acertain quantity. This requirement is carefully matched with the theoretical content of the twointerdependent courses.In this process, the coordinator will be able to discover groups/students with high level of interestand enthusiasm. Some of these proposed experiments may be expanded/fine tuned intomeaningful and affordable entities. Alternatively, the coordinator may discover the need for acertain experiment, define the problem for a group of interested students/class and collaboratewith them in the brainstorming, prototyping, testing and conceiving the final unit. This trendmay continue through the second, third and the final laboratory course. In exceptional cases, thecontinued efforts of the student(s) may be justifiable for credits towards
Scientific Attitudes A 31.2 8.9 33.9 5.7 2.8 Career Interest in Science C 26.4 9.7 27.6 6.7 1.2 Enjoyment of Science Lessons E 27.4 9.8 28.6 7.0 1.2 Attitude toward Scientific Inquiry I 33.2 6.7 35.8 5.2 2.7 Leisure Interest in Science L 24.4 10.3 25.7 8.0 1.3 Normality of Scientists N 32.1 6.1 32.4 5.5 0.3 Social Implications of Science S 34.0 8.6 34.1 6.5 0.1 Mean of Seven Scales 29.8 8.6 31.2 6.4 1.4While the students showed some improvement in their attitudes towards science andengineering
for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEach EPICS project involves a team of eight to twenty undergraduates, a not-for-profitcommunity partner – for example, a community service agency, museum or school, orgovernment agency and a faculty or industry advisor. A pool of graduate teaching assistantsfrom seven departments provides technical guidance and administrative assistance.Each EPICS team is vertically integrated, consisting of a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors,and senior and is constituted for several years, from initial project definition through finaldeployment. Once the initial project(s) is completed and deployed, new projects
ifthe interest in engineering and related fields is to be increased among entering college freshmen.Through our collaboration with OUE, WI continues to enhance its efforts in training pre-collegeeducators in engineering and gender equity.References1. Webb, D.L., Metha, A., & Jordan, K.F. Foundations of American Education, 308-318. NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.(1996).2. Ibid.3. Blaisdell, S. (1996). WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Investments. Request for Proposal to theNational Science Foundation.4. Sadker, M.P., & Sadker, D. M. Teachers, Schools, and Society, 438-474. NY: The McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc. (1997).5. Ibid.6. Brush, L. Cognitive and Affective Determinants of Course Preferences and Plans. In S. F. Chipman, L. R. Brush&
the following items. Please do not hesitate to add additional comments.Please return the completed survey to 2201 SC by May 10, 1999. We seek 100 percent return.Thank you for your cooperation in attempting to enhance the 1999-2000 PEDE.Rate the following aspects of the 1998-99 PEDE on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the highest?Please add written comments.• Jump-Start Week• Working relationship with lead engineers• Working relationship with engineering educators• Learning about the various aspects of engineering design• Use of engineering design tools (Pro/E, Pro/Mechanica, NASTRAN, etc)• Adequacy of academic credit of 6 s. h.• Gaining experience with team work• Overall experienceAdditional comments
the second semester course is shown in Fig. 4. This course begins to lookmore like a traditional capstone design course with the notable exception that the projects areinterdisciplinary. We begin the semester by revisiting the outcome of the second project fromthe design methods course. Here the students spend a considerable amount of time visiting withtheir customer to ensure that the selected concept meets their needs. Three presentations are heldwhere the design teams present key parts of the embodiment design process: a proof of conceptof the critical component(s), a design review of the alpha (or first) prototype and a final designreview/demonstration of the beta (or working) prototype. Students are assessed on individualdesign notebooks
recognizing the idea ofdirect and indirect measurements. An indirect measurement is merely a calculation based on oneor more direct measurements. Assume that m independent direct measurements, identified as aset of wi s, contribute to an indirect measurement, z. The measurement formula is then merely thecalculation formula, z = z (w1 , w2 ,× × × wm ) (15)The operational concepts of EPA are essentially incorporated in two equations. The first of thesetwo basic equations of EPA concerns how uncertainty in some dependent variable or indirectmeasurement z is caused by the uncertainty in some independent or directly measured variable,w. Call this uncertainty uz,w
Session____ What’s in it for me? Engineering Educators Respond to Criteria-Based Evaluation Methods A. Phillips, S. Yost, P. Palazolo University of Memphis/ University of Kentucky/ University of MemphisAbstractThis study describes the response of two undergraduate engineering professors at differentuniversities to a new criteria-based system of evaluation for their written lab reports. Bothprofessors have worked with the same writing consultant in designing the criteria for evaluationin each assignment, and after only one semester, both have noted both negative and
influences, safety andinstitutional matters such as FDA approval.Although Pair 2’s density and validity scores did not change between Time 1 and 2, thecoherency of their maps differed considerably. At Time 1, this pair created a map withtwo central propositions: “purpose guides engineering” and “engineering creates design.”They characterized the structure of this map as an “explosion” focused on the motivationfor design (e.g., “client needs”). Further, in the early map, the node labeled as “design”was linked only to surface features such as “physical appearance” and “ease ofoperation.” The majority of links emanated from the node labeled “engineering.” At Time2, this pair constructed a non-hierarchical, iterative map focused on differentiating
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observations and opinions about how toinstruct senior mechanical design projects based on our Capstone design course - MECH690-Mechanical Design will also be presented and shared throughout this paper. We recommend thatmechanical engineering program provide every student the virtual factory when they graduate.1. IntroductionOne of the main activities of engineers is to design and to construct products that satisfycustomers‟ and society‟s needs. One of the primary outcomes for engineering education is totrain students for conducting engineering design. In ancient time, engineering students wereapprentices to their Masters to learn engineering designs through real practices in realenvironments. Nowadays, engineering students are effectively training
. Students are provided theopportunity to work on real projects with real consequences and also learn the value thatcompanies place on IP and are better prepared for the normal practices concerning IP that areused in industry.Bibliography1 Todd, R. H., C. D. Sorensen, and S. P. Magleby, Designing a senior capstone course to satisfy industrial customers, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 82, No. 2, 1993, pp. 92-100.2 WIPO, What is intellectual property? http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/3 Gorka, S., J. R. Miller, B. J. Howe, Developing realistic capstone projects in conjunction with industry, SIGHTE 2007 Annual Conference, Destin, Florida.4 Radack, D. H., Intellectual property: yours or your employer’s, Getting Results…For the
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initiated itsfirst cohort of 20 students in fall 2009. Funded through an NSF S-STEM grant, theinterdisciplinary, multi-year, mixed academic-level offering awards scholarships to studentsbased on academic merit and financial need. SEECS is an opportunity for students in certainSTEM majors at Gannon University, Erie, PA, in the School of Engineering and ComputerScience. The goals of the scholarship program are (1) to increase the number of academicallytalented, but financially disadvantaged students in the stated majors, (2) to assist students to besuccessful in their undergraduate education, and (3) to foster professional development forcareers or graduate education. These goals are realized through the students shared interactionswithin the SEECS
- neers. He’s the PI on two NSF S-STEM grants providing academic and career guidance to students in CSEM fields. He js a Professor of Electrical Engineering within the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU. Prior to joining ASU, he worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Raytheon Missile Systems. He has consulted for Eglin Air Force Base, Boeing Defense and Space Systems, Honeywell and NASA. He has authored over 190 technical papers and three engineering texts. He has given more than 60 invited presentations - including 13 plenaries. Since 1994, he has directed an extensive engineering mentoring-research program that has served over 300 students. He’s an AT&T Bell Labs Fellow, Boe- ing A.D
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. The amount of background information available to begin the project. 4. The commitment of the client to the project. 5. The uniqueness and overall excitement of the project. Team-related criteria 6. The relationship(s) between team member(s) and the client. 7. The number and qualifications of team members with respect to the scope of work. 8. The apparent level of team commitment to the project.The fifth one, uniqueness and overall excitement, attempts to give weight to projects that aredifferent, potentially interesting to a wider public audience, or are particularly challenging. Forexample, one team did a project at Fenway Park in Boston, home of Red Sox baseball. With noprior contact, they approached the
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environments include design offices, facilitymanagement, academe, regulatory agencies, etc. While opportunities for attaining outcomes suchas Outcomes 20 to 24 in Figure 1 may be relatively common across all work environments,opportunities for attaining others such as 9 (Design) and 13 (Project Management) maybe quitedifferent from one environment to another. Nonetheless, it is the expectation of the civilengineering profession that the EI will demonstrate attainment of all of the outcomes prior toentry into the practice of civil engineering at a professional level, whatever their workenvironment(s) may have been during the early stages of their career. The Guidelines attempt torecognize these differences in offering multiple example pathways for
-persisters. The gender-based analysis showed that non-persisting femalestudents have higher mathematics scores compared to persisters. Moreover, female leavers didnot have the same low grades as male leavers. These results suggest that female students havethe academic ability to complete an engineering degree, but not the interest7.Mendez et al.'s research showed that gender is not an important factor in persistence. Theiranalysis showed that rates of persistence are similar within subgroups of the data defined bycumulative GPA and number of STEM courses taken. In other words, once women decide tomajor in a STEM field, they persist at the same rate as men14.II.b. Internalization and Perceptions of Major and CareerStudents are affected in varying
challenge students to apply the information taught through modeling a system, analyzingit, and presenting a solution(s) complete with units and an interpretation of the physicalphenomena examined. Given that time is a premium in the academy and project creation is atime consumer, three original projects, which may be injected into any Calculus III, DifferentialEquations, or Engineering Mathematics course, have been created. The aim is to increase the useof projects in courses where the intent is there but creation time is the mitigating factor. Thispaper includes projects that tackle first-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs), second-order ODEs, and multivariable calculus.IntroductionIn some mathematics courses, students are asked to