and a servo motor. Experimentswere aimed at understanding and mastering motor control. An important concept in motorcontrol, pulse width modulation (PWM), was introduced and the students experimentedwith a PWM based controller to control the angular rotation of the shaft for one motor.The students modified the VI and experimented to understand the importance of PWMparameters of frequency and amplitude as well as PID controller gains. The two degree-of-freedom (DOF)manipulator, shown in Fig. 3, wasconstructed using two servo motorsfound in the mechatronics kit. Twolinks were designed, one connectingthe two motors and one holding a pen-cil for end-effector. The connectinglink could be attached at various loca-tions, changing the distance
males used some form of SI, and from the fall 2013 semester, when 82% of females and 60%of males used some form of SI. [15] [16] Several studies indicate that females not only seem to havemore positive attitudes, but are also more intrinsically interested in learning. [17] In contrast, malefreshmen feel a greater threat to their self-confidence if they require additional help to succeedand master course material. Although there are gender differences in attitudes towards SI, it hasbeen reported that both male and female students benefit equally from SI. [18] To explore suchissues we previously have examined what “trigger points” led students to take advantage ofresources available for SI and how these trigger points correlated with grades. In
possibility of a formal comparisonstudy between the SAM approach and the more traditional curriculum. In addition, adoption wasaccompanied by other curricular and pedagogical changes. The available studies primarily fo-cused on how well the students have mastered certain content. Other expected benefits of theSAM approach, such as improved transfer of knowledge across domains and improved problem-solving skills, are more difficult to assess but should be part of any future, comprehensive study. Page 26.1618.13 Performance of SAM Group Institution Course Used for Comparison vs. non-SAM
previously served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University and was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her research interests include: Teamwork, International Collaborations, Fac- ulty Development, Quality Control/Management and Broadening Participation. She is an honor graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, where she earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering, in 1988. In 1991 she was awarded the Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1998. She is the recipient
secondary level. Nathan was a former middle and high school technology educator in Montana prior to pursuing a doctoral degree. He was a National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) Fellow at Utah State University while pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. After graduation he completed a one year appointment with the Center as a postdoctoral researcher.Mr. Andrew Jackson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Andrew Jackson is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Technology Leadership and Innovation in Purdue University’s College of Technology. His previous middle school teaching experience informs his role as a graduate teaching assistant for an introductory course in design thinking. His
bache- lor degree in Physics Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey and a doctoral degree in Mathematics Education from Syracuse University, New York. Professor Dominguez is a member of the Researchers’ National System in Mexico (SNI) and currently she is the President of Red de Investigaci´on e Innovaci´on en Educaci´on del Noreste de M´exico (REDIIEN). Angeles has been a visiting researcher at Syracuse Uni- versity, at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches undergraduate courses in Mathematics and grad- uate courses in Education. Professor Dominguez is a thesis advisor on the master and doctoral programs on education at the Tecnologico de Monterrey. Her main research areas are: a) models and modeling, b
Paper ID #13862CASCaded Mentoring and Design Experiences (CASCADE)Dr. MARIE ANNE L MUNDY, Texas A&M Kingsville My education includes a Master of Science in Research & Evaluation and a Doctor of Philosophy in Education with an emphasis in Higher Education and cognates in Research & Evaluation, and Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi. I have held positions as assessment and research coordinator at the university level. I served as an M&E (Measurement and Evaluation) consultant for a non-profit company that worked in hurricane disaster zones in Mississippi and Louisiana for 8 years. In
Paper ID #15322First Generation Students Identification with and Feelings of Belongingnessin EngineeringHank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno Hank Boone is a Graduate Research Assistant and Masters Student at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on First Generation engineering college students’ engineering identity, belonging- ness, and how they perceive their college experience.He is also on a National Science Foundation project looking at non-normative engineering students and how they may have differing paths to success. His education includes a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Nevada
a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Nathan E Canney, Seattle University Dr. Canney teaches civil engineering at Seattle University. His research focuses on engineering educa- tion, specifically the development of social responsibility in engineering students. Other areas of interest include ethics, service learning, and the role of the public in engineering decisions. Dr. Canney re- ceived bachelors degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Seattle University, a masters in Civil Engineering from Stanford University with an emphasis on structural engineering
have argued, is too often overlooked orunderemphasized both in engineering practice [1-4] and education [6-9]. To us, these examples alsohighlight the critically important need for engineering practitioners to master and integratetechnical and empathic ways of thinking.According to Levenson and Ruef [10], empathy comprises three essential qualities including: thecognitive component – knowing what another person is feeling, the emotional component –feeling what another person is feeling, and the responding component – responding withcompassion to another person’s experience. Taking the implications of empathy beyond one-on-one interactions and squarely into the broader contexts in which they take place, Segal [11] offersa theoretical framework
a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance from the University of Dayton and was a member of the first cohort of the University’s Rivers Steward Program.Dr. Sean Joseph Creighton, SOCHE Sean Joseph Creighton, Ph.D., is the President of SOCHE, a regional coalition of colleges and universities dedicated to educating, employing, and engaging citizens. SOCHE coordinates programs for over 20 diverse members of higher learning with an annual economic impact of $3.3 billion, serving over 155,000 student and more than 36,000 employees. SOCHE received the Dayton Business Journal’s Non-Profit Business of the Year Award in 2012 and Innovation Index Award in 2015. Sean is
Outreach, Recruitment and Retention in the College of Engineer- ing at the University of Arizona. She is responsible for first-year experience through residential education, student development and retention, and designing outreach activities and events for undergraduate recruit- ment. Noel earned a Master of Arts degree in Higher Education from the University of Arizona in 2015 and is currently pursuing a PhD in the same department.Prof. James C. Baygents, University of Arizona Prof. James C. Baygents, The University of Arizona James C. Baygents is the associate dean of the Col- lege of Engineering at The University of Arizona. His primary responsibilities include academic affairs and recruitment, admissions and
meetings. Students receive direct instruction only on topics they haveattempted but have been unable to master on their own using the online instructional materials.Direct instruction is given to small groups where appropriate, and to individuals when warranted.Most direct instruction periods last 10 - 20 minutes of the 75-minute period. Precalculus studentsprogress at their own pace and must complete all learning objectives in order to pass the course.There are no scheduled exams covering fixed content; online assessment is ongoing.Throughout the semester, students in the combined course worked in teams consisting of oneGTA, one undergraduate precalculus assistant, and two or three other undergraduates. There werefive different team assignments
Paper ID #15956Towards a Multidisciplinary Teamwork Training Series for UndergraduateEngineering Students: Development and Assessment of Two First-year Work-shopsDr. Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo Ada Hurst is a Lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. She has taught and coordinated the capstone design project course for the Management Engineering program since 2011. She also teaches courses in organizational theory, technology, and behaviour. She received her Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering and Master of Applied Science and PhD in Management Sciences, all
preparation of engineering graduate students for future careers.Mr. Ekembu Kevin Tanyi, Norfolk State University E. Kevin Tanyi started his career in Oldenburg in East Friesland, Germany. There he earned his bachelor degree in engineering physics with a focus in medical physics and finished with honors. During a four- year sabbatical, he worked as a Call Center Agent and finally as a Web-programmer/ designer. Returning to his field, he pursued a Professional Science Master degree in applied physics at Towson University. There he carried out research in the fabrication and characterization (AFM, XRD, and four-point probe resistivity measurements) of colossal magneto resistant perovskite thin films. He also embarked on a
Paper ID #15204Lessons Learned from Changing Content Delivery Methods in EngineeringStaticsDr. Laura Doyle, Santa Clara University Dr. Laura Doyle is a lecturer in the Civil Engineering Department at Santa Clara University where she teaches undergraduate courses in civil engineering. Before coming to SCU, Laura was a post doctoral scholar for the John Muir Institute of the Environment at University of California, Davis where she used multi-dimensional models to examine water quality of the San Francisco Bay Delta system. She earned her masters and doctoral degrees at UC Davis and her undergraduate degree (all in civil
Engineering at the University of South- ern California (USC) and his Master of Science in the same field at Stanford University. He is currently exploring the field of data science as his potential career path.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of ePortfolio Initiatives in the Office of the Registrar at Stanford University. She is also a member of the research team in the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter). Chen earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA and her Ph.D. in Communication with a minor in Psychology from Stanford University in 1998. Her current
community in question tending to be bounded by a department or institution.Institutional level support strongly corresponds to the joint enterprise dimension of COP, asthese pioneers have worked to define and institutionalize what this domain of interest includesand what it means to do engineering education work, such as what matters, what is important,and what types of competence distinguish community members from other people. Adams’quote above describes her direct influence on defining how the joint enterprise of engineeringeducation research is presented to graduate students new to the field and research community.These efforts also include supporting others in mastering the shared repertoire of practice,including concepts, research, and
% 27% 0% 0%Additional benchmark data, Table 4, includes science faculty at the same rank who did notreceive the RIA resources. Although the percentage of peer-reviewed work is similar, the totalpoints earned in scholarship increased significantly for the awardee. The most significant impactof the awardee’s work has been the incorporation of undergraduate students as co-researchers inher scholarship work. In the two years of work, eight undergraduate students made enoughprogress on projects with the faculty member to result in either professional publication orpresentation.Table 5 shows the results from the analysis of the second awardee. The engineering departmentdoes have masters’ level students, and the faculty
Paper ID #16162Initiatives for Creating a More Inclusive Engineering Environment with Lim-ited Resources and Minimum DisruptionMs. Rebecca L Norris, University of Oklahoma Rebecca Norris is the Assistant to the Director of the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. She has earned B.A. degrees in German and International and Area Studies and a Master of Public Administration, all from the University of Oklahoma. She serves as a member of the School’s TECAID (Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity) team and is interested in higher education administration
Dina Verd´ın is an Engineering Education graduate student at Purdue University. She completed her under- graduate degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering at San Jos´e State University. Her research interest focuses on the first-generation college student population, which includes changing the perspective of this population from a deficit base approach to an asset base approach.Hank Boone, University of Nevada - Reno Hank Boone is a Graduate Research Assistant and Masters Student at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on First Generation engineering college students’ engineering identity, belonging- ness, and how they perceive their college experience.He is also on a National Science Foundation
and protect their ships and take other military offensive and defensive actions.Accordingly, the British intelligence unit gathered, in Medici Effect style, a diverse groupof potential code breakers who worked in a Victorian mansion northeast of London. Thegroup included linguists, mathematicians, chess grand masters, scientists, crosswordpuzzle experts, and individuals from many countries all committed, for various reasons,to break Enigma. Their achievement was described as the greatest intelligence triumph ofWorld War II or any war because the allies could now read Germany’s highly-secretmessages33,34. Individually, none of the participants would have been successful, butcollectively, their diverse personal profiles enabled them to solve
outrage when courtroom testimonyexposed the captain’s ubiquitous lies and abrogation of his duties as master of his ship, resultingin the loss of 32 passengers and crew members.For an ethics instructor, such occurrences are serendipitous and translate into teachable moments.Using the Costa Concordia as a case study, this paper examines the main environmental ethicsissues associated with the cruise ship industry, which is exploding internationally at a remarkablerate. Hundreds of cruise ships ply the world’s waters, discharging raw sewage and other wastestreams directly into the oceans; they burn a crude fuel that emits millions of tons of sulphur intothe atmosphere daily, and companies register their vessels in third-world countries to
technology industry. International Journal of Innovation Management, 9(03), 371-383.17. Charyton, C., & Merrill, J. A. (2009). Assessing general creativity and creative engineering design in first year engineering students. Journal of engineering education, 98(2), 145-156.18. Daly, S. R., Yilmaz, S., Christian, J. L., Seifert, C. M., & Gonzalez, R. (2012). Design heuristics in engineering concept generation. Journal of Engineering Education, 101(4), 601-629.19. Carkett, R. (2004). ‘He’s different, he’s got ‘Star Trek’vision’: Supporting the expertise of conceptual design engineers. Design Studies, 25(5), 459-475.20. Dyer, J., Gregersen, H., & Christensen, C. (2013). The innovator's DNA: Mastering the five skills of
Paper ID #14755Phenomenography: A Qualitative Research Method to Inform and Improvethe Traditional Aerospace Engineering DisciplineDr. Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette Antonette T. Cummings earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She earned her Bachelors and Masters in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She functioned as an aerodynamicist for military and civilian tiltrotors at Bell Helicopter for seven years, earning airplane and helicopter private pilot ratings. She has a Professional Engineer license in Texas in Thermal/Fluid Systems.Dr
Paper ID #14439Revamping Robotics Education via University, Community College and In-dustry Partnership - Year 1 Project ProgressProf. Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University Aleksandr Sergeyev is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program in the School of Technology at Michigan Technological University. Dr. Aleksandr Sergeyev earned his bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering at Moscow University of Electronics and Automation in 1995. He obtained the Master degree in Physics from Michigan Technological University in 2004 and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering
a Master of Science in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University in 2015 and has worked within the Engineering field since completing his degree. The objective of Mr. Terrell’s graduate research was to identify socioeconomic demographic risk factors impacting the life chances of minority groups within 100 of the top populated metropolitan areas in the USA. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017A Case-Study Approach to Interlink Humanities with Engineering EducationAbstract:We have developed an executable case-study approach to expose engineering students to socialand community issues. Undergraduate engineering students can team up with social sciencestudents to identify, analyze
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