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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taner Eskil; Mark Urban-Lurain; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

delivered through lecture. This slow but steady evolution to greater relianceon lecture about more and more material is a reflection of exploding amounts of knowledge inthe engineering disciplines over the last fifty years. Yet, with ever more knowledge to beimparted, engineering students find themselves with so many details to master that they have ingeneral lost sight of the goal: effective problem solving predicated on integrated studentunderstanding of technical material.In 1991, the National Research Council1 criticized undergraduate engineering curricula for notreflecting the shifting needs of the engineering profession by saying that these curricula are“lacking the essential interdisciplinary character of modern design practice” (p. 4). As a

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CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

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R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

. Our current project (row 3 in Table 1) is discussed at the end of thissection.1.1. Sooner City Project Philosophy.In the Sooner City project, students are taught to view engineering design as a constrained optimi-zation problem, viz, given a design task, raw data, and constraints (technical, political, economic,or social), they develop the “best” solution from among multiple alternatives. Each engineeringcourse is devoted to a different component of the overall design, but they are structured so that thesolution often requires cross-course integration, both vertical (e.g., freshman/junior) and horizontal(e.g., two concurrent senior courses). For example, one design task is to size a water supply reser-voir to meet municipal demands. To

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nigel Middleton; Barbara Olds; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

graduate attributes, CSM now sought to continue itsreform by incorporating a design-across-the-curriculum program, systems courses, andintegrated humanities and social sciences programs. Assessment and continuousimprovement of the reforms were to be implemented alongside the new courses andphilosophy. Additionally, the research team sought funding to enhance the university’sOffice of Teaching Effectiveness; in requesting funding for this office, the investigatorsanticipated exploration of best pedagogical practices to implement with the reformedcurriculum.At its heart, this proposal focused on improving learning by improving teaching, with theintention that reforms at CSM could serve as the model for excellence as institutionsacross the nation

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Showkat Chowdhury

. Implementation of a System Approach for Curriculum Design, Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Z.T. Deng, Amir Mobasher, A. Jalloh, Mechanical Engineering Department, Alabama A&M University, ASEE Paper, Session 1566, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri. 4. Synthesis of Engineering Best Practices and ABET AC2K into a new Mechanical Engineering Curriculum, Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Z.T. Deng, Amir Mobasher, A. Jalloh, Mechanical Engineering Department, Alabama A&M University, ASEE Paper, Session 2266, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri. 5. Evaluation of Assessment tools for Outcome Based Engineering Courses, Z.T. Deng, Ruben

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Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

through a mockpublic meeting, the other is through personal testimony. Both have proven to be interesting tostudents and effective in revealing the subtleties of compromising situations that arise inengineering practice. The dual goals of exposing students to the ASCE Code of Ethics andapplying the Code to an ethical situation are being accomplished based upon assessment resultsfrom the RosE-portfolio, the system set up for documenting student learning outcomes.The two methods we have used to inject enthusiasm and relevance into the topic of professionalethics are proven teaching techniques. One method is the mock public meeting. A student team,working on one of our senior design projects, is instructed to hold a public meeting. Their role isto

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Molu Olumolade

degrees into five or sixyear program?” It is imperative for every college or university to realize that the answer is notaddition of classes that specifically address all these competences. We should be able toaccomplish preparing our graduates for a career in industry if every professor will endeavor toincorporate these industry practices into their courses as they go along. As globalization andrapid technology innovations continue to rise, financial constraints continue to make itincreasingly difficult for colleges and universities to provide all the resources needed cope oraddress these changes and impart the necessary competency.One approach that is being used to address some of these problems is the Problem-based learning(PBL). Some

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

analysis showed that the case study method of instruction was the best candidate for meetingthe goals (Mbarika, Raju and Sankar, 2003). During 1998-2001, we worked on an interdisciplinary project that produced multimediacase studies designed to improve engineering education. These case studies were developed inpartnership with industries and brought a real-world decision making environment into theclassroom. We later expanded the case studies and developed new instructional materials thatadded links to show the connection between science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) education and the real-world issues. We tested their effectiveness and adaptability withfreshman engineering students, current high school STEM students, and

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

evaluations. Recommendations from other faculty were also considered carefully.Distribution Level and Designing for Steady StateIndividual awards were adjusted between $500 per semester (in cases of marginal need) and$1500 (in cases of dire need). Later awards were set at $1000 per semester (with summerpossible in addition) with exceptions handled as they arose – by individual contacts between thestudent, mentor and Financial Aid. The first batch of scholars was selected across the spectrumof class standing from freshman to senior, with due thought given to program viability, enablingus to recruit more students as some graduated and to set up a working rotation with Co-Opstudents. Thus 37 students were selected in Spring and Summer 2002, followed by

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

hundred ninety eight faculty members responded, across 119institutions, for an institutional response rate of 43%. All major engineering disciplines wererepresented.Findings from this study provide empirical evidence for the concern many engineering educationfaculty members have about how best to respond to evaluation expectations and opportunities.Although the McKenzie et al. study focuses on a specific component of engineering education,the capstone design course, it is reasonable to assume that faculty would respond similarly ifasked the same questions about other aspects of engineering education programs.The National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided powerful stimulus for renewal efforts inengineering education through competitive funding

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Kowalski; Paul Santi

geology to interpreting subsurfaceconditions for nine years, and he conducted site investigations in the engineering consulting industry for six years.His investigation simulation program, BEST SiteSim, was a finalist for the 2002 Premier Award.RYAN J. KOWALSKI is a graduate student in Geology and Geological Engineering at the Colorado School ofMines. He has a bachelor’s degree in Geological Engineering from the same program. In addition to his researchwork on BEST SiteSim and evaluating its effectiveness, he is also researching the influence of geology andgeomorphology on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Page 9.1368.6

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

across-section of information sources for the reader interested in pursuing the topics further, butmay also be read without attention to the footnotes.IntroductionA few years ago when concerns were being raised about the impact of the global marketplace onthe employment of US engineers, the authors drafted a paper entitled “Are current engineeringgraduates being treated as commodities by employers?” 1 We questioned whether engineering inthe United States was still an attractive profession offering productive and satisfying careers andlifestyles. One of the important problems we noted was the churning in engineeringemployment, with more experienced engineers living under the constant threat of being replacedby younger, more recent graduates, and

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

development and for disseminating best practice ideasThe TTU Pre-College Engineering Academy program is the result of over four years of planningand implementation effort. While the program is still in development, and continues to evolve, itis already making a positive impact on STEM education, both in Lubbock Independent SchoolDistrict and other districts in the region, and in Texas Tech University. Currently, the magnet Page 9.1224.5program being piloted at Estacado High School and other schools in quadrant four in LubbockProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2004, American

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Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Enke; Susan Murray

Video Network: A Practical Guide to Teleconferencing and Distance Education,” Bismarck - North Dakota University System, ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 348 945.16. Viechnicki, K., S. Brenner, W. Singleton, B. Beach, C. Sexton, and M. Flemister, 1995, “The Appalachian Distance Learning Project: A Qualitative Evaluation Model,” Annual Meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators.17. Wolcott, L.L., 1993, “Faculty Planning for Distance Teaching,” American Journal of Distance Education, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 26-36.SUSAN L. MURRAYDr. Murray currently serves as an Associate Professor of Engineering Management at the University ofMissouri – Rolla. Her research interests include engineering education, work design

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver

student writing and research practices via conventionalstandards for plagiarism."10 There are several services available to check student papers for copied content,including the simple use of a meta-search engine to check content from a middle section of a paper. A colleaguerecommends this search technique because her experience is that students typically write their own introductions.Employed students who develop material in conjunction with their employer may have ownership issues that presenta challenge to using detection software. In addition availability of good detection software does not solve theproblem of “recycling” papers—using an old paper the student did write with adaptations for a different class. Willthe institution use the

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

Engineering. He teachesundergraduate courses in machine design and statics as well as advises senior engineering student teams working onindustrially sponsored capstone design projects. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate international designproject course and has taught graduate-level courses in innovation and technology management.Mark Urban-Lurain is Director of Instructional Technology Research and Development in the Division of Scienceand Mathematics Education at Michigan State University. He is responsible for providing vision, direction, planningand implementation for using technology mathematics and science education and developed several introductorycomputer science courses for non-computer science students serving 2000 students per

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rodger Dalton; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

are also discussed.StructureTechtronics is currently designed as a two-year program for sixth and seventh grade students.Each section of Techtronics meets once per week for 2 hours after school. The classes are led bysix Techtronics Fellows from Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. Each section iscomposed of approximately twenty students, five undergraduate teaching Fellows and onegraduate student coordinator. The graduate student coordinator is also responsible forcommunicating with parents and with middle school faculty. The most common classroomstructure involves splitting the class into small groups of four to five students, each facilitated byan undergraduate teaching Fellow. The high Fellow-to-student ratio ensures that

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

uncertainty, and the willingness to make decisions when data is incomplete arekey features in the make-up of successful engineers. Thus, teaching laboratories should hold thesame enchantment and exhilaration for our students as research and applications laboratorieshold for our graduates. Applied researchers go to the laboratory to coax truth from aninexpressive natural world, their aim is to sense, to evaluate, and, eventually, to progress. Wemust send our students to the instructional laboratory to accomplish these same goals.Furthermore, instructional laboratories that stress the learning involved in doing enable faculty topander to many different learning styles. They are customizable vectors to student perception.They provide real connections

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anne Spence

. Anothermathematics related project, Adventure Engineering, uses engineering-based curricula in middlegrade science and mathematics classes.2 The Adventure Engineering project focuses on problemsolving and the engineering design experience. A third project saw engineering graduate studentsassisting high school mathematics teachers in developing hands on approaches for algebra andtrigonometry classes.3 These laboratory activities were incorporated into the normal lesson plan.Both high school students and teachers benefited from using laboratory activities to demonstratespecific principles such as linearity and trigonometric functions.Adding new engineering courses to the curriculum is a luxury that most school systems can notafford. With the addition of so

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Harth; Matthew Barber; Andrew Spurgeon

9.840.1laboratory exercises, individual and group projects, and field experiences to enable 1451middle and high school students to directly experience authentic learning practices thatrequire them to use higher-order thinking skills; encourage creative problem-solvingskills that require collaborative learning, teamwork, writing, and presentation; cultivatean interest in service learning in which students are active participants, achieve outcomesthat show a perceptible impact, and engage in evaluative reflection; and better motivateand prepare secondary school students for advanced education. The Fellows have beentrained to create and implement these activities by taking

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virgil Cox; Stephen Kuyath

a combination of the TEAMS (Tests of Engineering Aptitude,Mathematics and Science developed by the Junior Engineering Technical Society: JETS) test anda robotic competition between the twenty participating high schools and hosted by UNCCharlotte. The competitions are designed to encourage high school students to participate intechnology clubs and to provide some experience in a hands-on approach to solving engineeringtechnology problems.This paper will describe the activities of the project from the unique perspective of communitycollege faculty and staff that are directly responsible for the outcomes. We will also detailinformation about the high school clubs and the impact these activities have had on the students’awareness of engineering

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farris

framework to integrate marketing’sfocus on the customer, research, information technology, and the core benefit into the innovationprocess with the engineer’s focus on function and technology. The contributions marketing andengineering make to each phase of the product innovation process are emphasized. The secondtheme is iteration and adaptation. As marketing and engineering develop information about theproduct and its potential market, the design and marketing plan must change. Suggestions aremade for improving the courses based on what has been learned and where the program is going.I. Introduction Before the winter2003 semester Engineering 610, Engineering Design, was taught nottaught with any links to a marketing course. The course

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

enough? At West Point, that answer is a resounding no! Everyone canimprove their performance with proper training, but especially anyone doing somethingfor the first time – like new teachers! Every department at West Point has some form ofinstructor summer training for their new faculty. The training programs range from two tosix weeks with all programs having some type of practice teaching sessions. Even withthe formal training programs, United States Military Academy (USMA) new faculty areexpected to continue to learn a lot about the basics of leading classroom instructionthroughout their first and second semesters of teaching. However, the faculty traininggives our new instructors a theoretical foundation, and tangible examples as well as in

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Julia Morse; Jung Oh

American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceThe literature also makes it clear that students are not in a position to evaluate certain elementsof faculty teaching performance. These general areas have been determined to include: Course design: its goals, content, and organization Methods and materials used in delivery Evaluation of student work (including grading practices)12Hoyt and Pallett note that these categories include such aspects as the comprehensiveness orrealism of course objectives, the degree to which course material presents a representative orbiased view of the subject matter, the degree to which readings or other assignments are balancedand appropriate, currency of the content, and the

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Denton; Heather Cooper

diagnosticscourse was developed to prepare engineering technology students for the sophisticated testingand analysis technology of the maintenance field. The conceptual content of the course has beenrelatively constant; however, the laboratory activities have evolved significantly to adoptadditional technologies and software. This paper will review the original course design andcompare it to recent course offerings, with emphasis on the ongoing effort to incorporatemonitoring of a variety of operating parameters and to engage with industry.BackgroundThrough advances in solid-state electronics, instrumentation, and computing capabilities in the1970s and 1980s, the field of machinery condition monitoring obtained the technology needed tomake predictive

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

dynamic mechanical systems is becoming more important. Recentresearch and development has resulted in a class of materials popularly known as ShapeMemory Alloys (SMAs). In many cases these materials may replace complex controlsdevices presently used in the industry. It was desired to design and fabricate anelectronically operated SMA demonstration and display case to increase engineeringstudents’ awareness of the existence of SMAs and to promote graduate research in thisarea.Shape Memory Alloy is the name applied to that group of metallic materials thatdemonstrate the ability to return to some previously defined shape or size when subjectedto the appropriate thermal procedure. Generally, these materials can be plasticallydeformed at some

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

Handbook for College Teachers, 4th edition ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1993.[10] R. A. Guzzo and M. W. Dickson, "Teams in organizations: recent research on performance and effectiveness," Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 47, pp. 307, 1996.[11] J. R. Katzenbach and D. K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.[12] J. S. Byrd and J. L. Hudgkins, "Teaming in the design laboratory," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, pp. 335, 1995.[13] E. Seat and S. M. Lord, "Enabling effective engineering teams: a program for teaching interaction skills," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, pp. 385, 1999

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Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Modesitt

can be efficiently leveraged using DistributedLearning (DL) technologies and processes to expand the reach of universities to a global studentbody as well as local students.ISEUC (pronounced “I see, you see”) was developed to provide access for software-intensiveorganizations and their global sites, using renowned international universities8,9. Suchorganizations include business, industry, government, etc. (hereafter just called “industry”).ISEUC is based on international best SE education practices, accreditation standards, credit andnon-credit programs. ISEUC is designed to serve as a broker to provide additional students forexisting and future Web-enabled courses, and is not intended to be a degree-grantingorganization.ISEUC differs in

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

) Worldwiderecently accepted a Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award on Earth Day from the EPAfor contributions and innovations in protecting the Ozone Layer 2. In recent years, theSaturn Corporation teamed with the EPA to study car recycling 3.One of the best ways to ensure that future industry will be environmentally friendly is toteach the principles and importance of sustaining the environment to today's engineeringstudents. As demonstrated by such companies as IBM and Saturn, there are industriesworking hard to preserve the environment. One way to help future engineers learnsustainability is for universities to partner with such industries.Few fields of study can have a more dramatic impact on sustainable development thanthat of engineering. Engineers

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Gaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

for attracting talent to the IT field.What we can learn from them will be theoretically relevant to less elite educational groups.Work to date has progressed along several separate, but linked, directions—1) developing acomprehensive database, 2) designing, testing, and then conducting a telephone interviewprotocol, and 3) defining research questions and database queries.The first component was to develop a comprehensive and clean database that contains all theavailable institutional records on academic performance and individual demographics of thecohort of 5,783 Georgia Tech alumni who graduated from 1994-1997. This work was doneprimarily by staff in the Georgia Tech Office of Minority Educational Development (OMED). Inaddition, during the

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suguna Bommaraju

. Washington D.C: George Washington university, School of Education and Human Development, 19912. Davis, B. G. Tools for Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 19933. John C. Bean. Engaging Ideas. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 20014. Valora M. Johnson. Integrating composition in Math, Science and Engineering courses. Document, http//fie.engrng.pitt5. Richard J. Light. Making the most of college, Harvard, UP, 2001.6. Drenk, D. “Teaching Finance through writing.” In C. W. Griffin (ed), Teaching writing in all disciplines. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, no. 12. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001.7. Rivard, L. A Review of Writing-To-Learn in Science: Implications for Practice and Research. Journal of Research in Science