than 40 papers, book chapters and journals.Alice Abreu, OAS ALICE ABREU, PhD, former Director of the Organization for American States (OAS) Office of Science, Technology and Education.Marta Cehelsky, InterAmerican Development Bank MARTA CEHELSKY is Senior Adviser for Science And Technology in the Department of Sustainable Development of the InterAmerican Development Bank, where she has spearheaded a initiatiative to strengthen the effectiveness of the Bank’s S&T. Previously, Dr. Cehelsky served as Executive Officer of the Presidentially appointed National Science Board, responsible for policy of the National Science Foundation and for advising the US President and Congress on
the new millennium. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.4. Dorf, R. C. & Byers, T. H. (2005). Technology ventures: From idea to enterprise. Boston: McGraw-Hill.5. Goetsch, D. L. & Davis, S. B. (2003). Quality management: Introduction to quality management for production, processing, and services (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.6. Kotler, P. (1994). Marketing management (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.7. Narayanan, V. K. (2001). Managing technology and innovation for competitive advantage. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.8. Prasad, B. (1996). Concurrent engineering fundamentals: Integrated product and process organization. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.9
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
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by supporting students whohave backgrounds or experiences that will contribute to the overall diversity of the College ofEngineering. Underrepresented ethnic groups currently comprise 17 percent of the UT Austinengineering student body. The EOE Director serves as co-administrator of the College’s OpenMentoring® Program. Page 11.911.4The College of Engineering at UT Austin has consistently remained among the ranks of thecountry's top engineering schools. The 2006 edition of the U. S. News & World Report survey ofthe country's engineering undergraduate schools ranked UT Austin eleventh in the nation among350 accredited engineering schools
phase of the competition: however, all of the wheels must be carried withthe vehicle for each of the runs (distance, load, speed and stopping) of the competition. Inaddition, the following guidelines were placed on the construction: ‚ The mousetrap mechanism could not be altered or modified. ‚ Only the mousetrap could be used to power the vehicle. ‚ No use of rubber bands or anything elastic to attach from the mousetrap to the Page 11.889.7 axles of the vehicle. ‚ Either axle, or both, may be used as the drive axle(s). ‚ The entire vehicle must start behind the designated
of security should the location of the content be disclosedby some other means.The RedRover program is called online like any other HTML page on the server. A typicalsystem call is outlined in Figure 2 to visualize the request chain within the system from a clientmachine. The page name is simply redrover.cfm instead of a .htm or .html extension. Uponbeing called, the program asks for a user name and password before presenting a menu ofcourses from which to select, similar to most learning management systems such as Blackboard.Based on the selection, the internal variables corresponding to the content page(s) requested willlocate the file by index and display its content (if allowed by the user’s credentials) as part of theRedRover output
results of theanalysis by major with regard to the two-way interaction as viewed by the third party. Many ofthe responses were Neutral and one survey had a written response of N/A with respect to the oneof the third party questions. It is believed that many of the “Neutral” answers may have been “Idon’t know what the other two did when they were working in a two-way interaction.”Therefore, it is recommended that a sixth response category be added to the survey to allowstudents to answer “no observation” or “don’t know”. Page 11.766.14Bibliography[1] Northrup, S., Moriarty, J., Vallee, G., Presz, W., “A Successful Interdisciplinary Engineering
distributing paper versions of thesurvey, Robert Knee for posting the web survey and summarizing its results, and John Muffo forsurvey resources and expertise.Bibliography1. Katehi, L., K. Banks, H. Diefes-Dux, D. Follman, J. Gaunt, K. Haghighi, P. Imbrie, R. Montgomery, W. Oakes, and P. Wankat, “Development of graduate programs in engineering education,” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. 2004.2. Griffin, Jr., O. H., A. Aning, V. K. Lohani, J. M. Kampe, R. Goff, M. Paretti, M. Alley, J. Lo, J. Terpenny, T. Walker, H. Aref, S. Magliaro, and M. Sanders, “Designing and Implementing Graduate Programs in Engineering Education,” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake
importantly, to help maintain the sense of colleagueship and community that develops among the workshop participant s during their four days together. The sessions are open to participants in the orientation workshops held in the preceding three years. Topics that have been addressed include troubleshooting teaching, working with student project teams, dealing with fund ing agencies, and the most popular one, writing effective NSF CAREER grant proposals. The average attendance is between ten and twenty. One of the principal reasons for initiating the workshop was new faculty dissatisfactionwith the orientation they received following their arrival at N.C. State. To assess the impact ofthe workshop in this regard, surveys of
models are used for analyzingand evaluating operational impact of ITS alternatives on traffic flow by adjusting traffic signalsand other ITS controlled variables, based on real-time information to help move traffic at higheraverage speeds and better adhere to schedules. Unlike the other three projects, this projectshowed how computer simulated learning occurs. The teacher was first introduced to the basictheories and fundamentals of traffic simulation by using the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM)-based software as a teaching tool. For selected freeway ramp sites and immediately followingarterial intersection(s) in Cincinnati, the teacher studied the traffic flow in a short segment of thefreeway to understand what variables impact the traffic flow
. The department covered theprinting cost of the posters. The posters are currently on display in one of our labs.The final report was an opportunity for the students to document what they have learnedabout their particular topic, describe the details of the algorithm(s) that they haveimplemented, comment on their performance and results, and give conclusions andrecommendations for future work. Students were asked to convey their findings in a clearand concise manner and were given guidelines about the technical report format tofollow.The final project was a very successful aspect of the class. The author tried to expose thestudents to real-world digital image processing applications by asking them to applytheory learned in class to solve
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. Page 11.1346.12AcknowledgementsThis work has been supported by the National Science Foundation through grant REC-0238392,Using portfolios to promote knowledge integration in engineering education. The authors wishto thank all members of the Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education for theinsightful reviews and comments that helped to shape this paper.References1. Lappenbusch, S., & Turns, J. (2005). Finding their place in TC: using a community of practice model to research emerging TC professionals. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Professional Communication, Limerick, Ireland.2. Guan, Z., Yellin, J.M., Turns, J., and Kumar, V. (2005). User-centered design of course-based portfolios for mechanical engineering
Integrated Product Development and the entrepreneurshipminor.Entrepreneurship teaching – undergraduate: Since the mid 1990’s Lehigh hasoffered an award winning cross-disciplinary program in Integrated Product Development(IPD) for students in engineering, business and the design arts. For the past eight yearsthe program has focused on technical entrepreneurship through new productdevelopment, with industry sponsorship of cross-disciplinary student teams2. The IPDprogram has also engaged local entrepreneurs and student entrepreneurs. Since theinception of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), elevenLehigh teams have won national competitions for collegiate innovation andentrepreneurship (see www.NCIIA.org). The IPD program
begin to look atwhich kinds of team characteristics are more likely to produce better solutions to MEAs and howto teach students to embody those characteristics as team members. These findings could havegreat impact on how we teach problem solving and teaming to our students.Bibliographic Information1. ABET (2002). Engineering Criteria 2002-2003. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, http://www.abet.org/criteria.html.2. Imbrie, P.K., Maller, S.J., and Immekus, J.C., “Assessing Team Effectiveness,” Proceedings from the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Portland, OR, 2005.3. Guzzo, R. A. (1986). “Group Decision Making and Group Effectiveness.” In Goodman, P. S. (Ed.). Designing Effective Work