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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

sophomorelevel engineering mechanics courses at a different institution. At that time, I believed that myindustrial and academic experience together with a previously used syllabus for the course wouldbe enough to succeed. As it turned out, despite what I thought was a good plan, the initialoffering of the course was a disappointment, both from the standpoint of the students' evaluationof my teaching effectiveness and my own sense of the how the course went. Upon reflection, Imade several changes to the course, and the results were substantially improved the second time.Again this was reflected in both the student evaluations and my own satisfaction.Assessments of teaching such courses have been presented before; for example, Yue 1 assessed acomparable

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Safford; Andres Sousa-Poza; David Dryer; Charles Keating; William Peterson

advantages are:(1) the ability to provide educational opportunities to geographically isolated areas thatwould otherwise be excluded from the educational experience, (2) use of advancedtechnologies to enhance the educational experience, and (3) providing convenience for Page 7.1053.1students to receive educational products wherever they have access to a desktop computeror video device (DVD, VCR, or CD-ROM). However, there are multiple concerns Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationinvolving the asynchronous

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Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stuart Walesh

acrosswhich implementation is proceeding.Introduction: A Problem Facing the Civil Engineering ProfessionUnder the auspices of ASCE, individual civil engineers and civil engineering groups haveincreasingly reviewed the profession’s status and examined possible improvements. 1 Prominentamong these efforts are the six ASCE education conferences convened at approximately five-year intervals from 1960 to 1995. While all the conferences arrived at similar conclusions andrecommendations, including advocating more formal education, the last 2 was the catalyst for anASCE Board of Direction policy change.In October 1998, the ASCE Board of Direction adopted Policy Statement 465, which began asfollows: “The ASCE supports the concept of the masters degree as the

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Professional Practice in CE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Cleary

. Page 7.267.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”With the support of the Construction Industry Advancement Program of New Jersey and theGeneral Building Contractors Association of New Jersey, the author is working with a team ofundergraduate students to create a tool for the dissemination of construction practices andcontractor concerns. The project team is visiting contractors and construction sites and preparinga survey to 1) Capture the common practices in building, utility, and highway construction, 2)document “poor” designs and the alternatives that could have been employed, and 3

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Otto Helweg

inengineering ethics or weave ethics into several courses. These courses, and all the texts are"code centered" with little or no emphasis on motivational strategies to promote ethical behavior.Preliminary data show that knowledge is not the primary cause of code violations because many,if not most violations are willful. This paper suggests the radical idea of bringing religion intoclasses on ethics in order to increase cognitive dissonance which, in turn, will encourage ethicalbehavior.Introduction ABET curriculum requirements include ethics. 1 There have been a number of textsspecifically written for a course on engineering ethics in recent years. 2,3,4,5,6 Papers on ethicalissues regularly appear in professional journals and the National

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New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Schumack

these classes for about 10 years now and felt the theme incorporation would be agood way to renew my own enthusiasm for the material.Young and Stuart 1 discuss how teaching with a unifying theme (in their case, a plant trip) canimprove student learning. They demonstrated how a theme can facilitate connections betweentopics, increase appreciation for the practical applications of concepts, and enhance retrieval ofinformation in later courses. In addition, they discuss how a “theme course” can generateenthusiasm for engineering and provide a vehicle for consideration of environmental, economic,and ethical issues. If a student is motivated to learn, and remains motivated, the chances forsignificant learning are increased. Manteufel2 observes that

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Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donald Keating

Session 1455 Lifelong Learning for Innovation and Leadership in Engineering D. A. Keating, 1 T. G. Stanford, 1 D. D. Dunlap, 2 R. J. Bennett, 3 M. I. Mendelson, 4 D. H. Sebastian, 5 S. J. Tricamo 5 University of South Carolina 1 / Western Carolina University 2 St Thomas University 3 / Loyola Marymount University 4 New Jersey Institute of Technology 5 AbstractIn many ways graduate engineering education has served the U.S. well. But there is now broadrecognition that it must change

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ifte Choudhury

systems. It appeared that the students with higher academic capabilitiesperformed better in the courses.Studies on education indicate that any particular course grade is positively correlated withoverall grade point average. Findings by Seymour et al. 1 reveal that most significantfactor in predicting success in a business microcomputer course is the overall grade pointaverage of a student. Similar findings have been reported by Rose et al. 2 in a study ofstudent performance in an introductory psychology course. Vaidyanathan et.al. 3 have Page 7.930.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Fuja; Stephen Batill; Jay Brockman

evaluations by the faculty and peer mentor on the quality of student contribution to the projects.Computing in EG 111/112As indicated in the course objectives in Section III, gaining familiarity with computers andprogramming is an important part of EG 111/112. A variety of computing environments andprogramming languages were used. MATLAB was introduced in Project 1 as an accessible but powerful programming environment that students could use in that project (to do calculations, numerical integration and graphing) as well as the subsequent projects. In the launch project the emphasis was on the application to scalar calculations and data presentation. In the lightweight structure project, matrix methods were introduced. A

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Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jess Everett

information abounds. RU, in creating Garden City from Sooner City, willcreate a portable civil city that can be easily adopted by any Civil Engineering department. Aportable civil city requires two things: portable content and a portable operating shell. Page 7.584.3ContentThe content associated with the portable civil city consists of: Projects, Modules (especially theData Center), Design Criteria, and Photos. Table 1 is used to show the interaction betweenprojects, the data center, and design criteria in a hypothetical multi-class design activity. Eachproject is associated with a particular course. The projects listed in Table 1 would be assigned

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Batill

less structured but is intended to fosterinnovation. It is based upon the corporate culture practiced at IDEO, a firm specializing inproduct design and development. This framework for product development appears to be verywell suited for the “toys” used in this course. Kelley summarizes the approach that contains fivebasic steps: 1) Understand the customer, 2) Observe, 3) Visualize, 4) Evaluate and Refine and 5)Implement. Step 4, in particular, relies on the use of prototypes in an iterative manner. Thecontrast with the more structured approach mentioned earlier and dependence on prototyping incontrast to analytic modeling and simulation presented an interesting alternative that appeared tobe well suited for this course.In preparation for the

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Karweit

material. It is inertknowledge: students know something, but they are unable to use it 1 . In contrast to classroom instruction, Collins, Brown, and Newman2 suggest that amuch better model for learning is the apprenticeship—years of training under theguidance of a practicing professional. In this environment, students develop skills in thecontext of applications. students learn not just the “what”, but also the “how” and the“when”, and “under what circumstances.” But such training is not practical in a Page 7.502.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education annual Conference & Exposition

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Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gordon Silverman

Session 1309 Biomedical Engineering Redux: Emerging Career Opportunities and Their Implications for Educational Programs Gordon Silverman, Professor and Chair Electrical and Computer Engineering, Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York, U.S.A.I. Background.Biomedical engineering combines engineering expertise with the needs of the medicalcommunity for the enhancement of health care. (1) (2) Working cooperatively with scientists,chemists, and medical professionals, biomedical engineers design and develop devices associatedwith the biological systems of

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Eisner

solve suchproblems expeditiously and with uniformly good results. Most of these problems turnedout to be administrative in nature. The cohort-based executive master’s degree program was constructed so as to respondto perceived needs of more senior personnel in local companies and government agencies.Two types of such programs were offered, both of which are listed below together withthe specific courses for each:1. Executive Master’s in Systems Engineering o Organizational Behavior for the Engineering Manager o The Management of Technical Organizations o Program and Project Management o Information Management and Information Systems o Survey of Finance and Engineering Economics o Elements fo Problem

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Goodwine; Steven Skaar; Robert Nelson; Mihir Sen; James Mason; Stephen Batill

the mindset of future practitioners, researchers and engineering managers.Because the felt competitive pressures of industry may encourage sheer empirical,phenomenological, or trial-and-error practice for many engineers, provision of a firm, enabling,insight-producing foundation in engineering science must remain as “job 1” in engineeringeducation. More than simply coexisting benignly with this theme, the new emphasis isimplemented so as to complement this traditional objective.Part of the implementation entails the ongoing challenge of connecting analysis with the creativeprocess of design. The microprocessor itself, allowing as it does the application ofmathematically based algorithms to meet specific design requirements, helps promote

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Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Irwin

the seat and post parts of a standard amigo model forstudents to reverse engineer. The design problem that was developed out of this research waspresented to students as the following: Amigo has contracted your design group to design amanually reclining version of the chair. The person with a handicap may want to recline forrelaxation or need to recline for therapeutic purposes. The chair and post are available forreverse engineering and the locking mechanism 2D drawings will also be provided. A lounge Page 7.61.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering 1

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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V.M.S. Sathya Dev; Raghu Echempati

strategy of experimentation is called the design of experiments(DOE), which was originally proposed by Taguchi to carry out parameter design 1-3. Theresults of DOE can be analyzed by different methods. Response surface framework is oneof the best ways to implement Taguchi’s philosophy.Response surface is a fitted surface used to visualize the inter-effects of parameters in aprocess. Several different types of useful designs can be obtained when one is attemptingto fit a response surface. Full and fractional factorial experiments in completelyrandomized designs are extremely useful when one is exploring the factor space in orderto identify the region where the optimum response is located. Two-level factorials arehighly efficient but must be used

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International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mayuree Thespol; J. Clair Batty

education. It is suggested thatAsia in general and Thailand in particular are becoming ever more important members of theglobal engineering education community and that opportunities for collaboration should not beoverlooked.IntroductionA penchant for science and engineering by Americans of Asian extraction has drawn attentionfor some time. It has been pointed out, for example, that minorities tend to be a much smallerproportion of scientists and engineers in the United States than they are in the total U.S.population. Asians, however, in 1997 comprised 10 percent of scientists and engineers in theUnited States although they were only 4 percent of the U.S. population.1 Students from Asiancountries tend to dominate the rest of the world on

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ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jefferson Lindsey; Frances Harackiewicz; Lizette Chevalier

communicationswhere antennas are a significant part of the course. Many antenna types are introduced in thesecourses, which use standard textbooks 1, 2. Many of the antenna types introduced can be fairlyinexpensive to build at certain frequencies, requiring copper tubing or wires and connectors.There was a need for the students to have experience designing, building and testing their ownantennas. Yet, because of the expense of antenna laboratory equipment, the College ofEngineering at SIUC had Vector Network Analyzers for measuring antenna impedance for yearsbefore it had a near-field or far-field antenna pattern measurement system. As lack of equipmentcan bring inspiration3, it was during that time that an antenna contest was developed for seniors

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Morris; Hesham Shaalan

reporting1. The purpose of the Senior Project described in this paper is to design a system that willindicate to a driver how close an object is to the back of the vehicle. The system design is basedon using a microcontroller and an ultrasonic ranging unit mounted on the back of the vehicle.The distance to an object can be calculated based on the time it takes for a transmitted pulse tobounce off of the object and return to the transducer. This distance can then be displayed to thedriver by either audio or visual means. Figure 1 shows a block diagram of the overall system. The microcontroller is a device similar to the microprocessor, but it is used in controloriented applications. It is a single integrated circuit that includes a CPU

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Melanie Pearlman; Kimberly Turner

, include: 1. Size/Novelty 2. Gender Equality 3. Design flexibilityThe mere idea that a working, functioning machine can be built which is smaller than the diameter of ahuman hair, or on the scale of the size of a few blood cells is inherently interesting to younger students.The idea that a secondary school student is able to do an experiment using, or actually designing one of Page 7.621.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationthese miniature devices is intriguing. In experiences

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

Educationvarying degrees of success. Examples of various types of freshman courses can be found inRefs. 1 through 13. Even Introduction to Engineering courses often emphasize topics that arepresented in a dry fashion to students, emphasizing such topics as how to study, computer usage,technical writing, etc. What are needed are project-type courses that excite the students and givethem an overview of what an interesting engineering project can be. This paper describes such aproject that has been used at the University of Massachusetts Lowell for five years, and, based onstudent evaluations of the course, has been found extremely motivating for the students.II. Freshman course format The College of Engineering has experimented with different types of

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

has been used to determine theefficacy of disinfection to remove bacteria in drinking water treatment processes and to monitorefforts to optimize the transformation of environmental pollutants in bioremediation andbiological waste treatment.Recently, the field of microbiology has seen an explosion in the development of new technologyto identify microorganisms in environmental matrices. These new techniques have beengeneralized as cultivation independent, molecular biology-based, and ribosomal ribonucleic acidtargeted (rRNA-targeted) (reviewed in 1). Environmental microbiologists and molecularmicrobial ecologists have applied these new techniques to assess the diversity of microorganismsin many environments including systems of direct interest

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Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

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Karim Nasr; Raymond Berg

outcomes L-S based onprofessional societies input and departmental requirements. In preparing for this new curriculumand related assessment practices, the senior-level M. E. capstone design course “Plant andFacilities Design” was selected in October 2000 as a pilot course, for the development of thestudent capstone portfolio concept and the capstone outcomes assessment process.In particular, the M. E. Department wished to determine best methods of demonstratingachievement of seven “difficult” or “non-traditional” program educational outcomes which havenot classically been “taught” as part of the M. E. curriculum. These include: 1) an ability tofunction on multidisciplinary teams; 2) an understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibility; 3

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Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

typically a report, either oral or written. Grading andassessment of this work is complex, involving both the quality of the technical content and thequality of the presentation. This type of work also provides a high density of assessmentinformation because of its complexity. Rubrics provide a framework for structuring andquantifying this assessment information. Rubrics, if made available to the students, should alsogive students a rationale for the grades they receive and an opportunity to evaluate and improvetheir own work prior to submission. (See, for example, Walvoord & Anderson, 1998 1.)Grading in our senior Unit Operations Laboratory is now entirely rubric-based.2 We have beenpleased with the rubrics as a foundation for assessment in

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Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Pavelich; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

andTechnology (ABET) requires institutions to develop assessment processes which candemonstrate “that the outcomes important to the mission of the institution and the objectives ofthe program are being measured”. 1 Page 7.1007.1 Perhaps the most recognized and valid method to quantify maturation of college students’intellectual abilities relies on developmental process models such as Perry’s Model of Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIntellectual and Ethical Development 2 and King and

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Christopher Carroll; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

additional TTLchips and handful of passive devices added to the EVB to implement the CRT video signalgeneration and other I/O features of the station. We also describe lab experiments andexperience gained in actually using this lab station in our microprocessor class. Page 7.884.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionThis paper details a new lab station using the MC68HC11 Evaluation Board (EVB). Theschematic in Figure 1 identifies the hardware to be added to the EVB to implement this

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Nowak; Adrezin Ronald; Donald Leone

Page 7.196.2philosophy. In the sections below, the current program will be described. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe basic philosophy of the program may be represented by a pyramid (Figure 1): the base isestablished with core courses both in and outside of engineering, the middle section builds on thefundamentals with in-depth courses in Biomedical Engineering and other topics which assume acompletion of the core basics, and an ultimate section of senior courses during which the studentbrings together aspects of entire undergraduate education.A new college-wide design philosophy has

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

propel the go-carts. After all the groups had working rubber band propelled go-carts, they were asked, “How would you make your go carts go farther?” After some discussion, the notion of larger diameter wheels was introduced. Along with the concept, the mathematics governing the relationship between wheel diameter and distance traveled was discussed extensively. The students then had to calculate the proper diameter of their wheels to travel a specified distance using a specified number of rubber band windings. After completing and explaining their calculations, the groups made wheels of the needed diameter from cardboard (see Figure 1). The go-carts were modified and the calculations were tested. This was another opportunity

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Crosthwaite; David Radcliffe

engineeringand related industry sectors. Empirical research and policy development into the social andbehavioral dimensions of engineering, professional development and practice underpin the workof the Centre.The Catalyst Centre has five overlapping and interdependent goals outlined below. 1. Create new modes of engineering education and continuing professional development delivery and thus provide an exemplar for cultural change in engineering education. 2. Support the School (Faculty) to implement progressively the strategies in the Diversity Report, especially as they relate to staff and student recruitment and support mechanisms, social, gender, cultural and disability awareness and communication. 3. Develop the Thiess-UQ