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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Uske; Robert Barat

Session 2793 ESTIMATION OF LAMINAR BURNING VELOCITIES BY DIRECT DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY J. Uske and R. Barat* Chemical Engineering Department New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights Newark, NJ 07102Abstract By being a function of both transport (diffusion) and chemical reaction rates, thelaminar burning velocity (LBV) of a gaseous fuel/oxidant mixture is a window to thecomplexities of combustion. Direct photography of the inner cone of a Bunsen flameremains a

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Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Szaroletta

Engineering Technology curriculum, there has been little opportunityfor hands-on experimental and finite element analysis verification of overhung beam theory. Tofill that void, several experimental mechanics class projects were devised and successfullyimplemented by the author and these experiences are documented in this paper.Introduction:This paper describes a series of reproducible projects, including discussion of the major benefitsof utilizing the overhung beam: flexibly supporting multiple experiments with similar set-ups;providing a relatively simple and effective means towards achieving a repeatable, uniformdistributed loading in a laboratory environment (through gravity and beam material density); andproviding a relatively low cost platform

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Environmental Justice and Sustainability

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2003 Annual Conference

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Radhika Kotha

Session 3551 THE DESIGNING OF THE “NATURAL HOUSE”: A STUDENT’S EXPERIENCE Radhika Kotha 3rd Yr., Mechanical Engineering Student Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology Hyderabad, IndiaAbstract“The Natural House”, the inspiration of one of our professors and a project of Centre forEnvironment Studies and Socioresponsive Engineering in our Mechanical EngineeringDepartment, is being designed to “behave” like an “organism” in relation to the surroundingnatural environment. Within

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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R.W. Carpick; K.W. Lux; Buck Johnson; Wendy Crone

hard disks. Because of the diversity of disciplinespursuing research and applications in nanoscale science and engineering, nanotechnology has thepotential to make an even broader impact.2The importance of this emerging technology to society and industry requires that undergraduateinstitutions take steps to adapt their curriculum to ensure a capable future workforce as well as amore scientifically literate general population.3-5 Problem-solving will continue to be animportant part of undergraduate education, as will the need to cultivate creative, critical, andentrepreneurial thinking.4,6 Yet, science and engineering undergraduates will need acomprehensive education that includes nanotechnology in order to navigate successfully the

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

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Melissa Lin

& Reports & Engineering Marketing Figure 7: A Company CRMIn addition to the desired features and mission of a desired CRM system, we assume arough-draft of minimum IT technology requirements are also given below:1) Compatibility with NT / Win2000 OS2) Web capable3) Open Systems - ODBC compatibility4) A Progress based is desired (for backward compatibility) but not required5) Main stream DB technology - none proprietary infrastructure technology6) Client Server is not required, but the web access requirement is absolutely needed7) Must have PDO (Palm device compatibility)8) License CostsThe

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Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stanley Kieta; Christopher Decock; Gregory Dick; Jerry Samples

Session Number 2150 Students Teaching Students: a Pedagogical Experiment Gregory M. Dick, Stanley J. Kieta, Christopher A. Decock. Jerry W. Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractHow do you fill a course and laboratory instructor vacancy on no notice? What happenswhen the Adjunct Professor cannot arrange a schedule for the laboratory portion of thecourse? Peer tutoring has been utilized for years in the sciences, math and humanities. Isit possible to use an upper-class student to assist in an engineering technology laboratorysetting

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul King; Sean Brophy; Stacy Klein-Gardner

sciences and learning technologies in biomedical engineering. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, Annual Reviews. 4, 29-48.[2] Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt (CTGV). (1997). The Jasper Project: Lessons in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.[3] Schwartz, D. L, Brophy, S., Lin, X. & Bransford, J. D. (1999) Software for managing complex learning: Examples from an educational psychology course. Educational Technology Research and Development. 47(2). p 39-60[4] Schwartz, D. L., Lin, X., Brophy, S., & Bransford, J. D. (1999). Toward the development of flexibly adaptive instructional designs. In Reigeluth (Ed

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Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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M. Sharma

Lubbock, TX 79409-1021 edanderson@ttu.edu 3 Department of Psychology Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409-2051 roman.taraban@ttu.eduAbstractWhile education processes in all disciplines are experiencing some paradigm shifts with the recentadvent and rapid advances made in the technology of designing, developing, and deliveringComputer-Based-Instruction (CBI), engineering education, in particular, is entering a new andchallenging phase. One of our biggest challenges is integrating CBI technologies

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Harper; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Agricultural Engineeringat Michigan State University in 1974. He served on the faculty at Minnesota from 1975 to 1987.JOHN A. MERRILLJohn Merrill is the Director for the First-Year Engineering Program at The Ohio State University (OSU). Hiscurrent responsibilities include operations, faculty recruiting, curriculum development, and program assessment.Dr. Merrill received his Ph.D. in Instructional Design an d Technology from OSU in 1985, and has an extensivebackground in public education, corporate training, and contract research.RICHARD J. FREULERRichard J. Freuler is the Coordinator for and teaches in the Ohio State Fundamentals of Engineering for Honorssequence. He is also Associate Director for the Aeronautical and Astronautical Research Laboratory

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Carney; Michael Nolan; James Lampe; Raymond Thompson

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthis globalization initiative, the department received an internal university grant to help developthis program. After three years of significant travel and discussion, departmental faculty decidedin addition to integration of global topics into the curriculum, a cultural experience of some sortwas a desirable addition to the degree program. The faculty decided to approach the problem byemploying creative methods of enculturation.When asked to prioritize the different activities that members of the Aviation Technology IndustryAdvisory Committee and faculty felt would benefit our students

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Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rocio Alba-Flores; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

introductory DigitalDesign course. The handheld computer provides access to class material and lab tools andmakes the learning process more dynamic and interactive and made difficult topics moreaccessible and easier to understand to the students. The paper concludes with adescription of the assessment for the workshop and a discussion of future uses of thistechnology.1.0 IntroductionThe University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), College of Science and Engineering requiresengineering and computer science majors to have a hand-held personal computer withwireless access for use in some of their classes. The purpose of the wireless pocket PCrequirement is both to enhance the technological environment of the engineering andcomputer science classroom and to

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Walter Tucker; Bob Lahidji

technologies such as the Internet1. The Wall Street Journal in anarticle titled “Elite colleges finally embrace Online degree Courses” stated: “the university hasrecognized that after the initial cost such as computers, software and other associated cost indeveloping an online course could be more economical for the institution to offer the programthan live programs”3. An article in Mechanical Engineers Jan 2001 states that "convenience andcost are two main reasons to take a distance learning course"4. Roger Schank in his article statedthat "Typically, university administrations care about revenue, prestige and image, and being leftbehind"5.The review of literature does not reveal any unified method of compensation for faculty whodevelop or teach

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Miskimins

Session 3125 Peer Learning: Observation of the Cluster Effect in Multidisciplinary Team Settings Jennifer L. Miskimins Colorado School of MinesIntroductionTeamwork education and multidisciplinary integration have become progressively more importantover the last decade. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), which isresponsible for the accreditation of engineering programs, specifically states that engineeringprograms “must demonstrate that their graduates have an ability to function on multi-disciplinaryteams

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Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bruce Berdanier

Session 2651 Watershed Analysis and Teacher Education Resource (WATER) Project Dr. Bruce W. Berdanier T.J. Smull College of Engineering, Ohio Northern UniversityIntroductionIt has been suggested that engineers could focus on professionalism by pursuing activities thatdirectly enhance the engineering profession such as working with organizations and universitiesto promote K-12 education in science, engineering, math and technology 2. Science andmathematics classes in the K-12 arena are considered gateways to the engineering profession 1and can provide the context that students need to make the

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Friedman; Durgamadhab Misra; Fadi Deek; Kamal Joshi; Vladimir Briller

control group.The t-tests on experimental and control groups’ retention, cumulative GPA and ratios of earnedand attempted credit hours showed statistically significant difference between two groups.Survey responses from both faculty and students confirmed that REU has increased students’motivation and interest towards research.Introduction and literature reviewActive participation in real-life research has always been considered a high motivation for theundergraduates. According to NSF Report “Shaping The Future: New Expectations forUndergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology “America's Page

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Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yi-Wei Huang; Nikos Kiritsis; David Ayrapetyan

Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationschool. McNeese’s commitment to undergraduate engineering education is shown by: a) limitingenrollment in engineering courses to 25 students, b) limiting enrollment in senior design coursesto 10 students, c) exclusively assigning professional faculty to teach engineering courses andlaboratories (no graduate students) and d) constantly upgrading the courses to incorporate newtechnologies.This paper describes one of our attempts to incorporate state-of-the-art technology andinstrumentation in a number of undergraduate mechanical engineering courses. Cantilever beamsunder harmonic excitation are traditionally used in undergraduate

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Camilla Saviz; Kurt Schulz

experiments, while an open-ended project may be introduced to require design, development, and testing of anexperiment once students are familiar with the laboratory and have gained theappropriate laboratory and analysis skills.Incorporating design projects in laboratory courses meets several criteria defined by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology for engineering programs [1]. Bycompleting such projects, students enhance their abilities to apply knowledge ofmathematics, science, and engineering (3a); analyze and interpret data (3b); design asystem, component, or process to meet desired needs (3c); function on multi-disciplinary teams (3d); identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (3e);communicate effectively (3g); and use

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Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Herrick; J. Michael Jacob; Jeffrey Richardson

Session 3448 Retention Through a Coordinated Spiral Curriculum Robert J. Herrick, James Michael Jacob, Jeffrey J. Richardson Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department Purdue UniversityAbstractThe Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) Program of Purdue University at West Lafayette,Indiana implemented significant curriculum change in the fall of 1996. The focus of the changewas to produce a relevant coordinated curriculum to optimize the students’ learning process andprovide a curriculum path that retained qualified students rather than filtering them

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Maria Kreppel; Max Rabiee

disciplines.One example of this reflective practice may be seen in a variety of “laboratory” projects. Studentsin Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology (MET) often design and build prototypes for actual laboratory apparatus that is fullyinstrumented and used by faculty in subsequent years. These “Senior Design” products resultfrom students evaluating their own laboratory learning experiences, identifying gaps in thelearning sequence, and using their capstone projects to address current student needs and developfuture learning opportunities.1Many direct learning measures characterize the CAS capstone curriculum. The faculty advisorsgive ongoing, portfolio-style assessment of students’ work as it evolves

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Furey; Eugene Brown

thermodynamics of thermals, fuel cells, hydroelectric power production, marine steam and diesel propulsion, wind power, hybrid engine technology, drilling for oil in Alaska, space shuttle propulsion, the role of oceans in climate, space vehicle heating in re- entry, thermodynamics of metabolism, Scramjet engines, global warming, superconducting motors, nuclear power and the environment, heat transfer in neonates, alternative fuel solutions the Kyoto Protocol, power turbines, ramjet propulsion, snow ski manufacture, bus transportation and diesel fuels, ocean thermal energy conversion, nitrogen oxide emissions, energy-based design methods, gas turbine engines in aircraft, the Cassini Space Probe, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, and

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Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

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E. Duco Jansen; Sean P. Brophy; Stacy Klein; Patrick Norris; Ming Wang, Vanderbilt University

interactive simulations and animations was used to conduct ‘virtual experiments’, inwhich data collected from simulations was then used to convey physical concepts; and 2) real-time, formative, in class assessment. New principles of learning and instruction highlight the need to engage students in thoughtfuluse of knowledge. However, engaging individual engineering students in large classroomssimultaneously can be challenging. Technology such as classroom communication systemsencourages students to apply conceptual ideas during class, by allowing them to respond toquestions using hand held devices, and by displaying an aggregate of responses to the instructorand/or the class. This real time feedback provides a valuable way of measuring progress

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ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dean; Carol Considine

, discuss, problem solve and engage higher-order thinking taskssuch as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.2 The implementation of active learning exercises indistance education classes may help establish student rapport and enhance the feeling ofcommunity among the students in a distance education environment.In distance education instruction, it is more difficult to establish student rapport and get studentfeedback from the remote students than from those in the traditional campus setting. OldDominion University delivers junior and senior level engineering technology elective courses usingone-way video and two-way audio. The limitations of this delivery system compound theproblems of establishing student rapport due to the geographical disparity

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

about 6000 students, the university has colleges of liberal arts, education, business,and technology. The EET program has an approximate enrollment of fifty-five and is one of fiveprograms comprising the Department of Engineering Technology. The rural environment andabsence of local high-tech industries present significant funding and educational challenges for ourEET program. Additionally, institutional support is sparse. However, the three-person faculty isrelatively autonomous, and functions as a well-knit team. Significant concerns for standards andquality are hallmarks of our program.Prior to our TC2K conversion, individual faculty members owned their courses. As a result,management of the program and curriculum tended to be reactive in

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Goolsby

Technological University has made it possible for the faculty toimplement fully online courses and courses with online components. The WebCT software is acourse management system that enables the institution-wide delivery of online courses. WebCTincludes a set of teaching and learning tools, supported by customization and personalizationcapabilities, student performance tracking features, and content management. The BE 1120Programming for Engineers course taught in the Basic Engineering Program at Tennessee Techhas been made available to students as a fully online course. The traditional BE 1120 lecture/labformat course seemed appropriate for implementation as an online course for two major reasons.Programming is text based and thus lends itself to

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Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecil Beeson

thesestudents pass through the Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) program, they construct theircircuits and typically view the PC only as an analytical tool to solve engineering problems. Ofcourse, in the real world, PCs are capable of controlling all types of devices.After reading about parallel port programming (PPP) in a magazine a few months ago, the authorof this article did some research and decided to introduce students in a Digital Systems course tothis fascinating concept. The response from the students was impressive.Value to EET StudentsThe value of using PCs in this manner is significant. EET students can grow in, minimally, fivedimensions of technology: • Continue to develop skills through traditional studies in the EET area

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Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

engineers in industrialpositions. In addition, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)accreditation criteria requires that graduates of engineering programs possess “an ability todesign and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data” [4] and “an ability todesign a system, component or process to meet desired needs” [4]. To meet the requirements ofthis ABET accreditation criteria, the faculty of the mechanical engineering program at IndianaUniversity-Purdue University Fort Wayne has begun the development of DBT experiments in allrequired laboratories of the mechanical engineering program. The faculty believes that thisapproach would enhance and add another dimension to the teaching/learning experience in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

Rico. In brief, the main objectives of Page 8.458.1the program are to: Proceedings of the 2003American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 27931. educate and train local professionals with expertise in high-technology areas related to TU’s multi-modal mass transport system,2. strengthen the university’s educational and research in disciplines related to infrastructure development,3. establish a model for cross

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

Session 2793 Using Calibrated Peer Review™ to Mediate Writing and to Assess Instructional Outcomes Patricia A. Carlson, Frederick C. Berry, and David Voltmer Department of Humanities and Social Sciences / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, Indiana 47803Writing in Engineering EducationThe written word is crucial to engineering for at least two compelling reasons. First, the texts ofengineering – publications that report findings or describe

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Current Environmental Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ishrat Mirzana; Ali Ansari

Session No # 2151 THE “NATURAL HOUSE” PROJECT: AN EXPERIMENT IN LEARNING BY DOING Ali Uddin Ansari, Ishrat Meera Mirzana Mechanical Engineering Department Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology Hyderabad, IndiaAbstractThe “Natural House”, a design and construction project of Centre for EnvironmentalStudies & Socioresponsive Engineering (CESSE) at Muffakham Jah College ofEngineering & Technology (MJCET), is directed at involving engineering students in a“real life” project with direct social benefits. The Centre’s primary objective is to

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brad Kinsey

individuals. See Fig. 1 foran example of a question from one such standard spatial ability test, the Mental Rotation Test[11], which was developed based on classic psychology research by Shepard and Metzler [12]. Figure 1. Example question from the Mental Rotation Test (MRT) [11].The use of CAD software during introductory design engineering courses has been shown toimprove the spatial ability skills of engineering students [4-7]. Sorby and Baartmans [4]developed a course at Michigan Technological University entitled “Introduction to SpatialVisualization” to improve the spatial ability of freshman students. The course included topicssuch as isometric and orthographic sketching, flat pattern development, and rotation of objects.Data