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Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eric Matsumoto

Session 2215 Enhancing Student Learning through Team Projects in a Reinforced Concrete Design Class Eric E. Matsumoto California State University, SacramentoAbstractProject-based education has recently been incorporated into the first undergraduate reinforcedconcrete design class at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) to enhance studentlearning. Students participate in diverse open-ended projects that challenge them to work in smallgroups to address a contemporary issue in structural concrete. Projects during the first foursemesters

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Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

Session 3251 A Program to Help University Professors Teach Green Engineering Subjects in their Courses Robert P. Hesketh, Mariano J. Savelski, C. Stewart Slater, Kathryn Hollar, Stephanie Farrell Rowan University Chemical Engineering 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701 Abstract The need to introduce green engineering concepts to undergraduate students has become recognized to be increasingly important by industry and the general

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Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Lamont; John Merrill; Richard Freuler

Session 3553 The Potential & Pitfalls of Online Course Management: Experiences in a Large-Scale Freshman Program John A. Merrill, Mary Lamont, and Richard J. Freuler The Ohio State UniversityIntroductionIn the past two academic years, the Freshman Programs at The Ohio State University's Collegeof Engineering have incorporated an online course management system to help with theimplementation of a curriculum for over 1,000 first-year students. The instructional teamconsists of faculty, graduate teaching assistants, undergraduate peer mentors, lab supervisors,and a

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Jan Rinehart; Ahmer Inam; Ann Kenimer; Carolyn Clark; Jim Morgan

Session 2553 A Systemic Change Model in Engineering Education and Its Relevance for Women Rita Caso, Carolyn Clark, Jeff Froyd, Ahmer Inam, Ann Kenimer, Jim Morgan, Jan Rinehart Texas A&M UniversityAbstractThe paper will present the experience at Texas A&M University (A&M) in institutionalizing itsfirst-year and sophomore curricula using learning communities (LC) as the underlying concept.In 1998-99 academic year, A&M completed the transition from pilot curricula to new first andsecond year engineering curricula for every student

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rick J. Couvillion; Larry A. Roe; Ing-Chang Jong

, American Society for Engineering Education WAC = ( Area ) DACED (16) QAC = −( Area ) DACED (17)■ Work done WABC and heat transferred QABC during the process along the path ABC. Next, suppose that the cylinder is initially insulated while the piston is pushed by F to compress the gas from position A to position B, at which the preset pressure for the gas is reached. Then the insulation is removed to allow the gas to cool down to room temperature. During the cooling process, the volume of the gas decreases and the piston travels from posi- tion B to position C under

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip Henning

Session 1660 CLOSING THE ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK LOOP: THE USE OF A QUALITATIVE FORMATIVE EVALUATION PROCESS AND CHANGES IN A MULTI-YEAR NSF/PENN STATE GK-12 EDUCATION PROJECT. Philip H. Henning, Pennsylvania College of Technology Dan Haworth, Elizabeth Kisenwether, Robin Tallon, Oliver Finckh Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, Penn State UniversityIntroductionIn this paper 1 we describe some of the changes made as a result of informal feedback gainedthrough qualitative basement techniques in the operation of a three year science, technology, andmath education

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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SangHa Lee; Stefani A. Bjorklund; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

suggests that the development of expert performance in any field requires roughly ten years, what are realistic expectations of student performance after a four year undergraduate program? - Should we provide opportunities for students to discover areas of individual interest, as defined by Alexander, and allow them to pursue those areas to accelerate their growth in expertise? - Might there be an optimum mix of “broad learning,” which is typical of most undergraduate engineering programs, and learning driven by “individual interest” that maximizes the development of expertise in undergraduate students?References 1. Marra, R.M., Palmer, B., & Litzinger, T.A., “The

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Thibault; Noel Boutin

clear or not. » J-L. R-B.« I have developed many techniques to validate my knowledge. One efficient way... is with myother team-mates. Asking questions or trying to enlighten others inform us on our comprehensionof the subject. » P. F.At this point, we could estimate that about 90% of students have the feeling that they havesucceeded to learn by themselves. However, for those ten percent of students who have notsucceeded in self-learning, it is clear that they did not develop a new paradigm about learning, ascan be concluded from the following typical quotes :« I have found it so demanding to learn and understand by reading. I would appreciated thatsomeone teach me and explain me the content of those books. ... It would absolutely

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Timothy Anderson; Rufus Carter; Brian Thorndyke; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Retention Period A 1987-1998 52.49% 1987-1998 B 1987-1998 36.97% 1987-1998 C 1987-1998 43.89% 1987-1998 D 1987-1999 46.42% 1987-1999 E 1987-1999 57.30% 1987-1999 F 1987-1998 64.68% 1987-1998 G 1987-2000 48.75% 1987-2000 H 1987-2000 58.86% 1987-2000 I 1987-1999 46.14

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard K Sase; Julie Wei

Session 2793 The Challenges to an Undergraduate Student Team Undertaking A Complex Project Julie H. Wei and Richard K. Sase California State Polytechnic University, Pomona/ Main San Gabriel Basin WatermasterAbstractCal Poly Pomona’s Civil Engineering Department offers a capstone course that allows studentsthe opportunity to work in a group on a comprehensive project that will ready them for a careerin Civil Engineering. The project discussed in this paper was to evaluate the sediment removalplan in San Gabriel Canyon Reservoirs by

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

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Terry Ballinger; Craig Somerton

Session 1463 A Template for a Manufacturing Outreach Unit for Middle Schools Craig W. Somerton, Terry Ballinger Michigan State University/Lansing Catholic High SchoolAbstractA template for an outreach activity to middle school students on manufacturing engineering ispresented. The template includes three components: a filed trip to a manufacturing facility, an inclass-presentation on the fundamentals of manufacturing, and a hands-on activity inmanufacturing. A structure for the outreach program is proposed.IntroductionOver the past three summers the

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeff Turk; David Gattie

Session 1408 Introducing a Service-Learning Component to a Freshman Engineering Graphics Course David K. Gattie and H. Jeff Turk Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering The University of GeorgiaAbstractENGR 1120 serves as an introductory course in engineering graphics for freshmen in Biologicaland Agricultural Engineering at The University of Georgia. The prevailing emphasis in thecourse has traditionally been to develop 2-D and 3-D graphics communication skills, heavilyweighted in the enhancement of visual skills and

Conference Session

Pedagogical Best Practices

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip McCreanor

Session 1451 Project Based Teaching: A Case Study from a Hydrology Class Philip T. McCreanor Mercer UniversityAbstractHydrology is currently taught as one-half of a 3-credit course in the Environmental EngineeringProgram at the Mercer University School of Engineering. The topics covered include thehydrologic cycle, predicting rainfall, estimating runoff volumes and rates, routing runoffhydrographs, and designing stormwater management structures. The first semester this coursewas taught, the material was presented topic by topic. This format did not demonstrate

Conference Session

ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Edwards; David Forsman

Session 3550A Rapid Prototyping Application in Wind Tunnel Testing – A Student Project Robert Edwards, David Forsman The Pennsylvania State University at ErieAbstract:3D printing is a rapid prototyping process which creates a part layer by layer by spraying abinder into a bed of powder. This process is used in industry to produce concept models formarketing, fit, form and function models, as well as patterns for molds. A team of MechanicalEngineering Technology students at Penn State Erie, working on a senior project to test the downforce on a late model dirt stock car, has integrated the

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Paul Giolma; Kevin Nickels

Session 2425 Herding cats: a case study of a capstone design course J. Paul Giolma and Kevin M. Nickels Department of Engineering Science Trinity UniversityAbstractThe eight-semester design sequence in Engineering Science at Trinity University contains threemini-capstone design experiences (one mechanical, one chemical, and one electrical) and onecapstone design project in the senior year. Senior design is so unlike the well-defined designprojects encountered thus far in the curriculum, even the mini-capstone design projectsencountered

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Salvatore Marsico

Session 1447 Incorporating a Flexible Manufacturing System into a Design Course Salvatore A. Marsico Penn State University AbstractThe Associate Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology program as offered by Penn StateUniversity requires a series of three courses in industrial engineering technology. Theeducational objectives of these courses are to provide students an understanding of fundamentalconcepts in manufacturing, materials processing, and production design. To promote a workingknowledge of production design

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

Session 3460 A Non Orthodox Method for a Biomedical Engineering Program Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi University Center of LusiadaAbstractThe new world that is emerging brings to the education institutions the challenge of forming anew kind of professional: a professional with solid formation, who is capable to think global andacting locally. In a Country like Brazil it is very important to have engineers committed withscience and technology research principally in biomedical field, because despite of all problemsof policy nature it has, it is a Country that medical

Conference Session

New MET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gregory Coe; Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

Session 3448 DEVELOPMENT OF A WHEEL STOP MECHANISM FOR A WHEEL ALIGNMENT MACHINE Vladimir Sheyman, Mulchand S. Rathod, Greg D. Coe Division of Engineering Technology Wayne State University Detroit, MI. 48202 Tel: (313) 577-0800; Fax: (313) 577-1781 E-mail: rathod@et.eng.wayne.eduSUMMARY one. It does not stand in a deep pit of the assembly plant floor. This wheel alignment

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eugenia Fernandez

placed into the no prerequisitegroup. Frequencies and grade distributions for each group based on when the prerequisite coursewas taken are given in Table 2.Final course grades were assigned on an A-B-C-D-F scale with pluses and minuses. Final gradeswere converted to numeric equivalents using the scale shown in Table 3.An analysis of final course grades across sections was conducted to test for any section bias ingrading. Final grades for students who had the prerequisite course, students who took theperquisite concurrently and students who did not have the prerequisite were compared. Page 7.174.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

to be used as a catalyst for conversations among the faculty inthe department who have taught the course.IV.1 Sample Problems Written at Each of the Five LevelsThe following examples demonstrate the interpretation of the five levels of problemsolving that are being used for this project.Level 1. Memorization of basic formula: · The electric current is a) The time rate of change of charge b) The time rate of change of power c) The time rate of change of energy Page 7.412.2 d) The time rate of change of voltage “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Visualization and Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Douglas Baxter

was the “finished product”of a graphics course and hence most of the evaluation concentrated on issues related tothe engineering drawing. Typically, these items include: 1. Line Quality 2. Dimensioning Techniques a. Placement b. Validity c. Tolerance 3. Folding Lines / Reference Plane 4. Scaling 5. Annotation 6. View Types a. Principal Orthographic Views b. Cross Sections c. Detail Views d. Broken Views e. Auxiliary Views f. Isometric ViewsWith the addition of solid modeling, the emphasis on the engineering drawing haschanged. While still important, other aspects of the computer aided design (CAD)software warrant careful evaluation as well. [2] These items

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeff Kimble

workthis schedule or some variant of this schedule. Also most departments work with three shifts,usually called A, B, and C, shift, respectively. In each FSET class there would be members fromeach shift. This presents a problem because there is never a specific night when all firefighterscould be there. For example if Shift A works Monday, the next Monday B Shift works, then thenext week C Shift works Monday. So in a 16-week semester, each shift could miss as many asfive classes. One shift/schedule variant could cause a single shift to miss as many as ten timesper semester. Since regular class attendance is necessary for successful completion of thecourses, a way to accommodate this rotating work schedule had to be devised. The solutionarrived at

Conference Session

Strengthening Liberal Education in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Steneck; Barbara Olds; Kathryn Neeley

objectives, b) to develop ways to assesswhether its objectives are being met, and c) to revise its curriculum in response to assessmentoutcomes to ensure ongoing educational improvement. Although engineering educators andaccreditors have long recognized the value of liberal education as a component of engineeringeducation, most do not have expertise in the disciplines comprising liberal education and mayhave difficulty envisioning how liberal education should be designed and assessed under Criteria2000.With this White Paper, the Liberal Education Division of ASEE seeks to providerecommendations for defining and assessing liberal education in engineering, focusing first onclarifying the definition and goals of liberal education and then providing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William M. Pottenger; Soma Roy; Shreeram A. Sahasrabudhe; Qiang Wang; Jeffrey J. Heigl; G. Drew Kessler; David R. Gevry

an account. One user could be an instructor,student, teaching assistant, librarian, or some combination of these roles, e.g., one user can be ateaching assistant in course A and a student in course B. Users are managed in an organizationtree according to their roles. This organization tree is similar to a “buddy list” in standard instantmessenger systems (e.g., Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger); however, these roles are pre-defined to reflect a given user’s participation and skill. We plan to use roles to let users tocontact group members without seeking a particular person, e.g., to find an available librarian. Figure 11: CIMEL client user interfaceThe instant messaging system is particularly useful in situations

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Knecht; Lasich Debra; Barbara Moskal

Mathematics Education, Vol. 28, No. 6, 1997, 652- 679.2. Tierney, W., "The parameter of affirmative action: Equity and excellence in the academy", Review of Educational Research, Vol. 67, No. 2, 1997, 165-196.3. Moskal, B., "Looking to the Future: Women in Science and Engineering", Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, October, 2000.4. Fennema, E., "What Affirmative Action has Contributed to Educational Research", Educational Researcher, Vol. 27, No. 9, 1998, 5-7.5. Greene, M., "Moral and Political Perspectives: The Tensions of Choice", Educational Researcher, Vol. 27, No. 9, 1998, 18-20.6. Johnson, E. S., "College women's performance in math-science curriculum: A case study", College and

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Bittle

converted to three 1’s and one 0. This code can be viewed as a thermometer thatis filled up to the topmost ONE in the column and hence the name thermometer code1. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.1263.3 Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education Binary Thermometer A B C T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

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The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Clough

Instructor Workload Responses Rating Rating Rating Fall 2000 63 B B+ 6.2 Fall 2001 52 B B+ 6.8Compared to the history of ratings for this and similar courses, the course and instructor ratingsare above average. The average course rating is C and instructor rating is C+. Workload is ratedon a 0-to-10 scale with 5 being “about right” in student minds. These ratings are the norm, morethan students would like, but not cruel and inhumane.Observations from student comments and additional surveys are summarized below: ¾ Students preferred Excel/VBA over Mathcad and Matlab. Mathcad

Conference Session

Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Lau; Sven Bilen; Elizabeth Kisenwether

experiences, especially in the first year.1 While there are excellentpedagogical reasons for many of these initiatives, there is also an increasing influence of theABET Engineering Criteria 2000.2 Of course, one expects that the ABET 2000 criteria areessentially a reflection of the pedagogical developments. Put in ABET EC 2000 context, the laboratory and design module described hereaddresses at least these six ABET Criteria (letters correspond to the ABET Criteria): 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

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary John O'Hair; Mark Nanny; Teri Rhoads

Session 2530A Combined Engineering and Education Class at the University of Oklahoma: Preparing Authentic Science and Math Educators Teri Reed Rhoadsa, Mark Nannyb, and Mary John O’Hair c The University of Oklahoma a School of Industrial Engineering b School of Civil and Environmental Engineering c Center for Educational and Community Renewal and the College of EducationAbstractOne result of the receipt of a

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerson de Oliveira

- 10, 1999. Page 7.320.12 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education(26) LAURILLARD, D. Rethinking university teaching: a framework for the effective use of educational technology. London: Routledge, 1995.(27) LEVIN, J. Estatística aplicada a Ciências Humanas. São Paulo: Harbra, 1987.(28) LEVINE, R.I., DRANGLE, D.E., EDELSON, B. Inteligência Artificial e Sistemas Especialistas. São Paulo: McGraw-Hill do Brasil, 1988.(29) LÉVY, P. A globalização dos significados. in: Folha de