Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Technology. He teaches a junior-level course in Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC), and two graduate-level courses, Biometric Technology and Applications, and AIDC for the Enterprise. He is the past Vice Chair of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards, and has been the Head of Delegation for the WG1 Vocabulary working group within the ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC37 committee on Biometrics. Dr. Elliott is the head of the Biometrics Standards, Performance, and Assurance Laboratory at Purdue University. He is also involved in educational initiatives for the American National Standards Institute, and is a member of
students to graduate education who otherwise wouldnot be interested. The emphasis on solving a pressing societal problem may be particularlyattractive to students from minority groups and women, as well as to individuals, who havedisabilities themselves. Page 12.72.7References1. Bargerhuff, M. E., Wheatly, M, “Teaching with CLASS: Creating Laboratory Access for Science Students withDisabilities”, Teacher Education and Special Education, Volume 27, No. 3, 2004.2. Bautista, M., “Technology-based Learning with Disability PhD Program at Wright State University”, PosterPresentation at the 6th Annual Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and
Virtual Physics Laboratory", IEEE Symposium on Research Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Los Alamitos, CA, 1993.6. Morris, C. J., Stauth, S. A., and Parviz, B. A., "Self-Assembly for Microscale and Nanoscale Packaging: Steps Toward Self-Packaging", IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, vol. 28, pp. 600-611, 2005.7. Pantelidis, V. S., "Virtual Reality and Education: Information Sources; A Bibliography", http://www.coe.ecu.edu/vr/vpbib.html,8. Roco, M. C., "From Vision to the Implementation of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative", Journal of Nanoparticle Research, vol. 3, pp. 5-11, 2001.9. Science, A. A. f. t. A. o., "Benchmarks for Science Literacy": Oxford University Press, 1993.10. Smith, C
• Configuring IPv6 routing on Linux Fedora machines running the Quagga routing suite Page 12.988.9Further details on the lab configurations and the remote access tools used for this course arecovered in a separate paper; Teaching a Laboratory Based IPv6 Course in a Distance EducationEnvironment submitted by the authors.Student research papersEach student was required to write a research paper. Papers were submitted in standard IEEEconference paper format. Grading was done by panel of faculty and by student peers.Papers submitted by students covered the following topics. • IP Upgrade – An Engineering Exercise or a Necessity? • IPv6 and wireless
high demand, stating thatgraduates from this program are highly sought after by companies worldwide. In the same way,Pennsylvania State University and Iowa State University offer programs that allow theirengineering students to concurrently pursue majors in engineering and a foreign language. Theseefforts are also achieved at each university through inter-college cooperation.Many universities mentioned the lack of funding available with international programs.Although funding is a concern, it should be noted that Cooper Union has just been awardedsupport from the NSF for its program in Ghana. Specifically, Cooper students and faculty havehelped develop laboratories and courses at a university in Ghana. Additionally, other Cooperstudents have
instructionsneeded, such as arithmetic instructions or immediate loading instructions, was provided with theproject description. With the computer science students, since they have had some formalmathematical training, a different approach was used. They were provided with a sample RiSCinstruction set that is Turing Complete. In their subproject 1 report, they were required to usethat given instruction set to prove that their instruction set was also Turing Complete.The second subproject was generally easier for the electrical engineering students than thecomputer science students, as the electrical engineering students had previously taken a digitalcircuit laboratory course and had better understanding of how registers and multiplexors work.To compensate
anongoing basis. Course content is developed based upon the following essential rubrics: Page 12.889.4 - more - • The course-design approach is competency-/outcome-based • Classroom instruction is for clarification • The laboratory is to expand on classroom instruction • A final capstone project course integrates all the components Many sources for initiation ESD Curriculum-Change Process of change, 2+ faculty
disciplines.Introduction:Engineering students are typically hands-on visually oriented learners. The extraordinary valueof providing a visual component to teaching and learning is well documented. Many topics inengineering curricula rely on visual components to help convey concepts that are difficult todescribe in purely text-based form. Adding animation to visual components only serves toenhance the learning experience even further. Bringing animation to raw data plotted in acolorful three-dimensional graph brings life to otherwise static numerical information.Simulation and animation can be utilized by an instructor to illustrate concepts in a classroomsetting or by students to solve problems in a laboratory setting.The use of animation provides a method to model and
felt confident on the project at the end. Newteam members said they could continue on the project. Team members indicated they gainedtechnical and non-technical skills, such as teamwork, communication, and etc. Furthermore,they expressed that they learned about others’ disciplines by sharing one another’s work, andby cross-teaching one another during the meetings.Tools: The team mostly used phones and email to communicate. Overall the team useddifferent engineering equipment and components as necessary. The mechanical engineersrelied on the Machine Shop in the Mechanical Engineering department to building hardware.Computer Graphics were done with AutoCAD. The team liked their work environment,especially the off-campus laboratory which provided
AC 2007-2283: MIGRATION FROM A LEADERSHIP HONORS PROGRAM TOAN ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP MINORGregory Tonkay, Lehigh University Gregory L. Tonkay, Ph.D. is an associate professor and associate chairperson of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Lehigh University. He is also the director of the ISELP and the Electronics Manufacturing Laboratory. Tonkay has been actively involved in curriculum development for the college’s common freshman year and the department’s degree programs and minors.E. Zimmers, Lehigh University Emory W.Zimmers Jr. Ph.D is professor of Industrial Systems Engineering and Director of Enterprise Systems Center at Lehigh University. Zimmers has been responsible
comments from students: “I learned from my mentor that anyone, including women, can succeed to a high level position in any profession that is dominated by males. She use herself as an example and she inspired me.” "I once went to my mentor’s laboratory where she set aside most of her day to show me how to run one of her college labs. It was so amazing to actually perform experiments I read about in my biology class. My mentor also answered a ton of questions that aren’t related to biology; I can tell her about anything.” “…It really helps to have someone older than me to assist with future planning. This program (gave) me opportunities that many students will not be able to receive. I (felt
the StudentsIn addition to benefiting the degree program, the hybrid course provides value-added to thestudents. The course provides basic information students should know to perform laboratoryresearch. For example, students learn about microcosm studies, column studies, bacterial samplecollection and handling, which are all factors that can improve the success of laboratory projects.By tailoring the microbiology topics to environmental engineering, the hybrid class ultimatelyadds to the students’ knowledge and provides skills that will enhance research productivity.Graduating ENVE students’ response to ABET 2000 Criterion 8 Outcomes, specifically theunderstanding and proficiency in science and math are presented in Table 1. The inclusion of
Pressure Compressor (HPC), main combustion chamber, and High Pressure Turbine(HPT). Furthermore, the benefits of having a common core as they relate to cost savings in terms Page 12.599.7of development, operation, and maintenance are well outlined. Skira5, covered the cost reduction Figure 3. General Electric CF6-6 high-bypass turbofan engine located in the Gas Turbine Laboratory of the Aerospace Engineering Dept. at Embry-Riddle Aero. Universityefforts that are currently ongoing in commercial, and government institutions. One such effort,receiving much notoriety, is Integrated, High-Performance Turbine Engine Technology, orIHPTET. This is
) test, which was developed to assess the selfconfidence of students related to spatial tasks, see Kinsey et al11 for details. These web-basedtests consisted of three dimensional representations of different objects in both solid and nohidden line representations. The web-based software recorded the radio button the studentselected for each of the test questions. To ensure anonymity, an encrypted universityidentification code was used as opposed to the student’s name for data analysis purposes. The tests were administered to 86 freshmen mechanical engineering students in CEPSwho were enrolled in ME 441 Engineering Graphics during the fall semester of 2006. Thiscourse consisted of three 1-hour lectures and a one 2-hour laboratory meeting
anexample of a project used in IET-418 Cost estimating. Student teams must take theproject from the proposal stage to completion of the project goals. The projectconstitutes a major portion of the course grade. It is important for the instructor toreceive feedback on how well each student performed as a team member. Some studentsbecome “social loafers” who try to let other team members do all the work. Each studentis asked to evaluate their contribution as well as each team member’s contribution to theproject. This is done several times during the semester and the feedback is used, in part,in determining individual grades.IET 230L Work Measurement LabThis laboratory course requires students to work together in teams to perform severalwork
course or its equivalent. ManyTeaching Assistants work in laboratories or do grading of papers; the course also discussesinterpersonal skills. For international students, ESL courses can be taken simultaneously withthis course. The course is continually updated by its instructor to keep pace with the improvinglanguage skills of new doctoral students and changes in technology. The course covers issues ofacademic integrity, professional behavior, e-mail protocol, meetings leadership and participationskills and others that all contribute to both professional and instructional effectiveness.EvaluationAll instructors, including Teaching Assistants are regularly evaluated at NJIT, through acarefully monitored and student-controlled process
even different versions.Issues surrounding data disseminationYet this data is valuable to scientific research. Or is it? How useful is data if it can’t beaccessed and disseminated? Not only must the data be made available, it must bedescribed in such a way that its contents and structure are apparent to the user. Currently,laboratory data is frequently stored on researcher PCs, lab servers or communalrepositories (in the form of reports) like arXiv (http://arxiv.org/). Institutional repositorieslike DSpace (http://www.dspace.org) and Eprints (http://www.eprints.org) are bettersuited to traditional, discrete publications than data sets. Metadata descriptors may help auser understand the contents of a data set, but researchers frequently don’t
high early strength additive. The forms weresecured to a lift that was 24 hours old and one below it was placed 72 hours earlier. A day hadbeen lost due to rain in the contractor’s work schedule. When the formwork failed, it broughtdown all the fresh concrete and most of the day-old lift below it. The three-day-old ring stayedintact. The weather had been cold and rainy but during the week prior to the failure, temperatureswere in 60s during the day and in the 30s at night.5The probable cause was the green concrete. According to one electrician on the job, “Theyjacked that up on green concrete.” However, the testing laboratory results showed that concretecylinders did not show any unusual results. Since the workers were paid for a full day’s
, sequencing activities (including online quizzes and other forms of assessment). They can also enable a peer-review feature so that students can electronically critique each other’s work. Especially innovative for middle school, teachers can create virtual student groups that can work together outside the classroom.The PRISM team has been highly selective in the types of materials we have indexed toacademic standards. The bulk of our offerings are non-textual IT resources that mirror thedigital tools used in the modern practice of STEM in the workplace. The majority of ourresources are interactive simulations, cognitive skills games, visualizations, cognition mappingapplications, modeling packages, virtual laboratories and
maintenance andindustrial management. Curricular structure is strongly based on Mathematics and Physics.The adequacy of the course revealed the need to reinforce practical knowledge application, tointensify the use of problem based learning, to design new laboratorial strategies, to promoteteam work and to develop the fundamental skills in engineering formation.The new course design also resulted from the analysis of similar courses in referencecountries in engineering, such as Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, France,Swiss, Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. It was compared mainly in terms of duration,curricular plans, credit system units and strategies adopted. The new Mechanical Engineeringdegree is comparable in structure with the
broadening the impact of the program. The Summer Experience for High School Students and Teachers pilot program consistedof 11 high school students, one mathematics teacher and two science teachers performingresearch in nine STEM related university laboratories. The high school students were required towork on a STEM focused research project for a minimum of five weeks; teachers worked in theirassigned labs for six weeks. All participants in the program worked directly under thementorship of faculty researchers and graduate students. A full listing of the SEHS participants,their assigned labs, the associated partner and the research project titles is presented in AppendixI and II. A natural collaboration among the SEHS, the
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received his BS and MS degress in Mechanical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. Jeff has also worked for the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, Southco, Pall Filtration, and as a Teaching Assistant at RIT. His thesis and duties at RIT focused mainly in the area of Robotics. He can be reached at coolwebb@gmail.com.Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology MARK SMITH is Director of the Multidisciplinary Design (MSD), Product Development (MPD), and Manufacturing Leadership (MML) programs at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to joining RIT, he spent nearly 20 years in medical electronics R&D. Mr. Smith has an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of
12.1487.112. Undergraduate Research Fellowships (original program, 2001)Up to fifteen fellowships are granted each year in both the USC College and in the USCViterbi School of Engineering to support summer and academic year research. The goal is tofamiliarize students with laboratory research and link them with a mentor early on. It ishoped that through the experience of first-hand research at the undergraduate level, thechances will increase that students will choose to pursue a graduate degree in science orengineering. Student recipients of the fellowship are expected to work on their researchproject at least 12 hours per week during the academic semester in which they receive theaward ($2,500). For the summer, the expectation is about 300 hours or
laboratory course in which he repeatedly enrolled, building Lego cranes to lift andmove loads and completing other open-ended problems. But it was a voluntary activity as partof a high school English course that helped to cement his love for engineering. As a sophomore, Page 12.1277.8Joe worked with a friend to build a trebuchet that was twelve-feet high and could catapult a one-gallon bottle of water the length of a football field. He even moved the trebuchet to MT tocontinue tinkering with it, and housed it in the garage of his apartment building, while his vehiclesat in the driveway, exposed to the elements. Additionally, as a hobby, Joe began
microcontrollers,instrumentation and data acquisition, photonics, sensors, power supplies, programming,computer applications, and both wired and wireless networking with familiarity with the higherlayers of the OSI model included. A graduate of an electronics technology program should beadept at understanding how all of these topics are utilized in the operation and control of modernelectronic systems. Furthermore, students should be given experience, through laboratory workand projects, dealing with real-world electronics systems. This aspect of the ET program shouldstart in the first semester and continue throughout the program culminating with a capstonesenior project of the student’s own design. The curricula must keep the students interested
outcomes (e.g., diversity6). Perhaps one of the best testimonies to theformidable hold that learning communities, and living-learning communities in particular, haveestablished in the reform of higher education is the Academic Village which is slated to open infall 2007 at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. The Village is a new facility thatis to function as residential space for engineering students (~250) and faculty, and also is tocontain College of Engineering faculty offices, classrooms, and laboratory space, and universitydining facilities.7, 8 The current prevalence of “living learning communities” is easily madeevident with a Google search on that combination of words, which pulls up a huge number oflinks to college campus
Research Board and several National Laboratories, as well as the informationprovided by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of Energy.Based on information in the “Energy 101” section of the EIA website 8, students learned that theproven conventional oil reserve in the US is approximately 22 billion barrels—about a 1000-daysupply based on the U.S. daily consumption of approximately 21 million barrels. The U.S.situation of supply and demand coupled with the environmental impact of burning fossil fuel ona global scale makes students keenly aware of the challenges in front of them. One Civil andEnvironmental Engineering professor who had conducted research on the coal usage in China leda very enthusiastic discussion on
] .66 Laboratories .59 13c. Overall Satisfaction with Collegiate Experience n/a Rate the overall quality of your collegiate experience so far n/a[1] From the Pittsburgh survey (with permission)[2] From the Pittsburgh survey, and modified slightly (with permission)[3] From the CIRP survey, and modified slightly (with permission)[4] From the YFYC 2003 survey (with permission)[5] From the YFYC 2003 survey, and modified slightly (with permission)III. Survey AdministrationThe PIE Survey has been administered longitudinally to a cohort of 160 students, 40 at each ofthe four CAEE campuses, beginning during their first year in college. All
Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (2005).28. W. H. Shaw, “Collaboration: The Key to Preparing Engineering Managers,” Proceedings of the 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (1999).29. G. Nelson, “Developing Engineers With An Entrepreneurial Spirit,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education National Conference (2006).30. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Baltimore, MD, 2002.31. R. H. King, T. E. Parker, T. P. Grover, J. P. Goshink, and N. T. Middleton, “A Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no