engineer who retired from IBM after serving for 30 years. He is a development engineering and manufacturing content expert. He develops and teaches all related engineering courses. His responsibility as a director of Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory include the plan- ning, implementation and dissemination of research projects that are related to the need of accessibility. He received his BS from RIT and his MS from Lehigh University. His last assignment with IBM was an Advanced Process Control project manager. He managed team members in delivering the next generation Advanced Process Control solution which replaced the legacy APC system in the 300 mm semiconductor fabricator. Behm has fifteen patents
technology has not only made it possible to nearly fly anyobject, regardless of shape, but also allows anyone be able to pick up the controller and fly anyquadcopter. The processor planned for this project comes equipped with a 3 axis gyroscope thatwill do automatic leveling and consistent flight patterns7. Even with this advance in technology,the frame’s balance must still be analyzed carefully, making sure that all components of any majormass, excluding the motors, be as centralized inside the body as possible. The suggested designframe is an entry level racing frame that has a mounting system pre designed making it possible tohave a micro camera mounted and turning the quadcopter into a first person view (FPV) or drone.All components have been
date.Conclusions and Future DirectionsAs these efforts progress and the authors expand their understanding of the influence of liberaleducation on engineering curriculum, we plan to continue to explore the means by which thesetwo areas are more closely integrated and are then less viewed as separate areas but more as twosides of the same issue. While the course discussed here is only a small start, looking to the workof others, there are opportunities for greater integration of topics such as ethics, sustainability, andsocial justice into core engineering courses. 7 Students at this institution currently have access to achapter of Engineers Without Borders USA. However, it is not clear whether participation in sucha group achieves the desired effect on
-Pacific region.Vietnam was selected as one of the target countries for integration with industry due to itsmultiple regional and national agreements and projects. For instance, 40 percent of crude oiland around 25 percent of natural gas Vietnamese companies produce together with theirRussian partners; the largest Russian and Vietnam oil producing companies signed aMemorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate their joint work. In 2015, other importantdocuments were signed, specifically a Plan of Investment, an MoU on revamping the powerplants in Vietnam, an agreement between railway companies, and others.4However, even after critical documents have been signed by both parties, it is important toconsider different aspects of establishing
model approach to 1) assess the potential of educationalinnovations for sustainable scalability and 2) for those innovations assessed to be promising, to developa transition plan to move them forward to widespread adoption. Thus, the expected outcomes of thisexploratory project are two-fold: (1) enable the project team to effectively assess the potential of theirinnovation for sustainable scalability, and (2) identify a path by which promising innovations can garnerbroad acceptance, i.e., implementation or adoption.Both I-Corps™ and I-Corps™ L are based on Steve Blank’s Lean Start-Up approach (28, 29). Duringthe course, participants engage in extensive customer discovery, conducting at least 100 interviews withpotential adopters, collaborators
engineering and 33% of females that participated in FRC enter engineering8. FIRST®research has also shown that engagement in school increases for participants with 84% of FTCparticipants and 90% of FRC participants indicating they plan to take more challenging math orscience courses in high school9. FIRST® also assists participants in attaining 21st Century work-life skills by improving their problem solving (98%), increased conflict resolution skills (93%)and strengthening communication skills (76%). Finally, research shows that FIRST® has animpact on STEM and engineering professions with 89.6% of alumni entering STEM careerfields9.FIRST® has been meeting or exceeding its objectives and is positively impacting STEMeducation in Arizona. From 2007 to
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shows that in a some questions the was a significant drop between the post-and delayed post-test. In any case, the author plans to investigate this effect in the future.The finding that the 3rd Law is the one with which the students have more difficulty is consistentwith the finding of Hestenes et.al1. and of the author of this paper, who has given this pre/posttestto hundreds of teachers, who have participated in the professional development programs overmore than 20 years, and retired science and engineering professionals who have participated inthe RE-SEED Program. (RE-SEED – www.reseed.neu.edu – recruits, trains, and places retiredscience and engineering professionals in STEM classrooms to support teachers and students asvolunteers. Since
regularlydesignated courses to educate undergraduate students in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Thedevelopment of NSNT is one of the main goals in the strategic plan of UND. Developing NSNTcourses is essential to meeting the needs of industry in the region – and beyond – to provide muchneeded education and training for engineers.This paper describes an NSF-funded project to establish a nanoscience and nanotechnology(NSNT) program at UND. The project aims to foster new interest in nanoscience andnanotechnology among UND STEM students from a multidisciplinary perspective. Faculty fromElectrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Physicsare actively involved in preparing and delivering the NSNT course content. This
and eliminated waste material. For example, the floorrequired exactly 14 sheets of floor sheathing. Porch Living Rm/Kitchen Bath Bedroom Figure 2: Floor Plan – “Starter” Micro-HouseIn the “Starter” Micro-House, the wall framing system uses APA’s Advanced Framing7 system,shown in Figure 3, with 2x4 studs at 24 inch spacing, with the roof joists, floor joists, and wallstuds are vertically in line at 24 inches on center, which creates a simple, yet direct load path todistribute the roof live loads and dead loads uniformly to the building foundation. The wallswere constructed with internal cellulose insulation and external rigid foam insulation, for a totalwall
(ITE) traffic engineering council committee on ”survey of the state of the practice on traffic responsive plan selection control.” He is also a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Traffic Signal Systems committee, Artificial Intel- ligence and Advanced Computing Applications committee, and the joint subcommittee on Intersection. In addition, he is currently a chair on a task group on Agent-based modeling and simulation as part of the TRB SimSub committee. He also serves as a CEE faculty senator at Virginia Tech. Dr. Abbas is a recipient of the Oak Ridge National Lab Associated Universities (ORAU) Ralf E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award and the G. V. Loganathan Faculty Achievement Award for
Scholarship in Norway, an American Council of Education Fellowship, and multiple teaching awards. Dr. Roth is a member of ASCE, ASFE, and ASEE. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi and is a licensed engineer in the states of Maine and Pennsylvania.Dr. Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College Dr. Kristen Sanford Bernhardt is chair of the Engineering Studies program and associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette College. Her expertise is in sustainable civil infrastructure management and transportation systems. She teaches a variety of courses including sustainability of built systems, transportation systems, transportation planning, civil infrastructure management, and
in public speaking.Regarding things to improve for future implementations of the module, some studentscommunicated that they would have liked to have worked on the project for a longer period oftime, perhaps to the point of creating prototypes for their design concepts. While this may not bepractical in the context of this particular course, it may be feasible in the courses of otherinstructors who adopt the module. This desire to continue working on the project beyond theoriginally planned scope also indicates that many students were engaged in EML. Otherconstructive comments from students that can be used to improve the module include addingmore design restrictions, targeting other symptoms or diseases, and the general need for
deadlines in a design course allows veterans to quickly develop a schedule and supporting documentation to best facilitate team efforts. 2. Lack of comfort with the open-endedness of a design project. Military leadership provides missions and objectives to subordinates. Subordinates develop their own mission plans and objectives and push to the next subordinate level. The process continues downward until it reaches the lowest level. With the exception of coordinating certain elements, the method of mission accomplishment is open-ended. This provides lower military units with the flexibility to adapt and accomplish the objectives in whatever manner they see fit. 3. Inherent reluctance of students to begin
Educ. 2007;11:89-99.[8] Morries l, Ma M, Wu PC. Agile Innovation: The Revolutionary Approach to Accelerate Success, InspireEngagement, and Ignite Creativity: Wiley; 2014.Appendix A. Rubric on grading traditional term report and web page. Performance Unacceptable Marginal Good Very Good Indicator 1 2 3 4 Organization There is no Some information Most information is Information is of Information clear plan for is logically organized in a organized in a clear, the organization sequenced. clear, logical way
effectiveness of the selected MCU-based platform compared to the traditionaldedicated DSP hardware, we propose to use the following assessment measures: First, students’ feedback in the form of survey questionnaires will be collected. We plan to conduct two sets of surveys: One from students who completed the DSP class in spring 2015. In this course, the dedicated DSP hardware was used. As a comparison, we will also obtain surveys from students who will complete the DSP class in spring 2016. In this course, the MCU-based DSP hardware will be used. Such feedback will help us to assess how the students feel about the effectiveness of the proposed MCU-based platform compared to the DSP-based
ofmaturity. 3College of Engineering (CENG) – Qatar UniversityQatar University (QU) is the first national College of Education of the State of Qatar founded in1973. Hence in 1977, Qatar University was founded with four new colleges, namely Education,Humanities & Social Sciences, Sharia, Law & Islamic Studies, and Science. The College ofEngineering was later established in 1980. In its first year the college admitted 57 male and 93female students. Currently, CENG is a house of six academic departments for undergraduateprograms: Architecture and Urban Planning, Computer Engineering and Industrial Engineering,Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
to take workshop trainings in carpentry, blacksmith, welding, and inmachine shop.Third Phase (1961 – 1988) After 1962, the Faculty of Engineering became an independent Institute, calledBurma Institute of Technology (BIT), with its own Rector, under the Directorate of HigherEducation, Ministry of Education. BIT was changed into RIT after about a year. Thereason for the change was that the Ministry of Education planned to open more institutesof technology in other parts of the country at a later date. RIT had its own Administrative Page 3Council and Senate, chaired by the Rector to give policy directions related to respectiveadministrative and academic matters. However, higher Administrative
and planned the student meetings,worked with publishers to obtain quotes for various types of children’s books, and collected dataon the project.The division of labor and scope of the project was decided by the students themselves. Theydivided into two groups: an illustration group and a dialogue/text group. Despite these divisions,the students actually met as a whole on most occasions and discussed the book project as a team.As the students reached the mid-point in the semester, it became clear that the book would not beaccomplished using only student art. An illustrator was hired in order to take the students’concept drawings and turn them into the actual book pages.FindingsThis project was funded through a Transformative Educational
) plans by setting goals for playing and timing; (2)strategizes by deciding which strategy to use for a task or when to change a strategy; (3)regulates time use, effort, pace, or performance; and (4) regulates motivation, emotion orenvironment (i.e., volition control). The resulting sub-categories for the earthquake engineeringcontent knowledge category were: (1) interconnectivity, (2) importance of water, (3) redundancy,(4) resilience, (5) human element, (6) safety, and (7) real-life applications.When a player showed evidence on the video record for an item on the GBL checklist, we usedMicrosoft Word to code the corresponding segment of the video transcription according tochecklist categories. A Design phase focus group member and the game
anenvelope that contains cut up pieces of 4 playing cards such that no single envelope contains theparts to make one whole card. The objective of the game is for teams to barter with each other inorder to become the first team to piece together the 4 cards. First, each team is given 3 minutes tosort its pieces, determine which pieces it needs to make complete cards, and develop abargaining plan. Teams are then allowed to start bartering for pieces. People can barter on theirown or as a team. When the time is up, whichever team has the most number of completed cardswins.Step 1: Identify observable attributes to evaluate. To determine the specific criterion to evaluatein each game, interviews may be conducted with hiring experts who have experience
practices tocarry out or avoid when attempting to form business relationships in MENA. A United Statesfederal government agency, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), has beeninstrumental in promoting and assisting United States multinational corporations operatingoverseas. A survey conducted in 2014 shows that 52% of multinational corporations (MNCs)surveyed aspire to increase business operations globally and only 15% planned to developleaders with cultural competence [30]. This discrepancy may lead to a loss in pool of globalleadership and a critical gap in cross-cultural skills [30]. For an organization to enhanceorganizational performance and remain globally competitive using cross-cultural understandingas an effective tool
college and girls areless likely to believe that they are expected to prioritize STEM classes. Roots of these gender-specific under-expectations on the part of students’ families and potential solutions have been 28explored in STEM education research, elsewhere. While results were not corrected for multipletesting, they are useful for identifying further research questions. We plan to gather additionaldata in subsequent years, including teacher questionnaire responses, to further investigate theeffects of our challenge-based engineering programs and specific factors within our programs onstudent STEM attitudes. AcknowledgementsThis work is funded in part by the New York City Department of
question). These excellent evaluations along withvery positive student comments reveal that the students’ understanding, interest, and enthusiasmfor nanoelectronics and electronic conduction phenomena was greatly enhanced, making this“Bottom-Up” approach very effective in improving EE undergraduate students’ fundamentalknowledge of electronic conduction phenomena. Based on these initial assessment results, it isconcluded that incorporating Purdue University’s new “Bottom-Up” approach in our EEundergraduate curriculum is successful, and we plan to continue using it. The authors willcontinue to assess the effectiveness of this new approach in our senior-level EE analogelectronics elective course each future fall semester, going forward.Conclusion
PROJECTCIE 475 – Civil & Environmental Engineering Senior Design Project, or capstone project, is afour-credit senior-level capstone core course. Senior students of both civil engineering andenvironmental engineering majors must take this course in order to graduate. This is a Project-Based-Learning (PBL) course where students work on planning, designing, cost estimating,scheduling and preparing a comprehensive report and final presentation for a real-world industryproject. This course is normally taken after the CIE 401. It encompasses almost all of the ABETlearning outcomes (a-k or 1-6) and, hence, engineering professionalism and ethics is covered inthe course in order to better prepare the graduating civil and environmental engineering class
process than participants. While non-participants rated themselves higherin this area, data on admission rates would suggest otherwise. Transfer Questions 6.00 5.00 4.00 3.00 2.00 1.00 0.00 To what degree do you feel prepared to apply for I understand the Admissions process (e.g., how to enrollment in a four-year institution? apply, when to apply) for the four-year institution(s) I plan to apply to. Pre Post Nonparticipants Table 2: Transfer Admissions ReportingAs a result
, environmental, and societal contexts. 6. An ability to recognize the ongoing need for additional knowledge and locate, evaluate, integrate, and apply this knowledge appropriately. 7. An ability to function effectively on teams that establish goals, plan tasks, meet deadlines, and analyze risk and uncertainty. 16Responses to Proposed EAC Revisions• National Academy of Engineering and ASEE Forums• Concerns about proposed Criterion 3 • Removal of broad education, and multidisciplinary teams • Elimination of health, safety, and sustainability • Number of words about the same as in current Criterion 3 • Lumping items for
verify that these conditions are handled correctly in their program.We have found this approach to be helpful in teaching networking programming. The studentsrecognize this benefit as shown through both the grades the students receive for the assignmentand their subjective input based on class surveys.In the future we plan on implementing this methodology earlier in the quarter and having thestudents use this methodology for multiple programming assignments. In addition, while itsclear that the students see a benefit in designing their network programs, it is also clear that thisis not translated into them designing in other courses. We are in the process of increasing the useof functional decomposition of problems in earlier programming courses
most important motivation for teaching online. Public institutions continue to bethe most likely to believe that online education is critical to their long-term strategy.Approximately one-third of baccalaureate institutions consider online to be critical, a rate abouthalf that of other institutional types such as associate degree institutions.The percent of higher education institutions that currently have a Massive Open Online Courses(MOOC) increased from 2.6 percent to 5.0 percent over the past year. The majority ofinstitutions (53 percent) report they are still undecided about MOOCs, while under one-third (33percent) say they have no plans for a MOOC. Only 23 percent of academic leaders believe thatMOOCs represent a sustainable method for
, engineering17–22 . These dimensions richly capture theformation of a student’s role identity and can be used to study the creation of an engineeringidentity. Additionally, the study of identity formation has proven useful in understandingpersistence in other domains23. This framework for measuring identity has been establishedthrough large scale studies in physics and mathematics18,22.Traditional roles for students create patterns for access to engineering professions and identity.While non-normative students bring many skills to engineering disciplines such as managing,planning, organizing, coordinating communications, and being cognizant of differentperspectives in group decision-making, these features are not always recognized as