Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning through Laboratory Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy John Worm P.E., Michigan Technological University; John E. Beard, Michigan Technological University; Wayne Weaver, Michigan Technological University; Carl L. Anderson, Michigan Technological University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

theeducational experience, a 600 W photovoltaic solar array and a 300 W wind turbine are beingadded as part of a Capstone Senior Design Project. A graphical interface allows students to see,in realtime, the flow of power among various sources and loads. Sources include the 80 kWdiesel fueled generator, the test cell dynamometers (when in absorbing mode, and onceconnected to the micro-grid), and the solar or wind generation systems. Loads include the HVACsystem, test cell support systems, computers, lights, dynamometers (when in motoring mode), anelectric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) charging station for plug-in HEV’s and EV’sincluding the lab’s Chevy Volt and CHEV. A controllable 5 kW loadbank has been installed toprovide participants with additional

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

(Ruth) Jill Urbanic, University of Windsor; Susan S. Sawyer-Beaulieu, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Industrial Engineering Students1 Introduction1.1 Introduction to capstone design project workshopsThe classical senior capstone design course consists of establishing an environment wherestudents are given the experience in solving a substantial problem while working in a teamenvironment. The engineering design problems to which Canadian engineering students areexposed must be open-ended, and require the integration of curriculum elements1. In theIndustrial Engineering (IE) program at the University of Windsor, industrial sponsors from avariety of sectors (automotive, food, recycling, hospitals, and so forth) are engaged to providereal open ended projects to the industrial engineering students over a two term period. Withrealistic ill defined opened

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susantha Herath, St. Cloud State University; Rohitha Goonatilake, Texas A&M International University ; Suvineetha Herath

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

National Science Foundation Grant Award # 1154398.References and Bibliography[1] 2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Projections for 2012-22 [online]. Available: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecopro.pdf.[2] T. Estes, J. Finocchiaro, J. Blair, J. Robison, J. Dalme, M. Emana, L. Jenkins and E. Sobiesk, “A Capstone Design Project for Teaching Cybersecurity to Non-technical Users,” SIGITE 2016.[3] D. F. Whalen and M.C. Shelley, “Academic Success for STEM and Non-STEM Majors.” Journal of STEM Education, 2010.[4] B. W. Packard, J. L. Gagnon and A. Senas, “Avoiding unnecessary delays: Women and men navigating the community college transfer pathway in science, technical, engineering, and mathematics fields.” Community

Conference Session

A Focus on Sustainability

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Inez Hua, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

District of Columbia regulate electronic waste disposal. Moregenerally, it is estimated that industrial economies return much of the raw material to theenvironment as waste, within one year of extraction (8). There are technological and societalbarriers towards overcoming the conventional linear cycle of consumption. A societal challengeis the flow of electronic waste between countries, for example from the United States to China.However, the focus of the RET Site was to provide research projects based on the naturalsciences for the teachers, so the issue of electronic waste export was not explicitly addressed.Instead, teachers focused on characterizing and solve technical challenges. Engineers of all disciplines, including environmental

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division (CONST) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veto Matthew Ray, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis; Brenda Morrow, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

project, and overall course grades as aculmination of student course performance. Student surveys of the course's flipped learningformat provide an indirect assessment of student perceptions and were gathered for Fall 2022.Additional data will be gathered in future semesters, as will direct and indirect assessment datawhen students complete their senior capstone project.Furthermore, this paper presents a review of the literature discussing related research and thepedagogy of flipped learning. It provides a basis for the rationale of implementing flippedlearning in the university classroom and strategies for construction management programs.It is the authors’ intent to discuss this topic within the framework of the university constructioncost

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Pedagogy 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University

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Engineering Technology

Design Projects, which the author co-taught for several years. We also found that students generally tended to avoid DAQ for their Capstone Design Projects. As mentioned, the students use NI USB 6001 (previously NI USB 6008) as the DAQ for this class. They are required to compare and report on pros and cons for up to four different DAQs from different manufacturers. After this introduction, the number of capstone design projects that used DAQ increased. ● Basic programming blocks and structures used in various computer i/o systems software. For example: sequential structure, for and while loops, decision structures (e.g., like if, if then else, switch, case) Boolean logic. Designing modules for

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blair McDonald, SUU Integrated Engineering; William Pratt, SUU Integrated Engineering; Nicholas Winowich, SUU Integrated Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

* Chemistry* Thermodynamics Engineering Design & Management Physics I* & II* Heat Transfer Circuits* & Electronics* Engineering Design I, II, III, IV Material Science* Capstone Design V & VI System Dynamics Facilities Engineering Economics Project Management Manufacturing 131 Credit Hrs

Conference Session

LabVIEW and Mindstorms Based Experiments

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy; Jose Salinas, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

in its third andfinal course of the sequence, ME450. The effectiveness of this capstone course atinspiring a somewhat reluctant student population to get excited about applyingengineering principles and problem-solving techniques is primarily due to a syllabus thatis structured around three engineering design projects, or EDPs. Page 13.618.5Engineering Design Projects (EDPs)ME450 teaches mechanical engineering design by incorporating unique teaching stylesand course material to include three Engineering Design Problems (EDPs) that are gearedtowards generating student interest and excitement. These projects, which becomeprogressively more complex

Collection

2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Ryan Milcarek; Michael Garrett; Ryan Falkenstein-Smith; Jeongmin Ahn

involves many cognitiveprocesses and soft skills that characterize good designers. The following skills were listed asdescribing good designers. 1) Ability to tolerate ambiguity 2) Ability to apply systems thinking and focus on the big picture 3) Ability to handle uncertainty 4) Ability to make decisions 5) Ability to think as part of a team 6) Ability to communicate in diverse ways Currently, the design process is taught in most engineering curriculum through a first yearor cornerstone course3 and in the capstone course. The process or structure of engineering design,although lacking in a uniform application across all disciplines or even within disciplines, ofteninvolves elements such as determining the clients

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University; Katie Kuder, Seattle University; Dragovich Jefferey, Seattle University

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Civil Engineering

in the spring quarter oftheir junior year. The winter quarter examination is announced in the fall quarterof the senior year. Dates for both the examinations are selected so that it causesminimum disruption to the implementation of the capstone projects. Page 13.311.5 Table 1. Distribution of Topics in the Fall and Winter Quarter Comprehensive Examinationsa Fall Quarter Topic Winter Quarter Topic (no. of questions) (number of questions)Chemistry (7) Computers & Numerical Methods (3)Computers (4) Environmental Engineering (5)Dynamics (6

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram AlRawi; Faouzi Bouslama

spreadsheet to document each student’sachievement in ZULOs and MaLOs. The MaLOs are course embedded. The spreadsheet inTable 1 shows only sample courses. The spreadsheet is used to assess the student’s readiness forthe internship and capstone project (Table 1).Learnin g Outcome s Status for : CIS CIS CIS CIS CIS … - ----- Pre -internship - - - - - - Course : 101 215 240 241 303 … Status Reqmnt Shortfall Exceeded Course completed (X): Out comeZULOs : (1-beginning, 2-developing,3-accomplished )Information Literacy /Communication 1 1 … 2

Conference Session

Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Chandra Thamire

member in mechanical engineering teaches courses such as the capstone designcourse, product engineering and manufacturing, fluid mechanics, heat-transfer, materials science,and mechanics of materials courses. Other required engineering courses such as introduction toengineering design, statics, dynamics, numerical methods in mechanical engineering, andelectronics and instrumentation - I and II are taught by physics faculty. In electrical engineering,all but two of the required courses are taught by the electrical-engineering faculty member, whiletwo are taught by an adjunct faculty. The administrative aide manages the program. Sheperforms activities like scheduling of courses, monitoring the Interactive Television (ITV)courses, sending the

Conference Session

It's All About the Student: Integration, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Self-Efficacy

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Timothy W. Mays, The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch P.E., The Citadel; John C. Ryan, The Citadel

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

including capstone type project: design of a retaining wall. CIVL 1 Geotechnical Design a lab experiment to determine an 402 Engineering Lab appropriate, quantitative relationship between void ratio and hydraulic conductivity of sand CIVL 3 Steel Design Design of spread footings for column 406 demands from an actual building. CIVL 3 Water and Wastewater (1) Design a sedimentation basin based on 408 Systems defendable water demand (2) Design selected

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt P.E., Lafayette College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

cooperative, project-based integrative and interdisciplinary learning. Although aproposed AB program in engineering was neither successful nor sustained, this institutionalsensibility is still reflected in WPI practices at the course level (e.g. [13]) as well as larger-scaleinitiatives.Since the late-1960s moment at which boundary-transgressing programs like the WPI Plan andLafayette College’s AB in Engineering (which later became a program in Engineering Studies)curriculum were launched, disciplinary boundaries have remained strong, sometimes even beingfortified on campuses. Integrative activities flourished only on the margins of traditionaldisciplines, rarely offered much institutional nourishment or light (e.g. [7]). Even at HarveyMudd, the

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Mente; Marian McCord; Joni Spurlin; H. Troy Nagle; Susan Blanchard

, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 4: Assessment Methods for Objective 2 2. To produce Biomedical Engineers able to communicate effectively with diverse audiences and prepared to work in multidisciplinary teams. After completing the B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, students will be able to: a. Deliver effective oral presentations to multiple audiences, including health care and engineering professionals. (3g) i. Oral presentations of capstone projects made by students in BAE 451 and BAE 452 to an audience that includes health care and engineering professionals. A faculty team has defined a rubric, which

Collection

2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Tori Nichole Gardner, Department of Engineering at St. Mary's University; Ozgur Aktunc, St. Mary's University

be completed iteratively, it is possible to reach this point for a user story in a matter ofweeks, keeping pace with the fast style of Agile. Validation of the FrameworkAs a means of validating the effectiveness of the framework and acceptance by developers usingAgile frameworks, we developed a questionnaire and interviewed an engineering department’sundergraduate senior capstone project teams. Project teams that qualified to be included in this studywere customer-oriented in nature, included software components in their solution, and used an Agilemethodology such as Scrum or Kanban. Beginning with interviews early in development, each teamwas briefed on the context of this research and provided with

Conference Session

Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Venkataraman PB, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani; G Sundar

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

exercise. In addition to this theinstitute has invested significantly in simulations and software, which are hosted on the cloudand made accessible to all WILP students supplementing their practical experience. Theinstitute has also built physical labs hosting equipment that students can remotely access andwork with, while monitoring the process, via cameras mounted around the physical labequipment.Every program requires the students to undertake a capstone project from their place of workin the final semester, which is mentored by their organization supervisor and a faculty expert.This is periodically reviewed, assessed and graded. It is a required course for all theprograms.Assessments: The institute follows continuous assessment policy, which

Conference Session

The Challenges that Two-year College Students Face when Transferring to a Four-year College for Engineering and Engineering Technology Program

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sophia Isabela Barber, Pasadena City College; Sophia Isabella Ibargüen, Pasadena City College; Chloe Sharp, Pasadena City College ; Aaron Reedy, DataClassroom; Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, Main Campus; Yu-Chung Chang-Hou, Pasadena City College; Jared Ashcroft, Pasadena City College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

Honors Society, is a Student Research Mentor, is a Dean’s Honors student, and also serves her community by sitting on the Academic Commis- sion Committee, the Student Services Committee, and the ICC Funding Committee. Additionally, in her free time, Sophia decided to teach herself Python and is now leading the research project Studying Statis- tics in Python. In the future, she hopes to become a physician-scientist studying preventative measures for Alzheimer’s disease and treatments for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. ¨Ms. Sophia Isabella Ibarguen, Pasadena City College Sophia Ibarguen is a first-generation college student of immigrant parents, who is majoring in Biology and minoring in

Conference Session

Awareness, Expectations, and Recognition of Ethics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Michael F. Young, University of Connecticut

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

. Mike’s research concerns how people think and learning, and specifically how technology can enhance the way people think and learn. His NSF-funded project, GEEWIS (http://www.geewis.uconn.edu/), focused on streaming real-time water quality pond data via the Internet and providing support for the integration of this authentic data into secondary and higher education science classrooms. His approach features the analysis of log files, ”dribble files,” that maintain time-stamped listing of navigation choices and lag time. This approach has been applied to hypertext reading (Spencer Foundation grant), videodisc-based prob- lem solving (Jasper project), and online navigation (Jason project). Recent work concerns playful

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Technology Education II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

early as in theirfreshman year. Effective written communication skills are important for engineering education,with critical thinking being one of the most important aspects of the learning process at thecollege level. However, the efforts in required core curriculum English and communicationcourses are not always further integrated into engineering curriculum. Introducing a technicalpaper writing assignment in lower division engineering courses had the purpose of helpingstudents to be better prepared for major writing assignments in their upper division courses aswell as for their capstone project. For this study a writing assignment was introduced in anElectrical Circuits course, for electrical engineering technology students at Old

Conference Session

Redefining Inclusivity: Embracing Neurodiversity in Engineering and Computing Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Lynn Miles, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Corey T Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Nicole Lowman, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Kate Haq, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

Engineering Education.Dr. Nicole Lowman, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Nicole Lowman is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo, where they primarily teach technical communication to engineering and computer science undergraduates. Their courses center community-engagement and local justice by grounding writing and communication projects in non-profit organizations in the city of Buffalo. Their research is primarily concerned with rhetorics of race and critical race theory, and their scholarship has been published by Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric and The New Americanist.Kate Haq, University at Buffalo, The State University of New

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Peggy Taylor, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Howard Tenenbaum, La Jolla High School, San Diego Unified School District; Seth Hodges, St. Michael Indian School, St. Michaels, AZ

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

excellent models of using field and lab work to teach science.Students frequently comment that multiple campus field and lab courses provide the best Page 15.745.4 2experience so they are encouraged to spend as much time on campus as possible. The MSSEteachers are welcome to take as many campus courses as they wish.All graduates complete and present a science education capstone project in their final year forwhich they receive guidance and advice from a three-person graduate committee consisting of atleast one science education advisor and one

Conference Session

DEI and Other

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Leigh S McCue, George Mason University; Vanessa M Barth, George Mason University; Johnnie William Hall IV, Laboratory and Machine Shop Manager

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

Capstone Design projects at our machine shop at Innovation Drive located near GMU’s Science and Technology Campus in Manassas, VA. Along with assisting undergraduate students with their class projects, I also help our research professors at Innovation Drive with fabrication of parts or any other needs that may arise for their lab. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference SeaPerch and SeaGlide Camp Implementation Leigh McCue, Vanessa Barth, Johnnie Hall George Mason UniversityAbstractThis paper provides a summary of the activities and format of

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Engineering Physics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Martinez, Tarleton State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

Page 12.747.7The first procedure in this section ensures the curriculum is reviewed annually for the subjectarea components required by ABET (math, science, and engineering topics, plus a generaleducation component).The second procedure in this section ensures that all graduates have a capstone experienceduring, and not before, the fourth year of the curriculum. It explicitly states that the capstonedesign experience incorporates engineering standards and realistic constraints that include mostof the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability;ethical; health and safety; social; and political. It also prescribes that means of assessmentinclude, but are not limited to: student design project notebooks

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Dunn, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Construction

CMTprogram builds mutual benefit with access to extended resources often not available in universitybudgets.Our program has an active and supportive industrial advisory committee. Participating membershelp in curriculum development and monitor the progress as the program expands. They providementoring opportunities, summer employment, and classroom assistance to enhance the learningenvironment. Many contractors open their active project sites to student groups to allow directobservation of the industry. We encourage professional networking and the industry encouragesstudent participation in the monthly trade meetings to give students greater understanding of theissues surrounding construction. This paper presents the structure of the industrial

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Lillian B Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Tiffany Walter Choplin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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Educational Research and Methods

for teaching these skills now engages the engineeringfaculty in a collaborative environment with resources drawn from within the College ofEngineering.We have used a variety of approaches to assess the success of our initiative, including studentevaluations, faculty survey, and an external advisory council. Our initial observations, drawnover a three-year period in Senior Capstone Courses, are that students’ understanding of thetechnical content has increased in the communication-intensive courses. It seems that students’efforts to communicate technical aspects of their designs, have required better understanding ofthese aspects, especially when the students are challenged during their oral presentations.Feedback from design review panels and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gregory Fischer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gary Pollice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

the crux of the problem. Students tend to learn facts in their, inthis case Physics, classes but, like the researchers referred to in the above quote, they don’tnecessarily learn how those facts are relevant to their chosen discipline. This phenomenon wasactually observed during an internal bi-annual review of the capstone design projects in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Department at WPI where it was observed that studentswere having a difficult time synthesizing designs.3 To correct this problem, a radically differentcourse in ECE Design was developed to teach the fundamentals of designing electrical systemsto students at the end of their sophomore year. With this course we were able to reach studentsimmediately after foundational

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

John Y. Hung; Carlee A. Bishop

’s and 70’s Engineering Science ⇒ In-class Lecture1980’s Engineering Design ⇒ In-class Lecture, Laboratory and Projects, Capstone Design1990’s Thinking and Problem Solving ⇒ Combination of others plus new teaching methods (applied to real world problems) In short, the changes in engineering education and objectives point to the present-day conclusion thatproblem solving skills are not being effectively instilled in students. Why not? Perhaps the engineer's naturalinclination toward exactness tends to promote the importance of the correct final answer to a problem.However

Conference Session

ET Administrative Issues

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy K. Sundheim, St. Cloud State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and Revised Courses Type Course Topic New Metrology New Applied Mechanics New Thermodynamics New Materials New Design for Producibility New Continuous Improvement New Production Planning Revised Electronics Technology Revised Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Revised Mass Production Revised Manufacturing ManagementIn addition, the Capstone design course for other programs in the department was not appropriatefor the new program so this was revised into a two-semester project, typically in collaborationwith a local manufacturing facility. Expectations for the year-long project were developed usingUbD.Measurable Student Learning Outcomes. Stage 2 of the UbD approach is to develop carefulassessment

Conference Session

FOCUS ON EXHIBITS: Welcome Reception & NEW THIS YEAR! 2018 Best Division Paper Nominee Poster Session Sponsored by Engineering Unleashed

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy DUPLICATE Sundheim, Saint Cloud State University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Headquarters

theprogram content. They provided valuable input that shaped the list of “enduring understandings”and continue to strongly support the program. After several had the opportunity to work with thestudents on a course project or with their senior capstone project, the board has even suggestedwe do not need accreditation. They have seen first-hand the quality of the program. (Nonethelesswe are preparing to seek ABET accreditation.)We hope to gather more formal feedback after we have more graduates and the first graduateshave had some time in the profession. Feedback from the alumni and their supervisors will helpdetermine how effectively the program meets regional needs. We have just developed a morefocused survey to gather such feedback from internship