-simulations have been integrated in the teaching of courseELEG4223 “Photonic and Electronic Materials and Devices”. The student survey results arepresented in the paper. Students’ responses show that they believe that the VR simulations arevery helpful in increasing their understanding of nanotechnology.1. IntroductionThe fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology have rapidly developed and received enormousamount of attention in recent decades1. The U.S. has long been playing the leadership role inresearch and development of emerging nanotechnologies. To maintain its technological andeconomic leadership, there are emerging needs for U. S educators to change and enhance theinfrastructure for nanotechnology education2. Rapid development in
. Page 25.119.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Versatile Platform for Teaching MechatronicsAbstract Mechatronics courses typically include a project which allows the students to integrateand apply their knowledge in the design, construction and testing of a real mechatronic system.At one extreme, these projects can be free-form. The students think of an original device andthen deal with all aspects of engineering development from parts procurement to final testing ofthe full-up system. At the other end of the spectrum students are given prebuilt systems andmust program them to perform certain task(s). These often take the form of small mobile robotsthat are run in a
ability to use that knowledge to solve problems, which providesolutions that further increase knowledge1. Unfortunately, cognitive development related toknowledge collection has been the primary focus of education in the past.Active learning has been a topic of numerous papers and research since the 1970’s and continuesto be the focus of research and methodology discussions of instruction at all levels. Thetechniques of active learning are designed to move the focus of education from primarilyknowledge acquisition to include the solution-based strategies that teach the “whole” student.Originally designed for face-to-face instruction, active learning now must be taken into thenewer realm of on-line and technology enhanced learning. Figure 1
schools for a particular college or university as well as the number ofstudents who enroll from those high schools are useful in evaluating future outreach programs.If we label the number of high schools who have graduates attending a university and the numberof students, Fs, from each school (s) attending the university, then we can characterize the usefuloutput of the feeder high schools through a single number, the f-index, for a given academic year.In any given year, an institution of higher education has index f if f of the number of feeder highschools, H, have at least f students each entering the institution where the other (H –f) schoolshave less than f students each. Cumulative f-indices can be easily created for periods of
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can help overcome fixation effects. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing. 2010;25:77-92.22. Jansson DG, Steven S. Design Fixation. Design Studies. 1991;12(1):3-11.23. Doherty W. A Partnership ot Provide Teachers With Basic Computer Troubleshooting Skills. Technology and Teacher Education Annual. 2005;4:2573-2576.24. Doherty W, Gibson K. The Efficacy of Providing Basic Computer Troubleshooting Skills to Pre-Service Teachers. Technology and Teacher Education Annual. 2006;4(2828-2832). Page 25.1379.925. Hale CR, Barsalou LW. Explanation Content and Construction During System
Women Engineers in the Middle East from Enrollment to Career: A Case StudyAbstractThis study investigates the status of women engineers in Lebanon as a case study in theMiddle East region. Through this study, the author investigated the following questions:What are the motives behind female‟s decisions to choose engineering major? What arethe difficulties that female engineers have encountered in their transition from universityto workplace? And what are the perceptions of female regarding the essential skills for asuccessful engineering career? An online survey with Likert-scaled items was completedby 327 female engineers graduated from different universities in Lebanon and working indifferent locations around the world
, C.S., Del Vecchio, C.A., Kosteleski, A.J., Wilson, S.A., “Development of Problem Sets forK-12 and Engineering on Pharmaceutical Particulate Systems,” Chemical Engineering Education, 44, 50-57, 20102 McIver, K. Whitaker, K. DeDelva, V. Farrell, S. Savelski, M. J. Slater C. S. “Introductory Level Problems IllustratingConcepts in Pharmaceutical Technology,” Advances in Engineering Education, 5 (1) 20113 Otero Gephardt, Z. Farrell, S. Savelski, M.J. Slater, C.S. Rodgers, M. Kostetskyy, P. McIver, K. Diallo, H.Zienowicz, K. Giacomelli, J. DeDelva V. “Integration of Particle Technology with Pharmaceutical IndustryApplications in the Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum and K-12 Education,” Proceedings of the 2011American Society for
experiment server while still maintaininga secure level of communication. With this interface, no add-ons or plug-ins will need to beinstalled on any computer, and anyone with a web browser and internet access will be able to usethe interface to control an experiment remotely.AcknowledgmentsThis work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers EEC-0935208, EEC-0935008, and DUE-0942778.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography[1] Ambrose, S. A., & Amon , C. H. (1997). Systematic design of a first-year mechanical engineering course at Carnegie Mellon
Due in One WeekObjectivesThe objective of this laboratory is: Getting familiar with the various motion types and associated instructions utilized in TP ProgrammingProcedure Generate a TP program that writes your first or last name in a font system similar to ARIAL and also in cursive.Deliverables Name of your program(s)/robot(s) and its/their output (name written by the robot) Instructor Initials ____________________ Grade _________ Page 25.1050.4 ENGR 4700 - ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LABORATORY ACTIVITY 3 – TP MOTION PROGRAMMING
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experienceto make the idea of STEM more appealing to a wider, diverse group of students.Acknowledgment:The program described in this paper is run by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion ofMichigan Technological University under coordination of Ms. A. Step. The author of thispaper is not a staff member of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion. The author is anassistant professor at the Michigan Technological University and has served as Research Page 25.1214.10Undergraduate Academic Advisor for several students participating in the program.References:[1] S. C. MichiganWorks. "Building the Bridge to Tomorrow’s STEM Careers." http://www.scmw.org
. Taran and Carter,44 Mee and Teune,45and Robillard46 indicate that trust is central to team collaboration in most professions. Taran andCarter state, “Becoming worthy of trust and learning to trust are active processes that require theparticipants to communicate and interact.” (p.99)44 In Morell de Ramirez et al.’s study, in orderto build trust among team members, “students are given a seminar on organizational behaviorand participate in a number of hands-on activities to expose the newly formed teams to situationsthat accelerate team cohesiveness”. (p.434)43 Brown, Flick and Williamson suggest that buildingtrust is one of the important components of social capital that should be taught in engineering.47They summarized that “development of
not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography1. Allen, I. E.; Seaman J., “Class Difference: Online Education in the United States, 2010”, Sloan Consortium of Individual, Institution and Organizations Committed to Quality Online Education, http://www.sloan- c.org/publications/survey/staying_course, 20102. Bell, J. T.; Fogler, H. S., “Virtual Reality Laboratory Accidents”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 20013. Valera, A.; Diez, J. L.; Valles, M.; Albertos, P., “Virtual and Remote Control Laboratory Development”, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, pp. 35- 39, February 2005.4. Chen, X.; Song, G.; and
engineering disciplines. Currently thereis not enough research data available to substantially validate this claim. In addition there is a‘myth’ that PhDs are not hired at the institutions where they received their PhD. This paperattempts to quantify the hiring pattern in the field of Mechanical Engineering at the top 10Mechanical Engineering research programs in the United States.This is important as people who have trained at great length and expense to be researchersconfront a swindling number of academic jobs4. In 1974, fewer than 30% of all science andengineering (S&E) Ph.D.s were working in industry, and more than 45% were in tenure-trackfaculty positions. By 1999, the trend had reversed with nearly 38% S&E Ph.D.s who had received their
AC 2012-5131: IMPORTANCE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH INENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMSDr. Sidi Berri, New York City College of Technology Sidi Berri is a professor and the Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department of New York City College of Technology.Dr. Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology Andy S. Zhang earned his master’s in mechanical engineering from the City College of New York in 1987 and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1995. Zhang’s research areas include materials testing, composite materials, CAD/CAE, engineering animation, and mechatronics design.Dr. Gaffar Barakat Gailani, New York City College of Technology
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remediation in spatial visualization by PSVT:R Pre-Test for all engineering and sciencefreshman students. Based on the Pre-Test results, all students who scored lower than 60% will berequired to take a spatial visualization course. After the training course, all those students whofailed the Pre-Test have passed the Post-Test. It is recommended that even earlier detection andremediation would be more helpful. Testing incoming engineering students and offeringintervention before they arrive on campus and begin their foundational first year course wouldfurther increase student success.8. References[1] Sorby, S., "Educational research in developing 3-D spatial skills for engineering students”, International Journal of Science Education, Vol. 31
the root of an equation f x 0 are 1. Evaluate f x symbolically 2. Use an initial guess of the root, xi , to estimate the new value of the root, xi 1 , as f xi xi 1 = xi f xi 3. Find the absolute relative approximate error a as xi 1 xi a = 100 xi 1Compare the absolute relative approximate error with the pre-specified relative error tolerance,s . If a > s , then go to Step 2, else stop the algorithm. Also, check if the number ofiterations has exceeded the maximum number of iterations allowed. If so, one needs to terminatethe algorithm and notify
launched. That is, after a certain amount oftime, the input wave is turned off. This is an extremely useful case to examine as it isfundamental to radar systems. We would expect reflections to occur at both the leading and thetrailing edges of the pulse. A much more significant programming challenge would be to allowthe load impedance to be complex. While it is easy to handle complex loads in a steady statetime-harmonic situation, it is much more difficult to handle them for non-steady state conditions.Code described in this paper and other examples presented at the conference will be madeavailable on the author’s website: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/wentwsm/References:1. MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.2. S. Wentworth
“marker” at the CM of the linkand plotting its velocity for a motion cycle. Here the specifications are that the driving jointimposes a constant angular velocity of 70 rpm (high crank speed) to the link driving themechanism. Students would be asked to confirm the value of the velocity at, for example, 1s byusing hand calculations. These can be obtained by calculating the velocity of the connectionsbetween the driving crank and the link (329.87 mm/s at 150.37 degrees) and between the linkand the lever (262.83 mm/s at 171.06 degrees – perpendicular to the lever). Then the angularvelocity of the link can be found (0.4161 clockwise) and the velocity of the CM can becalculated (magnitude: 291.53 mm/s). For the kinematic example (Figure 3) students
local 100Mb/s Ethernet switch to a cable that provides an Internet connection through a WAN to threeremote servers. OPNET provides accurate models of real commercial devices—note in the figurethat the model for a real, commercially available Linksys cable modem is being used. They alsohave models for all popular protocols and you can define your own devices or protocols in ahigh-level language such as C. The link speeds can be chosen as well.A variety of traffic patterns may be specified. For example, traffic may be generated with arandom number generator using several statistical distributions such as normal or Poissonian forpacket length and inter-packet time. The simulator can produce useful information such asaverage and instantaneous
, their position, velocity, and acceleration accuracy farsurpass their rotary equivalents. Today, linear motors are capable of achieving speeds up to 5 m/s(3 m/s average), and sub-micron accuracy1, 2. In railway transportation, linear motors are used inmagnetic levitation (maglev) train systems allowing achievement of high speeds unattainable byconventional trains3. However, most textbooks on electrical machines for undergraduateengineering students either do not cover linear motors at all or provide only a cursory coverageof the topic4.Since, in general, linear motors with accompanying controllers are expensive; their use inengineering education was fairly limited. Atencia et al.5 designed a low cost linear inductionmotor that can be used for
’s) as described in its income statement is as follows3 –Year 3/2008 3/2009 3/2010 3/2011Total Revenue $20,528 $23,372 $28,147 $31,197Cost of Sales $6272 $6250 $7923 $9372Research & $1487 $1218 $1121 $1269DevelopmentSelling, General, & $2158 $2177 $2414 $2474AdministrativeExpensesIncome Taxes $3892 $4644 $5917 $6330 (a) Based on the above data, calculate the present worth of the company. Use an interest rate of 4% per annum. NOTE: We
has changed.”AcknowledgementsThis project is being funded by the NSF - ITEST Award, DRL-0833643.Bibliography1. Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation, http://www.esa.doc.gov/Reports/women-stem-gender-gap-innovation, accessed on January 11, 2012.2. S. Rogers, S. Harris, I. Fidan, D. McNeel, AC 2011-1734 Art2STEM: Building a STEM Workforce at the MiddleSchool Level, CD Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada. Page 25.207.73. S. Rogers, Rapid Prototyping: A Strategy to Promote Interest in STEM Careers, pp. 37-40, Proceedings of the US-TURKEY Workshop on Rapid Technologies, Istanbul, Turkey September 24-25
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objective inthis case was to explore the use of and extensions facilitated by an integrated instrumentationplatform. This platform permits students to perform bioelectrical measurements using their ownbodies as the subject of laboratory instrumentation investigations, also known as active orproject-based learning 1, 2.The instrumentation platform utilized components from Biopac Systems, Inc., including: anamplifier module suitable to explore surface potential signals as low as micro-volts, surfaceelectrodes to pickup such signals, apparatus to quantify skin response, respiration efforttransducers, and software to facilitate signal visualization, guide the student(s) through aprocedure, ensure proper calibration, and provide a format to encourage
∙ ∇)𝒖 = ∇ ∙ [−𝑝𝐈 + 𝜇(∇𝒖 + ∇𝒖𝑻 )] (1) where ρ is the density (kg/m3), u is the velocity (m/s), and µ is the viscosity (kg/m∙s). This fluid model was approximated as a steady-state flow with continuity equation ∇ ∙ 𝒖 = 0. No-slip boundary conditions were applied to surfaces except the inlet and outlet of the fluid chamber for the Navier Stokes model (𝒖 = 0). At the inlet of wind tunnel, a constant velocity was used and outlet pressure was set as zero gage pressure ( P=0). The simulation was repeated by varying the inlet velocity in the laminar flow region. (for external flow, Recr=500,000). Third, after COMSOL simulation is successfully done at various inlet velocities and students were assigned to analyze and calculate a
writing through study of the environment. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 137(1), 20-27. 5. Maharaj, S., & Banta, L. (2000). Using log assignments to foster learning: Revisiting writing across the curriculum. Journal of Engineering Education, 89(1), 73-78. 6. Mohan, A., Merle, D., Jackson, C., Lannin, J., & Nair, S. S. (2010). Professional skills in the engineering curriculum. IEEE Transactions on Education, 53(4), 562-571. 7. http://www.asce.org/Public-Policies-and-Priorities/Public-Policies---Priorities/ Page 25.1449.8