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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Virgilio Gonzalez; Ahmed Musa; Mehdi Shadaram

& Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”References[1] N. K. Swain, M. Swain, and J. A. Anderson, "Integration of virtual instruments into an EET curriculum," Firenze, Italy, 2004.[2] C. Rosenberg and S. G. M. Koo, "Innovative and easy-to-deploy communication networking laboratory experiments for electrical and computer engineering students," Como, Italy, 2002.[3] D. K. C. Chan and A. Richter, "CAD-supported university course on photonics and fiber- optic communications," Cahrlotte, NC, United States, 2001.[4] B. Chapman, "Virtual experiments in electronics: Beyond logistics, budgets and the art of the possible," vol. 3894, pp. 118, 1999.[5] Z. Nedic

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

andsimulation in engineering design education. Along with these lectures, various software modules,tutorials and practical examples were created. The described approach will allow the students tomake design decisions systematically and enable them to solve complicated, multi-attributedecision problems involving tolerances and uncertainty. By including this material into theundergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum, students will gain a new structured way ofapproaching an engineering design problem. Although they will only be introduced to a limitedversion of the decision making process, the students will nonetheless be able to solve anyengineering design decision problem within the scope of undergraduate engineering

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Karen S. Hays

Integration of Lab Safety Training into the Undergraduate and Graduate Chemical Engineering Programs Karen S. Hays Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractThe Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering is the University of Arkansas’campus-wide leader in the area of laboratory safety training for their undergraduate and graduatestudents. This paper presents an overview of the laboratory safety training program and how itwas integrated into the curriculum. It describes how students are educated about the basics

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

An Alternate Route For a Career Related to Engineering Education: A Kumon Franchise Doreen Lawrence†, and Barbara Oakley†† † Kumon North America, Inc. Glenpointe Centre East- 5th Floor, 300 Frank W. Burr Blvd, Teaneck, NJ, 07666/ ††School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 48306 AbstractKumon North America, Inc. (KNA) is North America’s largest supplemental educationprovider. In studying the relation between KNA and engineering, it has been found thatnearly ten percent of all Kumon mathematics instructors have left successful engineeringpositions to run their own Kumon

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

Session 3438 Hands-On Graphics Communications – Designing Commercial Properties in an Introductory Course: Innovative Teaching Strategies for Success David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroduction This paper describes the integration of design projects during the Fall Semester, 2004,into the curriculum of an introductory graphics communications course at Penn StateUniversity at Harrisburg. These projects served a double purpose of reinforcing topicstaught in the classroom as well as introducing students to the engineering design

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

these three major components can be integrated into anexisting academic program. The study presents a comprehensive approach to integratethese three components into an existing Computer Information Systems (CIS) program.The goal of curriculum improvement is to help students gain and improve their practicaltechnical skills while they are still able to earn their academic credits.IntroductionAs the US industry globalization moves, industry and corporate infrastructure changesaccordingly. Those changes redefine new higher standards for worker’s technology skillsets. This study presents the impacts on US workers as a result of the changes and findsout that using computer software is an important tool for today’s workers to prevail inthis industry

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zafer Gurdal; Jan Hol; Gillian Saunders-Smits

Session 1725 Innovative Teaching of Aircraft Structural Analysis and Design Courses - Mathematica in an Engineering Education Environment Gillian N. Saunders-Smits, Zafer Gürdal, Jan Hol, Aerospace Structures Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsINTRODUCTION This paper reports on a new course on aircraft structural analysis and design in the secondyear of the BSc curriculum at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff

Session XXXX Professional Development for Community College Teachers: An Online Graduate Certificate Program in Community College Teaching Theodore J. Branoff, Colleen A. Wiessner, and Duane Akroyd North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe departments of Adult and Community College Education (ACCE) and Mathematics, Scienceand Technology Education (MSTE) within the College of Education at North Carolina StateUniversity developed a prototype graduate certificate program in Community College Teaching.The program focuses on developing the knowledge and skills

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Stephan; Matthew Ohland

. Risley, “Case study of the physics component of an integrated curriculum,” Physics Education Research Supplement to American Journal of Physics 67(7), S16, 1999.[7] Beichner, R.J. J.M. Saul, R.J. Allain, D.L. Deardorff, D.S. Abbott, “Introduction to SCALE UP : Student- Centered Activities for Large Enrollment University Physics,” Proceedings 2000 American Society for Engineering Education National Conference.[8] Saul, J.M. D.L. Deardorff, D.S. Abbott, R.J. Allain, and R.J. Beichner, “Evaluating introductory physics classes in light of ABET criteria : An Example of SCALE-UP Project,” Proceedings of the 2000 Annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education.[9] Beichner, R.J., J.M. Saul, R.J

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Lord

objectives: to aid the students' professional development by addressingissues such as the ability to critically evaluate technical papers, conduct effective literatureresearch, and express information orally and in writing and to identify at least two current topicsin optoelectronics research.Several innovative pedagogical techniques were integrated into the course to address lifelonglearning and contemporary issues. Students explored an area more deeply by conductingliterature research including a paper and a presentation on a topic of their choice. Topics rangedfrom organic LEDs to photonic crystals. In Spring 2003, the last fifteen minutes of each Fridayclass was devoted to “Fabulous Friday” where one student led a discussion of a recent

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Thermal Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela J. Théroux; Gary Gabriele; Brad Lister; Deborah Kaminski

student characteristics influence which successful learningoutcomes, and how. Yet, the sheer weight of evidence acknowledging that learners bring amultitude of approaches to learning compels the educator to be responsive to learner needs.According to Felder & Silverman (1988), receiving an education that is mismatched to theirlearning style can hinder an engineering student’s performance in the classroom as well as theirattitude toward engineering as a field of study and career. Armed with the information that acertain percentage of students learn in a manner often ill-served by the traditional engineeringclassroom and curriculum, this study carefully examined evidence of a link between studentlearning characteristics and student academic

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

collected using an outline based on a published assessment guide23, and revisedso that a three to five page summary will be prepared for review24. This summary and supportingdocumentation is reviewed by the department chair or designee(s) as part of the annualevaluation and promotion / tenure documentation.This course had been offered for 2 terms during the 2001-02 and 2002-03 academic years andwill be offered again in the Winter and Spring of 2005. It is clear from student comments andperformance on examinations / projects that the laboratory integration has been successful. Thenumber of students taking the course during any one term is small usually 5-8 students. This isdue to several reasons including a change in curricula and course offerings

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Glenn Steele; Judith Schneider

validation, anda case study from our senior mechanical engineering laboratory is presented which illustrates how the uncertainty ofthe model is combined with the experiment results to provide a comparison.Keywords: Uncertainty, Experimentation, Modeling, Validation, LaboratoriesBackgroundAt MSU, this model validation approach was first implemented into the ME undergraduate laboratory program toprovide a bridge between the theoretical aspect of the traditional engineering courses and the practical demonstrationof these principles through experimentation. An appreciation of the errors inherent in experimental results is critical,and uncertainty analysis concepts are integrated into the curriculum in an effort to quantify the validity of the testdata

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Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tori Bailey; Jonathan Gabrio; David Cannon; Helen L. Chen; George Toye; Larry Leifer

executive summary, is an ideal that we didn’t quite reach. Page 10.1438.7 Proceeding of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationExample 3: This last artifact is a couple of paragraphs from a representative capstone reflection on the course as awhole. The impact of reflection on this student’s learning lies primarily in how the student views the reflectiveactivities that were integrated into the curriculum throughout the academic quarter. Evidence of how reflectivethinking has influenced this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Mavriplis

is not way off-base.The homework assignments contained some formal and usual engineering exercises, suchas calculating the pressure at a specific sea depth, but also some personal writing. Thewriting was of their personal reactions to the books and an account of interviews theywere required to initiate and sustain throughout the semester with students of mechanicaland aerospace engineering in the three years ahead of them as well as with facultymembers in the department. These interviews were designed to help the students get toknow the people in the department, perhaps to find mentors, and to familiarizethemselves with the curriculum that lies ahead for them. The interviews help to dispelfears by breaking down barriers of the unknown.The

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Askew; Cari-Sue Wilmot; Colley Hodges; Richard Bannerot

Session 1661 Teaching Technical Communications in an Introductory Design Course through Interventions from the University’s Writing Center Colley Hodges, Cari-Sue Wilmot, Robert Askew, Richard Bannerot University of Houston Writing Center/Dept. of Mechanical EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the continuing and evolving relationship between the Writing in theDiscipline Program in the University of Houston Writing Center and the Cullen College ofEngineering. This specific project is an intervention into a sophomore design course inmechanical engineering that took place for the first

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdravko Markov; Todd Neller; Ingrid Russell

) highlight the bridge that machine learning providesbetween AI technology and modern software engineering.In this paper we will present our approach, an overview of the project, and the hands-onlaboratory modules. Our preliminary experiences incorporating these modules into ourintroductory AI course will also be presented.1. IntroductionAn introductory Artificial Intelligence (AI) course provides students with basic knowledge of thetheory and practice of AI as a discipline concerned with the methodology and technology forsolving problems that are difficult to solve by other means. The importance of AI in theundergraduate computer science curriculum is illustrated by the Computing Curricula 2001recommendation of ten core units in AI2. It is believed

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

courses in calculus and vector analysis and at least one calculusbased engineering physics course in electromagnetic principles. In contrast, EM concepts areincorporated in specific application areas of EM such as transmission lines, antennas, and/or RFelectronics. The only EM preparation for EET students is basic calculus and an introductoryphysics course in basic electric and magnetic fields theory (often algebra based).MandatesWhether an engineering curriculum or an ET curriculum, increasing amounts of knowledge andnew technology developments are pushing back subjects like EM in the curricula.4 Likewise,regulatory environment (state, institutional, and accrediting agencies) put stresses on thecurricula.In order to reduce the State’s portion of

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

provide some ideas for improvement of ourprograms.I sought to answer two questions: • What do we agree that IE is? • What are the unique courses we have in our programs?I acknowledge the help provided by seven years of students who have completed anassignment in the introduction to industrial engineering course that I teach. Each studentcompares our program to an IE program at another university. Their work provided avaluable starting place for this paper.MethodsI started with the 104 programs listed at www.abet.org as having ABET accreditedprograms in IE. I made the following three omissions from that list, leaving 101programs: • Because we changed our name in 2002, my university was listed twice, so I omitted the listing with

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hartmann

“output” from a diverseset of originating sources. Such “sources” can be the “general workforce,” direct accession fromhigh school, or graduates of higher education engineering programs.As the source for granting degrees to industrial engineering undergraduate and graduate-levelstudents, engineering higher education is motivated to adapt to the manufacturing and serviceconsumer’s changing requirements for an educated engineering employee. This motivation maybe partially based on institutional and departmental-level accreditations, a critically importantconcern for stakeholders in institutions and the institutions’ engineering departments. While anaccreditation is alone significant and requires an institution/department to plan, collect, archive

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Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

accreditation cycle., accessedJanuary 5, 2005.2 Wankat, Phillip C., Oreovicz, Frank S., Delgass, W. Nicholas, “Integrating Soft Criteria into the ChECurriculum”, Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, (2000)3 Felder, Richard M. and Rebecca Brent, “Designing and Teaching Courses to Satisfy the ABETEngineering Criteria”, J. Eng. Ed., 92(1), 7 (2003)4 Miller, R.L., and B.M. Olds, “A Model Curriculum for a Capstone Course in MultidisciplinaryEngineering Design,” J. Eng. Ed., 83(4), 1 (1994)5 Fornaro, R.J., M.R. Heil, and S.W. Peretti, “Enhancing Technical Communication Skills in EngineeringStudents: An Experiment in Multidisciplinary Design,” Proceedings of the 31st Annual ASEE/IEEEFrontiers in

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erwin D'Souza; Mehmet Ozturk

An Introductory Virtual Laboratory for Electrical Engineering Erwin D’Souza1 and Mehmet C. Öztürk2 North Carolina State University 1 Department of Computer Science 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Raleigh, NC 27695Introduction Educational Java applets are gaining popularity as the number of applets available on theWorld Wide Web continues to grow. An important advantage of applets is that they can be runon Java enabled internet browsers without the need for storing the actual program in the user’scomputer. Hence, in

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Niebuhr

. This has anadded benefit of forcing students to be more focused and efficient.V. Bibliography 1 Moll, A.J.,et al., “What do you do with a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering?” Journal of Materials Education, Vol. 24, No. 2-4, 2002. pp. 15-17. 2 Taylor, J.B., et al., “An Integrated First Year Curriculum in Industrial & Systems Engineering,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City. UT. 2004 3 Braatz, R.D., et al., “A Holistic Approach to Chemical Process Design and Development,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City. UT. 2004 4 Gani, R., “Chemical Product Design: Challenges & Opportunities,” Computers & Chemical Engineering, 28, 2004, pp. 2441

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Dees; Megan Perkey; Karen Davis; Nicholas Harth

.) The focus of this paper is how an alternate experience, ProjectSTEP, can be accommodated in the framework of a capstone design course and used tosatisfy ABET’s professional component criterion. We address the portion of the Page 10.1136.5professional component criterion that focuses on senior design in this paper: Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education Students must be prepared for engineering practice through the curriculum culminating in a major design experience based on the knowledge and

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

, fight it, orembrace it. Ignoring the problem will only degrade the integrity of the class. Fighting ithas proven extremely difficult as the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) have found. The best option is toembrace it and change the way classrooms operate while at the same time teaching betterengineering ethics for the Internet age. This paper focuses on the changes made toembrace these trends in a computer engineering laboratory at Mississippi StateUniversity.2. Background At Mississippi State University, the computer engineering curriculum consists ofa sequence of five classes: Digital Devices, Microprocessors, Digital Systems Design,Computer Architecture, and Embedded

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christi L. Patton; Daniel W. Crunkleton; John M. Henshaw; Douglas Jussaume; Robert L. Strattan

earned thestudents gain skills that will make them valuable employees upon graduation. Studentslearn to communicate their work in a professional manner at group meetings and inregular written reports. The students receive guidance, but ultimately must create theirown path for evaluating plans and must negotiate with one another when multiple pathsare offered. Students who participate in this project and enroll in this course havedistinctly proven that they can meet ABET criteria (a) – (k).In this paper, the authors will give an overview of the first year of this program, lookingparticularly at examples of the benefits to students and the difficulties encountered.Methods for integrating this into recruiting and retention programs will also be

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Using a Vertically Integrated Team Design Project to Promote Learning and an Engineering Community of Practice Sandra Spickard Prettyman, Helen Qammar and Edward Evans Department of Foundations and Leadership/Department of Chemical Engineering University of Akron, Akron OH 44325Recent curriculum reforms in engineering education have focused on implementing thescholarship on pedagogy into the engineering classroom experience. For example, the paradigmshifts toward learner-centered versus teacher-centered delivery modes have been well establishedin many departments. In addition, department level curriculum reforms have begun to designintegration of concepts and skills

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anand Srinivasan; Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

managementconcepts such as market research, customer needs, product management, etc. These concepts arenew to an engineering student and have to be presented in a manner that allows for greaterunderstanding and learning. On the other hand, a management student, or product manager inindustry may not be familiar with engineering fundamentals and will have to be given a suitableintroduction.All this calls for the integration of platform planning into the engineering and businesscurriculum. The objective of this paper is to report on an online learning tool that has beendeveloped for product platform planning that: • reaches a wide audience, • caters to a variety of needs in academia and industry, • disseminates information in multimedia format, and

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Jackson; Jesse Petway; Doreen Lawrence; Patrick Dessert; Barbara Oakley

mathematics on a dailybasis at that particular student’s level. Because daily worksheets must be graded and theresults entered into a set of grading sheets, an administrator can tell at a glance whichclass is not implementing the Kumon curriculum materials properly. This accountabilityalso helps promote enthusiasm by curbing unfair criticism (in our experience, alwaysfrom teachers who have not been using the program), that the program does not work.Additionally, the effect of the Kumon administrators and Oakland University engineeringprofessors in coaching the teachers as to how to effectively teach mathematics cannot beemphasized enough. For example, some teachers seemed to feel during initial trainingsessions that understanding was more far more

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lennard Lema; Peter Baumann

subject matter. Open to the entire university and void of anyprerequisites, the introductory course has been very popular and often serves as a valuablevehicle for recruitment of students with an interest in science and technology into our program.Classroom lectures and activities focus on various topics: the engineering profession; the designprocess; engineering solutions and problem-solving format; dimensional unit conversions;statistics; mechanics; electrical theory; mass balance; and energy concepts.To reinforce all the baseline topics listed through experiential learning, a team design project isintroduced towards the end of the semester. In order to promote positive team interaction, aninstructional workshop on the Myers-Briggs Type