Page 22.1567.7his or her own computer. Some students met virtually through the chat program or in personoutside of class to finish assignments or plan for upcoming tasks. Most of the students self-identified as prospective biomedical engineering majors. Preliminary results include the pre- and post-interviews that students completed on the firstand last days of their virtual internship. These interviews took the form of short-answer surveyquestions completed online. Our preliminary results with Nephrotex suggest that: Students made engineering content learning gains from the pre to the post interview. Students were able to solve engineering design problems better during the post interview. Most students enjoyed the
tutor.” During each semester of the mentoring implementation, mentors invariably took on the role oftutors to satisfy student needs. Most documentation of these sessions alludes to more technicaldiscussions and review of concepts through concept mapping and other instructional strategies. Verylittle is actually said about any psycho-social issues (e.g. the difficulty of working and being in school,future career plans, life lessons, etc.) discussed during the meetings. It is unclear whether this situationrepresents a true challenge to the program or merely reflects the reality of what students in the programneed. It is equally unclear from the mentor documents whether this tutoring mode was more congruentwith the mentors’ range of experience
beendemonstrated with reasonable levels of success13. It is largely beyond the scope of this paper tointroduce active learning strategies, but the work of Prince13 provides a nice summary. The pointwill be made here, based on the author’s experiences, that the active learning strategies chosenshould be natural, considering the course content and the personalities of the students and theinstructor. If the teaching method is “forced”, in other words if an active learning exercise isbeing used just for the sake of using an active learning exercise, its effectiveness is lost.The instructor’s experience suggests that often a well-planned, effectively-delivered, “activelecture” can be just as effective as any “active learning strategy.” When the course content
not important enough to merit much attention to featureslike improved accuracy and precision. However, in complex measurements, when the stakesbecome greater, the selection of measurement equipment and techniques and the interpretation ofmeasured data can demand considerable attention. CBI for MECE 3320 teaches students theimportance of measurements in these complex situations. The technique helps students developan experimental test plan and use the measurement system so that the engineer can easilyinterpret the measured data and be confident in its meaning. The study by Pandy et al. [1] whichshowed that the CBI approach, as compared to a traditional approach, increased the students’conceptual knowledge and the ability to transfer the
State University. Through collaboration andcooperative arrangements with other departments and colleges, and flexibility in the program,science and engineering students at The Pennsylvania State University with special interests inenergy are able to obtain dual or concurrent degrees, minors, options or general education inenergy engineering. The plans for this program were initiated in Fall 2005 and the major was approved to startin Fall 2007. The program is consistent with the University 2006 Energy Task Force report andthe recommendation for the University to “develop an exciting new undergraduate and graduatecurriculum in energy”. The undergraduate program in energy engineering is designed to reflectthe growing impact and demand for
possible non-persisters and createan opportunity for intervention. Finding these differences in engineering technology learners,although subtle, will assist the school in planning similar interventions. The intermediation “canensure that students engage in substantive conversations and relevant experiences to inform theirdecisions to stay or move away from engineering. These conversations and experiences mightcome from, for example, advising, courses, or extra-curricular involvement.” (p. 391)Research by James-Byrnes6 suggested non-intellective factors influence the student’s academicsuccess. Their purpose was to “identify variables that can predict the academic success offreshman engineering technology students at Ferris State University in Big
NXT Kits. The students present theirprojects the last day of the program. They share their results with the other students.Additional benefits of the group projects included improving team working skills andpublic speaking ability. Page 25.358.62. Career ComponentThe program manager, Dr. Barbara Christie, plans a Career Day during SECOP. Theguest speakers work for engineering -based organizations and all are African Americanand Latino leaders in mechanical, civil and electrical engineering fields. Several fieldtrips to different science and engineering-based companies exposed students to differentcareer opportunities. In the past several years the
%. Page 25.362.8 3. In their self evaluations, the students ranked remote consequences as the least important among all the performance indices. The experimental group’s improvement over the control group was 11%. The same improvement (11%) between the two groups was noted by the results of the instructor’s grading on the assignments.The authors plan to extend this strategy to two other courses over the next three years. Themethod presented in this study may be used at other institutions in their courses with appropriatemodifications in order to prepare the students for using creativity to enhance their technologyliteracy.Bibliography1. Mumford, M. D. (2003). Where have we been, where are we going? Taking stock in creativity
any of them? What time of year do you want the flowers to bloom? How much tenderloving care are you planning to spend? How hardy does the variety have to be? Do you wantannual plants or perennials?If you choose vegetables, what kinds do you like to eat? How much tender, loving care are youplanning to spend? Do you want to use herbicides and pesticides, or do you want to gardenorganically?Although the list of questions is long, people do get through it and plant gardens. The following is alist of things that are necessary for the successful production of vegetables or flowers: (1) fertileground, (2) sunshine, (3) tools, (4) weed control, and (5) water and fertilizer. Many people plantand grow successful gardens every year.As with gardening
experience and the pilot runof the course experience are both available, with some assessment data, the next course offeringcan be improved significantly. The designs of devices up to the mask designs will be sent formanufacture and used as actual samples for students to investigate. Time in the cleanroom tomanufacture devices would be planned for possible expansion outside lab time. Knowledge gapsinherent with students are more known now and can be treated within the course, through pre-requisites of the course, or by collaborating with instructors of common courses which precedethis course but are common to most students in engineering.Bibliography[1] L. McAfee et al., "MEMS and Microsystems Courses with National and International Dissemination
robotics and renewable-energy systems control via TCP/IP andBluetooth.Acknowledgement The authors would like to thank the National Science Foundation (Grant No.NSF-DUE-CCLI- 0618665) for its financial support of the project.Bibliography1. V.B. Sunil & S.S. Pande 2003, ”WebRobot: Internet based robotic assembly planning system,”Computers in Industry 54 (2004) 191–207.2. Melinda F. Robinette, Associate Member, IEEE & Rachid Manseur, Member IEEE, ”ROBOT-DRAW,an Internet-Based Visualization Tool for Robotics Education,”IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 44. No. 1, Feb 2001.3. Angeles, Jorge, “Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems: Theory, Methods and Algorithms,”Springer-Verleg, New York
University, Calumet Joseph Edward Cody is a graduate of the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power School for Enlisted Personnel and a veteran of the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Submarine force. He is currently employed as a Electrical Com- munications Specialist with Novaspect, Inc. of Schaumburg, Ill., and specializes in industrial electrical communications and protocols. Cody remains engaged at Purdue University, Calumet, as a student and plans on staying educationally active for as long as possible Page 25.397.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Design of a Mobile Robot and use of
design and planning, and computer simulation and OR. He renovated the indus- trial and manufacturing engineering curriculum with introduction of CAD/CAM/CAE and 3D modeling applications to manufacturing systems, and has taught Boeing engineers on the subjects for 12 years. He was a recipient of a NSF/MRI grant on developing a supply-chain manufacturing system and a NSF re- search grant on developing an integrated design-aid tool for flexible manufacturing systems. He authored a book on CAD on Unigraphics: Engineering Design in Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing. His papers appear in numerous refereed journals, books, and proceedings. In 2004, he organized the CAD/CAM/CAE student design contest in the PLM
complete any market research on what was expected of atechnical short course delivered via internet. This course was originally recorded by having theinstructor deliver the class in Lawrence in front of a classroom. The plan was to present theslides and exercises with the recorded audio; however, some video was recorded, too. The slideswith exercises were processed step-by-step to match the associated audio recordings. There wasno animation, and long lecture segments were delivered using RealPlayer media with asupporting website. The instructor, while working from home due to his health conditions,always interacted with the students by e-mails. There was a discussion board with threads forseparate topics; however attendees rarely participated in a
virtual HPC cluster • Hands-on experience in virtualization, cloud computing technologies, and networking • Introduction to MPI (message passing interface) 3 , high performance LINPACK (HPL) 21 , and HPC system schedulers like TORQUE 18 • Students exposed to an IaaS tool via OpenNebula • Students gain experience in planning, designing, building, and benchmarking deployed VMs within each student’s virtual HPC cluster6 Our ApproachEach student was assigned 16 recycled computer lab desktop computers and a recycled monitorfrom Purdue University’s IT department, a commodity Gigabit Ethernet network switch, a fewcarts to store the computers and monitor on, and a number of other peripherals and cablesrequired to use the equipment. Each
improvement is used toenhance the quality of skills each graduate possesses and the pathways in which he or sheacquires these skills. However, continuous improvement is not a procedure that can be conductedad hoc. Rather, it requires careful planning, documentation, review, and adjustment to makeprogress toward the desired improvement. Furthermore, many institution and program oversight groups have placed an emphasis onhaving a continuous improvement system in place to as part of accreditation. For example,ABET, Inc. which is the principal accreditation authority of engineering programs has requiredthat evidence of continuous improvement is a mandatory criterion for accreditation1. To demonstrate the improvement process institutions
sections focusing onthe engineering design process, engineering content, gender differences, science content,reflective and active learning, students’ level of frustration, and the amount of direct supportfrom the teacher (see Table 2) for sample items.Table 2. Sample Items from SEcLO (Pilot Version)Category Sample Items1) Engineering design a) Students identified a problemprocess b) Students shared and developed a plan c) Students created and tested their chosen design d) Students communicated results of their design and testing e) Students improved their design f) Students retested their design2
help of fluorescent beads.”These responses helped catalyze a discussion about issues involved in successfulcommercialization of basic research. This is a process that involves multiple steps on a myriadof levels, each with its own considerations. Often research that appears promising in the lab isnot ultimately successful as a commercial product for reasons that have nothing to do with thescientific or technical innovation. The students (and instructor) came away with an increasedawareness of these issues, and a greater focus on this aspect is planned in future labs targeted atthis audience.Some challenges were encountered in tailoring the content to the appropriate audience, andadjusting the scope of the hands-on activities to fit the time
: Multi-year program plan. Retrieved from: http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/ssl/ssl_mypp2011_web.pdf12. Kelley, T., & Littman, J. (2001). The art of innovation: Lessons in creativity from IDEO, America’s leading design firm. New York: Doubleday.13. Smith, S. M., Ward, T. B., & Schumacher, J. S. (1993). Constraining effects of examples in a creative idea generation task. Memory & Cognition, 21(6), 837–845.14. Amabile, T. (1982). Social psychology of creativity: A consensual assessment technique. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43(5), 997–1013.15. Christiaans, H. H. C. M. (2005). Creativity as a design criterion. Creativity Research Journal, 14(1), 41–54
using multi threads and hundreds of coresare available on the server cluster, hundreds of users can be attended simultaneously.The chosen time-based collision physics engine fits extremely well in the research scope. Since itdoes not provide acceleration results, this feature has to be implemented as soon as possible.Parallel programming still has to be done, as well as the implementation of some cosmeticeffects on the web page, more experiments and a complete user’s guide including thespecifications of the projects.Since the system is new and just started operation on spring semester, 2012, there is no students’feedback. The authors plan to introduce this methodology in a Dynamics course this academicyear.The entire package will be available
traditional exam review guide. This exam reviewguide (or review sheet) lists the course outcomes from which the instructor will be selectingquestions for the given exam. These outcomes generally can be taken directly from the dailylearning outcomes used to plan the syllabus. Page 25.501.4Students at MSOE have a lot of meetings, especially as senior design gets closer. This makesscheduling meetings very tough. To help improve this situation, a decision has been made tocreate an automated meeting scheduler system. The system will use the existing Exchangeserver in Outlook and an iPhone application.To schedule a meeting, a student creates a meeting
other topics. All work at the TENN TLC is carefully researched and planned in order to bring best practices and innovative methods to UTK faculty, lecturers, and GTAs. Olsen earned her doctorate in american and twentieth century literature at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1997, after which she taught at a private college for 12 years, eventually serving as Full Professor and Department Chair. She published Transcending Space: Architectural Places in works by Henry David Thoreau, E. E. Cummings and John Barth, Bucknell UP, 2000, has published numerous articles in her field, and has presented regionally and nationally on faculty development and assessment issues.Dr. Stan Guffey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Stan Guffey
predetermined thing. It is characterized by rigidplanning and explicit methods of recording or quantifying the student activity. On the otherhand divergent assessment emphasizes student understanding rather than the agenda of theassessor. The critical aspect of this approach is to establish what a student knows,understands or is able to do at the end of a learning task. It is characterized by more flexibleforms of planning with open forms of recording or presentation of student work/learning, Page 25.29.4analyzing the interaction of the student and the curriculum from the point of view of thestudent.The focus of assessment must develop an internal capacity
., What's the Story with Class Attendance? First-Year Students: Statistics and Perspectives.South African Journal of Higher Education 2010; 24(4):, 630-645.20. Webb T, Christian J, & Armitage C. Helping students turn up for class: Does personality moderate the effectiveness of an implementation intention intervention?. Learning & Individual Differences. September 2007; 17(4):316-327.21. White K, Thomas I, Johnston K, & Hyde M. Predicting Attendance at Peer-Assisted Study Sessions for Statistics: Role Identity and the Theory of Planned Behavior. Journal of Social Psychology. August 2008;148(4):473-492.22. Yao J. F. J., Chiang T. M., Correlation between class attendance and grade.Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Professors AAUP. Contingent Appointments and the Academic Profession, AAUP Policy 10th Edition, 2006, http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/issues/contingent/ (Accessed September 2011).4. Daryl G., Smith D G., Turner C.S., Osei-Kofi N., Richards S. “Interrupting the Usual: Successful Strategies for Hiring Diverse Faculty”. The Journal of Higher Education, 75:2, March/April 2004.5. Kezar A.J., Sam C. “Understanding the New Majority of Non Tenure Track Faculty in Higher Education: Demographics, Experiences, and Plans of Action”. ASHE Higher Education Report, 36, November 2010.6. Waltman J., Hollenshead C., August L., Miller J., Bergom I. “Contingent Faculty in a Tenure Track World”. Center for the Education of Women, University of
technology in the classroom, pedagogicalinnovations, and student-centered learning.Since the partnership began in 2007, a total of 17 instructors from Herat University pursued theirmasters’ degrees in different disciplines of engineering at the University of Hartford. In additionto their coursework leading to a master’s degree, they shadowed UH instructors and through thismentoring, they learned technological applications available and are installed at HU via theWorld Bank and USAID funding. They developed and updated, student-centered coursematerials, assessment methodologies, and plans for continuing education and professionaldevelopment strategies. A number of the instructors also have implemented the Mechatronicsand Architecture programs. These
the school, about the importance of engineers insolving problems and developing products, systems and services used by the public everyday, but who are, for the most part, taken for granted.It must be noted that the author secured permission from the director of the Office ofCommunications and Marketing (OCM) of the university before entering into a contractwith the PR firm to develop the program. The director agreed, subject to two provisos:(1) Any PR campaign developed as a result of this initiative must not compete with theuniversity’s PR programs, and (2) OCM must be kept informed of the nature of the Page 25.133.2campaign and plans during program
understood. For instance, one might know how and where to use sugar (skill) butat the same time have no idea of how sugar is produced (theoretical knowledge). Also, onemight know how to describe the chemical and physical reaction that arrests material degradationin a galvanized metal (theoretical knowledge) but have never galvanized a part.In summary, this paper has three goals:1. Provide some ethical motivation for university administrators to put in place programs thathelp a prospective student choose a degree program that matches his/her interests, academicskills and immediate and long-term career plans.2. Present a graphical representation that can be used to contrast the various characteristics ofengineering programs that can be used as a
. Mechanical Engineering Technology)? 2. Does your organization hire Engineering Technology (Bachelor Science) Graduates? 3. If yes, in what capacity (i.e. Engineering, Maintenance, Technical Support, etc.)?The brevity of the questionnaire was critical since it was embedded in a larger survey thatparticipants were provided prior to their visit to campus. Before deploying the instrument, theOffices of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment (IRPA) and Career Servicesreviewed the items for appropriateness, format, item clarity, and ease of use. After incorporatingthe suggestions, the instrument was finalized and administered. Participants were given a two-week window of opportunity, a week before and after their campus visit, to respond
Policy and Social Work courses International Social Work 3 The Metropolis 3 Research Methods for Public Policy Analysis 3 Research Methods for Social Work 3 Sustainable Economic Development 3 Urban Systems and Services 3 Land Use Planning and Analysis 3 Science, Technology and Public Policy 3 Organizational Theory and Behavior