Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

and learning and issues ofsocial structure and power and so on.18 But whichever way you approach it, there remains a richdiscourse in pedagogy and associated areas that engineering educators, as a community, are Page 8.439.4currently only on the periphery of.“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Uncritical InnovationFaculty accept as a given that when embarking on a new research project or investigation or forthat matter a new engineering project, you should find out what is already

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nihat Gurmen; John J. Lucas; Dean R. Malmgren; H. Scott Fogler

this project is provided by NSF (Grant: DUE-0126497). Page 8.669.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Fogler, H. S., and S. E. LeBlanc, “Strategies for Creative Problem Solving”, Prentice Hall PTR, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (1995).2. Kepner, C. H., and B. B. Tregoe, “The New Rational Manager”, Princeton Research Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1981).3. Woods, D.R., “A Strategy for Problem Solving”, 3rd ed., Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwell students learned course material. The value of exams as a learning tool has always beenquestioned. Some courses use papers or projects as the basis for evaluation instead.These methods possess the advantage of directing the attention of students to their writing buthave the disadvantage of providing the instructor with no opportunity to evaluate how well thestudents mastered the basic ideas and skills being taught. (2)In lecture based courses it is even more difficult to replace exams with other means of evaluationespecially when the course is problem solving in nature. Therefore exams

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Polly Piergiovanni

://www.agresearch.cri.nz/scied/search/biotech/trad_ceese03.htmPOLLY R. PIERGIOVANNIPolly Piergiovanni is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lafayette College. She received a B.S.from Kansas State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston, both in Chemical Engineering. Herresearch interests include cell culture and fermentation , and the LEGO project. Page 8.1015.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Coral Nocton; Ismail Fidan

SAEJournal of Manufacturing and Materials. Dr. Fidan is the recipient of 2003 Tennessee Tech University ExemplaryCourse Project Award, 2003 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2002 Provost 'Utilization ofTechnology in Instruction' Award, 2002 Technology Award by The Institute for Technological Scholarship, 2001NAIT Outstanding Professor Award. His teaching and research interests are computer integrated design andmanufacturing, electronics manufacturing, and manufacturing processes.CORAL NOCTONMiss Coral Nocton is the president of the Tennessee Technological University’s Society of ManufacturingEngineers student chapter. Keeping her plate full, she is also the Chair of Engineering Week for the EngineeringJoint Council. During the 2000

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi

weeks of tutorials and practice problems, the students weregiven a final project in which they selected a computer-based design problem from the SystemDynamics and Controls textbook used in the lecture-based course. Such problems are nottraditionally assigned in a lecture-based course, due to their broad scope and time restrictions.Thus, faculty saw as a good opportunity to use such problems as the basis for a longer-termproject. Student groups were given a list of selected problems from a wide range of applicationsand asked to select their top three choices. Faculty then assigned the problems such that eachgroup was working on a different problem. Three weeks of laboratory sessions were reserved forthe students to work on the problems and

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yusong Li; Eugene J. LeBoeuf

communicates results back to the database.After the completion of simulation, results in the form of tables and graphs are available as webpages displayed on user’s web browsers, including Excel (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond,Washington) tables and graphs. Input and Output Interfaces and Help and Tutorial systems areeach introduced in the following sections.Input Interfaces The objective of the input interface is to assist users in defining the mass transferproblem, followed by step-by-step instructions on data submission. A set of interactive inputinterface web pages are logically presented to lead users through the simulation process. Usersare provided the opportunity to input project descriptions, define the reactor configuration,determine

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

coverage of these important broader considerations, andthus to provide opportunities for broader ways of thinking in engineering education. Commonapproaches to teaching engineering design incorporate some of these ways through project-basedlearning, which finds instantiation in senior capstone design projects [6, 7], first-year cornerstonedesign projects [7], and service learning [7, 8]. Closely related, the Aalborg problem-based learning(PBL) model also focuses on contextualizing learning and problem-solving [9]. Litzinger et al.’s[10] discussion of expertise and engineering education emphasizes the importance of the “context-rich, multifaceted problems” commonly embedded in all of these approaches.Empirical research on engineering design

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raslinda Ghazali, Purdue University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies

students to develop team, communication,ethical reasoning, and societal and global contextual analysis skills. Therefore it issuggested that engineering schools focus more on outcome-based approaches bypromoting flexibility and creativity in student projects.2 In some ways, theserecommendations denote a growing emphasis on design and open-ended problem solvingas opposed to the traditional close-ended problems.To respond to these recommendations, it is crucial to prepare engineering GTAs toperform effectively in new and challenging learning environments. Since training isconsidered an important part of the GTA experience, it would be very beneficial tounderstand the training needs that can contribute to GTAs’ professional growth.Generally, there

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara L Christe, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Steven J. Yelton P.E., Cincinnati State Technical and Community College; Roger Bowles, Texas State Technical College, Waco

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Engineering Technology

harmonize academic programs. This extensive project will offer a set ofvoluntary guidelines that be used by institutions to develop course content and prepare studentsfor national certification. Combined with an overarching discipline name, hospital and industryemployers hope to better evaluate programs and graduates.1 Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). (2011). What is a BMET? Retrieved fromhttp://www.aami.org/resources/BMET/whatis.html2 ABET. (2012). Accredited Programs Search. Retrieved fromhttp://main.abet.org/aps/Accreditedprogramsearch.aspx3 ABET. (2012). ABET Member Societies. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/abet-member-societies/4 BMES. (2012). About BMES. Retrieved from http://www.bmes.org/aws/BMES/pt

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo A. Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert A. Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American

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Mechanical Engineering

becausethis project is in progress. The purpose of this work is to increase passing rates, reduce thenumber of students that drop, and increase the average grade of the students that pass Statics;consequently, improving retention of engineering students. The online assessments intend toengage students in solving problems about fundamental concepts throughout the semesterinvolving not only recently studied concepts but also integrating previously learned concepts topromote knowledge retention and emphasize its relevance in subsequent parts of the course.There is great satisfaction when students in Statics are able to analyze and solve a variety ofmachine, frame, and truss problems applying and integrating the fundamental concepts andprocedures they

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Potpourri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Patrick lee Kirby, Drexel University; Bailu Xu

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

concepts related tothermo-fluids and heat transfer areas.Course Development and ImprovementThermodynamics and Heat Transfer Laboratory is a three hour-credit junior to seniorundergraduate core curriculum course designed for all Engineering Technology (ET) students. Page 25.843.3Our ET program majors range from mechanical engineering technology, electrical engineeringtechnology, industrial engineering technology and biomedical engineering technology. Also, thiscourse is one of the main precursors of the capstone Senior Design course. The Senior Designencompasses a student-led team project that has as a main outcome demonstrating a workingprototype

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Pantaleev, State University of New York, Oswego; Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego; Carolina C. Ilie, State University of New York, Oswego

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Politehnica University of Timisoara, Timisoara, in 1992, and a M.E.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of the Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He was with the Applied Electrostatics Research Centre and the Digital Electronics Research Group, the University of Western Ontario, where he worked on industrial projects and taught. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, State University of New York at Oswego. Ieta is a member of Professional Engineers of Ontario.Dr. Carolina C. Ilie, State University of New York, Oswego

Conference Session

Engineering Education and Comparative Studies at Universities throughout Asia, Far East

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Ratnajeevan Herbert Hoole P.E., Michigan State University

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International

Kilinochchi were alienated by thegovernment for the faculty.It was the time when civil engineering was booming through river diversion projects in SriLanka and jobs in the Middle East and Africa. Thurairajah had come from an older era wherecivil engineering had large labs with models of fluid channels almost 40 m long. Accordinglyland had been allocated as recommended. But Thurairajah could not build up the faculty eventhen. Although the government approved the faculty with the assumption of protection from theIndian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), the Tamil Tiger rebels began an insurgency against theIPKF disrupting the region with a bloody secondary conflict.5 Thurairajah was wooing this writeron a visit to California in 1989 to come as a department

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Gregerson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sean Franey, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Educational Research and Methods

educationalprocess, including methods of classroom assessment.In their seminal book on the reasons students give for leaving STEM fields, Seymour and Hewittfound that engineering students cited a ‘curriculum overload’ and ‘overwhelming pace’ incourses as being key factors in the decision to switch majors for 45% of students surveyed [3].Workload-related complaints were the second most common reason for engineering students toleave their field and ranked significantly higher for engineers than for science and math majorswho cited it only 25% of the time.In engineering courses, the period of greatest overload often comes in the final weeks of thesemester, when students must wrestle with homework assignments, semester-long projects andresearch papers, and end

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Linsey, Texas A&M University; Christina White, Columbia University; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Kristin Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel Jensen, United States Air Force Academy

the workshop and the PHLIpS Method. Overall the workshop feedback was verypositive and avenues for improvement to the PHLIpS Method also resulted.IntroductionMany professor are aware that active learning is a more effective approach than traditionalengineering lecture courses1 but they often lack the tools and time necessary to implement activelearning in their classrooms. As part of an NSF CCLI Phase II project, completed in 2008, theauthors developed, tested, and validated active learning products in the specific domain ofengineering mechanics 2. Over 25 active learning products (ALPs) were created anddisseminated as part of this collaborative effort. In addition, a general and repeatable approachto developing the active learning products

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Castilleja, The Boeing Company; Rachel Jackson, Rice University; Natalia Salies, Rice University; Brent Houchens, Rice University

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Minorities in Engineering

pursue higher education and careers in theSTEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. Rice Universityundergraduate and graduate engineering students (mentors) volunteer weekly withunderrepresented high school students (mentees) at three Houston public schools to solve aspecified engineering design problem. The design project mechanism allows mentor/menteerelationships to form naturally, and thus opens up communication regarding college, financialaid, and futures in engineering. Perception and Environment Surveys (P.E.S.) are administered tothe mentees at the beginning and end of the DREAM program, each semester, in order to gaugementee knowledge of college admissions, financial aid, careers, and long-term earning

Conference Session

Spatial Ability and Visualization in Graphics Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick

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Engineering Design Graphics

hemisphere” visual attributes to reduce theinfluence of the symbolic “left hemisphere” [27].The ability of the cognitive architecture to retrieve information through “distalaccess” [26] of the symbol system, where the processing of one symbol evokes furtherprocessing of other symbolic structures, is significant in terms of teaching andlearning in technology education. The construction of a mechanism or pedagogicstructure to help students maintain, access and transform symbolic structures that arenot immediately driven by sensory input or motor output has significant implicationsand has the potential to transform teaching and learning in areas such as design,problem solving and communication graphics.MethodologyThe approach for this research project

Conference Session

Innovations in First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Hieb, University of Louisville; David Wheatley, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

overall critical thinkingprogram, how this relates to ABET outcomes, and the critical thinking goals of the Introductionto Engineering course. Section three describes the critical thinking instructional component ofthe Introduction to Engineering course, including changes made based on analysis of previousyears implementation. Some conclusions and future directions for the ENGR 100 course arediscussed in Section four.2. A critical thinking agenda for the School of Engineering.The i2a initiative is a broad and comprehensive multi-year plan to improve the overall criticalthinking abilities of students that spans general education courses, discipline specific courses,capstone projects, and community engagement1. Dr. Joe Hagerty, of the Civil

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betty Harper, Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; Alexander Yin, Penn State University; Patrick Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

highest degree offered (bachelor's, master's, or doctorate), andtwo levels of "type of control" (public or private). The total sample of 32 four-year colleges anduniversities was “pre-seeded” with nine pre-selected institutions. These included six case studyinstitutions that were participants in a companion project (Prototyping the Engineer of 2020: A360-degree Study of Effective Engineering Education23) and three institutions with generalengineering programs. Since one of the six case study institutions offers only a generalengineering degree, three institutions with general engineering programs were purposely selectedfor the sample. Penn State’s Survey Research Center selected 23 additional institutions atrandom from the population within the

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Management

decreases, our actual cost per hour increases. 8. We are on a true, Toyota Production System “Lean Journey,” which we began in July this year. We are at the midpoint of Phase 1, the first six months of an expected three-year project. So far we have made great strides considering the short time. If we achieve target of 15% cost and lead time reduction by the end of January our Lean consultant will be assigned the next phase in this Die Factory System. 9. Use of digital product definition and model based definition to drive the manufacturing process and inspection, development of automation to assist in readying models for manufacturing and entry into ERP system. 10. Many items have already

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Information Systems

method for publishing that could eventually generate rev-enues similar or greater than those for textbook authors without the need to locate a publisher anddo all related activities, such as promotion. It also eliminates the need to maintain page counts oradhere to traditional book formats. In simple terms it allows us to spend our time generating con-tent as academics, share it with people freely, but still generate income from our works. Page 15.67.7References1. Jack, H, “Engineer on a disk”, http://engineeronadisk.com2. MIT Open Course Ware, http://ocw.mit.edu3. Merlot Open Textbook Projects, http://taste.merlot.org/opentextbooks.html4

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bertram Pariser, Technical Career Institute, Inc.

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Two Year College Division

instrumental in merging Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society into the ASEE.In addition, Dr. Pariser Co-Founded 5 venture companies, and as a management consultantsuccessfully catalyzed over $100 million of new shareholder value in client businesses. Bert ledcross-functional client teams in projects to find and capture value-creating profit and growthopportunities. Bert received a PhD, MS from Columbia University and a BS from MIT inElectrical Engineering. bert.pariser@tcicollege.edu Page 15.852.10

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Satterfield, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Susan Heller-Zeisler, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

7the teachers, they area valuable resource as to what worked and what did not to encourage themto study science and engineering. Additionally, since SURF students are involved in researchwith NIST scientists they are often in the process of learning about how science is done and arereadily able and willing to explain what they are learning. SURF students who volunteer to meetone-on-one with the teachers are usually easily able to explain their project, demonstrate someexperiments, and show off their labs in ways some of the NIST scientists have long ago movedbeyond.When NIST staff (i.e. scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, etc.) and SURFstudents volunteer to participate in the NIST Summer Institute one-on-one visits they are

Conference Session

Alternate Energy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Santiago; Hazem Tawfik; Yeong Ryu; Kamel El-Khatib; Devinder Mahajan

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

ourfuture work.Impact in Engineering Technology EducationEmerging technologies such as those involving alternate forms of energy are expected to play amajor role in modern engineering technology curricula. The results presented in this paperinvolve expertise from multidisciplinary teams in our school of engineering technology; inparticular, technology of fuel cells, control systems, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, andsoftware applications. Major parts of this work were performed as student projects by the firstauthor who is a student in the school of engineering technology. Namely the student wasinvolved in setting up the fuel cell system, developing code for control algorithm and dataacquisition, and running the experiments at Brookhaven National

Conference Session

Curriculum in Telecommunications Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

sends critical information within thehospital premises. There is still wide scope future expansion of this project in the medicalfield. For example, other vital parameters of the patient such as blood pressure andtemperature can be sent remotely to the nurse desk or directly to the doctor’s computer tomonitor the patient’s health condition any time.Bibliography1. K.J. Ayala, “The 8051 Microcontroller “, 3rd Edition, Microcontrollers Pros Corporation, 2004.2. Single –Chip Low Cost Low Power RF Transceiver CC1100 Data Sheet, Texas Instruments, http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/cc1100.html, May 2009.3. Atmel AT89S8253 is an 8051 based Full Static CMOS controller Data Sheet, Atmel Corporation, http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

F. Carl Knopf, Louisiana State University; Kerry Dooley, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

(incomplete module) which writes measured and reconciled values on a figureembedded within the Excel file. Improved versions of the modules were utilized in Fall 2006,and the average solution time decreased to 5.9 hr. Most recently (2009), overall studentsatisfaction with the project was scored 4.8 in the Spring, and 4.9 in the Fall (0-5 scale). Theseare well above (by at least a full point) historical scores for a lab class at LSU. The experimenthas been independently evaluated by the LSU Cain Center for STEM Literacy and studentfeedback shows that this module is considered the best of all the junior lab experiments and theone most representative of an assignment for a beginning engineer.Junior Year (2nd Semester): In the second undergraduate

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Trainor, United States Military Academy; Daniel McCarthy, United States Military Academy; Michael Kwinn, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

(US Army) is an Academy Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has a B.S. degree from USMA in Organizational Leadership and an M.E. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. He also holds a PhD in Management Science (System Dynamics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include systems design, new product development, system dynamics, decision support systems, project management and curriculum development. He has taught and served as the course director for numerous engineering courses in Systems Design, System Dynamics and Production Operations Management. He

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

whatever we wanted; really to do whatever we wanted. So I joined Bell Laboratories. My department head said, “Steve, you can do whatever you want. It doesn’t even have to be physics. All we ask is that you don’t go to a high-energy accelerator and do high-energy physics, because that would be hard on the stockholders.” (My thesis project, and when I was working as a post-doc, addressed a high-energy physics problem.) He said, “And by the Page 15.1189.5 way, don’t do anything immediately. Spend six months. Talk to the peoplearound the labs, and just keep an open mind.” This was a devastating experiencefor me

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Richard Helps

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

curriculum development effortsonto the institutionally recognized reward system – typically published research and grants.The goals of this research project and report are more modest. They are to reliably evaluate some Page 15.1109.2current practices, using recognized educational theoretical bases so that the current situation canbe understood in an instructional design context and key indicators of the design process can beidentified and that methods of improvement can be based on a correct understanding of theinfluences at work in the process. A deeper understanding of what is happening will create afoundation upon which future designs or