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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Philip Dunn

developed that utilized major componentsneeded in modern construction practice. Student teams were assigned to develop capstoneprojects based on actual plans and specifications that were either actively being bid orconstructed in the public sector. Plans represented various project types and included amunicipal wastewater treatment plant, an interstate bridge, and a highway embankmentStudents formed groups who took the identity of various active contractors. The capstoneconsisted of these individual teams choosing a set of plans and specifications from the varied setof available plans and preparing for four project phases: a business plan, project bid,construction schedule, and after construction litigation. Because of the size of these projects

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationhours. Interactions that occur when faculty mentor student groups, such as technical societies, orthat occur away from campus, such as when students and faculty interact at a restaurant, are notincluded in this category.BackgroundThere are many reasons that a school within any university should emphasize and scrutinizeoffice hours. Office hours have long been recognized as an important part of the educationalprocess with articles and books offering suggestions to faculty for better office hours efficacy.4,5There are also references to office hours as an integral part of successful

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

leadership skills through their involvementin developing curriculum, providing staff development, and interacting with other professionals.For the science and mathematics enrichment portion of the program, six teams consisting of twoscience and math teachers for each team will be selected representing all middle schools inStafford County, along with all of the seventh-grade students in their classes. From this group 72students and eight teachers will be selected to participate in the summer academic camp.Attention will be given to the selection of students for the summer camp to assure that studentsnot yet demonstrating an interest in science and mathematics are included as well as studentswho represent an appropriate level of intellectual, cultural

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brian Lefebvre; Stephanie Farrell

anion exchange chromatography using a set ofcolorful proteins have been described. These educational materials will allow instructors tointroduce important biochemical engineering and physical biochemistry principles into thechemical engineering curriculum. The visual appeal and low cost of supplies will make thedemonstrations an effective teaching tool in core courses focused on separation processes. Thevariety of possible behavior will make the full-scale experiments a robust addition to unitoperations laboratories or biochemical engineering electives. Further developments will makethe modules available for dissemination to other universities.AcknowledgementThe authors thank Elizabeth N. DiPaolo, Richard S. Dominiak, and Amanda E. Rohs

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Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

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G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

Professor S. P. MAJ is a recognized authority in the field of industrial and scientificinformation systems integration and management. He is the author of a text book, 'The Use ofComputers in Laboratory Automation', which was commissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry(UK). His first book, 'Language Independent Design Methodology - an introduction', wascommissioned by the National Computing Centre (NCC). Dr Maj has organized, chaired and beeninvited to speak at many international conferences at the highest level. He has also served on manynational and international committees and was on the editorial board of two international journalsconcerned with the advancement of science and technology. As Deputy Chairman and Treasurer of theInstitute of

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

On Teaching and Assessing Engineering Innovation* Daniel Raviv+, Melissa Morris+, Karen Ginsberg++ + Department of Electrical Engineering ++ Department of Computer Science and Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ravivd@fau.edu (561) 297 2773AbstractThis paper details data, analysis, and evaluation of one facet of innovation: ideation.Over the past six years college and high school students were exposed to several idea generationmethods in an

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Hayden Griffin

Virginia Tech have entered as generalengineering students, transferring to degree-granting departments after completing a prescribedset of courses. Beginning in 1984, entering engineering freshmen were required to purchasepersonal computers and selected software, which have been used as an integral part of freshmancourses and in appropriate courses throughout the curriculum. A side effect of this requirementwas that the College no longer maintains computer labs for undergraduates, since they owncomputers of sufficient capability for all of their course work. As the years passed, and thecapabilities of personal computers increased, so did the minimum hardware requirement. Onesignificant change was in 1994 when students were required to purchase

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Douglas Baxter

tocontain the course to three hours each week.In previous semesters, students created parts, assemblies and drawings that were selectedto reinforce the lecture material. The course text book contains assignments specificallydesigned for each lecture. Each problem, whether it is a part, assembly or engineeringdrawing has 5 grading criteria that are used to evaluate the student’s work.[1] Thesecriteria were added to help students focus on the key points of the assignment and toensure uniform grading across the multiple sections. An example of a text book part usedto demonstrate a sweep (cross section following a guide curve) is shown in Figure 1.These examples were used for the majority of the laboratory sessions. Of the 22 problemsassigned during

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

Education:What we are doing at MJCET.” Undated. Integrating Appropriate-Sustainable Technology and Service-Learning inEngineering Education Workshop: State of the Art Panel, An International Perspective. [http://www.edc-cu.org/workshop/ansari.ppt] (September 28, 2004)10 Vaz, Richard. “Putting Service Learning and Sustainable Technology at the Core of the Engineering Curriculum.”Undated. Integrating Appropriate-Sustainable Technology and Service-Learning in Engineering EducationWorkshop: State of the Art Panel. [http://www.edc-cu.org/workshop/vaz.ppt] (September 28, 2004)11 Cortese, Anthony. Integrating Appropriate-Sustainable Technology and Service-Learning in EngineeringEducation Workshop: Keynote lecture, Making Sustainability Second Nature in all

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Matson; David Elizandro; Jane Fraser

prescribing a curriculum toarticulating characteristics of strategic management processes to administer programs and aminimum set of Program Outcomes for accredited programs. As with the ABET 2000 Criteria,the recently approved ABET 2005-06 Criteria1 require that a program is administered using welldefined processes for each criterion and that constituents are an integral part of the planningprocess. In the Self-Study Questionnaire2, the ABET definition of well-defined processesnecessary to administer engineering programs is: Processes for all elements of criteria are quantitatively understood and controlled; clearly tied to mission, program objectives, and constituent needs; seen as benchmarks by other institutions.Participants in

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karen Palmer; Terri Lynch-Caris; Laura Sullivan

scientific advances are being made atthe interfaces of traditional disciplines and approaches to science are becoming more integrative.(2003, p. 2) As such, an interdisciplinary engineering education is a realistic model for trainingfuture leaders in the engineering sciences for the purpose of advancing the research abilities ofengineering graduates. The National Science Foundation funded Project Kaleidoscope in 1990, a study toidentify best practices in the teaching of undergraduate math and science. In “The Women’sCollege Difference,” Sebrechts (1999, p. 47) discusses the report generated at the conclusion ofthis project. This report recommended that “mathematics and science education be driven bycollaboration among students and faculty

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

are required to develop an electronic portfolio that includessamples of their most important learning experiences, which may be projects, term papers,extracurricular experiences, and internship reports. The electronic portfolio is reviewed andassessed by faculty members on a regular basis to monitor student progress. During their finalsemester, students finalize their electronic portfolio and present their achievements to a facultypanel. The electronic portfolios allow students to document and reflect on their learningexperiences. Integrating learning outcomes into the curriculum provides a mean for faculty toassess the effectiveness of the academic programs.1. IntroductionUniversities in the USA and worldwide are taking a critical look at

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Liao

gives an overview of FEA courses or projects that have been implemented inundergraduate curriculum at several universities and colleges. A brief background of theEngineering Technology (ET) Division in Wayne State University is also described.2.1 Overview of FEA Course/Project in Undergraduate CurriculumFEA courses, including theory and software application, have been regularly delivered inengineering graduate curriculum for decades. In undergraduate curriculum, two approaches havebeen adopted in introducing FEA to students: 1) integration with other appropriate courses, and2) term project-based. Since the real benefit in introducing the students to the FEA technology isthe ability to solve more interesting, physically realistic problems in a

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Georgios Anagnostopoulos

programentitled Course, Curriculum and Laboratories Improvement (CCLI-EMD). Thetitle of the grant is “PROJECT EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Developmentthrough the Integration of Machine Learning Research into Senior DesignProjects”. The project partners are two major universities in Central Florida,Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne and the University of CentralFlorida (UCF) in Orlando. In addition to the two universities, there are two 2-yearCentral Florida colleges, Seminole Community College (SCC) in Oviedo andBrevard Community College (BCC) in Palm Bay.Project EMD-MLR is a “proof-of-concept” project focused on Machine Learning(ML), whose immediate objectives are i) the development of educational materialin the form of software

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi; Dan Dimitriu

students for an engineeringeducation. The new curriculum was implemented in Fall 2000.EGR 1303 –Exploring the Engineering ProfessionA brief review of previously reported attempts to develop successful programs to attract andretain students in the engineering field shows that a primary objective must involve improvingthe curriculum. The new curriculum should be the primary tool to recruit new students andretain those enrolled beyond their first academic year. One of the studies provided clearindications that freshman and sophomore classes are critical in retaining students in the field ofengineering.[4] Early hands-on projects which involve active learning and student participationappear to be very promising. Many engineering schools introduced

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Dudevoir; Carl Fossa

not normally teach some of thetopics necessary to successfully design less well-defined, “real world” projects. This paperdescribes the evolution of the integrative senior design course in the Electrical EngineeringProgram at the United States Military Academy (USMA). In the early 1980’s the senior designproject in the Electrical Engineering Program at USMA was an individual project completed atthe end of the final electronics course. The design project has since evolved into a two-semesterdesign course with interdisciplinary group projects. Throughout the two-semester course,students work with a dedicated faculty advisor to develop a written project proposal, several in-progress reviews, a prototype demonstration, and a final report. The

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Bazzoli; Blair Rowley

was a three hour per quarter, two quarter course. It had a fall-winter, winter-spring structure. Each first quarter had one 2-hour lecture and two, 1-hourlaboratories per week. The curriculum the first quarter had two teaming events, basics ofengineering drawing, an introduction to instrumentation, resistive circuits involving Ohms andKirchoff’s laws, and integrated circuits used for timers, flip-flops, counters, and an introductionto two of the college programs. In addition the students learned to use HTML to design their ownweb sites and MatLab and Excel to solve statistical problems involving normal distributions.The second quarter had one, 2-hour lecture and one, 1-hour laboratory, and one teaming event.The students were introduced to

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sam Geonetta

programmaticcontext, the standards that provide its foundation, and the content of the course, including keythemes, supporting resources, and activities.Programmatic Context5 The College of Applied Science’s program focuses on IT in its broadest senseencompassing all aspects of computing technology. IT, as an academic discipline, focuses onmeeting the needs of users within an organizational and societal context through the selection,creation, application, integration and administration of computing technologies. IT is anacademic discipline distinct from computer engineering, computer science and management ofinformation systems. IT encompasses software engineering and development, computernetworking and communications, Web technologies, computer

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

Page 10.930.14change related to experimentation which shows the importance of developing the span of each Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationoutcome in the curriculum as illustrated in Figure 4 and Table 7. Additional examples ofprogram changes based on assessment results from a combination of various tools are shown. Table 8: An example of Program changes based on outcomes assessmentSemester/Year Issue Reason Initiated Solution Expanded space, seven

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

thecommittee is: Find as much as possible for each area, e.g., computers, what type of material is being tested. Compare this material against the one present in our curriculum to see if there is a match or mismatch. Page 10.1181.7 Analyze our students’ performance in the FE exam. This should include an inspection of their transcripts to determine which courses they took and when they took them. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Report their findings and

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

partnershipscan prove beneficial to everyone involved and to the global society as a whole.Inspiration, innovation, empowerment, inquiry, and life-long learning should be an integral partof a curriculum design. Such pedagogies are absolutely essential in the global economy, becausethey prepare students who can start contributing quickly at their work places, as well as insociety. One such program that has been initiated at NDSU is described below.Need for Bringing Global Perspectives in Higher EducationThe National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) formed atask force of 20 scholars, educators, and policy makers, which included university presidents,chancellors, and provosts, to study an internationalization aspect of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Hladysz; Robert Corey; JASON ASH; Glen Stone; Dale Skillman; Charles Kliche; Larry Stetler; David Dixon; Larry Simonson; Stuart Kellogg

rigorousassessment process has been used since 2003 to drive curricular changes and to asses theeffectiveness of the program objectives [18-19].GES 115 curriculum has also been incorporated into a larger campus initiative aimed atimprovement in both student learning and retention beyond the 1st year. Each fall, 2 of the GES115 sections has been linked to 2 English 101 sections. Although links between these courseshas not yet been achieved at the curricular level, it has been viewed by students as a positiveexperience. Attendance is almost perfect in both courses throughout the semester (in itself ananomaly) and student teams from GES 115 (which is required) remain seated together in English101 (which is not required). In addition, GES 115 is an integral

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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R. Keith Stanfill

Paper 2005-2287 Expectation Management: Lessons Learned in Establishing a Start-up Multidisciplinary Technology Entrepreneurship Program* R. Keith Stanfill University of Florida Department of Industrial and Systems EngineeringAbstractThe University of Florida Integrated Technology Ventures (ITV) program is designed to provideengineering and business students with an intense, immersive entrepreneurial experience.Participating students learn the entrepreneurial process as members of a virtual company led by aserial entrepreneur who acts as a volunteer CEO. The company is composed of a CEO

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Panhans; Joseph Musto; William Howard

likely well covered in most accredited undergraduate mechanical engineering programs, thejudicious selection and application of such tools, the critical interpretation and verification ofresults, and the proper documentation of the procedures used are important topics that must beintegrated into programs. Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the inclusion of computationaltools and information technology within an undergraduate program is integration. The era of thestand-alone “computational methods” class and the assigned “computer project” is waning;students must be expected to recognize the need for computational methods in all courses acrossthe curriculum, and select and apply computational tools wherever and whenever appropriate.Student

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

, student became familiarized with the various components(resistors, capacitors, inductors, integrated circuits, etc.) that comprise the electronic device. Theexercise strengthened laboratory skill of students such as reading and understanding electronicschematics, determining resistor values, and soldering components on a printed circuit board.Lastly students gained an appreciation in how empirical data is recorded, analyzed and modeled.3.3 Protein Crystal Growth ExperimentBiotechnology is an area whose importance in addressing problems in health, agriculture, and theenvironment is expected to increase in the future. For several years, the Texas Space GrantConsortium has sponsored a State-wide Protein Crystal Growth Experiment as a means

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Anthony; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

measure the outcomes a new disciplineachieves with its graduates? Many programs have been and still are in transition. How do youobtain credible feedback as to whether the program meets the defined objectives especially if thestandards are still evolving? How does a program use this feedback to modify the program andthe objectives so that changes add value to future graduates?CAC programs have traditionally also had a “model curriculum” which, while not officially partof the accreditation criteria, creates expectations for computer-oriented programs.This paper will discuss how these key issues are related and present organizational mechanismsfor completing these requirements.1. Introduction Assessment is an ongoing process aimed at

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Head

engineering education. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Jennifer Courtney is an Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at Rowan University and received herPhD from Purdue University. Her interests include gender and communication and information literacy.Kevin Dahm is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his Ph.D. fromMIT and his B.S. from WPI. Among his areas of interest are computing and process simulation in the curriculum,and integrating economics and design throughout the curriculum. He has received the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Awardand the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell; Joseph Cecere

thehigh school to college. Although similar arrangements may be common between othercolleges and high schools, this program is unique in that the Penn State Harrisburgcourses are taught at the high school during the day and integrated into the student’s classschedule. This allows a senior to complete their high school requirements and attendPenn State Harrisburg as a college student at the same time. Typically, over 25 Hersheystudents per year, start their college experience at Penn State University. This programgives these students an early opportunity to start their Penn State course work while stillcompleting high school. However, the program is not just for students bound for PennState. If the high school student chooses to go to another

Conference Session

Systems Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Widmann

involves the design, testand construction of a solution to an industrial sponsored problem. In their SeniorCapstone Experience the students will also be working in teams. As taught by the author, the ten weeks of laboratory experience focus on thecompletion of two team-based projects: one involving the design, building and testing ofa small electric-powered machine and the other a “paper” design of a complex systemrequiring the integration of sub-systems designed by different teams. The use of teams isconsidered essential not only to the successful solution of the problem at hand, but to givestudents experience working on teams to create successful designs. It is widelyrecognized that teaming skills and experience are desired by the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Carter; Catherine Brawner; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

demonstrating the importance of lab reports to the undergraduatescience and engineering lab experience, instructors are likely to minimize their use. Lab reportshave been replaced with fill in the blank labs, reports that are worth only a token number ofpoints towards a final grade, or excluded altogether. The LabWrite project has been developingonline support materials to promote and support undergraduate lab report writing. A NSF-CCLIfunded project, LabWrite is a web-based tool containing both static pages and an interactive tutordesigned to support the lab report writing experience from before the student enters the labthrough reviewing the graded lab report. Integral to LabWrite is a set of training materials for labinstructors, both faculty and