Paper ID #28532Implementation of a laboratory experience in reinforced concrete coursesDr. Benjamin Z. Dymond, University of Minnesota Duluth Ben Dymond obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech before obtaining his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Ben is currently an assistant professor of structural engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth.Dr. Matthew Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute Matthew (Matt) Swenty obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from Missouri S&T and then worked as a bridge designer at the
of Technology (Mexico, 1996). Dr. Torres Garibay has taught several courses and laboratories at both Klamath Falls and Portland-Metro campuses, and served in various administrative positions, including department chair and program director.Jessica Kerby, Oregon Institute of Technology First year graduate student in the Renewable Energy Engineering program at the Oregon Institute of Technology. Previous Master of Science in Physics from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.Mr. Andrew Powers Minigan, The Right Question Institute Andrew P. Minigan is the Right Question Institute’s (RQI) Director of Strategy. He facilitates active learn- ing experiences for educators, faculty, researchers, and students in both K-12 and
content for Virginia Tech’s highly-regarded Master of Information Technology program. Dr. Kulczycki has various publications on topics including formal specification and verification, web services, and software reuse. His interests include object-oriented programming, software specification and reasoning, design patterns, and online learning.Dr. Steven Atkinson, Virginia Tech Dr. Atkinson works in industry as a Senior Software Engineer for Netflix and in academia as an Instructor at Virginia Tech for the Computer Science Department. He was one of the first employees at LinkedIn, and his industrial experience spans 21 years, including work at startup companies in fields ranging from enter- prise document management
Paper ID #31223Quantitative Assessment of Students’ Revision ProcessesLisa R Volpatti, MIT Lisa R. Volpatti is a Ph.D. candidate in the Anderson and Langer Labs at MIT with research interests in the development of responsive materials for biomedical applications. Prior to joining MIT, Lisa received her Masters of Philosophy in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK and her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Lisa co-founded the Graduate Women in Chemical Engineering organization at MIT and is a NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Whitaker International
was always marked for grammatical errors, though grammar factored intogrades differently for each assignment. Students were graded for content and mechanics in paper1, whereas paper 2 was graded for content, persuasiveness, and a group’s ability to express itsideas clearly. In this way, Practical English departed from GE 3513, in which students’ gradesalways reflect their documents’ content, grammar, mechanics, and style.Minimizing grammar instruction was always my intent for Practical English. Students takingPractical English (similarly to those taking GE 3513) were expected to enter the class with basicgrammar and mechanics mastered; the purpose of this class was to teach students to applypreviously learned writing and grammar skills to
AC 2007-2256: ATTRACTING AND RETAINING FEMALES IN ENGINEERINGPROGRAMS: USING AN STSE APPROACHLisa Romkey, University of Toronto Lisa Romkey is the Lecturer, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning with the Division of Engineering Science at the University of Toronto. In this position, Lisa plays a central role in the continuous improvement of the design and delivery of a dynamic and complex curriculum, while facilitating the development and implementation of teaching and learning initiatives and innovations. Lisa is cross-appointed with the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/UT (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto). Lisa holds a Masters in
topics in operability (asking the right questions),(2) Locating and using resources available to engineers when investigating operability (applying good problem solving and inquiry methods), and(3) Mastering selected design and control modifications available to enhance operability (knowing a suite of good solutions).3. Operability in Design EducationWhile most engineering courses are focused on a specific technology, the design course consistsof defining an acceptable outcome (product, production rate, etc.) and applying technical andprofessional skills in achieving the outcome. In this section, we discuss a few of the key aspectsof the design definition that influence operability
: mjeliot@u.washington.edu.Jana Jones, Microsoft Corp. Jana Jones holds a Master of Science degree in Technical Communication from the University of Washington. She is currently using her technical communication skills on a job in the San Francisco Bay area. Her interests include all aspects of user-centered design and usability. Email: jbjones31@hotmail.com.Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington Steve Lappenbusch is a doctoral student in the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington. His interests include user-centered design, educational technology, and qualitative research methodologies. Email: lappy@u.washington.edu
Master degrees: M.Sc. in Quality Systems and Productivity at Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey; and M.Sc. in Technology and Management of Energy Companies, in a joint program of the Instituto Su- perior de la Energ´ıa (REPSOL YPF) with Universidad de Navarra’s Business School (IESE). She received her B.Sc in Industrial Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.Dr. Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy Dr. Dan Jensen is a Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the U.S. Air Force Academy where he has been since 1997. He received his B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), M.S. (Applied Mechanics) and Ph.D. (Aerospace Engineering Science) from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has worked for Texas Instruments, Lockheed
implemented and the student is provided an opportunity to earn bothexperience and a doctorate or masters degree. The intent of an assistantship was not to havegraduate students undertake the work of the mentor, work which is then ultimately used forpromotion and tenure. Further, in the context of co-authorship, the work is presented to the Page 25.650.5editors and public as that of the professor/mentor without the disclosure of the deft hand,insights, or abilities, or lack thereof, of the graduate student. The same type of co-authorship issues arise in journal publications through various possiblescenarios. In some cases, mentors provide little or
perceptions of his own design skills and strategies did not change in a significant way.Furthermore, while the quality of the solution produced for the third problem was a significantimprovement over the evaluation of the second-session artifact, the scores for the second solutionwere much lower than the first. Only two of the third artifact metrics scored higher than the firstsession, so the increase in quality from session two to session three was more like a recovery to theinitial quality level for most of the metrics.Subject C Results Subject C was a male second-year graduate student in the Master of Computer Science program.He had one year of work experience in software development, and had taken many advancedcomputer science courses at the
anexisting reality: conversations can be understood as practices “that systematically form theobjects of which they speak”.15Prior Research and Literature ReviewThis paper is a comprehensive extension to a previous literature review that examined howempathy and care are conceptualized in standards and curriculum of fields that are traditionallyperceived to be empathetic and caring, fields that “have mastered the integration of teaching ofempathy and caring into their regular curricula”.13 The previous literature review also examinedhow the terms “empathy” and “care” were being used within engineering literature.In the previous study, we found 22 empathy and 16 care-related engineering papers explicitlyusing these terms. Nearly half of these (14 and
full year of university study under my belt and I decided to take the winter quarter to travel to Europe to visit two exchange students. . . . During the stay at my friend's house in Stockholm, I realized that English conversation on my behalf quickly reverted back to Swedish among friends and family, leaving me feeling as if I had suddenly been isolated in bubble wrap. . . . Being forced to use [German] to communicate in my home stay environment in Southern Germany made all the difference in my German skills. It was in this environment where I began to see the multiple levels of complexities involved in mastering a language. Successfully completing homework and classroom exercises was one thing, negotiating on a variety of levels in a
twelve departments, comprises about 6,100 undergraduates and 2,300 graduate students. Last fiscal year, externallyfunded research expenditures in the college exceeded $125 million. The Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering has 41 tenure/tenuretrack faculty members and enrolls nearly 1,050 Page 15.653.3undergraduates, 180 masters degree students, and 90 doctoral students. The department 2 participates in many interdisciplinary research centers including the
. ‚ Apply the basic elements of the TRIZ methodology to generate product concepts. ‚ Effectively use concept classification trees and concept combination tables during the concept generation process. ‚ Apply decision matrices to select product concepts. ‚ Develop and carry out a prototyping plan. ‚ Create different types of prototypes for a given product concept. ‚ Prepare and execute a simple concept testing plan. Product Planning and Development This is a one-term, three-credit, mandatory course in the Master in Product DevelopmentProgram (MPD) at the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM). The main goal of the course is toprovide a fundamental understanding of all the key steps that are
Department at Lawrence Technological University in the summer of 2003, after two decades of industrial research, and product development experience. Dr. Fletcher earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington, in Seattle, and the Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering, both from the University of Michigan. He teaches a number of alternative energy courses at Lawrence Tech. Because of his firm belief that the first experience students have with engineering education is critical and needs to be a challenging, engaging and positive one, Dr. Fletcher in 2004 began actively working with other engineering faculty to reconfigure the Introduction to
knowledge with the tutorials for Unigraphics. Allstudents were observed to master the fundamentals of these tasks. Particularly, the Unigraphicsbasics were well illustrated. Additionally, a FORTRAN program was utilized to obtain a 2D,inviscid, incompressible solution for flow around an airfoil. The students were exposed to the Page 8.799.13 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationlanguage of modern software applications in an effective manner. The necessity for self-familiarization through tutorials
diversity. Working ingroups to develop reports and providing many written reaction papers address the standards ofcommunication and working in groups. Communication with Blackboard software andassociated e-mail techniques gave another example of mastering modern tools techniques andskills.Dr. Drake felt that the process of working through course objectives and comparing them to thestandards gave a much better perception of how those objectives fit into the overall scheme ofproviding, in SMSU's campus vernacular, “an educated person.” The process of developingthese objectives and associating them with the ET2K standards took about one hour for eachcourse. This involved reviewing the course syllabus and textbook to identify what the outcomeobjectives