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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nelson Baker

Session 2793 Pedagogy and Technology in Statics Sean W. St.Clair, Nelson C. Baker Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper will discuss ten different Statics instructional technology programs that wereconsidered for classroom use and the positive aspects of each as well as some of theirshortcomings.While in the process of a larger research project investigating the effects of technology use in theclassroom, a number of different readily available instructional programs designed for use inStatics courses were studied. The programs were being

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Global Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Paterson; Samantha De Bon; Jean-Yves Chagnon; Deborah Wolfe

reflect such issues as technological advances and thegrowth of the engineering team in the workplace. Over the past decade the CEAB increased therequirements for complementary studies (soft skills) and moved from a proportional measure ofcurriculum to an absolute measure. Changes under consideration at the present time include: · refining the curriculum content requirements for Basic Science and Mathematics, · including morale and commitment of faculty, support staff and students as a component of the qualitative evaluation, and · including the requirement for students to be exposed to the concepts of project management.The engineering profession expects of its members competence in engineering as well as anunderstanding of the impact of

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Trends in Nuclear Education--I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Jackson; Larry Miller; J Hines; Harold Dodds; Dr. Ronald E. Pevey; Dr. Lawrence W. Townsend; Belle Upadhyaya

of graduate courses in nuclear engineering · 6 additional hours in nuclear engineering or a related field · 6 elective hours of mathematics statistics, or computer scienceand the selection of one of the following research options: · 6 credit hours of research through completion of a thesis · 6 credit hours of research through engineering practice projects · 3 hours of engineering practice project plus 6 additional hours of graduate nuclear engineering coursework.Applicants without a B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering, or the equivalent, must take thefollowing three courses: · NE 301: Fundamentals of Nuclear & Radiological Engineering · NE 431: Radiation Protection · NE 470: Nuclear Reactor Theory I

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What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ted Eschenbach; Mike Loose; John Whittaker

of using the marginal cost of equity is that it more closely reflects the currentsources of the firm’s equity financing. The weighted average cost of equity determines the cost ofequity based on the firm’s overall equity composition, which may not be the same as its mostrecent financing composition.Capital Asset Pricing Model. The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) was developed toexplain the variation in yield rates on various types of investments and also to provide insight intothe appropriate rate to use in discounted cash flow analysis (Kellison, p. 350).4 The main benefitis that it shows the relationship between project risk and return.The CAPM identifies two types of risk. The first is unsystematic risk, also known as unique risk.This

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ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marty Frisbee; Deborah Sharer

examined individually in the following sections.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationWebCTIn an attempt to minimize potential problems, the Active Networks I course was developed usingseveral compatible delivery and interaction strategies that were intended to provide optimumsupport for students. The IADE offerings of the ET Department had previously been defined asan asynchronous program and, in 2001, WebCT was chosen by the University as the primarycourse delivery mechanism. Asynchronous delivery of lecture material, examples, homeworkproblems, projects, self-tests and other course requirements

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Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

thesecompetencies.ePortfoliosFirst, our decision for using ePortfolios comes out of our desire to have a broader assessmenttool for student intellectual development and technical expertise. We believe that the portfolioprocess is a successful paradigm for broader assessment because student are given the choice tocollect certain examples (papers, reports, projects, and autobiographical information), reflect onthe significance of these examples, and to explain their selection process for the instructor and/oraudience. When done correctly, the portfolio as an educational artifact shows intellectual growthand gives the assessor of this growth a range of performances that indicate the student’sintellectual and technical development8.Second, we believe that engineers and

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Herbert Hess

part. A microturbine can run for days without attentionand its total projected life that is six times that of a comparable internal combustion engine. Itshigh rotating speed gives it a great energy density. It has a nearly universal fuel capability. It isquieter than an internal combustion engine, but not as quiet as other competing technologies.Unfortunately, its tolerances are exacting and its materials are expensive. It does not respond asquickly to a load change as competing technologies. To overcome these disadvantages,additional equipment must be added, defeating much of its size and simplicity advantage. Page 8.548.3 Proceedings

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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

HRS SEMET 4323 Technology Seminar 3 F,S ET 4320 Prestressed Concrete 3 SET 4324 Senior Concrete Project 3 F,S ET 4325 Senior Steel Project 3 SENGR 3302 Engineering Economics 3 S ET 4322 Foundation Design 3 SENGR 3409 PC Facilities Management 4 ALL ET Elective 3 ALLET Elective 3 ALL ET Elective 3 ALL 16 15F= fall; S = spring; SU= summer Figure 1

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2001 Annual Conference

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Carlos Ortiz

created to enhance and promotescholarship. Two separate proposals have been prepared, approved and financed. Theseproposals have focussed on modifications of current industrial wastewater techniques. Thefinancial support for these two projects and the implementation of bench-scale tests, provided usa unique opportunity to enhance our wet chemistry analytical capabilities and water testingequipment.The third source was external funding. The CET department never explored external funding toobtain support for environmental projects. The first attempt was made offering our lab-scaletesting capabilities to develop operational strategies or process modifications necessary toincrease the efficiency of a biological treatment system for a local county

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2001 Annual Conference

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Tycho Fredericks; Jorge Rodriguez

understanding of ergonomic andsafety applications. To prepare industrial and manufacturing engineering students for today’swork environment, courses should be geared toward developing a knowledge base to expandcareer opportunities and allow students the ability to move forward simultaneously withindustrial advancements. The goal of this project was to research and develop an Ergonomic andSafety curriculum together with the definition of a standard curriculum design process that willallow for ease in future implementation of programs independent of the area of study. The basisof the defined procedure is a survey of involved parties. The outcome of the project included acourse-specific Ergonomic and Safety curriculum. The proposed four-course/one-project

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2001 Annual Conference

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Roger Minear

a senior level laboratory course was designed to bridge the existinggap between class room theory and practical measurement techniques. The experimentsare structured to let the students participate in common field and laboratorymeasurements that are used in environmental engineering to design monitoring programsand treatment systems in air, water, wastewater, hazardous waste and ecology. Thestudents are directly involved in evaluating data reliability and assessing QA/QC issuesas a part of performing the experiments. They make decisions on the use of their data inclassroom projects simulating assessment or the development of design parameters fortreatment systems.A series of experimental modules have been constructed that represent the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Gregory Shoales; Cary A. Fisher

diametrically opposed approaches, eachmethod has its own advantages and disadvantages. All methods provide key insightsfor engineering educators as they strive to produce the independent life-long learningengineering graduate.Introduction As a professional in industry, as a professor about to embark on a researchproposal, or as an Air Force officer given a short-suspense (time critical) project, weseldom (if ever) have the opportunity to hear a lecture on our problem, project, orproposal. Instead, we are expected to solve it on our own, using whatever resourceswe can find! We know from experience to talk to knowledgeable colleagues, dig outrelevant information from books and manuals, and perhaps even refer to an old long-forgotten undergraduate

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2001 Annual Conference

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M. Silva; Sheri Sheppard

Foundation. This study, entitled "Taking Stock--ALook at Engineering Education at the End of the Twentieth Century and Beyond," began inSeptember 2000 and will be completed in 2002.2 Its goals are to portray current engineeringeducation, to highlight recent significant developments and approaches to teaching and learningin engineering education, and to offer suggestions and guidelines to enhance future engineeringeducation and the qualities of future engineering educators and practitioners.The Foundation’s study of engineering education is both innovative and timely. The study isinnovative in that it is embedded in a larger project at The Foundation that is looking atprofessional education more generally. It is also innovative in its research

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2001 Annual Conference

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William Hutzel

Internet.Rather than collecting performance data on the roof, an entire classroom of students useindividual networked personal computers to remotely monitor fluid temperature, fluid flow, andsunlight intensity. Sunlight intensity is a particularly interesting measurement. It is recorded bya solar pyranometer that is mounted next to the solar collectors. This sensor records the totalamount of visible and near-visible (ultraviolet and near-infrared) radiation, which occurs inwavelengths between roughly 295 and 2800 nm. This single sensor cost $2000, by far the mostexpensive in the lab! In recent years, several large renovation projects have restored the aging collector boxes,replaced the mechanical equipment for circulating heat transfer fluids, and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Bahador Ghahramani

Session 3551 AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND FLOOD PREDICTION SYSTEM Dr. Bahador Ghahramani, P.E., CPE Engineering Management Department University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65409-0370 (USA) Tel: (573) 341-6057 Fax: (573) 341-6567 E-mail: ghahrama@umr.eduAbstractThe primary objective of this project was to develop an effective flood prediction system (FPS)to save the environment, properties, and lives. This system is capable of predicting downstreamflood using upstream data

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2001 Annual Conference

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Ralph Staus; Henry Ansell

being stocked with large numbers of books relating to the courses that they aretaking, has not been particularly important to their studies for their technical courses. In most technical courses, the information that a student needs is provided during thelecture sessions, or it is available by reading the textbook. Technical courses typically have notrequired information gathering from the library’s resources. Our colleagues in the liberal artsoften require a term paper to be written, which requires library research, but that is uncommon inmath, physics, in engineering technology, and other technical courses. An exception occurs with capstone design project courses, in that the student will likelyhave to search for information

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2000 Annual Conference

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Majid Salim; John E Wagner; David R Finley

concerns about copying of solutions, the current collaboration policy is restrictive (excepton team-based projects where noted), emphasizing the importance of individual effort.Assignments that prove difficult for the majority of the class are reviewed during lecture.A single mid-term exam is given. This exam is designed to insure that students have a solidgrasp on their chemical engineering plan of study, including specific requirements that must bemet prior to graduation. In particular, a firm grasp of social science and humanities (SHS)requirements, historically one of the most challenging advising concepts, is tested. For this test,students are presented a number of course combinations and are asked if these combinationssatisfy the rigorous

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ron Eaglin; Z. Qu; Q. Zhang; P. Wahid; Issa Batarseh

perform on-linesimulation of all type of DC and AC electrical engineering problems and have the option of plottingthe responses graphically. This paper gives only the first development phase of the project. Moreworks is needed to complete the software development of the simulation component of the CircuitMark-Up Language (CirML) module.INTRODUCTIONBecause of the recent advances in technology in terms of technical delivery capabilities and cost, therole of technology in education has never been greater [1]. The Internet has been utilized as the idealmedium to create platforms for students to use for its wide availability. Repeated studies have shownthat often students in engineering core courses find it difficult to grasp the basic concepts

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2000 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir I. Mehta

learning is an important effect. Concept questionscan be used for active cooperative learning activities during class and as exam questions. Mazursuggests that exams contain a combination of traditional computational problems and conceptualquestions. This combination makes students study fundamental principles in addition to more Page 5.554.1traditional homework problems focused on use of equations.II. Concept Questions In StaticsDeveloping concept-questions for statics is part of a larger project focused on development,evaluation, and national dissemination of instructional materials for statics. These instructionalmaterials are based on advances

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ed Clausen; Carolyne E. Garcia

coursework summary. This summaryincludes a narrative on each course taken in the curriculum, and briefly describes why the coursewas taken, the value of each course to the student, and a description of any special projects orassignments required in the class. Up to one page may be written for each class.The professional employment experience narrative follows, in which the student describes anddiscusses professional employment and programs, why they chose the particular activity, andwhat they learned. A similar narrative is prepared for other employment experiences that arenon-professional, but still have significant value in personal development.Extracurricular activities, both inside and outside the university, are discussed, including

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2000 Annual Conference

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Hamid Khan

showingthat he/she is capable of modeling in 2D and 3D. Again, five skills exams administered per semesterbring the total class meetings to only twenty-three. The effectiveness of this project based CADteaching and learning is limited to demonstration type of teaching in a lecture format for one hour andletting loose the students to complete assignments and projects by their own volition and cooperation.No monitoring is possible in the lab. There is no “practical” cad-lab with supervised lab experiencesfor the students. Therefore, the students are supposed to complete drawing and project assignments inunsupervised labs in their own time. This gives rise to too much cooperation among the students, to

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2000 Annual Conference

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Richard Layton

programs must demonstrate that their graduates have an under-standing of professional and ethical responsibility.”1In response to this need, educators can adopt a number of strategies. Among them are the fol-lowing, paraphrased from Alenskis2:• A stand-alone course in ethics.• An ethics component in a stand-alone course in professionalism.• An ethics component in a senior project, thesis, or capstone course.• Integration of ethics across the curriculum.• Commingling ethics instruction in technical courses.Each approach has advantages and disadvantages (reference 2 cites studies that investigate eachof these approaches). As Alenskis states, “The issue is often how to present ethics as an impor-tant aspect of the technical profession

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Tomorrow's Civil Engineering Profession

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2002 Annual Conference

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KC Mahboub; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Scott Yost

, Denton describes an engineer’s interestin educating others as a natural fit for engineering educators: “engineers excel at the design,analysis, and improvement of complex systems” and documents cases of engineering professorscontributing outside the realm of the traditional classroom to enhance and enrich the perceptionof engineering as a viable career choice.2An important source for designing our work was Besterfield-Sacre et. al’s extensive quantitativeand qualitative research project across 17 engineering institutions that also investigated thefactors that propel students into or out of engineering careers.3 In “Gender Ethnicity Differencesin Freshman Engineering Attitudes: A Cross-Institutional Study,” the researchers report thatgender and

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Wheeldon; Glenn Wrate

the steady drift of circuit analysis textbooks in the non-electrical major area away frombuilding electrical examples and problems to a focus on automotive systems. The last twocourses in the sequence focus on small commercial buildings and light industrial facilities, andthen multistory buildings and large industrial facilities. Formal designs, including presentations,are required in both of these courses. Typically, one of the courses has individual projects, w hilethe other course forces the students to work in teams. The order of the project assignments hasbeen varied to deal with the strengths and weaknesses of the individual classes. These coursesare currently offered as elective courses in the Electrical Engineering program, and

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

their own abilities in those areas. Technology, as stated, isanother area of opportunity. From effective use of the Internet, to providing ideas for topicillustration, to actually teaming with a teacher to teach a Web Page Creation elective for studentsin grades 3-5, our engineering students are proving to be a valuable resource to our teachers.Finally, NCSU students are developing, with guidance from curriculum experts known to theschools, inquiry-based, integrated science lessons for teacher delivery.From an extracurricular standpoint, there are opportunities for engineering students to work asmentors on science fair projects and Science Olympiad teams. The role model aspect in theseoften-voluntary events is crucial, especially for

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jiang Li; Matthew Lee

system can be adopted for both lab and field measurements. It is especially convenient for field projects since the DAQ system is portable and light. This system is designed for multiple purposes. For instance, the data acquisition can measure and record stress/force, strain/displacement, velocity/acceleration, temperatures, etc. that are related to projects in civil engineering such as pile driving, foundation loading/unloading and deformation of infrastructure (i.e., pavement, slope, retaining wall, bridges etc). This system can also serve as a virtual laboratory device for purposes of teaching and research in engineering mechanics (i.e., oscilloscopes, frequency response analyzers, signal generators, A/D or D/A data converters, etc.). In the

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Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Francis Hopcroft

, and ends in culture. The primary objective of the work shifted from successfullycompleting the original research study to the much more difficult topic of interdisciplinary andcross-gender collaboration. The new focus is designed to facilitate the formulation of a plan thatexamines key issues that impact successful collaboration. The fact that gender is also a variablepresents intriguing and only sometimes predictable influences on the working relationship. Thispaper provides an informal and descriptive framework for conceptualizing the collaborativeresearch effort by considering expectations for successful project completion, and implicationsfor further study.II. Overview of ThemesThis paper began with some hunches about the effects that

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Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Turner

modules to be taught in sophomore, junior, and seniorcourses that add value to them. In other cases, we have promoted contests thatencourage students to participate in infrastructure development projects such as thedesign of the academic center for engineers and scientists and the engineering annexbuilding.The specific objectives for the green engineering building contest flow from thelarger goals outlined above are as follows: a. Create an opportunity for students and faculty to contribute to the design of the new building that will serve as a learning experience for all. b. Create a model building that illustrates UTEP’s leadership in engineering design and sustainability concepts for the El Paso Ciudad-Juarez region. c. Provide

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2001 Annual Conference

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Mary Cardenas

Page 6.1153.2school students. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Goals and Design ConsiderationsHarvey Mudd College’s curriculum committee states an Integrative Experience should involve: • consideration of one or more issues involving the relationship of science or technology with contemporary society • a substantial project and an oral presentation • self-reflection and critical analysis • interdisciplinary thinking involving technical fields, where appropriate • the possibility of engaging in service-oriented outreach activitiesThe addition of WebQuest design to E188

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Adams

. Performance considers the extent to which the outputs meet the standards of quantity,quality and timeliness of those who use the product or receive the service. 3 Behavior considersthe extent to which the team experience contributes to the growth and personal well being ofteam members. 3 Attitude is concerned with examining how the process of carrying out the workenhances the capability of members to work together interdependently in the future. 3 Table 1shows what is being measured and how it will be measured for each outcome. Outcomes Tool Performance (P) · Knowledge about the subject · Project report (on the assigned task) · Quality of the results · Project