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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

curriculum and teaching decisions aremade based on how best to facilitate the desired outcome. This leads to a planning process that isdifferent from the traditional educational planning. The desired outcome is first identified and the Page 10.1415.2curriculum is created to support the intended outcome2. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationZayed University (ZU) is an academic institution located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Itis a laptop-based university where all classrooms are wired

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Steffen; Iskandar Hack

. The current plan, anticipated for the summer of 2005, will have students fromIPFW going to UKL for a six week period of study and cultural exchange. While in Malaysia,the students will be staying in the UKL dormitories.The advantage of such a program is to provide students the diversity of working on a one-on-oneinternational project. This intense plan of study will provide students exposure of what to expectafter graduation when working in a global market. Completion of the technological project willbe the focus of the program. A second focus will be on the dynamics of working in a small groupinvolving diverse members. This paper provides the preliminary investigation of challenges andachievements involved in introducing such a technology

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Johnson

ultimately responsible for its“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”design and quality regardless of where or how it is manufactured. This shift does not eliminatethe need for manufacturing professionals, but it does change their role in the organization. Program Educational Action Measures Plans Objectives Alumni Survey

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stoian Petrescu; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

within budgetconsiderations lab discussionDuring the previous 10 years, a project based upon designing a park for an unused 20-acre parcelof university property was used within the course (the “Park Project”). Each three-student teamwas given a plot of land and asked to come up with a plan for the land using the engineeringdesign process.3 The expenses of their plan could not exceed a given financial constraint. Theyworked together as a team to develop and rank criteria for this plan and then used these criteria toevaluate their plan. This project culminated with a written report as well as an oral presentation.This project was an effective team-experience for the students, and also met each of the goalsgiven in Table 3. However, there were

Conference Session

Computer-Based Data Acquisition Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

faculty advisor, the lab instructor and the teaching assistant and withinone week after receiving the project, the project team must develop a detailed project plan. Althoughall projects and project plans are dynamic, it is imperative that a detailed plan is developed initiallyand continually examined to properly execute the project within time and budget constraints. Most of the projects in the EE labs are team projects. Although each team member isassigned specific actions by the team, all team members are equally responsible for successfulcompletion of the project. Team members are measured for their contribution to the team by theiradvisor, lab instructor, lab director's staff and the team itself.2. Laboratory Project Requirements

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

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LTC Robert Powell

specific aspects of acadet’s knowledge base, both militarily and academically, with the live context beyond theclassroom. Between spring and fall academic terms, cadets may participate in one or bothprograms; however MIADs and other military programs are mandatory for cadets and are givenpriority over AIADs. Once the cadets have completed required military training opportunities,they can complete an AIAD. These programs emphasize a planned and structured workexperience that has productive educational value and is carefully coordinated with the militaryand academic learning that occurs in the classroom. Both programs are structured to producecognitive benefits, forge institutional linkages, motivate cadets, and teach maturity andappropriate

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Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sayward Touton; Cory McDonald; Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

typically have diverse interests and are service motivated. Thegraduate student mentor is also the team leader and guides both students based on his/her owncollege experience. Both mentors encourage good study habits, involvement in a professionalengineering society, and career planning. Each group is required to meet at least twice a week toensure that everyone is participating and to discuss issues of concern. Usually, the meetings arenot all business. They are generally time to socialize and have fun together, because socialinteraction is important in developing relationships and gaining trust within the group. Someteam activities have been: volunteering at the humane society, hiking to a local waterfall, andcooking dinner together. This paper

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The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Marshall; Steven Budd; Michael Fountain; Paul Givens

products are undertaken. Specific, copyrighted tools (Appendices 1 & 2) areutilized in each segment of the course, along with direction and assistance in research andevaluation techniques, under the direction of the faculty. Finally, identification of potentialpartners/licensees, if any, and calculation of possible valuations, using comparable deals andterms, are defined to allow the team, faculty, and university to define the optimal plan for thetechnology /products and determine the best strategy to achieve this result. Page 9.1247.3 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori M. Bruce; J.W. Bruce

effective activities. We havefound team homework, team projects, and “jigsaw” exercises are particularly useful inengineering classes. The key is to ensure that all five criteria listed above are present tominimize problems. In our experience, NEEs should start with one or two cooperative learningexercises. Homework sets with challenging or open-ended problems or a team project are goodcandidates since many engineering courses already contain similar exercises. After the NEEachieves success in these smaller cooperative learning exercises, then the NEE should considerincorporating more cooperative learning techniques throughout his or her course. Of course, theNEE’s mentor and department chair should be notified of the plans before starting

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

engineering majors may anticipate aftergraduation. Types of jobs represented ranged from expected chemical engineering tasks to sales,management, and consulting. The speakers represented employers such as NASA, Magotteau,Gobbell Hays Partners, and DuPont. Only two speakers worked in Nashville, where Vanderbilt islocated. Of the remaining three, one was from Delaware, one from Alabama, and one fromTexas. Three different decades were represented, with one speaker having graduated in the '70's,two in the '80's, and two in the '90's. In addition to all speakers being alumni, four of the fivewere my former students. (A sixth speaker, a 2002 graduate from Marathon Oil in Illinois,accepted but had to cancel travel plans because of extreme weather conditions

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili

performance factors are consistent withthe creative problem-solving model described by Lumsdaine et al.7 and the project-basedintroduction to design by Dym and Little8. The teamwork attributes are consistent withthe cooperative learning model by Johnson et al.9 The communication attributes areconsistent with recommendations by the writing across the curriculum movement andsummarized by Bean10.Knowledge of the Engineering Design Process • information gathering/understand problem/customer needs • problem definition/goals or requirements defined • idea generation/brainstorming/creativity • evaluation/analyzing ideas/testing/design modeling • decision making/selection/planning • implementation/produce/deliver design to customer • process review

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tord Dennis; Robert Fulton

design and deliver a product over a two-year period. This paper documents one of the pilot DCPD projects conducted by students and facultyat Georgia Tech and the University of Maryland College Park during the spring semester of 2003 toidentify and explore potential issues relating to the “Grand Experiment". We introduce our 2-yearcapstone DCPD project which began in the fall semester of 2003 with Mechanical Engineering studentsfrom Georgia Tech, University of Maryland and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign collaboratingto design an amphibious utility vehicle for the John Deere Corporation. We also outline our plans forinvolving students from Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Business and other disciplines in the springsemester of 2004 to

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The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Winzer

–10], it was immediately obvious that we could notemulate all of the tenets of this set of standards. There was no way we could match the corporateresources available to pursue formal ISO 9000 type operations in an academic setting; howeverimplementing a comprehensive plan for continuous improvement was a task we had to address.Our assignment would be one of modifying the model to fit our particular circumstances whilestill satisfying the ISO 9000 flavor of TC2K. We needed a structure that was not cumbersomeyet would allow us to adequately document our processes and our continuous improvementplans. We discovered that TC2K hinged primarily on criteria one and six. In fact, criterion onewould prove to be central to the whole process with

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

Western Europe,a popular summer destination for American travelers. Finding large blocks of affordableyet safe hotel rooms is often difficult in the summer months. In St. Petersburg thesituation is further complicated by the fact that the anniversary of the city’s founding fallson May 30th, making the beginning of the summer a popular time for tourist groups aswell.Two Russian-speaking faculty members arrive in Russia several days before the maingroup to begin the task of arranging buses and meals, and selecting excursions thateffectively utilize students’ time in the city. Since the majority of the students do notspeak Russian, and those who do are usually in Russia for the first time, every detail ofthe students’ day must be planned out ahead

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

Project is a part of the comprehensive Southern Valley Development Project(SVDP) that aims to double the amount of cultivated land in Upper Egypt at a cost of$100 billion by 2017 to develop Toshka, East El-O-Wee-Nat, and the New Valley Oases.Twenty percent of that money is pledged by the Egyptian government -- which isbuilding the main canal and its four offshoots, the pumping station, major roads and mainelectricity network, with agriculture being only a base for the integrated developmentplanned. Industry, mining, alternative energy production -- and possibly oil and gasproduction and storage, and tourism, are parts of the vision, with plans for desert safaris,car rallies, conferences, and medical tourism.The subsections of this paper are

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno; Abul Azad; Radha Balamuralikrishna

presentationwill also focus on the challenges of conducting such collaborative projects and recommend dosand don’ts for faculty teams that plan to conduct interdisciplinary student projects in engineeringtechnology.Relevance of Interdisciplinary Projects and Fostering Student CollaborationIn recent decades there has been an increasing demand on manufacturers to reduce the cycle timefor new product development. At the same time, we continued to see that the life cycle of newproducts became increasingly shorter. In this era of a free global market economy that fostersand nurtures creativity as well as innovation, engineering technologists can rest assured thatthese observations define a trend that will continue into the coming decades at an even morefurious

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadia Craig; Michelle Maher; Walter Peters

emphasize both the simplicity and complexity of the problems that they willencounter as engineers. The Shewhart Cycle was used as a tool for continuous learning andimprovement in the design of this course.3 The Shewhart Cycle consists of four continuoussteps: Plan, Do, Check, Act, and then repeat as necessary. If we discovered that the students didnot learn what was intended in the check portion of the cycle, we would move through the cycleagain under slightly different conditions. The syllabus reflects the Shewhart Cycle, because itleaves room for change by keeping the subjects somewhat vague, such as “Pit and Pit’umLaboratory” or Complex Systems (see the class web page athttp://www.me.sc.edu/courses/U101E/). This allowed room in the course for

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wil Clouse; Terry Goodin

freedto innovate and to think creatively about future ventures. The course is targeted atstudents who would like to create their own business and they are given the opportunityto develop a business plan from one of their own ideas. Students from entirely differentprograms, like Human and Organizational Development and Engineering, areencouraged to work collaboratively on joint projects. Opportunities to share their ideaswith other entrepreneurs are made possible. The course is meant to teach students howto dream about new ideas and how to take new business ventures to the marketplace. Inpart, entrepreneurship is defined as a "state of mind -- artful, insightful and innovativementality rather than a business management or administration concept

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Goetz; Darin Ridgway; Ben Stuart; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

Session 3213 Criterion-Based Grading for Learning and Assessment in Unit Operations Laboratory V.L. Young, D. Ridgway, M.E. Prudich, D.J. Goetz, and B.J. Stuart Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio UniversityAbstractGoals for student learning in Unit Operations Laboratory are diverse. Students are to developskills in the planning and execution of experiments, the interpretation of experimental data, andthe communication of technical information. Additional goals include gaining familiarity withprocess equipment, improving teamwork skills, and developing professional habits in

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shirley Fleischmann

of tools, machines, and components), and cultural literacy(knowledge of how to communicate and how to properly place a design into a socialframework). Design-based instruction includes aspects of all 5 steps in design and alsoincludes the supporting types of literacy for those steps. A planning matrix that enablesthe instructor to plan the mix and balance of design steps and types of literacy ispresented. This approach can also be used to clearly document how ABET 2000 criteriaare met in a given project or course presentation. Specific projects used by the author arepresented to illustrate the planning matrix and also the ABET 2000 documentation.IntroductionImagine having a major design project that is so popular that students enter

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

;attending lectures on codes and standards, ethics, intellectual property, and safety/productliability; undergoing project planning/scheduling experiences; and developing an awareness ofdifferent career paths. This is also accomplished through teamwork exercises where studentslearn to work on disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams.To ensure that students are on a path for life long learning the senior experience needs to leadstudents to realize that they must continue to learn on their own after graduation to remaincurrent in technological world that is rapidly changing. The senior experience should helpstudents develop confidence in their ability to learn on their own. It should stimulate theirintellectual curiosity. These things can be

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J. Voigt

by real Navy and MarineCorps systems. We discussed the Navy’s plans for the next century and why we focused on thematerial we were learning. The concept of “Net-Centric Warfare” was much clearer in light ofthe topics we had covered. Net-centric warfare is the term being applied to the overall focus onnetworking and networked communications in the Navy and Marine Corps today.The next two modules focused on Software Engineering and Databases. The goal of these twomodules was to give the students an appreciation for the difficulty and complexity of large-scalesoftware and database development. We did want not this to be a programming course yet we didcover some basic software constructs and design philosophies and used the Java

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Tirupathi R. Chandrupatla; Shreekanth A Mandayam; Anthony J. Marchese; John L. Schmalzel; John Chen; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

development of original inventions by multidisciplinary studentteams within the Junior and Senior Engineering Clinics. Funding of up to $2500 per student teamper semester is competitively awarded based on student-generated proposals to the Venture CapitalFund. To qualify for funding, student teams must propose, plan and implement an original, semes-ter-long product development enterprise. The product idea must be successfully designed, devel-oped and prototyped in a single semester. The latter criterion is possible given the unique rapidprototyping facilities available at Rowan University, which include a stereolithography machine, amulti-jet modeling rapid concept modeler, a rapid circuit prototyping system and multiple consumerappliance test

Conference Session

Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Uriel Cukierman; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Ciristián Vial; Miguel Torres-Febus; John Spencer; Lueny Morell

, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationto sponsor workshops at the leading institutions in four of its (5) Latin American countries wherethe company is establishing their strategic academic alliances (Argentina, Chile, Brazil, andMexico).The WorkshopsThe Learning Factory Workshops (Figure 2) go throughthe steps that helped MEEP develop this program: fromestablishing educational objectives to planning(resources, timetable, responsibilities) to curriculumdevelopment (courses, integrated laboratory facilities,industry collaboration), and finally to outcomesassessment (designing the assessment strategy

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Pearle; Gary Dainton; Christine Johnston; David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Douglas Cleary

Sophomore Clinic faculty worked with educationalresearchers at Rowan University’s Center for the Advancement of Learning to strengthen teameffectiveness by building teams based on learning. The underlying assumption of our plan tocreate learner-based teams was this: team members’ need to understand themselves and otherswas fundamental to successful teaming. Johnston’s Interactive Learning Model7 (ILM) waschosen for the study. It is a brain-based learning model, which uses a reporting instrument, orLearning Combination Inventory 8 (LCI) and a process (the Let Me Learn Processâ) to frame andfacilitate individual and group learning. The theoretical basis of the ILM is a set of constructsestablishing cognition, conation, and affectation as the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Dan Budny

once a week• Effectively plan appropriate activities designed to meet the specific needs of the first year engineering student.• Must take initiative with regard to programming for seminar, as well as office specific record keeping and data base management• Work closely with freshman advisors in disseminating registration and scheduling information to all first year students• Hold at least 2 hours of office hours in the Engineering Student Services Center each week• Work with the faculty for ENGR0011 and assure each student makes their oral presentationMentor Job RequirementsObviously the main requirement of the mentor is to facilitate their seminar section, howeverthere are also a number of responsibilities, requirements

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantin Chassapis; Kishore Pochiraju; Sven Esche

wholeeducational experience is the fostering of independent entrepreneurship through Technogenesis, acornerstone of the institute’s strategic plan. Technogenesis is the educational frontier at SITwherein faculty, students, and colleagues from industry jointly nurture the process of conception,design, and marketplace realization of technology.The scope and complexity of the planned curriculum developments to address the above requirecareful planning of assessment procedures to ensure the educational integrity of the resultingprogram. Therefore, the School of Engineering (SoE) formed an assessment committee andcharged it with the implementation of outcomes-based assessment by quantitative measurements ofperformance and attitudes throughout a hierarchical

Conference Session

Hardware Applications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven F. Barrett, University of Wyoming; Amos L. Purdy; Cameron H. G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

develop a series of practical, handson laboratory exercises to educate students on the fundamentals of PLC application design andimplementation. In conjunction with development of laboratory courseware, an IndustrialControl Laboratory was developed and equipped with state-of-the-art PLC and controlinstrumentation and test equipment. This paper discusses the development and content of the laboratory exercises andphysical laboratory. We have now taught this course twice and have gathered studentperceptions on the quality and utility of the Industrial Control course. Students have requestedadditional emphasis in this area. We conclude the paper with plans for future courseenhancements.Overview The Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Showkat Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University; Mohamed A. Seif, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

. Thestudents are involved in the design, construction, testing, launching, and recovery of a reusablerocket with a scientific payload. The activities involve diverse aspects such as planning andscheduling, purchasing, performing calculations and analysis, coordinating logistics, and designreviews. They are mentored by faculty advisors. Alabama A&M University rocketry team is oneof the 20 teams selected by NASA nationwide under the University Student Launch Initiative(USLI) program, and financially supported by the Alabama Space Grant Consortium. Studentsfrom mechanical, electrical & civil engineering and technology departments, mostlyunderrepresented minority, are involved in this exciting project. Successful launch and recoveryof the rocket

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Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianping Yue, Essex County College

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Two Year College Division

developmental math classesalready provide a tutorial session in addition to the lectures. However, it is only a one-hour openlab. Students go to the lab at their convenient time to get help from tutors. The tutorial lab showson the course schedule with one credit hour, but it is not recorded on the transcript for any credit.As a result, some students opt not to go to the lab. Compared to regular developmental mathclasses, the SBP math classes provide students with these advantages: a) attending the recitationsession regularly as a cohort; b) getting immediate feedback on their work and proper guidancefrom the instructor who can readjust his/her teaching plans according to students’ mastery andprogress; c) getting tutoring assistance from experienced