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Gwen Lee-Thomas, Ph.D., Old Dominion University; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida

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Krivanek Distinguished Teacher at the University of South Florida. With major funding from National Science Foundation, he is developing award winning online resources for an undergraduate course in Numerical Methods. He is the recipient of the 2004 Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) & the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) Florida Professor of the Year Award.Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida Ali Yalcin is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department at the University of South Florida, and an Associate Faculty member of the Center for Urban Transporta- tion Research. His research interests include modeling, analysis and control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bonnie Ferri, Georgia Tech; JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jennifer E. Michaels, Georgia Institute of Technology; Douglas B. Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology

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desk).Each of the modules in Table 1 links to supporting material on the TESSAL website. Thesupporting web resources include: • Tutorial on fundamental, theoretical concepts demonstrated in the lab • Instructional videos for how to run the labs • Laboratory procedures for students to follow to do the lab • Online problems representative of those found in lecture-based course exams • Instructor resources for building the platform and for implementing itThese resources satisfy two goals for the center: 1) to maximize the benefits of incorporating theexperiments into the course and 2) to maximize wide-spread usage of the experiments. Thewebsite material ties the experiments to lecture material as well as provides support for studentsand

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet H. Murray, Georgia Tech; Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sue Rosser, San Francisco State University; Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurence J. Jacobs, Georgia Institute of Technology; John D. Leonard II, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell

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targetcourse, and John Leonard analyses student data for the College of Engineering; WendyNewstetter and Sneha Veerdagoudar Harrell do research in cognition and learning; andJanet Murray, the project manager, is a professor of digital media. Most of the studentswho have worked on the project, including Calvin Ashmore, the lead programmer andsystem designer, have been drawn from Georgia Tech’s graduate program in DigitalMedia.MaterialsInTEL Toolkit.The InTEL software was developed to support students’ capacity to learn the process ofstatics problem solving and develop more expert like habits of mind (Nasir, XXXX) overthe course of the semester. The problems developed within the toolkit reflect the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology Statics course syllabus

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Tuba Pinar Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Natasa Vidic, University of Pittsburgh

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department she worked as a Senior Consultant for Ernst and Young and as an Industrial Engineer for General Motors Corporation. She teaches undergraduate courses in engineering economics, engineering management, and probability and statistics in Industrial Engineering as well as engineering computing in the freshman engineering program. Dr. Bursic has done research and published work in the areas of Engineering and Project Management and Engineering Education. She is a member of IIE and ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania.Natasa Vidic, University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor Industrial Engineering Department Swanson School of Engineering University of Pittsburgh