forengineering students. Not only would this improve the normality of the data and decrease theneed for additional analytical processes that will reduce the statistical power, but it would alsoallow for improved understanding of student learning and improved assessment of curriculumimpact on student abilities.Funding and AcknowledgementsBenjamin Call is funded by Utah State University’s Presidential Doctoral Research Fellowship.We would like to thank all of the students who participated in the study.References1. Halpern, D. F., & Collaer, M. L. (2005). The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.2. Sorby, S., Casey, B., Veurink, N., & Dulaney, A. (2013). The role of spatial training in
identified by the RACI. Inquiry-based learning activities were designedusing variation theory4 to challenge students’ conceptual understanding of rate and accumulationprocesses across multiple contexts. Activities include the use of toy bricks to construct rate andaccumulation graphs. These activities will be tested in a required sophomore civil andenvironmental engineering course. The success of these activities will be measured usingformative assessments and pre-post course RACI scores. An observation protocol will also beused to assess students’ responses to the class activities5.References1. Flynn, C.D., Davidson, C.I., Dotger, S., 2014. Engineering Student Misconceptions about Rate and Accumulation Processes, in: ASEE 2014 Zone I
programs best provide students from diverse backgrounds with a variety ofinternational experiences to maximize their global preparedness? These are questions we haveset about to answer as part of a large, multi-university study5.Specifically, in this NSF funded study of the effectiveness of various forms of internationalexperiences, we have used a nationally recognized and normed instrument to survey both firstyear and senior engineering students initially at four partner institutions, and more recently at anadditional dozen engineering programs throughout the U. S. In doing this, questions arose thatwe needed to address if we were going to better understand the impact of the various forms ofinternational educational experiences available to
ofmultiple ideas through low-fidelity prototyping allows practitioners to reframe failure as anopportunity for learning, supports a sense of forward progress, and strengthens beliefs aboutcreative ability”25. Our work adds to this growing body of literature by exploring what aspects ofprototyping student engineers are aware of as they engage in the design process, specificallyduring prototyping activities. 2.2 Prototyping Literature In this work, we use Christie et al.’s definition of a prototype as “an initial instantiation of aconcept as part of the product development process”37. Prototyping represents a large sunk costfor most companies that is overcome through the launch of a successful product; however,estimates indicate that 40-50% of
1+|𝑇 | 1+0.88356VSWR = 1−|𝑇𝐿| = 1−0.88356 = 16.176 𝐿Example: 2.2Design a broadband amplifier making use of negative feedback and calculate the S-Parameters for the equivalent circuit of the amplifier given below:Using again the Kirchhoff’s current and voltage laws, the Admittance matrix 𝑦11 𝑦12[𝑦 ] can be derived as, 21 𝑦22 1 1 𝑖 𝑅2 −𝑅2 𝑣1[ 1] = [ 1 ] [𝑣2 ] 𝑖2 𝑔𝑚 −𝑅 1 1+𝑔𝑚 2 𝑅2From the y matrix, the S-matrix can be derived as 1 𝑔𝑚 𝑍0S11= S22 = 𝐷[1- 𝑅 ] 2 (1+𝑔𝑚 𝑅1 ) 1 −2𝑔 𝑍
. Our goal is to build an online repository of well-tested, education standards-compliant biomechanics activities that are both educational and inspirational to a diverse groupof middle grade students.Bibliography 1. Brophy S, S Klein, M Portsmore, C Rogers. Advancing Engineering Education in P-12 Classrooms. Journal of Engineering Education 97(3): 369-387, 2008. 2. Douglas J, E Iversen, C Kalyandurg. Engineering in the K-12 Classroom: An Analysis of Current Practices and Guidelines for the Furture. Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education. http://www.engineeringk12.org/Engineering_in_the_K-12_Classroom.pdf, 2004. 3. Pearson G and T Young (Ed.). Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know
mentoring of students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE Fellow and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Highlights of Over a Decade of University/Community College PartnershipsAbstractIn 2002, an NSF sponsored (# 0123146) S-STEM academic scholarship program for upperdivision engineering and computer science (designated as ENGR) students materialized atArizona State University with about half of the students being transfer students. This directedattention to the need for more support for potential and actual transfer ENGR
Support Hands-on Learning in the Teaching of Control and Systems Theory,” Engineering Education, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 62–73, Jul. 2014.[5] P. S. Shiakolas and D. Piyabongkarn, “Development of a real-time digital control system with a hardware-in- the-loop magnetic levitation device for reinforcement of controls education,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 79–87, Feb. 2003.[6] R. M. Reck and R. S. Sreenivas, “Developing a new affordable DC motor laboratory kit for an existing undergraduate controls course,” in American Control Conference (ACC), 2015, 2015, pp. 2801–2806.[7] S. S. Nudehi, P. E. Johnson, and G. S. Duncan, “A control systems laboratory for undergraduate mechanical engineering
Paper ID #15618Collaboration between Seniors and Freshmen on Senior Capstone ProjectsProf. Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah Anthony Butterfield is an Assistant Professor (Lecturing) in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory and freshman design laboratory. His research interests focus on undergraduate education, targeted drug delivery, photobioreactor design, and instrumentation.Kyle Joe Branch
engineering librarians in thoseservices. The study involved the engineering librarians at all United States Class 15 (Very HighResearch Activity (RU/VH)) and Class 16 (High Research Activity (RU/H)) institutions per the2010 Basic Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The Classifications DataFile can be obtained at http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/2010/resources/. IRB clearance forthe survey was obtained from both [university A] and [university B]. The authors gathered the e-mail addresses of the engineering librarian(s) by inspection of the library website of eachinstitution. The survey was meant to elicit responses from a population that include theengineering librarians at all doctoral degree granting institutions
fair was used to make families aware of the manySTEM resources in Boston as well as to pique their interest in STEM. Engaging families is apriority of the LSA in order to encourage parents to advocate for STEM offerings in schools, aswell as to encourage the parents, who are often very young, to consider STEM education andcareer pathways for themselves.Another key feature of this event was the participation of NSF S-STEM electrical engineeringscholars from Suffolk University, who are graduates of Boston Public High Schools and who arepredominantly students of color themselves. These students engaged the fair participants inhands-on experiments about energy and electricity and served as role models for the participantsand their families
upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1262806. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. Graduate students Mr. Andreas Febrian, Mr. Matthew Cromwell, Mr. Moe Tajvidi,Ms. Maria Manuela, and Mr. Ben Call are acknowledged for their efforts in assisting inmentoring REU students. The project external evaluator Dr. Margaret Lubke is alsoacknowledged for her efforts in conducting independent evaluation of this program.Bibliography[1] Russell, S. H., Hancock, M. P., and McCullough, M., 2007, “The Pipeline: Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences,” Science, Vol
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Science Foundation (CNS #1138469, DRL#1417835, and DUE #1504293), the Scott Hudgens Family Foundation, and the Arthur M. BlankFamily Foundation.References[1] J. M. Wing, “Computational thinking and thinking about computing,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 366, no. 1881, pp. 3717–3725, 2008.[2] M. Guzdial and E. Soloway, “Teaching the Nintendo generation to program,” Commun. ACM, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 17–21, Apr. 2002.[3] A. Bruckman, M. Biggers, B. Ericson, T. McKlin, J. Dimond, B. DiSalvo, M. Hewner, L. Ni, and S. Yardi, “‘Georgia computes!’: improving the computing education pipeline,” in Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer
implementation. Peer Review, 16(1), 1-8. Retrieved from https://www.aacu.org/peerreview/2014/winter/linking-advising-and- eportfolios-for-engagementAshikin, H. T., Ruhizan, M. Y., & Rohani, S. (2015). E-portfolio model development for the professional practice bachelor of teaching (PISMP) in Malaysia. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 174, 1262-1269. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.746Cheng, S.-I., Chen, S.-C., & Yen, D. C. (2015). Continuance intention of E-portfolio system: A confirmatory and multigroup invariance analysis of technology acceptance model. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 42, 17-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csi.2015.03.002Dunbar-Hall, P., Rowley, J
Emulation Engine (BEE) (both Ettus Research and BeeCube were part of NationalInstruments Corporation now), Rice University’s Wireless Open-Access Research Platform(WARP), Microsoft Research’s Software Radio Platform for Academic Use (SORA), andDatasoft’s Typhoon SDR Development Platform. Due to the highest versatility for lowest cost,USRP N200 kit 18 and SBX daughterboard 18 that provides 400 MHz-4400 MHz accessiblefrequency range were selected for the REU project and the educational module presented in thefollowing two sections. The main component of the USRP N200 kit is a motherboard thatconsists of a Xilinx Spartan FPGA for all the physical layer functions such as filtering,modulation/demodulation and other baseband signal processing, 100 MS/s
these identity frameworks in the broaderliterature. To be fair, in the broader literature there have only been a few claims that identity isexplicitly distinct from other constructs such as self-efficacy2 or the expectancy-value theory ofachievement motivation.3 However, in the last five years some have made this distinction. Forexample, Lent, R. W., Brown, S. D., & Hackett, G.4 expand on Bandura’s theory of self-efficacyto the extent of illuminating the importance of self-efficacy in academic persistence. While thisis not explicitly identity, self-efficacy is a theoretically relevant construct that had to be takeninto consideration in this review as it is often associated with identity measures.Table 1 Categorization of Identity Studies by
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1 = Black/African American Louisiana Residency (State) 0 = Non-Resident 1 = Resident High School Rank (HSRank) 0.2 – 100 High School GPA (HSGPA) 1.59 – 4.0 ACT component scores Science Score (ACT S) 7 – 36 Mathematics Score (ACT M) 14 – 36 English Score (ACT E) 11 – 36 Reading Score (ACT R) 12 – 36ParticipantsThe participants involved in this study include first-time-in-college (FTIC) freshmen whoentered the university in any school year between 2006 and 2015 and declared an engineeringdiscipline as their major. Enrollment in a university seminar class that all FTIC freshmen
increases. Thus we denoteproduction cost as ci (z), where the first derivative ciz < 0. In addition, let s(β, γ)denote the collaboration cost. The mathematical model for the firm’s payoff is: ΠI = b1 z − M − s(β, γ) − ci (z) (2)where b1 is a positive constant and b1 >> 0. We assume furthermore that s(β, γ)is convex with respect to both β and γ. The collaboration cost increases as the GAME THEORY APPROACH ON A UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION MODEL 7relevance γ decreases, but at a decay rate. That is, sγ < 0 and sγγ > 0. And ci (z)is also convex with respect to z.2.5. Formulation of the University’s Model. The payoff of the university fromthe collaboration
provide further insight intostudent perceptions. The following observations are noted for data summarized in Table 7: The highest survey response (96%) was noted for perceived student understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. This outcome also has the lowest standard deviation (9%) indicating a concurrence of student perception on this professional skills outcome and providing further evidence of a strong positive response.Table 5. FE Exam Ethics and Business Practice Results, 2009-2015 (n=220) FE Exam Institution CE National Avg. Ratio of Institutional Avg. Administration Avg. % Correct % Correct % Correct / National Avg. S 2009 (2) 88
: M = {X, Y, S, ta, δext , δint , λ},Where:X - set of input events;Y - set of output events;S - set of sequential states (also called the set of partial states);ta - time advance function used to determine the lifespan of a state;δext : Q × X → S - the external transition function defining how an input event changes astate of the systemδint : S → S - the internal transition function describing the way how system state changesinternally ϕ ϕλ :S →Y - is the output function where Y =Y ∪{φ} and φ ∉Y is a ”silent” or an”unobserved” event.Our model consists of the several equipment units represented as atomic models. Units statesare updated dynamically starting from the physical representation of the
activities were internalized, benefitted their development, and could possibly be improved to maximize impact on subsequent cohorts.A. Academic outcomes from the project C.1 The objectives of this project were consistent with my research interests C.2 This experiential learning project had an impact on my hands-on/laboratory skills and data collecting skills Which one(s) in particular? C.3 This project had an impact on my presentation skills Which ones(s) in particular? C.4 This project developed my technical skills C.5 This activity enhanced my content knowledge? C.6 I was able to integrate knowledge from many different sources and disciplines (example, chemistry, biology, engineering, technology, computer science, environmental sciences, etc)B
. Responses Questions Team consisting of Team consisting of two students individual student (one h/w focused and one s/w focused)Approximate time • 55 total hours (30 hours for s/win hours you • 24 hours focused student and 25 hours for h/wworked on this focused student)projectLevel of difficulty(1 5, with 1 asextremely easy, 3 as • 4.3 for s/w focused student • 4moderately difficult, • 4 for h/w focused student5 as extremelydifficult
survey examinesthese collaborative relationships only in the United States, while it is important to include foreignliterature in the historical development of these relationships.BackgroundIndustry-academia collaboration is not a new concept as we find the earliest discussion occurringat the end of the 1960’s,3 in Russia. These collaborations sponsored by the governments ofcountries4,5 interested in promoting this kind of activity, eventually became individualrelationships between companies and universities throughout the rest of the world. Currentliterature indicates that such relationships became more of the norm in the late 1990’s and in thelast decade commonplace in various forms. Recently, consideration of minorities, women, andother
is having difficulties in their process and step in to assist.Design challenges provide a safe environment for students to feel the pressure of working on achallenge problem with a tight timeline. However, the stakes are not so high that failure iscatastrophic. In addition, they see where they are failing and work to develop methods toanticipate failure conditions and avoid them. Further studies need to be performed to determineif students’ increase in skills and confidence transfer to their other design experience in theiracademic and professional careers.REFERENCES 1. ABET. (2000). ABET Engineering criteria 2000: criteria for accrediting programs in engineering in the United States. 2. Jamieson, L., Brophy, S., Houze, N
0 0 3For calculating the TE values represented in table 2, based on TE equation, joint probabilities arecalculated for emerging node degrees observed in table 1. Table 2. Transfer Entropy values calculated based on table 1 Source Node Destination Node Transfer Entropy Transfer Entropy (S) (D) (S-D) (D-S) N1 N2 0 0.2442191 N2 N3 0 0.2073259 N3 N4 0.09370405 0 N4 N5 0.150515
Engineering Education, 2016 Performance of Engineering and Engineering Technology Scholars in the Transfer Pipeline (TiPi) ProgramAbstractThis paper introduces the Transfer Pipeline (TiPi) Scholars’ program funded by the NationalScience Foundation (NSF) that focuses on students who transfer at the 3rd year level from 2-yearschools to our university. The objectives of the TiPi program are: (i) to address a nationalconcern by helping to expand the engineering/technology workforce of the future, (ii) to developlinkages and articulations with 2-year schools and their S-STEM programs, (iii) to serve as amodel for other selective universities to provide transfer students the access to the baccalaureate,(iv) to give scholars hands-on
- Non- STAR Non- STAR STAR STARS STAR S STARS S S S Year-to-year retention in N/A N/A 73% 62% N/A N/A Engineering Year-to-year retention at N/A N/A 77% 73% N/A N/A university Average cumulative GPA 2.26 2.34 2.64 2.80 2.74 2.35 Performance in math courses 1.96 1.68 1.85 2.04 2.68 2.35 Performance in