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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Albert Segall

Time, Harperperennial Library, 1998.Albert E. Segall is currently the Director of Engineering Programs and Associate Professor of Mechanical andManufacturing Engineering at Washington State University Vancouver. He Received his Ph.D. in EngineeringScience and Mechanics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1992. While at Penn State, he has also served asthe Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Materials and a Senior Research Associate at the AppliedResearch Laboratory. Page 7.993.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rusek; Barbara Oakley

how general communication functions can be practicallyimplemented in circuitry. This paper discusses PSpice models illustrating how digital modulation and demodulationcan be achieved and applied in support of conventional and spread spectrum communicationsystems. The PSpice models of PSK and FSK systems described in the article can be directlyreferred to existing hardware. The most popular spread spectrum methods, CDMA and frequencyhopping, have been considered and introduced to demonstrate encoding and decoding processes.The PSpice circuits and simulations discussed here would make excellent additions to theclassroom or laboratory of any undergraduate communications system course.I. Introduction PSpice is the most venerable of

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Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Abaté; Ramesh Gaonkar

ascompetence in math and communication.4Recent literature in the fields of mathematics and English also supports the need for aninterdisciplinary approach. The report, Crossroads in Mathematics Standards for IntroductoryCollege Mathematics Before Calculus, recommends: (1) an increased use of technology; (2)interactive and collaborative learning; and (3) an emphasis on problem solving.5 In ourapproach, math concepts reinforce, and are specifically applied to, technology applications. Forinstance, students analyzing current and voltage characteristics of series circuits in theirelectronics laboratory experiments are simultaneously covering related topics in their mathcourse. Overcoming the resistance of technical students to writing involves a

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Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Swami Karunamoorthy

ASSESSMENT – FACULTYPlease answer all the questions and include the course outline handout.NAME: DATE:COURSE NUMBER/TITLE:TEXT BOOK:A. List the course objectives:B. Pedagogical Methods used in this course (Please check all that apply): Classroom Lecture Laboratory Demonstration Design Experience (Project/Problem) Computer Application (Project/Problem) Web-Based Tools Guest Lecture from Industry and/or Government Seminar Video Presentation Field Trip Other (Describe)C. Assessment Methods used in this course (Please check all that apply): Homework Quizzes Tests Web Based Test Design Project Report Computer Project Report Oral Presentation Other (Describe)D

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anthony Trippe

lecture addressing the faculty member’s emphasis of specific topicpoints, an applied case study, a hands-on laboratory exercise and a performanceassignment which allows the student to demonstrate mastery of the topics. Some facultyprefer to include short tests within each module while others, like me, wait to completeseveral modules before testing occurs.2. Text Review For a distance learning course, it is imperative that the instructor use atext which completely covers the material which makes up the foundation body ofknowledge for the course. Additionally, the text must be technically accurate, readable,concise and hopefully filled with graphics (to accommodate visual learners). Walk ing inthe shoes of the student, the faculty member must lay

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Cliff Mirman; Radha Balamuralikrishna

school curriculum. High school courses indesign drafting, machining, woodworking, automation, and automobile technology have oftensparked student interest and enticed them to pursue careers in technology. However, from ourpersonal observations, there has been an increasing trend on the part of the Northern Il linoisregional high schools to cut down on technology programs citing cost of equipment, lack ofteachers, and laboratory space requirements as reasons. This translates into more work forcolleges seeking to promote engineering and technology among school students.Interaction with Area Middle and High SchoolsThe NIU engineering technology programs are offered in two areas of specialization, ElectricalEngineering Technology (EET) and

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Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

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Josue Njock-Libii

design experienceculminated in a two-semester senior course, which is the capstone design project. The remainderof this paper details how design content was added to the first course in fluid mechanics.3. The Process of Adding Design into the CourseDescription of the course. The first course in fluid mechanics is required of all MechanicalEngineering students. It consists of a lecture and a laboratory. The lecture part is worth threesemester-credit hours and the lab component, one semester-credit hour. The lab session meets forthree consecutive hours, once a week. The program introduced design into the course by assigningopen-ended problems at the beginning of the semester. Students were required to choose a resultor concept of fluid mechanics

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvia Alexander

throughout the university, together with a supportive environment for new software businesses. Such businesses can attract funding and other forms of business support;· NIKEL (Northern Ireland Knowledge Engineering Laboratory), a research and technology transfer organisation hosted by the Faculty helping companies in Northern Ireland and beyond gain competitive advantage through the application of advanced software technology; Page 7.689.3Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education· Jigsaw, a

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James McCowan; James Mason

StateUniversity (design projects in year one), University of Pittsburgh (where the Chemical andPetroleum Engineering Department developed a computer laboratory with great skill andinsight7), and Stanford University (a course in learning design through mechanical dissection8). The Mechanical Engineering program at the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada has made "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Page 7.339.2 Education"very significant and effective changes in its program.9 These include the

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Paul Giolma; Kevin Nickels

laboratory and designportions of the program provide the students with a balanced perspective on the theory andpractice of the engineering profession1.The design sequence includes a first year experience consisting of two three-hour courses, eachof which has a small-group design project. These courses also provide an introduction toengineering, to CAD and to a variety of computational tools. The second year has two one-hourdesign courses that include small-group projects and provide introductions to engineeringeconomics and statitistical methods. The projects (one being a mini-capstone project) in the firsttwo years have themes that are principally mechanical in nature. In the third year there are alsotwo one-hour courses: one deals with design from

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Program Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Rennels

type of student work including tests, quizzes, homework, laboratory reports, term projects, oral reports, term papers or design projects. 4. Determine the evaluation methodology and tools including rubrics to be employed with the artifact or evidence. 5. Establish the expected level of performance. 6. Analyze the results to develop findings. 7. Provide feedback to the curricular planning process.Appendix I illustrates the evolving student learning outcomes assessment plan developed for theMET degree programs at IUPUI. This plan is still under development with the implementationpartially completed. Appendix II illustrates the assessment tool used for the MET 105,Introduction to Engineering Technology course. Since this course

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Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

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Amyl Ghanem

Session 2555 Learning Circle: New Faculty Guidance for Best Practices in Research Mentoring Amyl Ghanem Faculty of Engineering Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia CanadaIntroductionStudent-conducted research is an active learning experience practiced in capstone projects, in-class research assignments, or laboratory based undergraduate and graduate research. Societydepends on the innovations that stem from research at all levels. The transition from

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To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wayne Walter

is to make our roboticscourse and lab the premier hands-on undergraduate robotics laboratory in the United States. Wewould like to establish relationships with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University,MIT, Stanford, and other outstanding graduate schools, which will seek to recruit our graduates.Students enjoy the new robotics course format with an emphasis on micro-controllers, and theysee the application to new product development where embedded processors have becomecommonplace. It is essential for mechanical engineering students to have a working knowledgeof these devices in order to be cutting-edge. In the past, our enrollment was severely limited bythe availability of a few expensive industrial robots. In contrast, micro

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ET Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kamal Bichara

research. Page 7.631.2 2 To manage time effectively and produce written progress reports and a final report Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education on time. 3. To make effective lecture presentations of their project work and demonstrate the project in the laboratory. 4. To write a project report that would be satisfactory in literary terms, completely describes the project work and which critically relates the work to current technical practice.Students were

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Pre-College and ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susan Meyers; Donald Kirk

people, many engineers became familiar with and excited by technology by Page 7.1114.3taking apart and putting together commonly found household products. In addition to theProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and 3Exposition, Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationchallenge of accomplishing the disassembly and reassembly (with no parts left over andwithout damaging the product) excitement is engendered by figuring out how the productactually works. This “How Do Things Work” learning goal is to be achieved byproviding hands-on laboratory sessions disassembling and reassembling

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

Education, pp. 261-264.BiographiesSudhir Mehta is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Dakota State University. His areas of interest areenhancing student learning, measurements, controls, robotics, mechanics, design optimization, and machine vision.He was named the 1997 North Dakota Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and has received the HPaward for excellence in laboratory instruction in 1999. He was awarded university’s prestigious Faculty LectureshipAward in 2001 and the Peltier Award for Innovative Teaching in 2000. Dr. Mehta and his colleagues have receivedthe best paper awards from the ASEE in 1999 and 1995. He is a co-author of the courseware, “Statics: The NextGeneration,” which is electronically published by

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Beena Sukumaran; Paris von Lockette; Douglas Cleary

course to refresh thisunderstanding.Engineering Clinics The eight-semester Engineering Clinic sequence will benefit from these tools. Freshmen andsophomore clinics involve measurement and basic engineering analysis. Since many topics arecovered in these courses, the use of hands-on and visualization tools will be useful in teachingmaterial typically taught in statics and solid mechanics. Having these tools available in theMaterials, Dynamics and Systems Laboratory will allow students in the junior and senior levelclinics as reference materials to refresh their knowledge of statics and solid mechanics conceptsneeded for solving design problems.Implementation and Equipment The Visual Cantilever and Simply-Supported Beams, along with

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New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rakie Cham; Brian Moyer

and Balance Laboratory, focuses on modeling, simulation and control of virtualhuman body motion to gain insight into injury biomechanics. Page 7.742.14 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anil Saigal; Vincent Manno

alumni and industrial advisors.The role of IAC was then expanded to include advising the department across all programs,participating in our ABET EC2000 continuous improvement process, and helping organize andexecute other outreach activities. Current members of IAC are from government and small andlarge industries such as the US Army Research Laboratory, GE Aircraft Engines, LucentTechnologies, Corning-Lasertron and Cambridge Applied Systems. These outreach activities define the third and fourth areas of university-industrycollaboration - co-organizing our annual Thermal Manufacturing Workshop and sponsorship ofdesign projects. As part of the outreach activities and in order to involve the local engineeringcommunities, Tufts University

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Teixeira; Pedro Portela; Maria Restivo; Jose Marques

3rd year, 2nd semester, discipline of the 5-year degreecourse in Mechanical Engineering, run at FEUP under the responsibility of the second author(TR), in which around 60% of the time is devoted to "hands on" laboratory activity involvingover 140 students. In order to comply with the demands for a non-conventional final projecttopic coming from a highly dynamic group of students led by the third author (PP), an open Page 7.330.1experimental problem was devised (by TR) using a very familiar object – a beverage can. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Cunningham; D. Joseph Mook

ten ERAUstudents have studied at EPF as of this writing, only three have followed through with thedouble diploma option. Of seventeen EPF students in the program, six have earned all threedegrees; to achieve that, students must complete a minimum of 33 undergraduate and 27graduate engineering credits taken at ERAU, on top of the five-year French EngineeringDiploma. A flow chart of the ERAU-EPF Double Diploma program is displayed in Figure 1.Accreditation concerns are addressed through course-by-course comparisons between thedouble degree participants. Professors from each institution cross the Atlantic to examine thecurricula, laboratories and design projects. EPF engineering and computer science(infomatique) department chairs spent a week at

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Palm; Thomas Keggler; David Taggart; David Chelidze; Brent Stucker

meaningless results due to seemingly minor input errors(inconsistent units, unrealistic boundary conditions, etc.). During this semester’s activities, all ofthe finite element analysis results were reasonable. Overall, the teaming experience proved to bevaluable but several improvements are planned in the future. Planned modifications includesmaller teams, better documentation of team activities through the use of a team binder andproviding more guidelines for teaming activities.5.0 AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Educationand Human Resources (EHR), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), Course, Curriculumand Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Award No. 0088315.References1. Barr, R. E

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

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

Missouri-Rolla. Prior tojoining the BE department in August 2000, she was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.at UMR from 1989 to 1999, and taught high school physics 1999-00. She completed her Ph.D. in ECE at NC StateUniversity in 1989. Dr. Hubing enjoys research involving educational methods and technology in the classroom.RICHARD H. HALLRichard H. Hall, Associate Professor of Psychology at UMR, will be moving to UMR’s new Information Scienceand Technology program in the fall of 2002. He received his BS degree in Psychology from the University of NorthTexas, and PhD degree in Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. He is the director of UMR’sMedia Design and Assessment Laboratory, and his research

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Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder

7.434.1“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Introduction In industry and government laboratories, teams of scientists and engineers need to worktogether closely to achieve their goals. In large projects, the team members may live and work atgeographically distant sites, and may work for different organizations, making communicationand interaction between the team members difficult at best and disastrous at worst. An exampleof the worst-case scenario is the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter in September 1999. “The peerreview preliminary findings indicate that one team used English units [inches, feet

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Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Ossman

Session 1448 Teaching State Variable Feedback to Technology Students Using MATLAB and SIMULINK Kathleen A.K. Ossman, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati I. IntroductionThis paper describes a course and laboratory in State Variable Feedback developed as a t echnicalelective for students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) program atthe University of Cincinnati. Students pursuing the EET degree are required to take courses inSignals and Systems and Feedback Controller Design. They learn to design lead

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie A. Jernigan; Garlie Forehand; Alexander B. Quinn; Judith Norback

will add to the range of workplace information that will be represented in the planningsheets, the criteria of communication excellence, and the web-based system. Teaching facultysuggestions will be implemented, and at some point there will be a communication laboratory.The laboratory activities will include continuation of the workplace research and support of Page 7.1111.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents and other constituencies in both oral and written communication. More

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CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Kilduff

was designed to help students visualize theserelationships and develop a deeper understanding of mass balance principles. The model was usedto separately demonstrate how to measure elevation-storage and stage-discharge relationships.The scale of the model makes it suitable for real-time, in-class demonstrations and experiments.All required equipment fits on a standard laboratory cart, and can be easily transported to theclassroom. A second objective of the model reservoir was to provide a system of sufficient simplicityto allow mathematical modeling. If a step function is used for the inflow hydrograph, and a vesselhaving a regular shape is used for the reservoir (e.g., cylinder), the differential mass balanceequations can be

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sérgio Franco; Marco Silveira; Luciano Costa; Guillermo Creus

opportunity to widen access to real experiments that might otherwiseonly be offered to those able to get to a suitably equipped laboratory” 13. This project, lead byOpen University, provides a wide range of student activities. B. Student participation in the evaluation process. As mentioned above, student self-reflection about cognitive evolution is important. Oneexample of this reflection can be found in a question development about constructed concepts5,that run an experience dividing a class in two groups. Each group, with the assistance of theteacher, had to set up questions for the other group, thus building a positive participationenvironment, adequate to learning:“...the evaluation process should be democratic, clear, transparent

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International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mayuree Thespol; J. Clair Batty

currently conducting research in the thermal management of spacesystems at Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory. He recently completed a one semester sabbatical toThailand as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He received the ScD degree in Mechanical Engineering from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969.MAYUREE THESPOL is Assistant Professor and Department Head of Mechanical Engineering at KasetsartUniversity in Bangkok, Thailand. She teaches undergraduate courses in thermodynamics and energy management.She received B. Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Kasetsart University and M. Eng in Industrial Engineering andManagement from Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand in 1980

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

. Bottomley, Elizabeth A. Parry, Sara Washburn, “Amy Hossain, Rachel Meyer Engineering Students in K-12 Schools” Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 1692, 2000.5. Alvin P. Sanoff, “Building Tomorrow’s Workforce,” ASEE Prism, Volume 10, Number 6, pp. 16-2. 2001.Biographical InformationJED LYONS is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at USC. He teaches engineering materials,manufacturing processes and mechanical design, conducts research on reinforced plastics and composites, developsmechanical engineering laboratories, and improves the teaching and communication skills of graduate students.MARYANNE BANICH is a doctoral student in the University of