projects. Themultidisciplinary background gives advantages in their graduate school admissions andscholarship applications.1. IntroductionEngineering education is critical for nurturing competitive and skilled engineers and has greatinfluence for a nation’s competition ability in the current international high technology markets1.For most complex engineering and science problems, the solution can not be handled by oneindividual discipline. As most engineers required working on a project involving teamwork in amultidisciplinary environment, it is essential to tailor engineering education in a uniqueinterdisciplinary atmosphere and cultivate our engineering students to be the leaders in therapidly changing engineering fields.It is a challenging task
AC 2010-2152: PREPARING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FOR GLOBALWORKFORCES: COMPARISONS BETWEEN ENGINEERING AND BUSINESSSCHOOL STUDENTSGisele Ragusa, University of Southern California Page 15.977.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 1 Preparing University Students for Global Workforces: Comparisons Between Engineering and Business School Students Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D. University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering Rossier
more they resonate, the more their CRAnetworks are similar” [9. p. 189]. CRA can also compare all individual word networks bygenerating resonance clusters.The capabilities of CRA inspired three research questions for the initial limited study reportedhere. The research questions addressed are as follows. ≠ Research Question 1: What are the top influential words among word networks of student project reports? ≠ Research Question 2: How do student reports compare across application domain solutions? ≠ Research Question 3: How to student reports compare across report grade levels?MethodThe reports used in this study were created by students to describe results for an individualdatabase application
last half century1 .Lectures are frequently used in engineering education to transmit information to students. In anonline learning environment, lectures can be captured and replayed anywhere, anytime, thusproviding enhanced flexibility for learning. Experts can be easily brought into the onlineclassroom, enabling learning experiences that are not as readily acquired in a traditional on-campus classroom 1.One of the distinguishing elements of engineering education is the lab requirements 1. Thecurrent ABET 2 engineering criteria states that all engineering programs must demonstrate thattheir graduates have an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze andinterpret data; design a system, component, or process to meet
Science Foundation that provides resources for the research and development of distributed medical monitoring technologies and learning tools that utilize biomedical contexts. His research focuses on (1) plug-and-play, point-of-care medical monitoring systems that utilize interoperability standards, (2) wearable sensors and signal processing techniques for the determination of human and animal physiological status, and (3) educational tools and techniques that maximize learning and student interest. Dr. Warren is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.Jianchu Yao, East Carolina University Jianchu (Jason) Yao
program between 2006and 2009. Lastly, Project STEP focuses on the sustainability of the program itself. The universityfaculty participants, six primary investigators and four coordinators, play a large role infacilitating the promotion of community partnerships with teachers, K-12 students, and Fellows.Training of the FellowsLong term goals for our project include: 1)To train, energize, and sustain graduate engineering,math and science Fellows to effectively teach STEM skills to secondary school students;professional development of each Fellow that involves lesson observations, lesson plandocumentation, and course mastery of instructional planning and practicum; 2) Develophierarchical and expandable STEM lesson plans that explicitly connect key
, which may be a property (temperature, pressure, specificvolume, etc.), energy (heat transfer or work), efficiency, etc. The professor typicallyassigns a set of homework problems and the students solve each problem by hand. Thestudent knows that his or her calculations are correct by checking answers in the back ofthe book.Thermodynamics problems are often time-based. For instance, a student may be asked tosolve for the work and/or heat transfer of a process that begins at known state #1 andends at known state #2. In reality, though, the work and heat transfer vary with time asthe system moves from state #1 to state #2. This dynamic nature of manyThermodynamics problems is probably lost in the traditional classroom. It is the authors’opinion
. Vehicle performance is a three semester hour course taught during the third yearof the aerospace curriculum. During the course, students are exposed to fundamentalperformance analysis methods for fixed wing aircraft, rotorcraft, and space vehicles. The courseprecedes the capstone vehicle design sequence and the majority of the students’ technical writingexercises required in the curriculum.The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, shown in Figure 1, was chosen as the topic of the initial casestudy because it is a well-known and recognizable aircraft with compelling performance that hasfrequently been the subject of popular books, television programs, and museum displays.Performance data for the airplane to form the basis of the case assignment are also
course to improve student engagement,especially in the course's concurrent lab6-9. This paper describes efforts to embed derivation anddesign assignments into an "electronics-free" circuits course, primarily in its laboratory component.Six sections follow: a lecture excerpt, three laboratory exercises, an assessment section, and aconclusion. Bold subtitles are used to identify the start of each of these sections. In the interestof clarity, the laboratory exercises will be referred to as Labs 1, 2, and 3. To improve readability,blanks that would normally be included for student use have been omitted.The lecture excerpt and laboratory exercise sections include various sub-sections that arepresented herein using italicized sub-headings. The
settings are transmitted to the serverin snippets through asynchronous calls known as Web Services and the server responds with dataor computed results, which are further processed locally upon arrival.Rich Internet Applications refer loosely to a group of technologies which allow for browserbased programs to mimic features of traditional software programs. In 2002 Macromedia definedthe features of rich clients and rich Internet applications as a way to overcome the shortcomingsof HTML. Some of limitations of traditional HTML include the need to generate large amountsof text to transmit simple data, the lack of client-side data storage, and the rudimentary graphicscapabilities[1
received her BSIE from Mississippi State University and MSIE and PhD from Georgia Tech. She has been active in engineering education outreach at Tennessee Tech, as well as in prior service on the faculty of Mississippi State and the University of Alabama. She is a registered PE, a member of the EAC of ABET, and 2008-10 ASEE PIC 1 Chair.Margaret Phelps, Tennessee Technological University Margaret Phelps is Assistant Director of the Millard Oakley STEM Center and Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at Tennessee Technological University. She has eight years of experience as a high school math and science teacher and thirty-four years of experience as a faculty member in instructional
year student surveys (fall post surveys), however, is that 21% to 24% offirst year students agreed to the statement that S-L was one of the reasons for coming to U MassLowell.Female students responded more positively (at the 5% level) to service-related work than malestudents. Generally, the differences were typically 0.5 to 1.0 points on the Likert scale. As anillustration, Figure 1 shows the difference in mean Likert scale responses for male and femalestudents responding to the question: To what extent have the service-learning projects thisyear had an effect on “the likelihood that I would continue in engineering.” Reten6on Affected by S-‐L
presented.Course Development and DeliveryA thermal system course was proposed and included in the required Power EngineeringTechnology curriculum to cover topics not covered by traditional courses such as FluidMechanics and Thermodynamics. The course includes a wide variety of relevant topics for thePower Industry including fluid flow systems, variations of the Rankine (steam) cycle, as well astopics in applied heat transfer, including heat exchanger design and analysis. Both courses (fluidmechanics and thermodynamics) are prerequisite for the new thermal systems course. A detailedlist of all the topics covered in the course can be found in Table 1.As shown in Table 1, the relevant topics were grouped into five main categories including fluidsystems
1. Teacher working with Lab View to program LEGO robotsOne of the RET teachers developed new curriculum for her physics class using the LEGORobots. Using the LEGO Robots to teach physics is an example of an outcome of this RETexperience. The balance of this paper is how this teacher used LEGO robots in her high schoolphysics class.BackgroundThe teacher selected has 23 years experience as a classroom teacher of physics and chemistry infive different high schools in which students in the district often leave high school unpreparedfor college level science, engineering and math courses. The difficulty of the situation iscompounded by the lack of technology available to them in middle and high school. The gaps inexperience working with
Polymers is a co-listed senior level undergraduate course and anelective graduate level course in Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. It consistsof two one hour lecture sessions and one two hour lab each week. In the spring of 2009, five new thermalanalysis lab exercises were added to the existing labs. These five labs were all in the broader field ofthermal analysis. This resulted in a course with 13 labs which were performed by the students over onesemester. The topic for these lab experiments are listed below, with the new labs in bold italics. Lab 1: Synthesis of polystyrene and Nylon 6,6 Lab 2: Gel Permeation Chromatography Lab 3: Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Lab 4: Differential
a Trust in the Process of: 1)Seeking inspiration for problem finding through the activities of Look, Do, and Ask; 2) Broaddivergent ideation; 3) Implementation in the form of prototyping; and 4) Public Presentation Page 15.723.2using the activities of Show, Tell, and Act. 1The purpose of this paper is to further describe the purpose, curriculum development,organization and logistics, activities developed and engaged in, and methods of instruction of theInnovation Boot Camp. Additionally, the paper will: a) outline the learning outcomes of theInnovation Boot Camp; b) describe the relative impact
investigation into a subject in order to discover facts or principles, and increase the sum of knowledge, enhance design, or enrich artistic ability24.Fundamentally, the objective of the undergraduate research initiative or Discovery-Based Page 15.519.3Learning Initiative was to incorporate and/or emphasize research activities and skills inthe undergraduate curriculum. Figure 1 presents the specific goals delineated by thereport24. Undergraduate research should be a signature program from UH, one that makes the university more attractive to potential students with records of strong academic achievement. Undergraduate
concurrently for nodes that donot have a data dependency. LabVIEW has been used in engineering courses for coveringfundamental programming concepts6. In Fall ‘07 LabVIEW was introduced in the entirefreshman engineering class (EngE1024). In fact, LabVIEW was introduced in Spring ’07 but dueto the tragic events at Virginia Tech, the LabVIEW curriculum was not completely implemented.LabVIEW is used in industry for data acquisition, processing signals and controllinginstruments7. A graduate integration approach was adopted for bringing LabVIEW programmingexperiences into EngE1024 (see Table 1). Page 15.799.3Table 1: LabVIEW Concepts/Applications in
hardware implementation on the part of the flexible laboratoryenvironment. Estimated prices are shown where possible. As shown in Figure 1, the laboratoryconsists of the following equipment: ≠ 24 WinXP student workstations ($800 each) ≠ WinXP Instructor Workstation with dual monitors for running PowerPoint in presentation mode ($1000) ≠ Pilot workstation (currently testing Windows 7) ($800) ≠ Windows Server 2003 Server in back room ($1400) ≠ Gaming Server administered by the ACM Gaming Coordinator ≠ Laser Printer ($200) ≠ Ceiling-mounted projector ($600) ≠ Computers for PC Architecture students to disassemble and reassemble (stored in back room on shelving) (most are donated or previous lab equipment) o 8
compared with historical data for the Page 15.628.3course. Statistical difference doesn’t establish causality, but do indicate unreasonablevariability.Table 1 provides a summary of the final grades for 24 classes of engineering statics taughtby 10 different instructors from the fall 2004 to summer 2009. The class size format variedfrom 16-week long semesters with two- or three-meeting per week, to 10-week summersessions meeting twice per week. Over the 5 year period, 860 students enrolled orattempted statics. Of these students, 535 passed the statics course and were tracked intosubsequent engineering courses.The data includes those students who
circle the most appropriate answer.”The response to each question has been tabulated below the question, followed by an analysis ofthe result. Students were also allowed to provide additional comments if they wished to do so.Question #1. Requiring a textbook would have helped you learn better.Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Page 15.443.42 15 26 10Most students 36 (=26+10) thought that a textbook would not have helped them learn better asopposed to 17 (=2+15) students who thought a textbook would have helped.Question #2. Not having a
of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) International Division Page 15.334.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 The Creation of the Greater Caribbean Region Engineering Accreditation SystemAbstractThis paper describes the creation of a new Engineering program accreditation system for theCentral America and Caribbean Region, called the Greater Caribbean Regional EngineeringAccreditation System (GCREAS)1. This initiative was funded by the Inter AmericanDevelopment Bank through the efforts of the Engineering for the Americas (EftA) initiative2,uniting
designing an assistive technology device. While similar to ROXIE in that its projects arecentered in community service, HELP projects are speculative in nature and thus do not providestudents an opportunity to work with “real” customers.In this paper, the authors perform a comparative analysis of the ROXIE and HELP projects usingdata from student survey responses as a means of identifying the effects of including astudent/customer interaction component in a cornerstone design experience. Excerpts fromstudent interviews and reflection essays are provided as a means of placing survey responses incontext.1 Introduction1.1 The Cornerstone Design ProjectFirst-year engineering courses with design project elements are an emerging trend [1]. A 1999study
of form and texture.1 Although the early emphasis has been on building outvirtual worlds and providing for a growing demand for more social context and interaction, thereare some recent indicators that show a growing interest in the use of virtual world’s as vehiclesfor presenting content.2Over the past several years academics have begun to build and evaluate various virtual world Page 15.342.2environments with the goals of providing visually acceptable and meaningful meeting places thatstudents and faculty can use to gather and communicate in. However, to date thatcommunication has been mostly limited to providing an environment for
, specific criticalskills necessary for success in upper level courses.The consequences are several and can be severe: 1) faculty spend an inordinate amount ofclassroom and mentoring time in upper level courses on remedial rather than advanced skillsdevelopment; 2) student achievement suffers as the cumulative effects of skills not masteredcompounds; 3) retention rates of upper level students are negatively impacted.This paper describes initial activities and results toward development of an innovative on-line,critical skills, intelligent remedial tutorial learning system intended to serve those studentsrequiring extra-curricular learning support to enable their successful matriculation and retentionin upper level courses. This founding work project
to simulate theequipment enhances the quality of education as well as accommodates students with variouslearning styles.2An important aspect of such educational software is that it should be easy to use, learn andunderstand. In essence it should be usable. Usability is defined as “the capability of the softwareproduct to be understood, learned, used and attractive to the user, when used under specifiedconditions.”1 Usability testing plays an important role in the development of interactiveeducational software and user-centered design is quintessential for promoting its usage.“Usability problems of educational software can be one source of disturbance within the learningprocess by distracting attention from the learning task and consequently
following mostlaboratory experiments, the submission of an electronic portfolio of all laboratory work at theend of the semester, and the construction of a course webpage for the purpose of publicallypresenting a subset of laboratory results (to be made available to the general public ataerospacefailure.erau.edu). Table 1 shows the makeup for the lecture grade, and Table 2 showsthe makeup for the laboratory grade. Table 1: Makeup of lecture grade Graded event Percentage of final grade Homeworks (7 total) 20% Scheduled quizzes (6 total) 20% One midterm 30% Final exam 30
DISCIPLINES Abstract Systems Engineering is a life cycle engineering approach that is being used for development of large systems. It has been implemented by DoD, NASA, and most all major corporations such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, etc. There are over 120 programs in systems engineering that are currently being offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels [1]. A large percentage of these are graduate programs or certificate programs in Systems Engineering and are mostly housed in industrial and systems engineering departments. Yet there are only a handful of undergraduate programs offered by universities that integrate systems engineering in main stream engineering disciplines such as
to thegeography under study) that take place on it. The phrase “to represent digitally” is used toconvey the meaning “to convert analog (smooth line) to digital form.” They began workingon the development of the GIS software in late 1950s, but the first GIS software was Page 15.847.2developed only in the late 1970s by the lab of the Environmental Systems Research Institute(ESRI). Evolution of GIS has transformed and revolutionized the ways in which planners,engineers, managers etc. conduct the database management and analysis 1.GIS has been defined in many ways, ESRI an industry leader in GIS software and geo-database management application
design, and how to present the overall concept. Volunteers use an onlinecollaboration site to comment on lesson plans, reflect on their teaching, and post new ideas andmaterial.Volunteer engineers come away from their experience with three main areas of impact. 1) Theyare empowered by inspiring others. “It is really a big deal to be working with students at ayoung age so they can be excited about what they're learning and {so these students can} bereally ambitious for the future." 2) They learn important lessons in management and publicspeaking. One volunteer observed, “This is a really useful skill because I’m sure later on in mycareer I’ll have to explain what I do to an audience that doesn’t necessarily have a background inmy field.” 3) They