10 11 A 5 4 Learning Styles: B 4 3 Moderate-Strong Kinesthetic 19 17 C 3 0 Moderate-Strong Active 20 19 D 3 2 Moderate-Strong Sensing 19 17 E 3 4 F 2 2 G 3 4 H 2 6Differences in performance (across SLO groups) on individual SLO assessment items weredetectable when the individual items were strongly consistent with the nature/activities of one orthe
-pencil instrument. The other half of the students completed thetraditional paper-pencil instrument. Appendices A and B provide the content of these twoinstruments. We acknowledge that the administration (online vs. paper-and-pencil) and thedesign (theoretical vs. empirical) of the instruments are confounded, but we do notperceive that as a threat to our study, which focuses on the perception of students.Regardless of how the evaluations are designed and administered, student perceptions ofthe instruments, and particularly the feedback the instruments provide, are critical to therating accuracy. After the peer evaluations were completed and feedback provided to thestudents, the students were required to complete an 18-question survey to assess
students from Garfield High School to participate inSERENADES researches in summers.6. AcknowledgmentThis work was partly sponsored by The NASA Minority University and College Education andResearch Partnership Initiative (MUCERPI) in Space Science under the project ID NRA 03-OSS-03 Page 13.1133.10References 1. CSULA SERENADES Laboratory Website: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/ecst/serenades 2. A. Alegre, J. Estrada, B. Coalson, A. Milshteyn, H. Boussalis, and C. Liu, “Development and Implementation of an Information Server for Web-based Education in Astronomy,” The Third IEEE International Conference on Engineering Education
asappropriate for faculty in the field. The K-12 priority was perceived to be incorporatingengineering principles in the secondary level STEM subjects.The pattern of responses aligns with the mission and goals of each division to triangulate ourfindings. Though the results are somewhat expected, direct comparison across divisions remindus that even across ASEE membership, there is broad range of definitions of engineeringeducation. For future work, authors would want to investigate (a) whether division affiliationperception of engineering education influences individual instruction practices; and (b) ways thatvarious divisions can complement each other and avoid working at cross-purposes
science requirements for admission to medical school, with a particular emphasis on our internal biology curriculum. 119 domestic medical schools were surveyed. Overall, 90% of responding medical schools responded favorably to our BME undergraduate biology curriculum. Data from MCAT scores and admissions rates support the conclusion that our program of study, and by implication that of many other BME programs, meets the requirements for medical school admissions without compromising the rigor of the engineering curriculum or requiring additional coursework beyond organic chemistry. Advanced physiology and cell biology lectures and labs are of key importance.IntroductionAcademic advising for
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thesurvey. Once the categories were created, the transcripts were re-read for disconfirmingevidence to further refine the categories. Transcripts were then coded using the followingcategories: (a) relevance to life, (b) novelty, (c) hands-on, (d) no relevance to life, (e) high priorknowledge, and (f) no involvement.FindingsGeneral TrendsAnalysis of the entire population of students’ responses to the phenomena and driving questionsindicated that the activities students were most interested in learning about were the WaterproofPants and Easy-Stir, while students were least interested in learning about the Hopping Magnet.The driving question that the students were most interested in learning about was the CDquestion, and they were least interested in
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Ethical Issues Associated with Scientific and Technological Research for the Military. C. Mitcham and P. Siekevitz, eds. New York Academy of Sciences, 1989.12. Fleddermann, Charles B. Engineering Ethics. Prentice Hall, 1999.13. Florman, Samuel C. The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, 2nd Ed. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 199414. Gorman, Michael E., Matthew M. Mehalik, and Patricia H. Werhane. Ethical and Environmental Challenges to Engineering. Prentice Hall, 2000.15. Hacker, Barton C. “Engineering a New Order: Military Institutions, Technical Education, and the Rise of the Industrial State”, Technolgy and Culture, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 1-27, January 1993.16. Harris, Charles E., Michael S. Pritchard, and Michael J. Rabins
13.1338.2General Program Criterion 3 – Program Outcomes ABET EAC criterion 3 defines 11 program outcomes that all engineering programs mustmeet and document, not just civil engineering programs.“Engineering programs must demonstrate that their students attain the following outcomes: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs withinrealistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety,manufacturability, and sustainability (d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams
: The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in a Global World, pp.7841-7850,June 12-15, 2005, Portland, OR, USA.6. Kelly, W. E. (2008), “Standards in Civil Engineering Design Education,” Journal of Professional Issues inEngineering Education Practice, vol.134, n.1, pp.59-66.7. Gerhart, P., Gerhart, A., Cain, B. (2007), “Using ASME Performance Test Code in the UndergraduateMechanical Engineering Curriculum,” 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 24-27, 2007, Honolulu,HI, USA.8. Tongele, T.N. (2007), “Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry through Capstone Design,” NationalCapstone Design Course Conference, June 13-15, 2007, Boulder, CO, USA
in, and diffusion of effective models of engineering education. Page 13.891.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Metrics to Assess Broadening Participation in STEMAbstractThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has long advocated increased diversity among itsgrantees, in particular through the Broader Impacts Criterion for grant proposals that looks at theimpact of NSF support for research on education and on NSF support for both research andeducation on such things as a) advancing public understanding of science and engineering b)advancing learning, c) increasing the participation in the science and
: Name: Signature:Designation: Institution:Part B: Undertaking of Institution:Our Institute which is sponsoring Mr/Dr _____________________________________________,(Designation) _____________________________, hereby undertakes to provide appropriate support tohim/her for fulfill commitments and give any infrastructural and financial support to him/her toconduct atleast one workshop in our region if he/she is selected to be a Trainer.Date: Name: Signature; Rubber StampDesignation of Signatory:Institution:Address:Signatory: email mobile number
AC 2008-1657: VIDEO LECTURE ON THE PYTHAGOREAN THEORYBertram Pariser, Technical Career Institute, Inc.Cyrus Meherji, Technical Career Institute, Inc. Page 13.1383.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Video Lecture on PYTHAGOREAN THEORYAbstractPythagoras derived the famous equation a2 +b2 =c2. This discovery enabled the Greeks tobuild the Acropolis and the Parthenon. This equation is probably the most famous equation inmathematics. There are hundreds of proofs to the Pythagorean Theorem in mathematical literature.My derivation of "A GEOMETRICAL PROOF OF PYTHAGORAS’ THEOREM" 1 is difficult for ourstudents to understand. Students, who use the video
, this author was surprised by the treatment of one engineering economy topic in anarea so essential to the development of the inputs to the economic analysis at the core ofengineering economy. This paper discusses these treatments and their implications for theengineering economy discipline.IntroductionThe intent of this paper is not to point fingers at specific authors for their treatment ofengineering economy topics. The intent is to start a discussion of what the discipline needs to doto encourage better treatment of these topics in order that students have a better appreciation ofthe how to apply engineering economy in the practice of engineering. The idea for this paper hasbeen a long time in bubbling up to the surface. The author has been
international conferences and other journals. Schilling is the recipient of the Ohio Space Grant Consortium Doctoral Fellowship, and is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Reliability Society, ACM, and ASEE. Page 13.816.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Issues Affecting Doctoral Students Returning to Engineering Education Following Extensive Industrial ExperienceAbstractIt can be said that the best time for an engineer who desires to enter academia to earntheir Doctoral Degree is after a four to five year period working in industry. During thistime period, a practicing engineering
AC 2008-1513: THE UBIQUITOUS MICROCONTROLLER IN MECHANICALENGINEERING: MEASUREMENT SYSTEMSMichael Holden, California Maritime Academy Michael Holden teaches in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the California State University Maritime Academy. Page 13.1275.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Ubiquitous Microcontroller in Mechanical Engineering: Measurement SystemsIntroductionThis paper will describe a project aimed at integrating microcontrollers in several classesthroughout the mechanical engineering curriculum at the California State University MaritimeAcademy (CMA). The goal is to give our
AC 2008-1693: APPLYING AN INTERACTIVE, MODULAR APPROACH TOEFFECTIVELY TEACH SIGNAL PROCESSING CONCEPTSSam Shearman, National Instruments Sam Shearman is a Senior Product Manager for Signal Processing and Communications at National Instruments (Austin, TX). Working for the firm since 2000, he has served in roles involving product management and R&D related to signal processing, communications, and measurement. Prior to working with NI, he worked as a technical trade press editor and as a research engineer. As a trade press editor for Personal Engineering & Instrumentation News, he covered PC-based test and analysis markets. His research engineering work involved embedding
AC 2008-424: ENHANCING LECTURE PEDAGOGY THROUGH TARGETEDBREAKSBenson Tongue, University of California-Berkeley Page 13.547.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Enhancing Lecture Pedagogy through Targeted BreaksAbstract In this paper an approach to lecturing, that of Targeted Breaks, will be introduced.These are offered as a means to enhance the traditional lecture format so as to increasestudent comprehension, interest and the course’s level of perceived worth. Targeted Breaksoffer a multiplicity of benefits and these will be delineated in the text. Particular exampleswill be presented as well, with sufficient detail to allow interested professors to create
specificproblems, an “Everything is Alive” (EiA) approach is proposed. To explore the potentials andinvestigate the effectiveness and usefulness of this strategy in hands-on laboratory environments,the idea is implemented and tested on a laboratory system that uses RFID equipment, servers anddatabases, and moving mechanisms. The set of the different involved agents include RFIDreaders of different brands, motorized RFID tags and antennas, remote databases that store theRFID reads, and friendly Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). After constructing the structure andits framework, students and interested individuals are able to change RFID experiments’ setups,control different types of RFID readers, gather the read data, perform computational processes;all is
AC 2008-680: TALES FROM THE WAVE FRONT: TEACHING THE PHYSICS OFCELL PHONES AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONSRobert Ross, University of Detroit MercyJenna Ross, Utica Center for Mathematics Science and Technology Page 13.1137.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Tales from the Wave Front: Teaching the Physics of Cell Phones and Wireless CommunicationsIntroductionFor over twenty years our college has offered a summer enrichment program for high schoolstudents. The UNinitiates Introduction to Engineering (UNITE) program affords high schoolstudents the opportunity to take courses in writing, mathematics, computer science
. Page 13.1328.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Using an Educational Microprocessor Architecture and FPGA Implementation to Introduce InterruptsAbstractThe use of interrupts is an important topic in the use of computers. Interrupts provide themeans for a computer to quickly respond to significant real-world events. Unlike polling,which is suitable for interfacing slow peripherals, interrupts provide a more efficientmeans to interface with devices. Interrupts are generally considered to be advanced andunfortunately, the topic can be a challenge to present to students. In computerarchitecture in particular, the topic of interrupts is often overly abstracted, which canmake learning about interrupts
AC 2008-2647: EFFECTIVE EXECUTION OF SURVEYING LABORATORIES INDISTANCE LEARNING USING LOCAL MENTORSVernon Lewis, Old Dominion University Page 13.466.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Effective Execution of Surveying laboratories in Distance Learning Using Local Mentors Vernon W. Lewis, Jr., John Rand Old Dominion University Norfolk, VirginiaAbstractSurveying courses with laboratories are a curricular requirement of the Civil EngineeringTechnology Program (CET) since its inception. This course was taught traditionally asan on-campus
AC 2008-2758: PLASMA TORCH FOR BIOMASS PYROLYSISPeter Schubert, Packer Engineering Dr. Schubert conducts research into alternate energy, space-based manufacturing, and engineering education at Packer Engineering in Naperville, IL. He is Senior Director, and has served as PI on projects from DOE, NASA and the GSA. He has published 47 technical papers, has 25 US patents, and is an instructor with the Society of Automotive Engineers. Prior experience includes 21 years in automotive electronics with Delphi Corporation, where he was a Technical Fellow. His doctorate in EE from Purdue was sponsored by a GM Fellowship. His MSEE is from U. of Cincinnati on a Whirlpool Fellowship, and his
AC 2008-610: TIPS FROM THE TRENCHES: PREPARATION ANDIMPLEMENTATION OF AN EXPERIENCE-BASED TA TRAINING SESSIONAdam Melvin, North Carolina State University Adam Melvin is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. He received his BS in ChE and a BA in Chemistry from the University of Arizona.Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University Lisa G. Bullard is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her BS in ChE from NC State and her Ph.D. in ChE from Carnegie Mellon, and she served in engineering and management
AC 2008-2907: INCORPORATING DIVERSITY AND INTERNATIONALAWARENESS INTO AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYSEMINAR COURSEAndrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh -Johnstown Andrew T. Rose is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ). Before joining the faculty at UPJ, he was a Staff Engineer with GAI Consultants in Pittsburgh. His teaching interests include soil mechanics, foundation design, structural steel design, structural analysis, and incorporating practical design experience and professional practice issues into the undergraduate civil engineering technology curriculum. Dr. Rose received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil
AC 2008-1400: APPLICATION OF LEAN CONCEPTS TO THE TEACHING OFLEAN SYSTEMSArlie Hall, University of Kentucky Dr. Arlie Hall (B.S.E.E. and Ed.D.) is a faculty with the University of Kentucky Center for Manufacturing, and former manager of the Lean Systems Program at the university. After working at IBM for 26 years, Dr. Hall joined the University of Kentucky in 1994 and partnered with Toyota as the primary architect of the university’s lean manufacturing curriculum. He has taught lean manufacturing to undergraduate and graduate students, and to industry participants from around the world.Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky Dr. Larry Holloway is the TVA Endowed Professor of
AC 2008-969: ULTRA-HIGH TEMPERATURE MATERIALS FOR LUNARPROCESSINGPeter Schubert, Packer Engineering Dr. Schubert conducts research into alternate energy, space-based manufacturing, and engineering education at Packer Engineering in Naperville, IL. He is Senior Director, and has served as PI on projects from DOE, NASA and the GSA. He has published 51 technical papers, has 26 US patents, and is an instructor with the Society of Automotive Engineers. Prior experience includes 21 years in automotive electronics with Delphi Corporation, where he was a Technical Fellow. His doctorate in EE from Purdue was sponsored by a GM Fellowship. His MSEE is from U. of Cincinnati on a Whirlpool
AC 2008-757: INTEGRATING EXTERNAL MENTORS INTO BME SENIORDESIGNJoe Tranquillo, Bucknell UniversityDonna Ebenstein, Bucknell UniversityJames Baish, Bucknell UniversityWilliam King, Bucknell UniversityDaniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University Page 13.764.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Integrating External Mentors into BME Senior DesignIntroductionTo build strong independent design skills, our department exposes students to more andmore open-ended projects through our curriculum. The culminating experience is a two-semester, team-based senior capstone project, mentored by external biomedical expertsand advised by faculty within the department. The single most