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Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Head

aparticular team’s crane. Aluminum costs $1.50 per kilogram, and plastic costs $1.04 perkilogram. However, the cost of plastic is not given to the students directly. Instead, students aregiven three chemical equations for synthesizing ethylene from decane, and are required to usestoichiometry and energy balances to determine the mass of decane and amount of energyneeded to make one kilogram of ethylene. The cost of polyethylene is then estimated from thesequantities, using the following equation: C = (50 cents/kilogram) A + (7 cents/megajoule) Bwhere A = mass of decane required to make one kilogram of ethylene B = energy required to make one kilogram of ethylene C = cost of one kilogram of polyethyleneHaving the students research the

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

project “AdvancingSuccess of Minorities and Especially Women in Engineering at UTEP,” Award No.P120A030064, and that support is gratefully acknowledged.References1. Kubo Della-Piana, C., Arenaz, P. Fisher, W., Flores, B., “CircLES: A Comprehensive First-Year Program forEntering Engineering and Science Students,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference and Exposition, Session 1237, 2001.2. Kubo Della-Piana, C., Darnell, A., Bader, J., Romo, L., Rubio, N., Flores, B., Knaust, H. Brady, T., and Swift, A.,“A Longitudinal Study of Student Persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at aRegional Urban University,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter; David Elizandro

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2004.4. Carrano, A. L., M. E., Kuhl, and M. M. Marshall, “Design, Implementation, and Integration of an Experiential Assembly System Engineering Laboratory Module,” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN, June 2003.5. Taylor, J. B. and J. R. Mozrall, “An Integrated First Year Curriculum in Industrial and Systems Engineering,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2004.JESSICA O. MATSONJessica Matson is Professor and Chairperson of the Industrial and Systems Engineering

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Hug; Jason FitzSimmons

the instructor in the course. Most importantly, no matter how wellthe web module is designed, the instructor has to buy into the idea of using a web module in theircourse and properly integrate into their curriculum.Bibliography1. Seymour, E., (1995a) The Loss of Women From Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Undergraduate Majors: An Explanatory Account, Science Education, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 437 – 473.2. Goldberg, J., and Lansey, K., (2004) Web-Based Alternatives for Learning Engineering Science, Computers in Education Journal, Vol. XIV, No. 4, October - December, pp. 2 - 11.3. FitzSimmons, J.H., and Hug, B., Design and Development of a Web Module Used in an Undergraduate Civil Engineering Course, Computers In Education Journal

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Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stewart Prince; Robert Ryan

” Y F A B C X Ym ax R1 R2 L Figure 4. Free body diagram showing loads, reactions for simply supported beam.If the beam is of circular cross section and is solid, then C is the radius of the beam.Since, for such a beam, the area moment of inertia around the Z axis is πR 4 I zz

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Johan W Joubert; Dolf Steyn

University Press (2000).13. Dick, B., Action Research: Action and Research (2002),http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/aandr.html Page 10.232.6 5 ECSA Outcome Weight Not Competent Working towards Competent ExceededOutcome Description (%) (0) Competence (1) (2) Competence (3) 2.1 Identity a real-world 20 The case group A typical text- A relevant case An original and case identified

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Tront

; K.A. Smith, Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom, 2 Edn., Edina, MN, Interaction Book Company, 1998;2. J.D. Bransford, A.L. Brown, and R.R. Cocking, Eds. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Washington, National Academy Press, 2000.3. R.M. Felder and R. Brent, “Cooperative Learning in Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfalls, and Payoffs,” ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 377038 (1994), .4. R. Anderson, Beyond PowerPoint: Building a New Classroom Presenter, Syllabus Magazine, June 2004.5. R. Anderson, R. Anderson, B. Simon, S. A. Wolfman, T. VanDeGrift, and K. Yasuhara. Experiences with aTablet PC based lecture presentation system. In SIGCSE'04, pages 56-60, 2004.BiographyJoseph G. Tront is

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kelly Torres; Aimee Mostella; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

above, the additive parameters (a, c) are identified as the model biases and themultiplicative parameters (b,di) are referred to as the model weights. These parameters of theANN are defined in the process of training of neural network over the known set of data. The yiare the inputs to the model. The exponential terms in the ANN model provide a non-linearmodeling capability.The training of ANN models is different in nature as compared to the methods for our statisticalmodel. There is typically no demonstrated method to identify a global optimum. The goal of thetraining process is therefore to find a suitable local optimum. To identify a good local optimumANNs are trained over past data sets starting with a random guess of the model parameters

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andre' Butler; William Moses

Date______________________ Lab_____________1. Please circle the rating that best describes your team for each of the three items below: a. Did all members of the group share in the team’s responsibilities? Some members did no A few members did most of the The work was generally shared by Everyone did an equal share of work at all work all members the work b. Which of the following best describes the level of conflict at group meetings: No conflict, everyone There were disagreements, but Disagreements were resolved with Open warfare: still unresolved seemed to agree on what they were easily resolved

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Josef Rojter

], Disabling Professions,, London: Marion and Boyars. 11. Larson, M.S. [1979], The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 12. Schon, D. [1991], The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action, New York: Basic Books. 13. Davis, M. [1998], Thinking Like an Engineer, New York: Oxford University Press. 14. Dewey, J. [1933], How we Think, Chicago: Regnery. 15. Finniston, M. Sir [1980], “Engineering Our Future”, Committee of Inquiry into the Engineering Profession, London: HMSO. 16. Williams, B. Sir [1988], “Review of the Discipline of Engineering”, Canberra: AGPS. 17. Wragge, H.S. [1987], “Engineering Education to the Year

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christopher Loving; Joyce Yen

out the reasons for change, the process, and the outcomes if they are to buy into the changeprocess.15 Once they have personally identified with the goals of the change process, they areprepared to become change agents.15 Hence departments who were invited to participate in thefirst cohort of the CDCCP already clearly demonstrated interest in the program and may even beseen as “least likely to need” the program.In summary, each CDCCP cohort includes 4-5 department chairs plus 2-3 faculty from eachdepartment; thus a complete cohort would consist of 12-20 faculty. The CIC partners with thechair in selecting the faculty using the following criteria: (a) prefer tenured faculty; (b) facultywho are not resistant to improving department climate and

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

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Keith Thompson; Matthew Roberts

b = 5” h = 10” maximum 3.75’ 1.5’ 3.75’Design TeamsThere will be four design teams of no more than three people each. Design the beam to resist thegiven loading in flexure. Do not use load or resistance factors for this design.Materials: Select a concrete strength that you feel is feasible (remember that the facilities of ourlab are limited, so do not specify exotic concrete properties). Reinforcing bars can be obtainedlocally from Heiser’s but their selection is limited (you may want to visit Heiser’s to see what isavailable). A

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Loralee Donath; Nadia Craig; Nancy Thompson; Michael Matthews

-2002Accreditation Cycle.” 2. Alford, E. M., N. S. Thompson, J. Brader, B. Davidson, S. Hargrove-Leak, and E. Vilar. “IntroducingEngineering Graduate Students to Learning Theory and Inquiry-Based Learning: A Collaborative, InterdisciplinaryApproach.” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Conference.3. Barnett, V. Sample Survey principles and methods, London: Edward Arnold, 1991.4. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A., & Cocking, R. (Eds.). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School,Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000, 12-13.5. Donath, L. and R. Spray. “Linguistic Evidence of Cognitive Distribution: Quantifying Learning AmongUndergraduate Researchers in Engineering.” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Harder

temperature of the air at the inlet. Note that thermocouple 7 is located at a distanceof 1 inch from the start of the heated tube.The nozzle at the exit measures the mass rate of flow by using a manometer to measure thepressure difference PA – Patm. Then the equations derived above for steady, frictionless,incompressible flow are used to relate the condition at A (in white PVC mixing chamber) tothose at B (exiting the known diameter nozzle to atmosphere at left).Figure 1 Lab apparatus – blue wires clamped to opposite ends of stainless steel tube connect topower supply giving uniform wall heat flux condition, air flow enters on right sideAnalysis:For a system to be operating in the turbulent regime the flow needs to be great enough for ReD >2300

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mincer; David McDaniel; Laurence Caretto

pressure, v is the specific volume, T is the absolute temperature, R is theengineering gas constant, and b is a coefficient that is zero in most equations. The first term inthis equation, with b = 0, is simply the ideal gas law. The remaining terms mark a deviationfrom the ideal gas law. In the summation, Ci(T) is a function of temperature only and Hi(v) is a Page 10.1132.10function of specific volume only. Although equation [3] gives the pressure as a function oftemperature and specific volume, most equations of state use density instead of specific volume.Regardless of the equation of state, specific volume is the variable specified by and

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Tebbe

. Page 10.268.8 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”You may use Excel to generate a random integer between a and b using the following function: = ROUND ( ( RAND( ) * (b – a) + a ) , -1 )1. Repeatedly flip a coin to generate eight nine-bit numbers. Write these on the board and label them with parent numbers.2. Convert each design vector into its two components and calculate the resulting objective function.3. Compute a “fitness” for each parent by dividing their objective value by the sum of all objective values.4. Different forms of parent selection exist. For this problem, select all

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Steffen; Iskandar Hack

for a four credit hourcourse that will provide the stipend for the instructor. However, because this program is beingconducted through Continuing Studies there will be an additional $270 per student fee to coveradministrative expenses. In addition, each student will have to add in the cost of 4-credit hourcourse which is currently $708.20. The total estimated cost per student is approximately $3100. Page 10.1010.6Furthermore, each student participating in the program must agree with the release (Appendix B) “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Briar Schumacher; Jon Leydens; Donald Elger

; Wiske, 1998).B. Learning is a processThe participant-based theory in Fig. 2 suggested that learning involves well-defined,interconnected, and essential steps that form a cyclic process. When people are placed inenvironments in which steps are omitted or de-emphasized, then the quality of learning iscompromised. Also, the participant-based theory (Fig. 2) showed that the result of a cycle oflearning is growth. This growth involves improved foundation and increased motivation.While engineering professors do not commonly talk about a process of learning, there is supportin the literature for the idea of learning as a process. Process education is the theme for anational community that has been growing for the past decade (Beyerlein and Apple

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Theodor Richardson; Jed Lyons

Montague; every effort was made to ensure that the characters would still beinteresting to the students in the older grade levels as well. Screen shots of the final MMOsoftware product can be seen in Figure 1 below. This paper discusses the development cycle,analyzes its effectiveness, and suggests a set of best practices called the Educational SoftwareDevelopment and Analysis Toolkit (ESDAT).Figure 1. Screen captures of the Math with Montague Online software demonstrating the software environment(addressing the engaging content quality attribute of the system) and various problem types: (a) counting with thecomplete browser environment for student users, (b) addition, (c) counting money, (d) multiplication, and (e) longdivision.2. MethodThe

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Hofle; Ken Bosworth

modifications. One of themost successful problems in this aspect was problem 23 directly above. Approaches varied: a) Take a subsample of known volume, directly count its numerical content of beans, and scale this value up appropriately. b) Same as a), but use several subsamples to get an average number of beans per unit volume. c) Use the elliptical volume formula to compute the volume of 1 bean. Assume a 75% packing density, scale the isolated bean volume by 4/3 to find the volume 1 bean uses, and divide the 1 qt. volume by this occupancy volume to obtain the number of beans. d) Weigh the jar empty, weigh it full of beans, subtract to find the beans' mass, and then weigh a fixed number of beans. Scale

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Whalen; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger; Bala Maheswaran

; Exposition.Chickering, A. (1994). Empowering Lifelong Self-Development. NACADA Journal, Volume 14, Number 2.Clark, C.M., Revuelto, J., Kraft, D., and Beatty, P. (2003) Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.Freeman, S.F., Jaeger B.K. & Brougham, J.C. (2003). More learning and less anxiety in a first programming course. Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.Hedrick, H. (2002). The Freshman Engineering Course Balancing Act, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.Jaeger, B., Whalen, R. & Freeman, S. (2005). Get with the program: Integrated project instead of a comprehensive final exam in a first

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus; Kenneth Reid

completing the PLTW courses have the option of a final exam which can beused to demonstrate mastery of course content. Students passing the course with asufficient score on this exam are eligible for credit from universities including RochesterInstitute Of Technology, Purdue University and Indiana University Purdue UniversityIndianapolis. Students scoring 85% or better plus a 70% or better on the exam receivecredit from RIT. Students may receive three college credits in the Department ofIndustrial Technology at Purdue University by completing an eligible PLTW course witha ‘B’ or better from a PLTW certified school, scoring 70 or above on the college creditexam, and by enrolling in IT, ID, or Technology Education programs. IUPUI is

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Murray

had taken adifferent course from me previously. I approached the students with the opportunity tomaintain the traditional method of lectures with discussions and the occasional shortcase/activity or to modify the course. The response was unanimous to modify the course.After some discussion the students agreed to 1) attend every class unless they were out oftown on a job interview, 2) read the assigned chapters before each class, and 3) for everyclass bring a question and an important point from the reading. I committed to thestudents 1) I would avoid lecturing, 2) I would minimize the importance of exams, and 3)if they kept their commitments they were guaranteed an A or B in the class. At the beginning I had reservations whether this

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

component focusing on vectors, vector dot products, and vector cross productswas included. Fundamentals of latitude and longitude, the spheroidal and ellipsoidal earthmodels, as well as Geographical Positioning Systems (GPS) were reviewed. If the earth isassumed to be a sphere of radius r and if A and B are two points on the surface of theearth with latitude and longitude of (a1, a2) and (b1, b2), then the position vectors OA andOB from the center of the earth O to points A and B on the surface can be represented as: OA = rcos(a1)cos(a2)i + rcos(a1)sin(a2)j + rsin(a1)k OB = rcos(b1)cos(b2)i + rcos(b1)sin(b2)j + rsin(b1)kwhere i, j, and k are unit vectors in the three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate directions.The

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

Introducing ChE Sophomores to Measurement System Analysis and Analysis of Variance through Experiential Learning Milo D. Koretsky Department of Chemical Engineering Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-2702AbstractMeasurement System Analysis provides a formal method to evaluate the accuracy and precisionof a measurement gauge. Although it is an important topic, it is typically omitted in introductorystatistics classes, and often only receives cursory coverage in lab. This paper describes how thistopic is introduced through experiential learning to ChE sophomores at Oregon State

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

Linköping, Sweden Belfast, UKIntroductionProject courses in which students design, build and test a device on their own are increasinglybeing used in engineering education. The reasons include that such projects do not only trainstudents skills in design and implementation but can also be exploited in order to increasestudent motivation, to give an improved understanding of engineering science knowledge and topractice non-technical skills such as teamwork and communication. However, design-build-test(DBT) experiences may also be costly, time-consuming, require new learning environments anddifferent specialized faculty competence (Malmqvist et al.1). In particular, design-build-test experiences play a

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Chris Smaill, University of Auckland

.Lecturing to large classes may be more difficult and certainly carries more responsibility. Whendone well it is also more rewarding: the lecturer has the satisfaction of knowing that she or he Page 10.664.10has influenced positively a great number of lives and minds. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Dill, D.D. and B. Sporn, The implications of a postindustrial environment for the university: An introduction, in Emerging patterns of social demand and university reform

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

Millennial Generation for the next two decades and will be ablend of self-controlled concrete/linear learners. Conversely, the younger faculty is of the XGeneration, which shows strong abstract/random thinking, individualism, and increasing prag-matism with aging. Further, the senior faculty represents the Boomer Generation whose virtuescharacterize individualistic, spiritual/moralistic, and uncompromising qualities. This clash ofgenerations will be a continuing challenge to the engineering education profession and is a primesubject of this paper.Traditionally, knowledge is obtained from selected information. Yet, in the knowledge age, abroader interpretation hastens this from a noun to a verb basis. The result is knowledging, whichwill allow the

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff; Paul Leiffer

addressed bymany university student offices.Basic sources of the changesThere are three basic sources for these changes: a. Most important may be the slow drift of our culture in terms of worldviewtoward a more relativistic one. This may account for the rapid rise of cheating, as well asthe tendency toward lethargy (lack of motivation to learn, study, or have a work ethic). b. Second in importance is the change of our society from typographic tovideographic, essentially, an epistemological change, so that the majority of thepopulation are moved by feelings rather than by logic. This produces a short attentionspan, and makes the pursuit of mathematical topics more difficult. c. Finally, there is the rapid advance of technology, the

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe

. Bloom, B.S.(1956) Taxonomy of Educational Outcomes, Volume 1, The Cognitive Domain, London: Longman.3. Boudourides, M. A (1998) Constructivism and education: a shopper’s guide, Proceedings of the InternationalConference on the Teaching of Mathematics, Samos, Greece, July 3-6 1998.4. Bloom, B. S (1984) The search for methods of group instruction as effective as one to one tutoring, EducationalLeadership, vol. 41, no 8. pp 4-17. p4.5. Di Bello, L. and Orlich, F. (1987) Quarterly newsletter of the laboratory of comparative human cognition vol. 9,no.3, pp 105-110, cited in, Au, K. (1992), Changes in teacher's views of interactive comprehension instruction, inMoll, L. (ed.), Vygotsky and Education, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p273.6