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applications.Monterrey’s Electronic School (Escuela Electrónica Monterrey ESEM): ESEM is a technicalschool located in downtown Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, in the Northern Mexico area. The curriculashould prepare students for a variety of employment opportunities. ESEM offers short, objective,and productive courses. The school offers the 10 most requested technical careers requested bycompanies; the program durations are four, five, or six semesters long depending on specialty.The programs are short compared to professional careers, and they are practical because theprograms are combined with theory and practice, taking place in workshops and laboratories ofthe institution.The “Machining and Tooling Technician” program offered by ESEM requires 69 credit hours
the incidents atIdaho National Laboratories with the SL-1 reactor, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Areas thatwere covered ranged from engineering design to operator training to media coverage andgovernmental responses. At SL-1, three operators were killed when they accidentally triggered asteam explosion in the reactor. There was total secrecy applied to this disaster. At Three MileIsland, there was a reactor meltdown triggered in large part by operator training and workplacedesign. The media covered the incident, in which there were no injuries, extensively and (somewould say) at times hysterically. At Chernobyl, lack of operator training and poor reactor designtriggered a massive explosion which scattered radioactive debris across half of
AC 2011-2001: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CLASSROOM LEARNINGAND ONLINE LEARNING ON MEDICAL IMAGING WITH COMPUTERLAB EXERCISESHong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Hong Man joined the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens in January 2000. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in December 1999. Dr. Man is currently an associate professor in the department of ECE. He is serving as the director of the undergraduate Computer Engineering program, and the director of the Visual Information Envi- ronment Laboratory at Stevens. His research interests have been in image and video processing, medical imaging, data analysis and pattern recognition
skills and practice communication and presentation skills.Classroom teaching is combined with laboratory exercises. Heavy emphasis is placed onteamwork. At the end of the semester, the students must present a team project. The project is ofsufficient complexity and workload that it is very difficult for one student to complete it alone ina semester’s time frame.To illustrate the teaching approach, the topic of distillation will be presented. In this typicalsession on distillation process design and operation, the students learn about the concept ofdistillation, how to design a distillation to achieve desired product specifications, simulate adistillation process and consider the impact of certain operating variables on its operation.By
basic computer skills (e.g. Word, Excel and Access) and providing thestudents with first laboratory experience in engineering fields. Usually, about 20 to 30 percentsof the students in this course are from non-engineering fields with various majors (see Table 1).The other linked course Problem Solving for Engineers is a more specific MATLAB-basedprogramming course and requires an equivalent of 2 years of high school algebra as a pre-requisite. As a pilot learning community was initiated in fall 2009, the introductory course wasselected as the key course due to its no-prerequisite feature. Table 1: Students‟ information in the Introduction to Engineering course No. of No. ofSemester
collectiondevelopment goals will be to grow our electronic collections.The New Science and Engineering Building Our university is a new campus, relative to many universities in the state. However, it isgrowing rapidly, especially in the sciences. In the last five years, our university opened twomulti-disciplinary science and engineering buildings. The newest building, the AppliedEngineering and Technology Building, opened for occupancy in Fall 2009 and officially inSpring 2010; our library opened few months later, in May. In the original plans for the building, a laboratory space was built where our library isnow. The architects and builders outfitted the room with various lab specifications, including aneye-wash station, a multitude of power
success models in engineering, global engineering education, teamwork and team effectiveness, and production systems control and optimization. He worked as a production control engineer in Taiwan, and has taught laboratory classes in manufacturing engineering and freshmen engi- neering in the U.S. He earned his Bachelor and Master degrees in Industrial Engineering from National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) and Purdue University (U.S.A). His ultimate career goal is to help cul- tivate world-class engineering graduates that can compete globally, as well as collaborate with the best engineers across different cultures.Xingyu Chen, Purdue University
. Page 22.74.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A Multidisciplinary Senior Design Project – Redesigned to Increase Interdisciplinary InteractionAbstractAn interdisciplinary team design experience has been conducted successfully for severalyears as part of the senior engineering laboratory effort at Western New England College.Recent modifications have been made to the project to increase the amount ofinterdisciplinary interaction during the project. For the past several years, students havedesigned, fabricated, and tested a solar-powered vehicle. This vehicle designed totransport two one-liter bottles of water uphill using wireless hobby-servos for steeringcontrol. During the
Bottomley received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1985 from Virginia Tech. She received her Ph D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1992. Dr. Bottomley worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in Transmission Sys- tems from 1985 to 1987, during which time she worked in ISDN standards, including representing Bell Labs on an ANSI standards committee for physical layer ISDN standards. She received an Exceptional Contribution Award for her work during this time. After receiving her Ph D., Dr. Bottomley worked as a faculty member at Duke University and consulted with a number of companies, such as
experience an immersionin the native culture.NDSU Camp for TCC StudentsThis camp has two tracks, one for students and another for the TCC faculty and high schoolteachers. Besides academic sessions, laboratories, and industry visits, students at the camp areprovided opportunities to participate in the activities of the university multicultural studentservice center, student chapter of American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and otherlocal NA organizations. The TCC faculty and teachers work with university professors todevelop lesson plans for the Sunday Academy sessions and high school summer camps. One ofthe unique features of this camp is both tribal college faculty and the students come together onthe university campus. Though the faculty
in action.This leads into what may be seen as one of the limitations of the university education inbiomedical engineering. Universities today have attained top of the line environments for “realworld” engineering application laboratory and design processes. However, students find thatdespite having a solid education of applying theory to engineering ingenuity, there is littleexposure to existing equipment. Sure, classes build a strong backbone of basic and complexprinciples on which we create designs from the ground up, but there is also value in seeing whatis already out on the market and how current products fair with the human interaction. Armedwith this knowledge and searching for a source of information on hospital assessments, the
Interface, Second Edition, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 19984- J. W. Stewart and C.Y. Wang, Digital Electronics Laboratory Experiments using the Xilinix XC95108 CPLD,Prentice Hall, 20055- Foundation series software, XILINIX Student Edition 4.2i, 20066- B. Parhami, Computer Architecture From Microprocessors to Supercomputers, Oxford University Press, 20057- AppendixThis section includes solution to the homework.A- Control.vhd Page 22.144.9-- control module (simulates SPIM control module) library Synopsys, IEEE;use Synopsys.attributes.all;use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.all;entity control is port( signal Op : in std_logic_vector(5 downto 0
projects, with an emphasis on planning and design alternatives to meet cost,performance, and user-interface goals. One of the course requirements is the completion of theconceptualization and initial development phases of an electronic device that accomplishes astudent-defined task or solves a student-defined problem. Student projects are taken tocompletion in two subsequent self-directed laboratory courses, Project Design and Development,Phase I and II. The students who volunteered to participate in the study (n=40) ranged in agefrom 21 to 35, and most were white, non-Hispanic males from within the state, with nearly halfof them starting as freshman in the ECET program. The cohort included 1 female, 3 African-Americans, 3 Hispanics and 1
preference for visual learning over verbal learning [3, 4]. Charts,graphs, videos, and other graphics work much better for engineering students than text-based orlecture-based aids. Often students favor active learning techniques. This is especially true forsenior students, who are more likely to be interested in the hands-on applications of the material[4]. Active learning techniques may include activities like laboratory work, working in groups,and playing with ideas [1, 2]. Unfortunately, most classroom environments are passive settingswith students involved mostly in listening—slightly favoring reflective learners, but not stronglyhelping either style [2]. Global learning is also preferred in engineering students [4].Interdisciplinary thinking
controlled to fit within a typically constrained laboratory budget, since thecost of development of a platform for a mobile robot can become fairly expensive as thecomplexity of the sensors and control system are increased, it can reach thousands of dollars. Inour case, early in the development process, this was a limitation that we had to work with. First,we try to establish which would be the best approach to follow in order to keep the cost of therobotic platform within the limits of the budget assigned to this class. Next, in order to reduce theimplementation costs we decided to use as many devices and systems that we already hadavailable in our labs, such as sensors, electronic devices, laptops, microcontroller cards andsimulators, programming
hold until the basic system is released. We invite collaboration with other studentsand institutions to move the project forward.For more information regarding the battery cycler project visit the project’s Google code website(http://code.google.com/p/battery-cycler/). This website contains project documentation as wellas contact information for current project members. If you would like to contribute, contact:Dr. Clark Hochgrafcghiee@rit.eduReferences 1. IEEE-USA. "National Energy Policy Recommendations." (February 2010): 10-11. Web. 2. Battery Test Manual For Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles. Idaho National Laboratory, INL/EXT-07-12536, March 2008. Web
from real-world laboratory experiences. The MS degree program in the School ofTechnology offers applied job-related skills and professional growth opportunities that makestudents very appealing to future employers1. This degree requires that all students conduct adirected project as a requirement for graduation. The directed project is an applied researchproject that is more extensive and sophisticated than a graduate-level independent study and lessformal than a master’s thesis. The overall objective of the requirement is to engage each graduatestudent in a study, typically industry or business focused, which is sufficiently involved as torequire more than one semester to conceive, conduct, and report. The focus is to be placed on atopic with
. elements, for purposes of analysis tackling technical problems. a solution. quantify their significance to the and wide-ranging and conflicting or design. conclusions drawn. technical and non-technical factors. Ability to perform research and Proficiency in a range of laboratory Ability to make appropriate
), 339.2. Heller, R. S., Beil, C., Dam, K., & Haerum, B. (2010). Student and Faculty Perceptions of Engagement in Engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 99(3), 253-261.3. Lin, C., & Tsai, C. (2009). The relationship between students' conceptions of learning engineering and their preferences for classroom and laboratory learning environments. Journal of Engineering Education, 98, 193- 204.4. Prince, M
standing prior to beginning the races. The Page 22.991.12times that each team records on their drag and road race heats are announced, but they are onlyrecorded by the race judge. At the end of the road race heats, the final tallies are made, winnersannounced, and prizes awarded.Delivery MethodsSeveral different venues have been used to facilitate workshops and other events using the Krisysplatform. The mechanical, hardware and software development support required for completingall aspects of the Krisys workshop lend themselves best to offering workshops on the TexasA&M campus using EET/TET laboratory resources. These include, but are not
Option 2 Homework 10% Homework 10% Laboratory 30% Laboratory 30% Exams (5) 60% Exams (4) 30% Final Exam 30%students to copy displayed figures or procedures. For difficult concepts or higher levels ofcognition—analysis, evaluation, or design—gaps are left on the handout (hence the name) toallow open investigation rather than “spoon-feeding” of information. 9From the workshop’s comparison of the diverse learning styles, the author implemented anadditional assessment option for global learners. Understanding that “global” learners absorbinformation more randomly 7 and need the
in Table 1). Fincher7offers three guiding principles for dissemination and a hierarchy of types of dissemination.Based on the need to improve the evaluation and dissemination/diffusion plans in NSF proposalsto develop innovations in engineering education, a proposal to hold a workshop on these topicswas submitted to the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) under the Course, Curriculum,and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program. The ultimate goal of the project was to create adocument that would assist engineering educators in writing effective plans for their proposals toNSF. This paper documents events of that workshop and the resulting outcomes
of configuration management and configurationcontrol as practiced in spacecraft systems management. Configuration management is a processthat makes people involved in changing a design of a spacecraft aware of what this change isgoing to affect and what its consequences are. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory over time learnedby experience the typical profile of engineering changes and, consequently, how better to predictcost and schedule17
collaborative NSF-funded Gender in Science and Engineering project investigating persistence of women in engineering undergraduate programs. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors Laboratories, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and SPAWAR Systems Center. She served as the President of the IEEE Education Society in 2009 and 2010.Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette Matthew W. Ohland is Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has de- grees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active
Hassan, Universiti Teknologi MalaysiaMohammad Zamry Jamaludin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Mohammad Zamry is a tutor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Engineer- ing,Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), since 2007. He is one of the class facilitators for a third-year chemical engineering course, Process Control and Dynamics, that employs cooperative problem-based learning (CPBL) as the teaching and learning methodology. He also implements CPBL lab for Process Control Laboratory, a lab course for the final year students. Mohammad Zamry is an active member of engineering education research team in UTM. The team is now very progressive in doing research re- lated to cooperative
AC 2011-2181: RE-DESIGNING CAPSTONE DESIGN: TWO YEARS OFEXPERIENCECameron J Turner, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Cameron Turner is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines where he runs the Design Innovation and Computational Engineering Laboratory. At CSM he teaches undergradu- ate and graduate courses in engineering design and is a member of the Senior Design Leadership group. Dr. Turner is currently the course coordinator for the Engineering Capstone Design program and is active in the Computers and Information in Engineering Division of ASME. Page 22.1213.1
student acquisition of data in physics learning cycles. J. Res.Sci. Teach. 1985, 22 (4), 303-25.22. Hall, D. A.; McCurdy, D. W., A comparison of a biological sciences curriculum study (bscs) laboratory anda traditional laboratory on student achievement at two private liberal arts colleges. J. Res. Sci. Teach. 1990, 27 (7),625-36.23. Renner, J. W.; Paske, W. C., Comparing two forms of instruction in college physics. American Journal ofPhysics 1977, 45 (9), 851-859.24. Spencer, J. N., New directions in teaching chemistry: A philosophical and pedagogical basis. J. Chem.Educ. 1999, 76 (4), 566-569.25. Hanson, D.; Wolfskill, T., Process workshops - a new model for instruction. J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77 (1),120-130.26
software‘s capabilities as well as applications of thesoftware.4.5.7 Structure of the open source SDR/CR community and participants’ involvementOpen source projects develop a wide range of software and can be organized in various ways.Some software projects are largely efforts of corporations, such as OpenOffice.org, led byOracle. Non-profit organizations also host projects, such as Firefox from Mozilla. Other projectsare based at universities, small businesses, or government laboratories. The degree ofcommunity participation varies from project to project; some projects are primarily efforts of a Page 22.1548.13single organization, while others draw