work. Italso may have been due in part to his appropriation of Ms. W.’s warning to expect that theirproduct would change. However, none of Bobby’s group members elaborated or seemed to sharehis uncertainty. Also noteworthy is that Isabel took the opportunity to broach a subject that wasbecoming contentious – who was project manager – perhaps bringing it up in front of an adultfor a measure of safety in addressing a relational difficulty.As to how the feedback they received during the first design critique session shaped this group’ssocial interaction, findings indicate a decrease in students’ focus on social-relational issues asmembers became more task-focused after receiving negative feedback. No social topics weretaken up post critique
Paper ID #10282Feasibility of interactive eTextbooks with computationally intense contentDr. Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University Dr. Richard got his Ph. D. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1989 & a B. S. at Boston University, 1984. He was at NASA Glenn, 1989-1995, taught at Northwestern for Fall 1995, worked at Argonne National Lab, 1996-1997, Chicago State, 1997-2002. Dr. Richard is a Sr. Lecturer & Research Associate in Aerospace Engineering @ Texas A&M since 1/03. His research is focused on computational plasma modeling using spectral and lattice Boltzmann methods for studying plasma turbulence
sum of all values𝑐=0 // A variable to store the lost low-order bitsfor 𝑖 = 0 to num −1 do 𝑦 = 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑦[𝑖] − 𝑐 𝑡 =𝑆+𝑦 // If S is big and y is small, low-order digits of y are lost 𝑐 = (𝑡 − 𝑆) − 𝑦 // c recovers the low-order digits of y 𝑆=𝑡end for Page 24.627.53. FPAvisual SoftwareFPAvisual was developed to provide engaging visualizations that show the inaccuracies causedby FPA, their significant influence on programs, and the techniques to increase the accuracy. Ithas Windows and Linux versions. FPAvisual consists of four components: Roots, Pentagon
engineering fields (e.g. mechanical, environmental, orelectrical) through design challenges targeted for specific grade levels, contextualized in aparticular country (e.g. India, USA, or El Salvador), and set in a elementary aged child’s story13.Some researchers are analyzing the impact of these resources for integrating engineering intoelementary curricula16-18. For example, Karatas and colleagues19 performed a phenomenographic Page 24.270.4study with 20 sixth-grade students to understand elementary students’ views about engineeringand its differences compared to science. For this, researchers collected student interviews anddrawings of engineer(s
. papers published in 2012 with internationalcoauthors was 35.9% in engineering and 45.8% in physics.2,3 In its 2006–2011 fiscal year strategicreport, the NSF acknowledged the importance of international research collaboration and identifiedas a key performance goal the need to “keep the United States at the frontiers of knowledge byincreasing international partnerships and collaborations.” The strategic plan went on to say, “Asscience and engineering (S&E) expertise and infrastructure advance across the globe, it is expectedthat the United States will increasingly benefit from international collaborations and a globallyengaged workforce leading to transformational S&E breakthroughs.”4 However, as the number ofscience and engineering
students engage in course content and motivatethem to try harder, but faculty also have the power to weaken student engagement. Thefollowing are possible implications for faculty as a result of our analyses. a. To facilitate students’ sense of belonging and motivation to participate in class, an instructor can implement the following ideas that require minor effort on the part of the instructor: i. Learn student names or simply recognize if students have been attending class, asking questions, working hard, etc. ii. Tell students explicitly during class that s/he cares that students learn the course material. iii. Encourage students to attend office hours if/when they need
curricular pedagogy. Further in-depth researches are needed with 11 more appropriate samples having focus on discerning the impact and significance of differentscaffolding attributes on learning outcomes.ReferencesAcademies, N. A. o. E. o. t. N. (2005). Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century: The National Academies Press.Ambrose, S. A., Bridges, M. W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M. C., & Norman, M. K. (2010). How learning works: Seven research-based principles for smart teaching: John Wiley & Sons.Anderson, K. J. B., Courter, S. S., McGlamery, T., Nathans-Kelly, T. M., & Nicometo, C. G. (2010). Understanding engineering work
on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. She is creating and testing innovative, interdisciplinary curricular approaches that engage students in developing models of real world problems and their so- lutions. Her research also involves working with educators to shift their expectations and instructional practice to facilitate effective STEM integration. Tamara is the recipient of a 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her work on STEM integration with underrep- resented minority and underprivileged urban K-12 students.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette S¸enay Purzer an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering
: http://www.abet.org/uploadedFiles/Accreditation/Accreditation_Process/Accreditation_Documents/Current/ea c-criteria-2012-2013.pdf..2 M. W. Ohland, M. L. Loughry, D. J. Woehr, L. G. Bullard, R. M. Felder, C. J. Finelli, R. M. Layton, H. L. Pomeranz and D. G. Schmucker, "The Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness: Development of a Behaviourally Anchored Rating Scale for Self and Peer Evaluation," Academy of Management Learning and Education, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 609-630, 2012.3 J. McGourty and K. P. DeMeuse, The Team Developer: An Assessment and Skill Building Program Student Guidebook, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2001.4 S. Loddington, K. Pond, N. Wilkinson and P. Willmot, "A case study of
- 306.25. Segalàs, J., D. Ferrer-Balas, and K.F. Mulder, What do engineering students learn in sustainability courses? The effect of the pedagogical approach. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2010. 18(3): p. 275-284.26. Carey, S., Knowledge Acquisition: Enrichment or Conceptual Change?, in The epigenesis of mind, S. Carey and R. Gelman, Editors. 1991, Erlbaum: Hillsdale, NJ. p. 257-291.27. Chi, M.T.H., Three Types of Conceptual Change: Belief Revision, Mental Model Transformation, and Categorical Shift, in Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change, S. Vosniadou, Editor. 2008, Erlbaum: Hillsdale, NJ.28. Craig, S., M.T.H. Chi, and K. VanLehn, Improving classroom learning by collaboratively observing human tutoring
influences of key membrane/drug properties on the release kinetics. REFERENCES [1] Srinivasan, R., Doiron, G. and Song, M. (2004). Helping students relate classroom theory to practice in industry: Design considerations for web- based simulations. CDTL Brief, 7(5), May 2004, Singapore. [2] Vidal, O. de los S
and may offer insights into their futuretrajectory. STEM students and faculty thinking about their career trajectories (e.g. whether topursue a job in a research university vs. bachelor’s only institution in light of balancing withfamily responsibilities) may also benefit from the findings of this study.Our data come from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF). NSOPF includesfaculty member and institutional data. Our dataset for this study contains data from 1993 and2004, which is the last year the NSOPF was administered. These two years were selectedbecause FMLA was passed in 1993. NSOPF 1993's data collection started in 1992 and cantherefore serve as a baseline of the patterns of policy distribution before FMLA’simplementation
. Government WorkplaceAbstractThis paper reports the results of a quantitative, nonexperimental, cross-sectional, one-time, web-based survey on the career self-efficacy1 of self-selected black engineers in the engineeringworkplace—a workplace that has been described as a “haven of whiteness and masculinity”3,p.14and “pale” and “male”4,p.86. Engineering has been a key component of the U.S.’s globaltechnological superiority. However, U.S. racial demographics are changing. The number ofwhites currently in the workforce and the number of whites entering the workforce will decreaseover the next several decades. Given current college and university graduation rates by race, thenumber of underrepresented minority engineers is not on a path to maintain the
ethics development initiatives seeking to enhance the through the problem by navigating a 5-50,000 ft paradigm where consideration of context, significance, purpose, and effectiveness and assessment of this element of introductory engineering courses market relevance permeated the entire experience. The experience culminated in design-build-refine of the concepts. K-• The comprehensive design-build project includes most of the elements of the engineering design WIDE 2014 was offered during January 2014 and experiences were shared out with other KEEN schools. process (identification of project objective(s), design criteria and constraints, the development of multiple design
academicprogram changes frequently.The vast majority of ABET-accredited programs are offered mostly on-site.The following ABET-accredited programs are offered in a 100-percent onlineformat. This list is updated annually in October.FULTON schools of engineering electrical, computer and energy engineering ABET accredited 100% online programs ABET considers the following 11 programs at 9 schools to be 100% online: Applied Science Accrediting Commission – 1 BS in Applied Science Program (Oakland U, Occupational Safety and Health) – 1 Associates in Applied Science Program (Trinidad St Jr College, Occupational S & H) Technology Accrediting Commission – 2 BS Engineering Tech. Programs (Thomas Edison St
multiple exams – Quizzes, mid-terms and finals – Makeup exams, in-class Comp. Based Testing• Proficiency or Certification test(s). – Math and English proficiency tests – Nursing/dental board exams12/21/2015 19 About VProctor• Vproctor is based inPhoenix Az, USA.• VProctor was spun off from the technology developed at Arizona State University• Battle hardened software technology deployed at many institutions.• Patent Pending (Filed in 2013).12/21/2015 2012/21/2015 21 Leadership• Dr. Anshuman Razdan (AR), a Prof. of Computer Sc. at ASU, heads the Image and 3D Data Exploitation and Analysis Lab (I3DEA Lab), and is
Paper ID #9097Why I Am an Engineering Major: A Cross-Sectional Study of Undergradu-ate StudentsDr. Louis Nadelson, Boise State University Louis S. Nadelson is an associate professor in the College of Education at Boise State University, with a PhD in educational psychology from UNLV. His scholarly interests include all areas of STEM teaching and learning, inservice and preservice teacher professional development, program evaluation, multidis- ciplinary research, and conceptual change. Nadelson uses his over 20 years of high school and college math, science, and engineering teaching to frame his research on STEM teaching
through guided activities and assignments. After class, assignments are completed andstudents prepare for the next class. Table 2: Typical Inverted Class Day ScheduleBefore Class In Class After Class• Preparation activity: Reading, • Short lecture • Finish application assignments, • Activities Page 24.1389.3 video, tutorial, or problem(s) open lab• Evaluation: online quiz or turned • Application assignments or lab • Prepare for next class in solutionThe
development for faculty in their respective area(s) of expertise is imperative for theviability of any academic program and the success of the institution of higher education [1].Professors are expected to understand the subject(s) that they teach and understand how to applythe material to real-world scenarios. While research suggests that most faculty members “areinherently self-driven learners” [1], some academic disciplines, such a pharmacy education, useaccreditation councils that specifically advocate an effective continuing professionaldevelopment program [1]. This paper posits that one of the most effective ways for engineeringand technology faculty to obtain continuing professional development is through active andcontinual engagement with
function forthe PID controller can be represented by Equation (3) K D s 2 K props K I K GPID K prop I sK D , (3) s s where Kprop is the proportional constant, KI is the integral constant, and KD is the derivativeconstant. A discrete PID controller can be implemented through MATLAB simulation as in (4)[13], r(k ) r(k 1) K1e(k ) K 2 e(k 1) K3e(k 2) (4)where e command K1 K prop K I t K D / t
analysis.Ed Moran, Western Washington University RF and Instrumentation technician from San Jose area, supporting Western Washington Univ.’s Electron- ics Engineering Technology Dept.Jeremy Ruhland, Western Washington University Jeremy Ruhland is an electrical engineering technology student from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. Eir interests include electromechanics, robotics, communications and embedded sys- tems. Ey is also head electrical engineer of the WWU Marine Technology Club, which builds underwater remotely operated vehicles for the MATE ROV competition. Page 24.88.1
designdifficulty of the selected design element(s), and the need to generate team interactions. Teamassignments can also be adjusted during the course so that all teams have an equivalent workload. If a particular design component becomes easier than anticipated to design then anadditional component can be added to the design team’s the scope-of-work. Or if a teamstruggles with the completion of their design, the instructor could provide additional informationto move the design along.The ability to select the project months prior to the beginning of the course eliminates therequirement of locating a local practice design professional, an engineering firm, and anacceptable project or the need to fabricate a project and supporting data. This
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and other STEM majors. The research questions were: 1) Do teachers believe that they can influence their students’ choices of undergraduate major? 2) If teachers believe they can have such influence over their students what is/are the mechanism(s) of this influence? 3) To what extent do high school seniors intending to study engineering in college report that teachers’ instruction or advising influenced their choice of major?Method This research comprised two sample populations: 1) in-service teachers participating insummer professional development programs (including RET), and 2) high school seniors fromaround the country who planned on attending college within a year of graduation. During
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andteaching practices, such as providing effective feedback for students; developing a teachingportfolio; and the academic job search. Throughout Spring 2014, we will continue to requestfeedback from students in order to refine our ongoing efforts to support students’ academic,personal and professional success.References 1. Longfield A, Romas J, Irwin JD. The Self-worth, Physical and Social Activities of Graduate Students: A Qualitative Study. Coll Stud J. 2006;40(2):282–92.2. Fogg P. Grad-School Blues. The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2009 Feb 20 [cited 2013 Oct 17]; Available from: http://chronicle.com/article/Grad-School-Blues/295663. Patton S. Colleges Struggle to Respond to Graduate Students in Distress. The Chronicle
positive vertical direction is 5 points. If you pass one line more than once, no additional points are givenIdentify Ball If your robot can identify one blue ball to pass through 10 points. If your robot can identify 2 consecutive blue balls to pass through 20 points.Navigate Maze If your robot successfully navigates the maze – 20 pointsStop at Edge The style in which you robot stops at the edge is between 0-20 points. If your robot falls over the edge – s=0; if your robot stops “short” or has an appendage over the edge – s=0.5; if your robot stops at the edge – s=1 Style*s is the “stop at the edge” scoreTime You will be assigned a t value, based on the relative speed of
vertical,horizontal, or diagonal edges. Edge detection is a difficult task in noisy images, since both theedges and noise hold high- frequency content. Efforts to reduce the noise result in unclear anddistorted edges. Techniques used on noisy images are typically larger in scope; therefore, theycan gather enough data to discount localized noisy pixels. An example of edge detectionmethodology is given by the function:BW = Edge (I) ………………………. (1)This function takes a gray scale or a binary image I as its input, and returns a binary image BW Page 24.185.7of the same size as I, with 1's where the function finds edges in I and 0
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