Paper ID #16364Purdue Mission to Mars: Recruiting High School Students to a PolytechnicCollegeDr. Matthew Turner, Purdue University (Statewide Technology) Dr. Matthew Turner is an Assistant Professor of ECET at Purdue University New Albany where he teaches courses in power systems and controls. Prior to joining the faculty at Purdue, Professor Turner worked as a researcher at the Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research in the area of power and energy systems, with a focus on smart grid implementation and computer modeling. Dr. Turner’s current research concentrates on demand response technologies and the application of
of Engineering (MSOE). He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1985 and is a registered Professional Engineer in Wisconsin. He previously was a Member of Technical Staff at L-3 Communications and currently performs systems engineering consulting in the area of communications for DISA (U.S. DoD). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and teaches courses in circuits, signals, and communications.Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Petersen is Department Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received
the University of Louisville. He serves as the coordinator of engineering graphics, a service unit for all Speed School departments. Matthews is credited for the development of the CADD program and its laboratories at Speed School. He is published nationally and internationally in areas of teaching methodology. During his tenure at the University of Louisville he has generated in excess of 2.2 million dollars in grants and gifts in kind. He founded and was the first manager of the AutoCAD Training Center at the University of Louisville. Matthews’ research activity evolves around innovative teaching methods, techniques and creative activity. Academic computing initiative involving web-assisted
paradigm in education through an NSF sponsored program. Long experience in curriculum development. Extensive knowledge in academic programs, professional development programs and on the job training plans. Motivated, fluent in English with multi-lingual capability, internationally educated professional, with work experience in different countries and international organizations. Highly diversified, person- able and outreaching communication skills. Winner of 2012 faculty of the year award at Lawrence Tech- nological University. Nominated for Teaching Excellence and Using Technology in Classroom Awards.Mr. Jerry Cuper, Lawrence Technological University Jerry Cuper is a professor and advisor in the Department of Engineering
Paper ID #14825Automatic Parking Vehicle SystemMs. Honghong LiuDr. Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Wayne State University GENE LIAO is currently Director of the Electric-drive Vehicle Engineering and Alternative Energy Tech- nology programs and Professor at Wayne State University. He received a M.S. in mechanical engineering from Columbia University, and a doctor of engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has over 17 years of industrial practices in the automotive sector prior to becoming a faculty member. Dr. Liao has research and teaching interests in the areas of hybrid vehicles, energy storage, and advanced
Paper ID #11284An Introductory Study of the Impact of Implementation Intentions on As-signment Completion Rates with an Emphasis on Engineering TechnologyStudentsDr. Christina R Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University Christina Scherrer is an associate professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering in the Southern Poly- technic College of Engineering at Kennesaw State University. Her research interests are in the application of operations research and economic decision analysis to the public sector and in assessing education innovation. She teaches primarily statistics and logistics courses, at both the undergraduate
Paper ID #28659Introducing Engineering Technology Students to Ethical EngineeringDecision ProcessDr. Carmen Cioc, The University of Toledo Dr. Carmen Cioc is an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering Technology at the University of Toledo. She teaches courses in mechanical design and thermal fluids, including statics and strengths of materials, mechanical design, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics. Her research interests are in engineering education, applied thermal sciences, and tribology. Dr. Cioc earned her first master’s degree (1992) in Aerospace Engineering at Polytechnic University of Bucharest, her second
Science from Washington University in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked at University of California, San Diego and Wayne State University. From 1995 to 2006, he worked in the automotive industry as a system engineer. In 2006 He joined the Electronics Engineering Technology faculty at Texas A&M. His research activities include control system theory and applications to industry, system engineering, robust design, modeling, simulation, quality control, and optimization.Jorge Alvarado, Texas A&M University Dr. Jorge Alvarado is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. He teaches courses in the areas of thermal
1974. He was appointed as a dean at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, directing a joint project with MIT in Iran, after which he returned to St. Louis in 1975 as the associate dean of instruction. He headed the Department of Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision at Purdue University, Calumet, from 1978 to 1980, then served for ten years as the dean of the College of Technology of the University of Houston. After a sabbatical year working on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Wolf became the president of Oregon Institute of Technology. He retired from administration in 1998, designated as a president emeritus. He
Grose10 involves role-playing and debates astools to sharpen student’s writing abilities. In this study, writing is considered as a creative formof designing.While educators are arguably more experienced in delivering pedagogy that relates to technicalskills, and subsequently measuring the effectiveness through outcomes assessment, this approachis significantly less familiar for the non-technical skills. Shuman et al.11 has addressed the issueand summarized recent work regarding both teaching and assessing these non-technical skills.Assessment, it should be noted, is of particular concern to educational institutions due to themore stringent requirements being placed on them by regional accrediting agencies, as well as byABET. The authors point
Page 23.225.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessment of Communication and Teamwork Skills in Engineering Technology ProgramsIntroductionInstitutions of higher education have acknowledged that an effective teaching/learning processmust involve assessing and evaluating what and how much students are learning. Assessmentand evaluation leads to improvements in the educational experiences.ETAC/ABET Criteria 3.B.e. and 3B.g. require that graduates demonstrate effective skills inteamwork and communication.1 Therefore, the goal of this project was to develop consistent andefficient methods for assessment of students’ skills in these areas for different programs
an example, North Carolina funds sixteen universitycampuses based upon a student contact hour model 2. North Carolina uses four category levels offunding instructional positions: Category I 708.64 SCH Category II 535.74 SCH Category III 406.25 SCH Category IV 232.25 SCHThe Category IV level includes higher priority programs such as engineering and nursing. Thelowest category includes English, social sciences, mathematics, and philosophy. For instance, aprofessor teaching multiple sections of a three credit hour English 101course needs 708.65divided by 3 which equals about 236 students total, or about 59 students per class if four classesare
Paper ID #18519Developing an Aeronautical Engineering Technology Course for CommercialSpace OperationsMs. Tracy L. Yother, Purdue University Tracy L. Yother is a PhD student in Career and Technical Education in the College of Education at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Ms. Yother currently teaches the undergraduate Powerplant Systems course in the Aeronautical Engineering Technology (AET) program. She possesses a B.S. and M.S. in Aviation Technology. She also holds an airframe and powerplant certificate. Ms. Yother has 18 years’ experience in the aerospace and defense industry working for companies such as
othertechnologies were examined, such as optical track detection, inductive sensing was chosen basedon its robustness and reliability, the “coolness factor” which excites students, and because it lentitself well to teaching and demonstration. In particular,high school students were motivated by this technologybecause it tied directly back to their physics courses.To implement the technology on their platforms, thestudents are provided a pre-assembled Sensor Board asshown in Figure XX. This board was designed anddeveloped by the EET/TET undergraduate students andconsists of three separate inductive sensors (L,M.R in the block diagram) and associated signalconditioning to produce three digital signals, each indicating the presence or absence of the wiretrack
development, analog/RF electronics, instrumentation, and entrepreneurship.Dr. Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on engineering education; design tools; specifically, the cost modeling and analysis of product development and manufacturing systems
professor in Electronic En- gineering Technology. He is teaching Electronic and Computer Engineering Technology Courses. He ob- tained his BSEE degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University and MSEE degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his PHD in EE from Florida International University. He is an IEEE Member and a Member in ASEE. His research interests include signal processing, biometrics, embedded microcontroller design, application of new instructional technology in classroom instruction. Page 22.270.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011
Electrical Engineering M.A.Sc. from University of Windsor,Canada, and completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University. E-mail: RajaravivarmaV@ccsu.eduG. Thomas Bellarmine, Florida A&M-Florida State University Dr. G. Thomas Bellarmine is currently working at Florida A&M University as Associate Professor teaching Electronic and Computer Engineering Technology courses. He obtained his BSEE degree from Madras University and MSEE degree from Madurai Kamaraj University. He did his PHD in Elecrical Engineering at Mississippi State University and M.S. in Computer Science from The University of West Florida. He is currently an IEEE Senior Member and a Member
Paper ID #17861Assessing Communications and Teamwork Using Peer and Project SponsorFeedback in a Capstone CourseDr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s
not the scale orcost) that apply today. Is this not therefore an argument to retain teaching these basicprinciples? The answer would be affirmative if the principles were used in the same way.Unfortunately, the applications (and therefore the necessary skills) have changedradically.The inexorable increase in semiconductor packing density has several importantconsequences. The first is that the cost of a gate or a memory cell is now measured innano-$ 7. True, they come millions or even billions on a chip but these are today’sbuilding blocks. The second feature is that chip fabrication and the associated boardassembly process are sufficiently reliable to allow millions of samples to be made withvery few failures. In the language of statistical
2003. 5 Funding was used to hire femaleadjunct faculty members teaching in the RIT ET programs to work two hours a weekfacilitating the formation of study groups. Funding is also available to hire peer tutors towork with these female students in the study groups, purchase laboratory kits for thestudents who participate in the study groups, and payment of their expenses to attend aregional conference of the Society of Women Engineers. The retention of womenstudents has improved some in the past three years and we found that students who leftET or RIT did so in the first two years of the program. 6Future DirectionsThe College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST) where the engineeringtechnology programs are housed has participated in all of
children’seducations, before the child enters grade school [12]. This practice benefits upper-class andupper-middle class families, as they have the income to save, leading to a continuing cycle ofcollege attendance and social mobility [12].Pre-College EducationThe education and opportunities provided to students while in high school play a significant rolein their confidence and success in college as well as their selection of major [13, 14]. Hands-onwork such as laboratory experience, FIRST Robotics, Project Lead the Way (PLTW) and otherprograms encourage development of STEM skills before students enter college. The courseworkin the PLTW program features hands-on projects for high school and middle school students thataim to teach critical thinking and
Engineering Technology at The University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB). Prior to join- ing the faculty at UTB he was a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Also, an Associate Professor of Production Engineering Technology at PSG College of Technology Bharathiar University, India, where he served as the Director of Computer Vision Laboratory and National Cadet Corps – Engineering Division Director. With over 26 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing/mechanical engineering and engineering technology, he currently teaches in the areas of CAD/CAM/CIM, Robotics & Automation, Product and Process Design, Materials and Manufacturing processes, Machine Design, Renewable
AC 2012-4031: A METHOD FOR ASSESSING REQUIRED COURSE-RELATEDSKILLS AND PREREQUISITE STRUCTUREDr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Michael D. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a Senior Product Development Engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minn. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Johnson’s research focuses on design tools, specifically the cost modeling and analysis of product development and manufacturing systems
AC 2011-2118: MINI-PROJECTS AS PART OF A FRESHMAN SEMINARFOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTSRobert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie Robert Edwards is currently a Lecturer in Engineering at The Pennsylvania State Erie, The Behrend Col- lege where he teaches Statics, Dynamics, and Fluid and Thermal Science courses. He earned a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Gannon University.Michael Lobaugh, Pennsylvania State University, Erie Michael Lobaugh is a Lecturer in Engineering at Penn State Erie. He received his B.S. in M.E. at the University of Illinois in 1986 and his M.S. in Engineering Management at the
AC 2010-756: COMPETENCY-BASED ASSESSMENT OF ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY PROGRAM OUTCOMESCarmine Balascio, University of Delaware Carmine C. Balascio, Ph.D., P.E. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioresources Engineering at the University of Delaware. He earned bachelor’s degrees in Agricultural Engineering Technology and Mathematics from U.D. He earned an M.S. in Agricultural Engineering and a Ph.D. double major in Agricultural Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University. He teaches courses in surveying, soil mechanics, and storm-water management and has research interests in urban hydrology, water resources engineering, and assessment of student learning. He is
semesters. The results show that studentsthat used shared answers received statistically significant lower average class scores. The resultsalso show that the GUIs did not affect the students learning in sketching shear and momentdiagrams, but the results provided the instructor with data about which students shared solutions,which students used shared answers, and that no answer sharing occurred between the courses ofdifferent semesters.IntroductionIn the learning process, instruction is provided to students through varying styles of teaching thatfall under one of the many common learning models and theories [1], [2], [3]. The instructionprovides students new information that needs to be assimilated into their understanding [1]. Theretainment of
AC 2008-881: CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE OF PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKTECHNOLOGY AS NEXT GENERATION TELEVISIONVeeramuthu Rajaravivarma, SUNY-Farmingdale V. Rajaravivarma is currently with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at SUNY, Farmingdale State College. Previously, he was with Tennessee State University, Morehead State University, North Carolina A&T State University, and Central Connecticut State University. Dr. Rajaravivarma teaches electronics, communication, and computer networks courses to engineering technology students. His research interest areas are in the applications of computer networking and digital signal processing
many more mapping software products that educators areexperimenting with. The ones mentioned here are the ones the authors have examined to date.The selection of one of these applications as the desired tool for a RBLE cannot be done byfaculty in isolation from information technology support staff. Infrastructure and competenttechnical staff to install, support and maintain the tool is mandatory if it is to be used in aclassroom laboratory environment. If the selected tool requires a new set of hardware andoperating system (OS), the cost could become prohibitive. It is even more difficult if a differentOS is used by different units within an educational system and the goal is to have all units usethe selected tool. Table 3 shows the system
chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains on the financial health of a company. She has
Paper ID #31364Development of Interdisciplinary Project Based Scientific ResearchCourse for STEM DepartmentsDr. Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University Faruk Yildiz is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at Sam Houston State Uni- versity. His primary teaching areas are in Electronics, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Alternative Energy Systems. Research interests include: low power energy harvesting systems, renewable energy technologies and education.David E Thompson Ph.D., Sam Houston State University Dr. Thompson obtained his B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in Northfield, MN; spent two