visiting professors there and ourinterest in ensuring relevance of curriculum and excellence to accompany numeric growth.AUST offers masters and PhD programs in five disciplines: Computer Science and Engineering,Pure and Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Petroleum Engineering, and MaterialsScience and Engineering (MSE).Accelerated harvesting of Africa’s wealth in mineral resources has undoubtedly contributedsignificantly to the impressive growth and transformation. Unfortunately the materials resourcessector continues to be based on economic activities primarily focused on extraction and export ofraw ores. Without a significant value addition to the abundant natural resources, the sectorremains vulnerable to the swings in world commodity
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statistical and artificial intelligence applications in process monitoringand diagnostics. Additionally, Dr. Hines was the Maintenance and Reliability Center Educational Coordinator forfour years and is currently the College of Engineering's Extended Education Coordinator.MARY KOCAKMary Kocak received the Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Kentuckyand the Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University. Ms. Kocak hasworked in industry for Johnson Controls, Inc. and Factory Mutual Engineering. She was an assistant professor inthe Department of Engineering Technology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 1990 through1994. Ms. Kocak came to Pellissippi State
have access to theprofessor. The professor should be viewed as an invaluable resource, a “fount of knowledge”who is inextricably tied to a particular class at a particular university. There exists a far,far greater value in a professor than simply his ability to transfer material from a book tohis students. Here the student has, large as life and in realtime, a person who has spent a Page 10.906.1lifetime mastering the engineering material that forms to the content of the course. Whenpuzzled, the student can ask a question, thereby enabling learning to continue. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual
professional development projects were driven by active learning ofcontent in the context of teaching, involved groups of teachers from the same school, andinvolved consistent, high-quality contact lasting months.18-20Professional development in 2005 and 2006 involve 9-12 grade teachers from NCETE partnerschool districts providing a cadre of master teachers in five states (CA, UT, WI, IL, and NC). In2007-2009, K-12 schools in adjacent states may be invited to participate in NCETE professionaldevelopment. This has the potential to prepare a cadre of leader teachers in twenty states,expanding the impact of NCETE and enhancing the sustainability of the Center.Model K-12 Engineering and Technology Education ProgramsNCETE K-12 school partners are
,especially in light of Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) (for example, see [1,2]). While some attention has beenfocused on traditional three-two programs or Bachelors/Masters Programs, little has beenfocused on dual degree programs in engineering and non-technical fields. In this paper wepresent a status report on the Benjamin Franklin Scholars (BFS) Dual-Degree Program now in itsfifteenth year of operation at North Carolina State University. Students in the program earn aBachelor of Science degree in engineering or computer science from the College of Engineering,and a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Humanities and SocialSciences. Students may elect
students, and 1 was by aSJSU student who wants to start a Louisiana Bayou restaurant chain. Also, 2 exhibits were from the DeAnzaCollege Entrepreneurship Boot Camp. Twenty-three startup companies from local incubators and five serviceproviding organizations set up exhibits at the NVF, including the 2 winners from the Silicon Valley Center forEntrepreneurship’s 2003 Business Plan Competition. SJSU’s Careering Planning & Placement office, Masters inBiotechnology program, and Entrepreneurial Society student club also set up tables. Approximately 240 peopleattended the NVF. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren was the keynote speaker and also drew the ticket for the winner ofthe Grand Prize, a $1,500 motorized scooter donated by C&J Engineering of
research-oriented scholarship using the scientific methodfor “discovery” of new scientific knowledge. As a result, Bacon’s philosophy in the 17th century has had afar reaching influence on higher education as it exists in many universities today.As Boyd noted in his landmark work of The History of Western Education: “In the new age on which men were entering Bacon took the place of Aristotle as the master of those who sought to know and to teach. The advancement of knowledge became the catchword of many of those who aspired to a reformation of life and thought, and through them came to be an integral part of the modern ideal of education … A considerable number of literary and scientific men were eager to see the foundation of a
Tesla: (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1996); andMargaret Cheney and Robert Uth, Tesla: Master of Lightning (New York: Barnes &Noble, 1999). Page 10.879.9Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education2 For the Tesla Memorial Society of New York, see www.teslasociety.com. From 1984 to1999 the International Tesla Society held annual conferences and published proceedings.There are dozens sites on the World Wide Web devoted to his life and inventions as wellas two hobbyist groups dedicated to experimenting with his
analyzed using atechnique similar to that reported by McCabe et al., referred to as the “content analysisprocedure” [10]. In the first step, each response was examined verbatim by three independentexaminers. The examiners determined what “thought units” were involved in each response.During the second step, each examiner independently attempted to categorize thought units.Each category was given a descriptor that was inclusive of all thought units within that category.As a group, the examiners integrated and refined their lists of categories into one master list. Inthe final step, the examiners grouped the categories into a list of overall themes throughdiscussion, negotiation and consensus. Through this method the variables involved in
likely to be white (47%) or black (48%). During the summer the teachersare placed in groups of 10-15 teachers and assigned a master-teacher GIFT Facilitator who meetswith them weekly and serves as their primary contact with the program. With the help of theirFacilitator, teachers develop an Action Plan, a formal document each teacher creates as ablueprint for transferring the summer GIFT experience into his/her classroom during thefollowing year. The Action Plan includes: • The Needs Assessment that contains a self-assessment of the teacher’s teaching/learning environment in which they describe their personal or team vision for their classroom. • A Summary of the GIFT Fellow’s summer work experience including discipline
various sensors and actuators of the light refraction experiment test bed (seesection 2.5) are interfaced to the PIC microcontroller. The PIC transmits/receives sensory datato/from the PC via the MAX232. A red reset button is connected to the Master Clear (MCLR)pin of the microcontroller. Page 9.436.4 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Reset button Pentium class PC DB
types, the sample includes 27Research-Extensive institutions, three Research–Intensive institutions, six Masters institutions,and four institutions categorized as Baccalaureate or Engineering and Technical institutions.There are 24 public and 16 private institutions in the sample. At the time this paper wassubmitted, 34 of the 40 participating institutions had agreed to have their names associated withthe study. See Appendix B for this list of institutions (as of March 17, 2004).Instrument Development: The EC2000 Study requires the development of five new surveyinstruments (one each for program chairs, faculty, graduating seniors, alumni, and employers)and a telephone protocol for the interview with deans of participating institutions. To date
, American Society for Engineering EducationWILLIAM D. REZAK Bill Rezak was President of the State University of New York College of Technology atAlfred from 1993 to 2003. He has been instrumental in transforming Alfred State from a two-year technical college into a baccalaureate polytechnic. Prior to coming to Alfred State, he wasDean of the School of Technology at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia. Earlier, Rezak spent 18 years in engineering, design and construction of power generationfacilities, both nuclear and fossil fueled. He earned a Bachelor of Science in MechanicalEngineering from Lehigh University, a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from StevensInstitute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Human Resource
by the type of reinforcement selected,but also by the scheduling or frequency of reinforcement. One of the most difficult skills forteachers, or anyone, to master is to be consistent, immediate, and frequent in rewarding thedesired responses when they occur.” Mentor provided feedback would similarly need to becarefully structured to be effective.To summarize, SI programs, business literature, cognitive sciences, and behavioral teachingmodels provide options for mentor roles and practices. The SI model suggests that mentors caneffectively foster collaboration by guiding student teams, rather than being experts. Techniquessuch as reflecting questions back to the students are useful. Business literature defines severalrequirements for effective
aerospace engineering from Mississippi State University, and is currently enrolled as a candidatefor a master of science degree. He assists in teaching upper division laboratory classes. Page 10.1115.13 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”
of the Twentieth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Louisville, KY, ACM Press, 1989, pp. 112- 11619. Reek, K.A., “A Software Infrastructure to Support Introductory Computer Science Courses”, Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Philadelphia, PA, ACM Press, 1996, pp. 125-12920. Vastani, Hussein Kamaluddin, "Supporting Direct Markup and Evaluation of Students’ Projects On-line" Master Thesis, Department Computer Science, Virginia Tech, June 11, 2004, Electronic Thesis etd- 08172004-020310, available at http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08172004-020310/21. WebObjects Development, Student Guide [WebObjects, 2004] WebObjects 5.2, web
engineer with National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA), Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Shuttle Processing Directorate. He is serving as a visitingInstructor of Computer Science at Bethune Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida under the NationalAdministrator Fellowship Program (NAFP). Ali has received a Master of Science (M.S.) degree inComputer Systems from University of Central Florida in 1985 and a second M.S. degree in OperationsResearch from the same university in 1997. His research interests include Object-Oriented methodologiesand design patterns. He has taught information system and computer science courses for Bethune CookmanCollege, Webster University, Barry University and University of Central Florida. Mr. Shaykhian is a
to address some of these issues will be described.2.0 Traditional Ph.D. Engineering ProgramsThe traditional Ph.D. programs are narrowly focused and discipline-defined dissertationresearch. A typical discipline normally requires a graduate student to take certain number ofcourses beyond those already taken to fulfill the Master of Science (MS) degree within the samediscipline. The idea here is to ensure that when the student completes the Ph.D. program he orshe will be prepared to teach graduate level courses in that discipline at a university. This ideaassumes that upon completion of his or her Ph.D. dissertation, those courses will be sufficient toprepare the students to teach courses in new emerging areas that do not have any
Rowan University. He received his B.S.from the University of Illinois and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. His research and teaching interests are inthe area of reaction engineering, combustion kinetics and process engineering. He is the recipient of the 1999 RayW. Fahien award, 2001 and 1998 Joseph J. Martin Award, Robert G. Quinn award, and the 1998 Dow OutstandingNew Faculty Award.Daniel Fichana is a Graduate Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at RowanUniversity where he is pursuing his Masters degree in Chemical Engineering.Jim Henry is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. He received hisB.S. from Rice University and Ph.D. from Princeton University. His research and
A&M University. He received his PhDfrom the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bachelor and Masters degrees from TulaneUniversity. Page 7.527.13 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”
,market share, and cost of new product introduction more appropriate measures [29].In order to achieve the previously defined financial goals of the organization, the company mustconsider how and where the company will compete. This means determining who the customersare, their specific market needs, and how the company will strive to target those markets. Theseindicators may be on time delivery performance, partnerships, turnkey operations capability, orcustomer loyalty [29].The internal-business-process perspectives seeks to find the key, critical processes theorganization must master to meet the customer demands, grow the target market, and deliver onthe financial results. These measures may speak directly to the company’s technical function
://chronicle.com/data/internet.dir/itdata/1997/10/t97102101.htm28. Poindexter, S., Heck, B, and Ferrarini, T, “Hybid Courses: Beginning to Determine the Effectiveness of Using the Internet in Course Instruction”, Proceedings of the TechEd2000, March 2000.29. Vikas, Yellamraju and Gramoll, Kurt, “Design and Implementation of an Internet Portal for Basic Statics and Dynamics Course”, Proceedings of the 2001 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), (Civil Engineering Division), Albuquerque, NM, June 2001.30. Lowman, Joseph, Mastering the Techniques of Teaching. San Francisco: Josey-Bass, 1995.BiographyJOSEPH P. HANUSJoseph P. Hanus is an Assistant Professor and Course Director for EM302, Statics and
should have mastered. The department has set a target of 95% pass rate for students inchemical engineering.The fact that this is an in-house examination makes it possible to monitor in which areas thestudents perform unsatisfactorily, both individually and as a group. Individuals are advised torefresh their studies in areas of weakness. If all or most chemical engineering students performpoorly in one or more areas of the exam, then either the curriculum or individual courses mayneed to be improved. Page 7.239.5 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition
both in quality and quality of instruction and depends primarily uponthe individual director. The USC Graduate School offers dissertation workshops a fewtimes a year; however, the space is limited, the information is not discipline specific, andfew engineering students attend.The unstated assumption in graduate education seems to be that by the time studentsreach the dissertation stage, they should already know how to manage and complete theproject; unfortunately, most students have never undertaken a project of this magnitudeand are not sure how to transfer their previously-mastered skills to such a task. Thus, thefocus of the workshop became the process behind a long, messy project such as adissertation. Shifting the students' attention from