Conference Session

Best Practices in Aerospace Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi Shryock, Texas A&M University; Helen Reed, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

solelymeet ABET accreditation purposes. Information on assessment methods is important to includebecause it causes you to make sure the performance criteria you listed can in fact be measured.It is good to list a variety of assessment methods in your outcomes. The time of data collection,assessment coordinator, and evaluation of results person needs to be listed as well. A specificperson and time frame should be planned. Having an annual review of data and documentationis part of the continuous improvement process ABET encourages.Through this process, the department was able to streamline and have a better understanding ofour program outcomes. This process resulted in the department going back to the original elevenABET a-k criteria and the five

Conference Session

Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Colletti, The College of New Jersey; Joseph Monaghan, The College of New Jersey; Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2008-2556: A COMPREHENSIVE LABORATORY CURRICULUM IN SINGLEDEGREE OF FREEDOM (S-D-F) VIBRATIONS; PHASE I – WORKING MODELEXPERIMENTSAlexander Colletti, The College of New Jersey Alexander Colletti Alex Colletti is a senior mechanical engineering major at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). He has been involved in TCNJ’s Mini-Baja SAE project and Society of Automotive Engineers (where he was secretary). He is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). After graduation Alex plans to go on to graduate school to obtain a PhD in the field of energy and heat transfer. He is working on the forced response system of the apparatus.Joseph Monaghan, The College of New Jersey

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

processof recruiting and selecting 150 students of the appropriate disciplines to complete these projects.Ideally, as projects are identified and committed, students with the right discipline backgroundare approved and enrolled in the capstone program. If all goes as planned, there will enoughstudents of the right disciplines to complete every project. This balance between project andstudent recruitment is a challenging systems issue—ignore either and risk program collapse.Further, after spending many hours recruiting a sponsored project, it is particularly dishearteningto inform a sponsor that their project cannot be undertaken because too few students of theappropriate disciplines were available to complete the work.From 1995 to 2006, students at

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Khoo, University of Southern California; Ellis Meng, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. In thispaper, the ERC researcher report on preliminary data that have been collected to guide thecurricular reform in addition to reporting on the comprehensive plan that they have developed tomeet the needs of engineers in biomedical fields in 2020.2Curricular reform is typically a slow and arduous process in research universities. Traditionalcurriculum in engineering education involves deductive instruction in which the instructorslecture on general principles with limited application of the principles to real life engineeringsituations and simulations. Deductive instructional approaches have significant limits inpreparing engineers for a changing global society as required by the National

Conference Session

Impact Student Success

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

grant from the James Irvine Foundation.Now, the MCC has been put directly under the Provost Office for more visibility and oversight.Also, there is an advising center (Drahmann Center) where all students can go for advising on anyissue (academic, psychological, relational, etc) including tutoring, etc.Major ObjectivesThe Problem is “Why are there so few of these students?” There are many possible answers to thisquestion. However, our goal is to propose some solutions.Our main objective is to implement a comprehensive program including some or all of the followingbest practices for advising, mentoring minority graduate electrical engineering students.We plan to implement some of the ideas and goals from our paper [2]. Our objectivesinclude new

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renata Gorska, Cracow University of Technology; Sheryl Sorby, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

Isometric Item from Lappan TestFigure 13. shows a second original item from the Lappan Test that assesses a student’s understanding of orthographicviews and their relationship to coded plans. Figure 14 shows the same item after it has been modified to conform toengineering graphics conventions. For this type of problem, students are presented with three views of an object and mustidentify which partial coded plan could be used to define the object. Figure 13. Original Orthographic Item from Lappan Test Page 13.1196.82008 ASEE Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 22-25, 2008

Conference Session

Web-Based Learning in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

CHITRA RAJAGOPAL, Kent State University, Tuscarawas Campus

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

resolution of 640 x 480 • an Internet connection with a minimum speed of 56.2 KBS • Web camera • Audio devices, such as speakers, head phones, and microphones Figure1 – Orientation websiteCourse deploymentOne of the challenges in planning effective distance education is selecting proper softwareprograms to house and deliver course material effectively. One such program is WebCT (nowowned and operated by blackboard.com), which serves as both a vehicle to take the classroom tothe living room and a tool to connect the instructor with the students and the students with eachother. A calendar function enables students to view their class schedules and deadlines. Thewebsite is password protected, and access is

Conference Session

Innovations in Biological/Agricultural Education-II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christan Whysong, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

health andsafety of consumers. The class also discussed the trustworthiness of food manufacturers and thegovernment agencies who are supposed to regulate them. The goal of the discussion, lastingapproximately 20 minutes, was to allow students to observe the varying views of theirclassmates.Since the Departments of Engineering Education and Biological Systems Engineering are onlybeginning to implement ethics training using the spiral themed curriculum, it is essential todevelop an assessment plan for future evaluation. As mentioned above the tool utilized for thisexercise was a pre- and post- survey. At the end of the class discussion, students were asked tocomplete a post-survey which consisted of the same eight questions given in the pre

Conference Session

Engineering for Nonengineers: Ideas & Results

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Zieren, Austin Peay State University; John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

of 19th and 20th century technology and American inventions and innovations. Theuniversity core requirements include two courses in American history, and the focus ondevelopments in the United States let students to build on this foundation.In the planning stages for the course, the authors discussed and selected specific topics forpresentation. Lecture topics presented by the authors included - Machinery in the First Industrial Revolution, - Resistance to Technology: Luddites, Child Labor, - the Early American Industrial Revolution, - the American System of Machine Tools, - the Brooklyn Bridge, - the Steam Engine: Revolution in Power, - the Steam Engine in Transportation – Railroads, - the Age of Electricity

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Masten, McMaster University; Robert Fleisig, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-2193: ENGAGING FIRST YEAR STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING DESIGNTHROUGH ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERSSusan Masten, McMaster University Susan Masten is the Director of the First Year Engineering program in the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON. Her responsibilities include supervising staff and instructors in the ENG1 Program, curriculum development, and planning and implementing programs to enhance retention. She is also a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and is a registered professional engineer in the State of Michigan. She has her Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Harvard University and is co-author of the textbook, Principles of Environmental

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

info online.” “Easy to change things/update/store/share.” “It’s easy for people on a team to communicate.” “It kept me on schedule of what to do.” • Fall 2007 “Easy to communicate with all group members and teacher with one post. Difficult to use at first but smooth after.” “Trac allowed for smoother collaboration. I will probably use Trac if I work in teams with software.” “Organizing and planning for projects was easier with tickets.” “[Trac] works well to organize large projects but for smaller ones, it just makes more busy work and doesn’t help

Conference Session

Engineering Accreditation Around the World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Peterson, ABET; Kathryn Aberle, ABET

Tagged Divisions

International

identification, environmental scanning and strategic planning for her Board of Directors. Page 13.792.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 International Educational Activities of ABET Inc.AbstractThe Global Vision of ABET is to consult and assist as requested in the development andadvancement of education worldwide. ABET is currently involved in several endeavors whichaddress the issues of globalization in engineering education and accreditation such as theWashington Accord, the Western Hemisphere Initiative and international accreditation.The Washington Accord, signed in 1989, is an international agreement among bodies responsiblefor accrediting engineering degree programs. It recognizes the substantial

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Rohlfing, Arizona State University; Erin Kube, Arizona State University; Brandon Yabko, Arizona State University; Erika Murguia, Arizona State University; Jennifer Bekki, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Bianca Bernstein, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

practice and success in the application of problem solving to technicalproblems. The CareerWISE online training tool builds on the technical problem solving skillswith which they are already familiar and provides instruction in applying them to theinterpersonal problems they may be having with their advisor. Page 14.709.4The CareerWISE problem solving model has four key steps that are analogous to those in atypical technical problem process: assessing the problem, specifying the outcome you want,weighing strategies and making a plan, and taking action and reviewing results. This modelallows users to apply a familiar, systematic approach to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Town Hall Meeting: Supporting University Priorities

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

creative enterprise such as assembling creative teams, generating ideas, alignment ofteams, customers, suppliers etc as well as planning, design, risk management, production anddeployment. In this specific course, the design and construction of a robot based on the LegoMindstorm system provides the hands-on exercises.The uniqueness of this effort can be found in the authors’ background with 35 years ofexperience in creative industrial enterprises such as NASA projects and experiences fromdeveloping courses in managing creativity for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, JPL. A particular Page 14.512.7focus in this paper is the notion of collective

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: Using Case Studies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

and predicaments. As this studydiscovered, many students are not well enough prepared to encounter real world engineeringchallenges. Additional training and exercises are being planned to improve this aspect of theirengineering ethics education.This study also revealed that many students still make poor ethical decisions. This finding aloneindicates that more work needs to be done. The earlier and more frequently a student becomesexposed to engineering ethics, the better prepared they will be to meet the challenges of the realworld upon graduation. A single learning module incorporated into one course cannotaccomplish this. It takes repetitive exposures from a variety of engineering courses to accomplishthis objective.Conclusions

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

curriculum, advising, career planning, study abroad, early engineering and other related initiatives.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Understanding Factors Contributing to Retention in Engineering: A Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) ApproachIntroductionRetention of early engineering students is a nation-wide concern that will affect the strength ofthe future engineering workforce and, hence, the role of the United States as a dominant worldplayer in engineering and technology1. Michigan State University (MSU) and LansingCommunity College (LCC) were recently awarded a five-year NSF STEP grant (STEM TalentExpansion Program) to increase retention by 10% over current levels at our large, research-intensive

Conference Session

Attitudes, Self-Confidence, and Self-Efficacy of Women Engineering Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

to theircommitment to engineering. Passionately committed means the participant shows exceptionalenthusiasm for their major or prospective future job. Happily committed means the participant issatisfied with their choice of major and looking forward to their future in engineering.Committed with resignation means the participant has accepted that they will be an engineer butthey are not very excited about it. Uncommitted participants talk about careers unrelated toengineering even if they plan to finish their engineering degree. As previously mentioned, interview data were triangulated with survey data. All studyparticipants completed the Persistence in Engineering (PIE) survey in the fall and spring of thefirst three academic years and

Conference Session

Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ayhan Irfanoglu, Purdue University; Yating Chang, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

study-abroad programs, faculty members,especially junior faculty members who have yet to obtain their tenures, find it time consuming toengage in teach abroad and related programmatic logistics. The development and managementprogram involves great amount of administrative details, ranging from program recruitment,flight arrangements, program payment and budgeting, excursion planning, and so forth. These Page 14.803.9tasks are outside of faculty members’ functions and can become impeding to the success of theprogram.As mentioned before, IAESTE-USA, a program of AIPT requested teaching plans and proposalsfrom various schools. The Earthquake

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Amy Thompson, University of New Haven; Carl Barratt, University of New Haven; Michael Collura, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

courses.This paper discusses our experience at the University of New Haven in addressing issues thatarise when running multiple sections of a first semester freshman engineering course. Some ofthe management issues that occur involve scheduling time of teaching assistants, planning andpurchasing materials, scheduling classrooms, recruiting and training full time faculty and adjunctfaculty and planning for their schedules, and managing the dissemination of information undertight budget constraints.IntroductionMany changes in engineering education over the past 20 years have focused on enhancing thefirst year experience to improve the academic performance and persistence of engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Collaboration: Faculty and Student Involvement in K-12 Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalie Mukolobwiez, Saint Ursula Academy; Michelle Beach, Midpark High School; Jaswinder Dhillon, Withrow High School; Raviteja Chalasani, University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

experience reproduces, at a smaller scale, what they had experienced for six weeksduring the RET Site. Following a 5E lesson plan, the teachers introduced the relation betweenbuilding, earthquake and harmonic motion. The activity is designed for the students to initiallytry to find out the main parameters of small scale building models that impact its dynamicvibration characteristics and the impact they may have in causing some damage or even completefailure (or collapse) after an earthquake. Using the engineering design process, students developpreventive devices, such as base isolators or dampers, to mitigate the damage. They investigatedthe effects of these devices on the natural frequency and/or damping coefficient of the building.They also

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

HF design additionally requires that engineering and otherstudents see how HF design is applied to challenges in their discipline or future career. Ensuringfuture vitality requires that HF courses both enhance students’ chances HF-related employmentas well as entice students to pursue graduate studies.Discussion of Planning MeetingsTo create a course on high frequency design techniques that could serve as wide an audienceof students as possible, the three faculty and one graduate student involved in the course meton a regular basis (primarily) during a summer intercession to discuss the key requirementsfor such a course. The following paragraphs summarize the discussion of these individualsand serve to outline the framework around which the

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hitt, United States Military Academy; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy; Stephen Suhr, United States Military Academy; Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Page 14.987.6laboratory did not eliminate fully the potential for overcrowding issues during prototypeproduction. Future course offerings will also incorporate more stringent scheduling andmaximum occupancy requirements for the laboratory. The standard shop safety briefing will beaugmented with a requirement for students to verbally describe their fabrication plan to alaboratory technician prior to using any powered tools. Student inexperience with shopequipment is a systematic shortcoming in West Point‟s mechanical engineering program.Increased emphasis for hands-on applications will be incorporated into the Manufacturing andMachine Component Design course which precedes Mechanical Engineering Design to providestudents with greater exposure

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Terry Beck, Kansas State University; Bill Whitson, Kansas State University; Greg Payne, Kansas State University; Trevor Heitman, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

accomplished with the rapidprototyping capability, and is a planned future activity. Future additions planned include thetesting of more complex wing morphing, perhaps more focused on wing morphing as a means ofboundary layer control, and refinement of the image illumination system to extend the field ofview and clarity of image captures. A more flexible (i.e., two or more degree of freedom)sectioned wing model is envisioned as the next logical step, which would require moresophisticated internal joint control.AcknowledgementsThe MNE research engineer and instrument shop machinist Jason Selland is gratefullyacknowledged for his work in conjunction with the rapid prototyping system, which was used toconstruct the smoke rake and flapped wing designs

Conference Session

Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 2

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

state. According to regional graduateretention data14, only 27% of graduates intend to stay in the region, while 45% plan to leave aftergraduation. This makes the shortage of engineers even more severe than typical statistics ofopenings versus graduates illustrate.High technology companies form a large and growing sector of Connecticut’s economy, Page 14.650.6incorporating seven of the top ten fastest growing occupations in the state. A large annual gapbetween supply and demand in all highly technical fields in the state is anticipated at leastthrough 2012, and it is critically important that engineering students remain in the state to fill

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muge Mukaddes Darwish, Texas Tech University T-STEM Center; Mary Frances Agnello, Texas Tech

Tagged Divisions

Construction

resources are made available for its development' - World Summiton Sustainable Development: Plan of Implementation (2002). As time progresses the world seemingly begins to unravel due to the deliberate negligence of anignorant populous. This neglect is leading to an environment in which change can be volatile tomankind’s secure existence. Is it possible to solidify man’s grasp of sustaining its livelihood?The World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland report) concluded 23years ago that, “humanity has the ability to make development sustainable”. The Brundtlandreport defined sustainable development as the “development that meets the needs of the presentwithout compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; Amanda Funai, University of Michigan; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of the LLC (Learning Living Community) programs. These funding sources make it asustainable program for the foreseeable future.All review sessions are held in the Living Learning Center, in a classroom located within thefreshman housing complex. Holding these in close proximity to where the freshmen live greatlyincreases the number of students who attend each week. Because the location is so close,students “tag along” with their friends, even if they had no original intention to attend. Pizza isalso provided each week. Although almost all of the students have a meal plan, this also seemsto increase the number of students attending. At the end of the year, a survey is given toparticipants in the program and 60% indicated that having pizza at

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Reichle, Old Dominion University; Avery Bang, University of Colorado; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Engineering Programs. Bridges to Prosperity is a non-profitorganization that builds footbridges in rural third world communities. These design buildfootbridge projects require a full year for fundraising, site visit, design and construction, andprovide engineering students an opportunity to practice their knowledge of globalization,sustainability, engineering design, teamwork, and leadership. A team of students from theUniversity of Iowa completed the design and construction of a footbridge in Peru in the spring of2008. The planning, implementation and results of this service learning project are examined.Project BackgroundStarting in 2006, a group of undergraduate civil engineering students from the University ofIowa undertook a service learning

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Meyer, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

in notebooks by program outcome. Theresource requirement for these copies was about 10% of the total amount of student workcollected. This proved to be a great decision. When communication with our assigned PEVbegan, we informed him of our method of collection of student work, and he was quite pleasedwith the plan. For the visit, we presented the following resources to the PEV: ≠ CD-ROM with electronic copies of all student work (except final exams) from all CE program courses. ≠ CD-ROM with electronic copies of student work on final exams from all CE program courses. Final exams are re-used from year to year, thus it was necessary to keep this CD-ROM secured when not in use by the PEV. ≠ One notebook for each

Conference Session

Methods and Techniques in Graduate Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal Nepal, Texas A&M University; Paul Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

approved technical electives. ≠ Administrative capability and faculty advisor development ≠ Program marketing and promotion ≠ Faculty capabilities audit and resource reallocation such as shifting a portion of undergraduate teaching responsibilities to graduate teaching to meet the immediate needs. ≠ Curriculum design: the needs, competitors, program goals and quality position, facilities Page 14.858.3 and equipment (computers, programs, research labs, etc), graduate committee, faculty specialties and competitive advantages, plan of study, etc. ≠ Student recruitment and admission: minimum enrollment and long

Conference Session

Goal Specific First-Year Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

ofcommunication during the design process. Therefore, in the fall 2008 semester the teams werealso evaluated on their ability to effectively communicate their design with their team membersand with other teams in their discussion session. The class consists of 210 students; broken intoseven discussion sessions, with five teams each – for a total of 35 design teams. Thecommunication criteria was assessed in addition to the design project criteria. Each team wasrequired to complete their design, mathematical model and testing plans well in advance to theirscheduled testing date. Each team gave their design project construction materials and designplans (which include CAD drawings and instructions) to another team in the class whichconstructed the design