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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patrick Brophy, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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instructor draws the situation shown in Figure 1, and asks students again to guessthe deflected shape. The most common answer is shown in Figure 2. The instructorasks for a show of hands: which way will the right end go, up or down? Based on themajority response, the instructor applies the loads as in Figure 3a or 3b so that thebeam behaves opposite from the majority response. The key to the demonstration is to Page 14.969.5put the students in a situation where their intuition is wrong. Figure 1. Example situation drawn by instructor. Students are asked to predict the deflected shape before the instructor demonstrates it in the classroom

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

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include masters and doctoral degrees. The faculty and scope of the Page 14.994.2programs has grown rapidly leading to the recent formation of a School of Systems & Enterprises  1(http://www.stevens.edu/sse) with a significant national and international impact in the systemsengineering field.The presence of a strong graduate-level activity in the systems engineering discipline on campus leadnaturally to discussion with those responsible for the undergraduate engineering core curriculum of howsystems concepts could be addressed at the undergraduate level for all engineers. The surging

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristi Shryock, Texas A&M University; Helen Reed, Texas A&M University

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accreditation workshould reflect the program as a whole.Some programs treat the six-year time lag between visits with the following timeline: - Year 1 – Celebrate success of previous ABET visit. - Years 2-4 – Feel that ABET is a long time away. Page 14.148.2 Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education - Year 5 – Begin to worry about ABET visit the following year, and survey every class imaginable to be ready for year 6 with the ABET visit.This

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shane Brown, Washington State University; Cara Poor, Washington State University

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reasons for their decision[1]. Progress has been made in identifying best instructional practices, such as active learning[2] and peer instruction [3-5], which have been shown to improve student learning and attitudestowards learning and retention [3-5]. Active learning techniques include brief in-class exercisesin which students work alone or in groups to process concepts more fully than simply takingnotes. An integral part of these exercises is the formative assessment process, where studentsreceive feedback through purposive social interactions from other well-prepared students and/orthe instructor. Due to large class size in most undergraduate engineering mechanics courses,which often include hundreds of students, instructor feedback is