education necessary to The current need and use of these weapons on theunderstand the impact of engineering battlefield was discussed and societal and politicalsolutions in a global, economic, implication of improving their accuracy.environmental, and societal context.Bibliography1 Frederick, R.A., Jr., Takada, P., and Cook, L., "Prototype for a Multi-National Propulsion System Design Course,"AIAA Paper 2000-3894, 36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 16-19, 2000.2 Frederick, R.A., Jr., Pawlak, M-S, Utley, D.R., Corsetti, C.D., Wells, B.E., and Landrum, D.B., “InternationalProduct Teams for Aerospace Systems Design,” AIAA Paper 2002-4337, July 2002.3
tried toproduce a FC that could convert coal or carbon to electricity directly. These attempts failedbecause not enough was known about materials or electricity. In 1932, Francis Bacon developedthe first successful fuel cell. He used hydrogen, oxygen, an alkaline electrolyte, and nickelelectrodes. In 1952, Bacon and a co-worker produced a 5-kW fuel cell system. The large boost inFC technology comes from NASA. In the late 1950’s NASA needed a compact way to generateelectricity for space missions. Nuclear was too dangerous, batteries too heavy, and solar panelstoo cumbersome. The answer was fuel cells. NASA went on to fund over 200 research contractsfor fuel cell technology. Both the alkaline and polymer electrolyte fuel cells have
Conference. Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change (Vol. 2), pp. 604 -609.2. Cambron, M.E. and Lenoir, H.J., “Introduction to Industrial Automation, a multi-disciplinary course at Western Kentucky University,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2004, pp. 8363-8370.3. Hsieh, S. "Automated Manufacturing System Integration Education: Current Status and Future Directions," Proceedings of 2005 ASEE Annual Conference, June 12-15, 2005, Portland, OR.4. http://www.delmia.com.5. Cheng, F.S. “A Methodology For Developing Robotic Workcell Simulation Models,” Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference, J. A. Joines, R. R. Barton, K. Kang, and P. A. Fishwick, eds.6. http://www.adept.com.7. COSIMIR (2005). COSIMIR
Development group. Currently, she is a research assistant on two NSF funded projects examining gender equity issues in the science and technology fields. She has co-authored several presentations and papers related to women’s career decision making and women’s under-representation in IT.Peggy S. Meszaros, Virginia Tech Peggy S. Meszaros, William E. Lavery Professor of Human Development and Director, Center for Information Technology Impacts on Children, Youth and Families, Virginia Tech, USA. She has extensive teaching, research, and administrative experience including middle school and high school teaching of science and has been a faculty member and administrator for 28 years at private
authors would like to acknowledge infrastructure support for the development of nano andmicro manufacturing modules to the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures(CAMSS) at NC A&T State University.10. References1. The Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE), http://www.iienet.org2. Michalicek, M. A., “A Brief History and Overview of MEMS Technology and Applications” University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000.3. Ref: Nanonex® NX-2000 Specifications Brochure, 2006.4. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH Technik and Umwelt, Projekt Mikrosystemtechnik (PMT)5. Desai S., Lovell M., “Multiphysics Modeling of a Piezoelectric Bimorph Disc in a Direct Write Fabrication Process”, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress
enthusiasm of the engineering students involved in the project,in particular with respect to their commitment to improving mathematics education at the highschool level using their engineering skills to guide them to appropriate applications, and finallydue to the commitment of the faculty involved in both cases. The project provides anentrepreneurial learning experience for the engineering students as well as the opportunity toimpact the local community through service learning. The interaction between the university andthe high school may be the first steps in helping improve the math skills of high school studentsin Florida and across the country.Bibliography[1] G. Heinrich, K. Jordan, A. Smalley, and S. Boast. Prepare Students for Technical
are typically based on the following factors: quizzes, homework, midterm exam and final Exam. IX. Relationship of Course Objectives to Program Outcomes Program Outcomes (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k) Use Use Do Dsn Wo Do Eff Life Prof, Prof, QualCou of of expe of rk Tec Co - ethic soc, ,rse mod math, ri- sys on h m long s, globl, ContObj ern scienc ment & tea pro lear socia diversi impr tools e
Department at OregonInstitute of Technology.Development of the FEA course at OITFinite Element Analysis (FEA) is a numerical method for solving engineering problems bysimulating real-life-operating situations on computers. Finite element analysis proceduresevolved gradually from the work of many people in the fields of engineering, physics, andapplied mathematics. The use of finite element analysis (FEA) become widespread in the 1960’sand 70’s, initially in the automotive and the aerospace industries. During that period of time,expensive mainframe computers were required to run the finite element analysis, and finiteelement models typically required days to create. The task of interpreting results were also verydifficult. Customized software were
leaving the building). Page 12.330.5 Table 1 - Estimated Building Loads2 Estimated Heating And Cooling Loads Conditions Measurement Cooling Load Heating Load Dry-Bulb Temperature [C] 32 -21 Wet-Bulb Temperature [C] 22 -21 Total Horizontal Solar Rad. [W/m2] 668 0 Windspeed [m/s] 5 5.5 Cloud amount [0
WLAN and Bluetooth etc. Other futuredirections include exploring the physical characteristics for WLAN and Bluetooth and theirrespective performance in an interference-limited environment.References[1] Ennis, Greg, “Impact of Bluetooth on 802.11 Direct Sequence,” IEEE 802.11. Working Group Contribution, IEEE 802.11-98/319, September 1998.[2] Haartsen J.C. and Zurbes S., “Bluetooth voice and data performance in 802.11 DS WLAN environment,” SIG Publication, 1999.[3] Punnoose R. J., Tseng R. S., Stancil D. D. Experimental Results for Interference between Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b DSSS Systems. In Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Society Conference, October 2001.[4] Golmie, N. and Mouveaux F., Interference in the 2.4 GHz
study at the university to takean objective look at the programs that lead to both ABET and NCATE continued accreditation.AcknowledgementThe authors would like to thank Dr. Norman L. Fortenberry, Director of the Center for theAdvancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education in the National Academy of Engineeringfor providing the opportunity and resources that allowed us to participate in the workshops.These workshops provided the critical professional development we needed to initiate andconduct this research.Bibliography1. AC Nielsen Research Services. (2000, February). Employer satisfaction with graduation skills. Retrieved September 3, 2005 from http://www.dest.gov.au/archive/highered/eippubs/eip99-7/eip99_7pdf.2. Beder, S
nuclear energy and such renewable options as wind, geothermal, hydropower, ocean and tidal, solar, biomass, and hydrogen and fuel cells.Unit 3: Non-renewable energy- coal, petroleum, natural gas, oil shale and tar sandsUnit 4: Environmental impact that discusses the environmental and health and safety impacts of non-renewable and renewable energy options. Page 12.1196.3A sample schedule for a course that meets twice a week for 75 minutes per class sessionis shown in Table 1. Table 1: Sample EGEE 101H Class ScheduleWeeks Unit Topic(s)1-3 1 (Energy Fundamentals
, fluid flow, and electric and magnetic potential problems.The authors (JAS, MDV) are currently working on a textbook that would be germane to the firsttwo courses of this sequence.ConclusionIn summary, CV engineering is an established discipline of biomedical engineering. This fact Page 12.345.7must be considered by institutions when planning for educational efforts, e.g. course andprogram development, research thrusts. The information presented here should be useful toengineering departments who are already participating in the area or who plan such anexpansion.Bibliography1. Ritter AB, Reisman S, Michiak BB. Biomedical Engineering Principles
achieving satisfactoryresults with traditionally under-represented minority students. National figures show that fewer and fewer African-Americans are receiving Ph.D.'s in the sciences. The high attrition rate of African Americans from the STEMpipeline has been identified as a greater barrier to increased representation than their attraction to non-quantitative Page 12.1198.2fields. Critical thinking skills and self-directed inquiry are two areas, that if enhanced at the entry level of scienceand engineering education, could possibly increase motivation for STEM careers for minority students when otherbarriers are addressed [3-8
the most effective ways to ensure student success1-4. The University of Washington’sCenter for Workforce Development (CWD), formerly Women in Science and Engineering(WiSE), developed a mentoring program for STEM female graduate students interested infaculty careers in the 1990’s. Subsequently, the mentoring program has evolved to reach out tounderrepresented minorities interested in faculty careers and to all graduate students interested incareers in the field of nanotechnology. Students are matched with a faculty or industry mentor,based on their needs and interests. The program focuses on both the psychosocial andinstrumental career development needs of graduate students. During the 2005-2006 academicyear, the mentoring program served a
., Srihari K., and Kushner L., Rivero R., “Reducing Patient Turnaround Time at an ED”, International Conference on Production Research (ICPR), Blacksburg, VA, USA, August, 2003.8. Nagarkar K., Gandhi T., DeGennaro M., Srihari K., and Kushner L., Rivero R., “Effective Utilization of Ancillary Services to Reduce Patient Turnaround Time in an Emergency Room”, Industrial Engineering Research Conference, TX, May 2004.9. Nivarthi S., Thalacker G., Nagarkar K., DeGennaro M., Kushner L., Srihari K., & Rivero R., “Enhancement of the Utilization of a Suite of Operating Rooms”, Industrial Engineering Research Council Conference, Houston, TX, May 2004.10. Ramakrishnan S., Nagarkar K., Courtney A., DeGennaro M., Srihari K., and Emick F
, as well as asking the students to explain howor why a particular design works (or doesn’t work). These are applicable to the undergraduatedesign as well – the trick is to find new and innovative ways to awaken the inner curiosity of thestudents. For at least one of the graduate student authors, whose goal is a career in academia,this take home message was an invaluable one.Dealing with the UninterestedOne particular student on author 1’s team was almost entirely not interested in participating inFLL. This was very frustrating to the teacher as well as the mentor. Both teacher and mentoroften asked themselves, “Why did they even bother to show up?” This posed a formidablechallenge; both to get the student involved and prevent the student from
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an additional pride effect because the students were performing the analysis on theirown vehicles. Page 12.1306.6Figure 5. Otto cycle graphs presenting the p-V and T-s Charts for a Toyota CamryHeat ExchangersAnalysis and design of heat exchangers are important parts of thermodynamics dealing with thecomponent of an energy conversion system that keeps temperatures within operational limits.The different types of engines used in cars generate very high amounts of heat requiring coolingsystems to avoid bearing seizure due to lubricant failure at high temperatures.Figure 6 Heat exchanger details and instrumentation of a Mercedes C230 Kompressor
study of first-year S&E students in 1990 found that fewer than 50percent had completed an S&E degree within five years.3 Furthermore, retention of engineeringstudents is a primary goal of Women in Engineering (WIE) and Multicultural Engineering(MEP) programs.Understanding why some students leave engineering to study another discipline at theiruniversity is an important factor in addressing low retention. Studies from Seymour and Hewitt6and Brainard and Carlin7 provided our communities with results essential to developing anunderstanding of why students from those institutions during that time period chose to leaveengineering. However, WIE, MEP, college of engineering administrators and faculty have anongoing need for these data from
. Additional thanks to MicroStrain, Inc. of Williston, Vermont forgenerously supporting a wide range of wireless sensor related activities at UVM.Bibliography1 J. Frolik and J. Zurn, “Evaluation of Tablet PCs for engineering instruction and content development,” ASEEComputers in Education Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, July-September 2005.2 J. Cimbala, R. Toto, M. Wharton and J. Wise, “One step beyond: lecturing with a Tablet PC,” 2006 ASEE AnnualConference, Chicago IL.3 S. Brophy and G. Walker, “Case study of the pedagogical impact of Tablet PCs as a presentation medium in large-scale engineering classrooms,” 2005 ASEE Annual Conference, Portland OR.4 J. Griffioen, W. Seales, J. Lumpp, “Teaching in realtime wireless classrooms,” Frontiers in Education
AC 2007-234: USING CO-OP EMPLOYER SURVEYS TO ASSESS ABETOUTCOMESJohn Mathews, Mississippi State University John M. (Mike) Mathews. Mike Mathews is currently the Associate Director of Cooperative Education and Assistant Professor of Cooperative Programs at Mississippi State University. He has been involved in Cooperative Education at Mississippi State University for 31 years and active in ASEE for over 20 years. He can be reached via email at mike@coop.msstate.edu.Donna Reese, Mississippi State University Donna S. Reese. Professor Reese is currently the Associate Dean for Academics and Administration for the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University and a
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Knew About The World Bank, a World Bank publication,The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433· USA, 2006. See also: http://info.worldbank.org/etools/reducingpoverty/about_b.html2. See http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia_near_east/afghanistan/3. Smith, A. B., Banzaert, A., & Susnowitz, S. (2003). The MIT IDEAS Competition: Promoting Innovation for Public Service. Proceedings of the ASEE/IEEE 2003 Frontiers in Education Conference, Session S1B. Retrieved February 14, 2005 from Frontiers in Engineering web site: http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2003/papers/1401.pdf4. Banzaert, A., Goss, J., Smith, A., & Susnowitz, S. (2003). MIT’s Public Service Design Seminars: Inspiring Applied Innovation. Proceedings of the NCIIA
to2001, our office would send a brochure to guidance counselors at thousands of highschools from around the country, hoping that they would alert their students to ourprogram. The web site, followed by word of mouth resulting our success, has made ourprogram much more visible.As the numbers have increased, we have been forced to set a cap. While numbers in themid-50’s per session are usually ideal, we have recently been able to properly manageover 60 students per session. We feel though that a cap of mid-60’s is necessary, as a Page 12.986.9higher number would have a negative effect on the quality of the program.Figure 2 below depicts the
– Importance of Knowing What Is Going on in the World Reported by SeniorsThe students were then asked to select their source(s) of current events from: Television,Websites, Radio, Magazines/Newspapers, and Others. They were allowed to select asmany as applied and asked to specific examples of each. Page 12.609.3 Sources of Current Events 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 r pe o er
: Jerome Bruner’s constructivist view of teaching and learning, http://www.gtce.org.uk/policyandresearch/research/ROMtopics/brunerROM/study 8. Collura, M.A., Bouzid, A., Daniels, S., Nocito-Gobel, J., (2004), “Development of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral”, 2004 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings 9. Work in Progress - Spiral Curriculum Approach to Reformulate Engineering Curriculum Vinod K. Lohani, Kumar Mallikarjunan, Mary Leigh Wolfe, Terry Wildman, Jeff Connor, John Muffo, Jenny Lo1, Tamara W. Knott, G. V. Loganathan, Richard Goff, Mike Chang, John Cundiff, Greg Adel, Foster Agblevor, Mike Gregg, David Vaughan, Ed Fox, Hayden Griffin, Saied Mostaghimi
. Journal of Engineering Education 1997;86(2):133-8.6. Vidal R, Mulet E, Gómez-Senent E. Effectiveness of the means of expression in creative problem-solving in design groups. Journal of Engineering Design 2004;15(3):285-98. Page 12.827.77. Carkett R. "He's different, he's got 'Star Trek' vision': Supporting the expertise of conceptual design engineers. Design Studies 2004;25(5):459-75.8. Ekwaro-Osire S. 'Pan-Mentoring' as an effective element of capstone design courses. The International Journal of Engineering Education 2003;19(5):721-4.9. Ekwaro-Osire S, Orono P, "Pan-mentoring in creative engineering
course to others. 6.222. Overall I was very satisfied with this course. 5.723. Before starting my online course(s) I received sufficient information about registration requirements 5.2 and prerequisites.24. Before starting my online course(s) I received sufficient information about student support services. 5.7 Page 12.41.114.2.3 Quality of Service Survey Once every three years, Excelsior College conducts a comprehensive assessment of the“Quality of Service” (QOS) provided to the students at