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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Schmaltz; Kevin Schmaltz

, and the scores are scaledso that a 50 represents the average student. The Academic Success Results are a measureof students’ self-appraisal of their own behavior. Unlike the SBI (50 is average), for theAcademic Success survey students will grade themselves using a more traditional pointsystem, where a score in the 70’s would reflect an average assessment. The results fromTable 2 do offer some insight into the comparison between the categories. OverallAcademic Confidence is the highest of the three areas. Students are more critical of theirShort-term Study Behaviors, compared to Long-term, although the SBI results indicateless of a difference. Students are more aware of the ongoing pressures and demandsdiscussed in the Short-term Study

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cutkosky; Christopher Richard; Allison Okamura

paddle.As a user takes the handle of the haptic paddle and moves it from side to side, the position of thehandle is sensed. Based upon the position and velocity of the handle, various amounts of forceare reflected back to the user. In a course on dynamic systems and control, the haptic paddle is anexcellent platform for students to: • Model a second-order system, • Estimate the parameters of a system model, • Observe and analyze the response of a second-order model • See the effect of pole location on a system’s response • Interact with simulated dynamic systemsFigure 3 below shows how the haptic paddle laboratories corresponded to the various topics inthe dynamic systems course

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Srboljub R. Masala; Kevin W. Biggar; Colin Geissler

Soil Mechanics course, who had already performed this test in a physical geotechnicallaboratory.The group consisted of 10 people, ranging in age from 20 to 30 years. A bit surprisingly forengineering students, only seven of them had their own computers at home. Nevertheless, theproperties of this group reflected well the conditions of a student population, surveyed earlier bythe university administration for other purposes. Therefore, our sample group was representativefor the anticipated (target) audience.A questionnaire was prepared with the questions grouped according to the general issues of: Page 5.625.12 - the overall impression

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Karan Watson; Jeffrey Froyd

education?II. Core Competencies: DefinitionBefore answering the questions, let's define the core competencies. Each corecompetency refers to a pedagogical theory (or set of theories) in which FoundationCoalition partners will work to increase their competence. Curriculum integration refersto theories of pedagogy in which students and faculty work to make connections:between topics in a discipline, between topics in different disciplines, between subjectsthey are studying and their career aspirations. Cooperative and active learning refers totheories of pedagogy in which students in a classroom are doing more than simplylistening to a lecture; instead, they are engaged (actively and cooperatively) in reading,writing, reflecting, discussing

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Frair; Jeffrey Froyd

education?II. Core Competencies: DefinitionBefore answering the questions, let's define the core competencies. Each corecompetency refers to a pedagogical theory (or set of theories) in which FoundationCoalition partners will work to increase their competence. Curriculum integration refersto theories of pedagogy in which students and faculty work to make connections:between topics in a discipline, between topics in different disciplines, between subjectsthey are studying and their career aspirations. Cooperative and active learning refers totheories of pedagogy in which students in a classroom are doing more than simplylistening to a lecture; instead, they are engaged (actively and cooperatively) in reading,writing, reflecting, discussing

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper

also does not hurt to have business cards madewith your consulting company information on it. This will re-enforce the fact that you are alegitimate consultant. Whatever name you do choose for your consulting company, it must soundprofessional. For example, don’t pick John’s Consulting. Vendor’s are aware that there are lotsof freeloaders who attend expositions. Therefore, you should pick a name that reflects your areaof academic expertise such as “Northeast Electronics and Manufacturing IntegrationConsultants”, NEMIC for short. You can even give your home address where you want materialto be sent as no one ever checks addresses at industrial expositions. Moreover, once you get ontothe company’s mailing list, you may begin to receive lots of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Esther V. Reed; Matt W. Mutka

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard L Canale; Ellen J Duwart; Cheryl Cates

StudyThe first study was conducted as part of a Pilot Program for Internet Based Reflective Learningfor Cooperative Education Students which was funded by a University InstructionalDevelopment Fund Grant and an Asa Knowles Research Grant7. . During the 1997 winter andspring quarters, Canale and Duwart conducted 11 focus groups in which more than 80% of the Page 5.145.14ECE students, sophomores through seniors, participated. Within a written survey, they wereasked to identify the learning that took place in each of the 11 attributes as a result of theirclassroom, laboratory, and co-op learning. Each group of students then discussed