Conference Session

Knowing Ourselves: Research on Engineering Education Researchers

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David F. Radcliffe, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Prashant Rajan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sadia Nawaz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Luo, Purdue University; Jea H. Choi, Purdue University; Ji Hyun Yu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

learning, engineering, the social sciences, and technology, particularly sus- tainability, designing open-ended problem/project-based learning environments, social computing/gaming applications for education, and problem solving in ill-structured/complex domains.Dr David F Radcliffe, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. David Radcliffe is the Kamyar Haghighi head and Epistemology Professor of Engineering Education in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue. His research focuses on the nature of engineering; engineering habits of mind, how engineering knowledge is created and shared and how it is learned especially outside the classroom. Over the past 20 years he has conducted field research on the practice of

Conference Session

Tablet PC use in Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leanna M. Horton, Virginia Tech; Kahyun Kim, Virginia Tech; Shreya Kothaneth, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

conveying improved theirunderstanding. For example, "It’s just easier visually when they can write something and it can be translated to their projector and they can write stuff actually you know, type it or draw a picture. It usually helps me seeing it, understand it a little bit better."Students also reported benefits of the Tablet PCs e-inking features for drawing diagrams andsharing them with other students. For example, “For civil engineering, if I am discussing how I am going to design a bridge for my design project, it’s really nice to be able to draw it out right there, and have it digital, so we can send it out to each other, and do it that way. Obviously, you can draw them on a paper, you know, it’s harder to make copies

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology and the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing; Wesley Francillon; Robert W. Simoneau, Keene State College

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Manufacturing

welding that is used to produce innovative next generation manufacturingproducts. (A) (B)Figure 6 - (A) 3D Laser Scanning of physical ski boot with three dimensional renderedimage on projection screen (B) Demonstration of the Rapid Prototyping machine andfinished productsExpo: Final POD- COT Program MarketingAfter students completed the Principle of Design tour for next generation manufacturing stations,at the statewide expos, they entered an academic recruiting area to specifically explore Collegeof Technology offerings in their Engineering Science and Technology Studies programs. Thisarea included faculty, students and admissions staff from all of the community

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research in K-12

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Dyehouse, Purdue University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brenda Capobianco, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

about their particular field of engineering focusing onthe actions of that particular kind of engineer, the resources that engineer uses, and the peoplethat interact with that engineer. A session on teamwork with emphasis on building a classroomcode of cooperation and a classroom agreed-upon set of rules of behavior for teaming activitieswas also included in this academy.Also in August 2009, a new group of 36 elementary (grade 2-4) teachers from the districtattended the week-long version of the academy. These teachers represented nine elementaryschools that applied, including five schools new to this project. This group of teachers had theopportunity to interact with the original 2008-09 group of teachers. The 2008-09 group

Conference Session

Status of CE Education: Today & Tomorrow

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Ressler, U.S. Military Academy; Daniel R. Lynch, Dartmouth College

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Civil Engineering

academic yearapply knowledge equivalent) in such areas as environmental of study beyond thein a specialized engineering, structural engineering, basic levelarea related to construction engineering and management, Ability to applycivil engineering public works management, transportation advanced level engineering and water resources management knowledge in a specialized area of engineering13. An Project management—project manager Explain basicunderstanding of responsibilities, defining and

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Riddell, Baker College, Flint; Anca L. Sala, Baker College; Tom Spendlove, Baker College, Flint

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Computers in Education

theeffectiveness of these media to achieve the goals stated, but we have observed informally howthe groups have grown since they were created two years ago. Assessment plans are in place forthe future, in the form of surveys to new and current students to gauge their reaction to thesegroups. We will also send alumni in the LinkedIn group the Program Educational Objectivessurvey we send to alumni as part of the ABET accreditation process. We would like to thank thereviewers for their valuable suggestions on how to continue developing this project. Page 22.1707.5References1. Don Tapscott, “Grown Up Digital”, McGraw-Hill, 2009.2. G., D. Baldwin, W. Worley, T

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel J. Waldorf, California Polytechnic State University; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University

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Computers in Education

the content once, with only updates needed during future course offerings.During class meeting times, the instructor leads the students in “working sessions” that mayinclude practice exercises, project work, or other hands-on learning. The instructor, as well ascomputers, textbooks, and the other students, are available as resources from which the studentsdraw to complete the assignment. Since assignments must be completed and submitted for gradeby the end of the class session, the students have an incentive to stay current and prepared interms of watching the on-line instruction content. Instead of preparing for a formal lecturesession, the instructor must simply be available during the working session to assist and coachthe students through

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention, and Diversity in Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael D. Rudisill, Northern Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

control centers,relay and control products and engineering services for industries and utilities nationwide as wellas for the Department of Defense.M.J. Electric (electrical contractor) specializes in electrical and instrumentation construction andmaintenance. M. J. Electric provides an experienced technical and professional managementteam capable of directing the electrical/instrumentation effort from project concept throughcompletion. M. J. Electric serves customers nationwide through these operating divisions:Industrial, Power & Controls Division, Utility Division and Program Management Organization.Several other entities operating in the electrical power sector also participate to includeOntonagan County Rural Electrification Association

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First-year Programs Division Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C.J. Egelhoff, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Susan Donner Bibeau, U.S. Coast Guard; K.L. Burns, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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First-Year Programs

Officer and the Construction Officer. In this latter capacity, she was the Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) as well as Civil Engineering Project Manager for the Academy’s $5.2 million dollar construction program. In 2003, she was selected for graduate school and attended the University of Texas, Austin where she earned a M.S.C.E with an emphasis on Construction Engineering and Project Management. In December 2004, she joined the USCGA faculty as an Instructor. During her time at the Academy, she has been the advisor for both the American Society of Civil Engineering and Society of American Military Engineers student chapters, a member of the SUPT Gender Policy Group, and worked with CGA Admissions

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Caitlin R. Thorn, U.S. Air Force Academy; Neal Barlow, U.S. Air Force Academy; Elaine M. Bryant, U.S. Air Force Academy

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students in the STEM disciplines, and also serves to encourage active learning inthe classroom environment.The United States Air Force Academy offers a Summer Seminar program in which prospectivestudents from around the country take part in numerous workshops to include the following eightSTEM disciplines: Aeronautics, Astronautics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science,Engineering Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry and Math. These workshops each provide a briefoverview of the respective subject as well as a hands-on project, demonstration, or activity toengage and stimulate student learning and apply their knowledge to real life applications.In the curriculum exchange and demonstration session, the curriculum/lesson plan of theDepartment of

Conference Session

Mini-Workshop on Bias in Faculty Searches

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Coleen Carrigan, University of Washington, ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change

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Women in Engineering

70-80 participants), and included multiple case studies thatincorporate gender equity elements. Detailed information on the LEAD program, resources, andmaterials is available on the project website (http://www.engr.washington.edu/lead/index.htm).Case studies are increasingly being used to empower chairs and deans with the knowledge andskills they need to effectively meet the demands of leadership (Buller 2006; Chu 2006;Higgerson and Joyce 2007; Jones 2006). The case study method allows participants tounderstand the complex phenomena contributing to the marginalization of underrepresentedgroups in the academy and still "retain the holistic and meaningful characteristics of real-lifeevents" (Yin 2003). Case studies are designed to synthesize

Conference Session

Sustainability, Diversity, and STEM in Contemporary Energy Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randy Dean Kelley, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown; Amy L. Miller, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown; Brandon Dooley, Heat Transfer Research, Inc.

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

capital costs associated with theseimprovements as well as their projected cost savings. Prior to inclusion into the master report, each team’s summary report should be peer Page 22.562.8reviewed by at least one other team and evaluated by the instructor. After the master report isassembled, the collective work should be presented to the students for review. The instructor isultimately responsible for the final technical review of the material prior to its delivery to themanufacturing facility. After the first master report is completed and submitted, the instructor may proceed withthe second and third site visits. The instructor

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Igel, Polytechnic Insititute of New York University; Ronald Leonel Poveda, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander, Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

scanners and other mobile devices in Holtsville, N.Y. His largely experimental research is focused on parametric studies of novel lightweight composites and simulations of functionally-graded materials under load.Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Re- mote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in cooperative control

Conference Session

Assessment Instruments

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gerlick, Pittsburg State University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Michael S. Trevisan, Washington State University; Shane A. Brown, Washington State University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2011-907: ESTABLISHING INTER-RATER AGREEMENT FOR TIDEE’STEAMWORK AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENTSRobert Gerlick, Pittsburg State University Dr. Robert Gerlick is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Pittsburg State Uni- versity.Denny C. Davis, Washington State University Dr. Davis is Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the Engineering Education Research Center at Washington State University. He has led numerous multidisciplinary research projects to enhance engi- neering education. He currently leads projects creating and testing assessments and curriculum materials for engineering design and professional skills, especially for use in capstone engineering design courses

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Marie A. Boyette, FLATE

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NSF Grantees

involved in all pre-camp activities. This is particularly the case for camp advertising,marketing, and diverse camper recruiting. Although FLATE camps have an upper participantlimit, there is a critical mass of campers required to foster the camaraderie characteristic of a funexperience. Actions to guarantee that minimal enrollment are an important pre-camp activity.There are several approaches to securing the camp’s targeted enrollment. These include placingads in local newspapers or online with local news stations. FLATE useswww.myfoxtampabay.com, for example. There are also lists of summer camps that areadvertised on “camp” websites. FLATE uses www.summercamps.com and its own website,www.fl-ate.org/projects/camps.html.) Other more traditional

Conference Session

Emerging Areas: Biotechnology, Microtechnology, and Energy

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Komives, San Jose State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Theresa A. Good, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Laurent Simon, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John P. O'Connell, University of Virginia; Jeffrey John Chalmers, Ohio State University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Erik Fernandez, University of Virginia

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Chemical Engineering

Genencor, a Danisco Division, where she developed a metabolic flux model for an enzyme production process. Additionally, after her postdoctoral research at the ETH-Zurich, she obtained a Science and Diplomacy Fellowship from the American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science to spend a year working in the U. S. Agency for International Development providing technical expertise to the Child Health Research Project which promoted research targeting the reduction of child mortality in third world countries. She has 19 publications and 2 patents, has received over $1MM in grants since joining SJSU. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the ACS Biochemical Technology Division and on the advisory board of

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Descriptions of Curricular and Model Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

purchased two programmable logiccontrollers and the programming software. Together, we found industrial donations ofinput and output devices such as switches, motors, valves, and pneumatic cylinders. Thehigh school class returned to campus, to develop ideas for their own automated cell to bebuilt from their newly acquired components. Four more visits were strategically plannedover the next two months to provide the high school teacher and their students with theskill sets needed to replicate the University’s automated cell projects on a smaller scale. Page 22.396.3The design and fabrication of the modules purchased by the high schools were college-based

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Assessing, Developing, and Enhancing the Engineering Experiential Education Experience

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Ocon, Purdue University, Calumet; Shoji Nakayama, Purdue University, Calumet; Opal McFarlane, Purdue University, Calumet

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

general safety practices within a six month period, or suspension oreven immediate termination because of breaking safety related rules and/or policy. TheState of Michigan (2008) has documentation that states that the safety and health ruleswill uniformly enforce disciplinary action among partnering employers on their projects.It further states that employees who fail to work in a safe manner will be automaticallydismissed from a project due to the deliberate violation of safety rules or safety policiesand procedures. Therefore, it is important that an organization develops a technique tohelp employees to adhere to their safety rules or policy17. a. Application of Creativity Concept/Technique: PPC Technique An idea generated to reduce

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Maurice Bluestein

Session 3548 A New Air Conditioning Trainer for a Technology Laboratory Maurice Bluestein Indiana University – Purdue University IndianapolisAbstractThis paper describes the features and usage of a self-contained mobile air conditioning trainer. Thisdevice resulted from a senior project carried out in the Mechanical Engineering Technologydepartment at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Two students created thespecifications and experiments for the equipment which was fabricated at the Carrier Corporationin Indianapolis, Indiana. The trainer includes a condenser, evaporator

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

, powerful, easy to learn and use software tool thatallows for graphical filter design, hardware implementation, and exploration of the “what happensif ...” we all desire our students to explore! This program has been successfully used for bothclassroom demonstrations and filter design projects in both a Junior level signals and systems classas well as in a Senior level digital signal processing class. Student comments support our originalassumptions that graphical user interfaces are easy to learn and use and promote intellectualcuriosity.All of this software is freely available for downloading via the www sitehttp://wseweb.ew.usna.edu/ee/LINKS/EE_Links.htm (should the URL be changed, from the NavalAcademy home page, select Academics, Academic

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Brizendine; Laora E. Dauberman-Brizendine

outreachactivities. And yet, there is no reason that all of these activities cannot prosper in any institutionwilling to extend beyond traditional views of scholarship.Promotion and tenure decisions must be based on broad definitions of scholarship thatadequately recognize the merits of research, teaching and service. Under the direction of RobertM. Diamond, The Center for Instructional Development at Syracuse University began thearduous task of redefining scholarship in all disciplines in 1989 as part of an attempt to examine Page 4.443.7the faculty reward system relative to institutional mission. This project, supported by LillyEndowment, Inc. and the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael A. Kriss

Beck was built aroundthe University of Chicago’s outstanding graduate research programs in the sciences. The Centerfor Imaging Science was organized around research programs that reflected the interests ofgroups of faculty members from the traditional departments of physics and astronomy,chemistry, mathematics, radiology and computer science. Faculty from the art department andpsychology department also participated in the research projects, as did scientists from ArgonneNational Laboratory. Missing from this research-focused effort was a formal curriculumdesigned to teach, in a unified way, the underlying science and technology. The most comprehensive effort to forge a complete program in Imaging Science wasundertaken by the Rochester

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Shih-Ming Lee; Sergio Martinez; Anabel D. Ramos; Martha A. Centeno

self-managed by each professor. As it can be seen from Table 1, studentswould evaluate a professor as a whole, not only on the knowledge of the material beingdelivered, but also on the role modeling of the professor. Motivation is mostly achieved byinspiration. Rigor, rapport, listening, commitment, and networking are dimensions that project aprofessor as a professional beyond the classroom. These dimensions are rarely surveyed onend of semester evaluations; furthermore, they get little recognition from a professor’s peers. Page 4.557.5Still, they tend to be the most important dimensions for students.The process for a professor covers survey

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Tew

uniformly excited, equally spaced array ofelemental x-, y-, or z-directed dipoles along the x-, y-, or z-axis. The number of elements andinterelement spacing may be specified by the user (Nd <=6), as well as the progressive phaseshift between elements. The antenna array is shown in a perspective view, and the user mayspecify the x-y, y-z, or x-z observation plane. The projected antenna is shown in the specifiedplane, as are the element pattern, array factor, and resulting radiation pattern of the arrayantenna. Figure 3 shows an example of the screen display of 4 x-directed dipoles spaced 0.5wavelengths apart along the z-axis with a 90 degree progressive phase shift as viewed in the x-zplane.Figure 3. A four-element array of x-directed dipoles

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

Publishers, San Francisco, 1993.3. “A Project-Based Approach to DOE in Materials”, Genalo, Lawrence J., Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, June, 1998, Session # 1364.4. “A Portfolio-Based Assessment Program”, Olds, Barbara M. and Pavelich, Michael J., Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, June 1996, Session #2343.LAWRENCE J. GENALOobtained his Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University in 1977 in Applied Mathematics. He has servedASEE as Program and Division Chair for Freshman Programs and DELOS. His current interests includebringing engineering education to K-12 students, teachers, and their classrooms, technological literacy forfuture K-12 teachers, and computations in materials

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James A. Ozment; Alison N. Smith; Wendy Newstetter

that “student population in such a course has tremendous variation inbackground, motivation, expectations, and analytical skills”, Singhania7 proposes somesolutions for improving the situation. He recommends warning students against “thinking on-line”, and instead teaching them to write the programs at their desks, only testing when satisfiedwith the result. He also identifies several suggestions for group techniques: allowing students toread and check each other’s programs, group review of a program, and other forms of teaminteraction. Fienup2 also supports group work. He writes (in reference to his object-orientedCS-2 course), “team projects avoided overwhelming students with large projects by decreasingthe amount of work that each student

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

,equations, etc. One hidden benefit is that when a student must put the question down in words, itoften avoids the impulsive and often premature ‘drop by inquiries’. And, after the professor hasreviewed questions, the response can be directed at individuals, or groups. At the end of the term,records of discussions can be reviewed, and used to improve the course content.1.1.4 Visualization/conceptualizationAt times we can use prepared graphics or audio to aid visualization. For example, when teachingdrafting the idea of orthographic projections seems unusual, but an unfolding glass box can illus-trate this effectively. By using these graphical simulations we can expose things not normally vis-ible, or not physically possible. The disadvantage to this

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Tian S. Lim

made great achievements in more than 1,170 research projects, of which282 won various prizes.The University now has 70 laboratories, 7 school-run factories and more than 22,000 pieces of Page 3.99.3instruments and equipment. All these facilities have created a favorable environment at theUniversity to promote its mission of teaching and research and to provide students theopportunity to acquire practical skills, and scientific knowledge.The great progress made at Fuzhou University during the last decade is by no means unique.Similar changes have taken place in many other engineering schools all over China

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lia F. Arthur; Irem Y. Tumer

in the way I would have wanted it to be taughtwas very exciting. To implement the techniques addressing alternative teaching and learningstyles, I included either a hands-on example, a team-activity, or an interactive question-answersession in every lecture. For example, I changed the course structure so that one of the firstlectures would be a hands-on activity involving the mechanical dissection of a toy. The purposeof this lecture was two-fold: (1) to start the course with a "fun" mechanical example so that thestudents are excited about coming to the upcoming lectures; and, (2) to prepare the students fortheir long-term project in the course, both in terms of working in teams, and in terms ofconducting and presenting a systematic study

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

chemical engineering pilot plant size equipment listed previously.Students undertake experimentation, in groups of three in greater depth than any of the otherprograms and are expected to undertake more than one experiment. After the data reductionand analysis, a detailed technical report is prepared. Based on their laboratory experienceand their written report, an oral presentation is made to their class and the program faculty.In addition to the students undertaking the broad program which consists of studies incomputer science, architecture, math, physics and chemical engineering they also do anindependent research project. Students mentored by the authors undertook experimentalstudies in the area of fluid dynamics and heat transfer using