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Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha

. J. Ong, “Writing is a Technology That Restructures Thought,” in The Written Word: Literacy in Transition, edited by G. Baumann, Clarendon Press, 1986.7 S. Maharaj and L. Banta, “Using Log Assignments to Foster Learning: Revisiting Writing Across the Curriculum,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 89, no. 1, January 2000, pp. 73-78.8 J. Greenstein and B. Daniell, “Designing Conversations: The Journal in an Engineering Design Class,” in The Journal Book: For Teachers in Technical and Professional Programs, edited by S. Gardner and T. Fulwiler, Greenwood-Heinemann, 1998.9 J. Katzenbach and D. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization, Harvard Business School Press, 1992.10 D. Hoyle, ISO 9000

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Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kisha Johnson; Grace Mack; John Wheatland

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2002-2103that explains the purpose and procedure for the program, three workshops (Table 2), and aclosing session with a motivational speaker(s). Participants are divided into three groups byassignment of a code. Each group of freshmen rotates through each of the three workshops.Packets are distributed in the general session. The packet includes a program agenda, thetutoring schedule for the semester, and the Fast Track Engineering Freshman Handbook. Thehandbook is a compilation of workshop notes, campus and engineering school

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rick J. Couvillion; Larry A. Roe; Ing-Chang Jong

a concrete pavement. Take the system to be the sand and its sack and as- sume that the perfectly plastic impact is completed in 0.5 s. Neglecting air resistance, determine Page 7.845.13 the work done on the system, the energy interaction, and the average force of impact. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Fig. 9 A sack of sand released from rest to fall and impact on a concrete pavementSince air resistance is negligible, the weight force (a conservative force) is

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

offer our sincere appreciation to the technicians ofthe College of Engineering for their overwhelming support. Special thanks to Fan Lau, anundergraduate of the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering for developing theproject as part of an NSF REU experience at Rowan University.References 1. Marchese, A. J., Constans, E., Dahm, K., Hollar, K., Hutto, D., Johnson, F., Sun, C. von Lockette, P., Kadlowec, J., Cleary, D., and Sukumaran, B. (2001). The Sophomore Engineering Clinic I: Integrating Statics, Solid Mechanics and Product Development in a Sophomore Level Design Course. ASEE Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. 2. Johnson, F. S., Hutto, D., Dahm, K., Marchese, A. J., Sun, C., Constans, E

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Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Alvin Post

. Page 7.87.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Post, A. M.:"Frequency Analysis Laboratory and Introductory Pages," web site, 2002.http://ctas.east.asu.edu/post/fftweb/fftlab.htm2. Beckwith, T. G., Marangoni, R., and Lienhard, J.: "Mechanical Measurements," 5th ed., pp.130-156, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1995.3. Figliola, R. S., and Beasley, D. E.: "Theory and Design for Mechanical Measurements," 3d ed., pp. 35-69 and239-244, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.Biographical InformationALVIN POST has 20 years of industrial experience as a mechanical engineer. He formerly taught

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Cremin; Terrence Kelly

.html , posted August 28, 19979. Quality Engineering and Survey Technology LTD. (QUEST), The GPS Tutor,http://mercat.com/QUEST/gpstutor.htm, 199810. Bak, Thomas, (1998) GPS Tutorial, http://www.control.auc.dk/~tb/gps_view_graph/index.htm,Aalborg University, Department of Control Engineering11. Enge, P., Fan, Tiwari, Chou, Mann, Sahai, Stone, Van Roy, Improving GPS Coverage and Continuity: Indoorsand Downtown, Presented Sep 2001 at the Institute of Navigation's GPS Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, http://waas.stanford.edu/~wwu/papers/gps/pubs_chron.html#200112. C. Kee, H. Jun, D. Yun, B. Kim, Y. Kim, B. Parkinson, T. Langenstein, S., Pullen, J. Lee, "Development ofIndoor Navigation System using Asynchronous Pseudolites," Proceedings of ION GPS

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Habibur Rahman

. Mahafza, Introduction to Radar Analysis, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1998.3. S. A. Hovanessian, Radar System design and Analysis, Artech House, 1984.4. M. I. Skolnik, Introduction to Radar System, McGraw-Hill, 1982.5. B. Edde, Radar- Principles, Technology, Applications, Prentice-Hall, 1993.6. E. Brookner, Radar Technology, Lexington Books, 1996.7. D. K. Barton, Modern Radar System Analysis, Artech House, 1988.8. M. H. Carpentier, Principle of Modern Radar Systems, Artech House, 1988.Habib RahmanDr. Habib Rahman received his Ph.D. degree from Syracuse University, New York, in 1984 in electricalengineering. Prior to joining Saint Louis University in 1984 where he is currently Professor of ElectricalEngineering, he taught electrical

Conference Session

Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Elaine Cooney

rubriccontains criteria for acceptable performance that are meaningful, clear, concise, unambiguous,and credible -- thus ensuring interrater (sic) reliability.” 2 There are many advantages for the instructor who uses rubrics to grade student work.For many instructors, probably the first reason to use a rubric is that it speeds up the gradingprocess. When what will be evaluated and what each element is worth is predetermined, lesstime is spent contemplating the "right" grade to put down. The use of rubrics insuresconsistency. For example, suppose an instructor finds an exceptionally good report in the middleof the stack s/he is grading. The report next in the stack is not as good, and therefore does notdeserve as good of grade. But it might get a

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachelle Heller; Nathan Campeau

The Freshman Experience Meets Log Cabins: The Freshman Retreat at the GeorgeWashington University School of Engineering and Applied ScienceFor Presentation at the American Society of Engineering Educators 2002 ConferenceMontreal, CanadaNathan Campeau, Dean’s Fellow for Undergraduate RelationsRachelle S Heller, Associate Dean for Academic AffairsAbstractThe multitude of opportunities available at The George Washington University, and inthe city of Washington, DC itself, the School of Engineering and Applied Science(SEAS) can be a daunting experience for many new engineering students. This paper willinvestigate how the freshman retention programs have let students know aboutopportunities at SEAS and have fostered a dynamic community among

Conference Session

How are We Faring with EC2000?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven LeBlanc

essential thatdocumentation be kept about what was discussed, what was changed, why it was changed, andhow the constituents were involved in the change process. One interesting assessment tool that Iobserved on a visit was the use of Course Summaries. At the end of each term, each facultymember prepares a Course Summary for the course(s) they have just completed teaching. In thesummary, they addressed things that went well in the course, things that didn’t go as planned andthat they would change the next time, as well as any deficiencies noted in the students'preparation from the prerequisite courses that feed into their particular course. These summaries

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Cyrus Taylor

Technologies, see the companies web site at http://www.neomedtechnologies.com 6. The web site for the Professional Master’s Program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is http://www.sciencemasters.com/ 7. The web site for the Coleman Foundation-USASBE Entrepreneurship Awareness and Education Grant Program is http://www.usasbe.org/Biographical InformationCYRUS TAYLOR is Professor of Physics and Director of the Physics Entrepreneurship Program at CaseWestern Reserve University. He has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Lilly FoundationTeaching, and a Harry S. Truman Fellow. A particle theorist, he also served as co-spokesman for MiniMax(T-864), an experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski

, June 15-18, 1997.5. Ramachandran, R., J. Schmalzel and S. Mandayam, Proceedings of the 1999 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Session 2253, June 20-23, 1999.6. Kiritsakis, P. K., “Olive Oil, From the Tree to the Table”, second edition, Food & Nutrition Press, 1998.7. Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, UK. Report on Oleic Acid properties. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/mim/life/html/oleic_text.htm8. Boskou D. (Editor), “Olive Oil: Chemistry and Technology”, AOCS Press, 1996.9. McCabe W.L., Smith J.C. and Harriott P., “Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering”, fifth edition, McGraw-Hill, 1993.10. Cheryan M., “Ultrafiltration and Microfiltration Handbook

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Achieving Diversity in the CE Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth

Session 2515 Recruiting and Retaining Faculty and Students: The Role of Faculty Liaison Mary J. S. Roth Lafayette College, Easton, PAAbstractThe Director of Engineering at Lafayette College, in consultation with the Provost, hasdeveloped a new position entitled Faculty Liaison for Recruitment and Retention (FLRR). Thispaid position allows a faculty member to evaluate and address recruitment and retention issues atboth the student and faculty level. The primary responsibilities of the position include attendingdepartment head

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Mickelson

Session 2408 Validation of Workplace Competencies Sufficient to Measure ABET Outcomes S. K. Mickelson, L. F. Hanneman, and Tomm Brumm Iowa State UniversityAbstractTaking the unique approach of addressing ABET criteria (a-k) as workplace competencies, IowaState University College of Engineering partnered with Development Dimensions International(DDI), a global provider of competency-based performance management tools and services, todevelop the processes and products to support this approach. Using "critical incident" based datagathering, the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Anderson; Rufus Carter; Brian Thorndyke; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

available in the LDB for a given institution.In one set of analyses, retention refers to graduation in an engineering program during that timeperiod, which we label graduation. Because it typically takes a student a minimum of four yearsto graduate, students who have entered university after 1995 have not usually had enough time tograduate, and are excluded from these analyses. Therefore, for the graduation analyse s, we onlyinclude students matriculated in an engineering field between 1987 and 1994. The number ofstudents used in the retention analyses are listed in the header of Table 1.G. University Cohorts Graduation Percentage Graduation Date A 1987-1994 30.49

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Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

Session 2168 UNDERSTANDING INTERNAL LOADING THROUGH HANDS-ON EXPERIENCES Anna Dollár, Paul S. Steif Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Department Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 / Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213IntroductionStatics is ultimately of value because it is used, along with other theories, to predict the behaviorof real objects. Unfortunately, Statics instruction traditionally focuses on mathematicalmanipulations, often

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Marcellus; Omar Ghrayeb

Page 7.464.4 Session 3557 REFERENCES1. David Tyack and Larry Cuban (2000). Teaching by Machine. Pages 247—254 in The Jossey-Bass Reader on Technology and Learning. Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco.2. Richard Marcellus (1998). Using Learning Portfolios to Enhance an Applied Probability Course. Working paper, presented at 1998 ASEE Conference.3. Benjamin S. Bloom, editor (1956). Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Longman, New York and London.4. Robert E. Wood (2001). Teaching in a Smart Classroom: Data from One Instructor’s Experiences. camden-www.rutgers.edu/~wood

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Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bob Twiggs

program and outline how other universities can participate in ‘real world spaceprojects’.IntroductionIn the early 1960’s and before the engineering programs required ‘hands-on’ laboratory work.Now with the advent of computer aided design and simulation, many of the laboratory lessonscan be learned to a greater breadth and depth. However, there are many aspects of the laboratorythat are left out with using only the computer. Such simple experience as where to buy parts,some of the practical ways of assembly, working in teams, and being concerned about the whole Page 7.1013.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

of Technology, Utica, New York.He teaches and conducts research in the area of fiber optics, optical communication s and wirelesscommunications. He has helped develop and coordinate an undergraduate program in Photonics and agraduate program in Advanced Technology. He is a senior member of IEEE. and a member of AmericanSociety of Engineering Education.NASEEM ISHAQ holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of London, U.K. and is an AssociateProfessor in the department of electrical engineering technology at the State University of New YorkInstitute of Technology, Utica, New York. Dr. Ishaq’s expertise is in the area of data communication &networking technology, computer & robotic vision and VLSI design. Proceeding of the 2002 American

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donald Sebastian; Stephen Tricamo

”, Council on Government Relations, Washington, D.C., May 2000.4. AUTM Licensing Survey: FY1998, The Association of University Technical Managers, Survey Summary, page 2.5. Ibid. Survey Table S-12.6. Stevens, Ashley: “Measuring Economic Impact” and Pressman, Lori, et.al.: “Pre-Production Investment in Jobs Induced by MIT Exclusive Patent Licenses”.7. Mansfield, E., “Contributions of the New Technology to the Economy”, contained in.: “Technology, R&D, and the Economy”, Smith, B. and Barfield, C, ed., The Brookings Institution, 1966.8. NSF Workshop on Graduate Education Reform in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, Division of Science Resources, National Science Foundation, Nov. 17, 1998.STEPHEN J. TRICAMO, Professor of Industrial and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Summers

Chapter Contents -Objectives - Introduction - Text Headings Author Creates - Text - Margin Notes Chapter(s) - Cases - Vignettes - Summary

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gardner; Harold Ackler; Anthony Paris; Amy Moll

considers that freshmen engineering is often a coursecommon to many or all engineering majors at an institution.While the first alternative is easier to administer, and offers some perks to the facultymember(s) assigned to the course, the second is becoming more common in light ofrecent developments in engineering education research and the new approach defined byABET’s EC 2000.At Boise State, we are in the midst of the transition between the two modes of coursedelivery, and this paper describes the process by which we assessed the needs of the classand administered it for a year along this new model.Needs Assessment: Faculty SurveyIn response to widespread and vocal disagreements regarding the current implementationof our introductory course, the

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

financial analysis course(s) such as graduate level engineering economics.The study described in this paper targets improving understanding of the engineering economytopics valued by MEM students. A number of studies have examined the financial analysis toolsthat corporations employ [1,2]. But these studies did not track these tools into the engineering Page 7.640.1management work place at the operating manager (first level manager, second level manager, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationand

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Panel on Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Kaderlan; Mary Ann Rankin; John Butler; Steven Nichols

Session 2354An Interdisciplinary Graduate Course in Technology Entrepreneurship Steven P. Nichols Associate Vice President for Research, and Director, Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise Norman Kaderlan Associate Director, IC 2 Institute John S. Butler Chair, Department of Management Mary Ann Rankin Dean, College of Natural Sciences The University of Texas

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin L. Sill; Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

first-year students a chance to get advice andreassurance from juniors and seniors.The Cognitive Profile Inventory (CPI) determines a subset of the Myers-Briggs indices (N/S andT/F) and focuses on the most appropriate strategies for learning and studying for people of eachof the four resulting types. 4 The Self-Directed Search (SDS) uses a student’s preferences andtalents to find the three-letter Holland summary code associated with the careers where thestudent will most likely have success and interest.5 In Fall 2000, the CPI and SDS wereadministered in evening sessions.Classes do not formally meet for the rest of the week of Clemson’s Fall break and the beginningof Thanksgiving week. In addition to accommodating project work, these “days off

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jones

In some cases, the teaching techniques thatare most effective are dramatically different than the techniques that professors were exposed towhen they were students. Page 7.761.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright € 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationCourse ContentIET 120 was developed as an entry-level course for freshmen and transfer students interested inengineering technology. The objectives were to introduce ET curriculum s and majors offered atCMU. An overview of the engineering world was presented with a

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Emanuel

develop a proposal, write progress reports, and develop some type of final report, butall work is written solely for the instructor, as the student does not have a true "client" to whichthe report must be submitted. In the early 1980’s at Bradley, one English faculty memberattempted to address this problem by having all 20 students in one class work as a team to try tosolve the campus-parking problem. Since no problem solving methodology was imposed and nostudent wrote more than a small portion of the final report, the result was a poor effort atproblem solving, a poorly -written final report, and a minimal writing experience for the student.Bradley’s IMET Capstone Design Project course has attempted to address all of these issues byintegrating

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William M. Pottenger; Soma Roy; Shreeram A. Sahasrabudhe; Qiang Wang; Jeffrey J. Heigl; G. Drew Kessler; David R. Gevry

example of such a trend is XML, a technology that emerged in the mid1990’s. This framework allows the exploration of technology fields closely related to the coursework. The detection of emerging trends in the course domain stimulates inquiry-based learningby providing an avenue of research into key developments in these related fields.Our initial research into methods for detecting incipient emerging trends is presented in thisarticle. For the OOSE course the students participated in a learning exercise involving emergingtrend detection. The students were split into two groups of roughly equal numbers for thisexercise. Both groups attempted an exercise that involved identification of three emerging trendsin the area of Design Patterns of Object

Conference Session

ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Orlandella; Timothy Zeigler

with the teamcaptain(s) and joins the team in meetings and work sessions (including weekends).At SPSU, a team captain and co-captain are assigned by the faculty advisor. The teamcaptains gain experience in managing people, funds, materials, equipment, and time.Most of the work begins in January to meet the regional competition scheduled in April.Deadlines must be set (and met). Students quickly learn teamwork skills and themeaning of commitment. If something goes wrong (and it always does) the tendency todirect blame is strong. These situations provide excellent opportunities for students torecover and pull together as a team.Students learn to make decisions among alternative choices with no guarantee of success.For example, the 1998 SPSU

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

techniques, EXCEL Inc.USA. 5. Entwhistle, N.J. (1991) Cognitive style and learning in K. Marjoribanks(ed) The foundations of students’ Learning Pergamon, Oxford. 6. Bloom, B.S. (1956) Taxnomy of Educational Objectives Handbook 1 : Cognitive Domain, Longman, London. 7. Osborn, M., Setunge,S., Nag,D., McGowan, R. & Reid, M.(1999) “ Developing Teaching Practices to incorporate Problem Based Learning” 11 th Australasian Conference on Engineering Education, Adelaide, Australia 26-29 September 1999 MONIQUE OSBORN has been working in the Language and Learning Services Unit, Monash University assisting students with their studies for the last 5 years. She is currently with the Faculty of Education teaching