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Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Will; Wesley Stone

,” Engineering Education, July/August 1990, pp. 554-559.4. King, R. H., T. E. Parker, T. P. Grover, J. P. Goshink, and N. T. Middleton, “A Multidis ciplinary Engineering Laboratory Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no. 3, 1999, pp. 311-317.5. Miller, R. L., and B. M. Olds, “A Model Curriculum for a Capstone Course in Multidis ciplinary Engineering Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, no. 4, 1994, pp. 311- 316.6. Phillips, J. R. and A. Bright, “The Harvey Mudd Engineering Clinic: Past, Present, and Future,” Journal of Page 9.968.4 Engineering Education, vol. 88, no. 2, 1999, pp 189-195

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Graduate Education in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Warren Koontz

Session 2650 A Master of Science Program in Telecommunications Engineering Technology Warren L G Koontz Rochester Institute of TechnologyIntroductionAbout 35 years ago, Bell Telephone Laboratories, the research and development arm of the BellSystem, provided a program to train newly hired Members of Technical Staff. A new MTS, whousually joined Bell Labs just after receiving a BS degree in either electrical or mechanicalengineering, was first sent off to get a Master of Science in EE or ME. But even this was notenough. Upon completing the MS, the still

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Abdolmajid Lababpour

the different educational levels. This rapid development suggests that providing biotechnology educational materials by theconventional systems is a very difficult and time-consuming process [7]. Conventional education ofbiotechnology requires a specific place (classroom and laboratory), specialist/educated teacher, textbooks,and considerable investment for experimental devices. Many of the biotechnological experiments are toocostly, too time consuming, too dangerous to be done easily in classroom [7]. They are among thelimitations to the development of biotechnology education via conventional models. Computer based instruction software often reduce the instruction time and students’ motivationis increased [7]. Also, It

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

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Louis Frenzel

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004. American Society for Engineering Education”Problem 6: Graduates are leaving college with critical gaps in their knowledge. Industry wants a graduate who knows the essential fundamentals but also has knowledge of the most recent products and methods.Solution 6: Revise and update your industry advisory board with new members. Such a change brings fresh new information and ideas. Ask for their recommendations and implement their suggestions.Problem 7: Most electronic departments lack the funds needed to equip laboratories to teach the latest

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Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

the constructiontechnology education and training community organizations that are interested in forming a newcollaboration or in improving an existing collaboration.The remaining part of this paper is divided into the following subsections: Academia; Industry;New Materials, Processes, and Equipment; Collaboration; Academia/Industry Collaboration:Why? Intellectual Property Issues, Educational Examples of Actual Collaboration andConclusion.AcademiaMembers of academia are often first aware of new, developing technologies. From graduateprojects and laboratory testing, they can see new innovations before anyone else does. Academicleaders can also see, based on their research and hands-on work, which areas of industry researchneed the most

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dana Warren; Abolghasem Shahbazi; Jianzhong Lou; Keith Schimmel

(such as Tone polymer by former Union Carbide)2, and polylactic acid(pioneered by Argonne National Laboratories). Although there are issues related to both cost andmonomer supplies, development of lactic acid based biodegradable polymers appears to be mostactive, and a number of commercial projects are under way.While there has been a lot of research on biodegradable polymers and increasingcommercialization of biodegradable polymers, the availability of educational materials on thisimportant subject are disproportionate to other areas of polymer education.3 There is anincreasing demand for skills in this area from companies involved in the research and productdevelopment activities of this class of polymers.4-6 Therefore, a biodegradable

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Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

the experience of the authors who withoutexception were involved in teaching.Computer, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, ComputerScience and Mathematics -- Papers in this category were grouped under six themes:Laboratories, Traditional Course Support, First Year Chemical Engineering Courses,Web Course Support for Problem Based Leaning, Large Course Support, and A NewCurriculum. Most of the reviewed papers dealt with the use of the World Wide Web toincrease access as the educational improvement. However, interestingly, a couple ofpapers suggested that the use of the web not only increases access to the physical orsimulated laboratory experiments but laboratories in a closet could actually decreasecosts since

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenhhsin Liu; Ken Patton

demonstrations, andcurriculum development populated the rest of the workshop. The main target audience of thisworkshop was participants from two- and four-year institutions that are either considering orcurrently using Rapid Prototyping technologies. They were all impressed with the practicalhands-on activities in the laboratory and vendors' showcase. There were four Rapid Prototypingtechnologies present at the workshop: 3D Systems' ThermoJet, Stratasys' Prodigy andDimension, Z-Corp's Z310, Helisys' Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) 2030.Solidworks, the design software, and Materialise, the RP file enhancement software (Magic),also introduced their products in the workshop. Sony demonstrated its capability using the highend RP machine. BJB

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Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wise

grading schemes that ebb and flow in their accuracy. CPR applies theprocess of scientific peer review to education. Students perform research (study), write abouttheir “findings”, submit it for blind review (and act as reviewers themselves), and finally usepeer feedback to improve their understanding. All of this is possible without intervention fromthe instructor using CPR.This paper reports on part of a continuing study on the utility of CPR in engineering education.In this instance, CPR was introduced into a writing-intensive laboratory course in chemicalengineering. Students worked in teams, but were required to submit individually-craftedexecutive summaries using the CPR system. Assessment was based on instructor inspection ofstudent work

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Experiences with the TTL Turbojet Engine

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth French

specified by Turbine Technologies Ltd. , manufacturer of the SR-30Turbojet Engine®. Throughout the history of the gas turbine one of the most interestingfeatures has been the theoretical ability for them to use a variety of fuels. Some earlyauthors even anticipated performance independent of fuel type. In the extreme, Tickell [2]reports applications for piston engines using used cooking oil ’straight’, after a startupperiod with conventional fuel. Commercial airplane engines do not have the liberty of using compounded vegetablefuels, due mainly to their auxiliary equipment, temperatures and pressures, standards andguaranteed performance, Mattingly [5]. The university laboratory is not bound by theseconsiderations and we continue to explore the

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

material (i.e., mathematics, physics, chemistry, English) being taken byengineering students. Thus the SUCCEED Coalition embarked on a set of experiments in 1992 toexplore different approaches to integrate the freshman year.Coupling subject integration in the first year with an introduction to engineering was ideally suitedfor the Coalition’s program given the large resources required to conduct large-scale experiments,the availability of a multiple-campus laboratory to determine robustness, the extended period offunding, and the visibility of this NSF program. The approaches to integration studied by thecoalitions required building teams of faculty from multiple disciplines and assessment experts toevaluate the program impact and designing and

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Anderson; Heather Cooper

about six weeks, which is a portion of acombined thermodynamics and heat transfer course.For a capstone course, it was desired to limit the heat transfer module to approximately 4-5lectures and 1-2 laboratory experiments, allowing enough time for reviewing basic concepts andintroducing sufficient new material specific to applications in plastics manufacturing. Table 1compares the basic structure and topical coverage of both the introductory course and the heattransfer module. Table 1. Comparison of heat transfer module and introductory course topics. INTRODUCTORY COURSE HEAT TRANSFER MODULE Introduction to Heat Transfer Introduction to Heat Transfer • Basic Concepts

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

fundamental content of chemical engineering, and c) develop computer skills with modeling and simulation packages that the students will need in the co-op program with industry and in all subsequent chemical engineering courses. Computer-Aided Modeling and Simulation (CAMS) – A Pathfinder Course In 1999, the authors along with their colleagues received a Nation Science Foundation CCLI-A&I (Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement – Adaptation and Implementation) grant. This led to the initiation of a prototype course to integrate problem- based learning (PBL) pedagogy into the chemical engineering curriculum by use of computer-aided modeling and simulation packages. It starts with a new course, CAMS (Computer Aided Modeling and Simulation

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Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mustafa Guvench

Programmable Digital Multimeter (DM 5120). All of theseinstruments are equipped with GPIB interface. A Pentium IV computer equipped with NationalInstrument's IEEE488.2 card controls the setup. A system schematic of the measurement setup is given inFigure 1. This is an extension of a “Computer-Integrated-Electronics” teaching laboratory setup whichwas featured to do automated measurement of I-V and C-V characteristics of semiconductor devices andsensors and, to extract SPICE parameters from them for undergraduate electrical engineering education atthe University of Southern Maine. Creative utilization of this standard test equipment for 2- and 3-terminal device measurements and their automation were reported earlier (see Guvench [4] and [5

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Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anthony Hotchkiss; Slade Gellin

those capabilitiesalready incorporated. For instance, the machine for which the VAL-CAM program wasoriginally written does not have an automatic tool changer, whereas one of the recently installedmachine tools does have such a tool changer. The program module for this new machine allowsthe user to specify the codes that are used by the new machine that will effect an automaticchange of tool. A variety of standard and non-standard codes are also provided so that the usercan tailor the code to operate most new machine tools.The significance of this project is that the generality and modularity of the post-processor lendsitself to utilization in similar laboratories at other educational facilities.Introduction and Problem StatementA CNC code

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Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Surendra Gupta

, and case studies) they could help educatethe statistics instructors about engineering applications; provide high-quality resources tostatistics instructors for easy integration into their statistics courses for engineers; begin acollaboration among statistics and engineering faculty that teach the same sets of students; andprovide engineering students the motivation to learn statistics well, and be able to apply theirstatistical skills to engineering data in a meaningful and productive way.The engineering modules proposed are based on concepts and laboratory experiments from twocourses: Materials Processing (a 1st year course) and Materials Science (a 2nd year course). Bothare mandatory courses for mechanical as well as industrial engineering

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

industry requires a workforce with a wide range of capabilities. Certainly, it needsnuclear engineers. But it also needs mechanical, chemical, electrical, and other engineers with anunderstanding of nuclear science and technology. In addition, it needs health physicists orenvironmental scientists and engineers, chemists, geologists, and health professionals who havemastered the basics of radiation science.The Ohio State University has a graduate program in Nuclear Engineering which offers M.S. andPh.D. degrees and prepares its students for employment in utilities, research laboratories, nuclearmedicine, regulatory agencies, and so on. However, OSU’s Nuclear Engineering Program alsouses four other established programs to provide students from other

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bruce Berdanier

confidence than other countries, but only 27% of students in theUS were taught by teachers with a high level of confidence in their preparation 3.The universities participating in this research are located in the northwestern part of Ohio incounties that are characterized by small towns and predominantly agricultural areas. Many ofthe students in these small K-12 systems do not have the opportunity to consistently be taught byteachers that have been able to specialize in math and science. Hence, we need to reach out tothese rural school systems to increase the students’ awareness of their opportunities to move intotechnical and science careers.Watersheds are ready-made natural science and math laboratories. Within the confines of awatershed study we

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Habibur Rahman

radar systems.It is tailored to maintain a good balance of mathematical rigor suitable enough to convincestudents without causing them to loose interest. It is an attempt to distill the very complex andrich technology of radar into its fundamentals. The course also includes some laboratorycomponents, in the form of laboratory demonstrations, to emphasize the principles and conceptsof some radar types. There are only a few universities in the nation that offer a radar course toundergraduate students. There are several reasons to explain why most of the undergraduateprograms avoided attempting to offer a radar course. These are explained in sections III—V.II Course OutlineThe objectives of the Radar Systems course are to introduce the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Brian West

Engineering.Incoming freshmen for the fall 2002 semester were admitted into the engineering program, whiletransfer students only were accepted into the engineering technology program. The first two yearsof the new engineering program are in place, while almost the entire engineering technologyprogram is still operating. In spring 2003, no students, including transfer students, will beadmitted to engineering technology, and the first three years of the engineering program will bepopulated with students.Many issues must be explored when a school changes program curricula, such as which classes toupdate and transition versus classes to delete; pre-requisites and co-requisites; class sequences;laboratory sessions; classroom assignments; faculty loading; and many

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

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N. Sundaresan; Devdas Pai

instrumentation lab. Initial setup (afterprocuring all the materials) should take the lab instructor about 2 hours. A single measurementcan be initiated and saved to disk in less than 3 minutes, allowing for all the students in a typicallab section to take their own data rather than share a single set of data for the entire class. Thisexperiment is offered to a sophomore-level laboratory class in mechanical engineering that focuseson measurements, instrumentation and manufacturing and addresses the first two topics in thatcourse.Introduction A piezoelectric material is basically a ceramic that outputs a voltage upon beingmechanically strained. Sensors made of this material are sensitive enough to generate signalswhen subjected to low-amplitude

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Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Georg Mauer

Session 2125 Hands-On Robot Design in an Introductory Engineering Course Georg Mauer Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Nevada, Las VegasAbstract Our course ‘Introduction to Engineering Design’ is aimed at freshmen students enteringMechanical and Aerospace engineering. The course is structured as a 2-credit lecture coupledwith a 1-credit design laboratory. While the lecture presents an overview of the profession,engineering design and methods, small student teams conduct a structured hands-on designproject in the lab. Each team

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2001 Annual Conference

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Robert Avanzato

digitalassistant (PDA) is a handheld, mobile computer that supports database, spreadsheet,document viewing, graphics, programming, and web-browsing software. Additionally,the PDA features both serial and infrared communication capabilities. The primary focusof these integration efforts is to promote active and collaborative learning in theclassroom and laboratory settings, and to explore enhancements and efficiencies in thedelivery of instruction [2]. A team of sophomore computer science majors at Penn State Abingtonparticipated in a research effort in the spring of 2000 to explore the application ofpersonal digital assistant technology to mobile robot design and operation. There werethree major thrusts to the experimental work. In the first area

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2001 Annual Conference

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Glenn Wrate

4 0 4AE-201 Strength of Materials 4 0 4AE-213 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics 4 0 4AE-220 Building Construction Materials & 3 2 4 Methods IIAE-222 Construction Materials Laboratory 1 2 1AE-225 Specifications and Contracts 3 0 3AE-3001 Dynamics 3 0 3AE-310 Basic Conditioning of Air

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2001 Annual Conference

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Craig Johnson

selection, material source selection, and case studies in material design. The coursewas first offered in the spring of 2000. The computer system required orientation, and at leastone round of feedback before it was operational. Seven (of ten) Fridays were declared ‘virtualdays’ and work was required by the following Monday. Live feedback was possible, andMonday debriefings were held in conjunction with traditional lectures. Wednesdays weretargeted for traditional laboratory exercises.The students’ interests and the ease of Internet-access led to an increased variety and depth ofeffort in assignments compared to similar courses. Students could interact asynchronously,which generated a synergy that encouraged interesting interdisciplinary

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2001 Annual Conference

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Paul Marquard; Bruce R. Dewey; Sally Steadman; Raymond Jacquot

the laboratory to give hands-on work done in the cooperative learning setting.The work reported here is the initial efforts toward implementation of those concepts.1. IntroductionIn addition to the usual calculus, chemistry, and English, first-year engineering studentstraditionally take an engineering course that focuses on technical subjects. For most of the lastcentury, this first-year engineering course involved graphics, descriptive geometry and slide ruleoperation. Over the last two or three decades, graphics courses have largely been replaced by anoffering that involves computing; however, there is no standard course content.Goals for a first engineering course have been the subject of much discourse. Common themesfor a first year

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jagannathan Sankar; Devdas M. Pai

participate in the exploration of advanced materials.Materials Content of the Mechanical Engineering CurriculumThe curriculum aims to cover all 1four corners of the materialstetrahedron shown in Figure 1. Itis supported by a sophomore levelbasic materials science course, a 2junior level manufacturing 3 4processes course, two laboratory Figure 1classes and is capped with a senior Materials Tetrahedron1level course in materialsengineering. In addition, there are 1. Advanced Processingsome technical elective courses in 2

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ralph Dusseau; Carlos C. Sun; Kauser Jahan

Session ____ OPEN SPACE DEVELOPMENT CLINIC Carlos Sun1, Kauser Jahan1, and Ralph Dusseau1 1. Faculty of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028-1701Abstract - Many areas in Civil Engineering often deal with large-scale and system-level projects.These projects cannot be packaged into a "canned" laboratory for educational instruction.Consequently, a real-world field experiment is a logical way of executing such a project. Thispaper describes an on-going real-world clinic laboratory that addresses both technical and non-technical issues. The real-world clinic involves the development of open spaces

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2000 Annual Conference

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Christopher T. Field; Brian Jenkins

appreciate the value of fundamental circuit theory. This motivational problem canbe a particular challenge at an institution like the U.S. Naval Academy, where the student istrained primarily as a naval officer and electrical engineering is a secondary pursuit.To provide a rationale for learning the theoretical concepts required in the course, we haverestructured our laboratories. In implementing new labs for the course, we’ve attempted to meetthe following goals: 1) Labs should motivate students through greater emphasis on the practicalmerit of the fundamentals. Using typical devices, with which students are familiar, such aslamps, batteries, loudspeakers, etc, is helpful. 2) Insure that the labs are conceptually integratedwith the course in a

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Reyer; Glenn T. Wrate, Northern Michigan University; John Wheeldon; Owe Petersen

, the lecture introduced the concepts and helped them set up any laptop softwarenecessary for the lab. As the students rotated between the four professors every two weeks, theyexperienced the professors’ specialty areas, connected with the professors (and EE advisors), andexperienced different teaching styles. Page 7.577.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe students were required to attend every lecture and every laboratory, and perform additionalwork if classes were missed. If a