Organization of American States(OAS)’s ‘Engineering for the Americas’ conference in Lima Peru (Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, 2005) [2].Friedman, a New York Times journalist, asserts that the world is flat because of political changesand information technologies which have leveled the playing field and allow individuals fromany country to compete equally in the global market. The message conveyed at the Limaconference was that in order to compete globally Latin America must produce more engineers,and those engineers must be well trained – like India, which, for Friedman, is the prime exampleof how the world is now flat.Of course, the world is not flat for everyone, as evidenced by the digital divide. While the digitaldivide is a relatively new concept, it is based
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observed a significant change in society since the early 1980’s when the first PCwas introduced. The widespread impact of e-commerce, e-mail, and digital music is Page 11.717.4undeniable and still growing. Although a typical freshman has not experienced such adrastic difference in their life, they still experience a slow metamorphosis every daybecause of new and clever uses of computers. Instead of exploring the ever-changingimpact of computers using a few sources, we spread the discussion throughout thesemester, and based it on our personal experiences, as everybody is likely to have a storyto tell. We preferred to use other engineering marvels for the
? Paper presented at the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN.6 McCall, R.B. & Appelbaum, M.I. (1991). Some issues of conducting secondary analyses. DevelopmentalPsychology, 27, 911-917.7 Boyatzis, R. E. (1998). Transforming qualitative information: Thematic analysis and code development. ThousandOaks, CA: Sage Publications.8 Eliot, M., Neal, R., & Turns, J. (2005). Recognizing need: The analysis of qualitative data to inform web sitedesign. Paper presented at the International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC 2005), Limerick,Ireland.9 Turns, J., Eliot, M., Lappenbusch, S., Yellin, J.M.H., Neal, R., Allen, K., et al. (2005). How can user-centereddesign help us think about the challenges of engineering
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student design projectThe ABET requirement for engineering standards is in Criterion 4 and specifically calls for the use of standards in design. TheCanadian requirement is broader although it is also focused around design.Relevant standards should be consulted early in the design process and since it is reasonable to assume many companies will wanttheir products to be accepted in the global market, students could be expected to look to see if their product is likely to be covered by aEuropean Union (EU) Directive [10]. According to the most recent report by the U.S. Trade Representative, the EU continues to bethe U.S.’s largest trading partner and, as such, is a large market for US goods and services.The National Institute of Standards and
introductory computer science lec- tures, SIGCSE ’00: Proceedings of the thirty-first SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education (New York, NY, USA), ACM Press, 2000, pp. 134–138.[10] Mark A. Holliday, Animation of computer networking concepts, J. Educ. Resour. Comput. 3 (2003), no. 2, 1–26.[11] Gianluca Iannaccone, Martin May, and Christophe Diot, Aggregate traffic performance with active queue management and drop from tail, SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 31 (2001), no. 3, 4–13.[12] G. Krasner and S. Pope, A description of the model-view-controller user interface paradigm in the smalltalk-80 system, Journal of Object Oriented Programming 1 (1988), no. 3, 26–49.[13] Scot F. Morse and Charles L. Anderson, Introducing
during the comment period that questioned “theviability of single-sex programs such as an educational science program targeted at youngwomen and designed to encourage their interest in a profession in which they areunderrepresented,” these agencies did agree that “[s]uch courses may, under appropriatecircumstances, be permissible as part of a remedial or affirmative action program.”24Unfortunately, these agencies did not provide an explanation of what such “appropriatecircumstances” might be. Nevertheless, an educational institution that can clearly articulate asound rationale for offering an engineering outreach program for only young women can proceedwith some confidence that such a program likely will survive scrutiny under Title IX.Separate
learning engineering concepts while respecting theirexpertise. In this paper, approaches used in the topic selection and lesson plan development,implementation of student activities, impacts on high school teachers and students, challengesfaced by the collaboration, and lessons learned are discussed. The academy model is generic andmay be applied to any high school student population.IntroductionAccording to the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s 2004 Science and Engineering Indicators,only 328 American Indians and Alaska Natives earned bachelor's degrees in engineering in 2000.Although this number is impressively larger than the total in 1977 data when only 135 degreeswere awarded, the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives earning
122. Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kazuya Takemata, Shigeo Matsumoto, Tetsuro Furukawa, Loo Ching Nong, Pee Suat Hoon, “International Collaborative Project in Engineering Design Education between Kanazawa Institute of Technology and Singapore Polytechnic”, ICEE 2004, Florida, USA3. C. N. Loo. S. H. Pee, “Engineering Design Education – Learning Experience at Kanazawa Institute of Technology”, Excellence in Education and Training Convention 2003, Singapore Page 11.819.14 13 ED I ED II
of Sputnik I in the 1950’s,forced engineering colleges to hurriedly restructure their curricula.Development. In our initial research to determine current and future trends in engineering programs, wefound many and different views of the future demands and practice of engineering. It wasdecided to research and survey several significant areas for this proposal: (1) Academicinstitutions that are currently reviewing trends towards new educational approaches; (2)Corresponding technical articles describing the trends; (3) Current efforts in academe;and (4) Industrial sources (both manufacturing and engineering-based) that have adirect/current need for engineering. We also used the Listserv to ask engineeringeducators to describe and recommend
team (2005)Bibliography1 Schmalzel, J. L., Marchese, A. J., and Hesketh, R. P. "What's brewing in the Clinic?," HP EngineeringEducator,2:1, Winter 1998, pp. 6-7.2 Schmalzel, J. L., Marchese, A. J., Mariappan, J., and Mandayam, S. A., "The Engineering Clinic: A four-year design sequence," presented at the 2nd An. Conf. of Nat. Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance,Washington, D.C., 1998.3 Dym, C. L., Agongino, A. M., Eris, O., Frey, D. D., Leifer, L. J., “Engineering Design Thinking,Teaching and Learning”, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 103-120, January 2005.4 Dym, C. L., Engineering Design: A Synthesis of View, Cambridge University Press, 19945 von Lockette, P., Pietrucka, B., Acciani, D., Dahm, K., Harvey, R., Courtney, J
and ethical aspects involve or technical aspects inthe proposed design as well as the more narrowly defined engineering Page 11.568.12Case 2. A Ticket Tearing Device for a Disabled PersonConsider the case of David S., a young man who suffers from a variety of physical andmetal disabilities. David was employed at a movie theater in his local community nearPhiladelphia. His primary responsibility was to welcome patrons as they went into thetheater hall, taking their admission tickets, tearing them in half and placing the torntickets into a receiving basket. As David had very limited strength in his hands, the linesof people seeking admittance would
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with the word “knowledge.” This was used as a springboard for discussion aboutthe class, its content, and its pedagogy. The week before reading Foucault, students wereintroduced to liberative pedagogies in class and through course readings1 and a reflective essay.On the first day of class, students were introduced to the syllabus as one representation of what isimportant in thermodynamics, not the definitive word.In a reflective essay and class discussion, students considered the relationship between powerand knowledge. The essay prompt read: “What is/are the relationship(s) between power andknowledge? Is knowledge the same thing as truth, or how does it differ? How does this relate tothe course (both the subject matter and how it is taught or
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undergraduate students in both countries for their time-investment on paid-jobs. Both extremes need to be scrutinized; and the improved policies and practices should be developed by the educational policy-makers in both countries.Bibliography Information 1. Lan, S., and Lee, G. (2005). A Comparison of Electrical Engineering curricula at Tsinghua University (Beijing) and at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Paper published in the Proceedings, American Society of Engineering Education IL/IN Regional Conference, DeKalb, Illinois, April 2005. 2. Li, W., and Min, W. (2001). Tuition, private demand, and higher education in China. Beijing, China: Graduate School of Education, Beijing University. 3
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extends back to the 1930’s when the school was a junior college. The University wasknown as The University of Tennessee Junior College, and the engineering program consisted ofthe first two years towards a baccalaureate degree in the student’s chosen field of engineering.The University became a four-year college in 1951. Most degree programs were transformed intofull four-year baccalaureate programs at that time. The engineering program remained a two-year transfer program with most students transferring to the University of Tennessee atKnoxville.In the fall of 1967, a formal proposal was developed by the UT Martin Department ofEngineering and submitted to the College of Engineering at Knoxville for an engineering degreewith majors from one of
2006-991: VDP--A MENTOR-FOCUSED MIDDLE SCHOOL OUTREACHPROGRAMEugene Brown, Virginia Tech EUGENE F. BROWN -- Dr. Brown is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. He has worked with ONR since 2001 on university-centered Navy work force development issues. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics and is the author of many papers and reports describing his research in the areas of computational fluid dynamics and aircraft propulsion.Robert Kavetsky, Office of Naval Research ROBERT A. KAVETSKY -- Mr. Kavetsky is currently on assignment to ONR, where he is the director of the N-STAR program, an initiative focused on revitalizing the S&T
problem does this design solve, who benefits, what human need is met,what improvement can be made? Examples of these assignments and exercises are listed below: Page 11.157.6a. Like/Dislike this Design – This assignment is given on one of the first days of class. Theinstructions are:“Find an engineered product that you like or dislike to show to the class (unless the product istoo large to bring, then it should be easily described, or bring a picture). Review the feature(s) ofits design that you like or dislike. Briefly describe on paper this design feature and why it is sodesirable or so undesirable. Draw a sketch of an improved product. Hand
: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. (pp.129-160). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.[10] Chi, M.T.H. (2005). Commonsense Conceptions of Emergent Processes: Why Some Misconceptions Are Robust. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 14(2), 161-199.[11] Chi, M. T. H. (1997). Creativity: Shifting Across Ontological Categories Flexibly. In T. B. Ward, S. M. Smith, & J. Vaid (Eds.), Creative thought: An investigation of conceptual structures and processes (pp.209-234). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.[12] Slotta, J.D., Chi, M.T.H., and Joram, E. (1995). Assessing Students’ Misclassifications of Physics Concepts: An Ontological Basis for Conceptual Change. Cognition and Instruction. 13 (3), 373-400
sincethe late 1980’s. Our university identified this early in time and initiated the Wright STEPP in Page 11.293.21988 to provide academic enrichment and tuition scholarship to students of the city publicschools who are scholarly, but have financial problems. Wright STEPP targets all 7th through10th grade students in the city public schools. Forty students from the 7th grade are selected eachyear with a minor replacement at the higher grades. Every year, 160 students (40 from eachgrade 7th - 10th) attend this four-week program that operates at our university campus. Thisprogram is in accord with the American Competitiveness and Workforce
model will contain the name of theperson(s) who submitted the physical model, a Bottom Line Up Front (short model description),pictures and/or videos of the model being used, Principle (theory supported by the physicalmodel), What You Need (the parts list and how to build it, if needed), How It’s Done (how thesubmitter uses the physical models in class to include before and in-class instructions), and ThatLittle Extra (how to generate some drama or humor with the physical model, how it is tied toother concepts or future courses, etc.) Figure 3 shows a partial snapshot of one of thedemonstrations. The reader is encouraged to surf to the site and check a full page out. Figure 3. A Snapshot of a Demonstration Page at
change as well.AcknowledgmentsAny opinions expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of any supporting agencies.Bibliography1 Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century. Committee on Academic Prerequisites for ProfessionalPractice, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia: ASCE, 2004.2 “Interpretation of the ABET Engineering Critieria for Civil and Similarly Named Programs”, Commentary,Version 1.1, Committee on Curricula and Accreditation, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia:ASCE, 20043 Bloom, B. S., ed. Taxonomy of educational objectives, New York: Longman, 1956. 4 Boyer, E.L. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, A Special Report. The