, labs, and online learning modules related to clean energy that reflects industry trends. This will allow faculty to easily modify curriculum to keep up with industry trends in the rapidly changing field of renewable energy technology. o Provide students with a core technical knowledge base (suggestions included electronics, HVAC, or Instrumentation) o The curriculum should be dynamic in its forms and modalities to enable adaptations as the industry and its technologies change • Provide education and training to help students develop “soft skills” such as communication, teamwork, adaptability, and problem solving. These skills are important to have in
developmentcourse at colleges of engineering in the United States. The overall research question in this investigation is, how does gender and spatial skilllevel compare across object manipulation assessments? Two sub-questions reflect specificaspects of the general question: 1. Do assessments of spatial skill level correlate with one another? If so, are the correlations significant? 2. What specific gender differences exist among first-year engineering students’ spatial skill level?Procedure Data was collected across three consecutive semesters, not including the summer session.The same set of assessments, in the same order, were given to all students during normallyscheduled class time for class credit
. Holly Matusovich for contributing to this study. Also, this material isbased upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Graduate ResearchFellowship. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions in this material are those of the authors anddo not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science FoundationReferences:1. M.Gläser-ZikudaandS.Järvelä,Applicationofqualitativeandquantitativemethodstoenrich understandingofemotionalandmotivationalaspectsoflearning,Internationaljournalof educationalresearch,47(2),2008,pp.79-83.2. K.E.Winters,H.M.Matusovich,M.S.Brunhaver,H.L.Chen,K.YasuharaandS.Sheppard,From FreshmanEngineeringStudentstoPracticingProfessionals:ChangesinBeliefsaboutImportant
development, when the exact type of interface is not yet decided, all consideredoptions should be listed on the connecting lines until the final trade-off study is completed. It isimportant to note that as design analyses take place and final decisions are made, the systemlevel diagram is iterated to reflect the development. Figure 3: Final phase of System Level Diagram construction.The parallelization between updating the system diagram and the engineering design processensures that students are technically developing while gaining system-level skills. The realizedoutcomes of the system composition phase are: 1- In-depth technical analysis of each component’s and subsystem’s performance; 2- Informed trade-off studies for each
Sophisticated Competent Not yet Competent Codes are properly implemented showing an Codes solve1.2 FEM using understanding of how to displacements, but plots Matlab apply boundary conditions, of deflection of the beam Codes do not solve loads and keeping track of are missing or comments the problem, ABET the degrees of freedom of and conclusions do not comments are Outcome the system. Comments and reflect a good vague a conclusions about the understanding of the differences in accuracy of results. the results are
positively contributeto the education of engineering majors who will be making critical life-cycle decisions forprojects in the near future.Acknowledgment and DisclaimerThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1504912. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. We would like to thank the regular instructor and the teaching assistant, Dr. MikeHelwig and Mr. Fikri Kucuksayacigil, respectively, for their cooperation and contributions suchas accommodation, advice, and a decision-tree based guest lecture. We also would like to thankthe Department of Industrial
perceivethemselves to fit into a given group, in this case engineering,5 which in turn affects how theyprogress along the academic and career path in their field.6The engineering identity framework utilized in the study is partially based off a physics identitymodel composed of four basic factors: performance, competence, interest, and recognition.5,7Performance describes a student’s belief in their ability to perform in their classes or whenconducting engineering tasks.8 If a student performs poorly in class, they are less likely toidentify themselves as an engineer. Competence describes a student’s belief in their ability tounderstand engineering material, which is often similarly reflected in a student’s performance inclass.8 Interest describes how
, Texas was one of five majorityminority states11. These partnerships increase educational opportunities and support efforts toproduce engineers reflective of the community. This paper shares the challenges and successeslearned during the first three years of the program and the planned expansion to further recruit,retain, and graduate a more diverse engineering demographic through a pathway of co-enrollment and partnership with two-year institutions.II. Background of the PartnershipsThe Texas public education system includes 39 public universities, 50 public community collegedistricts with multiple campuses and 75 of the 409 designated Hispanic Serving Institutions(HSIs) in the United States (18.3%)12,13. From 2000 to 2015, the number of
value12. 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0Figure 5. Survey responses to the question: What was the learning Value of the following components ofthe OWLS (Not valuable = 1; Somewhat valuable = 2; Valuable = 3; Extremely valuable = 4)4.3 First-year course The first year course was implemented in the Fall 2015 semester at the KLE TechnologicalUniversity, shortly after the workshop. Student activities in the first year course reflected many of theworkshop activities including soda straw towers, balloon drop, mechatronics (Figure 6), ethics, and thewatershed monitoring OWLS activity, among others. Additionally, the course faculty expanded
would be impacted. As might be expected,each intervention has a complex relationship with quality, and more work is needed to determinethe significance and impact of these changes. A clearer understanding of these interventions andtheir trade-offs may allow educators and engineers to better use these interventions and broadentheir ideation flexibility.4.1 Limitations and CaveatsSeveral aspects of this research limit our conclusions. One issue with the teaming intervention isthat randomized pairings were used. It is possible that the randomized pairs used in these studiesdo not reflect ideal groupings. Another issue with this work is that participants undergo twosessions of ideation. After the first session, participants may be mentally fatigued
operation for the machine outputs of theresearch. This mode of operation does not run any cycle but allows the operator to determine thepossible situation by changing manual speed, acceleration time, deceleration time etc. of theservo motor or the indexer. Moreover, this operation helps to set the pneumatic components tofunction with precision and nearly accurate positioning.Fill CycleFill cycle of the machine exactly follows the process flow or process mapping of the fillingMechanism. This is actually the basic reflection of the Auto Mode of filler operation along withindexing of the research.1. First step is to check if the priming sequence is complete.2. Second Step is to make sure the first group of containers completed indexing.3. Third step
values: •Industry experiences • “Social learning”— • Adopting the must expand the individuals “learn- (ing) profession’s values and university education the ropes” from those norms into one’s belief • Opportunities for around them through system students to reflect on careful listening and • Identifying with the successes and failures observation [1]. profession during
75.7 81.1 70.3 78.4 64.9 Results show that engineering disciplines which were covered during the program recordedhigher numbers of mentions after the program. Prior to the program, only three out of thirty-seven students made mention about industrial engineering, but that number increased to twenty-six at the end of the program. The results reflect the increase in student exposure to otherengineering disciplines beyond any existing prior knowledge. To better assess students’ understanding of each engineering discipline that was covered andtheir ability to distinguish between them, a rating based on a Likert scale was applied to eachstudent response on the same questionnaire based on the following scale definition: • 0 – Student did
related to those. In spite of these constraints, there are plans to expandboth the number of participating institutions and research access to the dataset.Expansion strategy. New institutional partners will receive funding to provide and update data.As the database becomes larger in size, joining the MIDFIELD partnership becomes even moreattractive. Twenty institutions have signed letters of commitment to join MIDFIELD. Newinstitutions will be targeted to reflect variability in geographic region, institution size asdetermined by the number of engineering graduates per year, and institutional control (public orprivate). Institutions will also be targeted that have a high or low graduation rate for under-represented minorities – plans include
Students 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Number of Days Attended Figure 1. Number of days attended by students for the 2015 Engineering Days program.Students’ Perceptions of Disciplines Prior to SessionsIn a written survey, students were asked to reflect on their level of knowledge and
and surface N. 4. Angle factors are available in equation or graphic form in both publications cited in the Reference section. They must be determined from the area and local geometry of all the enclosing “panels” that are “seen” by the person whose comfort is being assessed. Angle Factor Charts and equations are shown in Figure 9. The equations apply to a small horizontal plane, whereas the charts (not shown) reflect the view of a rotated person represented by plane projections. 5. A site visit will be required to measure the window areas and a, b, and c view factor dimensions.bNecessary Assumptions: 1. The indoor glass surface temperature must be calculated or measured
adhereto a manufacturing approach that is within the capabilities of the lab. Several tool catalogs werecreated to reflect the standard tooling kept in the lab’s inventory. Use of these catalogsconstrained students to the tooling available to them, and served as a more effective way ofconveying the tooling capabilities of the lab. Rather than searching for a tool in the lab, a studentis able to simply view the appropriate tool catalog in NX and CATIA, and determine if the tool isavailable. This is not to say that specialty tools cannot be used within the workflow. Rather, it issolely a means to convey the standard tooling capabilities.The real power of the workflow lies in the creation of a process catalog. A process catalog is thekey element that
12 38 African-American 7 5 12 Native-American 0 0 0 Other Ethnicity 10 3 13 Table 2. “Applied Value” survey results for fall semester 2014 and spring semester 2015 at four-year colleges.A total of 23,000 student-hours of microcontroller instruction was delivered at the college levelduring the 2014-15 academic year. The number of student-hours of instruction delivered at thefour-year level was double that delivered by community colleges and may reflect a greater abilityto apply the technology
main tasks for mechanical engineering graduates in the industry is to design new products.This is also reflected in the ABET a-k criteria, specifically item c of the ABET a-k criteria,which is “c. ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs.” Therefore,product design is at the heart of any mechanical engineering major and demands attention [1]. Inorder to conduct successful product designs, the stress/strain of components under loadings mustbe fully explored and known. However, stress/strain of components/ assemblies withcomplicated geometries and loading, which typically encounter in industry, seldom have anexplicit theoretical solution.FEA (Finite Element Analysis) simulation is a numerical technique that
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highest grade point average (GPA) students. The other group seems to experience great difficulty with the open-ended learning and the independent problem solving that is needed for successful project completion. Sometimes they struggle greatly to carry their part of the work for the team to completion. This group does not necessarily correspond to the lower GPA students. The department hopes to explore further how to facilitate better open-ended problem solving earlier in the students’ careers. Perhaps this reflects the need for a combination of the triplet of Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes necessary for successful civil engineering practice. • There continues to be some confusion with the multiple
civilian designteams share leadership. Specifically, civilian capstone design teams investigated in this studyexhibited more shared leadership than their military counterparts with respect to the TCR form ofleadership. Reflecting on the nature of military leadership, these results are not surprising. Thelower TCR decentralization and TCR density measures for the military design teams provideindications that these teams enact somewhat more centralized or vertical leadership than theircivilian counterparts. Centralizing leadership to fewer individuals would result in lessdistribution and amount of leadership within the teams. This tendency may be a by-product ofstudents' intensive military leadership training. Military organizations are often
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3.1). Listservs have proven to be one of the leading sources ofinformation for finding out about conferences and other professional developmentopportunities.Subclaim 2.3 Take advantage of learning about engineering through TwitterAnother way the author has learned about the engineering subject matter is through setting upa professional Twitter feed. As she liaises to both sciences and engineering, her Twitter feedsand posts reflect involvement in both fields. The author follows different engineering Twitterfeeds, and by reading the daily posts of articles or re-tweets from others, she has gained a fairamount of knowledge about engineering. She liaises to civil, computer, mechanical,electrical, and general engineering and therefore follows
that assessment is needed for improvement,and improvement, with its internal focus, provides opportunities for the academic community to engage in self-reflection of its learning goals, to evaluate if students’ activities, products, or performances coincide with the academic community’s expectations; information to students about the knowledge, skills, and other attributes they can expect to possess after successfully completing coursework and academic programs. ways for academic units to understand the dimensions of student learning when seeking to improve student achievement and the educational process. evidence of student achievement to accreditation groups, state legislators, and other stakeholders
differential and the number of legs, and explain why semiconductors are better for this application compared to metals and insulators (i.e., regarding phonons vs. electrons). g. Explain how reducing the dimensions contribute to the performance of thermoelectric devices, including addressing how the importance of the mean-free-path changes at the nanoscale. h. Evaluate the potential impact, challenges, and risks of at least one start-of-the-art application of nanoscale thermoelectrics.7. Nanophotonics a. Explain how photons interact with materials generally, including absorption, emission, scattering, and reflection, and the concept of permittivity. b. Calculate the plasma
twenty competency clusters. We have developed our framework based on thecompetencies proposed by Waychal et al. 8, who have proposed a smaller reasonable subset ofVloke‘s cluster. That, we posit, is a good starting point.We developed the framework with an axiom that the throughput of a learning process increasessignificantly with active participation, intense reflections, and collaborative working on casestudies and real-life projects i.e. student-centered learning. We have synergistically combined theelements to ensure the targeted outcome of the workshop - the ability to explain creativity andinnovation and their underlying dynamics, and the ability to apply the understanding to provideinnovative solutions to real-life problems. We do not
, time management, and group problem solving.9 Theimportance of multidisciplinary collaboration is reflected in ABET requirements stating thatengineering graduates should be able to function in multidisciplinary teams.2 However, exposureto multidisciplinary work in the classroom is often limited. Further, many graduating high schoolstudents do not know enough about the various engineering disciplines to make informed choicesabout college majors. This paper describes a week-long, residential summer outreach program called Engineering:Get Into Real Learning (E-GIRL) which was implemented at Texas Tech University (TTU) forthe first time in the summer of 2015. The goal of the program was to enhance interest in pursuingengineering for the group of
ofengineering knowledge available in different communities. This could help substantiate ourclaims. With respect to analyzing specific pre-test questions, future work might include an itemanalysis to examine student responses. The sole focus on pre-test scores prevented aninvestigation on the curriculums ability to overcome or address the negative impacts of studentsand school level factors.AcknowledgementThis work was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation DLR 0822261.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Wealso acknowledge Dr. Yukiko Maeda, Dr. Monica Cardella, and Dr. Heidi Diefes
DUE# 1400561 “Midwest PhotonicsEducation Center.”Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography1. http://www.light2015.org/Home/Event-Programme.html?tab=1. Accessed Jan. 11, 2016.2. http://www.aimphotonics.com/. Accessed Jan. 11, 2016.3. http://www.op-tec.org/index.php. Accessed Jan. 11, 2016.4. http://www.op-tec.org/resources/industry-demand-report. Accessed Jan. 30, 2016.5. http://www.mi-light.org. Accessed Jan. 11, 2016.