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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Charles McIntyre

/ industry speakers?, and is there a need for faculty advisors for each group? Alongwith the discussion that followed these questions, the issues of evaluation, assessment and informationaccess were also discussed. For example, how will the student work be evaluated and by whom?, howwill information be accessed by the students (Blackboard Course-Info, www, share directory)?, how willcourse assessment be accomplished?, how will previous course assessment be incorporated intosubsequent course offerings?, and how can the assessment be tied to the Annual DepartmentalAssessment Report and the ABET & ACCE reports? After much discussion, it was determined that thebasic approach that should be used in the capstone course would incorporate problem-based

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Steven M. Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia; Carole Kraak; Carole Schramm

specificefficiencies in staff time, in teaching assistant (and staff) training and, then and onlythen, in improved learning.Performance outcomes assessed for the beta-version of the media enhanced courseconsisted of TA feedback (including feedback from TA’s whom had taught the coursewith and without the media enhancements), student surveys and faculty observations.We are contemplating new assessment techniques for the next course offering.Teaching Assistant PreparationAn anticipated outcome was that the on-line laboratory videos provided an efficientmeans to train and prepare the teaching assistants. The course content covers a broadrange of materials topics and it is unreasonable to expect that graduate students will beexperts in all of them. The on-line

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Traci Kelly

created from majors across campus, including students fromengineering, business, art, communication, journalism, political science, and so forth. This panel segment or paper will discuss thecomplex structure needed to have effective, productive, socially aware, and creative teams while maintaining an administrative andpedagogical structure that is flexible enough to accommodate “real world” realities of changing schedules, client needs, andtechnology challenges. Currently, students teams are working for agencies concerned with environmental sustainability, communityneighborhood development, homelessness, prison education, and technology in the junior high and high schools for minority students.Examples will be brought from these specific projects

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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S.P.K. Sternberg; G.G. Botte

andexcited about their prospects. However, they were unable to find all the information theyneeded to satisfy their curiosity. The students asked their professors for more informationand several members of the faculty decided to include fuel cell technologies into theirbasic course material, either as example problems or even just as discussion points.Many of these students may spend their careers working on or with fuel cells if theyreach commercial success. The possibilities include applications for cell phones,computers, remote sensing equipment, automobiles and transportation, residential powersupply, as well as commercial and industrial scale power generation. The material is stillnew enough to be a contemporary issue but not so undeveloped as

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Laura Grossenbacher

foundational assumptions of their opposing team. Their examination of the ethical positions involved in thesecontroversies ultimately led several of the students to change their minds about such issues as whether the U.S.should continue to develop a National Missile Defense System, or whether Embryonic Stem Cell research should bemore widely funded by the federal government. My paper explores the difficulties and triumphs of assignmentssuch as these that challenge students to examine their own assumptions. I make recommendations about the furtherintegration of ethics in engineering curricula, which may happen only if there are new and financially feasibleopportunities in ethics training for interested faculty and instructors. About five years

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey; Allen C. Jaedike; Peter S. Rhode

, (7)ribs, (8) part configurations, (9) sweeping & lofting, (10) basic assembly modeling, (11) assembly configurations,(12) traditional drawings, and (13) viewing and use of color. Aside from the demonstration of specific CADconcepts, perhaps the most important issue concerns the range of projects considered, which is consistent with theubiquitous nature of CAD in industry today. From a pedagogy point of view this is one the most important conceptslearned in the course; the entire class benefits from seeing other projects developed and presented. As a follow-on,during Fall semester 2001 students went well beyond the mere creation of static CAD images. Using the animation4 Note: filleting can be sort of notorious in this regard (across