organizing principle and drove all of the learningactivities for the semester. While the PBL activities helped students with self-directed learning ofthe key concepts of the course the PrBL activity served as a “glue” in illustrating the syntheticapplication of the many topics toward a life cycle approach to the design of products. Studentswere required to turn in a one-page proposal within two weeks of the project assignment as totheir choice of the product and the deliverables that they planned to include in the final projectreport. Roughly from the mid-point in the semester (about 6-7 weeks from the start) each studentpresented their project progress to the entire class. The presentations were to last roughly 20minutes (15 minutes of formal
course module aboutthe DFM and DFA concepts. As one of the course assignments, the students are asked to designa product that is easily and economically manufactured. They are expected to utilize the designtechniques for DFM and DFA and integration of product design and process planning into onecommon activity. Students are asked to consider realistic constraints of the AM technology isthis process, and design their parts for AM process. Once they complete their design, theygenerate 3D models and print their design in the AM Lab. For 3D CAD modeling, students use afree, cloud-based CAD tool i.e. AutoDesk™ TinkerCAD. They also download and use the recentversions of the MakerBot™ and/or CubePro™ 3D Printing Software for preparing their designsfor
program—this is Jacksonville State University, whichoffers an Applied Electronics Engineering degree through its school of Business and Industry.The department of Applied Engineering—which includes the Applied ManufacturingEngineering program along with the Applied Electronics Engineering Program—had 25 studentsgraduate with a B.S. degree in the spring of 201610.This leads to a projection of 15 students/year enrolled newly enrolled in (and subsequentlygraduating from) the EET program at Troy University. The program is expected to be larger thanthe PHY or BML majors, and comparable to or slightly larger than the successful GEOMprogram.Accreditation and PE licenseThe plan is to have ABET accreditation in five years. In order to prepare for the
5 4 3 2 1 Unemployment rate by college major, irrespective of Good whether employment is related to the major (%)When incoming freshmen are unsure between two or more majors, I share these graphs withstudents and their parents to help guide the discussion.ConclusionsThe six NCES annual reports and their many tables contain information which can helpprofessors and their employers to advise students and to plan for the future, in terms ofdemographics, demand for degree programs, funding patterns, expenditures, and so forth. Someof the key points are: ● Most of the data used in the
block diagram of the EMI monitoring labFigure 14. Magnetic interference data collected from multiple sources—a microwave oven, an AC power supply, a cell phone tower, and a campus transformer vault.Course AssessmentThe Office of Academic Planning and Assessment at Sam Houston State University coordinatesthe institution’s student ratings of instruction (SRI) instrument, the IDEA Evaluation process.This instrument has a 1.0 to 5.0 scale, where 5.0 is highest ranking, and is useful for translatinginformative course feedback into actionable steps to improve student learning. In addition to theuniversity’s set general learning objectives, additional learning objectives aligned with ABET-ETAC Criteria 3 were also included
for high school and middle school students from across the state to participate in STEM-related activities. To date, these activities have been centered around rotary-wing UAS, predominantlyusing less complex 3D printing fabrication techniques. However, we plan to eventually integrate simpletechniques that may be adapted for K-12 students to design and construct fixed-wing UAS. In addition,UAF is involved in developing several future activities, including a proposed effort to coordinateeducational opportunities for K-12 teachers from across the state, as well as UAS competitions, such asthe popular drone racing.Modern Blanket Toss. The Modern Blanket Toss is a STEM program administered by Alaska UpwardBound and the National Science Foundation
?Question 5: in the post-delivery survey negative response of 50% is a significant improvement overthe 10% negative opinion in the pre- survey question 6. The affirmative 40% in both the pre andpost delivery response can be attributed to those students who are not interested in Controls as asubject and they feel that they are forced to take the as a required course.Question 7:, approximately 75% students liked the laboratory exercises. But 20% wanted morehardware exercises.Question 8: approximately 80% students answered that the industry demands Digital Control.Some of the suggestions are to improve the course are as the following: 1. Have some hardware experiments involving dc and servo motors. 2. Plan a visit to some local communication
Facilities Planning and Management, Introduction to Facilities Engineering Sys- tems, Financial Aspects of Facilities Management and Construction Cost and Bidding. He is a graduate of Purdue School of Engineering and Technology receiving degrees in Construction Technology, Archi- tectural Technology and a Masters in Facility Management. His field experience includes residential and light commercial construction. He has been an architectural designer as well as superintendent for single and multi-family residential construction projects. Mr. Ray worked as an engineering design manager in the Building Components Manufacturing Industry for over fifteen years.Mr. James W. White, Indiana University-Purdue University of
with RF systems operations, signals, and their effects.• Utilizing their computer programming and mathematical knowledge, they further sharpened their skills in developing various programming and data base techniques, which not only acquired and analyzed the data but also controlled the process and provided vital information through a simple informative user interface.• They developed a decision based method and provided a simple yet effective reliability analysis method to justify the outcome.• They learned that a well-planned project management and distribution of tasks between the team members are vital to the success of any project. The tasks were divided between three students, one tasked with RF analysis, one
, thusfacilitating knowledge transfer.Future work in our program will be focused on the examination of transfer of knowledge acrossincoming and remaining cohort. In addition, we are interested in examining how co-presence couldinfluence cognitivist learning outcomes for students. How we plan to assess this is through acomparative study where we continue the class with the current HS but also with a HS class thatis situated in the same location our university is situatedReferences1. Engineers, S.o.M., Workforce Imperative: A Manufacturing Education Strategy. 2012.2. Klawe, M. Why Manufacturing Is Vital To Engineering Education. 2015; Available from: https://www.abet.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/workforce-imperative-manufacturing
, Purdue University Emily Schott is an Undergraduate Researcher working under Dr. Lucietto. She began working for Dr. Lucietto in the summer of 2018 as part of Purdue’s Summer Stay Scholars Program. She is a junior in Aerospace Engineering and is pursuing a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Emily is also a member of the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers Chain Reaction Machine Team and is helping to plan next year’s Amelia Earhart Aerospace Summit at Purdue. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Engineering Technology Graduates: A Survey of Demographics and MentoringAbstractEarly in 2017, a team of engineering
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Mapped to Outcome “d, f” Mappings will varyProgram with respect to depending onCo-op experience. homework objectiveMapped to Outcome “a, c,d, e”Tech 3890 Co-op Report Q 30. Developed Needed Report or PresentationReport assignment: Provide Skills and Competencies (if present)a plan for near term co-op Mapped to Outcome “a” Student Outcome willor regular employment. vary depending onMapped to Outcome “h” x
withacademia in an engineering education conference in 2010 [18-20].Students first became involved in this project in the spring 2015 semester during a solarphotovoltaic course (17 students) at Sam Houston State University (SHSU). During the course,students were tasked with building a portable grid-tied solar photovoltaic lab equipment afterextensive lectures to learn the theory. Students worked in teams to prepare an action plan for theproject. Four teams were created for the initial steps of the project. The assignments of the teamsare (a) estimates and quotes for the materials; (b) computer aided design (CAD); (c) productionof the portable stand; (d) purchasing of solar photovoltaic related equipment and supply; and (e)building the unit-system
Statistics 2010. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.16. Ragsdale, S. (2013). Pursuing and Completing an Undergraduate Computing Degree from a Female Perspective: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis (Doctoral dissertation). Available from ProQuest database. (AAT 3565811)17. Cohoon, J. M., & Aspray, W. (2006). Women and information technology: Research on underrepresentation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.18. Horn, L., & Nunez, A. (2000). Mapping the road to college: First-generation students' math track, planning strategies, and context of support. US Department of Education. National Center for Educational Statistics report 2000-153.19. McMahon, W. (1999). Education and development: Measuring
well. 1. This model requires a true partnership between textbook authors and a recognized commercial software company. Ensuring that individual interests are well-served by the arrangement is critical. Stakeholders include students, faculty, authors, publishers, and industry, and all must be remembered when establishing the partnership. 2. Matching print material with more dynamic software can be a challenge. A strong and stable software company must be part of the equation to ensure sustainability. Also the ability to adjust to software revisions between textbook updates must be planned. 3. As is always the case with experiential learning, the addition of this facet of the course does require faculty time
affective components of student engagement (Dixson, 2015) Online Course Management Systems One of the negative effects which was detected in online learning environments is thatoften new generation of learners can behave as “butterflies fluttering across the information on thescreen, touching or not touching pieces of information (i.e., hyperlinks), quickly fluttering to anext piece of information, unconscious to its value and without a plan” (Kirschner & vanMerriënboer, 2013). Some researchers do not agree that today's learners are digital natives andefficient multitaskers, who learn best if the specific learning styles are catered or they learn as self-educators (Kirschner & van Merriënboer, 2013). Some even suggested
machine design presented in this paper willbenefit technicians, electricians, and manufacturing workers by providing a user- friendly and low-cost efficient device that will accurately and efficiently cut one wire. The automated industrialwire cutting machine also decreases manual labor; as a result, it increases productivity.There are cost-effective ways to improve this prototype that can increase productivity even moresignificantly. Even though the machine prototype was only able to cut and strip one wire at a time,it is more accurate and efficient than most machines in the market at a fraction of the price. Asmentioned in the future work section there is a plan to make it a 4-wire machine that will beat anycompetitor in the market. It is hoped
and action items taken. ii. A weekly prioritized to-do list. iii. A weekly list summarizing goals achieved during the previous two weeks including the time spent (in hours) working (how much of the to do list was completed?) iv. Notes from outside research. v. Notes of how to accomplish a task. vi. Calculations, graphs (handmade and/or computer generated), drawings. vii. Drawings and schematic diagrams, including changes or updated versions, with detailed explanations of what was changed or updated. viii. Test plans, collected data, analyses, and conclusions regarding testing
participation andinvolvement of each student in the self-driven learning and self-driven practicing. After five daysof self-learning and practicing, on Day 6, the professor held a question and answer session tosolve the problems students might encounter during the self-learning process. Then, there weretwo more days for the students to finish their PowerPoint slides preparation in a form of anorganization and information flow they prefer. In addition, students needed to prepare ahomework he/she planned to assign to the class, which was used to test the conceptsunderstanding of the rest of students. On Day 8, a name was drawn randomly in the beginning,and that student performed as the instructor during this Flip Classroom session. That one studentgained
groups depending on the how thegroup interacted.AcknowledgmentThe project team wants to acknowledge Virginia Space Grant Consortium for continuous fundingfor ODU BLAST program.References:[1] E. T. Mather, UVA Team Receives Governor’s Programs that Work Award, University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, (2016). [Online]. Available: https://engineering.virginia.edu/news/2016/02/bringing-stem-life, [Accessed Jan. 31, 2020].[2] J. M. Trenor, S. L. Yu, C. L. Waight, K. S. Zerda, and T. L. Sha, "The relations of ethnicity to female engineering students' educational experiences and college and career plans in an ethnically diverse learning environment,'' Journal of engineering education, vol. 97, no. 4
of a display case. However, the planning and collection ofsamples were completed as shown in Figure 9. Page 13.536.10 Figure 9 Design of a display case10Students’ self learning of operating FDM machine and acquiring the software skills was evident.At the end of the semester, only one student volunteered to fill out the questionnaire. The selfevaluation score was 7. Other observations of student self-learning included:‚ When students sought advice, the faculty sponsor often provided a general direction for the students to proceed.‚ The students made a reasonable effort to learn the new software and produce the
Nanoscale Issues in Manufacturing.” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE AnnualConference. Available CD ROM.3. Hallacher, P.M., D.E. Fenwick, and S.J. Fonash. “Pathways from Community College toBachelors of Science in Engineering with a Nanotechnology Minor.” Proceedings of the 2003ASEE Annual Conference. Available CD ROM.4. Alpert, C.L., J.A. Isaacs, C.M.F. Barry, G.P. Miller, and A.A. Busnaina. “Nano’s Big Bang:Transforming Engineering Education and Outreach.” Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE AnnualConference. Available CD ROM5. Hallacher, P.M., D.E. Fenwick, and S.J. Fonash. “A Regional Center for ManufacturingEducation in Nanofabrication.” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference. AvailableCD ROM.6. Walters, R. and A. Lozano. “Planning for the Future
members began looking for an answer for our testing purposes. Throughresearch, discussing with several faculty members in the Engineering Technology Departmentand the Aerospace Department, came up with a plan to test our model. First we needed a model.The team drew a model in Inventor 8 and built a model out of Styrofoam using a FadalVMC3016. With the testing completed, the main factors that had to be improved were theweight and the angle of the hull. The team knew that the lighter the hull, the better the results,but after the DOE we knew by how much. The angle of the hull was critical. If the team had nottested the design, the angle of attack initially chosen would have been devastating. Now that allof the unknowns were solved, the craft was
knowledge gained primarily in the classessuch as: ECET 209 – Introduction to Microcontrollers, ECET 303 – Communication I, ECET367– Internetworking and TCP/IP, and ECET 455 –C++ Object Oriented Programming.However, most important part was the aptitude the students acquire in the ECET program foridentifying problems around us, researching on the topic and the components and subsystems.The lessons learned to do feasibility study and preparing time-line plan and task division andexecution were part of the excellent course in ECET 397 –Directed Project Engineering. Manyinstances came when the task seemed impossible; however, the persistence and applicationopened the path to new solutions. Two of the examples were to solve the problem of isolation
Geek Civilization: Amateur Radio and First-Year Projects To Improve Recruitment and Retention In an ECET ProgramAbstractThis paper describes the author’s current efforts and future plans to restore the path which ledmany of today’s senior professionals into electronic technology. That path usually began in theteenage years with an interest in amateur radio and tinkering with electronics, followed by mathand science courses in high school, then pursuit of a degree in engineering or technology.Unfortunately, that path has nearly disappeared over the last twenty-five years or so because ofthe evolution of electronic technology in ways that make it seem less accessible to tinkerers andamateur radio operators and because electronic
project with the measurement devices given theirwidespread usage in automotive and aerospace systems. The metrology CAD modules werecreated and the interactive features designed in the virtual world. The objective was to help thelearner understand the basic functionality and the appropriate operation method of the caliper.The 3D visualization and virtual reality was seamlessly integrated into the courses and modulesincorporating course plans, exercises, quizzes, exams, and laboratory manuals resulting in anintegrated assessment approach.In the virtual environment, each module contains four sections - introduction, guided practice,exercise, and assessment as shown in Fig. 5. First, the introduction offers basic informationabout the instrument and
-programming course at the University of Pittsburgh atJohnstown was made for the Fall 2012 semester. It was done with ample caution and care so as not tooverload students having to learn MATLAB in addition to the already established work load in Cprogramming. Learning C cannot be scaled back due to its necessity and this being the only formalprogramming course in the EET program. As the student survey indicated, the two competingprogramming tools were balanced right and this experiment will encourage the continuation of thispractice by the author. In the future, author plans to explore the possibility of using MATLAB toproduce C-code for sample programs done by students, interaction between DevC/C++ andMATLAB in terms of MATLAB invoking C functions
," Page 23.43.11 College Student Journal, 38(1) pp. 157.14. Hancock, T. M., 19__, “Effects of Mandatory Attendance on Student Performance,” College Student Journal, 28(3) pp. 326-329.15. Immerwahr, J., 2011, "The Case for Motivational Grading," Teaching Philosophy, 34(4) pp. 335-346.16. King, B. M., Eason, B. L., St. L. O'Brien, Gregory M., 2004, "Effects on Grades of a New University Policy Requiring Faculty to Take Attendance," Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 16(2) pp. 9-18.17. Kohn, A., 1999, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, Houghton Mifflin.18. Kooker, E. W., 1976, "Changes in Grade Distributions Associated with Changes in
curricula in EET, MET, and IET,to place-bound students around the state [10, 11]. It is expected that these agreements will beexpanded in the future to include articulations into the new BMET and REET degree programs.The REET program in particular is also expected to attract students from other majors inengineering technology, engineering, and some of the science programs on campus. The facultyis already working on a marketing plan to target such students. Page 23.180.9VI. ConclusionThe renewable energy industry promises to address many of the issues that are looming in thefuture for our state and our country. As our populations continue to grow, we