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Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Murali Paranandi

’ designs.” Yet Bermudez and King[1998: p9] note that there is little or no instruction of procedures or concepts about howto negotiate the interface between digital and traditional media. They also present a set of19 hypotheses 8 on the impacts of analog-digital conversations in the design process bybringing together reported experiences from diverse researchers over the past decade.Calling for further systematic inquiry into the matter, Neuckrman [1999: p9] portrays aspectrum of approaches schools take across the world ranging from computerless topaperless9 studios, and use of computer to mimic traditional10 to new ways of designing.Instruction of Digital skillsAlthough the issue of how the student acquires computer skills for digital

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

. In the past, a typical student graduating with ahigher-level degree in science and engineering would have little or no exposure to businessprinciples. The result has been a workforce entrant that has no preparation for many of tasks thatthey are expected to perform. By far the majority of such graduates will enter industry positionswhere they are involved in product development and support, as opposed to research anddevelopment. Understanding business objectives and how to work effectively as a team memberare critical aspects of product development and support.Creating a successful program requires integration of a number of factors. The critical rawingredients are qualified personnel to staff the Incubator, individuals with good ideas, and

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Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dana Knox

feedback on the quality of its processes and products. The list wassurprisingly long, and had a variety of mechanisms other than surveys (although they weredefinitely present). Some of the mechanisms were neither quantifiable nor formalized and weredropped from the list of assessment tools used for accreditation purposes (although such informaltools can be, and are, still used). The amended list was subsequently adopted as the “official”department list of assessment tools.Assessment Tools for the NJIT Chemical Engineering DepartmentThe following is the list of assessment tools that the department arrived at:1. BEST (Basic Engineering Skills Test)2. FE (Fundamentals of Engineering) test3. Alumni survey4. Graduating students survey5

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Brian Dickson

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Our experience to date confirms that the output can have substantial impact on thestudent’s company:• A “conventional” effluent treatment analysis, found previously un-recognised toxic hazards and the need for site management to review the resource implications of altering production processes.• A review of potential new product applications will probably save substantial costs by not taking what would have been a wrong direction.• That the “conventional” design reduced throughput & quality as it was duplicated on a world-wide basis, since “convention” was taken as “standard & best”, rather than what

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What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

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Farhad Sharifi

engineering away from its dominant theme of unit operation to thebroad sophisticated exploratory engineering it is today1. With this new definition, moreinterdisciplinary activities became possible; a professor with mechanical processing backgroundmight be doing research on design of a batch or continuous reactor for producing hydrogen as afuel as an alternative source of energy12. Such kind of projects will require knowledge aboutchemistry, energy, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, environment, and many other fields.However, it is indeed a teamwork effort on a chemical engineering project. After 1980 many industries started to externalize their R&D activities to reduce the spending.Mowery & Rosenberg6 mentioned that this has been

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What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anthony Dardy; William Krantz; Kettil Cedercreutz

into multiple career positions and build business skills, and by earning a good salaryhelping to defray educational costs. Longer term benefits for the students include being able tofocus their job search in areas of interest, having 'substance' to talk about during interviews andgetting acclimated as full-time employees more quickly. Companies benefit by having broadername recognition on campuses, gaining early access to the best students, and completing extrawork at a lower cost rate. In addition, students with co-op experience, especially our own, cancome in full-time upon graduation and make a more immediate impact. Co-op is a true 'win-win'.” Tim Sepelak

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robi Polikar; Robert R. Krchnavek; Raul Ordonez; Peter Jansson; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

now have the opportunity to consider our next significant directions and begin toanswer new questions: Where do we go from here? Where should we innovate? How do webetter support our community of stakeholders? We have outlined four strategic planning areas. 1. Enhancement of the graduate program. Strengthening the graduate component will better prepare our students for a broader array of opportunities in both industry and academia. An improved graduate program better delivers on our obligation to provide support for regional industry. More graduate activity will enhance the opportunities for students— graduate and undergraduate—to interact with faculty doing cutting-edge research and development activities. A

Conference Session

Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Silverman

are in irreconcilable conflict. ABET has already taken sides inrequiring programs to prepare their graduates with skills to function on multidisciplinary teams,and a broad education to understand the impact of engineering solutions in societal and globalcontexts (Engineering Criteria 2000). How, then, to meet the needs of ABET, institutionalmissions, the Bioengineering community (industry, research), and student interests?For many institutions, the commitments necessary to support specialized programs such as theone noted above are not possible. For such colleges and universities, a broad-based programwithin existing baccalaureate structures is possible. Academia, in spite of its focus on clear -cutdisciplines claims that it is able to

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Feland

.” 2 To address thisneed there has been a vast amount of research pursued regarding what makes a good engineeringdesign team, typically focused on factors other than skill-set. The researchers have then proposedvarious recipes for creating the ideal design team based on various personality or thinking styleindicators. Unfortunately corporations in industry do not always have the freedom to assemblethe ideal design team based on these personality assessments. In most business settings, teamsare formed based on skills sets required for the tasks and which human resources happen to beavailable at the time. Though insightful, the current research into design team recipes has nottaken into account those constraints.The approach taken by professors

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth DeBartolo

a disjointedthree-course sequence taught over the course of the first two years of the curriculum: MaterialsProcessing, Engineering Design Graphics, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing. Allthree courses are currently required, as the information they present is certainly all relevant andnecessary for graduating engineers. The manner in which it is presented, however, is in need ofimprovement. In reality, design engineers need to be able to combine and apply the skillslearned in these classes to generate complete designs. IMD will teach students the sameconcepts as the existing courses, only the content will be taught in the context of two designprojects spanning two 10-week quarters. In the new 2-quarter, 5-6 hours per week course

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Gregg

global environmental quality. Its program encompasses all of the engineeringand science disciplines, focusing on the design and synthesis of materials, processes, systems, anddevices with the objective of minimizing overall environmental impact (including energyutilization and waste production) throughout the entire life cycle of a product or process. AnABET impetus for green engineering is contained in Criterion 3 Program Outcomes andAssessment, Item [h] of the EC200 requirements, requiring that ‘Engineering Programs mustdemonstrate that their graduates have: ……………….the broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.' 5 Some effortsare underway to have the ABET language of item [f

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Harwell; Donna Shirley; Hillel Kumin

Education”3. Job Excelling and Creating Graduates - Attract and retain the very best students by our leadership in producing graduates widely known for not only being in great demand for existing jobs, but for their understanding of, and unique preparation for, creating jobs.These goals led to the definition of specific educational objectives for the College, suchas:1. Cutting Edge Education a. Improve the student/faculty ratio to at most 15/1 in every school, which will require increasing the faculty by 40-50%. b. Increase project-based, multidisciplinary educational opportunities. c. Increase our focus on technology-based learning to enable educational innovation. d. Improve the educational infrastructure.2. Cutting Edge

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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

positions in Germany are beingsought for US students. European engineering students previously hosted by author PK havebeen well-trained in research and industrial applications and are desirable interns for both USengineering design courses and US companies.GOALS OF THE PARTNERSHIPWe have established a partnership between the VaNTH ERC in Bioengineering EducationalTechnology and a consortium of German universities, research institutes, and companies in thecities of Hannover and Braunschweig in the German state of Niedersachsen. ParticipatingGerman institutions include the Technical University of Braunschweig, the University ofHannover, the National Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF) in Braunschweig, and the CarlDuisberg Society (CDG) in

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

Project engineering practice.(e) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of Senior Design Project engineering solutions in a societal context. IQP(f) An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, including statistics as Production Planning and well as integral and differential calculus. Control Production Planning and(g) An understanding of fundamental physical laws. ControlCommunication Skills(h) An ability to communicate effectively. Senior Design ProjectTeamwork

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Osborne; Bill Carroll

often not a practical option.Program DescriptionThe CS/EE Online Program is comprised of three degree options. Based on past experience andcurrent career goals, a student can select which of the three will best serve his/her educationalneeds. Choices include master's degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, orComputer Science and Engineering. To emphasize the multidisciplinary nature of this program,students in one department will be required to take at least two major courses from the otherdepartment. All three degrees are conferred with the Graduate Telecommunications EngineeringCertificate. Entrance requirements for the online programs are the same as for traditionalcampus-based programs. Degree requirements are summarized in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Chung

Session 2793 Cognitive Validation of a Computer-Based Assessment of Problem Solving: Linking Cognitive and Online Processes Gregory K. W. K. Chung 1, Linda F. de Vries 1, Alicia M. Cheak1, Ronald H. Stevens2, & William L. Bewley 1 1 National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) / 2UCLA School of Medicine / 2 Graduate School of Education & Information StudiesAbstractIn this study we tested a novel cognitive validation strategy that yoked participants

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mohamed Zarrugh

ofEngineering and Technology (ABET) reflect the need for reform and call for total overhaul oftraditional engineering curricula. 7 ABET's Criterion 3, Program Outcomes and Assessment,describes eleven specific outcomes in the skills of graduates of accredited engineering programs.In addition to traditional "hard" skills involving mathematics, science and technology, the criteriarequire the "softer" abilities of functioning in multidisciplinary teams, understanding ethical andprofessional responsibility, communicating effectively, understanding the impact of technologyon society, life-long learning, and knowing contemporary issues.A survey conducted in 1996 has quantified the attitudes of practicing engineers to ABET’sCriterion 3 requirements. 3

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

based system approach to engineering education. The basic levelcriteria for engineering program outcome and assessment requires that graduates must havedemonstrated abilities (a-k) [1], in math, science, engineering, design, teamwork, ethics,communication, and life-long learning. In addition to ABET accreditation criteria 3(a-k)requirements, the Mechanical Engineering (ME) program at Alabama A&M University (AAMU)was designed to meet additional requirements by American Society of Mechanical Engineer,such as (l) an ability to apply advanced mathematics through multivariable calculus, anddifferential equations; (m) a familiarity with statics, linear algebra and reliability; (n) an ability towork professionally in both thermal and mechanical

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerson de Oliveira

. Page 7.320.13 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education(44) TAYLOR, D.C., EUSTIS, J.D. Assessing the Changing Impact of Technology on Teaching and Learning at Virginia Tech: a case study. New Directions For Institutional Research , n.102, p.55-70, 1999.(45) TOLHURST, D. Hypertext, hipermedia, multimedia defined? Educational Technology, v.35, n.2, p. 21-26, 1995.(46) XAVIER, D.V. A informática escolar: aspectos de uma didática. Akrôpolis – Revista da Unipar, v.21, n.1, 1998.(47) ZAMBELLI, P. C. Avaliação: Um Permanente Desafio. Tecnologia Educacional, v.25

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Venkat Allada; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Anthony Okafor; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

, andare prepared for lifelong learning, and whose job functions may change many times over theircareer. The demand for such flexible and "evolvable" engineering graduates poses majorchallenges for the nation's engineering schools. At present a significant discrepancy exists between the skills taught in universities and thoseneeded by U.S. industry to succeed in the era of global competition. The major part of theproblem rests with American engineering schools because they have not been directly exposed tothe rigors of global competition. Arguably, in terms of their core competencies (delivery ofundergraduate and graduate education, research, and development) U.S. engineering schoolsremain first-class in any global competition. However

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Pearle; Gary Dainton; Christine Johnston; David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Douglas Cleary

assignments areplanned and accomplished in conjunction with the laboratory design projects that increase insophistication during the academic year. At the completion of these first two years of Engineering Clinic, the students must beprepared to work on design projects in mixed teams of junior and senior students throughout theremainder of their undergraduate program. During the Junior and Senior years the students areexpected to perform at a near-professional level on industry and government sponsored projects.Throughout the Clinic sequence, the effective performance of the students’ team is crucial totheir success. While team performance is critical in each of the Rowan Engineering disciplines, thedevelopment of models for effective team

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Amey; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

an Associate Professor of Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education at MSU. She was the project and curriculum coordinator for an NSF Combined Research and Development Project. Dr. Amey was a team leader on an NSF project to identify best practices in undergraduate engineering, mathematics, and science education. She studies administration and leadership in post-secondary education, organizational change, and systemic reform.We use these brief case descriptions because they represent well do cumented case studiesdiscussed and analyzed in past national, state and local workshops moderated by the authors (seeBibliography for more details).Case I—Innovative Course DevelopmentA regional university has an accredited engineering program

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Henning

bebecause the students are actually interested in the question and talk about it to their friends. Thiskind of student input – the number of responses – is our best way to get feedback from thestudents as to the interest in the questions as well as the difficulty.Undergrads and the creation of manipulativesPenn State’s NSF-sponsored HEV M3 program is a unique blend of graduate engineeringresearch into the newest vehicle technologies, as well as graduate and undergraduate engineeringstudent outreach to K-12 students and teachers. M3 stands for manipulatives, motivation andmentoring – the three approaches in the program to draw K-12 students of all ability levels to abetter understanding of engineering design and research. With hybrid electric

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Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

knowledge discovered by the scientist to practical use3.To apply chemistry to practical applications engineers need to know if and how a chemicalreaction will occur. This assessment requires understanding the behavior of groups of molecules.To understand how groups of molecules behave one must understand the properties of individualmolecules, which requires understanding the properties and interactions among individual atoms.That in turn requires an understanding of sub-atomic particles and their interactions. Therefore,the one-semester chemistry course for engineers has been designed based on the followingpedagogical statement. To understand the properties and behavior of a material or chemical substance one must understand the properties

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

) Matlab 6The “Problem Solving” objective is a carryover from the old “slide rule” courses. Most enteringstudents lack practice and abilities in numeric problem solving. Many of the lessons from theold courses still have much value and prepare students for the activities in their other courses, inparticular, the ChE material & energy balances course. Achieving this objective has an obviousbeneficial long-term impact.“Symbolic Computing” is of immediate utility in the students’ math courses. They also makeuse of this in their science and engineering courses. It is common for students to check theirmanual work using the computer. A byproduct lesson learned is that not all equations or systemsof equations have analytical solutions [not obvious to

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oliver Hensley; Marjorie Donovan; Christopher Ibeh; James Otter

participants subjectinterest. The internet serves as a useful source for information via http://www.ask.comsearch engine. The URL: http://www.pittstate.edu/services/nsfreu/ethics.html has theethics work of summer 2001 PSU/NSF-REU/RET participants.3. Impact and Significance of CUES-AMDissemination of CUES-AM and the concepts of epistecybernetics (Project CUES-AMD)is an on-going project of the PSU-CUES GROUP. Workshops on CUES-AM havealready been conducted at the “Best Assessment Practices IV”, Rose-Hulman Institute ofTechnology, Terra Haute, IN, April 7 – 8, 2001 (19) and “The International Society forExploring Teaching Alternatives (ISETA)” Thirty-First Annual Conference, Indianapolis,IN, October 18 – 20, 2001. Also a CUES-AM workshop will be

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Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Helene Kershner; Debra Burhans; Deborah Walters; Carl Alphonce; Barbara Sherman

involved in the course (more time for research).There were positive outcomes related to the incorporation of technology materials into thecourse, including a measurable increase in student learning and satisfaction as well as costsavings for the department. However, there were also a number of negative outcomes.Administrative time spent on the course increased considerably, and grading time did notdecrease. In addition, troubleshooting computer-related glitches, including problems such asnetwork bottlenecks, software performance, and inability of different pieces of software tocommunicate with one another, required much more faculty time than anticipated. Theexpectation that the CMS would allow for coordination and integration of different on

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Harris; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

regionalnetwork for manufacturing education at different levels, at times and locations best suited to newand incumbent technicians and engineers. To meet this goal, the following objectives have beenestablished for this project:1. Establish a replicable 3-step active learning model, consisting of Exploration, Dialog, and Application steps, for engineering technology and engineering students involving conceptualization, design, implementation, and dissemination. Page 7.936.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó2002, American Society for

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

and foster interdisciplinary thinking among our under-graduate and graduate students, the BME Department at Georgia Tech has adopted a model of Page 7.801.1learning and a set of educational practices that have been used in medical education for more Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationthan a decade. Referred to as Problem-based Learning or PBL, this approach draws onconstructivist pedagogy, which assumes that learning is the product of both cognitive and socialinteraction arrived at through

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gulnur Birol; Todd Giorgio; Sean Brophy; Ann McKenna

the second one (M2) focused on mass and momentum transfer issues in bioreactors. Thethird one (M3) was a module on microbial kinetics that is under development by G. Birol and A.McKenna at Northwestern. The topics covered during this course are summarized in Table 2,which also shows how the educational modules were embedded into class material.How People Learn FrameworkResearch on expertise and learning suggests designs for learning environments should considerfour primary elements. First, education research suggests that learning environments be ‘learner-centered’. That is, the environment and class activities should take into account the knowledge,skills, preconceptions and learning styles of the learners. Second, a learning environment