: National Academies Press.3. Fortus, D., Dershimer, R. C., Krajcik, J. S., Marx, R. W., & Mamlok-Naaman, R. (2004). Design-based scienceand student learning. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 41(10), 1081-1110.4. Kolodner, J. L., Camp, P. J., Crismond, D., Fasse, B., Gray, J., Holbrook, J., et al. (2003). Problem-based learningmeets case-based reasoning in the middle-school science classroom: Putting Learning by Design (TM) into practice.Journal of the Learning Sciences, 12(4), 495-547.5. Sadler, P. M., Coyle, H. P., & Schwartz, M. (2000). Engineering competitions in the middle school classroom:Key elements in developing effective design challenges. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 9(3), 299-327.6. Bain, A., Parker, R. (2006
t andManufacturing Proceesses coursess within the engineering curriculum with an empphasis on theeformer coourse. A pro oject-based learning l (PBBL) approachh was incorpporated into the t New ProoductDevelopm ment course through a reeal-world meedical devicee project andd local entreepreneurs serrvingas judgess in the assesssment of finnal projects. The coursee was redesiggned to provide acombinattion of lecturres, case stuudies, guest speakers, s andd a hands-onn final team project p thatrequired the design and a developm
software on their own, building upon the foundation of the software thatthey had previously obtained through their structural engineering courses.During the early stages of the modeling of the pedestrian bridge, the group found themselvescoming across a problem of accurately designing the cable members which support the concretedeck. After a series of unsuccessful attempts at accurately modeling the cables, the group beganto search SAP2000’s documentation in hopes of determining a method to solve this problem. Inthe SAP2000’s reference manual, the group found a tip stating that one could substitute a straightline object (i.e. an angle member) in place of a cable5. The documentation stated that this couldbe done when only the effects of the cables
studentsinvolved remain highly motivated to continue their engineering educations, are more engaged inthe classroom, and have achieved better results in their engineering classes than their peers. Page 15.435.11References1. B. F. Spencer Jr., S. J. Dyke, H. S. Deoskar. "Benchmark Problems in Structural Control - PartI: Active Mass Driver System." Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 1998: 1127-1139.2. K. D. Pham, G. Jin, M. K. Sain, B. F. Spencer, Jr., and S. R. Liberty. "Generalized LQGTechniques for the Wind Benchmark Problem." Special Issue of ASCE Journal of EngineeringMechanics on the Structural Control Benchmark Problem, 2004
calculated for further assembly efficiency improvement. Table 6 – Recognize and Identify insertion difficulties: Assembly part Problem(s) Solution(s) – Redesign recommendation(s)Screw (10×5) down assembly Obstructed access and restricted vision Eliminate 4 screws and use snap fit feature Table 7 – Recognize and Identify handling difficulties: Easy
science and engineering research and education. In many ways, S&T government agencies’ focus areas are aligned with corporate labs’ research focus in that both sponsor and engage "where discoveries begin." Many S&T Government entities’ programs not only provide opportunities to discover and develop new technologies, but also provide a vehicle to transfer these technologies for new business creation that stimulate technological innovation and new business creation in the private sector. These programs strengthen the role of small business concerns in meeting national/regional research and development needs, increase the commercial application of supported research results, and foster and encourage participation by
underrepresented group’s peaked-in percentage terms-in 1999-2000 (11.6%), and have drifted downward ever since, reports the NationalAction Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME). Currently, AfricanAmerican, Latino and American Indian only make up 11.3% of the engineeringundergraduate degrees. These same race/ethnic groups are projected to make up 33.9%of the U.S. population graduating from high school in 2014. Engineering degreesawarded to women have followed a similar trajectory-growth through the 1990’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).Our university is seeking to help underrepresented students overcome the barriers
daily wind speed was measured to be 5-6m/s,peaking from 9 a.m.-6 p.m8. The challenge was not only to design the most efficient wind energysystem but one that had enough storage capacity to maintain the house during peak energyconsumption hours when no wind was available.After obtaining all the necessary data HOMER, general-purpose hybrid system sizing andsimulation software, was used to identify the best system to supply electricity to the home basedon hourly performance simulations8. It was determined a 10 kW Jacob 23-10 wind turbine wasthe most efficient renewable wind energy system for the house. According to HOMER, a Jacob23-10 wind turbine would be able to support the energy needs of the home, and depending on theavailable wind energy, it
authors gratefully acknowledge support for this project from the National ScienceFoundation (DUE No. 0837637 [18]), and the MathWorks Inc. This work is neither endorsed nor Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova Universitymaintained by the LEGO group. MindStorms, NXT and LEGO are trademarks of the LEGOgroup. Please direct all enquiries to the authors.Bibliography 1. L. Greenwald, and D. Artz, “Teaching artificial intelligence with low cost robots,” In Accessible hands-on artificial intelligence and robotics education, ed. L. Greenwald, Z. Dodds, A. Howard, S. Tejada, and J. Weinberg, pp. 35-41. Technical Report SS-04-01. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, (2004). 2. S. Coradeschi and J
practice aftergraduation.References[1] Dinehart, D., Yost, J., Gross, S., Radlinska, A. The role of structural engineering in multi-disciplinary freshman projects. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2010.[2] Comolli, N., Kelly, W., Wu, Q. The artificial kidney: investigating current dialysis methods as a freshman design project. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2010.[3] Caverly, R., Fulmer, H., Santhanam, S., Singh, P., O’Brien, J., Jones, G., Char, E., Mercede, F., Weinstein, R., Yost, J. Project-Based Freshman Engineering Experience: The Core Course American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &
obtained, has always been a challenge. They tend to think of components that are too simple to analyze. Therefore more guidelines have been provided on how to select an appropriate component for the project that addresses all CLOs. Where necessary, an engineering component has been selected for them to work on.As a side note to this, few students always creatively think of a common project topic thataddresses different aspects and requirements to satisfy another course(s) they take during thesame term, for example, a senior capstone design course or another ME elective course such asfailure considerations in design or failure analysis courses. This is a highly desirable as itprovides a total learning experience for the
encouraging and fostering new technical development, and the engineeringeducation community needs to evaluate its role in this process6.There are many recently documented examples of electric vehicle applications withinengineering education. Three course experiences on instrumentation, electric vehicles andproject activities were reported by Rizkalla et al7,8,9. A summary of the outcomes from thesethree experiences are that the students were very satisfied, learned technical content not coveredin other courses, and felt that the course helped prepare them for the real world of engineering.From an instructor viewpoint the course(s) relied heavily on industrial cooperation, and includedhands-on experiences. The authors also noted that an industrial
finalvelocity was a maximum at the point of impact with the water (and could be calculated using the constant acceleration equations ifthe falling distance or falling time was known).In physics, the term momentum (a vector) is used to describe “mass in motion.” Momentum can be found from: p = m × v,with units of kg-m/s. This looks a lot like a Newton, doesn’t it? We know that 1 N is equivalent to 1 kg-m/s2. Read on to see theconnection … When the eggs fell, their momentum changed from a zero initial value (pi = 0) to some final value (pf). Again, wecould calculate vf if we knew the falling distance or time. We could write this change in momentum as
and the company/agency that offers it. The student must researchthe host company and write a single page summary of the company, size, location(s),employment, and main products and services. In addition, a literature and database searchshould identify recent activities of the company, including current business, technical and legalsuccesses/problems. This activity prepares the students to be more active in a subsequent mockinterview with the course instructor.We position the resume/corporate profile and mock interview writing assignments early in thesemester, so they aid students preparing for the Engineering Career Fair as well as corporateinterviewing on campus for summer intern, co-op, and permanent positions
States is becoming more diverse 6, globalization hasmade it disadvantageous to continue to foster inequality of educational opportunity along ethniclines. A hazardous cycle has been created, reinforcing the idea that African American studentsare better suited for manual than for academic pursuits. The National Academy of Engineering(NAE), an honorific organization of engineers that advises the government on issues concerningengineering, states that “if the U. S. is to maintain economic leadership and be able to sustain itsshare of high-technology jobs, it must prepare for a new wave of change”7. This new wave ofchange refers to the education of more minority students in engineering as the minoritypopulation increases in order to ensure global
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embedded in the signal transmittedfrom an antenna array. In this scheme, each mobile node with an omni-directional, single-element antenna estimates the AOT based on one (or more than one) signature signal(s)transmitted from the fixed node equipped with an antenna array. The mobile node then furtherestimates its distance from the fixed node based on the RSS of the signature signal to ultimatelybe able to pin-point its location in the polar coordinates where the fixed node is assumed to be atthe origin. Page 15.868.2Although our work on a prototype of an indoor positioning system exploiting AOT will need tobe continued to the next stage, up to the
students. Paper presented at the 30th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. Kansas City, MO.4. Gadia V., R. Patel, S. Roy, R. Singh, N. Venkatesh, S. Lunagaria, and B.E. Layton. 2005. An educational model of an atomic force microscope. The Nanotechnology Group 4(7): 1-8.5. Gadia, V. S. Roy, N. Venkatesh, S. Lunagaria, R. Patel, and B.E. Layton. 2005. Towards nanotechnology for all. News from the Bottom 1(2): 1-7.6. Layton, B.E., L. Jablonowski, R. Kirby, and N. Lampe. 2007. Bicycle infrastructure development strategy for suburban commuting. ASME Insternational Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Seattle, WA.7. Edzan, N.N. 2007. Tracing information literacy of computer science undergraduates: A content
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remarkablein any country seeking to industrialize. But in China, it carried special force”. However, when we think of innovation, are we overlooking something, is it justinnovation in the narrow context of new inventions? If we accept the broader definitionof innovation, “…act or process of inventing or introducing something new”, we reallymay be on to something. In other words we don’t have to invent a new widget to beinnovative, we might simply improve (optimize) the widget’s design, performance,durability, and manufacturing process. Many manufacturing processes have changed verylittle since the mid 1900’s. While there have been significant advances in manufacturing,most of the focus has been on process automation, Information Technology (IT
. Page 15.1205.6The Design Project The students are able to apply their newly gained engineering theory and organphysiology to participate in hands-on experiments throughout the course. Early on, they wereexposed to a simple pumping system in which they could take pressure and flow measurements,and apply their newly acquired fluid dynamics knowledge. Throughout the course, the studentsgained valuable group work and laboratory experience when they analyzed and designed theirown kidney-dialysis systems. The project given to the students was in three parts, as follows: 1. Students will design and build their own dialysis circuit, with the goal of maximizing removal of salt from the blood (Kg/s) while removing < 5% of the liquid
12References1. Aleven, Vincent, McLaren, Bruce M., Koedinger, Kenneth R. (2006) Toward Computer- Based Tutoring of Help-Seeking Skills. In Karabenick, Stuart A. and Newman, Richard S. (Eds.), Help Seeking in Academic Settings Goals, Groups, and Contexts. (pp. 259- 296) Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum.2. Alexitch, Louise R. (2006) Help Seeking and the Role of Academic Advising in Higher Education. In Karabenick, Stuart A. and Newman, Richard S. (Eds.), Help Seeking in Academic Settings Goals, Groups, and Contexts. (pp. 175- 202)Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum.3. Amenkhienan, C. and Kogan, L. (2004) Engineering students' perceptions of academic activities and support services: factors that influence their academic
percentage difference between showing answers to 18 key questions associated with answers supplied by new engineers and supervisors, Boeing’s ‘Desired Attributes of an Engineer’ normalized by supervisor response score Table 1 Figure 3 Summary Supervisors (S) – New Engineers (NE) Both Agree - Attribute New Engineers Not – Need More Skills Adequate
the model to several independent study projectscompleted or on-going currently. Specifically, the model was used to evaluate 11 independentstudy projects that were authorized and completed during the 2008-2009 academic year, as wellas 8 independent study projects authorized and on-going during the 2009-2010 academic year.All independent study projects within the D-C&ME are executed under the requirements of acontract prepared collectively at the start of the academic year by the Cadets, faculty member(s)acting as the project advisor(s), and the course director responsible for oversight of allindependent study projects. The authors utilized only those contracts to evaluate the projectsusing the model. None of the authors were involved with
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Postdocs in S&E”. These data are collected from institutions(not individuals as the dataset name might imply), and often provided by the institutionalresearch office, the same entity that completes many institutional data reports, including the(IPEDS) Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System reports for the National Center forEducation Statistics (NCES). For the sake of simplicity, we present data separately by genderwithin three race-ethnicity and citizenship groups. The URM group consists of U.S. citizens andpermanent residents who were members of three underrepresented minority groups: AfricanAmericans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, and Hispanics. At NMSU, the vast majorityof URMs are of Hispanic descent with small numbers of
-Off Gross Weight (TOW).• Use a Wing Loading (W/S) from benchmarking, and find planform area S. Use airport gate or other commonsense constraints, or again benchmarking, to fix span, hence find aspect ratio.• For a selected cruise altitude and speed, find the lift and induced drag coefficients.• Guess a value for low speed zero-lift drag coefficient. Hence find total cruise drag, and speed for minimum drag. Find cruise L/D.• Starting with a thumb-rule (typically, that installed sea level static thrust is 30% of TOW, and that the plane must take off with 1 engine out), select a suitable engine and number of engines.• For the selected engine, find thrust-specific fuel consumption from published data, and estimate thrust at
variety. That variety is based on the fundamental difference in philosophy as to whetheryear 1 has common content for all branches of engineering or discipline specific programs begin inyear 1. For the former, many imaginative ways have been introduced to allow students to gain an Page 15.658.2understanding of the uniqueness of the disciplines.This summary considers eight options (with the school code in brackets for the school using thisoption): 1. Common year 1 with no engineering exposure through courses; basic math and sciences, 0% of responders 2. Common year 1 with required common engineering course(s) with no explicit
AC 2010-1351: STUDENTS AS THE KEY TO UNLEASHING STUDENTENGAGEMENT: THE THEORY, DESIGN, & LAUNCH OF A SCALABLE,STUDENT-RUN LEARNING COMMUNITY AT XXRussell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Russell Korte is an assistant professor in Human Resource Education and a Fellow with the iFoundry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.David Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana David E. Goldberg is Jerry S. Dobrovolny Distinguished Professor in Entrepreneurial Engineering and Co-Director of the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education. He is author of Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning (Addision-Wesley, 1989) and The