Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

equivalent of 18 fifty-minute lecture sessions together with practical engineering laboratories for two afternoons aweek. The class usually accommodates between 150 and 175 students, they are dispatched ingroups about 25 strong to each of Lehigh’s seven engineering departments where they work insmall teams undertaking innovative problem solving assignments for half the semester. In mid-semester elected or appointed representatives from each group present their discoveries andconclusions to the whole class; groups are then re-configured and the process repeats for thesecond half of the semester. This way every student ha s an experience with the faculty andfacilities in two departments, but every student learns about the experiences of their peers

Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

all othertopics. There was no required textbook, but each student was required to purchase (ifnecessary) an inexpensive portable MP3 player that would be used in the course. Roughlyhalf (9) of the 19 students enrolled in the class already owned MP3 players. The mostcommon MP3 player owned by students (7 out of the 9 students) was the Apple iPodseries player. The remainder of the students purchased MP3 players that ranged fromlow cost (less than $100) players to higher end ($300+) MP3 players. Core course topics include analog-to-digital conversion, CD-ROM and DVDdigital storage technology; MP3 file and compression techniques; peer-to-peer filesharing; blogs; podcasting; RSS; MP3 player operation; copyright and IP issues