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Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

might be termed classical engineeringsituations. Much time was spent in laboratories, working through standard exercises in datacollection and analysis. Unlike the teaching that now characterizes medicine or the law,engineers were taught in an environment curiously devoid of a sense of practice. Over the years,this “decontextualization” caused distortions in attitudes and values, along with graduatingengineers who had little exposure to the types of professional maturity and judgment they wouldneed from the very first day they stepped into the work world.16Most would agree that expectations for today’s engineering education incorporates richer notionsof how people learn and of how to nurture the higher-order skills necessary for a

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Taryn Bayles

. 116-121; 127. 12. Natishan, M.E., L.C. Schmidt, and P. Meade, “Student Focus Group Results on Student Team Performance Issues”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 3, 2000, pp. 269-272. 13. Biernacki, J.J., and C.D. Wilson, “Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Advanced Materials: a Team- Oriented Inquiry-Based Approach,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 637-640. 14. Besterfield-Sacre, M., M. Moreno, L.J. Shuman, and C.J. Atman, “Gender and Ethn icity Differences in Freshmen Engineering Student Attitudes: A Cross-Institutional Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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George Wise; Philip Kosky; Robert Balmer

8.4.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationat Albany, and (soon) the east coast laboratory of Sematech and the U.S. research lab of TokyoElectron, Ltd. A future goal is to link more fully the three components of the course. When thishappens, educational value seems greatly amplified. For example, in this year’s course, the lecturesession analysis of gear ratios occurred in the same week as the design of gearing for the student’scompetition vehicles. By this coupling, two results were achieved. Performance of the studentson an exam question regarding gear ratios was much better than last

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Learning and Teaching Issues

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Matthew Parsek; Chris Riesbeck; Gulnur Birol; Ann McKenna

years as the Berkeley assessment coordinator for theSynthesis coalition. She currently serves as the learning science and assessment consultant on VaNTH(www.vanth.org) curricula projects.MATTHEW PARSEKMatthew R. Parsek received his BS in Biology in 1989 from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and hisPh.D. degree in 1995 in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Parsek thenspent four years at the University of Iowa in the Department of Microbiology in the laboratory of Dr. E.P.Greenberg where he was an NIH postdoctoral fellow. In 1999 Dr. Parsek joined the Department of CivilEngineering as an assistant professor. He is a project leader in the biotechnology domain in the VaNTHEngineering Research

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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Wafeek Wahby

pumps to the Sheikh Za-yed Canal via the Discharge Basin. · Two annex buildings housing the 11 kV switchgear and the diesel generators. · Three workshops: electrical workshop with laboratory, mechanical workshop, and Page 7.1188.7 automotive workshop. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationII. The Toshka CanalAlso known as Sheikh Za-yed Canal, is the main canal of the project, having a length of70 Km (44 miles) that branches into four sub-canals, with a total length of 250 km (160miles

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Integrating Engineering and the Liberal Arts

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Kenneth Van Treuren

an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received hisB. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy and his M. S. in Engineering from PrincetonUniversity. He completed his DPhil in Engineering Sciences at the University of Oxford, UK. At Baylor he teachescourses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, energy systems, propulsion, and freshman engineering.STEVEN EISENBARTHSteven Eisenbarth is Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University. Hereceived his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Albertson College of Idaho and a Masters and Ph.D. in Physicsfrom Baylor University. He teaches courses in electrical and computer engineering including embedded

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MET Student Design Projects

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R.L. Alan Jordan

presentation is help at thesame time.Legal Roadblocks You may not expect your students to produce a design that needs protected. However, anydesign should be treated as if it can be patented. Students need to learn the procedure for protectionof ideas. They should be required to buy a laboratory notebook and required to make notes in thenotebook, sketches of ideas, and shown how to protect those ideas. These are habits that can beinstilled during projects of this type. There are some possible legal roadblocks that need to be considered before the project getsunderway. First, who owns the intellectual property if some ideas come out of the project that areworth patenting or copyrighting? Second, who is responsible for protecting these ideas

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ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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James Spreen

. MicroSim Pspice A/D Reference Manual, MicroSim Corporation, Irvine, CA 1997. Page 2-57.17. MicroSim Application Notes, MicroSim Corporation, Irvine, CA 1997. Page 169.JAMES H. SPREEN is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Indiana Institute of Technology, Ft.Wayne, Indiana. He received a B.S. in Engineering from Case Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in ElectricalEngineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, IBM, andMagneTek. His interests include analytic and simulation modeling of transformers and electromechanical devices. Page 8.300.14 Proceedings of

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K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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Hermes Calderon; Amilcar Quispitupa; Scott Kiefer

useful are visualization techniques provided as slides 2 or inelectronic format (CD-ROM, etc.) in the last generation of materials science and engineeringtextbooks 3. These visualization software packages have become very popular, particularly whencomplex organic molecules are examined. In most cases those packages are available at a steepprice while in few other cases they are free such as Rasmol.On the other hand, in large class sizes it has been recommended the use of hands-ondemonstrations as an alternative to full laboratory experiments 4. For this purpose the studentscan be guided through a well-thought demonstration by teaching assistants. Alternatively, thepresent module proposes the use of computer graphics for a team assignment in a

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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Ron Zuckerman; Nathaniel Bowe; LaMarr Taylor; Kyle Smith; Dan Moore

market worthiness of an idea.The intent of this partnership with the Kelly School of Business is that engineers and businessmajors will begin to work together on real world problems before they ever have to in theworkplace. This type of hands on, practical education is inline with the laboratory style ofteaching present at Rose-Hulman. The hope is that the more Engineers interact in a meaningfulway with Business people, the better-rounded they are in their education and the better they willbe able to function in the workplace. While Engenius Solutions’ main focus is the development ofnew ideas, the student managers are also trying to get students to see how challenging, yetexciting it can be to be an entrepreneur in a fast paced technology

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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William Jordan; Bill Elmore

Future Teachers, Presented at the ASEE annual meeting, Saint Louis, June 2000. In CD based Proceedings (no page numbers).16. Jordan, W., Silver, D., and Elmore, B., Using Laboratories to Teach Engineering Skills to Future Teachers, presented at the ASEE annual meeting, Albuquerque, June 2001. In CD based Proceedings (no page Page 8.261.10 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” numbers).17. Jordan, W., and Elmore, B., Developing an Outreach Program to Introduce

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International Collaborative Efforts

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Thomas Carney; Michael Nolan; James Lampe; Raymond Thompson

of Aviation Technology and coordinator of the air traffic controleducation program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Prof. Nolan is the author of the textbook"Fundamentals of Air Traffic Control", as well as a contributing author for Microsoft Encarta. His currentresearch and teaching activities include air traffic control, airline operations, globalization and distance educationRAYMOND E. THOMPSONRaymond E. Thompson is Associate Professor of Aviation Technology and Assistant Department Head at PurdueUniversity in West Lafayette. Prof. Thompson founded the AOT Advanced Composite Laboratory and coordinatesstudent services within the department. His current research includes applied composite technology, assessment,technology in

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New Trends in ECE Education

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Thomas Keyser; Ronald Musiak; Richard Mindek; Mary Vollaro; Steven Schreiner

in ethicalissues, given their added classroom, laboratory and work experience at this point in their careers. However,this added practical experience was not reflected in the survey results.Regarding the ethics quiz given to the freshmen, which tested the students’ ability to retain the material givenin the handouts and lectures, the average grade achieved by students taking the quiz was approximately 85%.Although the questions were relatively simple True / False questions, students were required to explain their“False” answers. Thus, the positive quiz results appear to suggest relatively good student retention of theethics material presented in the freshmen lectures.Conversely, the results of the design (with ethics) question given to the

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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Rafiqul Islam

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Several Universities and colleges have developed workshops for high school teachers interested indeveloping pre-engineering curriculum. They have performed hands-on laboratory experimentsthat can be implemented at the high school level to introduce basic engineering principles andtechnology to inspire the students to study engineering7. The engineering students and the alumni(professional engineers) are also involved in supervising students completing various engineeringprojects under some engineering programs. All the states should follow the footstep ofMassachusetts that

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Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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James Kenney; Thomas Jewell

power,have created an extraordinary laboratory for such investigation. The mountainous topographyand sizable river catchments in New Zealand, coupled with very high rainfall levels (especially onthe South Island), provide ideal conditions for the development of hydro-based generation.Dwindling natural gas reserves, limited deep steam reserves (from volcanic activity on the NorthIsland), a reluctance to exploit sizable coal reserves (because of environmental sensitivity togreenhouse gas emissions), and vehement political opposition to nuclear power developmentprovide additional incentives for the country’s substantial investment in hydroelectric power.Though the electricity is generated at very low cost (by world standards), the supply of power

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Toniann Rotante; Sarah Brem; Norma Hubele; George Runger; Kathryn Kennedy

Session 1526 Case-Based Reasoning for Engineering Statistics George Runger, Sarah Brem, Norma Hubele, Toniann Rotante, Kathryn Kennedy Arizona State UniversityAbstractIn this paper, we report on the formulation and early results of research supported by the NationalScience Foundation’s Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS).Using findings from cognitive science, we discuss the design of an intelligent tutoring system(ITS) that utilizes case-based reasoning (CBR) to scaffold undergraduate engineering students intheir learning of introductory probability and

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Teaching Design with a Twist

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Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

several different courses.Engineering Design and Graphics 100 (ED&G 100) is an introduction to engineeringdesign course for all freshman baccalaureate engineering students at the Altoona Collegeof the Pennsylvania State University. In this three credit-hour course, engineering designprocess is taught through team oriented design projects supported by communicationskills: graphical and written. Implementation of project-based learning in ED&G 100course is achieved by assigning a comprehensive project designed to encompass all thefundamental engineering principles covered in the course and to complement the projectsconducted in the associated design laboratory. The capstone project requires students todesign a product to be mass produced

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Steven Beyerlein; Jeff Williams; Beth Milligan; Andrew DuBuisson; Robert Drew; Karl Rink; Edwin Odom

regularly taught introductory courses, shaped the senior laboratory course, and collaboratively taught seniordesign. He was recognized for his faculty development and outreach activities by a university teaching award in2001.DR. KARL RINKDr. Karl Rink recently joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the UI after spending 10 years inindustry researching the combustion and thermodynamic behavior of gaseous, liquid, and solid phase propellantsand explosives. He holds 33 U.S. patents with an additional 10 applications under examination. He has receivedthe PACE Award from one patent and is the youngest recipient of Purdue’s Outstanding Mechanical Engineeraward

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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Byron Newberry; James Farison

College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) in 1978-79, it was the first engineeringprogram on a campus with an historically strong liberal arts tradition. With no history orreputation in engineering and with the limited resources (laboratories, faculty, student body andtradition) available to a start-up technical program on a largely liberal arts campus, it was virtuallyessential that it began as a broad (rather than specialized) program. According to our currentclassification scheme, it would have been of the primary-philosophical type.The program came under the newly formed Department of Engineering and Computer Science in1980, still in A&S. The 1982-83 Catalog describes the program: “The Bachelor of Science inEngineering Sciences … program

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Ashraf Ghaly

the social or behavioral sciences through a course inanthropology, economics, political science, psychology, or sociology.4. An understanding of the inherent beauty and poetry of mathematics through an appropriatecourse.5. An experience in the natural sciences through two courses in basic or applied science, at leastone of which must include laboratory work.6. An exposure to other languages or cultures, by participating in the Terms Abroad program, orcompleting two or three courses in a foreign language, or three courses in one of the following --Africana, East Asian, or Latin American Studies.7. Significant writing experiences: (1) Freshman Preceptorial, (2) two to four courses that includeintensive writing, and (3) a Senior Writing

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Teaching Design with a Twist

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Onofrio Russo; Gunter Georgi

. Diana Flesche, a Teaching Assistant, helped greatlyin the preparation of this manuscript. Elisa Linsky provided copy editing assistance.Bibliography1. “Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in Freshmen Engineering,” J. Ingham and L. M. Folan, presentation at the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, June 20, 2000.2. “Introducing Design Throughout the Curriculum,” G. W. Georgi, L. M. Folan and D. R. Doucette, presentation at the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 19, 20023. “EG 1004 – Introduction to Engineering and Design,” Laboratory Manual, Polytechnic University, August, 2002.4. Freshman Engineering Website: http://eg.poly.eduONOFRIO N. RUSSOOnofrio N. Russo is the Special Assistant to the Head of Civil

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ET Design Projects

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Wagdy Mahmoud; Tom Timmermann; Bonita Barger; Ahmed Elsawy

/ Winter99. (http://et.nmsu.edu/~etti/winter99/education/rehg/paper_rehg/FIRSTPG.HTM). 16. Ralph Buchal, ”Web Based Shared Workspaces for Collaborative Learning”, ASEE 2002-Session 1658. 17. Ralph Buchal, “Development and Delivery of Interactive Web Based Seminar”, ASEE 2002-Session 2158. 18. Georgios Fakas and Denis Gillet, “The Electronic Laboratory Journal: A Web Based Collaborative Environment for Remote Experimentation”, ASEE 2002-Session 1969. 19. Joel R. Jackson, “inFusion: Simplifying Online Course Creation” 21st Century Engineering – Online Journal for Engineering and Engineering Technology, Vol.2 (2), Spring 2002.Bibliographical InformationAHMED ELSAWY is a professor and chairperson of the Department of

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

controlled laboratory experiments with children supported these principles (Mayer,1997; Moreno & Mayer, 1999; Mayer, Heiser & Lonn, 2001). In recent years, however,research with so called “pedagogical agents”, which are computerized characters that appear on astudent’s screen to help guide the learning process, has posed some challenges for the modalityprinciple. Though these agents appear to create redundancy for the visual channel when theyappear on a screen with visual information, they still have been found to facilitate learning(Atkinson, 2002).The shear flow study reported here is an attempt to add a data point to the above investigationson the efficacy of hypermedia in learning. This study consists of a controlled examination

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Web Systems and Web Services

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Marcus Huggans; Steve Watkins; Halvard E. Nystrom

. WATKINSDr. Steve E. Watkins is Director of the Applied Optics Laboratory and Associate Professor of Electricaland Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He is a member of severalinterdisciplinary teams which address technical communication, web-based educational resources, and theapplication of fiber optic sensor systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in1989.MARCUS A. HUGGANSDr. Marcus A. Huggans is an applications engineer in the Consumer Electronics Division, 1394Consumer Products of Texas Instruments, Inc. in Dallas, Texas. He received a Ph.D. in engineeringmanagement from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1998.HALVARD E. NYSTROMDr. Halvard E. Nystrom is an Associate Professor of Engineering

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William Keat; Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

. Page 6.17.3 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 3266TeamsPrior to the senior year ME students have a variety of teaming experiences ranging from in-course design projects, beginning with the freshman engineering course, and cooperativelearning exercises in the classroom, to laboratory courses, and participation in extra-curricularprojects (mini-baja, formula car). One objective of our senior year curriculum is to offer moreformalized teaming experiences in which the students utilize

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Yaw Owusu

. Owusu hasbeen as an Associate Researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory since 1996, working on rapidprototyping technology for improvement on the manufacture of engines for airplanes. Dr. Owusu wasawarded Senior Fulbright Fellow in 1997-1998 academic year to University of Science & Technology inKumasi, Ghana. Dr. Owusu received a B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University ofRhode Island in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering from thePennsylvania State University at University Park campus in 1980. Page 6.290.16 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education

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Sarah Irvine; Mary Anne Lesiak; Andrea Prejean; Teresa Larkin-Hein

teachers were engagedin activities such as:• the examination of learning theories using a learning style approach,• reading the web from a critical literacy perspective, and• experiencing an interactive biology laboratory on DNA.Although technology has influenced methods and practices in almost all-educational institutions,traditional pedagogy should still be used as the foundation for all educational practices10. Theteams of teachers spent each afternoon session in a computer lab equipped with Windows98 Page 6.298.3computers learning how to use the Internet and web design tools to create constructivist-based Proceedings of the 2001

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David Kelley

oneclass meeting but occasionally ran into time scheduled for laboratory activities. Following alecture, the class was given a non-graded CAD drawing assignment to complete. Studentsworked on this assignment in class with the help of the instructor. They were also allowed toreceive help from other students if needed. If an assignment was not completed in class, thestudent had the option of finishing it outside of class. All non-graded assignments were turnedinto the course instructor for evaluation but not for a grade. Periodically, the class was given anassignment to be worked on for a grade. Each student individually worked this assignmentwithout any help from the instructor or from any other student. This assignment was completedin one class

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Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili; Jr., Richard Crain; Jeffrey McCauley; Forrest Parkay; Denny Davis; Michael Trevisan

. He held a joint appointment as Senior Engineer, Applied Physics Laboratory, University ofWashington. He had been teaching at the University of Washington since 1979. In 1991, Dr. Calkinsreceived the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Award and in 1993 won the SAE Faculty Advisor Award. More recentlyhe was recognized for outstanding teaching at the University of Washington. Page 6.26.11DR. DENNY C. DAVIS is a professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at WashingtonState University, where he has served as Department Chair since 1999. He served as Associate Dean,College of Engineering and Architecture, WSU, from 1986-1998. He received

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Roman Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

enormously in the experience of thenew generations of students due to the omnipresence of virtual-reality technology. Theirexperimental capabilities and skills have been severely handicapped by the withdrawal of themajority of secondary schools from offering laboratory exercises supporting lectures in physics,chemistry or biology. On the other hand, their potential for abstract thinking has beenconsiderably reduced by the lack of appropriate training, implied by several factors:− predominant role of image culture in their early formation;− predominant orientation of secondary schools on the preparation of candidates for the most fashionable (after 1989) studies, viz.: business, management, law and public relations;− predominant orientation of