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Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

-life” project. The open-ended nature of real-life projects requires students to determinewhich skills to apply as well as how to apply them. This can be a great learning experience forstudents, but there are many challenges presented to students during the senior design project.The main challenges identified include; project and time management, lack of technical depth,and lack of structure.Engineering management is one of the biggest challenges students face during their senior designprojects. American Society of Engineering management (ASEM) defines engineeringmanagement as “the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directingand controlling activities which have a technological component” 1. Students need to

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gabe Garcia; Ian Leslie

Society for Engineering Education”has 2 computer labs. One computer lab contains 18 windows based machines and is availablefrom 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and the other computer lab contains 52 windows machines and isavailable 6 days a week from 5:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.Student ComputersThe computers made available to students were obtained through a HP mobility grant writtenby the Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering Departments at New Mexico StateUniversity. The goals of the grant are to• Make academic improvements at NMSU by influencing pedagogy and the learning process, especially as they relate to minority students and access to mobile technology• Explore learning paradigms using mobile technologies• Expose NMSU students to state-of-the

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jill Lane; Don Evans; Gary Gray; Francesco Costanzo; Phillip Cornwell; Brian Self

of dynamical systems theory, and engineeringeducation.FRANCESCO COSTANZO came to Penn State in 1995 and is an Associate Professor of EngineeringScience and Mechanics. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Texas A&MUniversity in 1993. His research interests include the mechanics of nanostructures, the dynamiccrack propagation in thermoelastic materials, and engineering education.D. L. EVANS is Emeritus Professor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and past Directorof the Center for Research in Education on Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology(CRESMET) at Arizona State University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineeringfrom Northwestern University, earned in 1967. His current interests

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

University.ROBERT CHOATERobert Choate teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical Engineering, including theSophomore Design, Junior Design, the Senior ME Lab I and the ME Senior Project Design course sequence. Priorto teaching at WKU, he was a principal engineer for CMAC Design Corporation, designing and verifying thermalmanagement solutions for telecommunication, data communication and information technology equipment.JOEL LENOIRJoel Lenoir is the Layne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WKU, and primarily teaches in the dynamicsystems and instrumentation areas of the curriculum. His industrial experience includes positions at MichelinResearch and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as extensive professional practice in

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Warren; Jason Yao

Care," presented at 2nd Joint EMBS-BMES Conf., Houston, TX, 2002.[8] Johnston, W.S., P.C. Branche, C.J. Pujary, and Y. Mendelson. "Effects of motion artifacts on helmet- mounted pulse oximeter sensors," presented at Proceedings of the IEEE 30th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, 2004, 2004.[9] Crilly, P.B., E.T. Arakawa, D.L. Hedden, and T.L. Ferrell. "An integrated pulse oximeter system for telemedicine applications," presented at Proceedings of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1997, 1997.[10] Bronzino, Joseph D. IEEE Biomedical Engineering Handbook: CRC Press, IEEE Press, 1995, 0-8493- 8346-3.[11] Yoshiya, Y. Shimada, and K. Tanaka

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

program outcomes. Therefore, as long as the overall curriculum matrixcovers all program outcomes upon students’ graduation, each and every student will meet all theprogram outcomes accordingly.Bibliography:[1] Engineering Criteria 2000: Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in the United States. Published by The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Baltimore MD. 1997. Available at: http://www.abet.org/criteria.html.[2] Felder, R.M., Brent, R., “Designing and redesigning courses to address EC2000,” Frontiers in Education 2001, Reno, Nevada, October 2001.[3] Mak, F., Frezza, S., Yoo, W.S., “Web-based course-exit survey for ABET EC2000,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Nashville, TN, June 2003.[4

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Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Chanley; Michael Pelletier

for degrees inElectronic Technology; Fundamentals of Digital Logic is required in several other programs; allthree courses are available as electives in Engineering Science and are highly recommended forstudents in Computer Engineering.Prior to the fall, 2004 semester, Fundamentals of Digital Logic included an introduction to digitallogic design using Karnaugh maps, yet the accompanying Digital Logic Lab did not includelogic design. Also prior to fall, 2004 in the laboratory portion of Digital Electronics, there weresome labs where Karnaugh maps were used to design simplified circuits (limited to 4 inputvariables) which were then built with TTL logic chips.Fundamentals of Digital LogicFundamentals of Digital Logic covers Boolean algebra

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Rehg; Bruce Muller

ST, ST is used frequently inside of the SFCstructure. Function Block Diagrams are finding increased use in US industries for process controland in motion control with servo and non-servo drive applications.PLC Course SequenceThe four-year Electromechanical Engineering Technology program at Penn State Altoona has atwo course sequence to teach programmable logic controllers. The goals for each course aresummarized below. EET 220 Programmable Logic Controllers – 2 credits (1 hour lecture and 2 hours laboratory) Page 10.1225.2“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Nickles

Correlations of Student Grades and Behavior While Using a Course Management System Under Different Contexts George M. Nickles III Information Technology and Science (ITS) Center for Teaching and Learning, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractAs the Internet is in widespread use by engineering faculty, the opportunity exists to collectmeasures of student learning behavior based on their use of the Internet learning tools. One suchtool is a course management system (CMS). Data on student use of a CMS is readily availablefrom login records and the web server log file. It has been shown that this data, paired withcontextual information about the

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrance Lovell; Dale Litwhiler

application) to capture the sound of tapping or handclapping and observing the echo signatures of the recorded signal.4The method described here was used in an instrumentation laboratory class for third-yearelectromechanical engineering technology students at Penn State Berks – Lehigh Valley College.The experiments are based on time of flight measurements and are designed to demonstrate theroll of software in developing a sophisticated system with simple hardware. The signalprocessing techniques are similar to those used in radar and sonar echolocation systems.5 Thesoftware performs all of the measurements with no guesswork left to the user. Figure 1. Setup for Acoustic MeasurementsUsing the computer’s sound card under

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mueller

the necessary temperatures with less lower power as compared to heating atatmospheric pressure. This paper presents the design and implementation of a vacuum furnaceautomation project that was done as an Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology capstonesenior design project. The automation was designed for a vacuum furnace that previously hadonly manual controls. The upgrade included additional instrumentation and a LabVIEW HMIfor process monitoring and control, data collection, and recipe entry. This project wassupervised by the Electro-Optics Center of Penn State University’s Applied ResearchLaboratory.Senior Project CourseThe senior project is a capstone project course taken in the final term of the 4-year Bachelor ofScience in

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Askew; Cari-Sue Wilmot; Colley Hodges; Richard Bannerot

Session 1661 Teaching Technical Communications in an Introductory Design Course through Interventions from the University’s Writing Center Colley Hodges, Cari-Sue Wilmot, Robert Askew, Richard Bannerot University of Houston Writing Center/Dept. of Mechanical EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the continuing and evolving relationship between the Writing in theDiscipline Program in the University of Houston Writing Center and the Cullen College ofEngineering. This specific project is an intervention into a sophomore design course inmechanical engineering that took place for the first

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Macy Reynolds

Student A who is an average student in Engineering Technology. Theprofessors would say this individual is not their favorite student because of a seemingly non-caring attitude in class. The individual doesn’t participate unless called on but is able to answeroral questions well and often asks perceptive questions. The student performs about average ontests but some of answers are excellent and explore an area that even the professor hadn’tthought of. A professor might even suspect cheating because of the wide range of quality onhomework and tests.Meanwhile the student has found a co-op job with a local company, and after several co-opterms, is considered by his boss and co-workers to be one of the best co-op students they haveever had. The

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz

@2005 American Society for Engineering Education”Laura Elliott is a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University Calumet. Sheholds a B.S. in Metallurgy from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and has several years of industrial experience. Page 10.1350.17 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright@2005 American Society for Engineering Education”Figure 1: Selected Examples of Threaded Fasteners Ref. 10

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ronald Land

Large Scale Implementation of Outcome-Based Course Assessment Ronald Land Associate Professor, College of Engineering School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstract Engineering and Engineering Technology programs across the country are implementingnew assessment methods conforming to ABET EC2K and TC2K criteria [1] by developingoutcomes-based assessment strategies to demonstrate program-level compliance. The newABET criteria represent a philosophical shift in accreditation from a facilities-based to anoutcomes-based approach. This paper describes an assessment strategy

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Dullanty

Carolina. The design allowed launching of sailboats at low tide. This involved light vehicular loading, crane evaluation and loading, pile foundation design in Charleston’s “Cooper Marl”, and alignment with the currents, sedimentation concerns and prevailing winds.References1. ABET, ABET 2004-2005 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology, Baltimore, MD.Author InformationROBERT E. DULLANTY, SR.Mr. Dullanty, PE is a Principal and Senior Structural Engineer in the Firm of Schneider & Associates, Inc. inCharleston, SC. A graduate of the University of Washington, Mr. Dullanty specializes in Marine Structures and iscomfortable in environments as diverse as the Alaskan

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Burchett

Session # Parametric Time Domain System Identification of a Mass-Spring-Damper System Bradley T. Burchett Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803AbstractOne of the key objectives of any undergraduate system dynamics curriculum is to foster in thestudent an understanding of the limitations of linear, lumped parameter models. That is, thestudent must come face to face with the fact that models do not perform exactly like the physicalsystem they are created to emulate. This is best done in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

(Commission Internationale De L’eclairage), Spatial Distribution of Daylight – CIE Standard General Sky, CIE S 011/E:2003, CIE Central Bureau, Vienna, Austria, 2003.[4] John E. Haufman, Illumination. In Donald G. Fink and H. Wayne Beaty, editors, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, chapter 22. McGraw-Hill, Inc., 11 edition, 1978.6. BiographyKhaled A. Mansy is an Assistant Professor in the Architectural Engineering Program, School of Architecture,Oklahoma State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 2001, and has 15years of teaching experience in professional programs in the USA and Egypt. Dr. Mansy is the PI of the NSF grantawarded to build this artificial sky dome.Steven O’Hara is a

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhukar Vable

Session 2568 Integrating fracture mechanics into undergraduate design Madhukar Vable Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the work that is under progress to develop instructional material and a com-puter program that will automate linear stress analysis in two-dimension. The computer programcan be used in a variety of ways to educate students about the stress behavior near a variety ofstress raisers, though the initial effort will be near cracks and other stress raisers in

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Hartley T. Grandin, Hartley T. Grandin,; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

; Sons, New York, NY, 2002.41. Engineering and Engineering Technology Accreditation, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD, 21202, http://www.abet.org/criteria.html.42. Mathcad, Mathsoft Engineering & Education, Inc., Cambridge, MA, http://www.mathsoft.com/.43. MATLAB, TheMathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, http://www.mathworks.com/.44. TK Solver, Universal Technical Systems, Rockford, IL, http://www.uts.com/.45. Sandor, B.I., Engineering Mechanics: Statics, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1986.46. Sheppard, S.D. and Tongue, B.H., Statics: Analysis and Design of Systems in Equilibrium, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.JOSEPH J. RENCISJoseph J

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Donna Evanecky

magnets or “spins”align themselves, producing a strong magnetic field.13 Systems thinkers in the managementarena propose that self organization also takes place in human organizations under the rightenvironment and conditions. It is the engineering manager’s job to provide the climate for newsystems to evolve through encouraging new ideas, developing an acceptance of change andtolerating failure.14Change in management thinking has evolved from an organization as a structure of technologicalinnovation to a process of technological innovation. The process of technological innovationtakes on the dynamics of international transfer of innovations and the national systems involvedin transfer. As organizations expand to the global arena, communications

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Omnia El-Hakim

Louis Stokes Colorado Alliance for Minority Participation (LS CO-AMP) Dr. Omnia El-Hakim Colorado State University Page 10.320.1 1AbstractIn the summer of 1994, representatives from eleven colleges and universities in Colorado andnearby states and from four tribal nations met several times to discuss the creation of a uniquealliance. The purpose of this alliance would be to better serve undergraduate students fromunderrepresented minority populations in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM). After undergoing a rigorous selection process, the Colorado Alliance forMinority

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

Technology teaching in the ComputerEngineering Technology program. He is also a faculty practitioner for the University of Phoenix Online Campuswhere he facilitates graduate courses. For 33 years, prior to his teaching career, Dr. Trippe was an engineer andbusiness manager in the defense industry.Rochester Institute of TechnologyElectrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department78 Lomb Memorial DriveRochester, New York 14623Email address: Tony.Trippe@rit.eduWeb Site: www.rit.edu/~aptieePhone : (585) 475-6537 Page 10.903.8 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Niebuhr

-2457. 5 Roylance, D., “An Undergraduate Capstone Subject in Design and Processing,” Journal of Materials Education, Vol. 24, No. 1-3, 2002. pp. 231- 235. 6 Fujiwara, M., et al. “A Holistic Approach to Materials Process Design,” Journal of Materials Education, Vol. 24, No. 1-3, 2002. pp 65-71. 7 Wulpi, D.J., Understanding How Components Fail, 2nd Ed., ASM International, 2002, pp.1-6. 8 http://www.ndt-ed.orgVII. BiographyDAVID V. NIEBUHR is an Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering at California Polytechnic State University,SLO. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering in 1997 from the Oregon Graduate Institute ofScience & Technology and his B.S. in Materials Engineering from Cal

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachelle Heller; H. David Snyder; Catherine Mavriplis; Charlene Sorensen

Page 10.1286.6funds, lab space, grace period for service or advising, etc. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The session on research included presenters from various granting agencies and researchinstitutions. These individuals gave participants information regarding the obtaining offunding before and after procuring a position, writing strong proposals, interacting withprogram officers, differences between federal and non-federal agencies, and issues ofpatents, technology transfer and ownership.The session on service addressed various concerns regarding the amount and types ofservice as well as

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Bates

spent the last few years focusing on their graduate work) did not start with theseconnections and were able to use this orientation time to meet faculty in similar positions.At the end of the 2002 fall orientation, a cohort of ten was identified. This cohort was comprisedof faculty from the College of Science, Engineering and Technology (3), the College of Arts andHumanities (5), and the College of Social and Behavorial Sciences (2). In most cases, thecohort members were the only new faculty in their department. Four members were on fixed-term appointments and three left after the first year. Previous teaching and research experiencediffered greatly among the cohort, with people bringing many different experiences. Onemember had ten years

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Burchett

ASEE Annual Meeting 2005 Session # 3568 A Control Systems Lab Sequence Designed to Foster Understanding1 Bradley T. Burchett Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803AbstractRose-Hulman Institute of Technology has a unique sophomore curriculum that culminates in amulti-disciplinary system dynamics course. Because of this curriculum, seniors entering theironly required control systems course in the mechanical engineering curriculum have

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Carla Campbell; Nancy Hubing; Timothy Philpot

teaches Statics and Mechanics of Materialsand is the author of MDSolids – Educational Software for Mechanics of Materials and MecMovies, recipients of thePremier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware.RICHARD H. HALLDr. Richard H. Hall is a Professor of Information Science and Technology at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Hereceived his BS degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas and Ph.D. degree in ExperimentalPsychology from Texas Christian University. He is co-director of UMR's Laboratory for Information TechnologyEvaluation, and his research focuses on design, development, and evaluation of web-based learning technologies.NANCY HUBINGDr. Hubing is an Associate Professor in the Basic Engineering Department at

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

., Slutsky, J.H., and Antis, D., Design for Six Sigma in Technology and Product Development, Prentice-Hall, NY, NY, 2002. 5. Hauser, J.R., and Clausing, D., “The House of Quality”, Harvard Business Review, May-June 1988.BiographyCharles Pezeshki is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering atWashington State University, and founder of the Industrial Design Clinic. He is also the Chair of the WSUFaculty Senate, a political consultant, and writes on environmental issues and policy implications. Page 10.912.11 Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education 2005 Annual

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zhongming Liang

Session 3548 MiniTab in Assessment of the Dynamics Course Zhongming Liang Purdue University Fort WayneAbstract For better interpretation of assessment data, the author uses MiniTab, a statistical analysissoftware package, for evaluating students’ learning outcomes with multiple statistical measuresin several his courses in the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program, such as thedynamics course discussed in this paper as an example. The better assessment and follow-upactions have indeed led to improvement of students’ learning and satisfaction