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Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

research.The effectiveness of Internet mediated education must be proven through evaluation. Evaluationin the context of educational systems is briefly defined as examining the effectiveness of aneducational system (or component of that system) in meeting learning and teaching goals.Bloom, Hastings, and Madaus 1 give a classic, more detailed definition.There are many measurement issues to consider when preparing an educational evaluation. Oneis to understand what form of evaluation is being conducted. The three major forms of evaluationare planning, formative, and summative, 2, 3 corresponding to the system's life cycle. Planningevaluation takes place early in the design phase to ensure the system is consistent with knowneducational theories

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Freeman; Rebecca Kellogg

facilitate interactions among students andbetween students and teaching staff.” [8] The technology does require the instructor to workclosely with a trained and competent production staff, to plan out how and what can beincorporated into a lecture. This does require the instructor to think about whether doing whathas been done, has more impact than what can be done.Bibliography1. Meier, R., “Good Morning Cedar Rapids. Do You have Audio? Reflections on Teaching a University Distance Education Course”, Proceedings of the 1997 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition.2. Bloom, B., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives; Handbook 1:Cognitive Domain, David McKay Co., NY, 1956.3. Kellogg, R. and Vogel, J

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson

be developed and used to helpstudents determine their individual learning styles. This added level of assessment andevaluation would be useful in guiding the student into the proper method of instructional deliveryfor their individual background. Successful distance education students must be: 1) able toorganize and plan their time well, 2) comfortable working independently, and 3) competent inusing current technologies. Beyond the definition of individual student motivation, however, the faculty member andthe student alike must acknowledge and ascribe to a fundamental understanding of other issues Page 7.804.5surrounding the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Migri Prucz

three majorobjectives for its intensive, comprehensive efforts to recruit new students: · Effective dissemination of information about the engineering degree programs offered by CEMR. · Personalized attention and unbiased advice to prospective students and their families. · Active, sustained and well-planned process of data collection for assessments of recruitment outcomes, and continuous improvement of recruitment activities. The consistent pursuit of these objectives can be schematically illustrated in the form ofa closed recruitment cycle, as shown in Fig. 1, where the outcomes of various efforts arecontinuously evaluated, and corrective measures, or other improvements are implementedwhenever

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Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Megat Johari Megat Mohd Noor

compared to less than 30% a year before).The evaluation at the School level also indicates an increasing trend of academic staffattaining high scores, as shown in Table 2. Students thus benefit from the implementation ofthe quality system in teaching. As a whole there are numerous benefit to the client (students),such as, outright cancellation of classes is not allowed, classes must be run during the day,punctuality of academic staff is emphasized, teaching plan must be provided and adhered to,examination questions and marks are moderated. The quality system is more transparent inthat students can provide their feedbacks without fear of reprisals. Complaints on teaching orrelated to teaching environment are being dealt swiftly as they are

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Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Prasanta Kalita; Peter Lyne; Loren Bode; Alan Hansen

, while other teams only attended one of the worksessions and their lack of progress impacted on their success in the competition and hence on theoverall quality of their car construction. Other notable individual comments included givingeach person their own car to build, planning better, paying closer attention to detail and workingtogether more.Comments on the level of satisfaction with the project corresponded to the ratings of question 7.Notable individual comments included “I was pleased. We put some work into it and it wentwell”, “I was pleased with the outcome, but had to do most on my own”, “I would have liked todo more modifications”, “We barely got the car done, let alone make improvements”, and “Yes,it was a good deal of learning and

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Reischman; Eugene Brown

/sbe/srs/seind00/start.htm Statistical Profiles of Foreign Doctoral Recipients in Science and Engineering: Plans to Stay in the United States http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf99304/htmstart.htm “How Much Does the U.S. Rely on Immigrant Engineers?” http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/issuebrf/sib99327.htm “Are the Foreign Born a Source of Strength for U.S. Science?,” Science, August 20, 1999, pp.1213-1214.Level of Satisfaction with PhD Studies (IFLS) 1) The 2000 National Doctoral Program Survey, NAGPS Page 7.1212.14 http://survey.nagps.org/ “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

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ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Salama; Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

sequence of 32kbits/sec and quantization-shift of 10.Frame from Akiyo Sequence Frame from Carphone Sequence Frame from Foreman equence HighLow block motion High block motion block motionSmall data frame changes Medium data frame changes Large data frame changes Figure 6: Frame regions that can be replaced from the previous frame..VIII. Assessing the Project and the Team Two kinds of assessments were planned for the assessment of student performance. The Page 7.231.10first is the traditional

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

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Edmund Tsang

performance in the annual SECME competition.Also in Fall, 1999, the College of Engineering began planning to restart an annual Open Housein conjunction with the National Engineers Week that targets middle- and high-school students. Page 7.702.1This event necessitated the need for hands-on activities to engage the K-12 student visitors. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThese needs have been met by a sophomore-level course on materials, manufacturing and designthat incorporates service-learning

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Proulx Denis; Martin Brouillette; Jean Nicolas; Charron François

concurrent engineering approach at the undergraduate level through a major design project,” Proceedings of the 10th Canadian Conference on Engineering Education, 1996, p. 3-5. MARTIN BROUILLETTEDr. Martin Brouillette is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke;he also presently serves as the Associate Dean for Strategic Planning of the Faculty of Engineering. He received hisPh.D. in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology in 1989. His current research interests include gasdynamics, biomedical devices and high-power micro-devices. JEAN NICOLASJean Nicolas is a Professor in the Department of

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Raper

Abilities:25. Ability to identify operation and production problems.26. Ability to carry out tests and experiments.27. Ability to develop optimal solutions.28. Ability to implement solutions for improved strategic competitiveness29. Skills required for effective performance as a member of a work team.30. Writing, speaking, listening skills required for effective organizational communication.31. Ability to analyze complex systems and formulate solutions using approximate qualitative and quantitative tolls and techniques.32. Skills for decision making, planning and controlling of the key resources of an organization – money and people.33. Skills necessary to critically analyze, evaluate, improve, or adapt existing

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Brent Vaughn; Chiang Lin

330L (EngineeringMaterials Laboratory). We plan to also incorporate it in CE 415L (Applied Fluid MechanicsLaboratory). A common standard for composing lab reports has been posted on each of thecourse web pages. A new web-based database is being created this semester for the CE 330Lcourse to allow students to post and share data on the web. It is our wish that through thisintegration we can enhance the communication among instructors and students, and reduce someof the unnecessary complexity existing in each laboratory course. Page 7.683.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eugene Niemi

. Watson, and Cesar Malave, “Quality Planning in Engineering Education:Analysis of Alternative Implementations of a New First-Year Curriculum at Texas A & M University,” Journal ofEngineering Education, v. 89, no. 3, July 2000, pp. 315-322.8. Pendergrass, N.A., Robert E. Kowalczyk, John P. Dowd, Raymond N. Laoulache, William Nelles, James A.Golen, and Emily Fowler, “Improving First-Year Engineering Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, v. 90,no. 1, January 2001, pp. 33-41.9. Stengel, Robert F., “From the Earth to the Moon: A Freshman Seminar,” Journal of Engineering Education, v.90, no. 2, April 2001, pp. 173-178.10. Newman, Dava J., and Amir R Amir, “Innovative First Year Aerospace Design Course at MIT,” Journal ofEngineering

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Billy Smith

launchplatform integration. Each spring, students in the design class begin the process anewwith a new satellite concept so that new projects are always germinating to take the placeof those coming to completion and awaiting launch.Our initial strategy called for building simple satellites containing little more thanbatteries for power, temperature sensors to provide elementary telemetry and transmittersto broadcast signals to the ground. We planned to advertise the existence of our satelliteafter completion of construction and flight qualification testing with the idea that anotherlaunch carrying less mass than full capacity would offer to take us along for free. In thisscenario, our satellite would bolt onto the uppermost-stage rocket body and go into

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Milton Franke

sequences shown in Table 3. Thesegraduates are well equipped to perform analysis and design of complex aerospace systems. Theyalso have the background necessary to lead and manage research programs for new spacesystems.Graduate Space Operations “The Graduate Space Operations program is designed to provide officers with a broadknowledge of space engineering, space physics, and information operations.” 5 It “prepares thestudent for management and analysis roles in planning, executing, and evaluating spaceoperations.”4 The flavor of the Space Operations program is to focus somewhat less onengineering issues and provide a broad understanding of all aspects of space programs andoperations. Incoming students must have had undergraduate physics and

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Laura Grossenbacher

. The logistics of setting up and running the debate Those who have taught debate before can skip this section; those interested in theminute details of running a debate may find it valuable, however. To successfully accomplish all of the goals described in the previous section, thedebate must be planned carefully, and I'm afraid this is something I learned the hardway when Sarah and I first used this debate assignment. I used the assignment again inthe spring semester when I taught the course without Sarah, and I solved someproblems by more carefully managing the teams and the time. With the aid of otherwriting instructors who became interested in the debate assignment, we havedeveloped a fairly detailed assignment sheet that

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Paul Ross; Gisela Kutzbach

1. Relate – “Emphasizes team efforts that involve communication, planning, management and social skills.” 2. Create – “Students have to define the project (project domain) and focus their efforts on application of ideas to a specific context.” 3. Donate – “Stresses the value of making a useful contribution while learning. Ideally, each project has an outside ‘customer’….”Engaged students help “create” the class – through their efforts they are responsible forthe quality of the class experience. They also “create” a new identity and set of attitudesfor themselves – all of which contribute to new abilities in “technical leadership.”II. ENVIRONMENT AND TOOLSThe challenges of maintaining the best of the “real

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Baratuci; Angela Linse

interaction and reduce thenumber of individual questions directed solely to the instructor.Beyond 2002, HTOL may be modified to facilitate asynchronous delivery. This may be betterfor the students and will provide greater flexibility for students and for the Department. TheChemical Engineering Department plans to develop two more distance courses in order tofacilitate the growth of a healthy co-op program. Mass Transfer and Reactor Design are the twokey Chemical Engineering courses that inhibit students from accepting Summer-Autumn co-opassignments. Consequently, these are the two candidates for distance-learning courses in theimmediate future.AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to the University of Washington for funding the development of this course

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

Plan: Phase IReport, Industry identifies competency gaps among newly hired engineering graduates.Dearborn, MI: Author.[4] Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). (2000). Criteria foraccrediting engineering programs. Baltimore, MD: Author.[5] Webster. (1984). Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary. Boston, MA: Houghton MifflinCompany.[6] Tannen, D. (1994). Gender & Discourse. New York: Oxford University Press.[7] Natishan, M.E., Schmidt, L.C. and Mead, P. (2000). Student focus group results on studentteam performance issues. Journal of Engineering Education, 89, (3), pp. 269 – 272.[8] Haller, C.R, Gallagher, V. J., Weldon, T.L., and Felder, R. M. (2000) Dynamics of peereducation in cooperative learning workgroups. Journal

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anant Kukreti

experience aredescribed first in this paper. The students also needed to understand how experiments on scaled-models of building systems are conducted to measure experimentally their dynamic performanceand to evaluate different asiesmic strategies for mitigating damage caused by earthquakes onbuildings. The experiments conducted to provide them this experience are described second inthis paper. With this knowledge gained the students developed three sets of hands-onexperiments for demonstrations for K-12 students, which are described third in this paper. Thepaper ends with some concluding remarks summarizing the whole experience. Hopefully theexperiences reported in this paper would assist others to plan similar experiments for bothundergraduate

Conference Session

Nuclear Power and the Environment

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simpson; David Hintenlang; James Tulenko

of enrichment is primarily electrical. Diffusion plants typically use 2.5 MWhre perSWU. This can account for as much as 98% of the electricity consumed in the fuel cycle. Page 7.410.6The centrifuge enrichment processes uses 10% as much energy as diffusion . The U.S.Enrichment Corp. does not presently employ centrifuge enrichment. The UnitedKingdom, Germany, and Netherlands, on the other hand, have several centrifugeenrichment plants operating at an energy cost of between 0.10 and 0.25 MWhre perSWU. The new plants planned for this country are expected to consume as little as 0.05MWhre per SWU. This study assumes centrifuge enrichment at an energy

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Smith; Anneliese Watt; Caroline Carvill; Julia Williams

examples of project proposals, and by explaining that such proposals should Page 7.707.4include elements such as intended plan of action and time frame. These elements may be Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcontrasted to a project progress report that emphasizes different, albeit accurate, information butdoes not fulfill the needs of the client in the project’s initial phases.A beneficial brainstorming exercise for faculty is to generate a list of document types that mightconceivably be

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee; Nirmal Das

course in the fall semester of 2002, the authors have decided todivide the class into several teams and require each team to provide the solution for a differentloading condition acting on the beam. For example, distributed loading over the overhang can beassigned to team 1, distributed loading acting between the supports to team 2, distributed loadingover the entire beam to team 3, and so on. When preparing the script files for these problems, theteams are asked to place their scripts in separate “function M-files”, so that these functions can beutilized later by other script files. The reason for this request is that the authors plan to combinethe work of all teams into one comprehensive main script, which is capable of making calls toeach of

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Titus; Guoqing Tang

]. They went further assaying “Time plus energy equals learning. There is no substitute for time on task.” It is widelyagreed among U.S. university/college professors that adequate time on task is at least two hoursof home study for each class hour. In reality, in the U.S. students actually spend only 0.3 to 1.0hours for each hour in class [8], far below the expectation of their professors and significantlyless than the two to three hours outside of class for each hour in class spent by their peers in theU.K. [11]. This raises real concerns. Part of the problem is related to the design of the course: “Inmost course descriptions what teachers do in class is described while what students do out ofclass is not—it is simply not planned in the same

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

Synectics Other criteria Ethical considerations Generalizing solutions Identifying potential problems VI. Implementation Planning Carrying through Following up Page 7.440.18Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education VII. Ideas to market VIII. Intellectual Property Introduction to intellectual property: Patents, Copyrights , Trademarks , Trade Secret, Unfair Competition. 16 * Patents What is a patent? Types of patents, Patentability Patent application; patent claims Disclosure

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chaturaporn Nisagornsen; Arun Arunachalan; Hengzhong Wen; Kurt Gramoll

skills and knowledge is a basic requirement for “corporate survival.” There areseveral critical issues that need to be considered when planning the implementation of a trainingprogram so that the organization benefits both on a long-term and short-term basis. The factorsaffecting the development of training strategies depend on organizational objectives that rangefrom compliance and productivity improvement to executive training for keeping up with thelatest technologies and procedures. Although traditional training is designed to provide astrategic advantage, the ability of the worker to cope up with speed is a major problem that needsto be resolved.Learning and working are two very conflicting activities. Humans’ stereotypical workingbehavior

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendell King

responding to changing environmental conditions that have the potential to reduce peace and stability in the world and thus affect U.S. national security. U.S. environmental security involves accomplishment of the environmentally related actions specified in the National Security Strategy. Accomplishing U.S. national environmental security goals requires planning and execution of programs to prevent and/or mitigate anthropogenically induced adverse changes in the environment and minimize the impacts of the range of environmental disasters that could occur 3. Also important in defining environmental security is setting the limits as to what is notincluded in this working definition. This

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Robert Drew; Matthew Walker; Karl Rink; Dan Gerbus; Dan Cordon; Edwin Odom

according to Valenti. The Society ofManufacturing Engineers (SME), in its Manufacturing Education Plan,8 surveyed corporationsthat employ manufacturing engineers or manufacturing technologists to review the professionaland technical competencies of newly hired graduates. From the survey results, SME identifiedproject management, written/oral communication, and business knowledge/skills as some of thecompetency gaps present in newly hired engineers.To further support this notion of the softer side of engineering being as important as the hardbiting technical, Krackhardt and Hanson claim the informal organization is what makes or breakscompanies.9 The purpose of the informal component of the organization is to handle theunexpected, where the formal

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

Skills: The McMaster Problem Solving Program Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, no. 3, © 1997, pp. 75-91.25. Ambrose S. A.: Reframing our Views on Teaching and Learning; Education Symposium TMS Spring 1997 Meeting.26. Wankat P. C., Oreovicz F. S.: Teaching Engineering; McGraw Hill, New York, ©1993, pg. 181.27. Rogers G. M., Sando J. K.: Stepping Ahead-An Assessment Plan Development Guide; Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology with Support of the Foundation Coalition (National Science Foundation Grant EEC-9529401) ©1996.28. Sheppard S., Johnson M., Leifer L.:A Model for Peer and Student Involvement in Formative Course Assessment; Journal of Engineering Education, ©1998, pp. 349

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

engineeringsystems laboratory course. This course is the second in a series of three required mechanicalengineering lab courses. The first course is an instrumentation and measurements course thatconcentrates on lab procedures and data processing. The third course is an experimentalengineering project course in which students plan and execute an experimental project that spansan entire semester. The engineering systems course is broken into two sequences. One is asequence of mechanical systems experiments. In this sequence oral and visual presentation isemphasized. The other is a sequence of thermal energy and fluid mechanics experiments. Thissequence emphasizes written reporting, and students are required to prepare several groupreports and two individual