;ME and ship design are taken during the lastthree semesters. A single course – Principles of Naval Architecture (PNA) – is taken duringspring of 2/c (junior) year. Content for this course consists of an introduction to the following Page 11.194.6fundamentals: NA&ME nomenclature, ship hydrostatics, intact and damaged stability, hullstrength, hydrodynamic resistance, and propulsion. Fall of the 1/c (senior) year is the semester-long integrated ship design experience. As such, students in the NA&ME major have only thePNA course before the students begin their actual ship design. Clearly, there is no way tosuccessfully teach all of the
courses called “Engineering Exploration EngE1024” in order toprovide avenues for educational research, provide teaching opportunities for graduate students,and reduce faculty teaching loads for pursuing scholarly activities. This model was fullyimplemented in the fall of 2005. Traditionally, EngE faculty members taught the two credit hour Page 11.943.2introduction to engineering classes similar to EngE1024 twice a week for fifty minutes each in atraditional classroom of about thirty seats. With the new model, the course had eight largeweekly lecture sessions with 150-170 students in each section and taught by a faculty memberfor fifty minutes
works with the technology teacher education program in the department and teaches courses in pedagogy. He has extensive international experience working on technical training projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of Labor, USAID. Countries he has worked include Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, and Thailand. Page 11.1180.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Supporting K-12 Teacher Professional Development through the National Center for Engineering and Technology EducationIntroduction William Wulf [1], president of the
relatively recent invention, theFaraday Flashlight, is an excellent example of the intricate web that is woven between science,engineering, and technology. This paper will illustrate the differences and similarities amongscience, engineering and technology using the Faraday Flashlight as a teaching tool. Anexperiment using an array of inexpensive equipment, well within the budget of any program, ispresented. This exercise requires no prerequisite math or science. The history of the sciencenecessary for the Faraday Flashlight and the engineering and technical developments required tomake this invention a reality are discussed. Microsoft Excel is used to analyze and plot data.The students are introduced to the fundamental KSAs (Knowledge, Skills, and
and points were awarded weekly.ENGR 110 met for approximately 5.5 hours weekly, 3.6 of which were devoted all semester longto supplemental math instruction, primarily through the use of a web-based tutorial program,ALEKS (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces). This web-based program wasdeveloped and implemented as an assessment and teaching system based on Knowledge SpaceTheory; see for example, Falmagne, et al.5 Developed at the University of California, Irvine andsupported initially by the National Science Foundation, ALEKS offers individualizedmathematics tutoring that identifies what the individual student already knows, via assessmenttechnology, and what is ready to be learned. Based on the results obtained from Carpenter etal.,2
all become part of theFaculty member’s responsibilities: those specific things that bring a bi-weekly check. We mustadd to this an activity that supports both the student and society. Come hell or high water, wemust develop a grade for each student!Let’s say that Ole State is an undergraduate-only comprehensive institution offering a number ofABET-accredited Engineering courses. Without support from graduate programs (there aren’tany), the faculty assumes execution of all aspects of support for the teaching activity. A fullteaching load at Ole State usually involves teaching three sections, each scheduled at threecontact hours per week. Laboratory courses are independent and carry a different load allocation.Teaching Faculty members must
: contemporary issues of engineering education in general, and those of the Middle East and the Arab Gulf States in particular. Page 11.308.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Case Studies in Geotechnical/Foundation Engineering: Engaging Students and Bringing the Practice into the ClassroomIntroductionLecturing or “teaching by telling” is the traditional and the most widely used form of instructionin most engineering institutions. The major drawback of the lecture approach is that it usuallyresults in long periods of uninterrupted instructor-centered, expository discourse, relegatingstudents to the role
2006-2344: A POWER SYSTEMS ANALYSIS PROJECTTimothy Skvarenina, Purdue University Dr. Skvarenina received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. He served 21 years in the U.S. Air Force, in a variety of engineering and teaching positions. In the fall of 1991, he joined the faculty of the College of Technology at Purdue University where he currently holds the rank of Professor and teaches undergraduate courses in electrical machines and power systems and serves as the department assessment coordinator. He has authored or coauthored over 30 papers in the areas of power systems, pulsed power systems
. He teaches a course in Internal Combustion Engines that emphasizes mathematical modeling of thermophysical systems. He also teaches a senior laboratory course that introduces principles of experiment design and small-sample statistics. Dan’s doctoral research involves use of catalytic ignitors to support combustion of water/ethanol fuel. Dan also manages the UI Small Engine Research Facility – helping students with the FutureTruck, Formula SAE, and Clean Snowmobile Challenge competitions. He received a UTC Student of the Year award in 2003 for his efforts. Page 11.12.1Marie Racine, University of
elective(s) in unit operations could be Table 1: Suggested Traditional Chemical Engineering Curriculum Required Subjects Basic Sciences basic skills/freshman class math material and energy balances chemistry thermodynamics physics fluid mechanics biology heat transfer mass transfer/separations Possible Electives transport phenomena§ safety reaction engineering biochemical engineering control materials/polymers unit operations laboratory class(es
and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. His teaching interests are vibrations, CAD/CAM/CAE, and engineering design. Research interests include engineering education pedagogy and use of computer-aided engineering applications for design. Page 11.397.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Design and Implementation of a Probe Station as a Capstone ProjectAbstractA probe station is an essential piece of equipment used in semiconductor wafer testing. Itprovides a platform for the
2006-2500: PREPARING FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: A GRASS-ROOTSAPPROACH TO ENHANCING K-12 EDUCATIONKenneth Hunter, Tennessee Technological University Kenneth Hunter is currently Associate Professor of Basic Engineering at Tennessee Technological University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University. He has over 30 years of engineering experience, including positions in academia, industry, the United States Army, a government laboratory, and his own consulting business. He is a licensed P.E. in the State of Tennessee.Jessica Matson, Tennessee Technological University Jessica Matson is currently Professor and Chair of the Industrial and
. Page 11.974.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Open Source Software and Live Linux CDs: Elements of Successful Lab ModulesIntroductionIn addition to the intellectual effort, hands-on lab development can require substantial budget,labor, and laboratory resources. Often, commercial software can require a significant budgetcommitment. At the same time, system configuration and software installation can also require asignificant labor commitment. In many colleges, incorporating laboratory activities into a classnecessitates the dedication of a physical room to a single course section. In many environments,obtaining the necessary budget, labor, and room resources for hands-on lab modules
f. an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility h. the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context j. a knowledge of contemporary issuesare directly related to the issues proposed in this paper.22Incorporating international development within a service learning context in the engineeringcurriculum provides a learning/teaching paradigm by which engineering programs candemonstrate they are addressing ABET Criteria 3c, 3f, 3h, and 3j. Civil, systems, environmental,agricultural and power engineering programs are engineering majors most suited to address theseissues. However, chemical, biomedical, electrical and
. Page 11.239.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Assessing Student Comprehension in a Windows 2003 Server Project Through the Use of a PortfolioAbstractLike many subjects, the teaching of Windows 2003 server can be filled with rich detail andinformation that can be quickly lost by the student without proper reinforcement. In the past,hands-on instruction of computer servers has been done with step-by-step laboratories. Theselaboratories act as a “cookbook” for the student as they process each step of the recipe. Studentsusing these “cookbook” methods concentrate more on completing the required steps thanactually synthesizing the learned information. This paper discusses the use of portfolios in aWindows
Bridge Decks”, Intl. SAMPE Technical Conf., p. 2903 (2004).10. K. C. Chen, B. London, L. Vanasupa, T.T Orling, and L. Christensen, “Travelogue from the Materials World: A First Week Laboratory Activity”, ASEE Annual Conf. Proc., 3664 (2004).11. W. D. Callister, Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering: 6th Edition, John Wiley and Sons, (2001).12. PRIME website: http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/sgleixner/PRIME/13. M. Alley, M. Schreiber, and J. Muffo, “Pilot Testing of a New Design for Presentation Slides to Teach Science and Engineering,” 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conf., T1A-1 (2005).14. S. Krause, J.L. Decker, J.L. Niska, T.L. Alford, and R. Griffin, “Identifying Student
Stanford (d.school), an initiative lead by Professor David Kelley (co-Founder of IDEO Product Development). He has published in the areas of diagnostic electro-physiology, functional assessment of voluntary movement, human operator information processing, rehabilitation© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 robotics, design team protocol analysis, design knowledge management, and concurrent engineering. A member of the Stanford faculty since 1976, he taught product design, created the smart product design (mechatronics) curriculum at Stanford, and most recently teaches a graduate course in "Team-Based Design Innovation with Corporate Partners"; a Design Theory and
identify the program as a highlight of their freshman year, both academically andsocially, and they report that it has had a strong impact both on the work they choose to do asupperclassmen and on the way in which they do it. (2006 is the first year in which a Terrascopeclass will graduate, so we do not yet have any data on post-graduation activity.)The authors of this paper include a co-director of ESI/Terrascope (Hodges), faculty responsiblefor teaching the Terrascope classes (Bras, Epstein and Hodges) and an associate director ofMIT’s Teaching and Learning Laboratory (Lipson) who has been conducting research on thesocial and educational outcomes of Terrascope and its MIT antecedents since before theprogram’s formal inception. The program is
), accessed January 2006.8. Thompson, E. “Project for Signal Processing Course,” Department of Engineering, Indiana University Purdue University - Fort Wayne, Personal Communication (2005).9. Moor, S, “Case Study: Renovating a Computer Teaching Laboratory for Active and Cooperative Learning,” ASEE 2006 Illinois-Indiana and North Central Joint Section Conference, (Fort Wayne, IN).10. Moor, S. “Music in MATLAB,” http://www.engr.ipfw.edu/~moor/music/.11. Peterson, M., “Resources to accompany Musical Analysis and Synthesis in MATLAB,” http://amath.colorado.edu/pub/matlab/music/, November 2005, accessed January 2006.12. University of Jyväskylä, “MIDI Toolbox contents,” http://www.jyu.fi/musica/miditoolbox/index.html, ©2004
the ASEE Meryl K. Miller Award in 1994.Susan Scachitti, Purdue University-Calumet Susan is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering Technology at Purdue University Calumet. She holds degrees in Industrial Engineering Technology from the University of Dayton and a MBA in Management from North Central College. She teaches TQM and consults in the area of continuous improvement. Sue is past chair of the IE Division of ASEE and formerly served as division chair, program chair, newsletter editor, and treasurer. She has served as a TAC/ABET commissioner since 2003 and program accreditation evaluator since 2001. This year she is a TAC alternate commissioner representing IIE.Lash Mapa
2006-62: HUMANITARIAN DESIGN PROJECTS: HELPING CHILDREN WITHCEREBRAL PALSYCraig Somerton, Michigan State University CRAIG W. SOMERTON Craig W. Somerton is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He teaches in the area of thermal engineering including thermodynamics, heat transfer, and thermal design. Dr. Somerton has research interests in computer design of thermal systems, transport phenomena in porous media, and application of continuous quality improvement principles to engineering education. He received his B.S. in 1976, his M.S. in 1979, and his Ph.D. in 1982, all in engineering from UCLA.Brian
, Old Dominion University Richard Jones has been teaching at ODU since 1994. He is a retired United States Navy Submarine Service Lt. Commander with sub-specialties in Ballistic Missile, Torpedo, Sonar, and Radio systems. Richard has previously taught Mechanical Engineering Design at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., and Electrical Engineering at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. He holds an ASEET from Cameron University, a BSEET from Oklahoma State University, and a Master of Engineering in Electronics Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California.William Stanley, Old Dominion University William D. Stanley, Eminent
.IntroductionSeveral different avenues currently exist to augment the education of undergraduate studentswithin the private sector. Internships and co-operative agreements are two of the more commoninteractions that provide students a preliminary look at the world they will be working in aftergraduation. However, these avenues do little to provide young, energetic and capable men andwomen the opportunity to experience the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship, especiallyin small start-up environments. To address this issue, several institutions have begun offeringcoursework designed to introduce students to entrepreneurial concepts.1,2 However, whilecoursework is a good start, to effectively teach entrepreneurship to students the private sectormust
2006-836: A MANUFACTURING PROCESSES COURSE WITH A MIXEDLEARNING COMMUNITY AND NON-LEARNING COMMUNITY AUDIENCE:QUANTITATIVE RESULTSMario Castro-Cedeno, Rochester Institute of Technology Mario H. Castro-Cedeno is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology and Packaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY. He teaches courses in introduction to manufacturing, materials technology and computer aided design to engineering technology undergraduates. Before joining RIT in December of 2003 he accumulated 30 years of engineering and management experience at various firms, including NASA and General Electric. Mr
2006-1671: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IN CLASSROOMENVIRONMENTFarid Farahmand, Central Connecticut State University F. Farahmand is currently with the Computer Electronics and Graphics Technology department at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT. He is a recent Ph.D. graduate from the University of Texas at Dallas. He has several years of teaching and industry experience combined with research background in optical and sensor networks.Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma, Central Connecticut State University V. Rajaravivarma is currently with the Computer Electronics and Graphics Technology department at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT. Previously, he was with
Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South Dakota State University, in Brookings, SD, where he has been instrumental in developing an internationally competitive value-added food and bioprocessing research program. He has been involved in teaching several undergraduate and graduate courses in food and bioprocess engineering for the last nine years. He was formerly a Research Associate in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Page 11.278.1© American Society for Engineering
year-long design course. This courseplays the critical role of keeping students engaged in engineering while giving them experiencesthat have been shown to promote retention (see discussion below under “Utilization of BestPractices”).Each year of the curriculum has themes that we plan to emphasize. These are shown in Figure 2.In the first two years, we emphasize engineering basics and systems thinking. Two courses inthe sophomore year have been added to promote these themes and two existing laboratories wereadjusted. The two sophomore-level courses are Materials Selection for the Life Cycle, andNanotechnology, Biology, Ethics and Society. Both courses emphasize systems thinking, thefirst in the design process, the second through articulating
Committee, US government, and eight foreign nations.Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Stephen Williams is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri in 1990 and has 20 years of experience across the corporate, government, and university sectors. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Wisconsin. He teaches courses in control systems, electronic design, and electromechanics.Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Mossbrucker is Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering
incorporate feedback from this teaching of the courseand from the follow-on project to improve students' application and written communication ofparametric design techniques.1 J. A. Newell, D. K. Ludlow, and S. P. K. Sternberg, "Progressive development of oral and written communicationskills across and integrated laboratory sequence," Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 31, pp. 116-119, 1997. Page 11.281.122 D. K. Ludlow and K. H. Schulz, "Writing across the chemical engineering curriculum at the University of NorthDakota," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, pp. 161, 1994.3 N. Van Orden, "Is writing an effective way to learn
connection. For instance,hundreds of Java simulations were created at the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)Virtual Physics Laboratory. Many physics teachers use these Java simulations in their teaching. Holliday from the Western Carolina University recently implemented few Java Applets thatillustrate some of important concept of network by using animation. The applets and accompany-ing materials addresses four network concepts: packet encapsulation, packet fragmentation, errorcontrol and media access. All these applets has been applied to the class of computer network. Butthe AQM concept is not mentioned in this paper [10]. 33 Network simulation modelOur simulation package is based on the