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Erin Zeqja; Rachael Ashton

staff member covering thetopic of their respective field. Numerous site visits to current and completed DCC constructionprojects provide hands-on field experience by allowing students to meet with project andconstruction managers on each site to better understand project details, quality control measuresand construction techniques. Students selected for this program will also have the opportunity tolearn about business practices, history and culture of the Middle East, creating an environmentfor professional and personal development. In addition to midterm and final examinations,students are required to produce a comprehensive technical report detailing each construction sitevisit and construction associates visits, reflecting their individual

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R. John Milne

customer arrival ratesand service times, simulation models can be used to calculate statistics such as average customerwaiting time and the probability that a customer waits more than a specified number of minutes.The primary course objective (as reflected in homework and exam problems) is for the studentsto be able to take a word description of a decision problem, formulate a mathematical descriptionof the problem in spreadsheet (Excel) format, set the appropriate parameters for solving theproblem, and apply canned software (Risk Solver Platform for Education) to solve the problem. 1To facilitate the attainment of this course objective, the author (instructor) uses a variety ofcommunication media

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J. A. Rozzi-Ochs; C. J. Egelhoff; H.V. Jackson; S. Zelmanowitz

2012 Department ReviewAssessment Tools As per Table 4, a variety of tools can be used to assess student performance, to includeresearch papers, technical papers, journals, capstone project reports, laboratory reports and oralpresentations. Grading criteria were developed to reflect the infusion of IL in relatedperformance indicators. The IL components of the grading performance criteria (PC) evaluatedstudents’ ability to: (1) write a well organized paper, (2) develop a clear and concise theme, (3)identify the type and importance of information related to theme, (4) use of technical writingskills and (5) incorporate a variety

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Brian Surgenor

future career as anengineer.” The results have been positive, but rarely mechatronics specific. Students offeredcomments such as “Teamwork is more important than technical ability” and “You need to bemethodical in the problem solving process”. The fact that the feedback was positive was notsurprising given course surveys from previous years. But the “non-mechatronics” feedbackoriginally caught the attention of the instructors. On reflection, the exercise highlighted to theinstructors that they had designed the course around the process of engineering problem solving,and this has become one of the dominant features of the course.Experience has shown that problems must be presented such that the students are “forced” to bemethodical. The team