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Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorcan Folan; David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

· Design for Manufacturing· Chemical Technology & History· Signal Processing· Ethics in Engineering· Quality Management· Intellectual PropertyLaboratory work covers many disciplines. The undergraduate teaching assistants help freshmenget familiar with new technical tools and concepts. The primary weekly laboratory activitiescover:· Word/Excel/PowerPoint· AutoCAD/MS Project· Hardware Tests· Hardware Analysis/ Reverse Engineering· Boom Construction Competition· LabView 1· LabView 2 / Sensors and Robot Programming· Thermal Insulation Competition Page 7.745.2· Microphone Proceedings of the American Society for

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Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Szaroletta; Nancy Denton

://www.measurementsgroup.comBiography:WILLIAM K. SZAROLETTA, P.E.Professor Szaroletta is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering technology at Purdue University. A member ofASEE, he has 18 years industry experience in engineering and project management positions, with 12 awarded patents.He has 6 years university teaching experience, where his current applied research interests are rapid product designengineering, experimental mechanics laboratory automation, and optimization utilizing genetic algorithms.NANCY DENTON, P.E., CVS IINancy L. Denton is an associate professor of mechanical engineering technology at Purdue University. She regularlyteaches courses in design documentation, solid mechanics, controls, and machinery diagnostics. She has chaired theWomen in Engineering

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Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid

Education; many classes and workshops are presented in conjunction with theseconferences as well as stand-alone activities. Some may even be available on campus forinstructors.This paper will discuss practical applications of active and collaborative teaching techniques whichcan be used in the classroom with little to moderate preparation. In addition, the paper willdescribe various activities the author has collected which can be used to increase lecture and labinvolvement in the lecture and laboratory material without costing excessive classroom time. Thepaper should be especially of interest to new educators and instructors looking for ways to beginintroducing interesting and useful techniques into their lectures. This will not be an exhaustive

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Liv Ramstad; Ferd Schneider; Audeen Fentiman; Artemus Herzog; John Merrill

6-year traditional collegepreparatory school with a diverse student population. The course is nearly identical to theIntroduction to Engineering sequence required of beginning engineering students at The OhioState University, but has been modified to be taught over an entire school year instead of two10-week quarters. Fifty-nine students are enrolled. A math teacher and a science teacher atWalnut Hills High School are team teaching the course during the 2001-02 school year withsupport from OSU faculty and staff. A grant from General Electric provided the funds topurchase laboratory equipment, textbooks, and software for the course. In addition, the grantsupported the high school instructors’ preparation to teach the course.This paper was

Conference Session

Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Hess

course relies heavily on involving the students in hands-on learning activities, itassists them to better understand theoretical concepts. The hands-on approach utilizes laboratoryactivities and is ideally suited for teaching the concepts of design and analysis of metallic andplastics welding fabrications and castings, lathe turnings, as well as the set-up and analysis ofplastics molding (injection, compression, thermoforming and extrusion blow) investigations.The laboratory environment, a custom facility containing laboratory size equipment, encouragesstudents to develop and present solutions to manufacturing processes, organizational andproduction systems problems through the use of solid modeling software, solid object processingplus metallic

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Turner; Glenn Ellis

laboratories, activities, discussions and homework assignmentsthat use a learner-centered approach to teach kinematics through graphical analysis. Observationof these classes and anecdotal student accounts indicate that this approach was successful forincreasing conceptual understanding of kinematics as well as increasing student interest in thestudy of physics. A formal assessment process is needed to document the success of theapproach and will begin in summer 2002.Bibliography1. NRC Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, How People Learn, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. (2000).2. Arons, Arnold B., A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching, John Wiley & Sons, New York (1990).3. Turner, W.A. and G.W. Ellis

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Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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David W. Miller; Doris Brodeur

Session 1302 The CDIO Capstone Course: An Innovation in Undergraduate Systems Engineering Education David W. Miller, Doris R. Brodeur, John E. Keesee Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn February 1999, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT initiated a new three-semester capstone laboratory and space systems design experience taught in the context ofauthentic engineering practice, i.e., Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate (CDIO). Theobjective of CDIO is to teach the basic concepts and disciplines of engineering in the context

Conference Session

Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

workshops and“teaching/coaching by walking around.” Learning outcomes and student satisfaction haveimproved greatly in this course, which, in general, has always been highly rated by students.The laboratory component of the Instrumentation and Process Control course presented anorganizational challenge. Nominally, 60 students are enrolled in this course each spring Page 7.1166.43 There is also a traditional and wide gap in process control education between what is “covered” and what is“learned.” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Risa Robinson; John Wellin

, experienced students proficient in the art of experimentation who can participate in and benefit from much more sophisticated upper level laboratory and design experiences than is currently possible.2. Increase retention, especially for minorities and women by stimulating freshmen learning and motivation toward engineering through hands-on laboratory experiences in the first year.3. Provide students with access to the necessary industry standard hardware and software required for data acquisition, instrumentation and controls for use in required courses, open- ended course projects, senior design projects and undergraduate research.4. Develop a curriculum that fosters discovery, promotes self-teaching and encourages the desire and ability

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Duarte; Brian Butz

, Schaum's Interactive Online Series, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, Inc9. DiStefano, J.J., Stubberud, A.R., and Williams, I.J. (1995). Feedback and Control Systems, Schaum's Interactive Outline Series, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, Inc10. Mosterman, P.J. et al (1996). Design and Implementation of an Electronics Laboratory Simulator. IEEE Transactions on Education, 39 (3), 327-335.11. Bergland, M. et al (1999). Case It! A Project to Integrate Collaborative Case-Based Learning into International Undergraduate Biology Curricula. Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning (J. A. Chambers Ed.), Jacksonville, FL, 1-8.12. Harger, R.O. (1996). Teaching in a Computer Classroom with a Hyperlinked

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kimmel

Session number 1526 Undergraduate Labs in Applied Polymer Science – A Case Study Robert M. Kimmel Dept. of Packaging Science, Clemson UniversityAbstract Undergraduates majoring in Packaging Science at Clemson University are required totake a combined lecture/laboratory course in Application of Polymers in Packaging in theirjunior or senior year. Over four semesters, the focus of the laboratory portion of the course hasbeen transitioned from polymer processing to understanding basic process-structure-propertyrelationships in polymers. Using new thermal analysis equipment funded

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Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

Design of a Portable Engine Dynamometer for Multiple Classroom Experiments Timothy R. Cooley, PE Mechanical Engineering Technology Department Purdue University at New Albany New Albany, IN 47150AbstractFive compact, portable engine dynamometers were designed and built for use by interestedMechanical Engineering Technology locations within the Purdue University School ofTechnology system. The purpose of the dynamometer is to provide a versatile, compactexperimental platform around which numerous laboratory exercises could be designed. Eachdynamometer consists of a 14 HP air

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

anational challenge. At the University of Cincinnati, the author has begun to address thischallenge by developing a new course entitled, “Molecular Methods in EnvironmentalEngineering.” The objective of the course is to teach students to adapt techniques from molecularbiology to address important issues in environmental engineering. A hands-on laboratory formatencourages students to develop scientific questions, learn appropriate methodology, conductcareful experimentation, analyze data, and draw conclusions worthy of presentation to peers.Although the initial offering of this course to well prepared graduate students was considered asuccess, future offerings must continue to address the daunting challenge of providing asupportive, yet independent

Conference Session

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

this project are available on the Web (seehttp://engineering.eng.rowan.edu/~ravi/nsf_control/nsf_control.html). This work is supported bya grant from NSF (CCLI DUE #9950882).An Integrated Communications, Signal Processing and VLSI Laboratory This “proof of concept” project is an effort by the ECE Department to configure a novelmethod of teaching the junior level Communications (COMM), Digital Signal Processing (DSP)and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) courses using a common framework. These threecourses are taken concurrently during the spring semester of the junior year. There has been a historical division and separation of the fields of Communications, DSPand VLSI in ECE education. This separation makes it harder for

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Petersen; Richard Hughey; David Meek; Alexandra Carey

engineeringdesign of different classical bus architectures, and discuss various CPU’s and peripherals. In thelaboratory students’s design and build their own custom microprocessor projects using thepopular and versatile 68HC11, an embedded CISC (“complex instruction set computer”) CPU.This laboratory particularly needs an adroit understanding of the HC11’s software architecture,i.e. its unique assembly language. Giving students a better introduction to HC11 assemblylanguage would allow us to concentrate more on hardware system architecture and advancedsoftware programming techniques like mixed assembly and C, which has routinely been taughtin the laboratory since 1995.Based on these diverse needs, we took the unusual step of deciding to teach two

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Goncharoff; Patrick Troy; John Bell; Dale Reed; Cathleen Theys; Ann Ford; Susan Montgomery

tends to be my research that gets put off while I prepare myclass materials, as opposed to cutting corners on my teaching to get more research done. I havealso been fortunate to be affiliated with the Electronic Visualization Laboratory[7] at UIC, whichis one of the world's leading research groups in the development of virtual reality ( my area ofresearch. )Lecturers at UIC are considered full members of the faculty, attending all faculty meetings andhaving full voting privileges. The salary is generally lower than assistant professors, and theteaching duties are higher. ( However the teaching load can be reduced for lecturers whomaintain significant research programs or who undertake significant administrative duties. )Lecturers do not have

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Ali Satter; John Pumwa

and Communication (3 hrs/wk) 6. EF190: Chemistry for Engineers (2 hrs/wk)Each subject was yearlong, taught across two semesters, and examined at the end of eachsemester. EF140 was basically physics. EF160 was a mixture of statics, dynamics andelectrical engineering. EF190, chemistry, was optional for all students except for mineralprocessing students within the Mining Engineering Department. Teaching hours for eachsubject was divided into lecture, tutorial and laboratory/practical (where applicable). Adetailed exposition of the teaching load is shown in appendix-1. It shows a total of 2265 man-hr/semester is required [2]. Taking an average of 10 hrs/week of teaching load, a total of 15teaching staff members were required per

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Marsico

students are required to take an accompanying courseproduction design laboratory. During the pre-bench top era this laboratory course was offeredduring a summer session at the end of the freshman year. This format provided students with acommon laboratory experience. However, the summer laboratory experience lacked the capacityto correlate lecture materials with actual laboratory exercises. This disjoint provided stimulus forchange, and change did occur in the form of two concurrent course offerings. In response tothese changes each campus location of Penn State University offering the associate degree inmechanical engineering technology was required to procure equipment for these courseofferings. In conjunction with a grant received from The

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

Page 7.653.3on teaching programming in the context of the introductory course. We had chosen to use theVisual Basic programming language as it would enable the students to write a Windows basedprogram, and most macro languages were based on Visual Basic.Business - Engineering students need a sense of business. The sponsors of the engineeringschool made this clear, and we tried to expose the students to business issues.To meet these challenges we designed a statics course with the following “novel” features. 1) Assignments which required analysis and explanation. 2) A series of open ended laboratory assignments. 3) A series of computer assignments to complement the laboratory investigations and allow the students to

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jones

, manufacturing, andmechanical areas, students might gain a better feel for their interests.Many students stated that they became tired of hearing the same professor every lecture. Ateam-teaching approach would help to introduce the students to other faculty members and toexpose students to different perspectives. Recently, the lab tours, design projects, and plant tourswere directed and supervised by student members of the SAE and SME clubs, graduate students,and volunteers from industry. Although this mentoring was provided at no additional cost, theseactivities needed to be monitored by faculty to be effective.The recommended changes may require additional laboratory resources and higher faculty-to-student ratios. The authors believe that the higher

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

hardware, the multitude of implementation optionsthat exist, and the role software plays in modern digital circuit design.Initially the service course was strictly in-class lectures, although the design content of thehomework and tests was significant. Surprisingly, the CS and SE students themselvesrecognized the need for hardware and petitioned for a solution. However, having no formallaboratory infrastructure in the new curriculum significantly restricted the possible solutions. Anew pedagogy had to be found that did not compromise the integrity of the course just to includesome hands-on wiring. Seven goals became immediately apparent.1. With no budget for laboratory teaching assistants or facilities, the departmental costs must be kept to a

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education--I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Jackson; Larry Miller; J Hines; Harold Dodds; Dr. Ronald E. Pevey; Dr. Lawrence W. Townsend; Belle Upadhyaya

usually accompanied byPowerPoint slides, video files, and video streaming of windows applications such as MATLABor FORTRAN demonstrations. The synchronous classes are recorded and availableasynchronously to accommodate students who must occasionally miss class. In addition to theon-line lecture classes, some laboratories are also delivered on-line.1.0 INTRODUCTION:The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) lists nineteen universities thatprovide accredited B.S. degrees in Nuclear Engineering (NE), while the American NuclearSociety lists thirty-one universities with NE programs. The probability that a workingprofessional is located geographically near one of these programs is quite small. In addition,traditional university

Conference Session

CAD Applications in MET Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

Session 3649 Introducing Hands-on Manufacturing Experience to Students Mukasa E. Ssemakula Division of Engineering Technology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.AbstractThis paper describes a laboratory-based course in Manufacturing Processes that provides hands-on manufacturing experience to students in Engineering Technology. The theoretical part of thecourse provides a general understanding of the behavior of the materials commonly used inmanufacturing, the basic techniques used in processing them into useful products, the scientifictheory underlying those processes, and the criteria

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Newland; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

pedagogy of teaching chemical reaction engineering is continually advancing through theuse of new computational tools such as POLYMATH and MATLAB; interactive computer ap-plications; and a new emphasis in textbooks on relating theory to industrially relevant chemicalreactions. What is currently lacking in this area are chemical reaction engineering experimentsthat employ realistic reaction engineering systems. Nearly all of the reaction engineering ex-periments, reported in the literature, employ simple experiments that can be described using asingle overall reaction. In addition most laboratory experiments do not examine the process fluidmechanics of the reactor and how this effects the product distribution. As a result, students onlyvisualize

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisle Hites; Eric Nauman; Edgar O'Neal; Kay C. Dee; Glen Livesay

focusing onteamwork issues, teaching style, students’ belief in their own abilities and desire to continue theireducation, peer interactions, and laboratory projects. While student perceptions are only one partof a comprehensive assessment program, they are certainly important. By addressing studentperceptions of core outcomes and fundamental pedagogical issues, TUBA should be relevant to arange of BMEN programs which offer a wide variety of specialized “tracks,” different areas ofprogrammatic emphasis, etc. Given that there exists a need for a measure such as the TUBA, thefollowing sections will describe the development and subsequent validation and reliabilitytesting that has been thus far performed.Development of the TUBAIn keeping with the

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

. Recognizing that engineers need material from both semesters of the traditional twosemester sequence, a new one-semester course was developed. This course has been designedaround the pedagogical theme that "The properties of larger particles are based upon theproperties of their constituent particles and their interactions". As such, the students areintroduced to "modern" physics. To deliver a course such as this effectively , we have found thatwe need to adopt innovative teaching techniques including: focusing on the recitation, frequentfeedback, the use of the studio-format, closer integration of the laboratory experience with thecourse, self-directed laboratory exercises, context- based learning, and the use of the internet.The course structure

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Livingston; James Squire

H-bridge motor controller and contact sensors) to the frame, and build the digital logic on the supplied solderless protoboard. The teaching pendent used for programming is shown to the right.II. Course ImplementationEE 101, Introduction to Electrical Engineering, is a two credit-hour course - one lecture hour andone lab hour - presented over 14 weeks. There is no text; all material is presented using lectureand lab notes. There are no tests or final exams. Student evaluation is performed via individualhomework assignments, team lab assignments, and a team project.The laboratory has six stations each consisting of a computer, an oscilloscope, a bench-top digitalmultimeter, a hand-held digital multimeter, a logic probe, a 32

Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yves Mercadier; Pierre Vittecoq; Patrik Doucet; Jean-Sébastien Plante; Francois Charron; Yves Van Hoenacker

undergraduate curriculum. The students work on the sameproject during the last four terms of their program (more than two calendar years as a result ofthe work terms). They receive 12 credits for their design project work.This paper presents our ten years of experience in using design projects as a tool for teachingengineering design. It also sets out our development plan for teaching engineering design overthe next five years. NSERC (National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)Engineering Design Chair will support these future developments.2.0 ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS 2.1 1992 to 1994 - Pilot Program in Engineering DesignFollowing a literature review on the use of design projects as a tool for teaching engineeringdesign in other

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Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny Knoll; Lisa Bullard; Ann Saterbak

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationWill you ever pursue a tenure-track position? “At the end of the most intense laboratory course Iteach, one student asked me, ‘How will you ever get tenure when you spend so much time withus?’ I explained that I did not do research and thus could devote most of my time to teaching. Ialso explained that I will never get tenure unless the criteria for tenure at Rice Universitychanges. Some days I think I should get tenure for my contributions in bioengineeringeducation, and maybe at another university it could happen. Together with two colleagues, Ihave a contract with Prentice Hall to develop the content of the

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Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ratnajeevan Hoole; Dushyanthi Hoole

education, is vitiated, particularly for women and thepoor and more particularly in the physical sciences where women do especially badly, by thenecessary laboratory, quiz and examination components that cannot be offered in distance mode.The solution we have come up with is as follows: 1. Use web-based teaching 6 so that students, communicating over the Internet, do not have to come to meet their teachers. Further, the attendant peer-interaction over the network will diminish the prospects of failure. 2. Redesign traditional experiments so that they can be done at home through home-kits7 and thereby obviate the need to come to a central campus for laboratory sessions. 3. Use the opportunity of using the web to make women