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Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Carpick

some comic relief and perhaps motivation by the imagerycontained in the question. The relief is short-lived, though, as the answer can only be obtained ifthe student remembers the formula for the strain energy of a compound axially loaded member, E = å Pi L i 2Ai E i , 2 iand if the student also recognizes from equilibrium that the internal force is only non-zero andequal to P in the left half of the beam, whose length is L/2. If the student only gets as far asremembering the formula itself, wrong answers (a) and (b) can be ruled out as nonsensical sincethey are larger than the strain energy of an entire beam

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Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip Parker

information on the followinglearning preferences: class format, type of laboratory activities, tendencies to explore additionaltopics independently, and the types of problems to solve. The analysis of survey resultsconsisted primarily of scatter plots and tabulated results of the students’ responses as a functionof their KAI scores. A summary of these results is presented and discussed in Section 5.0. Alltabular results are provided in Appendix B. Page 7.298.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering

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Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Hereford

faculty havedeveloped for its Engineering Physics program, as well as links to other useful sites.A snapshot of the main page is shown in Figure 1. The intent of the main page is (a) to besimple and thus download quickly, (b) provide a search capability, and (c) provide a jump offpoint to the main subsections. Page 7.982.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. Copyright © 2002, American Society of Engineering EducationWelcome to the Engineering Physics Resource web page sponsored by Murray State University. Ourgoals are to · provide ideas for

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ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

affective experiences encountered in distance learning courses, American Journal of Distance Education, vol.10, no.3, 1996, pp.37-48. 2. Graham, C., Cagiltay, K., Lim, B., Craner, J., and Duffy, T. M. "Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses." The Technology Source, March/April 2001. 3. Gross, Ronald (1991), Peak Learning, ISBN: 0-87477-610-4, published by G. F. Putnam’s Sons, New York. 4. Carlson, R. (1999, September), Migrating Your Course to the Online Environment, Syllabus, pages 20-24. 5. Betz, M., & Desiderio, M. (unpublished). Educational technology in teacher education: 2001

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

course. b) Most juniors and seniors participate as part of a graduation design project. c) Sophomores, who may have completed a first-year course and who are not yet concerned about defining graduation projects, participate mainly out of personal interest. Table 1. Forms of participation in the 2001 TCFFHRC (%) Forms Fresh Sophomore Junior Senior Part of the course 76 14 33 29 Graduation project 0 0 40 43 Extracurricular activities 33 93 33 20 Hobby 29 43 20

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gaby Hawat

Session 3286 Articulated Pre-Engineering Programs: How Community Colleges can be Effective Partners with Universities to Deliver Engineering Curriculum to Students Dr. Gaby Hawat, Hank Regis Valencia Community CollegeAbstractValencia Community College (VCC) offers, in addition to the standard general educationpre-engineering Associate of Arts degree, a pre-engineering curriculum including thefundamental engineering classes needed for all engineering majors. Engineering studentshave the option of pursuing a general degree in pre-engineering or the more

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Schmidt; Gregory Plett

. The rotor spin torque is provided by a rare earth magnet typedc motor (motor 1) whose angular position is measured by an optical encoder (encoder 1). Thefirst transverse gimbal assembly (body C) is driven by another rare earth motor (motor 2) to effectmotion about axis 2. Another optical encoder provides feedback of the relative position ofbodies C and B.The subsequent gimbal assembly, body B, rotates with respect to body A about axis 3. There is noactive torque applied about this axis. A brake, which is actuated via a toggle switch on thecontroller box, may be used to lock the relative position of A and B and hence reduce the systemdegrees of freedom. The relative angle between A and B is measured by encoder 3. Finally,body A rotates without

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

response. Themaximum score is the number when all students select “Definitely Yes" which has a value offive (5) as their response in favor of the idea (i.e. maximum score = 150 for a class of 30students).Table 1: Students Responses to Section Two (2) of the Questionnaire Response as % of Maximum Score No. Question Eng Highway Engineering Statics Design Economics Average 2-a AAR helped me/us learn the material better 60.0 76.0 63.5 66.5 2-b AAR helped me/us identify any "problem

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Pearlman; Kimberly Turner

. Page 7.621.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2002, American Society for Engineering Education7. Experiment with the accelerometer and answer the questions below: a. What is the largest angle that the graph will record? b. Does the accelerometer measurement or sensitivity seem different to you in either direction? How? c. Based on what you know about the MEMS accelerometer, is there anything that surprises you about how well it works?The Purple StationYou experience acceleration in 2 dimensions (side to side and forward and back) when you ridein a car. Assume that you are in the passenger seat of a car at a

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lyons; Peter Dorato

-Part 2, 1968.6. Challenge for the Future...Professional Schools of Engineering , NSPE, Wash., D.C., 1976.7. Wandmacher, C., "Professional Education", President's Message, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 65, no.6, 1975, p. 447.8. LeBold, W.K, R. Perrucci, J. Singleton, V. Salvo, W. Howland, and G.A. Hawkins, "Educational InstitutionalViews of Undergraduate Goals of Engineering Education," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 56, no. 6, 1966,pp. 213-219.9. Grinter, L.E., "Defining a Professional School of Engineeri ng,” Guest Editorial, Journal of EngineeringEducation, vol. 65, no. 4, 1975, p. 279, pp. 354-355.10. Friedland, B. and P. Dorato, "A Case for the Doctor of Engineering As a First Professional Degree,"Engineering Education

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Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Gerdin

studentswhen physically attending the laboratory at the academic would not have to purchase LabVIEW to run theseinstitution. programs. These programs (or virtual instruments) would Since most PC computers have a sound card and CD allow the students to download the data to spreadsheetplayer, it was decided to turn these instruments into a files which could be used either in analysis of the data in aAcknowledgment- The author wishes to thank N. report, or to be sent back to the laboratory instructor at theTrombetta, R.A. Jones, B. Barnes, M. Pezzetti and T. host site to help the student trouble-shoot the circuit.Kujawa for making

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Session 2468 Interactive Learning Tools: Animating Mechanics of Materials Timothy A. Philpot, David B. Oglesby, Ralph E. Flori, Vikas Yellamraju, Nancy Hubing, Richard H. Hall University of Missouri-RollaAbstractComputer-based instructional materials offer great potential for engineering education. A challenge that must beaddressed in the successful use of this medium, however, is overcoming the students’ tendency toward passivelyreceiving the instruction. Particularly in the impersonal domain of a student interacting with a computer,instructional

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The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

G.T. Lineberry; David Silverstein

) engineering education(University of Louisville, Murray State University, and Western Kentucky University), alongwith the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) and selectedindependent colleges (e.g., Kentucky Wesleyan) to develop a collection of offerings of pre-engineering courses at community colleges across the state. The courses have been selected toallow students graduating from two-year programs to then enter four-year programs andcomplete an engineering degree within two additional years.As part of this project, the specific needs of certain courses have been considered in the redesignof distance-learning classrooms in order to provide an effective instructional environment. Oneof the courses to be offered is “Process

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Using Animation and Simulation in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa

exported to a ASCII data file. Next, the LabVIEW-based virtual instrument imports thisdata through the graphical user interface seen in Figure 5b. This interface is flexible in that it allows theuser to select any of the voltages or currents in the simulation file to test. Thus, the user can select anytwo voltages or currents in the circuit to be used as the input and output signals when finding thefrequency response. a) b) Figure 5 – a) Hardware setup of the verification tool used for frequency response testing. b) The tool’s simulation import interface.Once the simulation data is imported, the virtual instrument determines the list of test frequencies

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Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Johansen; Jens Riis; Henrik Jorgensen; Claus Balken; James Luxhoj

) Education Company Theoretical Focus P r o b l e m -B a s e d (Many to 1 Learning (PBL) and relation) Executive Programs Practical

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Schweitzer; Shad Reed

Integration?” IACIS Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada, October 2001.[7] Khan, B. and Vega, R., “Factors to Consider When Evaluating a Web-based InstructionCourse: A Survey.” In B. Khan (Ed) Web-based Instruction. New Jersey: EducationalTechnologies Publications.[8] Embleton, K., “Online Teaching Tips.” 3 Dec 1999.http://www.fcs.iastate.edu/computer/faq/tips/onlinetechtips.html (10 Jan 02).[9] Girma, D., “Teaching Assistant Portal – A Web-Based Tool for Enhancing Teaching andLearning of Lecture-Based Modules.” North American Web Conference, Fredericton, NewBrunswick, Canada, October 2000.[10] Novak, G. and Patterson, E., “Just-in-Time Teaching: Active Learner Pedagogy withWWW,” IASTED International Conference on Computers and

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Jalkio

how the students would self assess these items.Next we set out to develop a grading rubric based on demonstrated accomplishment of learningobjectives. We believed that a passing grade should correspond to a minimal acceptableaccomplishment of all objectives, since we wish to know that every graduate of our program hasaccomplished all learning objectives. This led to the problem of defining A and B levelperformance, since if a C indicates that a student has accomplished all objectives, what could anA mean. Our conclusion was that we would differentiate between demonstrated levels ofmastery. C level performance on a learning objective was demonstrated by a student just barelyable to perform the task, perhaps with some assistance. B level

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmalzel; Steven H. Chin; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

, American Society for Engineering Education” Clinic at Rowan University'', ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, Session 1326, June 28--July 1, 1998.2. A. J. Marchese, J. Newell, B. Sukumaran, R. P. Ramachandran, J. L. Schmalzel and J. Mariappan, ``The Sophomore Engineering Clinic: An Introduction to the Design Process Through a Series of Open Ended Projects'', ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 2225, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20--23, 1999.3. J. A. Newell, A. J. Marchese, R. P. Ramachandran, B. Sukumaran and R. Harvey, “Multidisciplinary Design and Communication: A Pedagogical Vision'', International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 376-382, 1999.4. R. M. Felder, “Reaching

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zheng Min; Robert Weber; Feng Chen; Ben Graubard; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

. Starting on piconet A, the bridge node will systematically interrogate each device for data to be transferred to piconet B. The bridge node holds all data until it switches to piconet B. 2. The bridge node switches to piconet B and passes along any data to the appropriate devices. 3. The bridge node starts the process over, except it will interrogate the devices on piconet B instead of A 10.Issues with BluetoothTo establish piconets there must be a method for devices to identify and communicate with eachother. Since this is a frequency hopping system, devices must be able to find each other, this isreferred to as inquiry and paging. Inquiry is a protocol to find other devices and paging is how to

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

A B C 5V 10000 W Display Neighboring 1 2 3 Inputs Terminals of Input 2 (ab) Figure 1. Schematic of RCXOne can infer the value of R s by adding any resistance across the terminals. For example, R ab =10,000 W, the raw value is 512. Thus, one can compute R s = 10,000 W

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christine Masters; Renata Engel

. lˆ lies in the same plane as r and F 1. r and F are parallel vectors 3. r and F are perpendicular vectors 2. lˆ lies in the same plane as r and F 4. lˆ is perpendicular to r and F a. 3 only b. 1 only b. 4 only c. 2 only c. 1 or 2 d. 1 or 2 d. 3 and 4 Page 7.1015.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCaul; Alfred Soboyejo; Robert J. Gustafson

Respondents 2nd Yr 50% Combined 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R Indicators in Rank Order (See Table 2) Figure 1. Response Rate vs Indicator – All Years and CombinedIn the open response to Other Indicators

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Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Titus; Guoqing Tang

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe next example involves use of the integration by substitution technique to evaluate a definite 2 3integral ò x 2 ex +d3 x. The problem is modified first through randomization of the integration 0 a +b nlimits, the power of x term, and the constant term in the exponent of e: ò x n -1e x d+ c x , where a a= -5,…,0, b = 1,…,5, c = 1,..,5, n = 3 or 5. Several questions related to

Conference Session

Visualization and Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jianping Yue

groups from both ECCand CMU.4.2. Relationship between Spatial Visualization Abilities and Course GradesThe grades at ECC are A (4.0), B+ (3.5), B (3.0), C+ (2.5), C (2.0), D (1.0), and F (0.0).Students who withdrew from the classes were not included in the investigation of the relationshipbetween spatial visualization abilities and course grades. The training class for high schoolteachers did not give grades, so they were also not included.The mean scores on the PSVT-R test and course grades for all of the classes except the trainingclass for high school teachers were 21.00 (70%) and 2.74 (69%) respectively. The mean scoredifference is not statistically significant [t(135) = 1.59, p > .05].Analyses of individual groups give the following

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To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Morton; John Nydahl; Nancy Peck

stopwatch. The drag devices generate kinetic friction ( Fm µ constant), eddy currentfriction (Fm µ w) and aerodynamic friction (Fm µ w2). Trend lines that undergraduates typicallyuse to correlate data are inappropriate here because none have the proper functional form. Excelis utilized because a) it is a natural platform to record and manipulate experimental data, b) itsSolver package permits an iterative nonlinear regression analysis to determine the unknownempirical coefficients by minimizing the error between experimental and model predictions, andc) Visual Basic function modules may be utilized to calculate the empirical model values. Thediscovery-based experiments, run as coupled or independent experiments, may also be utilized

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Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Colin Grant; Brian Dickson

intangible firm-specific knowledge which enables it to add value “ Spender, J. C. `Making knowledge the basis of a dynamic theory of the firm', [11] “Firms exist to facilitate the acquisition, creation, exploitation and transfer of knowledge, with advantage being gained by the `speed and efficiency of the creation and transfer of knowledge' Kogut, B. and Zander, U. `What do firms do? Co-ordination, identity and learning', [12]The University of Strathclyde gives the Chemical Engineering Community that support throughour Distance Learning and Integrated Graduate Development Scheme Programmes by providingthe opportunity for individuals to learn new skills, and then have an impact on their business.4

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Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Haque

eccentricity ey.Po = nominal axial load capacity of a column when the load is placed with a zero eccentricity.The input for model-2 was h, ρg, e/h, and γ. The value of γ was estimated using the equation:γ = 1 –(5/h), where the column size, h was in inches. Figure 2 shows the column dimensions. 2.5” (TPY) 2.5” (TPY) γh=h-5 γh=h-5 h” h” (a) (b) Figure 2. (a) Square tied column dimensions; (b) Circular spiral column dimensions.The number of

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Instructional Technology--What Works

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

produces student interactionand ultimately leads to a high level of student satisfaction with the entire learningexperience.Bibliography 1. Thomerson, J.D. and Smith, C.L. (1996), Student perceptions of the affective experiences encountered in distance learning courses, American Journal of Distance Education, vol.10, no.3, 1996, pp.37-48. 2. Graham, C., Cagiltay, K., Lim, B., Craner, J., and Duffy, T. M. "Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses." The Technology Source, March/April 2001. 3. Gross, Ronald (1991), Peak Learning, ISBN: 0-87477-610-4, published by G. F. Putnam’s Sons, New York. 4. Carlson, R. (1999, September), Migrating Your Course to the Online

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Helen Kuznetsov

. Page 7.1115.4Here is the problem set up that was used for a homework assignment on Mallard. A longproblem was divided in several reasonable parts and each part was formulated as a separate Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationquestion. Similar problems were developed for a variety of question versions. However theproblems were significantly different to present a new challenge to students. The sequence ofquestions in one quiz never had the same problem covered in the questions displayed at thesame time. An example of such an approach is shown in Figure 6. a) b

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zachariah Chambers; Clark Merkel

be judged and graded on the following criteria: 5 points… Inclusion of required elements: a) safety rules b) picture or drawing of vehicle c) efficiency calculation d) team name and members names. e) smaller than 3 x 4 feet. 10 points….Thermodynamic analysis: (completeness, correctness, etc.) 10 points.... Mechanical analysis: (forces and energy of lifting mechanism) 10 points…..Neatness ( are you messy or not messy) 5 points…..Clarity (is poster well organized, easy to understand, and interpret) 10 points….Vehicle performance based on: Lifts ball at least 3 ft during a heat..... ...10 pts. Lifts ball at least 1 ft during a heat