poster.FundingThis project is funded by the National Science Foundation under Award XXX- XXXXXX. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] N. Veurink and A. Hamlin, "Spatial Visualization Skills: Impact on Confidence and Success in an Engineering Curriculum," presented at the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/18591.[2] E. Towle, J. Mann, B. Kinsey, E. J. O. Brien, C. F. Bauer, and R. Champoux, "Assessing the self efficacy and spatial ability of engineering students from multiple disciplines," in
iron and steel production,cement manufacture, pulp and paper manufacture, food processing, brewing and chemicalproduction [11].The question we aimed to address in this study was “will civil engineering students’ attitudestowards chemistry and abilities to apply chemistry improve after analyzing a high-profile casestudy related to environmental problems?” Our hypothesis was that student chemistryperformance and self-reported attitudes about chemistry in an introductory environmentalengineering course are improved by a thorough analysis of a high-profile and compelling casestudy, in this case the Flint Water Crisis.ApproachPast learning outcomes and activities. This project aims to address cognitive and affectivechallenges associated with
at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. An organizational sociologist, Dr. Vican in- vestigates the adoption and implementation of new employment practices and corporate social behaviors. Across her research, Dr. Vican explores how organizational policies and practices, managerial behavior, and workplace culture shape individual career outcomes as well as broader patterns of labor market in- equality. Her current research includes a qualitative study of corporate diversity management strategies and a series of mixed-methods projects on diversity in the academic workforce.Prof. Yvette A Jackson, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Yvette Jackson, Professor of
through self-efficacy and funds of knowledge [8], [9], and how theyexperience engineering by looking at specific experiences in engineering research settings,design teams, and other personal campus experiences [10]–[14]. Researchers have also looked atinclusive values of peer educators, engineering identities, and first years’ behaviors [15]–[17].There has also been work looking specifically at retention practices for underrepresented groups,such as inclusive environments in first-year classes and reviewing the successes and challengesin this type of work [18]–[20]. Higher education studies have also looked specifically at how toimprove teaching in STEM, with different teaching styles such as Project Based Learning.Higher education
Accelerator is the Design Thinking Process developed by the Hasso-Plattner Institute ofDesign at Stanford, in which students are encouraged to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, andtest their inventions [5]. The learning objectives for students in the Summer Accelerator mirrorthose set out for students participating in the year-long program, including: choosing a problemand writing a problem statement about how people experience this problem; ideating solutions tothat problem that are better or less expensive than devices that are currently available; sketchingand making a prototype of their idea; obtaining feedback through conferencing and user surveys;and presenting their project to an audience through a “pitch.”Students in the Summer
Education,” ASEE 2017 Annual Conference, June 25 - 28, Columbus, Ohio.[2] Grodotzki, J., Ortelt, T.R. and Tekkaya, A.E., 2018. Remote and Virtual Labs for Engineering Education 4.0: Achievements of the ELLI project at the TU Dortmund University. Procedia Manufacturing, 26, pp.1349-1360, 2018.[3] Bikas, H., Stavropoulos, P. and Chryssolouris, C., “Additive manufacturing methods and modeling approaches: A critical review,” Int. J. Adv. Manuf. Technol., 83(1-4), pp. 389–405, 2016.[4] E. C. E. Costa, J. P. Duarte, and P. Bártolo, “A review of additive manufacturing for ceramic production,” Rapid Prototyp. J.,. 23(5), pp. 954–963, 2017.[5] J. Deckers, J. Vleugels, and J.-P. Kruth, “Additive manufacturing of ceramics: a review,” J
for women than men [8].Since 2011, researchers at our institution have been studying the impact of gender-specificinterventions in computing and cybersecurity on the self-efficacy of girls and women incomputing. Mississippi State University’s (MSU) Bulldog Bytes K-12 computing andcybersecurity outreach program has engaged over 1000 informal computer science learners since2013 [4,9,10,11]. With increasing gaps between the number of computer science graduates and thenumber of unfilled jobs in computing, it is imperative that we discover opportunities for increasingentry and retention of persons traditionally underrepresented on computing pathways.For this project, the authors considered best practices from Bulldog Bytes
course launches into the world of Object Oriented Programming andDesign using the lower level language of C++. Key concepts of OOP arecovered including classes, properties, methods, constructors, destructors,overloading, and inheritance. This treatment is conducted within the Linuxoperating system to expand the students’ exposure to another operating systemand in preparation for further study of Operating Systems, Computer & NetworkSecurity, and potential use in Capstone Projects. It is a required course for all Electrical Engineering and Cyber Systems students and opento any other student who has successfully completed the new Introduction to Computingcourse. The TOOP course is designed to meet twice a week. In its first offering
issuesWhy it Matters for Tomorrow• Opportunity to build on FY 2020 language for increased funding of NIBIB or new Common Fund effort• Push for real NIH action on AI/ML reportHigher Education Act Reauthorization Outlook • The House Education and Labor Committee approved the College Affordability Act (H.R 4674) in October, could be considered by full House early this year: –Increases student financial aid, including a $625 increase to the max Pell Grant award –Support for graduate students: Pell eligibility, return of subsidized loans, GAANN extension –Several other ASEE priorities such as repeal of student unit record ban, support for MSIs, federal work study pilot, and competency-based education demonstration projects • The Senate
University site while no such research was conducted. • Did not have proper lab/equipment for the research work and claimed use of University lab/equipment; while the University claimed the awardee did not use its lab/equipment. • Claimed inaccurate percentage of time dedicated to project, (example: reports 75% of time in lab but records show 50% of time was on travel or working at other entity). • Duplication of funds: Awardee received multiple SBIR awards from the same or different agencies to conduct the same research. This includes submitting identical deliverables for work that is supposed to be separate. UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
characterizations parts of the project, engineering BS, MS and PhDstudents were involved in every step and gained huge hands-on experiences on composite tech-nology. These activities also synchronized the team work ability among different levels of engi-neering students to enhance the engineering educations.Acknowledgement The authors greatly acknowledge Wichita State University for financial and technicalsupport of the present study.References1) Brauning, K. A. “Mitigation of Machining Damage on Delamination of Fiber Reinforced Composite Tensile Coupons,” M.S. Thesis, Wichita State University, May 2013.2) Shirvanimoghaddam, K., Hamim, S. U., Karbalaei Akbari, M., Fakhrhoseini, S. M., Khayyam, H., Pakseresht, A. H., Naebe, M. (2017). Carbon
not explicitlypoint out this connection will result in a lack of understanding of the role of mathematics andscience in the work of engineers (Guzey et al., 2016).Context for Study As a part of the Rural Readiness for Engineering Education (RREE) project, authorsengaged 20 elementary (grades 2 - 5) teachers from the state’s most comprehensive regionaleducation cooperative that includes 15 school districts across several rural counties, many withhigh Native American student populations in a one-day engineering education workshop. Theworkshop followed the prescribed EiE 6-hour workshop format indicated in their professionaldevelopment materials. To assist in the easy integration and eventual adoption of the materials,researchers selected
math and science relate to the field of engineering. Byseeing first-hand what engineers actually do, campers can better decide on a career or disciplinethey want to pursue. Whether a student is interested in clean energy, cars and motorcycles,explosives, or building bridges or towers, the camp will educate them through hands-onactivities, computer laboratory visits and practical demonstrations. The civil and architecturalengineering program is no exception to this exercise. Both programs offers a tour through someof the various research/laboratory facilities and provide similar demonstrations in statics andmechanics of materials. What the students saw in the labs is further reinforced in the classroomby conducting a project base learning (PBL
research involves design education pedagogy, including formative assessment of client-student interactions, modeling sources of engineering design constraints, and applying the entrepreneurial mindset to first-year programming projects through student engagement in educational software development. Estell earned his BS in Computer Science and Engineering degree from The University of Toledo and both his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 “EMbedding” the KEEN Framework: An Assessment Plan for Measuring ABET Student Outcomes and Entrepreneurial
sequence and an introductory science (chemistry, biology and physics) laboratoryseries. The mathematics sequence consists of calculus, differential equations, along with just-in-time algebra and trigonometry topics and a unit on statistics.One of the primary goals of our project is an improvement in student connections betweenscience and mathematics course content. The science laboratory course materials focus on morecomplex scientific problems requiring application of concepts/ techniques from each of thescience disciplines, as appropriate, and the use of mathematics in context. The sciencelaboratory series (chemistry, biology and physics) operates in a single cooperative, technologysupported laboratory designed to make possible appropriate
, GPIO, UART, Software debugging, building a system in the SPARTAN device.The course will enable students to gain real-world experience and contribute to FPGA basedresearch project.6 ConclusionWith the demand of skilled FPGA designers on the rise, the objectives of this paper was to present“Topics in Programmable Logic” course, which will be a new addition to the electrical engineeringtechnology program at School of Technology. The course offers students a real-world experiencein FPGA based logic design. This will create a pool of informed electrical engineeringtechnologists from which industry can draw their potential staff. This common pool of studentswill be given the opportunity to conduct research in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA
using sine and cosine law). For concepts that the whole class haddemonstrated a clear understanding – a review is first carried out which is very similar towhat most instructors would do in a typical class. (Known in DI circles as DirectInstruction). Then the concept is posed in the form of an inquiry–based learningapproach. For example, this semester the concept of “dot or scalar products of vectors”was clear to all the students, so a brief review of the definition was followed by aninquiry/problem based approach with the question, “how to find the angle between twovectors using dot or scalar products?” This exercise was carried out with the help of ahandout given to the class. This was later followed by how to find the projection of onevector
partnerships between local industry and academia through: capstoneprojects, theses work with practical overtones, and applied research projects in selected domains,is extremely desirable and beneficial. Today, with the engineering profession undergoingdramatic changes on many fronts - there is real need, for faculty and students, to becomeinvolved with practical problems and to share in providing solutions. We owe it to our studentsto prepare them to meet the challenges ahead by focusing on real issues derived from tangiblesituations. The surest road to having a working college-industry relation is to come to a mutualunderstanding that both parties would gain from such a relationship.The discussion noted above may remain academic, difficult to
MonitoringAffordability and manufacturability were two key concepts that guided the design process. The firstphase of this project was to build a prototype Smart Cottage, but the ultimate objective was to buildmany of these cottages at an affordable cost. The reference cost was the HUD two-bedroom price limitof $104,000 for the Western Pennsylvania area.Universal DesignThe Smart Cottage for Seniors has been developed using Universal Design techniques that will insurea long lasting and comfortable home for seniors. The Universal Design features of the cottage are: • 1040 sq. ft. single-level floor plan • Technology channels embedded in walls during manufacture • Large bathroom with 5-feet turning radius
16 7.61 7.99 7.23 34 16 8.06 8.46 7.66 Similar set of data is provided for all other experiments.ConclusionsThis project created value for the Thermodynamics course. This was done by clarifyingexisting experiments for the students using the on-line tool before entering the laboratory.The computer simulation of the Thermodynamics laboratory experiments is the first butimportant step to introduce the Thermodynamics course on line and for the long distanceeducation
communications,and senior capstone design project courses, teaching laboratories and projects helpedimprove student participation, got the students actively involved and excited about theprojects and the material being taught, motivated the students to better master coursecontent and taught the students to learn to think and reason more clearly, accurately,relevantly, logically, rationally, ethically and responsibly.This paper discusses how the judicious, sensible and affable use of the Socratic Methodin the aforementioned educational settings facilitated the development of students whoare learning to possess the basic skills of thought and reasoning such as the ability to:identify, formulate and clarify questions; gather relevant data; identify key
design; and analog1Couple these statistics with students who wish to incorporate hands-on learning in theircurriculum, and you have an audience for 1-2 day workshops that address a market need forinstruction, due to rapid technology changes.IntroductionStudents entering college today will graduate to a different world. In an article in the winter 2006edition of Marquette, the magazine of Marquette University, author Barbara Abel writes aboutthis changing landscape. She cited a 2004 book, The Jobs Revolution: Changing How AmericaWorks, which projected that between 1991 and 2015, the number of U.S. jobs requiring skilledworkers would increase from 50% to 76%.2 “None of the top ten jobs that will exist in 2010existed today,” the book says quoting
fingerprint and other devices so that we will try to assure that a studentis alone.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge to the Spanish Science and Education Ministry and theSpanish National Plan I+D+I 2004-2007 the support for this paper as the project TSI2005-08225-C07-03 "mosaicLearning: Aprendizaje electrónico móvil, de código abierto, basado enestándares, seguro, contextual, personalizado y colaborativo".Bibliography 1. Martín, S., Castro, M., Peire, J. et al. Experiencias e introducción de dispositivos móviles en la Enseñanza a Distancia. Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence, Granada Spain, 2005. 2. Rivilla, I., Castro, M. et al. Development and implementation of a collaborative environment for
and engineering shortcuts necessary toaccomplish miracles in engineering productivity. Then, in an engineering rite of passage, theywould graduate to handling their own projects and become a full partner in the engineeringbrotherhood. In time, their experience would transform them into the older more-experiencedengineers that had mentored them, and they would in turn pass their wisdom on to the nextgeneration of new college graduates.Unfortunately, in today’s embedded microcontroller job market, this ancient and beneficentbrotherhood of engineering is long gone. Engineers seldom spend more than 3-5 years with asingle company, so employers are reluctant to invest a year’s salary in mentoring. The older,more-experienced engineers that once
information technology field. John has held various positions and has experience involving management, designing, testing and teaching of data networks, enterprise networking systems, digital switching systems and transmission systems. Currently, John is a faculty member at East Carolina University and holds an instructor position in the Department of Technology Systems. John is also a senior trainer at Network Training and Consulting and teaches courses in networking, project management, and Cisco systems networking solutions. He holds a MBA from Wayland Baptist University. He also holds various industry certifications to include; A+, Network+, MCSE, MOUS, and CCNP.Chip Popoviciu, Cisco Systems
will come from the Asia/Pacificregion and the Latin-American region, which are expected to grow significantly by 20107. Interms of all medical devices, the U.S. market was estimated to be approximately $86 billion by2006 (close to $220 billion worldwide), with a projected 10% annual growth rate for the nearfuture8. The U.S. medical device industry employs more than 411,400 individuals, about 1/3 ofall biotech jobs8. Cardiovascular devices are a significant part of this market; Table 1 lists someof the dominant technologies. As one example of a specific product, the worldwide market forstents is estimated to be about $8 billion by 2008, with this growth reflecting advances in drug-eluting stents9.Dominant cardiovascular pharmaceutical companies
Ceramic Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana. Her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California at Berkeley. Following graduate school Amy worked for Hewlett Packard in San Jose CA and in Colorado Springs, CO. Amy's research interests include microelectronic packaging, particularly 3-D integration and ceramic MEMS devices.Pat Pyke, Boise State University Patricia A. Pyke is the Director of Education Research for the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She oversees projects in freshman programs, math support, mentoring, outreach, and women’s programs. She earned a B.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Duke
the governing equations (Fig. 4), and to simultaneously solve multiple analysis problems for integrated design projects. Page 12.390.7 6 REVISION Figure 4 Interactive mouse-picking of spur gear geometry factor (J) directly from a graph in the AGMA tooth strength analysis module and nonlinear solution of an eccentric buckling problem in the column buckling analysis modulec. Flexibility: To solve more than one type of mechanics problem using the same tool, to solve mechanics problems in
* 5 3 0 3 High Frequency Systems 6 3 3 4 Embedded PCs 6 3 3 4 Biomedical Instrumentation* 7 3 3 4 BMET Elective (ECET) 7 3 3 4 BMET Elective* 8 3 3 4 BMET Capstone Project/Internship* 8 3 3 4The curriculum adds five new technical courses to a core of ECET, mathematics, English,science, and social science courses. The program is structured within the 130 credit-hour limitset by
. Lewis, Mr. O. Lewis, Mr. A. Mooreand Mr. W. Holmes. The authors also wish to acknowledge the equipment and computingsupport for this project from the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures at NCA&T State University by its Director, Prof. J. Sankar, with partial support from its NSF NSECproject collaboration with the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign.References1. K. Stair, and B. Crist, “Using hands-on laboratory experiences to underscore concepts and to create excitement about materials,” Proceedings of 2006 ASEE Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.2. ABET, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Baltimore, MD.: Engineering Accreditation Commission, Nov. 1, 2004.3. http://www.gm.com/company/gmability