for Engineering Education, 2008 Engineering Technology's Design Across the DisciplinesAbstract Students completing an engineering technology degree, such as Youngstown StateUniversity’s Civil & Construction Engineering Technology (CCET) bachelor’s degree programare expected to be productive in design offices and in engineering departments of constructionfirms. Accordingly, the curriculum has evolved over the past thirty years to include designprojects of varying complexity in many courses. This philosophy has now been expanded toprovide a multidisciplinary design experience for engineering technology (ET) majors. This paper describes the planning an implementation of a pair of courses required to betaken
also included multiple USDA-NIFA funded programs that have led to the creation of new curriculum and experiential learning opportunities through the CUAS. She teaches multiple courses in environmental biology and sustainability and she organizes an experiential learning program where students work in teams to build solar-powered technology that addresses a need in urban agriculture.Hung PhamMr. Anish Khatiwada, University of Houston-downtown Anish Khatiwada graduated with Suma Cum Laude honors from the University of Houston - Downtown with a Bachelor’s in science in the year of 2015. Anish majored in Control and Instrumentation Engi- neering Technology and has a minor in Mathematics. Anish was a member of the
cost and is easily adaptable to fit their curriculum needs; the autonomousvehicle can fill those needs. With this basic platform, the robotic vehicles can be developed instages. First, it can be driven by an umbilical system, so students learn the basics of its motionand how it should be driven by the controller. Then, the platform can be adapted to thecontroller’s electronics, expanding the system to include the line following, wireless-remote, andautonomous capabilities. Page 24.27.5 Instructors at all levels in the educational process are trying to inspire the next generationof engineers and technologists and may not have the time, or
manydifferent approaches proposed to improve statistics curriculum for engineering students. Bartonet al3 developed a laboratory-based statistics curriculum. Standridge et al25 did similar work.Bryce used data collected by students in his introductory engineering statistics course4. Levine etal16 used Microsoft Excel and MINITAB in their book to teach applied statistics to engineers andscientists. Zhan et al30 proposed to apply statistics in several courses in the curriculum instead ofhaving a separate applied statistics course within the curriculum. They found that applyingspecific statistical analysis methods in appropriate courses was an effective way for students tolearn to use statistics.Based on these findings, several laboratory exercises were
scope of acquired capabilities. Our one-course-per-month format provides the students with an ideal way to prepare for these certificates. Courses provide the fundamental concepts of wireless network administration. The focus is on 802.11 standard wireless solutions including: Fundamentals of 802.11 WLANs; Radio Frequency Fundamentals; Antennas; RF Math and System Operating Margin; RF Power Output Regulations; Wireless LAN Operation; 802.11 Analysis and Troubleshooting; and Site Surveying. 2 The CWNA exam requires preparation in the following areas. Our IT curriculum prepares students by integrating these in with the fundamental educational elements of the program described above. In order
developlab exercises so that students may know how to implement, manage and analyze a networking aswell as to gain a better understanding of the protocol operation. The lab exercise below is basedon these two software platforms.Pedagogical DesignOur lecture class follows the integrated approach [4] that combines the best of top-down andbottom-up schemes in teaching networking. We begin with an introduction of computer networkapplication, followed by the introduction of data transmission, packet switching networks andinternetworking. I adopted this integrated approach because it is better to have students be ableto use both Ethereal and OPNET IT GURU earlier to explore the underlying principles andapplication as well. The idea behind this pedagogical
a combination ofengineering, science, computer science, information systems, project management,telecommunications, electronics, and quality assurance topics. Every degree program requires acourse in Integrated Technology Assessment, which is equivalent to a “CAPSTONE” course.Where necessary, students are provided access to a “Virtual Laboratory” for gaining laboratoryexperience.Anwar et.al.3 provided an overview of the engineering technology programs at EC, in a paperpresented at the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Anwar4 presents details of theBEET program at EC in an article to be published in the Journal of Pennsylvania Academy ofScience.2.2 Characteristics of EC Students As stated in Section 1.0, Excelsior College
was acquired, which will be used to improve this layer insubsequent iterations.Course content should be sufficiently rigorous, while integrating many curriculum concepts andtechnologies, so as to motivate the students to press hard to meet required goals and rely on theiracquired abilities. Additionally, the capstone course should also be enjoyable and provide ameaningful experience that the student can draw upon as an employee within thetelecommunications industry. In brief: the capstone course content and format should reflect the Page 11.426.9desired knowledge and skills required of graduates of the TCET curriculum in final preparationfor
in this paper is the result of anextensive rebuilding effort. Prior to the development of these tools and processes, the academicprogram faculty went through a period of re-establishing and clarifying a myriad of assessmentfundamentals. That is, establishing a sustainable assessment process integrating the program’sstakeholders with the curriculum, implementing process review policies, clearly defining courseoutcomes, and developing appropriate performance indicators. Additionally it came to beunderstood that the assessment process – no matter how sophisticated or well intentioned it maybe – would not stand up to the scrutiny of an on-site assessment without possessing a clarity andtransparency that is obvious to the on-site accreditation
main reasons for this is to helpyoung minds develop an interest and desire to learn math and science early in their education. Inthis way, they are better positioned to consider and pursue STEM related careers after highschool. To this end, agencies such as the National Science Foundation and others havedeveloped funding programs focused on the development of methodologies and curricula thatcan support the introduction of STEM in the current K-12 educational system. As a result,public educational systems and institutions of higher learning are responding. As an example,the State of Texas has developed a set of STEM academies (T-STEM) devoted to introducingSTEM as part of the secondary curriculum and increase students’ college readiness for
-semester project course,(3) approaches of ET students in handling cutting-edge technology, (4) the competition rules andscoring, and (5) student feedback and discussion. This paper will serve as a teaching aid for theinstructors currently teaching or planning to teach senior design courses in the near future. Mostspecifically, the paper will help the new junior faculty members in planning the course andadapting grading and reporting procedures. In the next section, a brief overview of the coursestructure, objectives, outcomes with project requirements and team selection are presented.2. Course Structure, Objectives, and Learning OutcomesIn order to offer an interdisciplinary project experience to ET students at OSU, EET and METprogram integrated
undergraduate research programs, among them greater retention in the curriculum and greaterlikelihood of enrolling in graduate school. On the other hand, Seymour et al. [11] argue that moststudies of undergraduate research did not include proper control groups, used biased samples orfailed to provide sufficient details of their evaluation methods.The sections that follow provide an overview of our efforts to improve the learning environmentfor undergraduate engineers by incorporating research in a multidisciplinary team environmentand discuss the early accomplishments that our working group has achieved.MotivationThe faculty main goal was to let each student experience being an engineer by introducing anopen-ended research problem, and thereby forcing
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for manystudents. Especially as experiential learning becomes increasingly prevalent in curriculum designand further emphasized as an important educational tool, engineering technology is beginning togain traction as both a career path and a field of study, particularly among those seeking to spendless time in the classroom. For instance, in 2014, there were over 34,000 students who graduatedwith 2-year engineering technology degrees, versus 4,409 students who graduated with 2-yearengineering degrees, even though the number of graduates with 4-year engineering degreesremained substantially higher than those with 4-year engineering technology degrees [1].As this growth continues, it is increasingly evident that more research needs to be done
the Program Education Objectives (long term and broad outcomes). 3. ABET assessment is based on Outcome Based Education’s methodology, and defines a through k components for the Program’s Outcomes as the General Criteria. 4. IEEE as the lead society for the Electrical Engineering Technology Program defines the program specific outcomes as the Program Criteria. 5. Each program designs a curriculum that incorporates the General Criteria and Program Criteria as the Program’s Outcome, defined in terms of the Program Learning Objectives. 6. Each program accomplishes Outcome Based Assessment as an integral part of the Outcome Based Education. This process utilizes multiple tools to assess and evaluate
learned into revisions of first drafts. Themost student-appreciated aspect of this pedagogy was the division of a full scale formallaboratory report into smaller, more focused writing assignments.BackgroundThe significance of a student’s ability to communicate technical information is manifested by itsinclusion as an ABET required student outcome, namely, an ability to apply written, oral, andgraphical communication in both technical and non-technical environments 3. The ABETgeneral criteria has been used by this University’s curriculum committees to develop programspecific student outcomes. The general criteria and student outcomes are mapped to individualcourses in the Associate and Baccalaureate Engineering Technology Programs. In this manner
addition to the wind tunnel course, this laboratory is also utilized to some extent in five othercourses in the curriculum, including AET 210, Measurement & Testing, AET 300, AircraftDesign, AET 432, Applied Heat Transfer, MET 434, Applied Fluid Mechanics and MET460/461, Capstone Project. This facility has become an essential element of the MMETdepartment curricula not only for students within the aeronautical concentration, but within othermechanical concentrations and the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program. Inaddition, students from all MMET department programs are involved in applied projects ofinterest to the engineering industry.Facility DevelopmentA perfectly funded engineering or engineering technology program that focuses on
-Digital Converter (ADC) is used by themicroprocessor of the controller to convert the analog voltage or current to an integer number.This requires an extra conversion to determine the number of volts in each digital count.Actuators include motors, solenoids, hydraulic valves, and injectors. These devices cause otherdevices to move. Some actuators have integrated sensors. In many cases, actuators are the outputinstruments of the robot, responding to the input from the sensors based on the control program.The parallels with the LEGO robots are apparent since the LEGO robots have light and touchsensors to provide input information and motors to provide output control. The details of how tocreate the control program, how to download it to the robot
reflections.References[1] "Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana," 8 January 2020. [Online]. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Tech_Community_College_of_Indiana.[2] Indiana Commission for Higher Education, "Credit Transfer," 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.in.gov/che/3138.htm.[3] K. A. Parkes, K. S. Dredger and D. HIcks, "ePortfolio as a measure of reflective practice," International Journal of ePortfolio, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 99-115, 2013.[4] C. Danielson and L. Abrutyn, "An introduction to using portfolios in the classroom," in Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandra, VA, 1997.[5] Association of American Colleges and Universities, "ePortfolios," [Online]. Available: https://www.aacu.org/eportfolios
wide information literacy instruction and collaborator’sprofessional development. The collaborators’ regular meetings to discuss, evaluate, and reflectthe information literacy themed projects have produced campus-wide information literacyperception assessment, inter-institutional grant activities to promote information literacy acrossthe curriculum and seamless integration of information literacy instruction into the course viacourse assignments. For example, the project process and progress of University GeneralEducation general chemistry course information literacy assignment for engineering technologystudents have been shared in various professional communities.5,6,7 In this paper, the authorsexamine their journey to create the successful
session countdown clock and ahandy “restart session” button. Kepware also allowed for session “re-initiation.” The OpenAutomation Software was also time-limited to 30-days. It did not prominently display the number ofdays left on the temporary license.Based on the results seen in this work, use of the OPC UA demonstration packages has a definite value.Even if the laboratory has licensed software from Rockwell and therefore RSLinx is present, there is anadvantage in using the demonstration programs, as they provide the student with the opportunity to seeopen architecture model solutions for system-wide, PLC related, data handling.The visit to an industry site makes it evident that PLCs and data handling are an integral part ofindustrial automation
guitar tuner,and a ball balancing on a plate. Both projects focused on control system design andimplementation, encompassing sensors and actuators, interface electronics, hardware andsoftware integration, and control logic implementation in software (LabVIEW or Arduino).These end-of-semester course projects were carried out during the final four weeks of thesemester, preceded by ten weeks of structured lecture/laboratory session.IntroductionThe ability to conduct and design experiments is rated as one of the most desirable technicalskills of engineering and engineering technology graduates1. Specifically, the referenced surveyindicates that employers want graduates with an ability to integrate hardware and software, andto formulate a range of
frequency of the activities.A. Assessment of Program OutcomesMultiple methods are used to demonstrate accomplishment of program outcomes. A summary of thosemethods is given below. Graded Homework: In almost every lecture course in the program, graded homework is an integral part of the learning process. The methods of grading vary from instructor-to-instructor. Some collect homework sets on a weekly or bi- weekly schedule. Others require students to complete homework lecture-to-lecture. In any case, the work is graded, returned to the student in a timely fashion, and used for continuous improvement. Faculty members establish standards for submitted work, clearly announce deadlines, and maintain clear late policies. In this
Paper ID #28782Landscape of Engineering Technology Programs as seen from ASEEAimee T Ulstad P.E., The Ohio State University Aimee Ulstad, P.E is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Aimee was an industry professional in various field in engineering for over 30 years. Aimee received her degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration from Ohio State. She began her career as a packaging equipment engineer at Procter and Gamble, then moved to Anheuser-Busch where she worked for
FormatVALUE Project BackgroundThe Association of American Colleges and Universities started the VALUE (Valid Assessmentof Learning in Undergraduate Education) project in 20072. This program was created in order tobetter show educational benefits, quality of learning, and retention and graduation rates. Sincethere are no standardized tests for the Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs), there was a need todevelop a way to document and assess student learning in undergraduate education.The VALUE project was driven by an advisory board made up of 12 people, national andinternational leaders. The main goal was to generate a way to evaluate student learning that wasbased on the work students produced through the curriculum across a set of Essential
AC 2007-1317: MANAGING A DISTANCE-LEARNING EET LABORATORYCOURSE USING COLLABORATION SOFTWARESteve Hsiung, Old Dominion University STEVE C. HSIUNG Steve Hsiung is an associate professor of electrical engineering technology at Old Dominion University. Prior to his current position, Dr. Hsiung had worked for Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Seagate Technology, Inc., and Lam Research Corp., all in Silicon Valley, CA. Dr. Hsiung also taught at Utah State University and California University of Pennsylvania. He earned his BS degree from National Kauhsiung Normal University in 1980, MS degrees from University of North Dakota in 1986 and Kansas State University in 1988, and a PhD degree from
State University and a PhD in Engineering Education from Tufts University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Teaching Sustainable Engineering and Industrial Ecology using a Hybrid Problem-Project Based Learning ApproachAbstractRecently there has been an increased societal awareness of the environmental impacts ofindustrial activities. Many universities have included courses in sustainable engineering andindustrial ecology in their engineering/technology curriculum to better prepare tomorrow’sengineering professional. A unifying thread that runs through such courses is a “life cycle” basedholistic approach to product, process and infrastructure design. Application of
bulletin titled “Civility: The Key toSuccessful Interactions with Others” defines civility with four key points: • “Civility has to do with courtesy, politeness and good manners. • Civility is complex. The root of the word may help illuminate this. Civility is related to civilization; as such it is both an outgrowth of and a necessary ingredient to being a member of society. • Civility belongs in the realm of ethics. Mutual respect and concern for others is the foundation. The capacity for empathy is an integral element. • Civility is good, i.e. it is desirable, both for the individual and for the society at large.” 9Companies value workplace civility. For example, Cummins Engine is a diverse, world-widecorporation which
and approved for allmajor courses. Well-defined faculty-driven curriculum design and review processes havebeen in place for many years. Faculty members conduct assessment and attempt to Page 12.1474.2improve their courses and the degree program, by modifying teaching techniques,exercises and assignments to maximize learning. This has been an ongoing workloadexpectation at the course level for more than a decade, and is embedded in thedepartmental culture.To coordinate the assessment and evaluation process to the program level, the departmentformed an Assessment Committee to oversee the assessment activities and coordinateactions to spur continuous
and keep track of the sources used in their projects.Web Conferencing TechnologiesWith available technologies, such as Web Conferencing, Chat Reference or Instant Messaging,Email Reference, Course Management System Integration, Blogs, Text Messaging, andTelephone service, distance learners receive necessary assistance needed for their projects andassignments through virtual environments. Library instructional sessions can now be heldthrough these technologies. Online students at their convenience will be able to learn newinformation research and educational skills. They can also simultaneously ask questions andshare their thoughts with their online classmates resulting in an interactive and engaging learningenvironment.Adobe Connect Pro