Conference Session

IE Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sima Parisay, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

Page 12.580.4in the repair shop, and eventually associating this with some monetary amount.• When using Decision tree, it is required to prepare a summary table of sensitivity analysis.This summary table should highlight a possible turning point in the decisions. The importance ofdecision turning point should be discussed from a practical perspective. A sample summarytable is in Appendix B.• When using Decision tree, there needs to be an adequate explanation of the expected value ofreturn from practical point of view. For example, expected return is not the amount of returnafter one trial.I prepared a table, called “Insights into the queuing theory" which compares three queuingmodels with respect to their input information, output information

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ning Fang, Utah State University; Gary Stewardson, Utah State University

formation 17, shown in Figure 2. Lee and Shaffer’s model 17 is simple inits mathematical form but can only predict “dimensionless” cutting forces because the modeldoes not take the work material property into consideration. By integrating Johnson-Cook’smaterial model 18 into Lee and Shaffer’s model 17, the computer simulation program that wedesigned can predict the dimensionalized cutting forces. The student chose a commonlyemployed aluminum alloy 6061-T6 as the work material to study. B Chip Cutting A tool

Conference Session

Laboratories and Computer Simulation in BME

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lanny Griffin, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

considerations given that: CA = concentration of trimeric receptors CB = concentration of dimeric receptors CC = concentration of monomeric receptors CL = concentration of the ligand CD = concentration of all receptor-bound ligands CD A - 3L D K eq ,1 ? C AC L3 CD B - 2L D K eq , 2 ? (2) C B C L2 CD

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Best Zone Paper Competition

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Miles, United States Military Academy; C.M. Chewar, United States Military Academy

Computer Engineering problem realistic?In struggling with exactly how to make a problem complex, we decided that an assignmentshould be loosely specified, so as not to suggest a particular solution methodology. To make thelearning event more realistic in an engineering context, we decided to introduce the notion ofdifferent design teams competing for the distinction of creating the “best product.”3. Trial 1:With this approach in mind, we return our attention to enhancing the Computer Engineeringcourse. This section describes a trial implementation of the inquire arousal approach that startedmid-way through a semester. (a) (b) Figure 1. (a) Syntax defining a maze, given to students as a possible input example that

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianping Yue, Essex County College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

Missing features 10 25 B Misrepresented feature * Questions #8 and #10 share the same exemplary object and its rotations.Question #14 of the PSVT-R test 5 is also the question #17 in the original PSVT test 4, andincluded in question E of Figure 5.169 of a popular textbook 33. Since question #14 of thePSVT-R test is readily available, it has been chosen as an example to show some details of theerrors. In the original PSVT-R test, the rotated views A and E both missed some features on therear end of the object as placed (Figure 1). Figure 3 shows the corrected views A and E with themissing features visible as they should be

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

network connectivity,students learn to use network command “PING 127.0.0.1” to check network connectivitybetween their PC and network. Lastly, after network connection to PC purposely getsdisconnected students repeat the same PING test to see different results after a networkconnection is not available.3.2 Studying Important Network AddressesStudents are instructed to follow the steps described in Appendix B to obtain key networkaddress information of their PC and its network, such as, MAC Address, IP address,subnet Mask, DNS address, DHCP address. Students learn how IP addresses on a PCplay their role for a network [1] [2]. This networking lab module also serves the purposeto conduct basic networking exercises at lower layers of OSI model

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Mason, Seattle University; Frank Shih, Seattle University; Jeff Dragovich, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Stress (ksi) 60 40 20 0 0% 5% 10% 15% Strain (in/in) (a) Real-time plots including annotation (b) Formal plots after data reduction Figure 5. Stress-Strain Curve for 1018 carbon steel

Conference Session

Design in BME Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David McStravick, Rice University; Marcia O'Mallley, Rice University

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Biomedical

AC 2007-1674: IMPROVING INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE DESIGNPROJECTS WITH COOPERATIVE LEARNING IN THE MEDI-FRIDGEPROJECTDavid McStravick, Rice University DAVID MCSTRAVICK received his B. S. and Ph. D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Rice University. He worked in industry for many years in various engineering research positions. He joined Rice University in 1996 and is currently a Professor in the Practice of Mechanical Engineering in the MEMS Department. He teaches in the area of engineering design and his current research interests are in medical product design and in engineering education.Marcia O'Mallley, Rice University MARCIA O’MALLEY received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Brown; Devlin Montfort; Kip Findley

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Reviewer’s Comments1. a) The manuscript is not organzied and poorly written. b) While it can be expaneded to topics other than "mechanics of material," the lack of proper presentation of the methodology makes it difficult to understand to educators outside this filed.2. a) The paper exhaustively discusses the interview process for a small group of students. It concludes with a discussion of their analysis of stresses in a member exposed to three different loading cases. b) This paper will be of interest to those involved with solid mechanics (Mechanical and Civil engineers). c) There are some grammar and spelling issues that need to be addressed. d) The abstract

Conference Session

IE Program Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bin Wu, University of Missouri, Columbia; Cerry Klein, University of Missouri; Michael Hosokawa, University of Missouri; Karen Cox, University of Missouri; Beilei Zhang, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

21st Century, National Academy Press: Washington, D.C. 3. Wu, B., C. Klein and T. Stone, 2006, “Healthcare Systems Engineering – an Interdisciplinary Approach to Achieving Continuous Improvement”, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, Feb. 2006. 4. National Academies Press, 2005, Building a Better Delivery System: a New Engineering/Health Care Partnership, at: http://www.nap.edu/books/030909643X/html. 5. Wu, B., 1994, Manufacturing Systems Design and Analysis – Context and Contents, Chapman and Hall, 2nd Ed., London. 6. Wu, B., 2001, Handbook of Manufacturing and Supply Systems Design – From Strategy Formulation to System Operation, Taylor and Francis: London

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farhad Azadivar, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Bradley Kramer, Kansas State University

. Economic Development Administration UniversityCenter grant.Bibliography1. Azadivar, F., Kramer, B., and Curry, T., “A model for integration of engineering education with research and regional economic development”, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Engineering Education, ICEE 2006, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July, 2006.2. Kramer, B., Tucker, J., Lanz, B. and Wunderlich, D., “AMI: A University-Based Early Stage Technology Development and Commercialization Agent,” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Engineering Education, July, 2006.3. Kramer, B., A., Tucker,J., Taylor J., Beikmann, M., and Windholz, R., “The Engineering Learning Center: A Model for Mentored Product Innovation,” Proceedings of the

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Patrick H. Oosthuizen

manufacture Boeing to develop a maintenance test procedure that could be used by B-737 operators to verify the proper operation of the main rudder hydraulic power control unit servo valve. 2. Require Boeing to develop a preflight check procedure that could be used to verify, as far as possible, the proper operation of the main rudder hydraulic power control unit servo valve. 3. Require B-737 operators to incorporate design changes in the B-737 rudder hydraulic power control unit servo valve when Boeing made these design changes available. 4. Develop a broader meteorological aircraft hazard program to include airports in or near mountainous terrain using results obtained in the Colorado Springs area.USAir flight 427

Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cuneyt Sert, Middle East Technical University; Gunes Nakiboglu, ROKETSAN Missiles Industries Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Page 12.1527.12be included as supporting teaching material of a fluid mechanics course.Bibliography1. Y. A. Cengel, J. M. Cimbala, Fluid Mechanics Fundementals and Applications, McGraw-Hill, New York,2006.2. NCFMF Fluid Mechanics Films, http://web.mit.edu/fluids/www/Shapiro/ncfmf.html3. Hunter Rouse (IIHR) Fluid Mechanics Films, http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/products/dhrm.html4. D. Pines, Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Excite Undergraduate Students about Fluid Mechanics,ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session: 1055, 2004.5. R. D. LaRoche, B. J. Hutchings, R. Muralikrishnan, FlowLab: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)Framework for Undergraduate Education, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session: 1258, 2002.6. R. Bhaskaran, L

Conference Session

IE Program Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri Lynch-Caris, Kettering University; Benjamin Redekop

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

1- 2- 3- 4-Module 1 Technology, the environment and industrial ecology a. The history of the environmental impacts of industry. b. The history of the social/ethical impacts of industry. c. Environmental Ethics - moral and ethical dimensions of our interaction with the natural environment. Figure 1. Excerpt from the Pre-Test Knowledge Self AssessmentConclusionsFirst course offering

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Crystal Bateman, Brigham Young University; Janell Armstrong, Brigham Young University; C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University

America, September 1991. 94-104.2. Kahn, J.M., Katz, R.H., Pister, K.S.J. (1999). Next century Challenges: Mobile Networking for “Smart Dust” Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)3. Pister K. S. J., Kahn J. M., and Boser B. E. (1999). Smart dust: Wireless networks of millimeter-scale sensor nodes. In 1999 UCB Electronics Research Laboratory Research Summary4. IEEE 802 Part 15.4: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks, IEEE Computer Society, 2003.5. ZigBee Specification v1.0, ZigBee Alliance, December 14th, 2004.6. Tanenbaum, A. S., Gamage, C., & Crispo, B. (2006

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology; Mike Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Interaction Figure 1. Online Classroom: Top Level ArchitectureEach area of the online classroom can be categorized into one of the three top levelcomponents of the baseline architecture in a variety of ways. For the purpose of thisanalysis, the online classroom architecture is defined as follows: 1. Course Access/Layout (Learner-Interface Interaction) a. Course Appearance Page 12.1046.6 ‚ Similar Look/Feel ‚ Ease of Use b. Course Structure ‚ Modular Format ‚ Sequence of Content ‚ Course Grade Distribution 2. Student/Faculty Interaction

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel

problems are more likely to be compound problemsmeaning they contain a variety of different problem types. This paper describes the findings oftwo studies, (a) a single-case study of a steel engineer and (b) a multi-case study comparing thefindings to 90 problem-solving narratives of other engineers. Both studies are located in an US-American context. Results confirm that real-world problems are intertwined problems(compound problems) and that transitions from one problem type to another within a compoundproblem are a unique class of problems themselves. These ‘transition problems’ have properties,which are not represented in other problem types, and therefore extend the design theory.I. IntroductionFor years, reports have validated the importance

Conference Session

Teaching Topics in Aircraft Manufacturing

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg, Purdue University; Sergey Dubikovsky, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

were slightly chamfered toallow for material spring back. A set of engineering drawings was prepared in the draftingworkbench (Appendix B), and the DXF file was imported in SurfCam software, which ran theCNC vertical mill to fabricate the form blocks. The CATIA drawing was downloaded on diskand imported in the SurfCam program, and the students needed to write a simple CNC millingprogram to operate the CNC mill. Page 12.978.5 Figure 3: Solid model of wing rib form block.Sheet metal formingThe next step in the process, after the flat pattern layout was cut and the form blocks were madewas to form the wing rib. Form blocks

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Robert Edwards; Gerald Recktenwald

head loss. Two common misperceptions that studentsmight have about flow through a duct like this are: a.) the fluid pressure must always decrease inthe direction of the flow due to friction and b.) the smaller tube must be at higher pressure. The students are asked to predict both the sign and magnitude of the pressure change acrossthe sudden expansion before they make any measurements. Direct measurement shows that thepressure immediately downstream of the sudden expansion is higher than the pressureimmediately upstream of the sudden expansion. This goes against many of the intuitive ideas thestudents may have. However, the pressure rise across the sudden expansion is much less thanthat predicted by the Bernoulli equation. This fact is

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Creating successful NEEs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kam Jugdev, Athabasca University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

stress for new facultymembers relate to finding time for research, effective teaching practices, the lack of collegialrelationships, inadequate feedback/recognition, unrealistic expectations, insufficient resources,the lack of mentors, and little work-life balance. In the paper, I address the following topics: a) An orientation helps new engineering faculty become familiar with policies, support services, regulations, colleagues in the department, and faculty development resources (e.g., teaching models, resources, and workshops). b) New faculty requires different mentors for different needs such as teaching practices and possibly a senior research mentor. c) An academic dossier encompassing a teaching, research, and service

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guoping Wang, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne (Eng)

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

numbersfrom 0 to 20?3) Introducing the new concepts of encoding and decoding in digital logic system.Think of at least two methods to represent the alphabet letters A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H using binarynumbers 0 and 1.Sample Essay Warm-up Question: Page 12.171.4Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2007, American Society for Engineering Education 3Please represent the alphabet letters A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H using binary numbers. Please explainyour answers and answer the following questions. a) Is it necessary to

Conference Session

ChE: Safety, Sustainability, and Global Opportunities

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allyson Frankman, Brigham Young University; Jacob Jones, Brigham Young University; W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University; Randy Lewis, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

member, graduate student or volunteer working professional). This mentor hasthe responsibility to encourage students to search out all aspects of their particular assignment,provide a sounding board for ideas and offer technical advice and guidance. In addition, teamsare required to submit write ups and/or presentations to their mentors and fellow classmates toensure that the class is not back-loaded with the majority of the work getting done the last fewweeks of the semester.The distribution of points for the various credits is shown in Table 1 below. The guaranteedgrade distribution is: 93.5-100% (A), 90-93.5% (A-), 87-90% (B+), 83.5-87% (B), 80-83.5% (B-), 77-80% (C+), 73.5-77% (C), 70-73.5% (C-), 60-70% (D), <60% (F).Students are held

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

R. Dennis Foster

Voyageur Recreational Waterwayon Canada‟s first designated Heritage River”. (4) The map on the following page comes from theback cover of the 1989 feasibility report. Samuel Champlain the French explorer canoed theOttawa and French Rivers to reach Georgian Bay in 1615, a route used by Indians to travel fromthe St Lawrence River to the headwaters of Lake Superior and the prairies beyond. The aim ofthe Canadian Heritage River System is to protect the historical and recreational values ofoutstanding waterways in Canada. The key factor in the selection of an optimum route was thepreservation of a scenic and historic canoe route separate from the sportsman/sailor/powerboatroute. The map shows two routes: A the historic canoe route and B the proposed

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Paul Stanton; Duane Fairfax

other six had a B- or better average for the other team members. This issignificant because the one student from the team that admittedly did not put forth the effort in the groupproject did not significantly affect the other team members’ grades. In addition to assessing the ability to build a system, we asked the students to assess their level ofcontribution to the team effort. 23 students felt that they contributed more than their share, 26 thoughtthat they contributed a proportionate amount, and 18 felt like they had contributed less than their peers.However, of the 23 that felt like they worked harder than their teammates, only six thought that their levelof contribution was greater than 10% more than it should have been. This means that

Conference Session

Biology and Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ernest Tollner, University of Georgia-Athens; Caner Kazanci, Univ. of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

evaluated is shown in Table 4. The Boltzmann entropy computed using total nodal contacts in the system versus the Boltzmann entropy summed for each node (B.lumped/B.nodal) was consistent over all models. The related ratios involving Shannon entropy (Shan. lumped/Shan. Nodal) was not as consistent. The essential nonlinearity of the entropy definition is obvious in that these ratios are far from unity, as one would expect from a linear process. This raises a doubt that the sum of the entropy in a system is simply the sum of nodal entropies. Table 3. Comparison of Shannon, Boltzmann and macroscopic entropy ratios on the indicated models. Model Shan. lump. / B.lump/ Shan. lump/ B. lump/ Shan. nodal/ B

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Roy Myose

goesbeyond the traditional realm of reducing engineering and manufacturing costs (i.e., "lean" alone).In fact, the focus is the end user’s operating cost. Figure 1 illustrates such an operating costcomparison between three fictitious models labeled 1, 2, and 3 from two different manufacturerslabeled A and B. Although the total trip cost along the horizontal axis is a function of the numberof passengers carried by the aircraft, the primary driver for the horizontal axis is essentially the tripdistance (i.e., range). Each aircraft model typically has several variants where fuselage extensionsare added to increase the number of passengers and/or fuel tanks added to increase range. Thus,there are variations in cost per passenger and trip cost depending

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in Mechanics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rungun Nathan, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

conversations withstudents, particularly with those who did very well in the initial assessment; it is plannedto implement this technique in a more formal manner in the next academic year alongwith well instrumented surveys to evaluate the success of DI in a undergraduatemechanics class.1. Tomlinson, C. & Kalbfleisch, L. (1998, November). Teach me, teach my brain: A call for differentiated classrooms. Educational Leadership, 52-55.2. Tomlinson, C.A., & Allan, S. D. (2000). Leadership for differentiating schools and classrooms. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.3. Fischman, B. (as viewed on Jan 17, 2007) http://www.education.pitt.edu/leaders/FAQ/differentiatedinstruc.htm4. Felder, R. M. (as viewed on Mar 7, 2007) http://www.ncsu.edu

Conference Session

FPD9 -- Teaching Methods & Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, SUSAN FREEMAN, and BEVERLY JAEGER are members of; Susan Freeman, Northeastern University; John-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

necessity ofpossessing and actually applying technical knowledge. While some of the tower-building processis necessarily trial-and-error, the young engineers are reminded by this question that there aresound principles upon which much of engineering rests. The second question in Section IIsimply served to identify whether the students had experienced a similar activity in the past. Thisallowed the authors (a) to determine to what degree this was a duplicate experience, and (b) toreview the examples that were provided for common elements.Survey Section III addressed ancillary factors, additional points to assess, and other lessonslearned relating to real-world applications and experiences. These concepts went beyond thedesign process to consider the

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marty Fitzgerald, East Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

attributes are key fordistancing the render from the overly perfect quality of a computer-produced 3D render.(a) (c) (e) (b) (d) Figure 2In Figure 2 you can see examples of the Toon outlines: (a) a simple contour, (b) wireframe lines,(c) contour with textured thickness, (d) thick contour with textured thickness and opacity, and (e)multiple outlines on each object (you can add as many as you want).The second tool is the Paint Effects brushes. The Toon Outlines and the Paint Effects strokescan also be used in conjunction with each other. For instance, the Toon Outline tool can be usedto specify how exactly the

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Hriso, East Tennessee State University; W. Andrew Clark, East Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

of an actual project with a timeline and budget. Students learned what an individual’stime is worth, what mistakes can cost, and how to deal with a client, and appreciate the value ofdeadlines.Bibliography1. Kolb, A. and Kolb D. A. (2001) Experiential Learning Theory Bibliography 1971-2001, Boston, Ma.: McBer and Co, http://trgmcber.haygroup.com/Products/learning/bibliography.htm2. Kolb D. A. (2005) David A.Kkolb onEexperientialLlearning, Downloaded December 18, 2006, http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-explrn.htm3. Jolliffe, Lee B. Industry’s Team Approach to Classroom Projects, Journalism Educator (Summer 1991).4. Stout, Renee J., Salas, Eduardo, and Fowlkes, Jennifer E. 1997 Enhancing Teamwork in Complex Environments Through