alternatives and their evaluation, and fabrication of a functioning prototype), and is • University of New Haven, Ohio Northern University, and Union College visited K-WIDE 2014 and began planning undertaken by multiple student teams with the active participation of customers. The effective their own local offerings for January 2015. integration of customers into the comprehensive design process is particularly challenging, and • This project will be disseminated in detail at ASEE 2014, which will include assessment of objectives and best-practice models to achieve this within the project structure will be developed and assessed. articulation of how K-WIDE seeks to synthesize an
Fulton Engineering - Engineering Ira A Fulton Engineering - Engineering Software Engineering Engineering Electrical Engineering Management Engineering ManagementAverage Number of Hours Transferred by Students in Electrical Engineering 68 Why Online Engineering?• I am a married father of three boys and I work full time at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. I am . . . in pursuit of a B.S. in Engineering Management. I plan to move from a technical assignment into a
Urban Design; students team up to create a urban Page 24.1347.7design plan for a section of city using their knowledge of lines, parametric equations, andparabolas. Beyond the teamwork required to create this plan, one of the piloting teachers evensuggested (and the idea was hence implemented into the curriculum) that student teams switchplans and check another team’s set of equations for a certain area of their city. From the teacherperspective, when a mathematics teacher gets to the Cartesian Coordinate writing assignment,the English teacher could be the one to actually assign the essay. This collaboration pairsteachers from multiple
“engineering moments,” or moments where students engage in behaviors andthinking that can be viewed as the foundations of productive engineering practice. Theseengineering moments may include defining problems, planning, designing solutions, andengaging in evidence-based arguments. We argue that the students who successfully engaged inthe literature-based engineering challenge exhibited capabilities including the ability to frameproblems, use drawings and plans to guide their building, make informed design decisions, andreflect on and evaluate their work. The students who viewed the purpose of the unit as building aworking prototype also exhibited the most coherent engineering process. Additional support andstructure may be necessary, however, to help
similar survey to high school seniors nationwide, to which 519 seniors respondedwho planned on attending college in the fall. Those intending to study engineering identifiedmiddle and high school instruction as significantly more influential in their choice of major thanstudent proclivity, aptitude, and family influences. The survey also identified specificinstructional and advising strategies (consistently mentioned in teacher interviews) that weresignificantly influential. Implications are discussed.Introduction The Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program in engineering and computerscience was initiated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2001. RET programs are
% had bachelor’sdegrees and 47% had graduate degrees. But only 37% had degrees in engineering or technology.Thus, those leading the majority of companies which are advancing our technology have liberal,non-technical degrees. It is therefore surprising that many collegiate engineering programs havereduced the number of liberal arts courses required in their plan of study in favor of moretechnical courses.4Fortunately, some still recognize the importance of a diverse foundation to build a well-roundedgraduate. Yale and Johns Hopkins universities have begun offering Bachelors of Arts degrees inengineering for students seeking greater technical understanding within a broader liberal artscontext.6 Such schools are integrating the two disciplines in
thestudents showed essentially no interest in ME graduate research. These students were in theclass to earn the “easy credit” to gain full-time status. Additional survey questions indicated that100% of the class was planning to graduate in Spring 2013, one-third of the students wereenrolled in the department’s 5-year BS-MS program, and approximately one quarter of thestudents in the class had performed undergraduate research in the department. Page 24.533.5 A. To satisfy curiosity regarding graduate research ongoing in the ME Dept B. To fulfill the minimum of 12 credits required for full-time status
competitive edge.However, the organizations act differently when it comes to the types of the learning eventsthey hold. Our hypothesis is that these organizations have different learning and developmentconcepts to train their employees and these concepts are deeply embedded in their values,vision, mission, goals, initiatives and resulting project plans. Collectively this maybe called“strategic learning” for our use. We must clarify that “strategic learning” here does not havethe same meaning as it is used in developing evaluation-based business strategy. Instead, thismeans planned learning process based on organizational strategy. In this paper, we will firstexplain what we think is the core concept in strategic learning of the organizations and
industry; (d) Advising through mentoring; and (e) Resources for academicsuccess (hence the acronym CLEAR). The ultimate goal of this project is to produce engineeringbaccalaureate degree graduates with lower student loan indebtedness and greater preparation forpost-degree roles.We present here our early results and lessons learned from the process of getting this program offthe ground, as well as our plans for continued growth.Program DesignThe CLEAR Scholars program provides scholarship support and academic, career, andleadership development opportunities to a cohort of students with demonstrated financial need aswell as potential to succeed in engineering, demonstrated by maintaining a GPA over 2.7 infreshman math, science, and engineering
proposedsolutions and guide them toward developing the best possible solution. Although this step of theproposal development process would not exist in an industry setting, it was useful from apedagogical standpoint and supported the outcome of persisting and learning from failure, whichis one of the outcomes associated with the entrepreneurial mindset3,7,8.In the written proposal, each “company” had to list the required materials, show total costincluding labor, perform a break-even analysis, illustrate the circuit design and schematics,verify the designed circuit through simulation, plot the voltage-temperature relationship of thedesigned circuit, establish a detailed testing plan, investigate proper device housings, propose atime schedule for delivery
NextGeneration Science Standards (NGSS), the presented concepts were covered in greater depththan what is specified in the standards. Using a combination of interactive presentations andhands-on activities, the modules appealed to visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles.For the curriculum exchange the following resources related to the energy and anaerobicdigestion module will be shared: a) lesson plans with instructor notes; b) presentations andworksheets; and c) assessments. Page 24.349.2
activities have primarily been applied to a stream restoration course as part of a baselinemonitoring program for the planned restoration of Lost Creek. The course is structured aroundconducting weekly field labs along Lost Creek. In this environmental river mechanics / streamrestoration course, students are introduced through field labs to the concepts of fluvialgeomorphology, aquatic ecosystems, and sediment transport for application in restoring impairedstreams. During the quarter, the students make frequent visits to Lost Creek for the purpose ofcollection baseline monitoring data that is used to classify channel morphology and process,analyze stream habitat characteristics, estimate sediment transport, and analyze stream stability.The data
University), why it is almost absent, as well as the different academic, job-related, and cultural justifications for this phenomenon. It also subjectively compares it with similar models existing in nearby gulf countries, as evidenced by the superior performance of female engineers in recent GCC engineering competitions. This paper finally proposes a plan of action possibly utilizing current education technologies that could be taken to promote engineering education in Saudi Arabia. Key words: Engineering, Education, Saudi Arabia, GCCIntroductionSaudi Arabian higher education currently holds in its 25 public universities1 one of the largestnumber of students in the Middle East, now exceeding an impressive
. Page 24.669.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 History of the Online Master of Engineering Management Program at Rowan UniversityAbstractThis paper describes in detail the planning, development, and growth of a new onlineengineering management program. Planning began for the new Master of EngineeringManagement (MEM) Program at Rowan University in January 2007 with a comprehensiveonline review of 41 engineering management programs nationwide. The goal of this review wasto determine the most-common practices regarding engineering management programs andcourses nationwide and the key courses required for an effective engineering managementprogram. In Spring 2007
regulation, technical data and EMC analysis. All students who wantto study in the field of wireless communications should end their study by learning thesefundamentals. This study provides enough knowledge to make a frequency application plan,which is acceptable for licensing. For example in coverage measurement Okumura and Hatamodels are described. Some part of current topics can not only be the added to the courses Page 24.712.2related to radio frequency but they can also be studied with courses such as capstone project andethics10,11.Unauthorized use of frequency channels not only risks the privacy of licensed users but alsoendanger the life of
completed in June 2004. Thesecond trip with students was planned for March of 2005, during the Purdue spring vacationperiod. The spring schedule provided lower off-season airfare and hotel expenses. Also, thespring schedule gained interest from more students due to the fact that overseas travel during thespring semester kept options for summer employment open.Information about the March 2005 spring trip was sent out to students during the start of the2004 fall semester. Several students expressed interest and asked for more details on the cost,timing and course credit. The cost including airfare and expenses was estimated to be $2,000. Students were asked to pay a $200 deposit to hold their place. Commitments began to come inat the end of September
33countries that were represented at ICIC and the locations of the local committees. Page 20.29.4 Figure 1. ICIC Countries and Local Committees ( )This arrangement provided numerous settings that linked diverse groups before, during and afterthe conference. The local planning committees then merged for a big planning meeting inChicago, IL to work out the final details of the conference. This event in itself is of greatimportance as it created unparalleled opportunities for participants, most of whom are decisionmakers, to network and discuss important issues. Throughout history, business, educational, andcultural exchanges
beconducting research and the sheer number of students that would be abroad each year, faculty-directed programs may be a component of the international program portfolio; however, they areinsufficient to enable WCOE to meet the goal of an international experience for all students.The international experienced was proposed in Fall 2012 to all of the WCOE engineeringdepartments. The plan was pitched at the department level to provide opportunities fordiscussion and feedback to improve the proposed plan. In Spring 2013, the internationalprogram was adopted and incorporated in the 2013-2014 course catalog so that the requirementcould be placed into effect for the entering class of 2013. Due to this timeline, limited work wasperformed in building programs
historical concepts and controversies, as well as leading figures, in de-sign practice. The last two homework assignments ask students to develop and then refine/updatea final project plan, building up from details such as required materials, their cost, and the timerequired to source them, to key design challenges such as evaluating which features could be re-moved if time becomes scarce, while still presenting a viable, working music player.Design Project: Sending Students Into the World, Bringing Them BackThe final design project take the last four weeks of the ten-week term, and follows a structureddesign process that includes planning, observation, ideation, prototyping, implementation andreflection/documentation. Students typically work
students integrate knowledge and skills learnt in the previous courses.In the first course (ECET-390, Product Development) students from Electronics and Computerprograms are asked to form teams, and then required to research, plan and develop a projectproposal. Then in the next three senior project courses (ECET-492, ECET-493 & ECET-494: 24Weeks) students implement the project plan by building and testing a prototype. A typical projectinvolves a solution to a software/hardware-based engineering problem. The process of developingand implementing a solution to the problem offers a unique learning opportunity for students togain new insights and competencies and their team-work, problem-solving and analytical thinkingskills.Senior projects, also
(Mathematica, MATLAB, Maple, and LabVIEW). This willprovide an opportunity for all CSET-STEM participants to learn technical skills improve theirperformance in their classes, in their jobs, and in their future careers. These activities are estimated torequire an average of about 1 hour per week.Professional Development ActivitiesIn order to enhance the educational performance and retention of CSET-STEM Scholars, the followingactivities are planned. These activities are estimated to require an average of about 2 hours per month:(a)Monthly Seminars -- All Scholars will be encouraged to attend a monthly seminar. Talks will begiven by faculty and industry guest speakers. In addition, students will share their experiences. Thisinteraction will aid the
used the engineering design process to manage the designs along withappropriate scientific inquiry, statistical analyses, CAD drawings, and hands-on prototypebuilding to accomplish this task. Each group also prepared an oral presentation and a video oftheir fish pond or oven in action. These videos ran while the girls stood in front of the posters,giving their oral presentations, to judges, parents, and teachers from their home schools on thefinal engineering design competition day. We also did things to make this feel a bit more like atraditional camp - and not just academics – such as making ice cream, making shrink-dinks,going to the playground, etc. We also included topics like college planning and building up thegirls’ social capital
Lebaneseengineering institutions and an active engagement of the engineering community in planning andpreparing for future earthquakes. Senior students attending engineering colleges in Lebanon(n=378) were surveyed to: assess their awareness and preparedness to earthquakes, to ascertainwhether there is a link among their awareness and preparedness, and to determine howengineering educational programs have affected their current awareness and preparedness.Although the findings indicate satisfactory seismic risk awareness across the majority ofparticipants, a poor level of earthquake preparedness was revealed. The role of engineeringinstitutions and organizations has insignificant influence on both awareness and preparedness ofparticipants. This article calls
Agricultural and Technical State University. She has more than 20 years’ experience in academia in recruitment and retention. Prior to joining the ISE Department, she spent 13 years working in industry in forecasting and planning for a textile company. Ms. Vinson holds the Bachelor’s of Science degree in Administrative Systems with a concentration in Economics and the Master’s of Science degree in Adult Education with a concentration in Instructional Technology from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ms. Vinson’s research interests are in developing and validating recruitment and retention techniques
for C. F3: Data Managementmarketers to plan and forecast their markets. This is because “The successful implementation of relationship marketingthe data collection technologies like the open source, data demands the integration of timely and accurate market,mining, and data warehouse technologies assist marketers to consumer, and product information [15] p.64.” Organizationsgather, analyze, collect, and store huge amounts of data on are expending great efforts in using the latest informationtheir markets in terms of consumer experiences, competitors’ technology to maintain and build information systems. Theexperiences, and brand experiences. effective use of
aggregate score ideas ( score 2 or 3). Idea Type F* I** Proposed Improvement Physical Space 1 1 Manage the resources - labs, classrooms, offices, GA's Faculty 1 2 Hire a lab coordinator 2 1 Add staff engineer for labs 1 1 Develop a strategic plan 1 1 Provide more non-book examples 1 2 Have admission standards (for engineering) Curriculum 1 2 Have labs in virtual machine design class 1 2
to redmark-edit the transcripts, without needing to redo the recordings, ifstudents understand that they must read the transcript in parallel with listening to the recording.A small number of transcript-only edits are tolerable in this case, with revision of the recording(which is much harder) needed only for major changes.AssessmentWe offer approximate measures of the instructional success of this model in two forms – failurerates and surveys. Because of resource constraints, we could not offer both a traditional sectionand our high-efficiency inverted model at the same time in order to do a more formal assessmentof our inverted model. As mentioned in the future work section below, we plan to do moreassessment in the 2014-2015 academic
previously described version,3 though it uses much of the same code. A screen shot ofthe VB6-based circuit editor is shown in Fig. 3.The program no longer requires that students have a copy of PowerPoint to use it, but is currentlystill limited to Windows PC’s, or other platforms running Windows emulators. Students caneasily access such machines on campus computing sites if they do not own one. A future web-based version is planned, but will require considerable additional development to implement.2.3. Web-Based Waveform Sketching Input ModuleA number of typical problem types in textbooks involve showing the student a waveform for thecurrent or voltage of a capacitor or inductor as a function of time, and asking them to sketch theother quantity (by
outcomes (listed in Table 1 below) focus on both products and habits. Table 1. PITCH Outcomes. 1. Technical Communication Products 2. Technical Communication Habits a) Plan, design and produce letters, a) Use appropriate format and content; technical memoranda, short reports, b) Exhibit clear, precise and logical formal e-mails, reports documenting expression; experimental or simulation methods c) Demonstrate appropriate organization, and results, and formal level of detail, style and tone for a reports (proposals, analyses, progress given audience, situation and purpose; reports
consulting for topics including forecasting, inventory management, production planning, project management, and supply chain management. His research interests are in improving supply chain efficiency through the application of technology and best practices for warehousing, logistics, and inventory management. He holds a B.S. and Master of Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in Technology Management from Indiana State University. He also holds professional certifications of CPIM and CSCP from APICS, The Association for Operations Management, and a PMP from the Project Management Institute.Mr. John Pickard, East Carolina University I am a teaching instructor at East Carolina University in