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ANN MCKENNA

Graduate Group in Engineering, Science, and Mathematics Education University of California at Berkeley, CA

ALICE AGOGINO

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of California at Berkeley, CA

*Based on "Engineering For Middle School: A Web-Based Module for Learning and Designing with Simple Machines" by Ann McKenna and Alice Agogino which appeared in the Proceedings of the 1997 Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 5-8, IEEE Catalog No. 97CH36099, pp. 1496-1501,