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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

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Benjamin Flores; Thomas Brady; Helmut Knaust; Connie Kubo Della-Piana; Andrew Swift; Jana Renner Martinez

. Approximately 500entering students participated in one of six CircLES summer orientation sessions in the summerof 2000. During the week, students attend general university information sessions (cost oftuition, course catalogue, etc.) and personal development training, such as Math Anxiety andTime Management workshops. In addition to these general sessions that introduce students tocollege life, students participate in activities that connect them to the Colleges of Engineeringand Science, and the faculty and staff. Students have lunch with SEM professors and participatein science and engineering laboratory modules. The engineering module, the “Egg Module,” andtwo science modules, “Air Sample” and “Water Sample,” are designed to build teamwork

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Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Carnahan; Bruce Vojak; Raymond Price

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAuthorsBruce A. Vojak is Associate Dean for External Affairs in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.After receiving a PhD from that institution in 1981 he held positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Amoco, andMotorola. Prior to joining the University in 1999 he was Director of Advanced Technology for Motorola’sComponent Products Group. He also holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.James V. Carnahan is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of General Engineering at the University of Illinois.Since 1983 he has taught courses in statistics, simulation and control and also chaired the industrially funded

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International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Webert Lovencin; Adnan Javed; Fazil Najafi

national and international agencies (Government, Non-governmentalorganizations, Industry etc) exist. Students showing academic excellence get a chance tocomplete their degree in USA or Australia.The academic degree program spreading over 18 months consists of 4 semesters. In the first 3semesters following subjects are taught through lectures, assignments and quizzes:environmental chemistry and microbiology: hydraulics and hydrology; municipal and industrialwaste collection; treatment and disposal; air and noise pollution control; modeling ofenvironmental system, environmental policy and planning etc. The theoretical knowledge issupplemented by rigorous laboratory work, spread over two semesters under the keensupervision of qualified highly

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Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hugh Rogers; Ferdinand Walbaum

lecture and laboratory experiences for certificate training.· Provide bus passes and possible tickets for swimming, theme parks and week-end excursions. Invite others to escort the group and take them to places of interest, (A social mentor or sponsor should be assigned with a plan of activities for week-ends.) Give them instructions on job safety and advice on personal safety.· Arrange a certification ceremony and luncheon prior to departure.Once the students had begun work at Siemens-Westinghouse, they were taken on an orientationtour of UCF and they began a series of lectures and lab sessions specific to U.S. methods ofdesign, prototyping, manufacturing, CAD/CAM, drawings and specifications and were assignedprojects in UCF

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Yusuf Khan; Wei Sun; Mohamed Attawia; Michele Marcolongo; Frank Ko; Dhirendra Katti; Cato Laurencin

Page 7.1210.6population that is roughly 76% underrepresented minorities (64% African-American, 12% Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationLatino), a majority of the applicants will be from these groups. The course will consist of 5once-daily lectures on basic biomaterials and applications as well as daily laboratoryexperiments. The goal of the lectures will be to introduce the students to the field of biomaterialsand to provide them with an exposure to an exciting area in the field of Bioengineering. Thegoal of the laboratory experiments will be to allow the high school students to get “hands-on

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Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Megat Johari Megat Mohd Noor

it was only an AdequacyAudit, the participation and involvement by the staff to ensure a presentable workingenvironment was enormous. Laboratories that were previously not well attended to weregiven a ‘spring cleaning’ and careful attention. The School building complex and itssurrounding were given a new face-lift. More attentions were thus given to the workingenvironment. The success at the Adequacy Audit was a milestone for the School as it hadalso converted many skeptics into supporters of the quality system.The path towards the Compliance Audit was thus made much easier with the successful Page 7.962.4Adequacy Audit, although the

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Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

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Douglas Schmucker; Charles Camp; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Susan Magun-Jackson

Experiments,” The Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 7-9. 10. Phillips, A., Palazolo, P. and C.V. Camp. “Team Teaching Technical Topics: An Innovative Approach to an Introductory Civil Engineering Course,” Proceedings, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 2000, Session 473. 11. Engineering Criteria 2000, 3rd edition. Engineering Accreditation Commission. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD Pub. No. 98- AB-7a, 1998. 12. Schmucker, Douglas G. Structures Demonstration Laboratory. http://diamond.gem.valpo.edu/~harvey/models/strdemo.html 13. Schmucker, Douglas G. Manila File Folder Project. http://diamond.gem.valpo.edu/~harvey/classes/ce202/project.html

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Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rebecca Blust

a list of questions for employees to ask potential child care providers. · Abbott Laboratories - After taking an employee survey, Abbott Laboratories offers job sharing, flextime, and telecommuting. · These plans work for women who want some relief from the stresses of trying to do it all. Now instead of spending time on the weekends running errands and doing chores, job-sharing allows her to accomplish these on her day off so she can spend time during the weekends enjoying family and friends. Women who job-shared earned 60% of their former salaries, but benefits were retained and their working

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Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Billy Smith

Engineering EducationMidshipmen. It provides funds for component purchase and construction, travel insupport of testing and integration, coordination with DoD/NASA laboratories oruniversities for collaborative projects, and guides the Midshipmen through the DoDSpace Experiment Review Board (SERB) flight selection process.The satellite development process is a multi-semester effort requiring the contributions ofMidshipmen from several consecutive graduating classes. The process begins in thespring semester with identification of the mission and determination of requirements,followed by development of the conceptual design. Students in subsequent classes takethe satellite through feasibility study, final design, construction, testin g, and

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mani Mina

: explain energy manipulation with discrete elements; filters, transformers, discrete elements, and circuitsIn the laboratory students utilize tools like C programming and Matlab to solve engineeringproblems. They also work on circuits, systems, and practice basic electrical engineeringmeasurements. They need to work with partners, evaluate the partnership, and qualify theireffectiveness in their reports. Students are encouraged to change partners frequently to learnother people’s perspectives.Finally there is a demonstration part of the laboratory. Demonstrations consist of opening upelectronic and electrical instruments. Transformers, VCRs, CD players, blenders, electricmotors, laptop computers, hard drives, and other equipment are taken

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wayne Hager; Ronald Land

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

Regional Educational Laboratories 10 (1992). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 106· Equity Reality Check: A School Rating. Adapted from Science Education Reform for All. AAAS, (1996). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 109· Gender Audit of Physical Classroom Adapted from Science Education Reform for All. AAAS, (1996). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 112· Classroom Observations for Teacher/Student Interactions Adapted from Sadker, Sadker, Bauchner, and Hergert. Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 90· SummerScape Faculty-Student Interaction Observation Sheet. Created by SummerScape

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

. Temperature effects, materials and manufacturing considerations in design; incorporation of ASME standards. 11. Review.Schedule: Two sessions per week of 120 minutesComputer usage: PC or Unix-based software will be used.Laboratory projects: Several laboratory exercises that are open-ended involving computersimulation and parametric studies on the modeling and analysis of machines and mechanicalsystems will be assigned. Page 7.1060.8Relationship to professional component: This course is 50 % engineering design. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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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

the physics laboratory where they were given an opportunity to build their ownmotors. This activity was designed in a constructivist-based, interactive engagement format. Atthe conclusion of this session, the students were allowed to keep their motors and take themhome and share with their parents and other family members. The students really enjoyed thisactivity. On the third day of the institute, a session on using the web and unexpected internetadventures was presented. Internet resources were highlighted and shared and the many uses ofthe web as a teaching and learning tool. Several important caveats regarding use of the web ineducation were presented. Also on the third day, teachers and students had the opportunity to be involved

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Mickelson

between the options within the AE and AST curricula· To develop team skills through the use of collaborative, learning-based assignments· To introduce students to various problems (areas of interest) within the agricultural engineering and technology field· To experience hands-on laboratories related to the AE and AST options· To increase involvement in professional societies and student branches· To introduce technical writing skills during the first year of study· To make first-year composition courses more meaningful to students· To establish career development/job preparation· To receive academic guidance related to curriculum issuesThese general and specific ABE LC objectives were designed to help our departmentmeet the following college

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Thibault; Noel Boutin

three-hour period dedicated to laboratory training. In the firstweek of the two-week schedule, students familiarize themself with new concepts they have tomaster in order to solve the problem they were assigned during the first meeting with a tutor. Inthe second week, they materialize and test the theoritical solution they found. A written report isrequired and is marked.Each week, a two-hour supervised period is dedicated to the semester-long design project. It iswithin those periods that workshops on different topics are sporadically held throughout thesemester. These include workshops on change, problem-solving process, active listening, teamconsolidation, brainstorming, arguing, feedback and conflict resolution, stress management andoral

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Badger; Geraldine Peten; Anil Sawhney

computer laboratory. TheSchool of Construction is one of the few programs at ASU that has its own computer laboratoryconveniently located in the same building where the core courses are taught. The laboratoryconsists of 31 Pentium III personal computers. The laboratory also has a ceiling mounted dataprojector that can be used for demonstrations. The school has two portable presentation stationsthat consist of a Pentium notebook and a data projector. The computer hardware in the laboratorysupports numerous general purpose and construction industry specific software. These computerhardware and software resources are in addition to the college and university wide infrastructure

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patrick Joyner; Teresa Larkin

of 120 students) ofPhysics for the Modern World were offered. The 2 lecture sections were broken into 8 laboratorysections, with an average of 16 students in each lab. One of the 8 laboratory sections (a sectionconsisting of 7 students) was linked with one section of college writing (Composing the PhysicalWorld). Although Physics for the Modern World typically consists of freshman through seniors,all students enrolled in the linked courses were freshman - the College Writing class is amandatory requirement for all American University students, and the logical plan is for students tocomplete College Writing during their freshman year. A description of the curricular toolsdeveloped to link Physics for the Modern World and Composing the

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Orwat; Mark Evans; Joseph Hanus

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Cotton, Kathleen and Wikelund, Karen Reed, “Educational Time Factors”, Close-Up #8, Research You Can Use, School Improvement Research Series (SIRS), Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 2001, http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/4/cu8.html.2. Anderson, L. "Student Involvement in Learning and School Achievement." CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 26 (1975): 53-62.3. Anderson, L. "Policy Implications of Research on School Time." THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR 40 (1983): 25-28.4. Borg, W.R. "Time and School Learning." In TIME TO LEARN, edited by C. Denham and A. Lieberman

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Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip Parker

Overview and Problem IdentificationWe assessed the cognitive style and learning preferences of students enrolled in Introduction toEnvironmental Engineering (CE334) at UW-Platteville. This course is required of all Civil andEnvironmental Engineering students, and contains three 1-hour lectures and one 2-hourlaboratory period per week. Dr. Parker taught the two laboratory sections during the period ofthis study. The course contained 44 juniors and seniors, and included students who enrolled attheir first opportunity and students who put it off until their final semester.Engineering students at UW-P who have made it through the challenging calculus, physics, andchemistry requirements (such as those enrolled in CE334) appear in general to be more

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Steneck; Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Susan Montgomery

EducationThere is an interesting trend with respect to copying. 96.8 % of students believe that copyingfrom another student during an exam is cheating. This number drops to 72.0 % for copyinghomework from another student, 59.1 % for copying laboratory reports from previous terms,49.3 % for copying homework from previous terms, and 17.9 % for copying passages out of thetextbook. There is a corresponding increase in students who thought these acts were unethicalbut not cheating. Exams, laboratory reports, and homework are all methods of assessing studentperformance in a class and all play a role in the final grade, yet students are obviously making adistinction between them. In most classes, exams weigh more heavily towards the final grade thanlaboratory

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patricia Stubblefield; Elisabeth Alford

education in avariety of ways. Many of the graduate students are teaching assistants assigned toundergraduate laboratories where they instruct students on conducting experiments,oversee the lab work, answer students’ questions, check engineering notebooks, andreview or grade lab reports. In some departments or courses, the TAs have lessresponsibility; in some cases, an experienced graduate student may teach a lab courseunder minimal supervision by engineering faculty. Regardless of their particularassignments, teaching assistants have a significant role in the educational mission of theinstitution.Because teaching assistants have an impact on the quality of undergraduate research andinstruction, engineering educators, like their counterparts in

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Loc Vu-quoc; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; R. Keith Stanfill

questions developed by the IPPDteams in previous years.DOD projectsThe US Air Force, via Wright Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, has funded a series ofprojects. They are motivated to participate for a wide variety of reasons including a desire tobuild a stronger tie to the University, getting a fresh perspective on problems, recruit students to Page 7.826.8work at the laboratory, and be a “good citizen” by supporting higher education within the State.“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Subrata Roy; Karim Nasr; K. Joel Berry

specified speed. Thispaper provides the authors’ personal experiences in teaching project-based thermodynamics toKettering University junior students for six quarters and documents the results showing promisethat encourages design integration and project-based learning in the energy systems curriculum.Effects of this teaching method on students’ learning are also documented.2. CURRENT STATUSAt present, Kettering University offers the Energy Systems Thread (EST) that spans over three4-credit hour courses and one laboratory course. A thread is defined as a sequence of courseswith an identifiable set of objectives and outcomes, tying a number of courses to each other andis consistent with the program’s educational objectives. The courses belonging to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Harold Underwood

deepened for me, by learning more aboutNASA’s applications and engaging in on-site collaboration with experienced NASA colleagues.Undergraduate student David Watson learned what working life is like in a research labenvironment while practicing cutting-edge engineering research methods, helping him refine hisown career direction. Other benefits were realized later during the academic year, as I relatedNASA illustrations from my experience to physics students and showed electromagnetics studentshow to simulate high frequency structures using PC-based computer aided design (CAD)software, obtained on educational discount. The SFP at NASA-GSFC, using computationaltools and laboratory equipment unavailable at my home institution, made these

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

,” IUCN – The Word Conservation Union, 2000.7. IUCN Bangladesh 2000, “Red Book of Threatened Birds of Bangladesh,” IUCN – The Word Conservation Union, 2000.8. Quader, A.K.M.A., Design and Building of Process Plants – some practical guidelines, World University Service Press, Dhaka (1992), ISBN 984-30-0018-8.9. Quader, A.K.M.A., Pilot plant – a forward step to technological break-through for Bangladesh, Proceedings of the seminar on ‘Problems of Transfer of Laboratory Research to Industrial Application’, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka vol. 1,265(1976).10. Quader, A.K.M.A., Considerations in the design of an ammonia-urea synthesis plant, Proceedings of

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donald Headley; Sanjiv Sarin

.Author BiographiesSANJIV SARINSanjiv Sarin is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at NorthCarolina A&T State University. He received a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute ofTechnology, New Delhi and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York, Buffalo. He is amember of ASEE and IIE, and a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina.DONALD B. HEADLEYDonald Headley is a Visiting Professor at North Carolina A&T State University. He is a Human Factors ResearchPsychologist with the Army Research Laboratory – Human Research and Engineering Directorate, Aberdeen ProvingGround, Maryland. He received a B.S. in Research Psychology

Conference Session

ET Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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W. Kaminski

WashingtonUniversity in Ellensburg, Washington. Professor Kaminski graduated with a BSME from the University of Detroit, anMSME from the Univeristy of Michigan and a PhD from the University of Florida. Dr Kaminski has worked forprograms. He was a Senior Research Scientist at the United Technologies Research Center from 1979 to 1987developing CO2 lasers and manager of an optical phased array laboratory. Page 7.1137.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jack McGourty

Transactions on Education, 43(2), 125-131. Page 7.1305.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session # 2557 10. Hmieleski, K. (2000). Barriers to online evaluation: Surveying the nation’s top 200 most wired colleges. Report prepared by the Interactive and Distance Education Assessment Laboratory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. 11. Hmieleski, K. (2000). Ibid.Jack McGourtyJack McGourty is

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Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

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Peter Edwards

Page 7.844.5 solution. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAlthough students may use the applets initially in the university’s computer laboratory in aformal tutorial, the work may be finished in the student’s own time on the Internet fromhome since the applet / worksheet combination is self-contained. Some students have eveninitiated the use of other applets themselves as they become more engaged with theMathinSite culture. The overall effect here is of empowerment – students become the ownersof their own learning process.Why use MathinSite?Why should this material be developed? Surely