, Page 25.938.3competitions, publications, and resources for students, parents, educators and professionalengineers. Table 1 shows a listing of engineering professional societies. The computer scienceand engineering technologies societies are included in this table because the computer scienceand engineering technology programs are often housed in the college of engineering. The tablealso includes architecture, because students may want to explore the differences between thisdiscipline and construction or civil engineering. Table 2 lists the engineering related honorsocieties. Table 3 lists other engineering-related societies, including science, mathematics,medical, and education societies. Table 4 lists engineering, technology, science and
. Page 25.939.3 2The educational objectives and outcomes were developed as a structure for engineering programsdeveloping technological literacy programs for non-engineering, undergraduate students. Theseobjectives and outcomes are based on an analysis of five primary sources that address the issueof technological and engineering literacy. 1) Technically Speaking, Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology, developed by the National Academy of Engineering6. 2) ABET Engineering Criteria14. 3) ABET Engineering Technology Criteria15. 4) Report of the Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP)16. This program of the American Association of Colleges and Universities
employing continuous improvement systems as required by ABET.The purpose of this presentation is to share an evaluation model used to document the impact ofinternational engineering exchange programs and how this evaluation model is being used toassess a FIPSE Atlantis student exchange program between US and EU universities. Theevaluation model addresses two key project goals, namely (1) to advance sustainable studentexchange between the international participants and their US counterparts and (2) to acceleratethe development and support of collaborative cross cultural, multi-disciplinary learningenvironments focused on innovative engineering, design and technology. The authors employed a unique process-outcome evaluation design that
wireless access point (WAP) for 802.11 B/G access for wireless enabled devices (laptops, PDAs, etc). The specifications for this router (hardware only) are found in [1]. Sierra Wireless PinPoint X Modem – this ruggedized cellular modem is used as a Wide Area Network, WAN, (internet) connection endpoint for the ambulance as well as transmitting the GPS location of the ambulance to assist in computer aided dispatching. The specifications of this modem are listed in [2]. Specifications of the GPS collection & transmittal capabilities and configuration are listed in [3]. Sierra Wireless RJ11 Analog to IP Gateway – this device is used to simulate Local Exchange Carrier, LEC, “dial-tone” to an EKG device (Medtronics LP12
, and via homework) had the greatest gainsin general learning and transfer skills. Deep learning that included only peer collaboration didnot appear to be any more successful than traditional surface learning.1. INTRODUCTIONHands-on exploration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)education principles, devices, and systems has historically been restricted to expensive, limitedaccess classrooms; student interaction with resources, materials, and tools are limited by time,instructor, and institutional policies and infrastructure. Although students may learn the “facts”and how to duplicate processes, there is little support for rehearsal of knowledge, development ofconnected learning, or generation of new knowledge. Learning
m-xylene was also studied by Cheng and Luyben1 froma steady state point of view. Initially, it was verified that the original case 8 of the Cheng/Luybenstudy was the least energy consuming heat integrated column arrangement. AspenPlus was usedto perform the steady state analysis and process arrangement selection. This step of the study wasconducted by undergraduate students at the University of Houston – Downtown in partialfulfillment of the requirements of the Process Design and Operation course, ENGR 4402. Page 25.944.2The process configuration is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 1: Case-8 Process Configuration in Aspen
academic year1. Engineering remains the secondlargest field of study for international students behind Business and Management1. The numberof international students in engineering during the 2008/9 academic year was 118,980 andincreased to 135,592 in the 2010/11 academic year1,2. In general, international students are notedto achieve higher levels of retention and ultimately graduation as compared to domesticstudents3. However, the tracking of graduation trends at a major Midwest public institutionreveals several concerning trends. These include falling 4-year (Figure 1) and 6-year (Figure 2)graduation rates. The 4-year graduation rate has fallen from 70% to just over 40% in the past 15years. Another trend was confirmed and that is that
,students were forced to confront and repair certain misconceptions acquired at earlier stages oftheir education, to utilize laboratory experiments to gather additional data, and to recognize andthen resolve ethical issues.Here we introduce several issues when implementing MEAs in upper division level classes byproviding two case studies. These issues are circulated around the theme of engineering learningsystems, and in particular to the professional or “soft” skills. Specifically, the following insightsare provided across two MEAs from two different disciplines and engineering schools: 1. The instructional culture challenges involving MEAs implementation in the classroom; 2. How faculty’s personal epistemology for teaching
programming language.1 Assembly languageprogramming is still used in about 60% of the projects but is rarely the primary language. WhileC++ is also a popular choice, twice as many projects use C as the primary language and assemblylanguage is more likely to be used than C++.Clearly, engineers designing embedded systems need to be familiar with both C and assemblylanguage programming, at least for the foreseeable future. Perhaps more importantly, theseengineers must understand the linkage between C code and assembly. They must have someunderstanding of how a compiler will convert their C programs to assembly language so that theymay write more efficient programs and effectively debug those programs. For example, studentsneed to learn how variable
generation must be directed how to find the information they need and be given adirection to proceed. For the benefit of the greater good, may or may not be enough reason tocompel the millennials to perform and succeed in refining an untamed Montana.As far as the benefits of this study and the recently passed laws set to improve the state’s safetystatistics, the authors believe that progress will be measured in the next three to five years. Thisstudy is essentially a work in progress and future verification of results will prove positive withimproved safety statistics.Bibliography 1. Montana Department of Labor and Industry Research and Analysis Bureau. 2007 Incidence Rates Comparison. 2007. Web. http://www.ourfactsyourfuture.org/cgi
teaching assistant training programs.1 Introduction In engineering education, motivation is often discussed from a programmatic perspective(how do we motivate students to enroll in engineering programs?) or a curricular perspective(how do we motivate students to persist?). These perspectives often overlook the importance ofmotivation within the classroom and the daily processes of teaching and learning engineering.Motivation helps students focus their attention on learning activities, proactively seek newlearning activities, and persist in those activities until learning goals are reached1. Although future engineering professors and instructors have a sense of the centrality ofmotivation in learning engineering2, they are often
AC 2012-3083: MOTIVATING STUDENTS TO LEARN PROGRAMMINGUSING GAME ASSIGNMENTSDr. Rajeev K. Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University Rajeev Agrawal is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics, Computer, and Information Technology at North Carolina A&T State University.Dr. Zachary Kurmas, Grand Valley State University Zachary Kurmas is an Associate Professor at Grand Valley State University. He teaches primarily CS 1, CS 2, and computer architecture.Dr. Venkat N. Gudivada, Marshall University Venkat N. Gudivada is a professor of computer science at Marshall University, Huntington, W.V. He re- ceived his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. His current
important. As DREAM volunteers are not a drawn from a random sample of thevolunteering population, it was expected that the order of motivational categories might varyfrom this previous study. However, it is shown that DREAM mentors’ motivations largelyaligned the ordering observed by Esmond and Dunlop.Methods Three instruments were used to survey 40 DREAM mentors, 22 new and 18 experienced,within the first week of fall 2011 program. The experienced mentors had an average of 2.28 anda median of 2 semesters of previous mentoring experience, and covered a range of 1 to 5semesters of experience. Of the 40 mentors surveyed, 22 self-identified as being from groupsunderrepresented in science and engineering (19 Hispanic, 2 African American and 1
civil engineeringeducation. During the spring semester of 2011, a course titled "Special Topics - EngineeringMarvels," was offered to all SLCC students. It is within this 'special topics' course that asuccessful mixture of travel and classroom lecture has been achieved. One very specific standout topic surrounds an American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) "Modern Civil Engineering Wonder of the United States;" The Hoover Dam. DuringNovember of 2010, a student chapter of civil engineering students was approached by theInternational Student Services (ISS) of SLCC. Vicky Wason [1], the Intercultural Coordinator forthe ISS, had a proposal in mind that would involve SLCC international students in anengineering activity. Vicky had every
model with a crop growth model to explore how projected climate change will impact water resources availability for irrigation and crop yield under various socio-economic scenarios. She teaches 3 courses: (1) a required undergraduate-level course in Water Resources Engineering in which she is researching the use of hands-on inquiry-based learning in the classroom; (2) a senior elective course in Sustainable Development in Water Resources, which ex- plores the concepts needed to understand how to more sustainability manage our limited water resources in the western US under increasing pressures, particularly climate change; (3) and a graduate-level course in Hydroclimatology, which is a primarily student-led course
1093 Precalculus o COA 1113 Intro to the Built Environment o PHY 1603, 1611 Physics I and Laboratory o COA 1133 Building Technology I o WRC 1013 Freshman Composition I o COA 1213 Design I o WRC 1023 Freshman Composition II o COA 1223 Design II o COA 1313 Design VisualizationFigures 1, 2, and 3 illustrates the degree plans for Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Interior Page 25.954.4Design, and Construction Science and Management respectively. The common year is noted asthe first block in each degree plan followed by
generation mustfind ways to meet humanity's needs for energy, shelter, food and water in ways that areenvironmentally, economically, and socially sustainable.Sustainable engineering may be defined as engineering for human development that meets theneeds of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their ownneeds.1 Due to population growth and expanded global development, the next generation offuture generations to meet their own needs.1 Due to population growth and expanded globaldevelopment, the next generation of engineers must be able to design with fewer resources for awider variety and greater number of end users.2 According to National Academy of Engineering(NAE) President Charles M. Vest, macroscale issues of
easy access to students of both institutions, as well as to other participants of theconsortium.Such equipment was purchased in fall of 2011 and commissioned within several weeks. Itconsists of the following subsystems. - Conventional Generation Systems - Transmission Systems - Distribution Systems - Complex loads - Renewable Generation Systems - Energy Management Systems - Protection & Control Systems Page 25.956.3 Figure 1. Laboratory layoutGeneration System ComponentsGeneration component includes 300W and 1kW synchronous generators and means of manualand automatic
University termed Cal Poly (predominantlyundergraduate institution) and Auburn University termed Auburn (Tier 1 researchinstitution).This paper provides progress on this extensive investigation including a description ofnew activities that have been conducted between the university partners, specifically inrelation to multi-institutional teaming exercises. The paper includes a description of theexercises, assessment of the methodology, and suggestions for successful adoption ofsimilar efforts.Other efforts in inter-university teaming have been reported (e.g., 1, 2, 3), includinglimited experiences in engineering. Such teaming exercises have high potential fortraining students at functioning in an increasingly distance-based workplace.Multi
participation ismandatory. The workshop format promotes academic excellence and fosters leadership skills.Last year, 300 students enrolled in eleven workshops. Figure 1 shows pass rate data for six“gatekeeper” sophomore courses. Students in workshops fared better than their non-workshoppeers in each of these courses, generally averaging between one-half and one full grade pointhigher, although results vary by course and also by semester.Even in cases where pass rates are not significantly different between workshop participants andtheir non-participating peers (e.g. Chemical Processes), we see another unexpected impact of theworkshop process. Workshop students have low course withdrawal rates compared with muchhigher rates for their non-workshop peers
baccalaureate degree programs, graduates must demonstrate the “ability tofunction effectively as a member or leader on a technical team” and demonstrate “a knowledgeof the impact of engineering technology solutions in a societal and global context”1.The overall MEPP team is comprised of twenty-three diverse students from four technologydisciplines: Electronics Engineering Technology (EET), Design Graphics EngineeringTechnology (DGET), Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET), and ManufacturingEngineering Technology (MFET), under the auspices of four faculty advisors. The large groupis broken down into five sub-teams with student representatives from each of the disciplines. Thestudents have been given the freedom to be innovative in their subsystem
IEEE CASS Technical Committee on Circuits and Systems for Education Outreach (CASEO). He obtained his B.S.E.E. (first class honors) from University of Ife, Nigeria, and M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Page 25.960.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Multimedia Systems Education Innovations: Part 1(Speech)AbstractMultimedia Systems is becoming very important in undergraduate education.The word multimedia refers to speech, audio and video data.Speech, audio and video and general digital signal processing (DSP) devices are verycommon-place
providing an introductory course in the microprocessoror microcontroller in Engineering and Engineering Technology type curriculums has longbeen over due. The subject matter covered in System Design has matured to the extent that ithas been the subject of curriculum content in the form of two or more courses in most of theuniversities1. The subject course which is the subject of this paper is a 400 level course in the Page 25.961.2Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department. This is preceded by twocourses: 1) a C or C++, programming course, that covers the C or C++ language constructswith emphases on bit manipulation, 2) an introductory
. In order to increase portability, we use low-cost materials and open-source software whenever possible. Additionally, we have developed our own software to usewith several of the activities. Most activities require one computer for every 1-2 students.However, the computational power required is relatively low; older, less expensive computersare sufficient to run the activities. They have all been tested on a 2006 MacBook with an IntelCore 2 Duo processor and 1GB of memory.The majority of software development is done using Pure Data‡ (Pd), an open-source real-timeprogramming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing initially developed byMiller Puckette (creator of the similar, commercially available Max/MSP application). We
within the capstone course by delegating the responsibility to the teams.2. Scrum and agile methods for product developmentScrum is most widely used in software development as an agile development method andtypically not considered for product development other than for software products. Scrum as amethod emphasizes the empowerment of the individual, prototyping, quick and repeatedfeedback to reach the ultimate goal: faster delivery with a higher quality [1-4]. When appliedto education in engineering design and product development, a parallel is identified toprevious research of the importance of prototyping and quick feedback for the learningprocess [5]. In short, the factors that positively enhance learning within these fields are
Fall 2011 semester.IntroductionNanotechnology and nanoscience are expected to have significant effects on both the nationaland global economies. It is estimated that in 2008 the value of products incorporatingnanotechnology was approximately $200 billion globally and $80 billion in the U.S., and it isestimated to reach $3 trillion globally and $1 trillion in the U.S. by 20201.Recognizing the potential impact on the region and the national economy, several MSU facultyrealized that students had limited exposure to and opportunities for learning nanotechnology.Although fundamental topics in nanoscience were included in many existing courses in biology,chemistry, engineering, and physics, there were no courses focused specifically on
nanotechnology encompass so many fundamental areas such as ethics, privacy, environment, and security. This paper describes the teaching approaches used to teach the ethical and social implications of nanotechnology in a “Science, Technology and Society (STS)” capstone course at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. There are essentially four objectives to this course: (1) developing a strong understanding of local and global forces and issues which affect people and societies, (2) guiding local/global societies to appropriate use of technology, (3) alerting societies to technological risks and failures, and (4) developing informed and encompassing
prototype system described in this paper was designedaround the USB4000 microspectrometer by Ocean Optics which in the visible/NIR configurationresponds to a wavelength range of 350-1100 nm. For the computing solution, the “Overo Fire”Computer-on-module (COM) by Gumstix Inc. was used. The COM is a six gram Linux-basedPC with WiFi roughly the size of a stick of gum. When coupled with their “Gallop” module,power conditioning, GPS and accelerometer functions are added. Completing the prototype is aUSB hub, a lithium-ion battery and power regulation module. Benefits of LiIon batteries includehigh power-to-weight capacity, relative temperature insensitivity, high charge rate and durability.The block diagram in Figure 1 shows the configuration of these
, P.E., received his B.S. degree in engineering mechanics from the U.S. Military Academy in 1982. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1990 and 1999, respectively. He became the Dean of Engineering at the Citadel on July 1, 2011. Prior to his current position, he was the Department Head of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Tyler, from Jan. 2007 to June 2011, as well as having served in the Corps of Engineers for more than 24 years, including 11 years on the faculty at the U.S. Military Academy. Page 25.967.1
and technology.”2 The ontology and internationalvocabulary of metrology (VIM) is maintained by the International Organization forStandardization. Metrology is an extremely broad field, but may be generally divided into threemain subfields: (1) Scientific or fundamental metrology, (2) Applied or industrial metrology,and (3) Legal metrology. Scientific or fundamental metrology concerns the establishment ofquantity systems, unit systems, units of measurement; the development of new measurementmethods and techniques; realization of measurement standards; and the transfer of traceabilityfrom these standards to users in society. Applied or industrial metrology concerns theapplication of measurement science to manufacturing, construction