Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdzislaw Pawlowski; Krzysztof Zaremba; Roman Morawski

to the second-level studies (M.S. program). During the stage C some specialized(advanced) courses are taken and a final design project is carried out.The system of study is flexible in many ways. The student is granted a lot of freedom in designingand carrying an individual program of study: there is a large number (more than 400) of the studycourses to choose from, 7 diversified areas of concentration, individual pace of the advancementof the study, several exit options. A total of 162 credit hours are needed to obtain the B.S.degree. The curriculum requirements are formulated separately for each area of concentration.The coverage of fundamentals of electronics and information technology, as well as necessarybreadth of the curriculum, is

Conference Session

New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy Morse; Jack Selter

Technological Education (ATE)project to place an Information Technology option within the Engineering Technology at aDistance (ETD) program currently offered at the University of Central Florida.Leaving the campus.The more common method for involving industry into curriculum evaluation is to establish anindustrial advisory board usually involving the industry members after the curriculum has beenestablished. Using the criteria listed above, the methodology seeks to gain the input andacceptance of industry by meeting with the employers to find the best value in a curriculum thatwill serve the industry needs and meet the employee’s education and training needs. This modelis characterized by Jack Welch in his autobiography and is defined as the “vitality

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Knight

teach laboratory curriculums required in the 21st century. This situation hasdeveloped over several decades due to universities not giving adequate emphasis and workloadcredit for developing and teaching labs. The senior level mechanical engineering laboratorycurriculum at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) has been totally redesigned. Thenew curriculum is a two-hour senior level course (one-hour lecture plus a three-hour laboratoryweekly) that includes both mechanical and thermal laboratory systems along with a five-weekstudent design project. The one-hour lecture component of the course teaches modernengineering experimental concepts required to design, collect, analyze, and interpretexperimental results. The three-hour laboratory

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

subjects2.Prior to implementation of the camp, the College of Engineering had established a close workingrelationship with Wake County Public Schools in general and Centennial Campus Middle Schoolin particular. University students and faculty had spent many hours working with teachers andadministrators with various projects, including a National Science Foundation sponsored GK-12grant 3. This relationship made implementation of the camp very easy and has made it easy torepeat the camp the next summer.Session OverviewThe teacher/faculty week began one week after school had ended for the year. This gave theteachers time to wrap up their responsibilities for the school, but not so much time that it wasdifficult to get back into routine! Six teachers

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

and Applied Scienceand local industry about the need to provide engineers with a practical set of management skillsprior to undertaking early management assignments. High technology companies, such as thethen Martin Marietta, were concerned that many engineers were entering management positionsresponsible for project or development teams or promoted to managers of small departments orwork groups with little preparation. Ironically, these opportunities sometimes came as a rewardfor a job well done for engineering contributions but placed the individual in an awkwardposition. As Matson1 and Lancaster 2 have reported, and this author observed while working inindustry, engineers usually find themselves very poorly equipped to take on their

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Schumack; Leo Hanifin

with highschool students. Each high school is assigned a team consisting of two or three Ford engineers, one ortwo high school teachers, one or two UDM faculty members, a UDM engineering student, and a UDMadmissions staff member. The teams are charged with developing their own activities depending onstudent needs, interests, and team member expertise. Some of the more novel activities are described,including the founding of a junior National Society for Black Engineers chapter, small-scale experimentsin UDM engineering laboratories, and participation in a public water-sampling project. The schoolsrepresent a diverse mix, enabling communication among communities normally isolated from oneanother. The high schools include public and private

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ropp; Steven Hietpas

of 2000 and is scheduled forcompletion in December of 2001. This paper discusses the EMEC course redesign, including theapproach adopted, logistical challenges, and results to date. Page 6.572.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe paper is divided into six sections. An overview of the redesign of the EMEC course isprovided in section II. Section III discusses the proposed EMEC course outline for phase 1 of the2-year project. It begins with a statement of the primary objective of the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhonda Lee; Vincent R. Capece; John Baker

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”paper. However, student feedback from all assignments indicated that sufficient detailwas provided so that the ANSYS usage portions of the assignments did not overwhelm orfrustrate them.The ANSYS work included in the courses outlined below represents an initial attempt atthe University of Kentucky Extended Campus Program to better utilize ANSYS as alearning tool. The experience seemed to indicate an educational value to theassignments, based on student feedback and classroom discussions. The plan for futurecourses is to build on this work, and seek more open-ended design-type ANSYS projects,possibly making

Conference Session

Middle School Engineering Programs, Curriculum, and Evaluation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. In this programgraduate students in engineering or science (Fellows) worked one-two days a week in middleschool science classrooms, enhancing science education through inquiry and design projects thatsupport state education standards. Students in classrooms with engineering graduate studentswere given the engineering survey; students in classrooms with science graduate students weregiven the science survey. In both cases, pre-surveys were administered to the middle schoolstudents before the graduate student’s first visit to the classroom and post-surveys wereadministered at the end of the school year. Approximately 1000 pre-post surveys could bematched for analysis in this study. The findings suggest that students with engineering

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John C. Bedward, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Lauren Madden, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-1602: NOVEL CURRICULUM EXCHANGE RESEARCH-BASEDTEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES TO SUPPORTELEMENTARY STEM CURRICULUMJohn C Bedward, North Carolina State University John Bedward is in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education at NC State University. Is a Science Education doctoral student and graduate research assistant with the Graphic- Enhanced Elementary Science project at the NC State Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. He received his BS/MS in Technology Education from NC State, taught middle school technology education, and led informal science investigations at the Science House, a learning outreach initiative at NC State. His research interests include STEM

Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

an end in itself: “Overtime [the Enlightenment] conception was transformed, or partly supplanted, by the now familiarview that innovations in science-based technologies are in themselves a sufficient and reliablebasis for progress.”The technocratic view is clearly on display in the work of Moses who was responsible for muchof New York City’s public works and infrastructure.4 Though originally a popular figure, asMoses’ power grew, his projects continued to displace more and more people and seemed to takeon a life of their own. As Marx noted, the Enlightenment view of progress was that technologyshould be a means to social progress—e.g., the realization of democratic values. To Moses, the

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Guerra, NASA Headquarters; Wallace T. Fowler, University of Texas, Austin; Martin James Brennan, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

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Systems Engineering

Prerequisites for Capstone Design Abstract A NASA project to improve university design education curricula has resulted in the addition of an undergraduate introduction to systems engineering and a spacecraft subsystems modeling laboratory as prerequisites to the capstone spacecraft/mission design course in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. The systems engineering course materials, created by the second author, are based on NASA systems engineering practices and available in the public domain on the internet (http://spacese.spacegrant.org). The current paper summarizes the content of the systems engineering course, as well as a companion lab on modeling spacecraft subsystems, and focuses on the positive

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology and the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing; John Birch III; Mehrdad Faezi, Manchester Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

Drawings, GD&T, SPC, CAD/CAM, Lean Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Management. He is also a site coordi- nator for the Connecticut College of Technology and cooperates on various projects with Regional Center for Next Geneartion Manufacturing. He is regular particpant/contributor in ATE and HiTec Conferences. Page 22.1233.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Engineering Challenge for the 21st CenturyIntroductionThe Engineering Challenge for 21st Century Program was primarily established to increase the numberof high school student’s opting to pursue

Conference Session

CEED - Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen P Kelley, Northeastern University; Steven Thomas McGonagle, Northeastern University Gordon Engineering Leadership Program

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

our job to educate them to project confidence, summarizetheir skills and interests and begin demonstrating their leadership experiences. Upon the completionof co-op, students reflect on their work experiences and share their views in both individualmeetings with faculty co-op coordinators and with other students. Discussions revolve around notonly their acquisition of technical skills but also how they manage their time and workindependently. Most students cycle through three work experiences and are able to observe howcompanies operate and are led. Seeing leadership in action is a powerful way for students to learnhow it can shape the success of a business. As students progress through their co-op experiencesthey gain more confidence, are

Conference Session

Instrumentation Applications

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trieu V. Phung, University of Houston, Downtown; Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

non-linear and interactive process have been developed and compared to experimentaldata. Furthermore, this experimental study entails and discusses the design of the twin tankprocess and associated instrumentation, real time data acquisition and control in LabView,process modeling, controller design, and evaluation of the performance of different controlstructures in a closed loop manner. This work was performed in partial fulfillment of therequirements of the Senior Capstone Project course in controls and instrumentation of theEngineering Technology department at the University of Houston-Downtown. Studentexperiences are summarized and the need for effective project management methods isemphasized. I. Process DescriptionThe process

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcin Lukowiak, Rochester Institute of Technology; Andrew Meneely, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stanislaw P. Radziszowski, Rochester Institute of Technology; James R. Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology; Christopher A. Wood, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

favorite. His survey titled ”Small Ramsey Numbers,” which is a regularly updated living article at the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, became a standard reference in this area. He teaches mostly theory-oriented courses, including very popular courses on cryptography, both at undergraduate and graduate levels. His recent work on applied cryptography led to joint projects with the Computer Engineering Department.Dr. James R. Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology Jim Vallino has academic and industrial experience across a broad range of engineering disciplines. His academic training includes a B.E. in mechanical engineering, a M.S. in electrical and computer engineer- ing, and after more than 16 years in industry

Conference Session

Innovative Learning, Comparative Learning Analysis, and Lessons Learned

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz, University of Hartford; Hisham Alnajjar, University of Hartford; Azizurahman Azimi, Herat University

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International

of Hartford, and Herat UniversityAbstractIn 2007, the University of Hartford College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture, inWest Hartford, Connecticut began a partnership with the Faculty of Engineering at the HeratUniversity, in Herat City, Afghanistan. The goals of the project were to use a combination ofcurriculum revision and improvement, faculty development, distance learning and collaborativeprojects, and local/internal partnerships to establish Herat University Faculty of Engineering asthe preeminent Engineering program for Western Afghanistan.Once part of Kabul University, the Faculty of Engineering became a permanent part of HeratUniversity in 2002. After functioning in Kabul for approximately 20 years, the

Conference Session

Going Viral: Effective Instructional Techniques in an Online Environment

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monique H. Head, Morgan State University

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Civil Engineering

nonlinear elements and unseating of bearings on bridge decks. Head’s academic, teaching, and research experiences are directly related to assessing bridge performance. Her research and teaching interests include structural dynamics, earthquake en- gineering, innovative experimental testing, performance-based design, reinforced concrete design, and seismic retrofitting of bridges. Her additional research interests include hybrid simulation of bridges, multi-hazard mitigation of transportation structures to establish guidelines for new design and retrofit cri- teria, and structural health monitoring of bridges. Currently, Head is working on a project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), focusing on performance

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiannong Meng, Bucknell University; Song Xing, California State University, Los Angeles; Wang Wei, Southeast University

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Computing & Information Technology

are fromChinese universities and research institutes. We concentrate on the goals of the course, maincontents covered, textbooks used, and the student projects. We believe the information presented Page 25.1216.2in the paper can help design, implementation, or revision of courses on the subject of informationretrieval with various target audience groups in mind, especially for students at theundergraduate level.The data presented here about these courses are collected through their websites. Thus theinformation is inherently incomplete for many reasons, such as that the instructors didn’t havetime to update the web content, or that some

Conference Session

Improving IE Course Content

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria C. P. Chen, University of Texas, Arlington; K.J. Rogers, University of Texas, Arlington; Andrea M. Graham, University of Texas, Arlington; John F. Dickson, University of Texas, Arlington; Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas, Arlington; Melanie L. Sattler, University of Texas, Arlington; Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington, where she teaches courses and conducts research related to air quality and sustainable energy. Her research has been spon- sored by the National Science Foundation, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Luminant Power, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. She has published more than 60 peer- reviewed papers and conference proceedings. In 2010, she received UT Arlington’s Lockheed Martin Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.Dr. Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington Yvette Pearson Weatherton received her Ph.D. in engineering and applied science (environmental engi

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Eric Durant, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

simple port scans through the use of scanlogd and ARP poisoning attemptsthrough the use of arpwatch. When scans or poisoning attempts were detected, the target system Page 25.1258.5responded to the threat by blocking the attacking IP address with iptables.The fifth lab was a quick introduction to the Metasploit framework bundled with BackTrack.This lab coincided with the midterm exam so it was intentionally straightforward. Studentsfollowed several tutorials of their choosing from a provided list, all of which would be useful forthe upcoming final project.The final project involved four teams attempting to defend their own live network from the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Massa; Gordon Snyder; Fenna Hanes; James Masi; Gary Mullett

. develop relevant curricula and materials to support advanced technical education of the current and future workforce of telecommunications-related industries; 3. become a location for internships with industry, in order to "earn while you learn", and to develop a center for idea gestation for industry and government related projects; 4. explore and promote best educational methods and tools for delivering world class technical education and related math and science disciplines in cost-effective ways to Page 6.112.1 diverse populations of learners to ensure national workforce development; and Proceedings

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip McReynolds; Andras Gordon; Andrew Lau; Richard Devon

Session 2525 Transformations: Ethics and Design Richard Devon, Andrew Lau, Philip McReynolds, and Andras Gordon Engineering Design & Graphics, Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper will focus on an ethics curriculum that has been developed for design projects. Therationale behind it is discussed and some preliminary feedback from students is reviewed. Thecurriculum for the design projects is distinctive in several fundamental ways. These departuresfrom more traditional views of “engineering ethics” were not come by easily and they have takenmany years to develop. 1) We view all design

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan A. Burtner

, and engineering students as a mechanism for informal mentoring Beginning in June 2000, the project directors piloted two academically focused summerday camps for talented, minority children from the Central South neighborhood. One camp(Mercer MESSAGE) focuses on science and math skills and is offered to rising fifth and sixthgrade girls. MESSAGE is an acronym for Math, Engineering, and Science Summer All GirlExperience. Linda Hensel and Hope McIlwain co-directed Mercer MESSAGE. The other camp(Mercer TECH) focuses on engineering and technology skills and is offered to rising sixth andseventh grade boys and girls as well as some of their teachers. TECH is an acronym for TeachersEducating with Computers and Hands-on Lessons. Joan

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; David Huggins; Winston F. Erevelles

, and technology thereby challenging the educational system that needs to bein place to prepare the regional workforce.At a time when manufacturers cannot recruit a sufficient number of skilled workers, there is asegment of the region's workforce that is under-employed and often working in the service andretail sectors for much lower wages. The projected retirement attrition rate of 5% per year in themanufacturing sector further exacerbates this situation. This disconnect in the deployment of theregional workforce is the impetus for five Southwestern Pennsylvania participating educationalinstitutions to recruit and educate the kind of workforce demanded by the region's manufacturers

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

students) distributed to all the high schools withinformation about the department should be part of an outreach program to reach these students.Phone committees from within the department with enthusiastic, positive attitudes could beformed to respond to inquiries received via the postcards or high school visits. Additional outreach activities could include invitations to the students, their parents, andteachers to tour the department and possibly participate in projects, competitions, or activitiesrelevant to ET careers. This “tour” could include participation in a testing procedure leading toscholarships or awards for the top 3 finishers, for example, textbooks purchased for the year orsoftware packages such as TK Solver. By scheduling

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy S. Wilson

reasons such as lack ofencouragement, lack of information, lack of opportunity, and lack of role models. By providingall of these, this program will stimulate the interest of underrepresented groups in these areas. Inaddition, these projects will lay the groundwork for continuing the recruitment and offeringopportunities to women and minorities engineering.The goals of the WEE and MIE programs are as follows:♦ Identify and encourage women and minorities to pursue ET degrees at WKU;♦ Expose the field of engineering to K-12 students through appropriate female and minority role models;♦ Provide female and minority students opportunities to experience engineering prior to entering college; and♦ Mentor female and minority students throughout their

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine L. Corum

growth 5. MET graduates in the SOT Graduate Program 6. Efficiency of MET Department operations 7. MET’s use of classroom technology 8. Statewide Technology issues 9. Alumni and industry relations 10. Integrate continuous improvement process into all areas of MET Department.Establishing a time line for continuous improvement initiatives. From Fall 1995 through Fall Page 5.288.21998, the continuous improvement committee maintained a planning calendar of the MechanicalEngineering Technology department’s continuous improvement projects. While it wasmaintained the calendar helped to focus attention on projects and

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William Biles; Carroll Hyder; Mark R. Rajai

. manufacturing to Page 5.318.1remain competitive in the global market. We then examine one such advanced technologyentitled “IPTeam Suite,” by Nexprise, Inc, which is starting to become widely used by theindustry. This software has been used by industry for team collaboration in an asynchronousmode over the Internet. The software has enabled companies to out-source their work tosuppliers and subcontractors and compete more effectively in the global economy. However, thissoftware is relatively new to the academia. We then present a pilot project between EastTennessee State University (ETSU), Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, CA,and our

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Nickolas S. Jovanovic

, andthe cycle analysis stage. Onboard coaching provides immediate feedback, for example, if astudent makes an assumption about a cycle that contradicts a previously-made assumption.More sophisticated AI-based coaching is available via email communication with the CyclePadGuru4, a TA agent located at Northwestern.The instructor also uses CyclePad for in-class demonstrations of cycle analyses by projecting thecomputer display onto a screen. Students can make in-class presentations of their designs andanalyses by the same method.5. World Wide Web Course Tools (WebCT)5UALR MET students also use a web-based course supplement to their thermodynamics course,created with WebCT. WebCT is a commercial, web-based software package for designing anddelivering