handicap parking space. Figure 1. Minimum Provisions for Accessible Parking (Department of Justice, 2010). The following are included in the basic minimum requirements, cited literally from the ADAParking Standard document (U.S. Department of Justice): • “Parking space shall be 96 inches wide minimum, marked to define the width, and maximum slope in all directions is 1:48.” • “Access aisle width is at least 60 inches, must be at the same level and the same length as the adjacent parking space(s) it serves.” • “Accessible parking spaces must be located on the shortest accessible route of travel to an accessible facility entrance.” • “The required number of accessible parking spaces must be calculated separately
: Experimental System for Web Driven Experimentation on Two Phase FlowSystem Specifications A. System Hardware 1) DAQ Board: PCI-1200 manufactured by National Instruments. Analog Inputs: eight single-ended, eight pseudo differential or four differential, software selectable channels, and resolution is 12 bits, 1 in 4,096. The maximum sampling rate is 100 kS/s. Analog Outputs: Two voltage output channels with 12 bits resolution, and update rate is 20 S/s – 1kS/s (System dependent) Digital Input and Outputs: TTL Compatible 24 I/Os with three 8-bit ports). 2) Pressure Sensor: In-house develop based on Sensym pressure sensors. The sensor has the ability
Rigid indenter 100 layers of Al/SiC Homogenized Al/SiCFigure 3. Schematic showing the multilayer model and the boundary conditions for indentation modeling. The specimen and indenter both possess axial symmetry about the left boundary. The rigid indenter has a semi-angle of 70.3°The indentation-derived elastic modulus from the simulation is obtained according to the methodproposed by Oliver and Pharr24. The method is based on the expression: 2S=β Er A (7) πwhere S is contact stiffness obtained from the initial unloading slope of an
point to the fact that the world is headed for certain doom because of the perceivedshortage. “Airbus Seeks 500 Engineers: Company having trouble finding applicants inEurope,”1 “U. S. Aerospace Industry Facing Labor Shortage,”2 and “Brain Drain Could GroundAerospace Production: Industry Task Force Offers Dire Warning if Workforce ChallengesAren’t Met”3 are but a few of the headlines that reflect this need. However, other headlines justa few years earlier indicated otherwise or that the cause of the lack of engineers was unclear. In2005, Bill Schweber wrote that there is “No Shortage of ‘Engineering Shortage’ Talk”4. At thispoint in time, the media was saying there were too few students in math and science and that theperception of engineering
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STEM teacher preparation and professional development.Prof. Chelsey Simmons, University of Florida Chelsey S. Simmons, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She joined UF in Fall 2013 following a visiting research position at the Swiss Federal Insti- tute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. Her research lab investigates the relationship between cell biology and tissue mechanics, and their projects are funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and American Heart Association. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including NIH’s Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award for Early Stage Investigators (2018), BMES-CMBE’s Rising Star
- Engineering Statics 0.238 0.303 Engineering 0.301 0.437 DynamicsFor both classes that have prerequisites, the addition of prerequisite grade(s) to the model withNCA factors and traditional measures as predictors is a statistically significant improvement(partial F-test p-value < 0.001).Discussion and ConclusionLooking at the models using NCA factors as predictors of engineering grades, we can see thatthere are clear patterns in how the factors influence success. Many of the NCA factors aremalleable, so understanding these patterns is a crucial step towards introducing initiatives in theclassroom to help students reach their full potential. The
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Paper ID #34731Paper: Overcoming Comfort Zones to Better the Self-Efficacy ofUndergraduate Engineering Students (Tricks of the Trade) (WIP)Pasquale Sanfelice, Pasquale Sanfelice completed Associates in Engineering Science (AES) at the City Colleges of Chicago- Wilbur Wright College as the class of 2021’s salutatorian. Pasquale was admitted to Wright as an Engi- neering Pathway student in Fall 2019 and will pursue his bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University in Fall 2021. Pasquale was the American Chemical Society’s Student Chapter president AY 2020-2021, a volunteer engineering tutor, and a
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specific impact of theactivities in promoting wellness, as well the use of wellness techniques and campus resourceslongitudinally after participating in the course.AcknowledgmentsThis project was supported by the University of Illinois Faculty Retreat Grant and theDepartment of Bioengineering. The authors thank the students for sharing their perspectives. References [1] X. Wang, S. Hegde, C. Son, B. Keller, A. Smith, and F. Sasangohar, “Investigating Mental Health of US College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Survey Study,” J. Med. Internet Res., vol. 22, no. 9, p. e22817, Sep. 2020, doi: 10.2196/22817. [2] A. Kecojevic, C. H. Basch, M. Sullivan, and N. K. Davi, “The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on mental
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computations. The work completed in this project could also be adaptedto be used as a mini project or laboratory activity for an undergraduate wireless communicationscourse.AcknowledgmentsThe author gratefully acknowledges the work conducted by Josiah Morales, a York College ofPennsylvania Electrical Engineering alumni, on this project.References[1] D. Lopatto, ”Undergraduate research Experiences Support Science Career Decisions and Active Learning”, CBE – Life Sciences Education, vol, 6, no. 4, pp. 297-306, 2007.[2] S. Russell, M. Hancock and J. McCullough, ”Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences”, Science, vol. 316, no. 5824, pp. 548-549, 2007.[3] S. Kaul, C. Ferguson, P. Yanik and Y. Yan, ”Importance of Undergraduate Research
Paper ID #33655Assessing the Academic and Social Growth of STEM Transfer StudentsProf. Thomas Woodson, Stony Brook University Thomas S. Woodson is an associate professor in the Department of Technology and Society at Stony Brook University. He investigates the effects of technology on inequality throughout the world and the causes/consequences of inclusive innovation. For the past several years he has studied the effectiveness of scientific funding to have broader impact, and ways to improve diversity in STEM fields. He is currently the director of the $4 million State University of New York Louis Stokes Alliance for
9 22 41 12 3.64The frequency of communication by instructors 0 4 12 42 27 4.08Rate instructor(s) overall teaching effectiveness? 2 2 5 41 38 4.26The results from the post-survey are listed in Table 2. The pattern and trend remain the same,however, there is an overall positive shift in satisfaction across all categories. Specifically, theaverage score for each individual element increased in the post surveys. In addition, thestatistical modes increased for two of the categories, namely Frequency of Communication byyour Instructors and Rate Instructor(s) overall teaching
believethat our modules had a greater impact on those students who were newer to computationalthinking, over those who had prior experience and were enrolled in upper-level computationalcourses.1 IntroductionAccording to Wing, Computational Thinking (CT) is the thought processes involved informulating a problem and expressing its solution(s) in such a way that an information processor– human or machine – can effectively carry out that solution [1]. The educational philosophybehind Computational Thinking is that problems in every discipline can be solved by the tools ofcomputation such as algorithmic thinking, decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition. Forinstance, one of the pillars of computational thinking is algorithmic thinking
pushed beyond the scope of criteria and constraints set up by the client and occasionally contemplated additional criteria that led to a greater diversity of outcomes. For example, Cameron’s questioning of Ben’s design led to Ben considering the size and other defining characteristics of the artifacts, criteria not mentioned by the client (see Table 2). Table 2 Cameron Questioning Ben’s DesignSpeaker Discourse Code(s)Ben No, no, no, but you have to agree that this one (pointing to his MSOL, own design) is pretty good though. You can't basically get ADS-cc through; you have to go through three times before you get to the artifacts because
journal or proceedings, (Scan) and the resulting set were manuallyscanned for acronyms in all capital letters within fields with data entered by patrons. (Examine) Entrieswith all capital letter acronyms were flagged and further assessed for the standard format type. All itemsdetermined to be standards were then reviewed to determine if the request was fulfilled by ILL staff byany means. [7]To replace the Scan step, Author 1 first developed a regular expression, using Python in JupyterNotebooks (code, documentation, and de-identified dataset can be found on Author 1’s GitHub:https://github.com/hburns2/desperately-seeking-standards). Regular expressions (or regex), used for textprocessing and querying, identify patterns within written text. A
challenging national (and even global)emergencies. Furthermore, these events also provide a platform for highlighting the positives andstrengths of HBCUs in response to COVID-19 in supporting their stakeholders. The awarenessand joint interest established during these events can lead to the development of a robust HBCUnetwork that can be sustained through a commitment to Black student success. References[1] R. I. Boothroyd, A.Y. Flint, A.M. Lapiz, S. Lyons, K.L. Jarboe, and W.A. Aldridge, “Activeinvolved community partnerships: co-creating implementation infrastructure for getting to andsustaining social impact,” Transl. Behav. Med., vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 467-477, 2017.[2] M. Pellecchia, D. S. Mandell, H.J
,” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 217-230, 1989. [4] H.W. Gehman, Jr., J.L. Barry, D.W. Deal, J.N. Hallock, K.W. Hess, G.S. Hubbard, J.M. Logsdon, D.D. Osheroff, S.K. Ride, R.E. Tetrault, S.A. Turcotte, S.B. Wallace, and S.E. Widnall, “Columbia Accident Investigation Report, Volume I,” NASA, Aug. 26 2003. Available:http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/CAIB_Vol1.html. [5] S. Bates, “Flint water crisis: For young engineers, a lesson on the importance of listening,” NSF.gov, 23 March 2016. [Online]. Available: http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138060&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1. [Accessed Apr. 11, 2019]. [6] K. Samuelson, “Companies That Built Collapsed FIU Bridge Had Been Fined for
measured correctly. Finally, students must open inExcel the ASCII file CrankSlider.DAT output by their program, and plot the displacement S,velocity dS/dt and acceleration d2S/dt2 of the slider (see Figure 3), as well as the transmission 2angle and the discriminant (labeled Delta in Figure 4) of the quadratic equation that occurs whensolving the position problem of the mechanism. (a) (b)Figure 2: The 10th frame of the CrankSlider.PAS simulation as read from the DXF file (a) output by theoriginal program, and (b) by the modified program as required in Assignment 2.Figure 3: Plot
theyparticipated in any professional development for teaching, and in particular on the use of active learning.This quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Percentages, measures of centraltendency, such as the mean, median and mode were examined as well as demographic distributions.Qualitative data included semi-structured interviews with participants, and aimed to delve further intohow engineering instructors learned about various active learning strategies, why they decided toimplement them in their course(s), what kinds of support they received as well as any challenges theyhad, and how they overcome those challenges. This qualitative data was analyzed following a recursiveand spiral pattern to code for recurring themes and
paperreviews the findings from the subset of longitudinal data to add to the literature related to thisinstrument and to gather feedback related to future directions for this project.BackgroundThe Campbell University’s School of Engineering is able to offer students need-basedscholarships through an NSF S-STEM grant. As part of this program, students are expected totake part in a variety of professional development activities including faculty and peermentoring, industry tours, tutoring, and internship preparation assistance. This institution islocated in a rural area with many first-generation college students in the engineering studentpopulation. The institution also accepts many students into the engineering program who mayneed an additional
, earning the Ph.D. degreed e g a a ee a j b ffe . S , a e i e e ed i a academic i i i i ki g e ha h ee m e ea f life be d he bachel deg ee. S me field migh e i e kexperience in the profession or post-doctoral studies. If the position is obtained, tenure will beeither earned or denied. So, conceivably after about 10 years of study and work the individualmight have failed in the pursuit of an academic career and some major or minor career changecould be necessary. A negative aspect of pursuing a Ph.D. is that, if a teaching position is notavailable, having the Ph.D. degree might in some cases reduce employment opportunities. In thecase of a traditional engineering position, the candidate might be viewed
(2) where x is the expected value for x calculated from the mean value of n replicated measurements 1 x x (3) n and ux is the combined uncertainty due to random (uR) and systematic (uZ) errors in the measured values: ux uR2 uZ2 (4) 2. Assume random errors are normally distributed and use the standard error in Equation (5) for the random uncertainty in terms of the standard deviation s, and the sample size, n
into two parts: the theoretical and functional. Ideas behindthe advanced manufacturing process under discussion were introduced in the first part of themodule(s) as well as defining the relationship between engineering topics covered in thecurriculum; whereas the active online experimentations were introduced in the second part ofeach module(s) focusing on preliminary engineering concepts and techniques such design anddesign rationale, durability, and other topics needed to build the UAVs. The students wereadvised to use SoildWorks or TinkerCad to make slight adjustments to the general design of theirprojects. The students could also use MATLAB to collect, store and analyze their data dependingon the level of programing experience each student
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Paper ID #32783Work-in-Progress: Social and Cultural Activities Integrated into an REUSite in the U.S. SouthDr. Todd Freeborn, University of Alabama Todd Freeborn is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). He regularly teaches courses in circuit analysis, circuit networks, and microcomputers. Through NSF funding, he has coordinated REU Sites for engineering students to explore renewable resources and speech pathology. He is also the coordinator for an NSF S-STEM program to prepare students for gateway courses across different disciplines of engineering to support and retain students in
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