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PENNY L. HIRSCH is Associate Director of the Writing Program at Northwestern and a Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturer. A principal in her own communications consulting firm since 1986, she is also the VaNTH project leader for core competency instruction. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University.

H. DAVID SMITH is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University, where he just completed a term as Associate Director of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence. Specializing in assessment and evaluation of educational interventions, he is a member of the VaNTH ERC. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and has taught at Middlebury College and the University of Michigan.

GULNUR BIROL received her B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey. After doing postdoctoral work at Louisiana State University and research at the Illinois Institute of Technology, she joined the Biomedical Engineering faculty at Northwestern University, where she is also a project leader in biotechnology for the VaNTH ERC.

BUGRAHAN YALVAC is a postdoctoral fellow in assessment studies for the VaNTH ERC at Northwestern University. He holds B.S. degrees in Physics and Physics Education and an M.S. degree in Science Education from METU, Ankara. For his Ph.D. studies at Penn State, he majored in Curriculum and Instruction and minored in Science, Technology, and Society (STS).

JEANINE CASLER is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at Northwestern University. She received her B.A. from Rosemont College, her M.A. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.

JOHN C. ANDERSON is the Instructional Technology Coordinator for IDEA, Northwestern University's Institute for Design Engineering and Applications. He is also a Lecturer in the Writing Program. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. from Northwestern University.

JOHN B. TROY, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University, chaired the undergraduate program for 12 years and has taught Neural Systems Physiology for 15 years. An active researcher in this area, he is domain leader for systems physiology in the VaNTH ERC. He holds undergraduate degrees from the Universities of Reading and London and a D.Phil. in Experimental Psychology (Neuroscience) from the University of Sussex.

Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Anderson, J., & Casler, J., & Yalvac, B., & Smith, H. D., & Birol, G., & Troy, J., & Hirsch, P. (2005, June), Establishing School Wide Standards For Engineering Writing: A Data Driven Approach Paper presented at 2005 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--14372