TeamworkDEVELOPMENT OF TRAINING MATERIALTeam members at UCF are continuing to work on the training modules for CATME, whichinclude training for educators and students on teamwork issues. TEAMWORK TRAINING: The educator training begins with the introductory module. This module explains what constitutes good training and how we are going to follow the information, demonstration, practice, and feedback framework throughout all of the educator and student training modules. It also lists the modules that are planned. All training will be accessed via a web browser. A draft has been developed and is under review by the team. TECHNICAL TRAINING: The technical training will consist of a series of mini training videos
“whenam I ever going to use this?” and “why is this important?” will be answered. The goal of thewhole experience is to show high school students just how fun and cool math and engineeringcan be. The teacher plans on integrating other subjects (primarily science and engineering) intoher math classrooms as time passes and she learns and gathers more ideas about how math isconnected to and used in other subjects and the real world.AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.EEC-1106529, Research Experience for Teachers in Manufacturing for Competitiveness in theUnited States (RETainUS). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of
program. Conscious effort was made todevelop PEO’s that were consistent with the mission of the college and educational objectives asdefined by “system” which governs all campuses. The PEO’s were planned to becomprehensive, complete and, most importantly, measurable. The PEO’s are reviewed regularlyin program meetings and Industrial Advisory Board meetings, attended by representatives of allthe program constituencies. Of special importance is having a well-established process throughwhich the PEO’s are assessed to demonstrate they are achieved by the program graduates. Thisprocess is described in the next section.Supporting the achievement of the PEO’s by program graduates in the three to five year aftergraduation are the Program Outcomes, which
conductedinternally by NECC and comparisons as to choice of major and subsequent success inmathematics courses were made to similar students at NECC who did not participate in thesummer bridge programs. These findings are also reported in the paper.The paper concludes with modifications to the summer bridge program planned for 2012 inresponse to the results of the first four years.Summer Bridge Program- IntroductionThis paper describes the Summer Bridge Programs (SBP) designed to ease the transition to theprograms in various Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields atNECC. The four-day SBPs were held in August of 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. All four SBPswere funded by the National Science Foundation through a grant to Northeastern
-traditional students needs. (Community Colleges are proven training grounds for future community leaders and we know that there are many non-traditional students among them. These students can require specific assistance related to their needs).2.1. Students’ Requirements:Students must be pursuing a Community College degree in one of these fields: Computer Science Mathematics Science Engineering Technology (mechanical or electrical engineering)In addition, students must also: Have a minimum GPA of 2.80 on a 4.00 scale; Have completed your freshman year at a partner community college; Plan to continue your education at a four-year institution (not necessary our institution).2.2
future internship programs. One company was not satisfied with their student’sperformance; this student was taking classes in addition to pursuing the internship, which meantless than full-time work on the internship. In the future, we will specify during the applicationprocess that the internship is a full-time commitment.Our hope is that these initial internships will initiate long-term partnerships that will enable theinternship program to continue. In this vein, we plan scheduled a tour of the KrogerManufacturing facility during the fall semester for members of the UT Arlington student chapterof the Air & Waste Management Association.Internship Assessment: Student PresentationsOne of the objectives of the overall Engineering Sustainable
intoenvironmental problems associated with energy utilization due to the impact on environmentalquality and natural ecosystem. Thus, this game allows students to understand the relationsbetween environmental impact and thermodynamics, which is an appropriate match to thecontents of the “Principles of Engineering” course in the PLTW curriculum. Fig. 5: Chatting enabled in the gameGame 3- The Mystery of Traffic Lights- Automatic traffic light is a typical engineering inventionthat made the lives of common people safer and more convenient. For the development of thefuture SustainCity, its design inevitably appears in the agenda of the city master plan andbecomes the essential task of this game module. The game invites students to
; desired temperature Then turn one light bulb on and turn the fan motor off; Else if temperature > desired temperature + 0.3 oC Then turn both light bulbs off and send a high PWM duty cycle to the fan motor; Else turn both light bulbs off and send a low PWM duty cycle to the fan motor.Some students also figured out how to avoid the flicking of the lights by adding a hysteresis tothe control logic. It is planned as a part of the curriculum integration effort that the temperatureor motor control systems be used in the laboratories of the subsequent Controls course, wherePID control can be applied to the controller to further improve the result.A software bug was identified for LabVIEW
AC 2012-3544: TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF THE ENERGY GAPOF INP QUANTUM DOTS: A SOPHOMORE-LEVEL NANOMATERIALSEXPERIMENTMs. Jennifer Rose Annoni, University of St. Thomas Jennifer Annoni is currently an Undergraduate student studying Electrical Engineering and Physics at the University of St. Thomas. She will graduate in May of 2012. Her plans are to pursue graduate school in the field of Engineering.Dr. Adam S. Green, University of St. Thomas Adam S. Green is an Associate Professor of physics at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. He received his B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in atomic, molecular, and optical physics at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He works with
commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force.The astronautical engineering department at USAFA operates an undergraduate satellitedevelopment program called FalconSAT. FalconSAT research is conducted withinthe Academy's Space Systems Research Center. The SSRC coordinates research funding withoutside organizations and provides planning and management for satellite missions. FalconSATis a senior capstone course that all astronautical engineering majors are required to participate in.The goal of the program is for cadets to ‘learn space by doing space.’ Seniors and faculty fromother departments including management, physics, electrical engineering, computer engineering,and mechanical engineering also participate in the program. The
), 768- 772. 5. King, I. (1915). An inquiry into certain aspects of the study habits of university students. School and Society, 2(49), 824-828. 6. Bailey, M., Floersheim, R. B., & Ressler, S. J. (2002). Course assessment plan: A tool for integrated curriculum management. Journal of Engineering Education, 91(4), 425-434. 7. Hayes, R., Kotovsky, K., Kozbelt, A., & Weissman, A. (1999). Where does students’ time go? Center for Innovation in Learning at Carnegie Mellon, Research Brief, 1(2), 1-4. 8. Ressler, S. J., & Lenox, T. A. (1996). The time survey: A course development tool that works! Proceedings of the 1996 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition
thermodynamic properties of fluids; and heat effects of processes.The video needs to present factual information and descriptive techniques.Not only will you benefit from participating in the process to produce a short video covering somethermodynamics principle, in the future other students will have access to the short YouTube videos viaBlackboard so that the current and future students can benefit and learn in the asynchronous manner on an“as needed” basis.As you plan your video I would suggest that you go to the site: http://classes.mst.edu/chemeng141/There you can view the videos prepared by ChBE 141 students previously to get some sense what can bedone. Hopefully yours will be even more creative.Project specifics: 1) By “YouTube” format it is
format are to simulate design work under tightdeadlines, encourage efficiency by planning task assignments ahead of time, stimulate effectiveuse of Team human resources, and ensure fair and balanced writing duties among all Teammembers. Examples of past projects are saved each semester and put on display during the Labmeetings so that Teams can examine and draw ideas from them, and hopefully improve upontheir past performance. Team Aid is arranged so that each week a different Lab Section Team arrives 10 minutesearly to retrieve materials, tools, and other items out of storage for that day’s work. They also 2stay 10 minutes late to shop-vac the power tools room, put all tool bins
implemented during the summer time, theFOM online course can be offered to high school students who plan to attend MSU School ofEngineering during the Fall and Spring semesters. This will allow MSU School of Engineeringto recruit students who have the right math skills before they start taking courses on campus. Forthose students who don’t have the right math skills (i.e. not ready for Calculus I), but still want toattend MSU School of Engineering, the online course can be used to help them acquire thoseskills during the summer period before they attend MSU. The results of the evaluation forms that are completed by the students at the end of eachsummer session are also very encouraging. The students indicate that the lessons are verythorough
action. Fig. 8: A simple wall constructed of wood blocks provides a model of a masonry lintel and arch action SummaryHopefully, readers engaged in teaching design and construction of reinforced concrete and masonry structures findthese ideas for training aids and demonstrations helpful. As they guide future engineers to create solutions in themost ubiquitous construction material of the last two centuries, it’s important that instructors get the points across tothe broadest audience possible. Those interested in plans and specifications of any model presented here can sendrequests to cullen.jones@usma.edu. References[1] ACI Committee
format are to simulate design work under tightdeadlines, encourage efficiency by planning task assignments ahead of time, stimulate effectiveuse of Team human resources, and ensure fair and balanced writing duties among all Teammembers. Examples of past projects are saved each semester and put on display during the Labmeetings so that Teams can examine and draw ideas from them, and hopefully improve upontheir past performance. Team Aid is arranged so that each week a different Lab Section Team arrives 10 minutesearly to retrieve materials, tools, and other items out of storage for that day’s work. They also 2stay 10 minutes late to shop-vac the power tools room, put all tool bins
implemented during the summer time, theFOM online course can be offered to high school students who plan to attend MSU School ofEngineering during the Fall and Spring semesters. This will allow MSU School of Engineeringto recruit students who have the right math skills before they start taking courses on campus. Forthose students who don’t have the right math skills (i.e. not ready for Calculus I), but still want toattend MSU School of Engineering, the online course can be used to help them acquire thoseskills during the summer period before they attend MSU. The results of the evaluation forms that are completed by the students at the end of eachsummer session are also very encouraging. The students indicate that the lessons are verythorough
students 'ramp up' in theproject. As the students come to understand the problem and generate solution concepts, thenumber of issues will rise. A plateau may occur as the students become involved in bringing theirconcepts into practice. When the students have selected a concept to follow, the number of issueswill steadily rise again as they record and resolve implementation problems and refinements.We have found that students and coaches can better track progress when well defined milestones,or 'versions' as they are called in Redmine, are used in the project plan. When new issues arecreated, they may be tied to a version. Redmine can then list the issues that must be achieved toreach a version, providing a 'to-do' list for the team. Issues may be
atthe end of the course agreed that the hands-on coding, tweaking and benchmarking approach had significantlyadvanced their problem solving abilities.Looking forward, we hope to extend this teaching technique into some new areas including graphics programming,network protocols, and parallel processing. We also plan to conduct an empirical study statistically evaluating theeffectiveness of this method for teaching algorithms. REFERENCES[1] Barsky S. and Thomo U., “A new method for indexing genomes using on-disk suffix trees,” CIKM, 2008, 649-658.[2] Bshouty N., “A Lower Bound for Matrix Multiplication,” SIAM J. Comput, Vol. 18, 1988.[3] Leiserson C. and Stein R., Introduction to
software will offer students and teachers more flexible and efficient tools that address some of theseimplementation challenges. For example, a significant obstacle to using an inquiry approach in the classroom is thelack of experience teachers possess in engaging their students in argumentation and convergent sense-making.InterLACE will address this issue by developing tools that grant students a forum for their ideas and give teachers away to aggregate and analyze this data. We realize that a software tool alone is not the ultimate cure, therefore weare equally focused on providing professional development that would instruct teachers on how to facilitate acollaborative inquiry process during design-based projects. Going forward, we plan to test
currently works as a Research Associate and Deputy Director at the Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism (MCEP) and National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE) at Texas Tech University. He oversees the day to day operations of the center’s distance learning courses for both engineering students and practicing engineers. Additionally, he provides lectures on ethical theory and other topics in an on-campus engineering ethics course. Burgess was also a member of the Ethics in the Curriculum Task Force for Texas Tech’s Quality Enhancement Plan. The Quality Enhancement Plan was a crucial component of Texas Tech’s accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. A theme throughout these roles
, University of Colorado, Boulder Alyssa Nicole Berg is currently an undergraduate in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is interested in the energy field and plans on attending graduate school. Page 25.678.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Graduate Students Mentoring Undergraduates in Research: Attitudes and Reflections about These ExperiencesOne-on-one mentoring relationships between 1st or 2nd year engineering undergraduate studentsand graduate student mentors were established and monitored during a semester-long formalresearch
teacher workshops, and 1-day and 5-day engineering camps forstudents. Each activity is designed following a 5-step Active Learning Cycle (ALC) model. Theactivities are developed as a sequence with varying depth and technical content using the Lego®MindStorms NXTTM platform.In order to develop an effective educational robotics program, the sequence of activities must bebuilt on creative, accessible, and affordable materials in order to truly engage a child’s interest inSTEM and to build a comfort zone for STEM teachers. Several factors must be taken intoaccount during program development. The factors include teacher time constraints, teachertraining, age-suitable academic materials, ready-to-use lesson plans, and affordable educationalrobotics
those four lab exercises. We also detail the survey results and analyze the implicationsof those results. The experience presented in this paper is valuable for our faculty members tomove more lab exercises into the cloud. We believe our experience is also valuable to othereducators who plan to use cloud computing services such as Amazon EC2 in their computerscience and engineering courses. The link to our complete lab manuals and instructions is listedat the end of the bibliographic section.1. IntroductionThere is no doubt that cloud computing has become a reality. People talk about it, spend moneyon it, and gain substantial benefit from it. In response to this significant trend in computing, ourcolleges encourage faculty members to use cloud
year that a chat room was implemented to support the remote setup andconfiguration of student competition networks was for the 2007 CDC. At the writing of thispaper, the authors have five years of chat log files archived which can be examined using contentanalysis. This paper focuses only on the first year in which the authors have data, 2007, and isthe first attempt at using content analysis to evaluate the program. Since content analysis is anovel approach for evaluating inquiry-based learning and chat logs, the authors view this paperas a way to frame the use of content analysis in understanding inquiry-based learning programs.As discussed in the Conclusions/Future Directions section, the authors plan to use what islearned in this analysis
other purposes such as lubricant and creating manmade substanceslike plastics. To join into this effort of producing the future engineers with alternative energy background,a course is developed at York College of Pennsylvania for the undergraduate studies. The objectives ofthis course are to provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge reinforced by hands-onexperience. To obtain these objectives, a semester long photovoltaic system project is included in therenewable course. This paper presents the course structure, project report, and student survey of thecourse, as well as plans and expectations for future success. The project report discusses the teamstructure, component selection, system simulation, and experimental results
physical education teacher. He has also co-authored multiple papers and conference presentations related to physical education teacher professional development.Dr. Marcia A. Pool, Purdue University Marcia Pool is an Instructional Laboratory Coordinator in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. She is responsible for overseeing and assessing junior level laboratories, bioin- strumentation, and biotransport, and is involved with teaching and mentoring students in the senior de- sign capstone course. Recently, she has worked with colleagues to plan and implement a problem-based learning approach to the biotransport laboratory to improve students’ experimental design skills and has modified
into the College Curriculum. Journal of Academic Librarianship 29, 386-398.13. Thomes, K., Cornell, E., and Gottfried, B. (1997). Teaching Freshmen to Write Technical Reports and tonavigate the Library: A Win-Win Situation. 1997 Frontiers in Education Conference, Session S4F, pp.1557-1563.14. Black, C., Crest, S., & Volland, M. (2001). Building a successful information literacy infrastructure on thefoundation of librarian-faculty collaboration.[Online]. Research Strategies, 18, 215-225.15. Palmer, S., & Tucker, B. (2004). Planning, delivery and evaluation of information literacy training forengineering and technology students. [Online]. Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 35(1), 16-34
Professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado Denver and Co-director of the Active Communities Transportation (ACT) research group. He focuses on transporta- tion research dedicated to building a more sustainable infrastructure, particularly in terms of improving road safety, active transportation, and transit-oriented communities. Other recent research topics involve transportation planning, congestion pricing, human behaviors, parking, and street networks. A native of Watertown, Mass., Marshall is a recipient of the Dwight Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship and winner of the Charley V. Wootan Award for Outstanding TRB Paper