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Best Teaching Practices for ABET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

ethical responsibility” (Engineering, 1997).This new emphasis in ethics education is not limited to the engineering profession alone.In fact, this is a component of a much more global movement entitled CharacterEducation. Character Education’s roots lie in behavioral ethics. Behavioral ethics can beviewed as an understanding of desirable and undesirable actions based on a society’sperceptions and norms. Once an individual understands and perceives society’sdistinctions between positive and negative actions, character education then enables theindividual to internalize these values. As a result the individual develops a personal codeof professional conduct which then guides their daily interactions.According to Pfatteicher’s article published in

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Jones

Session 1737 A New Workstation for Teaching Statics in Machinery Daniel K. Jones, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Technology State University of New York, Institute of TechnologyIntroductionWith increasing enrollment and decreasing funds for laboratory equipment, manyprofessors are facing challenges in providing hands-on experience for students inengineering technology. To address these concerns, a simple, inexpensive workstationhas been designed, built, and tested to teach students practical aspects of staticequilibrium. During Fall 2002, this new workstation

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Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marcus Soule; Bruce Segee

Demonstrating Motor Control using NMOS Exclusive H-Bridge Design Marcus J. Soule (email:Marcus_Soule@umit.maine.edu) Dr. Bruce E. Segee (email:segee@eece.maine.edu) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Instrumentation Research Laboratory University of Maine. OronoAbstractDelivering power to high voltage devices is a common requirement in an industrial setting.It is often required to be able to source current in two directions from the same supply. Itis common to implement an H-bridge to supply power to these devices. An H-Bridge is adevice with four switching elements that resembles a capital H. These devices

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Trends in Construction Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Riley

” building technologies.These green or “sustainable” building technologies and materials are evolving at a rate thatexceeds the potential for significant documentation, testing, and practice, thus presenting achallenge to architectural and engineering educators. Characterized by an integrative designprocess, green building projects require professionals to work in new, non-sequential ways. Inaddition, many of the key issues surrounding sustainable design are contested and subject todebate and misconceptions. For educators, the question arises: How do we effectively exposestudents to these emerging technologies, while simultaneously engaging them in the integrativedesign processes specific to these technologies?This paper describes an

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

, and mathematics or STEM) in Oregon schools. Graduate studentspursuing degrees in engineering and science disciplines serve as Fellows (14 per year) in one ofnine schools in three school districts: Portland (a large city setting); Corvallis (a University townsetting); and Lincoln County (a dispersed rural district). The multidisciplinary approach includesfive graduate programs (Molecular and Cellular Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Bioengineering,and Chemical Engineering). Fellows receive formal education training in the summer, spend 6months (15 hrs per week) in schools as "adopted scientists" in grades K-6 or "teaching assistants"in grades 7-12, and then finish their year in extended outreach activities throughout Oregon. Thebenefits to the

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Thompson

Session 1392 Increasing the Support Network of Female Engineering Students Through Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Activities Elizabeth A. Thompson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Indiana Univ./Purdue Univ. Ft. Wayne 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd. Ft. Wayne, IN 46805-1499 www.etcs.ipfw.edu/~thompsonAbstract This paper discusses the diverse activities of the student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers(SWE) at Indiana Univ

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dyani Saxby; Saeed Foroudastan

and present shipping trends in developed nations are considered as well as waysdeveloping nations can avoid making the same costly mistake of sacrificing the environment inexchange for increased production. In addition, economic factors are examined as well as causesof the shift from rail to trucks and feasible solutions. Finally, benefits and risks of shipping freightrailroad versus trucks are evaluated and analyzed globally in both environmental and economicalterms.IntroductionHistorically, the United States has been a global leader. Many countries are striving to obtain thesame technological success and industrial growth. The Industrial Revolution that took place inthis country more than a century ago is currently underway in many

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Summers

Session 2003-165DEVELOPING METHODOLOGY & TOOLS FOR STAND-ALONE, SELF CONTAINED TECHNICAL ON-LINE COURSES Dr. ROBERT A. SUMMERS, PhD EE Page 8.388.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ® 2003, American Society for Engineering Education. DEVELOPING METHODOLOGY & TOOLS FOR STAND-ALONE, SELF CONTAINED TECHNICAL ON-LINE COURSES Dr. ROBERT A. SUMMERS, PhD EE Weber State University

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Edward Gehringer

Session 1432 Is Pair Programming an Effective Way to Learn Computer Architecture? Edward F. Gehringer North Carolina State University efg@ncsu.eduAbstractPair programming is a concept where two programmers work side by side at the same computer,writing code jointly. One of them, called the driver, is in control of the keyboard and mouse.The other, called the navigator, observes what the driver is doing and offers advice. It is thedriver’s job to write the code. The navigator has a chance to observe the larger picture,evaluating the

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

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Terrence Freeman; Jessica du Maine

Section 2516 Affinity Groups: More Bang for the Buck Jessica J. du Maine, Terrence L. Freeman, Bernard Keely, Jessica Roberts St. Louis Community College at Florissant ValleyAbstract Retention of students in engineering programs is an on-going challenge. Many studentsare lost because of a decline in their interest in engineering, poor faculty pedagogy, or a feelingof isolation. The latter is a problem that is frequently encountered by women or otherunderrepresented groups in engineering programs. On commuter campuses there are additionalchallenges as the external environment continues to compete

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Trends in Civil Engineering Accreditation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Elliott

accreditationcriteria were a generally proscriptive listing of specific course, curriculum, facility, and facultyrequirements. Many referred to the accreditation process as being one of “bean counting.” Therewas a growing dissatisfaction with the process with many believing that it forced all programs tohave the same “beans” and did not allow the innovation needed for engineering education toevolve and improve. As a remedy to this situation, a set of outcomes based criteria wereproposed. These were used experimentally for the first time in 1996. These criteria were referredto as Criteria 2000, now more commonly called EC 20002.These outcomes based criteria provide a broad description of the abilities an engineeringgraduate should have but leave the institution

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tom Wulf; Hazem Said

Session __3547__ Pathway to Higher Education: Bridging the Digital Divide Hazem Said, Tom Wulf College of Applied Science, University of CincinnatiAbstractAs part of the effort to prepare future Information Technology (IT) workers, the Centerfor Information Technology and Community Development (CITCD) at the College ofApplied Science at the University of Cincinnati established the Summer Academy ofInformation Technology (SAIT), a summer enrichment program that introduces highschool students in under-served communities to IT. The first session of SAIT wasscheduled for a two-week period. The development

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Frederick Mahaffey; Elizabeth Petry

architecture. A survey of The Architect’s Handbook of ProfessionalPractice, AIA Press, 1994 reveals the following about architects and teams: • “Almost everything we do is interactive. Architects spend their professional lives working with other people. Doing that effectively depends on building relationships with others. When people with different personalities work together on an issue or project, they tend to look at it form different points of view. Often, one person sees a side of things that others miss. The best results come from maximizing and building on different strengths that those involved bring to solving the problems.”1 • “Even the smallest project requires a team of two: an architect and a client

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Fred Vondra; Ali Sekmen; Ismail Fidan

separate learnings within a step-by-step, integrated, hands-on projectenvironment. In this paper, authors will present their implementation practiced at the TennesseeTech University. Tooling projects are decided between the faculty members and students first,and then the following steps are followed: • Set up the project objectives and student gaining first. • Select a project topic and investigate the alternative production methods, resources available and make a lifecycle and cycle time analysis. • Distribute the work in team and schedule the activities. • Design the part and required tooling using available CAD packages: 2D(AutoCAD), 3D(Mechanical Desktop and Pro/Engineer). • Generate

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Hoekstra

Session Number 2793 Northeast Meets Northwest Women in Technology Project Nicole Hoekstra Engineering Technology Department Western Washington UniversityAbstractThe “Northeast Meets Northwest Women in Technology Project” encourages young women toconsider careers in technology and engineering by direct exposure to a complex problem inindustry. The project partnered women in high school from Washington and Massachusetts, highschool teachers, an engineer from Texas Instruments, and an engineering advisor from WesternWashington University. The

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Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Murphy

Session 3475 On The Other Side of the Fence: Practical Tips for First Time Teachers Dave Murphy Fire Safety Engineering Technology The University of North Carolina at Charlotte To teach is to learn twice over – Joseph Joubert The bell rings, the door shuts, and suddenly you are faced with a multitude of inquisitivefaces looking expectantly at you. The room slowly becomes quiet . . . what next? Your newvantage point provides an unfamiliar view of the awesome

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EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Thompson

the methods to be employed maximize the objectives of the course.Student choice and student evaluation, while increasing the interest and motivation of thestudent, present potentially greater risks in attaining course objectives. For individual projects,there is the added problem of an unpredictably wide variety of choices. This paper reports theresults of progressively encouraging student participation in both of these areas.The paper is based upon over thirty years of teaching undergraduate and graduate field researchcourses.IntroductionThe focus of this paper is one of many teaching techniques, the use of field projects, and aparticular type of project, applying the methodology of field research to testing an a priorihypothesis concerning

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Lin; Richard Pfile

efficient problem-solvers. The exponential growth in the telecommunications industry and informationtechnology has created a great demand for skilled graduates who can quickly adapt intothis continually-changing technological industry. This demand quickly inspired similargrowth in the curricular design supporting the requirements of this changing industrythroughout all levels of education. Moreover, corporations today are increasinglydependent on educational institutes to prepare their graduates in readiness and awarenessof the fast growing technology in order that the budget in training can be converted intoprofit.A new program in Computer Engineering Technology (CpET) was recently approved atIUPUI to be offered by the Department of Electrical and

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Kuyath

Session 1520 An Interactive Lecture for Web-Based ET classes Stephen J. Kuyath UNC-Charlotte Department of Engineering TechnologyAbstract:To some degree distance education (DE) students are at a disadvantage because they are unableto participate in class lectures. The purpose of this project was to create an animated lecture fordistance education students providing them access to the benefits of a class lecture. Althoughmany formats have been used to create digitized, online lectures (e.g.: PowerPoint, MPEG orQuickTime movies, etc.) there are several advantages to using

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Harper; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Session 2630 Using Course Materials to Change Teaching Methodology John T. Demel, Robert J. Gustafson, John A. Merrill, Richard J. Freuler - First-Year Engineering Program / Kathy A. Harper - Faculty and Teaching Associate Development The Ohio State UniversityAbstractAs part of the restructuring in Ohio State’s College of Engineering, a new unit called the First-Year Engineering Program (FEP) was created between 1994 and 1998. The Program providesengineering instruction for new first-year students (~1000 students) and transfer students (~130students). The Program

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Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecil Beeson

Session 3549 Using the PC Parallel Port in Digital Systems Lab Exercises Cecil E. Beeson, P.E., Assistant Professor University of Cincinnati ClermontIntroductionThis paper will describe a multi-phase project to utilize the functionality and accessibility of thePC parallel port to augment traditional college electronics lab exercises. The opportunity forstudents to use the ubiquitous PC to exercise and control digital circuits designed in a college labcan be a valuable learning experience.At Clermont students are introduced to PC fundamentals early in their college studies. As

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rita Oro; J Hines

Session 2220 Development of an Inexpensive LabView-Based Refrigeration Cycle Laboratory J. Wesley Hines, Rita Oro, Youssef Sharara The University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-2300Abstract:A thermodynamic refrigeration cycle laboratory was created using a window airconditioner, pressure and temperature sensors, and a LabView data acquisition system.The system measures the high and low pressures sides and the refrigerant temperaturesbetween the four major components. A National Instrument LabView data acquisitionsystem was used to acquire, transform

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Krahe

Session 3275 Teach Less Better Ronald P. Krahe, P.E. Associate Professor of Engineering Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractWhat are we trying to accomplish? Many of us feel the pressures of adding more and more material tothe curriculum. Just keeping up with technology can be a challenge in itself. At the same time, business,industry, and society are telling us that our teaching is vastly overrated, irrelevant and ineffective.Several interesting approaches have been suggested in literature to address

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

companiesare introducing new products more quickly with a sharp focus on the market. As we move intothe new century, we need to incorporate these improvements to develop truly agile productdevelopment process. There is trend towards a multiplicity of finished products with shortdevelopment and production lead times. An agile approach to manufacturing faces the realitythat we must serve customers with small quantities of custom designed parts with perfect quality,100% on-time delivery, and at very low cost. Companies are forced to organize themselves insuch a way that high quality products can be developed very quickly in response to customerrequirements.Globalization of the product design and manufacturing requires its practitioners to

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Industrial Sponsored Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jerry Hatfield

Session 3525 “Robot Phone Home” Jerry. M. Hatfield Northern Arizona UniversityAbstract:The College of Engineering and Technology at Northern Arizona University employs a sequenceof four courses, known as Design4Practice, to provide increasing levels of design experience asstudents progress from freshmen to seniors. The sophomore level course in this sequence is basedon a semester-long project to design, build, and test a computer-controlled electro-mechanicalrobot that performs some useful function, frequently with an environmental application

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Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

nation'seconomic growth and vitality from all cross-sections of the society and in particular, fromamong the women and minorities1 . NOAA summer camp is a two-week program held atUMES to initiate early intervention at middle school level for a group of students tobroaden their perspective with regard to career choices. The program is directed byPhysics and Engineering faculty at UMES and is designed to provide hand s-on projectbased learning experience to twenty middle school students from Accomack Countyschools in the lower eastern shore region of the Delmarva Peninsula every year.Accomack County is in an economically depressed area with a significant minoritypopulation. The students for the summer camp are recruited with the help of schooladministration

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International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ian Simpson

3160 Two International Engineering Programs in France Ian R. Simpson ENST BretagneIntroductionUntil very recently, France had been notoriously poor at offering high-level engineeringprograms to international students whose mother tongue was not French. In the author’sopinion two of the reasons for this situation were:• A relatively stultified and non-proactive education system at university level, unable (and perhaps, unwilling) to adapt to the new phenomena of the Europeanisation of educational programs and globalisation, in general

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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Neal Jackson; Susan Magun-Jackson

Session 3242 Improve Your Strengths and Manage Your Weaknesses: Using the StrengthsFinder Profile in Team Development Neal F. Jackson, Ph.D., Susan Magun-Jackson, Ph.D. Christian Brothers University/The University of Memphis Memphis, TennesseeAbstractFocusing primarily on an individual’s strengths rather than weaknesses as a means to improveperformance is new to the management and psychology literature. The Gallup Organization hastaken the lead in this area through significant research that has produced concepts of strengths –based management and the

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Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Veng Kouch

required to monitor and measure control system characteristics. The system consists of theplant, the sensor, the comparator, the Proportional-Integral-Differential (PID) controllers, and thedisturbance. The plant is a motor-driven fan and the output variable is the fan speed. The fanspeed is monitored with a frequency counter. The system can be operated in an open-loop modeallowing students to measure the transfer function of the subsystems. The integral and differentialcontrollers, as well as the disturbance, can be switched in or out of system. All control systemcharacteristics can be observed and demonstrated. The effects of controllers on the systemcharacteristics can be measured. A suggested list of laboratory experiment s and their

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Martin

Professional Practice Seminar A successful course for preparing students for their Cooperative Education Experiences (or the work place in general) Gary R. Martin, Ed.D. September 23 2002AbstractThe School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of the Pacificrequires all their engineering students to complete 12 months of full-time CooperativeEducation. The program has included a mandatory orientation class since its inception in1970. This paper presents and outline of the class with corresponding details of thecontent and rationale when appropriate. The primary topics comprise: Co-op ProgramRequirements and Logistics, How to