the Director of Accreditation and Assessment Services for the College of Technology at the University of Houston. His primary focus has been the practical application of assessment and evaluation strategies to enhance educational quality in the college and university. Prior to joining the University of Houston, Dr. Ramos worked as a researcher for the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, evaluating a systemic reform model designed to improve student academic performance in low-income, high-minority districts. He also worked as Evaluator for Boston Connects, a program designed to address non-academic barriers to success in urban elementary schools via a web of coordinated health and
similar work to the field of Engineering Page 14.672.2education.Our work brings together the disciplinary expertise of an Electrical Engineering faculty memberwith a Writing Center director’s experience in writing instruction and evaluation. Dr. Beams hashad over 16 years’ experience in industry and 12 years’ experience in academia, and he currentlyteaches (or has taught) Electronic Circuit Analysis I and II (including laboratories),Instrumentation Systems, Senior Design (a two-semester capstone design sequence), and ElectricCircuit Analysis I (with laboratory) and II. Dr. Niiler has taught writing at the university levelfor over 20 years, and
offered again the spring 2009 semester and there were 22 students enrolled. Allbut one of the students enrolled had already taken the IDS 110 class, so minimal class time wasspent on study habits and campus resources. Instead the additional class periods were used toinvite more guest lecturers from the local engineering community.The end of semester survey of students in this class revealed that these students, like those in theprevious semester, rated the presentations by practicing engineers as best of all the materialcovered in the course. On this survey students were also asked to make suggestions about othertopics to be covered in the course.A number of the students suggested some form of hands on laboratory exercise as part of thecourse
participate in research. It has threemajor programmatic goals: (1) To provide biomedical engineering research training experiencesto talented undergraduates, with an emphasis on training women and members ofunderrepresented minorities, to develop a diverse, internationally competitive, and globally-engaged biomedical engineering workforce. (2) To provide hands-on laboratory experiences forundergraduate student participation in cutting edge biomedical engineering research facilitatingthe learning of research methods, laboratory skills, and problem solving in premiere researchlabs with BME foci. (3) To facilitate learning beyond biomedical science with community-basedoutreach foci with training on issues related to research ethics, organizational
Nuclear Engineering Department at Kansas State University (KSU). He worked on the wing morphing test setup as part of a senior honors research project.Greg Payne, Kansas State University Greg Payne is a senior in the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department at Kansas State University (KSU). In addition to his work as laboratory assistant on our MNE wind tunnel facility, where he has contributed significantly to wind tunnel lab development projects such as the current smoke rake and wing morphing project, he was also the team leader for the KSU SAE Aero Design Competition in 2008.Trevor Heitman, Kansas State University Trevor Heitman is a junior in the Mechanical and Nuclear
being applied in avariety of processes in business, design, manufacturing, service delivery, laboratory,maintenance, distribution and supply chain. Lean and Six Sigma were developed separately.Lean is sometimes understood to be the Toyota Production System4 described by Taiichi Ohno5.When introducing Japanese lean philosophy and techniques to the United States, Womack andJones described a lean philosophy that focuses on customer value and extends beyond theelimination of waste6. In 1993, the Lean Aircraft Initiative (now renamed Lean AdvancementInitiative) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began to formalize and study the effectsof lean throughout the aerospace industry and have numerous publications7. Six Sigma wasdeveloped at
sound educational approach. The college has along history of using a learn-by-doing approach to engineering education. Indeed, it is embodiedin the motto of the university “Discere Faciendo”, to learn by doing. Through this pedagogicalapproach, understanding theory is facilitated and enhanced by demonstrating its application tothe real world situations. This learning and teaching paradigm has allowed the colleges graduatesto be more productive ab initio in their professional careers than their counterparts with a lessrigorous laboratory and project based exposure. As evidenced by the growth of the “learn-by-doing” approach to education in the United States and the rest of the world, project basedlearning has been accepted as a valuable
course.During the first five weeks, there is a concurrent and intensive introduction to LabVIEW alongwith fundamental instruction of instrumentation electronics. LabVIEW Instructional modules andexamples are available at various web-sites for demonstrating and simulating electronic circuitsand responses. Most instrumentation textbooks cover analog and digital principles forinstrumentation but in different orders and formats (e.g. Johnson, 2006, Northrop, 1997).Reinforcement of principles and introduction to practical instrumentation and control examplescan only be offered through hands-on laboratory exercises, demonstrations, and preparation of afinal team project. Laboratory exercises for this course include experiments with temperaturesensing, fluid
, etc. Our experiments were run in a computer laboratory so that thestudents could immediately process their data on computers (Photo 1).Photo1. Laboratory Set UpThe experimental procedure may be summarized as follows: 1- First sound level readings were taken with no barrier to establish the ambient noise level. 2- The sound source is tuned to maximum level of irritation (radio frequency with no station) and the decay of the sound is measured and recorded as the sound-meter is moved away from the source. This represents the sound level at various distances from the source with no attenuation (see chart 1). You will notice the random nature of the plotted data. The students discussed the possible reasons for
, etc. Our experiments were run in a computer laboratory so that thestudents could immediately process their data on computers (Photo 1).Photo1. Laboratory Set UpThe experimental procedure may be summarized as follows: 1- First sound level readings were taken with no barrier to establish the ambient noise level. 2- The sound source is tuned to maximum level of irritation (radio frequency with no station) and the decay of the sound is measured and recorded as the sound-meter is moved away from the source. This represents the sound level at various distances from the source with no attenuation (see chart 1). You will notice the random nature of the plotted data. The students discussed the possible reasons for
materials we develop. An exampleof a completed problem set will be presented in the poster presentation.Synthesis of Nanoscale ParticlesDr. Robert Krchnavek has led the efforts in this area along with undergraduate student JohnCarroll. A series of laboratory experiments suitable for high school students, are beingdeveloped. These laboratory experiments reflect the importance of nanoscale drug particles. Ourexperiments intend to demonstrate (i) the enhanced solubility of a nominally insoluble particleby creating a nanoscale version of it, (ii) demonstrate the various methods of achievingnanoscale particles that are relevant to the bionanotechnology industry. Of course, the greatestchallenge in this endeavor is to create laboratory experiments with
in standard laboratory settings acrossselected courses, using a model engine as the unifying theme4-6. This proved to be a more cost-effective way to give students hands-on experience in a range of issues involved in productrealization.The lack of hands-on experiences in specific manufacturing processes has been identified as oneof the major competency gaps in manufacturing engineering education. In 1997, the Society ofManufacturing Engineers (SME) launched its Manufacturing Education Plan (MEP) to addresskey engineering competency gaps of new graduates that it had identified7. The gaps identified in1997 were revised in 1999 and revised further in 2002-03. The latest rankings are shown inTable 1. (Note: higher ranking indicates larger
pre-calculus as a refresherclass. Conversely, the two students who placed into algebra still chose to attend with their peersto enhance their mathematical skills before the fall semester starts. However, they did not takethe class for credit.The Study Skills class was essential series of lectures to prepare students for college life,enhance their study habits, and improve their communication skills. Students also had the chanceto share their views and skills through participation in the class room. Since all participants weremajoring in science and engineering, a special topics science and engineering laboratory wasestablished which was geared toward developing students’ laboratory reports writing skills.Drop-in tutoring helped students to
another aspect to be reviewed by the project.TECH208 Survey of Electricity, a lecture/lab course is offered by professor 2. This course is atraditional first course in electronics and electrical circuit analysis. The attendance is taken with adaily sign-in sheet. The course has a two-hour weekly laboratory. The attendance policy for thiscourse includes a penalty for missing class. The policy as stated in the course syllabus is:“Missing class will have a very negative impact on your final grade for the course. Three to fiveunexcused absences will reduce your course point total by 10% and six or more unexcused Page 14.1194.3absences will reduce
-contact laboratory instruction for the upper divisionengineering coursework, while lower division work is provided by the local juniorcollege. No core coursework is available asynchronously. The existence of this remoteprogram has created an environment where several traditional lecture-style classes arebroadcast into the main campus of the degree-granting institution from faculty at theremote site. Student populations at the course-generating remote site are small, betweenzero and four maximum during the study. Student populations on the receiving maincampus are significantly larger for this course, between 15 and 33 during the study.Courses broadcast into the main campus are not designated on the schedule as beinggenerating off-campus. So, many
instruction in the literature was an impetusto conducting the present study.The test method was also guided by How People Learn.(4) Specifically, the test method wasdesigned to be knowledge-centered; learner-centered; community-centered; and assessment-centered. This mirrors the work of Yalvac et al.(5) , who created writing modules that alsoagreed with the philosophies espoused in How People Learn.ProcedureThe two instructional methods were implemented in two sections of a Fluid Mechanicslaboratory course at University X. The course is housed in the Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (CEE) department. Each section was taught by a different professor. Students ineach section completed the identical laboratory tasks, but the writing instructional
Science CourseAbstractIn this work, we present a new teaching approach that we have implemented in our introductorycomputer science programming course. The methodology consists of team teaching, a hybriddelivery system, recorded lecture retrieval capability, readiness assessment activities, objectiveassessment of student progress, and cooperative learning through team work. The team teachingapproach consists of two faculty members being present and actively involved in lecture deliveryand classroom activities, which take place in a computer laboratory setting. The hybrid deliverysystem consists of using Centra, a real-time communication, collaboration and learning softwareenvironment, for lecture delivery, recording, and active student
themoving mass pushes against and displaces the surrounding fluid. The analytical solution to thisdifferential equation is compared with experimental data collected from testing a spring-masssystem in the open air of a laboratory. Collected data are analyzed using the concept of thelogarithms. It is shown that the model is reliable under special conditions.IntroductionOne way to bring excitement in the use of mathematics in the engineering classroom is to showthat it can be applied to model physical reality accurately. This paper presents work conceivedand implemented to test the extent to which an ordinary differential equation and its solution arevalid for use in actual applications. The equation chosen is commonly used in mathematics,physics
AC 2009-269: HYDROGEN CURRICULUM AT MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICALUNIVERSITYJason Keith, Michigan Technological University Jason Keith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University.Daniel Crowl, Michigan Technological University Dan Crowl is the Herbert H. Dow Professor of Chemical Process Safety in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University.David Caspary, Michigan Technological University Dave Caspary is the Manager of Laboratory Facilities in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University.Jeffrey Allen, Michigan Technological University Jeff Allen is an Assistant Professor
Polytechnic Institute was founded with the technical assistance from the USSR in1963. The Polytechnic had eleven degree awarding departments and the curriculum of allthe departments were developed using models from Polytechnics that existed in theUSSR at that time. Furthermore, the laboratory equipment to support the curriculum wasalso based on the technology in the USSR at the time. The curriculum was developedover three decades ago and has not been updated in the light of new technologicaldevelopment around the world.Since then, the beautiful campus of KPU has reverted to a wilderness and the buildingshave been severely damaged due to neglect and war damage. Furthermore, some of theacademics have been killed or forced to leave the country and those
. Page 14.305.2IntroductionUniversidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) is a Mexican private institution of higherlearning committed to first-class teaching, public service, research and learning in a wide rangeof academic disciplines including business administration, the physical and social sciences,engineering, humanities, and the arts. The studied course, Introduction to Engineering Design(EI-100) is a first-semester 3 credit required course for almost every engineering program ofUDLAP since spring of 2001. Course content and classroom activities are divided into three,two-hour sections (Modeling, Concepts, and Laboratory) per week. Students have six differentEI-100 facilitators (an instructor and teaching assistant for each section). EI-100
will most likely receive the same answer – systems engineers.Recognizing this future need for systems engineers in the aerospace community, an aerospaceengineering department at a major US university, The University of Texas at Austin, partneredwith NASA’s ESMD to sponsor the development of a systems engineering curriculum. Thecurriculum includes an undergraduate course focusing on systems engineering for aerospaceengineers with an accompanying laboratory course that introduces students to the spacecraftsubsystems and methods for assessing their performance. This course and lab combination isintended as a prerequisite to the senior-level capstone spacecraft /mission design course and as atraining ground for students involved in UT’s student
Page 14.691.4required sophomore-level core course, but at a higher, fifth-year level. We believe thatWentworth’s biomedical systems concentration is not only competitive with Tufts’ program, butis stronger in terms of the classroom and laboratory experience in biomedical subjects providedto the students.Boston University:Boston University has an older and larger biomedical engineering undergraduate program.Boston University5 requires courses of signals and systems, control systems, and an electivechosen among biomechanics and fluid mechanics. These courses have the same theoreticalcontent as the corresponding electromechanical courses at Wentworth, in addition to applicationsin biology. The Wentworth biomedical concentration provides the same
Director of Accreditation and Assessment Services for the College of Technology. His primary focus is the practical application of assessment and evaluation strategies to enhance educational quality in the college and university. Prior to joining the University of Houston, Dr. Ramos worked as a researcher for the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, and as an Evaluator for Boston Connects. He earned a Ph.D. in Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation from Boston College in 2004.William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston WILLIAM FITZGIBBON, III earned his PhD degree from Vanderbilt University. He is serving as Dean of the College of Technology and holds professorial rank in
used to continuously improvethe program experience and impact. It should be noted that this is not a research project, and assuch, there are neither research questions nor a research design. However, the E3 program hasgoals and anticipated outcomes, and has used qualitative questions to measure these outcomes.The program has become more refined and impact is being felt through the state. Teachers arerecruited from targeted schools, but the application is open to all teachers. Selection is rigorousand competition for available positions has intensified. Selected secondary (grade 8-12) science,technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers work in teams of 2 with engineering facultyin his/her laboratory during a 4-week summer residential
first and second-year concurrent science laboratories(SCI. LAB.). All course grade data were averaged over the three semesters included in thisstudy (i.e., fall 2007, spring 2008, and fall 2008) to ensure adequate sample sizes. Course gradesare reported out of 4.0 and were considered passing when greater than 1.7. Similar results for allother undergraduate (1) engineering or computer science students residing in on-campus housing(Eng-on), (2) non-engineering students residing in on-campus housing (Non-Eng-on), (3)engineering or computer science student who resided in off-campus housing (Eng-off), and (4)non-engineering students who resided in off-campus housing (Non-Eng-off) during the 2007-2008 academic year and fall 2008 semester were
broad availability of visuallyengaging and fast-paced games, contemporary students can find traditional classroom methods oflecture and guided laboratory experiments limiting. This paper presents a novel methodologythat incorporates driving simulation, motion simulation, and educational practices into anengaging, gaming-inspired simulation framework for a vehicle dynamics curriculum. Theresearch places students into a gaming scenario where learning occurs during game play, ratherthan using a formally structured learning approach to vehicle dynamics. The application of themethodology is demonstrated in the context of an advanced vehicle dynamics course. This paperreports on work done under National Science Foundation grant DUE-0633596 in the
information regards text editors, compilers, and operating systems. (In the case of a spoken language, information is presented using technologies that must be mastered, such as laboratories with recorders.) ≠ “Germane cognitive load” was first described by Sweller, van Merrienboer, and Paas in 1998 [4]. It is that load devoted to the processing, construction, and automation of schemata necessary to integrate knowledge into consciousness. This includes motivations to learn and how the knowledge is conveyed in the rest of the curriculum such as reading novels, or programming mathematical algorithms. These three loads are additive in the learning process and research suggests [4] that whencourses are
developed increased theirunderstanding and motivation. Cost was minimal and could be nearly zero with available freesoftware and downloadable signals.I. IntroductionThis paper presents a set of classroom demonstrations developed for use in the senior levelanalog communications course that is common to most electrical engineering programs. Thedemonstrations are intended to provide motivation to students with little or no practicalexperience with communications systems. By using software defined radio (SDR),communication systems are demonstrated with signals that are familiar to students. Thedemonstrations can be used in any classroom or laboratory with minimal cost.Section II of this paper provides background on some of the issues that faculty
is currently a student in the Doctor of Musical Arts program at Arizona State University where he is a student of Dr. Robert Spring. Gardner received the Bachelor degree in Page 14.549.1 Music Education and Clarinet Performance from the University of Kentucky, where he studied with Dr. Scott Wright and Dr. Ron Monsen. He has performed both nationally and internationally and has studied additionally with renowned clarinetists, Larry Combs and Eddy Vanoosthuyse. Joshua is currently collaborating with the Vocal Tract Visualization Laboratory at the University of Maryland Dental School to map