worked for 16 years as a software engineer and developed systems for such industries as banking, telecom- munications, publishing, healthcare, athletic recruiting, retail, and pharmaceutical sales.Teresa A. Shanklin, Purdue University Teresa A. Shanklin has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and graduated from Iowa State University with a Masters Degree in Information Assurance. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University in the College of Technology, where she is a research assistant in the Machine-to-machine (M2M) lab. Her research interests lie in the areas of indoor positioning and path planning, mobile devices and multi-agent systems
the need for, and an ability to engage in, life-long learning(j) Knowledge of contemporary issues(k) An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice3Our Response This paper proposes that engineering education will, because of logical and competitivefactors, be drawn to a strategic plan for ideal engineering professional preparation. Thatpreparation will include the goal of a student having a right job when they graduate. Moreover,it will include exposure to the professional requirements of an on-the-job engineer. Goingforward, this paper emphasizes the need for high-quality technical coursework, and then expandsto a proposed strategy for students to not only land the
committee and the Urban Landscape Committee. She is a founding member and close collaborator to Montral’s First Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development.MARC ANDRE PLASSE, naturehumaine Marc-Andr Plasse obtained his undergraduate degree in Architecture with honours at McGill University in 1997. After working for several architecture firms in Montral, he established his own architectural and design firm naturehumaine in 2003. Closely involved in the academic milieu, he has been lecturing at the Universit de Montral since 2007. In the fall of 2009, he began supervising Architecture students involved in the ING4901 - Sustainable Development Capstone Project course.Erik Belanger, coel Polytechnique de Montral Erik
. [Local tuition waived due to Erasmus agreements] Page 22.1416.3 Figure 1. Student Flow in the Concurrent Master’s Degree ProjectBecause students will enter the concurrent degree program with a variety of personalgoals and backgrounds, students’ plans of study will be tailored to the intersection of theprogram goals with the specific goals of each student. This is to be accomplished by afaculty committee consisting of two Purdue and two European faculty. To gain moresynergy from the partnership and also to eliminate duplication of effort and experienceacross the Atlantic, the project
-credit course offered in beginning of the second year of the MID program duringthe residency week. It is designed as a weeklong intensive course in which the students work onit from Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Figure 1 depicts the design and scheduleof the course. FRIDAY FINAL PRESENTATION ¾ RESULTS PRESENTATION ¾ CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT PROCESS IDENTIFIED THURSDAY MONDAY IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
of curriculum resources, and undergraduateresearch exchanges, we aim to increase the transition of students from two-year to four-yearprograms. Our aim is not to take away from students attending or planning to attend communitycollege but rather to improve curriculum for students in both two- and four-year programs and tomake pathways clear and easy for those who do wish to continue their technology education pasttheir two-year degree. I. IntroductionAlthough most traditional electrical and computer engineering programs have updated theircurriculum to include topics in hardware description language and programmable logic design(FPGA/CPLD), only 19.5 % of 4-year and 16.5 % of 2-year electrical and computer engineeringtechnology programs at
workshops and training courses were oncelooked at as things engineers did after getting a job, it may be time to fully embrace theseactivities before graduation. While some topics such as LEED and Revit cannot be easily fit intoan engineering curriculum, they can be pursued outside the traditional curriculum classroom.Continuing education after graduation and hire should also be expected and actively planned for.There are many resources available to new engineers; from ASHRAE publications andhandbooks, workshops, to equipment catalogs and code books. However, for young engineersthe requirement of time and motivation to continually study and keep up to date can be aproblem.12V. Description of One ApproachAt Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU
visibility for critical activities has helped substantially expand studentparticipation in these activities, and in turn improve student success and graduation rates. Effortsto accomplish this visibility have included introduction of the Blueprint at both student andparent orientations, extensive use by advising centers across the university, and publication ofthe Blueprint in student guides.7 This effort has also been supplemented by the softwareplatforms MyPath and MapWorks that provide student planning support throughout everystudent’s academic career.Example Enhancement / Expansion Element – Experiential LearningGVSU has a strong record of experiential learning. Typically, 45 – 48% of juniors and seniorsenrolled in credit bearing experiential
school teachers were developed. These modulesgive teachers and advisors the information they need to successfully present to their students thenecessary scientific and engineering concepts. Note that this curriculum in not plans explaininghow to build and underwater ROV, but rather, modules that relate hands-on learning activities topertinent scientific and engineering concepts.Development ProcessThe first step in the curriculum development was to identify the scientific and engineeringconcepts that needed to be taught or reinforced. To do this, a committee consisting of facultymembers, working with educators familiar with the needs and capabilities of middle and highschool students and teachers, developed a list of topics. This list included
composition, disciplinary diversity seems to be associated with lower levels of improvement in individual CDTL efficacy, while gender diversity has a marginally significant positive association with improvement in CDTL efficacy. c. Finally, individuals working in teams with higher levels of intra-team learning behaviors reported higher levels of improvement.The above results are tentative as we have a fairly small sample size: 112 individuals nestedwithin 31 teams. In addition to increasing sample size, we plan to link CDTL efficacy toimportant individual and team outcomes with a view to assess the extent to which CDTLefficacy matters within multidisciplinary teams.Furthermore, a 20-item Cross
. Function Structure Diagrams 6. Concept Generation 7. Estimation and Feasibility 8. Concept Selection 9. Project Planning 10. Math Modeling 11. Prototyping Strategy 12. Tolerance Analysis 13. Intellectual Property and PatentsMethodologyFor this study the CATME survey was administered in the middle of the semester and again atthe end of the semester. After the students received feedback from first survey, they were askedto compare their scoring of themselves to the scores they received from their teammates andformulate a plan to improve. Finally the students were surveyed at the end of the semester aboutthe
transportation workforce to meet the needs andchallenges of the future 1,2,3. For this, it is imperative to attract students at the middle and highschool grade levels to STEM disciplines. This is a challenge based on a number of factorsincluding competing opportunities, perceptions about the industry, and career opportunities 4.Addressing this challenge also requires overcoming the communication gap betweentransportation practitioners and individuals in this age group (i.e., teenagers). This paper presentsefforts to develop Go!, a free online magazine, to address this need, and a preliminary evaluationof its effectiveness. Also included are plans to build on these efforts to enhance the reach andimpacts of the magazine.Background: Declining
Nanotechnology Fundamentals Lab for Engineering StudentsAbstractNanotechnology findings and products have exponentially increased in the last decade withoutany parallel development in workforce to support this increase. The gap between supply ofskilled workforce and demand in nanotechnology is expected to continue in growth for a while.This paper describes efforts to help in bridging this void of workforce through the developmentand implementation of a comprehensive lab component for educating an interdisciplinary classof engineering and science students at the junior level. The course is introduced as part of alarger plan to bring nanotechnology into undergraduate education. The approach followed in thislab development is unique since it aims at
activities were supported by the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) grant,provided by TAMUK, to improve student success and learning through civic, professional, orresearch engagement at the course level. The questions for the course survey in Table I wereprepared by the QEP planning committee and the office of institutional planning and assessmentat TAMUK.Table I. The Final Course Survey Part ICompared to other courses you have taken or are currently taking, indicate how this course hasaffected you with regard to the following attributes Question Questions Level No. Q1 Mastery of the general education curriculum 1 2 3 4 5 Q2 Mastery of
AC 2011-1158: HANDS-ON MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING EDUCA-TION, AN ANALYTICAL STUDYSabah Razouk Abro, Laurence Tecnological University, Department of Engineering Tecnology Dr. Sabah Abro is an internationally educated math professor and program Director at Lawrence Tech- nological University. He graduated with a Bachelor degree from the University of Baghdad, pursued a post graduate diploma in planning from the United Nations institute in the middle east, Went to Wales in the United kingdom to get his Masters degree and then to Belgium for his Ph.D. He has also international work experience; he served as Faculty at Al Mustansiria University in Baghdad, a regional consultant at the Arab Institute for Statistics, a
institutional type (community colleges, liberal artscolleges, research universities, etc.). Faculty roles and responsibilities, the academic job searchand hiring process, promotion and tenure, diversity in academia, disciplinary paradigms andassessment, are the topics discussed within the five contexts of teaching, research, service,faculty development, and balancing academic and personal life. GRAD 59000 is posted to theacademic transcript and cannot be used to fulfill Plan of Study requirements.(2) Professional development workshops. Based on a building block framework, each buildingblock is composed of a student learning outcome, content supporting the learning outcome, agroup activity to engrain the content, a self-reflection activity to facilitate
AC 2011-355: IMPLEMENTING THE MASTERS FOR ENGINEERINGPROFESSIONALS DEGREE AT NJITStephen J. Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology Page 22.825.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Implementing the Master’s for Engineering Professionals Degree at NJITAbstract This paper reports on a plan for implementing a Master’s for Engineering Professionals atNew Jersey Institute of Technology. The Master’s for Engineering Professionals is intended forthe early career development of engineers in industry. It teaches the skill sets and abilitiesrequired of these
defines as,“Active learning is anything course-related that all students in a class session are calledupon to do other than simply watching, listening and taking notes.” He does not proposeto entirely eliminate the act of lecturing, however highly encourages that active learningbe incorporated into the classroom experience. He proposes that teachers engagestudents in relevant activities involving problem solving that last 30 seconds to a minute.One of the things he suggests that the instructor do is have the students explain a complexconcept in terms a high school student could understand. [2] This lends itself well tosupport the objective of the Lesson Plan project whose underlying goal is to teach theconcept by forcing the student to teach the
Page 22.1145.4 FIGURE 2IMAGES FROM PRECEDENT ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT FIGURE 3IMAGES FROM PRECEDENT ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT Page 22.1145.5The second assignment was site analysis. In engineering courses all too often the contextof a problem right down to the boundary conditions is given to students. In thisassignment the students had to pick a site and figure out the constraints and conditions itpresented by themselves. At this point the students formed into six groups of three. Mostgroups chose a site they had some familiarity with, either from their hometowns, a citythey had visited, or a site they had used in a previous design studio project. The reportcreated included: a plan
American Institute of Architects (AIA). Invite professionals to campus to discuss the CM industry.ObjectiveWe hope to develop three track options for our AET students within a program accredited byboth the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and the NationalArchitectural Accreditation Board (NAAB). The three tracks would include a General Studies(GS) Track, a Construction Management (CM) Track and an Architectural Design (AD) Track.Our approach has always been to prepare our students for all aspects of the construction industry.We plan to continue this, but add an emphasis on specific aspects of the construction industry tobetter prepare our graduates for a very competitive industry.The CM track is an intensive track
. Another goal of the NSF Student Enrollment andEngagement through Connections (SEEC) grant is to increase the diversity ofengineering graduates at ISU. The specific goals of SEEC are to increase thenumber of engineering graduates by 100 per year to obtain a total of about 900per year with approximately 10% from minorities and 20% females12. The key tomeeting these goals is the creation of meaningful connections between ISU andthe state community colleges to support transfer students. This project has focusedon five such connections: 1) a new admission partnership program, 2) coordinatedadvising and activities planning, 3) expansion of learning communities at ISU andstate community colleges, 4) creation of an engineering orientation class at
engineers.Staging the eventThe venueIn planning the Freshman Career Exploration Evening, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Page 22.768.4Career Center had to consider a venue that would serve up to 1,100 freshman students, as manyas 100 industry representatives, the engineering administrators who were key to drawingindustry, and the various faculty who would drop in on the event. In researching appropriatevenues, the Career Center found a venue just off-campus and within easy walking distance fromthe Engineering Residential Community. The venue was a converted theater complex thatprovided numerous rooms, lobby spaces, and auditoriums. Despite the
with the biomedical engineering program at WesternNew England College before and after the program. It is clear that the objective to introduce thehigh school students to the educational opportunities available within the biomedical engineeringprogram at Western New England College was met (p = 1 x 10-10). It is assumed that theparticipants’ impressions of the biomedical engineering program at Western New EnglandCollege were favorable as 9 listed the institution as a college to which they plan to apply on thepre-program survey while 12 listed it on the post-program survey. * Figure 4: Participant familiarity (Likert scale 0-4) with biomedical engineering program at
have been developed that reliably project the growth, diffusion,and performance of technology in time, including projecting technology substitutions, saturationlevels, and performance improvements. These forecasts can be applied at any stage of atechnology lifecycle to better predict future technology performance, assess the impact oftechnological change, and improve technology planning and investment. Knowledge of suchmeans to understand and project paths of technology and innovation and related social changeswould constitute important content in a technology literacy program.Often what is published as a technology forecast is simply scenario planning, usually made byextrapolating current trends into the future, with perhaps some subjective
and 2007, respectively. From 1993 to 1997, he worked for Telefnica of Argentina for four years designing and planning telephony outside plant net- works. Then he worked for five years for Lucent Technologies Power Systems (later Tyco Electronics Power Systems) as a Technical Support Engineer and Sales Technical Consultant in Latin America. For three years, he was also a part-time instructor in charge of ITBA’s telecommunications laboratory. He is currently and Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and his research interests include power electronics, distributed generation, renewable and alternative energy, and analysis of the impact of
laboratory activity list, a four-week Temperature Alarm project was planned, Page 22.1630.5 where students were required to linearize an amplification circuit for a thermistor-based temperature sensor, a comparison circuit that compares the signal with reference voltagescorresponding to prescribed upper and lower temperature limits, and an alarming circuitthat issues an alert when the temperature is beyond the range. This project required manycalculations/derivations to select the appropriate resistance values before students couldstart building circuits. Circuit-building assignments consequently could not beaccomplished
UPP to engage students in more interesting and interactiveways, such as planning a campus-wide library campaign. After the IEEE UPP launch, theconnection between the library and the Peking IEEE Student Branch was officially initiated. Thelibrarians, the SB and the author had several kick-off meetings and decided the SB would play amajor role throughout the campaign.The library campaign, under the theme of “Robots, Us”, aimed to make advanced technologiesand developments understandable for everyone, not just science and engineering students. Thegoal was to attract more users into the library, thus promoting library resources and serviceseffectively. The event was planned in three phases: exhibition, interaction and presentation.About 20
activities. In a recent study of a summer program using LEGO Page 22.1024.3MINDSTORMS robotics, 10- to 13-year old students built submersible boats over 3.5hours at a summer camp5. Many students let the materials drive their progress andengaged in trial and error designs, becoming frustrated during the process. Some studentsstayed within the problem but spent time planning and were able to generate designs.Some students spent time planning and worked towards extravagant designs, and weredriven by creating designs that somehow outperformed others’ designs. One student spenttoo much time in planning and was not able to engage in the evaluation aspects of
AC 2011-1305: STUDENT REACTIONS TO ELECTRONIC LEARNINGMODULES IN BMERobert A. Linsenmeier, Northwestern University Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology & Physiology. Director, Northwestern Center for Engineering Education ResearchMelvin Andrew McElrath, Marquette University I am a fourth year biomedical engineering student with an emphasis in biomechanics at Marquette Uni- versity. I spent this summer working under Professor Robert Linsenmeier data mining and investigating student reactions to CAPE modules. I have future plans to go on to graduate school and pursue my doctoral degree.Wendy Murray, Northwestern UniversityLaura M. Haugh-Scheidt, Northwestern University
connected to the subject matter that students are expected to acquire and retain. Thechallenges for university faculty to undertake changes in their syllabi (i.e. curriculum) andinstructional methodologies are very similar to those faced by K-12 teachers working toward thealignment of their curriculum and instruction with state content standards and indicators ofacademic progress 2. University faculty will need to realize that, as K-12 teachers have modifiedtheir teaching practice and lesson planning, faculty will also need to change their practice to meetaccreditation expectations. Page 22.1332.2An informative parallel exists between the attitudes