’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
invaluable input. The author also thanks Dr. Paul Anderson, Director, Roger andJoyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence for his valuable guidance and encouragement Page 25.225.13References:Armstrong, Thomas. (1994). Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom. Alexandria, VA: Association forSupervision and Curriculum Development.Barrows, Howard S. (2000). Problem-Based Learning Applied to Medical Education. Springfield, IL: SIUSchool of Medicine.Barrows, H. S. (1996). “Problem-based learning in medicine and beyond: A brief overview.” In L.Wilkerson & W.H. Gijselaers (Eds.), Bringing problem-based learning to higher education: Theory and practice (pp. 3
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
lives and aspirations of STEM woman graduatestudents. The political debates shaping women in science continue to impact the personal lives ofindividual women. WiSE-FPP operates at this individual level to support women’s persistenceand success in STEM. By offering programs and events that provide skills and strategies fornegotiating gender-based inequalities in academia and industry, WiSE-FPP seeks to underminethese systems of inequality one STEM graduate at a time.Gender MattersIn the 1970’s, the women’s rights movement coined the phrase, “the personal is political.” Thestatement reflects the belief that women’s personal struggles reach beyond their individual livesto inequalities embedded in institutional contexts. In regards to women in STEM
, including: highlights of AIChE Concept Warehouse news, added questions, new tutorials and comments about submitted questions. Search View, filter, and search for questions. Then, select question(s) for use in class. Organize, group, download (MS Power Point, MS Word), or assign (via projection in-class or Manage Tests sent to student laptops or smartphones) ConcepTests. Confidence and short answer explanation prompts can be added to questions during assignment. ConcepTests View information after questions have been answered, including all or a
School (Female) Middle School (Female) 5 7 3 8 Total male: 12 Total female: 11Pretest/posttest comparison has been done for 21 participants as depicted in Figure 1. Twoparticipants were unable to take the posttest due their involvements in other campus summeractivities. Pretest/Posttest Comparision 40 y = 0.0241x + 29.72 T R² = 0.0016 e 35 s
deep learning in students and; an integrative rather than anadditive approach to the inclusion of new content or to meet accreditation requirements. Page 25.1272.16 [First Authors Last Name] Page 16 ReferencesABET. (2009). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents- UPDATE/Criteria%20and%20PP/E001%2009-10%20EAC%20Criteria%2012- 01-08.pdf.Ahlfeldt, S., Mehta, S., & Sellnow, T. (2005). Measurement and analysis of student engagement in university
human being has limited number of biometrics. Therefore, it is a desirable to generatemultiple independent biometric templates from biometric image (s). The partial fingerprint basedverification methods we are proposing in this paper mainly focus on achieving this goal. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 reviews previous work done byothers on matching partial fingerprints. Section 3 briefly states our contribution. Section 4introduces the methods of generating partial fingerprint images and the matching algorithm. Insection 5 we give our preliminary testing results. Section 6 summarizes and concludes the paper.Literature review Generally it is easier to obtain partial fingerprints than full fingerprints
paper describes the design and development of an assessment to measure the learning ofengineering concepts. Important issues that have been encountered during the developmentprocess are discussed so as to serve to inform future efforts in developing sound instrumentationfor K-12 engineering. The assessment development process and resulting issues can beappropriately framed within the context of an engineering design problem. Just as Dym, Little,Orwin, and Spjut (2009) defined engineering design as a “a systematic, intelligent process inwhich designers generate, evaluate and specify designs for devices, systems or processes whoseform(s) and function(s) achieve clients’ objectives and users’ needs while satisfying a specifiedset of constraints
. & Greenwald, S., et al. (Eds.) (2007). University collaboration for innovation: Lessons from the Cambridge MIT Institute. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. Rotterdam, Sense.17. Moreland, J., Jones, A., & Barlex, D. (2008). Design and technology inside the black box. London: GL Assessment.18. Adams, R. S., Turns, J., & Atman, C. J. (2003). Educating effective engineering designers: The role of reflective practice. Design Studies, 24(3), 275-294.19. Brophy, S., Klein, S., Portsmore, M., & Rogers, C. (2008). Advancing engineering education in P-12 classrooms. Journal for Engineering Education, 97(3), 369-387.20. Thurston, A., Topping, K., Christie, D., Tolmie, A., Murray, P., & Swan, M. (2007
AC 2012-2976: INTERRUPTED CASE METHOD FOR TEACHING ETHICSIN TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENTCOURSEDr. Robert M. Brooks, Temple University Robert Brooks is an Associate Professor of civil engineering at Temple University. He is a Fellow of ASCE. His research interests are engineering education, civil engineering materials, and transportation engineering.Jyothsna K. S., St.Joseph’s College Jyothsna K. S. is in the Department of English, St.Joseph’s College, Bangalore. K. S. secured a gold Medal for the highest aggregate marks in the Post Graduate English Literature course at St.Joseph’s College (autonomous). K. S. has been working for the Department of English, St.Joseph’s College, for almost two
AC 2012-4939: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A PROGRAM TO ENCOUR-AGE AND ENABLE TRANSFER STUDENTS TO COMPLETE THEIR EN-GINEERING DEGREESDr. Elaine P. Scott, Seattle Pacific UniversityHannah F. Azevedo, Seattle Pacific University Page 25.889.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Lessons Learned from a Program to Encourage and Enable Transfer Students to Complete their Engineering DegreesIntroductionOur Engineering Department is working to increase the number of community college transferstudents in our engineering program through a National Science Foundation funded S-STEMgrant. The goal of the grant
. Page 25.948.2The state’s eastern region was part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and was part of the Lewisand Clark Expedition in 1804 to 1806. With the findings of gold and copper in the late 1850’s,Montana became a US Territory on May 26, 1864 and the 41st state on November 8, 1889.Mining and cattle ranching have been the major themes of the state history. Mining has beenassociated with the state since the late 1850’s with the discovery of gold in Bannack Creek (nearthe capital) and by 1888, had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the world. Cattleranching has been associated with the state since the late 1800’s, mostly due to the HomesteadAct of 1862 and its revision in the early 1900’s, which expanded the amount of land a
step in the designprocess or an important skill such as writing technical documents or teamwork. During theremaining 45 minutes, students meet in their design teams to work together. The first half of thesemester is devoted to defining the design problem, developing the design context review,establishing design criteria, brainstorming solutions, using a Pugh matrix to evaluate and selectone or two solutions, and then defining and describing the selected solution(s) in more detail.During design team meetings, each team has access to its own whiteboard.During the second half of the semester, half of the class periods are similar to the formatdescribed above; the other half of the class periods are entirely devoted to team meetings.Lecture topics
undergraduate colleges in theUS. While faculty at UTG (and smaller colleges in the US) will struggle to compete with theR1's in the scholarship of discovery, the playing field can be leveled or even tipped to theiradvantage in the other areas. Faculty at many smaller US colleges and UTG will likely alwayshave greater teaching responsibilities and less access to costly research laboratories andresources (library, software, database access, support staff, technicians, etc.). This clearly tips thecompetitive balance toward the R1's in the scholarship of discovery. However in the scholarshipof teaching, an increased valuation of teaching should provide opportunity to raise visibility inthis area of scholarship. Evidence of this can be seen every summer at
contact throughout the project on data requirements,scheduling meetings, and project coordination. Clients are asked to be demanding of the studentteams in the mold of hired consultants, but still collaborate with them as they would with a newemployee.For the formation of student teams, candidate projects are defined in a one- to two-page scope ofwork by the client. All candidate projects are collected in a single email and distributed toHinman CEOs students near the start of the semester. Within approximately one week, studentsmay apply for multiple projects, but will be selected for no more than one.To apply, students send an email to the Hinman CEOs staff stating what project(s), in order ofpreference, that they are interested in joining
Outside EngineeringIntroductionAssessing the state of engineering education within the larger community of educators, theNational Science Foundation has highlighted the need for an understanding of engineering infields outside of engineering and “attention to STEM literacy for the public at large”1. In the1995 NSF report Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus Change2, one of thesuggestions to address such a need was to offer engineering courses to non-engineering students.Consequently, in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, engineering departments slowly began to offercourses for students who did not plan to major in engineering. Because few such generaleducation courses were offered in the past, little is known about the long-term student
confidence in understanding)Turning now to the topics themselves (see Table 2), the average ranking of each topic rangedfrom 1.58 for “free body diagrams” to 2.65 for “section modulus” (N=60). Most confidence wasshown in topics taught early in the semester and dealing with force and load. Least confidencewas shown with concepts taught later in the semester, and dealing with section properties (S),bending (stress, beam moment) and pure stress and strain. These lower ranked concepts dealwith more complex concepts. The notable exception to the relationship between order ofpresentation and ranking are the topics dealing with wood properties and design.Looking at performance on exam, a paired-sample t-test was used to compare the scores ontopics chosen
summer youth program.Ms. Hyojin Park, University of Georgia Hyojin Park is a doctoral student pursuing a degree in learning, design, and technology at the University of Georgia. She obtained a master’s degree in educational technology from Korea. Her research interests are mobile-based learning, real-world problem solving, and scaffolding.Mr. YounSeok Lee, University of Georgia Younseok Lee is a doctoral student in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at the University of Georgia. He holds a B.S. in electronic engineering and information technology and an M.S. in computer science with an emphasis in computer graphics. He worked for the Mobile S/W company for five years as a mobile S/W programmer and Project
] Litzinger, T., Wise, J., Lee, S., and Bjorklund, S., 2003, “Assessing Readiness for Self-directed Learning”,Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition[3] Jiusto, S., DiBiasio, D., 2006, “Experiential Learning Environments: Do They Prepare Our Students to be Self-Directed, Life-Long Learners?”, Journal of Engineering Education, July 2006, pp: 195-204[4] Litzinger, T., Wise, J., and Lee, S., 2005, “Self-directed Learning Readiness Among Engineering UndergraduateStudents”, Journal of Engineering Education, April 2005, pp: 215-221[5] Kay, J., 2008, “Lifelong Learner Modeling for Lifelong Personalized Pervasive Learning”, IEEE Transactions onLearning Technologies, Vol.1, No.4, October-December
Defuzzification Crisp Input 2 Rule BaseFig. 10. A block diagram of the fuzzy controller utilized in this paper. S SB M MB B BB VS S SM SB B VB 1 1 0.8 0.8 Membership Membership 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.4
Page 25.1263.5 World Table 4 MBTI Step II Facets20 E I N S Initiating Receiving Abstract Concrete Expressive Contained Imaginative Realistic Gregarious Intimate Conceptual Practical Active Reflective Theoretical Experiential Enthusiastic Quiet Original Traditional T
together to do the design and implementationplanning. The integration of C3’s user-interface work with C4’s back-end code is the primarychallenge. And, of course, since the C4 students have already taken C3, there will be naturalmentoring about user-interface and animation issues.The projects have evolved, but are now based on work that Wilczynski did during hisentrepreneurial career when his company built manufacturing applications in an area called cellcontrol7. In the fall we do an assembly cell. In spring we do a glass-processing line. Schematicsof the cells, which the students will build and animate, are shown in figures 1 and 2 in theappendix. Here are links to the specifications the students start from:http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201
a strain gage based scale called SqueezoMeter designed to measure theapplied squeezing or pushing force. It is made of an S-shaped sensing element equipped with 4-strain gages, and two rectangular aluminum plates to apply the force.The second experiment, HuggoMeter, consists of two parallel ¼ inch aluminum beams mountedon two 8.5 x 16 x 1 in hard boards that are 1.25 inches apart. Mounted on the constant bendingportion of these beams are 4 strain gages forming a 4-active arm Wheatstone bridge. Studentscan hug the HuggoMeter and apply forces to it. The induced strains are measured through a dinrail mounted signal conditioner and A/D module, converted to the applied force and displayed onthe PC screen.These experiments, while entertaining and
will be designed based upon socialconstructionist theories using communicative prospective 11, which will reveal how femalestudents create, negotiate and shift their identities while selecting, studying and practicing inSTEM field. Research questions include: a) what do they think about graduate education; b)what does pursuing career in STEM field mean to female?; c) what messages are enunciate aboutSTEM discipline, and how does these messages differ at different points in a female’s life?; d)what were the initial factor(s) compelling females to choose STEM as field of study?; e) whatfeatures of STEM discipline seems enticing or dispiriting to females from pursuing educationand practice in these area?; f) what kind of guidance, mentoring, and
29, Student ID GKJ2]. The third form entails providing an answer with nointerpretation; feedback includes the correct answer by copying directly from GTAresources, while providing an answer with interpretation means the GTA provides thecorrect answer with some interpretation. In this example, “Devon Dalton is the CEO ofD. Dalton Technologies, but Devon is not the direct user of the procedure. Devon willreceive, evaluate, and archive the procedure but will not use the procedure for itsintended use. The Logistics Manager is the direct user of the procedure” [2008, GTAN02, Team 10, Student ID E2YG]. In this example, the GTA shows evidence ofinterpreting the student response - s/he provides information about the students’ actualresponse before
collaborations, undergraduate research, and collaboration as an administrative model. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. 2002 Jun 1;2002(90):81–90.5. Kuh GD. High-impact educational practices: what they are, who has access to them, and why they matter. Association of American Colleges and Universities; 2008.6. Kinkead J. Learning Through Inquiry: An Overview of Undergraduate Research. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. 2003 Mar 1;2003(93):5–18.7. Grimberg S, Langen T, Compeau L, Powers S. A Theme-Based Seminar on Environmental Sustainability Improves Participant Satisfaction in an Undergraduate Summer Research Program. Journal of Engineering Education. 2008 Jan;97(1):95–103.8. National Science Foundation