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that are present in a number of core educationtheories. The observations of student gaps and repair/remediation issues are the everyday, reallife exemplars of what happens when there is a mismatch between principles of theory andpractice. The learning cycles approach, first articulated in the late 1950’s and 1960’s by RobertKarplus and J. Myron Atkin (physics/elementary science education) and independently Page 25.1160.3developed by Chester Lawson (biology education) (Lawson, 1989), is one of these corephilosophies which informs this research. Karplus and Atkin based their Learning Cyclesapproach on observation and Piaget’s work on
by contributing to ongoing faculty research projects or pursuing anindependent research topic. More than 555 participants have completed the USRG program sincethe summer of 2000.The objectives of the program are to: 1) provide immersive research experience(s) forengineering undergraduates; 2) increase participant’s interest in pursuing graduate studies withan emphasis on the Ph.D. program; 3) increase participant’s awareness of the graduate schoolexperience; 4) provide an outlet to enhance participant’s writing and communications skills; 5)increase participant’s understanding of the graduate school application process for admissionsand fellowships; and subsequently, 6) position participants to be more competitive for graduateadmissions and
Characterizing the Environment for Sustainability (SLICES): Im-proving Understanding of Real World Systems via Direct Observation/Reflection. The opinionsexpressed are those of the authors and do not imply endorsement by NSF. The authors gratefullyacknowledge the contributions of the 54 undergraduate interns who collected industry data andprovided important feedback about involving undergraduates in research to improve the SLICESprogram.Bibliography1 Rothman, H. (1992). "You need not be big to benchmark." Nation's Business, December, 80(12), 64-65.2 Fisher, D., Miertschin, S., and Pollock, D.R. (1995). “Benchmarking in construction industry.” J. Management inEngineering, 11(1), 50-57.3 Mitra, C., Pearce, A.R., and Fiori, C.M. (2011). “Developing
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intheir final semester(s): a two-semester (6 credit) thesis option, or a one to two semester (3-4 credit total) Master’sproject. A technical capstone course is an alternative to the Master’s project in the Technology Managementdepartment. These courses are fairly typical of most graduate engineering programs in the U.S. The thesis optionentails a research project. The Master’s project may be research or application-based, but is done by a studentworking alone with an advisor. The technical capstone course focuses on the creation of a business plan, but lacksthe time needed for student teams to create prototypes, and has not led to commercialization of any productconcepts. More than 150 graduate engineering students take these courses each
subsequent courses Empirical studies show that students who earn a high score on the exam perform well when placed directly into subsequent courses (longer-range goal) Portfolio Assessments• AP Studio Art courses have high-level content requirements but they do not have an in-depth curricular framework• While this allows maximum flexibility and independence for teachers and students, we found that it would be beneficial for new faculty to have a curricular framework and supporting materials to use if desired• Two optimal paths for creating a successful portfolio – Structured course in subject – Portfolio of work created based on independent project(s)• How might you envision your college students contributing to our
technology program will greatly be beneficial not only to students but to theprofessors as well.Bibliography1. D'Onofrio, A. & Bowes, K. (2007). Hybrid Instruction 101: It’s in the Design. In T. Bastiaens & S. Carliner (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (pp. 1500-1506). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Page 25.541.42. Spilka, R., (2002, March). Approximately "Real World" Learning with the Hybrid Model. Teaching with Technology Today, 8 (6).3. Young, J.R. (2002, March 22). 'Hybrid' teaching seeks to end the divide between traditional and online
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allow for greatersurface area coverage. This characteristic is very beneficial in the field of medicine.Another technique used to produce fibers from macromolecules is known as forced drawingunder heat. This technique has been used since the early 1900’s in the production of cottoncandy. It is a process by which macromolecules in a solution or melt are converted into fiberswith the help of mechanical force. In heating, molecules become mobile. The mobility of themolecules and the contact with air causes the macromolecules to become fibers.The process of turning macromolecules into fibers has many benefits. Medical uses, materialproduction, energy, and pleasurable foods are all areas that highlight the profound uses ofmacromolecules turned into
relevant course(s). A separate request was sent to the instructors ofrecord for the MEB course during the 2010-2011 academic year when that information waspublically available. From that population, 76 usable surveys representing 67 institutions in theUnited States were received.This 42% institutional response rate represents a continued improvement from the results of the2009 survey4 (31%) and 2010 survey5 (38%), but still falls short of the response rates in 1990(78%) and 1999 (51%). No response data is available for the 1972 survey. Page 25.703.2The complete survey in print form is provided as Appendix A.Quantity of InstructionOf the sixty-three
meetings which took placeduring Fall 2011, the first semester of the pilot year. Of the 9 groups with mentors, only onefailed to schedule and complete a meeting. Group# Student Group Major Mentor Major Meeting(s) 1a Mechanical Mechanical Dessert night; Dinner/bonfire at mentor's home 1b Mechanical (no mentor) 1c Mechanical (no mentor) 2a Civil Civil Group Meeting 2b Civil Civil Café Dinner
in relation to Strategy, Design, Transition, Operation, Autonomous Graduate, Business G8,G9,G11,G12,G13,G14, information systems CSI, ISO 20000, ISO 27000, CMDB Basic learning training or Self training G15 Document explained and presented information about the various aspects involved in the IT Service Management, IT Governance, Undergraduate, I3, I5, I16, I18, S Slides DEVELOPED
Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S). Schwartz has authored or co-authored 25 papers and conferences including one Best Student Paper (ANTEM/URSI), and co-authored one book chapter on Optoelectronic VLSI. His expertise spans a broad variety of topics including photonics, analog and integrated circuits, microwave and mm- wave technology, and recently, sensing applications.Dr. Ashley Ater Kranov, ABET Ashley Ater Kranov is ABET’s Managing Director of Professional Services. Her department is responsi- ble for ensuring the quality training of program evaluators, partnering with faculty and industry to conduct robust and innovative technical education research, and providing educational opportunities on sustainable
AC 2012-3973: INVOLVING STUDENTS IN AN INTERNATIONAL TECH-NOLOGY EXCHANGEDr. Clifton B. Farnsworth, Brigham Young University Clifton Farnsworth received B.S. and M..S degrees in civil engineering from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Utah. He worked as a geotechnical engineer for eight years with the Utah Department of Transportation, spent three years as an Assistant Professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas, Tyler, and has a current appointment as an Assistant Professor of construction management at Brigham Young University.Prof. Mark Owen Lords, Brigham Young University Mark Lords received B.S. and M.Acc. degrees in accounting from Brigham Young
in EVEN and another major; these students were counted fully as EVEN majors. Datafrom 2005 and 2008 has been omitted since the course had a different instructor.In addition to student major, the sub-disciplinary focus of the students is an additional variable.EVEN majors select among six sub-disciplines (W = water resources and treatment, En =energy, Ec = ecology, R = remediation, A = air, C = chemical processing; S = special optioncreated by student via petition). They generally would prefer to have a project that engages theirstrength and interest area. CVEN majors specialize in water resources and treatment whileCHEN majors specialize in chemical processing. The distribution of these sub-disciplinesamong the EVEN majors in the course
, procurement, and/or regulation thatthe government provides”. Myers 20 includes in the definition “decisions”, “commitments” and“actions”. In addition, it includes not only the government but also the interpretation of the Page 25.383.4government’s positions of authority interpreted by “various stakeholders” 20 . Myers also addsthat a public policy “affect[s] the daily lives of the government citizens” 20, “our lives including,but not limited to, federal, state and local governments. Public universities, its utilities, andNGOs may also be included.”14.History and role of engineers in Public PolicyIt is also helpful for engineering students
program: Strategies and experiences,” Huffman, S., Albritton, S., Wilmes, B. (editors). Hershey, Penn.: IGI Global. She maintains research and publishing tracks in nascent interdisciplinary trust concepts, eLearning, and innovative teaching, learning in fields of statistics and research methods, engineering, medical fields, and assessment methods.Dr. Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech C. T. Amelink is currently serving as the Research Analyst and Assessment Specialist for the Dean’s Office, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech. Previously, she worked on assessment initiatives with the Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning, Division of Student Affairs, and the Center for Excellence in Undergraduate
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layout using EagleCad design tools.Schematics – One of the major design considerations was the testing and expansion capabilitiesof the E-Clock™ project. E-Clock™’s primary purpose, of course, is to keep and display timethrough the use of LEDs. As shown in Figure 3, the LEDs were arranged in a row and columnmatrix so that only 15 digital signals (12 X and 3 Y) are needed to control the state (ON/OFF) ofup to 36 different LEDs. To create the effect of up to three LEDs being on at the same time, thecontrol software strobes the Y signals for a short period of time. Each light is turned on for aduty cycle (that can be varied) at a frequency of approximately 250 Hz. By varying the dutycycle of the Y signals, the intensity of the LEDs can also be
construction is planned for the summer of 2012.Each Chase classroom is equipped with white boards, a multimedia teaching station that includesa computer, digital projector, and an overhead visualizer or camera. The stations are connectedto the internet. Two of the lecture halls also have distance education capability with a centralcontrol room, high resolution cameras, and microphones. Power is also available for studentlaptops at their desks in some of the halls. Wireless computer access (801.2n, (54 Mbit/s to 600Mbit/s)) is available to students and staff on all levels of the building. However, a recentproblem has been the saturation of bandwidth at certain times of the day due to the increasingpopularity of wireless internet. The status of the
presented. This analyzer is designed to producespectrum of low frequency signals ranging from 10 Hz to 20 kHz. This instrument is low-cost,easily implemented, offers a robust gain and high quality factor, and user friendly in comparisonto the existing spectrum analyzers. Additionally, it is suitable to be used as a student project. Thedesign lends itself nicely to increasing the number of bands in the spectrum, although forillustration purposes only 12-band was considered in this paper.References1. L Jones, and A. F. Chin, Electronic Instruments and Measurements, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1983).2. S. Celma, A. Carlosena, and P. A. Martinez, PC-Based Spectrum Analyzer, IEEE Transaction on Education, Vol. 35, No. 3 (1992).3. Hewlett Packard, The
gotten right or wrong until much later.”Based on the above observations, we are planning to develop and assess the effectiveness ofthese unlimited assessment quizzes for all topics of a typical course in Numerical Methods.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos0717624, 0836981, 0836916, 0836805, and the Research for Undergraduates Program in theUniversity of South Florida (USF) College of Engineering. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
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the function. Building students’foundational understandings of functions and their rates of change, and applying theseunderstandings in meaningful contexts, while at the same time developing their basic algebraskills, appears to have contributed to their subsequent success in their first college mathematicscourse.References[1] National Science Foundation. (2008). Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum, and Infrastructure. Retrieved on 4/20/2011 from http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08542/nsf08542.htm[2] Brainard, S. G., & Carlin, L. (1998). A six-year longitudinal study of undergraduate women in engineering and science. Journal of Engineering Education, 87(4), 369-375.[3] Hartman, H., & Hartman, M. (2006