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Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Dyrud

, 2003, from http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf03312/c2/c2s7.htm.13. Dyrud, Marilyn A. (compiler). A1997 Engineering Technology Bibliography.@ Journal of EngineeringTechnology 15, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 18-34.14. Dyrud, Marilyn A. (compiler). A1999 Engineering Technology Bibliography.@ Journal of EngineeringTechnology 17, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 38-51.Marilyn A. Dyrud is a full professor in the Communications Department at Oregon Institute of Technology andteaches classes in technical and business writing, public speaking, and professional ethics, and is part of the facultyteam for the civil engineering integrated senior project. She has been active is ASEE for 20 years. She is also activein the Association for Business Communication and the Association for

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

enhance content quality and/or quantity more easily.5. Adapting multi-media course content to the on-line environment Limitations of on-line course offering and management software to handle multi-media course content must be overcome (by alternative means if required) to ensure that such multi-media content is provided on-line just as it is done in regular classroom situations.6. Conforming with copyright issues It is of course necessary ethically and legally to comply with copyright and confidentiality protocols. This can be quite a challenge given that students are in various geographic locations with access to information from various sources not only in the public domain but also in the

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Camille George

Laboratory, LA-UR-99- 3231 (1999).6. Meyer, R., “Introduction to Basic Design of Experiments Concepts”, © Meyer Group, Inc., (2001)7. UST, Bush Grant, www.stthomas.edu/bushgrantBiographical InformationCAMILLE GEORGECamille George is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of St. Thomas. She teachesThermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics. She received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, a B.S.and M.S. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She workedseveral years as an engineer for Ingersoll-Rand and Martin-Marietta before obtaining her doctorate. Her currentinterests are in the areas of fuel cells, ethics and humanitarian engineering

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Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Thompson; William Oakes

engineering.These issues include: professional and ethical responsibility, the impact of engineering solutionsin a global and societal context, and a knowledge of contemporary issues. While recognizing itsimportance within the engineering curriculum, many departments find it difficult to effectivelyintegrate experiences that include the full spectrum of professional, or “soft” skills, that simulate Page 9.784.1current industrial practices (Hughes, 2001). “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Harris; David Gatchell; Robert Linsenmeier

” by the time they graduate with Bachelor of Sciencedegrees. We also feel that there are a set of “core competencies” (e.g., communications,teamwork, ethics, etc.) with which BMEs should be familiar, if not able to masterfullydemonstrate. Though of equal importance to the “key content” knowledge described above, ourpresent focus is on determining the key elements of biomedical engineering domain knowledgeand disseminating these elements to our colleagues in academia and industry (other members ofVaNTH are actively developing a consensus set of “core competencies” in collaboration with theCDIO7 initiative at MIT). Page 9.258.1 “Proceedings

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Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Okechi Egekwu

of business interactions and linkages. Criticalbusiness data must be accessible to authorized users (comprising suppliers, employees,distributors, retailers, customers, etc.) within the value chain in a timely and controlledmanner. Corporations store confidential and/or proprietary information belonging to otherfirms as well as their own. Compromising proprietary information has severe business,ethical and legal repercussions for an enterprise. The Computer Security Institute incooperation with the San Francisco FBI office conducts an annual survey of computercrime and losses – it reports that in 2003, survey respondents stated that proprietaryinformation theft contributed to the most financial loss and averaged $2.7 million perincident. [2

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Wunderlich

function on multi-disciplinary teams. (e) An ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems. (f) An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. (g) An ability to communicate effectively. (h) A broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context. (i) A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning. (j) A knowledge of contemporary issues. (k) An ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.Each program should also specify whether or not these criteria are equally weighted and why,and all criteria must be met by some

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nolan Van Gaalen; Kristin Wood; Carl Erikson; Frank Duda; Matthew Green; Steven VanderLeest

worldreligions (as indicated by their international outreach). It is not surprising, therefore, thati “As a Professional Engineer, I dedicate my professional knowledge and skill to the advancement and betterment of Page 9.1091.1human welfare …” (NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers) Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2625engineering departments at faith-based institutions place a high value

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Segalewitz

all students to purchase notebook computers. All Engineering Technology students enroll inthe course during their first semester at the University. This one-credit course meets for one 75-minute class period per week, and is graded on a pass/no credit (P/NC) basis. Because of thisgrading scheme, some students realize that attendance and a minimum amount of work are allthat are required to obtain credit for the course. As such, engaging students in each area of studyis the best way to maintain their interest in the subject area.Areas of study in the beginning of the course involve discussion and activities related to ethics,diversity, study skills, time management, University policies & procedures, and the designprocess. Four weeks of the

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar

of a 45-minute discussion followed by one hour of open lab time for students to work on the final designproject. The class discussions during the final five weeks provide an adequate coverage of topicssuch as ethics in engineering, ergonomics, and intellectual property. Page 9.783.4 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Students’ CommentsDuring Spring 2003 semester, a questionnaire was administered to ED&G 100 students at theAltoona College of Penn State University. The objective of

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

countries at that institution. 2. UM-D students would be exposed to and learn social, cultural, ethical, political and economic aspects of student life and of the profession, in general, in the host country. 3. UM-D students would interact with host and international students at the institution. 4. Upon their return, the participants would discuss and/or make presentation on program benefits and their learning experience to other interested students, program staff and advisors.Institutions and ProgramsAfter a series of discussions and exchange of information, the College developed international Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Daughton

include quality function deployment, statistical process control, and design of experiments.EMEN 5050 Provides working engineers a background in leadership andLeadership and Management management theory and enables them to develop practical skills in leading and managing. Topics include managerial styles, organizational factors, communications, ethics, change management, and conflict resolution.EMEN 5300 Explores how research and development contribute toManagement of R&D technological innovation and they are conducted and managed

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Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

issues It is of course necessary ethically and legally to comply with copyright and confidentiality protocols. This can be quite a challenge given that students are in various geographic locations with access to information from various sources not only in the public domain but also in the private domain such as their workplaces. It is important to make use of administrative support that is often available to address such issues.7. Offering useful on-line teaching/learning tools On-line group discussion forums, e-mail correspondence, on-line announcements, digital drop boxes for assignment and submission of tasks, and on-line quiz / exams are some of the on-line tools that must support the core

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

as: • DFT topics that would be used in much larger projects in industry • Automated testing techniques used in industry • failure analysis techniques used in industryOther industry-oriented topics include: • The formal prototype development process such as that used by a contract PCB design house • SMT automated assembly and test issues • Secondary source considerations for parts • Timing of semiconductor manufacturing • Professional ethics • International nature of industryWhile this course results from the faculty’s desire to improve the ECET curriculum at Purdue’smain campus, the author feels it would serve equally well as a capstone course for an AS

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

. by early part of 21st century [3].• The influx of large amount of federal and corporate funding that have supported students of diverse background to purse technical higher education• The social and ethical responsibilities of colleges and universities to provide access and support to students of color and diverse background. Page 9.503.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationWhatever the reasons, there have been an influx of new programs aimed at recruitment, retentionand

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International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Fazil Najafi

andproviding unique learning opportunities to its faculty and students. Seminars, workshops andshort courses are regularly arranged at these civil engineering college campuses. Students areencouraged to take part in such extra activities3.The Council of Engineering that accredits academic programs also regulates professionalregistration of engineers at four levels; Associate Engineer, Fellow Engineer, Charter Engineer,and Corporate Engineer. Registration as an Associate Engineer requires a degree in engineeringwith a minimum of a C grade in each of ten specified subjects as shown in Table 1 plus passingan intensive two day course in each of the following areas: Ethics, Environment, Safety, Law andSkills7

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sheryl Sorby

Language Certificate Writing Certificate American Studies Minor Astrophysics Minor Biochemistry Minor Biological Sciences Minor Chemistry Minor Communication Studies Minor Computer Science Minor Earth Sciences Minor Ecology Minor Economics Minor Electronic Materials Minor Environmental Studies Minor Ethics and Philosophy Minor

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wieslaw Grebski; Rajeshwar Amireddy; Lori Singer; Judith O'Donnell

; Financial Accounting) 3 BA 243 (Social, Legal, Ethical Environment of Business) 4 ECON 2 or 4 (Micro Economics) 3 17 1 7 Semester 7 Semester 8 BA 421 (Project Management & Planning for Business) 3 * BA 422W (Contemporary Business Seminar) 3 IB 303 (International Business Operations) 3 BA 495 (Internship) 6

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim; Sean Clancey

knowledge, communication skills, professional ethics, contemporary/global issues,and environmental/safety issues. The metric is “3.0 on a scale of 1-4 on rated questions1.”The results of this survey are not yet available.Tool #5 Analysis of Written MaterialsTool #5 of the department’s assessment plan is “Portfolio of written materials in capstone andcommunication courses. Faculty and an industrial group will evaluate for communication andteamwork skills.” The metric is “85% pass rate (>80 out of 100 score) 1.”This tool has never been fully implemented as it is largely an overlap of Tool 2. Discussion hasbeen held on replacing this tool with an assessment procedure that reviews the comments aboutstudents working in co-op positions written by

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Darcy Schein; Cathryne Stein

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education 2engineering, design, language arts, and even ethics. Educational robotics is usually multi-modal,involving programming, mechanical design and construction, teamwork and project management.This can be a real opportunity for students with learning styles not typically suited to classroomwork to flourish and demonstrate their talent.The Botball Program is the main educational initiative at the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics.Botball is an educational program for middle and high school

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Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wood

to be competent in a more narrowly focuseddiscipline or workplace skill. In today's new manufacturing environment, the role of theengineering technology technician is expanding to include competencies such as teaming,problem solving, effective communications, planning and prioritizing, time management, andgood work ethics. 1 It has been reported that the problem-based learning (PBL) approach willaccomplish the goals of preparing graduates for this new workplace. 2, 3The South Carolina Advanced Technological Education (SC ATE) Center of Excellence has Page 7.1269.1addressed the demand for such a technician by restructuring the entry-level

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Bottomley; Aaron Clark

-careerdevelopment and ethics-legal responsibilities. The full listing of the statements chosen to definethese knowledge and skill categories is available on the web site: www.careerclusters.com. Thiswebsite also contains a list of examples of careers that fit into the definition of this pathway. In addition to statements that further define the categories, performance elements (i.e. specificskill requirements) and measurement criteria (i.e. how these skills would be demonstrated) arelisted. Taken together, these elements should describe the knowledge and skills that would benecessary to anyone seeking a career in this cluster area. Some of these categories were judged tobe common across the engineering and technology and science and mathematics sub

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Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeff Goldberg

Session 2561 • Sharon Bender, university professor [7] - "If engineers are to be more than technical functionaries in the next millenium there is a need to provide young engineers with an understanding of the social context within which they will work, together with skills in critical analysis and ethical judgement, and an ability to assess the long term consequences of their work. Engineering in the modern world also involves many social skills. These include the ability to understand and realise community goals, to persuade relevant authorities of the benefits of investing money in engineering projects, to mobilise, organise and coordinate human, financial and physical resources, to communicate and

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Schmidt

to the broader purpose of the experiment, in terms of its long-term impact. • Overall, the oral presentation is effective in teaching how statistics can be applied to analyze different types of experimental data.phase leading to the final report. Analysis and interpretation of the resulting dataset thencontributes to the solution of the problem.An understanding of professional and ethical responsibilityProfessional responsibility includes the use of engineering standards, and ASTM standards areused as the basis for the experimental designs. Students are introduced to engineering standardsin this course and continue using them in the senior BME design course sequence taken thefollowing year.An ability to communicate

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mihalasky; Gina Boesch; Keith Sheppard

Open-ended DEVELOP COMPETENCIES THROUGHOUT THE DESIGN SPINE Multi-disciplinary Teaming Project Management Cost Analysis teams Problem Solving Ethics Industrial Ecology Communication Computer Applications Marketing Sponsored by DESIGN 4 DESIGN 6 Industry DESIGN 2

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2001 Annual Conference

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Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

optimization ofbioreactors.LARRY V. MCINTIREDr. McIntire is the E.D. Butcher Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering and Chair of the Institute ofBiosciences and Bioengineering. Dr. McIntire received his B.Ch.E. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering fromCornell University in 1966 and his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 1970. Dr.McIntire has edited two texts: Biotechnology - Science, Engineering and Ethical Challenges for the Twenty-FirstCentury [Joseph Henry Press (NAS), 1996] and Frontiers in Tissue Engineering [Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd.,1998]. Page 6.372.6Proceedings of the 2001

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Atashbar

the due date for each assignment. Thisenabled us to not only motivate a stronger work ethic, but also tutor on the fundamentals of goodprogramming practices. The remainder of the course was spent on data acquisition (sampling,Nyquist criteria, Fourier Transforms and feature extraction), signal conditioning, sensors, serialand parallel asynchronous communications and control. Each topic was demonstrated at thehardware level and formed the basis of a software assignment. Assignments are listed along witha short description in Table 2.Table 2: Programming assignments used in ECE 351. 1. Demonstration Program: A Visual Basic version of the "Hello World" program in which a variety of VB components are demonstrated. 2. Ohm's

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2000 Annual Conference

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Sheila Horan

checked and verified by the lab instructor. If the design didn’t work, the students had to re-do the design until it did work. Each student has indicated2 that this lab is a positive experienceand that they have gained useful information from participation in the labs. The first studentsthrough this newly designed curriculum are currently sophomores and have not yet reached thecapstone level. When they do reach the capstone class, the capstone faculty will be surveyed todetermine if the student’s preparation level has increased. A sample of the lab on VolageDivision is included in the Appendix to this paper.Bibliography1. The Ethics Challenge, produced by Lockheed Martin Corporation, Westlake Village CA, 19982. Student course evaluations, Fall

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2000 Annual Conference

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Richard A. Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

operationswork place paradigm. To ensure that quality reigns in a facility, training is required. Basicteamwork and other interpersonal skills can be learned in a classroom environment. Themanipulations and interpretations of statistical quality control and its resulting data, the gauge ofquality can be learned and applied by everyone in a facility. Ethics can be nurtured in aclassroom environment. Safety, environmental health, and industrial ecology can also belearned. Three courses in the curriculum will address these issues. They include StatisticalQuality Control, Process Safety and HAZMAT, Quality Concepts and Team Building Skills.Additionally, quality issues will permeate all the technical training courses so that students notonly have focused

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael McCracken; Wendy Newstetter

, effectivecommunications and the ethical issues of design.What is missing in product dissection classes is the opportunity for students to learn designing asa cognitive activity that emphasizes design thinking. Our research in design learning1,2 leads usto believe that students come to designing with a set of misconceptions that confound theirlearning (in whatever milieu) and those misconceptions have to be confronted and dealt with asearly as possible. We want the students to uncover design processes and construct their ownmodels of designing.II. Misconceptions of DesigningAs we previously mentioned students possess a set of misconceptions that confound theirlearning of design, our work has analyzed in detail the misconceptions2 and generated the theoryof