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A. Eberlein; M. R. Smith

of project management”. In this paper we shall report on the currentformat of the course and how it overcomes many of the problems with our initial offering.Although only part way through the second offering, we recognize the need for new changes inorder to account for the increased maturity and experience of the students returning from their16-month internship experience. The changes needed to handle the 80% of our students who willreturn from internship in September 1999 are discussed.1. IntroductionTwo years ago the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) placed a requirement thatall engineering students experience an extensive 4th year design project. With accreditationlooming, the Department put on an experimental team project

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Clark Colton; Bonnie D. Burrell

Session NO. 2642 How to Initiate Dialogue in Student Research Teams Bonnie D. Burrell and Clark K. Colton Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139AbstractIn the process of integrating teambuilding training into a chemical engineering projectslaboratory, we concluded that a pedagogical tool was needed to move the student teams throughthe early team life cycle and communication stages in order to create the needed trust to begineffective communication. The tool we developed consists of two parts: (1) an

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Charles McIntryre

assignments, and 3)course assessment and evaluation. It is anticipated that this interactive and innovative style ofteaching should allow students to gain valuable experience in: teamwork, organizing anddelivering presentations, critical peer evaluation, and a better overall understanding the academicprocess. The contents of this paper document the procedures used to incorporate and integrate thisapproach into the instructional sequence of an existing course in construction management.Conclusions are formulated as a result of this $experiment in education.#I. Introduction$CME 425 - Risk Management and Decision Support# is a senior level course offered by theDivision of Construction Management within the Department of Civil Engineering andConstruction

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Tava Lennon Olsen; Joyce Yen

Section 3657 Active and Cooperative Learning of Markov Processes in a Half-Term Course Joyce Yen, Tava Lennon Olsen Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering University Of Michigan, Ann ArborAbstractThis paper discusses the design of a new half-term undergraduate course on Markovprocesses that has weekly lab exercises. The motivation for designing this course wastwo-fold. First, the Curriculum 2000 initiative in the University of Michigan College ofEngineering has resulted in major curriculum redesign and in the introduction of half-semester courses. Second

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Shih-Ming Lee; Sergio Martinez; Anabel D. Ramos; Martha A. Centeno

SESSION: 3563 TOWARDS THE INTEGRATION OF TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESSES Anabel D. Ramos, Martha A. Centeno, Shih-Ming Lee, Sergio Martinez Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Florida International University Miami, Florida 33199AbstractA model and a prototype support tool that treat teaching and learning as an integrated processhave been developed using Total Quality Management (TQM) and Competency Based (CB)principles. Evidence shows that the proposed model works better on long semesters thanduring short summer terms

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Michael Werner

of their project proposal, each student was required to do a world wide web search to find similar projects. In particular, students developing software were required to search some large shareware sites, including www.gamelan.com, and www.jumbo.com. They also did keyword searches using search engines such as Alta Vista. Having found similar projects, the students then needed to make the case that their project was differentiated from them, say by offering enhancements. Students also provided links to the similar projects from their own project pages.3) Development of web tools. Several student projects involved developing Internet tools including: a. A children’s web browser. A two-person team did some

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Essam M. Kosba; Ahmed Dawoud

domain byan expert and thus represent Expert Models. Then student model is build upon ES. Finally,the pedagogical functions or Tutor Model is developed.The main goal of this research is to build up an ITS that use both overlay and buggy studentmodeling approaches. Probability theory, as an important course in pre-engineeringcurricula, was adopted to present a domain for applying ideas of this research. The resultedsystem is called “Probability Theory Intelligent Tutoring System” or PTITS. The Knowledgebase for probability theory and its problem solver are not available. So, a major technicalconsideration of our work is to lessen the complexity of the knowledge acquisition processand software engineering requirements involved in building of the