Outline for Designing a Hybrid First Year Language Course with WebCT. Alabama: Auburn University, 2003.4. Salzmann, C., et al. Requirements for Real-Time Laboratory Experimentation over the Internet. Accessed 12/2004. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/10/f6/e9.pdf.5. Spires, Michele S., Janet Jaeger. A Survey of the Literature on Ways to Use Web-based and Internet Instruction Most Effectively: Curriculum and Program Planning. Virginia: Old Dominion University, 2002.BiographyHEATHER L. COOPER, P.E.Heather L. Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University, where shehas taught for four years in thermal science and machinery diagnostics. Her areas
. Combined use of the computer-aidedsolution and the laboratory experimentation will maximize the students’ learning of thesubject taught in a lecture class. The web based tool may also be used for distanceeducation and for promotion of engineering education to potential future students. Page 10.974.6Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education7. Bibliography1. Gere, James, M.; Mechanics of Materials, Thompson Learning, 2001.2. Mott; Robert L., Applied Strength of Materials, Prentice Hall Inc., 1996.3. Esche, S
students who have insufficient Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationrequisites for one or more courses. To avoid problems during registration, students, inincreasing numbers, are visiting advisors first to make sure they have the proper requisitesand to receive advisement on courses to take. In Fig. 3, the black squares indicate the totalpercentage of registrations in all courses of the respective program appearing to violaterequisite(s). 25 21.1 20
and industry partners, LTU administrationdecided to expand its global engineering program in early 2003 to include Chineseinstitutions. LTU’s President and Provost visited various Chinese universities in late 2002and early 2003 resulting in a Memorandum of Agreement with the Shanghai Universityof Engineering and Sciences (SUES) in 2003.LTU’s Global Engineering partnership in ChinaBeginning in the 1980’s China initiated a multitude of internal and external reformsdesigned to align its economic and educational infrastructure with Western standards.According to Li Deshui, head of the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China'seconomic growth reached a seven-year high at 9.1 percent in 2003. Official statisticsshow China's automobile
Reasoning Skills," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 87, no. 1, 1998, pp. 29-34.[3] Drake, M., Griffin, P., Kirkman, R., and Swann, J., “Engineering Ethical Curricula:Assessment and Comparison of Two Approaches,” Journal of Engineering Education, toappear.[4] Rest, J., Development in judging moral issues, University of Minnesota Press,Minneapolis, 1979.[5] Thoma, S.J., "Do moral education programs facilitate moral judgment? A meta-anaylsisof studies using the Defining Issues Test," Moral Education Forum, vol. 9, no. 4, 1984, pp.20-25.[6] Schaefli, A., J. Rest, and S. Thoma, "Does moral education improve moral judgment? Ameta-analysis of intervention studies using the Defining Issues Test," Review of EducationalResearch, vol. 55, no. 3, 1985
Session 2155 Revisiting the Urgency for Reform of Faculty Reward Systems to Advance Professional Graduate Education for Engineering Practice and Technology Leadership D. R. Depew, 1 G. R. Bertoline, 1 M. J. Dyrenfurth, 1 A. L. McHenry, 2 E. M. DeLoatch, 3 P. Y. Lee, 4 H. J. Palmer, 5 J. W. Bardo, 6 D. D. Dunlap, 6 S. J. Tricamo, 7 D. A. Keating, 8 T. G. Stanford 8 Purdue University 1/ Arizona State University East 2/ Morgan State University 3 California Polytechnic State University 4 / Rochester Institute of Technology 5 Western Carolina University 6/ New Jersey Institute
ideal performance of your neighbor's diesel generator, assuming that the engine undergoes an air-standard Diesel cycle with a compression ratio of 26.0. The air in the piston-cylinder is at 105. [kPa] and 15.0 [C] just prior to the isentropic compression process. The maximum temperature in the cycle is not to exceed 2200 [K]. For cold air-standard we assume constant specific heats at 300 [K]. Draw the P v and T s diagrams for the cycle. The highest pressure in the cycle is: Answer: [0/5 tries] The amount of heat transferred into one cycle is: Answer: [0/5 tries] The work out of the isentropic expansion process for one cycle is: Answer: [0/5 tries] The thermal
us havebeen dragged into the assessment process by accrediting agencies, it must be a servant forimprovement not a process for its own sake or for the sake of accreditation. EleanorRoosevelt once said “Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to makethem all yourself.” Engineering faculty must learn from the mistakes of others, deal with thedifferences among evaluators, and share what is learned to improve our lot in assessment.References[1] Blanchard, S. M., et. al., Rubrics Cubed: Tying Grades to Assessment to Reduce FacultyWorkloads, session 1609, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for EngineeringEducation Annual Conference & Exposition.[2] Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Effective for
Society for Engineering EducationBackgroundEngineering programs at UMD are relatively new, originating in the mid 1980’s with threeprograms that were prescribed to be different from those existing on the Twin Cities campus of theUniversity of Minnesota. Our original mix of programs, consequently, was an interestingcollection of Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Materials ProcessingEngineering, in order to avoid the “traditional” programs that existed in the Twin Cities. As ourprograms have matured, the restrictions imposed by the Twin Cities campus have relaxed, and thethree original programs evolved into Electrical and Computer, Industrial, and ChemicalEngineering programs, respectively. Two years ago we added a Mechanical
, 1997, p viii.6. Brumm, T. J., S. K. Mickelson, B. L. Steward and A. L. Kaleita-Forbes, “Competency-based outcomes assessment for agricultural engineering programs,” International Journal of Engineering Education, 2004, in press.7. Brumm, T.J., A. Ellertson and S.K. Mickelson, “Using ePortfolios to Develop and Assess ABET-Aligned Competencies,” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, American Society for Engineering Education, Nashville, TN, June 2003.8. Mickelson, S.K., T.J. Brumm, and B.L. Steward, “Using Competency Feedback to Assess Agricultural Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, American Society for
effectiveness of the proposed model. One of the options might be theGlobalSpec2 web site with such categories as “Sensors, Transducers and Detectors”, “LaboratoryEquipment and Scientific Instruments”, “Networking and Communication Equipment”, “IndustrialMaintenance”, etc.In the wide variety of technology, communications, information systems, and engineeringprofessions, keeping students and professionals current in their field(s) of expertise becomes anissue of competitiveness and employability. That is why a cycling approach in maintaining a goodknowledge management system is so important: knowledge must be periodically updated to reflectchanges in the relevant engineering and technology fields.To this extent, a technology and engineering knowledge
Introducing Practical County and City Management to Undergraduate Students through the Course “Public Works Engineering and Management Practices” Dr. Fazil T. Najafi and Hammad S. ChaudhryProfessor, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida/ Ph.D. Student, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of FloridaIn every country, healthy infrastructure is essential to economic and social developmentof communities, regions, and nations. A public works department focuses on all criticalissues related to city and county infrastructure management and operations. A publicworks engineering and management course has been developed within the
. Page 10.112.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIt is our conclusion that this short course has been highly successful for those faculty memberswho dedicated themselves to regular participation. Long-term tracking of course participantproductivity in biological or biomedical research areas and/or involving new collaboration(s)with life scientists (in comparison to the Fulton School faculty overall) has been initiated withthe expectation that participants will in the long-term be better positioned for success in suchefforts.References1. For on-line information on this transdisciplinary
capstone course, and for this course projects are selected to build,or perform significant upgrades on a production machine. The end use of these machines is theeducation laboratory. This simplifies the task for students to define the scope of the project, as they havesome experience in the application.Since the focus of the course is plastic manufacturing systems, projects are machines that incorporatesome manufacturing process, such as injection molding, blow molding, extrusion, or bow molding.Figure 3 illustrates a typical project. The basis for this project was a small injection moldermanufactured by Arburg in the 1970’s. Students were charged with renovating the machine to includeadding modern controls, rebuilding the hydraulic system, adding
environment and communications.References Page 10.871.7 1. James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones “ Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and create wealth in Your Corporation ” Lean Enterprise Institute, 2004. 2. A. W. Astin “What Matters in College?: Four Critical years Revised,” Jossey- Bass publishers, San Francisco, 1993. 3. PUGH, S., “ An Engineering student Retention: National and International Perspectives” Proceedings of Engineering Education Conference, pp. 843-851, 1988. 4. C. Moller-Wong and A. Eide “ An Engineering student Retention Study” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No.1, January 1997.Biographical
established to make the formal application to Challenge X. This groupconsisted of 2 faculty members from Chemical Engineering (the authors of this paper), 2from Mechanical Engineering, 1 from Electrical Engineering, and 1 from ComputerScience. On May 11, 2004, the University of Tulsa was selected to be one of 17participants in the Challenge X competition. Most importantly, we were told specificallyby the competition sponsors, General Motors and the U. S. Department of Energy, thatour application was successful because we involved several disciplines not traditionallyinvolved in automotive competitions – particularly Chemical Engineering.ChE Student ParticipationThe Challenge X competition is a three-year competition with a major milestone eachyear
(Figure 1) was provided to Walter S. Pebley, Vice President, Business &Technical Development, at Oregon Freeze Dry, Inc., an FDA registered manufacturing site withexperience in lyophilizing chemicals, biotechnology products, medical devices, pharmaceuticals,and nutraceuticals. In response, Mr. Pebley stated “You have hit the nail on the head"concerning the topics presented in the course. “I have long been an advocate of inclusion of thecontents you have proposed.” Page 10.157.5 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for
simulation, and to Professor RobertLinsenmeier of Northwestern University for his valuable insights on module design.References1. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Eds: Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking, R.R..National Academy Press (Washington; 1999).2. Gunter, H.E., Bonventre, J.V., D’Avila, M.A., Sadeghpour, S., Vijaykumar, R. (2003), “Education Innovation inPhysiology” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Nashville, TN,June 22-25, 2003BiographiesHEATHER E. GUNTER received her Ph.D. in Medical Engineering from the Harvard Division of Engineering andApplied Sciences and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 2003 and expects to receiveher M.D. from Harvard
Sophoremore Freshmen First year Graduate 36% Figure 5. Student Distribution by Five Cohorts Activitie s Research Mentoring 35 30 Tutoring 25 scholarship 20 Supplemental 15
Beat Number Figure 8 (d) 2nd order approximation of PVC response for patient ecg_3Table 1: Model Parameters for PVC response 2nd Order Model [h(z)] Damping Factor Natural Freq.(rad/s)Patient N3828-26 − 65.512 -.835 8.18 1 − 1.36 z 1 + 0.669 z 2Patient PH-170 − 11.678
beats.ConclusionsThis work was accomplished as part of a project in biomedical signal processing class. It hasbeen demonstrated that a real-time cardiac repolarization analysis can be accomplished with theaddition of an application program coupled via a named pipe client with an existing cardiac dataacquisition system. Once the real-time TWR calculation program has been enhanced, clinicalstudies will begin to evaluate the practical relevance of the real-time TWR parameter.Reference1 D'Aunno DS, Dougherty AH, DeBlock HF, Meck JV. Effect of short- and long-duration spaceflight on QTcintervals in healthy astronauts. Am J Cardiol. 2003;91:494-7.2 Zabel M, Acar B, Klingenheben T, Franz M, Hohnloser S, Malik M. Analysis of 12-Lead T-wave morphology forRisk
academicpreparation and unrealistic expectations 2. The AAP’s aimed at students that may have receivedinsufficient academic preparation provide academic support in some of the more troubling areasfor freshmen such as Calculus, Chemistry, and Physics 1,2,14,15. Some of these programs are setupto help freshmen with their acclimation to college by teaching fundamental skills such asstudying, time management, and communication 14,15. Most of these programs are short courses(under six weeks) and can be executed in the summer just before classes begin. The offering of a hands-on course has become more of a norm for curricula since theearly 1990’s. This increase of hands-on courses is the result of COE programs trying to appealto students and has proven to
Science and Math, ERIC Clearinghouse for Science Mathematics and Environmental Education, ED433216, May, 1999[3]. Milbourne, L. A., Encouraging Girls in Science and Math, The ERIC Review, Vol 6, Iss. 2[4]. Takahira, S., Goodings, D., and Byrnes, J., Retention and Performance of Male and Female Engineering Page 10.1179.10 Students: An Examination of Academic and Environmental Variables, Journal of Engineering Education, 87(3), 1998, pp. 297-304 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for
two steps. The first step wasto decide which part of the pultrusion machine code would demonstrate the greatest contrastbetween the two software platforms. And the second step was the actual implementation of thenew programming language.Learning the RSLogix5000 SystemThe first step took considerable thought due to the vast possibilities of RSLogix5000’s fourprogramming languages that are available. Each language is best suited, but not limited to,specific electro-mechanical functionality. For example, ladder logic, which was the soleprogramming option with the RSLogix500 software, is bested suited for2: • Execution of continuous or parallel operations • Binary operations • Logical operations that are complex • Processing of
Education (2001). Science and Technology/EngineeringFramework. Retrieved Jan 4, 2005, http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/scitech/2001/2 Papert, S. (1980) Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, New York, NY: Basic Books.3 Bers, M, Ponte, I, Juelich, K, Viera, A, Schenker, J. (2002) Teachers as Designers: Integrating Robotics in Early Childhood Education. Information Technology in Childhood Education. AACE 123-1454 Bers, M, New, B. & Boudreau, L. (2004) Teaching and learning when no one is expert: Children and parents explore technology. Journal of Early Childhood Research and Practice.5 Scarlett, W.G., Naudeau, S., Salonius-Pasternak, D. and Ponte, I. (2004). Children’s Play. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.6
(VisualBasic for Application). A copy of the program was e-mailed to all the students and they couldeither modify the program for their additional shapes or use any other program to solve theshape(s) which were not initially included in the program. The load and support modulesdetermine the force and moment relationships and the shape module determines the centroid andmoment of inertia expressions. Expressions for moment and deflection (Appendix 1) fordifferent shapes were built into the computer model4. The parameter selection module requiresthat certain parameters be fixed so that only one variable is determined. The parameters may bespecified as a specific value or as a ratio. For example in the evaluation of a rectangular shapethe width or height
C unambiguous needs statement while designing the mechanism for the specified task.2. Students will demonstrate their abilities to perform documents while in process of designing mechanism.Students will outline the basic steps of mechanism design and choose Cthe suitable methods.Students will learn collaboration through teamwork during the Dpreparation of contest.Acknowledgement This research has been sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan, ROC undergrant # NSC92-274511-S-008-002 and NSC93-2522-S-008-003. The authors also want tothank all the participated students who have taken the pilot courses and provide theirfeedback
ased L earn in g C a m p u s, W ired O u tco m es C lassroom s Z U A ca d em ic P rog ram M od el A ssessm en t & F eed b ack - E lectro n ic P o rtfolio Fig.1. Components Supporting the ZU Academic Program ModelThe readiness program is a prerequisite for students to be admitted to general education.Students must satisfy competency in English, basic mathematics and Information Technology.Students spend two years in the
B S.E. Wald Df Sig. Exp(B) Step 1(a) FIG(1) -.673 .346 3.780 1 .052 .510 ACTCOMP .168 .038 19.042 1 .000 1.182 HSrank .013 .005 6.777 1 .009 1.013 Constant -3.260 1.109 8.638 1 .003 .038a Variable(s) entered on step 1: FIG, ACTCOMP, HSrank.Academic success of first-year studentsUsing the same sample, a one-way ANOVA was used to compare first semester mean gradepoint averages (GPA) between