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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski

andanalytical techniques that are not traditionally covered in chemical engineering and/or chemistrycurricula, but that are commonly encountered in industry. In this project we will develop novel hands-on chemical engineering experiments byexamining the manufacturing process steps. Each step will be a laboratory module. Thesemodules will be integrated throughout the chemical engineering curriculum. The manufacturingsteps range in complexity from fundamental engineering and science principles shown in gravitydecantation of immiscible liquids to more complex principles required to describe filtrationtheory and identification of compounds using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy.Introduction At Rowan, a hands-on minds-on approach to

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Educators on the Frontier

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2002 Annual Conference

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Frank Burris; Alfredo Soeiro

, Italy in 1998 and in Toronto, Canada in 2001. The 9thWorld Conference will take place on May 16-19 in Tokyo, Japan. The conference is hosted bythe Japanese Society for Engineering Education and Nihon University.Another important activity of IACEE is the support, mainly nominal, for projects related withCEE. Any member may propose a new project. The main contractor of a project should submit aproject description containing the following information: purpose, background, works plan,timetable, schedule, organization, personnel, budget and expected benefits. Preference is given toprojects, which build on successful results of previous work. The first-hand responsibility foreach project is handled by individual member organizations or

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

continues to be the most favoured teaching approach, because of a reluctance tochange. Yet ironically academics expect that students will constructively process the giveninformation.Consequently this paper discusses the effective teaching practices employed by thoseengineering academics at Monash University Gippsland campus working with all first yearundergraduates in a common civil engineering unit. A series of research projects have enabledthe identification of transition issues and an increasing attrition rate, influenced by malignedteaching and learning practices (3). Page 7.671.1“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Hartman; Louis Plebani

providing a basic understanding of the web.We developed a course, which used an active learning approach, to attack the above problems.In this course, students learn about web applications by building a web application as a semesterproject. In order to be successful, it is necessary that the students be motivated to investigate,discover, synthesize, and improvise while doing their project. For this to occur, students must bewell acquainted with the intricacies of the problem to be solved by their application. Thus thechoice of application, i.e., the problem to be solved, is critical.Topics CoveredThe course addressed those topics that would be involved in the design of most any web site ofreasonable complexity. The topics included were HTML

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Takoi Hamrita

Session 1526Micro-Controllers in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Curriculum at The University of Georgia Takoi K. Hamrita University of GeorgiaAbstractThis paper is to report on a NSF sponsored project aimed at implementing a new pedagogicalapproach for teaching embedded systems to engineering students who do not necessarily have anelectrical/electronics background. In particular, we will present two microcontroller coursesdeveloped at the University of Georgia for Biological and Agricultural Engineering students.Educational

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Nowak; Adrezin Ronald; Donald Leone

established a design experience that stretchesthroughout the undergraduate years. This begins with projects during the freshman engineeringcourses, and continues with college-wide design experiences during the sophomore and junioryears. The culmination of this design experience is to be found within the two senior capstonecourses during which the student works in off-campus facilities, and a senior design project thatmay be carried out in the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory on-campus.Figure 1 shows the basic pyramid of the program. During the freshman year and the first term ofthe sophomore year all engineering students are taught the basic science and math skills requiredfor their engineering courses. They are also taught the programming and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

spinoff from a NASA-sponsored competition to develop thinking andproblem-solving related to the infrastructure needed for a sustainable human presence beyondEarth. Student teams have developed a conceptual framework for a Space-Based Economywhich justifies usage of extra-terrestrial resources. A test case of a large project is used toillustrate the process of breaking immense problems into bite-sized chunks for engineeringsolution. The problem of building the radiation shield of a one-km-radius, two-km long cylinderis revisited in the light of recent studies on bootstrapped lunar solar-electric power plants, massdrivers, and autonomous spacecraft. The paper describes the process of getting first-year andsenior-level students interested, prepared

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Feland

that the students with the teammate training will not only perform at least at thesame level of the “perfect teams” but also have a more satisfying team experience as well asmeeting the industry requirement for developing better team members.CONTEXT:It is well known that one of the driving requirements from industry for our new engineeringgraduates is to be able to perform in teams. Given the increased complexity of today's products,no one engineer can perform all the tasks necessary for project success. John Donne once said"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main....Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send toknow for whom the bell tolls; it

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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Demel

Program (IEP) and the Freshman EngineeringHonors (FEH) Program. These new programs retain part of the traditional material but add inhands-on laboratory experiences that lead to reverse engineering and design/build projects. Therelational practices – teamwork and project management, along with report writing and oralpresentations and ethics have assumed important roles in this program. The programs aredesigned to have faculty from all of the degree granting departments teach freshmen. Theseprograms were developed to improve the retention and early decision to stay or leave for newfreshmen and to lay a foundation to better address some of the ABET 2000 accreditation criteria.Retention has improved markedly. This paper provides a brief description

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Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

this technology and how theirlearning methods change as they mature through their collegiate matriculation. Much of theavailable literature is focused on attempts to reverse the high attrition rates encountered at thefreshman level or to address deficiencies in the preparation imparted by engineering curricula forlifelong success. Several classroom experiments have documented issues in holding students’interest and enhancing their communication skills. Experiential learning, team projects and real-life examples motivate students in the short term, but research is needed on how students findand select resources, learn skills, and integrate learning across levels (vertically) or disciplines(horizontally) using the Internet. In Table 1 are cited

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tim Diemer; Rob Wolter; Cliff Goodwin

learning groups that remain stable over the semester. The groups are givenstructured exercises to encourage them to interact with textbook 5 content. Instructors also assignlearning projects that require cooperation within the classroom groups over several classsessions. The intention is to provide an intense experience in group interaction so that studentscan examine textbook concepts about group process in the context of their own experience in theclassroom groups. Can the same experiential approach to teaching group dynamics be appliedsuccessfully to a "virtual classroom"? The authors believe that their VC groups have shown thatit can. ABET requires that engineering graduates learn effective team skills. The information in thisarticle will

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachel Shinn

Session 2525 Teaching Teaming Through Spacecraft Design Dr. Rachel Shinn, Dr. Ronald Madler Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZAbstractProject teamwork is essential to the spacecraft design process – in industry as well as in theclassroom. At our university, engineering seniors begin the spacecraft design courses havingsome project teamwork experience, but mostly for short duration projects. We instructors havefound that our students don’t necessarily possess the skills required to be productive members ofa larger engineering team for an entire semester. To help

Conference Session

Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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S. Ratnajeevan Hoole; Dushyanthi Hoole

in a war-zone.Impact assessment of projects funded by the World Bank:A major Sri Lankan corporation spends huge amounts of money bidding for a highways projectunder World Bank funding and is successful. Thereafter, villagers en route complain that theyare being displaced from their homes by the project and that it ruins their environment.Consequently, a World Bank Inspection panel holds an enquiry into whether the project violateshuman rights and its social impact. The project is threatened with cancellation. This story fromthe Southern Highways Project from Sri Lanka (or equivalent projects familiar to students) canbe used as the cue for a discussion on assessing the social and human rights impacts of projects.China’s project to transfer

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Lisle Hites; Eric Nauman; Edgar O'Neal; Kay C. Dee; Glen Livesay

focusing onteamwork issues, teaching style, students’ belief in their own abilities and desire to continue theireducation, peer interactions, and laboratory projects. While student perceptions are only one partof a comprehensive assessment program, they are certainly important. By addressing studentperceptions of core outcomes and fundamental pedagogical issues, TUBA should be relevant to arange of BMEN programs which offer a wide variety of specialized “tracks,” different areas ofprogrammatic emphasis, etc. Given that there exists a need for a measure such as the TUBA, thefollowing sections will describe the development and subsequent validation and reliabilitytesting that has been thus far performed.Development of the TUBAIn keeping with the

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sudhir Mehta

the Socratic style). Students researchedtheir part of the learning issues independently and updated their team members. Finally, eachteam came to consensus and recommended two (the best and an alternative) solutions. Eachteam gave a written report and an oral presentation. The instructor completed the discussion byhighlighting important items either missed by students or not addressed by the current problem.This exercise took two weeks to complete.The PBL project on temperature measurement was done after the first test and before the secondtest. The students mainly learned the temperature measurement component on their own bydoing the PBL project while the other components of the course were taught using the traditionalteaching method. The

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

Session 2793 The Penn State Sailplane Course Götz Bramesfeld and Mark D. Maughmer The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802AbstractSince 1989, the Department of Aerospace Engineering of The Pennsylvania State University hasoffered a special undergraduate project course that has a strong emphasis on “hands on” designand fabrication. Specifically, a group of approximately twenty-five students, freshmen throughseniors, is involved in the design and construction of high-performance sailplanes. Students canand are expected to enroll in this course for every

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Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrzej Filipkowski; Krzysztof Zaremba

fixing a common, well recognized and understandable basis.4. The role of European educational programsThe European educational programs gave an excellent starting point for internationalization ofstudies in CEECs. The first was TEMPUS (Trans-European Mobility Program (Scheme) forUniversity Studies), financed by the European aid foundation PHARE (Poland-HungaryAssistance in Restructuring Economy). It was opened on May 7 th, 1990 for 4 years asTEMPUS I and was extended as TEMPUS II for the next 4 years. It was an aid program,financing in 100% projects aimed at restructuring the higher education sectors in CEECs.Now, looking backward, one can see how important for the Polish higher education thisprogram was. It covered 3 kinds of projects: JEPs

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Megat Johari Megat Mohd Noor

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the study the engineering education models were classified into four, namely, the British,American, European and Hybrid models [6] as follows:British Model: Specialised and general 3 and 4 years engineering programmes are conductedin the United Kingdom. These are the 3 -year programme leading to Incorporated engineeringdegree and the 4-year programme or 3-year programme with a matching section leading toChartered engineering degree. Industrial training though not compulsory is desirable. Designand/or industrial projects are included in the curriculum in most universities. Individual finalyear project is compulsory for both degrees. The transferable skills are embedded within

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

contents and time, from the feedback of thestudents and the building industry.Key Words: Undergraduate Education, Computer Application, Construction, Multimedia.IntroductionThe computer is best viewed as a tool, which can be used for successful construction projectmanagement (Paulson, 1995). The level of cutting-edge computer technology is changingeveryday. Information transfer via multimedia tools has increased significantly in construction inthe areas of presentations, training and reference (Aminmansour, 1994). Even computerapplications have expanded rapidly in estimating, scheduling and project management. Use ofthe Internet, Intranet and Extranet is now a direct part of the construction management process(Neil, 1996). Computer Integrated

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Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Lori Bassman; Patrick Little

modified to use the particular strengths available at HMC. An interestingaspect of PEPS has been its use by HMC faculty to conduct pedagogical experiments that havebeen later implemented in the college classroom. The workshop has been examined using formalassessment techniques and instruments and appears to be realizing its stated goals.IntroductionFor the past four years, Harvey Mudd College (HMC) has hosted a workshop for secondaryschool teachers of math and science. The primary purpose of the workshop is to offer theteachers an introduction to elements of engineering design in a way that will encourage them toincorporate engineering design projects into the high school curriculum. The workshop, Partnersin Engineering Problem Solving (PEPS

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Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chaturaporn Nisagornsen; Arun Arunachalan; Hengzhong Wen; Kurt Gramoll

Session 2202 Interactive Web-Based Training System at Tinker AFB: Environmental Engineering, and C-135 Aircraft Maintenance Instruction Chaturaporn Nisagornsen, Arun Arunachalam, Kurt Gramoll and Wen Hengzhong School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of OklahomaAbstractThis paper describes the incorporation of three-dimensional components with other mediaelements in the interactive web-based training projects for both military and civilian personnel atTinker Air Force Base. The projects include training material for both EnvironmentalEngineering and C-135

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Risa Robinson; John Wellin

concern that the current electronicscourse was not significant nor applied enough to enable them to participate in multidisciplinaryprojects and co-op opportunities involving electrical and computer components, sensors, dataacquisition software or controls. Students suggested that more hands on data acquisition andanalyses projects throughout the curriculum, would be extremely valuable in preparation for theworkplace.RIT is addressing these needs by developing a new curriculum based on the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineers Program (E 4) which was pioneered by Drexel in 1988 3. Acritical component of E 4 is the Engineering Test, Simulation and Design Laboratory (ETSDL) 4,the adaptation of which defines the scope of this paper. The ETSDL

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mani Mina

based on authenticlearning theories. The course is designed to breed new students with new ways of thinking and Page 7.828.1problem-solving skills. Our approach incorporates the hands-on practical projects from early Proceedings of the 2002 American society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2002, American Society for Engineering Educationdays of the program. In addition, we actively make students aware of their own learning processand work with them with a learning theory originally developed and proposed by Habermas andGrundy4-5. The goal is to make lifelong learners. We

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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

. Page 7.1171.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education 5Course Materials Pages Figure 3: The Course Materials PagesThe course materials page is also accessed from the homepage and contains all instructionalmaterials that are considered helpful to the students. The “Labs & Basics” icon leads students tothe page containing materials pertaining to the lab and class sessions. The “Team Projects” icontakes students to all materials relevant to the team projects held throughout the quarter.Materials can include animated presentations

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Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Kulonda

to overcome some of difficulties inherent inthe construction of the system. Finally managers must understand how flexiblebudgeting processes and cost accounting systems are connected.Capital management needsFirst any manager must understand the basics of discounted cash flow and projectappraisal techniques, how to value cash flows and how to deal with issues such asestablishing a time horizon, selecting an interest rate and including depreciation andtaxes. These are fundamental topics in capital budgeting. Beyond these fundamentals,however, there are other very important topics which managers must understand. Forexample, changes in working capital required by the project. They also need to

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Resit Unal; Charles Keating; Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

engineeringmanagement but its graduate degrees include a Masters in Engineering Management, a Master’sof Science in Engineering Management, and a Doctor of Philosophy in EngineeringManagement. The department has traditionally taught the undergraduate course in engineeringeconomy as a service course for the college. The four-course minor grew from this course.The courses in the minor are key skills for an engineering manager or an engineer working in ahigh technology, project-driven environment. These courses, while not prerequisites for ODU’sgraduate programs in engineering management (with the exception of a courses in statisticalconcepts), provide a firm foundation for graduate study in engineering management. The coursesin the minor are taught by a mix of

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Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Madsen

support to departments or institutions wanting to develop their teachingmethods or curriculum. The amount of money is half of the amount that the department itselfspends on the project. All the reports on the projects can now be seen online, which is an attempt tospread new pedagogical ideas.The IPN publishes a pedagogical magazine called the IPN-nyt, which is distributed to allengineering teaching staff in Denmark.The IPN is involved in domestic cross-institutional and international networks dealing withpedagogy, and last year IPN was strongly involved in organizing the SEFI-2001 conference inCopenhagen. The European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) is the European engineeringeducational organisation especially focused on discussions

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Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Callison; Bob Lorence; Dan Budny; Kate Thomes

fundamentalimportance of these skills in engineering education.Historical ContextFrom the Fall of 1996 to 1999, a collaboration between the freshman academic program and thelibrary began with the design of a research project in which students investigated a high profileengineering failure. Goals of this assignment included raising awareness of engineering’s role insociety, learning how to use library resources, and learning how to write a technical paper. [11]From the library’s perspective, this was valuable interaction with the students and an opportunityto expose them to the library in the context of a specific assignment. However, the project stoodin relative isolation from the rest of the curriculum, and the relevance of library skills topracticing

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Underwood

. Technicaldetails of the projects will be discussed and broader educational benefits identified, so as torecommend the experience to other engineering faculty, especially those from teachinginstitutions, interested in bringing applications of microstrip antenna and space technology into theclassroom.Application Procedure:In the initial application (now due in mid February), a candidate proposes contribution in an areaof NASA’s current research needs, at a center of interest and includes letters of recommendation. Page 7.456.1Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Craddock; Lizette Chevalier

component of theCivil Engineering undergraduate curriculum, the Introduction to Environmental EngineeringLaboratory. The laboratory manuals for the two classes will have a similar interface and layout.The long-term goal of the project is to use the style and approach developed on this project as atemplate for other civil engineering laboratory courses. Common elements to all of theselaboratories include modules on laboratory safety, report writing, statistics and proper use ofunits. This work is being done as a collaborative NSF-funded project between the Civil Engineeringand the Interactive Multimedia Department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Partialsupport for this work is provided by the National Science Foundation's Course