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Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Newell; Heidi Newell; Kevin Dahm

ASEE for contributions to engineering education and a Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award. Hisresearch interests include high performance polymers, outcomes assessment and integrating communicationskills through the curriculum.KEVIN DAHMKevin Dahm is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received hisPh.D. in 1998 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the faculty of RowanUniversity, he served as an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina A&T StateUniversity. He also served for one year as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California atBerkeley, where he assisted in the development of ModelLA, a process simulation softwarepackage for use in the

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Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Laura Lucas; Daphene Koch

formseveryone has consistent expectations and a higher level of success in meeting the goals of allparticipants. Page 7.537.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationSignificanceDuring the accreditation of the Construction Technology Department (CNT) at IndianapolisUniversity – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) by the Technology AccreditationCommission of Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (TAC/ABET) in 2001, therewas a concern about the evaluation of field trips. The assessment

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Bittle

THS5651IDW is a 5-4-1 segmentedcurrent steering DAC. Data was collected at the Texas Instruments’ facility on Forest Lane,Dallas Texas. LabView® software was used for instrument control and data acquisition.MATLAB software was used to process data, to calculate current cell pair outputs, and to plotthe results to determine if there were major problem areas in the current array. Plots showed noproblem areas.I. IntroductionTexas Instruments invited the author to learn about the THS5651IDW, a new high-speed digitalto analog converter (DAC), being designed at their facility on Forest Lane, Dallas Texas. Thisknowledge is being passed on to students in the Electronic Engineering Technology program atthe University of North Texas. The THS5651IDW DAC is a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Oscar R Gonzalez; James F Leathrum; Amit Kumar H; Vishnu Lakdawala; Stephen Zahorian

and assessment are major criteria included in the Accreditation Board of Engineeringand Technology (ABET) 2000 criteria. This is further substantiated by the many recenteducation related conferences which include assessment as a key subject area. Recently the IEEETransactions on Education devoted a complete special issue on assessment (McGourty andKerns 6 ). The issue contains papers on development, implementation, and institutionalization ofeducational assessment in engineering education. A number of assessment instruments thatassess multiple dimensions of learning are also available (for example, see FLAG7 ) to faculty inscience, mathematics, and engineering. In addition, over the past several years, considerableeffort has been devoted to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mitchell Neilsen

variable rate technologyfor precision farming. This transfer of technology has enabled us to develop even strongerlinkages with industry.The overall objective is to provide opportunities for students with varying engineeringbackgrounds to gain knowledge and experience in the design and implementation of real-timeembedded systems, and to advance the state-of-the-art in design methodologies and real-time Page 7.188.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationapplications. This paper presents the novel

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zheng Min; Robert Weber; Feng Chen; Ben Graubard; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

this course, students learn about the uses, capabilities, and limitations of wireless embeddedsystems in the C6 environment. Based on a set of requirements and preliminary specifications,students will a system-level design language and work in cross-functional groups (e.g.,communications, human factors, performance, software engineering, electronics) to prototypeselected hardware, software, and interfaces.Real-time software engineeringCurrently there is no course in the Computer Engineering curriculum at Iowa State Universitythat covers software development issues for real-time (or time-critical) applications and how todesign software to survive rapidly changing underlying technology. This knowledge is criticalfor any Computer Engineering

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Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Helen Grady

and use of the ARCS model of motivational design. Journal of InstructionalDevelopment, 10(3), 2-11.5 Page 7.1109.6 Georgia Institute of Technology. 1999. Objectives specification tool. [On line]. Available:http://mime1.marc.gatech.edu/MM_Tools/OST.html. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education6 Gray, S. 1998. Web-based instructional tools. Syllabus 12(2). [On line]. Available:http://syllabus.com/sep98_magfea2.html.7Morkes, J. and Nielsen, J. 1997. Concise, scannable and objective: How

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

global and societal impact assessment module. At the end ofthe first session, students were asked to develop a set of specific procedures which practicingengineers can use to ensure that unintended consequences are limited, that society is informed ofthe tradeoffs involved in an engineering solution, and that society gives approval before thesolution is implemented. At the end of the second session, students were asked to prepare a shortpresentation discussing the positive and negative, intended and unintended consequences of aspecific technological development that the instructor selected from a list prepared in an in-classexercise in the first session. The presentations were given in the third session, and the group andaudience were asked to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dennis Field

-day operation of the Lab hasresided with ISU’s Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Business. Corporatefunding for the Laboratory was originally, and continues to be in large part, provided by 3M, aworldwide corporation well known for technological innovation. Prior to each semester, studentsare recruited and asked to submit applications and resumes for the upcoming semester. Second Page 7.348.1semester students review the applications and resumes and, with input from faculty and Proceeding of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Manocher Djassemi

automation activities are presented. The hardwaredesigned and built by the students as well as the associated costs are discussed.Introduction Engineering technology (ET) and industrial technology (IT) programs are facing thechallenging task of educating competent students in many aspects of manufacturing includingfactory automation. A hands-on educational approach has been an effective tool to gain suchcompetency in ET and IT programs. Many of these programs offer laboratory-orientedmanufacturing courses with the mission of providing students with practical experience inautomation and its application in integration of production systems. A common laboratoryfacility in ET and IT programs includes computer-integrated manufacturing which may

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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

MATLAB. Experiment 3, Mentor Graphics Design Laboratory: The students begin by learning thebasics of schematic layout and simulation with Mentor Graphics tools. Since our focus is Page 7.185.4 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”primarily on digital circuit design using CMOS technology, we begin with simple digital circuitscomposed of a few circuit components (including diodes and transistors). The circuit schematicsare built in Design Architect and simulated with

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rusek; Barbara Oakley

other wireless techniques are sometimes difficultconcepts for students to grasp, and even more difficult to obtain practical experimentalexperiences with. Demonstrating these concepts through PSpice simulations, allowing studentsfree rein to play with these simulations, and encouraging them to devise their own experimentsbased on these simulations can provide invaluable educational opportunities. Simulations such asthose shown in this paper could very profitably be used in many courses related to this cuttingedge area of technology. Page 7.360.4Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Pamela Neal; Erlind Royer; Kenneth Soda

deviation of 8.2%. The end of course survey askedif the hardware lessons “contributed significantly” to student ability to complete their designprojects. An average score of 4.21, with standard deviation of 1.27 was recorded (3.0 = SlightlyDisagree, 4.0 = Slightly Agree, 5.0 = Agree). Page 7.805.4 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education ”While purely anecdotal, one other encouraging bit of evidence is available regarding thehardware technology lessons. Cadets in the electrical engineering

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CAD Applications in MET Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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B. Sridhara

Session 3649 Some New Techniques in Teaching Computer-Assisted Drafting/Design (CADD) B. S. Sridhara Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)AbstractIn our Engineering Technology program, we teach three courses in CADD covering 2-Dconcepts and solid modeling. AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop (MDT) are the primary CADsoftware that we use in our instruction. We want to provide our students with experience in thepractical applications of CADD. Dr. Sridhara assisted a local non-profit organization that waslandscaping an adult care center and

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ralph Droms; John Jantzi; Daniel Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

; Exposition Copyright ã2002, American Society for Engineering Education”a computer on the 100Mb/sec Ethernet network that provides file, download, control and otherservices to the experimental computers in the lab.The network organization, router and experimental computers can be reconfigured toaccommodate new network architectures and technologies. As network technologies evolve,new experimental networks will be added to the lab.The experimental computers will be configured to run multiple operating systems, includingWindows NT, Linux and Xinu (an open-source, Linux-like operating system). Linux and Xinuwill be available for use by students in systems and networking courses, where they can makechanges to the system and network

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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J. Joseph Hoey; Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

Technology, Inc. Baltimore, MD. http://www.abet.org .2. Whitener, Ellen M., Brodt, Susan D., Korsgaard, M. Audrey, & J.M. Werner, Managers as Initiators of Trust: An Exchange Relationship Framework for Understan ding Managerial Trustworthy Behavior. Academy of Management. The Academy of Management Review , 23, 513-530. Page 7.1217.43. Shockley-Zalabak, Pamela, Ellis, Kathleen, & Winograd, G. (2000). Organizational Trust: What it Means, Why it Matters, Organizational Developme nt Journal, 18, 35-48. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Balasubramanian Kailasshankar; Devdas Pai

IV, Phase I Report, SME, Dearborn, MI.D. M. PaiDevdas Pai is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University. He received his M.S.and Ph.D. from Arizona State University. He teaches manufacturing processes and machine design. A registeredProfessional Engineer in North Carolina, he serves on the Mechanical PE Exam Committee of the National Councilof Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors and is active in the ASEE Manufacturing Division.B. KailasshankarBala Kailasshankar is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received theB. Tech. Degree in Metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. He has 20 years of research,development and manufacturing experience in the

Conference Session

Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Mueller

engineering problem as a project are many-fold but getting these projects is notalways easy. This paper discusses a real-world senior project done at Penn State University NewKensington in collaboration with local industry. By way of this project, this paper discusses theadvantages of real-world projects, suggests ways to find corporate partners to participate, andalso provides some suggestions on ways to ensure success.IntroductionThe senior project is a capstone project course taken in the final term of the 4-year Bachelor ofScience in Electromechanical Engineering Technology degree offered at Penn State UniversityNew Kensington (PSUNK). The objectives of the course are to train the students in projectmanagement, communication skills (both written

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Taylor

program; · a core of courses taught by the Weatherhead School of Management, including New Venture Creation and a new course on Technology Entrepreneurship; · a physics master’s thesis involving an entrepreneurially oriented project. This will typically arise from an entrepreneurially oriented internship in a sponsor company, or from a student-designed research project that will be the basis for launching a new venture; · options for elective courses tailored to the needs of each student; · an active seminar program provides continual exposure to scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs who are actively engaged in forming new high-tech ventures

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

freshman engineering program and has published numerous articles onengineering education. She was a member of the team that implemented the E 4 Program.J. RICHARD WEGGEL is the Samuel S. Baxter Professor of Civil Engineering and Associate Dean of the Collegeof Engineering. He holds a BS degree in civil engineering from the Drexel Institute of Technology, and MS andPh.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He teaches and conductsresearch in the areas of hydraulic and coastal engineering. He was a member of the team that implemented the E 4Program.ALY VALENTINE has a bachelor degree in psychology from Assumption College in Worcester, MA and amaster’s degree in education from Drexel University. She is

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Harold Broberg

Claudine SchWeber,Greenwood Press, 20014 JISC Technology Applications Programme (JTAP), http://www.jtap.ac.uk/5 http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/default.htm6 http://www.realnetworks.com/products/presenter/index.html7 http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/8 http://www.ipfw.edu/9 http://www.webct.com/10 http://www.microchip.com11 http://www.winzip.com/12 http://www.realnetworks.com/products/media_delivery.html13 http://www.real.com/realone/index.htmlHAL BROBERGHal received his PE license in Indiana in 1988 and his PhD in Engineering (EE) in 1993. His research areais servo systems and he consults for ITT (Aerospace-Communications) on weather satellite servos and hasa Patent Pending. He is an Associate Professor of EET

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Risa Robinson

of Mechanical Engineering (ME) seniors at Rochester Institute of Technology(RIT). Students commented that more hands on data acquisition and open ended projectsthroughout the curriculum would be extremely valuable in preparation for their capstone seniordesign course.Laboratory courses, which are often used simply to demonstrate theoretical material, are anexcellent opportunity for students to learn and practice problem solving skills. However, we mustmove away from traditional canned experiments, with step by step instructions and knownoutcomes, to open ended experiments that challenge students intellectually and encouragecreativity. This experience is consistent with the Kolby Learning Cycle, 3 which is completed byasking the questions

Conference Session

Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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S.Y. Eidgahy

faculty be truthful. The Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B13. Page 7.138.4“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”SAEID Y. EIDGAHY, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at San DiegoMesa College, a large urban community college. Previously, he has served as dean of engineering andsciences as well as a faculty member in other institutions. He has widely published on administrative,minority and technology issues in both engineering and science disciplines

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu-Hur Chou; Shang-Hsieh Hsieh

Session 2793 AWRC: A Web-Based Reinforced Concrete Design Adaptive Testing System Yu-Hur Chou 1, Shang-Hsien Hsieh2 Tung-Nan Institute of Technology 1/ National Taiwan University2, TaiwanAbstractReinforced Concrete (RC) design is a very important course on civil engineering in highereducation. Students are taught in this course how to design a structure by using reinforcedconcrete. Students are also trained to follow the building code (Code by ACI, AmericanConcrete Institute) into design 11. Because the building code is a very complicated collectionof rules, students are easily

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Gumaer

effective examination is to determine the test plan and objectives.The next step is to create the questions. These questions should be reviewed. During and after theexam, observation and feedback should be used to improve future examinations. Examples andtips will be presented throughout this process to illustrate the concepts. Finally, the application ofthis process to an engineering technology course is discussed.Test PlanThe foundation of an effective examination is a test plan containing test objectives organized in ahierarchical manner. Each test objective should have a clear relationship with mastering aparticular topic2. Test objectives may be drawn from course objectives or outcomes. A testobjective should be measurable or observable. The

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Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

paper.Students like using the laptops in class. The assignments allow them to make connectionsbetween engineering and computer applications. It is not uncommon to hear a student commentthat he/she sees how to apply some of these new computer skills to other courses or to apart-time job. Laptop use in class by students has definitely added to the technological literacyof our students.VII. References1. Callister, William D., “Materials Science and Engineering – An Introduction,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2000.2. Oakes, William C. et al, “Engineering Your Future,” Great Lakes Press, Wildwood, Missouri, 1999.3. Finelli, Cynthia J. et al, “Strategies for Improving the Classroom Environment,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90 no. 4

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Sutterer

Session 2468 Sophomore-Year Project Design in Mechanics of Materials Kevin G. Sutterer, P.E. Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIntroductionCivil Engineering students at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (R-HIT) begin to learn open-ended, project-based design in a first year civil engineering design course where groups of 3-5students work for outside clients on a simple civil engineering project. In their Junior year,students participate in a three-course structural engineering sequence (1) where they design aproposed 2 to 3-story campus structure, beginning with design of

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

Session 2258 Software for the Automated Evaluation of Web-Delivered Instruction George Nickles, Amy Pritchett School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyIntroductionMany forms of technology have been used to mediate education between instructor and student,ranging from simple chalkboard drawings to complex intelligent tutoring systems. Recently, theadvantages of the Internet, including speed of communication and use of a variety of media, havemade it the focus of much educational

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bertrand Côté

pictureAt the same time as we received a grant for our project from the Service de soutien àl’enseignement, the Department of Civil Engineering was undertaking a massive overhaulof its Bachelor’s Degree program. Important objectives were to increase significantly theuse of information technologies in the classroom and to come up with learning tools thatwould be appealing and effective in promoting self-learning. Using the video files hit thetarget right on in that respect. Page 7.1056.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for

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Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff; Marilyn Barger

engineers performing optimization of the interaction of processmethods with device design and operation. A broader treatment of the materials methods andconnecting details associated with the material process unit operations utilized to fabricate smallstructures is needed. This treatment combined with students from an expanded set of disciplineswill allow a new generation of "out of the box" thinkers to better address the challenges that facethe new material-processing world.New Course StructureThe traditional course approach has been device centric, playing off classical semiconductor andcircuit courses. Yet upon entrance into such an IC fabrication technology course, students havelittle knowledge or expectation of the actual structure of physical