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Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pilar Pazos, Northwestern University; Robert Linsenmeier, Biomedical Engineering Department and Department of Neurobiology and; Suzanne Olds, Northwestern University

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AC 2007-972: USING TECHNOLOGY TO PROMOTE ACTIVE LEARNING INBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERINGPilar Pazos, Northwestern University Pilar Pazos is a Research Associate at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University. She is also a researcher at VaNTH Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies. Her main areas of interest are engineering education, group decision making and applied statistics.Robert Linsenmeier, Biomedical Engineering Department and Department of Neurobiology andPhysiology, Northwestern University Robert A. Linsenmeier has a joint appointment in Biomedical Engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and in Neurobiology

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Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University

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. Furthermore, engineers value habits of mind, such as persistence, that are alsoincorporated into the Criterion 3 outcomes. The differences between the characteristics thatengineers associate with tinkering and technical activities and the Criterion 3 learning outcomessuggest that the ABET criteria may need to be reviewed, discussed, or debated in light ofchanges in the profession in the innovation-driven global economy. Page 12.561.2IntroductionThe ABET Criterion 3 a-k learning outcomes have been used for a decade and have had a majorinfluence on the structuring and evaluation of engineering curricula. Consequently, we shouldexpect that the

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Curricular Innovations

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hillary Hart, University of Texas-Austin; Christy Moore, University of Texas-Austin

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to “enter” a narrower portalthat will show on the screen only those stages to be taught. Additionally, since the pilot, fewfaculty (even the developers) seem to have actually used all of the material in the lesson they areteaching. Along with our new project team, we intend to explore more carefully the ways to dowhat Michael Davis has suggested: insert into an existing course an “ethics moment” that arisesorganically from the design, practice, or research issues at hand. 36 Davis teaches a workshop tohelp faculty develop their own ethics moment; with that goal in mind we plan to develop withour engineering partners a series of discrete problems or writing assignments specific toindividual disciplines: environmental, industrial, electrical

Conference Session

Cognitive and Motivational Issues in Student Performance I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joachim Walther, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe, University of Queensland

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into his triad of performancecategories: the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domain. The relation between the ProgramOutcomes and these domains has been explored in depth in the engineering education literature6,8, 19 . However, it is commonly overlooked that Bloom’s and Tyler’s theories are firmly rooted inthe tradition of behaviorist psychology and as such are based on further fundamentalassumptions in this field, which at that time exhibited quite strong epistemological andontological views. For six decades behaviorist thinking dominated the field of with the totalityof its claims to virtually eclipse the consideration of internal states of the mind from the scientificdiscussion. These concepts equally shaped the thinking in

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Cognitive and Motivational Issues in Student Performance II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gretchen Molina, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Asmaa Idrisu, George Mason University; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Amelia Marian, West University of Timisoara

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onusing these tasks as an instrument to measure the level to which IE students are acquiringsystems thinking skills. Two of Booth Sweeny and Sterman tasks were used: a department store task and theCO2 zero emissions task. With this in mind, an investigation began with one researchquestion: Are we teaching our students to think systematically? The tasks were given to Industrial Engineering students. After they were taken, thedata was filtered by type of high school, English proficiency, age and semester of study. More basic but necessary quantitative and analytical skills such as the ability to read agraphic, interpret the data, and tell a story from the graph underlie the above listed skillsand prevent the ability of a person to

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Daniel Amos, University of Washington; Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington; Lari Garrison, University of Washington

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case of engineering students he would likely have needed to delete the “early to bed” part.Weber’s famous formulation of the Protestant work ethic10 also comes to mind. Weber arguedthat the Protestant work ethic was the motor that drove the rise of capitalism in Northern Europe.Where the Protestant work ethic differs, with its focus on hard work and earning more and moremoney, is that the paradise that hard work promises is a decidedly more earthly one forengineering students.Yet we worry about this combination of beliefs in the context of some of the goals we believe tobe widely shared within the engineering education reform community. One of those goals isclearly to promote an image of engineering as a force of good in the world—that leads

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Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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AC 2007-18: ASSESSMENT OF PERCEPTUAL MODALITY STYLESMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional , national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a senior member

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Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelley Racicot, Washington State University; Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University

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AC 2007-464: ACTIVE ASSESSMENT IN CAPSTONE DESIGN USING A SYSTEMAPPROACHKelley Racicot, Washington State University Kelley Racicot is a graduate student in Teaching and Learning at Washington State University. She is employed at the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology at WSU.Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University Chuck Pezeshki is a professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and Director of the Industrial Design Clinic. Page 12.168.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Active Assessment in Engineering Design Using a Systems ApproachAbstractA

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Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Regis University

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Hewitt (1997).12 Furthermore, students identifythemselves and their peers according to these attributes. Kids who go here are willing to work harder; [those] who go here are in college to work, not to party, and that’s so true with this school. I can’t really say engineering students versus other students because there’s not other students running around here that I see and stuff. I don’t know how the engineering students at other state schools are but the kids who go here go to school to work and, the kids I see on the weekend [elsewhere] go to school to party….And then you could say that the kids who go here, their minds are logic based, and other people’s aren’t, but I don’t know. ((laughs)) MaxNot

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The Critical First Year in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda Lindsley, Arizona State University; Veronica Burrows, Arizona State University

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AC 2007-750: DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE TEXTBOOK AND RESEARCHTOOL FOR FRESHMAN ENGINEERING DESIGNLinda Lindsley, Arizona State UniversityVeronica Burrows, Arizona State University Page 12.527.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Development of an Online Textbook and Research Tool for Freshman Engineering DesignAbstractIn many engineering design texts, the solution(s) to design problems are provided along with theproposed problem. Therefore, the student will read about the solution rather than take the time tothink about the problem being presented. This paper explores the development of and pilot studydone on an online textbook and

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Student Teams and Project-Based Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adam Carberry, Tufts University; Merredith Portsmore, Tufts University; Chris Rogers, Tufts University

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in thinking: Cognitive development in social context. 1990, New York: Oxford University Press.17. Bandura, A., Social Learning Theory. 1977, New York: General Learning Press. Page 12.1418.1018. Vygotsky, L.S., Mind in Society: The development of higher psychological processes. 1978, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.19. Kolb, D.A., Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. 1984, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.20. Edgerton, R., in Education White Paper. 2001.21. Smith, K.A., et al., Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom-based Practices. Journal of Engineering

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Student Teams And Project Based Learning / The Critical First Year in Engineering Education / Student Teams and Project-Based Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tamara Moore, University Of Minnesota; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; P.K. Imbrie, Purdue University

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AC 2007-2721: SPONTANEOUS GROUPS VERSUS LONG-TERM TEAMS: ANINVESTIGATION USING COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING IN A FIRST-YEARENGINEERING COURSETamara Moore, University Of Minnesota Tamara Moore is a Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering Education, her M.S.Ed. in Mathematics Education and her B.S. in Mathematics from Purdue University. Tamara taught high school mathematics for seven years prior to pursuing her doctorate. Her research interests include curriculum development, the learning of complex problem-solving in mathematics and engineering, teamwork, and integration of

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Lichtenstein, Stanford University; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Colorado School of Mines; Tori Bailey, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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not been mentored by engineers. For example, astudent might have participated in Odyssey of the Mind, a national, project-based competitionwhere students apply math and science to build various projects according to specific criteria.While such an activity is “engineering-like,” when it was not specifically mentored by anengineer, we did not consider it engineering exposure. Similarly if a student had extensiveexperience programming or building computers but was self-taught, without the benefit ofhaving received any formal, discipline-based computer science, we considered this lowengineering exposure.Grace entered Coleman with low exposure to engineering. She enjoyed her math andphysics classes in high school, and during her senior year, she

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin O'Connor, University of Rochester; Daniel Amos, University of Washington; Tori Bailey, Stanford University; Gary Lichtenstein, Stanford University; Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Marcus Jones, Howard University; Derek Seward, University of Rochester; Lisa Perhamus, University of Rochester; Reed Stevens, University of Washington

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including an“array of ideas” into the work that she does, to be undermined by the competitive, individualisticnature of the curriculum. Towards the end of her sophomore year, she described her experiencesin her pre-engineering classes: “It just seemed like there was just a different frame of mind and the whole ‘me succeeding,’ like ‘me, me, me,’ and really not wanting to help people, and I didn’t understand that, because I really, if I know something, I’m gonna help you figure it out, and I would hope that if I didn’t know something, it would be the same way.”Asked where this different frame of mind comes from, Bryn said

Conference Session

New Models for Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Llewellyn Mann, University of Queensland; Gloria Dall'Alba, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe, University of Queensland

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AC 2007-1541: USING PHENOMENOGRAPHY TO INVESTIGATE DIFFERENTWAYS OF EXPERIENCING SUSTAINABLE DESIGNLlewellyn Mann, University of Queensland LLEWELLYN MANN is a PhD student in the School of Engineering at the University of Queensland and a member of the Catalyst Research Centre for Society and Technology. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical & Space) and a Bachelor of Science (Physics) from UQ, as well as a Graduate Certificate of Education (Higher Education). Major research interests include; Engineering Education, Sustainability, Teaching and Learning, Engineering Design, Technology and Society.Gloria Dall'Alba, University of Queensland GLORIA DALL'ALBA teaches and

Conference Session

Cognitive and Motivational Issues in Student Performance II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University; Larissa Pchenitchnaia, Texas A&M University; Debra Fowler, Texas A&M University; Nancy Simpson, Texas A&M University

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. Crawley, E. F. The CDIO Syllabus: A Statement of Goals for Undergraduate Engineering Education, MIT CDIO Report #1, 2001. Available at http://www.cdio.org31. Gronlund, N.E. (2000). How to Write and Use Instructional Objectives. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.32. Perry, W. G., Jr. (1970). Forms of intellectual and ethical development in the college years. New Page 12.1340.15 York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.33. Belenky, M. F., Clinchy, B. M., Goldberger, N.R., and Tarule, J. M. (1986). Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. New York: Basic Books34. Baxter Magolda, M. B

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Cognitive and Motivational Issues in Student Performance I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Steif, Carnegie Mellon University; Jamie LoBue, Carnegie Mellon University; Anne Fay, Carnegie Mellon University; Burak Kara, Carnegie Mellon University; Steve Spencer, Carnegie Mellon University

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AC 2007-368: INDUCING STUDENTS TO CONTEMPLATECONCEPT-ELICITING QUESTIONS AND THE EFFECT ON PROBLEMSOLVING PERFORMANCEPaul Steif, Carnegie Mellon University PAUL S. STEIF Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa Degrees: Sc. B. 1979, Brown University; M.S. 1980, Ph.D. 1982, Harvard University. Research area: engineering mechanics and education.Jamie LoBue, Carnegie Mellon University Undergraduate Student, Mechanical EngineeringAnne Fay, Carnegie Mellon University Director of Assessment, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Degrees: B.A. 1983, York University; Ph. D. 1990, University of California

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ERM Potpourri I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Henrickson, Harvard University; Rumi Chunara, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Iahn Cajigas, HST Division, Harvard and MIT; Heather Gunter, HST Division, Harvard and MIT; Joseph Bonventre, HST Division, Harvard and MIT

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AC 2007-412: INDIVIDUALIZED FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN ONLINEMODULE IMPROVES LEARNING OF GLOMERULAR FILTRATIONSarah Henrickson, Harvard UniversityRumi Chunara, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIahn Cajigas, HST Division, Harvard and MITHeather Gunter, HST Division, Harvard and MITJoseph Bonventre, HST Division, Harvard and MIT Page 12.883.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Individualized Formative Assessment in Online Module Improves Learning of Glomerular FiltrationABSTRACTWhile capillary filtration is a fundamental physiology topic, students report that this material is difficult tomaster. In addition, overall exam performance

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ERM Potpourri I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elif Kongar, University of Bridgeport; Tarek Sobh, University of Bridgeport

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AC 2007-3122: EVALUATING THE EFFICIENCY OF CANDIDATES FORGRADUATE STUDY VIA DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSISElif Kongar, University of Bridgeport Elif Kongar received her BS degree from the Industrial Engineering Department of Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in June 1995. In June 1997, she received her MS degree in Industrial Engineering from the same university where, she was awarded full scholarship for graduate studies in the USA. She started the graduate program in Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA in September 1998 and obtained her Ph.D. degree in June 2003. She has been a research associate in the

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ERM Potpourri II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shane Brown; Devlin Montfort; Kip Findley

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Reviewer’s Comments1. a) The manuscript is not organzied and poorly written. b) While it can be expaneded to topics other than "mechanics of material," the lack of proper presentation of the methodology makes it difficult to understand to educators outside this filed.2. a) The paper exhaustively discusses the interview process for a small group of students. It concludes with a discussion of their analysis of stresses in a member exposed to three different loading cases. b) This paper will be of interest to those involved with solid mechanics (Mechanical and Civil engineers). c) There are some grammar and spelling issues that need to be addressed. d) The abstract

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Innovations in Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland; Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland

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AC 2007-1468: TEACHING 101: INITIAL CONVERSATIONSElizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland Elizabeth Godfrey is currently the Associate Dean Undergraduate at the School of Engineering at the University of Auckland after a career that has included university lecturing, teaching and 10 years as an advocate for Women in Science and Engineering. She has been a contributor to Engineering Education conferences, and an advocate for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning since the early 1990s, and is currently a member of the Australasian Association of Engineering Education executive.Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland Gerard Rowe completed the degrees of BE, ME and PhD at the University of

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ERM Potpourri I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reem Nasr, Boston University; Steven Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Peter Garik, Boston University

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AC 2007-1919: STUDENT UNDERSTANDING IN SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS: THEROLE OF INTERVAL MATCHING IN STUDENT REASONINGReem Nasr, Boston UniversitySteven Hall, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPeter Garik, Boston University Page 12.1317.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Student Understanding in Signals and Systems: The Role of Interval Matching in Student ReasoningAbstractThis study was designed to investigate student understanding in signals and systems, particularlythe study of continuous-time linear, time-invariant systems. In this paper, we report on a principalfinding of this investigation, namely, the importance of the interval

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Student Teams and Project-Based Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Rachel Wasserman, Illinois Institute of Technology IPRO Program

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AC 2007-2940: ASSESSING FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO UNDERGRADUATEMULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT TEAM EFFECTIVENESSMargaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of TechnologyDaniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of TechnologyRachel Wasserman, Illinois Institute of Technology IPRO Program Page 12.266.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 ASSESSING FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO UNDERGRADUATE MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT TEAM EFFECTIVENESS AbstractThe Interprofessional Projects Program at Illinois Institute of Technology is a project-basedlearning experience with the learning objectives of strengthening multidisciplinary

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New Models for Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margherita Landucci, Liceo Artistico Statale; Fabio Garganego, Municipality of Venice

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AC 2007-1680: TEACHING CHEMISTRY AS A CROSS-CULTURAL SUBJECT : IT& LINGUISTICSMargherita Landucci, Liceo Artistico StataleFabio Garganego, Municipality of Venice Page 12.1349.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Teaching Chemistry as a Cross-cultural Subject IT & LinguisticsAbstractThe main theme of this paper is the language of chemical formulae rather than the languagethat explains chemistry; the focus of our interest is the code used in writing chemicalformulae.The paper describes the nature and scope of a research project started by an out-of-schoolmultidisciplinary team who set up in 1993 and concluded

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Service Learning Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cher Cornett, East Tennessee State University

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. Page 12.109.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Service-Learning Project in Digital Media Designed to Develop Professional SkillsAbstractIn well-developed instructional programs, professional skills such as business writing, teamorganization, project management, and oral presentation skills are built into courseworkthroughout the curriculum. Because of limitations of the classroom environment, theseexperiences only simulate those encountered in the field, making it difficult for students toappreciate the importance of these skills in their career preparation. In the Digital Media (DIGM)program at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), students often see professional skillsaspects of