the 1960’s, [1] the industry has grown in leapsand bounds, similar to many other technology fields. According to statistics released by theRobotic Industry Associates (RIA), the robotics industries’ only trade group[2], the industry hasdoubled since 1996 [2]. When one reviews [3, 4, 5] the instructional materials currently available tothe robotics student she or he will find an assortment of old applied industrial robotics materialpublished in the mid to late 1990s with a plethora of robot design and kinematics texts that werepublished after 1999. This represents the traditional and current approach to the roboticseducation at many institutions. In the last four decades the student that took a robotics class wastypically a mechanical or
defining solutions involves learningcultural sensitivity.On top of these advantages, students find these projects to be very worthwhile and fulfilling. Asstated by Krishna S. Athreya, head of Engineers for a Sustainable World, “helping theimpoverished have a better life can, for students, be a life-changing experience.”12We will continue to support these types of programs and consider them to be just as valuable—perhaps more so—than traditional study abroad programs.SummaryIn this paper we have described our efforts in developing study abroad programs over the pasttwo years. We began by studying exemplary programs of others. For the 2006/2007 school year,we sponsored seven programs of various format types. We discussed the strengths andweaknesses
communities believe that an engineering focus,particularly design activities, provides valuable context, application opportunities, andmotivation for student learning as well as teacher engagement. 4 5 Design approaches to scienceteaching can focus student attention on solving specific problems, as in the Learning by Design(LBD) method developed by Kolodner et al.6 LBD purposefully links the design aspects ofproblem solving with an “investigate and explore” phase, which in significant ways resemblesand reinforces the process of science inquiry. Fortus et al.’s 7 design-based science units have asimilar orientation. Modeling and design activities can also be used very deliberately to illustrateand make concrete science concepts, such as mechanical
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discussions began and their format. The paper will also review the advantages ofthese lunches, including reduced workload for instructors and the integration of ethicsinto the curriculum without displacing discipline-specific engineering topics. Finally,possible applications of USCGA’s experience to other programs are discussed. Page 13.1161.3BackgroundThe USCGA is one of four federal service academies and as such is focused on theacademic, military and physical development of young men and women as leaders inservice to our nation. USCGA provides the U. S. Coast Guard (USCG) withapproximately 190 new Coast Guard officers each year. Upon graduation from
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create a strategic university/industry model thatwill not only benefit the universities and industries, but the students themselves and laythe foundation for a stronger workforce in the future. Note that this is the first phase ofthis project and it is intended that we will publish additional phases of this work over thenext couple of years as we complete our study. To this extent, we will be comparing anddiscussing our efforts with this project to others of the same field in the future.Bibliography1. Lamancusa, John S. et. al. The Learning Factory: Industry-Partnered Active Learning. Journal ofEngineering Education. January 2008.2. Jiusto, S. and DiBiasio. Experiential Learning Environments: Do They Prepare Our Students to be Self-Directed
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discussionis over what is to be included in the bar raising?“Raising the Bar” for Civil EngineeringThe stated objective of ASCE is to “raise the bar” for entry into the profession of civilengineering; the concern being that the BSCE degree awarded today does not prepare thegraduate to the level of education that was provided 55 or 40 years ago4. Many of us ‘old-timers’ agree that our under-graduate education of the 1960’s and early 1970’s was more intenseand technically demanding than currently required. In her recent book, Galloway compares thehigher level education needed in 1900 and in 2000 between civil engineering and medicine, andnotes that it still only takes four years of academic study to become a P.E. in civil engineering,whereas it now
clearly offer corresponding experiences in their chosenconcentration(s). The six week syllabus in Table 2 suggests parallel, but not integrated, efforts inFrench language instruction and chemistry/chemical engineering laboratory practice.While the French language instruction occurred at two levels (for students with low ormoderate prior French experience), the lab was integrative in the sense that instructionswere provided in French, and the US students translated these into English, then wrotetheir lab reports in standard form for our US engineering campus program. Our USstudents downloaded our typical lab manual from our US campus website prior todeparture for France, and followed its designated report format. These practices allowedeasy
national competition in robotics. In the summer of 2002, she had an internship in an aircraft manufacturing company Embraer, in the part of the company Gamesa Aeronautica, section Moasa Montajes, Spain where she worked in product distributed environment. After graduating with a Master of Science (M. S.) degree, in area of Industrial Engineering, specialization in Production Systems in 2006, M.S. Jovanovic subsequently continued to work towards her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at Purdue University, department of Mechanical Engineering Technology. She is currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant in Product Lifecycle Management Centre of Excellence Laboratory at Purdue
six sections participated in a common three-hour weekly lab, and completed the Page 13.1345.3same design projects and writing assignments. The Let Me Learn® process was implemented intwo of the six sections by the writing instructor; the other four sections did not use LML. At theend of the semester, students were given a survey that asked them to rate their agreement withthe following four statements on a scale where 1=strongly agree and 4=strongly disagree:1. My team worked together to DEFINE its project goal(s).2. My team worked together to REACH its project goal(s).3. My team RECOGNIZED my skills, knowledge, and abilities.4. My team
compare with othervehicles, it is customary to solve for the rolling resistance coefficient(s) and thecoefficient of drag. These values provide insight into the causes of the road load forceand let the designer compare values with other vehicles.Equation 1.1 can then be substituted into equation 1.2, providing a relationship betweenthe two unknown parameters µ 0 and CD, and the vehicle speed and rate of deceleration.By measuring the vehicle speed and deceleration (and by also determining the frontalarea and air density), we can solve for the rolling resistance and the coefficient of drag.These coefficients can then be used to predict the motion of the vehicle in response tovarying tractive effort and conditions.The simplest method to determine
) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-on computer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visiting professor at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE where he helped set up an innovative introductory engineering curriculum. Dr. Tanyel received his B. S. degree in electrical engineering from Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1981, his M. S. degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA in 1985 and his Ph. D. in biomedical engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA in 1990
quality of The Bonds REU Program was:a. Excellent, b. Very good, c. Neutral, d. Poor, e. Very PoorAppendix BREU Evaluation Survey for Workshops, Summer 20071. How satisfied are you with the materials provided for this activity?2. How satisfied are you with your opportunity for questions / input / interaction?3. How satisfied are you with the quality of the speaker(s), instructor, staff, etc.?4. This activity changed my initial perceptions.5. This activity provided valuable information / skills that I will use later.6. What did you like most about this activity?7. What did you like least about this activity?8. What would you recommend to improve this activity?Appendix CREU Evaluation Survey for Plant Trips, Summer 20071. I feel this plant trip
ECE 371’s laboratory teaching philosophy, the ECE 464laboratory provides students the forum to assume a higher degree of design responsibility.Having acquired the necessary implementation skills, students are expected to traverse the entire Page 13.1315.9digital systems design flow in order to successfully complete each project. Using this design-directed teaching style, the newly defined academic goals for the ECE 464 laboratory section areshown below. • Apply behavioral and register-transfer level (RTL) digital system modeling in the context of larger, more complex digital systems found on modern microprocessors • Expose
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engineering and computer science students who made up close to 60% of the totalenrollment in the program. Through the programming, the CIRC students were exposed totopics not normally found in the classroom such as portfolios, writing a good resume, and talksby practicing engineers on what it is “really like in industry”. The program has been determinedto be very successful and is being continued with an NSF S-STEM grant.II. Program HistoryThis first group was composed of 12 transfer students, 9 women, 5 minority students, and 2freshman minority students who were unable to attend Arizona State University withoutscholarship assistance. All of the students had at least a 3.0 GPA and all were in need offinancial assistance as determined by their FAFSA
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sample size offemales in the present study, and thus the general lack of statistical power in major analysis,these differences were not deemed detrimental to the study.Table 2. Percentages of females and males in each major, by those enrolled in the Universityprogram and by those participating in the study. FEMALE MALE Major Enrolled Participant Enrolled Participant Total (By Major) s s N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) Enrolled Participant sAerospace/ 16 (8%) 2 (13%) 98 (11
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Body ofKnowledge (BOK) and come up with recommendations to meet both ABET 2009 criteria andBOK.AcknowledgmentThe author would like to thank the Civil Engineering Curriculum committee that developed theoriginal curriculum for the program. The committee did an excellent job in making this programcomes to life at IPFW. In addition, the author would like to thank the current Civil EngineeringCurriculum committee and all faculty members in the Department of Engineering at IPFW fortheir input and comments on the original manuscript of this paper.Bibliogr aphy1. Ashur, S. and Moor, S. (2007). ÐAssessment of Citrix Impact on Educational Achievement of IPFWEngineering Students0Ñ"Tgrqtv"uwdokvvgf"vq"vjg"Eqnngig"qh