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Environmental Justice and Sustainability

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2003 Annual Conference

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Walter Weber; Deborah Ross; Angela Lueking

sustainability while obtaining a traditionalengineering Master's degree. Students from several engineering departments complementtraditional disciplinary course requirements with courses in environmental regulations, policies,and technology. A required case studies course of the ConsEnSus Program brings practicingengineers together with students to discuss real-world sustainability problems. The industrialparticipants interactively present relevant case studies, and provide opportunities for experientiallearning through classroom activities and term projects. This paper will further explain theConsEnSus Program, its implementation, the initial successes of the program, and the case studiescourse and term project that was developed in collaboration with

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Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Burt Swersey

that unseen need. We have foundthat there are three key abilities that that can be nurtured in design courses that lead toinnovation: Page 8.1069.1 1) Learning to be critical, find the compromises in what exists and identify the unrecognized opportunities that therefore exist.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education 2) Setting high goals and creating a vision of what would be ideal and then designing something that makes the vision a reality. 3) Using new existing technology

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mukasa Ssemakula

Session 2526 Adaptation Of The Learning Factory Model For Implementation In A Manufacturing Laboratory Mukasa E. Ssemakula and Gene Y. Liao Division of Engineering Technology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.Abstract The Learning Factory concept was first developed as part of the TRP/NSF fundedManufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP). The objective of the LearningFactory (LF) is to integrate a practice-based engineering curriculum that balances analytical andtheoretical knowledge with physical facilities for product realization in an industrial

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K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Bill Elmore

Session 2164 Introducing Materials Science and Chemistry to the K-12 Community William Jordan and Bill Elmore College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA 71272AbstractWe live in a high-technology world where many people do not understand the things they areusing, let alone the implications of the technology they are using. It is in the engineeringcommunity’s best interests to work to improve the technology literacy of society.The health of science and engineering tomorrow depends on

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

Session 2220 LABORATORY-ORIENTED DISTANCE LEARNING Ece Yaprak Division of Engineering Technology Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan 48202 313-577-8075 yaprak@eng.wayne.edu Lisa Anneberg Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Lawrence Technological University Southfield, Michigan 48075

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sluss

Session # 1332 The Telecommunications Interoperability Laboratory J. J. Sluss, Jr., S. V. Kartalopoulos, H. H. Refai, M.J. Riley and P. K. Verma Telecommunications Systems, College of Engineering The University of Oklahoma - TulsaAbstract The University of Oklahoma has developed a Telecommunications Interoperability Laboratory to enhance the educational and research experience of students in the Telecommunications Systems program. The Interoperability Lab is a collection of five interconnected technology islands: the Internet

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Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Brown; Mel Mendelson

] that one of thereasons for the large cost overruns and schedule slips on major acquisitions is the lack ofsystems engineering and management capability. In discussions between LMU’s Presidentand industry leaders from Southern California’s high-technology organizations, the need forwell-rounded systems engineers who understand business was established [2]. As a result,the University President chartered an LMU-industry partnership for a new graduate program,entitled the Systems Engineering Leadership Program (SELP).The SELP will confer two degrees upon its graduates: an MS in Systems Engineering and anMBA. Based on the needs of its constituents, the SELP’s goal is to provide the educationneeded for working engineers and scientists to take

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Merredith Portsmore; Ethan Danahy; Philip Lau; Chris Rogers

encouraged to practice the challenges in theirclassroom before submitting a solution via the web to give more students access. Page 8.985.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ” 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationDriving the Rover The most technologically intense part of creating the model site was creating a method bywhich via the web students could control an ROV. This involved creating a web interface thatcould be used by both those with LEGO RCX hardware and software and those without (so as toreach as broad an audience

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

courses to fulfill the general education component of their curriculum. Inthis day and age where technology plays an integral role in people’s daily lives, it seems odd that,although engineering students are required to take almost a third of their courses on non-engineering topics, the liberal arts students are not required to take any engineering or technology-oriented courses. Engineering courses are deemed too technical for the non-engineers to take. Atsuch colleges, the freshman-writing course is considered to be a venue to introduce youngstudents to a mature level of analytical reading, thinking, discussion, and writing. A newexperiment is being developed to make available to both engineering and non-engineering studentsa technical module

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Callahan; Paul Givens

Science in Industrial Engineering, Masters of Science in IndustrialEngineering, Masters of Science in Manufacturing Engineering (interdisciplinary), Masters ofScience in Engineering Management and the Doctor of Philosophy. The BSIE and MSEM oreoffered in their entirety through distance education while the MSIE and MSMfg are offeredmostly through distance education.Engineering Management Degree The Master of Science Engineering Management degree was began in 1985 as a servicefor the Honeywell Corporation in Clearwater Florida. The management of Honeywell had theforesight to understand the combination of engineering and management so that engineers couldmanage technological based units, i.e., engineering departments, research and development

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New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Heather Cooper

Session 2533 Thermal Science Course Development Using Industry Input Heather L. Cooper Purdue UniversityAbstractThis paper discusses the use of an industry survey as a tool for course development in thermalsciences. The thermal science portion of the Mechanical Engineering Technology curriculum atPurdue University includes two core courses, both of which have traditionally included topics inapplied thermodynamics only. In recent years, a minimal amount of heat transfer content has beenadded to the introductory course to help offset the removal of a heat transfer

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Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Thompson; William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke; B. Lee Tuttle; Henry Kowalski; Douglas Melton; Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

by students Page 8.275.9 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationTo discourage absenteeism, students missing 2 labs will fail the courseThe Kalpakjian $125 textbook (Manufacturing Engineering and Technology 4th ed.) was costprohibitive since less than 50% of the material is used. Overhead slides were printed for thestudents. Upon request from the students, 22 manufacturing processes textbooks were placed onreserve in the library. One possible solution is to have a partial printing by the publisher

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

Session 2615 Performance-Based Curriculum Design by W.W. Massie, MSc, P.E. Associate Professor and Curriculum Leader Interfaculty Offshore Engineering Delft University of Technology Delft, The NetherlandsAbstractToo many faculty members approach curriculum revision or design from the standpoint oftheir own course. The question:“Where does my course fit in the new curriculum?” is heardtoo often. One of the primary difficulties when revising a curriculum is to focus first on

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

T. N. Fogarty; Kelvin Kirby

social science degrees. These degrees have remainedrelatively stable for the past 20 years.4 The goal is to increase the number of American citizenswho pursue degrees in science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) disciplines. Page 8.708.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Student Input from Local High SchoolsStudents from several high schools within a 35-mile radius of PVAMU were generally polled tofind out why enrollment in college preparatory courses in science and

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wayne Sanders

Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”BackgroundKanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT), a privately owned engineering college located inKanazawa, Japan, was founded in 1957. It is co-ed and has approximately 7500undergraduates and 500 graduate students.[1] Kanazawa is in Ishikawa Prefecture on theJapan Sea side of Japan, and 460 kilometers (285 miles) northwest of Tokyo. It isapproximately 280 kilometers (174 miles) from Osaka and 250 kilometers (155 miles)from Nagoya.[2] The population of Kanazawa is 457,797 as of December 1, 2002.[3]Kanazawa is well known for its historical past and cultural heritage, such as tea ceremony(Sadoo), gold foil craft (Kinpaku), and kimono

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

of glutaraldehyde cross-linked whey protein-basedmicrocapsules containing theophylline”, J. Control Rel. 61, 123-136, 1999.16 Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy, 19th ed., Mack Publishers, 1995.17 Kompella, U.B. and K. Koushik, “Preparation of drug delivery systems using supercritical fluid technology”,Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems, 18(2), 173-199, 2001.Biographical InformationStephanie Farrell is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. She received her B.S. in1986 from the University of Pennsylvania, her MS in 1992 from Stevens Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D. in1996 from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Rowan in September, 1998, she was a facultymember

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thyagarajan Srinivasan

are surveyed at the end of the course to assess how thecourse objectives are met. In addition, specific course outcomes developed using theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Criteria 2000 program outcomes(a through k) were assessed. Based on one year of data, it appears that students would like moreexamples using the discipline specific software (PSpice, ANSYS). However, results indicate thatstudents did not see the need to learn software from disciplines other than their own. Whenintroducing software, we plan to provide more emphasis to how the software would be useful forall engineering disciplines. In addition, the results are mixed for the desire to have assignmentsusing MS Word and Excel. Some students thought more

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

Session 2242 A Design Project Management Course at RIT E. C. Hensel, P. H. Stiebitz Mechanical Engineering / Industrial and Systems Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623-5604Abstract Rochester Institute of Technology is currently implementing a college-wide initiative toincorporate multi-disciplinary design as a central theme for all students in the capstone designsequence. For several years, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering has supported a number ofmulti-disciplinary design teams

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Hamilton

profession have had the advantage oflearning the craft either directly from those who created it, or by reading articles by those sameindividuals. Current faculty are seeing students without an understanding of who we are andwhere the profession came from. It has recently been proposed by EdAC (the EducationActivities Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers) that the ABET (the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology, Inc.) requirements for civil engineering in particular beamended to include the history and heritage of civil engineering, adding this to an alreadyovercrowded curriculum. Another problem facing programs today is the retention of students, especially in the firsttwo years of their college education. It is in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

data for males at Caltech, to provide more complete and relevant comparison.REFERENCES1. “California Institute of Technology – Detailed Description” http://www.petersons.com/ugchannel/code/idd.asp?sponsor=1&inunld=54962. “Earned bachelor’s degrees, by field and sex: 1975-98 (selected years)” http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/append/c2/at02-16.pdf3. “Graduation rates and S&E completion rates of 1992 freshmen intending S&E major, by sex and race/ethnicity” http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/c2/fig02-09.htmCAROL MULLENAX. P.E.Carol Mullenax is a Doctoral Candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans while onleave of absence from The Boeing Company. She received her BS in Engineering and Applied Science

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TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

slowly, it does change. Shortcomings in the previous accreditationmethods became apparent, and this, coupled with an industry interest in continuousimprovement, precipitated changes in engineering and technology accreditation to the currentoutcomes based assessment. The now familiar TAC/ABET a-k criteria2 will not be repeated here,but they, as part of the new accreditation method require a paradigm shift – a complete change inhow educators view the presentation and management of a curriculum. Finding and teachingmaterial to satisfy externally imposed student outcomes requires substantial adjustment for mosteducators. Even more difficult to cope with is the requirement to demonstrate (prove) to aTAC/ABET program evaluator that students have

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Nuclear Waste and the Environment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Efrat Strassberg; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

AC 2003-211: ANIMATION OF NUCLEAR AND RADIOCHEMISTRY PROCESSESEfrat Strassberg,Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at AustinSheldon Landsberger, University of Texas at Austin Page 8.225.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2003 Session 2377 Animation of Nuclear and Radiochemistry Processes S. Landsberger, E. Strassberg Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab University of Texas at Austin and

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

learn the designprocess and build engineering projects in diverse topics such as assistive technology, RubeGoldberg contraptions and robots. The projects have real world relevance and are interesting tothe students who work on them in small, multidisciplinary teams. Within teams, students areencouraged to learn new skills, such as computer-aided drawing, hands-on machining andassembly, engineering analysis, and communications skills, which will benefit them throughouttheir college experience. Another FYEP course goal is to provide a context for first-yearengineering students to evaluate their decision to pursue engineering, as many students have beenadvised to become engineers without knowing what an engineer does, and about 30% of the first

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai

response tothese changes in industry, engineering schools have also reevaluated and realized theircurriculum particularly in area of collaborative design projects. The objectives of this paper are(1) to review the existing software/tools and methodologies used in design processes, (2) tointroduce innovative approaches to collaborative design environment, then (3) present severalfunded case studies employing new cutting-edge technologies.IntroductionThe field of collaborative design (CD) has enjoyed considerable attention and success over thelast decade as rapid changes in technology and a global economic recession have promptedmany leading manufacturing companies to reevaluate and upgrade their design andmanufacturing process. An increasing number

Conference Session

Student Interaction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robin Qiu; Ying Tang

: tang@rowan.eduAbstract -- A class for professionals could be quite different from one for college students due to a varietyof backgrounds and work experience. Some of them want to make a career change; some of them want tocatch up with the state-of-the-art technologies. In class, concepts, principles, and equations might be tooabstract when there are no good real life examples. Object relationship modeling in object-orientedsoftware engineering course is a good example. This article briefly shows a few cases of how real lifeexamples can help professional students understand the covered contents, which have been experimentedin class using the Rational Rose enterprise suite. Issues on how examples get picked and how theyshould be explained and

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Butt; Sam Ramrattan; Alamgir Choudhury

Page 8.983.2monitoring and control class and the use of the data for online process analysis and control.Since the course does not have a formal laboratory, the idea is to monitor a live process from theProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationclassroom using web based wireless technology and utilize online process analysis techniques tocorrect an out of control process. As a result, not only the validity of learning will be establishedwithin the short time frame of a class hour, but also the reality of the subject matter andassociated technology will come alive in the classroom. To accommodate with requirement, weplan to use

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

3648AN AIR-FILTER SENSOR FOR HOME-USED AIR CONDITIONERS Cheng Y. Lin, Gary R. Crossman, Alok K. Verma Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion University Norfolk, VirginiaAbstract This paper presents a successful senior project of instrumentation developed in aMechanical Engineering Technology senior capstone course. Students were encouraged toapproach the problem of designing an air-filter sensor and to propose an optimum

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TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Goff; Hugh Rogers, University of Central Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

throughout the state to articulate various A.S. degrees to appropriate B.S.programs. This paper will review some of the new and innovative approaches variousinstitutions are taking to developing new A.S. to B.S. articulation agreements.State-Wide-ActivitiesUnder the new criteria, all Florida A.S. degree programs can develop their own articulationagreements with appropriate upper division programs throughout the state. However to furtherpromote this initiative; the state designated twelve Associate of Science degrees to beautomatically articulated to specific university programs. To date, only five AS degree programshave been approved for articulation to a Bachelor of Science degree. These programs areElectronic Engineering Technology, Radiography

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones; Jose Colom

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, the third largest campus of the state-owneduniversity system of Puerto Rico, homes the daily activities of about 765 faculty and almost15,000 students. According to the American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) 2000edition of Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Technology Colleges UPRM ranks 14th in theU.S. in terms of undergraduate engineering enrollment, 18th in awarded engineering degrees and3rd in engineering degrees awarded to women. It is also the largest Hispanic engineering schoolsin the country, and has been fully accredited by the Middle State Association of Schools andColleges since 1946.The student population of the ECE department consists of about 1500 fulltime undergraduates(11% of

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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Merino

improvement werecollected, considered and the tutorials were modified and improved accordingly. The upgradedtutorials were then pilot tested with one hundred and forty seven, fourth and fifth yearengineering students in the spring of 2001. This pilot test indicated the computer tutorials wereeffective (See Merino and Abel 2002), so the authors augmented the sample by addingapproximately 325 additional fourth and fifth year students who participated in the spring,summer and fall of 2002. This gave a total population of 474 possible responses. All studentswere enrolled in an Engineering Economy class that is a required core course for all StevensInstitute of Technology engineering students, regardless of discipline. All tests were distributedin the lab