Vecitis Lab, and anundergraduate from Poli-USP also came for 6 months. This collaboration has resulted in anumber of co-authored manuscripts and a U.S. patent application. Additionally, they havecontinued to strengthen their collaboration through researcher exchange. A SEAS graduate from2012 is currently spending one year in Professor Mierzwa's lab at Poli-USP as a research fellow.She is working closely with a doctoral student that is beginning his dissertation research andplans to spend time in the Vecitis Lab at Harvard in the future. Figure 2. Students overwhelmingly reported that they expect the 2013 Collaborative Field Course will have an impact on their future academic and professional plans.The course has opened
creativity throughout the semester and apply it in ageneral sense to civil engineering design. This lab session is a good fit for this class, and afterhaving had the students “practice” their creative skills the entire semester, it seems prudent tobegin to bridge the general idea of creativity with the reality of implementation in engineeringdesign. The students really enjoy this final preliminary design project. For this lab assignment,students are tasked with putting together a preliminary civil engineering design of a newhospital. Students are given a fictitious piece of property (see figure 4) and told that the hospitalcan be located anywhere on the property map, with the exception of displacing the neighborhoodfarm house. The only other general
developing innovative ways of merging engineering fundamentals and engineering in practice and research. Dr. Peuker’s educational research also focuses on increasing student retention and success in engineering through a student success focused introduction to engineering course. He is an active member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers. Page 23.1099.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Student Industry Cooperation for the Development of Thermal System Design Teaching Laboratory EquipmentIntroductionIn higher
approachof the course did not translate well because it was more difficult to effectively use hands-ondemonstrations. While researching other pedagogical approaches1,2,13,14 to circuits for non-majors courses, two common themes emerged. First, incorporating hands-on experimentallearning opportunities is a best practice for this type of course. Second, it is desirable to makethe courses with electrical subject matter as practical and relevant as possible. Since theinfrastructure for a lab-based course was not available, a method to bring a hands-on elementinto the large lecture hall was desired. After discussing the situation with another professor whoimplemented a robotics project into a freshman orientation course5 and seeing
Council of Texas (ERCOT), and generate a report on the actual energyproduction revenue.In this paper we introduce a set of experimental laboratory exercises for undergraduate studentsto become familiar with these practices of Renewable Solar Energy.Hands on Experience for Students on an Energy Management SystemIntroductionWe have implemented a data acquisition/energy management system (DA/EMS) for a 5kWphotovoltaic array system. Our main goal with this system is to improve the education of ourundergraduate and graduate students about these arising technologies that are being implementedin our world today. Our DA/EMS has various hardware components including sensors, a dataacquisition interface, circuitry implementation, loads, and the
industry experts, but they also have the opportunity toput them into practice in an experiential laboratory setting. In the Fall 2012, the course was offered for the first time. Anecdotal evidence indicatesthat the course was well received. However, additional work still needs to be done includingcourse development, integrating the course into the Capstone design sequence, and integratingthe course into departmental and university initiatives.Additional Course Development The initial offering of this course gave a rather generic exposure to the strategy ofproduct development. The course fits well into the eSET Program overall curriculum and offersseveral enhancements to that curriculum. Based on survey feedback, several modifications
Paper ID #6395Interconnected STEM with Engineering Design PedagogyDr. M. David Burghardt, Hofstra University Dr. M. David Burghardt, professor of Engineering and co-director of the Center for STEM Research, is the principal investigator on a NSF project dealing with interconnected learning in middle school STEM. Page 23.797.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Interconnecting STEM withInformed Engineering Design Pedagogy Page
) Page 23.379.7 • Best practices for preparing persuasive presentations 9,24 (Abrams, R. & Vallone, J) Standard techniques for assessing a new venture idea (market analysis, competitor analysis,people and production strategies, and financial analysis) are identified in all of the leading 22,23,25entrepreneurship texts in including those by Baringer, Kuratko, and Vesper and skillsincorporating this knowledge are cited as critical aspects of entrepreneurial behavior byMitchelmore, S. & Rowley’s and Fiet’s research 18,19.The understandings that are 'good to know' based upon prior entrepreneurship research by Vespercover the following: 15,26
learn about middle and high school engineeringcurricula, engineering career paths, the College of Engineering, and student preparation for thestudy of engineering. Teachers received 20 professional development hours and were eligible forone hour of academic credit. Travel, lodging, and meal expenses were provided along with a$500 stipend.The University Engineering Initiative ActIn 2010, the Kansas Legislature called for an increase in the number of engineering graduates tostimulate economic development. Industry leaders in the state expressed a need for moreengineers to support planned industrial expansion. According to the Center for EconomicDevelopment and Business Research, one engineering professional creates 1.78 additional jobs,and
course. We have observedthat research and development projects which can provide sufficient funding for students extra-curricularly (undergraduate and graduate) offer a best way forward to provide the sophisticatedresults that many project sponsors expect. Having students continue the momentum developed intheir semester class project-based learning experiences in clinic often results in a correspondingstep increase in their productivity when the summer project begins. The EAP team accomplisheda significant amount of work as measured by the number of chapters, appendices and referencescompleted, and the responses of the sponsor during regular project reviews.References[1] State of New Jersey, Energy Assurance Plan, NJ Board of Public, Division of
Assessment ProcessAbstractThe electrical and computer engineering programs at Iowa State University were reviewed by theEngineering Accreditation Commission of ABET during fall 2012. The department revised itsprocess of assessing student outcomes since the last visit in light of the current criteria foraccrediting engineering programs and in the interests of efficiency and sustainability. Severalfaculty committees and course instructors have specific responsibilities for student outcomesassessment. The revised process takes a multilevel approach that leverages existing assessmenttools and best practices. The multilevel approach supports efficient data collection while alsoproviding sufficient data to make decisions. This paper describes the process
(Software). Gilman has been active in various local, state, and national organi- zations including Rotary, Computer Cleanup Day, Leadership Brazos, B/CS Library Board, multiple IT groups, and the Software Engineering Task Force for the Texas Board of Professional Engineers.Dr. Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK Dr. Mehmet Ayar is a scientific programs expert in the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). He received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with specialization in STEM education at Texas A&M University in 2012. His research is in ethnographic studies of science and engineering practice, curriculum development, design of learning environments, and robotics activities. Dr. Ayar worked for the
early course on ”Mixer Selection, Scale-up and Design” was devel- oped into the Dow Mixing Manual and Mixing Course. Victor served for many years on the Executive Council of the North American Mixing Forum (NAMF), a division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). While in that capacity, he was invited to be co-editor as well as contributing author of several chapters of the world-acclaimed ”Handbook of Industrial Mixing: Science and Practice” published in 2004 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. In support of Dow’s commitment to achieving a diverse work force, Victor co-created the award-winning Building Engineering and Science Talent (BEST) Symposium at Dow to introduce doctoral and post-doctoral
the K-12 framework for engineering This framework was created to meet the growing need for a clear definition of quality K-12 engineering education. It is the result of a research project focused on understanding and identifying the ways in which teachers and schools implement engineering and engineering design in their classrooms. The framework is designed to be used as a tool for evaluating the degree to which academic standards, curricula, and teaching practices address the important components of a quality K-12 engineering education. Additionally, this framework can be used to inform the development and structure of future K-12 engineering education standards and initiatives
phones,GPS devices, and the wireless devices regularly used today. The non-existent or casualtreatment of these topics positioned students only to be avid consumers or perhaps savvyend-users, but, fell short by failing to impart at least some understanding of what is takesto design, manufacture and bring such items to market. These topics have begun toappear in curricula driven by the demand for a technically competent work force at a timewhen a large population of the current work force prepares to retire. 1A simulation developed by Raytheon in partnership with the Business Higher EducationForum (BHEF) permits trade-off studies and analyses of hypotheses and parameterswhich are supposed to impact the strength of the projected STEM
as state agencies orprofessional associations.”11Due to this increasing demand and limited resources, certificates may not be free in the future,however. [Berkeley] is considering whether to charge a small fee that could vary depending onstudents’ means.”10Impacts on Colleges and UniversitiesThe long term impact will be interesting in terms of researching how universities enhance theirunderstanding of how people learn through online education and how students can be graded,especially through evaluations that don't require relatively simple scoring techniques from multi-ple choice tests, for example.35Online education could greatly affect how colleges offer higher education, particularly at thegraduate level.11 Universities such as the
informal learning in professional practice, flipped learning, academic standards, and improving peer review. Keith is an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Fellow. He has received several awards including an Engineers Australia Engineering Excel- lence Award (Education and Training), the UTS Medal for Teaching and Research Integration and both the Australasian Association of Engineering Education (AaeE) Teaching Excellence and Research Design Awards. Keith has been a visiting scholar at universities in Australia, Europe, North America and Asia. His commitment to developing high quality teaching and learning practices is supported by his educa- tional research that has been published in numerous conference papers
Belu is an assistant professor within the Engineering Technology program at Drexel Uni- versity in Philadelphia. He holds the second position as research assistant professor at Desert Research Institute–Renewable Energy Center at Reno, Nev. Before Drexel University, Dr. Belu held faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and the United States. He also worked for several years as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in electronics, power systems, control and power electronics, elec- tric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods and data analysis, space and atmosphere physics
Education conferences: 0 papers on bio-products; 2 papers on bio-energy, 6 papers on bio-fuels, 3 papers on bio-mass, 4 papers on bio-processes, and 10 papers onbio-chemicals. [4] Only 25 total papers on bio-renewable topics at ASEE conferences in 10 yearsaccentuates an unrealized opportunity to improve STEM education and best practicesdissemination in this topical area.At the Milwaukee School of Engineering, we capitalized on an opportunity to teach a bio-renewable energy module within an existing required mechanical engineering class.‘Thermodynamics Applications’ is a senior-level hybrid lecture/laboratory course in which twoweeks are set aside for instructors to teach customized energy-focused modules of their ownchoosing and design. To help
related issues. TheHolcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, provides the “Fundamentals ofSolar Energy” (ECE 461) and “Renewable Energy Penetration on the Power Grid” (ECE 420)classes. The “Fundamentals of Wind Power” (ECE/ME 457) course is a cross-listed courseoffered by the Mechanical Engineering Department. These courses and class certificate are partof a “Fundamentals & Advanced Power Systems Certificate Programs for Training the PowerIndustry Sector” grant. Undergraduate and graduate level courses on solar energy have beenoffered since 2006, while a similar course on the impact of distributed energy sources on powerdelivery systems has been taught since 2004. This course was modified to include renewableenergy
-efficient teaching practices into these new courses fromhere-on in order to give the students the best and facilitate their learning in these new fields.To do these, according to a recent article by Linda C. Hodges, Associate Vice Provost forFaculty Affairs, Director, Faculty Development Center, University of Maryland, we wouldneed to address three basic best practices that can have positive impact on the way we presentthe course that will emerge in the areas of Renewable Energy, heretofore: Page 23.994.31. Begin with the end in mind.2. Generate criteria or rubrics to describe disciplinary work for students.3. Embed “assessment” into course
University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is an assistant professor within the Engineering Technology program at Drexel Uni- versity in Philadelphia. He holds the second position as research assistant professor at Desert Research Institute–Renewable Energy Center at Reno, Nev. Before Drexel University, Dr. Belu held faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and the United States. He also worked for several years as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in electronics, power systems, control and power electronics, elec- tric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods and data analysis
at MSU, including Pro- cess Control, Transport Phenomena, Reactor Design, Engineering Materials, Thermodynamics, both Unit Operations Laboratories and graduate courses in Advanced Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena and Chemical Kinetics. He performs research in the areas of catalysis, fuel cells and nanocomposite materials.Dr. Larry Everett Pearson, Mississippi State University Page 23.468.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Efficient and Effective Instruction in Process Simulation across the Chemical Engineering CurriculumAbstractOne
American students, it was excellent practice for technical language skills of the German students. The six American students were then teamed up with approximately 30 German first-year students; forming teams of 12 students with two Americans on each team. The teams were then released and taken to separate dedicated rooms, which they would use full-time for their project design work over the next 5 days. Student teams were closely supervised by a tutor from
and mathematics. The resultingengineering graduates were perceived by industry and academia, at the time, as being “ill-prepared” for the practice. Despite steps taken to remedy the situation, through greater industry-academia collaboration; both design faculty and design practitioners argue that furtherimprovements are necessary. Design faculty across the country and across a range of educationalinstitutions still feel that the leaders of engineering schools (deans, department heads, tenuredfaculty) are unable or unwilling to recognize the intellectual complexities and resources neededto support good design education.Fortunately, more and more educators are becoming aware of the issues of design, and steps arebeing taken world wide, to
its share of controversy. There is no argument that traffic volume on US 29, a main north-south artery, is far beyond capacity; the arguments revolve around proposed solutions, their impacts, and costs. We research the main problem and related issues and perform an analysis similar to the one for the Community Water Plan.Because of the writing-intensive nature of the course, second-year standing became a pre-requisite for the second offering of the course. This change ensured that students would havehad the PVCC English Composition sequence before the class. Students who had not completedthis sequence had some issues completing the case studies, and we wanted to support studentsuccess in this course as well as
his B.Tech (Ed.) and Ph.D. in Technology Education from the University of Limerick in 2008 and 2011 respectively. He spent six years in the metal fabrication industry developing engineering craft based skills prior to pursuing his studies in technology education. He currently holds a faculty position at the University of Limerick where he teaches engineering graphics courses to under- graduate and postgraduate students of initial teacher education. He was the program chair for the 67th MidYear Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD) Conference in Limerick, Ireland in 2012. He has been awarded the EDGD Chair’s Award in 2010 and 2011 in addition to the prestigious Oppenheimer Award in 2012. He is the current
Collaboratory (GEEC) research group. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, comput- ing, and the social sciences to advance understanding of geographic, disciplinary, and historical variations in engineering education and professional practice. Page 23.1017.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Raising Students’ Cultural Awareness through Design ScenariosIntroductionFor many reasons, stakeholders from academia and
graduate courses in concrete, steel, timber and masonry. He is a registered civil engineer and a registered structural engineer in the state of California. Dr. Mwangi is a member of the Structural Engineers Association of Central California, Earthquake En- gineering Research Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, the Structural Engineers Institute and active member of the Masonry Society (TMS), serving as a voting member on the Masonry Standards Joint Committee and on the TMS’s Technical Activities Committee. Dr. Mwangi is a certified Disaster Service Worker (Safety Assessment Program) for the state of California Emergency Management Agency. His other interests are in post-disaster structural mitigation and
University, where he has taught courses on Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, Vehicle Dynamics, Energy Storage Systems for HEVs and also manages the Electric Propulsion Integration Lab- oratory. Dr. Liao is experienced in the areas of hybrid drivetrains and automotive manufacturing. Prior to Wayne State, he worked as a practicing engineer for over fifteen years with General Motors and Ford Motor Company. He holds a Doctor of Engineering in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Mechanical Engineer from Columbia University, M.S. from the University of Texas at Arlington and B.S. from National Central University (Taiwan), both in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Liao has research and teaching interests