AC 2011-1804: EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF AN UNDERWATER ROBOTICSCOMPETITION: QUESTIONS, METHODOLOGIES AND FINDINGSCandiya Mann, Social and Economic Sciences Research Center, Washington State University Candiya Mann is the independent evaluator for the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center’s National Science Foundation ATE and ITEST grants. She specializes in K-16 education and youth workforce issues and has conducted evaluations for clients including the US Department of La- bor, Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, United Way, school districts, community based organizations and workforce development agencies. Ms. Mann serves on the Advisory Group for the National Science
AC 2012-5352: PICTORIAL METAPHORS IN TYPHOON FORECAST CHARTS:AN ANALYSIS BASED ON THE THEORIES OF CONCEPTUAL METAPHORAND CONCEPTUAL BLENDINGDr. Chih-Hsiung Ku, National Dong Hwa UniversityMr. Yao Chou HoMr. Jin-Yuan Peng, National Dong Hwa University Graduate Institute of Science Education, Hualien, Taiwan, R.O.C.Mr. Yi-Ji Tsai, National Dong Hwa University Yi-Ji Tsai, Ph.D., student of the Graduate Institute of Science Education, Researcher Assistant of Science Education Center at National Dong Hwa University (NDHU), and also was the Preparatory Manager of the 26th (2010) Association of Science Education Annual Conference (at Hualien) by the National Association for Science Education (NASET) in Taiwan. Tsai’s major
AC 2011-1761: MATE ROV COMPETITIONS: PROVIDING PATHWAYSTO THE OCEAN STEM WORKFORCEJill M. Zande, Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center Jill Zande Associate Director & ROV Competition Coordinator Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center VP Education and Research Marine Technology Society (MTS) Biography Jill Zande is the Associate Director and ROV Competition Coordinator for the Marine Ad- vanced Technology Education (MATE) Center and the current VP of Education and Research for MTS. At the MATE Center, Jill’s role is to work closely with industry to ensure that educational programs are aligned with workforce needs and to facilitate partnerships among educators, students, employers, and
AC 2011-1755: DESIGNING AN AUV COMPETITION TO DRAW ENGI-NEERING STUDENTS TOWARDS OCEAN ENGINEERINGJames W Bales, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Bales was the inaugural Technical Director of ONR and AUVSI’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. He is the Assistant Director at MIT’s Edgerton Center, a center dedicated to hands-on, project-based learning.Dr. David Novick, Sandia National Labs Page 22.440.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Designing an AUV Competition to Draw Engineering Students Towards Ocean EngineeringThe First
AC 2011-700: UNDERWATER ROVS IN PRE-COLLEGE EDUCATION:UNIVERSITY-K12 PARTNERSHIPS THAT GO BEYOND THE COMPE-TITIONSDouglas E. Oppliger, Michigan Technological University Mr. Oppliger is a professional engineer and a lecturer in the Engineering Fundamentals department at Michigan Technological University. He is the director of the High School Enterprise program which has a mission to increase the numbers of students pursuing post-secondary degrees and careers in STEM fields. At its core, this program supports K-12 teachers who are leading teams of students in long-term STEM projects. This work is the latest in Oppliger’s history of working in K-12 STEM areas. For the past 10 years he has developed and taught first
-inventor on 3 US patents related to control systems. Dr. McLauchlan is a member of ASEE and was previously the Chair of the Ocean and Marine Engineering Division and is now the Past Chair. He is also a member of IEEE (senior member), SPIE, Eta Kappa Nu, ACES and Tau Beta Pi, and has served on the IEEE Corpus Christi Section Board from 2004-2010 as Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Director. Dr. McLauchlan has received the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award twice and the Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award once for the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.Dr. Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Dr. Mehrubeoglu received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from The
having into ac- count the time limitations. 4. Elaborating a list of challenges, guide questions, open questions, open issues, expositions subject to development by the students, etc., associated to each matter to allow the acqui- sition of the needed knowledge and competences by the students themselves with oriented by their facilitators. 5. Setting up the learning environment defining the infrastructure requirements and the tech- nologies to be used mixed with any chosen methodologies 6. Choosing the appropriate group dynamics aiming for students engagement while obtaining proper feedback (e.g. debate and discussions, quick questions challenges
offerings of the course, possibly due tothe use of student-owned equipment. There was only one known case of equipment damageduring the semester, and it was for reasons unrelated to the course. In that case the studentpromptly purchased a replacement part and continued with the course in an otherwiseuninterrupted manner.For institutions wishing to adopt such a component to their programs, it is recommended that theinstitution ensure that the course be taught in a classroom with AC power receptacles at eachstudent desk. Such an approach was used by the authors to guard against the uncertainties oflaptop battery life. An alternative approach is to ensure that the course if offered in aninstructional space with sufficient numbers of desktop computers
AC 2011-1022: THE MATE INTERNATIONAL ROV COMPETITION AUNIVERSITY PERSPECTIVEThomas R. Consi, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Thomas Consi is an assistant professor in the School of Freshwater Sciences and Dept. of Mechani- cal Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focus in on marine robotics, specifically the development of amphibious robots for coastal exploration and environmental monitoring. He is the advisor to UWM’s ROV team and currently teaches Mechatronics in the UWM Mechanical Engineering Dept. Page 22.1480.1 c American Society for Engineering
AC 2011-1856: JUNIOR DESIGN OF AUTONOMOUS SURFACE UTIL-ITY VEHICLE (ASUV): A PROJECT BASED APPROACH FOR KNOWL-EDGE INTEGRATIONAuthor: Mario Miranda II, Florida Atlantic University I am a Junior level, undergraduate student at Florida Atlantic University, majoring in Ocean Engineering with a geology minor in Marine Geosciences. I was born and raised in Orlando, Florida by the parents of Mario and Susan Miranda. I have previously worked for Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute as a project intern for the design of the Red Lobster sponsored lobster collection vessel that is undergo in the Turks and Cacaos. I currently hold the Propulsion chair for the Human Powered Submarine team at FAU, making my duties responsible