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Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emilia Hodge; Chang-Yu Wu; Anne Donnelly

Session # 1331 A Model for Teaching Materials Evaluation: Development and Testing of Interactive Computer Simulations Modules for Undergraduate Education Anne E. Donnelly1, Emilia Hodge1, Melis Budak1, Heath Wintz2, Randy Switt2, Chang-Yu Wu2, Prakash Kumar3, Pratim Biswas3 Priscilla Chapman4, Anne L. Allen4 1 University of Florida, Engineering Research Center for Particle Science & Technology, Gainesville, FL 32611/2University of Florida, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Gainesville, FL 32611/3Washington University

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Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zahed Siddique

Session 2258 INTERNET-BASED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN ENVIRONMENT Zahed Siddique School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019AbstractThe use of Internet in education has opened the possibilities to explore and adopt newapproaches to teach distributed collaborative engineering design and analysis. In most instancesengineering design courses are offered during the senior year of the undergraduate curriculum,which allows the students to apply different engineering concepts to design a

Conference Session

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

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

details of each laboratory exercise with several learning objectives.Micr oelectr onics Teaching Factor y: Backgr ound, Rationale, and BenefitsArizona continues to rank as one of the leading states in the number of workers employedin the semiconductor manufacturing industry. To meet these demands, semiconductorcompanies (both nationally and locally) have launched an aggressive campaign to attractstudents into programs that prepare them for the future workforce. As a result, localsemiconductor companies have sought to collaborate with neighboring higher educationinstitutions to implement this workforce initiative. The College of Technology andApplied Sciences (CTAS) at ASU East is leading the way by developing a state-of-the-artteaching factory in

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Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Osman Akan; Fredrick McKenzie; Sushil Chaturvedi

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationweb-based modules will be used by students in laboratory classes for practice runs before theyconduct physical experiments. This educational tool is expected to enhance studentsunderstanding of experimental procedure, analysis, data acquisition software and type of data tobe taken, and will teach them about anticipated trends describing relationships between inferredparameters and measured parameters. This tool has other applications that will be described later.2. The Vision and Broad Impacts Our vision is to develop web-based virtual engineering laboratories that will closely

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Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Matzen

multimedia interactive teaching modulethat has been developed to illustrate basic concepts of one-dimensional consolidation of soils3.However, researchers have pointed out that “There will always be an important place ofsimulation systems, but they cannot completely substitute for experience with actual systems4.”For instance, simulations do not provide any insight into calibration of measuring instrumentssuch as pressure gages and LVDT’s or into behavioral uncertainties. As discussed by someresearchers1, the conceptual idea proposed herein can provide remote laboratory users theopportunity to conduct live experiments off-site thereby reducing the experiment cost per studentand making experiments available to many more users. Key issues are: (a) use

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ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Genevieve Sapijaszko; Carlo Sapijaszko

. Page 9.179.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”1. IntroductionWith the advance of education into the on-line environment there was a need to support thedelivery of laboratory content on-line and with little supervision. Math courses, English courses,and even computer courses are easily transferred from on-campus teaching to on-line teaching.Electronics lectures can easily be transferred as well; however, there has always been a challengewith transferring the laboratory experiments without making all of the experiments simulationbased. Educators have always felt that students need

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Mente; Marian McCord; Elizabeth Loboa; Susan Blanchard

of Tissue Engineering).The culmination of the learning experience is a multidisciplinary team project that allows students tosynthesize and apply materials engineering and cellular biology concepts to the selection of polymers forbiomaterials applications, in particular, tissue engineering scaffolds. The project incorporates bothmaterials design/treatment and characterization (physical, chemical, mechanical), and cell culture in ournew Tissue Engineering Teaching Laboratory. In the first year, students investigated cell adhesion toplasma-treated and plasma-treated, protein coated substrates. Next year, projects will include three-dimensional tissue cultures (in gels or on substrates). Mechanical properties of the tissue cultures will

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zac Bunnell; Garett Scott; Sundararajan Madihally

Session # 1793Integrating Process Simulation into the Unit Operations Laboratory Through an Absorption Column Experiment Zac Bunnell, Garett Scott, and Sundararajan Madihally School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractRecent advances in computational tools have revolutionized the way graduating students willwork and interact with multiple disciplines. This has necessitated an the integration of noveltechnologies into traditional courses, particularly into Unit Operations Laboratory (UOL). InUOL students obtain hands-on experience on the application of the theoretical

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Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mani Soma

our initial study), the cost per unit is closer to $200. To disseminatethe box widely to other institutions (2-year community colleges, 4-year universities, and otherdistance-learning programs), we are exploring a cooperative effort with an electronicmanufacturing company with access to automatic surface-mount technology so that the box canbe fabricated at higher volumes (in the thousands during the first year) and at much lower per-unit cost. It is anticipated that the dissemination will also reach out to international schools wherebudget constraints and lack of expensive laboratory facilities make the Pandora box an idealinstrument for teaching electrical engineering experiments.6. Merits and limitations of the Pandora boxThe Pandora box

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chih-Ping Yeh

Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1999, pp. 13d6-1- 13d6-5.6. G. Beauchamp-Baez and L. V. Melendez-Gonzalez, “A Design Project Approach to Teach ElectronicInstrumentation”, Proceedings 29th ASEE/IEEE in Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1999,pp. 12d3-10- 2d3-17.7. Joseph J.D.C. and S.K. Julien - Laboratory exercise and modular design, International J. of El. Eng. Education,pp. 316-332, vol. 37, no. 4, 1996.8. Duderstadt, J., “Transforming the University to serve the Digital Age”, Cause/Effect Vol. 20, No. 4, Winter1997-1998, pp. 21-32.9. Fernandez-Iglesias M.J. et. al. – “An undergraduate computer communications laboratory oriented towardsindustry”, International J. of El. Eng. Education, pp. 147-157, vol. 37, no

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole DeJong Okamoto; Tai-Ran Hsu

Session 1526 Development of a Laboratory Curriculum Devoted to the Thermal Management of Electronics Nicole DeJong Okamoto, Tai-Ran Hsu San Jose State UniversityIntroductionEffective cooling of electronics has emerged as a challenging and constraining problem of thenew 21st century. The economic market demands ever faster computer clock speeds while at thesame time smaller physical enclosures. Computers, cell phones, and even automotive electronicsystems are becoming smaller and smaller. Since computer chip heat fluxes (the rate of heattransfer per unit

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dawei Wu; Chunyan Wu; Aditya Dikshit; Weizhao Zhao

understanding of aparticular system. We developed a new medical imaging curriculum by associating a series ofcourses with 1) on-site lecturing in research and clinical laboratories and 2) a set of Internetaccessible imaging simulation tutorial programs, and formed an integrated teaching program.This program provides students with medical imaging knowledge in live, effective andinteractive formats.Introduction Biomedical engineering has been emerging as a multi-disciplinary engineering area sincethe end of last century. As a key component in this field, medical imaging education, combiningphysics, mathematics, electrical engineering and computer engineering together, providesstudents with a broad view of information technologies applied to

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TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mohammad Elahinia

Session 3566 Teaching Smart Materials to Engineering Undergraduate Students: A Problem Solving Approach Mohammad H. Elahinia Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA 24061Summary and IntroductionThis paper describes a problem solving approach for teaching the subject of smartmaterials to Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students. An experiment with aShape Memory Alloy (SMA) actuated robotic arm is designed for the seniorundergraduate laboratory (ME4006) in the

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Steffen

. Figure 2.Teaching in a Virtual EnvironmentThe challenge of converting existing local area networking laboratories to VMware is notactually in the changing of experiments. Very little, if any, changes needed to be made to theexisting laboratory experiments. The challenge of converting to VMware is typically of atechnical nature: • Learning VMware- The need to spend time learning VMware so it can be presented to the students. The interface to VMware is fairly straight forward and takes minimal time to learn. Tabs allow you to choose which virtual machine you want to access. (Figure 3) Page 9.1188.5“Proceedings

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ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

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Constantinos Panayiotou; Yu Song; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

Session No. Teaching Digital Filter Design Techniques Used in High-Fidelity Audio Applications Venkatraman Atti, Andreas Spanias, Constantinos Panayiotou, Yu Song E-mail: [atti, spanias, costasp, yu.song] @asu.edu Department of Electrical Engineering, MIDL Lab Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5706, USA AbstractThis paper presents web-based computer laboratory experiments and related assessment results fordigital filter design modules that have recently been integrated

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kanagaratnam Baskaran; John Long

Education,” Distance Education 15(1), 1994, 160-171.16. Alexander, D.G. and Smelser, R.E. “Delivering an Engineering Laboratory Course Using the Internet, the Post Office, and a Campus Visit,” Journal of Engineering Education 92(1), 2003, 79-84.17. Ferguson, C. and Wong, K.K. “The Use of Modern Educational Technologies in the Flexible Delivery of Engineering Degree Programs,” Internationalisation of Engineering Education, Proceedings of the 7th annual convention and conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (Melbourne), 1995, 261- 265 (ISBN 0-7326-0886-4).18. Ferguson, C. and Wong, K.K. “Issues in Using Computer-Aided Learning Programs to Enhance Engineering Teaching – a Case Study,” Proceedings of the

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joseph Law; Brian Johnson; Herbert Hess

Session 2533 New Three-Level Undergraduate Curriculum for Teaching Electrical Energy Subjects Herbert L. Hess, Joseph D. Law, Brian K. Johnson University of IdahoAbstractA new approach to an electric power and energy curriculum is presented. Student interestsappear in three categories: those who take only one introductory course for breadth, those whowant the greatest available depth of study in power and energy topics, and those who will studyanother area of electrical engineering in depth but find understanding power and energy topicshelpful to their anticipated

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TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

well as the basic principles, behind a CFD solution.When used in conjunction with a fluid mechanics course, it can be used to teach some of thefundamentals of fluid flow analysis, and 'replace' some of the laboratory experiments used toteach these principles. Similar examples include CALF (Computer Aided Learning in Fluid Dynamics)3, theNTNU Virtual Physics Laboratory6, Virtual Laboratory7, and Java Virtual Wind Tunnel5. CALF(Computer Aided Learning in Fluid Dynamics) is an interactive web-based course developed atthe Universities of Glasgow and Paisley. It gives an introduction to CFD and covers subjects likeCFD illustrations, turbulence modeling, parallel computing, and grid generation. The NTNUVirtual Physics Laboratory, a web site

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyson Hall; David Anderson

reliable testinginfrastructure up front, students can concentrate on implementing and optimizing the DSPsystems and not the testing infrastructure.2 Theory to HardwareOur goal is to teach students at the senior or early graduate levels how to implement DSPalgorithms in hardware. Our initial effort has been to create a lecture plus laboratory coursethat is taught within the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Techunder the title DSP Chip Design. Students taking this course have had exposure to Matlabin the required curriculum, and given its widespread familiarity in the DSP community,Matlab is the logical choice for use as a prototyping environment. On the hardware side,students have used VHDL and FPGAs in at least one

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Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

design document and submit a peer evaluation. Their design projectis 50% of their final grade and their peer evaluation is 15 % of their final grade. The peerevaluation process used in ENGR 215 is described extensively in previous papers 5 , 6. The finaldesign project is donated to the client at the end of the semester.Studio Teaching of Design and the ERE Design StudioIn 1988, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute integrated technology into a cooperative learningenvironment7 through the Studio Teaching approach. This approach integrates lecture,laboratory, and recitation by exploiting computer-based materials as a tool to accelerate,integrate, and leverage interaction. Studio courses engage students in various problem solvingand active learning

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Innovations in Learning by Doing

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wood; David Hansen; Brian Self

, or could be used in arecitation section. Some examples include a model rocket launch, a catapult project, and aCharpy test demonstration. Details of these projects (Self and Redfield, 2001) as well asdifferent assessment techniques (Self et al, 2003) have been previously reported. During the pastyear, we added a LEGO® car competition laboratory to help students understand the fundamentalconcepts of rigid body kinetics.LEGOs® aren’t just your children’s simple playthings anymore. Educators are using advancedmechanical products to teach students about compound belt drives, gearing, and pulleys(www.lego.com). LEGO® Mindstorm includes a programmable “brick” that is being used toteach robotics (Klassner, 2003), chemical engineering concepts

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Azemi

session 1033 Using Matlab to Teach the Introductory Computer-Programming Course for Engineers Asad Azemi Laura Pauley Department of Engineering Department of Mechanical and Pennsylvania State University Nuclear Engineering Delaware County Campus Pennsylvania State University Media, PA 19063 University Park, PA 16802 E-mail: azemi@psu.edu E-mail: LPauley@psu.eduAbstractThe introductory

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Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Messervey; MAJ Dave Borowitz; LTC Keith Landry; Ronald Welch

RevisionFigure 2: Systematic design of instruction 2, 3Methods of AssessmentIn Teaching Engineering, Wankat & Oreovicz discuss the nature and benefits of bothformative (during the course) and summative (at course completion) evaluations. 3 Bothmethods were utilized in CE300 with the following results/impact. Type Assessment Mechanism Impact / Resulting Changes Web based study of incoming students GPAs Useful: Immediately (and accurately) identified potential and performance in physics for low incoming challenged students

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Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Barker; David Hall

Teaching Innovative Product Development Skills to Freshmen Engineering Students J. Mark Barker and David Hall Mechanical Engineering Program College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech UniversityIntroductionA new course of instruction has been developed and delivered on a pilot basis at Louisiana TechUniversity. The goal of this course sequence is to provide freshman engineering studentsselected tools essential to innovative product development and to provide them the opportunityto use these skills in a product development project.The development of this course of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie

1793 Engineering Knowledge Building: The bridge between research, practice and teaching Caroline Baillie Integrated learning centre, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Queens University, OntarioIntroductionAcademic engineers appear to me to have parallel lives. They spend much of their waking hoursmeasuring, modelling, discovering, theorising and debating their ideas with colleagues. This, theycall research. They are learning new knowledge about the world they live in. The other part oftheir job involves teaching the students what they know about that part of the knowledge in theircharge. They are helping the students to learn knowledge which is new for them. Learning is infact the space in which these two

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff

Session 1532 Forty Years of Teaching Circuits I: A Tribute to Dr. Hayt R. William Graff LeTourneau UniversityAbstractThe author has had the experience of teaching Circuits I for forty years, using Dr. William H.Hayt’s book, Engineering Circuit Analysis, in all six of its editions. Certain teaching principleshave been developed to give consistency to the grading and teaching of the material, so thatsome trends in student performance can be traced over that time. Some of these trends arereflected in the paper, as well as comments concerning ways to communicate the

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Session 2468 Teaching the Superposition Method With Internet-based Instructional Software Timothy A. Philpot, Richard H. Hall, Ralph E. Flori, Nancy Hubing, and Vikas Yellamraju University of Missouri – RollaAbstractIn the Mechanics of Materials course, one method used to determine beam deflections and support reactions forstatically determinate and indeterminate beams is based on the concept of superposition. To help explain the theoryand art of the superposition method, a series of 14 animated movies

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Session 1793 The Novel Use of Green Engineering Concepts in Teaching Separations C. Stewart Slater, Robert P. Hesketh, Mariano Savelski, Stephanie Farrell Rowan University Department of Chemical Engineering 210 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701Abstract Green engineering concepts can be creatively and effectively integrated into the teachingof courses in separation processes. Through the

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rich Shiavi; Christopher Rowe

requires at least fundamentalknowledge of mathematical concepts in the usage of its functions. The use of MATLAB allowsconcepts to be reinforced from classroom learning directly to computer application. When theinstructional modality changed to an exclusively laboratory format, it further ensured theeffectiveness of teaching computing as a vehicle for developing engineering problem solvingskills. For example, the addition of the MATLAB Notebook feature enabled the integration ofthe powerful MATLAB environment with the widely popular word processing environment MS Page 9.719.3Word. The advantage of this integration was the ability for students to