Conference Session

Middle School Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney A. Peckens, University of Michigan; Jerome Peter Lynch, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

foundation for thegeometric concepts that were previously introduced (see Table 1).The final course module in the program introduces another branch of civil engineering with afocus on strength of materials. To establish the subject, the students discuss the choice ofmaterial for construction of civil infrastructure with emphases on the factors that engineersconsider when choosing materials for construction for their projects. To further demonstrate theproperties of the materials, the students explore the compressive strength of clay through a small-scale stress-strain test12. Once the test is complete, the students plot their results on a scatter plotto determine the slope, or modulus of elasticity, of their stress-strain curve. To demonstrate

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aditya Johri, Virginia Tech; Hon Jie Teo, Virginia Tech; Jenny L. Lo, Virginia Tech; Asta B. Schram, Virginia Tech; Monique S. Dufour, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Social Networking Sites and other Technologies. Pew Internet & American Life Project 2011 10. Hargittai, E. & Litt, E. (2011). The Tweet Smell of Celebrity Success: Explaining Twitter Adoption among a Diverse Group of Young Adults. New Media & Society, 13(5), 824-842. 11. Hembrooke, H. & Gay, G. (2003). The laptop and the lecture: The effects of multitasking in learning environments. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 15, 46-64. 12. Finin, T., Java, A., Song, X., & Tseng, B.. 2007. Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities. In Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis (WebKDD/SNA-KDD ’07). ACM

Conference Session

Focus on Elementary

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

work too well, she might want to make a few better more changes than she did  He improved it  He was fixing his project he was redoing it to make it not break the eggTest Testing out the prototypes  You don't know if it works if you don't test them. built  He tested the test version…. So he can see what he needs to addDocument Taking notes of what  He wrote a report about it… So that ummm everybody ideas came up and what else knows. was

Conference Session

Android TA: Course Automation and the Fate of the Professor

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

King To Hung, Brigham Young University; Fernando Fonseca, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

financially. The financial situation was projected to retirement:65 years of age. The analysis used a timeline from year zero to year 47. Year zero represents thebeginning of age 18 (presumably when a person graduates from high school). Year 47 representsthe end of a person’s 65th year of age, (or the end of a person’s career). Three sets of analyses Page 25.43.7were performed: 1) simple cash flow; 2) 5% of annual income was invested in some low-riskinvestment, such as a mutual fund, and yields 12% overall annual return; and 3) 10% of annualincome was invested in some low-risk investment, such as a mutual fund, and yields 12% overallannual return

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian M. Wade, U.S. Military Academy; Robert J. Rabb, U.S. Military Academy; R. Clayton McVay, U.S. Military Academy; Peter Hanlon, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

, andfundamental design knowledge to complete capstone design projects requiring dynamicmodeling and control expertise. The course is multidisciplinary and is conducted as a jointoffering with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and theDepartment of Civil and Mechanical Engineering.The Thermal-Fluids course devotes 3.0 credit hours to engineering topics of which 2.5 credits areallotted to engineering science and 0.5 credits are allotted to design. The course is the secondcourse in a three-part course engineering sequence that non-engineer majors must take as aninstitutional requirement. The purpose of the three course sequence is to give the students abasic engineering understanding, but more importantly to help them learn

Conference Session

Improving IE Course Content

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

AC 2012-5126: AN EXERCISE FOR IMPROVING THE MODELING ABIL-ITIES OF STUDENTS IN AN OPERATIONS RESEARCH COURSEDr. Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering at Colorado State University, Pueblo. He received his M.Sc. in system engineering and his Ph.D. in engineering manage- ment from the National University of Colombia and Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va, respectively. His research interests include scheduling, operations research, and modeling and simulation in health care and energy planning. He has participated in several funded projects through various sources such as NASA, the Department of Homeland Security

Conference Session

Mechanics Concepts II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology ; Richard L. Roberts, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Ali Reza Moazed, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anthony William Duva, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

and discussion will be presented.According to the survey, students favored the application of SolidWorks in these two coursesand would like to see more integration of this tool for a greater understanding of the concepts inStatics and Strength of Materials.2. Program Description Wentworth Institute of Technology remains committed to academic excellence byproviding a hands-on, practical education to the future leaders in the disciplines of engineering,technology, design, and management. The Baccalaureate programs of Mechanical Engineeringand Mechanical Engineering Technology in the Department of Mechanical Engineering andTechnology at Wentworth Institute of Technology is a cooperative education and projected-based program in which there

Conference Session

Student Development and Assessment in IE Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaseen Mahmud, Morgan State University; Masud Salimian, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

conceptual discussions.Problem definitionTo overcome that deficiency, to improve teaching, and enhance learning of students, instructorshave over time developed novel and innovative concepts [7] that include, but are not limited, to: 1. Course projects Page 25.231.2 2. Software assignments 3. Journal reading and research 4. Online help, class handouts, and other ancillary materials.However, most of such efforts rely on instructor’s experience and his/ her desire and initiative toimprove teaching skills. Since many OR instructors are not familiar enough with the vastresources available in the area of student learning, they usually do not

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle B. Reed, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

one’s perception about one’s own abilities. Toassist in measuring self-efficacy, Carberry et al.5 validated an instrument based on 36 questionsto measure self-efficacy in engineering design tasks. Their measure does not apply as well to Page 25.232.4task-specific concepts and they state that further study is needed on how self-efficacy relates tocognitive learning outcomes in engineering education.In contrast to much of the literature that has focused on student’s confidence in general terms,such as their ability to succeed in a course or on a complex design project, this paper focuses onself-efficacy in the face of specific problems that are

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Ramachandran, North Carolina State University; Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

automatedmetareviewing technique. The statistical analysis tool R is used to carry out the text analysis [7].The lsa package available for R is used to perform classification using LSA and cosine. For textpre-processing, the text mining and natural language packages such as tm, openNLP and Wordnetare used. Page 25.245.83.1. ExpertizaReview data consisting of textual feedback provided by students was collected from courses atNorth Carolina State University that used the Expertiza system [2, 3]. Expertiza is a collaborativeweb-based learning application that helps students work together on projects and critique eachother’s work using peer reviews. Figure 1 shows

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

education, approached from the perspective of Human Constructivism. She has been involved in collabo- rative research projects focused on conceptual learning in chemistry, seismology, and chemical engineer- ing. Page 25.256.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Introduction There is broad recognition that meaningful learning requires that students master fundamentalconcepts. Understanding concepts and the connections among concepts is one of the primary distinctionsbetween experts and novices (Bransford et al., 2000; Chi, 2006;). Conceptual understanding is also aprerequisite for

Conference Session

Assessment in Graphics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary A. Sadowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Judith A. Birchman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brandon Xavier Karcher, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

Technologystudent services representatives visit a large number of Indiana high school Project Lead the Wayclasses. The representatives promote the college programs, network with the teachers, anddiscuss the need for high school mathematics and science.2Print The college has a variety of print publications; however, the major print recruiting piece isthe College of Technology magazine. This annual publication is targeted towards high schoolstudents and their parents. It includes information about all of the technology programs as well asinformation about scholarships, student organizations, and vignettes of current students.Programs are grouped into four key areas rather than by individual majors: 1) computing,2) engineering technology, 3) technology

Conference Session

Empowering the User Learning Experience: Evolution in Library Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill H. Powell, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

– consult with them before making final decisions. They may have special requirements (such as shelving by oversize) to follow or will need to make space to receive the books. 7) Google Books – Google scanned some 30,000 items from the Engineering Library collection for the Google Books project. In order to move books only once, the decision was made to move books immediately to the Library Annex after the scanning. 8) Reference books – are often handled individually by reference and collections staff, see below. 9) Theses – these were identified and moved together early to the Annex since they are high use, and doing so would minimize delays for patrons requesting them.27The collection development and reference

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akim Faisal, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander P.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-5480: USING ROBOTICS TO PROMOTE LEARNING IN ELE-MENTARY GRADESMr. Akim Faisal, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Akim Faisal is currently pursuing a master’s of science in mechanical engineering.Dr. Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Vikram Kapila is a professor of mechanical engineering at NYU-Poly, where he directs an NSF-funded Web-enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF-funded Research Experi- ence 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, Ohio. His research interests are in cooper- ative control, distributed spacecraft

Conference Session

Innovative Course Developments in Construction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Tingerthal P.E., Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

2001. He holds professional engineering licenses in the states of Arizona and Illinois. He is currently working on a doctorate of education in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in higher education. His academic interests lie in the field of student-centered learning and teaching. He has been a primary instructor in a transdisciplinary course that incorporated engineering, construction, cultural anthropology, and emergency medicine in an immersive experiential setting that was aimed to prepare students for international development projects. Tingerthal is a member of Engineers without Borders, ASCE, AISC, and the Building Smart Alliance and advises the construction management student organization (CMO). He

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Futuristic Planning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Fisher, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indiananpolis; Wanda L. Worley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Eugenia Fernandez, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2012-4032: USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL NETWORKING TECH-NOLOGIES IN THE CLASSROOM: A COMPARISON OF FACULTY ANDSTUDENT PERCEPTIONSTiffany Fisher, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indiananpolis Tiffany Fisher is a first-year graduate student pursuing her M.S. in technology at Indiana University- Purdue University, Indianapolis. She is currently employed by Indiana University Health as a Business Analyst in their Information Services Project Management Office.Dr. Wanda L. Worley, Indiana University-Purdue University, IndianapolisEugenia Fernandez, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Eugenia Fernandez is an Associate Professor of computer and information technology and Chair of the Department of Computer

Conference Session

Future Directions of Continuing Professional Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo A. Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert A. Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

way of addressingdifficulties in integrating CBI into the workshops. Integration was important to the authorsbecause they believe that this pedagogy is effective, even if the students are faculty members,and that the faculty will be more highly motivated to adopt pedagogy that they have experiencedthemselves. The use of the Wiki website devoted to this CBI dissemination project facilitatedthe training process by improving the quality of the faculty workshops while also reducing therequired time investment of faculty and the workshop team. Over several semesters, with theinput of workshop participants, the site has grown to include a breadth of CBI examples that arenow well integrated into the workshop activities. The site gives faculty a

Conference Session

New Research and Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari L. Jordan, Ohio State University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University; Susan L. Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Investigator or Co-principal Investigator on more than $7 million in external funding, most from the National Science Foundation for educational projects. She is the author of numerous publications and several textbooks.Dr. Susan L. Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University Susan Amato-Henderson is an Associate Professor of psychology in the Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences at Michigan Technological University, earning her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of North Dakota. Her research focuses on assessment of educational outcomes in higher education as related to STEM learning, with a focus on the effects of various experiences on in- dividuals’ self-efficacy, entrepreneurial

Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy; Scott M. Katalenich, U.S. Military Academy; Steven D. Hart, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Conversely, engineers acting alone are equally unlikely to makewell-informed decisions about system-level concerns like climate change. Sadly, engineers inthe past have too often made decisions that were good for the project or purpose within theirpurview only to find that the solution had broader societal harms that far outweighed the projectgains. It will take an intellectually diverse team to meet the Triple Bottom Line of EconomicProsperity, Health Environment and Social Equity (Regional Plan Association 2008).GEN ED 231: INFRASTRUCTURE APPRECIATIONUnfortunately, the truth is that very few universities offer, much less require, even a singlegeneral education course covering the composition and function of infrastructure; call itInfrastructure

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alister McLeod, Indiana State Uniersity; Jim Smallwood, Indiana State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. Flexibility in worker skills is something that is sought bythe company and it comes from two separate areas. One is worker experience, which is thoughtto be a good gauge of time and project management skills and the other is training on similartype of equipment or systems. The concept of multiple automated equipment integration is vitalto the company, as each newly acquired equipment purchase requires these skilled employeeswith intimate knowledge of the company’s intranet system. The final question asked pertained to the formulation of production schedules and howmodels were used to aid in these decisions. With the availability of instantaneous data productionscheduling becomes more flexible as downtimes can be predicted in advance and

Conference Session

Out-of-School and Informal Activities

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brittany L. Luken, Georgia Institute of Technology; Susan L. Hotle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurie Anne Garrow, Georgia Institute of Technology; Christopher Cappelli, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lauren Alise Jones; Margaret-Avis Anyeley Akofio-Sowah, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stefanie Brodie, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

-on activities, lectures,field trips, and projects. A team from CEISMC was responsible for advertising and recruitinghigh school students to attend the camp, handling logistics associated with the camp, andproviding an assessment for the camp.A professor and several graduate students from Georgia Tech’s School of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering developed curriculum and lead the summer camp. The campfocused on providing insight to the complexities of owning and operating an airline. Studentslearned why many of the customer service issues they encounter when traveling occur: why itcan be difficult for an airline to make a profit without raising fares, how probability distributionsaffect flight delays and customer denied boardings, etc

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Benson, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

learning as an acquisition and integration process, thisis further reinforced when the concept of a spiral curriculum is also considered. Kolb (2000) in his Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) highlights the necessity ofcyclical instruction. ELT divides the learning cycle in to four phases: experiencing, reflecting,thinking, and acting. As a model for education, this process is both planned (formatted) andresponsive to the situation and content/skills being learned: activities are structured and plannedbut flexible to include individual. The cyclical nature of ELT supports this project in thenecessity of revisiting concepts at various points, over time to solidify and deepen a learner’sknowledge or concept acquisition and mastery

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jared P. Coyle, Drexel University; Adam K. Fontecchio, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Make Solar Energy Economical EM Spectrum Electrical Activity: Liquid Crystal ThermometersUnit 3: Periodic Table Engineer the Tools of Scientific Element properties All Project: Pet Elements Discovery Restore and Improve Urban Organic Materials Chemical, Unit: Marcellus Shale Infrastructure Mechanical Advance Health Informatics Semiconductors Computer Activity: Computer Disassembly Make Solar

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Montgomery

onsabbatical may suggest special projects your department head wishes for you to take on. Youmay be suited to a revised set of committee assignments. In addition to being faced with revised duties because of changes in you, things at homehave changed, too. While you were gone, someone else was teaching “your” courses, someoneelse was running “your” programs, and someone else was advising “your” students. It may bebetter for your department for that person to continue, while you get treated somewhat like anewly hired faculty member, at least with regard to your flexibility. Even if you get "your"courses and programs back, they will be forever marked with someone else’s footprints. So, what effect does this have on your sabbatical activities

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rami Zarrouk; Andrew Love; Maurice F. Aburdene

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Enter initial estimate ( X 0 ), its uncertainty ( Σ 0 ). Compute Kalman Gain Bi = Σ +xi H T ( HΣ +xi H T + R ) −1 Project ahead Update estimate with X i+ = ΦX i− measurement Yi Σ+x = Φσ x− ΦT + Q

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Durward Sobek

studentsimprove ladder program quality and/or problem-solving efficiency.1. IntroductionProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLC’s) are specialized microcomputers specifically designed forautomated discrete control of industrial processes. Any engineering student interested in industrialautomation would benefit from a strong grounding in this technology. At Montana StateUniversity, the Industrial and Management Engineering program offers PLC programming as partof the first course in computer integrated manufacturing. This paper describes the results of aclassroom research project conducted to test the efficacy of an alternative approach to solving PLCprogramming problems.PLC’s are unique from other microcomputer-based systems in that the most commonly

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Thom; Caroline Hoy; Raymond Thompson

assistants on this project, have confirmed thatwomen are noticeably sensitive about being surveyed and investigated. Information gained fromthey typical multiple choice surveys seemed to prompt the women to adopt a defensive mode ofthought or a politically correct mode of thought when answering.The current effort has gone to gathering data using structured focus groups and by using moreopen ended survey forms. It is felt that the focus group format provides the women surveyedwith the comfort level to answer questions based on their perceptions rather than answeringbased on correct sounding rhetoric. As of the spring of 2001 several focus groups have beenscheduled by a graduate researcher in the Purdue University School of Technology Graduateprogram

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Page 6.1108.6most helpful to students during their Engineering 170 design projects, where the students wererequired to write lengthy reports and to give oral presentations to a specific audience.“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Engl 104/Engr 170/Engr 101 Link 4.00 3.50 3.00 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 1 2 3 4 5 6 Question Number Figure 2. Average responses (N=11) to the following ABE

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Brigade; Laura Deam; La Toya Coley; Jessica Linck; Jan Kidwell; Elizabeth Goodson; Brent Robinson; Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

of students scoring at or above gradelevel), the number of children participating in the science fair offered by the school each yearand any other changes put in place by the school, outside of the auspices of the program. Testscores are tracked as a measure of increased interest in learning that it is hypothesized theprogram could inspire, and number of science fair participants is tracked as a measure of interestin science. Science fair projects are required of fourth and fifth graders at Combs but areoptional for all other students. Test scores for the 1999/2000 school year are compared withthose of the year before the program began in Table 4. Third Fourth Fifth

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Geoff Swan; S P Maj; D Veal

ofComputing in Higher Education. 7(1). 3-32, 1995.9. Heyward, J. Assessment in Higher Education. 2ed. John Wiley & Sons. Chichester. 222- 225, 1989.10. Keitel, C. Is there a real Chance for “Mathematics and Science for All Americans”? Proceedings of theUniversity of Chicago School Mathematics Project International Conference on Mathematics Education.National Council of teachers of Mathematics. USA. 35-48, 1992.11. Kohli, G. Maj S.P. & Veal, D. Multi-media technology – an opportunity for modern engineering education.ASEE Conference. St. Louis, MO. USA. 2000.12. Kumar, S. & Jalkio J. Teaching Mathematics from an Applications Perspective. Proceedings of the 1998conference American Society for Engineering Education. Seattle, Washington, USA