government laboratories are equal partners in developing solutions forunmanned systems.Objective 3: Develop and Articulate Unmanned System Requirements and Specifications1. I have knowledge about the current state-of-the-art commercially available unmanned systems.2. I understand how operational needs can translate to the technical requirements of a system.3. I can use a formal engineering design process to generate the specifications and performance measures fromhigh level requirements.4. I can separate the desired functionality from a specific design solution.5. I understand the importance of possessing both technical and operational skills to generate a requirement.6. I appreciate the need for testable or demonstrable requirements.7. I understand
program, all students participate in aworkshop on Puerto Rican cultural scripts. This workshop is addressed to immerse the USstudents in the Puerto Rican culture. In addition; the students participate in a variety of culturaland scientific excursions including international exhibits at the Ponce Art Museum, guided toursof El Yunque National Rainforest; and trips to Old San Juan, the National Astronomy andIonosphere Center Arecibo Observatory, and the research laboratories from the UPRM MarineSciences Department at Isla Magueyes. To complement the experience, the students are alsoexposed to a variety of industrial settings, such as IBM, Hewlett Packard, Stryker Corporation,Amgen, Ethicon, among others. During these plant tours, the company’s
joined the ABET headquarters staff as Educational Research and Assessment Manager in the Professional Services Department. In this role,Williams manages ABET’s educational offerings on a global scale and leads technical education research projects. Prior to joining ABET,Williams held two positions at Baton Rouge Community College: Science Laboratory Manager and Adjunct Faculty in the Mathematics Department. In addition, Williams works closely with the National Science Foundation’s Next Generation Composites Crest Center at Southern University. In this role, she supports the center’s mission to increase the awareness of engineering education to underrepresented minority groups on both the secondary and post-secondary
- rience for Undergraduates Program. Since 2006, this program has sent 106 young U.S. engineering and physics students to Japan for research, language, and cultural study. She also manages the reciprocal NanoREIS: Research Experiences for International Students at Rice University which provides oppor- Page 21.15.1 tunities for students from the laboratories of our Japanese collaborators to come to Rice for short-term research internships. Since 2008, 60 Japanese students have come to Rice for research through this pro- gram. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013
, laboratory practices, modeling andsimulation practices, worksheets/spreadsheets) has been developed for the DE course. Its mainaxis is concerned with the modeling of biological, physical or chemical phenomena.Recent research has shown the need to change the way to teach DE, from the “traditional” way,which emphasizes analytical methods, to an integrative mode, which uses graphical andnumerical methods. This integrative mode should enable students to identify and recognize a DEin its different representations; and thus, improve the learning of DEs as mathematical objects.The student should not only learn how to use techniques to solve DEs but also learn theapplication of the DE as a tool to model several problems. This is also strengthened through
is affiliated with the ikt and holds teaching positions in ”Collaborative Engineering”, ”Principles and Processes of Lightweight Design” and ”Structural and Systematic Engineering Design”. His research group focusses on PLM and Systematic Innovation.Dr. Pradosh K. Ray, Tuskegee University Pradosh Ray is Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department at Tuskegee University, Al- abama. He earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering at IIT, Kharagpur and his MS and PhD in Nuclear Engineering at London and Penn State, respectively. He has four years industry experience and thirty seven years in academia. His current interests are in course, curriculum, and laboratory development
2000.” Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, Ore., www.nwrel.org/planning/ rna2000.html Accessed Sept. 2005.10. National Science Board, “Science and engineering indicators, 1998.” NSB 98-1, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Va. 1998.11. Russell, J. S., “Mentoring in Engineering,” Leadership and Management in Engineering, January, 2006, pp.34-37.12. Brookfield, S. D., the Skillful Teacher, Jossey –Bass, San Francisco, 1990.13. Shor, I., and Freire, P.A., Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on Transforming Education. Granby, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey, 1987.14. .Moustakas, C., The Authentic Teacher: Sensitivity and Awareness in the Classroom. Cambridge, Mass.: Howard A. Doyle, 196615
Page 23.916.1 laboratories. Gilbuena has an M.B.A., an M.S., and four years of industrial experience including a po- sition in sensor development, an area in which she holds a patent. Her dissertation is focused on the characterization and analysis of feedback in engineering education. She also has interests in the diffusion of effective educational interventions and practices. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Paper ID #7130Dr. Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State UniversityCasey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University Casey J. Ankeny, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow in
and thus may underemphasize approximationskills(13).Attempts to rectify the situation would require research and development and eventuallyinstigating potential changes in curricula and teaching methods.4) Physical modeling and experimentation: Unfortunately, the advent of the computer and itsimpact on teaching engineering has made it easy to produce computer-based models at theexpense of physical models. This fact is behind a general trend of teaching applied engineeringsubjects with minimal students’ involvement with physical set-ups including laboratoryexperiments. Carrying out laboratory experiments and generating experimental data, visiting aproject site, and using pencil and paper to produce a schematic, are gradually fading away
community college students to participate in upper-division university laboratory andcapstone design courses. The third strategy is the development of a research internship programspecifically designed for community college students.Strategy 1: Curriculum Enhancements through Contextualized Teaching and LearningRecently, the California Community Colleges Basic Skills Initiative has identified contextualizedteaching and learning as a promising strategy to actively engage students and improve learning inbasic skills courses and career/technical education.18 Contextualized learning has been defined as a“diverse family of instructional strategies designed to more seamlessly link the learning offoundational skills and academic or occupational content by
as follows: The deformation and wave propagation should be uniform and uniaxial so that the strain rate and compressive stress wave could be determined accurately based on the technique introduced by Kolsky. The maximum strain rate of 5000 should be attained by the apparatus.The design constraints are as follows: Due to limitation of the laboratory space, the apparatus size should be limited to 2 meters in length. Due to budget limitation, the total cost of the prototype should not exceed $1000.Initial Design:As shown in Figure 2, the major components of a generic Split Hopkinson Pressure Barapparatus are as follows: Nitrogen Tank / Compressor is the pressure source that the striker projectile is provided in
members gain an introduction to increasingly relevant STEMprinciples and a foundational knowledge that prepares them to take an educated and active rolein community planning and decision-making.Golden Gate Bridge: An Outdoor ExhibitIn order to demonstrate the ability of public works sites to satisfy cultural curiosity through richvisitor experiences, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District (GGBHTD)partnered with EHDD Architecture, the Consortium of Universities for Research in EarthquakeEngineering (CUREE), the Exploratorium of San Francisco, West Wind Laboratory, LightHousefor the Blind, and Princeton University to create an outdoor exhibit at the Golden Gate Bridge.The exhibit explains factors that influenced the Golden Gate
Department of Engineering, which graduated its inaugural class in May 2012. At JMU, Dr. Pierrakos is the director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) and director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through ser- vice, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as complex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 en- gineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science
selective university admissions practices, particularly in the STEM fields. Tours were held on the Vanderbilt campus and in their STEM laboratories. Attendees were encouraged to return to their classrooms with stories of how their subject areas are used in real research.3) Strategic Technical Experiences and Mentoring with University Partners Attendees learned about successful partnerships as well as brainstorm projects and programs on which to build a long-term partnership between their school and near-by higher education and professional entities. They also developed strategies for working with scientists and
gained increased popularity in engineering education.The functionality of simulating paper and pencil by allowing the user to use a stylus and writedirectly on the computer screen to create electronic documents that can be easily edited usingcommonly available computer applications makes Tablet PCs more suitable than laptopcomputers in solving and analyzing problems that require sketches, diagrams, and mathematicalformulas. Combined with wireless networking technology, Tablet PCs have the potential toprovide an ideal venue for applying previously proven collaborative teaching and learningtechniques commonly used in smaller engineering laboratory and discussion sessions to a larger,more traditional lecture setting. Currently, the range of use of
papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his areas of the research interests. He has also been PI or co-PI for various research projects United States and abroad in power systems analysis and protection, load and energy demand forecasting and analysis, renewable energy analysis, assessment and design, turbulence and wave propagation, radar and remote sensing, instrumentation, atmosphere physics, electromagnetic compatibility, and engineering education.Dr. Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel UniversityMr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric Carr is currently the Laboratory Technician for Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program. Eric assists faculty members with the development and
devise implementation plans for theirown classrooms. During the second week, each teacher was invited to bring two students toparticipate in a teaching laboratory, with the teachers teaching the modules in a highly supportedenvironment, surrounded by SENSE IT staff (see Figure 4). This opportunity to implement thematerials with students gave the teachers an opportunity to review the materials again and to seehow they worked with students. They found this a very effective approach, both in terms of theamount of additional time they were able to spend with the curriculum and in terms of howseeing their own students work through the modules increased their own confidence in theirability to teach the SENSE IT modules to entire classes.The
for Improving Page 23.1161.13Human Effectiveness for Extreme-Scale Problem Solving: Assessing the Effectiveness of Electronic Brainstormingin an Industrial Setting,” SAND2008-5971, Sandia National Laboratories, September 2008.21. Kohn, N.W., P.B. Paulus, & Y. Choi, “Building on the Ideas of Others: An Examination of the IdeaCombination Process,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 2011, pp. 554-561.22. Putman, V.L., & P.B. Paulus, “Brainstorming, Brainstorming Rules and Decision Making,” Journal of CreativeBehavior, 43, 2009, pp. 23−39.23. Rietzschel, E.F., B.A. Nijstad, & W. Stroebe, “Productivity is Not
, 2004.40. Glenn, D., “Close the Book. Recall. Write it Down”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1, 2009.41. McDaniel, M., Roediger, H., and McDermott, K., “Generalizing Test-Enhanced Learning From the Laboratory to the Classroom”, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2007, pp. 200-20642. Klionsky, D., “The Quiz Factor”, Letter to the Editor, CBE Life Sciences Education, American Society for Cell Biology, Vol. 7, No. (3), 2008, pp. 265-266.43. Karpicke, J. and Roediger, “The Critical Importance of Retrieval for Learning”, Science, 15 february 2009, Vol. 319, No. 5865, pp. 966-968.44. Cutrim, E., Rudge, D., Kits, K., Mitchell, J. and Nogueira, R., “Changing Teaching Techniques and Adapting New Technologies to Improve
Paper ID #7553The Impact of Inclusive Excellence Programs on the Development of Engi-neering Identity among First-Year Underrepresented StudentsDr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the engineering assessment specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Pro- gram and Laboratory. He holds a BA in psychology from Louisiana State University, and an MS degree in industrial/organizational psychology and PhD degree in counseling psychology, both from the University of Tennessee. Prior to joining the University of Colorado at Boulder, he gained extensive experience in assessment and
expertise (for example through more detailed analysis or currentevents).Faculty can use class time for any number of activities without worrying about covering content.With the content removed from the class time, faculty can use that class time for more engagingactivities. This could include projects, guest speakers, field trips, laboratory experiments ordemonstrations.Class can be better organized without concern about not covering enough material in class. In atraditional lecture format the material must fit within the class time. If not, the schedule (e.g.dates for homework assignments, quizzes, exams) needs to be re-arranged. With a flippedcourse the pre-class material does not need to conform to a specific time frame.Learning becomes student
didn’t undertake anykind of training.MethodologyThe training was performed in the Graphic Design laboratory. The aim was to obtain data aboutthe improvement of spatial ability in the groups using the three methodologies and to find outfrom the feedback of students their motivation and satisfaction.The study was performed at the beginning of the 2011/12 academic year, so when they undertookthis task these students had not attended any kind of Engineering Graphics classes previously.The spatial abilities of engineering students were measured before and after training using boththe Mental Rotation Test (MRT) and the Differential Aptitude Test (DAT-5:SR). Besides, uponcompletion of training, the students completed two surveys about their
section which deals with programming robots. Managed a laboratory, which allowed students Page 23.1261.1 to complete experiments. AT&T Broadband, Pittsburgh Penn., May 2000 to Dec. 2002, Head end Tech- nician, responsible for all aspects of high speed data, telephony and cable operations, hybrid fiber to coax transmissions, programming in Visual Basic, C++, Java scripting, and M.S. Office. Experience with systems such as Cheetah, Path Tracks, and Cornerstone. Access Bandwidth Technician, responsible for c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013
process from the need to prototype in an open-ended environment working in teams. Problems are presented that Page 23.1263.3 allow students to define, build, and test the solutions. • Engineering Applications in Math: Students are introduced to salient math topics presented within the context of their engineering application reinforced through hands-on laboratory or computer simulation assignments. • Models and Applications in Physical Sciences: Physical science and lab modules are used to understand the importance of modeling and math in discovering principles of physics and chemistry. Elective
been met. This evidence can include term papers, tests,laboratory reports, homework or other class assignments, presentations given, and letters fromemployers or professors. The ITA is the most significant aspect of ensuring that programoutcomes are achieved by all graduates.The student must satisfactorily address each program outcome by developing appropriatelearning statements and providing supporting evidence. The learning statements for eachprogram outcome are graded on the following scale: 0 – Not Responsive to Outcome (Evidence not provided for relevant courses or experiences. Coursework and other examples not demonstrative of required knowledge. The student will need to improve the learning statement and/or supporting
to class journal articles, pictures, and otherexamples of ancient technologies. Page 23.1335.13Once again, it became apparent that some form of laboratory project or exercise would beappropriate for this course. However, not all of the students have the time, training, and skillsrequired to recreate ancient artifacts. In addition, it is extremely difficult to incorporate alaboratory project or exercise into a lecture only course. That is why it is so important tocontinue to discover and implement new and interesting ways to bring ancient artifacts into theclassroom. This has been accomplished with great success in the past and will likely
College’s Engineering StudentSuccess Center during the academic year and had rigorous training in advising and mentoring.The peer mentors formally interacted with the EXCEED students through active participation inthe projects and activities and leading nightly small discussion groups and informally duringmeals and break times.Campus Resource Hunt: Teams of students went on a photo “scavenger” hunt to discover theresources across campus, including the library, counseling, registrar, bursar’s office, writingcenter, and tutoring and advising centers.College of Engineering Tour: Students went on a comprehensive tour of the buildinghighlighting classrooms, student club space, laboratories, and department offices.Student Panels: Groups of current
these individuals we examined the NSF award Page 23.594.10database, particularly the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) andTransforming Undergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) award base, as well as the engineeringeducation literature. The leaders of the first round of VCPs are: Dr. Ken Connor and Dr. LisaHuettel in the circuits VCP, Dr. Edward Berger and Dr. Brian Self in the mechanics VCP, Dr.John Chen and Dr. Milo Koretsky in the thermodynamics VCP, Dr. Lisa Bullard and Dr. RichardZollars in the mass and energy balance VCP, and Dr. Mary Besterfield-Sacre and Dr. JenniferTurns in the FOEE VCP.In the first year, each Faculty