, 2005, http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/science/sc500.htm 4. Mariappan, Monemi, Fan, Enhancing Authentic Learning Experiences through Community-Based Engineering Service Learning, 2005 ASEE-PSW Regional Conference, Loyola Marymount University, April. 5. Saito M, Sawamura S, Carroll B., 1997, “Mass-produced prosthesis uses pultruded fiber reinforced plastic, “Journal of Modern Plastics; 74:175-7. Page 12.1006.7 6. Hahl J, Taya M, Saito M., “Optimization of mass-produced transtibial prosthesis made of pultruded fiber reinforced plastic,” Journal of Material Science and
rooms Number of presentation rooms and room capacity Number of conference rooms and room capacity Number of breakfasts and approximate number of servings Number of lunches and approximate number of servings Dinner banquet and approximate number of servings Social events Break refreshments Audio-visual equipment Transportation 1In considering facilities, the proximity of the hotel(s) is an important aspect. Are thehotels in walking distance or is transportation necessary?Many universities have offices that handle summer camps, and special activities. Itwould be important to contact this office for assistance with the facilities. Many timesfaculty are not familiar with coordinating the many
AC 2007-1712: "WHAT WORKS" IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION? AMETA-ANALYSIS OF VANTH/ERC BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING MODULESDavid Cordray, Vanderbilt University David S. Cordray PhD is Professor of Psychology and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. He is currently the Thrust Leader in Assessment and Evaluation for the VaNTH ERC. Professor Cordray has written extensively on research and evaluation methodology in education and human services areas. He has conducted experimental, quasi-experimental and meta-analytic assessments of intervention effectiveness in education, health, welfare, and other human service areas.Thomas Harris, Vanderbilt University Jennifer Gilbert is graduate student in the Department of
. Shulman, L. (1986). Those who understand: Knowledge growth in teaching. Educational Researcher, 15(2), 4- 14.2. Williams, S. M. (1992). Putting case-based instruction into context: Examples from legal and medical education. The Journal of Learning Sciences, 2(4), 367-427.3. Garvin, D.A. (2003). Making the case: Professional education for the world of practice. Harvard Magazine, 106(1), 56-65.4. Borden, S.L. (1998). Avoiding the pitfalls of case studies. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 13(1), 5-13.5. Lundeberg, M. A. (1999). Discovering teaching and learning through cases. In Lundeberg, M. A., Levin, B. B. & Harrington, H. (Eds.). Who learns what from cases and how: The research base for teaching and learning
AC 2007-527: QUALITY ENGINEERING EDUCATION FOR THE ARAB STATESREGIONBethany Jones, James Madison University BETHANY S. JONES is James Madison Distinguished Professor at the James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She recently completed an 18-month term as Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE. Dr. Jones received her B.A. degree from Chestnut Hill College and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in French from Case Western Reserve University. Following her doctoral work, Dr. Jones held faculty appointments and administrative positions at Cleveland State University, the University of Delaware, Southwest Missouri
important teaching tool. Students’ achievementlevel may be evaluated using ethic’s tests, case studies, legal reviews, exit interview, anda comprehensive survey. The uses of direct and indirect tools presented in this paper arefew of many available tools in achieving desired performance levels for program/ABEToutcomes “c” and “f”.Bibliography1. The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve, onlineethics.org.2. National Institute for Engineering Ethics, Texas Tech University, www.murdough.ttu.edu.3. National Society for Professional Engineers, www.nspe.org.4. Ethics in Engineering, www.matscieng.sunysb.edu/ethics/.5. Law of Engineering and Other Design Professions, www.engineeringlaw.net.6. Pritchard, Michael S
type. For example, if theaverage student score on the exam has been declining each time the exam is offered, then theprogram should recognize this trend and investigate the causes and remedies – closing the loop.Also, if the average scores are good or even rising over time – the definition of success - butspecific question(s) on a specific topic has been consistently poor, then once again the programshould recognize that this concept, which is part of the students desired skill set or it wouldn’t bein the exam, needs to be investigated. Therefore, a tool such as the senior competency exam hasa lot of potentially useful data which can be utilized for assessment but this information is oftenhard to gather and recognize within the large data set
, R.D., J-S. Shih, and S.L. Sessions. 2000. Comparative risk assessment: an internationalcomparison of methodologies and results. J. Hazardous Materials. 78: 19-39. Page 12.1288.6
5 4 Public 3 Frequency 2 Private 1 Rural 0 s t ty
Power Factor KVA KW KVARS “C” bankKVARS “ S 0 100% Desired . LINE FEED PLANT LOAD P.F.CorrectionMOTOR LOAD POWER FACTOR CORRECTION SYSTEM USING SOFTWARE THAT WILL CORRECT THEPOWER FACTOR TO A DESIRED “SET” VALUE.FOR LINE FEED :*THE SYSTEM HAS INDICATORS FOR PLANT LINE FEED VOLTS and AMPSFOR PLANT LOAD :*THE SYSTEM HAS INDICATORS FOR PLANT LOAD POWER FACTOR, KVA, KW, KVARSFOR POWER FACTOR CORRECTIONUSING A “C” (CAPACITOR) BANK:*THE SYSTEM HAS A
://www.ideationtriz.com/software.asp[7] Goldfire Innovator from the Invention Machine, http://www.invention-machine.com/[8] Kaplan, S., Introduction to TRIZ, Ideation International, Inc., 1997.[9] The TRIZ journal, http://www.triz-journal.com/[10] Otto, K. and Wood, K., Product Design, Prentice Hall, 2000.[11] Dieter, G., Engineering Design: A Materials and Processing Approach, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1999.[12] U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission's website, http://www.centennialofflight.gov/index.cfm[13] NASA Glenn Research Center - The Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics, http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K- 12/airplane/[14] Popular Mechanics, http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space[15] ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Mechanical Engineering
Conference4. N. A. Pendergrass, Robert E. Kowalczyk, John P. Dowd, Raymond N. Laoulache, William Nelles, James AGolen and Emily Fowler (1999), Improving First-year Engineering Education, Proceedings of the 1999 Frontiers inEducation conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico5. N. Fisher, S. Rankin, B. Saunders, and K. Millett (2006), Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics:Confronting Diverse Student Interests, A Final Report, Retrieved January 16, 2007, fromhttp://www.math.uic.edu/~mer/pages/Excellencepage/Final_report-_EUM_proj..pdf. Page 12.914.6
evaluating the demonstrations indicated (94% agreement) that the SMA interactivedemonstrations are “very effective” or “effective” in demonstrating the concept of SMA.AcknowledgementsThe authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Science Foundation(Grant No. 0341143 and Grant No. 0305027). This interactive demonstration was an outcomeof an interdisciplinary senior design project.References1. Ambrose, S. A. and C. H. Amon. “Systematic Design of a First-year Mechanical Engineering Course at Carnegie Mellon University,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 173-181, April, 1997.2. Felder, R.M. and L.K. Silverman, “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education,” Engineering of Education, Vol. 78, pp.674-681
International was used in our project, which starts withunderstanding the physics of the basic semiconductor, dielectric, and conducting Page 12.234.3materials. The software provides a Virtual Wafer Fab technology simulation environmentenabling the ATHENA process technology simulators and the ATLAS device technologysimulators to prepare, run, optimize, and analyze semiconductor experiments to achieveoptimal process recipes and device targets3. In our project, the ATLAS device simulatorwas used to simulate the electrical behavior of our devices. The software includes severalmodules: S-Pisces/Device3D, 2D/3D device simulators; Blaze, 2D & 3D devicesimulator
a student enrolls into an institution perceivedas having a particular identity, s/he must engage with that identity and ultimately choose whetherto accept or reject it as personally relevant and desirable or tolerable. Engineering students,particularly at a STEM-intensive institution, must engage with the broader cultural perceptionthat engineers are geeks; at MT, students often refer to themselves and their peers as “engi-nerds,” so closely is the identity of an engineer tied to being geeky or nerdy. APS data indicatethat this process of identification is emergent; first-year students react differently than second-year students to the connection between geeks and engineers. The shift among MT students is todistance themselves from being
Hoffers, TU Delft D. Hoffers is student at Delft University of Technology. He participated 2006 in the BuildingRelations project and developed the sub-tool: SizeDefiner.Matthijs Frederiks, TU Delft M. Frederiks is student at Delft University of Technology. He participated 2006 in the BuildingRelations project and developed the sub-tool: FunctionDistributor.Sander Korebritz, TU Delft S. Korebritz is student at Delft University of Technology. He participated 2006 in the BuildingRelations project and developed the sub-tool: BoundingBox. Page 12.320.1© American Society for Engineering Education
AC 2007-940: A PRIMER ON CAPACITY BUILDINGBethany Jones, United Arab Emirates University BETHANY S. JONES is James Madison Distinguished Professor at the James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She recently completed an 18-month term as Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE. Dr. Jones received her B.A. degree from Chestnut Hill College and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in French from Case Western Reserve University. Following her doctoral work, Dr. Jones held faculty appointments and administrative positions at Cleveland State University, the University of Delaware, Southwest Missouri State University , and
, “…advancesin performance,… technology, or discipline(s), must be much more highly integrated than Page 12.1544.2in the past” [3]. At the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, (UMES) a steadymovement toward more complex design has been the experience of the first yearengineering students enrolled in Introduction to Engineering Design class. TheEngineering and Aviation Science Department uses its unique programs in AviationSciences as well as the basic engineering program as a spring board to seek outmeaningful projects that compliment both units in the Department. Participating facultyhave recognized a departure from past student designs with more
head training, thisarticle will hopefully help suggest the types of topics that might be included based on existingtraining programs and a survey of current civil engineering department heads.Bibliography1 Graham, S. and Benoit, P., “Constructing the Role of Department Chair”.http://www.acenet.edu/resources/chairs/docs/Graham_Constructing.pdf ACE Department Chair Online ResourceCenter, American Council on Education, Washington D.C. 2004 Accessed January 1, 2007.2 Estes, A.C., Survey Results, Department Head Training. Conducted October 6, 2006. Civil EngineeringDepartment Head list serve, Educational Division, American Society of Civil Engineers, pp. 1-5.3 University of Texas, Agenda, Workshop for Department Chairs and Organized Research
. Frey, and L. J. Leifer, “Engineering Design: Thinking, Teaching andLearning” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 94, No.1 , 2005, pp. 103 – 120.5. McDermott, L. C., “How We Teach and How Students Learn – A Mismatch?,” American Journal of Physics, Vol.61, No. 4, 1993, pp. 295 – 299.6. Knight, D. W., L. E. Carson, and J. F. Sullivan, “Staying in Engineering: Impact of a Hands-On, Team-Based,First-Year Projects Course on Student Retention,” Proc. ASEE Annual Conference, 2003, Session 3553.7. Fink, L. D., “What is Significant Learning?,” http://www.ou.edu/idp/significant (accessed Jan. 2007).8. Litzinger, T. A., J. C. Wise, and S. H. Lee, “Self-directed Learning Readiness Among Engineering UndergraduateStudents,” Journal of Engineering
Administration and Human Resource Development at Texas A&M University. Dr. Cole has served in a variety of administrative capacities and as the Director of the Summer Seminar on Academic Administration for twenty-eight years training over 1000 higher education administrators representing over 150 institutions. Dr. Cole's professional interests include continuous improvement in educational systems, educational law and educational administration and he is a frequent speaker and consultant on systemic improvement of educational systems. Dr. Cole received his B. S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and his M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Educational Administration (Higher Education) from Texas A&M
plant model is assumed (see Equation 1) for the transferfunction from applied voltage (Va) to motor speed (y), and data from a step response is used toselect the poles and system gain. As only 3 parameters must be estimated (2 poles and a DCgain), students generally find the poles through trial and error after calculating the gain fromsteady-state values. y K ? 1 Va s - as - b 2Gathering the open-loop response data is a good exercise as the motor system’s control law mustbe modified to create the step input in voltage—the open-loop control law is that the
reinforcement of the need to stay on task and turn in assignments in a timely manner. High school students are also more likely to lose focus and become diverted in to other topics that interested them.Bibliography1. Wallace, D.R., and P. Mutooni, 1997. A comparative evaluation of World Wide Web-based and classroom teaching, Journal of Engineering Education, 86(3): 211-219.2. Haag, S., and J.C. Palais, 2002. Engineering Online: Assessing Innovative Education, Journal of Engineering Education, 91(3): 285-290.3. Rutz, E., R. Eckart, J.E. Wade, C. Maltbie, C. Rafter, V. Elkins, 2003. Student Performance and Acceptance of Instructional Technology: Comparing Technology-Enhanced and Traditional Instruction for a Course in
years of teaching experience in the fields/subjects of photovoltaics, fuel cells and batteries with over 50 journal and conference publications/presentations. Page 12.255.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Arizona -Texas Consortium for Alternative and Renewable Energy Technologies L.V. Munukutla, R. Newman, A.M. Kannan, G. Tamizhmani, and S. Petrovic Electronic Systems Department Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campusAbstract The focus of the Arizona–Texas Consortium for Alternative and RenewableEnergy Technologies is to
thank the students in all offerings of my course on Engineering and Global Development fortheir feedback in helping develop the course. I thank the reviewers for challenging commentsthat surely improved this paper. This material is based upon work supported by the NationalScience Foundation under Grant No. 0448240. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. ABET Engineering Criteria 2007-2008. http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents-UPDATE/Criteria%20and%20PP/C001%2007-08%20CAC%20Criteria%2011-14-06.pdf Accessed January 8, 2007.2. Harvey, D. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford
a difference?” Electronic Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE), 1996 Frontiers in Education Conference.2. Brainard, S. G. and Carlin, L. (1998). “A six-year longitudinal study of undergraduate women in engineering and science.” Journal of Engineering Education, October 1998, pp. 369-375.3. Robinson, T. (1990). “Understanding the gap between entry and exit: A cohort analysis of African American students’ persistence.” Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 59 (2), pp. 207-218.4. Soriana, E. (1985). “Financial aid.” In R. Landis (Ed.), Improving the retention and Graduation of Minorities in Engineering. NACME, New York, pp. 93-98.5. Patangia, H.C. (2003). “A recruiting and retention strategy
accomplish the same goal and would be easier toimplement. Lynxmotion, in fact, markets a small turn table for this type application.Simulation of Lynx Robot The MS Robots Suite includes a simulation package. One of the nextgoals is to model the Lynxmotion robot so that programs may be executed off line. Oregon Institute of Technology has several old robots from the 1970’s that are stillmechanically sound, but whose controls are hopelessly out of date. Modern stepper or servodrives are available relatively inexpensively. Software drivers will be written for the some ofthese devices to allow MS Robotics Suite to address them as services. The software written forthe Lynxmotion controls will be modified to allow the same user interface to drive these
common knowledge in the field of engineering education that numbers of women andminorities obtaining engineering degrees is far below their representation in the U.S.population[1]. Many studies have sought to discern reasons for lack of representation of womenand minorities in science, mathematics and engineering degree programs. Studies related tominority students point to, among other factors, lack of pre-college academic preparation,financial difficulties, barriers related to being first generation college students [e.g. 2, 3, 4] and socio-cultural factors [5]. Studies related to female student underrepresentation in S&E fields havesuggested that women leave not from a lack of academic ability, but among other reasons,because of socio
Page 12.640.3reduced lunch— preliminary post-hoc examination of the data has not shown evidence ofinteraction effects.Because control data was collected in the 2005-2006 school year, comparison against a controlpopulation has not been possible for questions developed after 2005. For these more recentquestions—most of them unit questions—only the EiE student results are presented.Sample SizeWe are working with a sample size of 5,139 students who used the EiE curriculum and 1,827students from the control sample who did not. Each EiE student completed a GeneralEngineering assessment, as well as questions from the EiE unit(s) he or she completed. Eachcontrol student completed 1/3 of the General Engineering assessment (questions randomlyassigned