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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John Regnier; Bogdan M. Wilamowski; Aleksander Malinowski

the TechnicalUniversity of Gdansk, Poland.ALEKSANDER MALINOWSKIAleksander Malinowski is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of theBradley University. He is also an associate editor of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Newsletter. He receivedhis MS in electronics in 1989 from the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland and Ph.D. in computer science andengineering in 1996 from the University of Louisville, KY. Dr. Malinowski is the author of 4 journal papers and 31other refereed publications. The areas of his main interests are Web programming, network computing, computersimulation and modeling, computational intelligence and computer architecture.JOHN W. REGNIERJohn W. Regnier received his BS at

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon A. Driscoll

group learning activities?Will active learning be a large part of the class? While minor changes can be made based on theclass character, the answers to these questions and more should be made prior to the start of thesemester and discussed with the student during the first week of class. In most cases, the answerto all of these questions for chemical engineering students should be YES. Not only are activelearning activities important for promoting student learning, recent results of profiling studentlearning preferences have indicated that the majority of chemical engineering students learnmore effectively by working problems themselves. This paper provides suggestions for non-course material activities for the first week activities, followed

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

L. Glenn Kraige

area. One reason for thelatter statement is that we have not yet progressed to the best steady-state teaching strategy in thearea of rigid-body kinetics. The purpose of this paper is to review the history and current state ofaffairs in this narrow area and then to advocate a better strategy. Recommendations are made inregard to both diagrams and corresponding equations of motion.IntroductionDynamics did not become a significant issue until the beginning of the machine age.Mechanicists were accustomed to a zero on the right-hand side of the governing equations instatics, so the first direction of particle dynamics was to include a -ma term on the left side ofdynamics equations so that the right-hand zero could be retained. Although sometimes

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

Design classes. The students expressed an understandingand appreciation for the concept, endorsing the additional learning opportunity provided. Thispaper covers the details associated with the concept inception, development, implementation, andstudent responses of using After Action Reports as a method to extend the learning capabilitiesof an examination.IntroductionExams are usually the basis to evaluate how well students learned course material. The value ofexams as a learning tool has always been questioned. Some courses use papers or projects as thebasis for evaluation instead. These methods possess the advantage of directing the attention ofstudents to their writing but have the disadvantage of providing the instructor with noopportunity

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Knight

includes experiments related to refrigeration,heat exchangers, thermal conduction, transient heat transfer, internal combustion engines,combustion and emission controls for boilers, linear vibrations, dynamics balancing of rotatingshafts, kinematics of motion for piston-cams, and spring dynamics. The design project is anincubator for developing similar modern lab systems for other programs in the College ofEngineering. Some of the new labs are operated ON-LINE using the Internet to demonstrate thefull capabilities of modern computer based experimentation. LabVIEW is used for dataacquisition, analysis, presentation, and control. The paper will describe (1) new curriculumconsiderations, (2) modern laboratory features used including running ON-LINE

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Grant; Ronald Welch

Session 2625 Implementing a Historically Constrained Student Design-Build Project in an Austere Environment LTC Ronald W. Welch 1LT Kevin Grant United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a one-semester design-build capstone project in which three senior civilengineering (CE) students designed and built two timber pedestrian bridges at an extremelychallenging, remote site. Design and construction was completed as part of a course within theABET-accredited CE program at the U.S. Military Academy

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Smyer; L. R. Johnson

Session 2525 IE Capstone Design Course with IE and ME Team Collaboration W. N. Smyer, E. W. Jones, and L. R. Johnson Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an overview of the capstone design course in Industrial Engineering atMississippi State University, a required course for the Bachelor of Science degree in IndustrialEngineering. In the course, students are formed into project teams, each of which selects onemanufactured product to analyze as part of a comprehensive venture analysis.The unusual aspect of this course, and the focus of this paper, is the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

computer language, usually FORTRAN. The students would be introducedto it during their sophomore year. Now, students can use personal computers with easy to usegeneric applications in their freshman year. The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, todiscuss the philosophical considerations that guided the decisions the author made relative tocomputer tool usage in three sophomore-level engineering mechanics classes; statics, dynamics,and strength of materials. Second, discuss the tools integrated into the strength of materials anddynamics courses. Third, discuss insight that the author gained during that integration.II. Philosophical ConcernsThe author believes that there are three basic philosophical considerations affecting aninstructor’s

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Georg Mauer

Session 1566 An Interactive Visual Environment for Scientific Problem Solving Georg F. Mauer University of Nevada, Las VegasAbstractScience and engineering students do not typically receive explicit training in scientific problemsolving, i.e. applying science principles to specific situations. Students’ problem solving skills oftenshow little improvement throughout their course of studies.This paper describes a structured, graphical, interactive (GUI) learning environment, whichpresents problems and tools for analysis in systematic and logical order, and encourages

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peng Li, East Carolina University; John M. Jones, East Carolina University; Kris Kareem Augustus, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

only lectures, but also hands-on labs remotely. Traditionally,online courses were heavily weighted towards lecture and paper assessments; this was justifieddue to lab hardware cost, lab availability, and inability to objectively measure student labperformance. While cost remains a factor in any course with a lab component, implementing newtechnologies such as virtualization and cloud computing has mitigated and in some casescompletely removed ancillary lab issues. Different virtual lab approaches, centralized ordecentralized, have been tested or implemented in many educational institutions1,2,3,4. Previousstudies usually focused on a single system, for example, how VirtualBox was used in a particularcourse. In the Information and Computer

Conference Session

Design Education II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos; William A. Stapleton, Texas State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, ACM, and ISCA. His areas of research include computer architec- ture, especially embedded computing architecture, sensors and sensor networks, parallel and distributed computing, and image processing. He has also published on engineering pedagogy including the IEEE Education Society 2009 Best Transactions Paper. Dr. Stapleton was part of the team which created the Computer Engineering program at the University of South Alabama and led its initial accreditation in 1999 to become the first engineering program in the state of Alabama to be accredited under the ABET EC2000 criteria. Dr. Stapleton was the first faculty member of the Electrical Engineering program at Texas State University

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John C. Bedward, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Lauren Madden, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

research education, scientific and technical visualization, multimodal literacy, learning objects and cognition.Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University ERIC N. WIEBE, Ph.D. Dr. Wiebe is an Associate Professor in the Department of STEM Education at NC State University and Senior Research Fellow at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. A focus of his research and outreach work has been the integration of multimedia and multimodal teaching and learning approaches in STEM instruction. He has also worked on research and evaluation of technology integration in instructional settings in both secondary and post-secondary education. Dr. Wiebe has been a member of ASEE since 1989.Lauren Madden, North Carolina

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

AC 2011-1548: METRICS OF MARGINALITY: HOW STUDIES OF MI-NORITY SELF-EFFICACY HIDE STRUCTURAL INEQUITIESAmy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng.) Amy E. Slaton is an associate professor of history at Drexel University and a visiting associate professor at Haverford College. She received her PhD in the History and Sociology of Science from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania and has written on the history of standards and instrumentation in materials science, engineering and the building trades. Her most recent book , Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineer- ing: The History of an Occupational Color Line (Harvard University Press, 2010), traces American ideas about race and technical aptitude since 1940. Current

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne E. Whiteman, Georgia Institute of Technology; William J. Wepfer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Ph.D. students tocomplete a Teaching Practicum course during their doctoral studies. Students work closely withfaculty mentors in teaching a course. While the focus of the class is on pedagogy, the goal is forstudents to find the experience useful regardless of whether they are going into academia,industry, a research laboratory, or other career pursuits. In addition to issues dealing withteaching engineering, sessions are organized for career planning, success in both academia andindustry, ethics, and basic counseling and mentoring skills. This paper is a study of theeffectiveness of the Teaching Practicum experience. Survey responses are analyzed from nearly100 Ph.D. alumni for the period from the summer of 1996 to the spring of 2009. The

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffery S. Thomas, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Richard H. Hall, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Timothy A. Philpot, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Douglas R. Carroll, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Mechanics

AC 2011-1910: THE EFFECT OF ON-LINE VIDEOS ON LEARNER OUT-COMES IN A MECHANICS OF MATERIALS COURSEJeffery S. Thomas, Missouri University of Science and Technology Jeffery Thomas is an assistant teaching professor in the department of Civil, Architectural and Environ- mental Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO. He received a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from Missouri S&T. He is a licensed professional engineer. His technical interests are in mechanical characterization, construction, and the influence of force on biological systems. His artistic interests are in music.Richard H Hall, Missouri University of Science &

Conference Session

New Faculty Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahesh Aggarwal, Gannon University; Karinna M Vernaza, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. Requirements for teaching and service may vary from university to university but theyare very similar in most of the aspects. This paper presents the typical requirements at GannonUniversity, Erie, PA in each of the above mentioned areas. A comparison will also be made withsix others teaching-based institutions. Requirements at Gannon University have changed over theyears from no scholarship requirements before the 1980s to significant scholarly activityrequirements today. Faculty members rely on student evaluations conducted at the end of eachsemester and once a year peer evaluation to satisfy teaching requirements. At GannonUniversity, the Boyer’s model of scholarship was adopted around 2000 to satisfy scholarshiprequirements.New faculty starting

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rana Mitra, Southeastern Louisiana University; Maarij M Syed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

or a second major. This paper describes how experiments havebeen taken outside of the laboratory and into real word situations for a few specific courses. Two arefreshman physics courses at RHIT, and the others are engineering mechanics courses at SELU. Theexperience gained from this initial effort will be used to expand the scope of this effort to other physicscourses in RHIT and to other physics-oriented courses in the Engineering Technology program at SELU.Expand the boundaries of the laboratory classroomsWe have incorporated a number of experiments in solid mechanics, which are to be performed outsideof the laboratory rooms, and in a real-world setting. The expectation is that if a considerable portion offundamental physics principles

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia M. Wigal, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Tim MeGhee, Chattanooga State Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

, and physicsrequirements and a few major specific courses (Circuits I, Statics, Dynamics for example) thatare necessary for the student to progress at the Junior level once the A.S. degree is obtained.However, due to the general education requirements of the A.S. degree, it is not possible toinclude all required sophomore level engineering courses in the agreement. Thus theseagreements have only been accepted by the 4-year programs with the promise that they includenotes suggesting the student complete other courses prior to entering the 4-year institution.However, there is another solution. This paper presents an A.A.S degree that does not have thesame general education completion requirements. Chattanooga State Community College andthe

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Neubert, University of North Dakota; Deborah Worley, University of North Dakota; Naima Kaabouch, Electrical Engineering Department, University of North Dakota

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

real world engineering problems. Moreover, theprogram aims to strengthen students’ commitment to their chosen academic department and helpthem to feel as if they belong to a community. The presented program uses a novel method todeliver the engineering content without the need for significant institutional change. This willallow it to be easily adopted by other institutions.This paper describes a plan to use modules and mentors as a vehicle to deliver engineeringcontent to engineering students in calculus. The modules will be composed of a series of selfcontained engineering problems that highlight important calculus concepts. Students will meetin small groups to discuss the modules. The group discussion will be facilitated by upper

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanna Long, Ph.D., Missouri University of Science & Technology; Hector J. Carlo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Scott E. Grasman, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University - Pueblo; Laura J Collins, Center for Research and Learning

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NSF Grantees

experience in program evaluation and research, as well expertise in education. Throughout her tenure at the University of Washington and as an independent consultant, she has worked diligently to connect program evaluation with improved practice. Page 22.1633.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Retrospective Assessment to Measure Levels of Student and Faculty Engagement in the Development of Sustainability Supply Chain and Facility Logistics CurriculumAbstractThis paper details the use of retrospective assessment by a multi-institutional partnership

Conference Session

FPD I: Research on First-year Programs Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto; Susan McCahan, University of Toronto

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First-Year Programs

. Specifically, to findinaccessible vocabulary we are going to find words that are course-specific and then, in futurework, take the complement as a possible source of inaccessible vocabulary. This is to ensure weare not inadvertently labeling course-specific words as being inaccessible. This paper focuses onthis specific aspect of the larger study on inaccessible language. In particular we find thatliterature from the field of linguistics, computer science, computational linguistics, highereducation and even some work from culture studies suggest tools for this type of work. Whilethere are some limited corpora of vocabulary that are discipline specific, our intention is toestablish a dataset using language relevant to engineering education at a typical

Conference Session

Instrumentation Applications

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trieu V. Phung, University of Houston, Downtown; Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

experience includes management and technical positions. He is a member of AIChE. Page 25.387.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Design and Control of a Twin Tank Water ProcessAbstractThe paper is concerned with the design of a twin tank water process and experimental evaluationof feedback and cascade control structures to achieve a desired water level in the second tank byadjusting the water supply to the first tank (feedback only structure) and the water level setpointof the first tank (feedback/cascade structure). Detailed, first principles-based, dynamic modelsof this

Conference Session

First-year Programs Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifford A. Whitfield, Ohio State University; Dustin W. West, Ohio State University; Lowell Toms P.E., Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

kind, and have received national attention.In order to assess this objective, a recent study was conducted using student team-based surveyson a weekly basis throughout the design for each cornerstone project offered in EEIC. Basedfrom the lessons-learned from the student team-based survey, this paper addresses bridging thegap between the traditional material, specifically problem solving with computer programming,and the Advanced Energy Vehicle (AEV) cornerstone project with the use of Matlab's graphicaluser interface design environment (GUIDE). The paper provides a detailed discussion of theAEV project; project layout and deliverables; reasons and motivations for developing a designproject software tool for the students to develop and use

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students - Diversity and Assessment

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvanus N. Wosu, University of Pittsburgh; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

the ever-increasing diversity in the U.S., expected large-scaleretirements from the STEM disciplines, and the need to ensure a stable future STEM workforceto maintain U.S. competitiveness in science and engineering. Nelson and Rogers write, “Ifsignificant progress is to be made within the next couple of decades, new and totally differentapproaches to solving problems facing women and minority faculty will be needed.13”This paper presents a comprehensive multi-dimensional approach to addressing the above three-body pipeline problem that result in low production of URM PhD and under-representation ofURM faculty in STEM. The model premise is that multi-campus recruiting pipeline, graduatementoring, retention system, and institutional receptivity

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects and Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benito Flores, Universidad de Monterrey

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-5573: A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CAPSTONE COURSE THATMAKES A DIFFERENCEDr. Benito Flores, Universidad de Monterrey Page 25.114.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CAPSTONE COURSE THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCEAbstractThis paper describes how a Capstone Course in the area of Systems Engineering andEngineering Management resulted in a very positive and productive learning experience forthe students enrolled in a particular Engineering baccalaureate program. Research shows thatpractical capstone courses are linked to high levels of student engagement resulting inimproved

Conference Session

Innovative Learning, Comparative Learning Analysis, and Lessons Learned

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz, University of Hartford; Hisham Alnajjar, University of Hartford; Azizurahman Azimi, Herat University

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International

paper or a report is not easy for someone who is not well versed in English. International graduate students typically have hard time doing so. We had a professor who was assigned to help students in all of their technical writing. This was extremely helpful to all and eliminated tremendous frustration on the part of students. • Acknowledgment by the institution as a whole: during our spring commencement, the Page 25.125.7 president of our institution publicly recognized the “student-faculty” and acknowledged their future roles in rebuilding the higher education system in and

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail Hohner, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Jennifer Wegner, University of Michigan; Moses K. Lee, University of Michigan; Amy Frances Goldstein, University of Michigan

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Design in Engineering Education

SciencesUndecided 4 16Home LocationIn State 58 61Out of State 42 39peer mentorsAn important component of the program was the use of upper-class undergraduate and graduatestudents to serve as peer mentors assigned to a small participant group. The peer mentors serveas guides for the first-year students throughout the program, foster a collaborative learningenvironment and provide technical support when necessary. Twenty-five current students wererecruited by reaching out through the Multidisciplinary Design Program, Center forEntrepreneurship and Engineering student organizations and encouraging them to

Conference Session

Mechanics Concepts II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University

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Mechanics

AC 2012-4322: THE DESIGN COMPETITION AS A TOOL FOR TEACH-ING STATICSDr. Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University Page 25.1283.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Design Competition as a Tool for Teaching Statics.1. IntroductionThis paper describes ongoing efforts at Syracuse University to re-engineer the traditionalstatics course. This course forms part of a larger NSF funded project aimed at increasinginnovation and creativity in engineering curricula. The principal aim of the overallproject is to find strategies to foster and reward creativity in engineering students.This study examines a design

Conference Session

Using Computers, Software, and Writing to Improve Mathematical Understanding

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bipin K. Pai, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

walls, 1986-1987; and the United States Air Force Summer Faculty Research Award, Edwards Air Force Base, California, to work on experimental and theoretical analysis of the fracture behavior of a composite solid rocket propellant, Summer 1989. He holds current membership in professional organizations the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education. He has been awarded travel grants to present a research paper at the Fourth International Congress of Biorheology, Jikei University, Tokyo, Japan; expenses covered in part by an invited lecture travel grant from the In- ternational Congress of Biorheology and in part by a Purdue XL International Travel Grant, 1981; the

Conference Session

Design Tools and Methodology I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego

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Design in Engineering Education

"heads-up" on how they are doing and provided direction on how toimprove their team performance. In addition the intermediate tool can identify potential teamproblems before they erupt, and thus direct faculty and TA intervention effectively. This paperpresents a web-based peer review tool[2] that was developed independently at UCSD atapproximately the same time that the CATME tool was developed. Parallel development canlead to alternative approaches, and in this paper we highlight the differences between the toolsand some of the advantages of these features.UCSD Peer Review ToolBoth the UCSD Peer Review tool and CATME tool have an on-line login that connects thestudent to their team for assessment. A database connects identifies the student's