. • Topics: design process, creative design, project management, team work, business basics, product / project lifecycles. (possibly could have ethics and oral/written communication) • Multi-disciplinary project assigned. D. Freshman course • “How Things Work” – show the interdisciplinary nature of engineered products, engineering projects, and their manufacture/construction. • Hands-on laboratory (product teardowns, field trips) E. Suite of Design • Create a suite of design electives organized
University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia from 1972 to 1974. He was appointed as a dean at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, directing a joint project with MIT in Iran, after which he returned to St. Louis in 1975 as the associate dean of instruction. He headed the Department of Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision at Purdue University, Calumet, from 1978 to 1980. He then served for ten years as the dean of the College of Technology of the University of Houston. After a sabbatical year working on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Wolf became the president of Oregon Institute of Technology. He
? Page 12.881.13Appendix 5MECH 4835 THERMAL FLUID APPLICATIONS FALL 2006 FINAL ASSESSMENT SURVEY FOR COURSE ASSESSMENTIn the course syllabus, several learning goals/anticipated outcomes were specified so that each student, upon completionof the course, demonstrates the desired level of comprehension and achievement. Since this marks the end of the courseand the associated laboratory, it seems an appropriate time to investigate whether those outcomes have been achieved toeach student’s satisfaction.A short survey form is developed to gather your opinion on these courses in an attempt to improve the quality of theteaching and learning process. Please answer
participant in finding ways to reduce schistosome exposure along theriver.In five trips, various Tufts’ student teams have visited Kwabeng to evaluate the conditions thatlead to schistosomiasis outbreaks. Specifically, efforts have included two separate diseaseprevalence studies, providing drugs to Ghana Health Services for treatment of all self-reportedand field laboratory confirmed cases, conducting Cercariometry studies sufficient to identify “hotspots” of disease transmission, and evaluating methods to manage water resources in the area. a b Figure 1 Kwabeng, Ghana Efforts in 2005: a) Assessment of River Flow Characteristics and b) Presentation to Local ResidentsInitial
AC 2007-1354: TEACHING CAPSTONE DESIGN IN A SERVICE-LEARNINGSETTINGMary Kasarda, Virginia Tech Mary Kasarda is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. She specializes in magnetic bearing, rotor dynamic, and health monitoring research topics. She has six years of professional engineering experience and her background is in various aspects of turbomachinery engineering. She is a member of the VT Rotor Dynamics Laboratory and the VT Center for Intelligent Materials and Smart Structures. In 2003-2004, she acted as an education consultant through Virginia Tech to Sweet Briar College to help facilitate a new engineering program at this all-women liberal
management, inventory management, service parts logistics, emergency logistics and engineering education. He is funded by the National Textile Center.Muthu Govindaraj, Philadelphia University Dr. Muthu Govindaraj is a Professor of engineering at Philadelphia University. He has graduate degrees in mechanical and textile engineering from India and a PhD from the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. Before joining Philadelphia University, Professor Govindaraj was an assistant professor at Cornell University. His research interests are in the areas of deformable material modeling and he is funded by the NSF, National Textile Center and the Laboratory for Engineered Human Protection at Philadelphia
Press, Geneva, 2005).4. Sandia National Laboratories, Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap (National Technical Information Service, Virginia, 2003). Page 12.769.125. Semiat, Raphael, “Desalination: Present and Future”, Water International 25, 54 (2000).Appendix A: Prior Art The following is a summary of the main prior art for our invention. It should be notedthat none of the previous inventors have addressed the problems of low pressure desalination inthe same way, or as successfully, as we have. For this reason, patents on our invention have beenapplied for and we expect they will be issued soon.1. Solar Heated
investigation. Target selection was then made afterseveral proteins were investigated using multiple data sources, including expression data whereavailable. Although it was not utilized this time, subsequent experimental laboratory analysiscould provide students with new information about the target that may be analyzed to generatepossible leads in the search for drug candidates.The students then worked through the scenarios taking on different roles in the team. Each teamutilized different tools and addressed the outbreak question from a different perspective. Themembers of each sub-team then generated reports for their analyses and presented them to theother team members. The reports needed to contain enough information and to be presented in aclear
Safety Award in 2002, the Lockheed Martin Outstanding Team Award in 1998, the MBA Fellowship from 1994-1995 and multiple technical and suggestion awards from IBM from 1986 to 1993.Mike Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology Michael Pennotti is Industry Professor and Associate Dean for Professional Programs, for the School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology. As a systems engineering leader for more than thirty years, Dr. Pennotti has broad experience with both technical and organizational systems. He spent the first twenty years of his career at Bell Laboratories, designing, analyzing and improving the operational performance of three generations
. The inspiration to structure a course around the designing andbuilding of educational museum displays was inspired by similar innovative classactivities by Crone4 and Pruitt5. MATE X424 was offered in the Fall of 2006, and was a2-unit activity (i.e., cross between a lecture and laboratory type class). The class met for4 hours a week, and much of the class time was devoted to actually working on thedisplays. The small class size of 6 students allowed us to truly work together as a team.Due to the service learning component of the course, the students were now working fortheir client, Chick Fidel and the school children. The instructor functioned more as theproject manager, rather than the judge that determines their grades (although that task
simultaneouslydesigning both the activity precedence relationships and the organizational resources in themodel. Remarkably, the students reported the process to be both simple and intuitive. Page 12.333.9Moreover, the activity of designing a project using BIM lead to excellent questions being askedby the students about project execution whilst in a laboratory setting. Once their modelspossessed enabling data, the students received immediate feedback regarding the potential timeand cost impact of their design. This form of feedback allowed each student to makeadjustments to improve their team’s project planning and execution. If their design weresubsequently
this disaster, civil engineers will be responsible for therebuilding, but a 113 year old civil engineering department, in the middle of what has beendescribed as a vast living laboratory, is a casualty of the storm.References[1] “Tulane history”, http://www2.tulane.edu/about_history.cfm, accessed Jan 15, 2007[2] “History of UNO”, http://www.uno.edu/history.cfm, accessed Jan 15, 2007[3] Boutwell, Gordon, ppt presentation: “Failure of the New Orleans Hurricane Protection System”, ASCE SEI LA Chapter Sept, 2006 meeting[4] “Tulane University Hurricane Plan”, 2006[5] Staff, “How much water did you get?” Times Picayune, Metro Section, Sept 22, 2005[6] “UNO Hurricane Emergency Plan”, 2006[7] CHART, “Disaster Resistant
chemistry component was introduced in terms of issues, as process engineering,involving energy and mass balances. The material science component was less problematicand though delivered in a traditional way, it required students to participate, in small teams, inboth laboratory and library investigative projects.In 2005, with a prevailing school’s stance towards PBL (Problem-based learning) coursedelivery, there was an opportunity to further fine-tune phenomenological approaches inengineering education. As a result, the subjects of chemistry/process engineering andmaterials science were to be merged into a single one semester subject with an allocation of 5hours per week. The course developed and introduced in 2007, further integrated
speciesin a macroscale model. Scaling permits identifying the various reaction regimes and domains thatcan occur on both the micro- and macroscale.2e. Process ModelingScaling analysis is used in teaching a course in process modeling to facilitate the following: toassess what approximations can be made in developing a tractable model for the process; todetermine the appropriate values of the process parameters in designing either numerical,laboratory, or pilot-scale testing of a process; and in determining the optimal minimumparametric representation of the describing equations for the process in order to correlatenumerical or experimental data.3. The Scaling Analysis TechniqueThe ○(1) scaling analysis technique of interest here has been described
disciplines because they enjoy creating systems and devices that are used to solve real problems. However, it is our belief that many engineering classes, especially at the introductory level, fail to engage students because they focus too much on objective data-manipulation exercises instead of encouraging inventive problem solving. This paper examines the effects of methods that allow students in an introductory level engineering course to use their creativity and inventiveness to solve problems, an approach referred to as inquiry arousal. The approach used in this research was to modify a certain number of laboratory requirements to allow the student to apply an open-ended problem solving approach to obtain a solution. The goal
in good teamwork and effective leadership? 3.85The summary of the assessment of the second course with respect to the “Engineering Coalitionof Schools for Excellence in Education and Leadership (ECSEL) Classroom Activities Survey”is provided in Table 3. The student evaluations of their development was benchmarked withrespect to that for students taking the existing freshman design sequence taught using a large-lecture/laboratory format by a non-tenure-track instructor. For each of the criteria listed in Table3, students in the new course sequence viewed their development as being significantly greaterthan that for the existing course sequence, with most (18 of 24) at statistically significant 95%confidence level. The survey was
Page 12.357.113. Nocito-Gobel, J., S. Daniels, M. Collura, and B. Aliane, “Project-Based Introduction to Engineering - aUniversity Core Course”, Proceedings, 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference andExposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 20 – 23, 2004.4. Holtzapple, M.T. and W.D. Reece, Foundations of Engineering, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003.5. John Hopkins Virtual Laboratory, Bridge Designer, http://www.jhu.edu/~virtlab/virtlab.html.6. Col. S. Ressler, U.S. Military Academy, West Point Bridge Designer, http://bridgecontest.usma.edu7. Foundation Coalition Website:http://www.foundationcoalition.org/home/keycomponents/concept/introduction.html
students a data-driven curriculum to guide their efforts at making connections would help students seethemselves as engineers. We assert portfolios are one way to satisfy our obligation as educatorsto design an engineering learning experience focused on the student and not the content.AcknowledgementsThis work has been supported by the National Science Foundation through grant REC-0238392,“Using portfolios to promote knowledge integration in engineering education.” The authorswish to thank all of our research participants and all members of the Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education for the insightful reviews and comments that helped to shapethis paper.References1 Loshbaugh, Heidi G., Ruth A. Streveler, Kimarie Engerman, Dawn Williams
sometimes extrinsic to adesign course. Conversely, in design, the intrinsic objectives are usually teamwork skillsand development of technical proficiencies. Recently there has been a move towardbringing laboratory-based activities into content area classrooms to enrich learning. Thepurpose of this paper is to investigate course design in view of student goal orientationand the attributional theory of motivation. In social cognition theory, an individual’s goal orientation is seen to greatlyinfluence his willingness to accept a challenge and to persist when faced with difficulties.The types of team activities employed in a classroom foster either a performance-goaloriented or learning-goal oriented learning environment. In a group project
AC 2007-2032: OUTREACH WITH GAME DESIGN EDUCATIONDavid Schwartz, Cornell University After finishing his dissertation in Civil Engineering and writing two textbooks as a graduate student in 1999, Cornell's Computer Science department made an offer David I. Schwartz couldn't refuse. Schwartz has made a career in researching and developing new curricula and educational technology. Over the past five years, he has collaborated with faculty and staff to build the Cornell Library Collaborative Learning Computer Laboratory (CL3) and the Game Design Initiative at Cornell (GDIAC; http://gdiac.cis.cornell.edu). CL3 currently hosts Cornell's new game courses, which now belong to a new
projects and laboratory exercises within a course and especiallyduring a capstone design experience. The development of the ability to function as a memberof a team may not be limited to the classroom or even to engineering. Additionally, studentsshould seek opportunities and faculty members should encourage students to work as membersof team in a myriad of other activities, such as student government, civic and serviceorganizations, employment opportunities, etc.CommunicationEffective communication is a critical skill for civil engineers and the BOK-2 states that upon Page 12.1371.11graduation from a baccalaureate program, an individual must be
; asubstantial portion of the course will focus on student conducted research using bothexperimentation and analysis methodologies. UNICAMP or in some cases an industrial, non-governmental organization (NGO) or governmental partner will provide field laboratory space.3.1.3 Preparation for Study in BrazilExposure to international sustainability issues is an integral part of the proposed IGERTeducation program. In order for the IGERT Fellows to more effectively study, research and livein Brazil for an extended period of time, they will take three semesters of Brazilian Portugueseand a one semester IGERT seminar. The first two semesters of Portuguese will be existing five-credit courses that introduce the students to the practical vocabulary and grammar
. The authors are ofthe opinion that service learning relieves the students of the monotony of routineclassroom work and learning disengagement. The authors believe that service learninghelps to rekindle the social consciousness of the student learner. The authors promotedesigning of service-learning programs that can make a significant impact in the area ofsocial activism.This philosophy has been put in to practice at Miami University. A Senior DesignCapstone Experience has been designed in such a manner that it does not become an itemthat occupies a table in an engineering laboratory. Instead, it has been transformed to beviewed as a major event that brings the college, the community and the schools togetherto experience a technological
and Silverman’s categorizations7) that may not be engaged through a traditional lecture / homework format.When considering Bloom’s taxonomy, the traditional lecture, derivation, example, homeworkapproach (in the absence of a laboratory component) rarely elevates student cognition beyondlevel three of the taxonomy, application. Students learn basic concepts and are able to applythose concepts to typical textbook and exam problems. While there is no design component inteam project, it does require students to observe systems, determine and categorize the behaviorof the system (analysis), and begin the synthesis process by considering use, potential loadingconditions, material choice and aesthetics. This prepares students for
Humanitarian Opportunities for Service, ETHOS, states as theirpurpose to “facilitate research and the development of appropriate technology by formingcollaborative North-South partnerships between universities, research laboratories,engineers and non-governmental organizations in foreign countries.”16New Pedagogy: Service Learning A new pedagogy which has been gaining increasing attention across the universityparticularly in engineering is a form of experiential education known as service-learning.Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful communityservice with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civicresponsibility, and strengthen communities and thus may be an important
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and Reading Project guidebook (Rev. ed.). Oak Brook, IL: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.9. Darmofal, D. L., Soderholm, D. H., Brodeur, D. R. (2002). Using Concept Maps and Concept Questions to Enhance Conceptual Understanding. Proceedings, Frontiers in Education Conference, Retrieved from http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2002/index.htm, 16 January 2007 Page 12.153.12
their REU experience at USF. After the workshop, the Universidad de Antioquiastarted a wireless sensor network laboratory for education and research in this area. With thistype of activity we not only helped the Universidad de Antioquia get started in new technologiesand improve its curriculum, but we also found professors with whom we could collaborate onresearch activities and student recruitment. The same workshop is expected to be taught at theUniversidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia and at the Universidad de Aquino in Bolivia.Similarly, after the participation of the students from the Universidad del Norte in the summer of2005, we signed an agreement with this university to offer a dual degree program that allowsColombian students
processeswhich occur in capstone design courses and guides analysis of a student’s ability to communicatethe process of engineering design. In this framework the design process is completed in fivesteps: 1) A student’s initial learning occurs through interactions with the faculty and teaching assistants (experts) in a social setting- the design class or lab. This type of learning is collective and public and represented by Quadrant #1. Students first seek to understand the design process and their project through social interactions in the classroom, laboratory, or within a team. 2) Next the team analyzes the design project and breaks it down to component tasks. At this stage students become individually responsible for particular
equipment. Student teams are given keys to the laboratory facility, a work bench,and locking storage cabinets.The teams are organized to simulate the manufacturing process. The original goal was for teamsto learn teamwork and the importance of deadlines by completing the design in consecutivestages. For example, the Simulation team begins work and finishes simulating the project at thebeginning of the second week of class. The Simulation team then passes their schematic file tothe CAD team who lays out the board and then passes a file to the PCB Fabrication team. For allsix teams, including professional fabrication of printed circuit boards and error checking, theprocess of completing Project #1 follows the flowchart shown in Figure 2