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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karim Nasr; Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

Session 3266 Student Understanding of Program Outcomes through Formative and Summative Course-Level Assessment Raghu Echempati, Arnaldo Mazzei and Karim Nasr Mechanical Engineering Department Kettering University Flint, MI 48504AbstractIn this paper, an approach is suggested to begin a process in which each student, while solving ahomework problem, or a test or a project is asked to provide additional information concerningwhat concept(s) is (are) targeted in each homework problem and to what extent, if any

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Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stan Guidera

Session ____ Assessing the use of digital sketching and conceptual design software in first-year architectural design studio Dr. Stan G. Guidera College of Technology Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Computer aided design software has supplanted traditional drafting in architecturalpractice as well as in most related design and engineering disciplines. However, both educatorsas well as many design practitioners continue to rely on traditional sketching during conceptualdesign. This has been

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CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

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R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

Session 3115 An Assessment of How the Sooner City Project Addresses ASCE's Body of Knowledge R.L. Kolar, R.C. Knox, G.A. Miller, K.K. Muraleetharan, and D.A. Sabatini School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES) University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019Abstract.ASCE's Policy Statement 465 (PS 465), the result of a decade-long process, outlines the Body ofKnowledge (BOK) that students should possess in order to enter the practice of civil engineering.Similar to ABET's EC 2000, PS 465 advocates an outcomes-based assessment by promoting 15outcomes, 11 of which

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Solomon Alao; Shurron Farmer; Damian Watkins; Craig Scott; Pamela Leigh-Mack

1620 Assessing the Impact of Mobile Infor mation Communications Technology on Student Attitudes and Per ceptions in an Ur ban Higher Education Envir onment Cr aig Scott, Pamela Leigh-Mack, Damian Watkins, Solomon Alao, Shur r on Far mer Mor gan State Univer sity Baltimor e, Mar ylandAbstractMobile platforms present an excellent opportunity to bridge the digital divide that has an impacton so many students. At Morgan State University, we proudly boast of our leadership as a

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

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Philip Parker; Max Anderson

Session # 1353 Assessment of a First-Year Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Course Philip J. Parker and Max L. Anderson Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleIntroductionThe freshman year for an engineering student is critical to his or her retention in an engineeringprogram. The typical first-year engineering curriculum in the US contains a rigorous workloadof science and mathematics courses, along with two or three courses in the humanities. Often,the only exposure to engineering that students obtain in this first year is in an introductoryengineering course.The

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alan Scaroni; David DiBiase; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

2433 An Assessment of Active and Project Based Learning in Energy Conservation Education for Non-Technical Students Sarma V. Pisupati, Jonathan P. Mathews, David DiBiase, and Alan W. Scaroni Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering Department and John A. Dutton e-Education Institute College of Earth & Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802AbstractA 3-credit general education course on “Energy Conservation and EnvironmentalProtection” was developed for mostly non-science/engineering students

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Dettman

Development and Assessment of a New Project / Practice Based Civil Engineering Curriculum Matthew A. Dettman, P.E. Western Kentucky University1. IntroductionWestern Kentucky University is currently in the process of developing a new undergraduateengineering programs in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering focusing on engaging thestudent in a project / practice based environment and preparing them for a career as a practicingengineer. This paper will discuss the process of developing the civil engineering program thatbegan with the creation of goals for the engineering department up to the present day with aclearly defined

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gary Sandquist; Brian Moretti; Edward Naessens

1 Developing and Assessing an Undergraduate Nuclear Engineering Program at the U.S. Military Academy COL Edward Naessens, LTC Brian Moretti, Prof. Gary Sandquist* U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 *University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112AbstractIn 2002 the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point established a nuclear engineering(NE) major beginning with graduates of the Class of 2005. The major represents a significantbroadening of the West Point academic program and will provide the Army with additionalnuclear trained officers as leaders in homeland defense, health physics, and the development ofnational nuclear defense and

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Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sally Waldron; Rose Robinson; Michael Gregg; Jenny Lo

Session 2004-2081 Blackboard Collaboration: Consolidation of On-Line Course Materials and Assessment for Multiple Sections Using Blackboard Dr. Jenny Lo, Professors Michael Gregg, Sally Waldron and Rose Robinson Division of Engineering Fundamentals Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the efforts of four Virginia Tech College of Engineering faculty members who usedBlackboard collaboratively to reduce the overall effort required to administer one required introductorycourse.Blackboard is Virginia Tech’s

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Hochstein

Session 1566 AN ASSESSMENT PROCESS FOR A CAPSTONE COURSE: DESIGN OF FLUID THERMAL SYSTEMS William S. Janna, John I. Hochstein Herff College of Engineering The University of Memphis Memphis TN 38152Extended AbstractAn assessment process has been developed in order to measure how well a capstone designcourse, Design of Fluid Thermal Systems, meets the needs of the students with regard to processeducational goals and educational objectives. The ultimate purpose of the process

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kristine Craven

Session 3453 Assessing the Effectiveness of a Project-Based Laboratory Manual for a C Programming Course Kristine K. Craven Tennessee Technological UniversityAbstract Programming for Engineers, Basic Engineering (BE) 1120, is a first-year course atTennessee Technological University that is taught in a lecture/laboratory format. Traditionally thelaboratory manual has been comprised of unrelated randomly selected exercises chosen mainlyfrom the homework sections of the course textbook. A new project-based laboratory manual hasbeen

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

Assessment of Remote Experiments and Local Simulations: Student Experiences, Satisfaction and Suggestions Jim Henry Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598 Richard Zollars Department of Chemical Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2710AbstractThis paper has a comparison of student reactions to having laboratory experimentsconducted with simulation software and being conducted remotely through the Web.The students in a

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Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gregory Mason

Session 3153 Assessing Student Design Team Performance in a Learning Community of University Freshman and High School Students Teodora Rutar, Greg Mason Seattle UniversityAbstractThis paper describes methods used to assess teamwork effectiveness. The assessment methodswere developed to evaluate the overall success of the project itself, the students’ perception ofthe experience, and how much the students actually learned. The assessment methods includeboth subjective measures, such as student surveys, (namely, communications methodseffectiveness survey, team communication survey, short-term surveys, team peer

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IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

Session 1657 An Integrated Approach to Evaluation of Program Educational Objectives and Assessment of Program Outcomes Using ABET Criteria for Accreditation of Engineering Programs Michael S. Leonard and Eleanor W. Nault Clemson UniversityI. AbstractFor many engineering education programs, the process for evaluating program educationalobjectives is interpretive; that is, achievement of program educational objectives is inferred fromachievement of program outcomes. What is lacking in current practice is a systematic way toexamine the success of a program

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Session 3268 Assessment of Engineering Mechanics Instructional Multimedia in a Variety of Instructional Settings Richard H. Hall, Nancy Hubing, Timothy A. Philpot, Ralph E. Flori, and Vikas Yellamraju University of Missouri – Rolla1 AbstractStudents from ten schools, representing seven countries, used interactive multimedia as a part oftheir engineering statics classes. The software consisted of four modules, which focused on:Mohr’s Circle; Centroid and Moment of Inertia; Stress Transformation; and Structural Analysis.The students completed on

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

Document: 2004-1744 Writing Self-Assessment for First-Year Engineering Students: Initial Findings Chris Leslie, Elisa Linsky, Gunter Georgi Polytechnic UniversitySeeking to understand what and how students are learning about writing in its first-yearengineering course, we have implemented an assessment project for Polytechnic University’score engineering course. Building on an innovative Writing Consultant program that already wasimplemented for EG 1004, Introduction to Engineering and Design, the assessment project drawsseveral projects from English composition instruction to improve the

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Ziegler

Session 2525 Teaching and Assessing Teamwork: Including a Method (That Works) to Determine Individual Contributions to a Team William L. Ziegler Associate Professor Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science Binghamton University State University of New York Binghamton, NY 13902-6000Abstract:Implementing teamwork has historically been difficult to achieve in an educational setting andhence has

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wilfred Roudebush

Session #2506 Environmental Value Engineering: An environmental life cycle assessment methodology for comparing built environment alternatives. Wilfred H. Roudebush, Ph.D., NCARB College of Technology Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0302 Office: (419) 372-8275 FAX (419) 372-6066 Email: wroudeb@bgnet.bgsu.eduOverviewPurpose of the Paper Engineering

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

Session 2109 Design, Implementation, and Assessment of an HPL-inspired Undergraduate Course on Biomechanics Marcus G. Pandy, Anthony J. Petrosino, Ron E. Barr, Laura Tennant, Ajay Seth Department of Biomedical Engineering/Department of Curriculum & Instruction University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712Introduction New developments in learning theory suggest that instructors can improve studentunderstanding by changing their teaching practices. Innovations in instructional design such asproblem-based, case-based, and project-based learning have been designed to combat

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kimberly Barron; Anita Todd; Robert Pangborn

Session 3630 Changes in Perceived Learning Assessed in Stages from Mid-stream Academic through Professional Careers Anita M. Todd, Kimberly A. Barron and Robert N. Pangborn College of Engineering, Penn State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the implementation and initial findings of a new web-based senior exitsurvey in the College of Engineering at Penn State. The electronic format includes an adaptivefeature that accounts for the student’s major, and presents the respondent with both a corecontent and a department-specific component that together meet multiple assessment interestsand

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

Session 3454 The Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University Results and Assessment To Date Dr. Mark R. Plichta Mary B. Raber Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractIn 2000, Michigan Technological University restructured its entire curricular offering in associa-tion with an academic calendar change from quarters to semesters. As part of this restructuringthe university developed the Enterprise Program (www.enterprise.mtu.edu), a new andinnovative experience that provides all students on

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2001 Annual Conference

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Michael Carter; Sarah Rajala

Session 3530 EC2000 Criterion 2: A Procedure for Creating, Assessing, and Documenting Program Educational Objectives Michael Carter, Rebecca Brent, Sarah Rajala North Carolina State UniversityIntroductionCriterion 2 [Program Educational Objectives (PEO)] is arguably the most important part ofABET EC2000. PEO embody the broad vision for an engineering program that drives theoverall accreditation process. They also provide a crucial nexus point for the assessment of eachprogram, the point at which the programmatic issues of the other EC2000 criteria—curriculum,faculty

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

Session 2793 Drexel's Challenge in its Innovative Freshman Core Curriculum: Continuous Collaboration and Assessment Valarie M. Arms, J. Richard Weggel, Aly Valentine Drexel UniversityIntroductionAt Drexel University, the College of Engineering institutionalized an innovative program for thefirst two years in engineering in order to implement some of the new research on learning. Thegoal was to improve engineering education by focusing on the student's experience. In theprocess, the radical change in approach required that the faculty model collaborative learning

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2000 Annual Conference

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Tim O'Neill; Gregory M. Maxwell

Session 2793 The Iowa State University Industrial Assessment Center- A Winning Combination for Students, Faculty and Industry Gregory Maxwell, Tim O’Neill Iowa State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the Industrial Assessment Center at Iowa State University. The center’smission is to provide a service to small and medium-sized manufacturers to help reduce energyusage, waste generation and increase plant productivity while at the same time providing aneducational opportunity for engineering students. The center utilizes teams comprised ofundergraduate and

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2000 Annual Conference

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Willard D. Bostwick

Session 2548 The Need to Establish An Affective Domain Assessment Strategy for Your Program Willard D. Bostwick Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisAbstract Several proposed ABET engineering technology criteria have roots in the affective aswell as cognitive domain. If these outcomes are assessed wholly as mental activities, measureswill be sought which determine the student’s ability to recall, comprehend, apply, synthesize,and evaluate appropriate skills. It is possible to do all of these things without demonstrating thata graduate will

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2000 Annual Conference

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Robert S. Thompson

Session 1630 A Repeated Measures Design for Assessment of Critical Team Skills in Multidisciplinary Teams Robert S. Thompson Colorado School of MinesIntroductionTeamwork education has become increasingly important over the last decade. In 1996, theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the sole agency responsible forthe accreditation of engineering programs, approved new standards for accreditation reviews.The new standards, Engineering Criteria 2000, require programs to demonstrate specific skills.One specific criterion is the need to demonstrate

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Matt Gates; Mary Lamont; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Session 2793 An Anonymous Electronic Journal System – Program Assessment Tool and Monday Morning Quarterback Richard J. Freuler, Matthew S. Gates, John A. Merrill, Mary M. Lamont, and John T. Demel The Ohio State UniversityAbstractDuring the past ten years, The Ohio State University's College of Engineering has moved from aseries of separate freshman courses for engineering orientation, engineering graphics, andengineering problem solving with computer programming to a dual offering of course sequencesin the Introduction to Engineering (IE

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Oscar R Gonzalez; James F Leathrum; Amit Kumar H; Vishnu Lakdawala; Stephen Zahorian

Session 1483 An Instrument for Assessing Knowledge Gain in a First Course in Circuit Theory Vishnu K. Lakdawala, Stephen A. Zahorian, Oscar R. González, Amit Kumar H., and James F. Leathrum, Jr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Old Dominion Unive rsity Norfolk, VA 23529AbstractAlthough there has been considerable research on the development and use of assessmentinstruments to measure the effectiveness of various pedagogical approaches to teachingintroductory physics

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marie Dahleh

Session Sustainability of an Outcome Based Assessment Process: Analysis of the Resource Impact Marie Dillon Dahleh Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106AbstractAll ABET accredited programs are developing assessment plans, which are used to determine ifa program is successfully achieving the program outcomes. These outcomes must include butare not limited to Criterion 3 (a)-(k) of EC 2000. The assessment plans must balance the desire tomeasure all of the outcomes all of the time and the limited resources available. Most

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rosana Miskulin; Mauro Miskulin; Geraldo Gonçalves Jr.; Dilermando Piva; Charlotte Gunawardena

Session 1496 An Artificial Intelligence-Based Application for Facilitating Interaction and Learning Assessment in On -line Engineering Courses Dilermando Piva Júnior, Mauro Sérgio Miskulin, Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena, Geraldo Gonçalves Júnior, Rosana Giaretta Sguerra Miskulin UNICAMP - Doctorate Program from the College of Electrical Engineering andComputer Engineering and Faculdade Politécnica de Jundiaí / UNICAMP. College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering / UNM - University of NewMexico – Albuquerque / Faculdade Politécnica de Jundiaí / UNICAMP. College of Education (FE) - CEMPEM - LAPEMMEC ABSTRACT