Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

prescriptive texts, may Page 25.1348.7encourage consensus, but partly by so doing that emphasis deflects students from interrogatingdifference or fairness. For example, some educators equate "functioning on multidisciplinaryteams" with working well with business and management representatives, hardly a recipe fordiverse political or social outlooks in an engineering project.2 Nor is "sending kids to the Web,"as one educator suggested as a partial fulfillment of outcome J ("a knowledge of contemporaryissues") likely to introduce a critical sensibility into the engineering classroom. 12Also worrying are increasingly frequent invocations of "global

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane L. Peters P.E., LMS International; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

community overall, and to improve the planet earth.In contrast, while Danielle took a leave of absence and planned to return to her current employer,the impact of the credential was the primary way in which her career would be enhanced by adoctorate. She was working on research projects that interested her prior to beginning herdoctorate, but without the degree, she was unable to be the Principal Investigator (PI) on herprojects. Now what I find is that unless I have a PhD you cannot own your own funding, no matter how many papers you’ve written… So you have to have a PhDBy getting a doctorate, she would be able be a PI on her projects, define their direction, and exerta greater degree of control.Harald, unlike Catherine and

Conference Session

FPD I: Research on First-year Programs Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Natalie Gedde, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

profilethe successful program developed for the Introduction to Engineering course, and to assess theattitudes of student assistants who are serving (or have served) in this role.Program Background and MethodsDuring the 2000-2001 school year, a new approach to the Introduction to Engineering coursesequence at the University of Notre Dame was developed involving cross disciplinary hands ondesign projects. Since inception, the course sequence has enrollments that have ranged from~350-450 first-year engineering students and involves large group lectures that introduce thebackground / theory of the projects and small group learning center sections. The learningcenters are groups of ~25-35 first-year students led by an instructor and an undergraduate

Conference Session

Research in Assessment

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter M. Ostafichuk, University of British Columbia; Jim Sibley, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, University of British Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

students, all registered in a common lecture section (i.e. there areapproximately 125 students in the classroom at one time). It includes two major design projects Page 25.1031.3and numerous assignments, labs, and other activities related to design. The second course,MECH 325, is a third-year course on machine design.13 It includes five large design assignmentsfocusing on different types of mechanical components. There are approximately 150 students inMECH 325, divided into two roughly-equal sections. All students who complete MECH 223normally continue on to take MECH 325. Following recommended practice, in both coursesteams are instructor

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics III

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bert Pariser, Technical Career Institutes

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

five venture companies, and as a management consultant successfully catalyzed more than $100 million of new shareholder value in client businesses. He has led cross-functional client teams in projects to find and capture value-creating profit and growth opportunities. Pariser is a Trustee of Mutual Fund Series Trust and serves as a member or the audit committee. Pariser received a Ph.D. and M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from MIT in electrical engineering. Email: bert.pariser@gmail.com. Page 25.1040.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Page

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ikseon Choi, University of Georgia; Yi-Chun Hong, National Central University; David K. Gattie, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia; Melissa G. Gay, University of Georgia; Lucas John Jensen, University of Georgia; Hyojin Park, University of Georgia; YounSeok Lee, University of Georgia

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-5074: PROMOTING SECOND-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS’EPISTEMIC BELIEFS AND REAL-WORLD PROBLEM-SOLVING ABIL-ITIES THROUGH CASE-BASED E-LEARNING RESOURCESDr. Ikseon Choi, University of Georgia Ikseon (Ike) Choi is an Associate Professor of learning, design, and technology in the Department of Edu- cational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia, where he teaches learning theories, learning environments design, and program evaluation courses. Since receiving his Ph.D. at Penn State University, he has been leading a series of research and development projects for case-based e-learning environments and real-world problem solving in both higher education and corporate settings. Through

Conference Session

Future Directions of Continuing Professional Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

students wereenrolled in the course. The course covered topics such as, instrumentation, signal conditioning,data acquisition, feedback control, process monitoring, DOE, SPC/SQC, and Taguchi methods.The course meets twice a week for two 75-minute sessions. Students have two homeworkassignments per week and two project assignments per semester. While the homeworkassignments are individual effort, both of the projects are group effort. Even though there is nolab component attached to the course, the projects require students to perform hands-onmeasurements with thermocouples and DAQ data loggers. The homework assignments, projects,mid term and final exam are each worth 25% weight of the final grade. During the Fall 2011semester a new component

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert O'Connell, University of Missouri, Columbia; Pil-Won On, University of Missouri, Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

include motivating students to study and learn new materialoutside of class and before encountering it in the classroom; motivating them to engageappropriately in the specified group work process; and motivating them to engage in theformative/summative assessment examination processes used. The paper describes progressmade over three semesters in overcoming these challenges.IntroductionEducational research has shown that student-centered active learning can produce much deeperconceptual learning than can traditional lecturing1, and that when active learning is conducted inan extensively group-based learning environment, such as problem-based learning, project-basedlearning2, or team-based learning3, students also develop various professional

Conference Session

The Transition from Secondary to College Mathematics

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bert Pariser, Technical Career Institutes

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

addition, Pariser co-founded five venture companies and as a management consultant successfully catalyzed more than $100 million of new shareholder value in client businesses. He has led cross-functional client teams in projects to find and capture value-creating profit and growth opportunities. Pariser is a Trustee of Mutual Fund Series Trust and serves as a member or the audit committee. Pariser received a Ph.D. and M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from MIT in electrical engineering. Email: bert.pariser@gmail.com. Page 25.1256.1 c American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Potpourri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Don E. Malzahn, Wichita State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

development of an individual's own self-perception is the developmentof a vocabulary15 that allows them to tie their experienced self to the image of an effectiveleader. Students come to the course with a very limited vocabulary for describing themselves.They identify with a gender, race, religion, academic major, hometown, etc. These are theconcepts that they have available for describing themselves and for describing the similarity anddifferences between themselves and others. This leaves very little flexibility for meaningfuldifferentiation involving the responsibilities and coordinated efforts required in manyengineering projects. In an attempt to resolve the deficit of vocabulary with respect to leadership,an objective of this course is to

Collection

2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Eric D. Mead; Karen Reynolds; Lawrence Whitman

student creativity in pre-college programs at UMES," Proc. of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, S4D-1-6. 2002. 7. Oppliger, D., "Using first LEGO league to enhance engineering education and to increase the pool of future engineering students (work in progress)," Proc. of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, S4D-11-5. 2002. 8. Ferrari, M., Ferrari, G., and Hempel, R., “Building robots with LEGO MINDSTORMS – The ultimate tool for MINDSTORMS maniacs!,” Syngress Publishing, Inc., Rockland, MA. 2002. 9. Erwin, B., “Creative projects with LEGO MINDSTORMS,” Addison-Wesley, 2001. 10. Wilcher, D., “LEGO MINDSTORMS interfacing,” The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2003

Collection

2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

M. Nazrul Islam

Digital Forensics 8 Hardware Design Programmable Logic Gates System Integration Smart Card TechnologyTeaching MethodologiesThe proposed curriculum will be highly application-oriented. So the courses need be taughtpreferably in lab environment. Each course will assign some practical problems to the studentswho will design, develop and test the technology to solve the problems. In addition, a significantemphasis will be given to senior design and project, and internship training.Students and GraduatesThe security technology curriculum will involve a great amount of applied technologies. So thestudents will require a high level

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

in Figure 6.The total cost for five racecars, bridge, and Christmas tree was about $2,300. The VEX robotparts are regularly used by students for other projects and can be used for VEX competitions.In the future we plan to include a short quiz to test the knowledge gained by the students intopics such as torque, gear ratios, acceleration, and top speed. Correct answers in the quiz will berewarded as time subtracted from the team’s best elapsed time.Figure 5. Drag race start. The “Christmas tree” on the right used in starting each race. Theuppermost staging lights are on. The tree is 42½” high by 19” square at the base. Figure 6. Elapsed time display.ConclusionsThis paper described the development of a one-day

Collection

2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Warren Rosen

in Figure 6.The total cost for five racecars, bridge, and Christmas tree was about $2,300. The VEX robotparts are regularly used by students for other projects and can be used for VEX competitions.In the future we plan to include a short quiz to test the knowledge gained by the students intopics such as torque, gear ratios, acceleration, and top speed. Correct answers in the quiz will berewarded as time subtracted from the team’s best elapsed time.Figure 5. Drag race start. The “Christmas tree” on the right used in starting each race. Theuppermost staging lights are on. The tree is 42½” high by 19” square at the base. Figure 6. Elapsed time display.ConclusionsThis paper described the development of a one-day

Collection

2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

M. Nazrul Islam

Digital Forensics 8 Hardware Design Programmable Logic Gates System Integration Smart Card TechnologyTeaching MethodologiesThe proposed curriculum will be highly application-oriented. So the courses need be taughtpreferably in lab environment. Each course will assign some practical problems to the studentswho will design, develop and test the technology to solve the problems. In addition, a significantemphasis will be given to senior design and project, and internship training.Students and GraduatesThe security technology curriculum will involve a great amount of applied technologies. So thestudents will require a high level

Conference Session

Exploration of Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyndi Lynch, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

statements), and a conceptual frameworkwith strategies that facilitate the transition from graduate student to assistant professor. Thispaper discusses the formative and summative assessment that occurs throughout the course inrelation to the three missions of research, teaching, and service. Project SignificanceDoctoral education has received many criticisms including time-to-degree, completion rates, andthat doctoral students are not prepared for career opportunities within the academy1-4. A majorconcern is that doctoral students are not prepared for and lack understanding of the varioushigher education institutional types and missions2. Faculty roles and responsibilities vary basedon institution type such as community college, liberal arts, or a

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie M. Little-Wiles M.S.M., Ph.D. (A.B.D.), Purdue University, West Lafayette; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Wanda L. Worley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Erich J. Bauer, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and links to Adobe Connect.” Page 25.633.5The Gradebook tool was next on the list of examination. Researchers first wanted to know if thefaculty were using the gradebook to post assignment or project grades. Ninety percent (90%) ofthe respondents answered “Yes, always.” See Table 6. Table 6. Gradebook Tool Usage with Assignment/Project Grades Answer Percent Yes, always 90% Yes, some of the time 6% No, not at all 4%Finally, faculty were asked if they used the same Gradebook tool to deliver test grades

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Ethics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Islam H. El-adaway, Mississippi State University; Marianne M. Jennings, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

-authorship status. Fourth, the authorsanalyze the ethical issues governing status of authorship. Fifth, the authors propose a frameworkfor defining and refining co-authorship guidelines through analysis and evaluation.2. Types of AuthorshipWork to date has established types of co-author relationships that range from the classic exampleof partners in research such as Watson and Crick to department heads adding their name to allworks that originate in their departments.The Gift or Honorary AuthorshipIn this type of arrangement, those authors who have done the actual design, conduct, and writingof the research decide to bestow co-author status on someone who has had little or no affiliationwith the project [1]. This is a form of honorary authorship

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

calls help me feel connected tothe field by hearing about others’ projects, papers, and degree progress. As a student in anengineering education department, it is easy to become absorbed in a single view of the field; thepeer group assists in maintaining a broad view of engineering education research. Beyondbuilding connections, other valuable aspects of the program are accountability and peer review.Discussing research, teaching, service, and personal goals are often items that do not combine inother spaces. The peer-mentoring group has helped me set clear proximal goals as a developingprofessional. Our group reminds and motivates me to focus on the goals that can be overlookedand celebrate their achievement. Our group uses peer review to have

Conference Session

New Classrooms, New Challenges I: Novel Approaches to Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramirez Apud Lopez Zaira, Universidad de las Américas Puebla; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

reacting to a side product with no commercial value. The important reactions are: The kinetic laws for each reaction, which are referred to component B are: Determine the proper order to install both reactors. Figure 3. Example of a decision-making problem for IQ-407 course. Adapted from Tiscareño8.Problem solving learning environment assessmentThe initial implementation of the PSLEs in IQ-407 was exploratory, intended to provideformative evaluation along the course. However, a deep analysis for the final problem solution Page 25.737.5was conducted. The final project was assigned over the last week of the 2011 fall semester;students had a

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arlen Planting, Boise State University; Sin Ming Loo, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

totackle projects with little or no help, and provides the sense of accomplishment that leads astudent to exclaim “It blinked!” when he succeeds in causing an LED to blink. Soft coreprocessors run on an FPGA development board were used to implement changes to amicroprocessors course in order to achieve the desired goals. The use of soft core processorsallows configuration changes not possible in traditional microprocessors.Simplifying the processor, exposing the low level processor interactions, and adjusting theprocessor configuration as needed to best demonstrate the desired foundational concepts, areintegral to the updated microprocessors course at Boise State University. Course enhancements,including development and continuing augmentation of

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Yu Gu, University of California, Los Angeles

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

students and theirinteractions with faculty in science and engineering is fairly limited. Accordingly, the objective of this project is to examine the protégé-mentor relationshipsamong women doctoral students and their faculty members in the field of engineering. Morespecifically, I examine how protégé-mentor relationships support or limit women's aspirations topursue academic careers. To pursue these issues, I conducted thirty in-depth semi-structuredinterviews with female doctoral students in the School of Engineering at Western University—apseudonym for a large research university in the western United States. This university wasselected due to its strong engineering programs with sizeable graduate enrollments.Theoretically speaking, I

Conference Session

Attaining Academic Leadership Positions

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Chris S. Anderson, Michigan Technological University; Dianne Dorland, Rowan University; Sarah A. Rajala, Mississippi State University; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Liaison Officer to the Middle States Commission on Higher Educa- tion, the liaison to campus facilities department on capital projects and space assignments related to the academic division, and oversight of the academic division budgets. She coordinates the interdisciplinary programs and has served as project shepherd for a new interdisciplinary science building and renovation of existing commercial structures to be used as facilities for programs in theater and in film and media studies. Roth holds a Ph.D. in civil engineering and is a Licensed Engineer. She has taught extensively and conducted research in the area of geotechnical engineering

Conference Session

Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. Competitiveness may be achieved through variousmechanisms such as designing and building distinguished products, offering outstanding service,producing high product quality and of course by developing cost competitiveness1). In this regard,it is recognized that undergraduate education mainly focuses on the technical and design aspectsof the engineering profession while many other aspects including marketing, costing, project andfinancial management, which are the essential needs of the contemporary manufacturingbusinesses, receive much less attention2). While the subject of engineering economy has beenincorporated in undergraduate education for a number of years, it realized that the course contentand teaching methods have not kept pace with time. For

Conference Session

Engineering Education and Comparative Studies at Universities throughout Asia, Far East

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajarajan Subramanian, Maryland State Highway Administration; Thavavigna Thanikachalam, University of Florida; Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

International

0 0 3CE9406 Architecture and Town Planning 3 0 0 3 Page 25.310.7 Elective-IIICE9407 Practical Training (4 Weeks) 0 0 0 2 Eighth Semester Course Course Title Lecture Tutorial Practical Credits code Elective-IV 3 0 0 3 Elective- V 3 0 0 3 CE9451 Project Work

Conference Session

Faculty Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Robert E. Kleine III, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Collaborate in a Team Setting Learning Outcome Learning Outcome: Effectively collaborate in a team setting Student is able to contribute to team meetings in ways that advances the group’s work, facilitates the contributions of other team members, contributes to the project effort outside of team meetings, fosters a constructive team climate and responds effectively to conflict that may arise within the team effort. Does Not Meet Meets Expectations Developing Expectations Proficient Contributes to Team Meetings

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jingshan Wu, Zhejiang University; Xiaodong Zou, Zhejiang University; Hanbing Kong, Zhejiang University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

contextualizedproblem formulation, the ability to lead team-centered projects, the skill to communicateacross disciplines, and the desire for life-long learning of the engineering craft in a rapidlychanging world” (Grasso et al., 2010).The changing nature of engineering will inevitably require corresponding engineeringworkforces, who are “cathedral builders”, rather than” the equivalent of bricklayers” (Irving,1998); who are not only “comprehensive problem solvers”, but “problem definers”(Grasso etal., 2010); who have a basic knowledge of adjacent and connecting fields so as to readilyadapt to address the novel, complex problems that they will encounter, leadingmultidisciplinary teams of professionals and fostering innovation.The presented changes force a

Conference Session

Engineering and Technological Literacy: Past and Future

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; John W. Blake P.E., Austin Peay State University; Kate A. Disney, Mission College; Carl O. Hilgarth, Shawnee State University; Randy Libros, Community College of Philadelphia; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Steven R. Walk, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

of those providing the resources to carry out the project. Incarcerated individualsmight be compelled to create a particular technological device with no knowledge of theintended use of that device. If the device functioned as intended and met all specified designrequirements it would be difficult to argue that the creators were not engineering literate.However without knowledge about why the particular design requirements were chosen, andwhat use the device served, it could be said that the prisoner-engineers did not fully understandthe technology and were therefore not technologically literate.Evolution or Change Over TimeIt may be helpful to consider how the understanding of engineering or technology may evolve orchange over time. It can

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle Bellmer, Oklahoma State University; Mary E. Rezac, Kansas State University; Danielle Julie Carrier, University of Arkansas; Daniel Humburg, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

Commercialization (3 cr.) Introduction to the concepts involved in feasibilityand commercialization of biofuel and biobased products. Participants will gain an understandingof issues and processes in moving a project from pilot scale into commercialization.Sustainability Seminar (1 cr.) Topics in environmental sustainability, green engineering, lifecycle analysis, sustainable development, and sustainability science. Prerequisites: Freshman-level College Chemistry or permission of the instructor. Page 25.453.6Table 2. Schedule of course offerings for the Bioenergy and Sustainable Technology GraduateCertificate Program. Each course is offered at one of the four

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evan T. Curtis, Univeristy of Nebraska, Lincoln; Abby M. Kelly, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Johnathan Ian Edward McCoy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; David Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Dennis D. Schulte P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

. Thistype of system did not lend itself well to use when an exam, project, or other assignment wasused to satisfy multiple ABET outcomes. In view of this challenge, the department desired toestablish a paperless system for ease in both data collection and outcome analysis. Furthermore,while the previous assessment system provided an excellent method of concentrating direct andindirect evidence from both external and internal sources, it did not lend itself to the feedbackprocess that is essential to good continuous improvement practices. As a result, data collectionand feedback utility became the priority of assessment system refinement. However, our department has not been alone in attempting to developing better evidencestorage and