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Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

processes and outcomes by thevarious stakeholders, are powerful drivers for more fundamental research in engineeringeducation. The two are interconnected and both embed the idea of the need to know what worksand why and how practices can be continuously improved. While the obvious focus might be inmeasuring the implementation of new practices and systems, there is an underlying expectationthat fundamental and applied research will guide these reforms. The NSF Strategic Plan in 1995identified the integration of research and education as a core strategy and Fortenberry 7foreshadowed new programs from the NSF to support educational research in Science,Mathematics, Engineering and Technology disciplines, ranging from fundamental research, toapplied

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eli Fromm; Jack McGourty

, The Cooper Union, Drexel University, New Jersey Institute of Technology,Ohio State University, Polytechnic University, and University of South Carolina.For ten years, spanning two award periods, the Coalition has been developing andapplying educational innovations for both lower and upper division programs. Based onDrexel’s initial E4 integrated freshman design curriculum, the Coalition institutionsindividually and collectively have spearheaded a number of innovations in such areas asengineering design, concurrent engineering, and such emerging technology areas asbiotechnology and earth engineering systems. Page 8.1141.1

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wim Ravesteijn; Erik DeGraaff

Session number 3661 Engineering For A Better World: The Meaning Of Utopian Thinking For Engineering Education Erik de Graaff, Wim Ravesteijn Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Jaffalaan 5 2628 BX Delft, the Netherlands email e.degraaff@tbm.tudelft.nl 1. Introduction In recent years we have seen that conferences of the eight richest countries in the world in Seattle, Genoa and Florence invoked large demonstrations by anti-globalists who condemn the economic policy

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abdel Mazher

Session 3202 An Integrated Approach to Unify the Technical Dimension of Engineering Education A. K. Mazher Aerospace Science Engineering Department, Tuskegee University Tuskegee, Alabama 36088, akmazher@tusk.eduSummaryThis paper proposes an integrated approach to unify the technical dimension of engineeringeducation. Integrating the technical dimension of engineering education is a necessary steptowards effectively implementing EC 2000, adopted by the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET). Technical dimension, in this

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

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Prince Anyalebechi; Okechi Egekwu

Session 2506 Case-Study Based Course - A Tool for Teaching Engineering Principles in a Non-Engineering Program O. Geoffrey Egekwu#, Prince N. Anyalebechi* #College of Integrated Science & Technology James Madison University *Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University AbstractIn the early 1990's, James Madison University developed a unique baccalaureate degreeprogram. Called Integrated Science and

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Phillip Rosenkrantz

considerations3. Teaching strategies and learning activities for Engineering Economy4. Strengths and weaknesses of the WebCT course management system5. Findings, Conclusions, and RecommendationsPart 1 - IntroductionThe author has been using web-related technologies to assist with teaching since 1997. From1997 through Spring 2002 the primary on-line technologies used were internet search engines,course web pages, and email. In Fall 2002 and Winter 2003, WebCT was also incorporated atvarying levels of usage for teaching engineering economy. For the 2002-2003 academic year theauthor was involved with a campus research program call the "Collaborative On-line Learning andTeaching" (COLT) Program. Twelve faculty members who submitted acceptable

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rick Shoemaker

Page 8.178.1sophomore year, the 300-level the junior year and the 400-level in the senior year."Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education"The BSOE officially began in 1988, had its first seven students graduate in 1992, and operated asa small (~100 students maximum) but successful program throughout the 1990's. Accreditationby the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) was not sought at either ofthe regular-cycle ABET accreditation visits that occurred during this period for a number ofreasons (e.g., waiting to gain program experience, program didn't fit traditional

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Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joel Weinstein

Session 3531 Cross College Courses: Creating a Modern Day Tower of Babel Learning Experience Joel Weinstein, Vincent Butler, John Friar, Eric Clark, Anthony Gabrielson, Michael Lake, Jonathan Nierenburg & Justin Noel Northeastern UniversityWhen students from accounting, business and engineering technology are combined in aproject-based software engineering course, the stage is set for creating a modern dayTower of Babel. The students are exposed to a totally unfamiliar problem: an insurancecompany is expanding and relocating its claims adjustment office. The company needs tolink

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Thompson

./Purdue Univ. Ft. Wayne (IPFW) over the last three years to promote a sense ofcommunity, self-confidence, and mentoring among women engineering, technology, and computerscience students. Descriptions and schedule of some activities are included.Introduction Comprising a majority of the U.S. workforce, women make up only 8.5 percent of the nation'sengineers. A number of programs have been launched over the past decade to recruit more women intothe field, and while women now represent 20 percent of all engineering students, they remain more likelythan men to switch out of the field, particularly in the first two years of college. A recent study concludedthat women engineering undergraduates with a sense of community are more likely to persist in

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steve Shooter; Micheal Hanyak; Matt Higgins; Marie Wagner; Ed Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Michael Prince

inengineering education by integrating instructional design techniques, transforming theclassroom into a cooperative learning environment, and incorporating the use ofinformation technology in the teaching/learning process. One of the major outcomes ofthat work is a conceptual framework for assisting faculty in transitioning from moretraditional instructional modes to more collaborative modes of instruction. Drawingheavily on a typical engineering process, this framework maps concepts readilyunderstood in the engineering design world to the development of instructionalexperiences. This paper outlines that framework and discusses our efforts to export thisframework to faculty beyond Bucknell through a pair of national workshops conductedlast summer

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Mason

Incubating Entrepreneurial Engineers: The Rose-Hulman Ventures Experience Thomas W. Mason Professor of Economics & Director – M.S. in Engineering Management Program Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Innovation Fellow - Rose-Hulman VenturesIncubators’ popularity has waned somewhat since the fate of many, especially for-profit,incubators through the dot.com bust has not been good. However, the idea of affiliatingan incubator with a university is still an intriguing one, and more are starting every year.Their appeal is natural. They appear to be a good way to channel university-basedresearch results into commercialization, and they usually provide very

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Charles McIntyre; Gary Smith

Development of a Reconfigurable Construction Engineering Classroom / Laboratory Charles McIntyre, Associate Professor Gary Smith, Professor Construction Management and Engineering North Dakota State University charles.mcintyre@ndsu.nodak.eduAbstractEngineering education requires a combination of classroom training, hands-on experience, andindustry participation. In addition, students must become fairly well versed in the use of thetechnological tools of the trade. In order to accomplish these goals, engineering programs mustdevelop innovation use of space and provide state-of-the-art technologies that can be used

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ruth Davis

Session 2793 Motivating Women Engineering Students through Community-Based Projects Ruth E. Davis Santa Clara UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a collaborative project involving students, faculty, community members,and The Institute for Women and Technology. The Virtual Development Center (VDC) site atSanta Clara University is one of nine such sites at universities around the country, eachcommitted to including the community in the definition of projects that truly benefit a segmentof the population usually ignored in the

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

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YongMi Kim; Jai Kang; Chan Park

. and A. C. Millspaugh. Advanced Programming Using Visual Basic 6. 2001. Irwin/McGraw-Hill. New York, NY. 3. Ekedahl, M. 2000. MCSD Guide to Developing Deskyop Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Advanced Topics. Course Technology. Cambridge, MA. 4. Green. J. 2000. Excel 2000 VBA. 1999. Wrox Press. Birmingham, B27 6BH. 5. Park, C. 2002. Contemporary Engineering E conomics, 3rd Edition. Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Example 15.11. Pages 729 – 736. 6. Tsay, J. 2000. Visual Basic 6 Programming: Business Applications with A Design Perspective. Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Section 14.3-14.4. Automation and Creating an Active DLL. Pages 588 – 601. 7. Webb, J

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

Session 2213 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program: A Focus on Diversity Taryn Bayles, Anne Spence, Claudia Morrell University of Maryland Baltimore CountyBackgroundThe exponential growth in military spending in Maryland has left educational institutions withthe enormous challenge of meeting workforce needs, particularly the need for individuals withdegrees in computer science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Given theneed, universities and colleges must meet the growing challenge to identify and enroll

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Russ Pimmel

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationUndergraduate Faculty Enhancement program (2). Because the workshops in this program weremuch more extensive, ranging from 5 to 21 days, the results are not directly comparable.However, their report did indicate that almost all participants learned new concepts, pedagogies,or lab techniques and that approximately 80% applied what they learned by developing or revisingat least one course. Factors associated with workshop success included the length of theworkshop, the inclusion of teaching methods or technology, and the development of classroommaterial. Neither completing the material at the

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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George Havener

Session 3202 ABET EC2000 Evaluation of the Aeronautical Engineering Program at the United States Air Force Academy A. George Havener and D. Neal Barlow Department of Aeronautics United States Air Force Academy AbstractResults from the recent ABET visit and evaluation of the aeronautical engineering program at theUnited States Air Forcer Academy are presented. The ABET visit occurred on 3-5 Nov, 2002,under EC 2000 criteria and was rated Next General Review with a few

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Keith Koenig; Masoud Rais-Rohani; Thomas Hannigan

Session 3202 Keeping Students Engaged: An Overview of Three Introductory Courses in Aerospace Engineering M. Rais-Rohani, K. Koenig, T. Hannigan Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThe traditional approach of teaching major-specific courses beginning in the first or secondsemester sophomore year has many drawbacks that could lead to stifling student's enthusiasmand interest in his/her field of study and very often to the loss of many talented students to otherprograms. To alleviate this problem and to keep students engaged and interested in their

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

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Scott Grasman

Session 2242 A Virtual Environment for Enterprise Engineering EducationScott E. Grasman1, Can Saygin1, Benjamin L. Dow1, Raymond M. Kluczny2, Majdi Najm3 1 Department of Engineering Management, University of Missouri - Rolla 2 School of Management and Information Systems, University of Missouri - Rolla 3 E-business University Competency Center, University of MissouriAbstractSeveral resources highlight the need to effectively use modern technology to gain moreproductive and rewarding undergraduate science, mathematics, engineering, and technologyeducation. In addition to

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Malcolm Sears; Lawrence J. Genalo

monitors and teaching assistants. Listed both as CprE 370and Mat E 370 under the ISU course catalog, the TWT program was designed “to offer atechnology class aimed at students, particularly education majors, who are in non-technical fields but want an appreciation for the technological innovations that surroundthem.” (TWT website) Additionally, students taking the class should emerge equippedwith resources to effectively incorporate technology into their future classrooms. All ofthe students enrolled in the TWT program courses are education majors and the onlynon-education majors in that room are staff personnel.THE TWT STAFFDr. Larry Genalo, professor in the Materials Science and Engineering department,supervises the TWT program with the

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rosa Cano; Howard Kimmel

Session 2270 Model for a K-12 Engineering Pipeline Howard Kimmel and Rosa M. Cano New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) offersinitiatives and programs designed to increase educational opportunities for inner-cityyoungsters, and to improve the quality of education at the elementary and secondary schoolsin the region and the State. Of special significance are the long-term relationships that havebeen established with major urban districts such as Newark and Union City, and withindividual

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gerald Burnham; Don Millard

, compelling, and interactive ways.1 Simultaneously, our insatiable desire for more electronics functionality and higherperformance computing – increases the demand for companies to hire students with advancedskills in science, math, engineering and technology. Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)degree programs are exhibiting large enrollments in engineering schools. According to John Wiley& Sons, Inc., the circuit analysis, electronics, and signals & systems market is estimated to involvemore than 100,000 students in 2003-2004. This large population generates a tremendous need forinteractive educational materials that are able to cover a broad spectrum of engineering conceptsand applications. ECE degrees also open doors to other

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Leonard

baccalaureate-level industrial engineering curriculum sharedby most American universities since the dissemination of the Roy Report and initialimplementations based on its findings.This paper describes the work of a project team from the Department of Industrial Engineering atClemson University, sponsored by NSF. The team has been working since September 2002 todevelop a new scalable and deployable industrial engineering baccalaureate-degree model. Thismodel is designed to permit scaling up from an information technology kernel of coursework to afully integrated industrial engineering undergraduate curriculum. Three aspects of the newcurriculum plan are described in this paper.OverviewDuring the mid 1960s, a study group sponsored by NSF and ASEE

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eck Doerry

InternationalEngineering program at the University of Rhode Island enrolls only about 10% of the over 1000engineering students at URI1. Although the program provides excellent international training, itsimpact on the majority of the URI engineering graduates remains peripheral; students who do nothave the motivation to enter the program at the beginning of their degree program receive littleor no international engineering exposure.The experience at Northern Arizona University has been similar. Following the traditionalstudy-abroad model, the College of Engineering and Technology (CET) at NAU developed anarray of opportunities for undergraduate international experience, including student exchangeswith a growing number of partner institutions, international

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jan Lugowski

, understanding of the basics, and oftenhard work. That’s why many students avoid it. History is full of examples of scientists,researchers, and engineers who avoided critical thinking in their careers. Those who did applycritical thinking, contributed to the progress in their disciplines. It may seem that lack of criticalthinking occurred only in the past. We often are so deeply engaged in solving problems that weoverlook that there often is another possible approach to a problem. In the bibliography1-9, severalreferences are given to publications that deal with critical thinking as a way of living. In thispaper, only limited experiences are presented that relate to a few courses in the MechanicalEngineering Technology Department at Purdue University.2

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Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tarek Rizk; Donald Carpenter; James Hanson

Session 1315 Engineering the World: Hands-on Experimentation for Civil Engineering K-12 Outreach James L. Hanson, Donald D. Carpenter, and Tarek Rizk Lawrence Technological UniversityAbstractThis paper details the development and application of a community outreach program designedto teach children about math, science, and the world in which they live. The program was titled“Engineering the World” and emphasized civil engineering applications. The program wasoffered in an inner-city middle school in Detroit, Michigan. The program was developed by

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

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Devdas Shetty

GLOBALIZATION AND PRODUCT DESIGN CURRICULUM IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMS Devdas Shetty1 and Seong J. Choi2 1 Professor and Vernon D Roosa Chair holder University of Hartford, Connecticut 06117 (USA) 860- 768-4615; Shetty@hartford.edu 2. Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Korean University of Technology and Education, South KoreaAbstractToday products are manufactured and marketed globally and supply chains have dominated themanufacturing landscape. Most companies have much wider product ranges. These

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

definitions of the roles and professional responsibilities ofscientists and engineers. This ambiguity extends to (or perhaps stems from) educators’different approaches to teaching “science” and “engineering.” A poor understanding andappreciation of this difference profoundly affects the demographics of higher education aswell as those of the professional workforce.At the K-12 levels, educators’ attempts to introduce engineering into the curriculumtypically focus on either science education or technology training. The ideas in this paperarise from numerous discussions and from the collective work of the NSF Galileo Fellowsand their Directors at the School of Engineering, University of Connecticut. Our objectiveinvolves defining the concepts of science

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Wunderlich

-evaluation, continuous improvement, and life-long learning are critical.I. IntroductionABET is: “The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology; a federation of 31professional engineering and technical societies. Since 1932, ABET has provided quality assuranceof education through accreditation. ABET accredits more than 2500 engineering, engineeringtechnology, computing and applied science programs at over 550 colleges and universitiesnationally. ABET is recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation.” 1 ABET has traditionally accredited two types of programs: Engineering and EngineeringTechnology, and has more recently added accreditation of Computer Science programs. ABET hasdifferent criteria and a separate commission for

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NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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J Hines; Fred Weber; John Prados; Kurt Gramoll

identified, three courses are being developed through this grant.Additional resources are currently being sought to develop the remaining courses. The long-termgoal is to facilitate the transfer of students from pre-engineering programs by developing andoffering the entire set of prerequisite classes to pre-engineering students throughout the UnitedStates, resulting in the national availability of web-delivered courses to meet a majority of theprerequisite needs.2. Course DevelopmentThe model identified for course development merges several technologies to meet the coursedelivery objectives. It integrates a phased development methodology to produce highlyinteractive animated modules designed to engage the student in an active learning process