concepts and skills for analog and digital interfacing. Therefore,mastering microcontroller techniques is considered to be one of the important factors forstudent’s future study and career development.Our school used to offer a Z80 based microprocessor course. Due to the microcontrollers’ lower Page 26.553.2prices, more powerful functions, and wide application areas, we replaced our previousmicroprocessor course with a course in microcontrollers in the year 2010. The PIC18microcontroller from Microchip was chosen as the learning platform. The traditional “lectureplus lab” model was used in the first two years of teaching. However, in order to
-preparedstudents and students from under-represented groups. Page 26.578.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Effect of Student-Centered Programs on Retention of Engineering Students Page 26.578.3Background/RationaleRecent research indicates that engineering students tend to leave their major at a rate similar tostudents enrolled in the humanities, business, and education. However, students who changemajors are then far less likely to select engineering as their next career choice.1 This relativeoutflow without a
learning activities within technology education. Theauthor concluded that the highest ranked strategy was the one with product-oriented andlaboratory-based content. The second highest rank was for strategy using technology focus, andthe lowest was for strategy that relied heavily on classroom orientation.Having hands-on laboratory is one condition, but the laboratory practices should be relevant toprepare graduates for their manufacturing career. Miller3 surveyed 25 department heads of USmanufacturing programs and concluded that an exemplary manufacturing program should: a) Require more technical coursework, b) Require or strongly encourage cooperation with industry, c) Maintain closer relationships with industry, d) Has more manufacturing
: the graduation rate is 16% of DHH ascompared to 30% for their hearing peers4.Currently there are over 31,000 DHH students enrolled in college and this enrollment number isup 15,000 over the past 10 years5. While careers demand highly qualified engineers with variousskills, including visual skills, most classrooms are not designed to utilize students’ visual skillsand are not fully accessible by DHH students, including engineering classrooms6. Whenclassrooms maximize the benefits of visual learning, the barriers of traditional pedagogy, such asusing spoken English as the primary mode of communication are partially ameliorated7. Specifically, DHH students also struggle in solving engineering problems8. While a universitymay provide resources
sustainable design (20%) f) Sustainability is included in the standard curriculum (16%)17. Outside of your engineering studies, how interested are you personally in green andsustainable information and causes? a) Extremely interested (21%) b) Somewhat Interested (36.8%) c) Neutral (26.3%) d) Not very interested (10.5%) e) Not at all interested (5.3%)18. What is the primary motivation for your interest in green and sustainable information andcauses? a) It sounds like an interesting topic to learn more about (11%) b) It will give me a competitive advantage when applying for jobs (50%) c) It is necessary in my career as an engineer (16.7%) d) I want to do well in the world (16.7%) e
Paper ID #11372Innovative Embedded Systems ProjectMr. Stephen A. Strom, Pennsylvania State University, Erie Stephen Strom is a lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology department of Penn State Behrend, and holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. His career includes over thirty years experience in designing and programming embedded systems and has multiple patents for both hardware designs and software algorithms Page 26.971.1 c American
arewell poised to support this development through targeted programs that are hands on, promoteskill development, solidify career interests, and enhance social skills for young people.Additionally, university-community partnerships in service learning can support civicengagement goals and help solve social problems.2 The Community Based STEM Program isone example of a program that builds on students’ academic foundation and relies heavily ontechnical skills to promote students as involved leaders who engage with their community toenact change.The freshman and sophomore curriculum in the College of Engineering, like at many otherschools, focuses on chemistry, calculus, physics, engineering design and English. It leaves littleroom for elective
Paper ID #13168Lessons Learned from Collaborative Development of Research-Based CourseMaterialsDr. Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University Dr. Montfort is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State UniversityDr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize practicing engineers
science and systems engineering; 2. Provide a comfortable setting for the student to begin his/her life as a Penn State student; and 3. (Perhaps most importantly) have fun while getting started on a career in engineering and, more specifically, space-related engineering.Secondary goals for the course include: 1. Recruit students to the activities of the Student Space Programs Laboratory (SSPL) in the EE Dept. SSPL is a faculty-led, student-run lab in which students develop capabilities for space projects and fly space missions. SSPL has built payloads for balloon, rocket, and satellite platforms [7]; 2. Provide training in the skills needed for the space-related work of the SSPL; and 3. Retain
year to an all-time high. Study abroad byAmerican students has more than tripled over the past two decades1. Universities are realizingthe great benefits for their students to have an international experience while in college. Thesebenefits include but are not limited to, becoming globally aware and global citizens, morepersonally and socially aware, and strengthening their career and academic choices. A studyperformed by Williams in the Journal of Studies in International Education found that studentswho went on study abroad exhibited a greater change in intercultural communication skills aftertheir semester abroad than students who stayed on campus. They also found that exposure tovarious cultures was the greatest predictor of intercultural
not relate the learned class material to other classes (Table 8). Instead, students frompublic universities often relate class material to their future careers. Page 26.1172.10Table 9: Sample t-test and Variance Analysis of Public and Private University Students Levene's Test for t-test for Equality of Means Equality of Variances
possible career opportunities. The analysis material was transferred Page 26.1480.2to ECE 102, with most non-EE topics removed to make time for more EE focused material. ECE103 took on the role of teaching intermediate-level programming in C. Surveys from industryand former students made it clear that the single programming course required of EE studentswas not meeting the expectations of prospective employers. So, it was decided that ECE 102would expand the MATLAB portion of the course to include general programming in addition tocovering its calculation and graphing tools. Effectively, in our courses MATLAB has become aprimer for C due to
,communication protocol between protective relays and communication processor shouldbe taken into account as well as communication protocol to make connection between theSMART Grid Lab and the remote site over the Internet. This allowed me to learn moreabout communication protocols such as MODBUS TCP/IP. In addition, the XMPPprotocol was brought to the center of my attention as a reliable and securecommunication protocol for such applications as transmission line protection.Briefly, this project enhanced my knowledge about communication protocols as anintegral part of future smart grids. Moreover, it greatly enhanced my ability to set up sucha complicated system from ground up, which is very valuable for my future career in thiscompetitive world. It
• Business Administration Texas A&M University • Ocean Engineering • Oceanography * http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/careers/trainingandeducation/thegraduateinstitute .aspx, accessed 22 Jan 2014.Full-time employees that are taking classes
, and Starr Counties in Texas, and he has worked with a variety of issues surrounding entry level mathematics and science at two-year and four-year schools in Texas.Dr. Javier Angel Kypuros, University of Texas, Pan American Javier Kypuros received a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1996. He later received an M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1998 and 2001 from The University of Texas at Austin. Javier began his career at The University of Texas at El Paso in 2001 and later joined the faculty at The University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) in 2002. He is currently a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs in the College
structure they designed is an invaluable opportunity that can directlyapply towards their future careers. Incorporating the competition within a constructionmanagement curriculum allows for cross-collaboration between multiple courses (e.g., buildinginformation modeling, safety, structures, project management) emulating the collaborative natureof the design-build industry. Faculty and universities who want to compete in this type ofdesign-build competition need to understand the level of commitment required for successfulparticipation. Overall university support is beneficial, but fabrication space is a necessity.Additional support from multiple academic departments and administrative units at theuniversity may also be needed. The event also
Dakota State University, NDSU.PEEC is a program to expand the inclusion of Native American students into the engineeringcareer field while at the same time opening awareness of the opportunities available in tribalcommunities for engineering talent. It is proposed that such an inclusion will expand theopportunities for engineering career fields on the reservation. A description will be provided asto how the initial concepts have evolved during the years of operation. Also contained within thepaper will be a description of the serendipitous events relating to resources, administration staffand students success stories and the implications they have for future successes. Following thatwill be a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the less
graduate students in research activities at Mississippi State. He has presented his education research at ASEE conferences in the past.Dr. Dennis D. Truax PE, BCEE, F.ASCE, Mississippi State University Dr. Dennis D. Truax, P.E., BCEE, F.ASCE, is Head and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Mississippi State University. He is in his ninth year as the James T. White Chair of Civil and Environ- mental Engineering and serves as Director of the Mississippi Transportation Research Center (MTRC). A member of the faculty for 34 years, he is a licensed professional engineer and board certified environmen- tal engineer. During his academic career, he has published over 100 refereed and reference papers and report
the areas of innovation andentrepreneurship. These students will start their career with an edge over other engineeringstudents because they will be able to launch businesses successfully by using concepts learned inour program. The offering of this course provided a culture of life-long innovation in our college;it enhanced our engineering students’ entrepreneurship skills. With this new course, our studentswill establish a foundation for a small business incubator in the region. Page 26.1275.9References1. Bousaba, N. and Conrad, J., “Recent Graduates’ Perspectives on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Creation of New Entrepreneurship
-Champaign. Prior to joining Illinois he was on the faculties of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis. Prof. West holds a Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology and a B.Sc. in Pure and Applied Mathematics from the University of Western Australia. His research is in the field of scientific computing and numerical analysis, where he works on computational algorithms for simulating complex stochastic systems such as atmospheric aerosols and feedback control. Prof. West is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and is a University of Illinois Distinguished Teacher-Scholar and
Paper ID #12527Refinement and Dissemination of a Digital Platform for Sharing Transporta-tion Education MaterialsAllie S Peters, Oregon State UniversityDr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize practicing engineers’ understand- ings of core engineering concepts.Dr. Kevin Chang P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow Kevin Chang, Ph.D., P.E., is an
Midwestern university for the past three years. WIC leaders believe that participantsgreatly benefit from improved communication in terms of behaviors and resulting skills arethe focus of this paper. Communication has been identified by business executives as one of the top skillsneeded by professionals in the current workplace1. Professionals with good oral and writtenskills, as well as presentation and listening proficiency are more likely to be hired and leadsuccessful careers. ABET’s accreditation criterion for student outcomes include the “abilityto communicate effectively” 2.The WIC Competition Once a week participants from all majors ranging from the college of arts andsciences to law school come to the engineering school where
the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB).The Exito Sin Limites (ESL) project was undertaken to enable a 2- and 4-year institution to worktogether in providing matching opportunities for students; who can now transfer seamlesslybetween the El Paso Community College (EPCC) and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)in science and engineering education. This has increased retention and graduation ofunderrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly women, in scientific and technological careers toover 22-% of all engineering graduates in engineering at UTEP, beyond the original project goalof 15-%.At the completion of their program students can earn both an Associate of Science degree fromEPCC and a Bachelor of Science in their
Paper ID #12230Spatial Visualization Skills Intervention for First Year Engineering Students:Everyone’s a Winner!Dr. S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University S. Patrick Walton received his B.ChE. from Georgia Tech, where he began his biomedical research career in the Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He then attended MIT where he earned his M.S. and Sc.D. while working jointly with researchers at the Shriners Burns Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. While at MIT, he was awarded a Shell Foundation Fellowship and was an NIH biotechnology Predoctoral Trainee. Upon completion of his doctoral studies, he
[homework assignments] in this class this term? Yes No 2. On a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 represents not at all committed and 5 represents extremely committed, how committed are you to completing your [homework assignments] in this class this term? 1 2 3 4 5 3. Please take a moment and think about those assignments. a. What is the primary reason that you want to be successful on them? Be specific. (ex: It will help me in my future career; so I don’t fail the course) ______________________________________ b. Finally, write a statement of your goal for [the assignment] on the line below. Start
impression that engineering will be a rewarding career increased for all students (mean4.5 to 4.6), males (4.5 to 4.7), and URMs (4.4 to 4.7).Additional assessment results have been obtained for ESCAPE. In 2011 a matched sample gradeanalysis was performed for the 2008 entering cohort of attendees. These results are summarized inthe form of grade point averages and retention of participating students in subsequent semesters. Thesample analysis in Table 2 is interesting for two reasons. Women who attend the ESCAPE bridgeprogram are identified from a group at risk of leaving the College. The grade analysis indicates thatthey perform at least as well as women who do not attend and out-perform males.Table 2: ESCAPE Matched Sample Grade Analysis for 2008
participation in class discussions in US graduate seminars.”Given Lee, English for Specific Purposes 28 (2009) 142–156“Crossing the Distance: Adjustment of Taiwanese Graduate Students in the United States”.4Michelle A. Swagler and Michael V. Ellis. Journal of Counseling Psychology. (2003), Vol. 50, No. 4, 420 – 4375 “Why Keep Silent? The Classroom Participation Experiences of Non-Native-English-speaking Students”. SibelTatar, Language and Intercultural Communication, (2005) 5:3-4, 284-293, DOI: 10.1080/147084705086689026 Bakker et al. (2010), “The Role of Personality in the Job Demands-Resources Model: A study of Australianacademic staff”. Career Development International, Vol. 15 No. 7, 2010, pp. 622-6367 “Correlates of Deficiencies in a First-Quarter
in engineering is considered to be one of the critical coursesstudents will take in their journey towards the attainment of an engineering degree as a key piecein career development. However, not all departments support the idea of a multidisciplinarycapstone because they fear it will negatively impact their ability to meet their department’sspecific curricular needs, and ensure ABET requirements are met. The administration andfacilitation of a multidisciplinary capstone takes significant resource dedication, and asustainable structure would need to be built the appropriate infrastructure to ensure futuresuccess.Implications and RecommendationsMultidisciplinary capstone has much support across campus, as it reflects experiences studentswill
faculty represented the majority (93%) of respondentscovering all degree levels (Baccalaureate – 93%, Masters – 84.5%, and Doctoral – 34.5%).Instructional areas included engineering (5%), technology (19%), engineering technology (10%),engineering and technology teacher education (32%), design (10%), and education (7%).Building construction management, business, sustainability, and career and technical educationare also represented instructional areas in the data set. Tenured or tenure-track professorscomprised 89% of the respondents. Thirty percent of respondents report greater than 30 years ofteaching experience with all other respondents distributed consistently from 4-30 years ofteaching experience. When asked if they have flipped a classroom
1 Detail 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 - Question 4 did not received any answersDiscussion and Implications for Teaching and LearningThe results suggest that the participants possessed several misconceptions and conceptual gapson basic knowledge of how to secure a communication between the server and the web browser.This fact was unexpected given that the students were coursing the last year of aTelecommunication and Networking career. The results imply a necessity to strengthen generalsecurity and web security concepts on cybersecurity education as suggested by McGettrick [11] inhis work “Toward Effective Cybersecurity Education”.Third-party validation is a