automatically engage or releaseselected constraints at the instant the students’ equations were satisfied. In the end, achieving Page 22.717.6goals within the game required brains rather than super-human reflexes.Preliminary ResultsIn the Fall of 2010, all 39 students who took the engineering dynamics course at NIU describedthe final game-based project, as “very challenging.” Nonetheless, all but two of the students wereable to successfully complete the challenge and write a report providing sufficient technicaldetail to give me confidence that they understood the necessary dynamics to complete the game’stask.As a more objective measure of student
AC 2011-1396: ATTRIBUTES OF SUCCESS FOR ENGINEERING PH.D.S:PERSPECTIVES FROM ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRYMonica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monica F. Cox, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity. She obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Pri- mary research projects explore the preparation of
. Anecdotallywe also observe that the minimal exposure to the formal study of leadership that we are able togive the students in this course leads many of them to take more extensive course on leadershipin their later years of schooling.In addition to the lectures, we assigned team projects as a method by which to actively developleadership and collaborative skills. In addition to developing the characteristics enumeratedabove, group work helps cultivate leadership skills by making it expedient to identify and utilizethe strengths of the team members—a key attribute of a leader.The first team project given the students in the classroom is to research the places (including thetowns, cultural sites, prices, currency, the industries to be visited and the
participated in these sessions. All of the averageassessment scores by session or short course for all four questions exceeded the good criteria andapproached the excellent category. Since an overall average of 5 for excellent is highly unlikely,average scores of 4.56 and above along with a total average score of 4.67 is very good. It reflectsthat this project promoting technological literacy is meeting its objectives and succeeding.The evaluation tool also offered the opportunity for inputting comments on the session or shortcourse. A number of pertinent comments were received offering further insight into the way thesessions were held, material covered, and possible ways to make improvements. These included: 1. The course was widely informative
, and the Director of the Center for Assessment in STEM at the Colorado School of Mines and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. Her research interests are educational project assessment and evaluation, K-12 Outreach and gender equity in STEM. Page 22.410.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Curricular Exchange between a STEM University and a Rural Elementary School: The Establishment of an Interactive Video Link As part of an educational partnership between a university andan elementary school, an interactive
lead author of the recently published first year text: Engineering Your Future: An Australasian Guide. Professor Dowling is currently leading two major research projects: A study of engineering technician education in Australia, which was funded by a USQ Senior Fellowship; and The Define Your Discipline Project, an ALTC funded project that aims to develop a process that can be used by a discipline to de- velop detailed graduate outcomes for that discipline. During 2010 the project team has been working with industry and university stakeholders across Australia to develop a national set of graduate outcomes for environmental engineering programs
3taking some higher-level courses that focused on green energy). Meanwhile, they may find thatgreen energy manufacturing is a very good topic for their course projects and research.3. Included contents on green energy manufacturing3.1 Overview of energy consumption in the U.S.An overview of energy consumption in the U.S. and the world was presented to provide somebackground to the students. Different types of energy sources were introduced, especially fossilfuels and green energy sources. A comparison of the consumption between fossil fuels and greenenergy sources was made to show that the predominant energy source in the U.S. and the worldat present is fossil fuel.Some major challenges related to energy were explained, such as increasing energy
AC 2011-2844: INFLUENCING THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS OF UNDER-GRADUATE FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH A LIV-ING LEARNING COMMUNITYJacqueline Q. Hodge, Texas A&M University Jacqueline Hodge is a native of Giddings, Texas and currently the Project Manager for the Engineering Student Services & Academic Programs Office (ESSAP) at Texas A&M University (TAMU). In her cur- rent position, Jacqueline is responsible for Retention and Enrichment Programs for engineering students. Jacqueline graduated from TAMU with a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. While obtaining her degree, Jacqueline was involved with several community service activities such as the Boys & Girls Club of Bryan, Help
education, approached from the perspective of Human Constructivism. She has been involved in collabo- rative research projects focused on conceptual learning in chemistry, seismology, and chemical engineer- ing.Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Ronald L. Miller is professor of chemical engineering and Director of the Center for Engineering Ed- ucation at the Colorado School of Mines where he has taught chemical engineering and interdisciplinary courses and conducted engineering education research for the past 25 years. Dr. Miller has received three university-wide teaching awards and has held a Jenni teaching fellowship at CSM. He has received grant awards for education research from the National Science
conduct market analysis and focus groups, the ability to guide product design - including visual design, branding, and so forth; • Business expertise: a student able to identify and anticipate market trends based on sales growth and industry patterns, conduct sales projections, provide project schedule oversight and coordination of team activities; and • Communication expertise: an individual with knowledge of public relations, graphic design, and the ability to prepare and
technology de- velopment projects while researching innovative and interactive techniques for assisting teachers with performing engineering education and communicating robotics concepts to students spanning the K-12 through university age range. Page 22.911.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Integrating NASA Science and Engineering: Using an Innovative Software Curriculum Delivery Tool to Create a NASA-Based CurriculumDuring the spring of 2010, a team at Tufts University collaborated with a team from theMcAuliffe Center at Framingham
Department. The initial target audience isfirst-year electrical and computer engineering majors and undergraduate music majors, althoughthe course will have neither math nor music prerequisites and can be taken by any student on theRowan University campus. The course will treat the title-topics from a holistic perspective asboth a systems-engineering project and a music-composition project. A syllabus for the currentoffering of the course is shown in Table 3. Table 3: Course Syllabus SIGNALS, SYSTEMS & MUSIC SYLLABUSSESSION TOPICS LABORATORY 1 History of Electronic Music & Music Theory Demonstration Units 1-4
Professor at the University of Missouri in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. She is Director of Research of the NSF-funded Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) and Assessing Women in Student Environments (AWISE) projects, and a co-principal investigator for the National Girls Collaborative project. Dr. Marra teaches course on assessment, evaluation and the design and implementation of effective online learning experiences.Lisa R. Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkKatie L. Piacentini, University of Missouri - ColumbiaMr. David B Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park David Knight is a PhD candidate in the Higher Education Program at Pennsylvania State
engineers. According to the National Science Foundation (NSF), “growth inscience and engineering jobs will outpace job growth in other fields, with projected increases by2012 of 26% and 15%, respectively”2. Fulfilling this need remains at the hands of institutions ofhigher education. Their challenge is to recruit and educate a population whose interest in theSTEM disciplines has steadily declined over the years. There are two ways institutions of higher education can keep up with the demand formore engineers. One solution lies in the recruitment and retention of women and students ofcolor; populations that have been largely underrepresented in science and engineering relatedfields 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In the year 2000 minorities
technology, games have come a long way to be much more thanvisualization. They are interactions within immersive digital worlds that promote learningthrough authentic and engaging play. Since many of today’s students have grown up with gamesof ever increasing sophistication, infusing out-of-school literacy into a classroom settingbecomes extremely important.Motivated by these remarks, this project, as part of an NSF-IEECI grant, investigates a non-intrusive approach that infuses metacognitive strategies into fully packed ECE curricula atRowan and Tennessee State University (TSU). In particular, the pilot study designs theme-basedgames that feature metacognitive strategies and ECE fundamentals in real engineering problem-solving to replace the
and our solarsystem. The visualization tool will use stereographic projection. This interactive simulation willallow a user to navigate through the local group of galaxies, looking at various galaxies in thegroup, navigating from one galaxy to another and measuring the distance between galaxies. Thesystem will also allow the user to navigate in a visualization of our solar system and view all theplanets that revolve around our sun. The objects in this system are rendered to scale in order forstudents to understand the large variation in sizes of objects found in the universe and to helpthem comprehend the velocity required to travel through space, the distance between twoplanets, two stars or even two galaxies.Upon completion of the
construction safety professionals? Question 2. - Does your company employ full time safety professionals for the majority of your projects?Question 3. - When hiring a safety professional do you prefer to place a current employee in the safety professional position or hire a new employee to fill the position as a safety professional?Question 4. - When considering an applicant for a position as a safety professional, which is considered more valuable, construction experience or formal education (i.e. college degree
students may use computer microphones/speakers/headphones or a Page 22.1151.6 phone line for real-time live communication. The students listen and view a presentation online. There can be web-cameras showing students and/or instructor presenting. • Mixed Online Teaching: This method mixes Asynchronous with several Synchronous learning components to deliver the lectures. e.g. instructor conducts a live web session at the beginning of the semester to get to know the students and their expectations better, and during the last class students present term projects
4ENGL Literature 3 CET 3321 – Transportation Systems 4ARTS 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 or CET 3324 – Project Cost Analysis 4 FREN, GER, SPAN 1002 3 CET 3343 – Fluid Mechanics 4 CET 3344 – Fundamentals of Environmental Eng. Tech. 4Area D. Science, Math, Technology (11 hr.) CET 3371 – Steel Design or CET 3381 Reinforced Concrete Design 32 BIOL 2107 k or 21O8 k, or CET
Diego Gas & Electric, APD Semiconductor, Diodes Inc., Partoe Inc., and Enerpro,Dale S.L. Dolan, California Polytechnic State University Dale S.L. Dolan is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cal Poly with experience in renew- able energy projects, education, power electronics and advanced motor drives. He received his BSc in Zoology in 1995 and BEd in 1997 from the University of Western Ontario. He received the BASc in Elec- trical Engineering in 2003, MASc. in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2009 all from the University of Toronto. He is past chair of Windy Hills Caledon Renewable Energy, past chair of the OSEA (Ontario Sustainable Energy Association) Board and was
microfluidic module willdemonstrate routing of fluidics on the micrometer channel scale – this is a common applicationin biomedical fields. Every student will be exposed to all of these fields, leading to a broad, Page 22.683.2deep, and detailed educational experience. An example of the transistor fabrication project isillustrated in Figure 1.Transistor Fabrication Experimental Module In this module the students fabricate a thin film transistor (TFT). A TFT is a type offield–effect transistor made by depositing thin layers of a semiconductor, a dielectric andmetallic contacts. This differs from traditional transistors that use the substrate as
. Page 22.693.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Extending Information on Time Effective Student Interactions to Engineering FacultyAbstractThe College of Engineering at The Ohio State University is one of ten initial institutionscurrently collaborating in an NSF funded Extension Services project entitled ENGAGE(Engaging Students in Engineering) (www.EngageEngineering.org). The main thrusts of theENGAGE Project are to encourage the implementation of research-proven techniques that havebeen shown to improve retention of undergraduates in engineering programs. One of the threethrusts is to introduce faculty to techniques for student interactions which are both effective
Quality Inspection- Reverse Engineering ApproachAbstract The objective of this paper is to implement a reverse engineering process to inspect thegeometry of a flow meter rotor and make recommendations to improve the performance of therotor. The process includes utilizing a laser scanner arm and Geomagic software to generate athree-dimensional (3D) computer model of the flow meter rotor and compare it with the originalComputer Aided Drafting (CAD) model to check for any discrepancies and makerecommendations to improve the performance of the rotor. In this project, the laser scanner andGeomagic software create a 3D computer model of the rotor which is used as the basic model toanalyze and optimize the rotor. The
the College of Optics and Photonics. She holds a B.A. in Mathematics Education from the University of North Carolina, M.S. in Mathematical Science from the University of Central Florida, and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. In 1997 she joined the faculty at UCF where she conducts research in the area of atmospheric effects on laser propagation. She has worked on laser satellite communication projects and laser radar projects for the Boeing Company, the US Navy, and the US Air Force. In 2001 Dr. Young was the recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled ”Turbulence Effects on Lidar
AC 2011-1070: A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR REMOTE LABORATORYEXPERIMENTSClaudio Olmi, University of Houston Claudio Olmi is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Houston. He received his B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from the University of Houston. He specializes in System Integration of hybrid Mechanical and Electrical systems with focus on Software Programming, Analog and Digital Hardware Design, Internet Technologies for Remote Operations, Dig- ital Controls, and NI LabVIEW Programming. Olmi worked in projects using Smart Materials applied to Civil and Mechanical Structures for in laboratory and remote operations from where he published 2 journal papers
microcontroller extension. Results from student homework assignments indicate that theyare able to successfully design modifications to the processor and demonstrate their function viasimulation. The project continues to achieve its goal as a valuable instructional tool.IntroductionTeaching Advanced Digital Systems involves use of many design examples including counters,registers, arithmetic logic units, and memory. The design of a computer processor combinesthese components into an integrated digital system. Most modern commercial microprocessorsare too complex to be used as an introductory example of processor design. Hardwaredescription language models of these processors exist, but are often ad hoc and don't divide thearchitecture into teachable
AC 2011-2916: GENDER SCHEMAS, PRIVILEGE, MICRO-MESSAGING,AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION: PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM THE-ORYYevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Yevgeniya V. Zastavker is an Associate Professor of Physics at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Her research interests lie at the intersection of project-based learning and gender studies with specific emphasis on the curricula and pedagogies implemented in the first-year engineering programs.Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Debbie Chachra is an Associate Professor of Materials Science at Olin College, where she has been in- volved in the development and evolution of the engineering curriculum since she joined the
AC 2011-1013: HEV GREEN MOBILITY LABORATORYMark G. Thompson, Kettering University Dr. Mark G. Thompson is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Kettering University. He teaches in the areas of electronic design and automotive electronic control. He has been involved in many alternative energy and alternative fueled vehicle research projects including development of power electronic and control interfaces for photovoltaic arrays, hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles.Craig J. Hoff, Kettering University Dr. Craig J. Hoff is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University. He teaches in the areas of thermal design, mechanical design, and automotive engineering. His research focuses on
AC 2011-2247: INCREASING STEM ACCESSIBILITY FOR STUDENTSWITH COGNITIVE DISABILITIES VIA INTERACTIVE CURRICULUMEthan E Danahy, Tufts University Ethan Danahy received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007, all at Tufts University, Medford, MA. Within the School of Engineering at Tufts University, he is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Depart- ment of Computer Science. Additionally, he acts as the Engineering Research Program Director at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), where he manages educational technology de- velopment projects while researching innovative and interactive techniques
AC 2011-1290: INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER AND RACE IN ENGI-NEERING EDUCATIONElizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler is the Director for Research at the UW Center for Workforce Development (CWD). Her research interests include the educational climate for undergraduate and graduate students and gender stratification in education and the workforce. As the Director for Research at CWD, Liz is the Research Manager for the Sloan-funded Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE). She is external evalu- ator for NCWIT and NCWIT-Extension Services for Undergraduate Programs and the NSF ADVANCE program at UW. She is a member of the American Sociological Association, the American Society for