– Average age vacation and retirement homes – 65 – Average age for cruises – 70 – Average age for predominance of prescription drugs – 77 – Average age for nursing homes - 84As we chronologically age, our life demands for shelter, transportation, food and clothing all arereduced. These many changes are a reflection in large part to our changing family makeup atdistinct periods in time. From above, it can be construed our U.S. populace generally getmarried in their 20’s. The 30’s are typically a time for the collection of material possessions(cars, homes, furniture, appliances, etc.) Our late 40’s reflect an empty nester’s phase, where ourchildren become, theoretically, independent and move out onto their own; whether this
Paper ID #19042Energy Science and Engineering Graduate Education at Tokyo TechProf. Jeffrey Scott Cross, Tokyo Institute of Technology Jeffrey S. Cross received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Iowa State University in 1992. He has worked in Japan at Fujitsu Lab Ltd., National Institute for Inorganics Materials, and at Tokyo Tech for over 20 years and is fluent in Japanese. Jeffrey is Prof. in the School of Environment and Society, Dept. of Transdisciplinarity Science and Engineering and graduate coordinate for the Energy Science and Engineering Major. He teaches online courses on academic writing and on education
requirements of collecting and returning homeworkassignments reduces the time commitment and difficulty in teaching large classes.Bibliography1. Hauk, S. & Segalla, A. Student perceptions of the web-based homework program WeBWorK in moderate enrollment college algebra classes. J. Comput. Math. Sci. Teach. 24, 229 (2005).2. Thoennessen, M. & Harrison, M. J. Computer-assisted assignments in a large physics class. Comput. Educ. 27, 141–147 (1996).3. Flori, R. E. et al. Incorporating web-based homework problems in engineering dynamics. in Proceedings of American society of engineering education conference (2002).4. Spain, J. D. Electronic homework: Computer-interactive problem sets for general chemistry. J Chem Educ 73, 222 (1996).5
. Thereflective comprehensive report challenges students to evaluate themselves against a benchmarkstudent—referred to as a "world-class" engineering student—based on the following objectives:1. Goal setting a. Setting your goal(s) i.e., major, time to graduation, GPA b. Strengthening and clarifying your commitment to your goal(s) c. Setting up a ‘Road Map’ – a plan to guide you over the next years to graduation d. Understanding the essence of engineering2. Community building a. Building relationships, and making effective use of your peers (help-seeking) b. Participating in co-curricular activities3. Academic development a. Navigating the university system, resources, and academic advising b
Mechanical Engineering. He has been actively engaged in teaching, research and curricula development since joining the LSU faculty in 1988. As Associate Dean in the College of Engineering (2004-2014), he acquired sig- nificant funding from NSF to support the development of several initiatives aimed at improving student retention and graduation rates as well as supporting faculty with development of effective learning and teaching pedagogies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 BRCC to LSU Engineering Pathways to SuccessABSTRACTThe National Science Foundation (NSF) S-STEM scholarship program, Engineering Pathway toSuccess, is a joint effort of the College of
example of devising the laplacetransfer function of a second order continuous system for a desired performance and then converting itto discrete system: with zero steady state error, a 2% settling time of 0.5 seconds and 5% overshoot andthen convert to the discrete system. Step ResponseH= 134.4 1.2 1 --------------------------- 0.8 s^2 + 16 s + 134.4
finished their projects (see figures 2a and 2b). Participants were asked to reflect back tobefore the project began to rate their confidence on skills on a Likert scale, and then considertheir confidence at the conclusion of the project. In the future, a survey will be given to studentsat the first build session, and the same survey upon completion to measure competencies.A statistical analysis of the survey results was performed. For each category considered, the datawas first tested for normality. For normally distributed data sets, a paired t-test was used. For thedata that was not normal, the Wilcoxon R-S test was used to test for significance. A p-value lessthan 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Figure 2a: First part of survey
is collected, quick measurements of the bell(s) should be made so that a model can bebuilt in Solidworks. This model will be used in Abaqus to determine a numerical value for theresonant frequency, and the quantity subsequently used for comparisons with experimental data. 1. Program the MATLAB FFT analysis script. 2. Strike the two bells, and run the program to record the sound and analyze the audio input. 3. Use Solidworks to model the bells separately, export the part files to Abaqus. 4. Apply Abaqus to calculate the vibration in resonance step. 5. Compare the results from the FFT and simulation strategies in each group. Determine what errors are present in the experiment and how to eliminate them. The process for the
. ReferenceLoyalka, P., Carnoy, M., Froumin, I., Dossani, R., Tilak, J. B., & Yang, P. (2014). Factors affecting the quality of engineering education in the four largest emerging economies. Higher Education, 68(6), 977-1004Lubinski, D. (2010). Spatial ability and STEM: A sleeping giant for talent identification and development. Personality and Individual Differences, 49(4), 344-351.Maeda, Y. & Yoon, S. (2011). Scaling the Revised PSVT-R: Characteristics of the First-Year Engineering Students' Spatial Ability. Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011.Maeda, Y., & Yoon, S. Y. (2013). A meta-analysis on gender differences in mental rotation ability measured by the
experiential learning format.Although Besterfield-Sacre et al. (2012)’s work presents a tool for assessing entrepreneurialknowledge, the inventory is a measure of students’ self-assessed knowledge rather than a “directmeasure of measurement of the actual skills and knowledge” (p. 8). We argue that this approachdoes not completely capture students’ understanding of entrepreneurial concepts due to emphasison only students’ familiarity with concepts and terms, rather than their ability to internalize andapply entrepreneurial knowledge. In other words, overall there is almost no research that uses adirect measure of entrepreneurial knowledge to assess the impact of entrepreneurship programson student learning. Guided by this gap, in our study, we examined
. In this case, student 8o had taken an elective STScourse on the Societal Implications of Nanotechnology (STS 3110).Even when students may have misunderstood ideas from prior classes there is anacknowledgement that technological change does not occur in a vacuum nor does it drive societyin some determined way. For example, Participant 77’s pre-map (not shown) includes the term“technological determinism” as a node linked to “design”, “unintended consequences”, and“ethical decision making” and a side note that states “I do not subscribe wholesale to this theory,but some professors in the past have treated this as doctrine.” It should be noted thattechnological determinism as an argument for what primarily drives social change is critiqued bySTS
and engineering careers.References1. Brownlow, J. ; Bullock, T.; Moore, L. M. J.; Norman, M.; Morgan, S. E. “Synthesis and characterization of di(perylene bisimides) for use as an electron accepting material in polymer photovoltaic devices” Abstracts of Papers, 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, San Francisco, CA, April 2-7, 2017.2. Boleware, M.; Sharma, A.; Wiggins, J.S. “Cross-linking” physics and polymers: Making an "impact" in STEM education” Abstracts of Papers, 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, San Francisco, CA, April 2-7, 2017.3. Wingo, K.; Morgan, S. E. “Developing polymer research lessons for the high school classroom – NSF RET at The University of Southern
Paper ID #20197Promoting academic and career success for Raleigh Future Scholars at NCStateDr. Cheryl Cass, North Carolina State University Cheryl Cass is a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University where she has served as the Director of Undergraduate Programs since 2011. Her research focuses on the intersection of science and engineering identity in post-secondary and graduate level programs.Prof. Leda Lunardi, North Carolina State University Leda Lunardi received the BS and MS from University of S˜ao Paulo (USP), S˜ao Paulo, Brazil, and Ph.D
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through photosynthesis by future biomass crops.In 2011, it was discovered that bioenergy was used as an energy source more than oil in Sweden.The Swedish Energy Agency found that 31.7% of the energy used was generated from biomasswhile 30.8% of the energy originated from oil. One of the principal reasons for this increase inbioenergy is the fact that biomass is the primary energy source in the district heating sector, asector that demands more than half of the overall heat demand in residential areas. 7 Figure 5shows the different sources of energy in Sweden in 2011 (Sweden Energy Use 2010, May 10). Figure 5: Source of Energy in Sweden 2011References 1. Abolhosseini, S., Heshmati, A., & Altmann, J. (2014, April). A
two data sets and with a focus on factorsthat have resulted in changes in teaching approach in the years separating the studies. Thefinal section contains our conclusions and outlines areas for future exploration.BackgroundThe approaches to teaching inventory (ATI) has been developed and refined over the lastdecade.1 It has its origins in phenomenographic studies of teachers’ attitudes to teachingand learning in the mid 1990’s. Prosser and Trigwell advance the view that there is afundamental qualitative difference between a student-centric and teacher-centric view of thelearning process [4, page 408]. They argue that a student centered approach to facilitatinglearning focuses on the nature of the learning itself, placing the main emphasis on
presentation of such an equation must necessarily beaccompanied by a definition of the terms along with their units: RMR is the metal removal rate inmm3/s or in3/min, I is the current in amps, and Tm is the melting temperature of the work metal inC or F.Perhaps the most rigorous treatment of units is in the thermal sciences. Most thermodynamics,fluid mechanics, and heat transfer texts use unit conversion factors to demonstrate a rigorouscancellation process in example problems. Students are left with no doubts as to where numberscome from. In spite of the rigor with which units are treated, there is no common non-SI systemused in thermal science texts. Fluid mechanics texts by Gerhardt [5] and Pritchard [12] use theBG system, with the derived mass
was to see if adding a debate format to case study usage, an inductivelearning technique, could motivate students to research topics (read the text book and articles) inaddition to increasing student engagement and learning. Inductive teaching techniques may alsobe called learner-centered or student-centered since they require students take more responsibilityfor their own learning compared to traditional lecture based or deductive teaching methods, can bemore interactive and have been found to promote student engagement.1Debate has been researched as a pedagogical method used to improve critical thinking skills andoral communication skills since the 1990’s.3,4 Learner-centered education programs such asnursing and pharmacy, marketing
theinitial pre-surveys of students enrolled in the 11 of the 13 HBCUs where research was completed atthe beginning of the fall 2015 and spring 2016 semesters and the final post-surveys assessing theirunderstanding of the project and electrical engineering concepts at the end of fall 2015 and spring2016 semesters. The goal of the N S F - f u n d e d project was to increase the number ofhighly qualified and prepared engineering students, particularly African American engineers, aswell as to ensure electrical engineering students and graduates have a better understanding oftechnology and its role in STEM education and the policy associated with it. Another key goal ofthe project was to promote wide spread dissemination and usage of portable hands-on
# Strongly Agree Agree Unsure/ Disagree Strongly Avg Check the best answer Neutral Disagree1 I plan to go to college when I 25 2 4.93 finish high school.2 My parents/guardians are 23 4 4.85 encouraging me to go to college.3 My friends plan on going to 18 6 2 4.80 college.4 I enjoy school. 18 6 2 4.805 My teacher(s)/counselor(s) care if 23 2 1
: Achievements, challenges, and new opportunities. [cited March 15] Available from http://www.hewlett.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ReviewoftheOERMovement.pdf.6. Sclater N. 2010. The Organizational impact of open educational resources. In: Ehler U-D, Schneckenberg D, editors. Changing cultures in higher education. Springer. p. 485-497.7. Smith MS. 2009. Opening education. Science. 323(5910):89-93.8. SPARC. List of North American OER policies and projects. 2017. [cited 2017 February 10] Available from https://sparcopen.org/our-work/list-of-oer-policies-projects/.9. OpenStax. We measure our success in access. 2014. [cited 2017 February 5] Available from https://openstax.org/impact.10. Bell S. 2015. Start a textbook
23% 82% 59% Join a STEM club 68% 100% 32% Apply for internships (in addition to the ASPIRES Scholars 50% 95% 45% Program) Join LinkedIn or other online professional network 50% 86% 36% Ask a professor if s/he had a project I can work on 27% 68% 41%In evaluating student perception of the program, students were asked to rate how useful they foundeach of the program activities to be in terms of helping them develop skills, confidence, andinterest in conducting research. Table 6 gives the results of the student evaluation of the 2017program. Note that the highest item rated as most useful
actualassignments.Introductory ProjectFollowing a class visit by a cancer-surviving individual who provided an in-depth, personaloverview of his cancer experience, the students were tasked with exploring distinctly the diseasepathway, intervention/ device treatment pathway, and the patient pathway for either breast orprostate cancer. Each student selected which of the two types of cancer s/he would explore.Overall, this introductory project had several underlying goals that aimed to lay a foundation forthe entire course. First, this introductory project was to provide opportunities for the students tobuild skills in examining the disease, device, and patient pathways of cancer. In subsequentprojects, students would further refine their skills and apply them to other
explore laminar, transitional and fully turbulentconditions.To determine the volumetric flow rate through the pipe test section, water flowing out ofthe pipe was caught in a measuring cup, and the time required to fill 500 mL measuredwith a stopwatch. The pressure drop along the pipe was determined using the fourmanometers integrated with the pipe and positioned 3.0 inches apart. The uncertainty involumetric flow measurements that ranged between Q = +/- 1 ml/s at low flow rates (10ml/s) to Q = +/- 2 ml/s at high flow rates (30 ml/s). The uncertainty in the pressuremeasurements using the integrated manometers was +/- 2 mm H2O or +/- 20 Pa.The pipe flow/head loss experiment shown in Fig. 3 was characterized by measuring thepressure drop along the
-class activities helpedthem balance different aspects of well-being and remain engaged with their work. Furtherresearch can explore how these activities help students build the capacity to "bounce-back" fromhigh-stress work environments.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the National Science Foundation for theirsupport of this work under the CAREER grant #EE-1351156. Any opinions, findings,conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this poster are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The authors also wish toacknowledge Alison W. Bowers for her contributions made to this study. References1. Olson, S., &
, evaluating, and selecting credible evidence or relevant examples; ● organizing ideas and information consistent with the purpose; ● demonstrating a nuanced understanding of audience(s) and word choice; ● adhering to acceptable mechanical, structural, and format style guidelines appropriate to the discipline and purpose; and ● using effective visual representations to enhance, focus, and amplify written communication and text.SLO 2 measures the voluntary student engagement in the process of writing through the use ofthe following practices and articulating the impacts of engaging in this process: ● Researching ● Drafting ● Reflecting ● Collaborating ● Revising ● EditingAs each program joins as a WEP, the QEP
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scaffolding roleof reflection. Preliminary results indicate that these efforts improve student engagement in theAutumn seminar and overall program, and promote success in the design and implementation ofyear-long team service projects.Bibliography 1. Ambrose, S. A. (2013). Undergraduate engineering curriculum: The ultimate design challenge. The Bridge: Linking Engineering and Society, 43(2). 2. Ambrose, S. A., Bridges, M. W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M. C., & Norman, M. K. (2010). How Learning Works. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 3. Kaplan, M., Silver, N., LaVaque-Manty, D., & Meizlish, D. (Eds.). (2013). Using Metacognition and Reflection to Improve Student Learning. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing. 4. D.G
characteristics of the program has the potential to be transportable toother institutions.AcknowledgmentThe authors gratefully acknowledge support of this work by the National Science Foundationunder Grant No. 1524527.References1. Freeman, S., Eddya, S. L., McDonough, M., Michelle, K., Smith, B., Okoroafora, N., Jordta, H., and Wenderotha, M. P., (2014). Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics, PNAS, 111, 23-30.2. Hake, R. R. (1998). Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses, American Journal of Physics, 66(1), 64-74.3. Krause, S., Baker, D., Carberry, A., Alford, T., T., Ankeny, C., Brooks, B.J