College of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science at IPFW and alocal company initiated a 5-year project to promote robotics, artificial intelligence, and softwareengineering in the college curricula. The main goal of this project is to build a robot team tocompete in the Robocup Middle Size League competition2 by 2012. This project also aims atintroducing robotics into a variety of computer science and engineering courses. As part of thefirst year plan, a Pioneer 3-DX robot was purchased. Using this robot as a development platform,the first task was to design and build a kicking mechanism that is seamlessly connected andinterfaced with this robot. This task was carefully reviewed by the professors whose expertise arein Robotics and machine
, angles and distances of six surveying stations, and their field data havebeen calibrated and analyzed with an engineering procedure in the class. It is expected that theprojects will move forward to continue building the mapping database for the University eachyear. Figure 1. Surveying Grid of Conservation Easement “A” Page 14.342.4 3 Figure 2. Students Working on the Surveying Project2) Traffic Impact Study Project in CE 452, Transportation Engineering (Senior Level)A development of the Pathways to Technology Magnet
Sustainability (Global and Florida); Industrial Product & ProcessDesign; Designing for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management Systems (GuestLecturer); Biological Ecology and Technology; Materials, including Nanomaterials(Guest Lecturer); e-Waste and the Status of Resources; Society, Culture, Governmentsand Laws; Life Cycle Assessments (Guest Lecturer); Energy and Climate Change;Alternate Energy Decision Strategies (Guest Lecturer); Agriculture: Corn, Food andEthanol); Green Marketing (Guest Lecturer); Endocrine Disruptor Compounds;Elements of Green Engineering; Reading Book Reviews (student presentations based ontheir outside reading book reviews - see reference footnote 12) and Case Studies (studentpresentations based on their corporate case
testing twodifferent groups of students (activity and no activity). The results of these measures would helpdetermine if the activities improved student learning as expected.Bibliography1. Croal, N., & Kashiwagi, A. (2006, May 29). Playing with gaming: Nintendo’s recently unveiled Wii gaming console could cap off a remarkable comeback. Newsweek, archived at http://www.newsweek.com/id/47942.2. Gadgets. (2006, November). Engineering and Technology, 1(8), 46-47.3. Snider, M. (2006, May 10). Video-game makers unveil the fun to come. USA Today, 5D.4. Voth, D. (2007). Evolutions in gaming. Pervasive Computing, IEEE, 6(2), 7-10.5. Felder, R. M. (1996). Matters of style. ASEE Prism, 6(4), 18-23.6. Felder, R. M., & Brent, R. (2005
competent in the theoretical underpinnings and also have the skills and confidenceto apply these to real applications demanded by current practice. This paper first introduces theimportance of robotics courses in the curricula of engineering programs, followed by results of asurvey that reports on the features of robotics courses in several universities in the United States.The difficulties of designing a robotics course are then addressed. Finally, a suggested structureof a senior level robotics course is proposed.IntroductionIn the year of 2005, the Robotics Education Workshop took place in Robotics Systems andScience symposium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)1. The main goal of thisworkshop was to discuss how to turn robotics into
Anchorage. His masters in operations research and his doctorate in industrial engineering are from Stanford University. He is the principal of TGE Consulting, an emeritus professor of engineering management at UAA, and the founding editor emeritus of the Engineering Management Journal. He is the author or co-author of engineering economy texts currently published by Oxford University Press.Joseph Hartman, University of Florida Dr. Joseph C. Hartman, P.E. received his Ph.D. in 1996 and M.S. in 1994 in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his B.S. in general engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He is a professor in the Department of
new positions as engineeringlibrarians at the University of Minnesota. We support four engineering departments that totalmore than 100 full-time faculty, nearly 500 graduate students, and well over 1000undergraduates. Janet Fransen has an undergraduate degree in engineering and was beginningher first library position after 20 years working in the technology sector. Jon Jeffryes has abackground in the humanities and two years of professional library experience at the engineeringlibrary of another university. But neither of us had experience as a liaison librarian.When we started our jobs, we found ourselves sifting through the long list of duties in our jobdescriptions, contemplating just where to begin. As newly-minted librarians, we looked
AC 2009-1461: IMPLEMENTING BOK2: A MODULAR POST-B.S. CIVILENGINEERING EDUCATION PROGRAMTomasz Arciszewski, George Mason University Tomasz Arciszewski is a Professor in the Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering Department in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University. He is currently involved in two areas of research: visual thinking in inventive design and engineering education. He has published more than 140 articles in various journals, books, and conference proceedings. He is also an inventor, with patents in the areas of tall buildings and spaces structures obtained in three countries. Arciszewski is active in the American
, an individual may obtain a professionallicense.Proposed Changes to Licensure RequirementsASCE has expressed concern that a BS degree is not sufficient preparation for professionallylicensed civil engineering practice.2 ASCE has reported that the knowledge, skills, and attitudesof the 21st century engineer exceed those faced by the 20th century engineer. They state thatglobalization, sustainability requirements, emerging technology, and increased complexityrequire additional education.2 ASCE has twice, in 1998 and 2005, formed committees to analyzecurrent requirements to determine what is lacking and to categorize proposed academicrequirement changes. The first committee issued ASCE Policy Statement 465 (PS-465).3 Thisled to ASCE writing a
AC 2009-1673: PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION UNITS, USING COMMONCOMPONENTS, FOR AN INTRODUCTORY THERMODYNAMICS COURSEMichael Plumley, United States Coast Guard Academy LCDR Michael Plumley is an Assistant Professor, and 1998 graduate, of the Mechanical Engineering program at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He has served as coordinator for a variety of courses, including Capstone Design, Machine Design, Mechanisms, Heat Transfer, and Modeling and Control of Dynamic Systems. He holds Master of Science degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Connecticut
-.028 .103** .601** .471** --3. Environmental Tools, Technologies, Approaches -.070** .155** .595** .497** .715** --4. Sustainable Development**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).To research question 3:In addition to formal education (high school curriculum), many other factors may shape astudent’s attitude and knowledge of the environment. In the engineering disciplines, there hasbeen much discussion about various dimensions of diversity, including gender and multi-culturalperspectives.Given the greater participation of women in environmental
example of how the EWB model can be incorporated into the curriculum has beendeveloped by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). In the early 1970s, WPI transitioned to aproject-based curriculum, from which their Global Perspective Program (GPP) was established[2]. This program allows students to travel abroad and work on open-ended projects whilesatisfying general educational and engineering requirements. The program is designed to meetmany of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requirements, andself-evaluation in students’ final reports indicate that off-campus projects are consistently higherquality than those completed on campus [2].The WPI program is specifically geared toward engineering, and while it has been
AC 2009-694: BREAKING THE ICE: CUTTING THROUGH GEOGRAPHIC,CULTURAL, AND TIME-ZONE BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVELY LEAD IN AGLOBAL ENVIRONMENTLenisha Gandhi, IBM Page 14.287.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Breaking-the-Ice: Cutting through geographic, cultural, & time zone barriers to effectively lead in a global environmentAbstractGlobal integration is now a reality in every industry. But what exactly is global integration? Oneof the most common thoughts about it is that global integration is synonymous to outsourcing.But it is much more than outsourcing. It describes a new model of business where the focus hasshifted from local economy to global
ethics class: 19 (46%) do not copy on tests, 22 (54%) do not copy homeworks, and 17 (41%)do not copy lab reports.The use of technology, such as web-based testing, also changes a student’s opinion of whatconstitutes cheating. Five (12%) of the engineering students who had not yet taken an ethicscourse thought that working in groups on web-based exams was cheating, compared to 13 (32%)of the engineering students who had taken the ethics course. Eight (20%) of the no-ethics classstudents reported not cheating on a web-based exam in a typical semester, whule 17 (41%) of theethics-class students did not report an incidence of web-based test cheating. The results on thesurvey indicate that having taken an ethics course increased the likelihood that
growing scope of the challenges aheadand the complexity and diversity of the technologies of the 21st century, will only grow inimportance” (14). Similarly, BOK2, ASCE’s document that describes the specific attributes offuture civil engineers, builds upon why creativity is essential for the future, claiming “Fosteringcreative knowledge in students prepares them to handle a future of increasing complexity thatrelies on a multidisciplinary approach to problems.”(3). Expectedly, ABET leaders haverecognized the necessity of innovativeness and problem-solving ability and have alsoincorporated these skills into the curriculum requirements. ABET’s EC 2000 states that “Theengineering design component of a curriculum must include at least some of the
Government,private industry and various academic institutions feel that it is important to integrateengineering because most systems existing presently are developed with integrated engineeringteams. Discipline specific organizations have identified the need for their disciplines to crossboundaries. In the “2028 Vision for Mechanical Engineering,’ from ASME, the report drawsattention to the complexity of advanced technologies and the multiple scales at which systemsinteract. Both will require engineers to collaborate in developing multidisciplinary solutions.2 In Page 14.1016.2“Vision 2020: Reaction Engineering Roadmap,” from AIChE, participants
implementation of this course. Our thanks andappreciation for their effort and hard work: Mr. Lonn Rodine, Mr. Rob Lotz, Mr. RichardBoschee and Technical Sergeant Jonathon Solomon. Page 14.560.14Bibliography1. Volk, K. S., “Industrial Arts Revisited: An Examination of the Subject’s Continued Strength, Relevance and Value”, Journal of Technology Education, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1996.2. Menicucci, J., Duffy, J., Palmer, B., “Hands-on Introduction to Chemical and Biological Engineering”, Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.3. Farrow, D., “Development of a Manufacturing
limited budget.Acknowledgements We would like to thank the students Sarah H. Widder, Margaret S. Donegan-Ryan andKyle M. Flotlin who kindly provided Karr Column diagrams from their experimental planningreport. We also want to thank David Gery and Arne Biermans who have helped in themodification liquid-liquid extraction equipment. Page 14.78.21References[1] Wintermantel, K. Process and Product Engineering Achievements, Present and Future Challenges. TransIChemE , 77 (A), 175-187, 1999.[2] Molzahn, M. and Wittstock, K. Chemical Engineers for the 21st Century - Challenges for University Education.Chemical Engineering & Technology , 25 (3), 231-235, 2002.[3] Saraiva, P. M. and Costa, R
refereed articles on related subjects. Farshad is a member of the Transportation Research Board - TRB (Committee AFN10) and the American Concrete Institute - ACI (Committees 123, 130, 236).Aleksandra Radlinska, Villanova University Dr. Aleksandra Radlinska is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Villanova University. She obtained her MS in Civil Engineering from Szczecin University of Technology in Poland and her PhD degree from Purdue University, IN. Aleksandra teaches introductory undergraduate courses on civil engineering materials as well as graduate courses that relate fundamentals of materials science with applications to civil engineering materials. She is
, G. et al. (2007). Understanding Undergraduate Students’ Conceptions of a Core Nanoscience Concept:Size and Scale.4. Okamura, A.M., Richard, C., Cutkosky, M.R. (2002). Feeling is Believing: Using a Force-Feedback Joystick toTeach Dynamic Systems. Journal of Engineering Education. 91 (3), 345-349.5. Williams, R.L. II, Chen, M-Y. and Seaton, J.M. (2003). Haptics-Augmented Simple-Machine Educational Tools.Journal of Science Education and Technology, 12 (1), 1-12.6. Gillespie, R.B., Hoffman, M.B., and Freudenberg, J. (2003). Haptic Interface for Hands-On Instruction in SystemDynamics and Embedded Control. 11th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and TeleoperatorSystems, 410-415.7. Bowen, K. and O’Malley, M.K. (2006). Adaption
haveexercises designed around individual concepts. “This instructional method, while somewhatattributable to the usual trend to compartmentalize course material into homogeneous blocks, ismore often due to an attempt to model traditional manufacturing organizations in which theproduct design function, manufacturing engineering, and production planning are separatecorporate entities”4.This paper reports on the use of simulation to enhance learning in a production systems course atWichita State University. Production systems have become more complex due to technology aswell as capital investment and the increase in the number and variety of products manufactured5.The factory is a complex system and most students have difficulty understanding
, it is very common to findrobotics related modules and projects in undergraduate courses on embedded systems, analogelectronics, dynamics, algorithms, as well as introduction to engineering. Moreover, roboticsprojects are frequently encountered in capstone design courses.Robotics as an engineering discipline requires a strong background in mathematics and sciencesas well as in engineering design and programming5,10. For this reason, robotics courses havehistorically been offered at the graduate level and have mostly focused on the study of robotmanipulators. Over the past several years, however, robotics has evolved to become a ratherdiverse field covering a wide spectrum of topics and educational endeavors ranging fromassistive technologies
AC 2009-1609: A DESKTOP EXPERIMENT MODULE: HEAT TRANSFERAdrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University Adrienne Minerick is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. She received her PhD and M.S. from the University of Notre Dame and B.S. from Michigan Technological University. Since joining MSU, Dr. Minerick has taught the graduate Chemical Engineering Math, Process Controls, Introduction to Chemical Engineering Freshman Seminar, Heat Transfer, and Analytical Microdevice Technology courses. In addition, she is an NSF CAREER Awardee, has served as co-PI on an NSF REU site, PI on grants from NSF and DOE, and is the faculty advisor for MSU’s
M&IE Department contains three Bachelor of Science programs: MechanicalEngineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Technology. The MechanicalEngineering program has a ten-year average undergraduate enrollment of approximately 400students, as seen in Figure 1. Page 14.538.2Departmental Size and RetentionAs seen in Figure 1, the number of undergraduate students in the MSU ME program hasremained fairly stable over the past ten years (394 students). This is an excellent trait in light ofthe fact that the department hasminimally tracked, studied and respondedto trends in undergraduate enrollmentnumbers, and has performed
programs concurrently. Aunique opportunity will be available in 2010, as Shanghai hosts the Shanghai World Expo duringthe time of the scheduled visit. The theme of the Expo will be "Better City, Better Life", and thefocus will be on planning cities for the future.College Educational Emphases and Program ObjectivesThe Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at Brigham Young University makessignificant financial contributions towards the travel costs of each student in engineering studyabroad programs such as the China Mega-Structures program. For graduates to be competitivein the fast-changing global marketplace, the College has established five educational emphases,often referred to by the acronym "LIGHT": 1. Leadership 2
, R., Alternative Approaches to Teaching Extended SurfaceHeat Transfer, 2003 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 2003-1333.5 Kaminski, W.R., A Series of Heat Transfer Experiments for the Mechanical Engineering Technology Student, 2002ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 2002-2648.6 Smith, A.N. and Volino, R.J., Versatile Heat Transfer Lab for Conducting Bench-Top Experiments, 2005 ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition, paper 2005-2266.7 Hinton, M.A., Marloth, R., and Nooran, R.I., Data Acquisition System for an Undergraduate Fin Heat ExchangerExperiment, 2002 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 2002-2259.8 Karimi, A., Use of Spreadsheets in Solving Heat Conduction Problems in Fins, 2008 ASEE Annual
reinforce engineering principles, and to emphasize engineers’ ultimateresponsibility in the development of future technologies. The department has various goals thatrelate to the National Science Foundation (NSF) engineering education project grants. Theseparticular goals include increasing retention rates of engineering students, reinforcing societalresponsibilities, building networking skills through teamwork and community relations, andcreating a general excitement for engineering. Service learning has been the staple methodologyof reaching these goals, as projects have been implemented in the introductory material andenergy balances courses from the fall of 2006.The service learning projects assigned to the introductory classes have focused on
calculations on the process. Likewise, the writing of the abstractthat describes the context and relevance of the problem are also skills that are important for anystudent who will be called upon to explain the value of a technology to colleagues in a Page 14.1086.3workplace. The aspects of the problem involving the wording of the problem or associating 2learning objectives with a problem are less critical to the education of the students, and theseparts were not included in the grading of the problems.Students in the upper division elective course, Introduction to Biochemical Engineering (CHE192
AC 2009-2477: THE CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMIC MODULE OF THEEXPERT SYSTEM FOR THERMODYNAMICS (“TEST”) WEB APPLICATIONSubrata Bhattacharjee, San Diego State University Dr. Bhattacharjee is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State University. His research areas include combustion, radiation heat transfer, and web-based numerical methods for computational thermodynamics.Christopher Paolini, San Diego State University Dr. Paolini is the Unix System Administrator in the College of Engineering and is the Director of the Computational Thermodynamics Laboratory at Mechanical Engineering Department. His research areas include chemical equilibrium analysis, adaptive algorithm, and AJAX based
. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. 23, 221-227.9. Bechtoldt, M.N., C.K.W. DeDreu, and B.A. Nijstad. 2007. Team personality diversity, group creativity, and innovativeness in organizational teams. Research Output from Sustainable Development in a Diverse World (SUSDIV) PAPER 1.2007. http://www.feem.it/Feem/Pub/Publications/EURODIVPapers/default.htm10. Belbin, M. 1993. Team roles at work. Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann. Page 14.330.1411. Boyle, G.J. 1995. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): Some Psychometric Limitations. Psychological Measurement. 47, 543-552.12. Buffinton, K.W., K.W. Jablokow, and