project teams.ConclusionA methodology for teaching differential equations suitable for small institutions is discussed.The course is team-taught by two instructors, one from mathematics and one from engineering.The instructors utilize the small-class size and the diverse backgrounds and interests of thestudents to enhance student learning. Students complete final projects on real-life modelingproblems with differential equations within a multidisciplinary team. Course assessment surveysand oral feedback from students and the faculty in mathematics and engineering are indicatorsthat our methodology is effective in teaching differential equations to engineering students.Bibliography1. Sazhin, S. S. (1998). Teaching Mathematics to Engineering
Background2.1 Approach in Design CurriculumThe functional modeling method has been or is currently used in several design relatedcourses at the Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T and formerlyknown as the University of Missouri-Rolla) such as IDE 20 Introduction to EngineeringDesign with Computer Applications, IDE 105 Design Representations, IDE 106 DesignPerceptions, IDE 220 Engineering Design Methodology, IDE 315 InterdisciplinaryDesign Project, IDE 420 Modern Product Design, IDE 427 Function-Based RiskAnalysis, and ME 161 Introduction to Design. Other universities also apply functionalmodeling techniques such as Penn State, Carnegie Melon University, University of Texasat Austin, Virginia Tech, and Bucknell University
options analysis, but does not spend significant time on the subject No, we don’t teach real options analysis. 7. Is the course a graduate course or an undergraduate course? We have one or more graduate course(s). How many? We have one or more undergraduate course(s). How many? 8. Please provide the information below. Name City/Town Position State/Province Institution/University Country City/TownResultsResponses to the survey began arriving within hours of the email being delivered to the EED listserve. Over the following 4 weeks, 41
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the PSpice Archive is available for download as .zip files from the following URL:http://ee.uttyler.edu/David_Beams/Projects/pspice archives/PSpice Archives.htmBibliography1. Nilsson, J., and Riedel, S. Electric Circuits, 8th Edition. Prentice-Hall, 2007.2. Hambley, A. Electronics, 2nd Edition. Prentice-Hall, 2000.3. Sedra, A., and Smith, K. Microelectronic Circuits, 5th Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.4. Tobin, P. PSpice for Digital Communications Engineering. Morgan and Claypool, 2007.5. Tobin, P. PSpice for Analog Communications Engineering. Morgan and Claypool, 2007.6. Rashid, M., and Rashid, H. SPICE for Power Electronics and Electric Power, 2nd Edition. Boca Raton, FL:CRC Press, 2006.7. Castaner, L., and Silvestre, S
: Aberdeen,WA (315 NM West) Aberdeen,WA (78 NM South SW) S Aleutians Hilo,HI (185 NM SE) Pensacola,FL (115 NM East)This provides the students with a variety of different locations and wave conditions to choosefrom.A written report is required to document their work and conclusions, with an important aspectbeing the comparison of the OWC plants design for the two different sites. The grading rubric isgiven in Fig.6. Page 13.197.6 Project Grade Evaluation Project 3 Design of an Oscillating Water Column Power System
propel a vehicle is given by the following equation (see, for instance, reference 1): W% req ? ]RL - Ma _Vwhere W% req is the power required at the wheels to accelerate the vehicle and overcome drag,rolling resistance, and climbing forces. The instantaneous vehicle speed is V. The “road load” is Page 13.50.3 1 RL ? tV 2C D A - fW - W sin s 2where the first, second, and third terms on the right hand side are the aerodynamic drag, rollingresistance, and climbing forces. The quantity f is termed the rolling resistance
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through the Utilizing Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Learninggrant program for academic year 2007-2008. Page 13.429.9Bibliography1. McGrath, M.B., Brown, J.R., “Visual Learning for Science and Engineering,” IEEE Trans. on ComputerGraphics and Applications, Vol. 25, Issue 5, Sept.-Oct. 2005, pp. 56-63.2. Bailey, M., Cunningham, S., “Guest Editors' Introduction: Computer Graphics in Education,” IEEE Trans. onComputer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 25, Issue 5, Sept.-Oct. 2005, pp. 23-23.3. Cole, R.W., Miller, E.K., Chakrabarti, S., Gogineni, S., “Learning About Fields and Waves Using VisualElectromagnetics,” IEEE Trans. on Education, Vol
methods, they will be trained to see theneed to implement and promote technological changes at their work place throughout theircareers.References:[1] VHDL International, “VHDL International University Usage Survey,” VHDL International, Santa Clara, CA, 1995.[2] S. Palnitlear, Verilog HDL. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996.[3] Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design By Stephen Brown, Zvonko Vranesic, Published 2002 McGraw-Hill Professional[4] S. M. Sait, “Integrating UAHPL-DA systems with VLSI design tools to support VLSI DA courses,” IEEE Trans. Educ., vol. 35, pp. 321–329, Nov. 1992.[5] Norihiro Fujii, “Top-Down eLearning Tools for Hardware Logic Design,” Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on
introduction to engineering design course.We draw from a pilot project that used writing/communication assignments to improvethe teaching of engineering design. We based our approach on the “writing across thecurriculum” (WAC) movement’s premise that verbal composition is an analog forthinking and that communication artifacts can be used to infer student learning incomplex problem-solving situations.CPR™ -- as an advanced form of educational technology -- partners both with the studentand with the instructor to monitor learning through formative assessment. In this project,through the vehicle of CPR™, we were able to implement assignments that fully utilizethe WAC pedagogy, without overly increasing the workload for instructors. Furthermore,CPR™’s
registers, the memory map andmemory mapped devices, as well as the instruction mnemonics and addressing nodes, aswell as the interface to the exception handling mechanism. From the programmer’s pointof view nod4 has the following CPU registers • A – accumulator • C – condition code register (Z,C,I) and IID • S – stack pointer • X – index register • PC – program address counterThe A register is primarily for handling data. The C register contains the zero flag (Z),carry/borrow flag (C), and the interrupt enable flag (I). The lower five C register bitsstore the ID for an interrupting device (IID). The stack pointer maintains the stack datastructure. The X register is a fairly general purpose index register. The program counter(PC
Education, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, April 24-27, 2001.[6] M.E. Cambron and S.S. Wilson “Introducing Design to Freshmen and Sophomores at Western Kentucky University," Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN, June 22-25. 2003. Page 13.1027.10[7] D. Muggli, M. Durham, T. Campbell, R. Schlager, C. Wilson, R. Chang, R. Roberts, M. Kolbus, M. Rees, A. O’Palko, K. Dodson, and R. Unser, “Toxecon IITM and High-Temperature Reagents or Sorbents for Low-Cost Mercury Removal,” in Electric Power 2006 Conference Papers (CD).[8] M. Martin, S
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form. Three of the five teamscompleted all of the evaluation questions.Table 5. Questions that the student teams answered to evaluate their assigned waterQuestion Day 1 Day 2 comments comments1. List the source(s) of this water OK OK2. List contaminants that are likely to be present in the 5 items listed 3 items listedsource water3. State the treatment used for the water OK OK4. Which of these [treatment] methods are likely to 5 items; only 2 3 items listedremove the contaminants listed above gps answered5
AC 2008-2338: ENGINEERING STUDENTS OPINION ON PE 603100 - SPORTSAND HEALTH: AN INTRODUCTORY PHYSICAL EDUCATION COURSE ATTHE HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY IN JORDANAiman Kuzmar, Pennsylvania State University-Fayette AIMAN S. KUZMAR is an assistant professor of engineering at Penn State Fayette, the Eberly Campus. He holds a Ph. D. degree from Duke University. He has a Master’s degree from Rice University. His B. S. is from the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia. All of his degrees are in civil engineering. His industrial experience includes working as an Engineer for the NCDOT. He is a registered engineer in North Carolina.Abedalbasit Abedalhafiz, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences
ProcessIn order to develop an improved method of student team formation, various best practices werestudied. This is clearly a thorny issue that has been widely discussed in the literature in botheducational and industrial settings. Many methods are based in some way on assessing thestudent’s personality traits such as Myers Briggs indicators1 or The Big Five personality factors2.Papers specifically related to student team formation by Wesner3, Wilde4, and Adams5 report ona number of differing strategies that may be instructive for the interested reader.A source not widely reported on is research into team roles by R Meredith Belbin. His 1981book, Management Teams – Why they Succeed or Fail1, and a follow-up work, 1998’s TeamRoles at Work2, studied
’s with apercentage peak in 2000 at 20.6% of the total. In 2003, women represented 20.1% of thebaccalaureates awarded in engineering (Society of Women Engineers). According to Science (Culotta 1993), a publication of the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science, there are several reasons why African American,Latino, and Native American students remain underrepresented in science and technologyfields. These reasons include:• inadequate academic preparation;• low expectations by teachers;• image problems due to low minority representation at most universities; and• limited knowledge of mathematics and science professions. Loyola Marymount University seeks to help students overcome the barriers theyencounter
. Page 13.66.4 a) Robot stops within 0.05m of stop signs. b) Robot completes passing maneuver around a moving obstacle within the modular section(s) maintaining a safety buffer of 0.1m in front of and behind obstacle. c) Robot parallel parks in a designated parking spot.4. Optional modified basic traffic rules are as follows. a) Robot exhibits correct precedence order at an intersection, i.e. the first vehicle to reach a stop line is the first to leave. b) Robot maintains a safety buffer of 0.3m when traveling.LEGO Mindstorms NXT Specifications are summarized in literature21, 22.Route configuration:To provide a variety of navigational situations, a set of miniature route segments was constructedfor this course to allow
, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 2007), E-conference, December 2007. 3. S. Beltran, and C. Liu, “LabVIEW Fault-Tolerance Visualization Subsystem," Emerging Technologies, Robotics and Control Systems and in the International Journal of Factory Automation, Robotics and Soft Computing ISSN 1828 – 6984. 4. D. Demery, Z. Purnajo, H. Boussalis, C. Liu, K. Rad, and J. Dong, “Development of Enhanced FITS Image Viewer with Graphic User Interface”, 2005 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods, Las Vegas, June, 2005 5. G. Drolshagen, H. Svedhem, and E. Grun, 2001. Measurements of cosmic dust and micro-debris with the GORID impact detector in GEO. Proc. the 3rd
desirable. For example, students, who would otherwise become businessmajors due to an inherent need to manage and lead, can now visualize engineering ortechnology as alternative gateway to their career destinations. The number oftechnologists can also be enhanced by creating student-centered transfer opportunities ofA.A.S. degree holders and Certificate holders.References:1. N. L. Augustine, "Is America Falling Off the Flat Earth?", The National Academies Press, Washington D.C., 2007, pp.92, http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12021&page=R12. J. E. Stiglitz, "Making Globalization Work", First ed. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, New York, 2007, pp.374,3. S. Courter, M. Mariasingam, G. Moses and T. Smith
. Page 13.967.7a. StructureSampling rate of 8 KHz, 16 bits/sample 2 frame lengths: 30 ms (240 samples) for a bitrate of 13.3 KHz and 20 ms (160 samples) for a bit rate of 15.2 kbit/s. Most of low bitrate codecs limit voice bandwidth to 50-3400 Hz whereas iLBC utilizes the full 4 KHzbandwidth producing higher quality reconstructed voice.b. Advantages‚ As opposed to CELP codec that require previous data to estimate the pitch gain and lag, internet Low Bit rate Codec estimates the pitch of the signal in the same frame eliminating the dependency of previous samples and look ahead delays. This is why iLBC offers a better performance during packet loss conditions.‚ Use of LSF/LPC interpolation enhances the performance of the codec during high
Conergy 1 175 watt Photovoltaic Modules 17,160 S – 175 MU UL 1703 SMA SCCB12 2 DC Combiner Boxes 130 NEMA 3R/4 3 Lightning Arrestors 130 Delta LA602 Square D 4 DC Disconnects 79 HU363RB NEMA 3R UL98
skills [8]. In 2004, one study reported that, of 73 top-ranked U.S. and Canadian engineering schoolssurveyed about communication instruction for engineers, 33 percent reported integratinginstruction “in which communication specialists and engineering professors collaborate [9].Many schools have integrated the instruction with various engineering courses, particularly theCapstone Design course [10-16]. Student projects and communication skills instruction have already become a part ofsome introductory statistics courses. Projects have been included for a long time [17-20], even asfar back as the 1970’s [21]. Some statistics professors have recently stressed the importance ofcommunication skills to statistics undergraduates. In
AC 2008-2136: INTEGRATING SENSOR NETWORKS IN UNDERGRADUATECURRICULUM: A MARRIAGE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICEAnbu Elancheziyan, Drexel UniversityJaudelice de Oliveira, Drexel UniversityFernand Cohen, Drexel UniversityFredricka Reisman, Drexel University Page 13.766.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Integrating Sensor Networks in Undergraduate Curriculum: A Marriage between Theory and PracticeIntroductionWireless Sensor Networks are composed of small nodes equipped with sensor(s), a wirelessradio, and limited computational power. Sensor nodes are used as data collectors and also in dataforwarding. The nodes collect the sensed data and
). Page 13.837.3 Component Descriptions Item Device # Model Conergy 1 175 watt Photovoltaic Modules 17,160 S – 175 MU UL 1703 SMA SCCB12 2 DC Combiner Boxes 130 NEMA 3R/4 3 Lightning Arrestors 130 Delta LA602 Square D
AC 2008-1231: A METHOD OF PACING ON-LINE COURSES: BLENDINGASYNCHRONOUS ASSESSMENTS AND RECORDED LECTURES WITHSYNCHRONOUS LECTURESCharlie Edmonson, University of Dayton CHARLIE P. EDMONSON is a Professor and Program Coordinator of Industrial Engineering Technology at the University of Dayton. Prior to joining the faculty at UD, he retired from the U. S. Air Force after 30 years of engineering design, industrial engineering, and experience at various levels of management. Page 13.56.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Method of Pacing On-line Courses: Blending Asynchronous
Education, 94, (1), 87– 101.8. Saad, A. & Zaghloul, A-R.M. (2002). A knowledge visualization tool for teaching and learning computer engineering knowledge, concepts, and skills. Published Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education IEEE Conference, Boston, MA, Session 2TF.9. Clark, D., Reynolds, S., Lemanowski, V., Stiles, T.,Yasar, S., Proctor, S., Lewis, E., Stromfors, C., & Corkins, J. (2008). University students’ conceptualization and interpretation of topographic Maps. International Journal of Science Education, 30(3), 377-408.10. Branoff, T. J. (1998, June). Coordinate Axes and Mental Rotation Tasks: A Dual-Coding Approach . Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering
, C., Gupta, S., and Pruitt, L. (2006) Undergraduate Students Teaching Children: K-8, Outreach Within the Core Engineering Curriculum. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education National Conference, Chicago. 2. Elton, D., Hanson, J., and Shannon, D. (2006) Soils Magic: Bringing Civil Engineering to the K-12 Classroom. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, April: p125-132. 3. Moskal, B. et al. (2007) K-12 Outreach: Identifying the Broader Impacts of Four Outreach Projects. Journal of Engineering Education, July, p173-189. 4. Jeffers A., Safferman, A., and Safferman, S. (2004) Understanding K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs. Journal of