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Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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April Kedrowicz

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 2. CHFEN Activity Semester I Year Course Activity Freshman CHFEN 1703: Introduction to Writing formal reports Chemical and Fuels Engineering Summary writing Introduction to oral communication Junior CHFEN 3453: Heat Transfer Writing formal reports Senior CHFEN 4903: Projects Laboratory Summary writing

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Technology Transfer and Commercialization

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2004 Annual Conference

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Martha Connolly; Herbert Rabin; Eric Schurr; David Barbe

of faculty expertise. The result is thatcompanies express their needs, and through joint efforts, a UM system faculty member isidentified as a partner. For consideration, proposals must be co-authored by a facultymember and by a company representative. Proposals must be technological in and arerigorously reviewed based on both technical and economic merit.Proposal MechanismsApplications are accepted two times per year, and are subject to a rigorous evaluationprocess consisting of reviews of both technical merit and economic potential. Technicalreviewers are experts in the technical field of interest, and typically come from academicand government laboratories. These reviewers provide a peer review with feedback ontechnical issues including

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chell Roberts

Proficiency (6 Hours) 6 Social/Behavioral Sciences (15 Hours) 15 Literacy / Critical Inquiry (6 Hours) 6 Natural Sciences/Basic Sciences (11 Hours) CHM113 General Chemistry OR CHM114 General Chemistry for Engineers 4 PHY Engineering Physics 3 PHY Engineering Physics Laboratory 1 GEG180 Biology for Engineers 3 Mathematics Studies (18 Hours) ECE 380 Engineering Statistics (CS) 3

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wesley Bliven; Elizabeth Eschenbach

) Online: http://www.humboldt.edu/~rsp/, viewed January 13, 2004.4 W.W. Bliven and E.A. Eschenbach (2003) Humboldt State University Redwood Science Project Summer InstituteHow It Works, Online: http://www.humboldt.edu/~wwb2/rsp/, viewed January 12, 2004.5 The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay, Houghton Mifflin Co; ISBN: 03959384736 W.W. Bliven and E.A. Eschenbach (2003) How It Works: Electricity, Magnetism and Motors, online:http://www.humboldt.edu/~wwb2/rsp/2003/electricity.htm, viewed January 12, 2004.7 Pasco (2004) 3-D Magnetic Field Demonstration, Online:http://store.pasco.com/pascostore/showdetl.cfm?&DID=9&Product_ID=51821&Detail=1, viewed January 13, 2004.8 Science Kit and Boreal Laboratories, online: http

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IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Wyrick

other institutionscan be proactive about establishing an effective study abroad option.The most important step is to decide how study abroad fits into the department’s vision and Page 9.797.8educational objectives and find a program that is compatible. The match in courses, research Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationfocus, and learning philosophy between UMD and Luleå is very close, so these departments areextremely compatible. Both programs have a philosophy of hands-on, laboratory

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ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mellinger Margaret

arelooking for the “work-ready engineer,” an employee who can “hit the ground running” and addto the productivity of the company early in their employment. Employers assume that newengineers know how to gather, evaluate and use the information they will need for their projects,whether or not they have access to a library within the company. Engineers are expected toorganize research information in laboratory notebooks or other formats and to communicateresearch and results in a meaningful and coherent manner. For engineering entrepreneurs, theinformation they will need to communicate is likely to include not only technical and productinformation, but information on business and marketing as well.Atkinson and Figueroa studied business students

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

. SELLERS is an active-duty Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force and an Associate Professorof Astronautics at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has a B.S. from the U.S. Air Force Academy, M.S.from U. of Houston, M.S. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Surrey, UK.Currently he is Director of the USAF Academy Space Systems Research Center in Colorado Springs, CO.DAVID J. RICHIE is an active-duty Captain in the U.S. Air Force and an Assistant Professor ofAstronautics at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has a B.S. in Astronautics from the U.S. Air ForceAcademy and an M.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He ispresently Laboratory Director for the Department of Astronautics at the U.S. Air

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elsa Bruno; David Swanson; David Barnhart; David Richie; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

. from the U.S. Air Force Academy, M.S. from U. of Houston, M..S.from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Surrey, UK.. Currently he is Director of the USAFAcademy Space Systems Research Center in Colorado Springs, CO.DAVID J. RICHIE is an active duty Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He is an Assistant Professor of Astronautics atthe U.S. Air Force Academy. He has a B.S. in Astronautics from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an M.S. inAstronautical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is presently Laboratory Director for theDepartment of Astronautics at the U.S. Air Force Academy.Glossary of AcronymsCC - Crew CommanderCE - Chief EngineerCM - Corrective MaintenanceDO - Director of OperationsGCO - Ground Station

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim White; James White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

Air Force Academy,” Proceedings of the 2004American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, 20-23 June,2004.5. Swanson, David , Kenneth E. Siegenthaler, David J Barnhart, Jerry J. Sellers, David J. Richie, and Elsa Bruno,”Spacemanship at the United States Air Force Academy: Developing a Satellite Ground Station Crew TrainingProgram for Non-Technical Students,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, 20-23 June, 2004.6. EyasSAT Assembly, Integration, and Test Procedures: The Astronautics 331 EyasSAT Laboratory Experience,USAFA-EyasSAT-1, Revision 1.5, Space Systems Research Center, United States Air Force Academy

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

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

U.S. Department of Education grant that supported this work. Dr. Philpot is theauthor of MDSolids – Educational Software for Mechanics of Materials.RICHARD H. HALLDr. Richard H. Hall is an Associate Professor of Information Science and Technology at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He received his BS degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas and Ph.D. degree inExperimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. He is co-director of UMR's Laboratory for InformationTechnology Evaluation, and his research focuses on design, development, and evaluation of web-based learningtechnologies.RALPH E. FLORIDr. Ralph E. Flori was educated as a petroleum engineer (UM-Rolla Ph.D. ‘87). As an associate professor in theBasic Engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kimberly Barron; Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Robert Pangborn; Thomas Litzinger

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sharnnia Artis; Bevlee Watford

courses for freshmen engineers.This includes engineering chemistry and the associated laboratory, calculus, engineeringexplorations (an introductory engineering course) and linear algebra. In addition to addressingthe isolation the students may feel in an environment where they represent less than 20% of theengineering freshman, it also facilitates the formation of study groups as well as collaboration oncourse assignments and projects.Throughout the academic year, various activities are implemented to provide professional andpersonal development for the Hypatians. For example a ropes team building activity early in thesemester provides a topic for discussion in class that centers on relationships and support for oneanother. Other activities

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

in Laboratory Automation', which wascommissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). His first book, 'Language Independent Design Methodology - anintroduction', was commissioned by the National Computing Centre (NCC). Dr Maj has organized, chaired and beeninvited to speak at many international conferences at the highest level.He has served on many national and international committees and was on the editorial board of two international journalsconcerned with the advancement of science and technology. As Deputy Chairman and Treasurer of the Institute ofInstrumentation and Control Australia (IICA) educational sub-committee he was responsible for successfullydesigning, in less than two years a new, practical degree in Instrumentation and

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ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Subhash Bose; Immanuel Edinbarough

Japan,” IEEE Transaction, Production Engineering Research Laboratory Hitachi, Ltd., pp. 792-797, 1990.[4] V. Sankaran, B. Chartrand, D.L. Millard, M.J. Embrechts, and R.P. Kraft, “ Automated Inspection of Solder Joints-A Neural Network Approach,” IEEE Int’l Electronics Manufacturing Technology Symposium, pp. 232-237, 1995.[5] T.L. Landers, W.D. Brown, E.W. Fant, E.M. Malstrom, and N.M. Schmitt, Electronics Manufacturing Processes, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1994.IMMANUEL EDINBAROUGHDr. Immanuel Edinbarough is a Professor in the department of Engineering Technology at theUniversity of Texas at Brownsville. He has successful track record spanning over 23 years in theservice oriented and challenging fields of academia

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Taryn Bayles

Engineering Education Reform”, The Bridge, 28, 1998. 12. Wulf, W.A., “Diversity in Engineering”, The Bridge, 28, 1998. 13. Rosser, S.V., Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science, mathematics, and Engineering, Columbia University, New York, 1995. 14. Campbell, J.R., C.M. Hombo and J. Mazzeo, NAEP 19999 Trends in Academic Progress: Three Decades of Student Performance, 2000. 15. Burkham, D.T., V.E. Lee and B.A. Smerdon, “Gender and Science Learning Early in High School subject Matter and Laboratory Experiences”, American Educational Research Journal, 24, 297- 331, 1997. 16. Campbell, P.B. and K. Steinbrueck, Striving

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Rossi; Herbert Ingley; Erik Sander; Dow Whitney; Marc Hoit; R. Keith Stanfill

positions with several companies, both public and private. Senior levelresponsibilities have encompassed general management, and financial, operations, sales, marketing, and engineeringmanagement. Mr. Rossi has been involved as a principal in several start-up and turn-around ventures.H.A. (SKIP) INGLEYH. A. (Skip) Ingley is an associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida.Dr. Ingley was Co-Director of the University of Florida's Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory from1973 until 1983. Ingley founded Ingley, Campbell, Moses and Associates, Inc. (ICM), a mechanical, electrical,plumbing and fire protection engineering firm in 1983 and served as the chief executive officer and senior engineerfor this

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Craig Caulfield; G Kohli; S P Maj

Cowan University with two years of experience in Lecturing andDeveloping Network and Data Communication units at Edith Cowan University. Gurpreet is currently lookinginto web services and capacity planning of e-business sites as part of his research at Edith Cowan University.S. PAUL MAJ is a senior academic at the School of Computer and Information Science, Edith CowanUniversity, Perth, Australia, and also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Information Systems andOperations Management, University of North Carolina (Greensboro) in the USA. He is an internationallyrecognised authority in laboratory automation and has published a commissioned book in this field

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

compared with a class project. 7. Students do not know how to start and carry out a literature search. 8. Students must often learn new skills (programming, analysis software, laboratory equipment) that are beyond the scope of their completed coursework, and they do not know what resources are available to them.The first problem is one that is only solved by reducing the number of BS/MS students orincreasing the number of faculty advisors. Both solutions are beyond the students’ control, sothey are beyond the scope of topics for a Graduate Seminar. Numbers 2-5 are systemic – wecannot change anything about these issues, and the students know they will pose challenges totheir dual degree completion, but we may be able to provide ideas

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

Award, she has applied this support to develop hardwareand software educational laboratories and participate in sustained K-12 outreach programs at Drexel.PETER K. WIESNER has been a staff member at IEEE since 1989. Formerly Director of ContinuingEducation, he is currently with IEEE Corporate Strategies and Communications. He has been involved inseveral projects funded by NSF and by the Sloan Foundation. He holds a Bachelor’s in History from UCBerkeley, a Master’s in Communication from University of Pennsylvania and an Ed.D. from Rutgers. Page 9.1266.11Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering, Education Annual Conference &

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Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

like to acknowledge theNational Science Foundation for their support of the offering of several pilot courses in ourMulti-Disciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral curriculum.8 References 1. Collura, M.A., B. Aliane, S. Daniels, and J. Nocito-Gobel, “Development of a Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral”, Submitted to the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2004. 2. Mikic, B. and D. Grasso, “Socially-Relevant Design:the TOYtech Project at Smith College”, Journal of Engineering Education, 91(3):319-326, 2002. 3. John Hopkins Virtual Laboratory, Bridge Designer, http://www.jhu.edu

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wesner; Cristina Amon

Page 9.291.11engineering design, particularly product development and improvement of product development processes. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationART WESTERBERGArt Westerberg is the Swearingen University Professor of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.Together with Eswaran Subrahmanian, and as Director of the Education Laboratory at the Institute for ComplexEngineered Systems, Professor Westerberg co-founded the Engineering Design Projects Course and formerly actedas Course Director

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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Harth; Matthew Barber; Andrew Spurgeon

/solar_basics.html/.National Renewable Energy Laboratory, http://www.nrel.gov/.AGI’s EarthComm – Energy Resources, http://www.agiweb.org/earthcomm/naturalresources10. AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge Heather Woodyard for her work with us on this project,as well as, Andrew Spurgeon, Anant Kukreti, Karen Davis, Debbie Kinne, and everyoneelse involved with Project Step and these two fine high schools. Page 9.840.23

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Jayant Rajgopal; Bryan Norman; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

example, again consider the second term of the sophomore year for a typicalUniversity of Pittsburgh IE student. Students would take three IE courses – Probability andStatistics (ENGR 0020), Productivity Analysis (IE 1054), and Human Factors (IE 1061). Ifcertain topics were introduced in such a way that students simultaneously see their application indifferent areas, there would be better reinforcement as well as a much better appreciation forthese principles. For instance, when the normal distribution is introduced in ENGR 0020, onemight also do a work sampling study in IE 1054, and a signal detection theory laboratory in IE1061 that require the use of normal tables. We are currently working on implementing bothaspects of our model into the

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Davis

work and co-op knowledge andskills that have brought them to the point where they are now ready to initiate andcomplete a significant design project. This addresses the Criterion 4 mandate that thecapstone experience should be the culmination of previously acquired knowledge andskills.Nearly all students mention that their course work and laboratories are valuable andcontribute to their ability to reinforce and extend their hands-on skills during co-op.Some examples from initial self-assessment essays include the following. Undertaking and completing a senior design project is going to involve bringing lots of skills from different areas together. These include theoretical concepts, teamwork, and the ability to learn new

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

software. Spreadsheet programs, for example Microsoft Excel, are alreadyentrenched in college computer laboratories with students and faculty having familiaritywith their use. We present our experiences in implementing this approach in one section(32 students) of a freshman introduction to engineering design course. A preliminaryassessment is also presented.1. IntroductionThe use of team projects as a way to teach engineering design is pervasive across allengineering disciplines and throughout the curriculum. The success of any design team --both in learning design concepts and performing well -- requires that students have agood grasp of technical and management aspects of the design process. Accordingly,poor management or lack of communication

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Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

-hours and istaught as a 1-hour lecture and a 2-hour laboratory session each week. In addition, severalcommon 1-hour meetings are held each semester where all students come together for a requiredprogram activity. During a typical academic year, the program sees approximately 370 students.Program Objectives and Outcomes:The program incorporates 5 learning objectives and nine course outcomes (Table 1), which arecontained on the syllabus for the students to purview and gage their progress. Further, courseoutcomes are mapped to ABET criterion 3:a-k (Fig. 1) and are used in the course assessment tomake refinements to the curricula.Assessment Processes and ToolsProgram curricula are assessed using a variety of tools, including: • personal web-based

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

undesired contaminants in the workplace. This topic can also be used with other Separations Topics such as their use in a manufacturing facility to separate a contaminant from laboratory/workplace environment (e.g., membrane process to reduce organic solvent vapors in air

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

teaching principles, and process, an environment to practice the applicationof these principles. Even though the content and process articulated in the T4E model hadevolved and been passed down through participation in ISW, they were very consistentwith the literature which included Lowman’s 3 two-dimensional model of teachingeffectiveness and Wankat and Oreovicz’s 4 compendium of learning principles. The T4E workshop eventually consisted of teaching pedagogy seminars,demonstration classes, and laboratories where the participants presented two classes totheir peers acting as students and assessed by a senior mentor. The seminars presented inT4E covered the following principles: use structured organization of content to guide thelearner; use

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

independentof time. The result is either right or wrong. This is not the case with solutions to projects.A project, however, deals with the future stated or explored. Projecting is to “throw some-thing forward” (Project from Latin, Pro- (forward) + iare (throw)) [10]. The demands to aproject solution always include requirements from the future in which the solution shall becarried out by manufacturing or implementing processes. The demands include requirementsalso from that future in which the solution is expected to be useful. The projects themselvesinclude the future again also even if the whole work is made in the laboratory of the univer-sity.However, about the future nobody knows except by forecasts, by hypotheses, in the form oftheories

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

to look the same as it does at the real location. Hence, the virtual fermentor gives the student theimpression of being in a laboratory and sets the stage for the simulation within this familiar context. Thevirtual engineering model is capable of demonstrating the inner workings of the fermentor, allowingstudents to navigate the entire virtual bio-processing plant and investigating the details of thefermentation parameters including the vector and scalar data mentioned before. Hence, the virtualfermentor provides the students with a realistic and engaging learning experience that help themunderstand the course material. Additionally, running in VE-Suite, the virtual fermentor is used tosimulate the fermentation process so students can try