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Michael Carter; Sarah Rajala

and Speaking Program, through which he has played an active rolein the College of Engineering as it prepares its programs for EC2000. Dr. Carter is presently principal investigatoron an NSF-funded project for improving students’ lab reports in science and engineering. He received his B.A. andM.A. at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1986.REBECCA BRENTRebecca Brent is an education consultant specializing in effective teaching practices in higher education, Codirectorof the Faculty Development Program in the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition, and coordinator of facultydevelopment in the College of Engineering of North Carolina State University. She is also codirector of theNational Effective

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Michael Rudisill

several joint projects with industry. Mr. Rudisill received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from theUniversity of Illinois in 1976 and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1984 Page 6.413.8 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Appendix A - Survey Results ET 112 (17 Total) ET 210 ( 12 Total) 1. How often do you use your laptop for this class? a. Daily (every

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Jace Hargis; Anne Donnelly

Page 6.429.7provides support for on-line education via distance learning curriculum using electronic mediaProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Educationresources such as the Internet. The important point is that science can effectively be taught usingspecifically designed instructional modules placed on the Internet.The only significant difference detected in this study was when age was compared to post-assessment scores. For the range of ages of this study, at age 18, the participant viewing theconstructivist instructional module would score 7.1 in a post-assessment, although if projected tothe 30 years upper limit of the study’s

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Joan A. Burtner

Page 6.444.4from the vantage of the technical, organizational, and personal perspectives, the Linstone and Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationMitroff text is a central component of the fourth module. We discuss the Manhattan Project andits consequences in this module also. The final module, Preparing for the Future, includes muchof the information from the second half of the Linstone and Mitroff text. In addition, theinfluence of computers and the Internet is an essential component of discussions of future trends.I like to end the course with an acknowledgement of the positive actions of

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Teresa Larkin-Hein

learned in class to novel situations. Through the use of an on-lineforum, the potential exists for students to achieve greater understanding and more meaningfulreflection. A study involving the role of individual learning styles in terms of students' use ofand students' benefit from the use of on-line discussion forums is needed. Further research onthe impact of on-line discussion forums to long-term understandings and perceptions as well as acomparison to more “traditional” methods of instruction is also warranted.References1. Edwards, V. B. (1997). Editor’s introduction in Education Week. Washington, DC: Editorial Projects in Education.2. Hein, T. L., and S. E. Irvine (1998). Assessment of student understanding using on-line

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Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

thoughts were about ECE 100, the introductory engineering course. She said the class wasa deterrent from engineering and that the only thing that helped was the tutoring from Abel (anMEP student tutor). She thought that the modeling portion of the class was the worst and thatthe group projects were hard. Isabel would have never considered ASU without the MESA(Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement) program and knew wholeheartedly thatthe SBP solidified her coming to ASU.Kristina is also a former MESA student. She joined MESA her freshman year at Window RockHigh School on the Navajo Reservation in Northern Arizona. She said that a trip to ASU withthe MESA program and a CEMS Panel member, who was in AISES and in aerospaceengineering

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Mark L. Smith; Kenneth E. Rowe; Carlos R. Morales; Rick L. Homkes

full professor (or simply “professor”).Tenure is the achievement of a “permanent” position, one in which there must be “just cause”for dismissal. The tenure system is undergoing change, however, and it is projected that "Fewcolleges will eliminate tenure in the next 15 years, but many will become stingier about offeringit and more creative in finding alternatives to it."[16] This is one reason that the probationaryperiod for a new professor is so long. Generally, the procedure is to hire a new tenure-trackemployee at the assistant professor level and award tenure upon their promotion to associateprofessor. There are cases of being hired as an associate professor and / or being tenured inrank, but these are exceptions.For any new professor, the

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Martha C. Wilson

culture and technical creativity is the overall effect on character and personality that can be observed in those engineers whose education was liberally enriched and whose interests were not limited to their everyday work.”10The individual whose personality and character extend beyond engineering are able to embraceopportunities that occur outside the realm of engineering, enhancing not only their personal livesthrough exposure to the arts and the humanities, but also their ability to interact with non-engineers in business and society. This "engineering charisma" has played "a crucial - andfascinating - role in the success of many engineering projects . . ."11The engineer also derives benefits of a liberal education by

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Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

. Page 5.476.7..57 students completed the form, with the following results: waste of time (1), some value (4), 7useful (13), very useful (25), a great system (14). Future versions will offer much more planninginformation, be proactive in prioritizing course possibilities, and allow planning for multiplesemesters into the future”.Electronic portfolios are discussed in the final article appearing in the ASEE PRISM 12. “Theyare touted as the ‘next step’ in student assessment, are a great tool to exhibit a st Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology is also adopting portfolios,….”“What's in it for students? And what will motivate students to keep their portfolios current andtake the project seriously? The

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Karen Al-Ashkar

in traditional education, but plays a much larger role indistance education, perhaps simply because of the distance, or perhaps becausemotivation is one key factor that can help a student persevere against all obstacles (Hara& Kling, 1999). This is a factor that we can influence, but we can’t control.Context of the learner As educators, we can prepare students for the learning experiencesthey are to face. We can make the media no more imposing than a textbook, rather thanhave the learning curve of the media dominate. Once again we can remove barrierswherever possible, but we have little control over the context of the students’ lives. Isextensive travel a part of their working lives? Are short-notice projects that push all elseaside

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Z. Yuan; T. Tang; Pratibha Gopalam; N. Liu; Chu R. Wie; Alexander N. Cartwright

screencomponent is developed in a separate refinement scope (development unit). In this example, thefive main screen components are the circuit diagram, the BJT transistor schematic, the excessminority carrier profile in the Base, the waveforms and the planar BJT structureDuring the initial analysis of the component unit, objects with a general or reusable property areidentified. These objects are implemented into reusable custom library classes. For example,from the development of the Resistor-Transistor logic circuit, we have designed many circuitreusable symbol classes into generic library classes for use in other applet projects. Theseclasses are then documented and included into our semiconductor Java class library [6]. Aftermerging all the

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Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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William Wild; Michael Ryan

engineeringprofession that can serve to enhance motivation for their studies in courses within andoutside of engineering. This perspective should also serve to inform career decision- Page 7.984.10making among the various engineering disciplines. Since freshmen are exposed to only Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationone introductory engineering course during their first year, we have redesigned thiscourse to present case studies that are intended to present real engineering projects insome depth and breadth. This

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Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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Nilufer Gozacan; Reza Ziarati

benchmarking techniques.• A system for measuring costs and identifying the cost of conformance and the cost of non-conformance.Reference 6, while clearly states that TQM is a philosophy and hence not a defined system,nevertheless provides a systematic TQM model for consideration. A summary of the maincomponents of the model is presented below:1. Create and nurture TQM and cultural environment based on the above.2. Identify the objectives of each component of the organisation.3. Define jobs and, staff responsibilities and tasks4. Establish action plans for implementation and improvement projects.5. Identify deficiencies and supplement by providing support.6. Measure and compare with stated standards and chosen benchmarks.7

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New/Emerging Technologies

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R. Radharamanan

benefits underthe following topics: what is behind the move to agile manufacturing; why agility is essential tosurvival in the 21st Century; how lean manufacturing and the virtual enterprise support agility;the pros and cons of partnering (virtual enterprises); creating a new transportation infrastructure;developing a network of global communication; how to assess your company identify obstacles,find solutions and create Agile Manufacturing goals; how to identify Agile Manufacturingproject candidates; how to measure Agile Manufacturing project success etc.Goldman et al. 3 in their book on “Agile Competitors and Virtual Organization: Strategies forEnriching the Customer” addressed how to confront and thrive on change and uncertainty. Theypresented

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Control in the Classroom

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W. San Yip; Michael Hough; Eric Wood; Thomas Marlin

Page 7.130.14instructor could select an application with which the students are familiar from projects inthis or another course. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education The instructor can ask student teams to formulate questions for a designatednumber and set of learning goals; the students should prepare their solutions on separatepapers. Then, students can exchange the questions during a tutorial; each team canprovide answers and critique the learning value of their classmates’ questions. Theseexercises will assist the students’ learning skills while building process controlknowledge.7. Student

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Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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Jon Dixon

LloydWright, Raymond Loewy, Enzo Ferrari and Burt Rutan. Other topics include Bauhausdesign, beauty in concrete bridge design, and the history of industrial design.This assignment addresses course objective I.Trip report. Industrial design topics are explored in some detail. Many students enteringthe course have not been exposed to the intention of industrial design. Industrialdesigners are invited to speak to the class, outlining the intentions of industrial design,and the potential ramifications of using industrial design to advantage. The students arethen treated to a full evening in one of the excellent industrial design houses in the TwinCities. Lively discussion about projects undertaken by the company and the theory about Proceedings

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Tools of Teaching

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Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik

engineering projects and solving contemporary andfuture engineering problems. The complexity of modern technology and the sophistication ofcurrent knowledge and procedures makes it impossible for any single individual to know and doeverything; assistance from others is essential in virtually every engineering endeavor. Page 7.909.1It is vital that engineering graduates both understand the nature of, and be able to function in,team situations. As a result, engineering education must include a significant number ofexperiences that impact students in ways that build awareness and skills in teaming. There aremany formats in which this can be done. Teams

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Earl Owen

deadlines that mayresult in lower grades if missed. Students are required to write reports at the completion of eachproject; during extended projects of more than a week they write progress reports. But the bestsolution to these and other problems is simply to keep the student personally involved andexcited about his or her learning. When interest is high, timely preparation and learninggenerally follow.A third problem is the occasional student who abuses the unaccustomed freedom of thisapproach to learning. Some students feel that taking responsibility for their own learninglicenses them to learn less, if they so choose. That is, since it is their responsibility to determinewhat they will accomplish, they decide to accomplish a minimum. In a

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Francis Di Bella

. costoptimization. This interest is exhibited in course instruction in heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluiddynamics.Prof. Di Bella is also involved in all aspects of creative product concept genesis, designand product development. Product development extends the gamut from systems toprevent Road Rage to emergency repair of ruptured natural gas pipelines. Universityapplication of this interest includes instruction in the following courses: MachineDesign, Statics and Dynamics, Intro. to Design and Intro. to Product Design as well asstudent Capstone Design Projects. He is also the Faculty Advisor for the Student’s Mini-Baja vehicle competition. Page

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Jeffrey Jones; David Niebuhr; Heather Smith; Lanny Griffin; Blair London; Linda Vanasupa; Katherine Chen

the project will be available atwww.mate.calpoly.edu (follow the links to the Foundation Series).There was a 2:1 ratio of males to females in the test group. Although the course is designed forsophomores, roughly 75% of the students were juniors or seniors. Roughly 75% of the studentshad a grade point average of “B.” Performance Criteria1) Sketches a schematic representation of the exchange of electrons that takes place during the corrosionprocess, including an identification of anode, cathode, oxidation reaction, reduction reaction and the corrodingsubstance.2) Explains how the chemical and material components within a corrosion medium are involved in the corrosionprocess.3) States the need for

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Bina Ramamurthy; Pratibha Gopalam; Alexander N. Cartwright

probe components to get and set specific state information. As shown in Figure 3, the addition and deletion of components etc., is handled by a pop-up menu object, which is a Visitor Object to the Applet. The properties of lenses and mirrors in the applet can also be modified using property list boxes that pop up when the user right clicks on the components. 5. Toolkit: We have developed a number of tools to provide for graphical user interfaces and complex mathematical computations (integration, 3D visualization, and graphing). Moreover, we have incorporated some excellent tools from NETLIB [13], and from the Ptolemy project (Ptplot) [14]. The ability to use existing

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WIED Olio

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peggy Layne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Molly R. Hall, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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responsible for water, wastewater, and solid and hazardous waste policy issues. Ms. Layne has degrees in environmental and water resources engineering from Vanderbilt University and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. She spent 17 years as a consulting engineer with several firms, and was formerly a principal at Harding Lawson Associates in Tallahassee, FL, where she managed the office and directed hazardous waste site investigation and cleanup projects. Ms. Layne is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a registered professional engineer. She served as president of the Society of Women Engineers in 1996-97 and is FY11 Chair of SWE’s Government Relations and Public Policy

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Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

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Judy L. Cezeaux, Western New England College; Michael J. Rust, Western New England College; Robert Gettens, Western New England College; Richard D. Beach, Western New England College; Jason A Criscuolo, Western New England College

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Awards Dinner and and Icebreakers Medical Ethics: Game Night Engineering 6 – 9 PM Scavenger Hunt Movie and 6 – 9 PM Design Projects 7 – 9 PM Discussion 7 – 9 PM 7 – 9 PMMicroscopyThis activity introduced participants to various techniques of microscopy, including opticalmicroscopy, scanning electron

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First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Kuder, Seattle University; Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University

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Civil Engineering

22.820.2review process also prepares students for procedures used in the consulting industry. MechanicalEngineering faculty at the University of Clemson recently reviewed their laboratory curriculumand concluded that identifying the strengths and weaknesses of peer’s reports helped students tobetter understand what to do and what not to do12.Peer reviews were implemented in a variety of ways in engineering curricula. In some cases,peer review was used for a single report or group project in which the reviewers were notintimately familiar with the topic5, 6, 9. The intent of this approach was to assure that students canidentify missing content, whereas if they already understand the topic well, they may fill in theomitted context on their own. Peer

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Outstanding Contributions: Mechanical Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bobby G. Crawford, U.S. Military Academy; Daisie D. Boettner, U.S. Military Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

separate thermodynamics and fluidmechanics texts removed the requirement for a supplemental text, the drawbacks to this approachwere significant.We traded two books for two books, required students to navigate non-sequentially through thesebooks for two semesters, and reinforced student perception that fluid mechanics andthermodynamics are vastly different fields of study. This last result struck at one of the coreprinciples which initially drove the integration of the two courses into one two-course sequence.These frustrations fueled the decision to develop a text tailored to the integrated two-coursesequence as taught at West Point. It was during this writing project that many of the integrationand consistency issues which had been easy to

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Novel Approaches to Teaching Materials

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Dale R. Baker, Arizona State University

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J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is Professor in the School of Materials in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and education, design and selection of materials, general materials engineering, polymer science, and characterization of materials. His research interests are in innovative education in engineering and K- 12 engineering outreach. He has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design. He has also co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for

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WIED Poster Session

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Aura Tuulia Paloheimo, Aalto University, School of Science and Engineering; Kaisa Pohjonen, Aalto University; Pirjo Helena Putila

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Report: “Science Policies in the European Union - Promoting excellence throughmainstreaming gender equality”, http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/g_wo_etan_en_200101.pdf(retrieved 08 March 2011)[8] Sagebiel, F. and Dahmen, J.: “Masculinities in organizational cultures in engineering education in Europe:results of the European Union project WomEng”, European Journal of Engineering Education, 1469-5898, Vol.,31, Issue 1, 2006, Pp. 5 – 14.[9] Miliszewska, I. and Moore, A.: “Encouraging Girls to Consider a Career in ICT: A Review of Strategies”,Journal of Information Technology Education, Year 2010, Vol. 9.[10] Gras-Velazquez, A., Joyce, A. and Debry, M.: “Women and ICT Why are girls still not attracted to ICTstudies and careers

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Innovations in Computing Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University; Eman A. Aldakheel, Bowling Green State University

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 ultimately uses IaaS utilities. In addition, the project identified different levels of difficulties in courses to explore more than one layer of cloud services.  Figure 4: The proposed CBE­CS architecture mapping Computer Science courses to the  Cloud architecture (courses appearing in multiple layers have different levels). Moving  from  the  SaaS  layer  to  the  PaaS  reflects  the  increase  in  the  depth,  difficulty,  and complexity of a course. Likewise, the move from PaaS to IaaS indicates complexity of a course  Page 25.318.8with  respect  to  the  needs  for  details  in  VM  configuration,  networking

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FPD IX: Research on First-year Programs Part III

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin A.M. Hensel Ed.D., West Virginia University; Todd R. Hamrick Ph.D., West Virginia University

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facilitate some students’ successful path through the Calculus sequence andultimately through an engineering major to graduation. Page 25.334.9REFERENCES1. Hart, B.G.; Holloman, T.l.; Oapos; Connor, C.A. A Calculus Retention Program for Students at Risk in Engineering. Frontiers in Education Conference, 1995. Proceedings, 1995.2. Lowery, Andrew, Steve Kane, Vicki Kane, Robin Hensel, Gary Ganser. Joint Math-Engineering Projects to Facilitate Calculus Success in First Year Students. The 2010 ASEE Conference and Exposition, June 20- 23, 2010, Louisville, KY. Proceedings, 2010.3. Tsang, E., Halderson, C., Kallen, K. Work In

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Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deepika Sangam, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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were most difficult? Explain. 3. In your opinion, what is the most effective way to learn electricity concepts? For example, you can consider: textbooks, web-based simulation, lecture and discussion, projects, and problem practice.To determine the relationship between student perception and performance, we used studentresponses for question #1 to compute a perception score (p-score). Representative responsesranged from “difficult because hard to visualize” to “no it is just formula based.” Mostrespondents mentioned that it had been a long while since they last encountered electric circuitconcepts or problems. We assigned p-score=0 for responses such “yes it is difficult …”, p-score=1 for responses like “it is somewhat difficult