and computational results. The converging-diverging theorynozzle laboratory verifies Bernoulli’s equation theory. The experimental apparatus is based on aTecQuipment AirFlow Bench AF10 unit equipped with the Bernoulli Theorem nozzle AF11shown in Fig. 1. The nozzle has a 4.5 degree half-angle and uniform width of 50 mm. (a) (b) Figure 1. (a) the geometry of the experimental converging-diverging nozzle (dimensions are in mm) and (b) the geometry of the axisymmetric nozzle in FlowLab.In this experiment, the Pitot tube is traversed along the centerline of the nozzle measuring the
that willgrant their degree. They get to see the entire faculty and all their alma mater has to offer.One other element of a degree for these students is meeting their general educationrequirements. (See Figure B) The state has developed a system for transfer of the lowerdivision general education, which is universal to almost every degree plan. A website hasbeen developed, ASSIST.ORG that facilitates this statewide articulation. Besides using thisto coordinate the lower division general education courses, the department taps into thissystem by including the technology courses in the technical core are qualified forarticulation.Another aspect of the general education requirement are the upper division courses. Thesehave to be completed through
sensor networkconnectivity requirements.In the latter part of the semester, students work in teams to develop a multi-node network for anapplication of their choice. Example monitoring projects included soil moisture, leaf wetnessand temperature in greenhouses (Fig. 3b), traffic patterns in parking lots, and movement ofpavement during freeze/thaw conditions. Wireless node Inputs Soil moisture Temperature (a) (b) Figure 3. (a
it *Note: Additional funding was identified making it possible to provide tutoring for all COT students, regardless of their academic year.Generally, tutors are students who have received a grade of “A” or “B” in a course or itsequivalent. Exceptions are made for tutors who have excelled in higher levels of related courses.These are often junior, senior and graduate level students. Prospective tutors complete a hiringprocess that includes submitting a job application followed by an interview with the tutoringcoordinator and confirmation of the applicant’s academic standing.At the start of each semester the tutoring coordinator conducts a ‘call-out’ for both tutors andstudents interested in participating in the program
/technology/ekrmann.html)8. Berge, Z., and Myers, B., Evaluating Computer Mediated Communication Courses in Higher Education. Journal of Educational Computing Research, vol 23, No.A, pp 431- 450, (2000).9. Palomba, C.A., and Banta, T.W., Assessment Essentials, San Francisco: Josey Bass, 1999.10. Clark, R.E., Evaluation Distance Learning Technology. Paper for United States Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1989.11. Graham, C., Cogiltay, K., Cramer, J. Lim, B., and Duffy, T.M., Teaching in a Web Based Distance Learning Environment: An Evaluation Based on Four Courses. CRLT Technical Report No 13-00, Bloomington: Indiana University Center for Research on Learning and Technology, 2000.12. Graham, C., Duffy, T.M., Gramer, J
student must describe a process in depth or compare andcontrast two processes. The weighting scheme for all course components is shown in Table 3. Table 3. Weighting of Course Components Component Component Weight In-Class Exercises 10% Lab Activities 25% Exam I. 15% Exam II. 15% Exam III. 15% Comprehensive Final Exam 20%A standard ten-point grading scheme is used where 90 to 100 = A, 80 to 89 = B, and so forth.The
Continental (Senge et.al., 1995 and Porter, 2001).First Semester ImplementationThe first semester for this new course was Fall of2006. It was offered as an elective for seniors.(Next year, it will be a required course forgraduation.) There were two sections. Section Ahad 29 students while Section B had 23 students.Each course developer taught a section. A teachingassistant from the English Department was used byboth sections to grade the written papers relative togood writing principles. The papers were alsoreviewed by the instructors for content. Figure 4. Team presentationThe students appeared to enjoy the course and on renewable energythere were several remarks that the
currently in the database and to load a new database where aset of different users have been previously stored. The enrollment module also allowssimultaneous visualization of the users. In addition, the enrollment also facilitatesactivation and deactivation of users from two lists of active and inactive users (Fig. 3).b) Iris Recognition ModuleAuthentication:Once the users have been manually entered and their iris signature have been generatedand associated with their record, the system is ready to identify new unknown usersthrough the Authentication button (Fig. 3). This option again prompts an incoming user,who has not yet been identified, to look directly into the camera so that his/her irissignature can be obtained. At this point, the Signature
this will be explored.Bibliography1. Torvi, D.A., “Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistant Instructional Programs: Training Tomorrow’s Faculty Members”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, no. 4, 1994.2. Davis, S. and Kring, J., “A Model for Training and Evaluating Graduate Teaching Assistants”, College Student Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2001.3. Wright, M., “Teaching Effectively with GSI-Faculty Teams”, CRLT Occasional Papers, University of Michigan, No. 21, 2005.4. Baburao, B., Visco, D., and Swaminathan, S., “Graduate Students as Co-Instructors for an Undergraduate Course: Implementation and Assessment”, Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition
further developed by ASCE Committees. In its own way, all three of these themesare being developed by the LDDI with regards to the land development area of civil engineering.The BOK Committee has developed 15 outcomes to define the “what” dimension of the civilengineering BOK (see Appendix A). Eleven of these are taken directly from the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and four other outcomes were developed by thecommittee. In a similar vein, the LDDI group collectively established a list of desired knowledgefor civil engineering graduates that would like to enter the land development field (Appendix B).These topics were generalized into seven categories (Planning, Design, Surveying, Environmentalrequirements, Construction
. Page 12.132.6 1) Perform the initial steps as described in previous section (August) 2) Finalize frame design (by December 5th) – May need several iterations of these steps a) Obtain steel (hopefully, it will be donated) b) Draw new frame on paper c) Represent frame in drafting software d) Construct PVC tube model e) Perform necessary stress analysis using software - Figure 2 shows the model of the entire Baja car as drawn in the design software. f) Be clear how all other components (e.g. engine, drivetrain, steering, brakes) will fit on this new frame 3) Finish primary frame construction (by January 15th) a) Cut/bend/cope the steel pieces b) Use tack welds
same color badge. Tables weredesignated for each group with a matching color sign.As previously mentioned, the event consisted of two parts. The first part was a teamrace modeled after “The Amazing Race” television show. The Coach/Mentee Teamswere handed an initial clue card which lead to various locations on campus; locationswere hidden within riddles the teams had to decipher. Sample riddles have beenprovided in Appendix B. It was essential to get the teams interacting immediately, inorder to break the ice and create immediate relationships, so the race served as an idealmeans to get the students talking and working together.Once the location was determined and the team arrived, an additional clue card wasgiven for the next stop on the race
lab inoperative; this is not the case with the present setup that uses analog instruments because, even for the case of one instrument malfunctioning, the setup would still be usable. b) All projects had at least some general estimation of the cost involved to implement the proposed changes. However, some were more detailed than others. For example one Page 12.999.5 project included, together with the technical data, a price quote from the manufacturer for the proposed instruments (an infrared thermometer and a thermocouple data logger). c) About one third of the projects explicitly detailed some of the
been: a. Effective for homework review (3%); b. Cumbersome for writing the solution (41%); c. Easy to use for writing solution (2%); d. Options a and b (29%); e. Options a and c (9%); f. No comments (13%)During the 10th week of the semester, another clicker question was asked to clarify somequestions instructors had about use of OneNote for homework. The clicker question andresponses (from ~100 students) are as below: Question: When doing homework problems using OneNote: A. I first solve problems on paper and then transfer solutions to OneNote (18%) B. I directly solve problems using OneNote (49%) C. In the beginning, I did as in (A) above and now I’m doing as in (B) above (4%) D. I’m
by thewheel assembly hitting an obstacle pushing the front support back. The Cosmos Static analysisprogram shows the stresses and deformations due to load on front framing member in Figure 2(a) and (b). After running these three major scenarios the design of the front support wasconsidered to be capable of handling all the different scenarios that it may encounter. Similarly,the other components were designed using above processes for designing Front FramingSupport. Page 12.450.5 Max deformation Max deformation occurs
given to students following the information literacypresentation. Typically they are given 2–3 weeks to complete it. By linking informationcompetencies to assignments related to class material, we move beyond decoupled instructionthat is quickly forgotten to “just-in-time” need-based instruction.Library Assignment1. Select a chemical substance from Table B.1 in your text that begins with the same letter as your first name or the nearest possible letter (for example Andy Aniline). Find and report the information listed below for this substance in references other than the course text or CD, and properly cite the references. Organize your report neatly and show all units. (a) Specific gravity, molecular weight, normal melting and boiling
, 2006, Integrating a new design of teaching slides with active learning measures in a large class,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (Chicago, IL: ASEE, 18–21 June), accepted.21. Michael Alley, Madeline Schreiber, Katrinia Ramsdell, and John Muffo, 2006, How the design of headlines in presentation slides affects audience retention, Technical Communication, 53 (2), pp. 25–34.22. Elaine Seymour, A-B Hunter, S. Laursen, and T. DeAntoni, 2004, Establishing the benefits of research experiences for undergraduates in the sciences: First findings from a three-year study, Science Education, 88 (4), pp. 493–534.23. Elaine Seymour, A-B Hunter, S. Laursen, and T. DeAntoni, 2006, Benefits of participating in
C programming environment is developed. Page 12.23.6 Table 1. I/O processor commands. Command Code Comment LCD Operations 0x1* clear LCD 0x10 write null-terminated 0x11 followed by string and null (n bytes) string write character at location 0x12 followed by offset and line number A-to-D 0x2* get analog channels 8 to F 0x20 to 0x27 LSB is returned followed by MSB bit in 0x3* get bits 0 to B 0x30 to 0x3B 0x00 or 0x01 is returned byte in
. At the end of the quarter, each student will be able to keep an airmotor which often ends up being used by alumni as a desk trophy.A typical quarter would proceed as follows:Week 1Lecture: Introduction Metrology and measuring toolsLab: Lab introductions, guidelines, and orientation Safety discussion and assign safety quiz Measuring exercise Overview of lathes and mills with demo and dry run Explanation of cleanup procedureWeek 2Lecture: Lathe and mills and machining variablesLab: Safety quiz due Review of lathes and mills and practice machining air Group A – lathes: cylinder exercise facing and turning Group B – mills: mill block exerciseWeek 3Lecture: Overview of
AC 2007-2346: DESIGN OF A RENEWABLE ENERGY BASED POWER SYSTEMFOR A ZERO-ENERGY VISITORS' CENTERSamuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia Samuel Lakeou received a BSEE (1974) and a MSEE (1976) from the University of Grenoble (Universite Joseph Fourier), and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Nationale d’Electronique et de Radioelectricite de Grenoble of the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in 1978. He is currently a Professor and Chair of the department of electrical engineering at UDC. He was formerly staff member at the New Products Laboratory of RCA’s Consumer Electronics Division in Indianapolis, IN (1984-86).Esther Ososanya, University of the District
Page 12.1572.8 • Availability of a full binary-level compiler to increase execution speed of time critical modules.We expect future development with this platform or similar language/OS/hardware platforms inthe future to extend the capabilities of the system.Bibliography1. Baas, B Ruby in the CS Curriculum. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol 17, No. 5 (April 2002) ,Pages: 95 - 1032. Baird Kevin C. Generating music notation in real time Linux Journal, Vol 2004, Issue 128 (Dec 2004) Page 33. Helps R. Teaching Embedded Systems From Eight Bits to Operating Systems and Networks, Proceedings, ASEEAnnual Conference 2002 (Montreal). Session 36474. Matsumoto, Yukihiro. The Ruby Programming Language Jun 12, 2000.http
parameter extraction from photo-plethysmographic signals, light/tissue interactionmodeling, and the use of photo-plethysmograms in applications such as biometric authentication.These new devices have been employed in (a) a Fall 2006 lecture/laboratory pair within abiomedical instrumentation course sequence taken by undergraduate and graduate students, (b)undergraduate honors research experiences, and (c) graduate signal processing research.I. IntroductionBlood oxygen saturation, often referred to as the sixth vital sign, can be obtained via a wellknown, empirically discovered technique referred to as pulse oximetry.1, 2 In recent decades,pulse oximeters have become a staple in clinical environments and are therefore an expectedelement of any
successfully. The contributions of the present paperare: (a) to gather these resources together in one location, (b) the establishment ofa design procedure for counter-intuitive learning activities, and (c) testing of thedesign process.At the present time, only the design process has been tested to demonstrate that ityields new activities. Ultimately, these new activities must be used in a classroomto assess their effect on students. It is possible that the activities are too simple ortoo complex. If they are too simple, they may not be counter-intuitive to manystudents. If they are too complex, they may generate high frustration and actually Page 12.37.2be
one of the highest evaluated classes in the University ofColorado’s School of Engineering. Students clearly enjoy the class, the process of learning todesign a spacecraft, and the feeling of accomplishment – despite the significant workload -- bycompleting the class. For some students the work in this class has been discussed at jobinterviews and has become the basis for a job offer. Two aspects of the class receive criticismeach year: a) the in-class presentations and b) the book. A small percentage of the class,particularly those who do a good job with public speaking, view the in-class presentations as awaste of time. Most students, however, show marked improvement in speaking capability bygoing through this process.Classroom Management
AC 2007-1106: LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF A MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGINEERINGOUTREACH PROGRAM FOR GIRLS: A CONTROLLED STUDYJeanne Hubelbank, WPI Evaluation Consulting JEANNE HUBELBANK is an independent program evaluator and part-time faculty member at Boston College's Lynch School of Education. WPI's Camp Reach was one of her recent evaluation clients. Her teaching and research interests include assessment in higher education, creating a culture of evaluation use, evaluation capacity building, and educational technology.Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute CHRYSANTHE DEMETRY is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Educational Development and Assessment at
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) Bioinformatics in the post-sequence era. Nat Genet 33 Suppl:305-10. 4. Our cultural commonwealth: The Report of the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, July 18, 2006 5. Buetow, K (2005) Cyberinfrastructure: empowering a “third way” in biomedical research. Science 308(5723): 821-824. 6. Greene, K. and S., Donovan. (2005) Ramping Up to the Biology Workbench: A Multi-Stage Approach to Bioinformatics Education. Bioscene 31(1): 3-11. 7. Rainey, D., Faulkner, S., Craddock, L., Cammer, S., Tretola, B., Sobral, B.W., and O., Crasta. 2007. A project-centric approach to cyberinfrastructure education. TeraGrid 2007. 8. He, Y., R. R. Vines, A. R. Wattam, G
Roughness Front Figure 3- Inspection Probe (b)The inspection probe consists of a visible laser light source surrounded by four photo detectors.The idea of the apparatus is that laser light is transmitted along a hollow tube and reflects 90° offof a mirror and onto the surface of interest. If the surface is a mirror finish with no roughness,the light would be reflected back along the same path directly towards the laser source. If thesurface contains a rough finish the laser light will still reflect most of its light back towards thesource, but a portion of it will become scattered. Some of the scattered light will find its wayback down the tube, but not collinear with
illustrate the difference between contextual problems and those lacking context,consider a potential mechanics of materials problem: A shaft is subjected to the torque shown. Find A the shear stress developed in the shaft and the angle of twist at point A relative to point B. B Figure 1 A basic torsional shear stress problem in mechanics of materialsThe problem does not tell the students anything about the source of the torque, the likely use ofthe shaft, or anything else that might allow then to place some context on why it might bevaluable to know the shear stress or angle of twist. Even if the
. , http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/images/Dissection/dissphil.pdf4. Brown, A. and Ollis, D. , “Team Teaching: A Freshman Engineering Rhetoric and Laboratory”, ASEE proceedings, 19965. Brown, A., Luyendyk, S. and Ollis, D.F., “Implementing an English and Engineering Collaboration,” in Liberal Education in Twenty-First Century Engineering: Responses to ABET/EC2000 Criteria, (eds: Ollis, D.S., Neeley, K.A., and Luegenbiehl, H.C., Peter Lang Publishers, New York, NY, pp. 270-279.6. Kennedy, A., Ollis, D., and Brent, R, , “Cross-College Collaboration to Enhance Spanish Instruction and Learning,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual conference, 2005.7. Laffitte, B., Ollis, D., and Brent, R.,, “Cross-College Collaboration of Engineering with Industrial