portions of the project. This step is represented by Quadrant #2 where students begin to work individually on Page 12.373.4 their portion of the project. Their understanding of the design project and process is still general since it was determined by social interactions with the team and/or instructor. 3) In order to make an individual contribution to the team effort the student must master a portion of the design project by internalizing the design process and adapting their personal skills and knowledge to the task. In Quadrant #3 the learning cycle advances through internalization and individual practice; the student appropriates
31, 2006, http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/jmhill/projects/nod4/index.htm 5. Tom Swan, Mastering Turbo Assembler, second edition, copyright 1995 by Tom Swan, published by Sams. Page 12.438.13
engineering programs continues to be of great concern giventhe demographics of the US workforce that predicts that by 2010, 67% of the entrants into theworkforce will be women and minorities (see Figure 1).1 At the baccalaureate level, womendominate the ranks, earning 56% of the undergraduate degrees in 2002.2 Women earned nearlyhalf of all degrees in law (48%) and medicine (46%), 41% of the masters in businessadministration, 36% of Ph.D.’s in natural science, but only 18% of the engineering doctorates in2004.3 Why are women attracted to professions, many of which are math and science based, butrarely consider engineering as a career choice?Figure 1: Undergraduate Engineering Enrollment U.S. Undergraduate Engineering
practices and ethicsbased on the following definition of marketing: “Marketing is an organizational function and aset of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and formanaging customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders.”7Main course objectives include comprehending the strategic marketing process, mastering thedesign and use of each element of the marketing mix, applying marketing principles, anddeveloping an understanding of customer value as it applies to marketing decision variableswithin the marketing process. Specifically, students were expected to gain factual knowledge(terminology, classification, methods and trends); learn to analyze and critically evaluate ideas
earned a BA with a minor in International Relations, Economics and Latin American studies from the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.Francisco Andrade, Hewlett-Packard México, S. de R.L. de C.V. Francisco Andrade is program manager of University Relations staff of the Hewlett-Packard Company from 2006. His responsibilities include engaging in and supporting strong, strategic relationships with key Universities in Mexico. Before joining HP, Francisco was consultant and professor of Information Technologies at Tecnológico de Monterrey where he participated in the creation of the Electronic Commerce Master Degree Program that is offered
the lab during open hours.Students can “begin again” as many times as they wish enabling them to master the techniquesand determine their own level of success. An assisting technician is available full time in themachine shop to help with mechanical difficulties.The second type of assessment enhances the PDCA Cycle mentioned earlier in this paper. Thestudents are asked to complete a student survey at the culmination of their project experience.The survey provides information on a number of fronts. It provides clear information concerningthe student readiness for the course material. Although the majority of our students are within thetraditional age group, they come to us with a variety of high school level experiences.As with most basics
characterizationsfo the continent as a whole, or even as a ‘country’ as some do, grossly misrepresent the realities.As in the West, in Africa we observe increasing gaps in wealth & development, although theaverage improves. The lack of skilled workers and the constant turnover caused by fiercecompetition for scarce talent stymies more aggressive progress on infrastructure. Olivier andothers in the region stress the urgent need to develop engineering education for capacitybuilding.Oliver connected me with our new GM for West Africa, Lloyd Atabansi.11 Our first hour typifiedthis new friendship: it expanded to six! Born in Nigeria, raised in the US, a graduate of Howard,and Bowie State, with a Masters and a Ph.D., Lloyd has lectured in universities
initiatives to improve CS education at all levels by a focused approach to increase the computing pipeline by getting students interested in STEM disciplines and future technology careers. One of these initiatives is the STARS Alliance (starsalliance.org) with programs in K-12 outreach, community service, student leadership and computing diversity research.Dr. Earl B. Smith, Georgia Southern University Dr. Earl B. Smith is a visiting assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Southern Univer- sity. He graduated with a bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, a master of science in Engineering from Prairie View A&M University, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M
& community college collaborationASU and MCC partnered to develop active, experiential learning modules with sustainability-related themes and to promote deployment of these modules in traditional engineering courses atboth institutions.ASU is a public research university and the largest public university by enrollment, comprisingmore than 72,000 students. ASU offers bachelors, masters and doctoral degree programs in 16colleges and school on four campuses within the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. Housedwithin ASU is the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment (SSEBE), Page 23.570.3which blends sustainable, civil
UMR, UNH, and Marshall University.Dr. Ted Eschenbach, University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Ted Eschenbach, P.E. is the principal of TGE Consulting, an emeritus professor of engineering man- agement at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and the founding editor emeritus of the Engineering Management Journal. He is the author or coauthor of nearly 250 publications and presentations, including 15 books. With his coauthors he has won best paper awards at ASEE, ASEM, ASCE, & IIE conferences, and the 2009 Grant award for the best article in The Engineering Economist. He earned his B.S. from Purdue in 1971, his doctorate in industrial engineering from Stanford University in 1975, and his masters in civil engineering
Paper ID #7742Formulating Predictive Models of Engineering Student ThroughputDr. Gillian M. Nicholls, University of Alabama in Huntsville Dr. Gillian M. Nicholls is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, and a 2009-2010 Gray Faculty Fellow at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Her research interests are in applying statistical analysis and optimization to supply chain management, trans- portation management, and engineering education. She holds the B.S. in Industrial Engineering (Lehigh University), Masters in Business Administration (Penn State University), M.S. in
factors for attempting to mitigate the problem. Hearing from outside speakers helps to create an atmosphere of “reality” in students’ minds with respect to the project, and also is a good chance for students to learn more about the challenges faced in the ‘real world’ of engineering practice. The question that students sometimes ask, “is this really important?” is readily banished when an outside authority explains that sewage flowing into residential basements is the side-effect of undersized, failing combined sewers. 2. Review of available data. The sponsoring agency may have paper maps, GIS data, past studies, master plans, and/or reports for the subject area, and other information that can
-survey/post-survey employing both direct and indirect measures of studentlearning. The indirect assessment instrument also included questions regarding participants’satisfaction while direct assessment instrument include a set small design problems and multiplechoices problems.Direct Measures of Student Learning:Participants were given the same instrument for the pre-test and the post-test. The average scoreon the pre-test was 43% correct answers. On the post-test, following the instruction, the averagescore rose to 67% correct answers. It is clear that these participants made substantial progress Page 23.627.9towards mastering course concepts
Florida International University(FIU) emfarhadi@gmail.comDr. Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University Dr. Mohammed is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and is the Director of the Energy Systems Re- search Laboratory at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. He received his Master and Doc- toral degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He has per- formed research on various topics in power and energy systems as well as computational electromagnetics and design optimization in electric machines and drive systems. He performed multiple research projects for the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Surface Warfare Centers since 1995 dealing with; power
policy development. For eight years, she was the primary editor of the WSDOT Hydraulics Manual and the co-editor of the 2011 Highway Runoff Manual. Navickis-Brasch recently resigned from her position at WSDOT to pursue a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Idaho with an emphasis in Engineering Education, Water Resources, and Stormwater Management. She received her bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering from Gonzaga University and a master of science in Civil Engineering from Washington State University. Navickis-Brasch is also an adjunct member of the Civil Engineering Faculty at Gonzaga University where she teaches Stormwater Management and Senior Design.Dr. Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho Dr
mechanical engineering, and bioengineering. New discussions include information of nanotechnology track and how it connects to various science and engineering professions in academia and industry. The course will introduce definition of nanoscale and applications of nano-materials, -devices, and -systems in Introduction to energy, medicine, defense, information technology, and ENGR 196 Engineering consumer products. This course introduces students to principles of persuasion to master
.)degree, undergraduate non-engineering students with appropriate pre-requisite knowledge,graduate engineering students earning a Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.) degree, aswell as non-degree seeking students with appropriate pre-requisite knowledge.This paper describes the Materials for Energy Storage course that was developed for theadvanced energy certificate. Research has shown that the general strategies of questioning,organizing lessons, providing feedback, starting lessons with a review, and ending with closureare relevant across all levels and content areas7. These strategies have been incorporated into thestructure of the individual class periods as well as organizing the topics to integrate review andfeedback prior to
, I understand causes of energy loss in 33% 33% 33% 0%fluid flow.Presently, I am confident that I can understand 33% 33% 22% 11%the subject.Table 3: Summary of SALG survey results from survey taken at the beginning of the semesterof the active learning based class.Based on the above ratings, there are two primary outcomes of this survey: 1. Students have very little prior knowledge of fluid mechanics. 2. Students have low confidence that they will be able to master fluid mechanics.The SALG survey given at the end of the semester was more comprehensive and covered topicssuch as student learning and methods by which they learned, student attitudes about the topic,and general understanding of
., Griffin, P. M., Kirkman, R., & Swann, J. L. (2005). Engineering Ethical Curricula: Assessment and Comparison of Two Approaches. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(2), 9. 6. Boatman, L. (2011, 10 3). Engineering: Throwing our ethics into the trash (literally). (Berkeley Science Review) Retrieved 9 2, 2012, from http://sciencereview.berkeley.edu/engineering- throwing-our-ethics-into-the-trash-literally/ 7. Masters, K., & Pfatteicher, S. (2008). Lowering the Barriers to Achieve Ethics Across the Engineering Curriculum. ASEE Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. 8. Perlman, B., & Varma, R. (2001). Teaching Engineering Ethics. ASEE Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. 9. Freeman, R., Johnaon, P., &
others. However the presence of Internet in the classroom can beused to enhance learning and to promote critical thinking skills 13. We also did not found some preferred ICT tools which students masters and ready to integrate inthe teaching and learning process. Students showed experience in browsing, messaging, mailingand file sharing. However this experience has to be enhanced with grouping, virtual meeting and Page 23.748.10forum participation. Also supporting technologies such as on-line backup and on-line annotationsmust be shown and used in lectures to help students to incorporate their use. We found no difference between majors in the
undergraduate, 104 post-graduate programs andthe remaining are diploma and certificate programs. The University has introduced severalemerging degree programs such as a B. Tech. in Biomedical, an M. Pharm. in Biotechnology anda Masters in Optometry. The continuous success of quality of the BVDU programs resulted inreaccreditation with a prestigious 'A' grade by the National Assessment and AccreditationCouncil (NAAC) in September 2011. The BVDU – JSNN partnership in nanotechnology is through its College of Engineering.Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University‟s College of Engineering, Pune (BVDUCOE) wasestablished in 1983. It is one of the oldest colleges in the Pune area and has the highestenrollment for freshman engineering in the state of
. Balderrama, A. Should your boss be your Facebook friend? - CNN.com. CNN at 11. Krippendorf, K. Content analysis: An introduction to its methodology. (Sage, 2003).12. Neuendorf, K. The content analysis guidebook. (Sage Publications, 2002).13. Hatmaker, T. 3 easy tools for crafting a great-looking personal webpage. Read/Write Web at 14. Henry, A. How can I sell my skills beyond a boring resume? Lifehacker at 15. Stemler, S. An overview of content analysis. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation 7, http:––PAREonline.net–getvn.asp?v=7&n=1716. cross-tab Online Reputation in a Connected World. microsoft.com (2009).at 17. Enge, E., Spencer, S., Fishkin, R. & Stricchiola, J. The art of SEO: Mastering search engine
Frady, Clemson University for Workforce Development Kristin Frady is the Assistant Director for the Clemson University Center for Workforce Development. Prior to joining the team at Clemson, Kristin gained experience in the corporate sector working with Blackbaud Inc., designing and delivering professional training seminars in online, blended, and live envi- ronments. She has experience in the educational sector in both live and online environments as an adjunct instructor in computer technology for Greenville Technical College and as a Career and Technology Ed- ucation teacher for Eastside High School in Greenville County. Kristin earned a B.S. in management from Clemson University and a Master of Arts Teaching in
to give keynote speeches at international conferences and research institutions, educating a broad audience on haptics and its emerging applications in human computer interaction, robotics, medicine and education. Tan received her Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni- versity, P.R. China. She earned her Master and Doctorate degrees, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab before joining the faculty at Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998. She has held a McDonnell Visiting Fellowship at Oxford University, a Visiting Associate Pro- fessorship in
for this course’s audience. Cell arrays and strings areemphasized throughout the course by asking students to display information about the result of aspecific problem.Each weekly in-lab assessment exercise contains two problems. The first problem challenges thestudents by requiring them to utilize techniques they should have mastered from previous labs tosolve a new problem, while the second problem teaches a new concept/technique that the studentshould add to his or her skillset. Problems that teach a new concept/technique are tutorial-like,with step by step instructions on constructing each line of code that culminate in a workingMATLAB script, while problems that challenge the students are posed as general problemstatements without step
appears to be in the right direction.The comments from the high school students indicate that the outreach activities have a majorimpact in their interest in alternate energy. This is a good sign for the nation as a whole. Theseactivities will be continued to further the enthusiasm in alternate energy.AcknowledgementsThe paper is based upon the project funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.DUE-0942327.References(1) Roger A. Messenger, Photovoltaic Systems Engineering. 3rd edition, CRC Press, 2010.(2) Chetan Singh Solanki, Solar Photovoltaics: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Applications. PHI, 2009(3) Tomas, Markvart, Solar Electricity. 2nd edition, Eiley, 2000.(4) Gilbert M. Masters, Renewable and Efficient Electric Power
Paper ID #7250Lessons Learned by the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&MUniversity Following Its First Summer Camp for High School StudentsMr. David B Kanipe, Texas A&M University A native Texan, David Kanipe was born in Corpus Christi and attended Texas A&M University beginning in September 1966. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering in May 1970, followed by a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering in August 1971. He suspended work on a Ph.D. to accept a position with NASA at the what was then called the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston in November 1972. After
; 3Proposed Master of Science in Systems Engineering; 4Master of Science in Electrical andComputer Engineering; 5Master of Software Engineering; 6Proposed course.This current work reports the experience and findings uncovered during the entire offering of thecombined “Software Requirements Engineering” and “System Requirements Analysis andModeling” class during the Fall 2013 semester. The literature review identified related researchwith this current one that describes the pedagogy to teach systems engineering concepts tosoftware engineering students and also software engineering concepts to systems engineeringstudents[2-4]. The difference from this current work is given by the target student audience level(undergraduate vs. graduate student audience
Paper ID #10757A Longitudinal Study of Students in an Introductory Cybersecurity CourseMr. Richard Scott Bell, Kansas State University Scott Bell is a PhD candidate in the Computing and Information Sciences department at Kansas State Uni- versity and is currently researching ways to improve Cybersecurity Education. Before beginning pursuit of his PhD, Scott worked as an Instructor at both Northwest Missouri State University, the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith and State Fair Communit College. He earned his Master of Science degree in com- puter science and his Bachelor of Science degree in geological engineering from the
(EGR 290). The reasonthat the quiz scores have been lower for Module 2 is because the content of that module wasintentionally written at a more advanced level, including the application of the content in the quizquestions. This was done to provide a check with the target level of the material as well as thestudent attention and effort to the online material. It is evident after two offerings of the moduleand associated quiz that students both have not mastered the material at an appropriate level.This is likely due to the advanced nature of the material and application-level on the quiz, as wellas potentially over confidence of the student in taking the quiz after performing well on the quizfor Module 1. The target level of the material and