English as a SecondLanguage (ESL) are not capable of evaluating domestic student writing. This resistance to theidea of training ESL GTAs is rooted in the outdated belief that good writing can be reduced toproper grammar, punctuation, and style. The thought is that if someone has not mastered theminutia of English mechanics (this supposition about NNES students is problematic itself), thatperson is unlikely to be able to teach others those rules. It is true that people who speak Englishas a second language struggle to write academic papers in English [21]. However, there is alsobias on the part of American academics and undergraduate students with regard to languageability when a non-native speaker of English steps into the role of instructor [22
Paper ID #17015Fis-Mat Integrated Physics and Mathematics: A Proposal for a CurricularSequenceProf. Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) Angeles Dominguez is a Professor of the Department of Mathematics within the School of Engineering, a researcher at the School of Education, and the Chair of the Master of Education at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. Also, she is currently collaborating with the School of Engineering at the Uni- versity Andres Bello at Santiago, Chile. Angeles holds a bachelor degree in Physics Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey and a doctoral degree in Mathematics
students demonstrated ability to master the skills ofthe NGSS best practices. Data collected is in the form of qualitative observations from theteacher-engineer pair, student team reflection. Students were able to ask a question, conduct andexperiment, and communicate the results in a clear and easy to understand format to an authenticaudience. They also learned gastronomy skills, like using a knife, figuring out how to pipette,and the artistic plating of a finished dish. Molecular gastronomy was used to increase student content knowledge and skillsassociated with macromolecules throughout a 10-week unit on food science that related to the9th grade biology and chemistry curriculum. All students demonstrated mastery of theengineering design
sides of the interaction – industry and university. We further aimed to derive generalproblems arising within the current setup of the collaboration between the IT service companyand the higher educational institution. Based on the results of the analysis presented in the nextsection, we a framework for university-industry collaboration where we consider short- andlong-term activities, which have to be undertaken in order to build a successful relationship.The framework is industry-oriented, which means that we review the situation where theindustry partner acts as an initiator of the collaboration and has then to compete for a betterrepresentation in the university.KEY FINDINGSDuring the interview with bachelor and master students, it was
1999; web in 2001). From 1996 to 2003, she ran a consulting firm that provided technical communication services to such organizations as PSE&G Nuclear, City of Philadelphia’s Department of Energy, and Sarnoff Corporation.Ms. Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada - Las Vegas Susan Wainscott is the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Librarian for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas University Libraries. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University and a Master of Science in Biological Sciences from Illinois State University. As liaison librarian to several departments at UNLV, she teaches information literacy for many students, provides reference
Technology, Athens, Greece. He has published more than 50 referred journal and conference papers and 4 book chapters. He has been project manager and a member of several research and industrial grants. Dr. Agrawal actively serves as committee member and reviewer for conferences and journals in his area of research. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM, and ASEE.Mr. Myron L. Stevenson, North Carolina A&T State University Myron Stevenson is a candidate for a Masters of Information Technology degree at North Carolina A&T State University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications from Elon University in 1998. Myron has over 15 years experience in information technology. He is currently a
these open-ended hands-on design projects and they agreed that there hasbeen a lack of hands-on design experiences in the curriculum, and hands-on design projectswould be invaluable to better prepare them for the job market. Students who participated in thesedesign projects mastered the topics involved better than those who did not. Challenges ofimplementing these projects continuously for a long term, such as, budget, logistics, courseworkload, will be addressed as well and ways to run these projects in a sustainable way in thelong run will be suggested.Course and Hands-on Design Projects DescriptionIntroduction to EngineeringThe introduction to engineering course is a 2-credit multi-disciplinary required course formechanical engineering
months.Ms. Ashly Locke, Florida Polytechnic University Ashly Locke is a fifteen year Navy veteran and a Lab Technician at Florida Polytechnic University. She received a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering Technology from Purdue University. Currently she is pursuing a master of science in Electrical Engineering at Florida Polytechnic University. Prior to joining Florida Polytechnic’s inaugural staff; she worked for fourteen years in the automotive electronics and eighteen months in the aircraft electronics industries. She has extensive experience in the education and training of adult learners. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 POSTER: Improved Student
Paper ID #15611Teaching Work-Holding in Undergraduate ClassesDr. Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University Dr Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan – Siva is a Srilankan by birth and a citizen of the United Kingdom. His experience in Sri-lanka started with an year’s post-graduate apprenticeship in the manufacturing shops of the Government Railway and nine years in the Cement Industry. He graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from University of Srilanka, and obtained his Masters from the University of Aston and PhD from City University of London, both in the UK. He started his career in the UK as the Senior
engineering manager for HP and AMD. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Consulting Engineering Model for the EE Capstone ExperienceI. abstractThe ABET-accredited EE degree program at the University of Washington Bothell was started in2009 with 24 students. Currently, the total enrollment in the program, including BSEE andMSEE students, is approximately 250 students. The program has achieved significant supportfrom the surrounding industrial base in our metropolitan area, largely due to the success of its EECapstone Experience.The Capstone program was created with the following educational objectives: Master the soft-skills necessary for success in industry Experience a complete product
example in discussion with 0.55 (α=0.67) others Convincing others to accept my ideas 0.49 Learning new things from people I’m working with 0.45Compared to the initial seven constructs, the EFA extracted the six factors depicted in Figure 2.Engineering Competence. This factor is composed of four items and represents engineeringgraduate students’ perception of mastering challenging engineering knowledge and skills. Allitems were from the initial framework of the engineering competence/performance construct.Engineering Interest. Four items were associated with engineering graduate students’ interest inlearning and working in engineering. All four
sector will need to be re-mapped and re-stitchedtogether. However, a shifted map may be stitched in the beginning, and the user may not realizethat the basis of the master map is now distorted, which is very plausible depending on the floorlayout being mapped. It is also possible that a newly inserted map section could be correctlymapped, but may not fit into the current master map because of the original shifted map. This canget the user stuck in a loop, not knowing which sectors are correctly mapped and inserted intothe stitched map. Figure 1.2 Floor Plan Map Figure 1.3 Robot-Made MapUsing a building floor-plan to create a ROS map. If the user has access to a floor plan of the building, it could be
completed his Master of Science in Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University with a thesis investigating middle school engineering self-efficacy beliefs. He previously taught middle school and undergraduate technology courses, accompanying both experiences with classroom research to improve practice.Prof. Nathan Mentzer, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Nathan Mentzer is an associate professor in the Purdue Polytechnic with a joint appointment in the Col- lege of Education at Purdue University. Hired as a part of the strategic P12 STEM initiative, he prepares Engineering/Technology candidates for teacher licensure. Dr. Mentzer’s educational efforts in pedagogi- cal content knowledge are guided by a research
comprehensive research agenda related to issues of curriculum and instruction in engineering education, motivation and preparation of under served pop- ulations of students and teachers and in assessing the impact of operationalizing culturally responsive teaching in the STEM classroom. As executive director of the LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research, she collaborates on various state and national STEM education programs and is PI on major grant initiatives through NASA MUREP and NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education and NSF DUE . Araceli holds Engineering degrees from The University of Michigan and Kettering University. She holds a Masters degree in Education from Michigan State and a PhD in Engineering
the Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and managed programs encouraging and supporting en- trepreneurship around Stevens Campus. Before coming to Stevens, Sandra worked as a consulting en- gineer with Stantec and T&M Associates specializing in Urban Land Redevelopment and Municipal Engineering. Sandra holds a B.S. Degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering, an A. B. degree in Art History, and a Master of Engineering degree in Engineering Management from Stevens Institute of Technology. She also holds a Professional Engineering license in NJ.Matthew Wade, Stevens Institute of Technology Matt is an enthusiastic and proven entrepreneur with 24 years experience focused on inventing and build- ing
Paper ID #29122Partnership to Prepare Students for Careers in the Emerging Field ofCybersecurityDr. James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., Texas A&M University Dr. James K. Nelson received a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from the University of Dayton in 1974. He received the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in civil engineering from the University of Houston. During his graduate study, Dr. Nelson specialized in structural engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in three states, a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom, and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is also a
responses were exported from Google Forms, to Google Sheets and downloaded as a.csv file. This .csv file was loaded into Microsoft Excel as the primary vehicle for the analysis.The analysis began by making an assortment of pivot tables from the master data to summarizekey demographics, including: age, gender, country, industrial sectors, years of experience,primary CAD tools used, etc. Correlations between variables were identified using the pandaslibrary in Python.4.0 Initial Results and Insights4.1 Overview of the DatasetThe Tables 1 and 2 below outline the summary statistics from the demographic and designprocess related questions asked to the respondents, respectively. Figures 4 and 5 showdistributions of the age distributions of the
AC 2007-1076: NON-TRADITIONAL BACHELOR DEGREE PROGRAMS ANDOPTIONS OFFERED BY ENGINEERING SCHOOLS: THEIR IMPACT ONTRADITIONAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMSE. Bernard White, George Mason University E. Bernard White received the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Virginia (Charlottesville) in Systems Engineering. He has studied at a wide range of universities, earning bachelor and master degrees in mathematics from Mississippi Industrial College and the University of Illinois (Urbana), respectively. He earned a master degree in Urban Systems Engineering from Howard University (Washington, D.C.). Mr. White worked as a research engineer and assistant professor in the Howard
” ofinformation that working memory can contain is, as expressed in the title of a widelycited article, “The magical number seven plus or minus two” 13.3. Long-term memory, on the other hand, appears to be essentially unlimited. Learning“may be defined as the encoding (storage) of knowledge and/or skills into long termmemory in such a way that the knowledge and skills may be recalled and applied at alater time on demand”2.4. One key concept in CLT is “schema” acquisition. A schema is an element of long-term memory that a) although it may refer to multiple pieces of data, may be brought intoworking memory and treated as a single “chunk” of information, and b) containsinformation about how the data will be used. A chess master seeing a
57.14 7.14 0.00 Item Item Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Postbac Masters Doctoral Other ID Z04 Classification 0.00 0.00 0.00 92.86 0.00 0.00 0.00 Page 13.58.12Table 4: Evaluation of the microcontroller course adapted with the Freescale student learning kitfor spring 2007 Item Strongly Agree Disagree Strongly NR
United States Air Force as a scientist, engineer, educator, and acquisitions officer prior to his academic career.Jihan Dinally, Florida Institute of Technology Jihan Dinally recently graduated with her Master of Science Systems Engineering degree at Florida Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. As an Engineering Technician for Research Triangle Institute International, she developed custom, two-dimensional interpolation schemes, employing the ArcView Geographic Information System, and MatLab environment. During the beginning of her Master's in Systems Engineering program, she worked as a Test and Mechanical Engineer for Mnemonics, Inc
AC 2008-263: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO GRADING A MECHANICALENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE AT THE UNITED STATESMILITARY ACADEMYRichard Melnyk, United States Military Academy Major Rich Melnyk graduated from West Point in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He earned a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix in 2007. He served as an Instructor and Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at West Point from 2004 to 2007. During that time, Major Melnyk was the course director for two of the three courses in the
unnecessarilystrapping the other participants with requirements and parameters that stifle creativity.Although the host school should leave as many decisions as possible up to the participantschools, certain requirements simply must be set—even if the decision to do so seems arbitrary: Software versions Start and end dates Interim review and report dates Master project schedule Overarching project objectives Necessary project parametersSetting these requirements will eliminate confusion between participant schools and speed thestart of the project. In respect to the project objectives particularly, the host must ensure that theparticipants have correctly interpreted the master objectives into local objectives, goals
2006-2012: APPLYING THE COMPETING VALUES FRAMEWORK TOSELF-MANAGED TEAMSCarmen Zafft, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Carmen Zafft is a graduate student in Agricultural Leadership Education and Communication at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is pursuing her masters in Leadership Development and her research interests are in teambuilding, servant leadership, and mentoring relationships. Carmen graduated with a B.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska.Stephanie Adams, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Page 11.228.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Applying the Competing
need to meet the high expectations the profession has for strongwriting skills and other communication skills (e.g. oral presentations, and drawings). Thoughsimilar to the communication skills required by scientists and technologists, engineers areexpected to master significantly different communication skills than other university students.For example, engineering students need to learn how to write succinctly and objectively witha passive voice. This change in writing can mean that students may need to unlearn some ofthe writing skills they acquired before entering an engineering degree. Page 23.722.21 Now at Chalmers University of Science and
Paper ID #7480Industry practice training through modular classroom exercisesDr. Arthur Felse, Northwestern University Dr. P. Arthur Felse is a lecturer in the Master of Biotechnology Program and the Department of Chemi- cal and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. His responsibilities include teaching, student advising, coordinating masters students’ research training, and managing the biotechnology teaching lab- oratory. Before joining Northwestern University, Dr. Felse completed his post-doctoral training at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University where he received the EPA’s Presidential Green
continuous smooth functions. Suchbarriers include lack of focus, lack of structure, unmotivated definitions, the clutter ofapplications, the number of pages in the texts and the emphasis on proofs at the expense of trueinsight and the essential needs of our society for a citizenry capable of understandingmathematical concepts.In our society calculus has had a reputation for being difficult to master. If this subject isintroduced to a much wider high school audience in the same way it has been taught in colleges,it might turn out to deter more students from entering the Science, Technology, Engineering andMath (STEM) disciplines. However maintaining our national technological leadership requiresthat STEM enrollments increase and that more of our
Paper ID #8195LEARNING HOW TO LEARN AND TEACH: MENTOR AND MENTEETEAMDr. Vishwas Narayan Bedekar, University of Arkansas Dr. Vishwas N. Bedekar is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical En- gineering at the University of Arkansas under the mentoring of Prof. Ajay P. Malshe since January 2011. Dr. Bedekar holds a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering with emphasis on ”Design of novel sensor architectures combined with energy harvesting techniques”, Masters and Bachelor’s degree both in Mechanical Engineering. He has several (6+) years of experience in synthesis and
questions were as follows: (1) how learning trajectories were related withconflicts and innovation competency from students’ perspective? (2) how learningtrajectories were related with conflicts and innovation competency from academic staff’sperspectives? (3) how students and academic staff’s perspectives were similar and differentfrom the literatures? Besides providing a brief literature review, we collected empiricaldata by one-year observation and 14 interviews in one engineering master program,Environment Management, at +++ University, Denmark. The empirical findings displaydiverse views on conflicts in relation to innovation competency from both students andacademic staff’s statement, which reminded educators to reflect the use
Page 23.341.4 avoidaance (15% of course gra ade).4. Project 2 using 2 types of simple bipedal bots (GERWALK or BiPed) and RoboPlus’ Manager, Task & Motion tools: a. Servo control (position control mode) and Motion Programming. b. Bipedal bots negotiating stairs steps while keeping dynamic balance (15% of course grade).5. Project 3 using multiple robots in Master-Slave(s) control mode: a. Option 1 - using 3 car-bots and PC acting as base station develop a Wireless Sensor Network using C/C++ programming on the PC side or LabView and TASK programming on the robots side or, b. Option 2 – using a Quadruped robot with dual controllers: i. RS