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Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent C. Prantil; Thomas J. Labus; William Howard

newcurriculum track progress through the program.) These five students were asked to complete astandard MET Program assessment survey form. Results are summarized in the Table 2.Students were also asked if their interest in the subject was sustained or enhanced by taking thecourse. All five students answered “Yes” to this question. Written comments, although few innumber, mentioned the applicability of the material to job requirements, and two students notedthat the course refreshed/reinforced strength of materials topics. Page 9.318.13 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jason Keith; Adrienne Minerick

, available at http://coach.uoregon.edu/, accessed 27 Feb. 2005.21. Rose, S. and Larwood, L., "Women's Careers: Pathways and Pitfalls." Praeger, New York, (ISBN: 0275927245), 1988.22. Anderson, L.W., Krathwohl, D.R., and Bloom, B.S., "A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Complete." Longman Pub Group, (ISBN: 0321084055), 2000.23. Chapman, K.J., R. Davic, D.Toy, and L.Wright, "Academic Integrity in the business school environment; I'll get by with a little help from my friends." Journal of Marketing Education, 26(3), 236- 249.24. Minerick, A.R., Director of the Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory at Mississippi State University, available at http

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Leanne Avery; Angela Lueking; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

UniversityAbstractPenn State University has hosted an NSF-sponsored GK-12 Outreach project for the past fiveyears, and has just begun the second phase of the project. The Penn State project utilizes thetalents of many science and engineering graduate students as teachers, mentors and role modelsfor the K-12 classrooms. The project focuses on developing skills of students in the areas ofscience, technology, engineering and mathematics through the use of Advanced TransportationTechnologies. A new project component was devised and implemented--the interaction of K-12students with college freshman via a website project. The college freshmen were asked to createa website describing a component of "Clean Energy", which was to include an assessment tool toprovide

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Tebbe

interaction between members was involved and the teamwork assessment was not aspositive. However, with the added use of Cyclepad and the specific objective (performancenumbers) the students thought the problem promoted more use of engineering skills. Table 2: Survey questions for thermal systems exercise #2 (1 is positive for all scales) How useful was the problem in understanding course material? (1-4) 2.22 How interesting was the problem? (1-4) 2.00 Did the problem promote development of engineering skills? (1-4) 1.67 Did the problem promote teamwork skills? (1-5) 2.11Again the students appeared to have a problem with the clarity of

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Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

multiple ways to contact you.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Regularly scheduled meetings aid in communication and in assuring progress toward thestudent’s final project goals. In addition to the weekly Friday meetings with theAssociate Director, we recommend regular weekly meetings for the mentor and hisstudents to assure progress toward the final project goals. During the weekly meeting,mentors have the opportunity to assess the student’s ability to engage in independentwork and offer feedback about work habits, work quality, strengths, and areas in need ofimprovement. Weekly meetings are also a great time to share

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Vendor Partnerships with Engineering Libraries

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charles Paulsen; Amy Van Epps; Lisa Dunn; Jay Bhatt

takesher to Knovel where she finds data from several titles on the cost of remediation methods for herresearch. In addition to these examples, the reference librarians regularly use Knovel in on-the-fly teaching opportunities during reference queries for students and faculty, particularly forqueries on chemical and physical properties of materials.Usage statistics are commonly employed by librarians to help evaluate the effectiveness of e-products on several different levels 15. Although Knovel does not provide detailed statistics thatallow for in-depth analysis of use on a title-by-title basis, for example as recommended by theCOUNTER initiative 16, 17, usage statistics by subject bundle from Knovel are still an importanttool in assessing the

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

perception of his/her own skills inthis area cannot be relied upon and in fact may also be used as an indicator of teamingskills. Note the difference between the last two entries in Table 2. The students wereasked to assess their own drawing skill (“I have above average drawing skills.”). Thetwo classes responded similarly: 3.33/5.0 and 3.46/5.0 (These are student weightedaverages.) indicating a weak “agree.” However, the instructor’s evaluation of a drawingsamples resulted in a weak “disagree” (2.61) for the four classes. The final and perhapsmost interesting result is then that the “good” team players were also the more realisticcritics of their own work. Note that for the “good” team players the self evaluation oftheir drawing skills and the

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Zemke; Jennifer Beller; Donald Elger

Engineering at the University of Idaho in Moscow, has beenactively involved with traditional research and pedagogy for the past 15 years. Research interests include the designof enriched learning environments, meaningful learning, mentoring, the design process, fluid dynamics, and heattransfer. Dr. Elger teaches courses in design and in fluid mechanics.JENNIFER BELLER PhD is an Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at Washington State University. Sheworks within the Washington State University Assessment and Evaluation Center and consults regularly on issuesconcerning instrument development and psychometric measures. She has published and presented extensively in theareas of moral reasoning and moral development of competitive populations

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hancock; John Norton

styles.• How to handle special circumstances regarding grading, student concerns, students’ interactions with other students, and professor interactions.• I didn't need him.• I haven't really used my GSM, but I know that if I ever have a problem he is the person I can contact.• I learned quite a bit about the resources that are available to help assess and improve teaching skills, and had help in directing a student to appropriate psychological help.• I learned some of the details of motivating students to learn. I also learned some innovative teaching techniques.• I learned both my strengths and weaknesses of my teaching, after the MSF. Also, I discussed with him how to remove the weaknesses, and I could rectify a few

Conference Session

Provocative Presentations & Lunch

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ikhlaq Sidhu

companies are mostlikely to succeed within the geographic region and the growth pattern of the regional economy.The first analysis technique shown in this paper is used precisely for this purpose (Shariff et al.,20031). The Capability Market (C-M) matrix model is a simple tool for analyzing the strengths ofa community to assess which types of companies are most likely to succeed within that regionand to distinguish the relative strengths of a region based on the available talent pool in thatregion. The model is illustrated using the Champaign-Urbana case. The results from the CMMatrix model help policy makers to decide on which companies to invest and incubate in thelocal region. Once this decision is made, the second model can be used to answer

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shaundra Bryant; David Cavallo; Arnan Sipitakiat; Anindita Basu

achievement. Upon a close review of the activities and the students’ work, the Maine Commissioner ofEducation Duke Albanese proposed using the this approach as a diagnostic for students being assessed for specialeducation to route suitable candidates to an alternative program based upon the same ideas. While we focused on developing a more positive attitude towards learning and the development ofcomputational, mathematical, and expressive fluencies, and thus did not focus on a particular curriculum or content,we therefore make no claims about the overall completeness of what children were learning. However, they learnedthe physics they needed for their constructions. They developed an understanding of coordinate geometry throughtheir making

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Douglas Jacobson

pots.ConclusionsThis class is the most challenging course I have ever taught and one of the most enjoyable. Ittakes a large amount of time, but I can see students put everything together during this course.The students start to see the difficulty in protecting systems and hopefully see that the challengeis in the protection and defense of computer networks. I often talk about how it is easier to hackthan to protect. The attacker only needs to find one hole and the defenders need to defend allholes.While I have not done any formal assessment of the course other than the course evaluationperformed by the department. I have receive many positive comments on the course and theenrollment has increased over they years. On the final exam I also ask what I can do to

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn

Session 1660 A Community Addresses Communication Craig James Gunn Department of Mechanical Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1226AbstractAll changes in curriculum should begin with a study of current activities, needs, and resources.With the advent of EC 2000, the need to assess current engineering practices became clearlyevident. A study focusing on communication needs, which began in the summer of 1997,suddenly took on a much greater importance when placed in juxtaposition with the

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida; Carmo D'Cruz, University of Central Florida

Commercialization process throughthe 3 phases (Concept, Development and Commercialization) and six stages (Assessment,Feasibility, Development, Launch, Growth and Maturity).It has been observed that when engineers are exposed to High Tech Marketing and ProductStrategy, their entrepreneurial enthusiasm and instincts take a quantum leap and they develop newparadigms for commercializing their ideas. This zeal, combined with their technical creativity andinnovative product ideas creates an “Entrepreneurial Fire in the Belly”.This three-course series is designed to develop a collegial, co-operative learning environment thatmimics the activities of a technology incubator. The students pursue their own entrepreneurialideas and work in teams. These teams are not

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Marybeth Camerer

other university departments and to faculty-founded and alumni-founded companies, andparticipation in conferences and publications on entrepreneurship. (1) Hopkins is restructuring itsintellectual property and technology commercialization efforts.4 Prof. Wierman has begun a three-year term as the initial chairman of the Engineering School’s new Intellectual PropertyCommittee, which must develop procedures, assess technological feasibility and commercialopportunities of inventions, and make recommendations regarding intellectual property protectionfor the inventions and discoveries of its faculty, staff, and students. (2) We have begun apartnership with the Biomedical Engineering Department in which teams of entrepreneurshipstudents collaborate

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Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

Phil) when the nextmeeting is.After the short scenario plays out, students then complete an assessment form which rates Page 8.9.9“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”each of the team members as an effective team player. Student's break into small groupsand attempt to come to a consensus on their rating of the team members.Acknowledgement: Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyActivity 24: The Team Contract….Who Wants What from Whom?Material Required: A prepared paper form on high quality

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ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim McCartney; Lynette Krenelka; John Watson; Dara Faul; Hossein Salehfar; Arnold Johnson

, computer simulation and control, hydrometallurgicalprocessing of metal wastes, and assessment of student learning.ARNOLD JOHNSON is the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of North Dakota (UND).He has been teaching since 1974 and has been a member of the UND EE Department since 1988. He earned hisB.S.E.E. at UND in 1959 and his M.S.E.E. at Iowa State University in 1962. Of the 15 years he spent in industry, fivewere with Collins Radio (now Rockwell Collins) in their avionics department and the other ten were divided between asmall computer firm and an image processing firm.LYNETTE KRENELKA is the Director of Distance Degree Programs at the University of North Dakota (UND). Sheadministers over 20 degree programs that

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas O'Neal; Carmo D'Cruz

product strategy from a unique, holistic perspective togreatly increase the probability of success. The final course emphasizes project management,other operations strategies necessary to grow the start-up venture and systematically covers theTechnical, Marketing and Business aspects of the Technology Commercialization processthrough the 3 phases (Concept, Development and Commercialization) and six stages(Assessment, Feasibility, Development, Launch, Growth and Maturity).It has been observed that when engineers are exposed to High Tech Marketing and ProductStrategy, their entrepreneurial enthusiasm and instincts take a quantum leap and they developnew paradigms for commercializing their ideas. This zeal, combined with their technicalcreativity

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven VanderLeest

., “Using Design Norms to Teach Engineering Ethics,” Proceedingsof the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June,2002.12 Kranzberg , Melvin, “Technology and History: ‘Kranzberg’s Laws’”, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society,v15, n1, pp. 5-13, 1995.13 Kranzberg, p. 5.14 Ermer, Gayle E. and VanderLeest, Steven H., “Using Design Norms to Teach Engineering Ethics,” Proceedingsof the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June,2002.15 Rammert, p. 31.16 Puerta-Melguizo, Mari Carmen; Chisalita, Cristina; Van der Veer, Gerrit C., “Assessing users mental models indesigning complex systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE International

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wiley; Hamid Khan

bysupervision and teams. How effective each was at properly assessing performance and how eachdealt with those labeled as "poor" performers. Performers that received less than expected ratingsproduced an additional study that analyzed "targets of blame" (Longenecker; Liden; & Taylor,1999 [8]). While none of their findings or analysis supported the need for a deeper look atemployee ranking, author Claire Lousie Stone cited the need for performance to focus not just onperformance of the individual but on the "soft issues" (Stone, 1996) [9]. Performancemeasurement must rely on both hard and soft measures. Hard measures are those that are fairlyquantifiable and objective. Soft measures are those that are more behavioral in nature such as

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

poor engineering and still be asa famous as he is, 500 years later; then maybe I can be less critical of myself”Although, a formal assessment has not yet been done by the author, two anecdotes of the positive effectthat this method of instruction has had on several students who contacted the author several months afterthe class room instruction was given. One student volunteered that as he was reading C.S. Foster’s “TheAfrican Queen” (this was not assigned reading in the instructor’s Fluid Dynamics Course that was takenby this student) he was reminded of the engineering description of the need to use Control Volumes inengineering analysis and that it could also be used to “focus your attention on any problem that comesacross your path” when he

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Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hall; Kelly Crittenden

% for achieving the mean load of the class, and 10%(full credit) for having the strongest truss. The scores for groups between 2% and 10% arescaled linearly based on the minimum, mean, and maximum truss loads.VIII. Student Assessment of the Truss ProjectTo evaluate student opinion of the truss design project, students who had recentlycompleted the truss project were asked to comment on their experience. Of the 40students surveyed, none were unhappy with the design project. Some of the commentsreceived were: “[The truss project] gave us a feel of what problems can arise during design and fabrication of a project.” “…we were able to actually use our calculations toward something tangible that we could see and build

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

“big picture” questions still unanswered. How do the three modes andtwo formalities of communication interplay? For example, how does informal oralcommunication affect formal team presentations? Is communication in engineering practicedifferent from communication in engineering education? Do students communication styles andnorms change over time? How can we assess whether students “have the ability tocommunication effectively” and “to work in interdisciplinary teams?” These are all researchquestions that we, as engineering educators, can not leave completely to communicationspecialists. Studies addressing these questions need the experience, insight, and knowledge ofengineering faculty to be designed and analyzed in such a way as to be useful

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Linda Almstead; Karen Williams; James Hedrick

session was covered by themedia.C. Reflection Paper: This consisted of a two page individually written paper which included apersonal assessment of what the student had gained by participating in the workshop. Studentswere asked to summarize their experiences by describing what they learned, what was new tothem, what they liked and disliked, and what they enjoyed most.VI. Program AssessmentAt the end of the workshop, students were asked to complete an evaluation form which askedthem to rate each of the program components; to make comments about their collegeexperiences, staff members, and the length of the workshop; and to make suggestions forimproving the workshop for future students.While the program was carefully planned before it began, some

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Hise; Jim Clark; Bryant Kiedrowski; Aaron Jennings

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A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

Session 2322Bordogna, Joseph. 2002. From Pipelines to Pathways. Assessing the Impact: ATE National Principal Investigators Conference,Burghardt, M.D. 1999. Introduction to Engineering Design and Problem Solving. New York: McGraw Hill.Burton, Lawrence and Linda Parker. 1998. Degrees and occupations in engineering: How much do they diverge? Arlington, VA, National Science Foundation.Chubin, D. 1994. Interview with author.Washington, D.C,21 November.Diaz-Herrera, J.L. 2001. Engineering design for software: on defining the software engineering profession. Frontiers in Education Conference, 2001.,Downey, Gary. 1998. The Machine in Me: An Anthropologists Sits Among Computer Engineers. New York: Routledge.Downey, Gary and Juan

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

; Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education The assessment of improvement in student writing is very difficult. Most of the evidencewe are able to gather is reliable but anecdotal. However, the difference between the reportshanded in early in the term and those we see at the end is very clear. Students also tell us howmuch more confident they feel in their ability to communicate persuasively. A more formalassessment strategy is currently in the works. By incorporating four different communication styles into EG 1004, Introduction toEngineering and Design, each student is taught to be flexible in their mastery of technical andprofessional communication. They learn to write a lab report

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2001 Annual Conference

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Vikas Yellamraju; Kurt Gramoll

number ofyears. The end goal was to create an e-course curriculum with a set of multiple electronic coursesthat can offer online or in-class to help address the scheduling and learning needs of the student.References1. Brooks, D. W. “Web-Teaching A guide to Designing Interactive Teaching for the World Wide Web”, Plenum Press, New York, 19972. Regan, M. and S. D. Sheppard, "Interactive Multimedia Courseware and Hands-on Learning Experience: An Assessment Study," ASEE Journal of Eng. Education, 1996 85 (2), p 123-130.3. Gramoll, K.C., R.F. Abbanat, and K. Slater, "Interactive Multimedia for Engineering Dynamics," ASEE 1996 Conf. Proc., Washington, D.C., June 1996.4. Gramoll, K.C., R. Abbanat and K. Slater, Multimedia

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Domingo L. Uy

” design criteria. Using this method, teaching engineering design canbe systematized and facilitated. The method can facilitate the creation of documents that will showthe design experience of students, for ABET outcome assessment. Finally, the author believes thatonce students are exposed to this method, it will profoundly change the way they look at engineeringdesign.AcknowledgmentsThe author would like to thank the reviewer, Col. Steve Klegka, for his insightful comments andhelpful suggestions for improving the paper. Page 5.581.21Bibliography1) Levin, R.I, and Kirkpatrick, C.A., Quantitative Approach to Management, 4th ed., McGraw

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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Soulsby

Page 7.806.13(ERIC) Digest Number 12.[11] Matthews, A. Bright college years: inside the American campus today, 1997 Simon & Schuster. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education[12] Bloom, B. (ed.) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Handbook I: Cognitive Domain, 1956 Longman, Inc.[13] Mager, R. and Pipe, P., Analyzing Performance Problems or You Really Oughta Wanna, 1984 Pitman Learning,Inc.[14] Job Choices in Science & Engineering: 1998, National Association of Colleges and Employers.[15] Angelo, T.A. & Cross, K.P., Classroom Assessment Techniques: a handbook for college teachers, 1993