the Kinect in this approach were studied. Then, a technique for thesimultaneous tracking and reconstruction (STAR) of objects was developed and tested. Thistechnique was inspired by the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) approach, and itwas implemented using the Kinect and an iRobot Create platform. The prototype implementationshows that this STAR technique is feasible and suitable to be used in educational roboticslaboratories. This technique also has multiple advantages compared to traditional educationallaboratories, such as lower cost, more straightforward setup and less required preparation work bythe laboratory instructor.1. IntroductionInterest in robotics has increased tremendously over the past decade. Along with the
structural changes governing plastic deformation innanoscale specimens and their inability to use this knowledge to predict behavior of othermaterials. There are also common misconceptions concerning the relationship between elasticand plastic strain before and after yielding, as the elastic strain continues to increase afteryielding for a material that work hardens.Shown in Figure 1 are examples of tensile stress-strain curves for ductile metals corresponding tomacro-scale and nano-scale specimens. The two curves shown in Figure 1a contain all thefeatures taught in a traditional tensile testing laboratory including the definitions of Young’sModulus, yield stress, ultimate tensile stress (UTS), and percent elongation8. These curves aredominated by
ImpactFrom the administrative side, WeBWorK uses resources efficiently. WeBWorK implementationrequires modest physical resources, and it is relatively simple to keep up to date over time. Onceproblem sets are implemented, it is easy to use them 1) between different sections of a course, 2)with different teachers, 3) for an indefinite period of time, 4) even with changes in textbooks.That is, once problem sets are created, it is not necessary to update the sets from one term or yearto the next or when a publishing company releases a new edition of a textbook. Instructors alsohave the flexibility to change textbooks entirely without the need to entirely recreate theircourse's homework sets. In this situation, usually only a reordering or regrouping of
different sections. The dataobtained for each question was analyzed using a basic excel spread sheet. The following surveyquestions (Q) were analyzed for this report.Q1. Have you taken Engineering Physics 2 or an equivalent course (electricity and magnetism) Page 26.256.3in the past? (Circle one) [Yes] [No]. 3Q2. Have you taken any other electrical eircuit related or equivalent course in the past? (Circleone) [Yes] [No].Q3. Rate in 5 (high) to 1 (low) scale, how much your previous physics background helps you tounderstand the electrical circuit concepts
enhance thecultural experience7, and utilize graduate students in active mentorship of visiting students.In the School of Engineering Technology capstone projects are one of the most effective avenues tosynthesize an engineer’s education and therefore present themselves as an opportunity to insert globalawareness. Accreditation bodies including ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology)require such an experience in the curriculum particularly in (h) the broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal contextand “j”: “a knowledge of the impact of engineering technology solutions in a societal and globalcontext.”1 In the School of Engineering Technology, a
involves more disagreements, ifnot arguments. Next, in addition to the peer-peer interactions among team members, everyonemust now interact with a variety of Information and Communication Technologies, which serveas the means and mediator to link members physically located in different places of the globe.Last but not least, some team activities (e.g., team meeting, social gathering) that can be easilyorganized by local teams become very difficult, if not impossible, for the global teams undermore boundaries and constraints (e.g., time difference, geographical separation). In the past, thestudy of distributed teams has been approached from both social dimension (e.g., organizationalscience [1] and psychology [2]) and engineering dimension (e.g
structure their lectures to accommodate to the students’ mathematics preparedness thatmight be varying from year to year.The test comprises about a dozen problems that have to be solved without the help of pocketcalculators. They cover essentially standard high school mathematics problems, supplementedby a few questions that go beyond the average high school mathematics curricula.Some typical tasks are: 1 1 − x y • Basic algebra: Simplify a compound fraction like y 1
experiments. These experiments not onlyimproved learning of the topics by applying the theory to realistic engineering systems1, theexperiments also served as a point of comparison for the computational models that manystudents cited as typically lacking and the reason they failed to take the necessary steps tocalibrate the models in previous assignments.In order to expose students to the challenges of accurate foundation modeling, students wereasked to determine the appropriate boundary conditions for following three structures:1) A campus structure with a braced frame lateral system founded on embedded concrete pillars.2) An off-campus podium slab structure with concrete columns founded on grade beams. Theslab supports an office building currently
- versity, Campus Monterrey. Finally, she has worked in the industry in the sector of Telecommunications performing engineering design and implementation on wireless networks. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Fis-Mat Integrated Physics and Mathematics: A proposal for a curricular sequenceAbstractThis proposal is a project in an early stage. The curricular sequence consists of designing andimplementing three integrated courses of Physics and Mathematics corresponding to the firstthree university courses for those disciplines. The first integrated course, Fis-Mat 1 (short forPhysics and Mathematics in Spanish), combines the first course of Physics and
Science technicalcontent, but also specific learning goals necessary for professional practice: design, creativity,teamwork, communication, lifelong learning, information literacy, environmental impact, andsocietal impact. An emphasis was placed on higher order thinking skills. The course goals aregiven in Table 1. Table 1. Course Goals Goal description Abbreviated name 1 Relate material composition and processing methods to structure and properties, Structure, processing, and in turn to the performance of the major classes of materials (metals, properties, performance ceramics, polymers
university engi- neering research team should apply to select a project from a firm to enhance its research capacity and diversify its engineering programs as well. Keywords: Stock of Knowledge, Cooperative Game, Noncooperative Game, Economic Network, Optimization.Date: May, 2016. 12 J. ZHANG, Y. LU, Z. XIE, D. HAILE, K. WILLIAMSON 1. Introduction In the current global knowledge-and-technology intensive marketplace, the Re-search and Development (R&D) department plays a vital role in the developmentof a firm or an industry. During the last decade, we have seen a rapid increase inthe research of R&D collaboration in econometric
of position, velocity, andacceleration functions in terms of derivatives and integrals.For 19 years students in the introductory calculus-based physics course at the University ofDetroit Mercy were assessed using a variation of a problem introduced by Arons 1 in Part II of histext. In a previous work on using operational definitions, we examined the results of thisassessment for 8 sections of the introductory course. In this paper we extend the work anddisaggregate the student population by gender. We provide students a chance to cooperativelycorrect examinations. We believe this practice improves student learning and has implicationsfor the administration of fair and equitable assessments of that learning.Student populationThe University of
that the level of greenawareness and consciousness within a construction company is a critical criterion to be borne inmind when selecting a cooperative partner to maximize the long-term benefits achieved by agreen construction project, as shown in Table 1. The path that leads to high quality greenconstruction starts with the individual construction workers’ awareness of the importance ofgreen construction and environmental protection and adopts a bottom-up mechanism known asthe “green push” to root this awareness deeply in all the construction stakeholders. Liu (2011)also emphasized the importance of green construction education and training and reported that itis directly related to the level of awareness and consciousness of green
educatorexpectations.Project delivery methods in constructionTo appreciate the inherent dynamics of IPD, a description between the IPD and TraditionalProject Delivery (TPD) method is presented. The traditional project delivery method includesdesign-bid-build, design-build and construction management at-risk methods [1]. The TPDmethod has clear separation of relationships among owner, contractors and designers. There is nodirect contractual relationship between the designer and the contractor, but an indirectrelationship exists because the designer is acting as the agent of the owner for the project [1].The TPD model differentiates one party from another and therefore, causes polar interests. Forthe owner, separation of interests encumbers the project’s goals and
the foundation was laid for a furtherphase of expansion and detailed research into student gains.IntroductionThere is variety of professional development programs designed to promote interest in STEMfields and to give educators valuable teaching tools. As an example, the ASM MaterialsEducation Foundation (ASM) has offered week-long summer camps to introduce elementary(grade 5 and above) and high school teachers to materials science through hands-on activitiesand experiments [1, 2]. Materials science is attractive because it is a very accessible and hands-on science and can act as a unifier in typically disjointed physical science courses. While thesecamps successfully give educators many valuable tools, they are not designed to
framework.In the second stage of this work3, the authors began to explore ways to add reflective thinkingand adapt the EFFECTs framework into the math classroom, Math-EFFECTs. The approachincorporated physical applications, geometry-based problems, and estimation techniques intosolution processes to contribute to the “does this answer make sense” aspect of critical thinking.These Math-EFFECTs modules were proposed for courses that still had flexible contentrequirements that allowed for more free form, less time constrained exploration. Studentsreported more enjoyment in learning and that their feelings of creativity in using mathematicshad increased significantly as they (1) completed realistically modeled problems and (2) weregiven the opportunity to
field; to apply and integrate knowledge from each of the above four elementsof the field using experimental, computational and statistical methods to solve materialsproblems including selection and design.”1 Yet, for students beginning their studies in Materials,this integrated understanding is difficult to achieve; achieving an understanding of how newconcepts and methods connect to each other can be a challenge that delays their overallunderstanding of Materials Engineering as a discipline. As they struggle to understand therelationship between any material’s properties and the chemical and molecular structure thatgives rise to those properties, they can often lose sight of the contexts in which the materials’properties matter, the patterns
that remain as well as new challenges that arise as each collaboration continuesto evolve will be discussed.IntroductionThere has been an explosive growth in multinational collaborations in higher educationrecently, with a number of UK universities engaged in programmes around the world. Therewere approximately 571,000 students outside of the UK, enrolled in a degree programmeawarded by a UK higher education institution (HEI)1. More than 50 UK universities havepartnerships in Singapore with over 52,000 students enrolled in undergraduate andpostgraduate degree programme2. UK HEIs are similarly active in transnational education(TNE) in China. Slightly more than 25% of all Sino-foreign undergraduate programmesinvolved a UK HEI as of 20133.The
affordability of homes that combine energy-efficiency with solar energy systems.One of the initiating reasons for the development of the Solar Decathlon was to “demonstratemarket-ready technologies that can meet the energy requirements of our activities by tapping intothe sun’s power.” 1 Unfortunately, due to the scoring rubrics for the competition, the affordabilityaspect of the competition was often given only superficial consideration. In 2015 the houses inthe Solar Decathlon competition averaged $287,000 (for houses that were less than 1000 squarefeet) with the winning house costing $290,776 ($291 per square foot). The most affordable housein the 2015 solar decathlon competition was a 680 square foot house that cost $176 per squarefoot.2The 2013
Paper ID #15903Using Card Games for Conditional Probability, Explaining Gamma vs. Pois-son Distributions, and Weighing Central Limit TheoryDr. Roes Arief Budiman P.Eng., University of Calgary Received PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at University of Toronto in 2001. Currently a Senior Instructor at University of Calgary and have been teaching Probability & Statistics for Engineers course in the past three years. Maintain a small research group (1 PhD, 1 MEng) on pipeline failure and reliability. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 USING CARD GAMES FOR CONDITIONAL
“PETE”,displaying the familiar #1 recycling code on the base of the cup.1 Plastic cups are typicallyprocessed by a molding method known as thermoforming, in which a thin sheet of PETE isheated and expanded into a cup-shaped mold cavity by either applying a vacuum or mechanicalpressure.2 This processes causes significant stretching of the sheet, as shown in Figure 1. Theshape is then cooled, released from the mold, and trimmed from the sheet, forming a stand-alone,solid plastic cup. Figure 1: Side-view schematic illustrating the three basic steps in a mechanical thermoforming process used to make a cup from a hot plastic sheet.As described in a recent study3, the thermoforming-induced stretching of the PETE sheet to formthe cup’s
complexity of the discrete system exceeds a certainlimit, and a summary then closes the paper.Mass spring system and continuum limitTo better understand the physics of such a system it seems to be convenient to employ a one-dimensional system consisting of particles aligned in a straight line. The model can beimagined as beads mounted on a thin wire and connected to neighboring beads by springs(Figure 1).Figure 1: Schematic diagram of a one-dimensional coupled system of masses and springs.The particles have the masses mi and all the springs connecting the particles shall have equalspring constants k. If the equilibrium position of the ith particle is xi, then its position whendisturbed from equilibrium can be denoted xi + ui. In other words, ui(t
and Analysis of Control Systems course, and an undergraduate and graduate levelIntroduction to Mobile Robotics course. In Section IV we present post survey results collectedfrom the students and discuss potential improvements to be implemented in subsequent versionsof the platform. Finally, we present concluding remarks in Section V.II. Platform DesignIn an effort to create a low-cost experimental platform that could be used for multipleengineering courses, we decided to use recycled 0.25 inch plywood to create a reconfigurablebase chassis. The base chassis was designed by a team of 4 members including, 2 students (1undergraduate and 1 Ph.D. student), 1 research associate, and 1 teaching faculty.As part of the design constraints the platform
A Computer-Based Interactive Activity for Visualizing Crystal Structures in Introductory Materials Science CoursesAbstractThis paper presents and discusses an interactive classroom activity on visualizing the atomicarrangement of common crystal structures and planes. This two-part module is built upon theICAP framework [1], with students first completing an individual constructive activity, wherethey mentally visualize and manipulate crystal structures. The second part is an interactiveactivity in which students work together to view and manipulate crystal structures using OVITO,an open-source software tool. At the end of the exercise, students evaluate their previousindividual work using the solutions from the group. This
Cooperation in RunningSchools.1 In 2010, promoting international collaborations and introducing quality internationaleducation resources was stated in the National Long-term Education Reform and DevelopmentPlan.2At the same time, in anticipation of the impact of globalization on higher education, universitiesin the United States have been developing various forms of educational offerings in othercountries including China. Influence abroad for the country and international reputation for theinstitutions are the obvious benefits among others. The forms of US education abroad includebranch campus, partnership with a local Chinese university, distance education, and consultationto universities and governments.3It became natural for educational
for additional credit hoursas well as delay completion of their required courses, possibly resulting in a delayed graduationdate.This paper assesses an intervention designed to improve math learning and completion of the DEcourse: a flipped classroom. Flipped classrooms require that students watch lecture materialoutside of class, and actively work on problems during class time. This method combines active,problem-based learning activities with direct instruction methods, and is seen by many as ateaching method that results in higher student satisfaction, greater retention of knowledge, andincreased depth of knowledge [1].A review of flipped classroom research was performed by Bishop & Verleger in 2014 [2]. Theauthors assessed 24 studies
University School of Engineering incorporated the course, “IntroductoryMathematics for Engineering Applications,” to help with retention and because it fit theschool’s vision of offering all engineering classes in a class-lab format vs. separatelecture and lab courses. The primary goal of this class-lab format is to incorporate hands-on activities throughout the curriculum to integrate content and application.1 The schoolhas also limited class sizes to a maximum of 24 students.One faculty member taught the three-credit course the first year (2016) without ateaching assistant. There were two sections that met on Tuesdays and Thursdays for ~90minutes each. It was determined that this was not enough time to cover lecture notes,include labs, give exams
aerodynamicssuch as golf drivers, speed chutes, sailboats, golf ball, propellers, drones, delta wings, airplanes, etc.(goo.gl/1vJwGF). Coupled with an assessment technique where the students are required to integratehomework, projects, activities, lectures and independent studies on a single platform (portfolio), themodel promotes sustainable learning (long-term learning), communication skills, technical skills andcritical thinking skills in a way that a conventional lecture-based model wouldn’t. Multiple Likertscale assessments of the modules and qualitative feedback from the students will be shared in thispaper along with homework assignments and projects.1. Introduction At the University of Dayton, the subject of Aerodynamics is taught as a
for future iterations of this module and adaption to otherinstructors’ classrooms.INTRODUCTIONAs defined by Merriam-Webster, engineering is “the application of science and mathematics bywhich the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature are made useful to people” (1).The technical nature of this definition continues into the canon shaping the engineeringcurriculum. While engineering education has traditionally focused solely on the technicalskillset, there is a growing industry and academic demand for engineers who possess social andglobal values to better align with the changing industry (2) (3) (4) (5). Terminology such as‘socio-technical’ engineering is becoming more common, as is the blending of the social with
NextGeneration Science Standards and contained a strong emphasis on math and science literacy for21st century learners. Evaluation data was gathered through Student Feedback Survey. Topicsdiscussed in the paper will include implementation of K-12 Aerospace Academy program atECSU, program components, participant demographics, student activities, and projectevaluation.IntroductionOver the next ten years, more than half of all jobs will require some education beyond highschool [1]. While adopting the Common Core State Standards should lead to more college-readystudents over time, students will still need programmatic supports from secondary andpostsecondary educational institutions to better prepare them for a successful transition topostsecondary