Conference Session

Professional Development from a Distance

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell L. Springer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

, observation, and experience analysis. TECH 621 prepares students to plan, pilot, and assess an original qualitative research study. Leading Teams 3 Team success is dependent on effective leadership. This course will focus on leadership processes both internal and external and the leadership functions that help teams satisfy their critical needs and regulate their behavior through goal accomplishment. Research and Writing for 1 A study of academic research and writing practices. Business and IndustrySemester 2(Credits 7

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Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven K. Mickelson, Iowa State University; Marcia R. Laugerman, Iowa State University

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Two Year College Division

university and determine if significant differences exist.The hypothesis is that once in-state community college (State CC) students Page 22.319.3successfully matriculate and graduate from ISU that no distinctions will exist atgraduation from non-transfer students. The differences or lack of differences willassist in assessment and programming for transfer students. This study is based ongraduation data from recent semesters combined with data from InstitutionalResearch at ISU.This study is part of a National Science Foundation grant. The goal of this projectis to increase the number of engineering graduates from Iowa State University‟sCollege of Engineering

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas E. Doyle, McMaster University; Spencer Smith, McMaster University; Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego

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Design in Engineering Education

application of those toolsare still at the discretion of the designer. The level of detail that teams incorporated in totheir final projects1,2 impressed the instructor, competition judges, and faculty members.Unfortunately, while most students were quite adept at the CAD software, some studentswere not aware of how their project product mechanically functioned. This resulthighlights the problem with many traditional graphics courses because the emphasis ofassessment is based on the mechanical form and not on the function. It is the author’s assertion that this, in part, is the result of class sizes, limited resources,and insufficient assessment tools. The incorporation of a visualization and simulationtool into traditional graphics courses would

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Culver, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ishwar K. Puri, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

, held at the National Academy ofEngineering in 2008, summarized the issues related to ethics education and scientific andengineering research [3]. In response to such concerns about ethics instruction, in 2008,an interdisciplinary faculty group at Virginia Tech received an NSF grant, calledGraduate Interdisciplinary Liberal Engineering Ethics (GILEE), to enhance ethicsinstruction in undergraduate and graduate engineering. As part of this grant, surveys andfocus groups were developed to gather information about engineering students’perceptions of their current ethics instruction. Consequently, faculty in the College ofBusiness at Virginia Tech became interested in this baseline assessment and otheractivities related to ethics instruction in the

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Materials Experiments, Labs, Demos, and Hands-On Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Spencer Seung-hyun Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

. Page 22.474.8The development of lab contents recently emphasizes the needs to give properpreparation so that students can deal with inevitable changes in materials science andengineering. Some concerns reflected on the development of laboratory session are toenhance knowledge in green materials, to develop laboratory skills, and to synthesize thecourse goals. Since the newly developed lab session has been implementing in spring, theresults of the assessment of the student performance will be documented.Conclusions The tensile properties of the hybrids (NCCS 631 and CCCS 631) were generally higher than the TPC blend (CS 730). The tensile strength of the hybrid materials substantially increased as the humidity in the sample

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1999 Annual Conference

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John Spinelli; Cherrice Traver

developed during the trip,and tended to be rather superficial. They are currently under revision.AssessmentAssessment for this project was limited to a questionnaire following the competition.The students were not asked to regularly assess and improve upon the teamÀseffectiveness. Not surprisingly, this led students to have greatly differing opinions ofhow well the team functioned. Those who did find fault tended to focus on results ofpoor team work such as not everyone participating equally or missing deadlines, ratherthan the underlying team issues that led to these problems. Most of the students hadconsiderable experience with formal and informal team work early in their engineeringeducation, but this did not necessarily imply that they had

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1999 Annual Conference

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Oscar D. Crisalle; Haniph A. Latchman; Denis Gillet; Christophe Salzmann

cope with this evolution by assessing and proposingsynchronous or asynchronous distance curricula1. This provides students with more flexibility inboth place and time and reduces the campus infrastructure needs. In many disciplines, however, the expositive material typically provided on line is notsufficient to support the complete learning experience. In disciplines such as engineering there isoften a need to develop practical experience as a key to becoming an effective professional2. Inorder to address this need we have developed a distributed laboratory to complement andenhance the delivery of on-line courses on the topic of control engineering3. This laboratory isexpected to serve as a paradigm for the development of analogous on-line

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1999 Annual Conference

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Ying Lu; Vincent Singh; Steven Palmer; Sarah Bergstrom; Nicolai Ramler; Mikir Bodalia; Martins Innus; Jami Meteer; Contessa DuBois; Aleli Mojica-Campbell; Martha E. Sloan; Ashok Goel

to their satisfac-tion with the program. Both years students were very positive in their assessments of the pro-gram including their research experiences, interaction with other participants and faculty, andthe effect the program had had on their interest in pursuing graduate education and careers inresearch. We also surveyed the students by e-mail in the spring after the first year program(and plan to do so again this spring for the second year participants). Their opinions of theprogram continued to be high. Almost all participating students felt that this undergraduateresearch experience had greatly enhanced their overall education. Most participants hadaccepted or were looking for industrial research positions or were planning to attend

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1999 Annual Conference

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David Whitman; Sally Steadman

by theincreased retention and satisfaction of the residents.University-wide Freshman Interest Groups (FIGs) ProjectSomewhat as an outgrowth of the successful Engineering College’s Power Groups andEngineering Floor, the University of Wyoming has developed a Freshman Interest Groups(FIGs) project that is campus-wide. Based on a model from the University of Missouri, FIGsinvolves a group of no more than 20 students with similar educational goals who take selectedclasses together and share a common living arrangement. This project was initiated for the Fall1998 semester and initial assessment will begin during the Spring 1999 semester. TheUniversity administration has committed to a minimum 3-year trial period for FIGs.ResultsEngineering Floor

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1999 Annual Conference

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J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

Page 4.499.3reimburse the students for nominal travel expenses.* Will there be a company contact person that can be reasonably relied upon to furnish neededdata/information to the student team in a timely fashion? The students need to realize that theircompany contact has many other important responsibilities but the contact also needs to keep in mindthat the students are under an inflexible deadline. The actual faculty time expended during thesolicitation screening, and final selection processes are, of course, quite difficult to assess, but theauthors estimate the about 3-5 hours per selected project for these activities are required before thequarter or semester begins.Project Administration At Rose-Hulman, two design courses

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1999 Annual Conference

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Warenna Millon; Eric Sheppard

students for their academic careers. A detailed assessment of these plans is starting andwill guide future progress. Page 4.562.5 Session 2570AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank Dr. Ben Oni, Interim Dean of TU CEAPS, for his support ingathering the TU data for this paper. The first author initiated some of this work while workingunder NASA grant NAG13-50. The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors,and not necessarily those of the College and University.Bibliography1. EWC, quoted in "NACME Forum 98: minority proportions are dropping" in

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1999 Annual Conference

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Valerie L. Young

assessment tool for an introductory chemical engineering course.Bibliography1. P.C. Wankat and F.S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993, pp. 138-139.2. V.L. Young and B. J. Stuart, " The Theme Course - Connecting the Plant Trip to the Text Book", Journal of Engineering Education, submitted.3. Young, V.L. 1998. The Theme Course - Connecting the Plant Trip to the Text Book. American Society for Engineering Education - North Central Section Annual Conference, 2-4 April, Dearborn, Michigan. Page 4.588.44. ABET, "Engineering Criteria 2000: Criteria for Accrediting Programs in

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1999 Annual Conference

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Frank E. Falcone; Edward Glynn

manner such that basic concepts take on a “real world” rather than abstract meaning.The second project introduces the students to structural design and analysis. The students workin pairs to design, build and test a model truss fabricated from 150 x 19 x 1.6 mm wooden craftsticks which must span a distance of 180 mm. The students must predict the maximum load thetruss can support and identify the member where the failure initiates. Each team tests its ownmodel and submits a written report that assesses the performance of the truss and discusses theaccuracy of their prediction.The truss project serves a number of useful purposes. It reinforces many of the concepts thestudents learn in the statics course. The team can use any truss geometry and

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1999 Annual Conference

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Robert Spradling; Robert Hayes; Ahmad Zargari

Technology programs have been provided with an historicopportunity to effectively contribute to the improvement of the global economy byproviding education and training appropriate for meeting the skills requirements of the21st century’s manufacturing industries. To accomplish this, institutions of higherlearning should systematically assess their manufacturing programs in order to ensure thedevelopment and implementation of contemporary and relevant curricula. Input from leading experts in the field is vital to the mission of revisingManufacturing Technology curricula. Experts have the unique ability to predict trends intechnology, thus, providing curriculum developers with an insight into buildingexemplary Manufacturing Technology programs

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2000 Annual Conference

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Nizar Al-Holou; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

Page 5.125.4Evaluation Plan of the ProjectTo facilitate continuous improvement, we plan to use the following methods to evaluateour progress:• A questionnaire for laboratory evaluation will be completed by students at each participating school at the end of the semester which will solicit their responses about the utility, applicability and reliability of the Altera development package.• Contact with students and their employers will be maintained after students’ graduation to assess the impact that the laboratory may have had on the students, both in terms of the students’ job performance as well as sustained learning.• Information will be garnered from industries to gauge their reaction to selected experiments, to solicit

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2000 Annual Conference

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Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

. This collaborative initiative wasvoluntarily undertaken by these educators to maximise their teaching effectiveness in order tominimise first year undergraduate transitional issues. Therefore, this paper seeks to promotethe strengths of this alternative approach to professional development in relation to theimplementation of a common first year civil engineering subject ENG1201.2.The short comings of linear professional development.As the need to address the effectiveness of learning and teaching has become a nationalconcern, The Monash Learning and Teaching Operational Plan [1] has been created toredirect academic staff to personally assess their current teaching practices in conjunctionwith the professional development short courses

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1997 Annual Conference

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Josef Rojter

institutions re-aligned themselvestowards science based goals. All government based assessment criteria, accountability andyearning for parity of esteem transformed these engineering education providers to mirrorthe engineering faculties in the older universities. The transformation was reflected in therecruitment of new academic staff. Priorities were given to applicants with Ph.D’s inscientific research. The diversity of engineering education in Australia thus disappeared.Yet there are inherent problems plaguing engineering profession: 0 Low status of engineers in society l Gender imbalance within the engineering body l Lack of trust of engineers within society l Low

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1997 Annual Conference

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James A. Reising

undergraduate research conference.Once students have selected projects, they are asked to perform an initial assessment of theproblem to identify the engineering problem or problems to be solved and to make a preliminaryattempt to suggest alternate approaches to solving the problems.Near the end of the semester, students are asked to prepare a “mini-proposal” and give a brief (2 -5 minute) talk describing the project they have chosen and how they think they might approachthe problem. The “mini-proposal” is a one or two-page essay that describes the problem, itsorigin, and the importance attached to its solution; identifies any previous work on the sameproblem; and gives a brief outline of the proposed work. At this stage most students are simplygiving

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1997 Annual Conference

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Steven P.K. Sternberg

confidence. With this method the professor mayspend a few minutes with each student, while other students continue to work on the assignedproblem.Key considerations for this active learning activity include problem selection, timing duringthe semester, timing during a class period, what to replace in the lecture material, when andhow to use a teaching assistant, and ‘selling’ the activity to the students. The problems areused for learning and not for assessment, so they are not collected or graded. Instead thestudents receive class participation points for attending.Selection of appropriate problems requires careful consideration of the time devoted to theactivity. It will take the group longer to solve the problem then it takes a single good

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1997 Annual Conference

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R. E. Rowlands

. Page 2.366.5Although certainly not the only design, a [0/+45/-45]s laminate is acceptable.HOLE is well suited for demonstrating the consequences in a perforated laminate under a varietyof loading conditions, as well as when the hole is filled with another material. On the other hand,HOLYCOW features animation. The animation includes a real-time movie of the varying tan-gential stress on the hole boundary as the direction of the applied load changes.2.5 HFAILThat composite strength is directionally dependent can complicate design. Also, even laminatestrength is usually assessed on a ply-by-ply basis. Numerous different strength criteria have beendeveloped and a variety of them are used in industry. Most of these criteria are phenomenologi-cal

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1997 Annual Conference

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Phil Fabiano

retention, mastery of coursesubject matter, computer skills, laboratory skills, development skills, PE licensing, professionalsociety involvement, pursuing advanced degrees, and employment.2. Curriculum: Insure that the curriculum and labs in each ET discipline meet applicable NJIT,ABET, industry, professional licensing, and student requirements.3. New Program Opportunities: Increased enrollment through the development of newacademic programs.4. Support To Students: Enhance student success by providing the necessary support withregard to academic advisement, day and evening advisement, flexible laboratory schedules,assess to PCs and Workstations.5. Faculty and Staff Development: Provide faculty with the opportunity to remain current withregard to

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1997 Annual Conference

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Rick L. Homkes; Kevin D. Taylor; Russell A. Aubrey

faculty in initiating their publishingexperience. This is especially true of recently tenured associate professors. While junior facultymay perform the majority of the work, it is incumbent upon the senior faculty to guide themthrough the process. Page 2.441.1Planning the workHere are the suggested steps required to complete the publishing and presenting process:The Idea - If you are searching for ideas, brainstorm with your colleagues and read pertinentpublications to see what others have done. Assess your own efforts and interests with potentialco-authors. Find others in the department with interests that are either similar or congruent. Oneco

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1997 Annual Conference

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Amer Mokaddem; James Moller

improve learning of principal stress and maximum shear stress locations.Figure 1. Example of the state of stress windows during program operation. Infinitesimal cube,Mohr’s circle, and numerical output windows are shown in their unhidden state.The program effectiveness was assessed during a scheduled class meeting. There were fourteenstudents. Most were junior level. The students had just completed a lecture and one homeworkassignment on principal stresses and Mohr’s circle. Before seeing the program in operation, theywere asked a set of written questions as a baseline from which to measure their progress.Questions included asking for Mohr’s circle for specific states of stress as well as points on thecircle for principal stresses and maximum

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1997 Annual Conference

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Mohamed A. Bourham; Donald J. Dudziak

solution. A detection system was installed to obtain thegamma spectrum. Several Monte Carlo simulation codes were used for data analysis andcomparison with experimental results.6II.3 NUCLEAR MATERIALS: AUTOMATED BALL INDENTATION TECHNIQUE Developing new techniques to assess the behavior of nuclear materials is a necessity for in-situ measurement of the stress-strain of irradiated materials. The Automated Ball Indentationtechnique (also known as nano-indentation) can provide nuclear reactor in-vessel testing.Measuring the resistance of penetration into a material can be automated via a ball indentationtester coupled to a linear voltage displacement transducer. The project consists of the use of suchan automated indentation technique to measure

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1997 Annual Conference

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Javed Alam, Youngstown State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

languages such as Java3 from Sun Microsystems. These extensions to HTMLproduce an active document with interactive capabilities. It is anticipated that thesedevelopments will have significant impact on the education process. 2. USE OF WEB BASED TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATIONThe teaching process involves dissemination of significant amounts of information. This isaccomplished through reading assignments in textbooks and handbooks, and the traditionalmethod of lecturing assisted through the blackboard. The WWW component of the Internet canbe used to assist in all these functions. It enhances their quality by giving the faculty moreflexibility in using hypermedia technology to develop information rich course content.To assess the usefulness of

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1997 Annual Conference

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Melissa S. Tooley

underclassmen within the engineering collegewith upperclass females in their department for the purpose of receiving advice andencouragement. To reduce attrition, it is necessary to assess why it occurs. Perhaps the mostsignificant factor is the lack of a support network for female engineering undergraduates.Because of their numbers, men can more easily meet and develop a support network. They mayhave other engineering students in their dorm, their fraternity, or other organizations. This is aluxury female engineering undergraduates may not have, especially in the freshman andsophomore years.Studies have shown that educators treat women and men differently in the classroom, and itwould be logical to assume that this happens in engineering classrooms as

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John E. Shea

them to new situations. It is hard to determine if theseobjectives were met. My qualitative assessment is that the students were better able to handlemore challenging questions on the exams, but there is no hard data. What is known is thatstudents actively participated and felt that the exercises were very helpful. The exercises alsocreated the environment where students had to develop teamwork and communication skills.These are skills learned over a period of time and must be included in the learning objectives forall engineering courses. CONCLUSION The active learning exercises demonstrate an alternative to traditional lecture-only classes.The exercises presented students with laboratory-like

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard K. Sase; Julie H. Wei

relations, workplanning, conflict resolution, project management and stress management. Each student is required to perform self-evaluation and peer-evaluation on the fellowteam members. Exhibit B shows a sample evaluation form to be completed by the studentsrequiring each student to make a candid review of one’s own performance. It also compels thestudent to assess the performance of the other members and practice peer evaluation, asprofessionals (especially those in supervisory positions) must do in industry. It serves as aforewarning about the kind of competition that they will face in future job market. Peerevaluation also makes students accountable for their performance on the team project. Another goal of the team project is to

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1998 Annual Conference

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Carl A. Erikson

integrated approach to transportation will provide masstransit and livable conditions for all urbanites. Perhaps, it is not too late. As one visionary fromSouthfield, Michigan stated," This "downtown" will be bisected by landscaped thoroughfares anddotted with parks and plazas that encourage pedestrian traffic. The city envisions a vibrant centerof education, commerce, culture, entertainment, and community activity"[11]. References1] "A Framework for the Assessment of Engineering Education", by the Joint Task Force on Engineering,ASEE Prism, May-June 1996, page 20.2] "This $40 Crank-Up Radio Lets Rural Africa Tune In", Donald F. McNeil, Jr., Milnerton Journal, New YorkTimes, February 16, 1996.3

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1998 Annual Conference

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William Gay

. As elsewhere student learning and technical program assessments are becomingof greater importance in college accreditation reviews. CBA wanted assurance that the course content was at the upper-division level. Theysuggested that we compare our sophomore aviation courses with similar junior-level courses atsuch baccalaureate institutions as Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Ohio University, andBowling Green State University to determine whether some of our sophomore-level courses werecomparable to their upper-division courses. With these considerations in mind the followingsophomore aviation courses were renamed and given 300-level course numbers: Commercial Flight Operations and Theory Comprehensive Aviation Training Theory