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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Stan Napper; Bill Elmore

had several options:(a) Make steel that meets the written specifications(b) Make steel that will make the part but fail the specifications.(c) Stop selling steel to the customer since you cannot at the same time satisfy the specifications and make the part(d) Attempt to get the parts of the customer company to work together as to what hardness of steel Page 7.1266.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Education they really needed.Our company chose a version of

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Emin Yilmaz

Voltage : 3-12 VDCFrequency Response : >150 kHzDPI : 300/406Encoder is clamped in a cylindrical housing using a setscrew. Cylindrical housing is welded toone-foot long handle. As shown in Fig.1, with the help of the handle, encoder pulley may bepressed against the crankshaft belt for cylinder power measurements.(b). Data Acquisition SystemOur old data acquisition system consists of a TDK 486-66 microcomputer, a Data Translation5DT2805, low level, 12-bit data acquisition board and ASYST (version 2.1) software. DT2805board has a DT707 screw terminal box which can support thermocouple inputs with a referencejunction occupying analog input channel "0". Throughput speed with single channel analog inputis up to 13.7 kHz at 1X

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paige Smith

occupational fields. J. Worell, J.S. Hyde, K. Pope, P.T. Reid, S.Riger, J. Sanchez-Hucles, B. Toner, and C.B. Travis (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Women and Gender, Volume Two. SanDiego, CA: Academic Press.11. Fullilove, R., and Treisman, P.U. (1990). Mathematics achievement among African American undergraduates atthe University of California at Berkley: an evaluation of the math workshop program. Journal of Negro Education,59(3), 463.12. Gerstein, M. (1985). Mentoring: an age old practice in a knowledge-based society. Journal of Counseling andDevelopment, 66, 147-148.13. Ginorio, A., and Wiegand, D. (1994). First steps in college science: single sex vs. coeducational programs. Finalreport to the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund.14. Hammond, R. (2001). Overcoming

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson

a report of as many factors as you can think of thatneed to be considered in the decision process. Do the following for your report. a) Search the Web using google.com or a similar engine to find discussions of dialysis. You are also free to use handouts provided in class, books, or other references. b) Prepare a three-column table in Word with the following format: In the first column, list the factor to be considered in one or more words. In the second column, discuss the factor in not more than three sentences. In the third column, give the reference for your discussion. Although there is no upper limit to the number of factors you can discuss, you should have at least twenty factors in your list

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Simon Ang; Fred Barlow; Alan Mantooth; Sean Mulvenon

articles related to the subject matter, b) rotating the expert lecturers so as to bringin a fresh perspective, and c) the instructor’s research program identifying important advancesworthy of inclusion. A benefit of this web-based course delivery is that students at differentlocations will have the opportunity to interact with one another. The national dissemination of these courses will be done through I2 and a purely electronic,fully linked, multi-media version of the courses on CD-ROM recordings and via the coursewebsite. The archival of these courses will provide students the opportunity to view coursematerial repeatedly and at their convenience. It is becoming more common to have engineeringteams spread across the country (and world) that

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Reid Bailey

Group Catapult and Given Kolbe Solar Oven Tractor Results Indices Results (Section A) Control Group Catapult and Solar Oven No Treatment Tractor Results Results (Sections B, C & D)The three design projects are appropriate to study engineering design team performance forseveral reasons. First, each goes beyond analysis to truly involve design and synthesis. One waythis is evidenced is through their openness: there is not a single right

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Widmer; Jan Lugowski

measurement, as described in the first part of Phase 2. You will have to adjust software in both the “Data Neighborhood” and “Devices and Interfaces” file folders. Don’t forget the dip switches. b) Run a test to check if the channel works properly. For purposes of this early test, temporarily configure the channel in software as a “type T thermocouple”. Be sure that the temperature graph trends upwards as the thermocouple heats up, otherwise you may have a polarity problem Page 7.941.5 c) Launch LabVIEW (Start®Programs®MET Applications®National Instruments LabVIEW6®LabVIEW) and open a new VI. Save it in

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Comparing National Styles of Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Thibault; Rene Hivon; Danielle L'Heureux; Noel Boutin

and for whom the technical expertise of the students is seldom high enough.2The typical situation described in the preceding paragraph has advantages, the main ones beingthat: a) courses in the complementary studies are being taught by people who have a meaningfulexpertise in their fields (psychology, sociology, law, ...); b) this exposure to professors who arenot engineers give students the opportunity to see in a first-hand manner the way non-engineerssolve their problems and to transpose to engineering problems the tools used by specialists insocial sciences and humanities (as required by the CEAB guidelines3).However, the other side of the balance sheet is a little longer and it is the authors' view that itmay be heavier than the first

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Franzone

how to use text or graphics screenshots to capture and print program output. 11. OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST This section consists of several subsections that describe useful shortcuts in the development process and common questions that arise when developing Win32, console-mode applications for the first time. The subsections include: a). Reopening a Project. b). Where do I find my program’s executable file? c). Do I need Visual C++ to run my applications? d). Using the Build and Execute commands. e). IDE color schemes. 12. WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED This section provides a summary of the major concepts covered in the tutorial

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Safford; Andres Sousa-Poza; David Dryer; Charles Keating; William Peterson

is, (b) what the problem is. In that sense messy problems are quite intangible and as a result various authors have suggested that there are no objective problems, only situations defined as problems by people.Viewing the design of effective asynchronous learning environments as a systemsproblem can reveal insights to preclude unnecessary errors stemming from ineffectivesystem design. Recent work in systems science amplifies the point that traditionalthinking about problems will be ineffective in the future. Mitroff (1999) suggests thatsince real problems are unstructured and arbitrarily bounded, their resolution requires Page

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Lent; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer; Linda Schmidt

that collective efficacy (a) wasstrongly related to team cohesion and satisfaction; (b) partially mediated the relationshipbetween team cohesion and satisfaction, and (c) was moderated related to other socialcognitive measures (e.g., self-efficacy, interest) regarding pursuit of an engineering major.In addition, more advanced students reported significantly stronger collective efficacyregarding their teams than did introductory-level students. Our presentation will considerthe implications of these findings for further research and theory on team functioningwithin educational and work settings. Page 7.548.2Proceedings of the 2002 American Society

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Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stanley Grant; Semsi Ensari

Investigation, Phase I. 1999, Orange County Sanitation District: Orange County, CA.7. Grant, S.B., Webb, C., Sanders, B.F., Boehm, A.B., Kim, J.H., Redman, J.A., Chu, A.K., Mrse, R.D., Jiang, S.C., Gardiner, N.A., and A., B., Huntington Beach water quality investigation phase II: An analysis of ocean, surf zone, watershed, sediment and groundwater data collected from June 1998 through September 2000. 2000, National Water Research Institute, Orange County Sanitation District, County of Orange, Cities of Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana, and Newport Beach.8. Sanders, B.F., Green, C.L., Chu, A.K., and Grant, S.B., Case study: Modeling tidal transport of urban runoff in channels

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The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Baratuci; Angela Linse

Session 3413 Heat Transfer On-Line William B. Baratuci, Angela R. Linse University of Washington Department of Chemical Engineering / Center for Engineering Learning and TeachingIntroductionThis paper describes a project in which the internet was used to deliver a core course in theDepartment of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). This web-baseddistance-learning section of Transport Processes II, commonly known as “heat transfer,” wasoffered in Spring 2001. The distance

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Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Marcal de Queiroz; Hartono Sumali

the virtual Page 7.1083.4instrument by programming the data acquisition system. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 5V R3 R4 P= R1 + DR mg a b

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Newell; Heidi Newell; Kevin Dahm

undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum.HEIDI NEWELLHeidi Newell is currently the assessment/accreditation coordinator for the College of Engineering at RowanUniversity. She previously served as the assessment consultant for the University of North Dakota. Shehold a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of North Dakota, a M.S. in Industrial andOrganizational Psychology from Clemson, and a B. A. in Sociology from Bloomsburg University. Page 7.991.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Carl Steidley; Stephen Dannelly

, implement and testalgorithms to have one application automatically move a train from point A to point B, while aseparate application simultaneously moves a different train from point C to point D. Twopossible versions of this problem are apparent. First, both applications may be running on asingle machine allowing the shared resources to be controlled via semaphores. Second, eachapplication may be running on separate machines, requiring one of the distributed controlmethods described above. Continuing this natural progression of theoretical problems, an assignment to be solvedby students enrolled in either the Operating Systems or the Systems Programming courses wouldbe to detect deadlock. Detecting when one train occupies track portion 15

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tetsurou Furukawa; Shigeo Matsumoto; Kzuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

chopsticks holders, short comments on them and ratings of theirqualities determined by students, is shown in Figure 3.“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.762.3 Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education” (a) Details of chopsticks holder (b) Chopstick holder supporting a set of chopsticks Figure 1. Chopsticks holder made of plastic sheet (a) Details of chopsticks holder (b) Chopstick holder supporting a set of chopsticks Figure 2. Chopsticks holder made of toothpicks

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Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

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Matthew Campbell

model and the actual product. 6) A Discussion section which addresses issues such as: a. How well did the Lego prototype correspond to the actual product, and why. Include ideas of what improvements could be made given more resources (more parts, either Lego or otherwise). b. Possible improvements that can be made based on the failure analysis. c. Possible improvements to the design, which can include alternate product configurations.5 Return KitsOn the final exam date, your 3 member team must turn in the entire sorted Lego kit (with your prototypesdisassembled). You will get a 0 on this project if the kit is not turned in at this time. Figure 3

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeremy Losaw; Ann Anderson

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education ” Session 2166 (a) (c) (b) (d) (e)Figure 2. The model Race Cars (a) Ford Taurus NASCAR racer, (b) 1969 Dodge Charger (GeneralLee) (c) baja Beetle and (d) a hatchback (e) Nissan P-35 LeMans Styleprototype racer (NOTE: nospoilers were used in the actual tests

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donald Headley; Sanjiv Sarin

INEN 260 0.125 Not significant All courses 0.184 SignificantAlthough the correlations between self-assessments and test scores are generally significant, theirabsolute values are low and suggest a low correlation between the two variables. If the purposeof student self-assessments is formative in nature, their use can be justified. However, the use ofself-assessments to satisfy summative evaluation requirements is questionable.To distinguish between the self-assessment abilities of high performing versus low performingstudents, the data was sorted to separate responses of high performing (those receiving coursegrades of A or B) and those of low performing (those receiving course

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

to underscore its importance in engineering education aswell as the substance and effort that were expected to be put into carrying out designassignments. 4. Classification of projects undertaken by students Typically, the course enrolled between eight and twenty-four students per session. However, the average enrollment was about twelve students per session, per semester. The number of projects carried out and completed is 178 over twelve years. Table B shows the distribution of projects by course topics. It also shows whether the project was intended to design a device/product that works according to a concept learned in or related to the course, a demonstration, or a lab experiment to be

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anneliese Watt; Jeff Froyd; Julia Williams

demonstrated significant differences in the planningprocess. As Bruer noted, “What most distinguishes skilled from unskilled writers, andyoung from mature writers, is the sophistication of their planning and how they controlthe writing process.”11 In the Hayes-Flower model the three sub-processes within theplanning process are (a) generating content, (b) organizing content, and (c) setting goals.Capability in the sub-process of generating content separates skilled from unskilledwriters.17 Likewise, generating alternatives would, by analogy, distinguish skilled fromunskilled designers. Therefore, strategies to improve the ability to generate alternativeswhether sentence structure, document organization, technical alternatives, or productpresentations

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Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

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Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

, theAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET), the accrediting body forundergraduate engineering programs, has recently recognized the need for a broad, liberal arts-based education. ABET has formally promulgated 11 outcomes for undergraduate engineeringprograms, at least six of which are related to the liberal arts. 1 These outcomes are presented inthe following list, with the six relating to the liberal arts in boldface: a) An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; b) An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; c) An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs; d) An ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams; e) An ability

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Doug Ramers

Session 1346 An Undergraduate Research Experience in New Technology Commercialization of PEM Fuel Cells Doug Ramers University of North Carolina, CharlotteIn 1997, I was asked as a faculty member of Gonzaga University to participate on a project todevelop a commercializable polymer exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology forpower plants in the 1-10kw range. The project was managed, sponsored, and funded jointly byWashington Water Power (WWP) and the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and TechnologyInstitute (SIRTI). Our Gonzaga engineering team, which

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Betsy Aller; Andrew Kline

. Page 7.765.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering EducationProblem Solving (ABET Criterion 3a, b, c, e, k) · Application of classroom-learned science, engineering knowledge, and software tools. · Overcoming “road blocks,” such as finding other methods to obtain needed data. · The classic “open-ended problem,” realizing that what they are working on could have multiple correct solutions, and they must use their knowledge to recommend one final choice, or a hierarchy of acceptable choices. Students commented that this capstone design project was the best opportunity they had had as

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Mott

.Briefly stated, the activity-based approach used in the NCE/AME modules inherentlydemonstrates (a) mastery of knowledge and skills, (b) ability to apply knowledge, (c) ability toconduct and analyze experiments, (d) ability to design systems and components, (e) ability tofunction effectively on teams, (f) ability to solve problems, (g) ability to communicateeffectively, (h) ability to engage in lifelong learning, (i) ability to act professionally (j) withrespect for diversity, and (k) a commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvement.Application of the Methodology to Other DisciplinesWhile the focus of this article is on the manufacturing, mechanical, and industrial engineeringtechnologies, it should be mentioned that the Module

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New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Shawn Klawunder; Blace Albert; Ozer Arnas

learning. Keeping non-engineeringstudents interested and motivated while taking a class like Thermodynamics is even morechallenging. Due to the wide range of applications in today’s world, and the Army, energyconversion topics are an excellent way of doing this.References 1. Office of the Dean, 1998, “Educating Army Leaders for the 21st Century,” United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, p. 5. 2. Albert, B., Arnas, Ö., 2002, “Integration of Gas Turbine Education in an Undergraduate Thermodynamics Course,” Proceedings, ASME Turbo Expo, Land, Sea, and Air 2002, Amsterdam, Holland, accepted for publication. 3. Office of the Dean, 2000, “Academic Program AY 2000-2001: Field Tables and Course

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Design and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

such an approach. The norms identifiedhere encompass many of those recognized in other theories. The normative approach describedhere also encompasses the ethic of care described by Pantazidou and Nair 5. The ethic of carerequires responding to the need of another and acting to fill that need. The normative approachfocuses on value-guided response to a particular situation, dovetailing nicely with the technicalevaluation of potential engineering design solutions.What are our goals in teaching engineering ethics? David Haws identifies three “enabling”objectives of engineering ethics education6: a) enhance student’s divergent thinking, b) help themsee engineering outcomes through the eyes of non-engineers, and c) develop the vocabulary ofethical

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Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Gaughran

Figure 6Considering the speed of perception in relation to the angle of rotation, Shepard andMetzler16 found when using cubular arrays in perspective that the average rate ofrotation is approximately 60° per second, see Figure 6.They (Shepard and Metzler) presented perspective view in three different ways: (a) pairthat differs by an 80° rotation within the picture plane; (b) differs by rotation in depthand (c) cannot be brought into congruence by any rotation, they are enantiomorphic(mirror images). The mirror image causes difficulty for most learners due to cognitiveconfusion with left-right orientation. Mirror imaging is however very useful in thedesign of distracters for spatial testing. These examples illustrate how a progressivestrategy may

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul Steif

Session 2478 Courseware for Problem Solving in Mechanics of Materials Paul S. Steif Carnegie Mellon UniversityIntroductionBasic courses such as mechanics of materials focus on principles and methods which studentscan apply to a variety of new situations. This ability to transfer learning and knowledge isdependent on many factors, including the depth of the initial learning 1. Many factors affect thedepth of initial learning, such as, learning for understanding rather than memorizing facts 2, timeon task 3, and having deliberate practice with ample