years have been found to be such animportant time for all students to begin thinking about future careers, is an intensive four-weeksummer program designed to 1) enhance science and mathematics achievement, 2) developcritical thinking and problem solving skills, 3) increase interest in engineering and other hightech fields, and 4) increase enrollment in advanced placement science and mathematics coursesin high school. In addition to classroom learning and laboratory experiments, the girlsparticipate in counseling sessions and go on field trips. The girls are introduced to femaleengineers and have the opportunity to see first hand the career options available to them. Theacademic curriculum for each FEMME group is grade appropriate and aligned
groundwater has been described using web-based graphics5 and another paperreports a virtual laboratory for teaching quasistationary electromagnetics.6 Another recent paperdiscusses the solution of groundwater problems using a spreadsheet.7 Still another paperemploys a spreadsheet to examine the topic of electromagnetic wave propagation.8 Two recentpapers reported the use of animation to clarify a variety of partial differential equationsolutions.9,10 There are a number of approaches to the animation of distributed parametersystems and one is the application of finite element software (ANSYSTM) to illustrate thevibration of beams and plates.11 A recent paper discusses the use of animation in MATLABTM toanimate the solution to a variety of electrical
AC 2007-443: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND THEENGINEERING FACULTY MEMBERWilliam Nunnally, University of Missouri - Columbia William Charles Nunnally W. C. Nunnally received the B.S degree, the M.S. degree and the PH.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas in 1969, 1971, and 1974 respectively. After serving in the US Army, he joined the magnetic fusion engineering group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1974. Dr. Nunnally's eleven year tenure at Los Alamos included assignments in the laser fusion group, the laser isotope separation group, the plasma physics group, the proton storage ring -accelerator group, and
microfluidic/thermal devices.Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver Hakan Gurocak is Director of School of Engineering and Computer Science and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University Vancouver. His research interests are robotics, automation, fuzzy logic, technology assisted distance delivery of laboratory courses and haptic interfaces for virtual reality.Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver Dr. Dave (Dae-Wook) Kim is an Assistant Professor of School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, and his M.S. and B.S. at Sungkyunkwan University
of topics coveredduring the lectures are: introduction to physiotherapy, stroke and spinal cord injury and therelated rehabilitation equipments. For the purpose of patient interviews, patients were pre-selected and their consent was sought by the doctors through the hospital’s procedure of consentseeking, such as explaining to the patients the objectives of the students’ interviews, and thesigning of consent forms by the patients who agreed to be interviewed. Students were allowed tointerview the patients in groups of five, for 15-20 minutes per session. Page 23.527.11To facilitate the administration, arrangement of laboratory tours and
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES COURSEAbstractAt the University of California at Santa Cruz, a quarter long course on renewable energy sources wascomplemented with a realworld team project. The course was designed for engineering andnonengineering students and did not require any advanced mathematics or physics backgrounds. Thecourse was open to freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior undergraduate students. The courseconsisted of fifteen biweekly lectures, eight weekly laboratory sections, a midterm, and a final exam.The lecture material consisted of an introduction to renewable energy sources, energy harvesting, energyconversion, system efficiency, and energy storage solutions. The lectures consisted of instructorpresentations, discussions, and
) which universities perform.i Government funds research for knowledge, not profit.In exchange, government typically receives a license to use the product of the research but theuniversity is free to commercialize the research and license it to industry. Industry though, isnow also looking to Universities for research. “As companies decrease the size and scope of theirinternal research laboratories, companies are increasingly turning to universities for basicresearch. Federal and state governments are developing funding programs that emphasizecollaboration between universities and companies that will enhance translational research andsupport economic development.” iiThe 1980 passage of the Bayh-Dole Act iii accelerated industry-university
camp, and suggestions forimprovement. Providing the students exposure to unique world-class research laboratories wasdeemed important in the initial planning of the camp. Laboratory tours with high interaction andless repetition were easily the most popular tours. While the feedback received on some labswas negative, it was not interpreted as a sign that the particular lab tour should be discontinuedbut rather that it needed to be retooled. An example would be having the students observe robotsmoving in one of the labs versus the excitement generated when students were able to control therobots. On the other hand, the lab where students were allowed to handle research materialsseemed to make more of an impression. Visiting wind tunnels was
Paper ID #10168A Sequence of Technology Commercialization Courses for Science and Engi-neeringDr. Arthur Felse, Northwestern University Arthur Felse is a Lecturer and the Assistant Director for Research in the Master of Biotechnology Pro- gram. His responsibilities include teaching, student advising, coordinating research training, and man- aging the MBP teaching laboratory. Before joining Northwestern University, Dr. Felse completed his post-doctoral training at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He received his BS in Chemi- cal Engineering as well as his MS in Biotechnology from Anna University, India and
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microcontrollers. There are also programs where the emphasis of thecourse is on the study of instrumentation and programmable logic controllers.One difficulty in teaching control systems is to provide a good balance between theory and practice. Byincorporating a laboratory component, it could help to provide some connection between the abstractcontrol theory and the real world applications.In the present paper we describe the educational experience gained by including team-based projects intothe control systems course. In these projects students design and implement different controllers forautonomous navigation in a mobile robot. In particular, the design and implementation of three maintypes of controllers are assigned to teams of students, namely: 1) a
work with academic assessment, particularly relating to ABET. She can be reached at jmcferran@uaa.alaska.edu.Dr. Steffen Peuker, University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Steffen Peuker is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Thermal System Design Laboratory at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is teaching the Thermal System De- sign, Thermal System Design Laboratory, HVAC Systems Optimization and Introduction to Engineering courses. His work in engineering education focuses on hands-on undergraduate engineering education in the HVAC&R area, student-industry cooperation, and developing innovative ways of merging engineering fundamentals and engineering in practice and research
Laboratory at Shanghai Jiaotong Week 5 June 14 1:00pm-4:00pm University Graduate Student Symposium: Tianjing University of Business and June 18 Finance Week 6 June 25 10:00am-12:00pm Group Meeting Attended Presentation Competition for Young Investigator in North 1:00pm-4:00pm China Electrical Power University June 29 10:00am-12:00pm Seminar: How to give a professional presentation? Week 7 16:00pm-17:00pm Meet with the Chair of the Department
Paper ID #7851A Senior Design Project in Environmentally Friendly Glass ManufacturingDr. Richard Chiou, Drexel UniversityDr. Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel UniversityMr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric Carr is currently the Laboratory Technician for Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program. Carr assists faculty members with the development and implementation of various Engineering Technology courses, and enjoys finding innovative ways to use microcontrollers and other technologies to enhance Drexel’s Engineering Technology course offerings. Carr holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Drexel University
and safe operation of laboratory equipment, and More efficient and effective literature searches.Since about 88% of the 25 students in this graduate student group are interested industry careers,the new thrust in the 2011-2012 program focused on developing researchers with well-roundedskillsets (i.e., professional, literary, communication skills) that are needed in industry. Sincemany domestic and international students enter into the American workforce without such skills,these new graduates require a certain amount of time for "professional acclimation," whichresults in reduced production for the individual and affects the young researcher’s psyche as wellas the hiring company’s bottom line. The graduate students themselves
Paper ID #7433Adapted Physical Activity Design Projects: A Collaboration Between Kinesi-ology and EngineeringDr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Dr Self has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. Prior to that, he worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education activities include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory
Centre for Design Re- search. Dr. Bennett obtained his B.A.I. Mechanical Engineering Degree in 1994 and his M.Sc. degree through research in 1996, both from the University of Dublin, T.C.D. In 1994 Dr. Bennett obtained a research fellowship to work in the national Nuclear and Technological Research Institute (I.T.N.) in Lis- bon, Portugal to carry out work in fluid elastic instability, vibration analysis and signal processing. After completion of his M.Sc., degree Dr. Bennett worked for a year in a national fluid mechanics research laboratory (L.E.G.I.) in Grenoble, France performing research in the area of Computerised Fluid Dy- namics (CFD) as applied to cavitational flows of turbine blades. On returning to Ireland
Movemaster RV-M1 User's Manual.[17] Hakan Gurocak "e-Lab: Technology-assisted Delivery of a Laboratory Course at a Distance"[18] Hugh Jack "A Virtual Manufacturing Laboratory"[19] Kevin Devine "Integrating Robot Simulation and Off-line Programming into an Industrial Robotics Course" ASEE Annual conference[20] Yang Cao "Learning Robotics through Developing a Virtual Robot Simulator in MATLAB" Page 23.159.14
3 4 BMET Elective 8 3 3 4 BMET Capstone Project/Internship 8 3 3 4Weekly lecture hours, laboratory hours, and total credit hours are also provided. Laboratoryexercises will be conducted for 12 out of the 16 weeks in each semester. The program will bestructured within the 130 credit-hour limit set by the Georgia Board of Regents (BOR). Theproposed curriculum will have Sixty (60) hours of Mathematics, Science, English, and SocialScience core courses along with Seventy (70) hours of Technical courses. Of the 70 Technicalcredits, Thirty Four (34) will constitute a core of ECET courses; Twenty Nine (29) hours will beBMET
ethical dilemmas. The project cost report, report number 9, isrequired to include the costs associated with conducting the engineering design workassociated with each project based on typical salary levels for practicing engineers plusoverhead and real costs related to development of any models or prototypes built. Thisreport must also include the costs associated with production of a working prototype aswell as costs that would be incurred if a “quantity” of the designs were produced. Forexample if the design project involves designing a special laboratory test apparatus thestudents must determine the cost of producing one working prototype and the cost ofproducing a reasonable number of the test apparatus that could possibly be sold
real-worldcustomer requirement, then offer one or more solutions by explaining real-worldmachines, or processes, or systems, or management tasks and then discuss furtherdevelopment, service, maintenance, integration, connectivity and many other issues withseveral feedback loops, and then offer discussion opportunities for real or virtual teams.In terms of delivering the individual cases in the Library the 3D Virtual Product Democoncept is followed, an innovation on its own, in that learners are taken virtually intoreal hi-tech factories, R&D studios, exhibitions and laboratories and are given interesting Page 8.87.3Proceedings of the 2003
that can be tackled with simple tools and small budgets. We have createda Freshman seminar subject at MIT in which the students build and modify a kit-based modelrocket. In parallel we discuss the elements of rocket physics and guide them in creating theirown predictions of the what the acceleration curve should look like for the rockets. Their goalfor the term is to collect the data needed to test their predictions. To accomplish it, they build acompact microcontroller circuit that can log acceleration at 1,000 samples per second. Duringthe term, the students learn the basics of programming the microcontroller and explore its uses inthe laboratory. At the end of the term, the class goes to a large open area, launches the rockets,and returns
Engineering Education.5. Devens, P.E. 2000. MATLAB & Freshman Engineering. Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education.6. MATLAB”, MATrix LABoratory is a trademark of The Mathworks, Inc..7. Piepeier, J.A., Knowles, K.A., and Bishop, B.E. 2002. The Use of MATLAB for Robotic Control in an Undergraduate Robotics Laboratory. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education.8. Rizkalla, M.E., Yokomoto, C.F., and Oloughlin, C.L. 1996. A New Design-Oriented Approach for Freshman Engineering. Proceedings of the 1996 American Society for Engineering Education. Washington, D.C
student (STS); Community and primary impact is that Economic Development people do things differently as a result RESEARCH • Basic research • Mu ltidisciplinary and • Applied research • Student laboratories SCHOLARSHIP • Original works integrative research • Policy research • Thesis and dissertation • Evaluation research • Cross-disciplinary teams • Performances of research (the objective is
Page 8.848.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationparticular laboratory group, students doing research at either the undergraduate or the graduatelevel and their advisors can benefit from specific training in the mentoring aspects of thisrelationship. The Mentoring Workshop project we describe here has been developed by theWomen in Science and Engineering (WISE) Committee at the University of Cincinnati, avolunteer faculty committee which was created in 1996. The Workshop was first developed tosupplement the WISE Summer Research Experience for Women Undergraduates (REWU), whichis in its fourth
these perspectives.FacultyThe primary risk factor for engineering retention that affects the faculty was workload. Toaccomplish the important, necessary tasks for teaching was not possible, given the number ofengineering faculty employed. Faculty were required to carry 12 semester hours of class and 12office hours each semester. With required laboratories, the student contact hours increased evenmore. At the time of the study, the department had ten full time faculty members. Of the ten,one was the department chair and another was the associate dean both of which had thecommensurate administrative duties further increasing faculty workload. Some of the areasaffected include: • Assessment – assessment tools are not utilized as they should
; Engineering, Portland, OR, and Michigan Technological University,Houghton, MI.4. Coppola, R., Malyn-Smith, J. editors (2006). Preparing for the Perfect Storm—A Report on the Forum TakingAction Together: Developing a National Action Plan to Address the "T&E" of STEM. Parametric TechnologyCorporation, Needham, MA, and EDC, Newton, MA.5. Altman, J.H. (1997). Career development in the context of family experiences, in Diversity and Women’sCareer Development: from Adolescence to Adulthood, edited by Helen S. Farmer, pp. 229-242. Thousand Oaks,CA.6. Jordan, et al., (2002). Emerging issues in school, family, & community connections. National Center forFamily & Community Connections with Schools, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
AC 2012-4919: FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE INTRODUCTION TOMANUFACTURING-RELATED ENGINEERING HANDBOOKS USING KNOVELDATABASESProf. Julia L. Morse, Kansas State University, Salina Julia Morse is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for mechanical engineering technology at Kansas State University, K-State, Salina. She teaches lecture and laboratory courses in the areas of man- ufacturing, automation, and computer-aided design. Morse earned a B.S.I.E. from the University of Ten- nessee, Knoxville, and a M.S. in manufacturing systems engineering from Auburn University, where she also worked with Auburn Industrial Extension Service. Her work in industry includes engineering ex- perience in quality control, industrial
significantchanges was switching from programming in C to programming in MATLAB in the fall of 2009,since MATLAB has become the major language used in various engineering disciplines forproblem solving [1, 4, 5]. Following this, the course changed its meeting time from three times aweek to four times a week. It now uses a 2+2 format: two days of lecture per week, with eachlecture day followed by laboratory time to facilitate material understanding by hands-on practice. Page 25.705.2Approximately 120 students will attend one-hour lecture in an auditorium. The following day,students attend a small lab session, usually 26 students, to allow more contact with
that they need to work harder; boosted their self-esteem when they gotgood grades during the program; got more confident in freshman year classes; and founda study buddy. The second and third groups agreed that the mathematics and chemistryclasses served as a good review before the beginning of fall semester. Some studentsfrom the second group stated that they knew what to expect in college, and the scienceclass helped in learning how to write laboratory reports. The third group’s students statedthat the study skills class was good in teaching them time management. Page 25.711.9Discussion:In examining the results obtained, it was indicated that