Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Karim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

exercise can besummarized as follows (note that it can be done simultaneously for any number of groups, butfor simplicity sake it will be described as if it is being done for one small group of about 8students): 1. Two volunteers are asked to wait outside until called upon. They can be given the classic none dots puzzle or some other puzzle to work on while waiting to be called upon. 2. One of the remaining students is selected as the first subject. He/she will be referred to as Subject 1 hereafter. Another student is selected as a timer and given a stopwatch. The timer is asked to record the time it takes each subject to spell each word. 3. Subject 1 is given instructions as follows as the set of blank wooden blocks is dumped

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Allen White, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Glen Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Don Richards, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

different aspects of active/real-world learning style preferences by adoptingone of two approaches: 1) a structured and engaging classroom lecture environment with on-paper, problem-solving exercises, or 2) a hands-on, kinesthetically-active laboratory environmentwith integrated on-paper, problem-solving exercises. Pre- and post-SLO assessments revealedthat students learned from both types of SLOs. Analysis of course exam grades revealed thatstudents who attended one type of SLO did not consistently outperform students who attendedthe other type of SLO. Students whose preferences for sensory learning (as indicated by theirscores on the Index of Learning Styles) were most strongly matched by the style of their SLOgroup (i.e., strongest sensory

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Knud Holm Hansen, Copenhagen University College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

International

(second foreignlanguage) before enrollment.Export engineering is sometimes also named global business engineering.Bridgwood et al.1 give a detailed description of Danish engineering education, while Woolstonand Dickey2 present the Danish educational system in general. Krogh3 explains the differentaspects of internationalisation of CUCE.Objectives of the study programQuotation from the curriculum:“The purpose of the program for a degree in export engineering is to qualify students to carry outnational and international business functions in which they will:1. Convert and combine technical and commercial research and scientific, technical, and commercial knowledge into practical applications in development projects by resolving technical and/or

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

require a transformational change in how we prepare our learners across all ages. Therefore, fundamental research that describes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes learners’ bring to their engineering education that influences what they learn as well as how students develop the ability to learn, think, innovate, and problem solve like an engineer will challenge current assumptions about how we teach and assess for understanding. Learning to engineer will require three major strands of inquiry that centers on understanding: 1) learners acquisition, comprehension, and synthesis of domain specific knowledge to achieve contextual goals; 2) the learning progressions of learners and their

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darryl Morrell, Arizona State University; Robert Grondin, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

implementations in a real-world setting. The initial course offering is taking place in the Spring 2008 Semester. The courseemphasizes issues such as design cycle time, fabrication and manufacturing costs, quality, reliability,product life cycle and various forms of testing. In addition, the course will develop fabricationtechnology expertise such as technology selection (e.g. software solutions vs. FPGA).We believe that our course offers a unique combination of topics. Indeed, the authors are unawareof any other undergraduate courses within an engineering department with a similar breadth ofcoverage of issues relating to electrical systems implementation. Many courses and degree programsprovide expertise in micro-systems fabrication (see, for example [1

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore Branoff, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

GC120, Foundations of Graphics (72 students), weretaught as a hybrid or blended instruction course. The other 14 sections of GC120 were taught in aface-to-face manner. The instructors of the hybrid sections organized the content of the courseinto a series of lesson pages (see Figure 1). Content for the hybrid introductory engineeringgraphics course was delivered in several formats. First, Flash videos of voiced-over PowerPoints(Figure 2), sketching demonstrations (Figure 3), and SolidWorks demonstrations (Figure 4) werecreated to deliver the textbook and CAD content for the course. Study guides were madeavailable in a pdf format, and students were required each week to complete a 10-20 questionWebCT Vista assessment (Figure 5

Conference Session

Professional Practice and AEC Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stan Guidera, Bowling Green State University; Anthony Mutai, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

to BIM in AEC coursework are proposed.IntroductionParametric object-based design tools have become standard in architectural CAD applicationsand the ability to utilize parametric control of geometry and dimensional relationships hasbecome an expectation 1. While the design flexibility and productivity afforded by parametricmodeling positively impacts the role of computing in architectural design, the adoption ofparametric computer modeling does not in itself dramatically alter the design process. However,this is not the case with the current generation of OOP-based architectural CAD applicationswhich utilize Building Information Modeling (BIM). BIM applications integrate 3D-2Doperations, which expands the conceptualization of computer

Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abu SARWAR, Austin Peay State University; John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Hill, Weber State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

of the societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and Page 13.139.7 the consequent responsibilities including a commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvement.Criterion 5. CurriculumThe curriculum must appropriately and effectively develop these following subject areas insupport of program outcomes and objectives. a. Communications The communications content must develop the ability of graduates to: (1) plan, organize, prepare, and deliver effective technical reports in written, oral, and other formats appropriate to the discipline and goals of the program (2) incorporate communications skills

Conference Session

Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

video clips of an interview with thesubject entrepreneur plus engaging dialog with the students. Hence a paper format renders thepresentation comparatively dry and uninspiring. The authors will gladly make available thePowerPoint slides used in presentation of the cases, supplemental materials, and the video clipsavailable for any other instructors wishing to adopt the cases.Case 1: Jonathan Smith and Wave Dispersion TechnologiesJonathan Smith Case: Background MaterialJonathan Smith and his father, Dennis, motivated by the need for erosion protection for anoceanfront condominium development in New Jersey embarked on what would become WaveDispersion Technologies (WDT). Their erosion prevention product is a modular and highlyengineered marine

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie Ferri, Georgia Tech; Jill Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joel Jackson, Georgia Tech; Jennifer Michaels, Georgia Institute of Technology; Douglas Williams, Georgia Tech

13.88.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Program for Distributed Laboratories in the ECE CurriculumAbstractThis paper describes a project that seeks to improve undergraduate learning by developing acohesive program where experiments are introduced into a wide selection of ECE courses thatcurrently do not have labs. Most of the experiments are low cost and portable, which facilitates adecentralized laboratory environment where students perform the experiments at their homes orin the classroom rather than in dedicated laboratories. We will assess our work through theinvolvement of twelve faculty members teaching ten courses, some of which are offered indistance learning settings.1. IntroductionExperiments are vital to the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thea Sahr, WGBH Educational Foundation; Natalie Hebshie, WGBH Educational Foundation

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Conference Session

Sustainability and Engineering Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Thorn, Rochester Institute of Technology; Andres Carrano, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

. Student interest in the programs hasbeen very favorable. This paper describes the context at RIT from which the idea forthese programs arose, the program development process that was followed, and thestructure of the two programs.1. BackgroundEfforts to reform engineering education over the past two decades have met with limitedsuccess. Although some engineering programs have effectively addressed a new vision forengineering pedagogy, the National Academy of Sciences [9] and the National ResearchCouncil [10, 11] have identified several problematic attributes in engineering education. Inparticular, engineering programs have been criticized for their inability to effectivelyintegrate multiple engineering and non-engineering disciplines in solving

Conference Session

Computer ET Innovation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Schneider, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Systems” to be taken during the students’Junior year of study.1 This course was structured to provide students hands-on exposure to theinternal workings of modern operating systems.During the 2004/2005 academic year, the material being taught in the software programming wasevaluated. In accordance with the Computing Curricula 2001 (CC2001) report by the ComputerSociety of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE-CS) and the Associationfor Computing Machinery (ACM), the two software programming courses being taught fellwithin the traditional imperative-first approach. This approach starts students off with softwareprogramming activities without any real preparations.2 After careful review, it was found thatthe student population

Conference Session

Educating the Whole Engineer - Building Life Skills

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Drew, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Richard Vaz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

ensurethat students are prepared for real-world off-site projects.Information literacy (IL) skills carry over from the academic setting to professional and personallife. According to a recent report by American Association of Colleges and Universitiesinformation literacy is listed as an essential learning outcome in the area of Intellectual andPractical Skills.1 At WPI these skills become practice with the real-world projects undergraduatestudents perform as part of their degree requirements. Librarians partner with faculty to infusethese important skills for future engineers and scientists into the curriculum through a projectexperience completed during their junior year.All WPI undergraduates are required to complete a team-based project that

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jin-Hwan Lee, University of Cincinnati; Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati; Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Computer Engineering. It now includes students from mechanicalengineering, environmental engineering, biomedical engineering, and chemistry.Figure 1. MEMS and BioMEMS courses offered at the University of Cincinnati.Fifth-year undergraduate students (seniors) in the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment take a sequence of 3 senior capstone courses for a total of 9 credit hours in theirsenior year.4 Typically, students self-organize into teams and select a project of interest. Theymay choose a variety of projects proposed by industry, community organizations, professors, co-op employers, or themselves. All teams meet with the course instructor and complete a series ofdeliverables to specify and document their projects. Each team has a

Conference Session

FPD6 - First Year Curricula Development

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; John Uhran, University of Notre Dame; Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh; John Ventura, Christian Brothers University; Patricia Ralston, University of Louisville; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Constance Slaboch, University of Notre Dame; Brenda Hart, University of Louisville; Rebecca Ladewski, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

thegoals of this complex first-year experience. This paper elaborates upon three specific discussionpoints that have emerged from these summer workshops, including: (1) the relationship betweenpersistence in engineering and the first year experience; (2) how to prepare first-year students to“stay the course”; and (3) trends in first year engineering program design. Finally, this paperwill discuss the attendance at and feedback received from the workshops so that otheruniversities can consider this as an opportunity to host their own regional first-year engineeringworkshop.Background & IntroductionMany of today’s engineering educators recognize the need to develop a first-year engineeringcurriculum that takes into consideration the diverse

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wajiha Shireen, University of Houston; Sara McNeil, University of Houston

simulation. This allows the students to have a goodunderstanding of the circuit design and operation before they get the hands on experience fromthe actual hardware experiments. This paper will disseminate the results of the newly developedlaboratory experiments that have been implemented so far, along with the initial assessment datagathered by an independent evaluator.1. IntroductionPower Electronics deals with the application of solid state electronics for the control,conditioning, and conversion of electric power. Raw Power (120 V, 60 Hz AC)supplied by the utility in many cases need to be conditioned, controlled or convertedfor the following reasons: achieve energy efficiency; to improve reliability; to matchdifferent load requirements (eg. DC

Conference Session

Innovations in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

notcommonly offered in related engineering technology programs, i.e. computer engineering andelectrical engineering technologies. Since security defense occurs at different levels, frompersonal level to corporate and national levels, it will be imperative to teach the EET/CETstudents the knowledge and skills of computer security and prepare them for the future jobs sincemost of them are working in the industry to develop, to maintain and operate the computers andnetworks. This paper describes such a course developed for EET/CET programs including theobjectives, course content and lab exercises.1. IntroductionThe explosive growth of computer systems and Internet applications has increased ourdependence on the information stored and its transmission

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helen McNally, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

to interest, professional conducted was expected of all and project/laboratoryassignments were to be made throughout the semester. A text was not required. A tentativegrading system was provided but the instructor reserved the right to make adjustments as thecourse developed. This approach was adopted from Singham2 “to model the exhilaration of thelife of the mind” rather than to stifle innovation through a “rigid rule-infested, watertightsyllabus.” Opinions of senior ECET faculty were elicited to insure our students could handle thechallenge.The tentative course schedule is presented in figure 1. The laboratory exercise occurred betweenthe two lectures each week and the schedule was designed for this. The course was designed inthe following

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg Warnick, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University; Robert Todd, Brigham Young University; Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

International

sells in the United States. • Foreign-owned firms operating in the United State employ more than 5 million workers, approximately one in ten manufacturing jobs. • Internet users worldwide have increased dramatically in the last decade. It is estimated that 143 million Americans used the Internet in 2001, up from just 20 million six years earlier. During that same six-year period the percentage of the population using the Internet rose from 7 percent to 51 percent in the United States, 6 percent to 60 percent in Norway, and less than 1 percent to 41 percent in Korea. • Direct foreign investments in the United States have increased from $141 billion in 1990 to $895 billion in 2001, an increase

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Pines, University of Hartford; Hisham Alnajjar, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, fault tree analysis, totalquality management, commercialization, legal-intellectual property, and project management arecovered.Both the freshman and sophomore design courses use the same textbook to demonstrate to thestudents the connection between the two design courses. The textbook is Creative ProblemSolving and Engineering Design by Lumsdaine, Lumsdaine, and Shelnutt4. The first two parts ofthe book are covered in the freshman design course (Part 1 - Foundational Skills and MentalModels; and Part 2 - The Creative Problem Solving Process). In the sophomore design course,the creative problem solving techniques are then applied to the engineering design process. Thisis part 3 of the textbook entitled “Application in Engineering Design.”The

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer; Alison McKay, University of Leeds; Mark Henderson, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Alan de Pennington, University of Leeds

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

1design problem solving literature where there is a growing emphasis on global teams andinternational collaborations.Research on Problem Solving and Design ProcessesThe majority of the research on design problem solving has focused on individual designers. Forexample, Atman et al.1 used Verbal Protocol Analysis (VPA) to characterize first and fourth yearengineering students as well as faculty and expert designers. Studies on problem solvinghighlight distinct differences between expert and novice problem solvers; Resnick (1985)2, forexample, found that experts approach problems differently than novices. Before starting thesolution process, experts reinterpret and simplify problems and use drawings to clarify therelationships among the problem

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarma Pisupati, Pennsylvania State University; Jonathan Mathews, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

was dressed in different outfits, placed in various situations, and he often used dialogue bubbles to stress important Page 13.436.3 Figure 1. A screen shot of interactive activity to teach heat transfer. points or elicit the students’ curiosity. The instructor also made his presencefelt by both narrating all animations and worked examples

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, University of South Florida; Richard Gilbert, USF; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Bradley Jenkins, Saint Petersburg College

development for emerging and relevant technologies; participates in DOE statewidereform and change related to ET disciplines; and still provides extensive networking andopportunities for sharing and collaboration amongst colleges.Meeting FormatThe basic block agenda for the Forum has remained the same over the years. An exampleagenda (Spring 2008 ET Forum) can be reviewed in Appendix 1. On Thursday morning after awelcome by the host institution and introductions, the group participates in a discussion sessionon current issues of interest and college updates of all participants. This is an open agenda eventwith a list of topics ranging from emerging technologies and how to incorporate them intodifferent curriculum, student recruitment, grants

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider, The University of Texas at Brownsville; Fitra Khan, U of Texas at Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, The University of Texas at Brownsville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

enrolls over 14,500 students with more than 92% Hispanics. Inan effort to meet regional demands in science and technology, a new Science, Mathematics andTechnology College (SMT) complex was recently built to house computer science, engineeringtechnology, physics, and mathematics course offerings. Fig. 1. CIS Programs Part of the Science, Mathematics and Technology College (SMT), the CIS department hasmore than 652 students majoring in its technical and science (academic) disciplines. As figure 1show, two disciplines have parallel degrees with the technical offering a Certificate of ComputerInformation Systems, Associate in Applied Science, and a Bachelor of Applied Technology inComputer Information

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Three

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thorsten Wagener, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

use are changingin many regions, causing significant problems for water resources studies. Such changes meanthat historical data are not representative for the region anymore, while most engineeringapproaches are based on the assumption that they do.As the demands on current and future hydrologists have changed, the concern arises thathydrology training has lagged behind necessary preparation for both research and application 1, 2,3 . There is evidence of hydrology as a science becoming more interdisciplinary and complex,evolving in its focus due to new scientific findings, computational and technical advances, andnew linkages to other disciplines4, 5, 6. The importance of hydrology education in this context issupported by results of a

Conference Session

Novel Courses and Content for ChEs II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; James Maneval, Bucknell University; Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Michael Hanyak, Bucknell University; William Snyder, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, problem definition, project evaluation, and deadlines that reallymean something.The educational objectives for our senior design sequence are shown in Table 1, andclosely correspond with traditional ABET expectations for such courses.Table 1: Course Objectives for Senior DesignContent Area ObjectivesProfessional Development • Enhance your ability to learn on your own in preparation for your professional careers.Teamwork • Continue to build the interpersonal skills required to be successful in a team environment.Problem Solving • Apply your knowledge base in chemical engineering (developed

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Willis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

INTELLIGENT SPACECRAFT: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING EDUCATION COURSEAbstractThis paper discusses a highly interdisciplinary course offered to students during the Spring 2007semester : Design of Intelligent Spacecraft. The course integrates concepts from mathematics,physics, engineering and computer science for the purpose of educating 4th year undergraduateand introductory masters-level students on the design of intelligent spacecraft. Course content isdivided into two pedagogically separate parts : 1. The historical development of physical models, including mathematical models for celestial mechanics and thermodynamics. 2. Application of these models for creating intelligent spacecraft, i.e., applications of these

Conference Session

Engineering in the Elementary School

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Parry, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Miars, Rachel Freeman Elementary School; Lizette Day, Rachel Freeman Elementary School

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

addition the poor performance of American students, including our best and brightest, on international comparative assessments is alarming. But retention of knowledge is not the measure of most concern. Rather, it is the lackluster performance of American 15 year olds on the two most recent Programme for 1 International Student Assessment (PISA) assessments , which measures how well students can apply the knowledge they have gained, that is the strongest indicator of the need for major changes in the way K-12 students are taught.The long time and accepted methods of pedagogy practiced in today’s classrooms weredeveloped for an industrial revolution era society. Relying on the efficacy of