Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Carlson

completedhis design, the Edison company shelved the project. With no bonus in sight, Tesla quit indisgust.20 Tesla was quickly hired by two business promoters from Rahway, N.J., BenjaminA. Vail and Robert Lane, who encouraged Tesla to patent his arc lighting system so theycould commercialize it. Tesla unwisely assigned the patents to this shifty pair, trustingthat they would manufacture equipment and compete with Edison. Vail and Lane,however, decided that the real financial opportunity lay in running a lighting company,not manufacturing equipment.21 Once Tesla had his arc lighting system running inRahway, his backers fired him and reorganized the firm. Abandoned by his patrons,Tesla fell on hard times and was forced to dig ditches.22

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

Educationdishonesty develops less resistance to later engaging in professional dishonesty. Alternatively,the relationship may be strictly correlational such that there are a set of common personal andsituational variables found in both the academic and professional settings that influence aparticular individual’s decision to engage in unethical behavior.To understand what motivates a student’s decision to engage in unethical behavior in college andthe connection between this behavior and future unethical behavior in professional practice, theauthors undertook the Work Experience Study (WES) as part of a larger research project. TheWES was designed as an exploratory study to provide insight into students’ decision makingprocesses in instances where they had

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

that this discipline has gained its rightful place in the company ofengineering and engineering technology. This new level of partnership and collaboration betweenengineering and technology programs promises to be a step in the right direction for society at large.Engineering and technology majors both supplement and complement each other’s knowledge andskills and it is crucial for educators to build bridges of active interaction. This paper takes aim atone specific as well as basic need in teamwork and interdisciplinary projects – ethics and itsimplications for professional practice. The primary focus here is to promote ethics education amonga wider audience that includes industrial technologists.A preliminary study suggests that students

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph LaLopa; Mara Wasburn

such programs.7, 16 However, The New Faculty Project, which studied new faculty hiresfor the National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, discovered thatdespite the attention paid to mentoring programs, the proportion of new faculty who have Page 9.219.2mentors has remained unchanged for the past ten years. Of those who do have mentors, most are Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationassigned pairings within their departments. Very few mentoring programs exist

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

thought provoking for the final consequential task sothey had four stations of consequential tasks. I viewed this as an opportunity for the learners tobe engaged in prototyping. One station required the students to another hit a target smaller thanthey had been practicing on twice, varying at least two variable in the system; the next was thelongest possible launch, taking into account all of the variables; another was to hit a height targeton the wall, making an inference from the length data that they had gathered; and lastly, thestudents had to try to project the straw under a table, trying to make it go as far as possiblewithout hitting the table. During the very last day, I allowed the students to design their ownexperiments with the system

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

thought provoking for the final consequential task sothey had four stations of consequential tasks. I viewed this as an opportunity for the learners tobe engaged in prototyping. One station required the students to another hit a target smaller thanthey had been practicing on twice, varying at least two variable in the system; the next was thelongest possible launch, taking into account all of the variables; another was to hit a height targeton the wall, making an inference from the length data that they had gathered; and lastly, thestudents had to try to project the straw under a table, trying to make it go as far as possiblewithout hitting the table. During the very last day, I allowed the students to design their ownexperiments with the system

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

understanding and retention of new material. Page 7.1180.3Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFRESHMAN CLINICRowan’s two-semester Freshman Clinic sequence introduces all freshmen engineering studentsto engineering in a hands-on, active learning environment. Engineering measurements andreverse engineering methods are common threads that tie together the different engineeringdisciplines. Previous reverse engineering projects have involved common household productssuch as automatic coffee makers

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

.• Ninety percent of engineering majors who switched to a non-engineering major, and seventy five percent who persevered, described the quality of teaching as poor overall.• Seniors about to graduate in engineering made it clear their experience in these introductory courses had given them a shaky foundation for higher level work.In a recent call for proposals (Action Agenda in Engineering) the National Science Foundationhas identified several proposed changes to improve SMET education and particularly theintroductory experience. These include, 1) active project-based learning inside and outside of the classroom, 2) increased student-teacher dialog, 3) horizontal and vertical integration of subject matter

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

engineeringsystems laboratory course. This course is the second in a series of three required mechanicalengineering lab courses. The first course is an instrumentation and measurements course thatconcentrates on lab procedures and data processing. The third course is an experimentalengineering project course in which students plan and execute an experimental project that spansan entire semester. The engineering systems course is broken into two sequences. One is asequence of mechanical systems experiments. In this sequence oral and visual presentation isemphasized. The other is a sequence of thermal energy and fluid mechanics experiments. Thissequence emphasizes written reporting, and students are required to prepare several groupreports and two individual

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yun Cui; Edward Gehringer

that allfuture mapping assignments will be able to be assigned successfully (i.e., without assigning astudent to review him/herself) The strategy has been extended to second-level reviews—that is,where one student reviews another student’s review, to give students an incentive to do a carefuljob of reviewing It has also been extended to the situation where team projects are reviewed byindividual students This strategy offers great advantages for peer review of student work, andopportunity for extension to other problems like asynchronous review periods, where studentsthemselves negotiate review deadlines.1. IntroductionPeer review in the classroom is a technique that is becoming increasingly popular, with over 100papers published on the topic

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Borrelli

emotional functioning” Larsonand Wilson 4 ( p 6). Student retention theories Theories on retention of college students have been postulated and refined over the pasttwenty years. Vincent Tinto’s 7, 8 ground-breaking work forms the basis for most subsequentresearch. His theory offers guidance to universities on how they can change the campusenvironment to help students make a solid transition into college life. Retention activities arestrategies to integrate the students into the institution. Students are offered more social activities,mentoring, community and service-learning projects, and academic support. Recently, theintroduction of learning communities has been identified as helping students connect to peers insmall groups in which

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McFarlane; James McBrayer

techniques a priority in its present and future programs 3. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a software solution formonitoring and controlling a harsh environment test bed over the Internet 3. A server computer,data acquisition hardware and LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Engineering Workbench) softwaremake up the data acquisition and control system (DACS). LabVIEW is a virtual instrumentsoftware from National Instruments, which is also used in the experiment that this paperdocuments.Description of Problem The intent of this project is to research, design and develop the systems required to makethe Technovate Scott Turbofan System, Model 9005 (TS9005) experiment accessible toengineering students from a remote location

Conference Session

Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Shell; Ali Houshmand

methods. 5. To prepare students for professional practice and further study in the area of industrial engineering emphasizing students’ creativity, innovation, teamwork, leadership roles in industry by propagating these ideas into project topics.The evaluation of how well the objectives are being met depends on the program outcomeassessment. Since most of the engineering colleges are seeking ABET6 accreditation and aretherefore obligated to satisfy eleven ABET educational outcomes’ requirements, it is onlyappropriate to incorporate ABET outcomes into this model as the program outcomes. The list ofprogram outcomes could be, however, expanded with respect to the program educational goals.The College of Engineering

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ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware; Teri Kristine Reed, OU Polytechnic Institute

investigators on this project. These collaborators allow for peer review anddebriefing (Creswell & Miller, 2000) as we analyze the data together and each provide our ownperspective on the results (I am a “traditional” engineer by background, one of my collaboratorsis a social scientist and the other is an engineering faculty member who has worked in the fieldof educational research for several decades). The sampling of multiple participants also allowedfor each to provide contributions to the same themes as the interview protocol was so heavilygrounded in the chosen conceptual framework that examining each a-priori theme in the light ofevery participant was embedded into the research process.3.4 Limitations of StudyIn addition to the issues with

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ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Fisseha Gebre, University of the District of Columbia; Devdas Shetty, University of the District of Columbia; JIAJUN XU P.E., University of the District of Columbia

-machine materials like aluminum, nickel, or titanium alloys, sourced from die,forgings, or plate stocks, are driving the adoption of AM technologies. Major motivating factorsfor AM in the aerospace industry are:• The AM process reduces raw material usage, machining operations and lead times.• Less raw material requirement, ability to machine thinner and smaller quantities components.• Ability to repair the damaged components.• Ability to locate the defects, inspect the repair, restore the part to its full mechanical capabilities.Example of Additive Manufacturing Research Project One example of a typical research project is the creation of a heat exchanger. Conventionalmanufacturing techniques have a limitation in producing parts of

Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Sam B Siewert, California State University, Chico

Programming taught in thedepartment of computer science at CSU (California State University) Chico, anecdotal feedbackand instructor perception is that students learned more by completing a final parallel program(project) rather than a final exam as determined by success to actually scale and speed up aworking program for which both sequential and parallel runs verify based on mathematicalprinciples1. The anecdotal evidence based upon instructor student interaction was never formallyverified by surveys or other methods of assessment, however, the instructor has seen a significantincrease in student success meeting department criteria for “C” or better pass rates. Given thissignificant improvement to the outcome as perceived by the instructor for

Conference Session

Track 1: Technical Session 5: From De Facto To De Jure and Beyond. It's More Than Just Weather. What The "Chilly" Climate Really Feels Like for Black Doctoral Students in STEM

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Dreama Heaven Rhodes, Arizona State University; Motahareh Darvishpour Ahandani, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University; Kerrie G Wilkins-Yel; Jennifer M Bekki, Arizona State University; Dailynne Major; Nicholas A Smith; Debalina Maitra, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Juan David Gutierrez, University of Massachusetts Boston

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Coley, Arizona State University Brooke C. Coley, Ph.D. is Founding Executive Director of the Center for Research Advancing Racial Equity, Justice, and Sociotechnical Innovation Centered in Engineering (RARE JUSTICE)—an unprece- dented testbed for innovating and modeling antiracist and equitable engineering futures—and Assistant Professor of Engineering, both at Arizona State University. Across several national projects funded pri- marily by the National Science Foundation, Dr. Coley’s research lies at the intersection of racial equity, mental health and qualitative research methods encompassing critical theory, participatory action research, and arts-based research methods. Her work is anchored in an intentional

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Sreekanth Gopi, Kennesaw State University; Nasrin Dehbozorgi, Kennesaw State University; Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, Kennesaw State University

work on advancing educational technologies and pedagogical inter- ventions.Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, Kennesaw State University Dr. Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan is an Assistant professor of computer science at Kennesaw State Univer- sity. His expertise is in signal processing and machine learning algorithms. He particularly guides signal processing during the initial phase of the research project. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 1 Exploring the Impact of CM-II Meditation on Stress Levels in College Students through HRV Analysis

Conference Session

Track 5: Technical Session 2: Adoption of an Advocates and Allies Program to a Predominantly STEM Campus

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Sonia Goltz, Michigan Tech; andrew storer, Michigan Technological University; Patricia Sotirin, Michigan Technological University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

has come from all colleges at the institution, although participation has not beenproportional to the number of faculty in each college. Colleges with overt and regularendorsement from the leadership of DEIS efforts have had the greatest level of participation.Colleges and disciplines with historic resistance to DEIS concepts demonstrated the lowestparticipation rates.The survey was designed by internal evaluators on the project and refined by an externalevaluator as well as graduate students on the project to measure perceptions of support forindividuals hailing from minoritized groups (gender, race/ethnicity). The survey also asks aboutperceptions of the extent to which inequities existed on Michigan Tech’s campus with regard tocampus

Conference Session

Poster Sessions for Unit Operations Lab Bazaar and Tenure-Track Faculty

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Coon, Washington State University; Paul B. Golter, Washington State University; Derek Allen Cline, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

Programs”, won the 2008 ASEE Best Conference Paper Award. She has served as evaluator on a num- ber of multi-institutional, interdisciplinary NSF sponsored grants. She is principal investigator on a NSF Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering project called ”A Direct Method for Teaching and Measuring Engineering Professional Skills: A Validity Study.”David B. Thiessen, Washington State University David B.Thiessen received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1992 and has been at Washington State University since 1994. His research interests include fluid physics, acoustics, and engineering education.Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Prof. Bernard J. Van

Conference Session

Program Criteria, Assessment, and Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

years. Thecapstone rubrics at UT Tyler provide direct assessment of almost every outcome, but theresults are for team projects. Therefore, the use of embedded indicators (direct measures)provide the best direct measurement of student demonstration of each outcome bycollecting results for the best student, the average student, and the worst studentperformance leading to a better collection of data representing students demonstration ofeach outcome.2.0 Direct Assessment Process at UT TylerGenerally the assessment process is a lonely job performed by one or maybe two facultyin a program. Many faculty do not know who is doing the work and they really do notcare. The person in charge (even if the chair) begs peers to submit their assigned input ina

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

doctorate), and two levels of "typeof control" (public or private). The total sample of 32 four-year colleges and universities was―pre-seeded‖ with nine pre-selected institutions. These included the six case study institutionsparticipating in a companion project (Prototyping the Engineer of 2020) and three institutionswith general engineering programs. Penn State’s Survey Research Center selected 25 additionalinstitutions at random from the population within the 6x3x2 framework above. The final samplealso included three historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and three Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs). The sampling design ensured that the sample institutions arerepresentative of the population with respect to type, mission, and

Conference Session

They're Not "Soft" Skills!

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Ashley Ann Thompson, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

had‖ wasvery important, especially within the context of employability. Before the portfolio process,Nolan was unaware of his personal, unique contributions to engineering, but after he was giventime and space to reflect and in conjunction with talking with peers, Nolan discovered that hehad a tremendous affinity towards leadership positions, which he hadn’t realized before. Nolanwas able to concretize his various life experiences into an attractive, employable skill that hecould market to engineering firms after graduation.For example, Nolan described being captain of the soccer team in high school and how he taughtyounger children to play soccer for his (high school) senior service project. He had notrecognized these activities as

Conference Session

Knowing Ourselves: Research on Engineering Education Researchers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aditya Johri, Virginia Tech; Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Phillip C. Wankat, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

great demand of understanding the birth and growth of engineering educationresearch, no previous study has comprehensively covered a broad range of knowledge productsin engineering education research. Nor did any project attempt to construct a highly interactiveplatform that allows researchers to explore the field in a visual and intuitive way.3. MethodologyFigure 1 illustrates the architecture and workflow of iKNEER. As a data-intensive gateway,iKNEER first (1) collects knowledge products such as academic articles and grant proposalsfrom a variety of sources periodically using well-known crawling strategies. As a cyber-tool forresearchers to explore the field, the web-based interface of iKNEER (2) processes useroperations on the website

Conference Session

Design Education II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton; Terrance L. Speicher, Pennsylvania State University, Berks College

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Manufacturing

Institute, and a M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University.Terrance L. Speicher, Pennsylvania State University, Berks College Terrance L. Speicher is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, Berks College, Reading, PA. He earned his BSME degree from Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute, Troy, NY, and his MSME and MSEE degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of California and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a certified Project Management Professional in the United States. He practiced engineering at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hughes Space and Communications Company, and

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Lemoine, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; James K. Nelson, University of Texas, Tyler; Lynn L. Peterson, University of Texas, Arlington; James Sells, San Jacinto College, Central Campus; Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

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Two Year College Division

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board since 1987 and now serves as Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Academic Planning and Policy. She is responsible for the administration and management of matters related to the Board’s higher education academic planning and policy functions, and she provides leadership on key projects, reports, and studies that cut across divisions of the agency. She has taught at The University of Texas at Austin, and she currently is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communication at St. Edward’s University in Austin. Smith serves as the project coordinator for the $1.8 million productivity grant awarded to Texas from Lumina Foundation for Education to plan methods of making the opportunity

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blake C. Wade, University of Texas, Arlington and Kennedale High School, Kennedale ISD; Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington; Melanie L. Sattler P.E., University of Texas, Arlington

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Keeley. Wade is currently living in Arlington, Texas. Email: blakecwade@gmail.comYvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington Dr. Yvette Pearson Weatherton received her Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science (Environmental Engineering) from the University of New Orleans in 2000. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Pearson Weatherton’s expertise is in the areas of air quality including monitoring and modeling and engineering education. She is currently PI or Co-PI on a number of NSF-funded engineering education projects including ”UTA RET Site for Hazard Mitigation”, which is the basis for this paper. She is a registered Professional

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Francesco Costanzo; Gary L. Gray

Session 3268 Interactive Dynamics: A Collaborative Approach to Learning Undergraduate Dynamics Gary L. Gray and Francesco Costanzo Engineering Science and Mechanics Department The Pennsylvania State University Abstract Collaborative learning, computer simulations and practical experimentation are the essential elements of a new project for the enhancement of undergraduate engineering courses cur- rently being developed at Penn State University. This project introduces teamwork, hands-on

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt C. Gramoll

is integrated with current course material on an intranet. Thisis particularly useful when all students have their own personal laptop computers and thelearning environment is connected with a wireless network. This paper will demonstrate anddiscuss the experiences at the University of Oklahoma trying to teach the basic Statics classusing laptop computers, CD-ROMs, and the intranet.This project did not develop new courseware, but instead used the Multimedia EngineeringStatics CD-ROM (published by Addison Wesley Longman, 1997) for the main course content.The CD was supplemented with newly developed intranet-based material such as homework,examples, quizzes, solutions, and lectures. The outcome of the course showed that students canuse

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Puzniak; Flora McMartin; Alice Agogino

educational uses for networked communication technologies, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 4 (3), URL: http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue3/Article.Conote.Ggay/Conote.htm, 1999.26. McMartin, F. “Report on the Preliminary Findings Regarding the Use of NEEDS by Engineering Coalition Faculty,” Preliminary Report, University of California at Berkeley: NEEDS, 1999.27. Dattada, P., “User Study for a Networked Multimedia of Courseware,” MS Thesis/Project, UC Berkeley, 1994.28. Muramatsu, B., Eibeck, P. A., Stern, J. L., & Agogino, A. M., “Effective Processes to Give Engineering Educators Easy Access to Quality-Reviewed Electronic Courseware, Invited Presentation, NSF Engineering