face-to-face in a classroom or laboratory at the same time in asynchronous fashion. Similarly, the term online refers to a course where material is prepared byan instructor (including audio, video, and written formats) and presented to the student over theInternet in an asynchronous fashion. The student can access the class from any Internet-enabledcomputer at any time, and the student learns from the course material on his or her own. Theauthors have no experience with courses presented through TV or synchronous web courses, sono comments directed towards those types of courses will be

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Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

least two of the three classes in the learningcommunity core in order to participate. Listed below are the course links for the first-yearstudents in agricultural engineering (AE).AE First-Year Learning Community Core Fall 1999 – Fall 2003 • Engr 101 (R cr.)† Engineering Orientation for AE Students • Engr 170 (3 cr.) Engineering Graphics and Design • Engl 104 (3 cr.) First-Year Composition I (course link with Engr 170) Spring 2000 – Spring 2004 • A E 110 (1 cr.) Experiencing Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering • Engr 160 (3 cr.) Engineering Problem Solving with Computational Laboratory • Engl 105 (3 cr.) First-Year Composition II (course link with AE 110

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Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

university classes that are unfriendly to them,impeding their learning. The absence of women faculty and mentors both within the classroomand outside of it, few women students in their classes, and the lack of supportive networks cancreate a “chilly climate” for women in non-traditional fields. It is during this critical period thatmany of them transfer into other fields.12, 5 , 13Research suggests that female students are most concerned about isolation, the perceivedirrelevance of theoretical preparatory courses, negative experiences in laboratory courses,classroom climate, and lack of role models.14 Other studies have suggested that the differentlearning styles of women may influence their desire to enter engineering or technology

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; George Wright; Joseph Morgan

asthe director of the Mobile Integrated Solutions Laboratory discussed a project known as LDIS, orLocation Dependent Information System. The concept for LDIS was originally conceived as a solution for creating self-guidedtours. The principle is fairly simple and is depicted in Figure 1. Someone interested in touringthe Texas A&M campus could check out an iPAQ equipped with a radio frequency interrogator.As they tour the campus, they could point the interrogator at sites to get information about them.Each building and landmark on the campus would be equipped with an RF tag that could respondto interrogation with a unique URL. The iPAQ would then use wireless network capability tolook up the URL and access information about the

Conference Session

Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Sullivan

in the materials course. Page 10.836.12. Background and GoalsCurrently the mechanical engineering dept. at the Virginia Military Institute offers anintroductory material science course for their second year students, during the fallsemester. The course begins with an over view of material properties and introduceselastic and plastic deformation, as well as brittle fracture. This first section of the courseemphasizes the characterization of material behavior via material properties, and isbacked up with extensive laboratory experimentation, (e.g. tensile tests, torsion tests,charpy impact tests). The next section of the course goes beyond

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaishalee Naruka; Stephen Raper; William Daughton

.” Page 10.1150.5Looking at the Engineering Management curriculum it became clear that they indeed take basicengineering courses just like most engineers. Robert Shaw, past president of the Engineering Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationInstitute of Canada said, “I believe, that the key mission of the engineer in these radicallychanging times is to improve productivity. He must provide the energy and tools we need; hemust innovate, research, develop and transfer technology from the laboratory bench to field andfactory.” (5) And this is exactly what the engineering management program is

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

Communication, 2001, 15(1), 5-28.BiographyNADIA CRAIG is currently conducting research in the Laboratory for Sustainable Solutions while completing herPh.D. in mechanical engineering. Her research interests include engineering education, sustainable design, andcomplex systems science. Her dissertation, “Integrating Complex Systems Study into Engineering Education”involves benchmarking engineering education in the US against Australia and developing a way to incorporatecomplex systems study into engineering education. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’sGraduate Research Fellowship.Dr. NANCY THOMPSON, Professor Emerita in the University of South Carolina English Department, is Co-PI andDirector of the Research Communications Studio in

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ken Wild; Constance Holden; Karen Horton

the Park during the spring term of 2004.Holden and Horton successfully proposed a three-credit service learning course to the Divisionof Lifelong Learning at UM to be offered as a Continuing Education (CED) course during thespring 2004 term. CED courses are open to all students. The course was numbered MET220and titled CAD Modeling of Archeological Structures. CED courses must be offered after 4:00pm. The course was scheduled in a computer laboratory four hours per week, Monday andThursday from 4:30 to 6:30. A three-credit CED course supports the faculty member overloadwith eight percent additional salary; by team teaching the course in addition to their regularclasses Horton and Holden each earned an additional four percent salary.Wild

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Valerie Grash; Andrew Rose

future.Suggested Improvements and Advice on Seeking Opportunities for CollaborationSeveral improvements that might have heightened the experience discussed in this paper arebeing considered by the authors. Although the field trip was open to all students, it was notpublicized well to the civil engineering technology students, and as a result, none took advantageof the opportunity. Encouraging students to attend the field trip may have improved the learning Page 10.812.7experience for the engineering students. For the fine arts class, incorporating a laboratory Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

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Toni Doolen; Rungchat Chompu-inwai

. 2 ο ο- Manufacturing system design. 4 • ο- Laboratory experience. 2

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Powell

significance level of α = 0.05 there is also at least one differenceamong the three populations. Page 10.793.9 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”4.2.6 Industrial ApplicationNext, we measured whether students realized the application of their academic pursuits toindustry. John Wayne Airport, Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Department ofthe Army G-3 Prioritization Office, and American International Group are examples of clientorganizations that presented projects for cadets to work

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Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Loker

Page 10.1071.1course which emphasizes an introduction to analog communication techniques. The secondprerequisite is a junior level measurements and instrumentation course which introduces "Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education"LabVIEW.1 LabVIEW is a graphical software programming language that was used for dataacquisition. The senior telecommunications systems course emphasizes voice and datacommunications techniques. There are approximately seven laboratory experiments coveredwithin this course. Each of the experiments utilizes LabVIEW and typically requires two weeksto complete. As part of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Gregg

the Director of Virginia Tech’s Green Engineering Program. He is an AssociateProfessor in the Department of Engineering Education, a former chair of ASEE’s FreshmanPrograms Division, and a co-founder of Virginia Tech’s Frith Freshman Laboratory. He hasconsiderable experience in computer aided design and manufacturing and pursues interests insustainability and engineering education. Page 10.677.9 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005. American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Macy Reynolds

class with assignments and due dates, present material, summarize material in the last few minutes of class.4. If you have some good mnemonic tricks to learn material, teach them to the students.5. Provide plenty of examples when teaching new concepts.6. If possible, allow students to start homework in class to allow for questions and clarification.In the Lab1. Provide an orientation to the laboratory on the first meeting day to familiarize the students with the name, purpose, and safety issues of each piece of equipment.2. Provide checklists for using machines with multi-step operations and include any results they will see if they use it correctly.3. Compliment areas of strength in student's lab work as much as

Conference Session

Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

-disciplinary teams, the department has abandoned its Senior Research class (used since theinception of the program) and developed an artificial project that incorporates a “real-world” feelwhich integrates the three disciplines of environmental, structural, and site development into oneunified design team. A complete description of the three classes and the interaction between thecourses is described in Black et al.1. Page 10.724.1In addition to an overhaul of the entire course, the pedagogy of the environmental engineeringcapstone class was changed from a traditional direct instruction format and laboratory class to aself-directed problem based

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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Drnevich

Purdue Airport 2 Bowen Civil0 Interchange at 0 Large Scale 0 Terminal Facility 0 Engineering Lab0 I65/SR26 0 laboratory 0 Alternates for 0 Expansion of0 SR 26 and US- 1 Reworking Mackey 2 Mackey Arena 3 Mackey Arena 52 Improvement Arena2 US 231 2 Menards Home Page 10.1323.20 Relocation 0 Supply Mega Store0 Eval. of Mackey 04 Arena Proposals 5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005

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MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Benjamin Flores; Jana Renner Martinez; Ann Darnell

of the Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE) project at UTEP. Components of theproject are based on Tinto’s[1] longitudinal model of individual departure that can be analyzed interms of a student’s pre-entry attributes, intentions, goals, and commitments, institutionalexperiences, and integration to academic and campus social life. The Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) component was envisioned to promote faculty-student interaction andacademic integration through laboratory and field research. The funding provided by theprogram has allowed a select group of students the opportunity to work on campus, gain Page 10.26.1experience

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New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

C. Yoganathan, A P. (2001). Problem-based learning in biomedical engineering curricula. Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference. 2, F3E/16-F3E/21 (IEEE cat n 01CH37193).3 Cline, Matthew J. Powers, Gary J. (1997). Problem based learning in a chemical engineering undergraduate laboratory. IEEE Frontiers in Education, 350-354,4 Armarego, J. (2002). Advanced software design: A case in problem-based learning. IEEE Computer Society: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training.5 Mitchell GG, Delaney JD. (2004). An assessment strategy to determine learning outcomes in a software engineering Problem-based learning course. International Journal of Engineering Education, 20 (3): 494- 5026

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Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sherra Kerns; Edwin Jones; John Weese

evidentin ASEE. While ASEE has classical engineering/engineering technology disciplinary divisions,it also has established interdisciplinary divisions such as Experimental and Laboratory-OrientedStudies, Instrumentation, and Design in Engineering Education. ASEE members can join up tosix divisions, so many members are active in the interdisciplinary divisions. The increasinglymultidisciplinary nature of programs has also received considerable attention at many ABETmeetings and is part of ABET’s Strategic Goals, Objectives and Initiatives.ASEE’s diverse involvement goes even deeper. The Multidisciplinary Engineering ConstituentCommittee (MECC) seeks to promote and develop multidisciplinary engineering education. Itdoes so by assisting in the

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Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

., Stice, J.E., Rugarcia, A., “The Future Of Engineering Education II. Teaching Methods That Work”Chem. Engr. Education, 34(1), 26–39 (2000).18 Komerath, N.M., “Design Centered Introduction: 3-Year Experience With the Gateway to the Aerospace Digital Library”.Session 2225, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 200019 Fulford, Robert H., “Airplane Criteria Process”. Paper 975567, SAE World Aviation Congress, Anaheim, CA, Oct, 97.20 Smith, M.J., Komerath, N.M., "The Virtual Laboratory: Technology Enhancement for Engineering Education", Proceedings ofthe ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001 http://www.adl.gatech.edu/archives/adlp01062701.pdf21 Bramesfeld, G. and Maughmer, M.D., “The Penn State Sailplane

Conference Session

Bringing Biology into Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Scott Schaffer; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Jenna Rickus; Matthew Verleger

traditional textbook reading, with 11 of the 15 respondents statingthat the module was significantly better. The student who stated that the tool was somewhatworse than textbook reading stated that the ion transport tool didn’t provide the same level ofbackground information that a textbook would carry. All respondents found the online moduleto be as much or more preferable than a traditional lecture. As one student stated, “I am more ofa hands on person, so listening and taking notes is good, but then being able to apply thoseconcepts really helps me understand.” While the response was still positive, a few students stillpreferred traditional laboratory experiments, though as one student pointed out, “It is hard to seeion channels in a beaker

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Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Willette; Larry White; Garry White

] Miles, T.H., The Fog Index: A practical Readability Scale, West VirginiaUniversity, http://www.as.wvu.edu/~tmiles/fog.html, (Date accessed 7/11/04).[24] Miller, R.L. (1999), Performance assessment of EC-2000 student outcomes inthe unit operation laboratory, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition,Session 3515.[25] Miller R. L., (1997), Using holistic grading to evaluate writing in engineeringclasses, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 2230.[26] NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce,http://webbook.nist.gov/chemisty/fluid/ ( Date accessed 11/23/03)[27] Peck, A., Nydahl, J.E., Keeney, C.K., (1999), Effective Strategies to Motivate Engineering Students to DevelopTheir Technical Writing Skills

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Bertozzi

Design and Graphics Process (2002)5. In their paper they also provide anengineering design graphics curriculum outline based on the digital design process. It consists ofeight laboratory modules and a two-week design project.We felt that this concurrent design experience was so important to our students’ engineeringeducation that in 1998 we expanded our existing engineering graphics course to a three-semesterconcurrent engineering design sequence.In their project work the students must make appropriate simplifying assumptions and do a Page 10.719.2manual analysis of their systems to determine things like maximum stresses and deflections

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

., L.C. Schmidt, and P. Meade, “Student Focus Group Results on Student Team Performance Issues”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 3, 2000, pp. 269-272. 16. Biernacki, J.J., and C.D. Wilson, “Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Advanced Materials: a Team-Oriented Inquiry-Based Approach,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 637-640. 17. Besterfield-Sacre, M., M. Moreno, L.J. Shuman, and C.J. Atman, “Gender and Ethnicity Differences in Freshmen Engineering Student Attitudes: A Cross-Institutional Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 477-489. 18. Seat, E., and S.M. Lord, “Enabling Effective Engineering Teams: A Program for Teaching

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Milton Bryant; Paul Biney

homework, design projects,written reports, oral presentations, case studies, and laboratory work. Table 7 Sample Completed Form used to Indicate Outcomes being Assessed by a Particular Assignment FLUID MECHANICS ASSIGNMENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUTCOMES SPRING 2004 Title of Assignment: TEST 1 TOPICS COVERED BY ASSIGNMENT Test 1 covered the following topics: Χ Introduction to Fluid Mechanics topics including definitions

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Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Amrine; Caroline Kayser; James Swanson

Cincinnati:Like many colleges, the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (UC) is movingin the direction of integrating technology into the learning experiences of our undergraduatestudents. For several years, UC has required each entering freshman to purchase a portablecomputer for use on homework assignments and class projects. Portable computers are requiredinstead of desktops so that students can bring them to classes, laboratories, and use them betweenclasses while on campus. In support of the portable PC requirement, UC has invested in awireless networking infrastructure. Although an early goal was to incorporate the use of PCsinto classes, most of the faculty has been slow to modify course content to directly integrate PCsinto