Conference Session

Track 2: Technical Session 2: Disaggregating data from peer-led, small group discussion workshops for engineering and computer science undergraduates: Examining "belonging" and "mentorship" outcomes for underrepresented student populations

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Ryan Sauve, Cornell University; Celia Evans PhD, Cornell University; Lisa Schneider-Bentley, Cornell University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

educator with a long history as a teaching professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. My expertise is in teaching and learning in STEM, peer education, international programs, assessment, and building networks and collaborations.Dr. Lisa Schneider-Bentley, Cornell University Lisa Schneider-Bentley has been the Director of Engineering Learning Initiatives in Cornell Univer- sityˆ C™s College of Engineering since 2002. Learning Initiativesˆ C™ programs enhance the educa- a a tional environment of the College by facilitating opportunitie ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Disaggregating data from peer-led

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radu F. Babiceanu, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Daniel Rucker, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Hussain M Al-Rizzo, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

inpreceding systems engineering courses, the selection of the capstone design project, the actualstudent work and its validation by the mentoring faculty, the dissemination of the results to allinterested parties, and the assessment of the level of achievement of the course learningobjectives. As response to the main local airport request for proposal, the students enrolled in thecapstone design course proposed a management information system which organizes the airportoperations into subsystems corresponding to the main activities that consider the sharing andexchange of information within the airport facilities. Through the automation of the informationflow, the proposed system may help small and medium-sized airports improve their

Conference Session

Assessing the Humanities in Engr. Educ.

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lee

Page 7.618.2of humanities knowledge acquisition and how such knowledge was acquired was also includedin the study design.Summary of the traditional and honors program tracksThe traditional students liberal arts requirements are summarized as follows: 1) students selectfrom a “menu” of courses, taking at least one course in each of the following areas: English,social science, fine arts, historical perspectives, and African, Latin-American, Middle Eastern, orAsian Perspectives; 2) general faculty from the associated departments teach these courses; 3)no systematic curriculum reviews or assessments are conducted; and 4) courses can range fromrelatively small (20-30 students) to large (100 or more). For the honors program, the liberal

Conference Session

Culture, Race, and Gender Issues

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

of Wisconsin, Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s ADVANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Femi- nist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the web- site http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking about gender and race in the context of engineering education. She was awarded a CAREER grant in 2010 for the project, ”Learning from Small Numbers: Using personal narratives by underrepresented undergraduate students to promote institutional change in engineering education.” She received a Presidential Early Ca- reer Award for Scientists and

Conference Session

Best Methods for NEEs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University; Michael Behm, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Paper ID #6032Assessing Scholarly OutletsDr. Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University Robert A. ”Bob” Chin is a Full Professor in the Department of Technology Systems, East Carolina Uni- versity, where he has taught since 1986. He is the current Director of Publications for the Engineering Design Graphics Division and Editor for the Engineering Design Graphics Journal. Chin has served as the Engineering Design Graphics Division’s annual and mid-year conference Program Chair, and he has served as a review board member for several journals including the EDGJ. He has been a program chair for the ASEE Southeastern Section

Conference Session

FPD8 -- Introductory Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Lehr, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Christopher Grant, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

programming in the longago past, but their skills were how to code in C. The upper level engineering professorswere using MATLAB, so first they needed to teach MATLAB, and then they couldassign tasks and projects.Analyzing the CS223 course, students had written programs, but usually small programsthat focused on the topics covered in the textbook. The course covered goodprogramming techniques, but not necessarily software engineering fundamentals. Thenew course would introduce software engineering techniques, expose the students toprocedural programming, and add a MATLAB component. The course would be gearedtoward incoming freshmen students with little or no programming background.EGR-115In the Spring 2004, two experimental sections of EGR115 were

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 4B: Assessing Student Motivation and Student Success

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander E. Dillon, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jonathan D. Stolk, Southern Methodist University; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

). In the second part of the survey, students reported their motivations using theSituational Motivation Scale (SIMS).17 SIMS is a validated and robust survey, whichadapts motivational constructs from SDT and combines them with a 1-7 Likert scale toindicate how strongly a respondent is experiencing four types of motivation: amotivation,external regulation, identified regulation, and intrinsic motivation.Seven study sites participated in the study and the data were collected from 31 uniquecourses taught by 29 unique instructors. After reviewing the data, we chose to require atleast 30 survey responses in a given class to calculate representative means, leaving 27courses for further analysis. The study sites ranged from large to small, public to

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

assignment.Students in the other classes were not asked to revise their submission after being providedfeedback.3. Assessment methodologiesThe computer science and engineering students used our Expertiza [3, 4] project(http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/efg/expertiza) is a Web-based system that facilitates peer review. Itwas first used to review wikis in Summer 2007, and has been used in courses in parallelcomputer architecture, object-oriented programming, and ethics in computing, among others.The software spiders the wiki to find all the contributions by an individual user, and then createsa page of links to each user’s material. This material is then assigned to specific other studentsto review.The toxicology students were reviewed by an outside team of experts

Conference Session

Innovative Assessment Techniques in Civil Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik R. Wright P.E., United States Military Academy; Joseph P Hanus, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, the CivilEngineering Program at the United States Military Academy has evolved their approach tointegrating information technology into multiple courses across the program. In 2009, acomprehensive study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of this approach and threespecific challenges were identified: limited faculty capacity to maintain pace with theinformation technologies, complexities and costs of the technologies, and difficulty ofintegrating the technologies across a program rather than a one-course exposure. In thefollowing years, these challenges were addressed and teaching approach to informationtechnology evolved to address these challenges. In 2011, a follow-up study was completed toassess the evolution and indentify future

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE Courses

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Booth, North Carolina State University; Megan Patberg Morin, North Carolina State University; Alireza Dayerizadeh, North Carolina State University; Pam Page Carpenter, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

target; therefore, this paper assesses our REU outcomes versus the skills, abilities, andcharacteristics of the ideal Engineer of 2020.Specifically, this study compares the goals of the REU program and the Engineer of 2020 basedon technical competence, professional skills, retention rate, participation of women andminorities, transition between community colleges and four-year universities, andinterdisciplinary learning. Each area is then discussed and identified as either being part of theREU program or existing curricula.Program Differences from Traditional Research Experiences for UndergraduatesThe globalized economy has resulted in the movement of advanced manufacturing to manydeveloping countries. Although largely beneficial to consumers

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs & Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-628: EXPLORING A VALID AND RELIABLE ASSESSMENT OFENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION LEARNING IN THECLASSROOMMarcelo Caplan, Columbia College Associate professor at the Science and Mathematics Department, Columbia College Chicago. In addition to teaching responsibilities, Mr. Caplan participates in the outreach programs and activities of the department through its Science Institute and coordinated several of those programs. Actually the main focus is his work to develop programs to bring science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) to the community through their after school activities, to promote urban youth to be scientific literate and to motivate them to pursue future

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Debra Ricci; Arnold Weimerskirch

Report magazine ranking of America’s Best Colleges.This paper presents the assessment method used by the School of Engineering at the Universityof St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. We use the Malcolm Baldrige Education Criteria forPerformance Excellence to assess our overall performance. Then we measure our performanceagainst our mission and the program objectives and outcomes. We will discuss our experiencewith this assessment method and provide some comparisons with other assessment methods.I. The University of St. Thomas School of EngineeringThe University of St. Thomas (UST) for U.S. News and World Report ranking is a doctoralintensive Catholic university serving 5,429 under-graduate students and 5,937 graduate studentson campuses in St

Conference Session

Perspectives on Service Learning: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Pierce, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); William C. Oakes, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

over a period of 23 years and specifically examines how the studentperceptions have changed over time. The main question driving the study is how the studentself-reported experience changed as the program has grown from a small beginning of 40students to over 600 students per semester. During this time, the program has changedsignificantly to accommodate the large number of students and part of the program evaluation ishow this has affected the lived student experience.It is important to note that this is one part of the overall program assessment and recognize thelimits of self-reported data alone. This data will be correlated with other streams of data fromprevious and future studies. It should also be mentioned that the program balances the

Conference Session

COED: Issues Impacting Students Learning How to Program

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bryan A. Jones, Mississippi State University; Jane N. Moorhead, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

open courses (MOOCs) provide a number of modern offerings; for example, EdXprovides an offering of Valvano’s embedded systems course [7] and Coursera offers an ARMand a TI MSP 430 course [8]. However, both courses offer large, weekly programming projectsrather that small exercises integrated with the instruction. In contrast, the approach introduced inthis paper relies on the use of small, low-stakes assessments and exercises to enable the studentto quickly determine what they don’t yet know, then review the missing information.To fill this gap, the Runestone Interactive platform [3] provides a set of tools for creating interac-tive textbooks, with a focus on in-browser execution of (JavaScript-emulated) Python, a popularprogramming language

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-4280: ASSESSING MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN IN A ROBOTICSENGINEERING CURRICULUMProf. Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Michael A. Gennert is Director of the Robotics Engineering Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he is professor of computer science and professor of electrical and computer engineering. He has worked at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, Mass., the University of Califor- nia/Riverside, General Electric Ordnance Systems, Pittsfield, Mass., and PAR Technology Corporation, New Hartford, N.Y. He received the B.S. in computer science, B.S. in electrical engineering, and M.S. in electrical engineering in 1980, and the D.Sc. in electrical

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard L. Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University; Derrick Wayne Smith, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Adam Scott Carter, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

notable is the Scale-Up 5 program introduced at North Carolina State University. In Scale-Up programs students experience a mixture of Respond Page 26.243.2 Critique presentations, desktop experiments, web-based Figure 1. Schematic of SBL Modelassignments and collaborative exercises while working in small groups using networked laptops(studio labs). Others have recently reported on a similar approach in chemical engineeringwhere an active learning studio session is integrated with a

Conference Session

Active Learning & Laboratories in Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Sanders, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

learning for a large introductory mechanics course using mobile phone data capture and peer feedbackAbstractProject-based learning (PBL) has been shown to result in many benefits, including improvedconceptual understanding and enhanced skills in communication, teamwork, and creativity, allwidely acknowledged to be core capabilities for engineers. However, implementations of PBLfrequently rely on large course staffs or small class sizes to be effective. In this paper we present aPBL implementation strategy used in an introductory dynamics course at the University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), which scales up to 500 students per term. This large-scale usageof PBL relies on two key implementation

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Molly H Goldstein, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

research tools, a science content test and a design conceptions test. Thisresearch contributes to the development of an instrument used to assess students’ designpractices.3Future workOur work for the next year includes:(1) Conducting Validation Research on the Conceptions of Design Test (CDT). Instrumentvalidation is an on-going, iterative process. In previous years, we have carried out small-scaleclassroom studies to design and refine the research instruments. As the theoretical foundation,we use Kane’s argument-based approach to validation and the Informed Design Teaching andLearning Matrix by Co-PI Adams. The following questions will be investigated as part of thevalidation efforts. • To what extent do students understand/interpret

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Ekoniak, Virginia Tech; Molly Scanlon, Virginia Tech; M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

computerengineering curricula, instructors are often reluctant or unwilling to include writing assignmentsin their courses. Furthermore, when these assignments are included they often do not allow forformative assessment through feedback and revision, key components of contemporary writingpedagogies. Engineering instructors often feel they lack adequate expertise to provide feedback;in large classes there simply may not be enough time due to the faculty to student ratio. One wayto address these constraints while providing meaningful writing assignments to students is to usepeer review in place of instructor review. Still, the question of how to teach effective peer reviewto students remains. This study uses an experimental approach to compare use of a

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Grenquist

, Australia ABSTRACT: It would be except ionally beneficial to know which students were going to pass and which studculs were going to Ihil a subject prior to beginning the class. I Iowever, due to the dynamic nature of the teaching method, where instructo]-s @ to help poorer students, and students rise to the challenge of the new material being taught, it is nearly impossible to pi-edict the final distribution of marks in a subject. This is especially true for small classes whine the instmctol- can assess the students continually and individually, and respond to ihcir various problems. [t is also true tbr subjects taught in the third and tburth years of an engineering student’s university education, due to smaller student class sl~es and a

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Casey, George Mason University; Ellen O'Donnell, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

education programs, capital improvements, scholarships, sponsorship ofevents and activities, internships and co-op programs, as well as mentoring and placement ofgraduates. They serve to advise with curriculum development, assess achievement of programoutcomes, and aid with strategic planning. They include members from large engineeringorganizations, other academic institutions, local companies, alumni, prominent leaders, as well asentrepreneurs. The IAB interaction with engineering programs is usually a successfulpartnership based on these factors. The members and member organizations of IABs also benefitfrom this partnership. They typically are allowed to identify and recruit the top-graduatingstudents, shape the future workforce to meet the

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

result of transition from the old four year course to the new five yearcourse with capstone design courses instead. The initial large class exposed severalweaknesses in early attempts at implementing self-assessment leading to significantmodifications.Student engagement, as assessed by the extent to which 9-11 hours of weekly practiceexercises were completed, has been high. Most students attempt most aspects of the practiceexercises.Student perceptions have so far been very positive, though the rubrics described in this paperhave so far only been used in smaller classes (10-30 students). Student evaluations of thecourse have been well above average, apart from the first year in which the method wasintroduced when there was a small improvement

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristine R. Csavina, Arizona State University; Cherrylynne Rochelle Nethken, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineering programs at ASU.Ms. CherryLynne Rochelle Nethken, Arizona State UniversityDr. Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University Dr. Adam Carberry is an assistant professor at Arizona State University in the Fulton Schools of Engi- neering Polytechnic School. He earned a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering from Alfred University, and received his M.S. and Ph.D., both from Tufts University, in Chemistry and Engineering Education respectively. Dr. Carberry was previously an employee of the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education & Outreach and manager of the Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Assessing Student

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Hang Zhang, Beihang University; Ming Li, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

enterprise experts to participate in theformulation of professional training programs, formulate training goals, build curriculumsystem and teaching content, especially formulate training programs during the corporatelearning phase; implement various teaching arrangements for students during corporatelearning; build a team of corporate guidance teachers, organize technical staff and seniormanagement personnel with senior professional titles to serve as part-time teachers in pilotcolleges and universities, set up corporate courses, guide students’ internship and training,graduation design; participate in the assessment and evaluation of students, formulate thetraining standards and assessment requirements at the enterprise learning phase, and

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shreyas Vathul Subramanian, Purdue University; Mushtak Al-Atabi, Taylor's University; David A. Delaine, Universidade de São Paulo and IFEES; josé aquiles grimoni jabg P.E., polythecnic schoool university of são paulo

Tagged Topics

International Forum

Paper ID #14315Bringing in the World: Internationalizing the Curriculum of a First-Year In-troduction to Engineering Course at a Large Public American UniversityProf. Jennifer DeBoer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Jennifer DeBoer is currently Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses on international education systems, individual and social development, technology use and STEM learning, and educational environments for diverse learners.Mr. Shreyas Vathul Subramanian, Purdue University Shreyas Vathul Subramanian is a PhD candidate in the school of Aeronautics and

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen M. Phillips, Arizona State University; Konstantinos Tsakalis, Arizona State University; Ravi Gorur, Arizona State University; Stephen M. Philips, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

 AbstractThe ABET accreditation process calls for feedback to be an integral part of continuousimprovement of education programs. Considerable freedom is allowed in the implementation ofthis process and how the data is collected, quantified, and interpreted. Combining this with thenaturally high variability of the education experience, the lack of unified and acceptedperformance metrics and outcome definitions, result in a formidable yet quite interestingfeedback problem.In this study, we present the approach taken for an EE program at a large state university toformalize, quantify, and automate to the greatest possible extent the data collection, action, andevaluation of the feedback and continuous improvement process. We follow the “two loopABET

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joan Walker

adopt traditional approaches to studentassessment and instruction: assessment is usually a written test requiring students toprovide correct answers to fact-based questions; instruction is largely a linear progressionof lectures organized around the general taxonomy of the subject matter. Summaries ofcurrent research in the learning sciences, 1 however, suggest that these approaches offerstudents limited opportunities to develop a rich conceptual understanding of thefundamental principles and applications of a domain. As part of a concerted effort toimprove BME education, the Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT EngineeringResearch Center (VaNTH ERC) is investigating alternative methods for capturing andassessing students’ conceptual

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca R Essig, Purdue University; Cary David Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Josh Boyd, Purdue University; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, and (2) assessment of student work inlight of typical manpower and expertise limitations associated with large classes. Analysis ofstudent paragraphs highlights the importance of the writing prompts in the success of theexercise, indicating that specific word choice, question focus, and supplemental instructiongreatly affected the level of writing students submitted. While minimal marking and holisticrubric assessment methods proved effective from a grading resource standpoint, students werefrustrated by the lack of feedback associated with these techniques and uncomfortable with theholistic grading approach. Data from student surveys point to the importance of givingmeaningful feedback to students and providing them with opportunities to

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

management assignments. Local high technology companies wereconcerned that many engineers were entering management positions responsible for project ordevelopment teams or promoted to managers of small departments or work groups with littlepreparation. Ironically, these opportunities sometimes came as a reward for a job well done forengineering contributions but placed the individual in an awkward position. As Matson1 andLancaster2 have reported, and this author observed while working in industry, engineers usuallyfind themselves very poorly equipped to take on their management assignments.As the program evolved over the next 16 years, the enrollment grew to include students fromColorado, from across the United States, and from around the world. As

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

in the course. In addition tocollege juniors and seniors, high school students have taken the course over the past five years.These students were either enrolled in the Advanced Academic Institute (AAI) or EngineeringScholars Program (ESP), both of which are intense summer programs.Methods TaughtA large portion of the in-class teaching is devoted to teaching systematic ways of thinking.Students are exposed to TRIZ, Lateral Thinking, Mind Mapping and the Eight DimensionalMethodology for Innovative Thinking. Multiple methods are taught since some are notnecessarily suited for everyone or for every problem.TRIZ, a Russian Acronym that translates into the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving isquickly becoming very popular and is being used by