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Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

, American Society for Engineering Educationsemester. These students are divided into two lab sections of 30 students. Each section isdivided into 10 groups of 3 students. The semester is divided into three 5-week rotations, andeach student group completes a round-robin of 5 experiments during each rotation. That requireseach experiment to be available in duplicate because 10 groups are working at the same time.Also, within each rotation, experiments must not have other experiments as prerequisites (roundrobin), but, from one rotation to the next, a sequence can be planned. This daunting andsomewhat confusing explanation is aided by the figure below, showing the organization of thelaboratory component for the Spring 2002 semester

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MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg

curriculumLast year we introduced a revised curriculum for the introductory course in Aviation for therising juniors of Upward Bound. It was our plan to give the students a broad view of the aviationindustry. The program was divided in three main areas: Aviation Maintenance Technology,Aviation Management, and Flight Technology. These main topical areas are outlined in table 2. Page 7.753.3 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Aviation Maintenance Flight technology

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Inquiring MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gerald Heydt; Keith Holbert; Khaled Nigim

One Evaluation Report,” Los Rios Community College District, Office of Planning and Research, Sacramento, CA, 1990.5. Wynetta Y. Lee, “Transitioning from High School to College: Surviving a Clash of Educational Cultures,” 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Albuquerque, NM, November 6-9, 1997.6. Don Decker and James R. Granzow, “Dine idahool aah. Native American Summer Bridge Program,” Final Report, Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ, June 4-July 11, 1978.7. Institute for Environmental Studies, “Precollege Program in Environmental Studies for Native American Students,” Final Report, Wisconsin University, Madison, July 29-August 9, 1996.8. Jacque Dolberry, “Salish Kootenai

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International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Megat Johari Megat Mohd Noor

, Strategic Planning, Information 15 Technology, Multimedia, International Business Industrial Environment, management Finance, Economics, 15 Engineers in Societ y, Communication Skills, Law, Occupational Safety, Human Resource Management, Innovation Humanistic Islamic Civilization, Asian Civilization, 10 Nationhood, Islamic Studies, Moral Education, Practical Final Year Project, Industrial Project, Practical 15 Training, Engineering Design

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Angus; Thomas Hulbert

display their output results. In fact, any process, device, or experimentcan be designed, tested, and operated in either a real or virtual environment. Colleges,universities, and technical schools may prefer to offer the labs and training in a virtualenvironment 10. Companies and associated laboratories may want to combine experiments andprocesses with real and simulated application packages.This VEE Pro learning approach will be beneficial to educators and company trainers where Page 7.934.8preparation for later application to data acquisition problems is planned. This need is becoming Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Harris

answeringtechnical questions. This is a good learning experience for the clinic team members. The authoras advisor has planned the overall chip architecture and divided it into blocks for the freshmen.The freshmen usually work in pairs on different components. In each project, a few haveemerged as natural leaders who have taken responsibility for merging the components into largerunits and one has stood out as exceptionally strong and has completed the overall chip assembly Page 7.48.4and verification. The freshmen also prepare written documentation for their chip. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sanjeev Arora; Fariborz Asadian; Masoud Naghedolfeizi

facilities have alsoprovided the departmental faculty with opportunities to perform applied research in the area oftheir expertise. The program has also generated academic interest in other departments withinthe university. For instance, the Department of Chemistry has expressed a keen interest inextending the existing minor program to a certificate program in computer-based measurementand instrumentation designed specifically to complement the chemistry major. In addition to itsacademic applications, plans are underway to use the program to train technicians andprofessionals who work for local industries in this field. For example, we are now in t he processof establishing training courses for Robins Air Force Base and Blue Bird bus

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CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Kilduff

) subject to constraints in reservoir area, embankment height,and spillway size. Students seemed better prepared to tackle this design after seeing the modelreservoir demonstration, and completing a related homework assignment. They had a much betterunderstanding of the relationships among reservoir size, storage, and discharge, and how thesecombine to attenuate a flood hydrograph. As a result of completing a modeling assignmentrelated to the in-class demonstration, and being able to visualize the effects of reservoir size anddischarge capacity on change in storage and hydrograph attenuation, students were morecomfortable engaging in the trial and error design process required.5.0 Lesson Plan 1. Introduce practical engineering problems that

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sérgio Franco; Marco Silveira; Luciano Costa; Guillermo Creus

must be transformed into knowledge. In our proposal of evaluation using computational tools, self-evaluation becomes easierbecause the student increases his autonomy by the use of technology. The student becomesautonomous assuming the task of the teacher7: to recognize needs, to choose objectives, to selectsubject matters, designing the study plan, finding didactical materials and media, identifyingcomplementary knowledge sources and directing, controlling and evaluating the learningprocess. D. Constructivist evaluation Here we describe a pedagogical evaluation tool resting on the constructivist approach. Inour proposal, we use computer tests in a web site. Test results and comments are included in theevaluation. It is

Conference Session

New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Schumack

andminority community participation in energy policy decision-making, such as new power plantsiting. It also discusses how low-income groups disproportionately spend more of their incomeon energy and have more adverse health problems. Students were given a list of items to discussin their essays, including the following question pertaining to a statement in the paper: Do you agree with the statement that “utility and environmental regulators must prevent further clustering of fossil fuel and nuclear power plants in low-income and minority communities?” Why or why not?Twenty-seven students agreed with the statement, and eight did not. Explanations of thoseagreeing included “When expanding power plants careful planning should go

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Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gordon Silverman

7.260.4medications or combinations of chemicals. Using extremely thin and sharp nanoprobes, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationbioengineers hope to be able to enter a cell, leave a few molecules of a particular drug behindand then exit the cell (leaving the cell intact and alive).In recognition of the importance of this emerging field, the Institute of Electrical and ElectronicEngineers (IEEE) plans to offer a new journal – IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology – in2002.Other examples of the rapidly changing needs of the medical community abound. (10, 11) Digitalprocessing of EEG (as well as other

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International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mayuree Thespol; J. Clair Batty

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfaculty of engineering at KU. At the present time 99 of these young faculty members arestudying at highly regarded schools abroad and will soon be returning with engineeringdoctorates to augment and complement those substantial numbers already back.Graduate engineering degrees from the west are greatly respected; however, study abroad isrelatively very expensive, and alternatives are being implemented. 14 An ambitious plan todramatically increase the number and quality of doctoral degrees granted in Thailand had beenunder development for some time. Named the Royal Golden Jubilee Project to

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ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian Nauhaus; Susan Lord

Education Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 1996.SUSAN M. LORDSusan M. Lord received a B. S. in Electrical Engineering & Materials Science from Cornell University and the M.S.and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Lord taught at Bucknell University from 1993-97and is presently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching andresearch interests include electronics, circuit, optoelectronics, materials science, and first year engineering courses.IAN M. NAUHAUSIan M. Nauhaus is a senior at the University of San Diego. He will graduate in May 2002 with a B.A. and a B.S. inelectrical engineering. He plans on getting a graduate degree in biomedical engineering with an

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ward; Eugene Simmons; Michael Doran

Intelligence (AI) course. After theAI course, many students desired to pursue more tangible and applied experiences. Additionalequipment was purchased to design and construct multiple mobile robotic platforms. With thisequipment and a motivated group of students, a special topics course was created. The goal ofthis new course was to expand on the basic concepts of the AI course. Special topics involvingmotion, sensoring, planning, fault recovery and hardware/software interfacing were discussedand supported by supplemental readings from the literature. Each topic was linked to alaboratory exercise where students would design and implement both the hardware and softwareto accomplish an intelligent behavior. The ultimate challenge was to integrate the

Conference Session

Materials and Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjeev Khanna

challenging, due to lack of clear agreement on suitablemetrics, and insufficient data for comparisons. However, several resources are available to guidethe way in developing an evaluation plan [e.g., see Angelo and Cross, 1993; Herman, 1987;Rossi and Freeman, 1993; Stevens et al., 1993; Worthen and Sanders, 1987].To begin, student learning will be assessed through two evaluation methods. First, the class willbe divided into small focus groups of up to 5 students, and each group will be provided with a setof very specific questions [Stewart and Shamdasani, 1990]. Each group will discuss amongthemselves and then all the groups will discuss the findings of each group to build a consensus.Sample questions may address: how easy it is to surf through the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

fourteen question, multiple-choice, 50-minute test has been designed to measure thecumulative knowledge of each student. This examination is administered near the end of thecourse as a not-for-credit examination in an attempt to measure a student’s knowledge basewithout significant examination preparation. We are attempting to measure the knowledge thatwill likely be retained rather than knowledge mastered for the examination and then forgotten.Incentives such as dropping homework scores and suggesting student use this to prepare for thefinal examination are used to get student to take the examination. We plan to use the sameexamination instrument throughout the duration of the project to get a consistent measure of thecumulative knowledge gain

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Information Guidance/Navigation/Control

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra H. Kajiwara; Lisa Taber; Cecilia Mullen

Pprs Spring Journals 2000 Books 0 50 100 150ConclusionThe web modules we designed for Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering havebeen frequently and successfully used by the classes to which they were introduced. We willintroduce the web modules to a larger number of Chemical and Materials Engineering classesin the coming semesters. The modules are regularly updated and expanded to meet theresearch needs of our target audience. We also plan

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hartman

million, is expected to service the Florida market, where gas demand is forecasted to double between 2000 and 2009. Plans are to build a 90-mile pipeline to move product to a location north of Miami. While shipping LNG is generally more expensive than moving natural gas Page 7.119.2 delivered via pipeline in the US, recent surges in natural gas costs have opened the door for Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education this possible expansion. It would be the first facility built to feed the U.S

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patricia Shamamy

. Besides teaching, she currently doesconsulting work in materials and manufacturing and also serves on the University E-LearningCommittee and the College of Engineering Entrepreneurial Program Planning Committee.Address: Mechanical Engineering Dept., Lawrence Technological University, 21000 West TenMile Road, Southfield, MI 48075; e-mail: shamamy@ltu.edu. Page 7.1112.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American society for Engineering Education

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Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

, pp. 491-497, 2001.4. Webb, Wendy, “Laptop Lessons,” Online Learning, vol. 5 no. 3, pp 50-54, 2001.5. Wankat, Phillip and Oreovicz, Frank, “An Over-stuffed Curriculum,” Prism, vol. 11 no. 2, pp. 40-41, 2001.Biographical InformationPATRICA M SHAMAMY, P.E. is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at LawrenceTechnological University in Southfield, Michigan. Besides teaching she currently doesconsulting work in materials and manufacturing and also serves on the University E-LearningCommittee and the College of Engineering Entrepreneurial Program Planning Committee.Address: Mechanical Engineering Dept., Lawrence Technological University, 21000 West TenMile Road, Southfield, MI 48075; e-mail: shamamy@ltu.edu

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Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

lecture, lab, or homework, and the teaching styles of instructors Page 7.507.2-- all of which require more insight, flexibility and careful planning to accommodate.Multimedia is a powerful instructional, pedagogical tool for the teaching of E ngineeringGraphics. Lecturing on Engineering Graphics theories and concepts in a tangible waypolishes the students’ imaginative ability, which in turn helps them visualize objectsmore easily, and leads them to a better comprehension of the subject matter.When multimedia is used in a prudently designed manner to present the fundamentals ofEngineering Graphics to students, it can motivate them to learn more of the

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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William H. Semke; Arnold F. Johnson; Richard. R. Schultz; Chang-Hee Won; Jason G. Gullicks; Nicholas E. Hulst; Douglas R. Olsen; George A. Seielstad

then operates in the restricted category with the associated regulations.Upon completion of the missions the system is removed from the aircraft and it returns to theStandard Airworthiness category with Inspection Authority approval. The FAA applicationpacket includes reports from a structural DER, a system DER, a test pilot DER, and anOperations Manual and Instructions for Continued Airworthiness. The first test flight of thesystem occurred on April 28th, 2002 and it performed flawlessly. An image of our first day offlying is shown in Fig. 11. Fig. 11. The AEROCam system on its inagural day of flight testing.III. Summary and Future Plans The project to date has been a success and has generated much interest from bothwithin

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Storch; Catherine Scott; Cynthia Atman

usually are thought to be quicker and less expensive than the qualitative methods,especially if the surveys are developed by the researchers rather than by professional marketingassociations. However, “most ‘home-grown’ surveys take much longer than planned, and therebyengender hidden costs” (p. 291).1Contextual inquiry allows the researcher to interview and observe the customer in action.According to Terninko, “viewing the context that shapes customer requirements is an essentialstep for creating appropriate designs” (p. 7). 3 Both interviews and observations complement eachother and provide greater insights than either used alone. Interviews help to focus theobservations and gain information that may not be readily observable. Observations

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

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Maya Place; Markus Flury; Jennifer Shaltanis; Geoff Puzon; Brent M. Peyton; James Petersen; Candis Claiborn

mentoring a youngerresearcher. The participant will be responsible, in consultation with his/her major researchadvisor, for devising a research plan for the undergraduate student and to monitor that student’sprogress. Moreover, the graduate student must be responsible to help the undergraduate preparea presentation at an undergraduate research competition and a publication of his/her work.3.6.2. Instructional MentoringUnder the direction of the major research advisor, the graduate student prepares course materialsand delivers lectures for a significant portion of one of the courses for which the research advisorhas instructional responsibility. Thus, responsibility for the course still resides with the facultymember, but the graduate student

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

experience all the different aspects of building an airplane. However, accordingto John, he got assigned to “chase” engineering orders of parts that came out of engineeringdesign and moved to planning then to purchasing and finally to production. In order to deal withthis challenging task, he created a chart that linked the flow of orders between differentfunctional divisions with color-coded dots and lines. John’s dots and lines connected functionaldivisions in the ordering of parts in new ways. In 1982, most aerospace companies, includingJohn's employer, were still organized around clearly defined functional divisions. However, Page

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Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Lamont; John Merrill; Richard Freuler

course tools page is accessed through the homepage and takes users to a page containing“tools” including links to journal entries, course evaluations, team evaluations, the grade book,calendar, chat room, the discussion boards, the Purdue Visualization Test (first IE course) andthe MATLAB assignment drop box (second IE course). The grade book is the most accessedsite on WebCT. Instructors and GTAs can access and enter all student grades and students canview their individual records. The “Course Sorcerer” icon takes students to an OSU surveyingtool where they answer journal questions about the course, instructional team, and future plans;can question the instructional team about lectures, labs and policies; and can complete the finalcourse

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ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Beenfeldt; John Field; Eric Beenfeldt; Edward Williams

interface board. The differences are in theaddress locations and what signal is returned (high or low) when a switch is pressed. Initially itwas felt this was a good thing because it allowed us to assign a program for the actual hardwareand then a subsequent one for the simulator. We felt a well-documented program should be easyto modify and this would serve as an example of writing maintainable code. However, manystudents were struggling with understanding the instructions used, e.g., BRCLR, as well as thesimulator so this didn’t work as well as hoped. We are planning to modify the simulator so that itmore closely reflects the actual hardware.The simulator also supports a “Console IO” window that allows exercises using serial IO. Whenthe Console

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hemminger; Ralph Ford

ofdeveloping a solid foundation in engineering principles by the time of graduation. All studentsare required to take a core set of courses, which introduce DSP concepts, including applicationswhere DSP is not typically employed. The level of complexity is increased as students progressthrough the curriculum, culminating in technical electives that extend their knowledge in aparticular area of interest. The objectives of the sequence are realized through the employmentof simulation tools and real-time hardware. This project is part of a plan to blend state-of-the-arttechnology with real world applications for the purpose of enhancing the undergraduateexperience.IntroductionFor many years there has been a move to include discrete-time as well as

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmalzel; Steven H. Chin; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

bettercomprehend the conceptual relationships of COMM, DSP and VLSI. Implementation of ourideas is facilitated by the fact that the three courses are run in the same semester. Each course hasthree hours of lectures and three hours of laboratory per week. Illustrative laboratory experiencesthat enforce the conceptual relationships are planned. This philosophy is further motivated by theneed to promote the two main learning styles that students have [4]. Most students, instructorsand curricula are sequential in that the process functions with partial understanding, there issteady progress, and details are emphasized [4]. Global learners need the big and overall picture

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Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gunter Sharp; Jack Lohmann

Retirement Planning Example Uncertainty Scenarios and Expected Net Present Value Breakeven Analysis Page 7.1149.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationObservations and ExperiencesDuring the first offering the most notable student reaction was surprise and frustration. Therewas little if any advance notice of the internet-only method of lecture delivery. Incompatiblesoftware, poor quality video streams for the 56K download for off-campus students, interrupteddownloads, and improper