. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of ScienceSource: Budget of the United States Government FY 2019. Projected deficit is $984 billion. © AAAS 2018 3 Limits on NONDEFENSE Spending Estimated percent change from 2017, inflation adjusted 20% 10% 0%-10%-20%-30%-40% Pre-Sequester Caps Sequester Caps Actual Caps w/ Congress Adjustments*Current caps last through 2021. Based on past and current budget resolutions, the
Teaching Engineering Ethics in the Classroom through a Town Hall Meeting Activity Sarah Seraj1*, June Young Park1, Michael Pieratt2 1 Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 301 E Dean Keeton St, Stop C1700, Austin, TX 78712 2 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., 14200 Kirkham Way, Poway, CA 92064 *E-mail: sarahseraj@utexas.eduAbstract nature of their projects, even a small mistake or misstep in Engineers often contribute to projects that impact many their work can endanger the health
: Adapting and Implementing the SCALE-UP Approach in Statics, Dynamics, and Multivariate Calculus. He is also supported by an NSF Mathematics Education CCLI grant: Adapting K-8 Mathematics Curricular Materials for Pre-Service Teacher Education.Dorothy Moss, Clemson University Dot Moss is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University where she serves as Project Director of Math Out of the Box™, a K-5 curriculum and teacher professional development project. She has a BS from Bob Jones University, a Masters from Clemson University, and thirty hours above a Masters in Library Science. In addition to serving as one of the principal authors of Math Out of the Box
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). At NAE she served on the Committee on Engineering Education, working on the Technologically Speaking and the Engineer 2020 projects. She is currently a member of the National Research Council's Board on Education and the Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, which recently released the report Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering. She has supervised 67 MS projects/theses, 27 doctoral dissertations and numerous undergraduate researchers.Sara Beckman, University of California at Berkeley Sara Beckman teaches new product
AC 2008-1354: CREATING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE IN ANENGINEERING UNIVERSITYPaul A. Nelson, Michigan Technological University Dr. Paul A. Nelson is Associate Professor of Economics and Engineering Management in the School of Business at Michigan Technological University, with a PhD in Industrial Organization Economics from the University of Wisconsin. In the 1970s and 1980, he was the Director of a graduate program in Business Administration designed for engineering students. Also, he administered a one-year second undergraduate degree program in Engineering Management for engineering students. He supervised many Master of Science projects which dealt with starting businesses and
(especially ABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000 and theNational Academy of Engineering’s “The Engineer of 2020” report) have prompted changesthroughout the engineering curriculum. Many universities 8-14 increased the emphasis onengineering design and engineering analysis in their first-year engineering course, including theintroduction of hands-on context-rich design projects to be completed by teams of students.15Some universities created courses that explicitly attempted to increase their students’ teamworkskills,16 while others sharpened their focus on improving their students’ problem-solving skills9and creative and critical thinking skills.17 Perhaps the most difficult mandate of EngineeringCriteria 2000 is that students be able to work effectively
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA), West Point for 7.5 years, teaching courses in engineering mechanics, structural analysis and Home Brewing.Farid Momand, Kabul University Farid Ahmad Momand holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has served as an Assistant Professor (Pohialay) at Kabul University for two years, an adjunct instructor at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan for one semester, and a practicing structural engineer for 14 months at United Infrastructure Projects, a private company. He is currently enrolled in the master’s degree program in civil
cooling load. Thisproject demonstrates the technical viability of absorption chillers. The project economics weredominated by the capital cost of the absorption chiller and the solar collector array which, todate, are still very expensive. A conventional vapor compression cycle has lower capital costs thatcan be offset by the lower operating costs of an absorption chiller installation. Advances inabsorption chiller technology and higher electricity prices would make solar absorption chillersmore economically viable.Running chillers and boilers off peak and storing hot or cold water in thermal energy storage canproduce savings if the utility offers discounted off peak electrical rates. This practice also helpsthe utility to run efficiently by
% send email on their phones, exchanging some 200 email messages eachweek. 66% email peers about classes; 44% email for studying. In contrast, only 43% email onPCs, exchanging an average of only 2 messages per week. Only 20% had used a PDA. 71% ofthe subjects preferred receiving educational materials on mobile phones rather than PCs. 93%felt that its valuable to use phones for teaching. In the UK it is estimated that 81% of 11-15 yearolds and 96% of 16-24 year olds have a mobile phone [7]. Similar projects have been establishedin Europe as well. An example of a pan-European research and development study with partnersin Italy, Sweden and the UK is the "m-learning" project [8]. Its aim is to use portabletechnologies to provide literacy and
the delivery of onlinecurriculum and services. The Minnesota State University System consists of 33 state universities,community colleges, technical colleges and combined community and technical colleges locatedon 53 campuses. The system serves approximately 235,000 students annually in credit-basedcourses and another 130,000 in non-credit courses. A primary vehicle for the state universitysystem’s online entity support is largely demonstrated through seed grants for online course orprogram development. As pedagogically necessary, portions of the online program or coursewere able to be customized to use applied activities such as a course cohort activity. For thedepartment courses either a capstone project or a lab experience were integrated
among institutions.The Foundation provides one, two and three year grants. By design, the scope of eligiblegrantees includes a wide range of institutions that play a role in career development andachievement. These include academic and research institutions, as well as learned societies,professional associations, advocacy organizations, and governmental and non-governmentalagencies.To date, there have been two rounds of proposals funded, which include projects completed orunderway with the University of Rhode Island, the University of California – Irvine, RennselaerPolytechnic Institute, the University of Amsterdam, Princeton University, the American Societyfor Cell Biology, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the Association for
relationship of theABET-TAC Criterion 2 [a-k] to each objective, and the assessment measures and metricsassociated with each objective. An assessment methodology implemented to resolve thisweakness is described along with examples of data measurement tools utilized.Advantages and disadvantages of data collection methods are analyzed in this report,given that there is not one single method of measurement that can predict programimprovement. A distinction is made between the program educational objectivesassessment tools: job placement data; alumni survey; employer survey; and input fromindustrial advisory board, and the program outcome assessment tools: course assessment;student rating of instruction; senior exit exam; senior project evaluation; and
substantive introduction to information literacy, building on first-semester writing intensive courses and a college-wide online quiz-tutorial to offer discipline-specific instruction in information literacy. This course lays the groundwork for additionalinformation literacy instruction throughout the engineering core curriculum and in the capstonedesign clinic.Information literacy topics are integrated with course material in mass and energy balances usingthe organizing vehicle of a semester-long project on Life-Cycle Assessment. The engineeringlibrarian taught a class that was tailored to the course and the LCA projects; developed a course-specific web site to direct students to relevant library resources they would use in completing theproject
preparedness and thosefocusing on student supply. There are many programs seeking to address the problem of teacherpreparedness in science and mathematics. These range in size from small local efforts up tostatewide programs such as the National Science Foundation Statewide Systemic Initiatives.While too numerous to mention here, a representative sampling of these programs can be found insuch publications as the "NSF-Supported Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Projects"6.Recent programs that target teacher preparedness include the “Train the Trainer” program7 andthe “Pre-Engineering Instructional and Outreach” program.8 Programs seeking to address the problems of enrollments in engineering are even morenumerous. The usual program in this
degrees in manufacturing engineering. The new curriculum is not based on traditionalclassroom experiences, but on computer based instruction combined with experiential learning. Together with thesix coalition universities, the Center for Advanced Technologies (C.A.T. ) at Focus: HOPE in Detroit provides astate-of-the art manufacturing facility for student-candidates to gain engineering knowledge within the context ofan industrial environment. The C.A.T. provides both case studies and projects for the candidates to investigateduring the course of their education. The curriculum for these degrees was divided into several broad knowledgeareas, one of which was the engineering materials knowledge area. The engineering materials knowledge areawas
Session 1626 Integration of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Using a Microprocessor Controlled Injection Molding Machine: Applications of Statistical Process Control Laura L. Sullivan and Courtney R. Oliver GMI Engineering& Management InstituteAbstractAn independent study project was developed to apply the principles of statistical process control (SPC) topolymer processing using a new microprocessor controlled injection molding machine, purchased through a1994 Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement (ILI) award from the National Science
Page 14.437.7 2007 No Data No Data 1710 (Projected)Table 5: Energy Intensity and CO2 Emissions of Domestic Air Travel Fiscal Estimated Passenger Passenger Miles per Estimated Air Travel Year Miles Traveled Metric Ton CO2 GHG footprint, MT CO2-e 2003-4 4,016,500 1466 2739 2004-5 2,971,500 1540 1930 2005-6 3,075,500 1595 1928 2006-7 3,742,200 1653 2264 2007-8 3,940,600 1710 (Projected) 2304Table 6: CWU Air Travel CO2-e Emission EstimatesTables 5 & 6 show
venues for target patron groups and a plan to supervise marketing projects weredesigned. Future plans include evaluating specific marketing venues for their effectiveness inreaching specific target markets.IntroductionLibrarians have been talking (and writing) about marketing for years. For the most part,librarians have accepted that marketing must be done, but marketing is infrequently the primaryjob description of a librarian.1A marketing plan and marketing tools, if well designed, can help tocreate a constant awareness among library staff and faculty for the need to reach out to patrons.Marketing effectively informs and compels patrons to use library services, which in turnproduces positive user experiences as they successfully use library
Tufts University. He is the Principal Investigator on the GK12 project and has received numerous awards for teaching and research. Dr. Williamson’s current research is focused on University/K12 partnerships and thermo-mechanical processing.Ilhan Bayraktar, Old Dominion University Dr. Ilhan Bayraktar is a Research Scientist at Old Dominion University. He has a doctorate degree in Aerospace Engineering, and he works on wide range of engineering/education related projects. Page 11.351.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Connecting Elementary School Students to Energy
andnodal analysis, Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems, first-order and second-order circuits andoperational amplifiers.The circuits course cooperative learning teams were required to work together the entiresemester to solve in-class concept questions and circuit analysis problems. The teams were alsorequired to meet outside of class for a minimum of one hour per week to study for quizzes andexams and to complete their homework. Additionally, the teams were required to complete threecomputer projects during the semester. In order to monitor student performance and progress, allteams were required to submit a team charter, meeting minutes and peer evaluations. The teamsall received a lecture on the Tuckman stages of team formation and the five
and work in abroad. This combination of work experience and language proficiency hasproven valuable to students and employers. The students enter an international workenvironment feeling confident of their technical abilities. They become employee who can workindependently and take responsibility for their own projects. The language proficiency andcultural understanding enables them to quickly assimilate themselves into a new culture, andbecome productive members of work teams.The most recent addition to the program is the creation of two learning modules, which studentsare expected to complete during their international assignments. The learning modules aredesigned to make students aware of how their newly-acquired language skills enabled
: technicalperformance, project feasibility, project innovation, and effectiveness of the presentation – andfrom the presentations, choose the top three teams which are awarded cash prizes. Thecompetition provides teams’ motivation and focus to perform at their best. Student educationaloutcomes from this IDE are described in a paper published in the 2015 ASEE Conference(Lagoudas, Boehm, & Wilson, 2015).During an Aggies Invent, the combination of a short time period, working in multidisciplinegroups, multiple deliverables, and competition puts teams under a tremendous time pressure toperform. This is by design and mimics an entrepreneurial endeavor. When students enter thework place, they will be required to deliver projects with limited time, budget, and
. TheMathematical Association of America has created a subcommittee on “Curriculum Renewalacross the First Two Years” (project CRAFTY) [1]. The MAA has also published a summary ofresults from the NSF-sponsored project [2] and two reports which focus on determining themathematical needs of partner disciplines [3]. Several new directions have emerged, and themost relevant ones can be grouped into three areas: Calculus re-sequencing [4] [5], activelearning methods [2] [6] [7] [8], and applications from engineering & sciences [9] [10] [11] [12].This paper discusses a calculus redesign project that is in progress in the School of Engineeringand Applied Sciences at the University of Virginia. It will focus on the following questions: 1. How did the
surveys were administered prior to and after this one semester course and focused on: (1)a priori knowledge and experience of the other group’s subject area; (2) effect ofinterdisciplinary project on interest in other group’s subject area; and (3) perceptions of othergroup’s profession and/or their skills. Survey results showed that neither ME nor ECE students had a prior exposure to theother discipline. After completing the course, ME students perceived that they knew more aboutchild development, play, and the design of children’s toys, and ECE students reported they betterunderstood the types of engineering disciplines. Interesting, ECE students less positively ratedtheir ME counterparts post versus pre-course in the following areas
Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1800 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Lydia Ross, Arizona State University Lydia Ross is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant at
senior design, while serving as advisor to many undergraduate research projects. For the last six years, Scott has been at York College of Pennsylvania where his concentration is on undergraduate education in mechanical engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Frequency of Exams and Student Performance in a Solid Mechanics CourseThis study compares several methods of examinations given in both an introductory solidmechanics course and a follow-up machine component design course. To help determine the bestfrequency of evaluating student performance, several examination schedules are compared foreach course. For the introductory solid
research is focused on mechatronics, digital manufacturing, digital thread, cyber physical systems, broadening participation, and engineering education. She is a Co-Director of Mechatronics and Digital Manufacturing Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specializa- tion Mechatronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Disputanta, VA on projects focusing on digital thread and cyber security of manufacturing systems. She has funded research in broadening participation efforts of underrepresented students in STEM funded by Office of Naval Research, focusing on mechatronic pathways. She is part of the ONR project related to the additive manufacturing training
different impacts that were associated with differentformats of international learning experiences.Literature ReviewEngineers’ training has experienced an increasing call for the development of globalcompetencies, particularly from the demand of fast technological advance andincreasingly global engineering practice. Against this context, multiple internationallearning experiences were proposed to create opportunities for students to fosterglobal competencies. Such learning experiences include study-abroad programs,international service learning projects [6], global internships [7], courses with a globalfocus, second language course [8], and many others.To prepare engineering students for globalization, many universities have establishedmultiple
report the results oflaboratory activities and projects in various formats that require strong communication skills.Much of the knowledge, skills, and abilities students gain in this class is used during the yearlongcapstone course the following year in the recommended curriculum.IntroductionThe stated purpose of the Thermal Fluid Science lecture and lab course is for students to learnskills and gain a level of knowledge that will allow them to be successful in laboratory and testsettings in industry and academia. The learning outcomes stated in the course syllabus are: - Students will: 1. Be able to design experiments to characterize a temperature, pressure, mass flow rate within a region of fluid, system or subsystem
Paper ID #29578Cognitive skill development among undergraduate engineering studentsMiss Hannah Smith, Queen’s University Hannah Smith is an educational researcher, supporting projects in cognitive skills assessment and profes- sional skills development in engineering. Hannah completed a Master’s degree in Engineering Education, investigating engineering students’ creative confidence and internal motivation for creativity.Dr. Brian M Frank, Queen’s University Brian Frank is the DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development, and the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Faculty of Engineering