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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

are the topic of this report satisfy a portion of this need and insure that thevarious advisors at least consider the same course objectives in arriving at a grade. Grades areobtained for each deliverable required from the students, the Proposal, Oral Presentation andFinal Report.Assessment FormsFollowing the 1996-97 academic year, several new assessment instruments were developed forthe freshman design component of Drexel’s Engineering Design and Laboratory courses (ED&LI, II & III) and for the design component of the humanities courses, HUM107 and HUM108. The Page 7.446.1details of how Drexel’s Freshman Design Program is

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marie Dahleh

covered which may differfrom the department syllabus, any laboratory projects, design experience, oral or writtencommunication projects and any social or ethical issues discussed in the course. The curriculumcommittee, to determine if the department syllabus needs to be changed, reviews the coursereports annually.Senior Exit surveyAll graduating seniors are asked to fill out a survey just before graduation in the spring. Thissurvey is quite detailed consisting of 23 questions many with multiple parts. Several questionsspecifically ask the students to give an opinion about how well the department met the MEprogram outcomes. The rest of the questions were included to correspond to questions o n theone-year alumni survey and will be used for

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Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Brenda Henry Groff; Carlos Pomalaza-Raez

an Introductory Programming Course for Engineers,” Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference, June 28 – July 1, Seattle, Washington.11. Genalo, L. J., Williams, B. D., “The Freshman Engineering Problems and Programming Course: Integrating New and Old Tools,” Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, June 25-28 1995, Anaheim, California, pp. 1532-1536.12. Goff, R.M., Gregg, M.H., “Freshman Hands-On Engineering Laboratory at Virginia Tech,” The Innovator, The SUCCEED Newsletter, no. 11, Spring 1999, pp. 12-15.13. Starr, G.P., “The UNM Mechanical Engineering Lego Robot Competition,” Proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference on Robotics for Challenging Environments, 1998, pp. 230-236.14. Hayes, G.M., and Hallan

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Design and Assessment Laboratory, and his research focuses on Web Designand Usability Assessment.Web AddressMaterials presented in this paper are available via the Internet at: http://www.umr.edu/~bestmech/preview.html Page 7.719.15 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Ribando

program. Over the last 15 years he has played a very active role in the development of the Page 7.1275.6infrastructure for making use of technology in instruction at the University. The work reported here wasbegun under the University of Virginia’s Teaching + Technology Initiative faculty fellowship program.Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3430TIMOTHY C. SCOTTTimothy C. Scott is Instructional Laboratory Director and an

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Larry Dunn; Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University. He hasover 26 years of engineering experience, including positions in academia, industry, the United States Army, agovernment laboratory, and his own consulting business. He is a registered P.E. in the State of Tennessee.JESSICA O. MATSONJessica Matson is currently Professor and Chairperson of the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Departmentat Tennessee Technological University. She received her B.S. from Mississippi State University and her M.S. andPh.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, all in industrial engineering. She has previously served on the facultyat Mississippi State University and the University of Alabama and is a registered P.E

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Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

theUniversity of Tennessee in Nuclear Engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology inME. She has also been an Associate Professor at Christian Brothers University. Her industrialexperience includes Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Chicago Bridge and Iron. She is a registeredPE.J. DARRELL GIBSON is a Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech where he teaches design,noise control, and structural mechanics. His BS and MS are from Purdue in Aero Engineering and hisPh.D. is from the University of New Mexico in ME. He has also been an Associate Professor at theUniversity of Wyoming and a Visiting Professor at Colorado State Univ. His industrial experienceincludes General Dynamics Corp, J.I Case Co, Sandia Labs, NASA/Langley

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul King

convert this laboratory-basedsystem into a clinical one. The key component in the system design will be a fiber optichandheld probe that is capable of delivering laser light and collecting the tissue signals withoutinterference from the room lights or the optical fiber itself. Thus the task of your company willbe to design such a clinical Raman probe based on fiber optics that can be used in humanpatients.5) Assistive Device for the ElderlyMost of know about the famous commercial “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”. In response to arequest from the Rehabilitation Center, your task is to develop an assist device for elderlypersons and persons with a disability who sometimes fall and do not have the ability or strengthto lift themselves without

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Goldberg

specific registers and counters of the8051 microcontroller. Note these tasks are essential in microcontroller applications, and eachmicrocontroller has unique hardware and software to efficiently perform them.The assembly language code and hardware involved in these three tasks are presented in classlecture. (Figure 1 shows the assembly language code for the three tasks. Note the code may notbe complete). The students study the 8051 instructions that are employed in the three tasks.Students follow up in laboratory by entering the code with a text editor and assembling anddownloading the code using the Rigel RJ 31P 8051 board and READS51 software developmentenvironment. They construct a hardware interface board consisting of drivers and LEDs

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachel Shinn

7.1099.6Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfaculty resources.IV. Early Teaming ExperiencesAs our space option evolves, we have added more space courses to support our design sequence. One of these courses is a laboratory course in which the students do experiments related tospacecraft. Because we are a small school, this gave us the opportunity to arrange a groupproject as a final project for the lab course that gives them a preview of the teaming experience.These students, in their junior year, have a team project that helps them practice teaming with thesame students they will be working with in their

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Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Turner

an ever lighter human footprint onthe earth."Writing in The New York Times, Jay Parini endowed Orr, chair of theEnvironmental Studies Program, with the apt appellation "environmental guru."Orr led more than 250 students, faculty, and town residents in discussions withnational ecological designers during the building's initial design phase three yearsago. He also raised most of the funds for the project.For Oberlin, that knowledge has resulted in a 14,000-square-foot, $6.6 million,self-sustaining structure of classrooms, laboratories, and surrounding gardens.More than a building where teaching takes place, the Lewis Center is a place thatteaches. By virtue of the building's design concepts, students learn ecologicalcompetence and mindfulness

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Torres

gates are used for address decoding. These were hand wired usingwire wrap techniques. Page 7.1059.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationUsing a Lattice Mach4 PLD and DesignEXPERT software, all the logic gates would beprogrammed into the PLD saving valuable laboratory time. Another advantage is fast designtime. Faster changes can be made and simulated with the software than wire wrapping.LED ExampleFrom Lattice Semiconductor Corporation University Program, ispStarter Kits part# Mach4-sk44can

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathrine Nguru; Murat Tanyel

taught at Drexel University where he worked for the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineering Students (E4) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-oncomputer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visitingprofessor at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE where he helped set up an innovativeintroductory engineering curriculum. Dr. Tanyel received h is B. S. degree in electrical engineering from BogaziçiUniversity, Istanbul, Turkey in 1981, his M. S. degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University,Lewisburg, PA in 1985 and his Ph. D. in biomedical engineering from Drexel University, Philad elphia, PA in1990.KATHRINE NGURUKathrine Nguru is a graphic design

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ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

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Z. Joan Delalic; Richard Cohen; Jim J-S Chen; Dennis Silage

, an associate of the System Chip Design Center and teaches microelectronics and VLSICAD design. Dr. Delalic is the faculty advisor of the College IMAPS student chapter.JIM J-S CHEN received the PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University in 1985. He is a Professor,Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Thermal Processing Laboratory and teaches heat transfer andmaterials processing.RICHARD COHEN received the PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1977. He is anAssociate Professor and teaches heat transfer, thermodynamics, and combustion. Dr. Cohen is the faculty advisor ofthe College SAE student chapter.DENNIS SILAGE received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975

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Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

development. The company plans to begin test marketing in the second quarter of 2002. Articulation Innovations, LLC is a partnership between faculty at the University of Maryland Dental School and two Hinman CEOs. The dentists have developed patented devices for clinical and laboratory procedures in Prosthodontics and related dental specialties and the CEOs have joined the team to improve the engineering of the design and to develop a marketing plan for the product. NCIIA seed funding has provided professional level engineering and business software that is facilitating the team in improving the design and getting the product to market.F. Technology OpportunitiesSome of the CEOs have definite business ideas when they enter the program

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

student team and the piston pump built by them. Figure[6] shows one of the student teams getting ready for pump-testing at the end of springsemester of 2001.Besides attending class lectures the ENES 100 students used the Computer AidedEngineering (CAE) Laboratory and the Workshop facilities at UMES extensively duringthe project. The 3 credit hours of the course include 2 lecture hours and 2 Laboratoryhours per week. The two lab hours were utilized for software skills development,manufacturing efforts in Carpentry and Machine Shop, as well as teamwork. The firsttwo weeks of lab time was utilized for introduction to Microsoft Word, Excel andPowerPoint, followed by 7 /8 weeks of demonstration and training using ProEngineer.The remaining lab hours

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Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Cindy Finelli; Trevor Harding

(www.engr.wisc.edu/services/elc/) and Wisconsin Engineering Education Laboratory (www.engr.wisc.edu/weel/)The centers listed here have a variety of goals and missions, ranging from offering extensiveopportunities for faculty development and TA training to serving as a focal point for assessmentefforts. Some of the centers facilitate extensive research into learning and assist faculty inidentifying funding opportunities. Generally the centers are supported by the institute’s budgetand have a half-time or full-time director to lead their activities. Based on the success of thesecenters, other schools have been considering establishing centers for engineering education. Toassist in this effort, the roundtable discussion at the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference

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New ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeff Kimble

praise for thedelivery method.Fire ResearchWhile the FSET program at UNC Charlotte is only two and one half years old, research isunderway. There is a belief by those in the department that research is a key factor in stayingcurrent and in providing valuable learning opportunities for the students. Two of the students’classes require some exposure to the research element. Once the labs are fully functional,distance education students will be required to attend laboratory sessions for one week eachsemester during their research classes. The University was reluctant to put the research lab forthe program on campus, as it would be cost prohibitive to retrofit a building to handle theequipment and to install smoke scrubbers so that room size

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nick Salamon; Gautam Wagle; Cliff Lissenden

loading. The report must include all finalspecifications and design criteria, calculations and analysis, as well as dimensions. EMch 400students should lead the design for overload and EMch 500 students should lead the design toprevent fatigue failure. Due 11 October.B. [10%] Analysis Validation. EMch 400 ONLY.Part I: Suggest a laboratory experiment or set of experiments that will enable you to validateyour crank arm analysis. Note that this is not intended to be field testing of a prototype. Thesolid model of the crank arm is shown in Figure 1 and a dimensioned drawing in Figure 2.(Figures not included in this paper.) Due 25 October.Part II: Validate your team's analysis with the experimental results. At points A & B comparemeasured strain

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Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patrick Tebbe

teachesundergraduate thermodynamics and thermal sciences laboratories. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineeringfrom the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1997. Before moving to New Jersey he served as an Adjunct AssistantProfessor at Missouri and also completed a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering. He is a member of ASME, ASEE, andANS where he currently serves as the Secretary/Treasurer for the Human Factors Division. Page 7.535.7 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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June Ferrill

abstract concepts and generalizations,and then followed by testing concept implications in new situations. The process may then beginall over again.ApplicationLewin’s model fits both the laboratory and the entrepreneurial process. I use this model tostructure my course content and to determine teaching methodology. The course sequencefollows the entrepreneurial process: (1) Begins with calling on students’ concrete experience as they seek problems and then solutions (2) Students collect data through marketing research and discussion with me, peers and mentors. They study marketing research techniques through a textbook and through hearing a marketing expert present, and then they immediately apply their knowledge

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New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patrick Tebbe

and student success hasbeen vast.AcknowledgementsThis work (and effort) could not be achieved without the assistance of the TCNJ Facilities Department and inparticular the staff of the powerhouse. In addition, the financial support of the APC sponsors (Air Engineering andPSE&G) is greatly appreciated.PATRICK A. TEBBEPatrick Tebbe is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The College of New Jersey. Patrick teachesundergraduate thermodynamics and thermal sciences laboratories. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineeringfrom the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1997. Before moving to New Jersey he served as an Adjunct AssistantProfessor at Missouri and also completed a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering. He is a member of ASME

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Leroy Oberto; Sheryl Sorby

Page 7.752.5applications that illustrate those fundamentals. Our lecturers will return the following day toanswer questions or give support for any homework that may have been assigned. The studentswill be toured through various research laboratories at the university where they will meet gradu-ate students in various engineering and science disciplines. This, it is hoped, will help thembroaden their view of the field and to meet fellow students engaged in research. There will also bean evening activity that will afford our students the opportunity to get to know some of theseengineering graduate students on a personal level. To better facilitate the integration of thepresented materials, a web page has been created that outlines several

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Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Timothy Lawrence; Michael Warner; Douglas Bayley

andfabricate their subsystems, with limited options for subcontracting. Laboratory facilitieswith full-time lab technicians are specifically assigned to support the Engr 410 classprojects. Students who may have never operated a band-saw before are given theopportunity to do some hands-on construction. The cadets are expected to spend theirentire classroom time and even outside of class time in the labs building their project.As they proceed through the Critical Design phase, cadets encounter the problems of Page 7.1127.5going from a paper design to building actual hardware and integration, with all the“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

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How are We Faring with EC2000?

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daina Briedis

, July, 2001.5. “ Initial Assessment of the Impact of ABET/EC2000 Implementation Using Mechanical Engineering Programs as the Pilot Study Group,” Laurenson, R.M. ed., American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, NY, December, 2001.6. Young, V., D. Ridgway, M. Prudich, and D. Goetz, “ Criterion-Based Grading for Learning and Assessment in Unit Operations Laboratory,” Session 3213, Proc. of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 24-27, 2001.7. Briedis, D. “ Developing Effective Assessment of Student Professional Outcomes,” International Journal of Engineering Education” 18(2) (2002).8. Shaeiwitz, J.A., “ Mining Capstone engineering experiences for Program assessment Results,” International Journal of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Bernhardt; Paul Imhoff; Michael Pearlman; Diane Kukich; Darren O'Neill; Michael Chajes

. Since the students’ technicalknowledge is limited at this early stage, the assignments focus on societal aspects ofengineering—for example, cultural, aesthetic, and historical issues associated with the structuresbeing discussed.Formerly slotted for the fourth year, English 410, Technical Writing, is now recommended forsecond-year students, as it is most effective when delivered as a prerequisite to the capstonefourth-year engineering course. This enables writing aspects to build more cohesively andallows students to begin their senior-design writing projects at a higher level of communicativecompetency. In addition, both the civil and environmental engineering curricula require studentsto complete a materials laboratory course during the

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Saleh Sbenaty

using two cases including the pizza case.· Section 3 was used as a control section, i.e., students in this section were not exposed to case- based learning. One short case was used in this section as a class example (not related to resistance calculation) and it was not related the pizza case.· The pizza case was conducted during the forth week of the semester while the transfer questions were given at the end of semester, about ten weeks later.· The pizza case was conducted during the extra laboratory time. Students in all sections had the same material coverage and by the same instructor. During the time while the case was conducted in sections 1 and 2, students from section 3 were engaged in additional resistance

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Amir Karimi

Analysis II.These are foundation courses in the mechanical engineering curriculum and strong preparation inthese courses is essential for student success in the upper level courses. To improve studentsuccess, one hour of mandatory recitation has been added to the three courses listed above.Again the enrollment for each recitation section is limited to 25 students and the recitation hoursare used to improve students’ problem solving skills.EGR 1303 – Exploring the Engineering Profession: This new course is required in allengineering degree programs at UTSA. The course format is a three-hour lecture, one-hourlaboratory/recitation. The laboratory/recitation hour is limited to a small enrollment to allowstudent/instructor interaction in problem

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Fragomeni

necessary for a more fulfilling and exciting undergraduate engineeringexperience.IntroductionThis project is designed to improve the interactive learning environment that students have inlearning material science in their undergraduate studies. Various courses such as metalprocessing, strength of materials, machine design, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics,manufacturing processes, mechanical behavior of materials, principles of engineering materials,materials laboratory, senior lab, senior design, and metallic corrosion require a goodunderstanding of engineering science and materials for the success of the undergraduate students.The goal would be to enhance and improve the student's materials & engineering sciencebackground and knowledge and also

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

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Haitham Logman; Ronald Barr; Cynthia Finley; Michael Hagenberger

Topic/Title Examples of video instruction, Dr. Philip Schmidt, Director web-based instruction, and of the Instructional MediaSeminar March 24, 1998 presentation graphics software Laboratory, Dept. of used successfully in the Mechanical Engineering