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ELD Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kiem-Dung Ta; Helen Clements; Kevin Drees

Creating a Library Instruction Session for a Technical Writing Course Composed of Engineering and Non-Engineering Students Kevin P. Drees, Kiem-Dung Ta, and Helen Peeler Clements Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractThis paper provides a framework of ideas for librarians and technical writing instructorsinterested in developing library instruction programs to enhance students’ performance intechnical writing courses. A new library instruction program for ENGL 3323: Technical Writingaddresses a concern of engineering faculty that engineering students, the largest studentpopulation enrolled in this course, are not locating the high quality resources needed to round outthe

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Don Millard

dynamic and compelling media to re-engage and inspiretoday’s adolescents. General Electric (GE) had recognized the potential for capturing the interest “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”of K-12 students in the 1940’s and 1950’s through the creation and distribution of technologyoriented comic books (as depicted in figure 1 below). Figure 1 - Sample Pages from GE Comic Book #1Comic books have historically been banned in K-12 environments, viewed by the administrationas diversions that students would be reading during a teacher’s instruction. Now comic books areviewed as an

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Mingle; Tom Roberts

Session 1351 ORGANIZING THE DEPARTMENT FOR GENERATIONAL TEACHING & LEARNING OF ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE John O. Mingle, Ph.D., J.D., Tom C. Roberts, P.E. Kansas State UniversityAbstractModern times mean the cybernetic revolution, which is composed of the latent information age,the rising knowledge age, and the future wisdom age. These changes will make current engi-neers trained only in information obsolete – replaced by computers. Therefore, to prepare engi-neers for the future, engineering faculty must master knowledge teaching.Students will be members of the

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Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Saleh Sbenaty

Session 3249 Using Mind Mapping in Technical Education Saleh M. Sbenaty, Ph.D. Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractThe main objective of this paper is to introduce the concept of “Mind Mapping” and explore itsapplication in technical education. The author has used the concept in his course, Introduction toElectricity and Electronics, and the preliminary results are reported here. The on going study willreveal additional results of which further analysis will be performed and reported in the future.The objective of the study is to verify the conviction

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Wills; Mihaly Lenart; Peter Tarjan

-neurship ranging from a search for projects with commercial potential, project selection, productspecification, technical plan, market research, business planning and prototype developmentfollowed by testing. Twenty projects have been worked on. Each student participates for at leasttwo semesters, but some projects continued beyond that point. The majority of the participantsare seniors; the team project is equivalent to the otherwise mandatory senior design project orcapstone project required for accreditation. Juniors and graduate students have also partici-pated with mostly senior teammates.Common problems encountered and potential solutions:1. Fear of open-ended problems leading to initial paralysis. Generate outlines of multiple

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NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Vollaro

Page 10.1485.1their knowledge of these concepts and an appreciation of the role and importance of materialselection in product design through an independent literature investigation, comprised of a “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”written report and participation in the “Annual Materials Science Poster Session”, where thestudents present their work, both orally and in the visual medium of technical poster. The benefitof this classroom experience to students happens in several ways including: 1) the learning thatoccurs through the student’s preparation of exhibits (i.e., posters), 2) the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Shana Smith

1526 Using Virtual Reality Tools in Design and Technical Graphics Curricula: An Experience in Learning Shana Smith1, Kay Taylor2, Travis Green3, Neil Peterson4, Cynthia Garrety1 1 Iowa State University 2 State University of New York, SUNY Fredonia 3 Des Moines Area Community College 4 Iowa Central Community CollegeIntroduction Three-dimensional visualization ability

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Mathematics Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

AC 2005-1349: GUIDED TOUR OF GENERALIZED FUNCTIONS IN SIGNALPROCESSINGJohn Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch Page 10.679.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Session #### Guided Tour of Generalized Functions in Signal Processing 1 John Schmeelk Department of Mathematical Sciences Virginia Commonwealth University Doha, QatarAbstractThe paper considers generalized functions as a necessary ingredient in various

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Morgan; Beverly Davis

have high personal expectations to meetgoals and develop unrealistic expectations to achieve those goals. They tend to enjoycollaboration and are technically-savvy. The Millennials value opportunities formentoring and building on their skills.In addition, this generation requires more direct “cut to the chase” communications styleand enjoy participating in major organizational decisions as much as possible [3]. TheMillennial generation grew up in an era of unpredictable changes (extreme technologicaladvances, schoolyard violence, multiculturalism), so they have a need to change andadapt for survival [6].How will an educator translate this generational profile to the classroom and attract thesestudents to engineering and science careers? The

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Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Coleman; Hisham Alnajjar; Hesham Elsaghir; Alan Hadad; Donald Leone

. At a weekly scheduled time and place, thestudents asembled to listen to a 1 hour pre-recorded (with audio) PowerPoint lecture. The lecturewas followed by a 15 minute chat session, featuring live audio/video, to answer questions andclarify concepts. Homework and laboratory reports were completed by the students outside theclass room, on their own time, and submitted to the instructor via e-mail, graded and returned thesame way. Blackboard, e-mail, and the telephone were used as communication devices. Analysis of homework and lab grades indicates that 3 out of 4 course objectives (seefigure 1) were comfortably met. Grades associated with the fourth objective, involving a termproject, showed that the attainment of objective 4 was

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International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Margaret Pinnell; Carl Eger

to provide some revenue to the School of Engineering through tuition dollarswhich could be used to help pay for faculty and graduate student facilitation of the internshippreparation sessions. The EGR 330, Engineering Design and Appropriate course was offered for the first timein the winter 2004 semester. The course structure is summarized in Table 1. Table 1. Course Topics and Schedule Winter Semester Topic Number of Meetings Introduction and General Information 1 Appropriate Technology

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

. Page 10.1304.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationStudent Recruitment — Finding a five-hour scheduling block that fits into the schedule ofupper-class students from various college disciplines is challenging. At our college, we foundthat all times when K-12 schools are in session conflict with required junior-level courses inseveral of our disciplines. Students are frustrated by this, as are the instructors.College Buy-In — The course was approved by the college-wide curriculum review committeeas a 4000-level, general engineering technical elective after its pilot offering. And, the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Alley; Jenny Lo; Bevlee Watford

Session 1526 Promoting Undergraduate Research by Creating a Research Option in a Technical Communication Course: Initial Project Phase* Michael Alley, Jenny Lo, and Bevlee Watford Engineering Education Department Virginia TechAbstract Although many institutions such as the National Science Foundation, the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science, and the National Research Council have called formore undergraduate research, incorporating significant research experiences into undergraduateengineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Ollis

paperdescribes the process of creating the lecture and lab materials for the new technologyliteracy course, teaching the pilot course in fall 2004, and plans for a second semesteroffering in spring of 2005.Spring results will be reported at the June 2005 ASEE meeting.Formatting the Course In more detail, we have developed a two lecture and single lab per week formatwith the following characteristics: Lecture 1: CONTEXT: define the historical origin and technical evolution of priordevices which served the same or related functions (e.g, for digital camera, survey optics,drawing, camera obscura, Daguerrotype, black and white film, Kodak and the personal(Brownie) camera, color film, Polaroid camera/film, and video camera). Lecture 2

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Judith Collins; Alysia Starkey; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh

1 Technical Writing as a Site for Assessing Information Literacy Judith Collins, Ph. D., Alysia Starkey, M.L.S., Beverlee Kissick, Ph.D., Jung Oh, Ph.D. Kansas State University-SalinaThis paper describes indirect measures of significant gains in Information Literacy at KansasState University-Salina’s College of Technology and Aviation, as indicated by an annual librarysurvey of users. The gains were achieved by faculty in technical writing (English) and librariansseeking to assess information literacy in a 300-level technical writing course for

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Carol Hasenberg

ethical issues and social responsibility, and anappreciation of diversity. University Studies is a four-year general education program offeringFreshman and Sophomore Inquiry sequences, junior level Cluster Courses that help studentsfocus on a particular theme of inquiry, as well as the Senior Capstone project. The FreshmanInquiry sequence (FRINQ) is the introduction to University Studies in a 5-credit-per-term, 3-term sequence.A FRINQ course features moderate-sized main session with a maximum of 36 students plussmaller mentor sections of about 12 students headed by an undergraduate student mentorspecially chosen for their intellectual and social skills. Design & Society is one of 9 themes

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Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Pangborn; Renata Engel

Session 3461 An Objectives-Based Approach to Assessment of General Education Lori J. Bechtel, Suzanne Light Cross, Renata S. Engel, Ronald L. Filippelli, Arthur L. Glenn, John T. Harwood, Robert N. Pangborn, and Barbara L. Welshofer Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the development of an innovative strategy to assess how students andfaculty perceive and accomplish the objectives of general education at Penn State. TheUniversity’s general education curriculum is intended to achieve a number of educational goals,including

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Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Ochs

June 2005 ASEE Conference Session 1410 Implementing Technical Entrepreneurship as a Required Junior Course for all Students at Northwestern Lehigh High SchoolBryan Klass Leah ChristmanFutures II Instructor Instructional Technology FacilitatorNorthwestern Lehigh High School Northwestern Lehigh School DistrictJohn B OchsProfessor and Director of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) ProgramLehigh University AbstractFutures II is a multidisciplinary, standards based, technology enabled graduationrequirement for all eleventh graders at Northwestern Lehigh High

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Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Askew; Cari-Sue Wilmot; Colley Hodges; Richard Bannerot

Session 1661 Teaching Technical Communications in an Introductory Design Course through Interventions from the University’s Writing Center Colley Hodges, Cari-Sue Wilmot, Robert Askew, Richard Bannerot University of Houston Writing Center/Dept. of Mechanical EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the continuing and evolving relationship between the Writing in theDiscipline Program in the University of Houston Writing Center and the Cullen College ofEngineering. This specific project is an intervention into a sophomore design course inmechanical engineering that took place for the first

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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Adam El-Mansouri; Kevin Buck; Herbert Hess

Session: 2220 Technical Aspects of Creating and Assessing a Learning Environment in Digital Electronics for High School Students Adam S. El-Mansouri, Herbert L. Hess, Kevin M. Buck, Timothy Ewers Microelectronics Research and Communications Institute Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Idaho Moscow, IdahoAbstract To develop an interest and an understanding of digital electronics for high schoolstudents, we have created digital electronic projects using a Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA). The approach is module-based

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Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lisa McNair; Ben Miller; Judith Norback

Session 1009 Integrating Discipline-Specific Communication Instruction based on Workforce Data into Technical Communication Courses* Lisa DuPree McNair, Judith Shaul Norback, Ben Miller School of Literature, Communication and Culture/ School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractBecause of Georgia Tech’s collaboration between the School of Literature, Communication, andCulture (LCC), College of Computing (CoC), and Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)departments, our

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

our profession. Overall, one can easily see that the future of ourdiscipline looks bright and that we are stronger than ever as we move forward in a centurythat can be termed as the “visual age.”V. ReferencesBraverman, M.T., & Slater, J.K. (Eds.). (1996). Advances in survey research. San Francisco;Jossey-Bass.Clark, A. C., & Scales, A. Y. (2000). A study of current trends and issues related totechnical/ engineering design graphics. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 63 (1), 24-34.Clark, A. C., & Scales, A. Y. (1999). A barometer for engineering and technical graphicseducation. Published Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference and Exposition, Charlotte, NC, Session 2438.Kearns, C. (Ed

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Radha Balamuralikrishna; Clifford Mirman

GRAPHICS TECH EL142 TECHNICAL GRAPHICS TECH EL150 INTERPRETATION OF INDUS DRAWINGS TECH EL211 INDUSTRIAL ORG AND OPERATION TECH EL220 MECHANISMS (220 + 221) TECH 214221 MACHINE DESIGN (221 + 220) TECH 214Figure 1. Extract from a course articulation tableExamining the issue of student transfer from the 2-year to 4-year institution is a very complexarea 8,9,10 and included in this issue is the transfer of the freshman level technical graphicsexperience. The topic of both programmatic and course to course transfer, or articulation, variesfrom institution to institution and state to state. In general, the educational missions of the

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Forsman

Session 3438 Reverse Engineering and Rapid Prototyping: A Senior Level Technical Elective for Mechanical Engineering Technology Students and Much More. David R. Forsman Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractStudents in the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program at Penn State Erie, theBehrend College are highly versed in application oriented computer techniques for problemsolving. Nine years ago, a senior level technical elective was developed that would allowstudents with an interest in CAD modeling and design extending beyond

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BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Warren; Jason Yao

blood layer, respectively, in units of cm-1.The heart’s pumping action generates arterial pulsations that result in relative changes in arterialblood volume, represented by dA, which adds an “ac” component to the detected intensity: ( )( )( ) dI t = − I 0 µ aa e − µ atT e − µ avV e − µ aa A dA Page 10.1138.2 (2) Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Kang-Mieler

challenged-based learning techniques and ABET criteria, the BME 315Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory class introduces students to various measurementtechniques applicable to all three concentrations at IIT. This class is junior-level class and is thefirst of four core BME laboratory classes. The educational goals of this class are (1) to identifyproblems and design experiments to test the issue specific hypotheses, (2) to understand and beable to perform data collection and analysis, including error analysis, and (3) to present results inboth oral and written form following general technical conference presentation and journalarticle format. Building from the BME 315 Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory class,the students will

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Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Kozak

Session 3549 So You Have A Presentation?! Michael R. Kozak University of North TexasThere are not boring topics, only boring presentations. The effective communication of ideas isas important as the idea itself.1 A presentation is a one-shot attempt to make a point, a salespitch that promotes an idea, proposition, position, organization or product. 2,3 Effectivecommunication: • transfers vital information • provides a basis for judging your knowledge • conveys your interest and competence • increases the knowledge of others

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein

the next phase. Expected duration and effort required for eachphase are also estimated in Table 1. This course design parallels many other capstone programsacross the country4,5 and follows the methodology advocated by popular design textbooks6,7,8,9,10.Our local implementation has evolved over the last ten years to align better with our designinfrastructure and ABET learning outcomes11,12,13. The recently expanded class format hasunderscored the need to measure design quality early in the design process and provide feedbackto design teams about what technical issues should be given top priority.Our experience monitoring the progress of more than 100 year-long capstone projects at theUniversity of Idaho is that a traditional “problem

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zafer Gurdal; Jan Hol; Gillian Saunders-Smits

: There are several engineering software tools in the marketplace such as Matlab, Excel,Macsyma, that can do many of the features of Mathematica, but historically Mathematica is theone that can handle all of them in a unified fashion. By combining the text and equationbuilding features, entire technical manuscripts such as engineering papers and books can beprepared within the “notebook” environment. This feature will allow preparation of highlystructured technical documents that can be read by the students electronically on the web or afterprinting at their own leisure. For example, a sample notebook for the design of a staticallydeterminate truss structure is shown in Figure 1. What is shown in the figure is the outline of thefile, with two

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mei-yi Lau; Ming-yin Chan

American Society for Engineering Education, Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education” Moreover, it also provides learning situation for students to work among others inwhere students are highly possible to produce a sense of self-awareness for interpersonalskills. In other words, not only the technical skills, but also other generic skills like cognitive,behavioural, language and communication skills are embedded in the learning process so thatstudents are expected to achieve a wide range and diversity of skills in order to becomeprofessional in their vocational development. Gibson [2] made a further attempt to break down this concept like ‘able’ or