for pre-service STEM education majors in Page 12.1380.2partnership with colleges and universities of higher learning. The PSTP project has beenongoing since 1995 with the overarching goal of providing enrichment activities to pre-service STEM teachers, expose them to best practices in K-12 STEM education, andintroduce them to advanced technologies utilized at NASA, government laboratories, andmodern industries that have relevance to K-12 STEM education.UMES partnered with NASA, National Institute of Aerospace, and Bennett College forWomen to host the 11th Pre-service Teacher Program for the first time. As in the past theprimary emphases were on (i
education.MethodsThe Delphi methodThe Delphi method (often referred to as a “Delphi study” in practice) was designed by theRAND Corporation in 19637 for forecasting technological and sociological change based on thecollective opinions of experts in those respective fields. Recently, this method has been appliedto a diversity of topics in science and engineering education including establishing biotechnologycompetencies for K-12 students8, developing concept inventories in statics9 andthermodynamics10, and identifying core laboratory skills in the biomedical sciences11. Thestrength of this approach is that it capitalizes on the merits of group problem solving whileminimizing its limitations, for example, group conformity inherent to round-table discussions12
General Electric Corporation NC Department of Hewlett-Packard Company Transportation Intel Corporation The Procter & Gamble Company International Paper Time Warner Cable, Inc. Microsoft Corporation NC Math & Science Education Milliken & Company Network Nortel Networks Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. Northrop Grumman CaterpillarIn addition to formal board affiliations and interactions described in this paper, severalcompanies also host our students who attend a high
AC 2007-2846: BRIDGING BEAR HOLLOW: A SERVICE LEARNING CAPSTONEDESIGNNorman Dennis, University of Arkansas Norman D. Dennis, Jr., is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is active in both ASCE and ASEE, currently serving as a member of ASCE's committee for faculty development and as a program coordinator for the EcCEEd teaching workshop. Dennis is also a director of the CE division of ASEE and past chair or the Midwest section of ASEE. His research interests include laboratory and field determination of geotechnical material properties for transportation systems and the use of remote sensing techniques to categorize geomaterials
worked on in CEGR 105.g Semester Title of project 2001 Design a plant that uses ocean tides to generate electricity. 2002 Design of a water treatment plant in the ocean using Osmotic pressure system. 2003 Design of a mass transit system for Baltimore City 2004 Design a structure to serve as a laboratory on the Martian surface 2005 Design a feature in a structure that allows the structure to respond automatically to a disturbance (earthquake, wind, tsunami, etc) so as to minimize damage to the structure. 2006 Design a system to protect a metropolitan area on the US coastline along the Gulf of
problems using both quantitative and qualitative in the major reasoning ̇ Mathematics, including statistics ̇ Think critically and imaginatively ̇ Science (with integrated laboratory) ̇ Technology course Areas of Knowledge ̇ Imaginative arts ̇ Five courses across six areas of ̇ Cultures and societies knowledge, including at least one ̇ Contemporary and global studies interdisciplinary course meeting ̇ Economics and organizations outcomes in two areas. ̇ Interrelation
activelearning techniques into the course. These techniques include individual web-based pre-lectureassignments, team projects, individual and group quizzes, in-class laboratory exercises presentedas case studies, and combined traditional and case analysis exams. Ideally, students will be moreengaged in the course and increase their depth of knowledge.In this paper we examine changes made to the course and what we hope to measure throughthese changes. A preliminary Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) survey along withan attitude questionnaire (created by undergraduates working on the NSF project ES21C) wasgiven to students enrolled in the introductory electrical science course before changes weremade.I. IntroductionStudents graduating from OSU’s
officers in the Whiting School of Engineering, BloombergSchool of Public Health, as well as university laboratories and outside federal laboratories.Several students were hired full-time upon graduation by a technology commercializationassessment firm. They prepared studies, prepared business plans, found investors, andnegotiated deals, and recruited several other students as interns. Both the technology transferofficers and this firm have expressed interest in sub-contracting technology assessments to anHSE business. To further explore the possibility, we arranged summer internships for thestudents with the School of Engineering and a university laboratory, who were very happy withtheir contributions. In fall 2006, with a pledge from the Whiting
Electrical Engineering Faculty in 1969 and from 1975 through 1977. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina and the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He served also as a Visiting Scientific Advisor to Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Cuernavaca, Mexico. In 1987, Dr. Grzybowski joined Mississippi State University, where he is now a Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the High Voltage Laboratory at Mississippi State University. Dr. Grzybowski is a Life Fellow of the IEEE. His main research interests are in the area of high voltage engineering. His current research focuses on the lightning protection of power
AC 2007-628: RESULTS FROM A MULTI-CENTER INVESTIGATION OF THEEFFECT OF NETWORK LATENCY ON PEDAGOGIC EFFICACYJames Squire, Virginia Military Institute Dr. James Squire is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY and served in the army as a Military Intelligence officer during Desert Storm. Although his PhD is in electrical engineering, he completed his doctoral work in a biomedical engineering laboratory at MIT and has interests in analog and digital instrumentation, signal processing, biomechanics, patent litigation, and cardiology. At VMI he teaches
AC 2007-689: OPTIMIZATION OF GREEN ROOF SYSTEMS FORMULTIFUNCTIONAL BUILDINGS: A THREE-YEAR INTEGRATED CIVIL ANDENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE EXPERIENCEPeter Adriaens, University of Michigan Peter Adriaens is a professor within Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan. His expertise includes fate pathways of persistent organic pollutants (POPs); laboratory and field investigations on contaminant biodegradation in soils, sediments, and groundwater; and sensors for microbial and chemical constituents in environmental matrices.Corrie Clark, University of Michigan Corrie Clark is a PhD Candidate in Environmental
the fall semester. Students were treated asif they were enrolled as freshmen, a key to past success2. Students attended classes during theday, Monday through Friday. Instructors gave tests and homework to show students the rigor ofcollege curriculum. Below are brief overviews of each subject. The average size of ASPIREallowed one section for each class.Chemistry - Influence on problem solving through problem sets and homework assignments - Covered chemical fundamentals, bonding, and thermodynamics - Three exams given with the opportunity to participate in prior help sessions - Pre- and post-tests given to assess comprehension of materialChemistry Lab - Covered lab safety, lab report format, and laboratory experiments
society and attend the annual Section meeting at which the cash prize and certificate are presented. The candidate’s contribution to the profession should include at least four of the following: 1. Participation in the development of courses or curricula; 2. Development of teaching equipment or development of a wider application of teaching equipment previously developed; 3. Contribution to the improvement of laboratories or other facilities; 4. Development or authorship of instructional materials or a text that enhances the student learning process; 5. Publication of original work, through any medium, that enhances the engineering education process
is greatly enhanced when incubator clients submit a jointproposal with a university or federal laboratory (6) Additional services and resources includingpatent knowledge, alumni who may act as advisors, business contacts and strategic alliance Page 12.717.4facilitators or investors, access to a far-flung network of laboratories and technical expertise, andaccess to investment by university foundations.All the above mentioned research findings and other issues and environmental factors wereconsidered when designing the engineering entrepreneurship programs at Florida Tech.Additionally, leading entrepreneurship programs in the country were
leisure4. Education repositories such as ED-CAST orMERLOT5 contain examples of these. Other professors have integrated digital videos to provideaccess to demonstrations6 or present laboratory preparation guidance or even allow for conductof a laboratory experiment from a remote location7.The authors recently implemented an alternative method of using recent technology to providestudents with a learning resource that they can use at a time and place of their choosing. Themethod is referred to here as “Video AI” (AI stands for “Additional Instruction”) and has beenimplemented in the United States Military Academy’s Department of Civil and MechanicalEngineering with measurable positive effects on both academic performance and studentperceptions of
themotion first hand. Similarly, toy gyroscopes can be used to help teach students about precessionand demonstrate how gyroscopic navigational devices operate. These hands-on laboratories canbe much more powerful than demonstrations and lecturing – the students can actually feel thegyroscopic moments generated. These demonstrations were assessed through two problems onthe final examination. The first asked what happens to the motion of a gyroscope when you pushgently on the outer gimble. The second involved the action-reaction moments involved withgyroscopic motion (e.g., if you are riding your bike and lean to the left, which way to do youhave to push on your handlebars). Scores on these different problems along with subjectivesurvey results were
AC 2008-1449: ONTOLOGIES AND WEB-SEMANTICS FOR IMPROVEMENT OFCURRICULUM IN CIVIL ENGINEERINGJean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California Jean-Pierre Bardet is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair of the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California Dennis McLeod is currently Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, and Director of the Semantic Information Representation Laboratory at USC. He received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT. Dr
AC 2008-1485: ADDRESSING CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, LIFELONGLEARNING, AND THE IMPACT OF ENGINEERING ON GLOBAL ANDSOCIETAL ISSUES IN THE CLASSROOMKenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University Dr. Van Treuren is a professor on the faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Baylor University. He teaches the capstone Mechanical Engineering Laboratory course as well as courses in heat transfer, aerospace engineering, fluid mechanics, and wind power. His research interests include energy education and literacy and gas turbine heat transfer. He can be contacted at Kenneth_Van_Treuren@baylor.edu. Page 13.153.1
improves based on improved access to information.33Particularly for students working within university laboratories or serving as research assistantsfor faculty, students’ information access to innovative science-based concepts should improvetheir access to information and therefore improve their abilities in entrepreneurial opportunitydiscovery. Page 13.48.7Search ProcessesEmpirical evidence suggests that those searching for information on entrepreneurialopportunities are more likely to discover opportunities.19 While these searches can be based onpublicly available information, non-public information discovered through personal contacts is
07 2 sections, 200 students total 1 section, 150 students Summer 07 None 1 section, 150 students Fall 07 1 section, 150 students 2 sections, 300 students total Spring 08 2 sections, 300 students total 2 sections, 300 students totalIn addition to the lectures, the M&I course entails many changes in the laboratory component ofthe course. In the M&I labs, there is a strong connection between lab and lecture content—theactivities in lab each week are designed to explore and reinforce the concepts being discussed inlecture that particular week. (In contrast, many of the labs in the traditional introductory courseat Georgia Tech are on topics
courses will have to be replaced.At Wentworth, the ‘hands-on’ aspect of education has several meanings, including;demonstrative laboratory exercises in the engineering mechanics, hydraulics, materials and soilmechanics classes, problem-solving laboratory exercise in structural analysis and structuraldesign, software application exercises in highway design, and design experiences in municipalplanning, foundations, earthwork, water and wastewater treatment subjects. Surveying, which isobviously hands-on, is also part of our present curriculum. What of these elements can weretain, or do we need to retain?We must be cognizant of the ‘hands-on’ elements that enhance student learning, and thisassessment is best made internally. Comment is sought from
of students in introductory materials engineering classes. Most recently, he has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for a courses on Connecting Mathematics with Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design.Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Materials at ASU and has been teaching and developing new content for materials science and engineering classes and laboratories. She has developed new content and contextual teaching methods from here experience as a researcher and a manager at Honeywell Inc. She is currently working to develop
their institution. In one Page 13.1257.8 recent case, a well-qualified Ph.D. student at a major research university was interested in teaching a hydraulics and hydrology course and two sections of laboratory as an adjunct faculty member at another institution. The compensation for the course and laboratory section, however, did not justify the time involved in preparation, travel and actual teaching, and as a result, the individual had to decline the position.Insights from Personal ExperiencesWhen discussing the role of adjunct faculty in engineering education, personalexperiences provide a sense of reference and add insights
Turbulence Measurements,” USAFA Department of Aeronautics Laboratory Report 8-99-01. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf Southwestern Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright©2003, American Society for Engineering EducationMELANIE HAGEWOODMelanie Hagewood is a senior undergraduate student at Baylor University. She was named as Baylor’sEngineering Outstanding Engineering Junior for 2001-02. She will complete her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering inMay of 2003. Her future plans are to play on the ladies professional golf circuit and later work as an engineer for agolfing equipment company.KEN VAN TREURENKen Van Treuren is an Associate Professor in the
. A. Mammoli, P. Vorobieff, and D. Menicucci. Promoting solar thermal design: the mechanical engineering building at the university of new mexico. In Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards, WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 2006. Wessex Institute of Technology.ANDREA MAMMOLIProf. Mammoli obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Western Australia in 1995. Hewas a Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory until 1997, when he joined the faculty of the MEdepartment at UNM. Since a sabbatical in Italy in 2004, he became interested in all aspects of building energy use,from passive solar design to high-tech solutions..PETER
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education2. Brian Sturhan, Lee Howard, Brian Meixell, Juan Montelongo, Manmeet B. Patil,Farrokh Attarzadeh, “Endless Coffee Pot,” Technology Interface, Volume 8, no. 1, Fall2007, http://technologyinterface.nmsu.edu/Fall07/ (Last accessed on 02/08/2008).3. Attarzadeh, Farrokh, “Innovations in Laboratory Development for ComputerEngineering Technology Programs,” IJME (International Journal of ModernEngineering, Volume 7, No 2, Spring 2007,http://www.ijme.us/issues/spring2007/sl2007paper1attrasheh.pdf, (Last accessed on02/08/2008).4. Boodram, P., Brown, T. R., McNeilly, R. A., Mohammed, M., Mahesh, R., andAttarzadeh, F., “High Temperature Automobile Protection System,” ASEE-CoEDJournal, VOL. XVI, No. 4
other products. C2B2 issupported by state, institutional, and industry funds. The center includes the three primary stateuniversities and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). At CU-B most of theefforts associated with this center are located in the Department of Chemical Engineering(http://www.colorado.edu/che/c2b2/index.html). Recently, the CHEN degree added an option toallow students to gain competence in energy-related areas. The Energy Option allows studentsto select one of three core concentrations: fossil fuels or petroleum, photovoltaics, and biofuels.Course requirements for each option are shown in Table 1. Note that students pursuing thesecurriculum options have no remaining free technical electives in their 4-year B.S
free developmenttools now allow each student to have access to state of the art development tools and hardware.Students must be provided access to these industry leading tools to be competent and competitivein the marketplace.A study to be conducted at Washington State University will measure changes in studentperformance and retention when first year engineering students have exposure and unlimitedaccess to state of the art development tools and hardware. Data will be collected from surveys,exams, project reports, laboratory assignments, and homework.Quantitative data will be analyzed by comparison to historical data gathered from studentgroups that did not have exposure to and unlimited access to development tools.Qualitative data will be
MS in civil engineering from CU-Boulder.Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder JACQUELYN F. SULLIVAN is founding co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory. She co-created and co-teaches a First-Year Engineering Projects course, an Innovation and Invention course, and a service-learning Engineering Outreach Corps elective. Dr. Sullivan initiated the ITL's extensive K-12 engineering program and leads a multi-institutional NSF-supported initiative that created TeachEngineering, an online collection of K-12 engineering curricula. Dr. Sullivan has 14 years of industrial engineering experience and directed an interdisciplinary water resources
enhanced learning obtained from integrating elements of the learning environmentwhere it yields optimal results considering learning, costs, and complexity9,10,11. An SIenvironment seeks to integrate course content and the learning process with content from othercourses, the educational setting, accessible assessment/feedback, and family and studentinvolvement. Integration of the educational setting takes advantage of the many opportunities forguided learning in settings outside of the classroom and laboratory and allows for makingstronger connections by instructing students in different mental and/or emotional states. Interests Goals STUDENT Aspirations Values Activity #1: Activity #2