smart phones) have been introduced with significantlyreduced computational capabilities. This is only natural since these mobile devices where notdesigned to perform intense numerical calculations. However, they have become as common asslide rules in the 1960’s or hand calculators for the last four decades. There is now hardly anengineer without a smart phone. The question becomes, why is engineering education not usingsmart phones and tables (mobile devices) for complex engineering analysis? Two main concernscome to mind immediately, their screen sizes are small when compared to traditional desktop orlaptop computers, and they are relatively slow (but still faster than desktop computers in the1980’s). While the screen size can be a problem
undergraduatetechnology and engineering curricula. The approach can be introduced in one classsession, with additional mentoring offered as needed. If time and resources allow,students can be coached through the proposed strategies over the course of a semester.Educators should keep in mind that it takes a long time for Google to “forget”information posted online, and that it takes time to see the results of the social mediaapproach proposed here. The senior year of college is a time when students are motivatedto change their online behavior, but ideally, social media literacy for online identitymanagement should be taught early, before damage is done, and while enough time isavailable to invest in building both a positive online identity and a professional
Paper ID #12311Using Student Knowledge of Linear Systems Theory to Facilitate the Learn-ing of Optical EngineeringDr. Cameron H. G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming Cameron H. G. Wright, Ph.D., P.E., is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. He was previously Professor and Deputy Department Head in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy, and served as an R&D engineering officer in the U.S. Air Force for over 20 years. He received the B.S.E.E. (summa cum laude) from Louisiana Tech University
Paper ID #21136Using the Internet of Things (IoT) to Motivate Engineering Technology andManagement (ETM) StudentsDr. Curtis Cohenour P.E., Ohio University Dr. Cohenour is an Assistant Professor in the Ohio University Engineering Technology and Management Department, in Athens, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1980, a Master of Science degree from Ohio University in 1988, and a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University in 2009. He is a registered professional engineer in West Virginia, and Ohio. Dr. Cohenour has worked in Industry as an electrical
Paper ID #30970Lessons Learned Using Slack in Engineering Education: AnInnovation-Based Learning ApproachMr. Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, North Dakota State University Experienced Systems Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the electrical and electronic manufacturing field. Highly skilled in Embedded Devices, Software Engineering, and Electronics. Ex- tremely motivated and self-reliant with a great believe in autonomy, new ways to solve problems and ROWE approaches. Team player and devoted to create superb working environments through dedication and team culture. Strong information technology professional with
case “focus upon sustainable growth”, “where we are as a company today and where wewish to be in the future”, “our competitive advantage includes our ability to innovate” With thesethemes in mind we focused the conversation on the engineering issues and the challenges thatthey perceive in these key areas and in particular the role of computation and technology (Figure2; identify and confirm).Big engineering Challenges (Figure 2 B): “1) Lower installed cost with capital 2) R & D function comes up with a lot of ideas that are not economical 3) Organization expects the engineers at the research
Paper ID #19743Modular System of Networked Embedded Components for a First-YearMr. Michael Henry Schulz, The Ohio State University Michael H. Schulz is a teaching assistant with the Fundamentals of Engineering Honors program at The Ohio State University. He is currently the lead developer of the robot course software development team, of which he has been a member for three years. As a Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) student, he will graduate in May, 2017 with his B.S.C.S.E and a minor in Music, Media, and Enterprise.Mr. Evan J. Danish, The Ohio State University Evan J. Danish is a Computer Science and Engineering
an additional challenge. Teaching computing in architecture, engineering andconstruction (AEC) must focus on more aspects than the use of commercial tools [30]. With thisin mind, it becomes crucial to teach students basic skills that help them to adopt problems andcreate their own solutions based on computer science technologies.Own evaluations show that the acceptance of courses in applied computer science is relativelylow as it is not seen by all as a necessary skill for a civil engineer. Based on this knowledge,existing courses have been scrutinized. The chair for Computing in Civil Engineering at theTechnische Universität Berlin gives two compulsory undergraduate courses. 100 to 150 studentsparticipate in each of these courses. Both
including personal characteristics of test takers, various features ofcomputer-based testing systems, and test content. These researchers believed that once thesevarious factors are controlled, test mode effect can be eliminated.To our knowledge, there have been no test mode studies conducted with engineering students inan engineering course. Additionally, the rapid advance of technology and incorporation intostudents’ lives at earlier ages certainly plays a role in how students may approach a paper-basedversus a computer-based test. With this in mind, it is important to gather up-to-date data onstudents with the described demographic. We believe that analyzing test mode effect with first-year engineering students in an engineering course could
AC 2007-1949: VERTICAL INTEGRATION OF MATLAB ACROSSENGINEERING CURRICULA: SYSTEMIC CURRICULAR CHANGE BY SMALLSTEPSJon Sticklen, Michigan State UniversityDaina Briedis, Michigan State UniversityMark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State UniversityTimothy Hinds, Michigan State University Page 12.1587.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 VERTICAL INTEGRATION OF MATLAB ACROSS ENGINEERING CURRICULA: SYSTEMATIC CURRICULAR CHANGE BY SMALL STEPSIntroductionIn the engineering workplace, newly minted graduates from our engineering programs areexpected to be facile in formulating well-defined problems, and in selecting an appropriate toolwith which to develop a solution
for MATLAB. Online: http://www.mindstorms.rwth-aachen.de/. 6. Behrens, A., Atorf, L., and Aach, T. 2010. “Teaching Practical Engineering for Freshman Students Using the RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox for MATLAB.” In Matlab-Modelling, Programming and Simulations. Pereira Leite, E. (ed.). 41—65. InTech. ISBN 978-953-307-125-1. 7. Yakubov, N., et al. 2005. “Integration of Real-Time Sensor Based Experiments in High School Science Labs: A GK-12 Project.” Proc. Amer. Soc. Eng. Ed. Session 1510. Portland, OR. 8. NRC. 2000. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., and Cocking, R.R. (eds.). National Research Council (NRC). Washington, DC: National Academy Press
Paper ID #17975A Pretest-Posttest Quasi-Experimental Study for a Game Intervention in anUndergraduate Wireless Communications CourseMr. Joshua Alex´ei Garc´ıa Sheridan, Virginia Tech Joshua Garc´ıa Sheridan is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He received his Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. His current research work include gaming and game-like interventions in engineering ed- ucation and designing interactive educational tutorials for radio engineering, with research interests in explicitly mapping childhood
faculty advisors.We want to connect with our students. Fostering an environment of help, information anddirection may lead to more successful academic achievement and persistence in the engineeringprogram.This is also an opportunity for the Baker College Student Chapter of ASME (American Societyof Mechanical Engineers) to communicate directly with like-minded students for recruitment andsupply information on meetings, events and tours.General information can be communicated via this medium. As some alumni have keptmembership in the Facebook group there is an opportunity to share information across thegraduation-gap. Discussions are posted with potential job and co-op opportunities, careerinformation and scheduling of Fundamentals of Engineering
problematic for faculty whenthey try to think about if, how, and when to integrate computation into their courses. Suchquestions are probably somewhat different depending upon whether one teaches engineering orphysics. And yet, because in many institutions students from both fields meet in the introductoryphysics course, it is essential to address these questions regardless of which community onebelongs to. These questions are only a subset, albeit fairly representative, of important issues.However it is useful to keep such questions in mind when considering the results of a nationalsurvey of computational use in undergraduate physics courses, which form the base data for thispaper. It is within the context of these questions that one may draw
AC 2012-4709: ANALYSIS OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY IMPACT ON STEM-BASED COURSES, SPECIFICALLY INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEER-ING IN THE ERA OF THE IPADMr. Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso Oscar Perez received his B.S. and master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Texas, El Paso, with a special focus on data communications. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering. Perez has been teaching the Basic Engineering (BE) BE 1301 course for more than five years. He led the design for the development of the new BE course (now UNIV 1301) for en- gineering at UTEP: Engineering, Science, and University Colleges. He developed more than five new courses, including UTEP technology
student at Colorado School of Mines, pursuing degrees in engineering physics and electrical engineering. He has been programming in industry for seven years and wrote the InkSurvey software. Page 12.1552.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Using InkSurvey: A Free Web-Based Tool for Open-Ended Questioning to Promote Active Learning and Real-Time Formative Assessment of Tablet PC-Equipped Engineering StudentsAbstractVast amounts of educational and psychological research support the efficacy of both activelearning and frequent real-time formative
) • Lists (Word Processing – bullets and lists, Mind map, Web publishing – personal web page, blog journal, wall wisher, post it notes) Bookmarking internet browsers using favorites and bookmarks, web 2.0 tools del.icio.us & diigo • Basic Searches - search engines, (Google, excite, ask, yahoo, metacrawler etc.) library catalogue, ClearinghousesKeywords: Recognizing, Listing, Describing, Identifying, Retrieving, Naming, Locating, Finding, Bullet pointing,Highlighting, Bookmarking, Social networking, Social bookmarking, Favorite/local bookmarking, Searching,GooglingFurther details for the cognitive processes entitled Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, andCreate can be found in Curches9. Activities performed by
Paper ID #17618The essence of computational thinking and tools to promote itProf. Osman Yasar, State University of New York, Brockport Osman Yasar is an endowed professor and director of the CMST Institute at The College at Brockport, SUNY. He established the first undergraduate degree program in computational science in the United States and developed a computational pedagogical content knowledge (CPACK) framework for teacher education. His research interests include engineering and science education, computational pedagogy, computational and scientific thinking as well as fluid dynamics, engine ignition modeling, and
impact (politicians choose sub-optimal solutionssuch as desalination plants). Several studies have recommended more broadly educatedengineers to cope with problems that stretch our minds in four dimensions – the technical, thesocial, the environmental and the economic 1,2,3,4.The introduction of the (University of) Melbourne Model is one initiative to meet this breadthplus depth requirement 5,6. The Melbourne Model provides a broad foundation for universityeducation, with students taking a major discipline as well as a minor in a non-cognatediscipline (the breadth sequence). It also provides an opportunity to bring the teaching ofseparate engineering disciplines closer together as we move into a world requiringinterdisciplinarity and
assumptions of faith and divinity, their association with religious traditions raise ahost of issues most educators are not prepared or willing to deal with. A second challenge is thatthese contemplative practices require extensive first-hand experience before an educator is ableor ready to share them with students. This makes the solution not scalable, since it is not realisticto assume that mass numbers of technology and engineering educators will take up and sustainmindfulness meditation practice. Barbezat and Bush (2013) also point out a third and relatedchallenge: That, by nature of their introspective and spiritual nature, contemplative practicesmight raise complex questions about the nature of the mind and self that most educators are
AC 2010-1018: STUDENT ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOS FOR PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT USING GOOGLE APPSJessica Kuczenski, University of Notre DameJoshua Enszer, University of Notre DameMark McCready, University of Notre DameJay Brockman, University of Notre Dame Page 15.1116.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Student Electronic Portfolios for Professional Development Using Google AppsAbstractThe primary goal of our undergraduate program is to produce engineers who are one step aheadof their peers, who have begun to prepare themselves for more than just their entry-level jobs. Inorder to accomplish this, we seek improvements to the
AC 2010-1823: TWO TECHNIQUES FOR EFFECTIVELY PRESENTINGINFORMATION IN THE CLASSROOM WITH MULTIPLE TABLET PCSJames Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals in the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. His research interests include parallel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom. Page 15.1283.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Two Techniques for Effectively
alwayskeeping in mind that an effective solution must create value for someone in society.To tackle this challenge, the University of New Haven developed a series of 18 e-learningmodules covering a broad set of topics mapped to attributes of an entrepreneurial mindset. The e-leaning modules were integrated within regular engineering and computer science courses in ahybrid format (on-ground and online), providing a supplement to topics generally included inthose courses. The e-learning modules are open source, developed with funding from the KernFamily Foundation. Over the past four years, the e-learning modules were deployed outside theUniversity of New Haven at 55 other institutions by 77 faculty. In this paper we present theperceptions of over 1500
AC 2010-2216: LONGITUDINAL EVALUATION OF A LEARNING SYSTEM FORTEACHING GIS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A GEOTECHNICAL PROBLEMAparna Sukhavasi, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyRichard Hall, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyHong Sheng, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyRonaldo Luna, Missouri University of Science and Technology Page 15.847.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010LONGITUDINAL EVALUATION OF A LEARNING SYSTEM FORTEACHING GIS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A GEOTECHNICAL PROBLEMAbstract: A learning system, to train civil engineering students to apply GeographicalInformation Systems (GIS) in geotechnical
in engineering and learning technology to develop future generations of entrepreneurially-minded engineers. This is achieved by partnering and invest- ing in educational initiatives and programs between industry and institutions of higher learning. Under Michael’s leadership, The Boeing Company has won the multiple Awards for Excellence and Innova- tion for their industry academic partnerships and joint programs Michael has served on various advisory groups including, the editorial board of the Journal of Engineering Education, Boeing Higher Education Integration Board, American Society for Engineering Education Project Board and the National Science Foundation I-UCRC Industry University Collaborative Research
that you will face in the real world. Learning how to figure out what information is important, how to frame a problem, what simplifications are needed, and what still needs to be learned are critical to your success in engineering. The good news: research shows that you can develop this deeper understanding through collaborating with peers to better understand and innovate solutions to real-‐world problems. I hope you take full advantage of this way of learning in EGR 270 to be creative, have fun and expand your mind. What Will You Learn in EGR 270? EGR 270 has three intended learning outcomes. The first focuses on learning
Conference.8. Kirschner, P. A., Sweller, J., and Clark, R. E. (2006). Why minimal guidance during instruction does not work: An analysis of the failure of constructivist, discovery, problem-based, experiential, and inquiry- based teaching. Educational Psychologist, 41, 75–86.9. Borrego, M., Karlin, J., McNair, L. D., & Beddoes, K. (2013). Team effectiveness theory from industrial and organizational psychology applied to engineering student project teams: A research review. Journal of Engineering Education, 102(4), 472-51210. Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.11. Tien, L. T., Roth, V., and Kampmeier, J. A
Paper ID #27384Using Microservices to Modularize Components and Teaching Assistant De-velopment Teams for a Robotics Design Project Computer SystemMr. Jared Dean Mitten, Ohio State University Jared D. Mitten is a Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) major at The Ohio State University and is currently an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant with the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) program. He is a lead developer for several software systems used by the FEH program, including the robot course scoring system and the online robot part store. He will graduate in December 2019 with his B.S in CSE with a focus on
AC 2011-1653: DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF A 3D CONSTRUCTIONMOBILE GAME FOR THE IPHONE/IPOD TOUCH PLATFORMNORENA MARTIN-DORTA, University of La Laguna Norena Martin-Dorta is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Graphics and CAD at La Laguna University (ULL). She earned a degree in Architectural Technology in 1998 from ULL, an MS degree in Library Science and Documentation in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering in 2009 from UPV. She joined La Laguna University in 2001 and her research interests include development of spatial abilities using multimedia technologies and sketch-based modeling. Address: Av. ngel Guimer s/n, Escuela de Ingeniera de la Edificacin, Dpt. de Expresin Grfica en Arquitectura e Ingeniera
Page 14.409.9study.1.4 Multiple solutionsThe Data Synchronization case study presents multiple alternatives so that the students canchoose an appropriate one.1.4.1 Picking alternativesFor Data Synchronization Case Study, the alternatives were designed so that they would fit inwith India in mind. Because software engineers are paid less in India compared to the U.S., itmade sense for a few alternatives to focus on training employees to enhance the process. Thetraining aspect incorporated some technical aspects to reach the company’s goals, such asencryption. Employees could encrypt by hand or use a software tool that would handle theencryption process.Each alternative costs the company different sums of money. Some of the cost can come