and reform.Ren´ee S DeGraaf M.A., Lansing Community College Tutoring Services Coordinator, Student Services Division, Learning Assistance DepartmentProf. Louise Paquette, Lansing Community CollegeRuth Heckman, Lansing Community CollegeDr. Neeraj Buch, Michigan State UniversityDr. Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University Page 23.488.1 Dr. Thomas F. Wolff is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University. In this capacity, he is responsible for all activities related to student services (academic ad- ministration, first year programs, advising, career planning, women
past eight years. As the Director of Operations for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Engineering, she managed operations and strategic initiatives for the newly formed Office of the Dean of Engineering. As Director of Marketing for Drexel College of Engineering, she oversaw an extensive communication portfolio and branding for seven departments and programs. Christine currently consults with engineering and science related insti- tutions to advise on best practices in communication, from presentations to print. Christine received her MBA in marketing and international business from Drexel University and her B.A. in English and Film from Dickinson College.Dr. Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University
Anna Kersten, University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesDr. Micah S Stohlmann, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Dr. Micah Stohlmann is an assistant professor of Mathematics/STEM education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research interests include mathematical modeling, STEM integration, and peda- gogical content knowledge.Mr. Forster D. Ntow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Forster D. Ntow had all his educational experiences, from elementary to graduate, in Ghana. He pursued a B.Ed and M.Phil in Mathematics Education. Currently, Ntow is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mathematics Educa- tion at the University of Minnesota. He has had teaching experiences at the elementary and high schools levels. Ntow’s research
. Sanford Bernhardt serves on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Committees on Education and Faculty Development and the Transportation Research Board Committee on Education and Training. She previously has served as vice-chair of the ASCE Infrastructure Systems Committee, chair of the ASEE’s Civil Engineering Division, and a member of the Transportation Research Board committees on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing, Asset Management, and Emerging Technology for Design and Construction. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, and her B.S.E. from Duke University.Dr. David S Hurwitz, Oregon State University Dr. David S. Hurwitz is an assistant professor of transportation
College at Buffalo; a MEd from Bowling Green State University in Ohio; and a PhD from the University of Minnesota.Dr. Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Malinda S. Zarske is the Director of K-12 Engineering Education at the University of Colorado Boul- der’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. A former high school and middle school science and math teacher, she has advanced degrees in teaching secondary science from the Johns Hopkins Univer- sity and in civil engineering from CU-Boulder. She is also a First-Year Engineering Projects Instructor, Faculty Advisor for SWE, and on the development team for the TeachEngineering digital library. Her primary research interests are on student identity
booklets, and the faculty mentor of eight student publications. Dr. Gomez-Calderon served as the head of the Mathematics Division (fourteen campuses) from 2002 to 2006, as the Mathematics Division coordinator from 2010 to 2011, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of Arizona. Dr. Gomez-Calderon was the recipient of the 2007 Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching, the 2002 Commonwealth College Outstanding Research Award, and the 2001 Valley News Dispatch Coach of the Year, the 1997 New Kensington Excellence in Teaching Award, the 1996 Theresa Cohen Mathematics Service Award, and the 1989 New Kensington Excellence in Teaching Award.Prof. Janice M. Margle P.E., Pennsylvania State University
become more competitive in the internationalmarket resulting in the obvious domestic benefits. Another is the impact on the environment.Even a small increase in overall efficiency of U.S. commercial and industrial buildings wouldreduce the U.S.’s carbon footprint significantly.Currently, the U.S. workforce is not adequately trained in the area of energy efficiency. TheDepartment of Energy recognizes this fact and is attempting to remedy this with programs suchas the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub and the continued support and recent expansion ofIndustrial Assessment Centers 2. However at the present time, those providing "energyefficiency" services are typically either too technical in their approach such as researchers andprofessors; or possess
. Page 23.767.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Integrated Service-Learning: Student PerspectivesAbstractService-Learning (S-L) has been integrated throughout a College of Engineering at theUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell, a mid-size state university, for eight years. The S-Lprogram has been supported by three grants from the National Science Foundation. In this effort,the S-L projects are hands-on experiences in core courses of every engineering department,aimed at responding to community needs. The community partners can be local, national orinternational. Most of the S-L projects require the students to assess the engineering componentsof community needs, to design solutions
implementation seemssurprising in since all students are required to take a two hour lab based course dedicated to the design andimplementation of control algorithms on the Rabbit single board computer (a select microprocessor from Digi®shown in Figure 1). Specifically this course targets the design of classical compensators KGc s for a typical DCmotor with implementation of the algorithm on a Rabbit single board computer. Rabbit 3000 processor Figure 1: Rabbit single board computerThe conversion of the continuous time compensator to the corresponding digital compensator KGc z isaccomplished via Tustin’s Transformation (utilizing
. Page 23.1098.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Student Experiences in Service-Learning: Engineering vs. SciencesAbstractThe cognitive and affective benefits of service-learning (S-L) for students have been welldocumented, and S-L has become more common in many disciplines, including engineering, thehealth sciences, and education. Opportunities in the core sciences, however, seem sparse. Thispaper compares the attitudes of science majors and engineering majors toward S-L throughquantitative analysis of survey responses. The goal is to examine student experience andlearning in the context of other factors that might influence participation in S
in Engineering Service-LearningAbstractAttracting and retaining women in engineering is critical in the USA today. While women arecoming to college in overrepresented numbers, they are not represented equally to men inengineering majors. Though a university can only have limited impact on the attrition of womenin the engineering workforce, we can (and must!) work to improve recruitment and retention andto graduate women with adequate preparation for an engineering career. An increasing numberof engineering programs are integrating service-learning (S-L) into their curricula.For the past eight years of one S-L program, students in a college of engineering have beenwidely surveyed at the beginning of their studies and at the end of each
this simple modeling of car motion, and where x(t) is theinput (force excitation resulting from pressing the gas pedal) and y(t) is the output (displacementresponse of a car). The Laplace transform of this differential equation is: Ms2Y(s) + BsY(s) + KY(s) = X(s) (2)where X(s) and Y(s) are the Laplace Transforms of x(t) and y(t), respectively.3 The displacement, velocity, and acceleration responses of the two cars for various car andinput parameters are illustrated in the following sections. For simplicity, units for the parametersand variables are not included in the equations of motion of the two cars.A. Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration Responses of Each Car to a Step Input
, students must work in teamsand complete a capstone project. This project, also called Senior Project in our terminology,provides students with an opportunity to work on complex control problems, similar to onesencountered in the industry, and employ a number of technologies and methods to provide apractical solution.In general, the Senior Project entails the design and construction of a process, identification ofkey control objectives, specification and implementation of required instrumentation for processvariable(s) monitoring and control, real time data acquisition and storage methods, modeling ofthe process using empirical and/or analytical methods, design and tuning of controllers, andclosed loop control performance evaluation.Equally
Page 23.1242.5readily available from each partial fraction. Symbolic calculations are used to simplify thealgebra and the numerical substitutions allowing the students to concentrate on the form of theGiven: y ( s) ( s + 50 ) The following transfer function: TF ( s) u ( s) 2 s + 12 ⋅s + 20Find: (A) The response y(t) to a unit step input using the method of partial fraction expansion. (B) The time y(t) will take to reach within 1% of the steady-state
context k. An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practiceAssessment methods other than the FE exam are more suitable for ABET criteria (b), (c), (d),(g), (i), and (j). Table 2 shows how our FE metric is embedded with other metrics in ourassessment program. The letters “P” and “S” designate primary and secondary metrics,respectively. Secondary metrics are recorded and archived; however, they are not used forreporting purposes unless the primary metric is incomplete or equivocal. Our metrics are: SES: Senior Exit Survey FE: Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam CDSA: Capstone Design Sponsor Assessment CRSW: Comprehensive Review of Student Work
Properties of Mitten Challenge Nanotechnology: AWorkshop Pre-survey Properties PowerPoint the Gecko Foot discussion of EthicsNanotechnology Fact or NanoDays Balloon ScSh8, SPS8, SP1 How Can We See what We S(6,7,8)CS1, S7L4, SB4Fiction Smelling Activity cannot SeeS(6,7,8)CS7 S8P1, S7L2 ScSh4,S(6,7,8)SCS4,Intro to Nano and the Big NanoSense UV Lab Big Ideas at a Very Small S(6,7,8)CS5, S(6,7,8)CS9 Aerogel and ConsumerIdeas PowerPoint Sunblock Scale
Paper ID #7819Real-World vs. Ideal Op-Amps: Developing Student Insight into Finite Gain-Bandwidth Limitations and CompensationDr. Tooran Emami, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Tooran Emami is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Section, at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy. She received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Wichita State University in 2006 and 2009, respectively. Dr. Emami was an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Wichita State University for three semesters. Her research interests are Proportional
as an interaction mode (TTouch+F), and Touch screen Tabletusing Stylus as an interaction mode (TTouch+S)- (see Figure 1). In addition, the modelingprogram SketchUp was selected as a representative modeling application with a low level ofdifficulty in which user interface does not vary between computing platforms or operatingsystems. The user interface for SketchUp is very consistent between the Windows operatingsystem and the Apple Mac OS X operating system used in the study. (a) DTouch+F (b) TTouch+F (c) TTouch+S Figure 1: The hardware used in the experimentA between-subjects experimental approach was used to investigate the effects of HCI mode andscreen size on student
Commerce is worried about whether we’re producing enoughSTEM graduates from our colleges and universities.” American companies are quite Page 23.506.2concerned about impending shortages of workers to fill science, technology, engineering 1 and mathematics jobs in the future. Shortages of workers trained in these fields couldlogically impede the growth of technology, lower competitiveness with otherindustrialized nations, and thereby exacerbate the decline of the U. S. economy.Likely, all engineering educators who are at all interested in policy matters have read thatChina and India are producing from 5 to 10 times
materials are summarized below in Table 1. Publication Key Findings • Students struggle with shear and moment diagramsBrown, S., Montfort, D., and K. Hildreth. (2008). An and have limited understanding of how point loadsInvestigation of Student Understanding of Shear and and reactions affect internal forcesBending Moment Diagrams. Innovations 2008: World • Fundamental concepts like “moment” or “shear”Innovations in Engineering Education and Research. are difficult for some academically
investmentand is hypothesized to contribute significantly to national economic security and nationaldefense. We would like for this paper to stimulate a national dialogue leading to a dynamicrevival of Coastal, Ocean and Marine Engineering research and graduate education in the UnitedStates.Background A compelling argument can be made that the coastal engineering profession was bornwith legislation by the U.S. Congress that established the Beach Erosion Board and subsequentlythe Coastal Engineering Research Board for the purpose of advising the Chief of Engineers onthe direction that coastal engineering research should take to enable the nation to solve pressingbeach erosion challenges. For over 30 years from the 1930's, to the 1960's, the Beach
gas and electricity later. Page 23.948.3Table 1: Measured parameters (time, Amperage, and power) at every 5C water temperatureincreaseTemperature Readings (°C ) Time Elapsed (s) Cumulative Time (s) Amperage (A) Power (W) 30 0 0 43 9331 40 1190 1190 41.5 9005.5 45 194 1384 42 9114
semester longdesign studio. Extensive pre and post surveys were administered to the students toevaluate the course‟s effectiveness in using building performance simulation to teachhigh performance and integrated design. Insight was gained on how to introducecomprehensive simulation tools into the design studio, how to integrate mechanicalengineering students more effectively into architectural courses, and how architects andengineers can work together around an energy model.2. IntroductionIn contemporary practice, two factors have a substantial impact on the way that wedesign buildings. The first, integrated design, is an old concept that has seen newpopularity in light of the need for deep energy savings in new and existing buildings. The second
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engineering communication. We then present ourfindings on the ways in which the deficit model has recently been enacted in engineeringcommunication contexts. Next, we present a framework of key concepts integral to publiccommunication so that engineers can reflect upon how these dimensions affect the wayscommunication with the public is carried out. The paper concludes with a discussion ofsignificance, intersecting issues, and future work.Overview of the Deficit ModelThe deficit model, a term originally coined by science studies scholar Brian Wynne,1 refers toapproaches to science and engineering (S&E) communication and outreach that are based on thebelief that publics are critical or skeptical of, and not interested in, S&E because they do
” program, which is facilitated once a week at a science museum and isdesigned for children aged 3-6 years old. Within this context, we have set up an engineeringstation, where children and adults are invited to engage in engineering design-build activitieswith the understanding that participating in these activities also entails participation in theresearch study. The child(ren) and adult(s) attend to two different engineering challenges(“design a tower as tall as this plant out of foam blocks” and “design as tall a tower as you canusing the Dado Squares”), working on each task until the child is ready to be done, while video-recorders capture the family’s interactions (see Figure 1). The two challenges were selected tocapture variation based on
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, he is collaborating in a research project of Open services integration for distributed, reusable and secure remote and virtual laboratories (s-Labs). Page 23.1274.1Prof. SANTIAGO MONTESO FERNANDEZ, UNEDMr. F´elix Garc´ıa Loro, Predoctoral fellow c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Paper ID #6854 Industrial Engineering degree from the Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED). Assistant teacher in Wind Energy Expert Course (Continuing Education, UNED). Managing AVIP
University of Pennsylvania and his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Purdue University. Page 23.1317.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using Heavy Metal Music to Promote Technological and Socio-cultural UnderstandingAbstractHeavy metal is one of the most misinterpreted musical genres in existence, while also arguablyone of the most intelligent, insightful and technologically-rich genres. Heavy metal‟s history hasfacilitated multiple engineering developments in its quest for extremity as well as containing awealth of commentary about