Conference Session

Construction ET/Technology Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Behling, Purdue University; Mark Shaurette, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

reconstruction segments of the construction industry. These research projects willhelp the industry overcome challenges, will provide faculty with field experience that can beshared in the classroom and, through publication, will help to build a body of knowledge for thedemolition and reconstruction segments of the construction industry.This paper will be of significance to those interested in demolition and reconstruction educationin addition to those seeking to develop new curricula, particularly specializations. Specifically,this paper will detail the process from engaging an industry segment or segments to developingthe actual courses in the newly developed specialization.BackgroundConstruction is central to the basic human needs of “food, shelter

Conference Session

Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalia Kapli, Pennsylvania State University; John Wise, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Wesley Donahue, Pennsylvania State University

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International

, University Park, PA 16802. Telephone: 814-865-4015, FAX: 814-865-4021, email: TALME@engr.psu.eduWesley Donahue, Pennsylvania State University Wesley Donahue is an Associate Professor affiliated with both The Smeal College of Business Administration and the College of Education, and he is the Director of Management Development. Dr. Donahue brings over 25 years of manufacturing, sales and organization development experience to his position at Penn State. Formerly, he worked with the Fortune 500 company Brockway Inc., now Owens-Brockway, where he began as a project engineer and rose to manager of technology for the corporation’s international division. Subsequently, he co-founded and served as

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Real World Concepts

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosida Coowar, University of Central Florida; Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida; Temitayo Akinrefon, University of Central Florida; Ala` Battikhi, University of Central Florida; Ana Ferreras, University of Central Florida; Kelvin Gibson, University of Central Florida; Ramamoorthy Lakkoju, University of Central Florida; Katherine Meza, University of Central Florida

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Engineering Management

variation, and eliminate waste. It hasbeen used successfully in the automotive, chemical, healthcare, high-tech, financial and retailindustries. The Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department at the University ofCentral Florida has incorporated service experiential learning opportunities into the curriculumwithin a Total Quality Improvement course. This course teaches the Six Sigma body ofknowledge together with Lean Principles and provides hands-on Six Sigma project experience.This paper describes how a team of faculty and students used the Lean Six Sigma Technology todocument and improve the pre-application process used by the College of Engineering andComputer Science at the University of Central Florida.1. IntroductionIn the Fall

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lanny Griffin, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

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Biomedical

, Inc., a San Luis Obispo-based biotechnology startup company. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at Milwaukee School of Engineering and was employed by McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company, where he was a lead engineer and Principal Investigator on projects to develop technology evolution plans for the Space Station. Page 11.362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 COSMM: An Undergraduate Laboratory for Engineering and Manufacturing Complex, Organic Shapes Using Nature as a TemplateIntroductionThe COSMM (Complex/Organic Shapes and Multiple

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Methods and Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Walden, Northern Kentucky University; Rose Shumba, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

purpose of a software engineering class at our institutions is to teach students how towork in teams to develop a secure software project from specification through delivery. The soft-ware engineering class has prerequisite classes in programming, but has no security prerequisites.Therefore all security concepts necessary for our secure software development processes must beintroduced in the software engineering class. As a single semester doesn’t offer the necessary time to broadly cover information securityin addition to software engineering, the class focuses on security topics that fit directly into thesoftware development lifecycle. For example, the course teaches students how to securely usecryptographic APIs in their projects but

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Sudhir Shrestha, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Hazim A El-Mounayri, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kody Varahramyan, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

data also reveal the positive impact of theseinstructional modes compared to those utilized in traditional engineering coursework. This paperpresents these new delivery approaches and the sample research projects included within thenewly introduced nanotechnology courses.1. IntroductionNanotechnology is a rapidly advancing field that shows promise in solving current science andtechnology challenges through the innovative materials, processes/devices, and theirapplications. Nanomanufacturing including self-assembly has become an important tool indeveloping nanoscale devices applicable in medicine, electronics, and energy. Nanomaterialssuch as carbon nanotubes, graphene, quantum dots, and nanoparticles are of particular interest insensor

Conference Session

Mechatronics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo A Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American

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Mechanical Engineering

Page 23.789.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Integration of Sensors and Low-Cost Microcontrollers into the Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Design SequenceAbstractIn most undergraduate engineering degree plans the engineering design curricula include classessuch as Introduction to Engineering, Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Solids. They usuallydo not have laboratory components to help students understand concepts through hands-onexperience. This paper presents the development and implementation of an educational low-costdevice/tool that can be set up and used by students in and out of their engineering classes toassist their learning. The goal of this project was

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond A. Hansen, Purdue University; Tomasz Wiktor Wlodarczyk, University of Stavanger; Thomas J. Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computing & Information Technology

Paper ID #9550A collaborative, multinational cyberinfrastructure for big data analyticsProf. Raymond A Hansen, Purdue UniversityDr. Tomasz Wiktor Wlodarczyk, University of Stavanger Dr Tomasz Wiktor Wlodarczyk, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Stavanger, Norway. His work focuses on analysis, storage and communica- tion in data intensive computing. His particular interest is time series storage and analysis. He is currently working on these areas in several research projects including: SEEDS (EU FP7), Safer@Home (RCN), A4Cloud (EU FP7), BigDataCom-PU

Conference Session

Challenges in Engineering, Models in Professional Programs, Capstone Design and Function Generator for Educational Environment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudio da Rocha Brito, Science and Education Research Council; Melany M. Ciampi, Safety, Health and Environment Research Organization; Rosa Maria Castro Fernandes Vasconcelos, Universidade de Minho; Luis Alfredo Martins Amaral P.E., University of Minho; Victor Freitas de Azeredo Barros, Science and Education Reseach Council

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International

integrated study cycles; in Textile Engineering and Engineering and Industrial Management; in the 1st cycle courses of Design and Fashion Marketing; and in the 2nd cycle courses of Fashion Design and Communication, Textile Chemistry, Advanced Textiles and Design and Marketing. Head research and research member of several R&D projects, Vasconcelos has presented many dozens of scientific journal papers and communications in international conferences as either main author or co-author. Vasconcelos is the president of the Pedagogical Council of the School of Engineering and vice-dean of School of Engineering since 2011.Prof. Luis Alfredo Martins Amaral, University of Minho Born in 1960, Amaral holds a Ph.D. in Information

Conference Session

Thinking, Reasoning & Engineering in Elementary School

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Paul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-1411: TEACHING ENGINEERING ACROSS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSMichael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community CollegeLinda Desjardins, Northern Essex Community CollegePaul Chanley, Northern Essex Community CollegeLori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College Page 15.1171.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Teaching Engineering Across Elementary SchoolsAbstract:As part of a grant-funded three-year project, a cooperative effort took place to introduceEngineering is Elementary (EiE) into the elementary schools of four public school systems.Twenty-two teachers, one from each elementary school in the four school districts, weredesignated as lead teachers

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin G. Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

engineering(CEE) works is important to many civil and environmental engineers. Geotechnical and geo-environmental engineers in particular must be able to understand and apply various aspects of thegeological sciences in their practice, but many other types of engineers also need to be confidentin understanding and applying findings of geologists with respect to their projects. This includesmanaging civil or environmental aspects of foundation systems, tunneling, mining, constructionmaterials, excavation, ground water, contaminant transport, seismicity, and mass movement,among many other applications.Because of the importance of geological science to civil and environmental engineers, it is notunusual for some engineering programs to require a course

Conference Session

Discipline Specific Topics and Techniques

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth J. Stewart, University of Michigan; John G. Younger, University of Michigan; Michael J. Solomon, University of Michigan

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Graduate Studies

fourteenth weekof the course 64% of students utilized either interdisciplinary terminology or terminology from adiscipline outside of their own to propose extensions of course projects. Overall, we have shownthat a graduate course designed to improve interdisciplinary learning is capable of making smallincreases in the interdisciplinary learning of students.BackgroundThe need to create graduate students with interdisciplinary skillsets is regarded as increasinglyimportant as research challenges become more complex and fall outside the disciplinaryconstructs of currently established fields. Interdisciplinary skills are desired within academia,government and industry. As a result, interdisciplinary graduate programs and interdisciplinaryresearch

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Reid Bailey

: • At the individual, not team, level • Process-focused (not only focused on quality of end result) • Not too time-intensive (not requiring significant class time or unreasonable amounts of time to prepare and score) Page 10.1442.3Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” • Reliable from student to student, project to project, and year to year • Linked to more than just one level on Bloom’s taxonomyA trade study of four basic assessment strategy options in shown in Table 2. Table 2

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brecca Berman; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

characteristics and operations of partnerships influence STEM educationaloutcomes.* Part of this project addresses the vexing issue of how to evaluate both the outcomesof a partnership, and the partnership itself. For, although a partnership is often viewed primarilyas a vehicle or framework for conducting other planned STEM activities or interventions, it oftenbecomes much more than that, leading to a multitude of unanticipated activities and outcomes.Evaluations that don’t directly address the partnership, and the unanticipated outcomes thatresult, may suffer from a weak formative assessment regarding the health of the partnership, andalso may miss some of the most important results of that partnership.The unintended consequences of the partnership

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe ABET Accreditation Criteria, the first describing the usual role of the master’s degree and thelast three addressing profession practice topics: 12. An ability to apply knowledge in a specialized area related to civil engineering, 13. An understanding of the elements of project management, construction, and asset management, 14. An understanding of business and public policy and administration fundamentals, and 15. An understanding of the role of the leader and leadership principles and

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

program as juniors. All programs were developed in closepartnership with industry and are designed to meet accreditation standards.The National Science Foundation awarded PRIME a three-year Advanced TechnologicalEducation (ATE) grant (Division of Undergraduate Education - DUE # 0101637) towards theimplementation of a comprehensive approach to manufacturing education. The goal of the ATEproject is to support the implementation of an industry-driven regional network formanufacturing education at different levels, at times and locations best suited to new andincumbent technicians and engineers. Highlights of the ATE project include:• The implementation of an active learning model consisting of Exploration, Dialog, and Application steps for

Conference Session

Motivating Students to Achieve

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Turner; Keith Johnson; W. Andrew Clark

avoided by reading literature written to assist with theteam dynamics5.One possible solution is to allow teams to select a group member from their discipline, butleaving the balance of the selection to the instructor, or insist upon selection of different sub-discipline categories. This problem is an issue primarily in the broad based disciplines such asbusiness. In technological oriented projects, teams typically are comprised of those students thathave expertise in and around the focal technology and while this may result in a rapid solution tothe problem the solutions typically have a narrow focus and do not evaluate “out of the box”solution sets. Insertion of team members with diverse educational background and experiencemay result in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo

both the class andlaboratory successfully but who had no real sense of where the learning integrated into theiroverall engineering experience. In an effort to address these concerns, faculty from theMechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering Departments at The University of Memphisworked together to design and propose a more reality-based curriculum within the existingcourse parameters. With the introduction of a limited-scale design project, informationdeveloped in the lab was critical to the completion of the design project that applied engineeringcontent to real-time application. Supplementary and supporting information is provided alongwith project results to make these ideas easily adaptable to any engineering design course.Introduction

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno; Clifford Mirman

problem and solve the needs of our diverse studentpopulation, the NIU Department of Technology has developed a new laboratory based PLCcourse. This course, while teaching the basics of PLC ladder logic and programming, alsoprovides valuable hands on experience in the integration of a PLC with sensors, motion control,vision systems, and robotics. The laboratory experience also includes the development of humaninterface to the PLC in typical automation applications, both with hand held devices andMicrosoft visual basic tools. The students are also involved in a two-week lab based project thatrequires advanced PLC functions. The current PLC experience was implemented during thespring 2002 semester, the summer 2002 semester and is on its third phase

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Eisenbarth; Siddhartha P. Duttagupta; Robert Walters; Paul Dawson; Joseph Guarino; George Murgel; Christopher Pentico

use of sophisticated laboratory equipment. The newly createdM.S. programs in CE, EE, and ME are engaged in an interdisciplinary research effort, which isdiscussed in this article. The technical goal is to minimize the use of hazardous chemicals incleaning high aspect ratio microstructures. Broader goals include dynamic curriculadevelopment, and student leadership and mentoring opportunities that will enhance the quality ofgraduate education and attract new students to the programs. This project symbolizes thecommitment shared by the faculty and their partners in the industry and in the government toensure the rapid, collaborative growth of professionally oriented graduate programs at BSU.I. IntroductionIn 1996, the State of Idaho transformed

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvon Kermarrec; Ian R. Simpson

. (Duration : 4 months). Around 20 students per year currently use this program to register for courses in engineering colleges in Germany and Spain. Plans are being made to develop this program to other partners in Europe and North America, possibly on a « Student Exchange » basis. We are busy looking for potential, new partners !• Final year projects may be performed in companies or research laboratories abroad. (Duration : 6-10 months).In 1998-99, sixty final-year students performed their project abroad in 13 different countries.• A « Sandwich Year » (Jeune Ingénieur) exists between 2nd and 3rd years which enables around 50 students per year to go and work in industry. (Duration : 12 months). Around 20 students per year

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; James Hedrick; Christine LaPlante; Richard Wilk; Cherrice Traver; Frank Wicks

outside. These are typically practicing engineers from the differentdisciplines who talk about their area and the kind of work they do. The weekly sectionlectures are devoted primarily to introducing some fundamental engineering andcomputer science principles all tied into the concept of intelligent transportation. Threemain areas are explored: Energy and Cars, Cars and Computers, and TransportationInfrastructure. In the design studio portion of the course, the students learn basic designmethodology and apply it to several individual and team design exercises. They alsocover ethics, project scheduling, and report preparation. The design studio also includesa 5-week long design project in which the students work in teams to design and buildsimple

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Luiz DaSilva

, threaded discussion, a chat areaand a web-based audio conferencing tool with whiteboard capabilities. Students were challengedto use these in order to effectively replace in-person group activities that were precluded by thedistributed character of the group.In this paper we describe student reactions and feedback to the group project and to thedistributed nature and delivery of the course, provided both informally and through a surveydeveloped in collaboration with Virginia Tech's Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning(IDDL). 32 Main Campus 17 Norfolk

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ECE

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Robert W. Hendricks, Virginia Tech; Cortney V. Martin, Virginia Tech; Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech; Richadr Lee Clark, Virginia Western Community College

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Electrical and Computer

Development and Educational Research, and Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Virginia TechRichadr Lee Clark, Virginia Western Community College Page 22.993.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Lab-in-a-Box: Assessment of Courses and Materials Developed to Support Independent Experimentation on Concepts from CircuitsIntroductionA project known as Lab-in-a-Box (LiaB) was developed in 2004 as one of the outcomes of adepartment-level reform within the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering(ECE) at Virginia Tech, addressing a need that was

Conference Session

Design Spine

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin P. Arnett P.E., U.S. Military Academy; Craig E. Quadrato, U.S. Military Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

benefit from these concepts. The visualization, parametric abilities,and embedded information lend themselves similar to hydrologic and runoff design, (4)transportation engineering (5), and in aspects of geotechnical design. (6) This just adds tothe need for knowledge in this area that has been established in other studies of the AECfield. (3) (7) (8) (9) Several emerging management and project delivery systems are directlysupported by BIM processes. One example is Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). IPD asa process, demands the type of collaboration that BIM is optimal for producing. (10)Another example is lean construction concept where BIM also provides an enhancedcapability and framework to apply lean construction principles. (11) (12

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur F. Garcia Jr. P.E., Palm Beach State College

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Two Year College Division

. During the energy crisis years of the mid-1970s and early 1980s, he worked on energy research projects for several companies. Garcia was awarded his P.E. license in the state of Maryland in 1984. He received his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from George Washington University (Washington, D.C.) in 1979. He graduated from the University of Texas (Austin) in 1966 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. He received his A.A. from San Antonio (Junior) College in 1963 and graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio in 1961. Page 25.168.1 c American Society for

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Two Year College Division

degree program. These two courses consist of both theoryand laboratory work with a heavy reliance on student projects (typically, of an interdisciplinarynature) that involve the implementation of functional, proto-type, sensor/control networks. Usingpopular low-cost PIC® microcontroller development boards and a small, self-contained, non-IT,TCP/IP data network, students are able to construct sensor/control networks that can be accessedlocally either through standard wired network connections (Ethernet) or wirelessly using eitherthe IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) or IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) wireless standards or remotely throughavailable mobile device apps. The successes and failures of the courses will be high-lighted,along with student reaction, examples of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

FYI Team Members; Adrian Cloete

. These Teams were led by new associate FYI deans and, most often, the professor teaching ½ the general education course, Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. ½ This course served as the "pedagogical hub”. Faculty met before and during the term to plan a cross-curricular scope and sequence ½ integration of courses ½ Students were scheduled into cohort classes Faculty Teams planned and delivered 2-hour labs each week where all members of the ½ Faculty Team would meet with the students. Students were assigned 1-2 cross-curricular Team Projects designed with terminal course objectives from all five first-term courses. For example, in the Electronics Engineering

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith D Portsmore; Martha N. Cyr; Chris B. Rogers

Page 5.376.4has projects instead of individual programs. Each project is composed of 5 areas - the JournalArea, the Program area, The Upload area, The View and Compare Area, and the Compute Area.This created one environment for the program , the data, subsequent analysis, as well as a place forcomments and photos. Each student or groups of students could create a project for theirexperiment or investigation. In each of the areas, users can choose different templates that vary intheir capabilities and complexities. Each area can have a number of pages so that different kinds oftemplates can be used within a single area. After reviewing a number of projects done in elementary and middle school as well ascollege, templates were designed to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

Page 6.224.1best be matched ... is discussed surprisingly little in the literature.” In most cases, he says, aProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationsingle assessor was matched with an assessee. The matching has been done along twodimensions: blindly or non-blindly, electronically or non-electronically.Often, reviews are done blindly, e.g., by collecting student assignments in one class, and passingthem out to other students in the next class period, using an instructor-assigned ID number* toidentify the students [KPD 95]. However, some projects use face-to-face interaction, frequentlycalled “peer revision” [Stys 98, Stys