an introduction to NorthAmerican Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Transmission System Planning PerformanceRequirements 1. The transformation of the national grid into smart grid demands variousmodeling and simulation techniques, and software modules to be developed and the entire powersystem to be thoroughly studied 7. Page 25.455.2 Transmission T TranSCADA/ EMS system r a
experiments.The course was offered with a new syllabus in Fall 2009 and we worked on the planning the courseactivities during the Summer 2009.The implementation process started with the developmental work in association with technical helpfrom Mathworks, Inc. First we identified concepts for laboratory modules that could be able to workthrough a spiraling framework: Introduction of electrical voltage measurement to measurement usingadvanced sensing systems. Each laboratory module was planned to build on the skills learned from theprevious laboratory exercise. For example, the second lab involved temperature measurement usingthermocouple and thermistor that involved measurement of voltage either directly or using a voltagedivider circuit. The flow
by 2010 [4].The problem presented by these new facts is not new but has becoame more pressing with thedevelopment of a global economy. So, how do we help the teachers find new ideas and newmethods that will attract and excite students to learn difficult subjects such as Math and Science?How do we empower them to take initiative and develop new projects and lesson plans that willhelp students accept and overcome the modern world’s technical challenges?In the 1950s, a famous French mathematician, Hadamard [5], found a massive disconnectbetween how we teach math and science and how mathematicians and scientists actually work.He concluded that what the intellectual tools mathematicians and scientistsy used to accomplishtheir work was more
collectively to support discipline based collections with multiple interdisciplinaryrelations, such as engineering.The other action taken was to update the profile for the engineering approval plan to broaden thecoverage to specific geographic areas corresponding to places where the university offersinternships and study abroad programs, as well as to extend the plan to include titles withinterdisciplinary treatment. The collecting focus for the engineering library has actively shiftedtowards areas of the world with high output of STM research and scholarship, such as Asia andSouth America and selective collecting in other languages than English has been initiated. Tothis extent, specific subject areas have been identified (Engineering, Soil &
feedback mechanism involving suitable metrics and assessment plan to improve course content and teaching methodology.A careful analysis of the available resources indicated that the short term objectives of theprogram can be achieved in the amount of time available if it is focused on students whose majoris Electrical Engineering.Course DevelopmentThe course development was guided by the following principles: 1. Electrical Engineering students will be introduced to wide-ranging aspects of nanoelectronics through a course targeting senior/junior level students. 2. Students will be provided knowledge and skills which will enable them to participate in nanotechnology research and development work. 3. The course will be
courses assigning a single team to each project.4Capstone design courses face the cumbersome but necessary task of incorporating a vast array ofcoursework into a single comprehensive project. Research advocates integrating courses fromnot only the technical curriculum but also general education curriculum as well.6 Withinengineering programs, this coupling of technical and professional topics is apparent. Accordingto the results of a 2005 survey,4 over half of programs surveyed included the following topics intheir capstone design courses: written communication (87%), oral communication (83%),engineering ethics (76%), project planning and scheduling (72%), decision-making (68%),teambuilding (66%), team dynamics (63%), engineering economics (61
University. She has extensive experience with curriculum planning and development, designing and implementing professional development opportunities for teachers and faculty, and facilitating programmatic evaluation in the United States and abroad.Dr. Michael Hollis, U.S. Air Force AcademyDr. John Anthony Christ, U.S. Air Force AcademyDr. C. Andrew Ramsburg, Tufts University Page 25.105.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Student Centered Learning Lab to Increase Motivation & Interest in Environmental EngineeringAbstractProblem based learning (PBL) is a
Page 25.140.3defined laboratory project kit complete with several developed laboratory exercises. Thefollowing sections will provide some detail on the existing and planned digital content, as well asbackground on the new laboratory kit initiative.Digital contentThe project’s strategy for technical content development was to develop modules that could beeasily used in existing courses as opposed to developing a completely new course. This approachwas taken partly based on team member’s experiences with adding new courses to curriculumand partly based on the fact that there are large number of manufacturing programs that are notcompletely aerospace-centric, but may wish to include aerospace examples.The digital content available is developed to
assessstudents’ awareness of sustainability beyond materials covered in class. In other words, thesurvey sort to assess how learning about sustainability was going on beyond materials covered inclass. To put the survey in context, the authors will like to inform the readers that thisMidwestern University prides itself for being the owner of the largest geothermal project in theUS. Thus, it was anticipated that students should be aware of the subject beyond materialscovered in class. The results of the survey suggests that more work is required to increasestudents awareness about sustainability above the current 64% level to at least 80%.In subsequent years, the authors plan to use the survey differently. That is, they plan toadminister the survey in the
, S. Annual Impact Report of the Quality Enhancement Plan on Student Learning: Strengthening the Global Competence and Research Experiences of Undergraduate Students. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. 2008. Available at http:// www.provost.gatech.edu/assets/2007-08QEPAnnualImpactReport.pdf10 Georgia Institute of Technology. Georgia Institute of Technology’s Quality Enhancement Plan: Impact Report. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. 2011. Available at http://www.accreditation.gatech.edu/wp- content/uploads/2011/03/QEP-Impact-Report_SACSCOC_March-25-2011.pdf11 Hammer, M., Bennett, M., and Wiseman, R. Measuring Intercultural sensitivity: The Intercultural Development Inventory
interest in science-related activities, we plan to replicate this study next year once thefull-year curriculum in in place to determine whether an extended period in the SLIDERcurriculum can lead to changes in these areas. We have, in fact, collected baseline survey dataon the 7th graders who will be instructed with the SLIDER curriculum in their 8th grade year.Though this study supports the theory that instruction in PBL can positively affect students’attitude about science and their confidence in their science ability, it should be noted that thestudy took place in one school with a non-random sample. Additionally, due to constraints at theschool, we were not able to implement the full SLIDER curriculum and had to rely on a shorterintervention
student scholars and faculty mentors. Anyfull-time undergraduate student with at least a 2.8 GPA may apply for a research assistantship bydeveloping a research proposal with a faculty mentor. The faculty mentor submits a proposal forundergraduate research assistantship funding to OSRCA that includes the project title, projectdescription, expected outcome, role of the student researcher, and role of faculty mentor.Proposals are then evaluated based upon the following criteria: (1) Originality of the project, (2)the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor, and (3) the project’sdissemination plan. Although there are no fixed award amounts, typically OSRCA fundedundergraduate research assistantship have been in the amount of
activities (within and outside of the institution) include Department, 2000-present, Engineer- ing Assessment Committee, 1984-present, multiple faculty search committees,1995-present, Mechanical Engineering Coordinator School, 2007-2009, Strategic Plan Committee, 2005-present, Curriculum Com- mittee, 2008-present, Chair, EMS Committee on Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award Committee University, 2009-2011, University Committee on Promotions and Tenure (Panel C), 2005-present, Direc- tor of the Honors Program, 2008-2010, University Senate, 2010-present, AQIP Committee Professional, 2000-present, ABET, Mechanical Engineering Evaluator. The most important publications and presenta- tions from the past five years: Bipin
examples to our database. Page 25.1494.8Phase 2: Implement the proposed learning module management system, design the web interface,develop the functions for different users, and test the system in targeted courses. To fully utilizethe modules and engage students in class activities, we also plan to revamp the teaching plan.More interactive exercises and quizzes will be defined in formats that can stimulate students’interests and assist collaboration (e.g. Jeopardy Game). Furthermore, we are incorporatingadvanced testing functions to the system. We anticipate that in the long run, the system can serveas a truly comprehensive online training/testing
learning experience is taking place,including the past offering when 100% of the students received at least B- (80%) letter grade.Course evaluations also indicated ratings mainly in the range of 4 - 5 in 5 scale.In summary, students gain 15 weeks of hands-on practical experience on industrial grade robots.They learn about trajectory planning, program planning and logic with flow-charts and state-flowdiagrams. The students also study the wiring process of inputs and outputs to the robotcontroller. But, most importantly they get exposed to scenarios replicating real-life cases such ashand-exchange and setting of a TOOLFRAME, palletizing and depalletizing, and mostimportantly wiring and programming of an actual work-cell, possibly twice – one with an
and Quinn, 2004, p.5). Developing, designing, and building a device, product, or process affords students theopportunity to apply their engineering content knowledge, problem-solving and planning skills,implementation abilities, and self-directed learning skills (Kitts and Quinn, 2004).The curriculum developed for the instructional lab reported here is somewhat of a hybrid. It isgrounded in the principles of Problem-based Learning but also includes a Project-based Learningdesign-and-build element as indicated by the student-enacted protocols and labs for thetechniques students conduct as physical artifacts. For this paper, we will use the lower-casedesignation “pbl” to denote our approach that combines elements of both PBL and Proj
for their work on mild and selective polymerizations using lipases. Page 25.1111.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Regulatory Compliance Training in Bio/Chemical Engineering Courses I WOULD LIKE THIS PAPER TO BE IN A REGULAR SESSION Page 25.1111.2Introduction:Regulatory compliance (RC) refers to a set of federally mandated guidelines under whichindustrial processes and scientific experiments are planned, conducted, monitored, recorded, andreported. RC is typically achieved through a set of well-developed
assess certainperformance indicators, leading to results that were not as meaningful as they should have been.Consequently, the course instructors made some relatively simple changes to course assignmentsto ensure that students provide evidence of achievement of each of the desired performanceindicators. This serves both to facilitate assessment and to emphasize to the students what theyare expected to know and be able to do. The following sections describe how this has been donein ELEC 3040/3050.IV. Course assignments and assessmentIn the past few years, Auburn University has emphasized writing across the curriculum. Eachprogram in the university has been required to submit a plan for writing within the majorcourses, with students expected to
” oninstructions sets for colleagues rather than for their own immediate experimentation. Thebenefits and advantages of this procedure, accruing to the students learning and the author‟sdesign philosophy and plans, are discussed below.Fuel Cell Experimentation SystemThe fuel cell experimentation system used was manufactured by h-tec, Wasserstoff-Energie-Systems GmbH (see www.h-tec.com) and included the U102 Stack Experimentation SetComplete (Figure 1.). The system includes apparatus sufficient to complete experiments: aphotovoltaic module (converting light energy to DC electric energy); an electrolyzer (using thephotovoltaic module DC current output, or optional wall-plugged AC/DC power supply output,to separate hydrogen from oxygen in distilled water); a
2013SP 2015 To graduate Page 25.1203.6Student 5: Took Dual Enrollment Precalculus in Fall 2005. Freshman in Fall 2008 in B.S.Computer Science program. Plans to graduate in Spring 2012.Student 6: Took Dual Enrollment Precalculus in Fall 2005. Freshman in Fall 2008 in B.S.Computer Science program. Plans to graduate in Spring 2012.Student 7: Seems to have found his niche in Psychology. However, has only take one upperdivision course. Needs 33 more hours of upper division courses and 20 hours of lower divisioncourses to graduate.Student 8: Completed only one semester. Accepted into Calculus I but then earned “D
work, project planning and management. The Americansystem contains a series of software applications including calculation, presentationsoftware for CAD and analysis, such as MATLAB, MS Office, SolidWorks, Algor, etc.Chinese students emphasize individual design performance and one-on-one meetingswith their faculty adviser. The Chinese system requires more detailed analyses and reviewof specific calculations, such as gear tooth strength verification, bearing life calculations,and other specific calculations.With all these recognized differences, a few commonly agreed upon objectives are clear.For the benefit of training global engineers, and for the efficient teaching of the seniorcapstone design course, it is desirable to develop a common set
AC 2012-5460: TEACHING FRESHMEN ENGINEERING DESIGN VIAHYBRID MODE: A CASE STUDY IN THE MIDDLE EASTDr. Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute Jaby Mohammed is a faculty at the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He received his Ph.D. in Indus- trial engineering from University of Louisville (2006), master’s in industrial engineering from University of Louisville (2003), and also a master’s in business administration from Indira Gandhi National Open University (2001). His research interests include advanced manufacturing, design methodologies, Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, and enterprise resource planning. He previously taught at Indiana University- Purdue University, Fort Wayne in Indiana and at Morehead State
influences by a number ofother variables17.Explanatory Variables Affecting Graduate EducationThe immediate earning potential upon graduation from a baccalaureate degree intertwined withfamily income status and amount of college loan seem to be the key reasons of the reluctance ofgoing to graduate school immediately upon graduation for U.S. born students. As an example,Table 2 below shows the number or engineering baccalaureate degree recipients from MorganState University, and the number of those graduates immediately going to graduate school atMorgan and elsewhere in the country over the past 10 years. The authors also conducted a surveyof transportation engineering graduates regarding their future plans upon graduation which isshown in Table 3
ofunits from one to three. Student feedback from the one-unit class indicated that there was a lackof cultural and social context leaving them ill equipped to deal with the shock of another culture.Therefore, we developed a three-unit course, taught in collaboration with professors from theSJSU Department of History, who are specialized in the history India or China. With moreadvanced knowledge, the GTI fellows can better appreciate and understand what they encounterduring the tour, thereby deepening their learning. Third, we plan to introduce learning moduleson developing intercultural competency and global leadership skills for the 2012 cohort so thatGTI fellows can better develop their leadership potential. Given the context of globalization
scope, changes in design, and defects.5. Assess risk, probability of the risk, triggers and formulate contingency plans.6. Construct a statement of work with appropriate acceptance criteria.7. Describe the relationship between Testing and Quality Assurance.8. Describe the Quality assurance practices appropriate for each part of the development life cycle.9. Create user based requirements and engineering requirements.10. Describe traceability and be able to map a requirement through all project artifacts.11. Describe different modeling techniques and where they apply.12. Describe the different architectural views and assign them to parts of the life-cycle.13. Asses risk and develop risk management plans
two years working with two different 7th grade math teachers atXX and YY school. In addition to providing in-class hands-on activities, fellows along with their partnerteachers are required to write and publish four lesson plans, conforming to theTeachEngineering.org guidelines.5 Care is taken when writing lesson plans to include sufficientinformation for teachers including connections to engineering/science, background informationfor teachers about both the subject matter and the engineering/science research-related concepts,cost, materials, etc. This is done in an effort to maintain these valuable activities so that anyteacher can re-use them and adapt them to their specific needs. As a result, when the fellow is nolonger available
end of the report showing all the books, articles, personal communications, etc. to properly acknowledge others' work. o This report is due within one week of the completion of the competition, or if you are not planning to go to the competition, within one week of the end of the 2nd semester.We will talk more about the presentation component in later sections of this paper.Engaging underclassmenIt is important to engage under classmen as early as possible in the Baja program. They helpmaintain continuity in the program from year to year. Stover discussed how the SAE CollegiateDesign Series competitions can be incorporated into mechanical engineering curriculum thatwould give students
vision, space planning, and the integration/synthesis of building systems, a. Apply and balance real world constraints in the development of the building concept. b. Select and configure appropriate building systems based on the constraints and interdisciplinary criteria: (structural, mechanical, electrical, civil, exterior cladding). c. Use current industry-standard tools and technologies in the creation and presentation of a team generated design including verbal, graphic and digital presentations. Page 25.8.6
multiple buildings, including a community center; an improved traffic pattern; a water management plan. Our objectives include achieving LEED certification and a 50-year life expectancy. 4. To design a multipurpose athletic complex at Old Town High School, including an artificial turf field, a 400m track, 2500+ overall seating for spectators, a double-sided press box and an addition to the current parking lot. We used commercial prefabricated grandstands that met our specifications but designed all other elements of the project. 5. To design replacement pedestrian footbridge for the existing Peterbilt Bridge in Township 3 Indian Purchase near Millinocket, Maine. The project included researching applicable
use the web-based peer evaluation system in the future.Future WorkThere are a number of new features planned for spring semester 2012. Some of these were theresult of direct requests from faculty, while others are motivated by technical considerations.Others are simply features that had always been planned, but could not be completed in time forthe initial release. Among requested feature upgrades, the two most significant are the ability todisable self-evaluation on a project-by-project basis and the ability to randomly generate groupsfrom a course roster. In addition to a handful of bug fixes, a mobile version of the student viewwill enable students to evaluate their peers more easily using a smart phone.From a technical perspective, the