Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Bradley, Indiana University; Walter Bradley, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

-100 for the past week, their scores from previous Page 11.749.3weeks, and an indication of the average score for all students who have done the assessment forthe week. This allows them to measure their academic effort (above or below average) and to seetheir improvement (hopefully) as they develop the concepts taught in the seminar into habits. Figure 1: Weekly Student Self-AssessmentThe seminar can be presented as a 3 hour program the first week of the semester, usually in theevening, and counted as either the laboratory for the first week of class or the homeworkassignment for the first week. It is important that

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

olu Fasesan, Texas Tech University; Segun Ogunsanya, Texas Tech University; Lloyd Heinze, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

cement volumetric yield, thickening time, compressivestrength, free water, rheology, and fluid loss control. Computerized closed-loop control of liquidadditives 1) allow unused, uncontaminated cement to be hauled off location after an operation, 2)promote environmental responsibility by reducing the volume of waste cement hauled to alandfill, and 3) provide better quality control of slurries pumped "on-the-fly" due to betterdistribution of additives in the slurry and tighter computerized tolerances. Students arechallenged to always work towards environmentally friendly processes and use of flow regimeequations to vary viscosity. Laboratory tests are carried out to verify the predictions madethrough the regime equations.Surface slurries utilizing

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Engineering Courses of 2020

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Mitchell, Tulane University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Science Foundation; and Mentor for the Louis Stokes Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation. Material and Energy Balances, Heat Transfer, Materials Science, Unit Operations Laboratory, and Statistics and Probability are some of the courses he has taught. He is also a Senator from Engineering to Tulane’s University Senate. In addition to his current teaching and research duties, his research experiences include an NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University Karlsruhe, a German Academic Exchange Fellowship at the University of Freiberg/Sachsen and the German Federal Materials Laboratory, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship at the German Aerospace Agency. He has

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

research lab and get aresearch group started. Keeping abreast of the literature sometimes falls by the wayside in-between preparing for classes, ordering equipment, teaching laboratory procedures to students,grading, scholarly writing, writing proposals, etc. As many of us know, familiarity with currentliterature is crucial to conducting sound research. While the new faculty member may haveperiodic cramming sessions with the literature prior to submitting a proposal or other scholarlywriting, their researchers in the lab can overlook this important component of conducting soundresearch.Regular, organized meetings focused only on reading and discussing articles in the literature canhelp overcome this literature lethargy, strengthen the education of

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

lecturessought to focus student attention to the societal and regulatory issues that will arise asnanotechnology moves from the laboratory to commercial production. Page 11.548.4Technology and regulation (Week 4). Professor William D. Kay, Department of PoliticalScience, offered an overview of why governments historically have intervened in the marketsystem to regulate emerging technologies or their side effects. Based on experiences with othernew technologies, Kay noted that effective regulatory frameworks and institutions can serve topromote the advancement of research and development, promote more timely commercializationof products, protect the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail H Keraga, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Tracy N Schierenbeck, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Linda McCloskey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Richard Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

effectiveteams. Coursework consists primarily of skills-based learning designed to foster effectiveteamwork abilities. Skills and topics include: collaboration, effective communication andfeedback, conflict management, team development and ethical decision-making. Courseworkand assignments are designed for students to gain topical knowledge, analyze and apply basicconcepts, and expand written and oral communication skills.Students take and also evaluate the use of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator1. Corporate guestsfrom ExxonMobil and the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory participate in some of the classes toreinforce some of the concepts and applications in industry. PD-1 is integrated into the SecondYear Introduction to Engineering Design (IED) course

Conference Session

Design for Manufacture and Industry

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay, Ball State University

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Design in Engineering Education

11.740.4Strategies for Implementing Design across the CurriculumThe courses throughout the MET curriculum in which the elements of design are to beintroduced are indicated in Table 1. Some of the courses already have significantelements of design in them, while in others the levels are low and some cases the designelement is non-existent. The objective is to have a fair to heavy emphasis of design in allof the courses in the curriculum.A. Freshman Year Courses:The freshman year courses within the program currently are Introduction toManufacturing Industries and Technical Design Graphics.We will integrate elements of design through the introductory course, presently calledIntroduction to Manufacturing Industries. The laboratory experience in this course at

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ernest McDuffie; Elaine R. Milliam; Robert Kavetsky; Ronald Bennett; Eugene Brown

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

on a leadership role in their respective communities.The paper will conclude with a discussion of the results of anevaluation of the program which was used to gather both studentand teacher/mentor input at the symposium, a listing of lessonslearned, and plans for the future development and extension of theprogram. Page 11.959.1IntroductionNavy’s civilian science and technology (S&T) workforce numbersome 22,000 strong. Of those some 4,000 charge 50% or more oftheir time to actual S&T projects and are considered to be the corepractitioners of S&T for the Navy. Almost half of those 4,000 holdPh.D.s1 with about half working at the Naval Research Laboratory(NRL) and

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Robert Lawrence, DeVry University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Page 11.1372.7III. Use of Rubrics for the Senior Project Course SequenceThe senior project is a two-semester course sequence in which the students synthesizeknowledge and skills learnt in the previous courses. In the first course (EET-400, Projectmanagement) students research, plan and develop a project proposal. And in the secondcourse (EET-410L, Senior Project Laboratory) students implement the project plan bybuilding and testing a prototype. The project involves a solution to a software/hardware-based engineering problem.In both course rubrics are used to evaluate students’ accomplishments of various tasks ofproject design, planning and implementation phases.The senior project course sequence also presents an excellent opportunityto

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jackson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; E. Delbert Horton; Mary Johnson, Texas A&M University-Commerce

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

! 3) Collect institutional information early in the process. Be sure to identify sources of requisite information and build a rapport with those who must query the necessary databases for information that will change during the process. 3) Request long-lead items very early in the assessment process. Examples include: a) the audit/internal assessment to determine the appropriate library holdings and circulation information, b) institutional data such as: enrollment statistics, program funding, laboratory and support equipment inventories, classroom, office, and laboratory space allocations, and c) survey results from previous stakeholder

Conference Session

Tools and Support for Software Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Gannod, Arizona State University; Kevin Gary, Arizona State University; Harry Koehnemann, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

experience covering the full range ofsoftware process activities. The Software Enterprise shares the multi-semester approach with anemphasis on soft-skill development with the Studio. The Enterprise, however, introduces thesoftware phases in reverse order, and emphasizes soft-skills development through multi-yearstructured student collaborations. The Enterprise also introduces the sequence in theundergraduate, not graduate, program. Reverse ordering of the process phases is also introducedby the Software Development Laboratory at MSOE. Sebern acknowledges the difficulty newerstudents have grasping process and soft-skills concepts, and therefore students are led from“grave to cradle” through process phases. Unfortunately a further description of the

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Eric Granlund; Sohail Anwar

Structure and AssessmentMET 210W is a three credit hour course that meets for 5 hours a week and is divided intolecture and laboratory time. As stated above it is the goal of the course to provide eachstudent with the necessary concepts and procedures to properly design and performanalysis of common machine elements in mechanical systems. Prerequisites for thecourse include statics, strength of materials, kinematics, and dynamics. Some sort ofAutoCAD or Pro-Engineer software experience is also necessary along with MS-Officeskills in creating engineering drawings and reports.The text book used in the course is Machine Elements in Mechanical Design, 4 th edition,by Robert L. Mott, 7. The authors feel this text does a great job in addressing all

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bert Davy; Indranil Goswami; Jiang Li; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; Charles Oluokun; Arcadio Sincero

. 2003 Design of a mass transit system for Baltimore 2004 Design a structure to serve as a laboratory on the Martian surface 2005 Design a feature in a structure that allows the structure to respond automatically to a disturbance (earthquake, wind, tsunami, etc) so as to minimize damage to the structure. 2006 Design a system to protect a metropolitan area on the US coastline along the Gulf of Mexico from a Category 4 hurricane. For the spring of 2004, the assignment was to design a structure to serve as a laboratory on Mars. Some specifications were – occupancy, specific usage designations for the

Conference Session

Ensuring Access to K - 12 Engineering Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; GWEN EBERT, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

twenty years. The goal for ESP is to prepare high school students for collegestudy in the field of engineering and science, and to attract these students to the UW-Madison.The program targets students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds including AfricanAmerican, Latino, Native American, Cambodian, Laotian, Hmong or Vietnamese. We alsoselect female students who would be first generation college students.The students are exposed to basic foundational courses that are fundamental to the engineeringdiscipline: pre-calculus or calculus depending on the background of the student, physics,chemistry, computer science, and technical writing. Students are exposed to various engineeringfields through short discipline specific laboratories and

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wells, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

statement of the focus of your research -- the particular problemwithin your topical area that you are attempting to solve. State the objective of yourresearch (what you are trying to accomplish); outline the methods you use (e.g.,theoretical derivation, laboratory experiment, data gathering survey, etc.); introduce theoutcome to be achieved (e.g., a new or improved manufacturing process, a new orimproved engineering procedure, etc.). The latter part should clearly indicate the metricsthat determine when the objectives have been achieved and the stated problem solved.This discussion should also provide a clear appreciation of what the work does notencompass. Chapter 3 should be short and to the point.Chapter 4; Analysis: This is a critical phase in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salim Haidar, Grand Valley State University; Ali Mohammadzadeh, Grand Valley State University

system response to the rough terrain.To lower the intensity of the annoying pitch motion of the vehicle SIMULINK, as a design toolthis time, was used to find a proper damping for suspension system to achieve this goal.Students’ feedback with respect to the project was very positive. They all enjoyed working withSIMULINK especially due to the relative ease in building the system model in comparison withthe corresponding MATLAB model. In short, students indicated that SIMULINK helped them alot in achieving a deeper, holistic understanding of the course material and its objectives bypromoting a virtual laboratory for vibration concepts.Problem Statement Figure 1 l1

Conference Session

Recent Developments in Engineering Ethics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

different companies and each player has a specific role within the virtual firms.A wrong decision could result in disaster. In one scenario, for example, a firm’s ethics officeravatar “killed” 350 employees after making the decision to continue production at a virtual plantin Indonesia, which had been repeatedly threatened with terrorist actions. Notes game developerAllen Varney, “The game is all about temptation.”26Quick TakesNot all ethics games are time-consuming. Abbott Laboratories has implemented “Rocked orShocked,” a touch-screen game played at kiosks set up during training sessions or corporatemeetings.27 Players have a minute to answer six questions, such as “When it is appropriate toaccept baseball tickets from clients” from a rotating

Conference Session

Network Administration and Security

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron McKean, Ferris State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

2001 was spent investigating means to develop and maintain a comprehensivefoundation in networks, providing both quality classroom lecture and laboratory implementation.The chosen solution was to implement the first four semesters in the Cisco NetworkingAcademy. Each Cisco course is encapsulated within a CNS course. This enables supplementalmaterials to be presented and greater program-level oversight for student evaluation.This move represented the single greatest step in the evolution of the curriculum. Resultingaccomplishments include: Quality curriculum with computer enhanced delivery Emphasis on a quality laboratory experience Technical currency provided through Cisco Large discounts on network equipment, and analysis

Conference Session

Design Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cesar Luongo, Florida A&M/Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M/Florida State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

in two-semester sequences with a corresponding laboratory (e.g., thermal-fluids, mechanics andmaterials, etc.). The teaching of design has been integrated to the curriculum by devoting acertain fraction of the coursework or labs to open-ended design problems. Likewise, formalintroduction to the engineering design method is made at the sophomore level in two courses:Introduction to Mechanical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering Tools. These coursesintroduce the design cycle, and expose students to design concepts by using problems withinreach at the sophomore level (e.g., statics, simple material selections, etc.). The tools courseintroduces the students to the machine shop and to the software packages they need to master inorder to

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey Wood, Southwest Tennessee Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

“distributed learning network” along withplans for the future.II. History and Distance Learning Model DevelopmentThe Southwest ENTC department promotes a positive learning environment through the use ofhands-on laboratory experience. Large investments in training equipment combined with collegelevel theory helped set Southwest apart from other Mid-south schools. Feed back from the 2002ABET accreditation review included praise for the laboratories and hands-on curriculum. Feedback from employer surveys indicated a high degree of satisfaction with the technicalproficiency of Southwest graduates. Finally, feed back from student surveys indicatedsatisfaction with the hands-on approach. Over 30 years of positive feed back made the facultyuneasy about

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Miskimins, Colorado School of Mines; Ramona Graves, Colorado School of Mines; Craig Van Kirk, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

11.432.4changes made to several courses during the past six years.Additionally, two exit interview questions were written to address this criterion as follow: Do you feel that you could design and conduct an experiment if required by your first job assignment after graduation? How would your laboratory experiences at CSM including CH 121 (intro to chemistry lab, freshman-level), PEGN 309 (reservoir rock properties, sophomore-level), MEL Labs (multidisciplinary lab, junior-level), and PEGN 413 (gas measurement, senior-level) help you complete this first job assignment? Do you feel prepared to work open-ended design problems such as the Lone Cedar project and the Brazos problem you worked in PEGN 439 (senior

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Research

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University; Charles Birdsong, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

packages, so very limited facilities are available to start a research program. As a result,the start-up costs of the research may be higher than at research institutions. For many newfaculty, there is no existing research group to join, so the faculty member starts from scratch. Inaddition to these external challenges, often the PUI is not set up to support the faculty inobtaining external research funds, as this may be a relatively new activity there.Locating facilities for research is difficult at a PUI. Faculty must find a way to useundergraduate teaching laboratories for their research, or need to locate funds to outfit a new lab. Page

Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristina Pomales-Garcia, University of Michigan; Yili Liu, University of Michigan; Virginia Soto, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

’ skillsand knowledge will be directed. From the perspective of faculty, Fromm 3 defines a detailed listof characteristics which future engineering graduates should possess to become leaders of theprofession, including a strong foundation in basic sciences, math and engineering fundamentals,the capacity to apply these fundamentals to a variety of problems, among others.The Millennium Project 4 at the University of Michigan is a research laboratory designed for thestudy of the future of the American universities. The mission of this project is to “provide anenvironment in which creative students and faculty can join with colleagues from beyond thecampus to develop and test new paradigms of the university”. The Millennium Project proposessome key

Conference Session

International Exchange/Joint Programs in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan Helge Bøhn, Virginia Tech; Manfred Hampe, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

Tagged Divisions

International

available at both universities.Examples of courses with a one-to-one match, both in content and in credits, include fluidmechanics, vibrations, controls, heat and mass transfer, and senior capstone design. Forinstance, the unique, required course at Virginia Tech on applied fluid mechanics and heattransfer design, was replaced with a cluster of non-required but regularly offered portfolio oflecture and laboratory courses at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, that taken together,covers the material of the required Virginia Tech course, with the surplus credits being appliedtowards the Virginia Tech technical elective requirements; thus no credits earned abroad remainunused once transferred home.The students from the Technische Universität

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hansen Lukman, Bucknell University; Steven Shooter, Bucknell University; Fabrice Alizon, Bucknell University; Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Robert Stone, University of Missouri-Rolla; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Soundar Kumara, Pennsylvania State University

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Design in Engineering Education

based on Commonality/Diversity, Modularity, and CostFew would argue that engineers are more likely to be active rather than reflective learners6, andthe benefits of “hands-on” educational activities such as product dissection are many. Forinstance, product dissection has been successfully used to help students identify relationshipsbetween engineering fundamentals (e.g., torque and power) and hardware design (e.g., a drill)7.It has also been used to help teach competitive assessment and benchmarking8, 9. Productdissection is part of the freshmen Product and Process Engineering Laboratory at North CarolinaState University where users take turns playing the role of user, assembler, and engineer10.Sheppard11 was among the first to develop a formal

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheng Lin, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

meet size variations when locking down the wood pallets.The machine was tested numerous times before it was delivered to the users. Result showsthat the machine is very reliable and meets the original expectation.References:1. C.Y. Lin & G.R. Crossman, “Automation Laboratory Development with Design Implementation Schemeand Simulation Software”, Proceedings of 2004 ASEE Annual Conference.2. F.D. Petruzella, “Programmable Logic Controllers”, McGraw-Hill Companies, 2003.3. Allen-Bradley Controllers, http://www.ab.com/plclogic/.4. Universal Material Testing Machines, http://www.instron.us/wa/products/universal_material/default.aspx5. C.E. Wilson, “Computer Integrated Machine Design”, Prentice Hall, 1997.6. R.L. Mott, “Machine Elements in

Conference Session

Design in Manufacturing

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Tomasi, Alfred State College; Margaret Weeks

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Page 11.761.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Informed Design as a Practical Problem Solving ApproachAbstractThe informed design process was developed as an analytical road map for students to followwhen proceeding through an engineering design challenge. This practical problem solvingformat affords students the ability to refine the constraints and parameters of a design challenge,make the required design decisions and communicate their conclusions graphically via thecreation of working industrial drawings, construct working prototypes, perform computationalanalysis, prepare laboratory reports, and present their conclusions.In order for educators to provide the requisite skills and abilities that industry requires

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Batie, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

excavated foundation to the completed roof system. By turning onlayers, the details are electronically constructed. (See Fig. 2) The tools allowed students tomanipulate the SketchUp model view by zooming in, orbiting about the particular component,and gain a better understanding of how the components interrelated. Figure 2 - SketchUp Models LayersDuring the semester, students were encouraged to access all SketchUp images through the classBlackboard© site, and all college computer laboratories were provided with SketchUp Viewer Page 11.534.4software for student use. The SketchUp Viewer software is also available

Conference Session

Trend in Construction Engineering Education I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, SUNY

Tagged Divisions

Construction

assignments must be persuasive or informative • All final submission must be reviewed by at least one peer • All final submissions must be accompanied by the draft (with corrections/comments made by the peer)Critical Thinking and WritingWilliam Zinsser states, “Writing is thinking on paper.”5 And we can not agree more. Oneof the primary objectives of the writing-intensive course in construction course was toenhance critical thinking among the students. It is the instructor’s obligation to make thestudent think. We found in our earlier experiment with writing across curriculum thatduring writing laboratory report most students had problem writing the conclusion. Manystudents amusingly wrote “I enjoyed the lab very much” or “This is a very