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What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas O'Neal; Carmo D'Cruz

students body that promotesentrepreneurship in Central Florida by providing UCF students with a forum to associate withlike-minded entrepreneurial students from various disciplines. Through its bi-weekly meetingswhich feature guest speakers and other activities, UCF SES creates a network of support forUCF entrepreneurs, and provides guidance, resources and hands-on experience in the Page 9.1324.7entrepreneurial process. Throughout the year, the UCF SES offers seminars given byProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationentrepreneurs

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sami Ainane; Joseph Hoffman; Gary Pertmer; Chandra Thamire

skills • Ethics and Social Awareness • Quality and ReliabilityWith the above elements in mind, the objectives for the mechanical engineering programs werefirst formulated by the Undergraduate Committee within the Department of Mechanical Page 9.83.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering at UM. The Committee consisted of a diverse cross-section of the faculty and whichis responsible for development and monitoring of the program. These were approved in 1999after a thorough review

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Caroline Baillie

Page 9.556.8 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering”1793conceptualised as ‘ways of seeing’ and it is assumed that every way of seeing contributes to ourcollective understanding of any phenomenon 1.Bowden and Marton1 go further to discuss the ‘phenomenographic’ way of understandingteaching and learning as presented in this paper. Not only do they consider the model of thelearner’s mind and the relationship with the knowledge but they consider a non-dualistic model.‘A phenomenographic way of looking at learning involves a non dualistic ontology, a relationalposition. ..We do not see subject and

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hassan Hassan

. Child mind is like a fresh intelligent computer. Brainstorming can help generate a stock of new ideas and enable you to decide which one is the best. Page 9.355.3 Humor; humor means having fun and creativity needs a good dose of fun and play.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education4. Factors That Limit CreativityIn the creativity lecture, the instructor may also highlight the main factors that limit and decreasestudents’ creativity including: Avoid TV addiction; research shows that watching TV slows

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dilia Alcalde; Stephanie Adams

toformal learning With this purpose in mind, the study is guided by one primary question and six secondaryquestions.Primary Question: Page 9.1288.2What is the role of informal learning on the teaming process? Proceedings of the 2004 American society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 3Secondary Questions:• How students describe informal learning experiences within the team?• How students learn teaming skills in a team

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Asad Azemi

Matlab as the main programming languageBy taking a “teach-a-language” approach using Matlab, we can teach general-purpose languageskills and concepts and take advantage of its computational/graphical capabilities. This will giveus the ability to discuss more advanced engineering/mathematical problems in just a short periodof time, which cannot be accomplished with general-purpose programming languages. Weshould keep in mind that the main reason behind offering a programming course for engineeringstudents is to help them with their future scientific computational tasks. We believe that Matlabcan be used to serve this purpose. The fact that the majority of engineering jobs (excludingcomputer engineering which is not part of our discussion) do not

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

into engineering courses.Introduction Former Massachusetts’s congressional representative and Jesuit priest, Robert F.Drinan, suggested that to serve as a university faculty member is, in his words, “to be amember of the priesthood of the intellect.”1 At its best, what values can we ascribe tosuch a community of scholars? Some that come immediately to mind are: selfless serviceto the greater community and the common good as well as contemplative action inpursuit of peace and justice. Yet today, in my view, such ideals are sadly lacking fromengineering education. Rather there is an ever-tightening knot linking the university tocorporate interests and an ever-increasing emphasis on developing “exit-skills” in ourstudents that will help

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Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

learning concepts. Thus, this paper is about the early aspects of the knowledge agewith accent upon engineers learning knowledge from professors that are teaching both informa-tion and knowledge. Page 9.1177.1Traditionally, ordinary knowledge is obtained from systematic, purposeful, organized informa-tion; contrariwise, higher knowledge is produced by the use of insight and other creative mind Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationprocesses. The knowledge age requires a broader interpretation

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Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nihat Gurmen; H. Scott Fogler

engineering and computational fluiddynamics topics. They are encyclopedic in nature and are presented to students in anunderstandable and comprehensive manner keeping the Felder-Soloman learning stylesinventory in mind. While the modules primarily target undergraduate students, they arelayered so that parts of the web modules are a resource to high school students in anadvanced chemistry course and perhaps also to graduate students in chemical engineeringas a reference. Each module is a stand-alone unit that can be studied after the student hascompleted the chapter material related to the module. In addition to reviewing thefundamental principles of a topic, each module also contains living example problems,videos, photos, references and related

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BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Harris; David Cordray

Engineering Research Centers program of theNational Science Foundation under annual grant EEC-9876363.Bibliography1 Bransford, JD, Brown, AL & Cocking, RR How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, andschool. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. (1999) Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.687.4 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationhttp://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/.2 Harris, T R, Bransford, J D., Brophy, S. P. 2002. Roles for learning sciences and learningtechnologies in biomedical engineering. Annual Review of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daniel Raviv

Session 1793 Hands-on Activities for Innovative Problem Solving* Daniel Raviv Department of Electrical Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ravivd@fau.edu Tel: (561) 297 2773 Abstract This paper describes team-based, interpersonal, and individual hands-on activities that enhance out-of-the-box creative thinking. The activities are designed to be inquiry-based, and to allow for self-exploration

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Brandt; David Hansen; Steven Kuennen; Pamela Neal; Cary Fisher

model!) to up to 30 seconds, withthe successful team able to “fly” their vehicle to a designated landing zone.Perhaps one of the first thoughts that comes to mind is how can we teach a first year student,who may or may not be interested in an engineering major, to complete a major engineeringproject such as designing, building, and testing a rocket-glider. Indeed, taken at first glance theproject is daunting. We solve this by breaking the course into smaller projects, typically alongengineering discipline lines, so that the students can understand what they need to complete theproject.We teach topics through bite-sized morsels which will aid the students in understanding theprinciples they will need to design and build their boost gliders

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shannon White; Patricia Niehues; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

Session 1413 A Web-Based Case Study for the Chemical Engineering Capstone Course Lisa Bullard, Patricia Niehues, Steven W. Peretti, Shannon H. White North Carolina State University One of the most daunting tasks in teaching the capstone design class is to develop suitableprojects. Some departments may not have faculty with industrial experience; other departmentsmay not be located near industrial partners to provide hands-on experience to the students; andother departments may lack faculty with deep expertise in specific areas such as biotechnology.North Carolina State University is developing, testing

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TIME 1: Controls

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Carnell; John Lumkes; Joseph Musto

Page 9.41.8 Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIII. Laboratory DevelopmentIn the selection of hardware for the laboratory, it was first determined that Matlab would be theunifying software platform used in the course; therefore, interfacing hardware was selected withthis in mind. The interface hardware chosen was the LabJack U12, a USB device available fromLabJack Corporation (see Figure 6). The availability of Matlab drivers for this device, as well asthe relatively low price ($119 retail), make it well-suited for this laboratory [3].The robotic manipulators chosen for this laboratory was the Lynx 5, available in kit form fromLynxmotion, Inc.. While no standard Matlab drivers were available, the use of

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

). Women's ways of knowing: Thedevelopment of self, voice and mind. New York: Basic Books.6. Wankat, P.C., & Oreovicz, F.S. (1993). Teaching engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill.7. Fullilove, R., & Treisman, P.U. (1990). “Mathematics achievement among African American undergraduates atthe University of California Berkeley: An evaluation of the math workshop program,” Journal of Negro Education,59(3): 463.8. Mead, P.F., Moore, D., Natishan, M., Schmidt, L., Brown, S., Latham, C., & Mouring, S. (1999). “Faculty andstudent views on engineering student team effectiveness,” Journal of Women and Minorities in Science andEngineering, 5, 351-363.9. Salas, E., & Cannon-Bowers, J. (2000). “Teams in organizations.” In. M.M. Beyerlein (Ed.), Work

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State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; H. Michael Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Session 1153 Impact of Vertically Integrated Team Design Projects on First Year Engineering Students Helen K. Qammar1, H. Michael Cheung1, Edward A. Evans1, Sandra Prettyman Spickard2, Francis S. Broadway3, Rex D. Ramsier4 Department of Chemical Engineering1/ Educational Foundations and Leadership2/ Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies3/ Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering4 The University of Akron Akron, Ohio

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Heaslip

-minded colleagues atthe other partner universities and executives at Materials & Manufacturing Ontario (MMO),one of the province of Ontario Centres of Excellence. The program was conceived afteruniversity/industry interface activities continually indicated an industry perspective that Page 9.264.1 2graduate engineers, though well-versed in engineering fundamentals, are often weak inhighly desirable contemporary skill areas of product and process design, manufacturingprocess management, business management principles and techniques. The need wasconsistently

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Fry

Session Number: 1461 Classic Rhetorical Pedagogy as a Model for Interdisciplinary Design/Engineering Instruction. Richard Fry IDSA/ITEA Assistant Professor, Industrial Design Program School of Technology Brigham Young UniversityEngineering, Industrial Design, and Business are three disciplines that work together in the worldof product development. Power struggles exist over who is most important. Because of thesestruggles, ultimate success is often difficult to achieve. These struggles exist because of ageneral lack of understanding between

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

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Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

and in their classrooms. In a series of experiments “students whoassumed a constructive rather than a critical attitude toward available information were able toproduce a larger number of creative solutions as well as more original ones” (Torrance 1977).Torrance’s guidelines, as well as the process guidelines presented earlier in the paper, shoulddrive the planning of any (every?) classroom assignment, with the goal of imparting creativemindsets to students. Engineering students must learn to approach problems with an open mind,unconstrained—though certainly influenced—by textbook solutions. They must learn to see thefamiliar as strange, and the strange as familiar on a regular basis, and not rush to spit back asingle “correct” solution.If

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stephen Marionneaux; Michael Edmondson; Matthew McDaniel; Jay Daly; Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

CompetitionsUsing a national competition to promote science and engineering is by no means an original idea.The Science Olympiad, the FIRST Robotics competition, the Junior Engineering TechnicalSociety (JETS) National Engineering Design Challenge, the Future City Competition, andOdyssey of the Mind have existed for many years and have achieved considerable success.8-12New contests, like the Smith College Toy Challenge, appear every year.13 Other forms ofoutreach, such as direct classroom interventions by educators and practitioners, often incorporatecompetitions to engage and motivate students.14In developing the West Point Bridge Design Contest (WPBDC), the authors (Ressler andRessler) sought to complement, rather than compete with, these existing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

and scenarios for them to be able to experience theirown creativity and unique talents. Hands-on collaborative discovery environments are myspecialty. Engineering used to include labs, shop work and industrial experience. After Sputnik,engineering education took a decided swing toward a theoretical approach to instruction. Since Ibegan teaching in 1976, I have attempted to swing the pendulum back to more experientiallybased education.I view teaching as a joint adventure rather than a transmittal of information. An analogy of anexpedition guide comes to mind. Like a guide, I chart the course, prepare my students to meet thechallenges and guide them through. They garner knowledge along the way and discover whothey are and what their special

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sue Ellen Haupt; Jessica Gregory

Planning Approach for the Society of Women Engineers Mentoring Girl Scouts Sue Ellen Haupt, Jessica D. Gregory Utah State University/ Pennsylvania State University Abstract Utah State University College of Engineering is actively working on recruiting and retaining women in engineering. This project is one that combines the two toward affecting both goals at once. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) section at USU has organized a mentoring system with the local Girl Scout council. The primary idea is a top-down mentoring approach where activities are designed and run by women and girls that are a step ahead of the participants. In

Conference Session

Innovations in Learning by Doing

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2004 Annual Conference

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Doanh Van

engineering statics is challenging in that the concepts of moment, reactive forces,behavior of different supports, trusses, etc. are abstract and difficult to be appreciated. This istrue in 2-dimensional settings and especially true in a 3-dimensional environment. Electronicbreadboards have been available for quite some time. They aid significantly in the study ofelectronics in that professors and students of electrical and electronic circuitry can quickly set upthe problem under consideration, see the circuits, feel the flow path and observe the responsesfor different analyses.This paper suggests and showcases a design of a mechanical breadboard to aid the teaching andlearning of Engineering Statics. The authors are mindful of the many software and

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Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yen Shi Gillian Hoe; Seth Townsend; Ryan Kon; Robert Allen; Richard Boyer; Peter Goldwine; Mathew Kung; Mary McDonald; Laura Sprowls; Gary Tong; Artin Shoukas; Ankit Tejani; Elizabeth Johnson

primarily on the future team leaders of the course. This endeavorhas proven to be educational for all involved and has set the groundwork for future student Page 9.902.8contributions. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education5. References(1) Allen RH, Aronhime LB, Shoukas AA, Wierman JC. Integrating Biomedical Engineering with Entrepreneurshipand Management: An Undergraduate Experience. 2003 American Society for Engineering Education AnnualConference and Exposition.(2) Steptoe A, Travazzi L. The Mind

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Cheryl Sundberg

engineering module for the GEAR-UP Summer Camp at Louisiana TechUniversity was to introduce middle school students to a career in engineering through hands-on/minds-on laboratory experiments. Central to the purpose of the module was to acquaint thestudents with typical engineering projects: problem solving and design. We prepared a numberof activities for the students. Each week of the summer camp program, the students spent oneafternoon exploring engineering issues. The campers were split into two different groups, so thatwe would have a more manageable group of about 20-25 students. There were also collegestudents (education majors) and high school students (pre-education majors) with each group ofabout 5 students. They acted as chaperones, to keep

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilkat S. Soysal; Oguz Soysal

unexpectedinterpretations.Timing of an evaluation is also important in obtaining meaningful results. Students maygive wrong feedback because of a frustration or confusion period during their learningprocess.The assessment tools used in introductory engineering courses are chosen or designedkeeping the above factors in mind. Instead of relying on fewer statistical evaluations, theassessment process is distributed over the semester. The principal components of theprocess are described below:Prerequisite checksAt the beginning of the semester, each student is checked for course prerequisites by anadministrative specialist. It is the responsibility of the faculty assigned to the course tokeep a student in the course if prerequisites are not satisfied. Exceptions may be made

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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

notinstitutionalized in the curriculum at this point.Almost no instruction in listening skills occurs. In fact, listening may be the weakest componentof the communication curriculum in Electrical Engineering. Students do receive someinstruction on listening in EN-241 Speech. Strategies for mentally organizing and retaininginformation are discussed, and ethical issues in listening (such as keeping an open mind) areaddressed. However, this is the only instruction on listening skills that students receive. Onepromising development in the listening category, however, is the new requirement in SeniorDesign for the team leader of each group to write a memo reflecting on his or her leadershipstyle. This assignment may provide a place where self-assessment of

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Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

Engineering Education Vol. 84, No. 4, pgs. 375 –381.9. Meyers, C. and Jones, T.B. (1993) Promoting Active Learning: Strategies for the College Classroom, Jossey-BassPublishers, San Francisco.10. Kolodner, J. (1993) Case-Based Reasoning Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. San Mateo, CA.11. Leake, David B. (1996) Case-Based Reasoning: Experiences, Lessons, and Future Directions AAAI Press/MITPress, Cambridge. MA.12. Shapiro, B.P. (1984) An Introduction to Cases, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA. 9-584-097.13. Bruner, Robert F. (2003) Socrates’ Muse: Reflections on Effective Case Discussion Leadership McGraw-Hill/Irwin, New York.14. Evan, William M. and Manion, Mark (2002) Minding the Machines: Preventing Technological DisastersPrentice Hall PTR, Upper

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

from theoutset of their professional career while simultaneously having immediate value in helping themto manage a research project and capstone design project in their senior year. An integral part ofthis innovation was the development of a web-based project management tool. While the mainobjectives of the new course design were achieved, a number of important lessons were learnedthat would guide the further development and continuous improvement of this course. The mostcritical of these is the need to achieve the optimum balance in the mind of the students betweendoing the project and critically analyzing the processes used to accomplish the work.IntroductionIn most industries, engineering is increasingly managed through projects. As a new

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Morris; Dawn Conniff; J. Ledlie Klosky

in their learning engineering moreeffectively. In these cases, the multimedia used did not deliver engineering content, but providedan avenue to get students in a better frame of mind to learn. However, multimedia was also usedvery effectively to directly teach engineering principles. The course lent itself well to employinga wide variety of multimedia.In the anonymous survey taken at the end of the semester, 100% of the 109 students surveyedstated that they felt welcomed by the music before class. The music before class did not promotedirect learning of engineering. However, two very useful outcomes did result. First, the studentsfelt welcomed and at-ease at the start of class and it made this class stand out from others. Infact, students