obtained, has always been a challenge. They tend to think of components that are too simple to analyze. Therefore more guidelines have been provided on how to select an appropriate component for the project that addresses all CLOs. Where necessary, an engineering component has been selected for them to work on.As a side note to this, few students always creatively think of a common project topic thataddresses different aspects and requirements to satisfy another course(s) they take during thesame term, for example, a senior capstone design course or another ME elective course such asfailure considerations in design or failure analysis courses. This is a highly desirable as itprovides a total learning experience for the
encouraging and fostering new technical development, and the engineeringeducation community needs to evaluate its role in this process6.There are many recently documented examples of electric vehicle applications withinengineering education. Three course experiences on instrumentation, electric vehicles andproject activities were reported by Rizkalla et al7,8,9. A summary of the outcomes from thesethree experiences are that the students were very satisfied, learned technical content not coveredin other courses, and felt that the course helped prepare them for the real world of engineering.From an instructor viewpoint the course(s) relied heavily on industrial cooperation, and includedhands-on experiences. The authors also noted that an industrial
finalvelocity was a maximum at the point of impact with the water (and could be calculated using the constant acceleration equations ifthe falling distance or falling time was known).In physics, the term momentum (a vector) is used to describe “mass in motion.” Momentum can be found from: p = m × v,with units of kg-m/s. This looks a lot like a Newton, doesn’t it? We know that 1 N is equivalent to 1 kg-m/s2. Read on to see theconnection … When the eggs fell, their momentum changed from a zero initial value (pi = 0) to some final value (pf). Again, wecould calculate vf if we knew the falling distance or time. We could write this change in momentum as
and the company/agency that offers it. The student must researchthe host company and write a single page summary of the company, size, location(s),employment, and main products and services. In addition, a literature and database searchshould identify recent activities of the company, including current business, technical and legalsuccesses/problems. This activity prepares the students to be more active in a subsequent mockinterview with the course instructor.We position the resume/corporate profile and mock interview writing assignments early in thesemester, so they aid students preparing for the Engineering Career Fair as well as corporateinterviewing on campus for summer intern, co-op, and permanent positions
States is becoming more diverse 6, globalization hasmade it disadvantageous to continue to foster inequality of educational opportunity along ethniclines. A hazardous cycle has been created, reinforcing the idea that African American studentsare better suited for manual than for academic pursuits. The National Academy of Engineering(NAE), an honorific organization of engineers that advises the government on issues concerningengineering, states that “if the U. S. is to maintain economic leadership and be able to sustain itsshare of high-technology jobs, it must prepare for a new wave of change”7. This new wave ofchange refers to the education of more minority students in engineering as the minoritypopulation increases in order to ensure global
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embedded in the signal transmittedfrom an antenna array. In this scheme, each mobile node with an omni-directional, single-element antenna estimates the AOT based on one (or more than one) signature signal(s)transmitted from the fixed node equipped with an antenna array. The mobile node then furtherestimates its distance from the fixed node based on the RSS of the signature signal to ultimatelybe able to pin-point its location in the polar coordinates where the fixed node is assumed to be atthe origin. Page 15.868.2Although our work on a prototype of an indoor positioning system exploiting AOT will need tobe continued to the next stage, up to the
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24.586.8rejected. This result was expected given that transfer students had already completedcoursework at their prior institution(s). However, it was interesting that the difference in meanswas less than 1 year.Minority status vs. time to graduation in years was tested with an independent samples t-test.White students (M = 4.7743 years, SD = 2.9164) compared to minority status students (M =4.6384 years, SD = 2.2429) found no significant difference, t(1977) = 0.848, p < 0.397. Thus thenull hypothesis of no significant difference by race/ethnicity on mean time to graduation cannotbe rejected.Contingency tables were utilized to test for independence between potential categorical factorsand the time to graduation when categorized as 0-2 years, 2-4 years
topics.Dr. Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC Carol Haden is s Senior Evaluator with Magnolia Consulting, LLC. She holds a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on program evaluation from Northern Arizona University. Dr. Haden has extensive experience in the evaluation of formal STEM education projects across the K-20 spectrum and the evaluation of informal STEM Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) programs. She has designed and implemented evaluations of programs funded by the National Science Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Arizona Board of Regents, Goddard Space Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Arizona Department of Education, among others. She has
. Therefore, in the end, the project was generally following the ME requirements.Due to fact that both schools are under the College of Engineering, this simple solution wassurprisingly effective and saved a lot of potential confusion.Case StudyThere is a current shift in the automobile market toward electric vehicles. However, the currentlymost popular electric vehicle, the Tesla Model S, still has a structure similar to that of aconventional vehicle. This design cannot fully utilize the potential of an electric vehicle. Instead,it makes the vehicle even more complex by adding electric modules onto a mechanical systemwhile minimally reducing the number of mechanical components. A fully digitized electricalcontrol system could unleash a higher
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firstorganizations to report on their own failures in their annual Failure Report6, and they have alsomaintained a web site (Admitting Failure, http://www.admittingfailure.com/) that encouragesdevelopment-oriented workers and organizations to document and discuss failure cases. On thisweb site, the failure stories include two main sections: a description of the failure and thelearning that resulted. Similarly, texts such as Lucena et al.’s Engineering and SustainableCommunity Development features many insightful examples of engineering projects that did notsucceed.2 Many other cases are available on the Internet, in databases, and in other publishedliterature. Yet, no one has attempted to systematically analyze and categorize these failures tocreate a
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outreach’ component of a preliminaryproposal for setting up an Engineering Research Center at Virginia Tech. The proposal iscurrently under consideration at NSF.AcknowledgementThe support provided by two NSF grants (i.e., award #s 0342000 & 0431779) is sincerelyacknowledged.Bibliography1. ITEA.2000. Standards for technological literacy: Content for the study of technology. Reston, VA.1a. Sanders, M. E. (2006, in press). Technology teacher education in the United States. In Williams, J. Technologyteacher education: A global perspective. Reston, VA: Council on Technology Teacher Education.2. Sanders, M., Lohani, V. K., Loganathan, G.V., Magliaro, S., 2004. “Engineering Education: Bridges andOpportunities for Technology Education and Engineering
Program, andthe Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division of the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. The authors gratefully acknowledge contributions to this project made by GaryChan, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Steve Gondek, as well as faculty, teaching staff, and students whoparticipated in the lab.References[1] Whitesides, G. M., Ostuni, E., Takayama, S., Jiang, X., and Ingber, D. E. (2001). Soft lithography in biologyand chemistry. Annu Rev Biomed Eng, 3:335-373.[2] Kamholz, A. E., Weigl, B. H., Finlayson, B. A., and Yager, P. (1999). Quantitative analysis of molecularinteraction in a microfluidic channel: the T-sensor. Anal Chem, 71:5340-5347.[3] Bruchez, M., Moronne, M., Gin, P., Weiss, S., and Alivisatos, P. A. (1998). Semiconductor
Session 2530 Effects of Elementary- and Middle School-Based GK-12 Programs On Graduate Student Teaching and Communication Skills Jed S. Lyons, Steven P. Fisher University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208AbstractThe NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education program at the University of SouthCarolina supports engineering graduate students and advanced undergraduates to serve ascontent resources in local schools. A primary objective is to develop the teaching andcommunication skills of the fellows, who can become the
decadeof the 80’s and the first half of the 90’s brought changes in the service region, including changesin the mix of business and industry employing graduates and major changes in the technology,mainly in computer technologies found in the workplace. As a relatively small state-assistedinstitution with an open admission policy, WVU Tech provides access to higher education forthe citizens of the nation, state and its local region who seek careers in engineering, engineeringtechnologies, sciences, business, general education and health professions. Graduates,particularly in engineering have been very successful in their careers and the alumni support isvery strong and widespread. The rigorous curricula and the dedicated faculty at WVU Tech
multi-week projects drive home concepts such as convolution, fastFourier transforms, and frequency-domain filtering that are difficult to absorb from lecture notesand short-term, episodic handwritten exercises.AcknowledgementsPortions of this material are based upon work supported by the National ScienceFoundation under grant BES–0093916. Opinions, findings, conclusions, orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do Page 10.976.16not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright
review. The Team House is an 8,607ft2 building, which houses Rowan University’s football teamand their faculty. The Team House was constructed in the 1970’s and is most heavily usedduring the football season, and the training periods around it. In reviewing the Team House, itproved to be quite efficient in its current state. In interviewing faculty working in the building,we found them to be very energy conscious. During the summer months, air conditioners are Page 9.1338.5only in operation if and when the room is occupied. Also, lights are turned off when rooms are Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education
and “Be a TechGirl too!”IV. Science/Engineering Knowledge GameOur goals for the game were: 1) to make something enjoyable that middle-school girls would liketo play many times, 2) to expose them to many interesting areas of science and engineering, 3) toincrease their knowledge in science and engineering, 4) to be age-appropriate, and 5) to buildtheir confidence in their technical ability. After many discussions with many groups, we finallydecided on a game format where the players choose from many technical categories, and thentypically answer ten questions from those area(s). The current categories include math, physics,chemistry, earth science, biology, electricity, human anatomy, computer science,inventors/inventions, science/engineering
textbooks4,5 and a structure centered around three team-baseddesign projects each term. Other elements of the course that focus on helping students learnabout engineering design include in-class activities, a video highlighting design at an innovativeindustrial firm, and lectures on design.As taught in ENGR 102, engineering design is composed of three universal phasesi: 1) ProblemFormulation, 2) Problem Solving, and 3) Solution Implementation. In Problem Formulation, theneeds of the project are identified and represented in terms of criteria and constraints. In ProblemSolving, multiple concepts are generated and analyzed, and one to two are selected forimplementation. The concept(s) remaining after Problem Solving are built and tested in
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Session 2366 SENIOR-FRESHMAN COLLABORATION IN A CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE William S. Janna, John I. Hochstein, Anna Phillips Herff College of Engineering The University of Memphis Memphis TN 38152AbstractAn innovative capstone design course entitled “Design of Fluid Thermal Systems,” involvesgroups of seniors working on various
Session 2366 SENIOR-FRESHMAN COLLABORATION IN A CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE William S. Janna, John I. Hochstein, Anna Phillips Herff College of Engineering The University of Memphis Memphis TN 38152AbstractAn innovative capstone design course entitled “Design of Fluid Thermal Systems,” involvesgroups of seniors working on various