Programs atBauman Moscow State Technical University'.The third series of workshops included the following meetings: "Training Engineers andScientists in Korea Universities', 'Challenges of Project Based Learning in Chemistry, PetroleumChemistry and Petroleum Refinery', 'Problems of Science Philosophy'.The fourth series of workshops included the following meetings: 'Developing EngineeringCompetencies in New Professional Virtual Learning Environment', 'Professional and PublicAccreditation of Educational Programs in Engineering and Technology', 'History and Prospectsof Process System Engineering', 'Problems and Prospects of US Chemical EngineeringEducation'.In total, over 650 faculty members participate in professional development programs at
Dhabi, UAE, where he also teaches interdisciplinary, project-based introductory design courses. Page 21.32.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Infusing Engineering Practice into the Core to Meet the Needs of a Knowledge-Based Economy Abstract A number of Middle Eastern countries are experiencing extraordinary rates of growth and development. Concurrently, they have been placing an increasing focus on building sustainable, knowledge-based economies. To function in such economies
Particulate Systems (ERC-SOPS) led byRutgers University. The Center conducts research related to pharmaceutical technology andcoordinates educational outreach programs with member schools. Rowan University’s role is toproduce educational materials related to the pharmaceutical industry to be used by the ERC ineducation and outreach programs.At Rowan University, student teams take a 2-credit course during each academic term in whichthey work on various projects under the direction of faculty members. Professors Savelski,Farrell, and Slater are the local contacts for the ERC and have overseen student teams workingon ERC projects for several terms. The purposes of the projects to date have been the creation ofin-class and homework (textbook) problems
is well on its way to replacing telephone and e-mail as the primarycommunication mode for people with internet connections.2 The Pew Internet and American Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationLife Project reports that, of approximately 13 million American teenagers who use the internet,74% use instant messaging.3 And although IM use is usually associated with teenagers, morethan 53 million American adults also report using IM—a significant increase from 41 million in2000.4 PR Newswire predicts that IM will become increasingly commonplace in corporateenvironments, with business IM accounts
knowledge in a particular field.Illustrations of appropriate forms of scholarship include the following: books; articles; monographs; bookreviews of significant length and scope; research project reports such as those under the auspices of theAmerican Bar Foundation or under contract research; publications of learned societies such as ALl, ABA,bar associations, the AALS, or the various judicial and administrative conferences; publications resultingfrom professional service, including the briefs in law reform litigation as might result, for example,through participation with legal aid or similar welfare services, the conduct of arbitrations, courtappointments, or acting as a master; publications stemming from governmental appointments; andteaching
desalination for environmental protection, as well as energy efficiency, is worthyof investigation. Engineering education is ideal for this facilitation. By educating futureengineers with this important environmental topic, class discussions will provide the initiativefor creating projects outside the classroom with industrial collaboration for alternative solutionsof this increasingly problematic global condition. Page 10.1041.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionWater is
to performance but are not a direct measure of it or when measurement arepredictors of the performance 11.Additionally, to establish an adequate measurement basis in the system, it is necessary to thinkabout why the evaluation is required 1. In this project, evaluation would measure quality andresource utilization. This provides academic units with an objective assessment of theircapabilities, processes and service delivery. It would also provide a clear measurement of theirservice performance within the confines of the expectations and needs of its stakeholders.Other essential issues in evaluation are addressed by answering the following questions 14: · Who should evaluate
pictureAt the same time as we received a grant for our project from the Service de soutien àl’enseignement, the Department of Civil Engineering was undertaking a massive overhaulof its Bachelor’s Degree program. Important objectives were to increase significantly theuse of information technologies in the classroom and to come up with learning tools thatwould be appealing and effective in promoting self-learning. Using the video files hit thetarget right on in that respect. Page 7.1056.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for
development of a series of software programs that can be used byinstructors, teaching assistants, and students involved in the undergraduate curricula. Theprograms are primarily developed for the teaching purposes, but they can be used in distancelearning, student projects, research laboratories, and educational workshops. This paper presents Page 7.1001.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”two sample programs developed for two mechanical systems including mechanical vibrationsystems
both in quality and quality of instruction and depends primarily uponthe individual director. The USC Graduate School offers dissertation workshops a fewtimes a year; however, the space is limited, the information is not discipline specific, andfew engineering students attend.The unstated assumption in graduate education seems to be that by the time studentsreach the dissertation stage, they should already know how to manage and complete theproject; unfortunately, most students have never undertaken a project of this magnitudeand are not sure how to transfer their previously-mastered skills to such a task. Thus, thefocus of the workshop became the process behind a long, messy project such as adissertation. Shifting the students' attention from
! § Repeat deficient grades survival - If you have questions or§ Allocate appropriate time to immediately need help, ask an upper level study mathematics § Don’t drop mathematics - student or the student support staff§ Avoid making careless Understand how this affects § Be persistent and persevere mistakes your plan to fulfill § Get to know and work with faculty§ Organize and work in a requirements on research projects - They will get mathematics study group § Plan to get to Calculus in one to know you better and what you§ Be cautious
and teamwork-based with assessment embeddedat every stage. The module development process has been called the Module ArchitectureÓ, aterm that is in the process of being registered by the AIM Center.The Module Architecture Ó has been initially applied to the design of a novel curriculum for acomplete associate degree program in manufacturing engineering technology. 1 Because thecontent of the manufacturing engineering field is highly interdisciplinary, application of theresults of this project can easily be introduced in either manufacturing, mechanical, or industrialengineering technologies. For the purposes of this paper the following abbreviations for thesethree programs are used, MfgET, MET, and IET
students during their course of study, throughinvolvement in professional societies and design projects. Evidences for the realization of theoutcomes are gathered through surveys (exit, faculty, alumni and employer). The last threeindicate specific performances, which can be measured during coursework by the instructors.All the program outcomes are embedded into the curriculum through course objectives andoutcomes. The faculty have described how each of the course objectives is related to theprogram outcome requirements, as well as the outcome requirements of Criterion 3 and 8. Inaddition, the faculty indicated to what extent specific courses fulfill the outcome requirementsof EC2000 as shown in Table 2 for the Mechanical Engineering curriculum
Session 1351 Study on Sludge Recirculation in a Metal Removal System Carlos A. Ortiz, Ph.D., Melanie O. Daniel, Joshua A. Becker Civil Engineering Technology Southern Polytechnic State UniversityThis study was conducted with undergraduate students to evaluate the impact of chemical sludgerecirculation on the overall removal efficiency and reduction of virgin chemicals. This project wasalso performed to demonstrate to students and faculty of the Civil Engineering Technology (CET)program at Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) the capabilities of the
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, an M. Phil. in Architecture from the Universityof Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England, and a Ph. D. in Architecture from Texas A&M University. Dr.Choudhury has extensive experience as a consulting architect working on projects funded by the WorldBank, Asian Development Bank, and some other Multilateral Development Banks. His areas of emphasisinclude housing, alternative technology, issues related to international construction, and constructioneducation. He teaches Environmental Control Systems at an undergraduate level and InternationalConstruction at a graduate level. Page 7.930.6
strengthrelative to their classmates and to a demonstration dipole antenna. Signal strength is measuredfrom an outdoor 4 th floor balcony. Students are allowed five minutes to find the orientation fortheir best reading. The signal strength can be the voltage reading on the AGC of the television setor the dBm reading on a spectrum analyzer. Both methods have been used, but not for the samesemester since the television has a 75-Ohm connection and the spectrum analyzer has a 50-Ohmconnection.Freshmen projectThe freshmen project needs to be completed in a few hours. That includes time for learning a bitof theory, construction and testing. The staff provides the freshmen with the center frequency ofoperation of the channel, the formula to calculate wavelength
will represent a highly effective department. Very similarly,collective actions and decisions are critical, but can only develop from truly collective dialog.In doing so, a chair should not attempt to ‘homogenize’ the members, but rather assemble aneffective mix of skills and expertise, which can contribute to the collective dialog in majorways. Rewarding faculty collectively may seem inappropriate or at times counter to ourindividual senses; however, it simply displays collective ‘attention’.In a typical engineering department, faculty members are most concerned with their owncourses and projects. Therefore, the chair must be able to provide an atmosphere wherefaculty sees their individual goals reached through meeting departmental goals. As
so they can take acertification test upon graduation and spending some time in the field. The Quality Core wasdefined as it is explained in Figure 1. Fig. 1. Quality core overlapping with engineering and management cores.The core includes Engineering Project Management, Engineering Manufacturing Process, LeanManufacturing, Six Sigma 1, and Six Sigma 2 courses and was designed as an integration ofcourses needed to form a profound understanding of quality practices in the manufacturing field.Based on our experience in the certification and in the training of professionals towardscertifications, the two Six Sigma courses and a lean manufacturing course were developed toconnect the tools contents with application practices and deviate
EngineeringTechnology (EET) programs.In 2006 the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) focused afaculty search in the signature area of nanotechnology. The goal was to introduce this excitingfield into the program including introductory course modules, undergraduate electives, graduatecourses, and research projects. This paper reports results from an undergraduate ECET electiveand a graduate course. Students participating in the graduate course range in technology majorssuch as electrical, mechanical, aviation, industrial, and computer graphics. Students formadditional colleges at Purdue, including Engineering, Science and Agriculture, have alsoparticipated in the graduate course.The topics of ethics is a continual discussion
I. Background It was a very challenging task to identify a well-designed embedded system platform foreducators. The platform can be used in project-based engineering classes, for example, capstonedesign in senior year. Most commercial off the shelf (COT) platforms were tailored for specificapplications. Some of them were very hardware orientated with very rigid features. This workdemonstrated a programmable embedded system design platform based on Intel FPGA and COTcomponents. The platform can be replicated very easily and economically, which is verysuitable for educators. Engineering students can use this platform to design and implementapplications with visual display. II. Existing Design Platforms
Paper ID #40858Speaker Nonverbal Unintentionality: An OpenPose Intervention forEngineering StudentsDr. Luke LeFebvre, University of Kentucky Dr. Luke LeFebvre is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Kentucky. He has taught public speaking for over two decades, directed the foundational communication course, and man- aged an institutional communication training center. His research explores classroom communication and instructional processes. He has partnered on several interdisciplinary collaborative projects and received external funding from the National Science Foundation and National
. Such historical thinking is critical to develop engineers capable ofresisting “the tyranny of the urgent”, submit to “the democracy of the dead”, and resist the anti-historical influence of social media and neo-marxist indoctrination [21], [22].Case studies in civil engineering education are often based on large scale projects that wereground-breaking in design or resulted in major failure. Commonly seen examples include thecollapses of the walkway in Kansas City Hyatt Regency or the Tacoma Narrows Bridge [23],[24]. A variety of assignment and assessment models exist in literature to direct students to focuson technical or ethical content [16], [23]–[28]. There are several notable engineers who havemade a career documenting the history of
United States[1]. This makes this sector appear in the list of the most important industries in the U.S.economy. Employment of construction workers is projected to grow 4% from 2022 to 2032[1]; however, maintaining the current workforce and satisfying the future demand forconstruction-related workforce will become more difficult due to the aging and laborshortage issues in the construction industry [2], [3]. Workforce development priorities in the construction industry are not just aboutneeding more people but also critically ensuring a more diverse community of workers. Thesolution to real-scenario engineering problems not only requires multidisciplinaryteamwork but also a diverse team. A diverse team “promotes fresh perspective and ideas
progress are projected onto the screens in front of the class, so students canparticipate in this interactive programming activities. Sometimes, students are provided with activitysheets and then asked to complete the code on them. Next, each student is paired with another classmatesitting closely, so they can correct each other’s code. In this activity, students are encouraged to peerreview their classmates’ works by assessing the code performance, making comments, and suggestingimprovements. This student peer review process could enhance student motivation and fostercollaborative learning, and meanwhile help the instructor to manage large groups and promote theteaching effectiveness in a large-size classroom.To further enhance the engagement
and chair of the Physics Department at Gannon University, Erie, PA.Dr. Wookwon Lee, Gannon University Wookwon Lee, P.E. received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Inha University, Korea, in 1985, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Cyber Engineering at Gannon University, Erie, PA. Prior to joining Gannon in 2007, he had been involved in various research and development projects in industry and academia for more than 15 years. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Development of a
use writing centers in distinct ways. Theybring many different types of projects, each with a variety of audiences, and many oftheir primary writing concerns relate to sentence-level issues with respect to grammarand clarity, as they feel that the high-stakes nature of their writing requires impeccablestyle and few, if any, errors. [2] also found that graduate students report using thewriting center in their preparation for meetings with their advisors and seeking writingcenter support when their advisors are unavailable for writing guidance.In light of these unique preferences of graduate students, [3] notes that GWCs employpedagogies and practices that are distinct from traditional university writing centers thatare positioned to support
engineeringcomputation [16, 17]. This curriculum sequence aims to equip students with essential engineeringskills and foster a sense of belonging and community by encouraging interdisciplinary learningand identity formation as engineers. Over 40 faculty members have collectively crafted theprogram's curriculum, adopting cutting-edge teaching strategies that include small-group sessionsfacilitated by trained leaders, tackling large-scale societal issues via the aid of virtual lab tools,addressing complex, real-world problems to enhance critical thinking, undertaking projects thatresonate with students' passions to strengthen their engagement with the course content, andincorporating matters of sociotechnical issues to support intercultural competence
learning, engineering, the social sciences, and technology, particularly sus- tainability, designing open-ended problem/project-based learning environments, social computing/gaming applications for education, and problem solving in ill-structured/complex domains.Dr David F Radcliffe, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. David Radcliffe is the Kamyar Haghighi head and Epistemology Professor of Engineering Education in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue. His research focuses on the nature of engineering; engineering habits of mind, how engineering knowledge is created and shared and how it is learned especially outside the classroom. Over the past 20 years he has conducted field research on the practice of
conveying improved theirunderstanding. For example, "It’s just easier visually when they can write something and it can be translated to their projector and they can write stuff actually you know, type it or draw a picture. It usually helps me seeing it, understand it a little bit better."Students also reported benefits of the Tablet PCs e-inking features for drawing diagrams andsharing them with other students. For example, “For civil engineering, if I am discussing how I am going to design a bridge for my design project, it’s really nice to be able to draw it out right there, and have it digital, so we can send it out to each other, and do it that way. Obviously, you can draw them on a paper, you know, it’s harder to make copies
welding that is used to produce innovative next generation manufacturingproducts. (A) (B)Figure 6 - (A) 3D Laser Scanning of physical ski boot with three dimensional renderedimage on projection screen (B) Demonstration of the Rapid Prototyping machine andfinished productsExpo: Final POD- COT Program MarketingAfter students completed the Principle of Design tour for next generation manufacturing stations,at the statewide expos, they entered an academic recruiting area to specifically explore Collegeof Technology offerings in their Engineering Science and Technology Studies programs. Thisarea included faculty, students and admissions staff from all of the community