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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Paul Ross; Gisela Kutzbach

a forum, and complete a choice of other minor assignments.C. Major Project for the SemesterCTI is the opportunity for participants to conduct research using the resources of WendtLibrary plus other resources and to complete a major research project, ideally job-related.Besides a written report, students are required to deliver an oral technical presentation,videotape it, and submit it as part of their work for the course. In the past, manyexcellent presentations have been made on-the-job as brown bags, technical reports topeers and co-workers, or recommendations to peers and management.Appropriate topics may grow out of problems to solve on the job, improvements in theway things can be done, or assigned tasks that will result in a writing

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Mani Mina

parental supervision and wasting time with aimless socializing/e-mail/chats over the Internet. This is done instead of studying, working with peers, working on and identifying common problems they have in their classes, daily activities, homesickness, etc. The author’s observations indicate that most of the students who did not achieve satisfactory results in their classes during the first two terms did not study systematically. In fact, the main item on their agenda of the day was doing e-mails and chats on their computers. They would engage in these activities for hours and sometime for whole weekends. In a few cases, when most of the chat group was in the same class, the students were encouraged to get together during the

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

Formation Week 1 Team Building Exercises Weeks 1&2 Project Requirements and Resources Weeks 2&3 Basic Work Plan, Preliminary Cost and Time Estimates Weeks 3-6 Site Layout/Design and Constructibility Reviews Weeks 6-8 Building Interior and Exterior Design Weeks 9-12 Overall Engineering Design, Revised Cost & Time Estimates Weeks 12-14 Final Report Week 15In order to check student progress, a number of written status reports were required to be submittedthroughout the semester. Additionally, two oral presentations were scheduled for each group as well asa final written report. Peer evaluation of group members also contributed to the student grade, asindicated in Table

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Laura Grossenbacher

“freshmancomposition” class that has been perhaps dreaded but usually survived by most collegestudents in their first year. Because we are housed in the department of EngineeringProfessional Development, and our students are thus often science-oriented, we like togear the assignments to technical topics, without losing a strong focus on argumentativeand persuasive writing. From years of experience, we recognize that these studentsenter UW with some respectable writing skills – they can do narrative and descriptive 1writing fairly well, but they are challenged when asked to do critical thinking andwriting about arguments. This matters deeply