specificprojects of current interest to the Navy and its contractors. However, robust relationshipsdeveloped with Navy labs through program alumni and graduate research sponsorships havefostered a strong cohort of Navy mentors which provide substantial support to the student teams,who share expertise beyond that of the program faculty, and bring an important Navy perspectiveto the students’ work. Weekly design reviews are conducted with naval S&T faculty, Navyengineers and, when appropriate, student organization members, providing feedback andtechnical support to the student teams.Recent projects have included design of a ducted propeller for the student organizationcompetition boat, a semi-autonomous underwater glider, and elements of an
were at their level or below, but struggled when the identified audience had moreadvanced training. Further, more specifically identified audiences led to stronger outcomes – forexample discerning between high school students versus juniors taking a physics class.Conducting the research was another area in which students pointed to struggles, which ifovercome, led to enriched learning outcomes. On the contrary, if students confronted a challengeand were not able to surmount it, then the learning outcomes were not achieved. To maximizeoutcome attainment, the assignment would benefit from enhanced guidance and support inconducting background research – for example, by inviting a university librarian to guest lectureon best practices in using
authored/co-authored over a hundred technical papers and reports during his career in private industry, government and academia. His current research interests are nearshore wave transformations, coastal structures, tsunami inundation, hurricane surges, high performance computing, and engineering education. Page 26.73.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A New Coastal Engineering Graduate ProgramAbstractA Master of Science degree in Engineering with a Coastal Engineering concentration has beenapproved, students enrolled and several graduates are scheduled for
Engineering focused on Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation. She went through engineer- ing pathways herself, completing master electrician degree when completing Technical School in Uzice, Serbia, focusing on pre-engineering program on high power voltage systems and maintenance of electro- mechanical systems. Her research is focuses on engineering pathways, career and technical education, digital thread, cyber physical systems, mechatronics, digital manufacturing, broadening participation, and engineering education. She is a Director of Mechatronics and Digital Manufacturing Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specialization Mechatronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Commonwealth Center for Advanced
systems. • Integration of research and education programs Page 14.686.3 • Summer internships for graduating seniors and rising seniors at NAVSEA, CISD, and naval industry, working on implementation of practical designs on future Navy crafts and ship systems. • Involvement of CISD personnel in selection and progress review of certain undergraduate senior design projects with the aim of bringing appropriate relevance to the projects. CISD involvement also serves to provide a recruiting conduit for Navy laboratories and the ship industry. The NNRNE program also facilitated funding of the projects. • Faculty
, collecting and analyzing data, and effectively presenting the results1-7. Engineeringgraduates must be well-trained in theory as well as in experimentation. However, it is oftendifficult to provide useful, hands-on practical, modern and attractive experience for our students.One way to increase the student exposure to recent advances in technology, computing, IT,microelectronics, etc. is to research projects. Engineering and technology senior or capstonedesign courses fill a critically important role in the curriculum, forming a bridge between schooland the workplace and have been extensively researched. These courses bring to the forefront manyof the ABET outcomes such as lifelong learning, design, teamwork, and contemporary issues.The senior
2006-2316: NANOOS-PILOT: A COLLECTION OF OCEAN OBSERVING TOOLSFOR IMPROVING OCEAN SAFETY AND COASTAL DESIGNMerrick Haller, Oregon State University Merrick Haller has been an Assistant Professor in the Ocean Engineering Program within the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University since 2001. His research interests include the use of remote sensing tools for coastal engineering applications and the origin and dynamics of rip currents.Antonio Baptista, Oregon Health & Science University Antonio Baptista is a professor and director of the Center for Coastal and Land-Margin Research, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute
Paper ID #23182Design a Micro-wind and Solar Energy Harvesting System for a Wireless Sen-sor Node to Operate in Coastal and Marine Area as a Senior Design ProjectDr. Radian G. Belu, Southern University and A&M College Dr. Radian Belu is Associate Professor within Electrical Engineering Department, Southern University, Baton, Rouge, USA. He is holding one PHD in power engineering and other one in physics. Before joining to Southern University Dr. Belu hold faculty, research and industry positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as
Paper ID #8139A Senior Student Design Project in Marine and Coastal Environment Moni-toringDr. Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Univer- sity, Philadelphia. He is holding the second position as Research Assistant Professor at Desert Research Institute – Renewable Energy Center, Reno, Nevada. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as a project manager and
Towing Tank Conference) guidelines that definespecific tests related to naval hydrodynamics, and best practices for computations andexperiments.The capstone design course shares a limited curriculum (the design process, project management,and basic tools for design development, analysis, and decision-making) with students working onprojects unrelated to naval hydrodynamics. Despite that the students completing navalhydrodynamics projects are in a distinct section from other project teams, the instructor,deliverables (proposal, progress reports, design review meetings, and final presentation) andgrading scheme are shared. Figure 4 contains simulation results from an ongoing project inwhich students are designing a ducted propeller for use on an
Coasts. In fact, from the Florida Panhandle to theLouisiana-Texas boarder, there are no graduate programs in coastal engineering on the centralGulf Coast. The inadequate coastal engineering research and education in the Gulf Coast regionare reflected in the failures of civil engineering infrastructure and buildings seen in the HurricaneKatrina’s aftermath. We use the collapse of coastal bridges during Hurricane Katrina as anexample to demonstrate the need for and importance of coastal engineering research andeducation in hurricane-prone areas. An examination of the engineering practice in thetransportation engineering community has indicated transportation engineers often rely oncoastal engineers to assist their design and construction of
ethnically diverse (non-white or Caucasian) and 14% women.Over 40% of the student population is enrolled in one of the three engineering degrees. Whilethe freshmen may demonstrate an interest in the minor and may be targeted for future marketingefforts, they are not eligible to begin the MC minor. Likewise, the seniors are too close tograduation to begin the minor. Therefore, only the second and third year students (sophomoresand juniors) are candidates for the program. As stated previously, the best time for a student toenroll in the MC minor is sophomore year. Of the current junior class (graduating in year 2020),there are 60 engineering students who have a GPA above 2.5, making them eligible to enroll inan academic minor. Of those 60, 22 have
infrastructure fails when they are exposed to extreme events.The following are possible causes that must be taken into consideration for providing appropriateresilience to civil infrastructure.Why infrastructure is vulnerable and fails? Because one or more of the following:Construction without appropriate engineering design or construction inspection (informalconstruction): This refers to construction out of formal engineering design or inspection whichhave been a common practice in Puerto Rico in the past. Because these constructions are neitherdesigned nor supervised, there is a high possibility these constructions do not withstand expectedstandard design events.Obsolete or under designed: Appropriate and regulatory design standards are updated based
means to build therobot. Sea Perch was born!The MIT Ocean Engineering Department recognized the value of the Sea Perch underwater robotas a tool for Outreach, and developed the prototype of a program, a listing of the parts required tobuild the robot, and a rudimentary design plan. The Sea Perch project was introduced to severallocal high schools in the Boston area, generating immediate interest. MIT sought and receivedfunding from the Sea Grant Program and the Office of Naval Research to expand the program,and one by one, schools became involved with the project.As the Sea Perch project continued through word of mouth, and as more teachers becameinvolved, a more developed curriculum was required. MIT, and many of the teachers whoinitially
experimental group. The approach for this subject, detailed in Mora et al.23, was based on projects with the aim of performing a final measure at the laboratory. Familiarization of students with the concepts needed for performing the Page 24.1029.6 final practice was achieved through applying challenge based learning (CBL) where students had research for finding creative answers to several questions relating their subject.• In the third experience a complete implementation was adopted, affecting all matters and every enrolled student. In this case, the approach was mainly problem-based, as students had to
to pull their barges across/through a piece of ¼inch foam to simulate icebreaking. Through the barge project the students get direct feedback onthe quality of their naval architecture and structural design work and experience the importanceof workmanship in metal fabrication. There is some positive student feedback regarding thebarge project in the student course evaluations. Objective course assessment tools do not show adefinitive impact for the barge project, but it is felt it is a positive contribution to the course.IntroductionThe course sequence for Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering under graduate majors atthe U. S. Coast Guard Academy includes a one-semester course in ship structures in the fall oftheir senior year. The