/SIMULINK”, Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, CA, October 22-24, 2008.7. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, www.nrel.org8. MSX-60 and MSX-64 Photovoltaic Modules, http://www.californiasolarcenter.org/newssh/pdfs/Solarex-MSX64.pdf Page 25.1201.11
the market, for which I had to choose between many characteristics such assize of the work-table, number of axles, power, operating system, CAM software, etc. Accordingto the needs of my project and the available budget, the best option was to purchase a ProbotixFireBall V90CNC router. The details of this equipment are described in detail on Appendix C.Heat GunSince shape memory polymers are activated by heat, during the summer an industrial furnacelocated in a TAMUK laboratories was used for the experiments. This can be considered adisadvantage for the Legacy Cycle, especially when experiments need to be performed in theclassroom. However, as an alternative heat source, a heat gun with variable temperature (RyobiHG500) was bought, which
Distribution of Power on Earth” 6 which is described as thenext great economic revolution.Accordingly, the author is often asked, including by reviewers, why not hydrogen fuel cells thatcan also produce electricity and heat, rather than the “Electricity Producing CondensingFurnace.” It is a good question. Fuel cell research is being performed in universities andindustrial laboratories around the world. Auto manufacturers continue to research and promotefuel cells for future vehicles.The author answers these queries by first explaining that although hydrogen is called a fuel, itreally is not a fuel, in the same way that electricity is not a fuel. Hydrogen and electricity arehighly refined mediums for transferring energy. Neither one is found in a
the UA, Jim 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 Uni- versity of Melbourne. In 2009, he was recognized by ChEE and the College for Excellence at the Student Interface. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Lambda Upsilon honor societies, as well as the College of Fellows at Rice University’s Will Rice College. Jim’s research interests include transport processes in natural
Design (SUTD). Wood completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering (Division of Engineering and Applied Science) at the California Institute of Technology, where he was an AT&T Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in Sept. 1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory Page 25.752.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 for research in engineering design and manufacturing. He was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in
classroom, and a conference room was used for the charrette. Teamwork sessions were primarily held in computer laboratories and study rooms. 4) Instructor’s Role: There were two instructors who acted primarily as liaisonsthroughout the project. They provided guidance and distributed project information to thestudents throughout each of the three phases. In addition, there was a charrette guide whoassisted with the integration of the charrette framework into the design course. Information waspresented to the students at the beginning of the course and guidance on resources anddeliverables was provided throughout.In order to explain the application of the charrette process in detail, the three phases of thecharrette framework are discussed in
moredetail the ways in which writing supports learning. For example, recent work by Carter, Ferzli,and Wiebe has examined the ways in which writing in disciplinary courses in college helpsstudents develop a strong socialization into the practices and norms of the discipline, acting as ameans of enculturation [49]. Their study, in many ways, seeks to bridge the divide betweenlearning to write and writing-to-learn by identifying ways in which learning to write in aparticular discipline supports not only students’ ability to communicate in their chosen field, butalso supports their broader learning of that field. Their study of students in a biology lab suggeststhat the laboratory report, when framed in terms of a model of apprenticeship and
Gilbuena, Oregon State University Debra Gilbuena is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State University. She currently has research focused on student learning in virtual laboratories. Gilbuena has an M.B.A., an M.S., and four years of industrial experience, including a po- sition in sensor development, an area in which she holds a patent. Her dissertation is focused on the characterization and analysis of feedback in engineering education. She also has interests in the diffusion of effective educational interventions and practices.Dr. John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, BoulderDr. David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky David L. Silverstein is
courses. Several schools have adopted project-based or laboratory-basedapproaches to incorporate active learning. For example, the University of Florida converted theirlecture-based Introduction to Engineering course into a series of labs focusing on the variousdisciplines. They found that the active learning approach was preferable and saw significant increases inretention6. Other schools have taken similar approaches by having students participate in bothdiscipline-specific and multidisciplinary projects7,8,9. At North Carolina State University, student teamswere asked to conduct research about a particular discipline and give short (5-10 minute) presentationsto the rest of the class10. Additionally, students were required to attend at least
2011 Ray Fahien Award. Her group has published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Lab on a Chip, and had an AIChE Journal cover. She is an active mentor of undergraduate researchers and served as co-PI on an NSF REU site. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. ERL) also inspires the development of Desktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activities in area schools. Adrienne has been an active member of ASEE’s WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams since 2003.Dr. Keisha B. Walters, Mississippi State University Keisha B. Walters joined the chemical engineering faculty at Mississippi State University
note are those organizations that have repeatedlysponsored our project: Harris, Air Force Research Laboratory-Munitions Directorate (EglinAFB), Cummins, Keuka Wind, Center for Advanced Power Systems, and Danfoss-Turbocor.Their involvement has been the key to the continued success of our program.Also would like to thanks the three international universities, the chair of all three engineeringdepartments at our university, for their vision and leadership which is also a key to making theinternational and the multidisciplinary projects a reality.References1. Globalization of Science and Engineering Research, Science and Engineering Indicators 2010, the National Science Board.2. R. Hovsapian, C. Shih, B. Harvey and O. Okoli , An Overview
course is taught round-robin-style with teaching blocks of electricalengineering (with a electrical professor), mechanical engineering (with a mechanical professor),engineering laboratories (with a technology professor), general engineering and two-weekrobotics project (with electrical or mechanical professor), and simultaneous two-week largeproject (with each professor). The mechanical and electrical blocks each include several single-day projects and labs, while the general engineering block includes upperclassman, studentgroup, and alumni speakers to better EGR120 students’ understanding of engineering both atCMICH and in the workforce.EGR120 has consistently drawn a relatively higher, and growing, enrollment each year (currently
checklist. Carefully document the decision to remove items and retain all items removed for later review. 3. Review the active checklist to determine if it is representative of the publications of the user community and provides appropriate items to complete the evaluation. Questions that may be asked: Are the items in the checklist published in venues used by and on topics of interest to target group? For example, if the checklist includes articles on the education of elementary students and the main target group is research scientists in national laboratories, it may be appropriate to remove these items
AC 2012-4414: GENERAL EDUCATION: KEY FOR SUCCESS FOR ANENTREPRENEURIAL ENGINEERING CAREERDr. Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering Owe Petersen is Department Chair and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Mil- waukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. His technical work ranges over topics such as optical data links, integrated circuit technology, RF semiconductor com- ponents, and semiconductor component reliability. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC Program Evaluator in electrical engineering.Dr. R. David Kent, Milwaukee
won awards for research and teaching excellence from the Society for Information Management, NEEDS, Decision Sciences Institute, American Society for Engineering Education, Amer- ican Society for Mechanical Engineering, International Network for Engineering Education & Research, Computer World, Campus Technology, and the Project Management Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education and the Managing Editor of the Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research.Dr. P.K. Raju, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE)Mr. Nanda Kumar B.S. Nanda Kumar B.S. is Assistant Construction Manager, Center of Excellence & Futuristic
assessment of the projects atboth the university and intermediate schools. For the fifth grade classes, a workbook includedbackground materials and exercises for before, during, and after the event, including pre and postsurveys on perceptions of engineering and science. For the college students, a complete set oflectures and laboratory assignments introduced programming concepts in LabVIEW for a half-semester team design project.I2D2 encompasses two primary activities during a day-long event in which the fifth gradersvisited the university. In the first activity, Robotic Pets, the engineering students led a LEGO®“Serious Play” exercise to solicit ideas from their fifth grade customers for robotic animal toys.In the second activity, the Freewheeling
, open-access library of highquality, hands-on, team-based curriculum modules for use in first-year college courses inelectrical engineering (EE), computer engineering (CE), biomedical engineering (BE), electricalengineering technology (EET), and computer science (CS).To be eligible to apply for this program, a person must be a faculty member who teachesElectrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineeringand/or Electrical Engineering Technology at a university that grants degrees in accredited EE,CE, CS, BE and/or EET programs.These curriculum modules are designed to be used by faculty members around the world whoteach first-year students in introductory laboratory courses. The modules are stand-alone unitseach
Page 25.754.11approach will be evaluated after our student cohorts finish their college education and enter theworkforce. This will be done through a longitudinal study by monitoring and tracking our then-alumni cohorts who attended classes covering software testing as undergraduates. We areconfident that even a partial success will cascade into software development and manifest itselfin the form of lower software defect rates and software maintenance costs.AcknowledgmentThis work is supported by the National Science Foundation's Transforming UndergraduateEducation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES) program (formerlyCourse, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program) under Award No. DUE-1023071.Any opinions
59 92 Regular 53 60 ENGR 3600 Online 110 92 120 Regular 97 95 Total Enrollment 320 306 212Research Related to the Courses A third and largely unexpected development of these courses, due in part to the largenumber of students in each, is that the courses provide an ideal laboratory for quantitativeresearch as to their effectiveness. This includes the study of online course delivery incomparison to more traditional teaching methods with respect to the impact of such technologieson higher
] Access downlink bandwidth [bit/s]Figure 1: Download time (course web page) Figure 2: Download time (lecture recording) versusversus access bandwidth. access bandwidth.The second set of results introduce objective performance measures and subjective userperceived performance for a Remote Access Laboratory activity that involves writing and testinga short script that controls a hardware relay. Details of the experiments are outside the scope ofthis paper and are discuss in another article.6 Figure 3 depicts the Mean Opinion Score of testsubjects (excellent = 5; good = 4; fair = 3; poor = 2; bad = 1) versus RTT. Figure 4 depictsrelative task duration versus RTT, for the same
, “Developing a Systems Approach to Engineering Problem Solvingand Design of Experiments in a Racecar-Based Laboratory Course,” Journal of EngineeringEducation, January 2011, pp. 109-112.7 Dym, C.L., “Design, Systems, and Engineering Education,” International Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 305-312, 2004.8 “The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century”, The National AcademiesPress, USA, 2004. Available: http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10999&page=389 Prince, M.J. and R.M. Felder, “Inductive Teaching and Learning Methods: Definitions,Comparisons, and Research Bases,” Journal of Engineering Education, April 2006, pp. 123-138.10 Mills, J.E., and Treagust, D.F., “Engineering Education—Is Problem
Ralf Yorque Memorial Best Paper Prize. Rodriguez has also served on various national technical committees and panels. He is currently serving on the fol- lowing National Academies panels: Survivability and Lethality Analysis, and Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Autonomous Systems. Personal website: http://aar.faculty.asu.edu/.Dr. Richard A. Hall Jr., Cochise Community College Richard (Bubba) Hall is the Dean of Math, Science, and Health Science at Cochise College and PI of the NSF Cochise Community College METSTEP program. He is working closely with Arizona State University’s METS program and Office of Academic Partnerships to build transfer pathways for Cochise College engineering students to Arizona State. Under
University of Technology in Iran and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, all in mechanical engineering. He continued his postdoctoral research studies at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and joined the CSULB faculty in 1981. Toossi has worked both as a research scientist and consultant on various projects related to aqueous aerosols and droplets in the atmosphere, nuclear safety, sensor design, air pollution dispersion modeling, flame propagation, fluid mechanics, and fiber optics. His current interests include conducting research and teaching courses in heat transfer, combustion, hybrid-electric vehicles, hydrogen storage, environmental engineering, and renewable energy sources
. The POGIL approach relies on inquirybased, student-centered classrooms and laboratories that enhance learning skills whileinsuring content mastery.8,9,10 With POGIL, students can acquire key processing skills as theylearn the discipline content. Our new instructional strategies are to improve or develop thematerials and manufacturing curriculum utilizing by “Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry-Learning” (POGIL). With POGIL, students can acquire key processing skills as they learnthe discipline content.Literature in the field of student learning indicates that the POGIL approach has beeneffectively used in disciplines such as mathematics, biology, and chemistry for post-secondary education.9 However, we have found no reports proving the efficacy
under certain illumination conditions produces different-colored solutions. 1936 Erwin Muller, at Siemens research Laboratory, invents the field emission microscope, making it possible to achieve near-atomic-resolution of imaged materials. 1947 John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain, at Bell labs, create the first semiconductor transistor, ending the era of vacuum tubes and laying the foundation for solid state electronics devices and the information era. 1950 Victor La Mer and Robert Dinegar develop the theory and a process for growing monodisperse colloidal materials. This controlled ability to fabricate colloids
, buttranslating that idea into actions requires planning. So before you can write any code, you haveto take the time to explore the possible techniques and technologies. The core infrastructure of aniOS app is built from objects in the UIKit framework. There are some resources that must bepresent in all iOS apps. Most apps include images, sounds, and other types of resources forpresenting the app’s content, but the App store may also require some specific resources. Youmay like to refer to iOS App Programming Guide 11 for further details.ResultsSo far we have used this series of modular smart phone laboratory exercises only on two sets ofstudents. The first experimental set of students have given us some limited feedback. Overall thestudent critique was
. Work Experience: Utah State University, Jan. 2010 to present, instructor for ETE 1020 energy, power, transportation systems control technology exploration of the concepts and processes relating to the control and automation (both hard and programmable) of technical systems in the areas of energy and power, transportation, and agricultural and related biotech- nologies. California University of PA, Jan. 2008 to May 2009, Teaching Assistant. Assisted the professor in class preparation, lesson plans, and distribution of materials Also gain teaching experience by lecturing the class section which deals with programming robots. Managed a laboratory, which allowed students to complete experiments. AT&T Broadband
below.Innovation spaceThis group worked on the development of the physical building that could service as a facilityfor learning design, building, and exploring entrepreneurial principles. In year one, a groupcomprised of all engineering students, focused on developing a space that was cheap,manageable, and inspirational. The initial motivation for the innovation space was an idea of anextremely low-cost fabrication laboratory 16. In developing the space, a series of questions weredeveloped to be answered in the field: 1. How are buildings built in Tanzania? 2. What are the options for power supply? 3. What tools and materials are readily available to build with?This group spent a significant amount of time in the field trying to fill these gaps
knowledge thatgoes beyond the short term, encourages their ability to synthesize information, and to engage inpeer-to-peer collaborations. In order for students to be able to be actively involved in this type ofa learning format, engaging and adaptive course resources need to be readily available.Furthermore the course structure highlights the need for student access to content on currentemerging energy sources and related technologies as well as the ability to maintain a solidreference for future use.Yet there is no one such site or source of such information. Textbooks for these topics have notbeen written, given that information for such is emerging from research laboratories to appliedcommercial interests. For these “new” energy sources