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Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Lamont; John Merrill; Richard Freuler

provided by the aforementioned tools plus addresses thepotential of these areas. The following table shows each tool used in the Freshman Programssites and its uses and benefits. Tool Use(s) Benefit(s) Provide electronic copy of the syllabus for Students can look at the syllabus at any students time where there is internet access Syllabus Contains instructional team information, Less questions to the instructional staff policies, and grading criteria about dates/times/grading policies Daily Less questions to

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Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donald Keating

Session 1455 Lifelong Learning for Innovation and Leadership in Engineering D. A. Keating, 1 T. G. Stanford, 1 D. D. Dunlap, 2 R. J. Bennett, 3 M. I. Mendelson, 4 D. H. Sebastian, 5 S. J. Tricamo 5 University of South Carolina 1 / Western Carolina University 2 St Thomas University 3 / Loyola Marymount University 4 New Jersey Institute of Technology 5 AbstractIn many ways graduate engineering education has served the U.S. well. But there is now broadrecognition that it must change

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Integrating Engineering and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Van Treuren

student’s professional non-engineering skills. For this reason, a speech course, anengineering economics course, and a management course were highly recommended and thefaculty advised students to take these courses. Page 7.480.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the mid 90’s these course recommendations were slowly abandoned and students wereallowed greater freedom in the choice of electives. Presently, the four humanities and socialscience elective courses have now been reduced to a course

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeanne Garland; Christine Helfers; Ronald Roedel; Sarah Duerden

. Page 7.681.14 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1 Belasco, S. Constructing Literacies. Fortworth, Allyn & Bacon, 2001, p. 22 Anderson-Rowland, M. & J. Urban. “Evaluating Freshman Retention Efforts in EngineeringHousing,” Proceedings, FIE Conference, October 2001, Reno, Nevada, Session TG4, p. 1.3 Gerdes, H. & Mallinckroft, B. “Emotional, Social, and Academic Adjustment of CollegeStudents: A Longitudinal Study,” Journal of Counseling & Development, Volume 7, Number 2,Jan/Feb 94. pp. 281-289.5 Wintre, M.G & Yaffe, M. “First-Year Students’ Adjustment to

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Uriel Cukierman; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Ciristián Vial; Miguel Torres-Febus; John Spencer; Lueny Morell

that to achieve the honest and valued partnerships with universities there mustlong-term commitments coupled with a reflective approach in identifying the needs, goals, andproblems within each university. As shown by our “University Relationship Model (Figure 3)”,by design we are trying to incorporate activities and engagements that lead to a more ‘holistic’and long term investment. Microsoft/University Relationship M o d e lABETS u certification p p o r t i n g and P a accreditation r t n e r s h i p we , Pbelieve i p e l i nise a, corner-stone

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Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip McCreanor

variety of different media (potting soil,compost, and shredded paper) with known moisture contents to evaluate the sensor behavior in-situ. These tests were rather disappointing. It was found that it took the sensors an extremelylong time to reach equilibrium with the adjacent media. In some cases, the sensor reading neverchanged. It was theorized that the SS mesh was acting as a barrier to the movement of liquidbetween the media of interest and granular sensing matrix. 1 0 .9 0 .8 F r a c tio n S a tu r a t 0 .7 0 .6

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary John O'Hair; Mark Nanny; Teri Rhoads

. O'Hair has supervised 7Ph.D. students to completion.AppendixActual Course Schedule with Topical DetailsWeek Date Topic (s) Instructor Reading Project/ Assignments Assignments1 8-21 · Intro. To Class & Mark Nanny Site Tours Blackboard · ATA Program Eval. Teri Reed-Rhoads Comp. · Journals · Professionalism Jean Cate2 8-28 Theoretical Found. Of Mary John O’Hair

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Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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SangHa Lee; Stefani A. Bjorklund; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

you know it's not going to break or not break. I think that's one of those kindof things where you have just like at the end did I do everything that I could. You'd use everypossible resource that I have available. All the people that I have available and you know was Ihonest about everything and just chose what I felt was the best possible choice. If there is noperson there to say oh that was wrong or that was right. Then I guess just with your gut feelingand in your conscious did you do everything you possibly could and I guess that 's the best youcould've done with what you had.This student was judged to be at an intermediate level of development of his conception ofcomplex problem solving. He describes the need to gather information

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

order to increase the power of the statistical analyses. 2. Include an objective outcome measure that is more extensive by increasing the number and variety of items, in order to increase the sensitivity of the measure to better capture different dimensions of students learning.References1. Tergan, S., Conceptual and methodological shortcomings in hypertext design and research. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1997. 16: p. 209-235.2. ABET, Criteria for accrediting engineering programs, in http://www.abet.org, http://www.abet.org, Editor. 2000. Page 7.65.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

Session 1526 An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Real-Time Embedded Systems M.L. Neilsen1, D.H. Lenhert2, M. Mizuno1, G. Singh1, N. Zhang3, and A.B. Gross4 1 Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University (KSU) {neilsen,masaaki,singh}@cis.ksu.edu* 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KSU, lenhert@ksu.edu* 3 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, KSU, zhangn@ksu.edu* 4 The IDEA Center, 211 S. Seth Child Road, Manhattan, Kansas, agross@ksu.edu* Abstract

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

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Benjamin Flores; Thomas Brady; Helmut Knaust; Connie Kubo Della-Piana; Andrew Swift; Jana Renner Martinez

Mexican nationals, making UTEP thelargest Mexican American majority university in the nation and first in the nation in engineeringbachelor’s degrees awarded to Hispanic students. More than 50 percent of UTEP’s students arethe first in their families to attend college. 4 On average, it takes a successful UTEP student six ormore years to graduate.Figure 1 shows the six-year university-wide graduation rate, 23 percent, as compared toinstitutions with similar demographics. 5 Based on baseline data from the 1990’s, the six-yeargraduation rate for the Colleges of Engineering and Science at UTEP has been slightly lowerthan the university-wide rate despite the fact that the first-year retention rate in these colleges(approximately 70%) has been higher

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MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

e t ru e c o lo r p ic t u re t a ke n A ft e r ima g e a n a ly s is wit h M u lt iSp e c s h o win g d ire c t ly fro m o n -b o a rd c a me ra g re e n a re a s in y e llo w a n d b a c kg ro u n d in b lu e CLASS DISTRIBUTION FOR SELECTED AREA Class Pixel (#) Percent 1 green 176407 50.4 2 not green 173513 49.6 Total 349920 100.0 End maximum likelihood classification

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Krueger

marginally better.It is true that students recently became outraged thanks to companies like Nike and the Gap, andonce esoteric acronyms like GATT and WTO. Harvard student s no longer buy sweatshirts madein sweatshops, the Gap changed its labor practices at oversees plants to placate its outragedcustomer base, and the Seattle round of the WTO ended in failure. College students have showna penchant to educate themselves around macro issues like globalization. What about localissues? Interest in macro controversies seems to be ephemeral, at best. Responsible civicengagement requires a sustained and determined effort, not a mere catharsis coming from thepervasive inequities of global capitalism. Do students have the ability to engage in local

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Hedrick

. The following rather standard format was used: 1. Understand the problem completely by reading it several times if necessary and asking questions. Draw a picture if possible. 2. List the given facts labeling the picture with the given facts. 3. List the unknown(s) to be found. 4. List the equations that relate the given facts and the unknown(s) to be found. 5. Use the equations from step 4 to solve for the required unknown(s). 6. Check the answer for reasonableness (and correct units).C. Review sessionsAs course coordinator I provided a review session each week for students who wished to attend.While attendance was not mandatory, students from all sections were encouraged to attend. Thereview sessions were not presented in a

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

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D. Reinhard

Session: 2176 Longitudinal Evaluation of Innovative Technology Based Curricula: Integrating the Learning of Mathematics with Applied Science and Engineering Dianna L. Newman, Kenneth S. Manning, Mark Holmes, Robert Spilker University at Albany SUNY/ Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteThe role of technology as a support to instruction and curriculum is now a major concern ofhigher education faculty. An increasing number of students and instructors are using technologyboth in and out of traditional classroom settings. As these changes are being integrated andimplemented, developers and

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ann McKenna

this paper. Future work will describeeach course in detail and provide the results of each course assessment plan.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of the NSFunder Award Number EEC-9876363.References1. Hsi, S., and Agogino, A. M. (1994). The impact and instructional benefit of using multimedia case studies to teach engineering design. Journal of educational hypermedia and multimedia, 3(3/4), 351-376.2. Engineering Deans Council (1994). The Green Report: Engineering Education for a Changing World. American Society for Engineering Education, http://www.asee.org/publications/reports/greenworld.cfm3. http://www.abet.org4. http://www.vanth.org/5. Bransford, J. D., Brown

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Attitudes: A Cross-Institutional Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, 2001, pp. 477-489.5. Poole, S. J., deGrazia, J. L., & Sullivan, J. F. “Assessing K-12 Pre-Engineering Outreach Programs,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No.1, 2001, pp. 43-48.6. Marchmen III, J. F. “Multinational, Multidisciplinary, Vertically Integrated Team Experience in Aircraft Design,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 14, 1998, pp. 328-334.7. Engineering Accreditation Commission. “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs: Effective for Evaluations During the 2001-2002 Accreditation Cycle,” Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. 2001, http://www.abet.org/images/Criteria/eac_criteria_b.pdf8

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

theircurrent positions as engineering/technical professionals and the factors that are influencing theirlevel of job satisfaction.During the fall of 2001, a questionnaire was sent to all of the members in the Engineering DesignGraphics Division of the America Society for Engineering Education living in the United Statesand Canada. The questionnaire was designed to look at job satisfaction and to identifymotivational factors that influence educators’ perception of their work environment(s). Theinstrument, originally developed and validated by Mottaz in 1981, was design to measure theintrinsic and extrinsic variables associated with job satisfaction. 1 Questions in the survey looked atjob responsibilities, salary, supervision, autonomy, promotion, co

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paige Smith

self-efficacy expectations to the selection ofscience-based college majors. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 23, 329-45.6. Didion, C.J.(1993). Attracting graduate and undergraduate women as science majors. Journal of Social Behaviorand Personality, 11, 336-368.7. Ensher, E., and Murphy, S. (1997). Effects of race, gender, perceived similarity, and contact on mentorrelationships. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 50, 460-681.8. Etzkowitz, H. Kemelgor, C., and Uzzi, B. (2000). Athena unbound. New York: Cambridge University Press.9. Fassinger, R. (1996). Notes from the margins: Integrating lesbian experience into the vocational psychology ofwomen. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 48, 160-175.10. Fassinger, R. (2001). Women in non-traditional

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

ground and three below. Discomforting vibrations and swaying aretwo problems confronting designers of high-rise structures. With buildings over 200 meters tall,wind loads rater than earthquake loads determine the design of the main structural members.Design wind loads were determined in wind tunnel experiments7.As an additional measure to assure the comfort of the occupants, two tuned mass dampers(TMDs) were installed on the roof to reduce wind-induced motion. A pendulum weighting 50 t iscomputer-controlled so that its swing period counteracts that of the building. The devices wereinstalled in opposite corners of the roof. When the average wind velocity is approximately 20m/s, the TMDs reduced the response acceleration of the building by 50

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The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christopher Brazel

Session 3613 Integrating Team Laboratory Experiments Into a Senior Biochemical Engineering Course Christopher S. Brazel Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0203Abstract A laboratory supplement to a senior biochemical engineering course was developed toimprove teaming skills and expose chemical engineering students to nontraditional industries,such as food, pharmaceuticals, biomedical engineering, and bioprocessing. This

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Venkat Allada; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Anthony Okafor; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

presentation and report. A library collecting these reports, to be maintained by UMR’s MEEP, will be available for other students to learn about the project’s history. Successful or not, each case represents a valuable experience to be shared with others. This library will also be accessible to other institutions through the Internet. Course module Adaptation sources Effort in Delivery Module (references) the method(s) Learning adaptation Time process Team-based product 13, 16

Conference Session

Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

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Howard Epstein

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Educationimplementing the policy. This paper gives some background, a broad overview of the TC report,the comments about it, and the status of the issue.BackgroundIn the 1950’s and early 1960’s, most five-year programs in existence were beingphased out as the engineering programs, in general, were reducing credit requirements.The reduction was accomplished by elimination of many skill courses (such asdrafting) and some courses were pushed back into high school. When this transitionwas taking place, many engineering educators justified the reduction in credits byarguing that a master’s degree would become

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brent Vaughn; Chiang Lin

Session 2526 Integrated Web-based Data Acquisition System in Civil Engineering Laboratories Brent M. Vaughn, P.E., Chiang Lin, Ph.D. Southern Illinois University EdwardsvilleIntroductionA hands-on laboratory education has been considered a necessary part of teaching assignments inundergraduate engineering education. Since the 1980’s, many changes have been made to theclassroom teaching due to the advancement of personal computers. In recent years, the usage ofweb-based technology has brought even more potential to improve teaching, especially invarious

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raj Desai; Ted Loso; Dave Baird; Craig Downing; Gary Frey

2425 The Role of Design and Prototyping in Industry/Education Partnerships Gary S. Frey, David Baird, Ted Loso, Raj Desai, Craig Downing Southeast Missouri State UniversityIntroductionThe purpose of this continuing study was to determine if industry and educational partnershipsare effective ways to improve student learning and provide services that industry could otherwisenot afford. It was thought that Solid Modeling and Rapid Prototyping would be valuable inincreasing the translation between abstract 2-D drawings and actual 3-D parts. In

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Hanus; Allen Estes

student s could predict the winner. The students are lead to the conclusion that the composite cylinders are in general plane motion and, although their total masses are roughly equal, their mass moments of inertia are not equal. Therefore, the mass moment of inertia of the composite cylinders will determine the winner and this property is calculated for each composite cylinder: 1. Weigh and calculate the mass of each component of the composite cylinders, 2. Calculate each component’s mass moment of inertia, · Solid core, I core = ½ mcore rcore (1) · Shell, I shell = m shell rshell (2

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Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ottis Hoskins; Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala

and outcomes. The Assessment Plan is linked with the documents under the Curricular Issues button and the Implementation button; 3. The Related Data button has all of the related data organized by data type and referenced according to the program’s assessment plan; and 4. The documents which indicate how faculty have interpreted the data to determine program effectiveness and documents which show program improvement s can be found under the Program Effectiveness button. Program Program Assessment Implement- Curricular Related Program Home Objectives Outcomes Plan ation Issues Data Effectiveness

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Wood; Jason Bartolomei; Dave Winebrener; Don Rhymer; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

Bloom’s taxonomy. With respect to theKolb cycles, it also moves from “Abstract Hypothesis and Conceptualization” (text material) to“Concrete Experience” (non-interactive visualization) to both the “Reflective Observation” andespecially the “Active Experimentation” (interactive open-ended problem) parts of the cycle9.The courseware’s outline for each module follows the same four-part outline of :· Why study that particular module’s topic (e.g. “Bending”)· Visual Overview of topic· Example Problem and· Design ProblemThis structure organizes the content in a simple way to increase efficiency and learning. Contentis framed in terms of real world problems increasing motivation for learning. This is especiallytrue for MBTI “S” types7. Assumptions used

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Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John DiMilia; Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

. Page 7.116.6Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Clough, Richard H., Glenn Sears, S. Keoki Sears, Construction Project Management, 2000, pp. 156-176, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New YorkBiographyAMITABHA BANDYOPADHYAY, Ph.D., P.E. is a professor and the chair of Architecture & ConstructionManagement Department at SUNY Farmingdale. Dr. Bandyopadhyay is a member of ASEE, ASCE, New YorkAcademy of Science and many other regional trade and professional groups. His teaching andresearch interest is in the area of construction engineering & management.JOHN DI MILIA is a

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Rasmussen; Matt Smith; David Gattie

Maymester course is presented in Table 1 as an example of the topicsand location covered during the course.Table 1. Maymester 2002 Schedule.Date Location Topics(s) Lodging13 May Athens, GA Introductory Material Home14 May Athens, GA Introductory Material Home15 May Savannah River Site, Ground water monitoring, Magnolia Springs South Carolina environmental monitoring, State Park (SP), Carolina bays Millen, GA16 May Magnolia Springs, Stream gauging, water