fundamental to its creation, the teaching anddelivery of the course will determine the ultimate success. This is one of the first engineeringcourses that students take during their college careers, so it is important to engage the students inlearning about their discipline. However this engagement must be done in a way that permitsmultiple instructors and multiple sections to be taught to offer uniformity in computingexperiences. One way to engage the student is using in-class assignments and exercises. We refer Page 13.772.3to these as “in-class labs” to convey the laboratory nature of these exercises.Essentially, the course (TE/ISE 110) revolves
AC 2008-1075: USING INEXPENSIVE A.C. MOTOR DRIVES IN ANINTRODUCTORY POWER AND CONTROLS COURSETimothy Skvarenina, Purdue University Tim Skvarenina was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. During his college career he worked four summers at U.S. Steel as an assistant electrician, rewinding motors and installing electrical equipment. He served 21 years in the U.S. Air Force, including six years designing, constructing, and inspecting electric power distribution projects for a variety of facilities. He spent five years teaching and researching pulsed power systems
courseworkAn undergraduate course offered to Construction Management students was introduced into thecurriculum in the fall semester 2007 in a bid to keep up with emerging industry trends and toequip students with practical problem solving skills that will make them not only competitive buteffective project leaders in their future careers. The class utilized the BIM curriculum providedby Graphisoft and is composed of both theory and studio components. Industry experts werealso invited to share their experiences on BIM with the students and provide insight into industrytrends.The class was taught using Vico construction solutions software including: GS Constructor 2007,GS Estimator 2007, and GS Control 2007. The Constructor 2007 is used to teach the
years has led to changes in theformat of the semester long design project. While the overall outcome of having the studentsmore competent in the design methodology, program management, communication skills, andunderstanding the ethical considerations of their design have been met, it is important that thestudents are excited about selecting engineering as their professional career. The design coursesequence provides this opportunity if the courses are planned and implemented in a way toharness the students creativity and passion.Bibliography1. NSF Grant Award Number 9872433, “Integrating Engineering Design with the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences and Mathematics,” 1998.2. Shetty, D., D. Leone, H. Alnajjar, S. Keshawarz, L. Nagurney and
. Page 13.992.2Further, by organizing the content and presenting it in a way that reflects the structure ofknowledge in the software engineering discipline, we expect that the students will more readilygrasp discipline-specific concepts and concept relationships, thereby better organizing andintegrating their learning from course to course over their academic and professional career. Theintended result is a repository of readily accessible and understandable learning content and alocation (a “studio”) for team collaboration.We have implemented a testbed, called Knowdio (a contraction of Knowledge Studio), thatimplements a portion of our system vision. The testbed allows experimental assessment of theeffectiveness of this learning and knowledge
. The goal is to contact these students a couple of years after graduation to assessthe impact of international design experience on their professional career and growth.ConclusionsIn order to provide students with some international experience with regards to the globalworking environment and how to deal with the different cultural and educational environments,the OSUDEC project brought together student teams from the CE Department and EWB-RHIT,a professor, a client, and a local engineer from the project-source country. Some lessons learnedfrom this experience are: • The project provided the students the opportunity to consider economic, social and societal impact, application of appropriate technology, and the limitations of the
make lifelong learning a natural pursuit for thesuccessful engineering student throughout his or her career. 1. Development of assessment tools:Many assessment tools have been developed for undergraduate engineering courses andprograms, many of them in response to the assessment and feedback loop requirements of theABET guidelines for accreditation of engineering degree programs. The 2008-2009 ABETAccreditation Policy and Procedure Manual states that “Assessment is one or more processesthat identify, collect, and prepare data to evaluate the achievement of program outcomes andprogram educational objectives.”7 Assessment should be designed to provide actionablefeedback; in other words, the feedback provided should help program
Programming (pgs. 72-82)06/04/2007 (MONDAY)Log Hours (3.0HR)12:30-1:30pmCompiled possible conference listEmailed Frank (co-Author) conference list1:30-3:30pmReviewed Overall Modeling Approach for Software Toolbox Page 13.1173.20Appendix E: 2007 Pre-Program Survey Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science (SURE) Selected Findings Pre – Program SurveyAt this point in your academic career, which one statement best describes your thoughtsabout attending graduate school?I plan to attend graduate school in the next year or twoI probably will attend graduate school, but not 100% sureI have not made any decisions about graduate schoolI probably will not attend
partnership with the university’s Facilities Management, developed a highly instructiveand useful Alternative Fuel Vehicle Lab. Using existing university resources and a broad base of Page 13.509.2cross-disciplinary knowledge, we have been able to provide students with diverse, hands-oneducational experience that is often inaccessible to students outside of traditional engineeringprograms. Furthermore, the resulting K-12/STEM educational outreach program demonstrateshow these student-generated projects can inform the general public and inspire K-12 students topursue careers in science and engineering.Introduction & HistoryAs educators struggle to
program can be considered a resounding success if observed day-to-day. Much of this success is due to the tireless dedication of the current capstone director.Implementing a capstone course can give students a truly unique experience that can solidifytheir engineering education and propel them into the next stage of their careers. The costs to thecollege are as high as the rewards. Sustainability of the program is probably the biggestchallenge we face going forward. We have started to recognize that while a dedicated individualcan be primarily responsible for the success in recruiting sponsors, more needs to be done to set apositive track record that will help us continue to recruit sponsors in the future. We remaincautiously optimistic that the
careers, this late emphasis on writing competency was lessbeneficial to the college: the lessons learned were not likely to trickle down to lower-levelcourses. In order for writing instruction to be truly beneficial, a better approach is needed: onethat stresses and prioritizes the role of writing throughout a student’s education and across alldisciplinary boundaries.More notably, research suggests that, commonly in the field of engineering, students were notmaking the connections among their writing and engineering courses, and thus did not regardwriting in their engineering courses as “important.”4 In order to underscore these connectionsfor the students, a junior-level capstone course was introduced in the Electrical and ComputerEngineering
13.713.8equal opportunities for leadership and career advancement, and since the college level is one ofthe first avenues for leadership, significant action should be focused on this area.Moreover, targeted analysis of the S&E faculty responses to these issues reveals that leadershipto achieve equity is more complex than department/college/upper administration hierarchies.Faculty members from different underrepresented groups expressed confidence in differentlevels of administration to provide leadership toward an equitable climate. For example, womenacross the university and S&E women faculty expressed a much greater degree of confidence intheir college leaderships’ commitment to inclusivity (53% and 62%) than did the facultythroughout the
students, no matter what their gender, cultural, or demographicbackgrounds, can learn! In a recent report on its review of undergraduate education, theAdvisory Committee to the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Education and HumanResources concluded that “… while K – 12 programming can expand the pool of those interestedin pursing careers in SME&T [Science, Mathematics, Engineering, & Technology], it is at theundergraduate level where attrition and burnout can be most effectively prevented. What we inSME&T education must do is to concern ourselves with all students, not just those whohistorically have been represented in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. Such abreadth of concern has important educational
amount of material that can be taught and that the students’ interest in the material isenhanced.IntroductionTo maintain and enhance our nation’s ability to be on the forefront of technology development,colleges and universities have been called to adopt the most effective teaching practices of Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) courses as well as to provide undergraduateswith opportunities to study STEM “as practiced by scientists and engineers as early in theiracademic careers as possible”.1 In fact, the practice of engineering today requires that graduatesbe prepared in a large variety of ways, which are reflected in ABET criteria as well as other recentstudies.2, 3 In addition, as supported by a wide body of literature
. Hopefully, this will result in them having much more effective careers in the AECindustry in the future.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank all of the industry speakers who participated in the course duringthe spring 2007 and fall 2007 offerings. In addition, the support provided by the University ofWisconsin Facilities Planning and Management Department and Autodesk Inc was greatlyappreciated. Thanks also go to Professor Jeffrey Russell, Chair of the Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering, for enthusiastically supporting the introduction of the BIM course. Page 13.589.17References[1] Holness, G. V. R. (2006). “Future Direction
universities provide pre-college students an opportunity toexplore careers in science and engineering. For high-achieving students who already have aninterest in these areas, these types of programs can introduce students to advanced concepts,develop their understanding of scientific methodologies, and expose them to science andengineering research. One such program, the Young Engineering and Science Scholars (YESS)Program, is a three-week summer residential program created to bring exceptional high schooljuniors and seniors from underrepresented minority groups to study at the California Institute ofTechnology (Caltech). The program is intended for motivated students who wish to broadentheir knowledge of science and engineering beyond that offered by
, intercultural team interactions thatcharacterize engineering careers in the 21st century. While there have been many program-levelefforts across the nation to develop these “soft” skills, such as capstone projects that incorporatestudy abroad and service learning, no direct method of measuring all six skills simultaneouslyexists in the literature. This project proposes an innovative and direct method of developing andassessing ABET professional skills simultaneously that can be used at the course-level forassessing student performance and at the program-level for assessing efficacy of the curricula.In 2007, the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) at Washington StateUniversity (WSU) collaborated with the College of Engineering and
own interest in studying textbooks parallels my commitment to teaching studentshow to reason systematically and helping them to develop procedural knowledge. I amgenerally dismayed by corner-cutting that appears in so many standard textbooks, both inthe text and in worked sample problems. Early in my teaching career I developed theattitude that I needed to “teach around the text” by providing additional explanations,insights, approaches, and probing questions. I imagine that many instructors do likewise.In an attempt to quantify the reasons for these attitudes, Rahman, Bostwick, and Ireviewed several standard textbooks, first against the same topics as we reviewed studentwork (VCS, FBD, UNITS)22 and then against other techniques that we
, 2005.10. Noerenberg, J.W., II Bridging wireless protocols. Communications Magazine, IEEE, 39 (11). 90-97.11. Planet3 Wireless. Introduction - CWNP career certifications, 2006.12. Richards, B. and Stull, B. Teaching wireless networking with limited resources Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, ACM Press, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 2004.13. Sarkar, N.I. Teaching computer networking fundamentals using practical laboratory exercises. IEEE Transactions on Education, 49 (2). 285-291.14. Shin, M., Ma, J., Mishra, A. and Arbaugh, W.A. Wireless network security and interworking. Proceedings of IEEE, 94 (2). 455-466.15. Snyder, J. Down and dirty with Wireless LAN security NetworkWorld
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. She received her PhD and M.S. from the University of Notre Dame and B.S. from Michigan Technological University. Since joining MSU, Dr. Minerick has taught the graduate Chemical Engineering Math, Process Controls, Introduction to Chemical Engineering Freshman Seminar, and Heat Transfer Courses. In addition, she is an NSF CAREER Awaredee, has served as co-PI on an NSF REU site, PI on grants from NSF and DOE, and is the faculty advisor for MSU’s chapter of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). Her research is in medical microdevice
intuitive grasp of the concepts and the motivation for relevance. As the students becomemore independent, the labs provide opportunities to apply the theory they learn in increasinglyopen-ended ways.One of our motivations for the top down framework is the introduction of engineering conceptsearly in a student career. The early college years are usually composed mainly of math andnatural science courses; thus, engineering students often question why they are involved inengineering (with the unfortunate effect that some students transfer to a different engineeringmajor or abandon engineering altogether). We believe that introducing engineering duringfreshman year helps inspire students and thus retain them in engineering.Practice–Integrated
Lu is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Purdue University and (by courtesy) the Department of Computer Science. In 2004, he obtained an NSF Career Award for studying energy conservation by operating systems. He obtained Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 2002.David Meyer, Purdue University David G. Meyer has been very active in curriculum development, learning outcome assessment, design education, and use of instructional technology. He is currently responsible for creating, maintaining, and teaching the core ECE digital systems course sequence. He has written numerous papers on innovative uses of
?Brainstorming As a result of the pre-conference workshop, it was proposed that from the Turabo Declaration acommittee be created to develop the accreditation theme and strategies in LACCEI. A taskforceof 21 professionals, including deans, authorities and representatives of careers of Engineeringdisciplines, organizations and agencies of accreditation agencies from Latin American andCaribbean countries.The taskforce decided that one of the first objectives should be to have conceptual clarity anddefine the principles over which the system or systems will be developed, and determine whatthe final outcomes should be.With this objective in the taskforce defined the following:VisionTo produce engineers for the Americas that are creative, ethical, flexible
was eventually whittleddown to a comprehensive, coordinated list of 24 outcomes divided into three outcome categories;Foundational, Technical and Professional. In addition, the level of achievement expected to beachieved prior to entry into the professional practice of civil engineering is identified for eachoutcome. Each of the Bloom’s levels of achievement for each outcome is also assigned to astage in the young engineer’s career, from the baccalaureate degree program, to post-baccalaureate formal education, to pre-licensure working experience. Next, the BOK2 will bereviewed by a new committee, the BOK Educational Fulfillment committee, which will assemblebest practices for use in fulfilling the BOK through formal education.IntroductionIn
quality of life. 4. Cultures vary in their avoidance of uncertainty or unknown matters creating different rituals and having different approaches to formality, legal and religious requirements and tolerance for ambiguity. In cultures with high uncertainty avoidance, businesses have more formal rules and require longer career commitments. They expect structure in organizations, institutions and relationships to help make events interpretable and predictable. Teachers are expected to be the experts who know the answers and it is expected that the teachers will sometimes speak in a cryptic language that excludes Page
goals and that the courses within the curriculum are tied together into acoherent whole. ABET defines program objectives as “broad statements that describe the career andprofessional accomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve”1 and outcomesas “statements that describe what students are expected to know and be able to do by the time ofgraduation.”1 These goals must be developed and shaped to meet the needs of the institution’sconstituency. Thinking in these terms from the context of a developing nation requires theprogram administration and mentors to analyze what the developing nation needs from itsgraduates. After four years at the institution what should a student be able to accomplish andhow should a student
a team, we worked as individuals. It wasn’t until everyone did apart and pulled it together that made the pieces start to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. With that in mind,I think this is the most valuable learning objective in life. We work in groups in school all the time, andwe always wonder why our Professor’s like these projects, but in all reality, they are setting us up for thereal world. There will never be a time in our engineering careers that working alone. After realizing this,machine design has taught me this through this project as well as all assignments for the class” – 2006batch senior student“This project combined everything that I have learned in the entire class into a multi component problem.The final project was
school or earlier to increase the numberof students entering the engineering disciplines.6 Most students in the middle level grades (6th,7th, and 8th) are unaware of engineering and are not socialized to recognize engineering as a goodand rewarding career option. Typically, these teachers and students are not exposed early oroften enough to employing critical thinking and science for solving engineering problems in thereal world.Many K-12 teacher development initiatives involve providing teachers with activity sets thatthey can repeat in their classrooms. This technique has been met with limited success, resultingin teachers actually utilizing few of the activities. Teachers are often uncomfortable withexperiments and activity principles they
, andCentral Virginia Community College). This six-course sequence constitutes the coreradiation protection curriculum for the degree. In addition to these core courses, learnersare required to complete an additional fifteen to eighteen courses to fulfill therequirements for the Associate of Applied Science degree. Furthermore, learners willcomplete a required internship between their freshman and sophomore years at a nuclearpower plant. Each technical college is partnering with a nearby nuclear facility in order toprovide authentic internship experiences for the learners.The core curriculum structure of six courses has been designed to provide learners withan appropriate breadth and depth of knowledge and skills to prepare them for a career
Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Auckland.Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland Elizabeth Godfrey is currently the Associate Dean Undergraduate at the School of Engineering at the University of Auckland after a career that has included university lecturing, teaching and 10 years as an advocate for Women in Science and Engineering. She has been a contributor to Engineering Education conferences, and an advocate for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning since the early 1990s, and is currently a member of the Australasian Association of Engineering Education executive.Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland Gerard Rowe completed the degrees of BE, ME and PhD at