Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic StateUniversity in San Luis Obispo is the only college in the nation that has departments ofArchitecture, Architectural Engineering, Construction Management and LandscapeArchitecture in the same college. The institution has a 60 year tradition of collaborationbetween the engineering, architecture and construction disciplines, particularly at thelower division level. To enhance this collaboration, the college committed to providingan upper division, interdisciplinary experience to every student in the form of a projectbased, team oriented five unit studio laboratory that every student would take. Thecourse is now in its third year and requires small teams of architecture, engineering
ofengineering and how engineering has impact on society. X University’s Physics 100embraces liberal arts-oriented approaches to understanding and liberal arts-orientedlanguage choices to maximize “non scientists’” understanding of scientific clarity,accountability, precision, and proof.With an emphasis on Newtonian Mechanics, Physics 100, Physics for the Modern World(PMW) is a foundation-level course within the sciences portion of the General Educationcore at X University. Many students who enroll in PNM are liberal arts majors and do soto fulfill their General Education requirements for the sciences. The course also has arigorous laboratory component. Students in this course are encouraged to engage in thelearning of physics in many ways. In addition
AC 2012-3868: CIVIL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE CONSULTANTS: FROMRFP TO REALITYMr. William P. Manion, University of Maine William P. Manion, M.S., P.E., is an instructor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine in Orono. He has taught courses in materials, soil mechanics, computer applications, graphics, and project management since 1998. He has also performed laboratory research, worked for a heavy earthwork construction company, captained charter boats, and managed a land development project. Al- ways interested in new effective teaching strategies, he employs many different pedagogical methods and techniques.Ms. Judith A. Hakola, University of Maine
laboratory activities, students will identify known variables, NGoal 2 - Objective 3: The Civil Engineering Program at formulate key relationshipsRowan University will produce graduates who between them and solvedemonstrate the ability to identify, formulate, and engineering problems.solve engineering problems (ABET E). Outcome 2: Students will students learned the identify, formulate, and solve new pavement design problems in
policy 17. Cassaza reinforced this idea: [Engineers]…“must understand that there are different audiences for which different techniques must be used”3 . Likewise, Dunn 13 made their students present their project to the external public, the Chicago Page 25.383.6Department of the Environment and to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a verydifferent audience to engineers.Finally, a further skill related with communication, is the ability to express opinions, relay facts,and articulate arguments clearly and concisely in writing. This skill is “substantially different[from] writing laboratory or design project reports” 4. This knowledge can
, received a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science. While in industry, he worked in small and large companies doing product development and industrial research. His responsibilities included both hardware and software development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Siemens Corporate Research, and AVL, including microcode for a graphics processor, real-time medical image processing, and data acquisition and communications protocols for semiconductor process control. Since 1997, he has been a faculty member in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Department of Software En- gineering, now in the position of Chair. His professional interests are in the engineering of software for real-time and embedded systems. He was a recipient of
in 1991, the same year he received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Prince- ton University. He also holds an M.A. (Princeton, 1981) and a B.S. (Rice, 1980) in chemical engineering. For three years prior to joining the UA, Baygents was a Visiting Scientist, then a Research Fellow, at the Space Science Laboratory of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. In 1995, he received the Arizona Mortar Board Senior Honor Society award for outstanding faculty service. In 1997, he was awarded an International Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation for study at the University of Melbourne. In 2009, he was recognized by ChEE and the College for Excellence at the Student Interface. He is a
, 34(1), 61-84.6. Bucciarelli, L.L. (1994). Designing Engineers, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.7. Florman, S.L. (1994). Existential Pleasures of Engineering, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press.8. Lin, C.-C., & Tsai, C.-C. (2009). The relationship between students’ conceptions of learning engineering and their preferences for classroom and laboratory learning environments. Journal of Engineering Education, 98(2), 193-204.9. Stevens, R.,O’Connor, K., Garrison, L., Jocuns, A., & Amos, D.L. (2008). Becoming an engineer: Toward a three dimensional view of engineering learning. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), 355–68.10. Turns, J., Atman, C., Adams, R., & Barker, T. (2005). Research on engineering student
AC 2012-3794: A FIRST-YEAR ”INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING”COURSE AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE USING HANDS-ON MATLABEXPERIMENT CONTROLProf. Stephen W. McKnight, Northeastern University Stephen W. McKnight received a Ph.D. in solid state physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1977 and had postdoctoral positions at Emory University and as National Research Council Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory before joining the faculty in the Physics Department at North- eastern University in 1980. In 1988, he became an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and in 2001 was promoted to Professor of electrical and computer engineering. He has published more than 50 refereed
them the autonomy to choosetheir own project formulations and strategies, which in turn increases their motivation. Some ofthe past students projects include designing and building of wind tunnel models, 3-D aerospacemodels, variable pitch thrust measurement apparatus, flight simulation frame, water tunnel etc.All of these products become part of the aerospace laboratory to be used by future students.Project based learning at the individual course level is familiar in engineering education. It isused almost universally in capstone design and laboratory courses. There has been growingfrequency of project based learning approach in first year engineering courses and courses thatengage students in consulting projects [5, 7]. Because of its
model thatis usable in a wide range of contexts. The central mathematical construct around which theinstructional sequence was organized is the understanding of average rate of change throughinterpreting, analyzing and predicting the behavior of linear and non-linear phenomena as theychange over time.The Model Development SequenceModel development sequences are structurally related tasks, beginning with a model elicitingactivity (MEA) and followed by model exploration activities and model application activities.These tasks are not step-by-step procedures (as often found in laboratory projects), but rather areopen-ended tasks that encourage students to express their own ideas about a situation and thenexplore and apply those ideas in other
the the Systems Development and Maturity Laboratory (http://www.SysDML.com/), which seeks to advance the state of knowledge and practice in how we manage system lifecycles. He teaches courses in Project Manage- ment of Complex Systems, Designing and Managing the Development Enterprise, Advances in System of Systems Engineering, and Systems Thinking. In addition, he is a National Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration Faculty Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the Systems Research Forum, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal.Dr. Brian Emery White, Complexity Are Us - Systems Engineering Strategies Brian E. White received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin, and S.M
the future on the highlights of these handouts.) Page 25.1302.15 Appendix 4. Laboratory Activity SampleENGR1513 Fall 2011Engineering Lab #3 Dissection, Reverse Engineering, and RedesignBackground Dissection and Reverse Engineering are common components of the design process forworking engineers. In order to improve existing products or benchmark the state of the art,engineers often use dissection and reverse engineering. Dissection is the process of orderly disassembly of an object to its subcomponents.Implied in this process is that the engineer does not know exactly how the assembly
Department and the Secretary of the committee Ronald H. Robnett, professor of Engineering and Business Administration and a fiscal officer in the DIC (MIT’s sponsored research office) C. Richard Soderberg, a theoretically oriented mechanical engineer and head of that department Julius Stratton, physicist and director of Research Laboratory for Electronics, the postwar incarnation of the Radiation Lab Page 25.1322.3Among the other items the committee discussed was an unsolicited letter from the head of thePhysics Department, John Slater, expressing his unabashed preference for a curriculum moresolidly
Energy’sresponsibility as much as committees of both chamber of the United States Congress.The current Secretary of Energy is Dr. Steven Chu. Secretary Chu is a well-known scientist, whoreceived a Nobel Prize for Physics. Chu also educates the next generation of scientists as auniversity professor. Before President Obama appointed Chu to Secretary of Energy, Chu was adirector of a national laboratory of the Department of Energy. As Secretary of Energy, Chu’smain job is to implement President Obama’s energy plans [12].The current Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is Senator JeffBingaman, a Democrat from New Mexico. Senator Bingaman graduated with degrees ingovernment and law. After working for the Army Reserves and practicing private
analysis), and learning environment(i.e., instructional program). Further, the experiment was conducted in a laboratory environment,not in situ (i.e., classroom). Future research should examine the experimental design used in thisstudy in other instructional contexts, domains, and learning environments. A critical next step in investigating the influence of representation type andrepresentation guidance is to explore different sequences of these representations. As has beenshown in other domains, the use of concrete examples, followed by more abstractrepresentations, can be beneficial to transfer of knowledge to novel situations59 and that learnerstend to naturally transition from representing a domain in a concrete manner to a more
availablecourse management software primarily to distribute course content (e.g., slides) to students. Inaddition, the software can be used to implement various instruction interventions including polls,electronic ink, and screen broadcast. Limited instructor training is available for the software.New instructors are encouraged to observe more experienced instructors classrooms for TPCincorporation strategies.The first-year engineering program consists of a two-semester course sequence. Each semester-long course is composed of one 50-minute large lecture (ranging from 75-300 students) and onetwo-hour, hands-on laboratory (approximately 30 students) each week. This research studyinvestigates a new instructor assigned to teach one of the large lectures (93
Students”. Kimberly Kendricks and AnthonyArment. Ohio State University, Journal of College and Science Teaching Vol. 24, 2011.“National Science Foundation-Sponsored Colloquy on Minority Males in STEM”. NormanFortenberry, Catherine Didion, Beth Cady, Wei Jing, Simil Raghavan. Journal of AfricanAmerican Males in Education Feb/Mar 2011 – Vol. 2 Issue 1Boyer Commission in Educating Undergraduates in the Research Laboratory. (1998).Reinventing undergraduate Education: A blueprint for Americas research universities”. MenloPark, CA: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Page 25.523.10
are interested as many of them offermarket-oriented courses that almost guarantee them a job upon graduation. They save on salariesof the faculty by employing teaching staff on a part-time basis or by relying on teachers fromalready established public universities. The private universities are very often linked withuniversities abroad. This connection helps the students to move to USA, Canada, UK, Australia,Germany, Japan etc. for higher studies. Even though all the private universities startedfunctioning in hired premises for classrooms, laboratories and offices, they started buildingcampuses using the interest from the certificates of deposits (CD) of the profits3
proposed steps. 4. Private Tutors Available for student in need of a one-one tutoring experience. 5. Out of Class Students are exposed to scientific and non- Page 25.538.8 Experiences engineering lectures and attend field trips, all activities outside the classroom. 6. Study Laboratory (also Students are required to attend the Engineering known as Study Lab) Learning Center for at least 2 hours a week to
project assignment by providing additional depth across a range oftopics from all students.Site VisitsLastly, a key aspect we chose to integrate the Costa Rica experience into the learning objectivesis to schedule an itinerary that resembles a 3.5 week tour of the country. We will begin theprogram in the capital city of San Jose where we will meet with researchers and students at theUniversity of Costa Rica National Laboratory for Materials and Infrastructure (Lanamme) and atthe Institute for Sustainable Development. We will proceed to travel to six different locationsover 23 days, returning back to San Jose to conclude the study abroad and return to the U.S. Ateach location we have day trips planned to infrastructure sites including new highways
manifests itself aslower grades received on their various forms of assessment.Cooperative learning is an instructional approach in which students work together in groups on alearning task (e.g. assignment, project or laboratory) that is structured to have the followingessential elements1,2: 1. Positive interdependence. This refers to the need to have every team member involved in achieving the group task. This is implicitly encouraged, because if any group member fails to do their part, the whole group suffers the consequences. 2. Individual accountability. Each member will be held responsible for completing his/her contribution to accomplishing the group task and understanding the contributions of the other
. It was, therefore,tentatively assumed that the proposed new engine would most likely adhere to those parameterscharacteristic of air-cooled Gammas, the subject of the author’s earlier work. Some of thesewere constructed in the laboratory facilities at the author’s university. Utilizing their numbersguaranteed that the size of the machining equipment available would be sufficient for theproposed engine. These parameters included: power cylinder dimensions, phase angle, volumecompression ratio, displacer cylinder volume, and displacer dimensions. The power cylinderbore and stroke were 1.000” X .625” (volume = .491 in3). The phase angle was set at 90°, anangle also frequently cited in the Gamma literature. 6 The volume compression ratio was set
courses outside of the college of engineering that had a more liberal arts focus. Of theeight students who participated in the focus group, all commented that they had strong interest in Page 25.597.5traveling overseas again or working abroad in the future. Four of these pursued longer-termstudy abroad or international internship programs during the course of their undergraduatedegree, with two successfully completing programs. One spent a semester in Australia andanother participated in a six-week research laboratory course in Denmark. A third student hadapplied for a semester-long program but did not attend because of problems with course
MINDSTORMS. Apress, 2002.[5] Julie Rursch, Andy Luse, Doug Jacobson. “IT-Adventures – A Program to Spark IT Interest in High School Students using Inquiry-Based Learning with Robotics, Game Design, and Cyber Defense”. IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 53, Issue 1, pages 71-79, 2009.[6] Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory, Iowa State University, http://rcl.ece.iastate.edu/ Page 25.623.13
, andother cross disciplinary concepts. Students will gain hands-on experience with engineeringdesign, and will understand the value of collecting data to support conclusions. 5. Test your mettle:What are the “passing” criteria? What is the range of motion for a human arm? What can bepredicted using mathematical models? How do the predictions compare to the experimentalresults? What conclusions can be drawn from the data? What improvements could be made?Laboratory work associated with test your mettle includes the following: a. Construction of the bionic arm Students will bolt muscles to large wooden dowels that will serve as the bone structure for the bionic arms. The dowel rods will be connected using a clovis hinge which will serve as
. degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., both in 2004. He also received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. In 1998 and 1999, he spent 16 months as a Micromechanism Designer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. He has performed research and published more than 60 papers in design topics, including microelectromechanical systems and compliant mechanisms, and he holds seven U.S. patents. His work has been recognized by several best paper awards, the 2009 BYU Young Scholar Award, and the 2010 Utah Engineers Council Educator of the Year
, pointers, and bit manipulationcode, such as bitwise AND, OR, and XOR. Here are two exercises that could be divided up intoone or two hour lab exercises. These exercises will require the use of Xilinx’s EDK softwarethat is made available through the Xilinx University Program6.With the given background above FPGArcade could be used for several exercises in a freshmanor sophomore computer engineering course in embedded systems. A set of exercises could bedeveloped for use in the laboratory or if the students have their own boards, they could take themhome. Here are two such possible exercises for early in a computer engineering curriculum.1) Exercises for building the architecture of a game. a) Generate a sprite and place it on the screen in a
Engineering Edu- cation at Purdue University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois. He has published conference papers on cooperative learning and team innovation. His research focuses on teamwork, innovation, and laboratory education. Page 25.664.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Gender Differences in an Energy Conservation Idea Generation TaskAbstractEngineering student teams are often formed under the assumption that diversity will increaseteam innovativeness. Rather than approaching the problem from an
, Analog Devices - Germany,Trenz Electronic - Germany, ESG Elektroniksystem und Logistik - Germany, Mirifica - Italy andComputer Measurement Laboratory - USA.Sixteen teams from the four regions have competed in the finals: seven teams representing Page 25.671.8Europe region, four teams from United States region, one team from India and four teams fromChina regionals. Three of the winning teams represented Europe region and two other the Chinaregion. The winners of the worldwide finals are listed in the table below:Table I: The winners of the 2011 Munich Worldwide Finals Project Description