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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aisha Lawrey

career,female and minority role models and outreach programs can significantly increase interest inengineering among students. Our institution and program will continue to help reduce social andeducational barriers and encourage students to pursue and persist in science, technology,engineering and mathematical careers. [1]Bibliography[1] Gibbons, Siobhán J., Hirsch, Linda S., Kimmel, Howard, Rockland, Ronald, and Bloom, Joel (2003),“Counselors’ Attitudes and Knowledge About Engineering”, International Conference on Engineering Education,Valencia, Spain, July 21-25,[2] Koppel, Nicole B., Cano, Rosa M., and Heyman, Suzanne B. (2002) An Attractive Engineering Option for Girls.Proceedings 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA

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Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Waters

facilities have active SES model test programs. Page 9.242.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1: A Generic Surface Effect Ship (SES), from Butler, 19852Surface Effect Ship (SES) Design Project BackgroundAdvanced marine designs such as hydrofoils, SWATHs, planing craft, and air-cushioned crafthave demonstrated the Navy’s continual desire to increase military seaborne operational speed.In the 1970’s, Admiral Zumwalt encouraged the pursuit of a “100-knot Navy” as Chief

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Barbara Stewart; Carole Goodson; Susan Miertschin; Luces Faulkenberry

items ones that are truly addressed in common/required courses? If not, are they addressed individually in program areas? Should they be in common courses? Is the item of value? If it is not addressed in a common course(s), should it be deleted from the list of common items? • Do other measures relating to the competency validate or support the results reflected in the survey? Were similar concerns expressed in the exit interview? Were the areas that ranked lower also showing up as problem areas in the capstone course projects? Did the projects demonstrate that students have an understanding of the information that ranked high on the scale? What courses are involved? How

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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Brian Houston

the revision cycle of this paper I noticed that several aspects of my system that Iconsidered critical during my first-term already appear to be unnecessary. The personalmanagement system the reader chooses should be continually evolving as the instructor learnsand grows. The goal of this paper was to identify several issues that new faculty may encounterand give an organizational example that might elicit ideas to help develop a system of their own.Refer ences1. McKeachie, Robert J., McKeachie’s Teaching Tips, 10th Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1999.2. Lowman, Joseph, Mastering The Techniques of Teaching, 2nd Edition, Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1995.3. Wankat, Phillip C., Frank S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 19934

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Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dale Buechler

part of this mathematical education into the engineering programs instead of relyingon others to do this for us.References[1] National Science Board. “Science and Engineering Indicators-2002,” Arlington, VA: National ScienceFoundation, 2002 (NSB 02-1).[2] University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1998-99 Department Profiles[3] L. Shuman, M. Besterfield-Sacre, D. Budny, S. Larpkiattaworn, O. Muogboh, S. Provezis, and H. Wolfe, “Whatdo we know about our entering students and how does it impact upon performance?, Proceedings of the 2003 ASEEAnnual Conference, Nashville, TN, June 2003.[4] D. Budny, W. LeBold, G. Bjedov, “Assessment of the Impact of Freshman Engineering Courses,” Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol. 87 No. 4, Oct. 1998, pp. 405-411

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhona Moore; James Strueber

practice, such as in prob-lem sets, by explaining or summarizing the material, or through test taking.Robert S. Zais, in Curriculum: Principles and Foundations,4 holds that educator should first determinethe purpose of the education and then create a curriculum and method of teaching to produce that result. Itis important to keep this concept in mind when developing writing assignments. Writing assignments tiedto course goals and professional skills are well received by the students. If the assignments are too infor-mal or too broadly defined, the students may develop the attitude that the assignment is just something tokeep them busy.The NeedProfessionals must keep abreast of new developments in their fields to be successful. The available bodyof

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Stirewalt

comments on early drafts ofthis paper.1 C. Ghezzi, M. Jazayeri, and D. Mandrioli, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, Prentice Hall Publishing, 19912 C. M. Reigeluth and F. S. Stein, “The elaboration theory of instruction,” appears in Instructional-design Page 9.1196.8 theories and models: An overview of their current status, C. M. Reigeluth, editor, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education3 D. L. Parnas, “On the design and development of program families,” appears in

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN, June 2003. 8. Van Dyk, L., “Engineering the Education Industry to Educate the Industrial Engineer”, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Canada, June 2002. 9. Pardue, S. and C. Darvennes, “Dynamic and Resonating Use of WebCT”, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Canada, June 2002. 10. Kortemeyer, G. and W. Bauer, “Multimedia Collaborative Content Creation (mc3): The MSU LectureOnline System”, Journal of Engineering Education, 88(4), 421-427 (1999). 11

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Hunt; Eduardo Ortega; David Miller; Alfred Striz

Rocketry: System Development Experience and Student Outreach Timothy S. Hunt, David P. Miller, Eduardo Ortega, and Alfred G. Striz School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma Norman, OklahomaAbstractRocketry can provide students with exciting and stimulating opportunities to advance theirsystems engineering and design/manufacturing/programming skills. During the last 2 years, an11 ft tall minimum-diameter aluminum rocket has been developed and instrumented in theSchool of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, sponsored byOSIDA, the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

Optimal Capstone Design Experience,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 88, no. 1, p. 19, 1999. 10. Aristotle. Aristotle on Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse. Trans. George A. Kennedy. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. 11. Bizzell, P. and Herzberg, B., The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Boston: Bedford Books, 1990. 12. Bakhtin, M., Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. U of Texas P., 1986. 13. Toulmin, S., Uses of Argument, Cambridge, 1958. 14. Austin, J.L., "Performative Utterances." Philosophical Papers Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 233, 1979. 15. Fish, S., "How to Do Things with Austin and Searle: Speech Act Theory and Literary Criticism." Is There a Text in this Class

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

Outlook 2002,” Department of Energy Report, 2002. http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/15. “Statistical Review of World Energy” British Petroleum, 2002. http://www.bp.com/home.do16. “World Energy Outlook 2002,” International Energy Agency Report, 2002. http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/weo/pubs/weo2002/weo2002.asp17. Markvart, T., “Solar Electricity,” John Wiley & Sons, 2000.18. Manwell, J., McGowan, J., and Rogers, A., “Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Applications,” John Wiley & Sons, 2002.19. S. Appanaboyina, R. Sreenivasa and K. Aung, “Development of Web-Based Tools for Energy Engineering,” Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Meeting & Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, 2003.20

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kun-jung Hsu

proceeding ofplanning and design. This paper explores the dilemma of education in participatory designand reveals the contradiction between marketplace values and community values in practice.Also, this paper utilizes the production possibility curve and the choice theory of demand sideto analyze the concept, value judgment, decision-making, and constraints of planning/designbehavior.IntroductionThe ideal of advocacy planning first proposed by Davidoff in the mid 1960’s. Theprofessional planners and designers who support this view vow to make planning for theneeds of the disadvantaged groups and persons their top priority. They jointly opposedurban redevelopment policy propelled by bulldozers, and advocated the development ofparticipatory planning

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jianping Yue

Session 2586 NASA’s Education and Research Opportunities for Students and Faculty Jianping Yue Essex County CollegeAbstractOne of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s missions is “to inspire thenext generation of explorers.” For nearly half a century, NASA has not only made extraordinaryachievements in space exploration and technology advancement, but also developed manyeducation and research programs to inspire young Americans from grades K-12 to collegeundergraduate and graduate students, especially

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Greco

tools.Bibliography1. Ball, W. W. R. and Coxeter, H. S. M. Mathematical Recreations and Essays, 13th Ed. New York: Dover,pp. 36-38, 1987.2. Bogomolny, A. "The Game of Nim." http://www.cut-the-knot.org/nim_st.shtml.3. Buton, C. L. "Nim, A Game with a Complete Mathematical Theory." Ann. Math. Princeton 3, 35-39,1901-1902.4. Gardner, M. "Mathematical Games: Concerning the Game of Nim and Its Mathematical Analysis."Scientific American 198, 104-111, Feb. 1958.5. Gardner, M. "Nim and Hackenbush." Ch. 14 in Wheels, Life, and other Mathematical Amusements. NewYork: W. H. Freeman, pp. 142-151, 1983.6. Hardy, G. H. and Wright, E. M. An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 5th ed. Oxford, England:Oxford University Press, pp. 117-120, 1990.7. Kraitchik, M. "Nim

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hue Van Tran; Steven Reyer; James Friauf; Owe Petersen; Katherine Wikoff

others and a big-picture understanding of the broader implications their actions mayhave, and lifelong learning, through an increased awareness of the world outside the immediatecontext of the engineering field and an ability to make meaningful connections among the chaosof detail.Bibliography1. S. Manuel-Dupont, “Writing-Across-the-Curriculum in an Engineering Program,” Journal of Engineering Education, January 19962. K. A. Field, “When Good Engineers Are Bad Writers,” Design News, October 20, 2003.3. S. McLoed and E. Maimon, “Clearing the Air: WAC myths and realities,” College English, May 2000.4. J. Morello, “Comparing Speaking Across the Curriculum and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs,” Communication Education, January

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Gasper; Keith Whites; Michael Batchelder

digital modes, radio teletype(RTTY) using electromechanical teletypes, began in the late 1940’s. RTTY uses FSKwith a 1 represented by 2125 Hz and a 0 by 2295 Hz. Data is sent at a rate of 45 baud or60 WPM using the 5-bit Baudot code. RTTY is still popular, but now using PCs ratherthan teletypes. Many of the digital modes were developed using Digital SignalProcessing (DSP) development boards that have been replaced by current fast,inexpensive PCs using sound cards. Some modes use a TNC (Terminal NodeController), basically a modem with a built-in protocol, but these also can often bereplaced by a PC with a sound card and appropriate software. Refer to the Appendix forweb sites from which software can be downloaded to support RTTY and the

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

are those in which the course description explicitly states that computer skills will betaught. These skills may be needed in other courses in the school’s chemical engineeringcurriculum but are not the focus of the courses. Also bear in mind that, while the departments atsome of schools might be considered cross-disciplinary (e.g., Cornell has a department ofChemical and Biomolecular Engineering), the core values of all may be considered to those ofchemical engineering. (Suggested Term) Computer Software Used Taught in Institution Courses Descriptions Comp Sci Gen Eng. Chem Eng. Cornell COM S 100

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Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Zainulabeddin; Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Ashfaq Ahmed; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

the changes: a) Moved from Assembly language to C language, b)Selected to teach Microchip PIC Microcontroller(s), c) Doubled the lecture time and labtime; have made a marked improvement in students ability to carry on with confidencethe design work in the area of Embedded System Design. This change has been reflectedthrough the number of projects completed in Senior Design. Many of these projects havesignificantly improved in sophistication and complexity. Page 9.515.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Pete Schuyler

criteria. Afterwards, students will beasked to provide feedback on the distance labs by completing a survey. The results will befactored into our plans for the Spring 2005 semester and beyond. Over time, we expect that morecourses and programs will begin to offer distance labs via the ALTE platform.Bibliography1. Esche, S.K. & Chassapis, C. “An Internet-Based Remote Access Approach to Undergraduate Laboratory Education”, Proceedings of the 1998 Fall Regional Conference of the Middle Atlantic Section of ASEE, pp. 108-113.2. Esche, S. K. & Prasad, M. G. & Chassapis, C. “A Remotely Accessible Laboratory Approach to Undergraduate Education”, Proceedings of the 2000 Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 3220.3

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scogtt Magids; Sarah Djamshidi; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

-manufacturing to help companies improve their processes to yieldbenefits such as reduced costs, decreased production delays and less re-work. MTECHpersonnel work closely with the Clark School’s Biotech Program featuring Master ofScience and Doctor of Philosophy degree programs in Bioengineering, as well as thenation’s first Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Certificate program.2.5. MTECH Base Programs SummaryWith nearly 20 years of experience in working with technology companies of all typesand sizes, especially startups, MTECH personnel have gained extensive knowledge of theprocesses and steps needed to start and develop successful companies. In the late 1990’s,MTECH leadership saw an opportunity to have an even greater impact through newactivities

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Yi Min Huang; Larry McKenzie; Michael Trevisan

Session 2225 Capstone Design Courses and Assessment: A National Study Larry J. McKenzie, Michael S. Trevisan, Denny C. Davis, Steven W. Beyerlein Duke Energy/Washington State University/University of IdahoAbstractABET EC 2000 Criteria 3 and 4 specifically focus on student learning objectives and associatedassessment and evaluation practices that are often integral to capstone design courses. This paperreports findings from a two-phase study conducted to better understand the nature and scope ofassessment practices within capstone design courses across engineering disciplines, and in particular,the extent to

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

quality of the answer. Step 4: Tutor and student collaboratively improve the quality of the answer. Step 5: Tutor assesses student’s understanding of the answer.Table 1. Five-step dialogue pattern in tutoring, Graesser, et al.2.4. Cognitive Sciences—effect of prior knowledge on new knowledgeFindings in cognitive psychology reinforce the soundness of step 4 in Graesser et al.’s dialoguepattern: collaboratively improving the quality of a student’s answer. Pellegrino, Chudowsky, &Glaser 8 report, “One major tenet of cognitive theory is that learners actively construct theirunderstanding by trying to connect new information with their prior knowledge.” Not only isknowledge constructed, it is individualized. Since each student has

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Scaroni; David DiBiase; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education" Electricity Consumption 2500 C o n s u m p tio n 2000 E le c tric (k W h ) 1500 1000 kWh 500 0 Jul- Aug- Sep- Oct- Nov- Dec- Jan- Feb- Mar- Apr- May- Jun- Jul

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Pinkus; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Mark Sindelar; Larry Shuman; Carl Mitcham; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

S.Kitchener’s Reflective Judgment (RJ) Model [30]. These models measure students’ positionsalong a hierarchical construct of stages representing increasingly more sophisticated ways of un-derstanding knowledge and solving complex, open-ended problems.Perry developed his model from clinical studies of Harvard students in the 1960’s. As he inter-viewed student groups at the end of each academic year, probing their views of their universityexperiences, he observed patterns of thinking that were hierarchical and chronological. He trans-lated these patterns into a nine-stage model of development that he validated by a second, moreextensive, longitudinal study. King and Kitchener developed the Reflective Judgment (RJ)model in the late 1970’s from their

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

Session 2155 Issues Driving Reform of Faculty Reward Systems to Advance Professional Graduate Engineering Education: Expectations For Core Professional Faculty D. A. Keating,1 T. G. Stanford,1 J. M. Snellenberger,2 D. H. Quick,2 I. T. Davis,3 J. P. Tidwell,4 A. L. McHenry,5 D. R. Depew,6 S. J. Tricamo,7 D. D. Dunlap 8 University of South Carolina 1/ Rolls-Royce Corporation 2 / Raytheon Missile Systems 3 The Boeing Company 4/Arizona State University East 5/ Purdue University 6 New Jersey Institute of

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Houdeshell

tests. Anincrease in the score from pretest to posttest typically represents new structural and transferknowledge. The pretest (M = 63.07, SD = 16.1) and posttest (M = 71.82, SD = 16.4) results forthe 55 participants indicate an average improvement of 8.75 points. However, this is not auniform improvement across all treatments; the average increase range from 20.5 for the conceptmap-ill-structured treatment combination to a decrease of 1.6 for the summary—well-structuredtreatment combination. Table 4 provides the summary statistics for the population values andtreatment combinations.Table 4. Summary Statistics Paired Data Posttest-Pretest Component Count Mean VarianceScaffold (S) 29

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yuko Hoshino; Masakatsu Matsuishi; Wayne Sanders

,more than most conferences. The poster section occupied all five floors of a large building and waswell attended by students, faculty, and staff. It was very beneficial in informing the KIT communityabout the Engineering Design program.The largest problem encountered in starting the program was finding faculty with the expertise,and interest, to teach 60 sections. To expose the students to a variety of ideas and different ways ofthinking, the courses were taught not only by Japanese professors, but also by foreign professorswith experience working for U. S. universities. The latter were assisted by teaching assistants whospoke both English and Japanese. Since these professors had varying backgrounds and interests, itwas apparent that standards

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

task outcomes will determine if the currentproject direction is still appropriate, or if alternate paths have to be followed or solutionssought. In addition, it provides a written record of who has not been completing theirtasks from week to week, and therefore not fully contributing to the project.e. Communication. The administrative leader should send an email shortly after themeeting to ALL team members and the project advisor(s)/course instructor, with thePMW attached. The email should include: 1. A list of present and absent team members. 2. A summary of the current state of the project, indicating successes, challenges and failures

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; Eric Wang; Chris Rogers

build a vehicle that moves forward for a specificamount of time. By varying the time, students manually collect data and graph the distancetraveled as a function of time. Student use linear regression to determine the “best fit” equation.All experiment design, data collection and graphing is done as homework.In class, a competition is held to see who can make their vehicle get the closest to a prescribeddistance, which is not known to students before class. Students use their graph to determine howlong to turn the motor(s) on. This rather simple exercise can be used to teach interpolation,extrapolation, linear regression, repeatability, resolution, and the concept of calibration [18, 20].Figure 6 shows one of the more creative vehicles built, a

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis

Page 9.667.12 Recording activity Documenting Progress Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2004, American Society for Engineering EducationREFERENCESAnderson, L.W. & Krathwohl, D.R. (Eds.). (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching andassessing. New York: Longman.Beyerlein, S., Leise, C., Baehr, M., and Apple, D. (2003). Classification of Learning Skills. Lisle,IL: Pacific Crest.Bloom, B.S. (1956). (Ed.). Taxonomy of educational objectives: The classification of educationalgoals (Handbook 1: Cognitive domain). New York: McKay.Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking, R.R., & Pellegrino, J.W