papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his areas of the research interests. He has also been PI or co-PI for various research projects United States and abroad in power systems analysis and protection, load and energy demand forecasting and analysis, renewable energy analysis, assessment and design, turbulence and wave propagation, radar and remote sensing, instrumentation, atmosphere physics, electromagnetic compatibility, and engineering education.Dr. Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel UniversityMr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric Carr is currently the Laboratory Technician for Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program. Eric assists faculty members with the development and
textbooks as correct scientific concepts. This issue raises two major questions: (1) the quality of science textbooks written for novice youth audiences, and (2) the professional preparedness of instructors teaching about natural phenomena and science in K-12 and beyond.Misconceptions about electricityThe concept of electricity is usually difficult to understand because of human inability to observeit directly [13]. Numerous research studies diagnosed common student misconceptions in thisfield. Some studies [20], [12], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25] detected the following: Beliefs that a battery is a source of constant current. This is perhaps the most pervasive and persistent difficulty that students have with DC circuits; Failure
Paper ID #7491Going big: scaling up international engineering education to whole collegeinitiativesDr. Eck Doerry, Northern Arizona University Eck Doerry is an associate professor in Computer Science at Northern Arizona University. His re- search interests fall mainly within the areas of Groupware Systems, focusing on computer support for widely-distributed research and learning communities; and in Engineering Pedagogy, focusing on inter- disciplinary and international teaming approaches to teaching engineering design. Internationalization of engineering education has been a particular passion for Dr. Doerry. He has been
military. He is a hands-on manufacturing expert who has worked in several areas of engineering, manufacturing, and technical management including research, design, and production of mechanical, electronic, and electromechanical systems. Recognized trainer and resource person in the fields of CAD/CAM/CIM, Robotics and Automation, Machine vision, ISO 9000 and Lean Six Sigma. He has published several papers, in these areas, in various national & international conferences and journals. He has won several teaching awards including the academic excellence award, NISOD 2008, from the University of Texas at Austin
the other hand,laboratory courses and engineering design courses are often used to teach communication andteamwork skills 1. Typical communication skills include, but are not limited to, maintaininglab/design notebooks, writing technical reports, and oral presentations. A project-based coursemay also include writing a proposal.On-line collaboration tools, also known as groupware, are widely used in many organizations toimprove their productivity and the quality of their products. Currently, Wikipedia includes over95 software tools 2. Types of collaboration tools include bulletin (discussion) boards for threadeddiscussions, public folders for sharing documents, and version control systems for concurrentediting software source codes or CAD
Paper ID #6979Student Attention in Unstructured-Use, Computer-Infused ClassroomsMahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech Jean Mohammadi-Aragh is a Ph.D. candidate and dean’s teaching fellow in Virginia Tech’s Engineer- ing Education Department. Prior to joining the Engineering Education Department, Mohammadi-Aragh earned her B.S. in 2002 and her M.S. in 2004 in Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University. Mohammadi-Aragh was a scientific visualization and virtual reality researcher for the Geosystems Re- search Institute, and outreach coordinator for Mississippi State’s Electrical and Computer Engineering
professors “felt the students were able to demonstrate adeeper understanding for the subject areas than in earlier versions of these courses.”4 Thestudents, while agreeing that their learning was enhanced by the service aspect of their projects,were unsure about the net benefit of participating. Biology students were concerned thatperformance in traditional laboratory courses would be weighed more carefully thanparticipation in S-L courses by graduate schools and employers, and many students worried thatthe perception of a lack of scientific rigor would reflect poorly on them. A barrier to faculty’simplementation of S-L was a resistance to the idea of reflection as a learning or evaluation tool,in spite of its integral nature in the effective
Partnership and the American Society of Civil Engineers including services on the Committee on Critical Infrastructure as well as the American Society of Engineering Education.Johnette C. Shockley, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center Johnnie Shockley is a Civil Engineer/Technology Transfer Officer with the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Office of Technology Transfer out of the ERDC’s executive office located in Ft. Belvoir, Va. Johnnie currently works virtually as the Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA) for the ERDC Cold Regions Research Laboratory in Hanover, NH., and the Topographic Engineering Center, Research
Paper ID #7626Examining the Intersection of Graduate Student Funding, Mentoring andTraining as a Mechanism of Success for Peer Mentors and their MenteesDr. Frances Carter-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Carter-Johnson is responsible for research and evaluation of several undergraduate education ini- tiatives at MIT in her role as a Postdoctoral Associate for Educational Research in the Teaching and Learning Laboratory. She completed her PhD in Public Policy with a concentration in evaluation and an- alytical methods from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. As a result of years of academic and
Editorial Committee. He is IEEE Senior Member, Past Chairman of the Spanish Chapter and, as member of the Board of Governors Committee of the IEEE Education Society, he is currently chair of the Distinguished Lectures Program for the IEEE Education Society and vice chair of the Standards committee.Mr. Jorge A. Lopez-Vargas, Universidad T´ecnica Particular de Loja Engineer and Computer Systems at the Technical University of Loja, Jorge Lopez-Vargas is currently a Ph.D. student in Advanced Technologies in Software Engineering, Distributed Environments and Intel- ligent Systems at the University of Madrid. He earned his diploma in Advanced Studies - DEA (June 2009). Currently Lopez-Vargas is teaching at the School of
) An issue related to the rhetorical literacy skill of clearly stating the purpose and providing an explicit justification for the writing (16% of evaluations) 3) An issue related to the ethical literacy skill of using citations for others’ ideas, including both textual and non-textual materials (36% of evaluations)In 2006, Drury, O’Carroll, and Langrish[8] reported on an interactive online program for teachingreport writing at the University of Sydney. They included in their results the assessment of acohort of third year chemical engineering students’ laboratory reports. This cohort wascomprised of 46 students, 42% of whom were non-native English speakers. Assessment criteriaincluded “academic literacy” based on a
Paper ID #8214Enhancing Retention and Achievement of Undergraduate Engineering Stu-dentsDr. Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati Dr. Anant R. Kukreti, Ph.D., is Director for Engineering Outreach and Professor in the School of En- ergy, Environmental, Biological and Medical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati Ohio, USA. He joined UC on 8/15/00 and before that worked 22 years at University of Oklahoma. He teaches structural mechanics, with research in steel structures, seismic analysis and design, and engineer- ing education. He has won five major university teaching awards, two
Board of Directors in 1996to adopt new standards for accreditation, called Engineering Criteria 2000 or EC2000 whichshifted the basis for accreditation from what was actually being taught in the classroom to whatwas being learned by the students.6 Under Criterion 3, 11 learning outcomes were specified andprograms were required to assess and demonstrate their students’ achievement in each of thoseareas. Among these specified areas was the requirement that students demonstrate “an ability todesign a system, component or process.”7 Universities have adopted capstone design courses toaddress this requirement. Among the modern teaching approaches adopted by some programs isproject based learning (PJBL) which is a student centered approach that
Directorat the Center of Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts University. Hynesreceived his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and his Ph.D. inEngineering Education in 2009 (both degrees at Tufts University). Inhis current positions, Hynes serves as PI and Co-PI on a number offunded research projects investigating engineering education in theK-12 and college settings. He is particularly interested in howstudents and teachers engage in and reflect upon the engi- neering designprocess. His research includes investigating how teachers conceptualizeand teach and how students engage in engineering through in-depth case study analysis
State University. He serves on the advisory board of the Engineering Ambassador Network. With Melissa Marshall and Christine Haas, he teaches advanced presentation skills to Engineering Ambassadors in workshops across the country. Page 23.496.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Engineering Ambassador Network: Establishment of Successful Engineering Ambassador Programs at Four UTC Partner UniversitiesThis paper presents an overview of the establishment of the Engineering AmbassadorProgram at four schools to begin the
Paper ID #6758”The Influence of Culture, Process, Leadership and Workspace on ”Dr. Leo E. Hanifin, University of Detroit Mercy Dr. Leo Hanifin is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy, and has been the PI of UDM KEEN Entrepreneurship Grants for over five years, studying innovation and entrepreneur- ship. He was Dean of the College of Engineering and Science at UDM for the past 21 years August 2012.Dr. Ross A. Lee, Villanova University Ross Lee is a professor at Villanova University where he teaches Engineering Entrepreneurship, Sustain- able Industrial Chemistry, Sustainable
Page 23.697.4course culminates in a written technical report and an oral presentation given to the department,their fellow students, and clients. Some previous capstone projects include: a stream restorationproject, development of an integrated energy and production system for a swine finishingoperation, design of a 3D imaging system for orthotic production, design of a standing columnwell for geothermal energy, development of a post-hole digger evaluation device, design of aradiation shield for the hepatic artery, design and development of a quarter-scale tractor, designof an automated weight filling mechanism for a pilot-scale ice cream manufacturer, design andinstatilliation of a laboratory-scale water pump facility, and design of a
received his B.S. in Electrical Engi- neering from the University of Central Florida in 2003, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University in 2007, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from AFIT, Wright-Patterson AFB in 2012. His current research interests are metamaterials, microelectronics, microelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology.Mrs. Diana Lynn Cahill, Air Force Institute of Technology Diana Cahill earned her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction at Wright State University. She earned her B.A. in English at Youngstown State University. She has an Ohio Teaching License for High School English. Cahill is currently a Civilian Student Coordinator with the Air Force Institute of Technology at
as follows: The deformation and wave propagation should be uniform and uniaxial so that the strain rate and compressive stress wave could be determined accurately based on the technique introduced by Kolsky. The maximum strain rate of 5000 should be attained by the apparatus.The design constraints are as follows: Due to limitation of the laboratory space, the apparatus size should be limited to 2 meters in length. Due to budget limitation, the total cost of the prototype should not exceed $1000.Initial Design:As shown in Figure 2, the major components of a generic Split Hopkinson Pressure Barapparatus are as follows: Nitrogen Tank / Compressor is the pressure source that the striker projectile is provided in
been met. This evidence can include term papers, tests,laboratory reports, homework or other class assignments, presentations given, and letters fromemployers or professors. The ITA is the most significant aspect of ensuring that programoutcomes are achieved by all graduates.The student must satisfactorily address each program outcome by developing appropriatelearning statements and providing supporting evidence. The learning statements for eachprogram outcome are graded on the following scale: 0 – Not Responsive to Outcome (Evidence not provided for relevant courses or experiences. Coursework and other examples not demonstrative of required knowledge. The student will need to improve the learning statement and/or supporting
Education (CIEE) and Director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through service, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as com- plex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 engineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech.Dr. Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University
teams; impacts of project choice and context; and the retention and success of under- represented students). She has 9 years of industry work experience with the General Electric Company (GE), including the completion of a 2-year corporate management program. Throughout her career, she has managed over $8 million of sponsored research and is the author of 150 peer-reviewed publications. She is a member and Fellow of IIE, a member and Fellow of ASME, and a member of ASEE, INFORMS, Alpha Pi Mu, and Tau Beta Pi. She serves as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and for the Engineering Economist. She has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, in research, and for service.Dr
latest technology with new knowledge and design.7 Technology is chosenand mediated by those in social power and domination, which has traditionally been anexclusively male domain.8 This domination has led to a monopoly of male engineers in controlof the technological knowledge and its power upon society. Male dominance in technology andengineering has rendered gender invisible in the science of design and technology. There is adanger in this rendering as it assumes gender as being non-relevant within the social creation oftechnology. Yet, “universities still tend to reproduce this professional engineering culture and thecorresponding social habit in favor of men” 9 resulting in research and design laboratories asprimarily male dominated spaces
PROBLEMS THROUGH DESIGN PROCESSES 16the base or “bottom part” more detachable to improve transportability, the group did not addressmaking the frame or “top part” more transportable as well. Because the students had devoted solittle of their conversation to re-stating the problem and clarifying what the client wanted, oneaspect of the problem did not emerge until after the design had already been produced.Research a need or problem. Many previous studies of novices’ design processes have been ina laboratory study where the only available source of information was the experimenter. In thesestudies, the researchers defined the ‘information gathering’ stage as asking for information fromthe experimenter, reading
– including five years as the director of the Civil Engineering Division. As di- rector of the Civil Engineering Division at USMA, Dr. Lenox supervised nineteen faculty in the ABET- accredited civil engineering program. He was the USMA nominee for the 1997 Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year Award. He served as chair of both the Civil Engineering Division and the Middle- Atlantic Section of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and as a member of ASCE’s Educational Activities Committee. Dr. Lenox also served as co-principal instructor of the NSF-supported Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering (T4E) workshops at West Point in 1996, 1997, and 1998. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army on October 1