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Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bruce Berdanier

Construction Company, andEnvironmental Pipeliners (EP), and their ONU alumni engineers have been especially strongsupporters of the ONU civil engineering program.Construction Module DesignI wanted to design an approximate two-week module to accomplish the course educationobjective and outcome for construction management. I contacted Lori Burgett-Jackson of EP toask for her input on the overall concept and specific topics. I also asked her to pursue the idea ofhaving experienced construction engineers help us conduct a laboratory experience that wouldrequire the students to immediately implement and integrate the chosen discreet lecture topics tocomplete a heavy highway bid. Oberlender 1 stresses the concept of deciding who does whatwhen for how much

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

medical and research staff. In addition, several staff members at the nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory, local area physicians and representatives of biomedical product manufacturers have expressed interest in collaborative research. A broadly-based BME interest group has been identified and a series of meetings coordinated by the BME program has been initiated to explore joint research in several focus areas in which there is substantial regional strength. § Funding agencies with programs encompassing the BME field have been targeted for grant solicitation. In particular, grant applications have been directed to the Whitaker Foundation which

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Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marek Balazinski; Aleksander Przybylo

the teaching process.Key words: teaching, manufacturing, simulation, animation.1 IntroductionTeaching manufacturing processes requires students to acquire a good understanding of theoriesrelated to strength of materials, heat transfer, materials structure, etc. Manufacturing processesare often very complex and difficult to explain; therefore, the implementation of numerouslaboratory sessions is required. Laboratory sessions are expensive, long to prepare and theirefficiency is sometimes affected by parasitic phenomena that make the interpretation oflaboratory results difficult. The use of films is also long and costly. In addition, films make itimpossible to separate the different phenomena that come into play in a manufacturing

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Vojin Nikolic

A HANDS-ON APPROACH TO TEACHING FRESHMEN DESIGN Vojin Nikolic Minnesota State University Mankato 2002 North Midwest Section Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Technology-Enhanced Learning October 10-12, 2002, Madison, Wisconsin Abstract The structure of a freshmen engineering design course is presented. The courserepresents a well-balanced blend of lectures, laboratories, and practical design work, aswell as factory tours and field trips and other contacts with practicing engineers. It

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Murat Tanyel

Aesthetics of Computer Aided Tools for Signal Processing”, in preparation for Proceedings of 64t h Annual ASEE North Midwest Section Meeting, Madison, WI, Oct. 2002.8. Gorter, H., Matherly, B., MPSK Demo Project Report, EGR 363 Project Report, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA, May 2002.MURAT TANYELMurat Tanyel is a professor of engineering at Dordt College. He teaches upper level electrical engineering courses.Prior to teaching at Dordt College, Dr. Tanyel taught at Drexel University where he worked for the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineering Students (E4) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-oncomputer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visiting professorat the

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Amey; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

Development (CRCD) proposal is submitted to NSF andfunded. The principal investigators use NSF and institutional funds to develop a new course,which includes a major laboratory experience. The course is placed in the university catalog. Atthe end of the funding period, the course is dropped and the faculty members involved moveonto other scholarly interests.In this case the faculty were rewarded for writing the proposal, receiving the NSF award,developing the course, and publishing papers related to the project. There were no tangiblerewards for continuing to teach the course or to integrate lessons learned into the curriculum. Page 7.451.4

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 2

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Kemeny

community. Topic Subtopic Community K-12 Under- Graduate/ graduate Professional Virtual - Water Content X X X Geotechnical - Grain size X X X Laboratory - Index tests X - Consolidation X X - Direct shear X X - Triaxial X X - Simple shear X

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Otto Rompelman; Maarten Uijt De Haag; Jos Uyt de Haag; Brian Manhire

within the university, variations may exist. The first or propadeuse yearconsists of two components; in-class lectures and a laboratory. The topics of study aremathematics, electronics, computer and digital systems, and various areas of physics. The secondand third year are referred to as the ‘Kandidaats’ (Candidate doctoraal) program [12]. Again, thisprogram consists of a laboratory component and a class component in the areas oftelecommunications, computer systems, electromagnetics, physics, and electronics. The fourthand fifth year are referred to as the ‘Eind-doctoraal’ or Final doctoraal program. At this stage, thestudent must make a choice between three directions; 1) research, 2) design, 3) and product-systems (the planning, organization

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Klegka; Robert Rabb

practical application to power generation, thermal and air pollution, refrigeration, airconditioning, automotive and aircraft engines, and combustion. Laboratory exercises areintegrated into classroom work.d. ME401, Introduction to Design, shows an iterative decision making process to include needsanalysis, creativity in alternatives, feasibility and merit analysis, optimization in designpresentation. A wide variety of mathematics, science, and engineering fundamentals is appliedto the synthesis, analysis, and evaluation of mechanical components. Special emphasis is placed Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Pamela Neal; Erlind Royer; Kenneth Soda

Session 2425 Learning Project Implementation and Management Skills in the Culminating Design Experience Pamela J. Neal, Kenneth J. Soda, Erlind G. Royer Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy, CO1. IntroductionThe contemporary undergraduate curriculum of an Electrical Engineering program is packedwith required courses, making it a challenge to complete in four years. By necessity, nearly allof this work is theoretical, supported by laboratory work that is too often limited in scope. Themore practical aspects of

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Feland

group of students and it will bereported out on in the future. The content continues to evolve as best practices are integrated.BIBLIOGRAPHY 1) Donne, John. “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions”, Meditation 17 (1624). 2) Katz, Susan M. The Entry-Level Engineer: Problems in Transition from Student to Professional. Journal of Engineering Education. 82(3), July 1993, 171-174. 3) Morgan, R. P., P. P. Reed, and W. A. Wulf. The Changing Nature of Engineering. ASEE Prism. May-June 1998. 4) Somerton, C. “Incorporating a Team Building Experiment into a Senior Level Laboratory Course,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, June 1999. 5) Hunter, K., Matson, J., “Engineering Leadership and Teamwork Development through

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

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

. Approximately 500entering students participated in one of six CircLES summer orientation sessions in the summerof 2000. During the week, students attend general university information sessions (cost oftuition, course catalogue, etc.) and personal development training, such as Math Anxiety andTime Management workshops. In addition to these general sessions that introduce students tocollege life, students participate in activities that connect them to the Colleges of Engineeringand Science, and the faculty and staff. Students have lunch with SEM professors and participatein science and engineering laboratory modules. The engineering module, the “Egg Module,” andtwo science modules, “Air Sample” and “Water Sample,” are designed to build teamwork

Conference Session

Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Carnahan; Bruce Vojak; Raymond Price

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAuthorsBruce A. Vojak is Associate Dean for External Affairs in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.After receiving a PhD from that institution in 1981 he held positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Amoco, andMotorola. Prior to joining the University in 1999 he was Director of Advanced Technology for Motorola’sComponent Products Group. He also holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.James V. Carnahan is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of General Engineering at the University of Illinois.Since 1983 he has taught courses in statistics, simulation and control and also chaired the industrially funded

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Webert Lovencin; Adnan Javed; Fazil Najafi

national and international agencies (Government, Non-governmentalorganizations, Industry etc) exist. Students showing academic excellence get a chance tocomplete their degree in USA or Australia.The academic degree program spreading over 18 months consists of 4 semesters. In the first 3semesters following subjects are taught through lectures, assignments and quizzes:environmental chemistry and microbiology: hydraulics and hydrology; municipal and industrialwaste collection; treatment and disposal; air and noise pollution control; modeling ofenvironmental system, environmental policy and planning etc. The theoretical knowledge issupplemented by rigorous laboratory work, spread over two semesters under the keensupervision of qualified highly

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hugh Rogers; Ferdinand Walbaum

lecture and laboratory experiences for certificate training.· Provide bus passes and possible tickets for swimming, theme parks and week-end excursions. Invite others to escort the group and take them to places of interest, (A social mentor or sponsor should be assigned with a plan of activities for week-ends.) Give them instructions on job safety and advice on personal safety.· Arrange a certification ceremony and luncheon prior to departure.Once the students had begun work at Siemens-Westinghouse, they were taken on an orientationtour of UCF and they began a series of lectures and lab sessions specific to U.S. methods ofdesign, prototyping, manufacturing, CAD/CAM, drawings and specifications and were assignedprojects in UCF

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Yusuf Khan; Wei Sun; Mohamed Attawia; Michele Marcolongo; Frank Ko; Dhirendra Katti; Cato Laurencin

Page 7.1210.6population that is roughly 76% underrepresented minorities (64% African-American, 12% Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationLatino), a majority of the applicants will be from these groups. The course will consist of 5once-daily lectures on basic biomaterials and applications as well as daily laboratoryexperiments. The goal of the lectures will be to introduce the students to the field of biomaterialsand to provide them with an exposure to an exciting area in the field of Bioengineering. Thegoal of the laboratory experiments will be to allow the high school students to get “hands-on

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Megat Johari Megat Mohd Noor

it was only an AdequacyAudit, the participation and involvement by the staff to ensure a presentable workingenvironment was enormous. Laboratories that were previously not well attended to weregiven a ‘spring cleaning’ and careful attention. The School building complex and itssurrounding were given a new face-lift. More attentions were thus given to the workingenvironment. The success at the Adequacy Audit was a milestone for the School as it hadalso converted many skeptics into supporters of the quality system.The path towards the Compliance Audit was thus made much easier with the successful Page 7.962.4Adequacy Audit, although the

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

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Douglas Schmucker; Charles Camp; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Susan Magun-Jackson

Experiments,” The Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 7-9. 10. Phillips, A., Palazolo, P. and C.V. Camp. “Team Teaching Technical Topics: An Innovative Approach to an Introductory Civil Engineering Course,” Proceedings, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 2000, Session 473. 11. Engineering Criteria 2000, 3rd edition. Engineering Accreditation Commission. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD Pub. No. 98- AB-7a, 1998. 12. Schmucker, Douglas G. Structures Demonstration Laboratory. http://diamond.gem.valpo.edu/~harvey/models/strdemo.html 13. Schmucker, Douglas G. Manila File Folder Project. http://diamond.gem.valpo.edu/~harvey/classes/ce202/project.html

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Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rebecca Blust

a list of questions for employees to ask potential child care providers. · Abbott Laboratories - After taking an employee survey, Abbott Laboratories offers job sharing, flextime, and telecommuting. · These plans work for women who want some relief from the stresses of trying to do it all. Now instead of spending time on the weekends running errands and doing chores, job-sharing allows her to accomplish these on her day off so she can spend time during the weekends enjoying family and friends. Women who job-shared earned 60% of their former salaries, but benefits were retained and their working

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Billy Smith

Engineering EducationMidshipmen. It provides funds for component purchase and construction, travel insupport of testing and integration, coordination with DoD/NASA laboratories oruniversities for collaborative projects, and guides the Midshipmen through the DoDSpace Experiment Review Board (SERB) flight selection process.The satellite development process is a multi-semester effort requiring the contributions ofMidshipmen from several consecutive graduating classes. The process begins in thespring semester with identification of the mission and determination of requirements,followed by development of the conceptual design. Students in subsequent classes takethe satellite through feasibility study, final design, construction, testin g, and

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mani Mina

: explain energy manipulation with discrete elements; filters, transformers, discrete elements, and circuitsIn the laboratory students utilize tools like C programming and Matlab to solve engineeringproblems. They also work on circuits, systems, and practice basic electrical engineeringmeasurements. They need to work with partners, evaluate the partnership, and qualify theireffectiveness in their reports. Students are encouraged to change partners frequently to learnother people’s perspectives.Finally there is a demonstration part of the laboratory. Demonstrations consist of opening upelectronic and electrical instruments. Transformers, VCRs, CD players, blenders, electricmotors, laptop computers, hard drives, and other equipment are taken

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Joseph C. Musto; Vincent C. Prantil

sequence. The first courseis a four-credit, quarter-long course entitled Modeling and Numerical Analysis. This is a traditionalnumerical methods course, including topics such as matrix computation, root finding, numericalintegration, and numerical solution of differential equations [1]. This course also includes a laboratorycomponent, where modeling and numerical solution techniques are applied to a variety of mechanicaland thermal systems (such as a draining bottle, a heated and quenched object, and a spring-mass-damper system). Student feedback from this numerical methods course indicates two negative aspectsto this traditional approach to teaching numerical methods: • Despite the presence of a laboratory component, students cite a lack of

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wayne Hager; Ronald Land

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

Regional Educational Laboratories 10 (1992). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 106· Equity Reality Check: A School Rating. Adapted from Science Education Reform for All. AAAS, (1996). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 109· Gender Audit of Physical Classroom Adapted from Science Education Reform for All. AAAS, (1996). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 112· Classroom Observations for Teacher/Student Interactions Adapted from Sadker, Sadker, Bauchner, and Hergert. Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 90· SummerScape Faculty-Student Interaction Observation Sheet. Created by SummerScape

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

. Temperature effects, materials and manufacturing considerations in design; incorporation of ASME standards. 11. Review.Schedule: Two sessions per week of 120 minutesComputer usage: PC or Unix-based software will be used.Laboratory projects: Several laboratory exercises that are open-ended involving computersimulation and parametric studies on the modeling and analysis of machines and mechanicalsystems will be assigned. Page 7.1060.8Relationship to professional component: This course is 50 % engineering design. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vivian Vasquez; Andrea I. Prejean; Sarah Irvine; Teresa Larkin

the physics laboratory where they were given an opportunity to build their ownmotors. This activity was designed in a constructivist-based, interactive engagement format. Atthe conclusion of this session, the students were allowed to keep their motors and take themhome and share with their parents and other family members. The students really enjoyed thisactivity. On the third day of the institute, a session on using the web and unexpected internetadventures was presented. Internet resources were highlighted and shared and the many uses ofthe web as a teaching and learning tool. Several important caveats regarding use of the web ineducation were presented. Also on the third day, teachers and students had the opportunity to be involved

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

between the options within the AE and AST curricula· To develop team skills through the use of collaborative, learning-based assignments· To introduce students to various problems (areas of interest) within the agricultural engineering and technology field· To experience hands-on laboratories related to the AE and AST options· To increase involvement in professional societies and student branches· To introduce technical writing skills during the first year of study· To make first-year composition courses more meaningful to students· To establish career development/job preparation· To receive academic guidance related to curriculum issuesThese general and specific ABE LC objectives were designed to help our departmentmeet the following college

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Thibault; Noel Boutin

three-hour period dedicated to laboratory training. In the firstweek of the two-week schedule, students familiarize themself with new concepts they have tomaster in order to solve the problem they were assigned during the first meeting with a tutor. Inthe second week, they materialize and test the theoritical solution they found. A written report isrequired and is marked.Each week, a two-hour supervised period is dedicated to the semester-long design project. It iswithin those periods that workshops on different topics are sporadically held throughout thesemester. These include workshops on change, problem-solving process, active listening, teamconsolidation, brainstorming, arguing, feedback and conflict resolution, stress management andoral

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Badger; Geraldine Peten; Anil Sawhney

computer laboratory. TheSchool of Construction is one of the few programs at ASU that has its own computer laboratoryconveniently located in the same building where the core courses are taught. The laboratoryconsists of 31 Pentium III personal computers. The laboratory also has a ceiling mounted dataprojector that can be used for demonstrations. The school has two portable presentation stationsthat consist of a Pentium notebook and a data projector. The computer hardware in the laboratorysupports numerous general purpose and construction industry specific software. These computerhardware and software resources are in addition to the college and university wide infrastructure

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patrick Joyner; Teresa Larkin

of 120 students) ofPhysics for the Modern World were offered. The 2 lecture sections were broken into 8 laboratorysections, with an average of 16 students in each lab. One of the 8 laboratory sections (a sectionconsisting of 7 students) was linked with one section of college writing (Composing the PhysicalWorld). Although Physics for the Modern World typically consists of freshman through seniors,all students enrolled in the linked courses were freshman - the College Writing class is amandatory requirement for all American University students, and the logical plan is for students tocomplete College Writing during their freshman year. A description of the curricular toolsdeveloped to link Physics for the Modern World and Composing the