Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

people.Although being first in basic scientific research is extremely important to U.S. industrial strength, this Page 9.826.10does not mean that we will be first in technology. Technology and science are two different pursuits. Aparadigm shift has occurred in the U.S. innovation system in the 21st century. Modern engineering “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”practice is driven primarily by real-world, market-driven needs rather than by technical push from basicresearch laboratories as

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ann-Marie Vollstedt; Eric Wang

agreement of the three teachers (see Table 2), the following generalizations are made: 1. Working with the robotics materials helped students practice problem solving and inquiry skills. 2. The NSES goal of promoting inquiry was addressed in the small group work with the robotics materials. This work involved inquiry/ exploration and problem solving among the groups members and in some cases between groups as well. 3. Small group work with the robotics materials helped make the physical science content more interesting to learn. The robotics material also made the physics content more relevant. 4. Teaching strategies that use visuals and/or concrete materials such as those found in laboratory investigations, can

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

prepared to continue into any major discipline in their sophomore year. Studentstook an elective each quarter in the humanities, or social or life sciences. There were 18class hours during the week, half of which were laboratory hours.IFYCSEM (which was colloquially referred to as the IC for integrated curriculum) wasoffered as an “experimental” program throughout its eleven year existence at Rose-Hulman. The first three years were rocky. The first year one-third of the studentstransferred out due to the faculty team’s “overzealous and gung-ho” readiness to“unleash” all the exciting and innovative ideas all at once. Adjustments to studentworkload were made for the following year, but this initial “misstep” cast a negative light

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

writing produced by engineering undergraduates in their laboratory andlecture courses. Likewise, using a rubric to score RCS participants’ written deliverables seemeda practical approach. However, there were numerous challenges in developing a rubric fordeliverables that were unique in content and varied in genre, such as posters, slide showpresentations, papers, and formal reports.The rubric developed refers to three dimensions: Organization; Words, Sentences, and OtherSemantic Units; and Conventions. The Organization dimension focuses on the writer’s expertisein structuring a document to achieve a particular purpose through communication to an identifiedaudience. Key elements examined in this dimension include a specific, informative title

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ajay Agrawal; Zahed Siddique

interests are in the areas of fluid flow,combustion, and heat transfer.Dr. Zahed Siddique is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Product and Process Design Laboratory atUniversity of Oklahoma. His research focuses on product family design, CAD/CAM, design collaboration andengineering design education. Dr. Siddique received his B.Sc., M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering fromGeorgia Institute of Technology. Page 9.625.12 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Mukai

follow up actions are recommended: • Revise the survey instrument • Repeat this study for a larger group of students • Apply this study to a different set of learning stylesAcknowledgementsThe author wishes to acknowledge the National Science Foundation for supporting thisproject through the Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program,Adaptation and Implementation (A&I) track (Project Number DUE-0196487). Theauthor also wishes to thank the University of Wyoming Office of Research, College ofEngineering and Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering for their matchingfunds and general support of this project. Finally, the author thanks Dr. Trent McDonaldof West, Inc. for his statistical consulting

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education7. Berver, E., Jerse J.O., Fowler D.W., and Wheat, H.G. 2003. Laboratory and field observations of composite– wrapped reinforced concrete structures. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Structuraland Construction Engineering, 23-26 September, 2003, Rome, Italy. Vol 2 pp. 1459-1465.8. Carpenter, C.L. and Oloufa A. 1995. Postoccupancy Evaluation of Buildings and Development of FacilityPerformance Criteria. Journal of Architectural Engineering 1(2):77-81.9. Chapman C. and Ward S. 1997. Project Risk Management Processes, Techniques and Insights.Chichester, Wiley.10. Colaco, J.P. 2003. Uses of composite

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sadie Miller; Donna Riley

hand toolsand found objects. Social factors in design for this project primarily relate to the decision of howsafe is safe enough, and disparities in drinking water standards among countries. Students design,season, and test their filters over the course of several weeks. Testing can be accomplishedthrough the use of standard laboratory methods if they are available and convenient, or throughthe use of fairly inexpensive synthetic agar substitute gels – where one places the water sampleand counts the number of colonies of coliform bacteria that develop. While the latter method isless precise, it should allow students to have some measure of the effectiveness of their filter, andto track its improvement over the seasoning period.A second, more

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

Page 9.637.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationits current, more formal form, Engineering 4: Introduction to Engineering Design16. Designed asan introduction to conceptual design, and adopting a Clinic-style approach of student teamsworking for real, not-for-profit clients (e.g., schools, hospitals), the course has been successfullytaught since 1992 as both a prerequisite for Clinic itself and a motivator that attracts students tothe Engineering major. It has also served as a pedagogical laboratory, out of which has evolved astudio style of teaching the course, very much in the traditions of

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Schuch Miller; Donald Falkenburg

illustrating complex concepts, especiallycommon in engineering. Horton [2] suggests the use of case studies as an excellent way forlearners to practice judgment skills necessary in real life situations that are not as simple astextbook problems. As instructional strategies are concerned, engaging critical thinking skillsthrough case studies is among a recommended set of activities [3].Case studies can also be used to introduce students to the complex interactions amongtechnology, business, and ethics. The Laboratory for Innovative Technology in EngineeringEducation (LITEE) at Auburn University has produced a number of case studies. One of these

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ryan Cavanaugh; Matt Ellis; Mark Ardis; Richard Layton

Professor of ComputerScience and Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman. Dr. Ardis has also taught at the University of Illinois, WangInstitute, and Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining Rose-Hulman he spent nine years performing researchon software engineering methods at Bell Laboratories. Page 9.246.14 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

typically involves experimentation, simulation or an industry-based investigation. Itis undertaken individually and is usually worth a quarter of the credit for the year. In addition,senior students typically undertake a team based capstone design project, also worth one quarterof the credit for the year. Unlike their peers in the humanities and the social sciences,engineering students do not normally have a course on “research methods”. Rather, preparationfor undertaking a research thesis is assumed to accumulate from their exposure to researchmethods in laboratory classes (experimental and computer based) throughout their degreeprogram. This can be considered a shortcoming as we become more intentional about developingthe research capabilities of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjan Zadnik

Organisation. He was awarded the Shedden PacificMedal for Excellence for contributions to Chemical Engineering in 1993, The Institution of Engineers AustraliaExcellence Award in 1998 for the design of laboratory facilities at Rockingham and the Centenary Medal forservices to Australian society in 2003. Peter was educated in Melbourne and has degrees from RMIT (BE) andMonash University (PhD). He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and a Fellow of theInstitution of Chemical Engineers, London.SHELLEY YEODr Shelley Yeo is a Lecturer in Professional Development in the Learning Support Network at Curtin Universityof Technology. She has a background in science education and previously worked in the Division ofEngineering, Science and

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ahmed Rubaai

Transformers,” IEEE transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 709-717, May, 1992 3 O. W. Anderson, “Optimized Design of Electric Power Equipment,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 11-15, January 1991. 4 W. T. Jewel, “Transformer Design in the Undergraduate Power Engineering Laboratory,” IEEE Transaction on Power Systems, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 499-505, May 1990. 5 Ahmed Rubaai, EECE-318 Energy Conversion-User Manual, Howard University, Washington, DC, 2001 6 Page 9.374.10 D. Macllister

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Caroline Baillie

conducted theinterviews, and as such a mutual understanding of the issues discussed were possible. Thediscussion lasted between 30 – 60 min and questions were posed aiming at exploring theirunderstanding of the interface and current issues and phenomena of relevance to the field. Theinterviews took place in the laboratories of the interviewees or interviewer, or duringinternational conferences, where the two could meet mid-way between labs. They were semi-structured sessions, with probe questions planned, such as ‘What do you understand by the‘interface’ in composite materials?’. If the interviewee responded ‘ its bonding between fibre andmatrix’, then they were further probed with a question, ‘what , for you, is this ‘bonding’? Often asimple

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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George Catalano

, David E. and Larson, Debra, “Design4Practice, 2000 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award Honorable Mention, www.asme.or/educate/cia. 3. Todd, Robert H., Sorenson, Carl D., and Magleby, Spencer P., “Designing a Senior Capstone Course to Satisfy Industrial Customers, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 82, 2003, No. 2, pp. 92-100. 4. Clausing, D. P., “Improved Total Development Process: Changing the Ten Cash Drains into Cash Flows,” unpublished manuscript, MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, Cambridge, Ma. 1986. 5. Paulik, Mark J., “A Competition-Motivated Capstone Design Course: The Results of a Fifteen Year Evolution,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol.44, No.1, February 2001. 6. Dym

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

(Criterion 3). This retreat workshop enabledeach program to develop or re-define their mission statement, to develop outcomes based coursesyllabi, and to map the outcomes to program educational objectives. This retreat led to an ABETEC 2000 mock visit sponsored by Raytheon Missile Systems, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard andBoeing in January 2002 with team members representing both academia and industry. Theobjectives of the mock visit were to visit the laboratory facilities, conduct interviews with facultyand students, evaluate the first drafts of the individual self-study reports, and to offer candidcomments and recommendations to incorporate assessment and continuous qualityimprovements within the programs.Early Lessons LearnedThe results from the

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Knight; Christine Cunningham

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2530 Images of Laboratory Work Test Tubes, Beakers 5 Similar to the written responses, students’ drawings of engineers showedconsiderable evidence of building and fixing. These images were present not only inartifacts of building and fixing (such as tools, hard hats and safety glasses) but were alsoexpressed through the products of engineering (cars, buildings, and bridges). Theseimages suggest that many students think of engineers as the people who are fixing cars(car mechanics) and building houses and bridges (construction workers). Quite a

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff

advanced laboratory situation, I find that they have found away to bypass the problem of designing a circuit through proper insight into how it shouldfunction. This new technique, which should not really be called “design”, will be termed“Statistical Design”.An example of Statistical Design would be as follows: Suppose we are to design a resistivecircuit to match a given source to another given load. One could choose some random circuit toplace between the source and load, and then randomly vary all the resistors in the matchingcircuit until a match was found. This would require no insights as to how the match wasachieved, such as “when a resistor is added in parallel, the overall resistance is reduced”. I firstencountered this type of analysis in

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Watts; Theodor Richardson

South Carolinaand is a 2-year participant in the NSF GK-12 Fellowship Program.JED LYONS is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and theDirector of the South Carolina Center for Engineering and Computing Education. He teaches laboratory, design,and materials science to undergraduates, graduate students and K-12 teachers. He researches engineering education,plastics and composites. Jed is the GK-12 PI. All correspondence should be addressed to Jed S. Lyons, University ofSouth Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208. lyons@sc.edu.CHRISTINE EBERT a Professor of Education and the Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Co-PI on theGK-12 grant Dr. Ebert is instrumental in teaching engineering students how to

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joseph Reagan; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

implementation issues of different DSP techniques.I. IntroductionPenn State Harrisburg offers BS EE, BS EET, and ME degrees. The Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Electrical Engineering provides an opportunity for students to pursue interestsin electrical and electronic circuits, including digital circuits and VLSI and its fabrication,microprocessors and their applications, electromagnetics, communications, controlsystems, digital signal/image processing and computer vision. The BSEET programprovides similar experience however, its strengths include: an applied, hands-on approachand extensive laboratory experience. Through a senior capstone design project, bothcurricula emphasize written as well as verbal communication and a teamwork approachamong students

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston Massachusetts, November 2002.KEN VAN TREURENKen Van Treuren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received hisB. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy, his M. S. in Engineering from Princeton University,and his DPhil. at the University of Oxford, UK. At Baylor he teaches courses in laboratory techniques, fluidmechanics, thermodynamics, and propulsion systems, as well as freshman engineering.STEVEN EISENBARTHSteven Eisenbarth is Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University. Hereceived his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Albertson College of Idaho and a Masters and Ph.D. in Physicsfrom Baylor University

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

course sequence, the two first-year courses containing basic computing and draftingskills, introduction to the profession, an introduction to surveying, and basic group-based designprojects were reorganized and renamed. The credit hours from an 3-credit senior designsequence (two semesters, 1 + 2 credits) were combined with a class in engineering planning andmanagement to form the last two courses. Hours for the middle four courses came primarilyfrom courses with much or most of their content retained in the core sequence, namely, coursesin engineering statistics (3 cr.), in transportation (3 cr.), and a 2-credit laboratory-oriented CEMaterials course.The current content of courses in the integrated CE Core sequence, along with their present

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

Page 9.827.4literature and in educational practice. IT tools are gaining general use to present, make available, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationand deliver/interchange material either on site or at a distance. While very important and ofrelevance to our CE core sequence, IT use in the university’s classrooms and other educationalprograms is not a primary emphasis of our examination of IT in civil engineering. Applicationsfor consideration in our future implementation studies may include the utilization of IT/softwaretools for simulations and parameter studies (including virtual laboratory

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Carter; Paula Leventman; Katherine Ziemer

this step, but the funnel and cup combination that catches the watervapor can influence the net evaporation rate and should be part of this experimentation. It is not Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationuncommon during this experimentation for students to modify their prototype design as they gainexperience in running their system. This can be used to strengthen the concept of the design, testand evaluate, and redesign loop of the Engineering Design process (Steps 5 through 8 in Figure1) and to discuss the evolution of manufacturing processes from laboratory scale to pilot scale tofull

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; Frank DeRego; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

team in the EPICSlaboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care of administrative matters, doproject planning and tracking, and work on their project. All students also attend a common one-hourlecture each week. A majority of the lectures are by guest experts, and have covered a wide range oftopics related to engineering design, communication, and community service. Important to the infrastructure of the EPICS program are the project milestones shown in Table 1.Project milestones calibrate the progress of the project teams and aid the students in understanding theproject itself and the contributions they can make. Some of these milestones include, meeting with theirproject partner or participating in a team dynamics

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ellen Litzinger; Barbara Bogue

the design of this course, especially given the potential for the “non-typical” female engineering student to experience instances inside and outside the classroom andlaboratory where her self-esteem could suffer.Self-esteem is the value or worth that an individual places on the descriptors that are used todescribe one’s self 18. These descriptors are accumulated through multiple experiences such asdaily living activities, classroom and laboratory experiences, and extra curricular experiences(e.g., summer camp, church or youth group activity). One common component shared by manyperceptions of self-esteem is the influence of social interaction 4, 7, 10, 11. Cooley emphasizes theimportant role that social interaction and the evaluation of

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

and implementation of that camp is a true division of labor between theCOE and the teachers. COE faculty propose activities for each of the engineering disciplinesbeing explored, and teachers tie the activity to the goals and objectives they teach. The entireteam tries every activity, engineers seeking technical accuracy and teachers weighing in onwhether the activity meets the content goals and is appropriate for the targeted grade levels. Theplanning week of the camp is spent on the university campus, allowing the teachers a view intothe engineering school. Laboratory tours and presentations of leading edge research projects arepart of the agenda. The camp itself is held at a middle school, and while co-taught by both theengineers and the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Pawley

, production, and dissemination ofscience and engineering. (While “science” is the term most often used to describe the field,scholars certainly also study engineering and the engineering science practiced in academia andindustry.) Analyzing the context and practice of science and engineering has resulted in intenselyinterdisciplinary study, both by feminists and others. Incorporating theoretical frameworksdrawn from such sociological concepts as “the structure of occupations, the workings ofinstitutions, the legitimization of erroneous belief, the class structure of science, the sociology ofknowledge, or the microstructure of laboratory life”28 and from histories “focused on intellectualor social history, formal and informal institutions, economic

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TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; David Blekhman

: Confounding Constraints or HelpfulHindrances?," Standardization News, Vol 27, No 9, 1999.2. Mahendran, M., "Project-Based Civil Engineering Courses," Journal of Engineering Education, Jan, 1995.3.Regan, M., Sheppard, S., "Interactive Multimedia Courseware and the Hands-on Learning Experience: AnAssessment Study," Journal of Engineering Education, Apr, 1996.4. Jenkins, M. G., Arola, D. D., " When Is a Truss not a Truss: A ‘Do-Say’ Pedagogical Laboratory Exercise,"Session 2526, Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition," Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 24 - 27, 2001.5. http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/6. Gere, J. M.,"Mechanics of Materials," 5th ed., Brooks/Cole, Thomson Learning, 20017. Young, W. C