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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

Educationvarying degrees of success. Examples of various types of freshman courses can be found inRefs. 1 through 13. Even Introduction to Engineering courses often emphasize topics that arepresented in a dry fashion to students, emphasizing such topics as how to study, computer usage,technical writing, etc. What are needed are project-type courses that excite the students and givethem an overview of what an interesting engineering project can be. This paper describes such aproject that has been used at the University of Massachusetts Lowell for five years, and, based onstudent evaluations of the course, has been found extremely motivating for the students.II. Freshman course format The College of Engineering has experimented with different types of

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Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Snyder; Mike Toole; Mike Hanyak; Mathew Higgins; Daniel Hyde; Edward Mastascusa; Brian Hoyt; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

learning environment, and incorporating the use of information technology in theteaching/learning process. In the first two years of Project Catalyst, a core group of faculty fromall five engineering departments at Bucknell University has begun implementing this focusedshift by systematically incorporating collaborative and problem-based learning into their courses.This emphasis has required a coordinated effort to introduce significant elements of teambuilding and problem solving into the undergraduate curriculum.This paper discusses a conceptual framework for progressively developing students' problemsolving and team skills across the curriculum. The framework is modeled after the university'swriting program and identifies introductory

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

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Yann-Hang Lee; Sethuraman Panchanathan; Gerald Gannod; Forouzan Golshani; David Pheanis; Ben Huey

Abstract The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University has deployed a novel infrastructure for a concentration track in embedded systems that combines important aspects of academic content with the latest in research and industrial practices. The concentration track emphasizes fundamental issues such as the balance between hardware and software and the respective trade-offs of building embedded systems. It is realized through the use of formal course work and hands-on experience that is channeled through a capstone project implemented as internships.1 IntroductionRapid proliferation of embedded systems in a wide range of consumer and

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Albert Lozano; Willie Ofosu

manner 2.Antennas are used for fixed and mobile transmissions in both terrestrial and spacecommunication applications. Many different types of antennas are in use today in avariety of applications. Every antenna in use has been designed based on specificationsthat make it suitable for a particular application. TelT students are exposed to basic Page 7.319.1characteristics that are common to all antennas such as gain and radiation pattern.Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education.This project was sponsored by the Minority Office

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman; Gordon Kingsley

Fellows with teachers andstudents in their assigned schools. Our approach towards the remaining goals is through thecreation and nurturing of partnerships between Georgia Tech and area high schools.We propose that aggressively pursuing the development of meaningful and sustainableuniversity-school partnerships, is the strategy most likely to produce long-term success in the K- Page 7.1155.11 NSF Project Number DGE-0086420 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education12 arena for Georgia

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Rivest

students electing to specialize in Aerospace Production atÉcole de technologie superieure, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. These students previouslyreceived formal training on basic Computer Aided Design (CAD) topics such as graphicssystems, transformations, curves, surfaces and solid modeling, viewing and rendering, graphicexchanges standards, and so on. Thus, this optional CAD course departs from traditional basicCAD courses by focusing on practical aspects of design tools usage and implementation. Moststudents have limited or no prior knowledge of the aerospace field. The structure of this advancedone-semester course rests on three poles: formal teaching hours, labs and a project. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

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Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Cary Fisher; John Feland

and Page 7.336.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationthe original design of new products. A key element in this course was the use of hands-onexperiences through the use of “reverse engineering” projects. 2 After running successfully for a few years, the course was stable enough to weather a fewdesign modifications. We canvassed our faculty and our Air Force constituents for theirsuggestions on course content and process enhancements. Unfortunately, the list of suggestedenhancements

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Fahmida Masoom; Abulkhair Masoom

maybe implemented to keep up with the changing circumstances. The possibilities range fromupdating of the course periodically by adding and deleting time appropriate topics, to completelyrefurbishing the introductory course sequence using a different format.How it StartedLandis3, as part of his NSF grant activity, ran a workshop in 1992 with faculty from severalengineering programs around the country including one from UW-Platteville. The workshopidentified five major themes as the focus of his project: 1) community building, 2) academicsuccess skills, 3) personal development, 4) professional development, and 5) orientation. As peragreement, resource materials in support of these activities were developed at participatinginstitutions throughout

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Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ofodike Ezekoye; John Doggett; J. Nolen; John Butler; Steven Nichols

culminates in a simulation where the students start a business and run it overseveral years with the objective of maximizing shareholder equity. The details of implementingthis collaborative program are provided in this manuscript.Introduction The evolution of a collaborative project between the Colleges of Engineering andBusiness at the University of Texas at Austin with a goal of creating a business skills shortcourse for engineering students is discussed in this manuscript. The project is one piece of alarger project formulated within the mechanical engineering department at the University ofTexas on implementing project based learning into the curriculum. One of the tenets of project -based learning is the direct application of

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What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

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Helen Hollein; Nada Assaf-Anid

Session ____ Incorporating Biotechnology in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum Nada M. Assaf-Anid and Helen C. Hollein Chemical Engineering Department Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY 10471Abstract: The projected growth of the biotechnology industry in the coming decades warrantschanges in traditional chemical engineering curricula. To meet this new challenge, ManhattanCollege has implemented curriculum changes that aim at preparing graduates to meet thedemands of the food and pharmaceutical industry with a basic knowledge of biology andbiochemistry for

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Willie Ross; Denise Jackson

the problems addressed by each topic, thetools and techniques used to address those problems, and the shareware programs that can beused to facilitate the solving of those problems.Engineering EconomicsEngineers not only design projects, they also justify implementation of those projects. They mustconsider whether a project will offer some net benefit to the people who will be affected by it;and they must consider the cost of consuming natural resources, both in the price that must bepaid for them and the realization that once they are used for that project, they will no longer beavailable for any other project(s). In searching and selecting different programs for engineeringeconomics, certain features were deemed critical for effectiveness

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Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Bennett

“sell” their ideas in terms that resonate with their buyers.Structure of the CourseThe course is taught in a seminar format. Students identify their projects and relate them to thebusiness objectives of their organization. They interview and identify the social styles of their“buyers”.Students are provided a variety of readings and must seek other relevant materials on their own.Each class session begins with a short lecture, but the real benefits come from the rich discussionof the concepts in the readings and their personal experience with “selling” their project in theircompany. During the semester, each student gives many presentations to demonstrate theirability to apply the learning. The class critiques these presentations, and a ll are

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiang Shih

also designed visualization-based courseware tosupplement the regular lecture teaching. In addition, the dynamics laboratory facility has alsobeen used to familiarize students with experimental techniques and data acquisition systemsuseful in developing design projects with greater scope, hence strengthening the designcomponent of the Dynamic Systems discipline. We have also implemented a "Learning-Through-Teaching (L-T-T)" concept to encourage the active participation of all students. Theimplementation of the L-T-T concept helped students to achieve a deeper understanding of thesubject by being involved in the teaching process. In addition, the concept can enhance fullcollaboration between faculty and students and among students themselves to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Zhang; Jennifer Kadlowec

Session 1898 ROBOTS! – Freshman Clinic in Mechanical Engineering Hong Zhang Jennifer Kadlowec College of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028 zhang, kadlowec@rowan.edu 1. Introduction The integration of both hands-on experience and minds-on thinking in engineeringeducation is the hallmark of Rowan Engineering. The Engineering Clinic 1,2 sequence wasdeveloped to promote project-based learning. As a unique component of the Rowanengineering curriculum, engineering clinic is a framework that includes the topics fromintroduction of

Conference Session

CAD Applications in MET Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

SurfCAM files. These files were sent to a CNCmachine and the parts were machined. This was a very good experience for the students to learnabout CIM in an industrial setting. Students also learned the basics of CIM by sending the MDTfiles electronically to the department’s rapid prototyping machine and producing physicalmodels. Besides AutoCAD and MDT, Dr. Sridhara also teaches other solid modeling softwaresuch as Pro-Engineer and SolidWorks in CADD II and Advanced CAD classes. Students will doat least one project using these software. A group of students worked with a local industry thatmanufactures kitchen equipment for hospitals and restaurants and designed some parts usingSolidWorks. They visited the industry several times and learned about

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Harris

assistant meet one evening a week. In the first five weeks, students learn to soldertogether a utility board and breadboard a series of combinational and sequential digitalelectronics projects. Once they are comfortable with the design of digital circuits, they learnabout building logic gates from Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) CMOStransistors and laying out CMOS transistors. They use the Electric CAD tool to designschematics, layout their circuits, simulate, and verify the chip as a team before sending it to theMOSIS service for fabrication. The chips have been used as components in industry sponsoredresearch projects carried out by senior engineering students. Very Large Scale Integration(VLSI) design historically has been offered

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Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

adopted by the author for hisEngineering Graphics lectures, using some features of Microsoft PowerPoint software.Microsoft PowerPoint software capabilities can be used to create simple but effective,animated, multi-media, graphical presentations that enhance students’ visualization skillsand give them the know-how to hand-solve a variety of projection problems, geometricshapes drawings, and Descriptive Geometry concepts, in an easy and affordable way.From hand-drawing geometric shapes such as ellipses, to hand-solving DescriptiveGeometry problems such as piercing points, students’ comprehension of subject matter aswell as their problem solving ability are greatly enhanced through the “show-and-tell-and-let-apply” (SATALA) approach in lecturing

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vivian Vasquez; Andrea I. Prejean; Sarah Irvine; Teresa Larkin

District of Columbia, Department of HumanServices. The pre-institute workshop was a direct result of feedback received from teachers whohad asked for more intensive instruction with computers. Resources for the workshop can befound at http://www.american.edu/IRVINE/ike. A follow-up to the institute was held onOctober 20, 2001. One goal of the follow-up was to provide participating teachers with anopportunity to frame a strategy for implementation of what they learned at the institute into theirown classes. A second goal was to assist teachers in the preparation of a framework fordissemination of information within their individual schools. In addition to the institute's leaders, project resource faculty were available throughout thecourse of

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Farris; Jeffrey Ray

for Engineering Education Session 1491A description of the project deliverables and their due dates was presented. The first deliverablewas a detailed print of the assigned part. Dimensions, tolerances, datums and geo metricdimensions and tolerancing call outs were required. Students assigned to mating parts wererequired to review and approve each other's prints.Next students formulated process and inspection plans for each part. The process plan includedthe following information: 1. Machines required to manufacture the part. 2. The tooling and fixturing required for each machine. 3. The process parameters for each machine

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski

andanalytical techniques that are not traditionally covered in chemical engineering and/or chemistrycurricula, but that are commonly encountered in industry. In this project we will develop novel hands-on chemical engineering experiments byexamining the manufacturing process steps. Each step will be a laboratory module. Thesemodules will be integrated throughout the chemical engineering curriculum. The manufacturingsteps range in complexity from fundamental engineering and science principles shown in gravitydecantation of immiscible liquids to more complex principles required to describe filtrationtheory and identification of compounds using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy.Introduction At Rowan, a hands-on minds-on approach to

Conference Session

Educators on the Frontier

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2002 Annual Conference

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Frank Burris; Alfredo Soeiro

, Italy in 1998 and in Toronto, Canada in 2001. The 9thWorld Conference will take place on May 16-19 in Tokyo, Japan. The conference is hosted bythe Japanese Society for Engineering Education and Nihon University.Another important activity of IACEE is the support, mainly nominal, for projects related withCEE. Any member may propose a new project. The main contractor of a project should submit aproject description containing the following information: purpose, background, works plan,timetable, schedule, organization, personnel, budget and expected benefits. Preference is given toprojects, which build on successful results of previous work. The first-hand responsibility foreach project is handled by individual member organizations or

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

continues to be the most favoured teaching approach, because of a reluctance tochange. Yet ironically academics expect that students will constructively process the giveninformation.Consequently this paper discusses the effective teaching practices employed by thoseengineering academics at Monash University Gippsland campus working with all first yearundergraduates in a common civil engineering unit. A series of research projects have enabledthe identification of transition issues and an increasing attrition rate, influenced by malignedteaching and learning practices (3). Page 7.671.1“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hartman; Louis Plebani

providing a basic understanding of the web.We developed a course, which used an active learning approach, to attack the above problems.In this course, students learn about web applications by building a web application as a semesterproject. In order to be successful, it is necessary that the students be motivated to investigate,discover, synthesize, and improvise while doing their project. For this to occur, students must bewell acquainted with the intricacies of the problem to be solved by their application. Thus thechoice of application, i.e., the problem to be solved, is critical.Topics CoveredThe course addressed those topics that would be involved in the design of most any web site ofreasonable complexity. The topics included were HTML

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Takoi Hamrita

Session 1526Micro-Controllers in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Curriculum at The University of Georgia Takoi K. Hamrita University of GeorgiaAbstractThis paper is to report on a NSF sponsored project aimed at implementing a new pedagogicalapproach for teaching embedded systems to engineering students who do not necessarily have anelectrical/electronics background. In particular, we will present two microcontroller coursesdeveloped at the University of Georgia for Biological and Agricultural Engineering students.Educational

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Nowak; Adrezin Ronald; Donald Leone

established a design experience that stretchesthroughout the undergraduate years. This begins with projects during the freshman engineeringcourses, and continues with college-wide design experiences during the sophomore and junioryears. The culmination of this design experience is to be found within the two senior capstonecourses during which the student works in off-campus facilities, and a senior design project thatmay be carried out in the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory on-campus.Figure 1 shows the basic pyramid of the program. During the freshman year and the first term ofthe sophomore year all engineering students are taught the basic science and math skills requiredfor their engineering courses. They are also taught the programming and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

spinoff from a NASA-sponsored competition to develop thinking andproblem-solving related to the infrastructure needed for a sustainable human presence beyondEarth. Student teams have developed a conceptual framework for a Space-Based Economywhich justifies usage of extra-terrestrial resources. A test case of a large project is used toillustrate the process of breaking immense problems into bite-sized chunks for engineeringsolution. The problem of building the radiation shield of a one-km-radius, two-km long cylinderis revisited in the light of recent studies on bootstrapped lunar solar-electric power plants, massdrivers, and autonomous spacecraft. The paper describes the process of getting first-year andsenior-level students interested, prepared

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Feland

that the students with the teammate training will not only perform at least at thesame level of the “perfect teams” but also have a more satisfying team experience as well asmeeting the industry requirement for developing better team members.CONTEXT:It is well known that one of the driving requirements from industry for our new engineeringgraduates is to be able to perform in teams. Given the increased complexity of today's products,no one engineer can perform all the tasks necessary for project success. John Donne once said"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main....Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send toknow for whom the bell tolls; it

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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Demel

Program (IEP) and the Freshman EngineeringHonors (FEH) Program. These new programs retain part of the traditional material but add inhands-on laboratory experiences that lead to reverse engineering and design/build projects. Therelational practices – teamwork and project management, along with report writing and oralpresentations and ethics have assumed important roles in this program. The programs aredesigned to have faculty from all of the degree granting departments teach freshmen. Theseprograms were developed to improve the retention and early decision to stay or leave for newfreshmen and to lay a foundation to better address some of the ABET 2000 accreditation criteria.Retention has improved markedly. This paper provides a brief description

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Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

this technology and how theirlearning methods change as they mature through their collegiate matriculation. Much of theavailable literature is focused on attempts to reverse the high attrition rates encountered at thefreshman level or to address deficiencies in the preparation imparted by engineering curricula forlifelong success. Several classroom experiments have documented issues in holding students’interest and enhancing their communication skills. Experiential learning, team projects and real-life examples motivate students in the short term, but research is needed on how students findand select resources, learn skills, and integrate learning across levels (vertically) or disciplines(horizontally) using the Internet. In Table 1 are cited

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Diemer; Rob Wolter; Cliff Goodwin

learning groups that remain stable over the semester. The groups are givenstructured exercises to encourage them to interact with textbook 5 content. Instructors also assignlearning projects that require cooperation within the classroom groups over several classsessions. The intention is to provide an intense experience in group interaction so that studentscan examine textbook concepts about group process in the context of their own experience in theclassroom groups. Can the same experiential approach to teaching group dynamics be appliedsuccessfully to a "virtual classroom"? The authors believe that their VC groups have shown thatit can. ABET requires that engineering graduates learn effective team skills. The information in thisarticle will