sciences such as philosophy,psychology, and, especially, economics, and thus deals with theories concerning the basic lawsof humans and society. The goals of the Social Engineering Program are to educate advancedresearchers and administers who work in areas related to policy, design and planning in nationalterritory socio-economic systems and to develop the integrated theories and methods of theseareas. It has been designed in a way to satisfy the education law of the country. The design andimplementation of this program comes to add to the efforts of the different sectors of thecommunity to solve the social problems that are perpetuated by decades such as environmentalissues, overpopulation, and the urban problem.1. IntroductionThe Social
criteria were developed for this outcome.For each performance criteria, detailed guide for assessing the performance criteria were alsoprovided. The five performance criteria developed for this outcome, are based on1. Ability to define the problem This performance criterion is assessed by determining if students are able to (i) identify the customer and the needs, (ii) identify and list the design objectives, and (iii) identify the design constraints.2. Ability to plan the project This performance criterion is also assessed by determining if students are able to (i) define the design strategy and methodology, (ii) identify and break down work into tasks and subtasks, and identify the personnel and deliverables for each, (iii) develop a
with “The Engineer of 2020”vision. In our proposed recruitment plan, at least 60% of the REU participants will bestudents who belong to under-represented groups in the academia and those from smallercolleges/universities with who have few research opportunities at their home institutions.We were successful in meeting this target in our first year of implementation.2. Proposal Submission and ReviewsThe authors submitted the original proposal in 2004 and resubmitted in 2005 and 2006.The 2006 submission was successful. This section documents panel summary andindividual reviewer’s comments on our successful (final submission) and unsuccessfulproposals. Major evaluation criteria include proposal intellectual merits and broaderimpacts. Unedited
development wasgrounded in a common set of standards and showed teachers how to connect their work tothe specific standards for student performance. Sixth, reform strategies for schoolimprovement must be connected to other aspects of school change.Loucks-Horsley, Love, Stiles, Mundry and Hewson13 present a professional developmentmodel specifically designed for mathematics and science. The core of the model consists of aseries of components including commitment to a vision and standards, analysis of studentlearning and other data, goal setting, planning, implementation and evaluation. Secondedition augmentations include major sections on knowledge and belief systems (e.g., learnersand learning, teachers and teaching, the nature of the disciplines
in university BME laboratories, with teachers directly immersedin NSF-sponsored research activities, collaborating with faculty members and Ph.D.students on appropriate aspects of their investigations. The teachers, faculty and Ph.D.student mentors met weekly to review, network, compare experiences, address issues,and plan. The lab experiences that the teachers experienced included the followingresearch areas:Lab # 1-Fundamental Research in Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) gradually destroys the macula, the part of theretina most important for central vision. In advanced stages AMD can result in theinability to read all but very large print, legal blindness with the consequent loss ofdriving
transfers, and plans to attend graduate school.Before we look at the results of the study, we look at literature to understand what types ofresearch have been done on community college transfer students.II. Literature Review on Engineering and Computer Science Community College TransferStudentsIn this section we look at the literature on the case for community colleges, curriculum,articulation, resource sharing, special programming for new transfer students, challenges, andmany-faceted programs with community colleges. We then look at studies on gender issues andthe community college.The Case for Community Colleges: There are many reasons that 45% of all first-time freshmenchoose to begin their college education at a community college.1 Students
in each core with their monitors on support arms allowing easymovement. Computer connections are accessible at the desktop. In addition, each clusterincludes electric power, water and compressed air. Students break into groups of three forcomputer work, and can break into groups of two, three, four or six for other activities. Whennot in use for formal classes, students use it as an informal learning space.Use of the room for classes has just begun. We are currently assessing the basic configuration ofthis space. Student surveys, room observation and instructor interviews are planned ascomponents of this assessment.Initial indications are that the room is well liked in spite of some early technical glitches.Students, particularly groups
the single partner university. This means that the educationcontent of the first three study semesters is not part of the commonly regulated ECEM-program. This also means that there is some space for “individual” national education paths.The experience showed that knowledge gaps, if existing, will be filled by students’ effortsduring their study at the partner university. During the two theoretical semesters abroad all ECEM-partner universities follow thecommon educational frame, which has been fixed during a number of common planning andorganizing meetings. The topics or contents of the respective modules are similarly orientedtoward management skills in the very civil engineering context. They are not mirror like, butat least
intervention as needed.In this paper, we provide details on the teaching of our course, and share insights that shouldhelp others planning to teach a similar course in the future.Course overviewThe outcomes that all students in the “Introduction to Engineering” course are expected toachieve are outlined in Table 1 and shown in more detail in the Appendix.It is worth noting that most of these outcomes do not lend themselves well to a purely cognitiveapproach—that is one that focuses on transferring knowledge from instructor to student. In fact,it is sometimes difficult to specify exactly what the “knowledge” component of design,teamwork or communication should be. Instead, we focus on developing students’ skill andconfidence as practitioners in these
WPI many entering students have recently expressed an interest in robotics. During theacademic year 2006/07, for example, over 130 visiting prospective students listed robotics eitheras a principal interest area or as their planned major on WPI Admissions Information forms. InFall 2005 and 2006, 96 and 101 freshmen, respectively, joined the WPI Robotics Team. One-third of them stated an interest in pursuing robotics for their senior project or academic major.43% had known of the WPI/FIRST/robotics connection before enrolling at WPI and 62% ofthese indicated that this knowledge was a strong positive reason for selecting WPI.3.0 Education in RoboticsOne may date the earliest robotics-related undergraduate curricula to the 1980’s where
nation were recruited,resulting to about 235 and 275 student participants, respectively for the pre- and post- surveys.In this paper, we present key findings of what students learned and valued, present outcomeswhich should be better addressed during the experience, student career path goals, etc. Thestrength of the research design plan is that the results can be generalized to other REU sites andcan be replicated across scientific disciplines and institutions at various levels and scales. These Page 13.231.3findings can aid REU site program directors and undergraduate research faculty advisors toimprove their program and assessment
(1982), a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University (1984) and a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Texas at Austin (1999).mario cornejo, Oklahoma State University Mario Cornejo is a Ph.D student in Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University. Mario got his M.S. in Industrial Engineering at Oklahoma State University in 2005; then he worked at DELL implementing Six Sigma methodology where he got certified as a DELL-Green Belt and an ASQ-Black Belt. Before joining the master program, Mario worked for four years at an aircraft repair station of an airline company in inventory control and production planning areas. He also holds
was their first researchexperience of any kind. We had a positive impact on influencing the career path of the REUparticipants, according to their self-reported plans. The mentoring program has been verysuccessful, as indicated by the number of return attendees and alumni of the Bio-Discoveryprogram, who recommend their younger sisters or friends to the program. According to ourassessment data, the Bio-Discovery Program has been the most rewarding part of the programfor several of the REU participants, even though it also presented a challenge, as it limits theamount of time REU students can dedicate exclusively to their research projects. With ourrecommendations for improvement, this program can be adopted by other faculty who wish
Image 6 - environmentalThe question of relevance to this study was Question 3 as it would elicit the most in depthanswer containing the participants’ perceptions of engineering in the world.The week long academies consisted of teachers learning to use the Museum of Science’sEngineering is Elementary units. Specifically, on lesson was on water quality and purificationand the other was on machines (windmill). The lessons concentrate on developing the teachers’awareness of the design process which was explicitly defined in 5 phases – ask, imagine, plan,create, test, improve. Also, the teachers and the workshop facilitators shared ideas on how toteach these concepts within the context of a sequence of design activities. They also meet with anumber
underwaterROV by sending signals to three thrusters (again, student-built.) The controller is tethered orconnected by hard wire to the thrusters.In addition to the building phase, the curriculum includes discussion of potential careers intechnical and engineering fields, as well as related fields of study. The program is used toinform and educate students through a hands-on activity, with the objective of generating interestand enthusiasm for continued science, technology and engineering studies. The Sea PerchChallenge has been a successful event for the past two years, and this paper will discuss thespecifics of this event, as well as the plans for developing the Sea Perch Program into a nationaldesign competition over the next five
end of last year in Lima, Peru. The Symposium focused on the needs of the productive sectorfor engineering graduates and capacity building; quality assurance in engineering education; andnational planning for financing of upgrades to engineering education. The Final Report2 calls foreducational reforms at the regional level that include the needs of the productive sector andpreparing new engineers with attributes certified by transparent accreditation systems, which willfurther professional mobility, investments levels, and therefore economic development. TheFinal Report2 urges the academic sector to boost its collaboration with industry to develop achange in paradigm to educate the engineers of the 21st Century, which they describe as
evaluation, which is required by accrediting agencies.Consequently, an accredited program that accomplishes its mission and successfully achieves itsprogram objectives and outcomes must have multiple levels of continuous improvement whoseresults are used to constantly update and evaluate the program for sustained improvement and Page 13.258.2continued success.For our course-level continuous improvement plan, we developed assessment tools that wereboth direct measures (measurement tools that directly correlate to student performance) andindirect measures (measurement tools that provide additional information about studentperformance). Studies have
. Page 13.11.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Case Study of Student Learning in Civil Engineering TechnologyAbstractThe curriculum of the four-year, TAC/ABET accredited Civil Engineering Technology Programat Georgia Southern University covers three traditional areas within the discipline of CivilEngineering. These areas are environmental, structures, and transportation. In an effort toimplement the continuous improvement plan for the program, assessment and evaluation of theprogram objectives and outcomes are being done on an ongoing basis. The term “assessment”means one or more processes that identify, collect, use and prepare data that can be used toevaluate achievement of program outcomes and educational objectives
purposeful ‘creativeproblem-solving’ that is needs-driven, encompassing all phases of problem recognition,formulation, and solution. In its broadest sense, the essence of creative engineering practiceencompasses the functions of needs-recognition, vision, conceptual planning and creative designfor the generation and development of new technology and executive engineering leadershiproles of organization and responsible leadership to bring new, improved, and breakthrough ‘ideasand concepts’ to practical use in the creative solution of the hopes, wants, and needs of people Page 13.561.4for the advancement and improvement of the quality of life (both
Baylor University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) presented to theSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Faculty were given the opportunity todevelop residential learning communities for incoming freshmen that revolve around a theme.The topic of energy, and its associated societal, political, environmental and economic threads,was submitted by the authors and eventually selected for development into a course that is beingoffered for the first time last fall. A total of 28 freshmen from a wide diversity of disciplinesvoluntarily signed up for the course and will remain in it for up to four consecutive semesters.The paper examines the structure of this course and our assessment goals.The Case for Energy EducationPeople often assume
design:design for development vs. design for a well-defined problem.II. Brazil Course BackgroundThe purpose of this course was to promote effective, virtual and in-person international studentcollaboration in the undergraduate engineering and business design curricula using the theme ofsustainable product design. The goal was to create a course for which University of Pittsburghengineering and business students design, construct prototypes, and create business plans for newtechnologies, using sustainability as a framework, directly with students from the University ofCampinas in Brazil, for Brazilian and U.S. markets. That is, this course addressed the productrealization process in the context of sustainability, especially for the developing world, in
building program for current women engineering students. During the2006/07 academic year, WE@RIT hosted over 1500 participants in their various programofferings with the support of 175 people, most of whom were volunteers.The organization and its programming flourish using a managed resource strategy in a climatewhere funding is limited. Student and faculty volunteers and/or student employees performmuch of the effort involved in designing and administering various programs. A uniqueleadership structure allows a faculty member through work plan adjustment to serve as theprogram’s executive director while a full-time coordinator handles daily program activities. Inorder to run the organization using resources effectively, the group created overall
to significantlyimprove subsequent years of the program. Some teachers felt that certain experiments did notaddress the frameworks needs; in fact they had this concern about their highest rated activitywhich was subsequently one used most often in their classrooms. Others felt some activities didnot fit the grade level they teach and they felt uncomfortable modifying the activity. In follow-up interviews, none of the teachers used all, or a majority, of the experiments from the year oneInstitute. Many of the simpler experiments (earthquakes, acids and bases, density) wereincorporated into lesson plans, but the teachers avoided experiments such as ethanol production,perhaps because they did not have a high comfort level with using a perceived
for other activities.The second major objective of the TExT is to provide learning activities to be used in the class-room along with detailed lesson plans describing how to conduct these activities. To the maxi-mum extent possible, this includes providing the resources necessary for conducting the in-classactivity. In cases where the resources cannot be provided, the lesson plan includes a list of all theitems the instructor will need in class along with an indication of those that must be obtainedfrom a source external to the TExT. The key points of this objective are to ensure (a) that eachactivity is well designed as a student learning experience, (b) that implementation of each activ-ity is straightforward and time-efficient and (c) that
Engineering Education.Joseph Prince, Middle Tennessee State University Joseph W. Prince is a senior at Middle Tennessee State University majoring in Aerospace with minors in Mathematics and Engineering Technology. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Tripoli Rocketry Association, and served as Vice-President of The Space Elevator Team of MTSU. Joseph plans on continuing his education in graduate school with an academic and research emphasis on propulsions. Page 13.1093.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Some Interesting
collaboratively with our Multi-Disciplinary Advisory Committee, whichincluded a dozen faculty and professional staff from the college’s five engineering degreeprograms and one research center. This advisory committee also helped us develop andhone a set of “key attributes” for effective performance on a multi-disciplinary team. Thefinal set of key attributes selected is listed below: Interpersonal Communication Collaboration Understanding and Communicating Disciplinary Tradeoffs Empathy for Diverse Perspectives Planning and Organization Accountability and Reliability Common Goals and Shared Outcomes Conflict Management and Resolution Willingness to Learn Inclusive Decision MakingThese ten
is implemented. During the solution implementation phase, the problemsolver performs a variety of roles for implementing the idea including: directing, planning,organizing, and gaining support.Teamwork and the Creative ProcessTables 1 and 2 identify the major advantages and limitations of creative problem solving teamsover individual problem solving6.Table 1: Major advantages of creative problem solving teams • More information and knowledge available to solve problems • Generation of more ideas • Synergistic effects of problem solving teams • Different thinking skills available to solve problems • Greater likelihood for finding the best solution • Greater solution acceptance and commitment of the chosen solutionTable
environment is the primary objective of simulation. Traditionaltextbook and lecture methods normally have exercises designed around individual concepts.“This instructional method, while somewhat attributable to the usual trend to compartmentalizecourse material into homogeneous blocks, is more often due to an attempt to model traditionalmanufacturing organizations in which the product design function, manufacturing engineering,and production planning are separate corporate entities”4.This paper reports on the use of simulation to enhance learning in a production systems course atWichita State University. Production systems have become more complex due to technology aswell as capital investment and the increase in the number and variety of products
Image Processing FPGA Board(s) and environment sensors (light, acceleration, compass, bump, and sonar). 4. Develop algorithms that translate image knowledge and sensor measurements to path planning, complete with in-course path modification. 5. Test the system on flat and angled terrain with existing obstacles.Specific educational outcomes of the robotic design aspects of the project included (1)understanding pulse width modulated (PWM) motor controllers, (2) power considerations inmobile computing designs, (3) Linux device driver programming, (4) RS232 hardwarecommunications design.3. Results AchievedAs is typical of ambitious senior design projects such as this, the teams fell short ofaccomplishing all their stated goals. This
QFD – House of Quality Requirements DocumentTeaming: Theory, Skills, and Practice Teaming Exercises Interim ReportCreativity and Idea Generation Concurrent Engineering Design ReportIdea Selection/Decision Schemes Drawings/Layouts/Analysis/Economics Critical Design ReviewDesign for Sustainability Design Verification/Test Plans Manufacturing and Test ReviewDesign for Safety Technical Reports Senior Design ExpoDesign for Manufacturability Presentation Skills Final Project ReportTQMContinuous ImprovementThe new capstone model created at Cal Poly is considered a working template that is