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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Alicia Townsend; Renate Fruchter

Session: 2793 Impact of Multi-Cultural Dimensions on Multi-Modal Communication in Global Teamwork Renate Fruchter* and Alicia Townsend** *Director of Project Based Learning Laboratory (PBL Lab) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4020 fruchter@ce.stanford.edu **Graduate Student, Learning Design and Technology Program, School of Education Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 lishat@stanford.eduIntroductionThis

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ed McCaul; Alfred Soboyejo; Robert J. Gustafson

been better prepared by theirundergraduate experience were: 1. Changes in content of engineering courses; e.g. more industry interaction, real-world context, and current technology and software 2. More involvement in professional organizations 3. Increased use of trade and professional publications in the curriculum 4. Increased focus on professional skill; e.g. communication, ethics, conflict resolution, teamwork and time management.By far the most significant response to barriers to staying current was “time”. Breaking downthe response further, it is apparent that significant elements dealt with balance of personal andprofessional time commitments and employer allocation of time and resources towardsprofessional

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Justin Chimka; Teri Rhoads

obtained a new Deanof Engineering and, with the new Dean, began constructing a new strategic initiative. Thisinitiative underwent many transformations and continues to evolve. The vision of the College ofEngineering is “to produce engineering graduates sought first by industry and investors forexcelling in a rapidly changing, technology-driven world both as problem-solving engineers andtechnology managers in existing companies and as leaders in starting new, technology-basedcompanies.” The plan to fulfill this vision includes three main areas: enhanced education, relevantresearch, and top students. Also, the plan must determine how it will assess when the vision hasbeen met or how close/far away the vision remains. A discussion of the plan took

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Ruane

© 2002, American Society for Engineering Ed ucationand in Bioinformatics arose in the 1990s, but these were established within campus-wideinterdisciplinary centers, with Engineering as one of many participants.Photonics, the science and technology of light, has been evolving as a distinct engineering areaover the last two decades. Photonics is a global industry with estimated annual volume exceeding$100B. Its companies usually provide enabling technology for other products and services,supporting the transmission of information, the processing of materials, the manufacturing ofmicroelectronics and nanotechnology, sensing, display, and scientific measurement. The industryhas a wide demand for technical graduates, from established large

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Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Omid Ansary; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

, the outcome of the review may be biased. Thismay result in accreditation for a program, while not accrediting a similar program at anotherinstitution by two different evaluators. To explore this further, in a real case scenario that one ofthe author’s programs was the beneficiary in an ABET visit, the evaluator had a major problemwith the institution offering both EE and EET in the same department. In fact, despite theinstitution’s effort of presenting each programs’ objectives and curriculums as well as exhibitingthe distinct differences between the programs, the institution was flagged with a “weakness” incriterion 1 for this by ABET. None of the ABET criteria mention that the engineering andengineering technology are prohibited to coexist

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New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Schumack

reflective room light using compactfluorescent technology. A statement on the package claimed specific cost savings above halogenlamps and savings in pounds of coal burned. I asked students to verify the advertised figures.The dollar amount was approximately confirmed, but the claimed mass of coal saved was higherthan the class calculated, probably due to a discrepancy in the figure used for heating value. Page 7.658.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationPractical energy conservation suggestions. Students

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Karthik Soundararajan; S. Manian Ramkumar; Immanuel Edinbarough

. The various cellcomponents are interfaced with the computer through digital and analog interface modules fromNational Instruments and is controlled using a graphical programming language calledLabVIEW. A dedicated web page was developed for the cell that allows remote users to performonline quality tests. Details pertaining to the cell and the control architecture developed toautomate the quality control task are presented in this paper. The feasibility of providing non-sitebased hands-on engineering and technology education is also explored through this project.I. IntroductionThe advent of the world-wide-web has tremendously influenced the way in which industry andacademia perform various activities. More and more academic institutions

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Santhosh Thampuran

Session 2793 A New Course in Multimedia Systems for Non-technical Majors Wayne Burleson, Stephen Kelley, Santhosh Thampuran Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts, AmherstAbstractThis paper describes a project which has developed, piloted, evaluated, and is currentlydisseminating, a novel course in Multimedia Systems for non-majors. The course forms part ofthe new Information Technology minor program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.The primary objective of the course is to expose students from non-technical majors to

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Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Petry

requirements. The New Englan dAssociation of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) accredits the University of Hartford.Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) accredits the current programin Architecture. This pre-professional program will be expanded in the next year or two toinclude a two-year graduate professional degree program. This new graduate program willrequire an accreditation from the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB).Following are some of the requirements of each of these accrediting organizations:New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC)NEASC identifies the Assessment Process as follows: · Articulate outcomes · Identify where outcomes are addressed · Identify and collect

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

consortium for exchange of student industrial interns and academic and industrial expertise inbiotechnology and bioengineering education has been established between the NSF-fundedVaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies and analliance of universities and trade organizations in Niedersachsen, Germany. The purposes of thisconsortium are (1) to supplement VaNTH domain expertise in biotechnology, (2) to exploredifferences in European/US models of bioengineering and biotechnology education and attitudestoward biotechnology development, and (3) to provide students opportunities for internships inother countries. (1) The expertise of authors H-JJ and BH in plant biotechnology andbiochemistry will supplement that of

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Vollaro

retention of process details, and provide an opportunity for a student to role-play, as a practicing engineer. A formal trip report is required and comprised of questionsregarding the process technology and products manufactured at the facility. A key question oneach trip report states, “What resources, i.e., information and people, would you request if youwere a new engineer at this company?” In class, this question sparks discussion and to provides alink between the student’s pre-professional experience and their future in the real world. Thefeedback from the students has been overwhelmingly positive. Assessment of student learningand basic knowledge is evidenced by the significant improvement in quality of the classdiscussions and the technical

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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

significantly over baseline data. The graduation rate is expected todouble over an eleven-year period. This paper describes the structure, goals, impact, andevaluation of the program.I. IntroductionThe under-representation of ethnic and racial minorities in the fields of science and engineeringhas become a growing concern among educators and policymakers in recent years. In order toensure that our nation remains at the forefront of science and technology, it is imperative that thescience and engineering workforce be representative of the entire workforce. 1,2 In recent years,efforts have been made to increase the number and diversity of students who earn baccalaureatedegrees in science and engineering and go on to pursue graduate degrees in these

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ET ABET Pilot Visits Using TC2K

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

Session 1347 Reformatting an EET Program For TAC of ABET TC2K James A. Lookadoo, Steve M. Hefley, Randy Winzer Pittsburg State University Pittsburg, KansasAbstractThis paper outlines the changes of an Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) program as itprepared to participate in TAC of ABET’s pilot study for outcomes-based assessment (TC2K).These changes include philosophic, policy, and management adjustments. This paper also notesthe difficulties and unsuccessful

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jack McGourty

by theAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) of eleven student learning Page 7.1305.1outcomes and assessment in its Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000) that is now required of over Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session # 25571,600 undergraduate US engineering programs at more than 300 institutions [3]. As a result,there has been an increased interest in assessment methodologies and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski

. Ultrafiltration experiments will be conducted and the results compared to the conventional separation process. This set of experiments will show how an engineer can use new and innovative membrane technology to improve the performance of a process. Student teams will be established to conduct these tests and study the economic feasibility of these applications.6. Refining and deodorization: Olive oil is a complex compound made of fatty acids, vitamins, volatile components, water soluble components and microscopic olive solids. The primary fatty acids are oleic and linoleic acid. The unique and delicate flavor of the oil is attributed to a number of volatile components. To improve the final product taste and odor, several

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Educators on the Frontier

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Hoag

universities.” In some cases this may well be the appropriate response.However, this is often not the case, as the following example illustrates: A critical aspect of our company’s product durability is ensuring against fatigue failure under particular operating conditions. There is a small group of engineers dedicated to this problem, and they have developed some very effective techniques. However, they have recently seen the retirement of one of their top people, and another will retire in two years. At the same time, in an effort to reduce product development time and better meet local customer needs, more and more of the development work is occurring at plant sites around the world. There have

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ET Capstone Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Currin

findings. The sharing of results with colleaguesto facilitate improvements to the curriculum rarely goes beyond the anecdotal level since manyintangibles are noted and are not measurable. Examples of the attempts to produce useablequantifiable feedback are given along with suggestions for further study.Introduction:As stated this paper deals with the findings of a 5 year study of the capstone design courserequired of all civil engineering technology students at Southern Polytechnic State University(SPSU) and the attempts to use this course as an effective outcomes assessment tool. First,outcomes assessment in the context of the study is described and discussed. Likewise, thecapstone design course is described and the learning outcomes for this

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Jenkins; John Kramlich

degree (and hence success) to whichindividual departments at UW evaluated the assessment results varied. To quote a representativefrom one department: “….we got our accreditation renewed, so I guess the methods worked…”In the coming years, it is anticipated that departments/programs at UW will assess theirassessment methods to determine modifications, adjustments and refinements.AcknowledgmentThe financial and moral support of the Department of Mechanical Engineering through theDepartment Chair, William Wilson, and the College of Engineering through Associate DeansMani Soma and Chen Ching Liu, is gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology,Washington

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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June Ferrill

with reviewers.Through interactions with members of the entrepreneurial community and through assuming theentrepreneurial role, students can learn the discourse of that community.Seminal Elements of Experiential Learning and ApplicationsExperiential learning theory provides the underpinning for a program developed over the last twoyears for engineering and science students at Rice University. Presently the program consists of astudent-led entrepreneurial club, a business forum called the Rice Alliance for Technology andEngineering, and a course entitled “New Ventures Communication.” The course focuses on anindividual student or student team discovering an innovation to start a business, developing abusiness concept, giving a business concept

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Krouglicof

Engineering course, a required course for engineering students in all majors. Atthe junior and senior levels it is designed to support laboratories in Dynamics of Systems andMechatronics Design. Finally, as a stand-alone controller, it could potentially be applied tonumerous mechatronic student projects including the International Virtual Design Studio(IVDS), the Robotics Club, the SAE Walking Machine Challenge as well as several capstonedesign projects each year.The system is both technologically and pedagogically innovative. In terms of pedagogy, inprovides a new avenue of application for laptop computers in the undergraduate curriculum. Interms of technological innovation, the system is unique in that it functions as a data acquisitionsystem

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Badger; Geraldine Peten; Anil Sawhney

scientists,mathematicians, or engineers; business or public leaders; and other types of “knowledge workers”and knowledgeable citizens (NSF 1996). American’s business and industry, governments andfoundations must provide active assistance and support to accomplish this important task (NSF1996).Over the past few years national organizations such as the American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), National Science Foundation(NSF), Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET), and National ResearchCouncil (NRC) have sponsored numerous studies to gauge the current status of undergraduateengineering education and to develop an agenda of improvement (ABET 1993, ASCE 1995, NSF1995). One of the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Teofilo Caceras; James Ochoa

Session 2432 An Advanced Microcontroller Systems Course for Upper-Level Undergraduate Curriculum Teofilo A. Caceres, Zachary Combs and James A. Ochoa Texas A&M UniversityAbstractThe Electronics Engineering Technology program at Texas A&M University preparesundergraduate students to “hit the ground running” in industry engineering positions. Theprogram has a strong system-integration curriculum emphasizing the theory and application ofboth analog and digital electronics. Recognizing the popularity and importance of embeddedprocessors, the EET program

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jane Xue; Robin Qiu

, resulting in improving the trainees’ satisfaction. This article discussed such an e-education system taking advantage of the maturity of both XML and intelligence technologies. Page 7.355.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAlthough the myCareer system was developed for professionals’ continue educationschools/centers, it can be also effectively used in traditional high institutions.Bibliographies1. Akamai, www.akamai.com.2. Centra, www.centra.com.3. Docent, www.docent.com.4. Deshpande, S. and

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nancy Hubing

(UMR)have had an ongoing interest in the development and use of technology in the classroom [5,6,7].Several years ago BEST (Basic Engineering Software for Teaching) Dynamics was developed asa multimedia collection of kinematics and kinetics problems that enable the user to vary inputs totest a wide variety of configurations and behavior [5]. This was followed by BEST Statics andOn Call Instruction (OCI) for Statics, which were subsequently combined to create Statics On-Line [6], an interactive multimedia collection of problems and lessons which forms an integralpart of the statics course currently taught at UMR. The current work on multimedia modules forstatics instruction is part of a larger project involving dynamics and mechanics of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Roberta Madison; Gloria Melara; Robert Lingard

early 1990s,many citizens still do not have easy access to basic Information Technology tools, includinghardware, software, or the Internet itself. Access is an issue that affects people at home, at school Page 7.237.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationand in the community-at-large. Neighborhoods with less access to technology are at adisadvantage in contrast to those neighborhoods with more access when it comes to seekingbetter education, better jobs, even higher levels of civic

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tom Noack; Harry Tyrer; Eric Epperson

technology is adequate,the course was useful, and that the web was not useless. Furthermore, in the methodology for thepresentations with the audio comments, the students also agreed that the presentations helped inlearning as did the audio comments. Thus we feel that this approach is correct and useful for thestudents. Page 7.311.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Technology and Tools

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Saleh Sbenaty

knowledge. This research is a part of a three-year NSF-funded grant entitled “TheSouth-East Advanced Technological Education Consortium, SEATEC.” The consortium is acollaborative effort of five institutions across Tennessee, the main goal of which is to develop apractical approach to curriculum development, delivery, and assessment for engineering andtechnological education. This approach brings real-world problems to the classroom and is hopedto enhance learning and retention in these programs. Five case models that address five differentareas of engineering and technology were developed and are being field-tested. The SEATEC Page

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The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Baratuci; Angela Linse

, American Society for Engineering EducationCourse Design and DeliveryMany authors have reported on their experiences developing and using computer-based trainingmaterials3,4, web-based training materials5 and CD-web hybrid training materials 6.Computer-Based Training CoursesComputer Based Training (CBT) was the obvious solution to the Chemical EngineeringDepartment’s limitations for co-op participants and provides opportunities to incorporate up-to-date pedagogical approaches with modern technology. CBT courses incorporate a high level ofstudent involvement and responsibility that is not easily matched in the classroom. Part of thatinvolvement can be attributed to the ability of the student to tailor the course to her specificneeds. Many studies

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Adams

engineering, 16; electrical engineering, 8;engineering management, 5; materials engineering (mineral engineering), 5; chemicalengineering, 4; civil engineering, 3; biomedical engineering, engineering technology, andcomputer science, 2; and biological engineering, nuclear engineering and geological engineering,each had one respondent. The teaching experience of the participators ranged from 1 to 35 years, with an averageof 12.268 years. More than one third (36.59%) currently hold the status of associate professor,31.71% are assistant professors, 20.73% are professors, 7.32% are deans and the rest (3.66%) arelecturers/instructors, assistant/associate deans or adjunct professors. Other findings: the majorities held a doctorate degree (97.56

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sheila O'Connor; Don Malzahn

Session 1658 Beta Testing a Web-Based Interactive Coaching System for Team Skill Development Sheila O’Connor, Don Malzahn Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Wichita State UniversityAbstractThe practice of engineering occurs in teams. Therefore, engineering educators mustcontinue to construct and evaluate methods for helping engineering students learn how towork in teams. The development of TeamCoach occurred over a one-year period andwas partially funded by NSF CCLI DUE -0088580. Beta testing was conducted duringthe Fall 2001 semester