AC 2009-1112: UNDERSTANDING AUTOMATED SYSTEM DESIGN PROBLEMSOLVING: CURRENT PROGRESS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTRUCTIONSheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (“Tony”) Hsieh is an Associate Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art
the Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory (HFEL). Dr. Khasawneh is a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and the Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFES), the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and Alpha Epsilon Lambda (AEL) and Alpha Pi Mu (APM) honor societies.Krishnaswami Srihari, State University of New York, Binghamton Dr. Krishnaswami Srihari is a Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York and the Chair of the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at the State University of New York, Binghamton. He has worked in academia since the Fall of 1988. Since then, he has graduated more than 150 Masters students and 30 doctoral students. His
, reinforces thegraphical connections between the various representations of the motion and connects to a largerproblem-solving framework.1 Brasell, H. “The Effect of Real-time Laboratory Graphing on Learning Graphic Representations of Distance andVelocity,” Journal of Research in Science Teaching 24, (1987).2 van Zee, E.H., Cole, A., Hogan, K., Oropeza, D. and Roberts, D. “Using Probeware and the Internet to EnhanceLearning,” Maryland Association of Science Teachers Rapper 25, (2000).3 Beichner, R. J., “The Effect of Simultaneous Motion Presentation and Graph Generation in a Kinematics Lab,”Journal of Research in Science Teaching 27, 803-815 (1990).4 Mokros, J. R. and Tinker, R. F. “The Impact of Microcomputer-Based Labs on Children’s Ability to
of Outcome 5, 100 students enrolled inRobotics Programming over three years. Fifty-four students enrolled in the first year alone, andwe have scheduled additional sections for next year, based upon student interest.Future WorkThe first stages in the development of an undergraduate multidisciplinary robotics certificatehave proven to be very successful and beneficial to the institution and the student body. In thefuture, the PIs will seek federal and corporate grants to expand the certificate programming toinsure institutionalization and long term sustainability. This funding will be used to develop orrevise courses in the curriculum and to develop an integrated robotics research laboratory. Thislaboratory will be directed by the PIs of the
AC 2009-750: EDUCATING GENERATION Y IN ROBOTICSDavid Chang, United States Military AcademyPeter Hanlon, United States Military AcademyKirk Ingold, United States Military AcademyRobert Rabb, United States Military Academy Page 14.510.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Educating Generation ‘Y’ In RoboticsAbstractWe present our approach to educating the new Generation ‘Y’ using robotics in undergraduateeducation. This course is a laboratory based education for life-long learners through a look at anew course for non engineering majors in the senior year. As the centerpiece of this course, weuse a robotics platform to integrate introductory
ofinvestigations that began when the statistics showed that the leading cause of death in frontalcollisions was the impact of the driver against the steering column.Main functions of an airbag:≠ Avoid impact of the driver or passenger against harsh elements of the vehicle (steeringwheel, dashboard, windshield, etc.).≠ Absorb part of the kinetic energy of the body.≠ To protect occupants from impact of crystals from the windshield.≠ Decrease the head movement and the risk of cervical lesions.However, airbags are installed in other areas of the modern cars as well.An airbag needs a sophisticated deployment system for its successful operation.According to the laboratory reports of the sponsor company, the airbag deployment system
theircomfort and understanding of financial data and that this is a weakness that we need tocorrect in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.Introduction:Students enrolled in our Master of Science degree in technology come from two distinct Page 14.861.2populations; about one-third are entering graduate school immediately after graduatingfrom their bachelor’s degree program while the other two-thirds are non-traditionalgraduate students who are working on their master’s degree while performing full-timeemployment in a technical field, many working in National Laboratories. Both studentpopulations understand that in addition to understanding the
expected that each individual instructor may attribute the same hypotheticalerror to different root error classes, there will at least be a consistent frame of reference for anindividual instructor.While error assessment was implemented successfully in a lecture-based thermodynamics,particularly in analyzing homework and exams, and with limited success for a lab-basedengineering materials course, it is anticipated that this methodology could be expanded toencompass assessment for laboratory reports, presentations, and group work. In the next section,future implementation plans are detailed along with anticipated challenges.Error Assessment in the Future: Proposed ImplementationError assessment was implemented successfully in a sophomore-level
industry and held a variety of management and engineering positions including Beta Test Manager for CAD software at Computervision Corporation and in laboratory robotics at Caliper Life Science. She was founder of the New England SolidWorks Users Group, former Vice-President of the Pro|E New England Users Group and has presented at numerous technical conferences including SolidWorks World, American Society of Engineering Education, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Summit and resides on the Northeastern University Engineering Advisory Board
beintroduced to the complex dynamics of a gyroscopic system (the CMGs) without the addedburden of full three dimensional attitude dynamics. Fourth, students, especially in the Page 14.131.3development stage of the testbed, see all the benefits of careful physical system integration. Thistestbed has not been used in any courses or laboratories, other than recent work at Cornellfacilities. Hence no survey data on the impact of such testbed on student learning and educationalvalues has been collected. However, this information would be useful in evaluating the efficacyof such testbed. One of the authors is a student in the Cornell University Leadership
Devices, Irwin, Chicago, 1997.8. T.-R. Hsu, MEMS and Microsystem: Design and Manufacture, McGraw-Hill, 2002.9. B. A. Boley, and J. H. Weiner, Theory of Thermal Stresses, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1960.Bijan SepahpourBijan Sepahpour is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and is currently the chairman of theMechanical Engineering Department at The College of New Jersey. He is actively involved in thegeneration of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in theareas of mechanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs.He is serving as the primary advisor for this project
. She recently won an award for maximum number of publications in a year from chemical engineering department at MSU. She is associated with Medical Micro Device Engineering Laboratory (M.D.-ERL) at MSU working under Dr. Adrienne Minerick. Soumya is been an active member of AIChE, AES, ASEE, SWE and Sigma-Xi.Anurag Srivastava, Mississippi State University Anurag K. Srivastava received his Ph.D. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, in 2005, M. Tech. from Institute of Technology, India in 1999 and B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, India in 1997. He is working as Assistant Research Professor at Mississippi State University since
utilized include Homework, Quizzes, Laboratory Reports, Midterm Exam, and Final Exam. While all tools are used to assess achievement of SLO’s, for brevity we discuss in the following only the results from Final Exams from the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years, and Midterm Exams from the 2007-08 academic year. Tables 7 and 8 show the individual student results from academic year 2007-08 for General Physics I, and General Physics II respectively. Table 7. General Physics I Individual Student Results.2007-08 Midterm Exam Final ExamStudent ID SLO2
lecture and directed problem solving session combination helped me prepare for exams. 4. The on-line lecture and directed problem solving session combination helped me prepare for the laboratory experiments. 5. I would choose the on-line lecture and directed problem solving session combination in another ECE course (if available). 6. I would prefer only a live (traditional) lecture over the on-line lecture and directed problem solving session combination for this course. 7. I enjoyed learning course material in the directed problem solving format. 8. Having a choice of course delivery options enhanced my ability to learn. 9. The directed problem solving sessions enhanced my learning experience.10. I
effectively across disciplines1. The students work on a variety of interesting and challenging projects. Some examples of Page 14.1083.2the projects are:1. A combined thermistor, pressure, and CO2 device for use in the sleep laboratory: Develop adesign for a single device that can be used on infants and that can measure all three signals ofinterest which are a) temperature difference between inhaled and exhaled air, b) pressure sensorsthat show a flattening pressure profile during upper airway narrowing, and c) carbon dioxidesampling tubes to detect the exhaled CO2 waveform.2. Design for a self-contained, maneuverable, endoscopic, video camera
determine the scaling propertiesof their implementation using the multicore machines in our computer laboratory. Specifically,students measure the wall time required to approximate the value of using 100 million randomsamples distributed across one, two, four, eight, or 16 threads. A written analysis of theobserved scaling behavior is submitted along with the source code for each of their multithreadedprograms.The pthreads project is introduced first primarily because the execution environment, thoughrequiring the students to begin thinking “in parallel”, is nevertheless more familiar than that ofthe GPU devices. Once students have gained a certain level of comfort with the core issuesarising from a multithreaded implementation of the Monte Carlo
coursemanagement systems (CMS). Since Tablet PCs are integrated into the college curriculum as well Page 14.841.3as students’ lives (i.e., they are comfortable with the affordances offered by the Tablet PC) andthe use of CMS is spread thorough the college, GCC is an excellent laboratory to assess thistechnology.All the classrooms are equipped with network ports, wireless networking, and electrical outlets ateach seat. The backbone is all fiber connected running at gigabit speeds with multiple trunks toeach of the academic buildings. The campus network has ample bandwidth with capacity to growin the future. In addition, all students and faculty have
work with short, thinly structured scenarios, theycan refine these skills through practice in the realistic scenarios that well written cases candeliver. Thus, cases turn the ethics class into an ethics laboratory. More complex casesencourage students to practice different modes of structuring and framing complex situations.These framing and structuring activities have been identified by Werhane [8] and Johnson [9] askey elements to moral imagination. Finally, having students practice decision-making andproblem-solving through cases and scenarios and then having them explain and justify theirdecisions to teachers and peers starts the process of developing the virtue of responsibility.Cases represent the best pedagogical strategy for responding
material, text books and other referencematerials, with the focus being the upcoming project. It also makes the homework very openended – much like real-world applications – with no single correct answer but many possibleincorrect answers.Detailed Project ExamplesThe above concepts are illustrated with some examples from the hydroelectric power generationsection of the class. The project for this section involves analyzing an existing, small scale,hydroelectric plant owned by our university located on a remote biology field station. Theproperty consists of several hundred acres of forested land on a private, undeveloped island,including two small fresh water lakes connected by a stream, some laboratory and dormbuildings and a small (35 KVA) hydro
planned keeping the needs of the industries in mind, especiallyin the light of the recent economic turmoil.References1. “International Association of Financial Engineers,” http://iafe.org/html/, Accessed February 2009.2. Alsop, Ron, “Wall Street Employers Shine to Financial Engineering Degrees,” The Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2006.3. “Career Options,” http://interpro-academics.engin.umich.edu/fep/, 2005, Accessed September 2007.4. “Laboratory of Financial Engineering,” http://lfe.mit.edu/, Accessed February 2009.5. “Financial Engineering,” http://interpro-academics.engin.umich.edu/fep/, 2005, Accessed September 2007.6. “Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering,” http://orfe.princeton.edu/, Accessed
minute class with an extended laboratory period on Friday, allowingup to two hours for these activities. Each student was assessed by her/his performance onquizzes, exams, homework assignments, and written work associated with the lab activities.The lab activities completed in this manufacturing processes (Spring 2007) course included:a) “Attention to Detail” – writing and following directions for an everyday task,b) Machine Shop Observation – turning and milling of three different materials using the samemachining parameters with a worksheet,c) Video Field Trips – viewing of technical videos independently with brief written report,d) Industrial Field Trips – touring a manufacturing facility with a written trip report,e) “Quick-n-Dirty” CNC
. IntroductionThe curriculum of the EET program covers a broad based educational experience emphasizingpractical, hands-on laboratory work, closely coordinated with theoretical classroom discussion.Students receive a solid foundation of coursework in electric circuits, digital electronics,solid-state electronics, communications, power and electrical machinery.The EET program has developed a PEOs assessment process to fulfill ABET accreditationrequirements. It is an outcome based assessment in which the PEOs should meet the need of theprogram constituents. PEOs describe the attributes that we desire our graduates to possess three tofive years after graduation. According to ABET’s definition of PEOs, “Program EducationalObjectives are broad statement that
AC 2009-1307: INSTRUCTIONAL BENEFITS OF A COURSE MANAGEMENTSYSTEM IN K-12 EDUCATIONPatricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson has taught a variety of professional writing courses at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and has held ten ASEE Summer Research Fellowships. She is on the editorial board of three professional publications for advanced educational technology and has served as a National Research Council Senior Fellow at the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. Email: patricia.carlson@rose-hulman.edu Page 14.745.1© American Society for Engineering
selected 21 times (17.9%).Other was selected 12 times as an assignment type choice, and Team Topic Paper was noted fourtimes. (see Table 6) Those noting the Other category often focused on interactive activitieswhich included interactive laboratories, discussions, and chats. (see Table 11) Participants tendedto steer away from team work due to negative opinions regarding poor online interactionsbetween some team members and non-participation of other team members. One participantcommented on team assignments with this statement. “Online team projects are largelyineffective for me unless ALL members of the team are willing to put forth solid effort. Just onein the group not carrying their share drags the whole group down.”Table 6Preferred
of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at AlabamaA&M University in Huntsville, AL. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering fromUniversity of Alabama in Huntsville. He has research interest in the areas of ComputationalFluid Dynamics, Biomechanics, and Control and Automation. His primary area of interest atAAMU is Automation, Control and Fluid Dynamics. After graduating from UAH, he worked atU.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory at Fort Rucker, Alabama. During his employmentthere, his research focused on aircrew protection and head-supported mass and center of massplacement for the U.S. Army aviation. As a Ph.D. candidate at UAH, his research focusedprimarily on shock-wave turbulent boundary layer interactionsMOHAMED
and Evaluate Programs. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 71, fall 1997, Jossey-Bass Publishers page 33-39 5. Palloff, Rena and Pratt, Keith. Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom, 2nd Edition, , Jossey-Bass, 2007, pages 205-226.. 6. Flory, Isaac and Hackworth, John R., The Administration of Senior Design Projects in a Distance Learning Environment. ASEE 2005 Annual Conference Proceedings. 7. Hackworth, John R. and Jones, Richard L. Assessment Methods for Comparison of On-Campus and Distance-Learning Laboratory Courses in an Engineering Technology Program ASEE 2004 Annual Conference Proceedings
requiresmajor curriculum redesign and/or major expenditures on laboratory equipment. After this astudent would need to take the course and could still be up to two years away from his or her firstposition. In simple terms we often need to look four or more years into the future to predict whatwill be cutting edge as our students enter the workforce. This problem has long guaranteed thatthere is a lag between industry need and graduate knowledge. Although some futuredevelopments are easily foreseen, many are not. To identify developments that can impactproduction within five to ten years we look to private and public researchers. Through their workthey develop new solutions to old problems, and to develop innovations that redefine what wecan do, and
research in manufacturing can be quickly and effectively transferred from research projects or industry developments into manufacturing curricula. Session 3: Emerging Methods of Educational Delivery - Alternatives to lecture-based instruction; activity- based learning; project-based learning; case-study based learning; role of laboratories – projected changes, distance learning – Web based; distributed hybrid; role of cooperative education; internships; industry-based education; continuing education, etc. Session 4: Manufacturing Topics in Other Engineering Disciplines - Manufacturing immersed in other (non-manufacturing-named) engineering curricula (mechanical, industrial, electrical
; ≠ Homework assignment and test problem from a first-year course15 directed toward students’ abilities to access and evaluate information in the libraries and on the World Wide Web. ≠ Reports from a variety of design projects, laboratories, or research-based analyses in which students cite data in developing an argument. These types of assignments provide measures of the abilities to access and evaluate information, cite information ethically and in proper format, and utilize information to accomplish a particular purpose. As students progress through the curriculum, they are exposed to a greater variety and greater complexity of data, including data presented in tabular and graphical formats. In
shown how tonavigate the student portal, with specific tips and tools from the Peer Mentors about accessingand updating information on this key campus information network. They were also given toursof four faculty research laboratories led by their program Peer Mentors and other undergraduatestudent researchers.The primary goal and intended outcome of the Engineering Transfer Transition Program was toease the transition of incoming transfer students to facilitate their academic success andpersistence to graduate within engineering in a timely manner. We hoped to achieve this largelyby connecting ETTP students to faculty, staff, and other transfer engineering students, while alsoexposing them to the academic demands and opportunities of upper