been introduced. Page 11.252.2Course Descriptions and BackgroundThe NU course is a required four-credit sophomore course for Industrial Engineering majors,with a few engineering students taking IE as a minor. The course covers core IE topics, aboutone topic per week, using selected chapters from Turner, et al.’s text5 along with supplementalmaterial. The class meets three times weekly: one class is generally an introductory lecture withproblem-solving, the second includes more problem solving or further exploration of the topic,and the third is a laboratory or hands-on classroom activity. The students complete homeworkproblems and an
. Note thatthe design reviews are done in conjunction with the student team partners, faculty advisors, andother interested entrepreneurial board members.Once the final design is selected, the team details the manufacturing, packaging and assembly,and shipping requirements to arrive at a realistic selling price for the new product. The last stepin the process consists of developing a marketing and business plan to facilitate the potentialstart-up of a successful company venture.Entrepreneurial BoardThe dual degree program involves the cooperation of 20 public and private partners, includingOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), large corporations, small start-up corporations, andstate and local officials. All aspects of the product development
2006-2238: A COMPARISON OF ON-LINE AND TRADITIONAL TESTINGMETHODSSteve York, Virginia Tech Dr. Steven C York is an assistant professor in the department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He received his BS degree in chemistry from Radford University in 1984 and his PhD in chemical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1999. Dr York has taught courses in engineering problem solving and design, chemical engineering and chemistry. Dr York has also designed and implemented a number of design-build projects and engineering laboratory experiences for first-year engineering students at VA Tech. Dr York is a member of ASEE and the American Chemical Society. Address: Engineering
teamwork and leadership, and promotecreative discovery. We contribute to the economic well being of...”“Excellence in innovative, laboratory based technology and engineering programs that isrecognized by…………...”The strategic visions of Engineering Colleges of some research universities, which havecommitted themselves to the involvement of minorities in engineering education are shownbelow.“..Recruit, support and retain.... Increase the number of women faculty members by 15. Add 10faculty members from under-represented groups..”.“Faculty Diversity is a special initiative of the Dean of Engineering to recruit and retain atalented and diverse engineering faculty…”The majority of universities and engineering colleges do not include statements on
Yellin forserving as internal advisors as part of the Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education atthe University of Washington.We would also like to thank the many people who developed the web sites, articles, research,guides, and other teaching-related resources that we have linked to on our web site. Our sitecould not exist without their expertise and hard work.References 1. De Jong, M. and Van Der Geest, T. (2000). Characterizing web heuristics. Technical Communication, 47(3), pp. 311-326. 2. Van Duyn, D.K., Landay, J.A., and Hong, J.I. (2003). Making the most of web design patterns. In The Design of Sites: Patterns, principles, and process for crafting a customer-centered web experience. Addison-Wesley
fewexperts. It is also quite imperative that case developers receive input from a wider audience onthe implications of their learning tools so that successes and lessons learnt can be disseminated toall stakeholders in a timely fashion. The main objective of this paper is to provide an appliedexample of the use of a preexisting case study in a quality control course and demonstrate howinstructors may measure the effectiveness of induced instructional changes using a combinationof self-reported measures and authentic assessment. This paper presents one side of the ongoingstudy and the authors hope to continue to present the remaining part in another forthcomingpublication.Development of Case Studies at LITEEThe laboratory for Innovative Technology in
calculated therefore, refining and maximizing the efficiency ofthe system. After completing the design of the hydraulic circuit (Figure 1), components werespecified that met the design requirements. The hydraulic circuit was assembled in the laboratory Page 11.755.4and its performance was tested (Figure 2). After fine-tuning the circuit for improving itsperformance, a complete 3-D CAD layout of the hydraulic circuit was developed using Pro-Engineer8.Design of Bicycle FrameAfter completion of the hydraulic circuit design, a recumbent frame was chosen for the system asopposed to designing and fabricating the frame from scratch. This allowed the group
Engineering Design I Fall quarter, Senior 3R-3L-4CBiomedical Engineering Design II Winter quarter, Senior 2R-6L-4CBiomedical Engineering Design III Spring quarter, Senior 1R-3L-2C Note: ‘R’ = lecture hours, ‘L’ = laboratory hours, ‘C’ = overall course credit.Principles of Biomedical Engineering DesignThis is the first course in the sequence, and students learn the design process through thecompletion of team projects. The quarter involves a complete iteration of the design process ona real device, from assessing needs, generating multiple feasible solutions, ranking these basedon the merit of the solutions
students. This feedback is consistentwith research findings that hands-on activities and cooperative learning have been found tostimulate interest in STEM for all students, especially girls (Land of Plenty, 2000).Year FourThe fourth annual Tech Careers event was held in March, 2002. A full-day conference was heldat the Park followed by a site visit to the facilities of the Maui Space Surveillance Complex onthe second day. The event was sponsored by the County of Maui, Maui High PerformanceComputing Center, the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory (Detachment 15), and the U. S.Department of Labor. WIT again visited local high schools to promote the program. Duringmany of the presentations given this year, past participants spoke up to recommend the
semester courses which are intended to acquaintstudents with the different disciplines offered at the school. These “Introduction to Engineering”courses are usually in the form of a series of presentations by department faculty from thevarious disciplines. They may have literature available, use laboratory demonstrations, anddiscuss the variety of positions open to their discipline in industry. They may also mentionopportunities for graduate study in their field and the availability of research and doctoral study.The remainder of the student’s schedule in their first year usually consists of courses dealingwith a fundamental body of knowledge as presented in the required mathematics, physics
hands-on experiences in telecommunications networks analysis and thevarious aspects related to the administration and management of such networks. A primary goalof the program from its inception has been to develop a capstone course in which studentsdemonstrate their competence gained via the program by the successful completion of a teamproject and associated report.This paper discusses the development of the telecommunications project course as a capstonecourse for the TCET program at SPSU. The most recent project involved the setting up of avoice-over-IP (VoIP) network using Cisco routers and equipment available in ourtelecommunications laboratory. The VoIP network operated over a Frame Relay (FR) cloud andincorporated security aspects into
work. In this course the students are required to excel in both areas. Table -6-3 shows a summary of the value assigned to writing in the course compared to the value assignedto the analytical requirements. The distribution of the work shows that 23% of the student’sgrade is attained though their written work. Other junior-level courses, excluding laboratory-based courses, that emphasize development of analytical skills may only assign 0-10% of thegrade to writing efforts.Table 3. Value of Writing Incorporated into Assignments. Assignment Points Description of the task Writing Analytical1) Quizzes
the StudentsIn addition to benefiting the degree program, the hybrid course provides value-added to thestudents. The course provides basic information students should know to perform laboratoryresearch. For example, students learn about microcosm studies, column studies, bacterial samplecollection and handling, which are all factors that can improve the success of laboratory projects.By tailoring the microbiology topics to environmental engineering, the hybrid class ultimatelyadds to the students’ knowledge and provides skills that will enhance research productivity.Graduating ENVE students’ response to ABET 2000 Criterion 8 Outcomes, specifically theunderstanding and proficiency in science and math are presented in Table 1. The inclusion of
Pressure Compressor (HPC), main combustion chamber, and High Pressure Turbine(HPT). Furthermore, the benefits of having a common core as they relate to cost savings in terms Page 12.599.7of development, operation, and maintenance are well outlined. Skira5, covered the cost reduction Figure 3. General Electric CF6-6 high-bypass turbofan engine located in the Gas Turbine Laboratory of the Aerospace Engineering Dept. at Embry-Riddle Aero. Universityefforts that are currently ongoing in commercial, and government institutions. One such effort,receiving much notoriety, is Integrated, High-Performance Turbine Engine Technology, orIHPTET. This is
) test, which was developed to assess the selfconfidence of students related to spatial tasks, see Kinsey et al11 for details. These web-basedtests consisted of three dimensional representations of different objects in both solid and nohidden line representations. The web-based software recorded the radio button the studentselected for each of the test questions. To ensure anonymity, an encrypted universityidentification code was used as opposed to the student’s name for data analysis purposes. The tests were administered to 86 freshmen mechanical engineering students in CEPSwho were enrolled in ME 441 Engineering Graphics during the fall semester of 2006. Thiscourse consisted of three 1-hour lectures and a one 2-hour laboratory meeting
anexample of a project used in IET-418 Cost estimating. Student teams must take theproject from the proposal stage to completion of the project goals. The projectconstitutes a major portion of the course grade. It is important for the instructor toreceive feedback on how well each student performed as a team member. Some studentsbecome “social loafers” who try to let other team members do all the work. Each studentis asked to evaluate their contribution as well as each team member’s contribution to theproject. This is done several times during the semester and the feedback is used, in part,in determining individual grades.IET 230L Work Measurement LabThis laboratory course requires students to work together in teams to perform severalwork
course or its equivalent. ManyTeaching Assistants work in laboratories or do grading of papers; the course also discussesinterpersonal skills. For international students, ESL courses can be taken simultaneously withthis course. The course is continually updated by its instructor to keep pace with the improvinglanguage skills of new doctoral students and changes in technology. The course covers issues ofacademic integrity, professional behavior, e-mail protocol, meetings leadership and participationskills and others that all contribute to both professional and instructional effectiveness.EvaluationAll instructors, including Teaching Assistants are regularly evaluated at NJIT, through acarefully monitored and student-controlled process
even different versions.Issues surrounding data disseminationYet this data is valuable to scientific research. Or is it? How useful is data if it can’t beaccessed and disseminated? Not only must the data be made available, it must bedescribed in such a way that its contents and structure are apparent to the user. Currently,laboratory data is frequently stored on researcher PCs, lab servers or communalrepositories (in the form of reports) like arXiv (http://arxiv.org/). Institutional repositorieslike DSpace (http://www.dspace.org) and Eprints (http://www.eprints.org) are bettersuited to traditional, discrete publications than data sets. Metadata descriptors may help auser understand the contents of a data set, but researchers frequently don’t
high early strength additive. The forms weresecured to a lift that was 24 hours old and one below it was placed 72 hours earlier. A day hadbeen lost due to rain in the contractor’s work schedule. When the formwork failed, it broughtdown all the fresh concrete and most of the day-old lift below it. The three-day-old ring stayedintact. The weather had been cold and rainy but during the week prior to the failure, temperatureswere in 60s during the day and in the 30s at night.5The probable cause was the green concrete. According to one electrician on the job, “Theyjacked that up on green concrete.” However, the testing laboratory results showed that concretecylinders did not show any unusual results. Since the workers were paid for a full day’s
Department of the University of Central Florida. Before joining Texas A&M International University he was a Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Page 23.528.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Enhancements to a Propulsion DemonstratorAbstractThis paper presents enhancements to a propulsion demonstrator that illustrates how a rocketworks. The operation of the original system is manual and collection and display of useful datais not possible. The updated system consists of the following major components: (1) a computer
committee for the 2012 Capstone Design Conference and is a member of the CDHub web development team. He holds the position of Professor of Practice at The Ohio State University.Dr. Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University Received his Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Ohio State University in 2009, and is currently working as Lecturer and Senior Researcher for the Engineering Education Innovation Center and the Aeronautical and Astronautical Research Laboratories at Ohio State. Page 23.560.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Examining the Impacts
dean. These engineering programs have received separate ABET accreditationbecause of the differences in location, facilities, administration, and support services from theengineering programs in Lexington.All Paducah faculty positions, with the exception of the former director, are special-title series.These positions are primarily upper division nine-month teaching appointments. However, dueto the nature of the Paducah program, these appointments involve additional assignments,including student recruitment, undergraduate laboratory development, and professionaldevelopment. The traditional responsibilities involving instruction, academic advisement, anduniversity service also apply. Because of these unique responsibilities and the limited
to the authors’institution. Due to limited laboratory space at TECSUP, the authors’ institution is able to send12 students at most.TECSUP offers a three year degree program, which does not qualify as a bachelor’s degree perWorld Education Services 3 , but the authors are working with TECSUP to develop anarticulation agreement so that Peruvian students who finish the program at TECSUP can enrollat the authors’ institution and get a bachelor’s degree from the authors’ department.3.3 Ireland and SpainThe authors’ institution is part of a three-way partnership with peer institutions in Ireland—theDublin Institute of Technology—and Spain—Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—which isbuilt on the idea of sustainability of innovation. The authors
Paper ID #5971Faculty Development Through Industrial InternshipDr. Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos Vedaraman Sriraman is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Texas State University- San Marcos. In the past, he has served as the Manufacturing Engineering program coordinator, Chair of the Department of Engineering Technology and Assistant Dean in the College of Science at Texas State University. He has received several gramts form the NSF and SME-EF to initiate new curriculum and laboratories. Dr. Sriraman has received several teaching awards and has served as the faculty advisor to
facilitate energy-efficiency in the commercial building industry. Another research interest of Kristen’s is engineering education, where she explores how project- and experience-based learning foster better understanding of engineering and management principles. Prior to joining ASU, Kristen was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-11) and then a Scientific Engineering Associate (2011-2012) in the Building Technologies and Urban Systems Department. She worked in the Commercial Buildings group, developing energy effi- ciency programs and researching technical and non-technical barriers to energy efficiency in the buildings industry. She has a background in collaborative design
of the Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering (ChEE) and the Program in Applied Mathematics at the UA. Baygents joined the UA engineering faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1991, the same year he received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Prince- ton University. He also holds an M.A. (Princeton, 1981) and a B.S. (Rice, 1980) in chemical engineering. For three years prior to joining the UA, Baygents was a Visiting Scientist, then a Research Fellow, at the Space Science Laboratory of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. In 1995, he received the Arizona Mortar Board Senior Honor Society award for outstanding faculty service. In 1997, he was awarded an International Research
) Type 2 project (DUE 1065486) founded on a precursor NSF Page 23.651.2Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Type 1 project, Inventory ofEvaluation Tools for Engineering Education Projects. The Inventory project (a) established theneed for a readily available repository of high quality evaluation tools to support evaluation ofengineering education projects, (b) identified some of the tools and characteristics that may bevaluable for an evaluation tools database, and (c) identified potential user groups who couldbenefit from an engineering education evaluation tools database. As part of the precursor project,a panel of national
MET Yes Developing Virtual Laboratory Experiments to Enhance Student Learning IET Yes Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology Government Regulation and Security of the Web-Based Disaster ITS Yes Management Communication Increasing Utility Fossil Power Plant Steam Cycle Efficiency as a Result of MET Yes Colder Condenser Cooling Water Inlet Temperature Currently, a Cost Effective Way to Providing Robotics Training to Students and Industry EET PhD Candidate
or development of highercognitive skills.InterventionWe evaluated the writing assignments in the course Cell and Molecular Biology for Engineers atthe University of Virginia. Student teams of 3 (enrollment was 102 2nd year undergraduates)were randomly assigned the task of either writing a completely novel review article on a specific,contemporary problem in biomedical engineering, or of completing a primary research articlebased on laboratory data addressing a related problem. In this instance, the topic of the reviewarticle was assigned to be “regulation of the cytoskeleton by nitrosylation.” The primary articlewas a completed but as yet unpublished study on the effects of nitric oxide and nitrosylation on
Journal, Volume 14, No 3, 2011.12. Greco, E. and Reasoner, J. (2010) Student Laboratory Skills and Knowledge Improved through Individual Lab Participation, Proc. ASEE Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, June 2010.13. Hilborn, R.B. (1994) “Team learning for engineering students,” IEEE Trans. Educ., vol. 37, no. 2, 1994, pp. 207–211.14. Neill, C.J., DeFranco, J.F., (2011) “Improving Team Learning in Systems Design”, Proc. ASEE Annual Conf, Vancouver, Canada, June 2011.15. Neill, C.J., DeFranco, J.F. (2011) “Problem-Solving Style and its Impact on Engineering Team Effectiveness.” Proc. 9th Conference on Systems Engineering Research, Redondo Beach, CA. April 201116. Nystrand, M. (1996). Opening dialogue: Understanding the dynamics of