about solar energy as well.Also, exposure to various databases used as references in the modules would probably increasethe critical thinking of students. The information that students would gain would be beneficialfor them while preparing reports, presentations and projects during their entire engineering study.To give an example, the module titled Greenhouse Gas Emissions contains the Emissions &Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) database as a reference. This database isgenerated by EPA and is contains data related to the output, corresponding emissions andresource mix of power plants across the United States.Future DirectionsOur module development is in the initial stages and we plan to achieve the following objectivesin the
summary of the accident and a discussion of what could have been done toprevent it.The third objective of the pre-lab is to understand the theory presented below and show howresults for glycerol concentration as a function of time can be used to obtain coefficients for anapproximate rate expression. The final objective of the pre-lab exercise is for students to explainhow they plan to use the equipment described below to study the temperature dependence andevaluate the activation energy for conversion of canola oil to biodiesel with 0.5 weight % KOHand 6:1 methanol to oil ratio.In the lab, student groups use a computer-controlled mini pilot plant to run the reaction safely atseveral different temperatures. They collect samples from the reactor at
; 3) coaching through deliberate and planned feedback to guide students performance as they move from novice to expert level, and 4) fading of support, by removing the existing scaffolds as students become more competent;This redesign activity focused on both classroom activities and the development of supportingmaterials that students could use outside the classroom. The process started with identifyingclassroom activities that match various stages of the cognitive apprenticeship and, when neededredesign them to better address the goals of each stage. Page 22.891.3For some of these activities, we developed supporting materials
help of fluorescent beads.”These responses helped catalyze a discussion about issues involved in successfulcommercialization of basic research. This is a process that involves multiple steps on a myriadof levels, each with its own considerations. Often research that appears promising in the lab isnot ultimately successful as a commercial product for reasons that have nothing to do with thescientific or technical innovation. The students (and instructor) came away with an increasedawareness of these issues, and a greater focus on this aspect is planned in future labs targeted atthis audience.Some challenges were encountered in tailoring the content to the appropriate audience, andadjusting the scope of the hands-on activities to fit the time
" = incidental component (< 5%) Page 22.1393.9Future plans:This course has been and will continuously evolve to satisfy instructional needs of non-chemicalengineers. Immediate future plans are: (i) inclusion of a web-based virtual lab module to conductexperiments and analyze data, (ii) inclusion of CHE lab tours and mini field trips to give studentsa better perspective on engineering concepts, and (iii) expanding the ethics component.References:1. AIChE100: A Century of Achievement-Vision for the Future: 1908-2008, Chapter 25. http://www.aiche.org/uploadedFiles/About/Centennial/Books/100/AIChE_A_Century_of_Achievements_Chap 25.pdf. Last accessed
could be considered avisual model component.The Virtual CVD Laboratory Project investigated in this study was not designed as a technologyreplacement for a traditional laboratory experience. Rather, it affords the opportunity for studentsto experience thinking and solving problems that are industrially situated and are not available incurrent university curricula. Because the experiments are virtual, they are easy and quick forstudents to perform. This aspect affords students unusual depth of thought as they are notconstrained by the haptic elements needed to make measurements but rather are able to plan runsand analyze results in the iterative experimental design process. In this way, it is not the directinteraction with the virtual laboratory
Format:Final: Export the video to a common electronic format (.mp4, .mpg, or .avi, for example) and submit toDr. Vigeant either on CD / DVD or memory-stick. Hand in a cover sheet indicating: a) an outline of theanswers to the four points addressed in the video b) an introduction aimed at me explaining why this isimportant. Plan to share your work in class by showing the video to your classmates.Timeline: - Wed, 3/28: Initial personal reflection due. - Wed, 4/4: One page summary plus storyboard/script. - Wed, 4/18: Rough-cut (un/semi-edited video footage) due for feedback; feedback on other teams’ rough-cut due on Friday, 4/20 (email directly, cc-ing Vigeant) - Thurs, 4/26: Final project due, by email
concern. Just because, I mean, we were in a meeting, and the project leader said, or the project sponsor said, ‘This is what we plan to do.’ I just raised my concerns […] I didn’t have any leadership responsibility in the project, per se. But I was just in a meeting and voiced my concern.In addition to identifying and communicating the need for important tests, James also gave severaladditional examples which emphasized that ethical engineering includes transparency, decision-making, and proper reporting. These examples were less detailed and presented more as a runthrough of different ways he has experienced these aspects in his career. One example was duringhis time as a postdoc when made decisions about using animal subjects
anddeleting is much easier than reshooting a 20-minute video. Third, the physical facilities,software and hardware demands are greater for the video production. Finally, the skills requiredfor good videos are not always available to the faculty; often a production team is required,which increases cost. Naturally, the animations and audio are synchronized, giving the impression of a well-planned lecture presentation. Animations enable material to be introduced sequentially and toshow temporal relationships, as in the following examples. • Model derivation: A mathematical model can be presented in stages, with each stage explained via audio and students given time to think how they would perform the next step. Key variables can be
will treat you as practicingengineers in industry. By the end of the course you should be competent to analyze and design fluidmechanics and heat transfer systems in a simulated “real world” environment.Procedure (How do we plan to achieve our goals?)This course will center around two activities. First, a case study will be analyzed that represents a Page 15.1062.15completed ‘real world’ design encompassing the individual course concepts. Secondly, a design projectwhich spans the semester will provide the framework for integrating the various course concepts. Justas in industry, most of your work will be in groups. We will employ the
have. … So I decided to get a degree in chemical engineering so if one day I have to go back to med school, I would go. (B1) I originally wanted to do premed, but then, my uncle who’s an engineer kinda talked me out of it. He was like, well, what if you don’t get into medical school your first year? What are you gonna do? And he was like, if you come to engineering, you’ll get all the credentials that you need in order to go into medicine, but you’ll also have a fallback if you decide that’s not what you want to do, or …if you want to take a break, or something like that. So, he kinda persuaded me. Moderator – And are you still planning to go to med school? I’m thinking I want to take a
doing the work assigned to him,”which may have stifled Charles’ own personal plan for his contributions to the project. Overall,Thomas’ (and the instructor’s) perception of the two ISTP team members’ personalities asunmotivated led to Thomas employing controlling leadership methods that exhausted him andalienated the rest of his team. Theme Summary. As a preface to the discussion, a brief summary of the success andteam dynamics of each team is provided in Table 5. Page 24.909.15 Table 5. Success and team dynamics theme summaries by team. MBTI Type Females Final Team Team SuccessTeam
to teach theseconcepts to our students.Based on this work, the authors have the following suggestions for instructors planning toimplement a similar activity in their courses: Create a reporting structure that allows students to experience and quantify risk analysis in their lab course. This process can be especially beneficial for students who have not had prior industrial experience. A sample incident reporting structure can be viewed at this link: https://neu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0DoaoRIFrbRJcAB Include a calibration activity at the start of the semester to help students identify appropriate consequence levels for various categories of hazards. For example, broken glassware should not be
. The breadth and depth of engineeringmeant any individual branch within engineering, such as chemical engineering, could easily have46 episodes devoted to within that branch, or even within a single engineering course likethermodynamics. The direction to cover all of engineering meant that achieving a balance betweenall branches of engineering, with appropriate breadth and depth to cover key topics within eachfield, would take significant planning and effort before the series could even be filmed. Mappingout the series took ten months of research, which occurred while the series was being initiallywritten, filmed, animated, produced, and released. The series effectively broke down into several components. The first six episodes
attitudes in the desired direction. The class inwhich this module was used was also a senior level high school physics class. Thus it is likelythat the students in this class were already considering pursuing college level studies in a scienceor engineering field so that exposure to the module developed as part of this program may havehad a smaller effect than if the module had been used in a class with students who might be moreundecided on their future plans. Another interesting finding was the student responses on the survey given to them after Page 14.568.7the one-day testing session for the modules developed during the summer. In
incorporated a modified version of the Hoistinatorproject, preceded by a 4-week startup project on building rockets out of soda bottles. A detaileddescription of the bottle rocket project was published previously.11 Many schools are usingvarious versions of soda bottle rocket projects in science education12,13 and NASA has proposedstandards and lesson plans for grade 5-12 students.14Constraints and specifications for the bottle rocket project were as follows: The goal was to design a bottle rocket that would fly as far as possible. The body of the rocket was a 2-L soda bottle. Modeling clay was used to add ballast to the bottom of the bottle, which became the nose of the rocket. Clay could not be placed anywhere but the nose
equipment, (2) fuel cell and battery manufacture and (3) scanning electron microscope.The class was broken into four groups and each group attended one of the locations for 15 minuteswhere they were given a presentation on the research performed there. For the next class period,the students were required to write a one-page summary of which experimentation they were mostinterested in and why. We plan to use this information to, possibly, link undergraduate researchstudents with appropriate projects.Class 9: Industrial Speaker DayAn adjunct member of our faculty has around 30 years of industrial experience in a wide range ofcompanies performing various tasks. He was invited (during the week of the AIChE meeting) todiscuss his vast experience to
: 7 ‚ Why did you do this experiment? ‚ What was your experimental set-up? ‚ What were your results? ‚ What conclusions can be drawn? ‚ What future plans would you suggest? The students were commended for an excellent performance in explaining their set-ups sothat the discussion would be viewed positively rather than as criticism. Using the completedexperiments as a guide and while their own presentations still fresh, a discussion on the attributesof an effective presentation was initiated. Using the questions stated above, the instructorsintroduced a general presentation format should include introduction, methodology, results ofwork, conclusions, and recommendation sections
conception stage. The findings also resonate with the studies of the roleof visualization quality in word problem solving even though these were conducted with 6thgrade children [5]: there is a qualitative difference in the sketches provided by students 1 and 2with the latter being somewhat pictorial in contrast with the accurate schematic representation ofthe former. As represented in sketch form, the visualization of the same problem by these twostudents is very different. Future plans include conducting a detailed analysis of the remainingproblems to analyse the problem representation step in greater detail and determine therelationship between variation in the application of linguistic, semantic and schematic knowledgeduring representation and
References1. https://keenwarehouse.blob.core.windows.net/keen-downloads/KEEN_Framework_spread.pdf (accessed 2/4/18)2. Schlosser, E. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Penguin Books, 2013.3. http://www.polarinertia.com/jan04/titan01.htm (accessed 2/4/18)4. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/command-and-control/ (accessed 2/4/18)5. https://www.ajg.com/media/1697472/globalization-developing-your-international-risk- management-plan-pousson-zimmaro.pdf (accessed 2/4/18)6. Deci, E. L., & Flaste, R. (1995). Why we do what we do: The dynamics of personal autonomy. New York: G P Putnam's Sons.7. Ryan, R. M., and E.L. Deci. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions
and competition is a very valuable tool toreally highlight your own weaknesses. In a sense competitions are like exams and all weaknessescome out to the surface. Usually before the competition I create a map of things that I want tohappen, things that can go wrong, and my “escape plan”. In a way my map is very similar to theHazOp table where I try to figure out exactly what I want to happen, what can go wrong before andduring the competition, and what can be done to prevent or avoid a negative event from happening.For instance it is important to not be hungry but also eating too much food can cause sluggishness.It is very advantageous to know exactly how much food you need to consume before and during theevent to perform at the optimum
. Full descriptionsof the modules including procedures and presentations slides are available at AuburnUniversity’s MSP Website under teacher resources;10 lesson plans have also been submitted forpublication in the Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX). Both activities have been disseminatedin multiple formats including the SECME Summer Institute for teachers, K-12 classrooms,university open houses, and student organizations’ outreach activities. The use of everyday andnatural materials as well as the incorporation of art in the modules has made them accessible to adiverse audience.Why are Abalone Seashells so Strong and Shiny: This module was largely developed by achemical engineering undergraduate researcher with no prior background in
/programming plants/factories disciplines thermodynamics energy production prototyping communications recycling yield diagrams agriculture byproducts safety nuclear energy economics product/factory lifecycle environment/sustainability fuel social considerations carbon capture energy balance biofuel material balance cosmetics process Design fertilizers process Control consumers project planning/management energy usage/conversion heat transfer
to Student Success in Engineering Education," European Journal of Engineering Education, 42(4), 368-381 (2017)[19] Seymour, E. and Hewitt, N.M., "Talking about Leaving: Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates among Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Undergraduate Majors," Final report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on an ethnographic inquiry at seven institutions. Boulder: University of Colorado Bureau of Sociological Research, 1994[20] Jones, B.D., Paretti, M.C., Hein, S.F., and Knott, T.W. “An Analysis of Motivation Constructs with First- Year Engineering Students: Relationships Among Expectancies, Values, Achievement, and Career Plans,” Journal of Engineering Education, 99(4), 319-336 (2010)[21] Lent
studentgroups to specify and design heat transfer equipment . The second part of the projectprovides an opportunity for the student groups to identify the need for a newtechnology/design involving heat transfer and to develop a plan as to how to develop the Page 13.448.3technology and ultimately market/implement the technology. For the purposes of thestudy conducted in the fall 2007, exam performances of the two sections were comparedagainst each other to assess the degree to which an increase in active learning promotesunderstanding and retention, and entrepreneurial tendencies were noted for individualstudents as they worked on this second part of the group
planned design modifications, and to evaluate the impact on cost,performance, and safety of the modifications. Page 11.1041.5 The fifth assignment essentially required repetitive performance analysis, and to identifyadditional modifications. It also required students to conduct a two-hour test. The sixthassignment was similar, and also required the cooler's performance be shown graphically on apsychrometric chart. Students brought to class the finished coolers for a demonstration of itsoperation, and each team gave a 10-minute presentation for the seventh assignment. The coolerswere graded based on performance, safety, budget, style, and
material. The pre-test might be especially valuable for studentswho are using the ICC for review. Students who are learning about applications of CoM for thefirst time may find the pre-test helpful in organizing their prior knowledge8 about the topic. Theweb site also displays a score for the student who takes the test and provides a chance to improvethis score after going through the topic notes, exercises, and examples in the ICC. Pre-testquestions are being revised and updated continuously. A future plan is to ask the students takingthe material and energy balances course in each semester to develop new concept questions andcontribute to the concept inventory. This technique is especially useful as the students oftenidentify a difficult concept
representations at three levels, analyzing the same itemseveral times, in different contexts and for different purposes5, 21. At this second stage students Page 24.40.5went through every step of problem solving; based on their ideas, made decisions as a group,performed a logical planning process, evaluated materials to represent the material balance inoral, written, graphical, and symbolic ways (ideas representation)16. During this process studentsdeveloped a video of their chosen process and conducted a photographic sequence of the massbalance to document the process in a dossier (graphical representation). The students prepared aposter that included a
2008 semester, the design project(3) required students to design,construct, test and mathematically model the performance of a hot air balloon. An emphasis oncommunication required each team to complete their design, mathematical model and testingplans well in advance to their scheduled testing date. Each team gave their design projectconstruction materials and design plans to another team, which constructed their design; and thenthe constructed projected was given to an evaluation team (while the original design teamconstructed and evaluated different designs). The design teams were returned their originaldesigns and evaluations prior to final testing with the instructor. The design project for the fall2009 semester required the students to
temperature and level MIMO control, with and without decoupling. Various P/PI/PID control schemes are evaluated for control quality. Week Four – Reporting: Presentation of results and analysis in both oral presentation and written report formats.Note that the students develop written memos before and after Week One and after Week Two toassist in understanding their experimental plans, observations, and analysis, along with helpingthem to prepare their final oral presentation and written report. An example of the laboratorydescription that can be employed when administering this system as part of this process controlblock is shown in Figure 14. It includes the milestones described above, along with a