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determine if theapplied approach in circuits is a broadly beneficial practice or only a stylistic preference of thisparticular instructor.References [1] S.A. Zekavat, K. Hungwe, and S. Sorby. An optimized approach for teaching the interdisciplinary course electrical engineering for non majors. In ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Portland, OR, 2005. [2] Hooman Rashtian and Jun Ouyang. A New Application-Oriented Electronic Circuits Course for non-Electrical Engineering Students Using Arduino and NI VirtualBench. In ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Columbus, OH, 2017. doi: 10.18260/1-2–27490. [3] Kenneth Van Treuren. Encouraging Students to See the Role of Service Courses in Their Major. In ASEE Annual Conference and
with the students the more standard sensitivityanalysis: change in price of goods, change in price of key raw material(s), change in price ofutilities, change in price of labor. These are the ones sometimes discussed in design textbooks.Ask students if that is all there is to a Financial Operational Model? See what the students answerhere. Get them to understand the sheer power of having the engineering design melded to theeconomics. What does that truly mean? Start to get them to see other types of sensitivities that arenot simply linear changes in slope but can have actual minimum or maximum optimal values.Examples include key design specifications to the product, parameter uncertainty in the modelsfor a piece of equipment such as extent of
Paper ID #28949Work in Progress: Inquiry-Based Learning in Transportation EngineeringDr. Ilgin Guler, The Pennsylvania State University S. Ilgin Guler is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research interests include multi-modal urban traffic operations and control, intelligent transportation sys- tems, connected and autonomous vehicles and infrastructure management. She received dual B.S. degrees from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in Civil Engineering and Industrial Engineering and Opera- tions Research. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
transfer. The classlectures were focused essentially on learning the engineering principles of these subjects andthen solving homework and quiz problems. The problems were clearly defined by the professorand/or textbook. Eventually, engineering students were exposed to ‘pencil and paper” designexercises with predetermined “right” solutions; actual class-related construction work tended tobe limited to small test devices, built by the book.In the 1970’s an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at MIT, WoodieFlowers, recognized that an innovative approach to engineering education would enhance thestudents’ education and he developed a hands-on project centered mechanical engineering designclass. This freshman course was
and develop their own will be integral to theirsuccess as a practicing engineer. Identifying how most first-year students understand intuition isthe first step in achieving this goal.ReferencesCorbin, J. C., Reyna, V. F., Weldon, R. B., & Brainerd, C. J. (2015). How reasoning, judgement, and decision making are colored by gist-based intuition: A fuzzy-trace theory approach. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(3), 344-355.Cunningham, C. S., Martin, K. M., & Miskioglu, E. (2019, June), Work in Progress: Comparing Creativity and the Perception of Creativity of First-Year and Senior Engineering Students. 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, FL.Dreyfus, S. E., & Dreyfus, H. L. (1980). A Five-Stage
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first year seminar, it is important for the cohort to include both studentsinterested in science majors as well as those interested in engineering majors because studentsare in either the School of Engineering or the School of Arts and Sciences. This inclusion allowsstudents to meet peers they would not normally interact with. This cohort model enablesstudents to broaden their perspectives as they potentially encounter students with interestsdifferent from their own.The RISE first year seminar is now offered in the fall and spring semesters, as a year-longopportunity for a cohort of s 25-30 students. The fall semester focuses on academicpreparedness and acclimates students to their college environment by introducing them to facultyand support
society. Here a novel curriculumwas proposed and shown to have a positive impact on a range of skill sets that are often neglectedin a traditional course format.References [1] Andy M Connor, Sangeeta Karmokar, and Chris Whittington. From stem to steam: Strategies for enhancing engineering & technology education. 2015. [2] Thomas R Lord. A comparison between traditional and constructivist teaching in college biology. Innovative Higher Education, 21(3):197–216, 1997. [3] Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu, S Yao, Peter Tarmo Savolainen, and C Jahren. A flipped classroom approach to teaching transportation engineering. In Proceedings of the 123rd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2016. [4] Vimal Viswanathan and John T Solomon. A study on the
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futurepaper. We also intend to undertake direct comparisons between students outcomes prior to ourprogram reboot and after the reboot. The learning goals we set for the new program differ fromthe prior outcome goals. Hence we will need to treat Before/After comparisons very carefully. Inthe long story, our next large task is to undertake a longitudinal study through engineering degreeprograms to determine the effect our enhanced FYEP is having on the BS degree graduates ofMichigan Tech.References[1] S. Sorby, A. Monte, and G. L. Hein. "Implementing a common first-year engineering program at Michigan Tech." Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. https://peer.asee.org/9353[2] G. L
Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Programs by NumberA query of ABET accredited civil and environmental engineering undergraduate programs as of2019 was conducted. It shows that there are at least 252 accredited civil engineering programsand 74 accredited environmental engineering programs in the USA. Many civil engineeringprograms have been continuously accredited since 1936 (especially for traditional land-grantinstitutions and older private universities) when ABET began accreditation for engineeringprograms. The oldest accredited environmental engineering program dates to 1966 at RensselaerPolytechnic Institute in New York. The majority of accredited environmental engineeringprograms have occurred since the 1990’s, 68 of the 74 universities (94
algorithm biasbased on the survey analysis. One limitation we face is that our survey data covers a relativelysmall set of questions. In future research, we would like to gather more qualitative data as well asexpand the scope of questions. We hope to develop evidenced-based instructional activities tohelp students become more aware of ethical considerations when designing automated decisionmaking systems.Bibliography: [1] Friedman, B., & Nissenbaum, H. (1996). Bias in computer systems. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 14(3), 330–347. https://doi.org/10.1145/230538.230561 [2] Noble, S. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. [3] Study Reveals Major Racial Bias in Leading
, consider the following instruction in ARM assembler:subs r0, r2, #3The purpose of the above instruction is to subtract the number 3 from register r2, storing theresult in register r0. Since that is the main point of the instruction, students usually can learn thatmuch. However, there are actually three things happening during the one instruction:1. Subtraction of the value.2. The CPU must move on to read the next instruction3. The CPU compares the result against zero because the operation has an s appended (set flags)The fact that an instruction has one primary function, and two more ancillary actions isintrinsically difficult. Many students simply miss one or both of the ancillary actions, despitehaving heard the professor review this multiple
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://www.myphysicslab.com/ • https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/filter?subjects=physics&sort=alpha&view=g rid g) Presentations – For the final project students provided examples of physics in real life andpresented on a chosen unit(s) using Thinglink. This allowed students to choose videos and otherexamples and integrate them into a presentation with calculations and more. • https://www.thinglink.com/Other Essential elements to our successful course Many factors came into play for our success that we will continue to build upon. Beyond ourplatforms and tools above there were other significant and intentional aspects to this course whichmade it a success. • Focus on Mastery versus high stakes test: From the start we
garner feedback from the wider engineering education communitythat engages equity and diversity work.References[1] W. H. Robinson, E. O. McGee, L. C. Bentley, S. L. Houston, and P. K. Botchway,“Addressing negative racial and gendered experiences that discourage academic careers inengineering,” Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 29-39, 2016.[2] D. Riley, A. Slaton, and A. L. Pawley, "Women and minorities in engineering,"in Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2014, pp. 335-356.[3] S. Appelhans, T. De Pree, J. Thompson, J. Aviles, A. Cheville, and D. Riley, “From ‘LeakyPipelines’ to ‘Diversity of Thought’: What Does ‘Diversity’ Mean in Engineering Education?,”in
theory, this identity drives future activity.In Finklestein (2008)’s study, motive becomes unimportant in sustaining volunteerism once a volunteerrole identity forms. It is also important to note that motivations can change, and it may not always reflecttheir initial motive and reasons for staying. Therefore, organizations should focus on recruitment andretaining volunteers that attract a diverse pool of individuals.Organizations will be able to recruit from a larger pool of individuals by ensuring that the task satisfiesthe diverse functions of the volunteers’ needs. Researchers reveal that if volunteer recruits can find taskswith benefits that match their personal motives, their volunteering efforts will result in higher satisfactionand
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everyone works with the systems, specially wiring the components. A betteroption is that each student wires their own circuit and just share the instruments.3. Include educational platforms (Blackboard, Moodle) as an essential part of the course to provideall the tools, content, and grades to deliver the course support. This provides a consistent structuredset of materials and instructions. An additional benefit is that students that might not get enoughexperience during the regular lab session, will have access to asynchronous online materials.4. Ensure that the University is able to provide assistance to students to acquire the instrumentationand reduce logistic problems with components.References[1] S. Dhawan, “Online Learning: A Panacea in the
specialization areas.Database Engineering is a viable component of Software Engineering. In our UndergraduateComputer Science Degree, there is only one database course where Relational, ObjectRelational, Object-Oriented and Distributed Databases will be covered. Since the mission of thisUniversity is to graduate students with high quality education prepared for the competitive jobmarket, as part of this course work, students work on a set of assignments and implementone/two database(s) of their choice in teams. The contents represented in this paper is anexample of an assignment that student need to do in this course.Entity Relationship for University DatabaseThe following diagram (Figure 1) represents a simplified entity relationship for course
based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under DRLGrant #1923542 ”CS For All:RPP - Booting Up Computer Science in Wyoming.” Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References [1] U.S.Census Bureau. National and state population estimates. URL https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-kits/2017/estimates-demographics.html. Retrieved from. [2] A.C. Burrows. Secondary teacher and university partnerships: Does being in a partnership create teacher partners?, . [3] A. Burrows, G. Wickizer, H. Meyer, and M. Borowczak. Enhancing pedagogy with context and partnerships: Science
students in quarantine, with possible exposure, or presenting symptoms thatmight be COVID-19. When the number of students on Zoom started to equal and evenoutnumber the students attending in person, further investigation was called for.Figure 1 shows the first question from the Zoom Participant Survey asking the reason(s) studentswere selecting Zoom attendance. Students could select from choices “in Quarantine/awaiting testresults”, “afraid of contracting COVID-19 on campus”, “more convenient than attending class inperson”, or select “other” and type in another reason. Figure 1- From Survey on Attending Class on ZoomEarly in the semester (Sept 21-25) the findings were that 43% of the students were on Zoom forconvenience, 25
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c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Compressive Mechanical Properties of Three-Dimensional (3D) Printed Thermoplastics Raymond K.F. Lam, Michael Orozco, Erick Mendieta, Bernard Hunter, and Joseph Seiter Queensborough Community College, The City University of New York, New York, U.S.A._____________________________________________________________________________________________1. Introduction Impact and adoption rate of 3-dimensional (3D) printing in manufacturing will increasedramatically over the next few years. The market for 3D printing technology itself is expected togrow to $5.2 billion by 2020 [1]. One example is General Electric (GE)’s decision to deploy 3Dprinters to manufacture