Wallace Venable, Emer. Assoc. Prof., Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia Univ.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books
  1. Plants, H.L. and Venable, W.S., Introduction to Statics, a Programmed Text, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN, 1975 (Objectives for Introduction to Statics - from Appendix I - Introduction To Statics - Teacher's Guide)
  2. contributor to Examination File - Statics, The Engineering Press, San Jose, CA, 1985
  3. contributor to Examination File - Dynamics, The Engineering Press, San Jose, CA, 1985
  4. contributor to Examination File - Mechanics of Materials, The Engineering Press, San Jose, CA, 1985
  5. Plants, H.L. and Venable, W.S., A Programmed Introduction to Dynamics, experimental edition published by West Virginia University Foundation, Morgantown, WV, 1967.
  6. Plants, H.L., Venable, W.S., and Shoemaker, H.D., Mechanics of Materials, A Programmed Textbook, experimental edition published by West Virginia University Foundation, Morgantown, WV, 1974.
Research Publications
  1. Venable, W.S., "Are Students Really Working Less?," 1987 Frontiers in Education Conference Procedings, Terre Haute, IN, 1987. p. 134-136
  2. Plants, H.L. and Venable, W.S., "Programmed Instruction is Alive in West Virginia," Engineering Education, March 1985.
  3. Venable, W.S., "Telephone Seminars on Advanced Technology: An Extension of the Langley Research Center Telelecture Program," in NASA CR-166016, Langley Research Center, 1983.
  4. Venable, W.S., "Factors Affecting Annual Conference Attendance - A Survey of ERM Menbers," 1982 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, ASEE, Washington, 1982.
  5. Plants, H.L. and Venable, W.S., "A Long-Term Study of Programmed Instruction in Mechanics," in Moderne Methoden und Hilfsmittel der Ingenieur-Ausbildung, G. Buzdugan, ed., Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, 1978.
  6. Plants, H.L. , Venable, W.S., and Dean, R.K., "Aspects of the Cost Effectiveness of Programmed Instruction," Proceedings of the Joint Meeting, North Central Section and Illinois-Indiana Section of ASEE, ASEE, Washington, April 1976.
  7. Venable, W.S. and Sears, J.T., "Assessing Problem-Solving Skills with Cognitive List-Assisted Report Scoring," Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Frontiers in Education, IEEE, New York, 1976.
  8. Plants, H.L. and Venable, W.S., "Programmed Instruction vs. Conventional Instruction," Annals of Engineering Education, in Engineering Education, v.66, n.3, December 1975.
  9. Venable, W.S. and Plants, H.L., "Two Measures of Self-Paced Instruction," Collected Papers of the ERM Division - 1972, ASEE, Washington, 1972.
  10. Plants, H.L. and Venable, W.S., "Teacher - A Revised Edition," Proceedings of the 1972 Conference on Frontiers in Education, IEEE, New York, 1972.
  11. Plants, H.L. and Venable, W.S., "Teaching Problem-Solving Skills: Theory or Practice First?," Engineering Education, v.60, n.7, March 1970.
Publications on the Improvement of Education
  1. Venable, W.S., McConnell, R., and Stiller, A.S.,"Incorporating Mathematics in a Freshman Engineering Course," Proceedings of the 1995 Conference on Frontiers in Education, IEEE, New York, 1995.
  2. McConnell, R., Venable, W.S., and Stiller, A.S.,"Freshman Can Do Rigorous Open-Ended Design," Proceedings of the 1995 Conference on Frontiers in Education, IEEE, New York, 1995.
  3. Stiller, A.S., Venable, W.S., and McConnell, R., "Incorporating Study Skills in a Freshman Engineering Course," Proceedings of the 1995 Conference on Frontiers in Education, IEEE, New York, 1995.
  4. Venable, W.S., "Commercial Software - A Medium for Teaching 'Life-long Learning'," Proceedings of the IMechE International Conference on Engineering Design, IMechE, London, 1989
  5. Venable, W.S., "Comprehensive First-Day Handouts," Proceedings of the 1994 Conference on Frontiers in Education, IEEE, New York, 1994.
  6. Venable, W.S., "Departmental Final Exams - A Tool for Quality Assurance," Proceedings of the 1993 Conference on Frontiers in Education, IEEE, New York, 1993.
  7. Venable, W.S., "Getting Started as an Author of Computerized Lessons," Ingenieurausbildung 2000 - Engineering Education 2000, Leuchtturm-Verlag, Bergstrasse, Austria, 1990.
  8. Venable, W.S., "Developing a Behavioral Approach to Teaching Design," International Journal of Applied Engineering Education
  9. Venable, W.S., "Developing a Design Attitudes Structure to Support a Capstone Design Course", ASME 1987 International Conference on Engineering Design Proceedings, ASME, New York, 1987.
  10. Venable, W.S., "Why American Engineering Faculty Appear More Concerned with Design Education than the Design Process," ASME 1987 International Conference on Engineering Design Proceedings
  11. Venable, W.S., "Stretching Students With PC's," 1987 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, invited paper
  12. Venable, W.S., "M.E. Sophomore Design Projects," 1986 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, ASEE, Washington, 1986.
  13. Venable, W.S., "Developing Objectives for an Engineering Design Course," Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Frontiers in Education, IEEE, New York, 1984.
  14. Venable, W.S., Dean, R.K., and Plants, H.L., "Elastically Structured Teaching Teaching - Programmed Instruction, Contingency Management, and Group-Pacing Combined," 1982 Conference International Society for Individualized Instruction, ISII, Manhatten, KS, 1982.
  15. Venable, W.S., "Shoot Them at Sunrise or Strangle Them at Night - An Appraisal of Methods for Limiting Enrollment," 1982 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, IEEE, New York, 1982.
  16. Plants, H.L., Dean, R.K., Sears, J.T., and Venable, W.S., " A Taxonomy of Problem-Solving Activities and Its Implications for Teaching," in Teaching Problem Solving, J.Lubkin, ed., ASEE, Washington, 1980.
  17. Venable, W.S., "Preparing Engineers for Educational R & D," Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Frontiers in Education, IEEE, New York, 1978.
  18. Venable, W.S., "Has ERM Lost Its Purpose?" ERM Magazine, v.9, n.3, Spring 1977.
  19. Venable, W.S., "Equal Opportunity," ERM Magazine, v.9, n.2, Winter 1977.
  20. Venable, W.S., "Thank Your Dean," ERM Magazine, v.9, n.1, Fall 1976.
  21. Venable, W.S., "The Autocrats of the Breakfast Tables," Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Frontiers in Education, IEEE, New York, 1975.
  22. Venable, W.S., "Time for a Change," ERM Magazine, v.7, n.4, Summer 1875.
  23. Venable, W.S., "Our New Blue Pencils," ERM Magazine, v.7, n.1, Fall 1974.
  24. Plants, H.L., and Venable, W.S., "Training the Engineer- Educator: Five Years Experience in Changing Behavior," Proceedings of the 1974 Conference on Frontiers in Education, IEE, London, 1974.
  25. Venable, W.S., "ERM Does Have a Direction," ERM Magazine, v.5, n.4, June 1973.
  26. Plants, H.L., Sears, J.T., and Venable, W.S., "Making Tools Work," Engineering Education, v.64, n.6, March 1973.
  27. Venable, W.S., "Summer Skills," ERM Magazine, v.4, n.4, June 1972.
  28. Venable, W.S., "The Same New Directions," ERM Magazine, v.4, n.1, October 1971.
  29. Venable, W.S., "Individually Paced Instruction," Proceedings of the North Central Section, ASEE, Washington, 1971.
  30. Plants, H.L., and Venable, W.S., "Programmed Instruction: An Application of theEngineering Method," IEEE Transactions on Education, v.E-14, n.2, May 1971.
  31. Plants, H.L., and Venable, W.S., "Teaching Engineering Through Programmed Instruction," Engineering Education, v.71, n.6, March 1971.
  32. Venable, W.S., "Toward Simplicity," ERM Magazine, v.3, n.1, October 1970.
  33. Plants, H.L., and Venable, W.S., Dynamic Attention Getters, (monograph), West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 1968.
Book and Software Reviews
  1. "TK! Solver on the Sanyo," Sanpic, December 1984.
  2. "A Study in Contrasts," Engineering Education, November 1978.
  3. "Typographic Programs," (software review) Sanpic, March 1985.
  4. "MS-DOS and PC-DOS on the IBM PC," (book review) Sanpic, January 1985.

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