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2005 GSW

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M. M. Darwish; M. H. Akram; B. L. Green

Session T1A1 PALM-Peer Assisted Learning Methodology M. H. Akram, M. M. Darwish, and B. L. Green Engineering Technology Department Texas Tech University AbstractEnrollments in engineering programs have not been keeping pace with expected jobgrowth in industry. Administrators have been trying hard to increase enrollments, improvethe retention rate of entering freshmen; and improve the percentage of engineeringstudents completing an engineering program in a predetermined period. The attrition rateof students in engineering programs

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2005 GSW

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Ross Kastor; Robert Askew; Richard Bannerot; Paul Ruchhoeft; Elena Poltavtchenko; Colley Hodges; Chad Wilson; Cari-Sue Wilmot

, American Society for Engineering Education“Writing Consultants,” or peer writing coaches, who provide one-on-one tutoring. TheseWriting Consultants are full-time students, primarily undergraduates, who havedemonstrated high aptitude in writing and leadership skills. In response to increasingfaculty interest in discipline-specific writing, the Writing Center created a Writing In theDisciplines (WID) program in Fall 2002. Staff in the WID program work with instructorsto intervene in courses across the campus in which communications skills are stressed.The rationale for the intervention is that general composition courses cannot adequatelyprepare students for discipline-specific writing. (More information on the UH WritingCenter and its WID Program

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2005 GSW

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Richard Hoehn; Dr. Saleh M Sbenaty

. They have opportunity to work in teams with sharing, respect, and contribution towardsone goal. A project is either selected by the team or assigned by the instructor. The scope ofactivities generally includes design, research, costing, building, testing, demonstration, andpresentation. All teams must have meetings, consultations, proposal writing, project planningand management during the course duration. At each stage student have to make decisionsregarding various aspects of their project. Most of these decisions come from their owndeliberations. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005

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2005 GSW

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Mohan Ketkar

. They have opportunity to work in teams with sharing, respect, and contribution towardsone goal. A project is either selected by the team or assigned by the instructor. The scope ofactivities generally includes design, research, costing, building, testing, demonstration, andpresentation. All teams must have meetings, consultations, proposal writing, project planningand management during the course duration. At each stage student have to make decisionsregarding various aspects of their project. Most of these decisions come from their owndeliberations. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005

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2005 GSW

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Kenneth Van Treuren

data1.” How does one achieve such a desirable end? Traditionally,lecture format courses have been taught but these may not be the best way to achieve thedesired result.2,3 Most universities have blended lectures with a more hands onapproach.4-6 At Baylor University, mechanical engineering majors have two significantlaboratory courses. The first is a materials laboratory in the spring of their senior yearthat covers the basics of materials testing; hardness, stress and strain. The course is athree credit hour course with two hours of lecture and three house of lab. Students areexposed to collecting data and writing lab reports, but at this level, they do not do error Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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2005 GSW

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Richard Bannerot

Session T4A4An Early Hands-On Experience in Mechanical Engineering that Seems Particularly of Interest to Female Students Richard Bannerot Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractThe main purpose of this paper is to present an individual project for an early engineeringcourse in which students were required to learn about a particular component of amechanical system, to develop a demonstration of it, to prepare supportingdocumentation and then to explain it to their peers. Engineering

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2005 GSW

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Terry Kohutek; Arun Srinivasa; Andrew P. Conkey

E G E G E G Exploratory, define need Force and Equilibrium Concept design Analysis Tensile testing Testing/final report* Note: Other topics (MATLAB, company visits, communication skills {report writing}, etc) must be included ineach lecture.Project factor 9 requires that professors, instructors, teaching assistants, and peer teachers arecomfortable with material required for the project. Although it might be expected that theinstructors would recognize connections

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2005 GSW

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Jeffrey Froyd; Donald A. Maxwell

E G E G E G Exploratory, define need Force and Equilibrium Concept design Analysis Tensile testing Testing/final report* Note: Other topics (MATLAB, company visits, communication skills {report writing}, etc) must be included ineach lecture.Project factor 9 requires that professors, instructors, teaching assistants, and peer teachers arecomfortable with material required for the project. Although it might be expected that theinstructors would recognize connections

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2005 GSW

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Richard Bannerot

4.45 0.82 I liked the fact that there were peer evaluations.28 19 7 1 55 4.33 0.83 My team work skills have improved.29 17 6 3 1 56 4.25 0.97 My technical writing skills have improved.24 16 11 2 3 56 4.00 1.12 My planning and time management skills have improved. 1 The students were asked to express their level of agreement or disagreements with each statement using: 5 for strongly agree; 4 for agree; 3 for neutral; 2 for disagree; and 1 for strongly disagree. 2 Not all students responded to all statements. Table 4: Results from End-of-the-Semester

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2005 GSW

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Aiman S. Kuzmar, City of Corpus Christi, TX

2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationThe classmates listening to a lecture by another student found this technique to be useful andamusing. All of them agreed that each student delivered a very good class presentation. No onecomplained about these sessions.A formal quantitative assessment on this teaching approach was not conducted. However, thestudents are planning to give their assessment in two different forms. First, they are in theprocess of writing a manuscript on this learning experience, and they hope to present and publishit at a future ASEE conference. This article will be