equations of motion for con-servative systems. This formulation of dynamics is typically reserved for courses in which it canbe derived, which students encounter in their senior years at the earliest. However, while diffi-cult to derive, Lagrange’s equations are easy to use for conservative systems, even for sophomorestudents. They perform the functions of uniting energy methods with Newton’s second law andintroduce students to the concept of equations of motion that will be used consistently in juniordynamic systems. An example project is presented along with student feedback.SolidWorks for VisualizationWork integrating SolidWorks examples into the course can be broken into two categories: in-classexamples and student assignments. In-class
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University specializing in electrical machines and power systems, multimedia tutoring, and control and optimization of dynamic systems. He has been the principle investigator of a project for the development of an intelligent tutoring shell that allows instructors create their own web-based tutoring system. His current research focuses on security of cyber-physical systems based on multiagent framework with applications to the power grid, and the integration of an intelligent virtual laboratory environment in curriculum. He is an associate editor of Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems: Series B, and is a member of IEEE, ASEE, and Sigma Xi
SUCCEED Coalition. She remains an active researcher with MIDFIELD, studying gender issues, trans- fers, and matriculation models in engineering.Ms. Xingyu Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette Xingyu Chen is a Ph. D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She ob- tained her master’s degree in operational research and bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Zhejiang University, China. She started to pursue her Ph.D. degree in engineering education at Purdue in 2010. She is working with Dr. Ohland on the Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Lon- gitudinal Development (MIDFIELD), and also on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) database.Dr. Marisa
reflection can help a student process the widevariety of experiences he or she may be having.7 Therefore being involved in global projectexperiences allow an opportunity for students to sort out their own development through self-reflection as well as allow faculty to use those reflections as evidence of development. Recallthat nurturing students is essential to a successful global engineering program.3 Having ascaffolded reflective practice experience integrated with a global engineering program can giveglobal engineering faculty an opportunity to see what can be done to improve their students’ Page 24.82.7development. Downey recognizes that in
Paper ID #8911Dissemination of Microprocessor Courses through Classroom and InteractiveCyber-Enabled TechnologiesDr. Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University Steve Hsiung is an associate professor of electrical engineering technology at Old Dominion University. Prior to his current position, Dr. Hsiung had worked for Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Seagate Tech- nology, Inc., and Lam Research Corp., all in Silicon Valley, CA. Dr. Hsiung also taught at Utah State University and California University of Pennsylvania. He earned his BS degree from National Kauhsi- ung Normal University in 1980, MS degrees from University of
Page 24.1160.2IntroductionFor a number of years now, engineering instructors throughout the world have begun toexperiment with the notion of a “flipped” or “inverted” classroom. This teaching approachencourages students to gain the required base knowledge of a concept prior to class through short“mini-lecture” videos or other preparatory exercises. The great potential for this approach is thatit provides instructors with the opportunity to reimagine and redesign the in-class experience tocreate a more active learning environment.Recently, this approach was applied to the teaching of an electric and magnetic fields course aspart of the second-year electrical and computer engineering curriculum at the University ofToronto, which is a large
systems-on-a-chip with billions of transistors integrated on a silicon substrate smallerthan the size of a dime. As these new applications evolved, buoyed by the accurate prediction ofMoore’s Law (actually, only an observation) of future increases in microelectronics densities andlower costs, technology has become mainstream in today’s society. Finally, as computers andtheir use has become ubiquitous, the Internet (realized by computer networking technologies) hasbrought us clearly into the digital telecommunications era (think high definition television, 4Gcell phones, and streaming video) and to the cusp of the next evolution in the use of electronicstechnology. Today, the emphasis on electronic systems has prompted debate on how the materialin
bodily-kinesthetic intelligence”3 to name a few. Gardener views intelligence as an individual’s abilityto solve problems or create products that are valued by society. The implication for teaching andlearning is that instructors need to vary the inputs and have a repertoire of strategies forfacilitating learning. The more ways we find to process material, the stronger learning becomes.We need to recognize there’s no “one best way.”Learning is enhanced in an enriched environment. The physical environment of the classroom iscertainly important (aesthetics, climate, etc.), but so too is the learning environment that wecreate to get students to use their minds well. An enriched learning environment is a settingwhere students are actively engaged in
discussion,particularly when they can speak and hear their own words. Visual learners like words,pictures, symbols, flow charts, diagrams, and reading books. Sequential learners prefer linearreasoning, step-by-step procedures, and material that comes to them in a steady stream. Globallearners are strong integrators and synthesizers making intuitive discoveries and connectionsto see the overall system or pattern26. Both innate personality traits and prior experiences mayinfluence preferences on each of these scales.The Index of Learning Styles provides scores showing the strengths of an individual‘spreference for one category or the other on each of the four dimensions. The instrument is a44-item questionnaire4 that requires choosing one of two
Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Learning ANOVA Concepts Using Simulation Leslie Chandrakantha Abstract: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is an City University of New York, New York, NY 10019, USA. (phone:important topic in introductory statistics. Many students 212-237-8835,email:lchandra@jjay.cuny.edu).struggle to understand the ANOVA concepts. Statistical Their evaluation of the simulation suggests that it provided anconcepts are important in engineering education. In this effective supplement to book and lecture based methods ofpaper, we describe
(feasibility) ofthese ideas is also addressed. In engineering education, a number of techniques are implementedto develop creativity and enhance ideation capabilities of students. These techniques includebrainstorming2, brainwriting3, collaborative sketching4, morphological analysis5, transformationaldesign using mind-mapping6, design by analogy7, principles of historical innovators8, and variouscombinations of the aforementioned techniques9. Developing an ability to innovate has beenapproached through improvisation10, the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ)11-20, and theS-field (also referred as Su-field) theory21.One of the commonly used techniques in ideation is brainstorming (especially when solvinggeneric, non-engineering problems
tools help them.While the CorpU platform proved successful in many ways, it was not perfect. When presentedwith five possible upgrades, students overwhelmingly selected an integration of Google Driveinto the LMS as the most important upgrade. These results highlight the ongoing transformationof LMS’s; end users now expect Product Data Management (PDM) capability, which untilrecently was only used in high-end, sophisticated Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software.This is likely due to the rise of cloud computing and file sharing facilitated by Google Drive andother products like Dropbox. Students expect similar novel capabilities out of all technologicalplatforms, including their LMS. An initial analysis of the clickstream data reveals that
contemporaryideologies, a material agnostic approach, computational materials science and engineering, andprepare students to work on interdisciplinary teams. With the above stated goals, a sophomoreyear course was redesigned and renamed from “Introduction to Materials Science” to “MaterialsProperties and Design”. The instructor chose to both add additional content and use pedagogies toaddress each of the goals of the newly redesign curriculum. Contemporary ideologies were broughtinto the classroom by adding content at the end of each section to discussion how the topics pre-sented in class were applicable to existing and new real-world applications. A materials agnosticapproach was implemented by utilizing the integrated version of the Callister textbook.1
project – at school, at work, at home, etc. The purpose of this exercise isto establish common ground and relevance around the topic of project management between theworkshop facilitator and the students. This is re-iterated in the presentation slide as: “We haveshared context.” In other words, we are on this project management journey together.This brief introduction is followed by a ten-minute mini-lecture that shares fundamental projectmanagement concepts utilizing the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK, an ANSIstandard)[6]. This reference integrates industry and academic sources, which further builds on,and integrates, the relevance of practice and the use of standards within practice. Project
summerinternships, and 23 were involved in research. This is partly because of an internship programdeveloped through NASA’s Curriculum Improvement Partnership Awards for the Integration ofResearch (CIPAIR) program. Ten of the scholars were involved in the NASA CIPAIR Summer Page 24.529.9Internship Program, another three scholars who are also veterans were involved in a summerinternship at NASA Ames Research Center through the college's Veterans Employment-relatedAssistance Program (VEAP). Additionally, the program team has worked hard in collaboratingwith a number of universities, government agencies and research institutions to provideinternships
Paper ID #9157Development of a Faculty Led Education Abroad Program and the LessonsLearnedDr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Acharya joined RMU in Spring 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Industry. With US Airways, Acharya was responsible for creating a conceptual design for a Data Warehouse which would integrate the different data servers the company used. With i2 Technologies he led the work on i2’s Data Mining product ”Knowledge Discover Framework” and at CEERD (Thailand) he was the product manager of three energy software products (MEDEE-S/ENV, EFOM/ENV and DBA-VOID) which were/are used in
Collegiate Wind Competition team22 are be-ing supported where relevant. A senior capstone project is also underway to develop an in-housepaste extrusion-head for 3D-printing of benign pastes using the CNC machines. Materials suchas air-dry clay23, porcelain, play-doh24, silicone pastes25, or other similar material systems arebeing investigated. Finally, there are several capstone projects that are machining small partsand components using the desktop CNCs.4.0 Evaluation Design for the Impact on Learning and MotivationThe project evaluation will examine how this integration of desktop CNC machines throughoutan engineering design curriculum influences students’ engineering-related cognition, attitudesand behaviors. Specifically, changes in students
Education. Engineering in K-12 education : understanding the status and improving the prospects. (National Academies Press, 2009).2. Brophy, S., Klein, S., Portsmore, M. & Rogers, C. Advancing Engineering Education in P-12 Classrooms. Journal of Engineering Education 97, 369–387 (2008).3. Hester, K. & Cunningham, C. Engineering is elementary: An engineering and technology curriculum for children. in Proceedings of 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (2007).4. Bottoms, G. & Anthony, K. Project Lead the Way: A Pre-engineering Curriculum that Works. (Southern Regional Education Board, 2005).5. International Technology and Engineering Educators Association. Engineering byDesign. (2011). at 6. FIRST. USFIRST.org. Vision and
16,000 different line items under a'microcontroller' search.Selecting the ideal MCU and DT for a particular project could be a time-consuming and tedious Page 24.1012.2task for an undergraduate student or the course designer and faculty mentor3. This is aggravated bythe fact that students are usually only familiar with the MCU, DB and IDE they have used duringtheir undergraduate classroom and lab experience. The students are challenged not just by thedesign, but by the integration of these various types of technology.There are other challenges in the curriculum too. A student takes a digital circuits and systemscourse with its laboratory
Al Ferri received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University in 1981 and his PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1985. Since 1985, he has been a faculty member in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he now serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. His research areas are in the fields of dynamics, controls, vibrations, and acoustics. He is also active in course and curriculum development. He is a Fellow of the ASME. Page 24.1304.1 c American Society for Engineering Education
, instructor-student face to face learning were adopted in the classroom activities. It is concluded that the activelearning should be the future trend in educating upper level students. The curriculum we should strivefor is an integration of knowledge learning and hands-on practicing. Through such a particular project,students should be better trained for energy manufacturing industry.IntroductionSemiconducting polymers have been extensively studied due to their unique properties and advantagesover other ceramics semiconducting materials such as light weight and easy to processing1,2. Polyaniline(PANi) is a typical semiconducting polymer with a conjugated structure. It has excellent stability in air.Polyaniline is stable at elevated temperatures. It
following the enactment ofFMLA, suggesting FMLA had some impact on the system. The increase in family-relatedbenefits is associated with an academic institution’s expenditures. Research institutions are morelikely than master’s, bachelors and associates institutions to offer a greater number of benefits.This study provides a historical national perspective of academic institutions’ efforts to facilitatework-life integration among faculty with implications for helping administrators, policy makers,and other stakeholders shape educational policy.IntroductionFamily friendly legislation, such as paid maternal, paternal leave and subsidized childcare, existas national policies in many European and other countries around the world1-3. Institutions
Experience committee, chair for the LTU KEEN Course Modification Team, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, supervisor of the LTU Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team.Dr. Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Donald D. Carpenter, PhD, PE, LEED AP is Professor of Civil Engineering where he teaches courses on ethics/professionalism and water resources. Dr. Carpenter is an accredited green design professional (LEED AP) and practicing professional engineer (PE) whose expertise includes Low Impact Development (LID), innovative stormwater best management practices (BMPs), hydrologic and
alternate Building Information Modeling track for civil Modeling engineering students in Engr Design course, using flipped classroom Systems Modeling Create context-rich and visually-rich examples and simulations for and Control Systems students to learn fundamental concepts Mechanical Design Integrate project-based learning into mechanical design courses Instructional-technology-focused initiatives Adaptive Learning Create an adaptive learning platform based on machine learning algorithms Engr Simulations Create a cloud-based platform to host simulation tools based on industry software Sketch-Based Create a homework assignment platform that provides
analytical and experimental methods incorporate concepts experimental procedures and practical applications are beingmechanical engineering students learn in several core courses. introduced into the Mechanical Engineering Department’sHomework assignments and laboratory experiments exploring a Feedback Control Systems Course. Since 2008, the class hasphysical system serve to engage students and help them make incorporated a significant laboratory portion [2]. In these labs,connections between course material spanning the mechanical students become familiar with and perform experiments onengineering curriculum
areas, manufacturingis a dominant economic activity that requires students be competent in the science, technology,engineering, mathematics (STEM) fields and typically requires a post-secondary education forsome of the better paying positions. In an effort to assist students with this challenge andeducate more students for the manufacturing work force, a partnership was formed to put asecondary STEM teacher and college faculty in the same classroom. The partnership allowedstudents to know the local post-secondary educational options related to STEM and to getcomfortable with the campus while being introduced to computer integrated manufacturing(CIM) practices. This initial class had ten students that participated and this paper will explainthe
theireffects to professionals in the field. Twenty-one responses were received from participants in theSouthern California area. The analysis results indicate that in a general consensus, theconstruction industry is not only dependent on the changing information technologies, but alsothat construction companies have discovered the efficiency developed through theimplementation of such technology allows them to increase profitability and ultimately lower thepotential for construction delays and undocumented issues that contractors wish to avoid at anycost. The findings will help academia develop the construction curriculum when integratingadvanced information technologies.IntroductionAdvanced information technology, such as Building Information
. M. Brown and C. J. Seidner, eds., pp. 297-319: Springer, 1998.[4] R. L. Miller, and B. M. Olds, “A Model Curriculum for a Capstone Course in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 311-316, 1994.[5] S. Howe, and J. Wilbarger, “2005 National Survey of Engineering Capstone Design Courses,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago, IL, 2006.[6] A. Chandak. "Tech student body integrates for capstone," 2013; http://nique.net/life/2013/09/12/tech-student-body-integrates-for-capstone/, 12/31/2013.[7] B. Tabbache, A. Kheloui, and M. E. H. Benbouzid, “An Adaptive Electric Differential for Electric Vehicles
degree program. The initial project will be an adjustable mount (vertical and tilt) for a heavy 40” multi-touch surface computer. ECE 571 – Introduction to Biomedical Engineering. While not a ‘design’ course per se, this course includes a two-week learning module dedicated to autism and individuals with special needs. The primary assignment for this module is a formal paper in IEEE format that proposes a design project to meet the needs of a severely disabled child. Such papers have formulated ideas for projects implemented in the design courses above.B. Typical Project ConstraintsProject descriptions vary from course to course depending on the project and the requirementsimposed by the host curriculum. For
University. NSF and several private foundations fund his research. His research and teaching focuses on engineering as an innovation in P-12 education, policy of P-12 engineering, how to support teachers and students’ academic achievements through engineering, the measurement and support of the change of ’engineering habits of mind’ particularly empathy and the use of cyber-infrastructure to sensitively and resourcefully provide access to and support learning.Dr. Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monica E. Cardella is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and an Affiliate of the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She is the Director of the MEDLEE