Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Stacey Breitenbach, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

a Law andSociety Concentration. The fifth concentration was essentially a venue that provided freedom Page 12.8.4for student self-determination and a curricular flexibility that acknowledged the existence ofpertinent tracks neither proscribed nor envisioned by the program developers.Program UniquenessThe proposed program is unique to the institution, and the general geographic area. It draws uponCal Poly’s unique character of “learn by doing,” culminating in a multidisciplinary service learningor other group project. Another unique feature of the proposed program is that is has severalconcentrations designed to prepare students for careers in

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Rezaei, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Mariappan Jawaharlal, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Kyu-Jung Kim, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Angela Shih, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Mechanics

students.The problems addressed by the hybrid courseThe ME department has addressed the failure problem in many different ways. One way was toprovide an additional one-unit Vector Statics Mechanics Laboratory, which was developed basedon the study on cooperative learning in engineering through academic excellence workshop [3].Under the cooperative learning environment, the students demonstrated significantly betterperformance in learning Vector Statics as noted in their final grade of 2.88 as compared with1.33 for those who only took Vector Dynamics [4]. In the laboratory, the students learnfundamental concepts of Vector Statics through teacher demonstrations, group projects &discussion, and additional exercises. However, it is a co-requisite to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud Ardebili, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY

robotics kits to design and built modules inorder to meet specified requirements. The competition activities are planned to promotecollaborative group learning skills. The mentoring component further sustains this effortby bringing sophomores / juniors as peer group leaders in weekly sessions focusing onlearning in fundamental classes.Majority of cohort do not meet placement requirements, start at remedial mathematicslevel. The long series of remediation needed to enroll in freshman level classescontributes greatly to large attrition rate. The integrated enrichment activates engagesthis group; provides counseling, stipend and a nurturing up-to-date environment. Thisprogram is part of a larger project to increase baccalaureate level graduation rate

Conference Session

FPD4 -- Hands-on & Real-World Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Menicucci, Montana State University; James Duffy, Montana State University; Betsy Palmer, Montana State University

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First-Year Programs

Industrial Applications of • Read Lab Handout Leaching • Read F&R 3.2, 3.4,3.510/10 to 10/14 Fluidized Bed Polymer Coating II Nuclear Submarines10/17 to 10/21 Biological Fuel Cells Biological Engineering10/24 to 10/28 Introduction to term project Materials and Product Design10/31 to 11/4 Developing the Experimental Plan Exam11/7 to 11/11 Presentation of Experimental Plan No class – Veterans Day11/14 to 11/18 Student Designed Experiment MRI Research in Antarctica11/21 to 11/25 Student Designed Experiment No class – Thanksgiving11/28 to 12/2 Student Designed Experiment PowerPoint Basics12/5 to 12/9 Student

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari Clase, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

results in ever-expanding needs for college graduates who haveknowledge of life-science based products and processes. There have been numerousreports of current and projected shortages of human resources possessing the requiredknowledge in the growing industry. In order to address the gap between education andthe workforce, the Department of Industrial Technology has developed an academicminor in biotechnology being implemented in fall 2004.This interdisciplinary biotechnology initiative is the result of a partnership among theDepartment of Industrial Technology, the Department of Biology, and the Department ofPharmacy. The program is administered within the Department of Industrial Technology.The minor is taken while the student continues his

Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilya Grinberg, Buffalo State College; Mohammed Safiuddin, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

component sequence impedances. Steady-state performanceof systems including methods of network solutions. The course was selected for the samereasons as EE 582 Z.EAS 521 Z Principles of Engineering Management I.Basic engineering management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling asapplied to project, team, knowledge, group/department and global settings, including discussionof the strengths and weaknesses of engineers as managers, and the engineering managementchallenges in the new economy. Emphasis is placed on the integration of engineeringtechnologies and management. Students are to understand/practice the basic functions inengineering management, the roles and perspectives of engineering managers, and selected skillsrequired

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Off the Beaten Path

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Michael Gregg, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

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New Engineering Educators

courses. The firstsemester course, Engineering Exploration EngE1024, involves ethics, problem solving,algorithmic development, programming, graphing, teamwork, design, and technicalcommunication. The second semester course primarily focused on the design process, technicalcommunication, project management, teamwork, sketching, and computer aided design. In2005, the second semester course was reformulated into two tracks. One track focuses onintroductory design related needs for students bound for electrical and computer engineering aswell as computer science. The other track covers introductory design related skills required forremaining nine engineering departments at Virginia Tech.Prior to spring 2005, the two introductory-level engineering

Conference Session

IE Curriculum Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abdul Kamal, Western New England College; Herb Eskot, Western New England College

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Industrial Engineering

Engineering, and students enrolled in certain graduate disciplines andother continuing education programs.There is some literature relating the experiences of multidisciplinary teaching involvingengineering and business courses. The experience in combining a marketing research course witha bio-resource engineering course was assessed5. The latter combines biology and engineering tosolve problems in a variety of environmentally related fields. The approach of this course was toteam together students from both courses to work collectively on a project involving bothdeveloping and marketing a new product. The engineering students worked alone or in groups oftwo over a two-semester period on one project. The engineering students working on a

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Keathly, University of North Texas; Robert Akl, University of North Texas; Ryan Garlick, University of North Texas

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Women in Engineering

of robots can attract new female students to computerscience and engineering. As a result of this research, and our experience hosting the BESTRobotics competition, we conducted one-week Robotics Day Camps for young women enteringthe ninth, tenth and eleventh grades; one camp was offered at the North Texas Research Park inDenton and a second at a second UNT campus in south Dallas. The motivation for these campswas to increase the number of women selecting computer engineering as a field of study.The Robotics Camps were organized around team, project-oriented activities that utilize anumber of mobile resources, including laptops and the BOE-BOT (Board of Education BasicStamp Microcontroller Carrier Board produced by Parallax

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University

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Graduate Studies

impact of these shifts is two-fold: increased demand for healthcare Page 12.1393.3services for an aging population and decreased availability of intellectual resources to addressthe challenges.Finally, the rising cost of healthcare is a national problem. Projected healthcare costs willconsume 15.5% of the GDP according to the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization or $1.9trillion annually 8. Advances in technology through new treatments and particularly diagnosticimaging are estimated to have contributed 10% to 40% of the cost growth during the 1990s, andtechnology is expected to continue to be a cost driver 4. An aging population is also

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Kathleen Sernak, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Multidisciplinary Design 16-Week Multidisciplinary Design Project—Composition & Rhetoric Project—Public Speaking Junior Product/Process Development or Product/Process Development or Research Research Senior Multidisciplinary Capstone Design/Research ProjectFreshman Clinics expose students to basic engineering skills including problem solving,teamwork fundamentals, engineering measurements and entrepreneurship. Students areintroduced to a variety of activities relevant to engineering measurements5. This is followed inthe second semester by intense study of engineering design through reverse engineering(“dissection”) and

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Class-Morales, Cessna Aircraft Company; Jim Leake, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Brenton Hall, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Engineering Design Graphics

Page 12.520.2Carnegie-Mellon University have found that self-paced and web-based CAE tutorials are apractical method of complementing traditional engineering instruction on all levels ofundergraduate mechanical engineering courses.2 For example, freshmen complete a web tutorial-led project that introduces them to computer-aided design, finite-element analysis (FEA) andcomputer-aided manufacturing (CAM) of a specific product. It has been observed throughfeedback and course enrollment statistics that this experience both motivates the students andintroduces available engineering software tools.The Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (IESE) of the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has also developed

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seifollah Nasrazadani, University of North Texas; Reza Mirshams, University of North Texas

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-832: TEACHING HEAT TRANSFER THROUGH INDUSTRIALPARTNERSHIPSeifollah Nasrazadani, University of North TexasReza Mirshams, University of North Texas Page 12.1361.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Teaching Heat Transfer through Industry Partnership S. Nasrazadani and R.A. Mirshams College of Engineering University of North Texas Denton, TX 76203Abstract In this research project, a heat transfer course was taught to senior undergraduate studentsin a new way that involved an industrial engineer as a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Carberry, Tufts University; Morgan Hynes, Tufts University

underwater robot.This challenge also includes many of the ideas of constructionism[4] given that the students willconstruct actual artifacts as they engage in the learning process. The major tenets ofconstructionism are also incorporated as the students will be able to design and create apersonally meaningful project, discover and learn powerful ideas, and then reflect upon theirlearning. A number of researchers have successfully implemented such a framework while usingthe LEGO toolset [5-7]. These sorts of methods will be used as the students design and build their Page 12.1516.2LEGO submersible vehicles.Educational ObjectivesThe underwater robot

Conference Session

Sustainability & Environmental Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Gaughran, University of Limerick; Stephen Burke, University of Limerick; Sonya Quinn, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2007-2020: ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN UNDERGRADUATEENGINEERING EDUCATIONWilliam Gaughran, University of Limerick Dr Bill Gaughran is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Manufacturing and Operations Engineering at the University of Limerick. He leads a number of research groups, including one in sustainable design and engineering, which includes sustainability strategies for SMEs, waste minimisation in manufacturing, and sustainability in schools and colleges. He is a research partner with the EU INTERREG IIIC/DQE project (Towards a Sustainable Region), and contributes to developing strategies, which inform environmental sustainability policy in EU states. He has developed

Conference Session

Assessment Methods

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Some of the learning outcomes considered in thepresented analysis were identified by Engineering Technology faculty for program assessmentpurposes. Additionally, there are also other outcomes that were considered by both faculty andmembers of the Engineering Technology Industrial Advisory Board during the developmentstage of the program assessment process. In two senior level courses dealing with subjects ofengineering design and manufacturing processes, each type of student activity was also assessedin terms of its level according to Bloom’s taxonomy. Various assessment methods andobservation are utilized in these courses to evaluate students’ performance. Design projects,concept generation, individual formal presentations, information search

Conference Session

Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blake Tullis, Utah State University; Steven Barfuss, Utah Stat University

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Civil Engineering

paper come from theauthors’ experiences associated with developing and teaching a design-based hydraulicstructures course over the last six years at Utah State University.Engineering design projects, in practice, can include a large variety of activities. Tullis1identifies key aspects of project feasibility studies, which include: a preliminary design,legal aspects, social aspects, and environmental concerns. The skill set required forengineers to master all of these areas cannot be acquired in a single engineering designcourse. In addition to academic experience, real-world, professional engineeringexperience is also required. As such, most hydraulic structure design courses focus onthe system design itself through the use of example problems

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Dibella, Northeastern University; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

explain the reason for the small size of this laboratory facility,if additional corporate donors were to feel comfortable in assisting with this project. Havingcorporate visitors was a very touchy situation at that time as in marketing – presentation iseverything in the early stages of a project. Failure to perform early on could lead to corporatenon-interest and possibly a disastrous development plan.A New laboratory Space Emerges Page 12.113.5The middle of the year 2000 seemed to be the beginning of the end of this new program, aswithout a continuous influx of additional state-of-the-art resources, the existing program wouldcertainly stagnate

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shirish Sreedharan, University of Missouri; Frank Liou, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

techniqueswere then implemented to achieve the future state map. These projects have facilitatedexperiential learning through “Hear, See, and Do” cycle by bridging the gap betweenacademia and industry via learning modules in lean manufacturing education. It not onlybenefits students working on the lean project as a practical learning experience, but alsoacts as a lean manufacturing education show case to students on campus.IntroductionLean manufacturing principles represent a radical departure from traditional planttechniques [1]. The employee's roles, skill-sets, process-requirements, and rules havechanged. Team members must operate like an independent business with totalresponsibility for the quality, manufacturing and delivery of the product to

Conference Session

EMD Program Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Yesim Sireli, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Karen Elmore, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Engineering Management

& problems, Make decisions at all levels of an organization from the top management problems, to strategic planning, product development and launching, production, marketing & sales, logistics support, and field services, Understand future trend in global markets and economy, and Manage multinational units, projects, & global supply chains.BSSE Curriculum DesignThe activities in the design of the BSSE curriculum include benchmarking other similarprograms, performing an industry needs analysis, and fulfilling the needs from other engineeringdepartments in SE skills and the institution’s B.S. requirements. Figure 2 shows the frameworkfor BSSE curriculum design analysis. The framework includes the

Conference Session

Novel Applications of Computers/Software in Energy Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Spezia, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

induction motors driving general industrial loads. The developed material providesthe basis for a design project that includes technical and economic aspects.I. IntroductionGenerally, engineering economics topics have been de-emphasized in engineering programs andreplaced with other material. Some electrical engineering programs have eliminated therequirement for engineering economics in favor of other discipline-specific courses. While thetrend is to eliminate this material, a need continues to exist for economic decision making inelectric power conversion courses as well as other areas of engineering.1Deregulation of electric utilities introduced significant energy price volatility especially forindustrial users. Electric machine efficiency and

Collection

2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Lawrence Agbezuge

Elementpackage) for solving an engineering problem.The basic concepts taught in an applied Finite Element Analysis course wereutilized to solve a transient heat transfer problem in a cylindrical duct whosethermal conductivity is temperature dependent. The problem was given to graduatestudents to be solved with commercial software (licensed for academic research) asa project for the final examination. A significant number of the students wereengineers working for a company in the Rochester area.The students were expected to satisfy four primary goals in solving the assignedproblem. The goals were (1) to examine the governing equation in order tounderstand the nonlinear nature of the boundary value problem, (2) to correctlydefine the mixed boundary

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2007-80: TEACHING OPERABILITY IN UNDERGRADUATE CHEMICALENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATIONThomas Marlin, McMaster University Department of Chemical Engineering McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Tom Marlin joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as NSERC Research Professor in Industrial Process Control in 1988. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 1972; then, he practiced engineering for 15 years in the chemical and petroleum industries. In 1987, he served as the Visiting Fellow, for the Warren Centre Study located at the University of Sydney, Australia. During the one-year project, a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Evans, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

student programs. He has published and presented widely in areas of surface science, electronic materials and processes, project management, and industry/university relations. He holds 4 patents and has received awards for excellence in technical innovation (IBM), technical authorship (IBM), teaching (University of Colorado), and scholarship (National Science Foundation).Shekar Viswanathan, National University Dr. Viswanathan is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Engineering and Lead Faculty for Engineering Management and Homeland Security and Safety Engineering. He is the Lead for six full time and fifty two adjunct faculty members. His department offers three

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Nazemetz, Oklahoma State University; Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University; Martin High, Oklahoma State University; Karen High, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

innovative design solutions. This paper outlines the experiencesgained using the USPTO patent library to develop design solutions in the Introduction toEngineering Design with CAD course project. In this course, freshman and sophomoreengineering students use the patent library to develop an understanding of engineering conceptsand then apply these concepts to develop an integrated set of design components. Use of thepatent library allows students to make significant and rapid progress in understanding anddeveloping an integrated solution without having to have had all of the advanced engineeringcourses necessary to develop the components.Intr oductionOver 7.4 million U.S. patents have been issued since the first U.S. patent was issued on July

Conference Session

Perceptions of Women's Success in STEM

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Catherine Claiborne, University of Washington; Suzanne G. Brainard, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

butthere are differences. Sustainability of a program can be achieved with external funding and noinstitutional support. Institutionalization is achieved when the university makes a “permanent”financial commitment (i.e. line item) to a project or some aspect thereof. Ideally, a college oruniversity could and would fully fund and completely institutionalize a project like ADVANCE.However given budget constraints, it is most likely that a combination of sustainability andinstitutionalization is necessary for ADVANCE and projects like it to continue at the institutionallevel.In this preliminary study, the authors draw on conceptual frameworks of institutionalization andinstitutional theory to analyze issues of sustainability and institutionalization

Conference Session

IE Program Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Potter, Iowa State University; K. Jo Min, Iowa State University; Frank Peters, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

‘real world’ company. Engineering expectations include applying both previously Page 12.578.3learned and newly acquired knowledge and skills to identifying, formulating, and solving acomplex engineering problem which results in tangible deliverables and a financial incentive forthe company. Engineered solutions will consider extensive ramifications, including political,ethical, environmental, social and economic issues, as well as sustainability andmanufacturability of solutions. Project developments will be communicated formally andinformally, through written and verbal means, to all levels of personnel. Personal effectivenessskills will be

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation of Multidisciplinary Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

project management. The honors program in the Kate Gleason College isstructured to give participating faculty members a full appreciation for the dynamics of the team-based, product development process and the numerous issues on the periphery of engineeringthat are critical for engineers to be aware of in order to successfully commercialize a product inthe global economy. Participating faculty members discover how knowledge creation in theirdiscipline ties into “value creation” in society, better equipping them to incorporate these ideas intheir own teaching and mentoring of students. Additionally, through their participation in theprogram, faculty members become much more receptive to the concept of team-based,multidisciplinary design as a model

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Management / IE and EM Program Mangement / Engineering Management Program Management

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Raymond Price, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Engineering Management

engineering courses, communication skills are not taught explicitly;however, students are expected and held accountable for being able to speak and write well.Consequently, there is a need to change university engineering programs in order to provideopportunities for students to develop communication skills (Pet-Armacost, & Armacost, 2003).The importance and need for oral and written communication skills in engineering has beenclearly recognized. Engineering students who have good communication skills are more likelyto succeed and advance in the professional world than those who don’t.Team-Working Skills in EngineeringIn today’s work environment, project tasks generally involve the establishment of teams formedby people from different functional

Conference Session

FPD9 -- Teaching Methods & Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, SUSAN FREEMAN, and BEVERLY JAEGER are members of; Susan Freeman, Northeastern University; John-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University

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First-Year Programs

physics behind such structures being implicitly involved in mostcases and explicitly examined in a couple. Recommended group sizes ranged anywhere from twoto five students, with ages ranging from elementary through high school.Many of our students have had prior experience with a tower construction project and withconstruction projects in general during their K-12 experiences. A survey of the freshmanengineering students at Ohio Northern University indicated that 24% had had some experiencewith a tower building assignment, and 50% indicated that they had had prior experience withconstruction-type assignments, primarily building either towers or bridges.One item that the authors were unable to find during their background research was