areas to include academics, athletics, and leadership. Seminar attendees selecttheir courses from a variety of offerings from all academic departments at the institution. Thispaper describes the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering’s program. The goal of thisparticular workshop is to give the attending students an overview of different disciplines ofengineering and enlighten them that engineering is fun and practical. Classes are small, and ourinstructors are very engaging and helpful. Students engage in hands-on experiences, includingmany in the institution’s modern computer and laboratory facilities. They attend lessons inengineering fundamentals and are presented with potential, real world problems. The studentsapply the design
the teams from ASU along with Central State University (CSU) from Ohiowere selected by the PACER program authorities for undergoing training in the summer of 2009.PACER Summer Program Experience Student Ballooning Course The course is comparable to any normal 3 credit hour course with an additional hour for hands-on laboratory projects. Indeed LSU offers “Student Ballooning Course” (SBC) every fall semester as a graded course and also to participants of the PACER program during the summer to train them in designing and operating the payload. As there is a wide variety of topics covered, team teaching method has been adopted with at least 3 to 4 experts covering materials from their individual specialty. A large multipurpose room
AC 2010-1994: ASSESSING SENIOR STUDENT EXPERIENCES WITH A NOVELMOBILE ROBOTICS LEARNING PLATFORM IN A COMPUTER ANDELECTRONICS ENGINEERING PROGRAMAlisa Gilmore, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Alisa N. Gilmore, M.S.E.C.E., P.E. is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Ms. Gilmore has extensive industrial experience in telecommunications and manufacturing, and has used her industry background to foster industrial partnerships in robotics at the university and to develop and teach courses in circuits, telecommunications, and robotics. She has served as senior staff for two NSF grants in the ITEST and Discovery K
AC 2010-122: BEYOND SIMULATION: STUDENT-BUILT VIRTUAL REALITYGAMES FOR CELLULAR NETWORK DESIGNJames Jaurez, National University James J. Jaurez is a an Assistant Professor with National University’s School of Media and Communication. He teaches courses in the Master of Science in Educational and Instructional Technology and in the Bachelor of Arts in Entertainment and Interactive Arts programs, which has lead him to pioneer a fusion of the two disciplines and collaborate on a Hewlett Packard Technology for Teaching – Higher Education – Leadership Grant. A PhD candidate through Nova Southeastern University, James’ dissertation work is in Epistemic Game Creation in the discipline of Computing
communication).As part of a National Science Foundation CCLI Phase 1 grant, DUE: 0836861, three designactivities are being developed and incorporated in the first-year engineering program at MichiganTech. For this project, three groups (undergraduate, graduate and faculty) with differenteducational backgrounds developed learning modules. The student groups were selected to helpwith the development because it would give a fresh perspective on the design projects. Theundergraduate students would gain some ownership in the education of their peers. The graduatestudent would learn more about teaching through the development of a design project. Theutilization of the student groups to develop design projects would permit more design projects tobe available
purported impact on students andbecause of their disproportionate role in assessment and accreditation in many program2.Despite the importance of design courses to program outcomes, their format varies widely andoutcomes are not standardized across programs. For the purposes of this paper design courses Page 15.371.2are classified broadly into two discrete but usually overlapping sets: design problem courses anddesign process courses. Design process courses teach students the process of design, usuallythrough design cycles and effort management tools such as Gantt charts and work breakdownstructures. Since these courses are amenable to more
engineering, product families and platforms, methods to predict/respond to obsolescence and design education. She is a member of ASEE, ASME, IIE, and Alpha Pi Mu and the Associate Editor for Design Education in the Journal of Mechanical Design and the Area Editor for Design Economics in The Engineering Economist.Richard Goff, Virginia Tech Richard M. Goff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education. He has been teaching engineering for over 30 years and is currently assistant department head and co-director of the engineering first-year program in the Department of Engineering Education. He is the director of the Frith Freshman Engineering Design Laboratory in
for teaching units by Chulalongkorn University was introduced [4]. 2005 Bachelor Degree Standard by the Commission on Higher Education was revised [5]. 2005 Quality assurance for curriculum in Chulalongkorn University was expanded into CU-CQA [6]. 2006 New system of undergraduate admission was introduced by the Association of University Presidents of Thailand [7]. 2008 Chulalongkorn University Act transformed the public university into an autonomous university, receiving annual block grants from the government [8]. 2008 Regulation on Degree Accreditation for Professional Licensing was revised by Council of Engineers [9]. 2009 New Thai Qualifications Framework for Higher Education (TQF: HEd) [10] was introduced with
Student Association Outstanding Mentor Award, the Drexel University ECE Outstanding Research Achievement Award and the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize. In 2003, he received a NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship to research NEMS/MEMS adaptive optics in the Microdevices Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Eli Fromm, Drexel University Dr. Eli Fromm is the Roy A. Brothers University Professor and Director of the Center for Page 15.1273.1 Educational Research in the College of Engineering of Drexel University. He has held a number of academic leadership positions and
below.Required Entrepreneurship Courses:TEM 401 Economics, Marketing and Strategy: This course will introduce students to situationand market analysis. Students will learn how to make strategic decisions, alliances, andrelationships. It will teach students to find an unmet need and conduct proper market research tounderstand the market size, segmentation, and target customer. Finally students will develop amarketing plan and strategy for a selected technology.TEM 402 Financial Management of New Ventures: This course will introduce students to thetopics of accounting, finance, cash flow, funding sources, and exit strategies. Students will learnhow to generate a financial model, develop a balance sheet, and create deal structures. The keydeliverable for
AC 2010-1416: UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE ONPROSPECTIVE OF PHD STUDENTAezeden Mohamed, University of Manitoba Aezeden Mohamed, PhD Candidate and Sessional Instructor in Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Manitoba. He received a B.S. in Material Science and Engineering from El-Fateh University, Tripoli- Libya, and a M.Sc. in Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. Certification in Higher Education Teaching Program 2008, a past President of Canadian Union of Public Employment (CUPE 3909) Address: University of Manitoba, EITC, Winnipeg, Canada, R3T 5V6. aezeden@cc.umanitoba.caMyron (Ron) Britton, University of Manitoba Ron
Wikipedia for text search. He has also just published the textbook "The Practice of Computing using Python", a CS1 text using Python as the main language.Richard Enbody, Michigan State University Richard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He joined the faculty in 1987 after earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. Richard received his B.A. in Mathematics from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1976, and spent six years teaching high school mathematics in Vermont and New Hampshire. Richard's research interests are in computer security, computer architecture, web-based distance education and parallel
national speaker, she has published numerous articles, a book on creativity research, and teaches classes on giftedness and creativity. Page 15.776.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Integrating the Environmental Engineering Curriculum through Crossdisciplinary StudiosAbstractTraditional curricular approaches within and beyond engineering education tend to befragmented, with opportunities for synthesis being predominately limited to freshmen and senioryear design courses. In this paper, we are proposing a curricular model, the Synthesis and DesignStudio, as an example
pleasant setting. Virtual laboratories can be built with simulationtechniques to guide our students learning complex subjects. A major difficulty, however,concerns whether the simplicity may come at the expense of effectiveness of the learningsurroundings. One remedy to this problem suggests use of special equipments often used for e.g.pilot training. Another example includes use of digital gloves and head-mounted devices invirtual reality applications. Nevertheless, these equipments are expensive and often not availableto most students. In contrast, our solution suggests use of inexpensive tools like web-cameras asan interface to interact with the simulated objects in cyberspace, and WBS as a core buildingblock of the virtual laboratories.In this
insight into the engineering academic program through a combination of lectures, hands-on laboratory activities, workshops and projects with engineering professionals. Preliminaryresults indicate success of both programs. Math Jam participants show improvement in the MathPlacement test. Almost all participants scored higher in the placement test compared to their pre-program scores. For sixty four percent of them, the improvement in their scores was highenough to place them to at least the next higher math class. Engineering Institute participantsshowed improved understanding of the engineering profession and the engineering educationalsystem. Participants from both programs also expressed positive overall attitude and opinions ofthe program
the same open-ended experimental designproblem as part of required laboratory courses. The objective of the assignment was to design,construct, and conduct an experiment to determine the relationships between factors that affectthe forces on a wooden beam that supports the weight of a person. Pre- and post-surveys wereadministered regarding student attitudes towards the problem. The surveys were statisticallyanalyzed to identify similarities and differences within and between the student groups. Focusgroups were also conducted to supplement the survey data.Before designing the experiment, the freshmen and juniors differed in their attitudes towards theexperimental design but felt the same afterwards. The freshmen were more frustrated and
AC 2010-823: USING THE EMERGENT METHODOLOGY OF DOMAINANALYSIS TO ANSWER COMPLEX RESEARCH QUESTIONSLindsey Nelson, Purdue University Lindsey Nelson is a graduate student in Engineering Education. She graduated from Boston University with her bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. In trying to gain knowledge about teaching and learning within an engineering context, Lindsey pursued some graduate study in mechanical engineering and shifted to teaching high school physics. As an active member of the American Association of Physics Teachers, she developed an interest in curricular innovations. Combining her interest in curricular innovations with a passion for social justice, Lindsey
≠ Submit documents to campus housing ≠ Arrange food for summer camp ≠ Purchase additional equipment ≠ Purchase movie tickets ≠ Train student mentors ≠ Meeting with camp personnelWe adapted our camp curriculum from the Colorado School of Mines (CSoM).15 16 The CSoMutilized basic computer programs to teach middle school students about computer engineeringand programming, including ALICE basic programming software,17 Lego Mindstorms robot kits,FrontPage website design, and GPS tracking systems. Engaging students with introductorycomputing programs became an important component of our summer camp program. We had toanticipate
be expected to spend 160hours on a one-semester, 16-credit course, including lectures, laboratories, tests and studying on their own. Page 15.465.8Engineering students typically take between 72 and 80 credits per semester, comprising 14 teaching weeks plus a 3-week examination period.developmental modules help students adjust to a higher workload (time students spend working),without having to cope with the large volume of work required of mainstream students.In Year 2 students take level 100 engineering modules, together with accompanying additionalmodules. They also take half of the required modules of level 200 mathematics
. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Purdue University, and his Ph.D. (1977) from Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. Page 15.442.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Effective Use of Screencasting Software in Engineering CoursesAbstractThis paper overviews several situations in which screencasts were developed using screencapturing software to enhance the learning experience in engineering courses. This softwareallows an engineering instructor with no background in producing training videos to easilyproduce computer-based videos customized for teaching specific topics. It can be
University of Wisconsin—Platteville. The course isintended for sophomore students and serves two main purposes in the curriculum: 1. To introduce the students to civil engineering and the subdisciplines, and 2. To begin the development of an awareness of infrastructure and the challenges facing the United States with respect to infrastructure overcapacity and degradation.Details of efforts to incorporate exemplary teaching materials in the course development are pre-sented and the content of the course is outlined. As part of the course, students will be complet-ing an infrastructure assessment assignment inspired by the “Report Card for America’s Infra-structure”1 produced by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Assessment of student
Research Professor in the School of Materials at ASU and has been teaching and developing new content for materials science and engineering classes and laboratories. She has developed new content and contextual teaching methods from her experience as a researcher and General Manager at Honeywell Inc. She is currently working to develop new assessments to reveal and address student misconceptions in introductory materials engineering classes.Stephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is Professor in the School of Materials in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and
AC 2010-1639: USING GRAPHIC NOVELS TO COMMUNICATE ENGINEERINGEXPERIENCES IN AN URBAN MIDDLE SCHOOLJennifer Atchison, Drexel University Jennifer Atchison is a PhD candidate in the Department of Materials’ Science and Engineering at Drexel University and her area or research is focused on nanophotonics. She is a second year NSF Graduate Teaching Fellow in K-12 Education and is the Science Program Director for The Achievement Project.Dorothea Holmes-Stanley, St. Cyprian's School Dorothea Holmes-Stanley is the science teacher for 5-8th grades at St. Cyprians School in Philadelphia.Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University Dr. Adam Fontecchio is an Associate Professor and Assistant Department
Technology faculty was encouraged to share their successes in terms of what wasgoing well in the classes they taught that were related to the outcomes being discussed. Thefocus was on the positive aspects of their teaching rather than dwelling on problems and issuesthat needed to be resolved. As the faculty began to trust one another the dialogue continued tobe more open and informative. This discussion and analysis of the curriculum took quite a bit oftime, but was extremely beneficial in developing meaningful outcomes. This process providedthe faculty with a much better understanding of what was happening in other courses beyondtheirs and a better perspective of how the curriculum could provide the students with a buildingblock experience.Eleven
AC 2010-146: PROJECT-BASED FRESHMAN ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE:THE CORE COURSERobert Caverly, Villanova University Dr. Caverly is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In addition to teaching the freshman engineering experience, he also teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in electromagnetics and RF and microwave engineering. He is the author of the book 'CMOS RFIC Design Principles'.Howard Fulmer, Villanova University Prof. Fulmer is an Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has taught a variety of classes, including Freshman-level Engineering (Analysis, Computation, Graphics, Interdisciplinary Projects I/II), Senior-level
Processing Industries. Williams holds an M. S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Purdue University and is certified as a Vibration Analyst Category III from the Vibration Institute.Joseph Kmec, Purdue University Joseph F. Kmec is currently Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. His teaching areas of concentration are energy-based and include Applied Thermodynamics, Internal Combustion Engines, Motorsports, and Power Plant Systems. His recent activities involving student projects include engine simulation, power plant performance analysis, and nuclear technology. He may be reached at: kmecjf@purdue.edu
immediate team. At the end of eachsummer program, all participants prepare concise posters and share their findings with othersinterdisciplinary researchers on campus. The activity, coordinating by the Office of Vice Page 15.1033.8President for Research, has attracted an average of ~80 posters each summer from all researchprograms at TAMU.The project also provided additional physical resources and funding for research and education.The partner organizations (Haas, Unist, MA Ford, and Agilent) donated equipment to use beyondsummer REU projects. The equipment have been used for research and teaching for three otherclasses to benefit approximately 150
AC 2010-1203: SUCCESSES OF AN EARLY CONCEPTUAL DESIGNPRESENTATION FOR SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTSNabila (Nan) BouSaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Nabila (Nan) BouSaba is a faculty associate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Nan earned her BS in Electrical Engineering (1982), and a Master degree in Electrical Engineering (1986) from North Carolina A&T State University. Prior to her current position at UNC-Charlotte, Nan worked for IBM (15 years) and Solectron (8 years) in the area of test development and management. She teaches the senior design course and manages the standalone computers in the Electrical
AC 2010-1652: CORRELATIONS BETWEEN MECHANICAL APTITUDE, PRIOREXPERIENCES, AND ATTITUDE TOWARD ENGINEERINGMichele Miller, Michigan Technological University Dr. Michele Miller is an Associate Professor in mechanical engineering. She teaches classes on manufacturing and controls and does disciplinary research on microelectromechanical systems and precision machining. Her educational research interests include problem solving in the lab and informal engineering education.Anna Pereira, Michigan Technological University Anna Pereira is a graduate student in mechanical engineering. Her research interests include human factors, ergonomics, and engineering education.Margot Hutchins, Michigan
AC 2010-496: THE MARYLAND ASSOCIATE’S OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICALAND COMPUTER ENGINEERING: OUTCOMES-BASED TRANSFER DEGREESJumoke Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University DR. JUMOKE LADEJI-OSIAS is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University. Kemi has experience in developing algorithms for synthetic vision systems. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in digital design. She has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering.Richard Cerkovnik, Anne Arundel Community College DR. RICHARD CERKOVNIK is a tenured full-professor in Physical Sciences and Director of