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2003 Annual Conference

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Anant Kukreti

programs span five academic years and include an average of six co-opquarters for a typical baccalaureate degree and our graduates are highly sought by employers.However, both the American Society of Civil Engineering and the National Academy ofEngineering have advocated a Master’s degree as the first professional degree for practicingengineers. With this in mind, in 2002-2003 the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering at the University of Cincinnati initiated a combined five-year BS and MS degreeprogram in Environmental Engineering (the Accelerated Engineering Degree (ACCEND)Program) with cooperative and research experiences integrated with the education. The BScomponent of the degree will be in Civil Engineering, and the MS component

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

the same required courses (chemistry, calculus,English composition, physics, and engineering). The General Engineering Program is staffed withprofessional advisors to assist students with their questions and concerns.Assessment of our students indicates that about 50% change their mind about their intendedengineering major (assuming that they had selected one when they arrived on campus) duringtheir first semester. Another 15% or so change their mind during the second semester. These aresome of the reasons why a general engineering program facilitates the transition to the university.We have found that a “general” first year is of substantial benefit to the students (and to the

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Janet Schmidt

) Women’s ways of knowing: The development ofself, voice and mind. New York: Basic Books.8. Fassinger, R. (2001) “Women in non-traditional occupational fields,” In J. Worell (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Gender,(Vol. 2) (pp.1169-1180). San Diego: Academic Press.LINDA C. SCHMIDT, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Clark School of Engineering,University of Maryland. Dr. Schmidt is the PI of the RISE project. In addition to facilitating the success of womenand minorities in engineering, she is interested in team training for engineering students and faculty, engineeringdesign processes, and advises the local chapter of Phi Tau Sigma.JANET A. SCHMIDT, Ph.D. Dr. Schmidt is the Director of Student Research and co-PI of the NSF sponsoredRISE

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jan Lugowski

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationWhatever the reasons for such a behavior, it can be changed. Depending how resistant a student isto a change in his or her approach, it may take even a full semester to change the approach. Onestudent comes to mind who, when given a problem to solve in a MET 230 Fluid Power laboratoryassignment, would demand providing him with the answer, and refused to work. He would arguethat it was the instructor's duty to tell him the answer. He expected the teacher to teach him, anddid not appear to see that he himself could be his own teacher. The instructor gave up at first andgave the student the answer, mainly to avoid the disruption of other students' work. This studentoffered an excellent

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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AHAMAD FARHOUD

level (0-0.8V) and a high level (2.4V-5V).Therefore, the output of the Op-Amp comparator must satisfy these levels. With this in mind,the LM741 DC supplies must be adjusted to produce an output within these levels. The positiveDC supply is set to 5 V and the negative DC supply is set to –1V. With these settings, the upperand lower saturated outputs of the LM741 are 4V and 0V which are compatible with the high Page 8.137.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationand low levels of the NOR

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Ruth Davis

from practice with this thinking environment are: 1. Enhanced quality of thinking; 2. Increased trust within the group; and1 The Thinking Environment is a trademark of Nancy Kline, President, Time to Think, Inc., and author of Time to Page 8.862.3Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind (Ward Lock, London, 1999) .Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition ©2003,American Society for Engineering Education 3. Enhanced individuals' self esteem and willingness to assume increased responsibility for oneself by speaking up and taking appropriate

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wim Ravesteijn; Erik DeGraaff

Session number 3661 Engineering For A Better World: The Meaning Of Utopian Thinking For Engineering Education Erik de Graaff, Wim Ravesteijn Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Jaffalaan 5 2628 BX Delft, the Netherlands email e.degraaff@tbm.tudelft.nl 1. Introduction In recent years we have seen that conferences of the eight richest countries in the world in Seattle, Genoa and Florence invoked large demonstrations by anti-globalists who condemn the economic policy

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Nancy Tuana; John Wisw; John Christman; Andy Lau; Thomas Litzinger

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, School, Editors, John Bransford, Ann Brown, Rodney Cocking,National Academy Press, 1999. Page 8.810.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

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Autar Kaw

Page 8.1011.1‘he’ (the author does recognize that engineering has a deep-rooted challenge to bring genderProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationdiversity and opportunity to its profession) for the sole purpose of keeping the article readable.The seven traits1. Efed is organized Efed asks himself before every class, “Do I know what topics I will cover in my class? DoI have an outline? Am I beginning with an end in my mind? Have I marked my lecture notes sothat I do not fumble around to find them during the class? Am I going to assign homework in thatclass? To invoke a class discussion, do I know what questions I am

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Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Wolverton; Janet Wolverton

Session 1161 Implementation of Ethics Education Throughout an Engineering College Robert H. Wolverton, Janet Bear Wolverton United States Air Force Academy/Oregon Institute of TechnologyI . IntroductionThe engineering community is rediscovering its roots of professionalism. During the past decadeengineering education moved beyond single minded devotion to science and technology byembracing multidisciplinary studies. To complete the transition from engineering scientists backto engineering professionals, education for the next decade is focusing on incorporating ethics andsocial responsibility into the curriculum

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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

equation is often troublesome for students. Examinationof student solutions to exam and homework problems reveals that one of the most commonerrors in calculating Q is incorrect identification of the area. Based on this observation, a gamecalled Q-tile (Figure 3) was developed with two objectives in mind: Page 8.591.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2268

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Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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Robert Voigt; Robert Ives; Jesko Hagee

Session 2354 Modified Studio Lab-Classroom Used to Teach Electrical and Computer Engineering to Non-Engineers Robert J. Voigt, Robert Ives, Jesko M. Hagee U.S. Naval AcademyAbstractThis paper addresses a solution to the challenge of teaching Electrical and Computer Engineeringto non-engineering majors. All non-engineering students at the Naval Academy are enrolled in atwo course Electrical Engineering sequence as a core requirement. There are many challenges inteaching this type of course. For example, the students have various mathematical abilities

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

pad. To keep your data extra safe, you can synchronize your data with the Palm Desktop organizer Page 8.1067.13 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education software on your Windows or Macintosh computer so you always have a backup copy. Remember, you can’t write a whole manual in one paragraph. Your Introduction is like ahighlight reel that will get the reader acclimated. Keep in mind as you write that readers ofmanuals often skip the paragraphs and go on to the instructions. To avoid this

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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jo-Ann Murray; Urbain DeWinter; Solomon Eisenberg

experience available to our students, while being mindful of the obstacles that have madeit difficult for engineering students to study abroad in the past. These obstacles include the rigorand general lack of flexibility in engineering curricula, the lack of fluency in a language otherthan English seen in most domestic engineering students, the high cost of a college education andthe desire of engineering students not to extend their time to degree, and certain ABETaccreditation requirements5.The lack of flexibility in engineering curricula creates several problems. There is little time instudent schedules for non-technical elective coursework that might be more easily taken inexisting study abroad programs. It is also very difficult for engineering

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

assessment questions below were answered using the following scale: 1=UNSAT2=MARGINAL 3=SAT 4=GOOD 5=EXELLENT Course Student Faculty Remarks Objectives Assess Assess 1 Specific missions at your AIAD 4.00 3.5 Touring/ site visits vs doing work location on a project. 2 Likelihood of Branching Engineers (5 4.00 4.5 Six 3s from students who had Much More, 4 More, 3 Neutral, 2 Less, already made up their minds, one 1 Much Less) 2, and eleven 4 or 5s. 3

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sheryl Sorby

courses at Michigan Tech and will present assessment results that comparegraphics performance achieved with that achieved prior to the adoption of the first-year engineer-ing program.IntroductionIn recent years, several universities have adopted common first-year engineering programs. Thereare many advantages inherent to a common first year of engineering studies. Students are able tospend a year making up their minds about which engineering discipline they wish to pursue,before committing to a specific program. Since many 18-year olds do not typically understand thedifferences between engineering disciplines, and since many of our programs are relatively“unknown” (such as materials, geological, etc.), enabling students to spend a year exploring

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2003 Annual Conference

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Diana Dabby

Session 2793 En Route to Engineering: Nabokov, Lepidoptera, Dynamics Diana Dabby Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringAbstractDeveloped to help attract underrepresented groups, particularly women, to engineeringand science, this first-year seminar introduces students to research, ‘just-in-time’learning, and the application of their newly gained scientific knowledge to literature, asthey seek answers to the question: To what extent did Nabokov’s expertise inLepidoptera infuse his literary works? In doing so, they examine Nabokov—writer andNabokov—lepidopterist. Students experience the rewards of speaking a scientificlanguage

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Lan; Karlene Hoo; Jason Williams; Harry Parker; Charles Smith; Theodore Wiesner

2793 The Virtual Chemical Engineering Unit Operations Laboratory Jason L. Williams, Marcus Hilliard, Charles Smith, Karlene A. Hoo, Ph.D., Theodore F. Wiesner, Ph.D., P.E., Harry W. Parker, Ph.D., P.E. and William Lan, Ph.D.* Department of Chemical Engineering/*College of Education Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409AbstractThere appears to be a growing trend in the chemical process industry (CPI) to reduce thedependency on pilot-plant studies by increasing the use of computer process modeling. For theCPI, this approach is reliable, safe, and

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

andfabricate a solar/electric boat with which to compete in ASME’s 1999 “Solar Splash”. All ofthese groups continue to operate within our relatively small program, without funding from thedepartment.We like to think that the successes that we have realized over this 20-year period are because ofgood engineering and preparation. If the truth were known however, in many cases, we were justlucky. We approach each competitive event with several goals in mind. First is to win the eventwith the best engineered, most finely prepared vehicle possible. The second goal is to finishevery event that we enter. The third goal is to bring the vehicle, and driver(s), back in one piece.We have come to recognize that winning any one of these events is often, in large

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ashraf Ghaly

innovative solutions.”Clough (2000) believes that civil engineers must take advantage of advances in other fields suchas the Internet, bioengineering, and materials. He stresses the importance of planting theentrepreneurial seed in the minds of young engineering students. He believes that tomorrow’sengineers must also be good managers and leaders.Bordogna (1998) calls the future civil engineer “the master integrator” because he/she mustunderstand civil infrastructure as a system. In addition to possessing up-to-date technicalknowledge, civil engineers must thus know “how to do things right” as well as “the right things todo.”In today’s world where fast communications made it easy to shrink distances and implementglobalization, one should also

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Donna Riley

,learning to think critically allows students to make up their own minds. Conventional engineering Page 8.918.5education, by not questioning any application of technology, creates a values vacuum in whichProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2692everything is sanctioned, or nothing, so that students have no basis for decision-making.Applying Liberative Pedagogies in the Engineering Classroom

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Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kristin Wood; Daniel Jensen; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

Session ____ Active Learning Approaches in Engineering Design Courses Alan Dutson Brigham Young University – Idaho Matthew Green and Kristin Wood The University of Texas at Austin Dan Jensen United States Air Force AcademyAbstractThe pendulum of engineering education is swinging from an emphasis purely on theory to abalance between concrete experiences and analysis. This balance calls for engaging students inactive learning through

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Information Literacy

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeanine Mary Williamson

Judging. Judging types have a need for closure and prefer to live in anorganized manner. In contrast, the types underrepresented among engineering studentsmake decisions with personal or social ethical values in mind (Feeling), and in a flexiblemanner, considering all the information before making a decision (Perceiving). Several implications for library instruction based on the Thinking and Judgingcharacteristics emerge. 1. Lecture. Thinking-Judging types prefer lectures over group activities, although engineering students’ regular instructors may want to include group activities in order to inculcate “people skills.”4 2. Outline. Provide a detailed outline. Judging types like

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jorge Gatica; Anthony Bruzas; Abhishek Gupta

-basedinstructional/simulation modules can become one the chief teaching/training tools of the decade.Project ObjectivesThe main object of this paper is to demonstrate the suitability of JAVA to develop platformindependent interactive teaching modules. The case-study selected to illustrate this conceptfocuses on technical calculations, analysis, improvement, scaling-up and development of mixingprocesses and equipment. The product enables chemical and process engineers to visualize mixingprocesses and to calculate process parameters for single- and two- phase systems, powerconsumption and circulation rates. The module is developed with two goals in mind: beinteractive to keep the students attention while demonstrating important design concepts, and beflexible

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Heimdahl Peter; Brenda Puck; Danny Bee

mind and your self-esteem. It was flattering to be accepted from all the seventh grade girls instudents has been even lower since the programs Wisconsin.”inception. It is felt that the most effective means Two 1997 campersof changing this situation is a long term one: toexpose girls and all children of color to the opportunities for careers in engineering before theymake limiting curriculum decisions in middle school and high school.Several organizations document the participation rate of women in science, technology, andengineering professions or recommend interventions of innovative programs that encourage girlsto enter

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Musiak

learning.The vast majority of freshmen students completing their engineering courses report that their learning experience waspositive; they had to work harder in those courses than in their non engineering courses but did not mind the 'extra'effort because they were confident they knew what they were doing and could get the job done. Since our learningenvironment and freshmen engineering courses are still works in progress our evaluation procedures have beenevolving too. We are in the process of devising metrics that will allow us to better identify and evaluate those Page 8.1176.6elements of the learning environment that get our

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Multimedia Arena

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Crown

and could beeasily modified to teach other design tools and any topic appropriate to the world environment. Aweb site is available to facilitate the use and development of virtual worlds in education and toenhance the design process.ReferencesBransford, J.D., Brown, A.L. & Cocking, R.R. (Eds.). How People Learn: Brain, mind,experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ (1999).Crown, S. (2001). "Improving Visualization Skills of Engineering Graphics Students UsingSimple JavaScript Web Based Games." Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 3, 347-355.Crown, S. (1999). "Web-Based Learning: Enhancing the Teaching of Engineering Graphics"Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of

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Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

emphasizes active, participatory and team-based inquiry. We have quite highexpectations of students in this course, so to the extent possible we minimize lecturing andmaximize hands-on or, better yet, brains-on activities. This means that rather than lecturingabout and repeating what students can independently read in the textbook, we simply expect thatthey have read it and are prepared during class and team meetings to participate in thorough,joint exploration of the topics at hand. What we have in mind is closer to the style of upper-level Page 8.823.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jane Reel; Christine Allard; Deborah Kaminski; Linda McCloskey

Incorporating Leadership Training in a Sophomore Engineering Design Course Linda McCloskey Jane Reel Christine Allard Director Lecturer Lecturer Archer Center for Student Leadership Development Deborah A. Kaminski Associate Professor Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Nuclear Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180-3590Abstract A novel course module to develop the interpersonal skills of engineering studentsis integrated into a sophomore design course. The module

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

the chemical engineering curriculum. Nevertheless, after two years ofexperience, this approach leads to obvious advantages.The first advantage is to help the students in co-op program and in the Process Analysis(Material and Energy Balance) course. Most of our co-op students use one of thesimulation packages (such as ASPEN, Pro/II, HYSYS, or WinSim) during their co-opterms. CAMS prepares them early enough that they are able to move into the workingsituation quickly to solve practical problems in industry. When the co-op students comeback to school to learn the fundamental principles in junior/senior engineering basiccourses, they already have this “problem based learning” pedagogical mind-set. This helpsto pave the way for “problem based