thinking in education; Page 12.252.4Mandinach & Cline’s on the assessment of the system thinking project in the K-12arena8. In addition, there is a broad range of studies in the field of systems thinking with astrong emphasis on psycho-pedagogical implications; such as: Toshima’s10 integratedaptitude test for systems engineers (SE), which includes intellectual abilities andpersonality factors; Richmond’s critical systems thinking skills (dynamic thinking,closed-loop thinking, generic thinking, structural thinking, operational thinking,continuum thinking, and scientific thinking)0 ; Zulauf’s study on locus of control andconceptual stages of cognitive
. Class and field activities are hands-on, inquiry-basedactivities, utilizing whole group discussions, cooperative learning groups, and someindividual projects. Laboratory experiences are designed to emphasize the scienceprocess skills. The remaining 25% of class time is devoted to lecture, discussion, anddemonstration. During the laboratory engineering concepts were discussed anddemonstrated.This paper will focus on the effectiveness of instruction by a chemical engineeringfaculty member as evaluated by in-course assessment tools. Was there any perceivedbenefit of having an Engineer involved with a course designed for education majors?Were the students more aware of the engineering field and of engineering concepts due tothis involvement? Were
hypervisor system developed at University of Cambridge. The prototype used a single 2GB Pentium 4 machine (2.8 GHz) to provide 35 students with one virtual machine each. Projects included development of file system configurations based on policies, network sniffing and scanning, and vulnerability exploitation on hosts.3. CprE 531: Information System Security Textbook: Computer Security Art and Science, Matt Bishop, Addison and Wesley, ISBN: 0-201- 44099-7 Course Description: Computer and network security: basic cryptography, security policies, multilevel security models, attack and protection mechanisms, legal and ethical issues
fourth-year undergraduate student at North Dakota State University. He is pursuing a baccalaureate degree in University Studies with emphasis in manufacturing and mechanical engineering, business and entrepreneurship. As an undergraduate research assistant, Mr. Radtke has participated in projects focusing on graduate studies in manufacturing and on lead-free assembly of printed circuit boards. He also works as a fabricator of forced-induction engine components. Page 12.1121.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 On the Structure and Character of
systems and management. Internethas improved technology tremendously over the past few years. The improvement in datatransfer speed, data security, technology to transfer these data has opened new frontiers.The internet technology can also create online educational tools for teaching anddemonstration of automated manufacturing processes with robotics. Those Web-basedsystems allow robotics and automation to communicate, share design data, informationand knowledge through the Internet1-13. To enhance the workforce skills in the product development cycle, an Internet-based approach for lab development is introduced to develop web-enabled robotics andautomation. This laboratory development component in the NSF project deals withintegrating
Research senior design project Undergraduate Research Freshmen Undergraduates Middle School and High School Students Hands on exercises and presentations Figure 1. Schematic of the development ladder of research translation to engineering education from middle school to graduate education. This illustration shows the big picture of research transfer leading to interdisciplinary engineers who are leaders in
2006-1653: IDENTIFYING AND INVESTIGATING DIFFICULT CONCEPTS INENGINEERING MECHANICS AND ELECTRIC CIRCUITSRuth Streveler, Colorado School of Mines RUTH A. STREVELER is the Director of the Center for Engineering Education at the Colorado School of Mines and Research Associate Professor in Academic Affairs. Dr. Streveler holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Master of Science in Zoology from the Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Indiana University at Bloomington. She is co-principle investigator of three NSF-sponsored projects: Developing an Outcomes Assessment Instrument for Identifying Engineering Student
Page 11.1119.2statement and to provide guidance for engineering programs regarding what should betaught and learned, how it should be taught and learned, and who should teach and learnit [2].The ASCE-BOK promulgates a wide variety of academic ideas and philosophies, two ofwhich are most directly addressed within the context of this paper. The committeesuggests that in addition to eleven program outcomes identified via ABET Criteria 3 a-k,four additional outcomes should be addressed through the instructional process including:specialized areas of civil engineering; project management, construction, and assetmanagement; business and public policy; and leadership. Table 1 includes a list of all 15program outcome criteria identifying both ABET and
initial observations suggest that the exhibit has achieved its initially defined goals. Thepreliminary results show that among the goals of the project, motivating the visitors to engagewith the game content is attained. According to the anecdotal observations, there is a high rate ofinterest shown in the exhibit by visitors who walked by, showing that the task of attracting thevisitors may also be fulfilled. This will be confirmed with a future observational study devotedmeasuring this potential of the exhibit. Measuring the degree of learning facilitation, however,hinges on refining the existing automatically collected data, so that each game play trace reflectsa single user’s playing experience accurately. It is also worth emphasizing that use
consistent process Engineering Level 2: management Disciplined Repeatable process Project Level 1: management Initial Figure 1: The Five Stages or Maturity Levels of the Capability Maturity Model7 Maturity Levels Process Capability Key Process Areas Goals Common Features Implementation or Key Practices Institutionalization
great flexibility as game templates and have an advantage over JavaScriptin that the code can be protected. Applets are compiled programs that run on a web page. Theapplets were written in such a way that the content is easily modified using parameters. Usingthe fixed puzzle format of each applet a wide variety of instructional puzzles is easy to create.Use of the applets requires that the user enabled Java in their browser. The puzzle formats canbe modified, however this requires a significant investment of time, knowledge of Java, andaccess to a Java compiler.The toolbox contains two Java flexible applets that support all of the Java games posted in thecourse content projects. The first applet is the SCRAMBLED GRID which allows for
there is an unfortunate upper constraint. This constraint is not present in real lifeopen-ended projects, so this constraint is somewhat artificial. The reader can see that only oneteam (Team 5) out of the 5 teams performed above the maximum individual. Three of the teamsscored below the maximum individual, and one team did the same as the best individual. As aside note, with three of the teams performing worse than the best individual, this demonstratesthat one member did not carry/dominate the entire team. Still only one of the five teams had this Page 11.1061.7super-performance. Given the circumstances of newly formed teams, the result was
, Minority, and Energy Conversion and Conservation Divisions; presenting all of them with the exception of one paper in 2010 when she was double-booked. Albers most recently held the position of project coordinator for the ARRA funded Student Energy Internship Program in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at NCSU. She mentored and coordinated 60+ interns with energy professionals in the private and public sectors and recruited interns to volunteer at Family STEM Nights. Prior to this experience, she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in K-12 Education working under the direction of Liz Parry, Dr. Laura Bottomley and Dr. Karen Hollebrands in the RAMP-UP program at NCSU. During this
Florida International University(FIU) emfarhadi@gmail.comDr. Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University Dr. Mohammed is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and is the Director of the Energy Systems Re- search Laboratory at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. He received his Master and Doc- toral degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He has per- formed research on various topics in power and energy systems as well as computational electromagnetics and design optimization in electric machines and drive systems. He performed multiple research projects for the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Surface Warfare Centers since 1995 dealing with; power
efficacy in math. Thesample of second grade students and utilization of a randomized control assignment methodhelped fill missing methodological gaps, and several relationships were examined that filled inconstruct related holes. The guiding question for the current study was: Did second gradestudents who participated in a mathematics based PBL unit report higher levels of engagementcompared to students who participated in traditional, teacher directed instruction?MethodsThe current study was an examination of one piece of a two-year, multifaceted grant. Thisresearch project was a Jacob K. Javits initiative funded through the U.S. Department ofEducation that followed one cohort of students during 2nd and 3rd grade as they experienced threePBL
around the nation areincorporating sustainability into their curriculum.The National Research Council (NRC) notes several challenges to effective undergraduateeducation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Thesechallenges include providing engaging laboratory, classroom and field experiences; teachinglarge numbers of students from diverse backgrounds; improving assessment of learningoutcomes; and informing science faculty about research on effective teaching3-5. Researchsuggests that team based projects can also enhance student learning in STEM fields since itpromotes active and collaborative learning while simultaneously promotes individualaccountability, personal responsibility, and communication skills2. In
, andenvironmental surroundings. Fatigue induced by concentrating or focusing on a project for asignificant period of time without a break (e.g. plotting results from a materials study or writing apaper summarizing one’s experimental results), good or elevated mood (induced by watching afunny video), and environment (such as a dirty office with a messy desk) all appear to influenceethical behavior. The class makes use of video clips containing re-enactments of published empiricalstudies that demonstrate why people act unethically. The videos serve as the means to deliverclear moral psychology lessons based on previously published case studies involving real orhypothetical scenarios. For example, one of the videos is a combination lecture and story
. Active learning strategies canpromote higher order thinking11-13, hence project-, or problem-, or case studies-based learning,have been developed and applied in engineering courses.Observation is critical in learning; starting from childhood, humans learn via observation,especially from peers24-26. Learning in peer-led, problem-based learning settings27-28 can be ahighly effective means to encourage student engagement in more profound learning29-31.Meaningful learning emphasizes active, constructive, intentional, authentic and cooperativelearning32. Peer learning encourages meaningful learning that involves students teaching andlearning from each other as well as sharing of ideas, knowledge and experiences, and emphasizesinterdependent as
course materials/tools/projects related tocomputer education.Previous workIn the course of preparing our Google workshop (along with continuing post workshop activity),we followed four successful models: (i) Improving Teacher Quality in Southern Illinois: Rural Access to Mathematics Professional Development6; (ii) Outreach Programs and Professional Development Activities at the Colorado School of Mines7; (iii) School Level Computer Science Education and Computer Science Teacher Training in the US: An Overview and an Example Solution5; (iv) A Five-Week Online Course on Robotics for Middle and High School Teachers using Their Own Lego Mindstorms NXT Robot Kits8.The first model6 offered professional training
own pedagogicalmethods.There have been numerous research projects investigating ways to measure and improve studentoutcomes within introductory computer programming courses 7,10,16,19 . Unfortunately, theapproaches taken do not readily apply to the cybersecurity classroom. First, the content of thesecourses has remained fairly consistent from year to year and even from university to university.Second, given the number of students enrolled in these courses (the introductory programmingcourse in our program had over 110 students enrolled this past semester), researchers are able toconduct quantitative surveys and achieve statistically significant results over the course of a singlesemester and compare results from courses at various schools
includematerial on engineering ethics and professionalism, engineering economy, project management,entrepreneurism, and professional communication. The complete set of on-line modules Page 24.69.4constitutes a thread of three full courses that are divided over the three required co-op courses.Having exposure to these practice-related issues while being in the workplace presents a uniqueopportunity for the students to apply what is learned.[6]Modules are designed to be relatively brief, focused packets of information that could bereviewed within a 30-60 minute timeframe. The modules are delivered via Blackboard, theuniversity-wide, web-based course
well as data collection using string Lab 11 potentiometers and accelerometers Experimentation to demonstrate the principles of modal analysis using a modal impact hammer on a Lab 12 beam Table 2. Laboratory content for Statics and Dynamics.This repeated use of the analysis tools prepares students very well for junior and senior levelclasses, where they learn about the theoretical aspects of the analysis. Having an early exposureto analysis software allows students to have a thorough familiarity with tools that can be used forSenior Design projects, and are also extensively used in the industry. The content listed in Table 2 is covered through 120 minutes of laboratory time per
were overall a success. Students were able tocomplete the assignments, seemed to enjoy the assignments, and did a good job of extendingtheir experimental observations to new applications. Development of the labs created severalchallenges, including selecting materials that were low cost, but exhibited the desired behavior.It proved especially difficult to create a torsion setup that could be replicated at home withminimal friction interference. However, the resulting setup worked very well and student resultswere positive. Finding a balance between the included components of the lab kit and the cost ofthe kit will be an ongoing challenge.ConclusionsThe purpose of this project was to create a set of at-home laboratory experiments to complimenta
program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is to engage younger generations in theSTEM fields and make the engineering study seem more accessible and exciting, meanwhile stillgarnering leadership, presentation, and project management skills of their own.10 This paper presents an overview of the Engineering Ambassador Network. Connectedwith this overview paper are four more specific papers that provide analysis about specificaspects of the Network. One such paper focuses on the outreach done by EngineeringAmbassadors,14 a second paper focuses on the leadership development of the EngineeringAmbassadors,15 a third focuses on the establishment of Engineering Ambassador programs atthree additional schools,16 and the fourth assesses the
Graduate Research FellowshipsChemicals and Fuels Agriculture SciencesThe Center for Advanced UIUC / College of Agricultural, Consumer Master of Science degree inBioEnergy Research and Environmental Sciences bioenergyAlternative Energy Technology: Central Carolina Community College Associate/Certificate in BiofuelBiofuel TechnologySustainable Energy Initiative Oregon State University / Chemical Pilot projects for general public and(SEI) Engineering; Crop and Soil Science; high school studentsBiofuel Production Operations California State University - East bay / 6-month
others, share information with others, and demonstrate their ability to take aleadership role in support of the team’s goals while conducting Lab experiments.” – would mapto program outcomes [b, d, g] - (b) “an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as toanalyze and interpret data;” (d) “an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams;” (g) “anability to communicate effectively through oral and written communications.” Furthermore aninstrument: "Final Project, Question 1" can be created that satisfies one or more of theperformance criteria under program outcome (a), such as "Uses fundamental engineeringprinciples to solve engineering related problems."Course Laboratory Outcomes Mapping Example Students enrolled in the online
fifth task requires exercising Bayes' theorem directly or using the box as a tool to aid the calculation.A working design engineer will never encounter a problem where the setting, scaffolding,challenges, and targets are clearly evident. For real problems, structure must be created. Thisinvolves clarifying more than the type of information typically given in traditional textbookproblems. The current conditions and knowledge, the new knowledge needed, the resourcesneeded, the solution method, and the nature of the terminal state must all be defined and clarified.The process may not be orderly all the way through a project, but when the time allotted is almostover, a successful project must produce something that can be clearly displayed
their specific needs. After considerableconsultation with industry human resource representatives, university professors, and theuniversity’s career counselors, a professional development program was formed to address threemain areas of interest: the improvement of core research abilities, the development of skillsrequired for transition from academia to industry, and the necessity of projecting a professionaldisposition in the workplace. The graduate students organized a yearlong series of workshops inwhich university and industry professionals addressed each of the three areas of interest. Theprogram was evaluated through a combination of peer and self-reviews, writing improvementrubrics, and industry representative criticisms. The results
postdoctoral fellow. His postdoctoral research focused on the development of advanced iris recognition systems us- ing high resolution sensors. His current research projects include the development of periocular-based biometric systems, ear shape based biometrics, and soft biometric classification.Tania Roy, Clemson University Tania Roy is a PhD student in the Human Centered Computing division of Clemson University. She re- ceived her B.Tech from West Bengal University of Technology, India in Computer Science & Engineering . Her research interests are in affective computing. Page 23.144.2
involved in the circuit design is the parallel port. The PC BIOS needs to beset to EPP mode for proper operation of the parallel port for this project. Parallel ports use threeI/O addresses. There is the data register, status register, and control register with addresses of378h, 379h, and 380h respectively. The port has 8 data lines, 5 status lines, and 4 control lines. Page 8.371.5“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”This project uses all 8 data lines which are bi-directional, 2 status lines that are read only