AC 2009-1182: COMPARISON OF INTERNATIONAL LEARNING OUTCOMESAND DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING CURRICULAAshraf Alkhairy, Alfaisal University Ashraf Alkhairy, PhD is the Founding Dean of Engineering at Alfaisal University. He received the Bachelor's, Master's and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, where he worked as a research scientist. He has served on the faculty of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, and was a visiting scientist at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT and the Schlumberger Carbonate Research Center.Leland Blank, Texas A&M University Leland Blank, PhD, PE is currently Visiting Professor at Texas A&M University at
, we have two concentrationsnamely electronics and biomedical (newly added). In electronics we have two programsentitled Electronic Engineering Technology and Industrial Engineering Technology. Thestudents will have to take 22 hours allocated for biomedical concentration. This is theminimum number of hours required by the TAC of ABET for the concentration of anarea. The courses are biology, physiology, chemistry, medical instrumentation, digitalsignal processing and associated laboratories. The students need to take other corecourses such as digital communication, classical controls, advanced electronics,microcontroller, etc. As an elective they can take a wireless communication coursewhich is offered in the department. These courses will
Chemistry I 4 General Chemistry II 3General Chemistry I Laboratory 1 General Chemistry II Laboratory 1Calculus I for Physical Sciences 4 Calculus II for Physical Sciences 4Physics I for Engineers 5 Physics II for Engineers 5College Composition 3 Public Speaking 3Second YearCalculus III for Physical Scientists 4 Ordinary Differential Equations 4Engineering Mechanics – Statics 3 Engineering Mechanics – Dynamics 3Social Problems 3 Current World Problems 3Principles of Plant Biology 4 Principles of Microeconomics
the target audience willperceive it as a viable career choice.Other activities used to expose students to engineering topics and concepts are accomplishedthrough laboratory exposure. Some institutions of higher education establish an introduction toengineering lab at local high schools. The laboratory set-up employs active learning and smallerclasses to better inform students about the nature of engineering and its specific disciplines.Research has shown that the overall perceptions of students concerning the engineeringprofession have improved as a result of their educational experience and exposure. According toa study done by Besterfield-Sacre et al., the attitudes of students towards the engineeringprofession improved in programs that
various industrial Page 11.1233.2fields with opportunities to learn advanced teaching methodologies and new technologies.Historical development of HRDI is summarized in Table 1 and the various training programsundertaken by HRDI from 1998 to 2003 and the number of participants in these activities arelisted in Table 2. HRDI provides state-of-the-art classroom and laboratory facilities as shown inFigs 1 and 2. Table 1 Historical Development of HRDI Date Activity According to the government's New Five-Year
Page 15.796.4German as their primary language with English as a secondary language. Figure 3 - Team Performance Curve (image from: Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers [5])Once the team members had an opportunity to get to know each other, the real team work began.The team held a formal meeting in one of the Purdue University Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology laboratories that was equipped with a chalk board, multiple computersand an overhead computer projector. This environment allowed the students all the resourcesthat they needed to exchange ideas, create diagrams, and perform research. The faculty coachesof the team outlined the Darwin21 challenge and rules, and
studentsarrive in Karlsruhe between January and March, and start with a research project that has beenformulated by faculty at both institutions. Whenever possible, the US student is paired with aGerman student who will participate in the reciprocal phase of the exchange program. When thesemester begins in Karlsruhe in April, students transition to coursework and either finish theirresearch or decrease their laboratory workload.The engineering students from Karlsruhe, Germany, come to the University of Kentucky inAugust to take regular classes in the fall semester. Karlsruhe’s engineering students, who arerequired to complete a 500-hour research project for their degree, perform some of this researchin the fall semester, while also taking classes, and
, and it has been important base for personnel training and scientificresearch of mineral processing in China, and has a higher international outstanding academicand influence. The major has achieved outstanding achievement in undergraduate teaching,experiments and practice teaching. It has two national content courses of ‘mineralprocessing subject’ and ‘concentration plant design’, six of them are top-quality coursesof Jiangsu; Laboratory of mineral processing is the key laboratory of ministry of education.And in 2009, it was awarded as national experimental teaching demonstration centers withmining engineering and safety engineering, and it has formed a training system of mineralprocessing to adapt the new century. Nearly 60 years
in another laboratory 3000 Page 12.950.7mile away. It is of interest only if the graduate student can go abroad and continueproject work begun at home in the laboratory of a collaborator abroad, thus makingthe departure a “win” for all persons involved. The faculty can benefit from eachother’s expertise and complementary facilities, as can the student. The time inGermany under such circumstances can become a rich international experiencewith the potential for joint publications, and laying the groundwork for futurefunding and collaboration as well as support for the next graduate students.With a grant from the German Ministry of Economics and Technology5
them can be found at www.edc-cu.org/Education.htm.Starting in spring 2004, an outdoor teaching laboratory has been created on the CU Boulder campusthat gives students the opportunity to practice sustainable building techniques in an outdoor setting.The Field Laboratory for Applied Sustainable Technologies (FLAST) allows students to gain Page 11.566.7experience with low cost, low maintenance green building materials through active and experientiallearning (www.edc-cu.org/FLAST.htm). In 2004, the laboratory was used as an integral part of theteaching of Sustainability and the Built Environment, which wastaught to graduate and undergraduate
delivery tools aroundthe world. Currently, more than 3,700 world-wide higher education, K-12, corporate,government and commercial academic institutions utilize solutions offered by WebCT and itsparent company Blackboard4. In Tennessee Tech University, WebCT has been the only tool usedto deliver the web-based courses to its distance students. WebCT provides an environment fordeveloping and delivering web-based educational activities and materials. It permits instructorsto make tests, discussions, lecture materials, and sample solutions available via the world-wideweb. Some coursework such as homework, tests and laboratory reports, can also be submittedand controlled via WebCT.IDEA EvaluationsThe IDEA survey system takes a positive approach to
AC 2012-3668: REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OFSTUDENTS AND PROFESSORS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGDr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian P. Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Self has taught in the Mechanical En- gineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating
learning, Actionbeing more vocational and Self being more cerebral. The traditional engineering curriculumis described by figure 2a where the Knowledge dimension informs both Action and Self. Itcan be argued that in a traditional academic curriculum Action and Self intersect to somedegree in engineering laboratory classes. However many of the laboratory classes involveprepared experimental exercises to confirm theoretical knowledge and require littlereflection. Furthermore the overcrowding at Australian universities combined with theshedding of technical staff and occupational health and safety issues have reduced, what oncewere hand-on laboratory sessions, to group demonstrations and computer simulations.The professional curriculum, shown, in
University in 1985 and is a registered PE in Wisconsin. He teaches courses in circuits and communications.Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Petersen is Department Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering.Holger Dahms, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences Dr. Dahms is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences since 1991. He
exposed to both basic and applied courses as well as laboratory and industrial training to enablethem satisfy the manpower needs of the public and industrial sectors of the Nigerian economy. Thegraduates are expected to be able to design and supervise Engineering projects and construction,develop new products and techniques as well as maintain Engineering Units. The program also offerssufficient depth to enable the promising graduates to undertake postgraduate work in Electronic andElectrical Engineering or related disciplines in Science Engineering.The program is organized such that two years of basic training in Electronic and ElectricalEngineering Science is followed by more detailed professional training in the field of Electronic
or state approved high school or equivalent with at least 15 academic units. These units should include but are not limited to 3 years of Math, Three years of Natural Science with laboratories, 3 years of social science, 4 years of Page 14.325.3 English and 2 sequential years of foreign language. A minimum grade C is required for admit to University of Florida. ≠ For SAT a total score of 1330 is required with a minimum of 440 in either of verbal and quantitative. ≠ A composite score of 19 is required in the ACT with a minimum of 19 on math, 17 on English and 18 on reading. ≠ Applicants
). International students are required to have either beeneducated in an English speaking country or provide results of the TOEFL test6.The minimum requirements for qualification into the engineering program are8:1. Graduation from a regionally accredited or state-approved secondary school or the equivalent (General Education Degree, G.E.D.) Page 14.326.32. Fifteen academic units, including 4 years of English, 3 years of math, 3 years of natural sciences (two with laboratories), 3 years of social sciences, and 2 sequential years of a foreign language.3. A cumulative C average in the academic core, as computed by the university, at all institutions
designed to continue the development of general research skills such as, 1)connecting coursework material to laboratory results, 2) literature review, 3) research reportwriting, and 4) data analysis. The three areas of ISR program focus are, 1) research, 2) culture,and 3) language. The model starts by creating relationships at an international university. Fromthe initial relationships started we started to develop three components of the program. Theresearch projects consisted of environmental monitoring to the current university led socialprograms in the community. The Cartagena, Colombia ISR program used a cross-culturalapproach to accomplish language exchange. This consisted of pairing a Colombian Spanishspeaking student to an English speaking
through which twelve freshmanand sophomore physics and engineering students from U.S. universities complete researchinternships in the multidisciplinary field of nanoscience and nanoengineering in leadingJapanese laboratories.34 The program first received five years of funding in 2006 and wasselected for a five-year renewal in 2010 with funding confirmed through 2015. Within thisPIRE grant, the research projects conducted by NanoJapan students are concerned with variousaspects of nanoscience and nanoengineering, ranging from synthesis of nanomaterials throughnanodevice fabrication to a variety of electrical, magnetic, and optical characterizationmeasurements.35NanoJapan recruits high-potential first and second year physics and engineering
.” Page 11.1285.6ClassroomETHOS incorporates research projects into several undergraduate Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering courses. These courses include: MEE312L - Materials Laboratory, MEE410 – HeatTransfer, MEE431L – Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Laboratory I, and MEE432L –Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Laboratory II. To date, most classroom work has focusedon the design and analysis of biomass cook stoves. Primarily, these course projects have focusedon the design and analysis of insulative brick materials and the failure of chimney stacks used inconstruction of biomass cook stoves. Through these projects, students perform researchbenefiting collaborating organizations while being exposed to the associated social and
introduction will have a major effect on education system. As the learning resources such as fully stacked libraries and fully equipped computer laboratories are rare in the country, careful planning is required to prioritize the introduction of ICT into the mainstream education including Page 15.1251.3higher education.While the world has changed dramatically in the past few decades and will continue to do so with an accelerating pace, the learning environment, i.e. the classroom has not changed but it will change in the near future. The education system in Afghanistan must follow its international
culminating class, involving a major designexperience. Students participating in the 1+2+1 program are assumed to arrive with thefollowing coursework already completed in their home universities: • 1 year of Calculus • 1 year of Calculus-based Physics, including laboratories • 1 quarter of Chemistry, including laboratory • Page 15.60.6 1 quarter of computer programmingWith those prerequisites, students are in line with Sophomore level students at the University,allowing them to delve directly into the technical portion of the curriculum. A sample course ofstudy is shown in Table 1. Note that students take their
field studies are needed for biology labs. Water analysisinstruments for use in the field and in the laboratory are essential for biology. For cell biologychromatographic apparati are essential to support fractionation. The following chromaticapparati are needed: (a) partition (paper), (b) thin-layer, and (c) column.Instruments are needed for use in chemistry to prepare materials and process samples. Topromote laboratory safety, eye wash stations, chemical storage cabinets and exhaust hoods withutilities are needed. Stills are essential to generate laboratory grade water for use in bothchemistry and biology.Models and PC software are needed for geometry courses so students can better grasp three-dimensional geometry for their pre-calculus
Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.was born in Juazeiro, BA, Brazil. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil, in 1995, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in the field of photonics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, in 2003. In 2006, he served as Faculty Fellow in the 2006 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program in the Wright-Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, USA. In 2003, Dr. Lima received the IEEE LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship Award, and he was co
throughout the semester. The water facility design team worked at a consistent levelthroughout the semester.Curriculum Development Team A subset of the scholarship recipients are seeking to develop curricula that buildsstudents’ conceptual understanding of science while reinforcing these concepts throughinteractive and interdisciplinary laboratory experiments. The laboratory experiments are beingadapted from previous efforts at Colorado School of Mines to improve science instruction in theUnited States at the K-12 level4. All of the adapted materials must further be aligned withmandated Ugandan government science curriculum16 and utilize resources available in Uganda. Consistent with the government mandates, Table 3 provides the course
education, and teacher professional development. For ten years she served on the Board of Examiners for the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. She was also at the University of South Carolina for 17 years where she taught undergraduates, had an active research program in paleo-oceanography, and numerous graduate students. She has a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Rhode Island and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the University of South Carolina.Lynn Charles Rathbun, National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, Cornell University Dr. Lynn Rathbun is the Deputy Director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network and the Laboratory Manager of the Cornell Nanoscale
limited to the itemized list in Table C. Page 25.833.7 Equipment Location Ablation machine Operation Room Defibrillator Emergency Department Heart Monitor Emergency Department Pacemaker Emergency Department 3 Analog weight scales Pharmacy 4 Electronic Weight scales Pharmacy 2 Suction Pumps Medical Ward 4 Oxygen Concentrators Medical Ward 2 Microcentrifuges Laboratory Otoscope Outpatient DepartmentTable C: List of equipment serviced and their location within
teaching and learning for engineering faculty. In his research Dominik May focuses, inter alia, on future requirements for science and engineering graduates, such as interna- tional competence, in order to become successful engineers in a globalized professional world. Therefore he designs and investigates respective educational strategies with a special focus on online solutions and the integration of remote laboratories. For his research and the development of several transnational on- line courses he benefits from his working experience in international companies and a broad international professional network. Furthermore Dominik May is founding member of both the Engineering Education Research Group at the Center
Network inthe Provincial Highway Department of Buenos Aires. He also coordinated economic studies forplanning and road construction using the lessons learned during his studies at Ohio StateUniversity. Approximately two years later, Leiderman took advantage of an opportunity to workas a researcher at the Transport Research Laboratory in England. He used his knowledge fromOhio State University to conduct traffic studies as well as operation costs of vehicles and frictioncoefficient studies on asphalt and concrete pavements.Upon his return to Argentina a year later, Leiderman continued to use his knowledge andexperience to improve the road network in Argentina. He conducted a study that proved thefriction levels on many asphalt pavements were