content emphasizes the needto prioritize these advisor attributes and sometimes to rely on alternate sources of support.The purpose of this study was to examine participant perceptions of: a) the relevance orapplicability of the advisor-related materials to the situations they face in graduate school, b) therelative level of confidence in employing the targeted skills, and c) the usefulness of the trainingmaterials in helping them generate alternatives to the coping methods they’ve previouslyemployed. The data derived from this study are intended to provide further direction in theconstruction of and progression toward the final version of our internet-based resiliency trainingintervention for women in the STEM fields.The present study involved a
, learning, and studying histogram equalization as painless as possible.As can be seen (Figure 8), the main GUI window has a pushbutton to select the current directory(bottom left), and another to select an image file from this directory (bottom left). Upon clickingany of these two buttons, the respective popup window (not shown) appears to enable selectingthe directory and the image file from that directory. Upon selecting an image file (with a filetype supported by MATLAB), the following are immediately computed and displayed in theirrespective windows within this main GUI window: (1) (a) the original image, (b) its histogram,and (c) its cumulative histogram; and (2) (a) the histogram equalized image, (b) its histogram,and (c) its cumulative
, and b) how can the informationobtained from student evaluation be used to improve student learning and instructional methods?Concept maps, rather than beginning with a single idea or topic begin with a “focus question”.Furthermore, concept maps promote the development of a student’s understanding by requiringthem to “link” one idea to another with a single word or phrase. Mind maps tend to encouragethe generation of ideas, while concept maps encourage the linking of concepts. Furthermore, 15concept maps are defined as tools for organizing and representing knowledge , and researchers
lower than theset-point. Upon completion of this, the students were taught other control algorithm used toprovide proportional control to the feedback circuit4.III. Evaluation and ResultsWe present the data from the pre and post surveys collected for the first training session onLabVIEW basics. Figure 1 The distribution of A. students enrolled in different majors, B. academic levels of the students an C. gender distribution of students attending the LabVIEW basics training session. As expected, the majority of students attending the seminar were biomedical engineeringmajors as seen in Figure 1A. Both the usefulness of LabVIEW for data acquisition from medicalinstrumentation and the direct applicability of LabVIEW to classes within with
programs. Students will learn how to log into the UNIX systems, how to navigate their file directories, how to run a program, how to list files, and how to edit files etc. They also learn how to edit, compile and run a c/c++ program in the UNIX system. Students will have a basic understanding of OS components. B. Lab two is to teach students how to create a new process and lean how a program can replace its code with that of another executable file, and understand the lifetime of a process. By completing this lab, students should have a good understanding of concurrent programming using c/c++. C. Lab three is to do a multithreading programming project. In this lab, students will be instructed on how to create
by the Director of the Women in Engineering program;special review sessions are monitored by the faculty member involved in the mid-term/finalsessions. Throughout the review, students are encouraged to ask questions. In this environment,more women seem willing to ask questions. This is evident by their feedback (surveys) and bythe upper class session leaders and faculty observations.Weekly review sheets are prepared for the students (for sample worksheets, see Appendix A forPhysics and Appendix B for Chemistry). These review sheets highlight key formulas, concepts,and strategies to solve problems, especially in relation to concepts already covered in lecture.Although little more than a summary of lecture notes and the book, these notes seem
results reported here were influenced by the students’ exposure not only toengineering practitioners in MEE Practice I and II but also to STEM classes underlying the MEEcurriculum. Over both semesters, students’ top cited reason for selecting mechanical and energyengineering as their major was “interest” (Tables 3 and 4). When asked to indicate the top twofactors influencing them to major in mechanical and energy engineering, 25 to 35 percent of therespondents indicated A) an interest in math, science, technology, logic, and problem-solving; or B)a love for building things and “working with their hands.” Notably, “Interest” as a determiningreason for majoring in mechanical and energy engineering was cited more often at the beginning ofMEE
LibrariesTRAIL has been charged by the GWLA directors with identifying, digitizing, archiving andproviding persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1976. Atimeline covering the history of the project can be found at:http://sites.google.com/a/gwla.org/trail/about-the-trail-project. In addition to digitizing thereports TRAIL intends to leave a print archive through either: a) creating complete print runs ofeach series being digitized, or b) identifying and supplementing/completing existing printcollections that will serve as print repository copies of the digitized content.Literature ReviewThe 2006 conference, Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: a Dialogue about the Impacts ofMass Digitization Projects, gave an
conjecturedthat the optical absorption of laser light might differ between the two types of acrylic, andtherefore the quality of the cut might depend on the color of the material. Table 2 below Page 14.482.6summarizes the laser cutting data. Table 2: Summary of Laser Cutting Parameters Run Material Power (%) Speed (rel) comment A BA 100 0.40 B BA 100 0.75 C CA 100 0.70 D CA 100 0.30 E BA
as uniform as possible and to provide the best pedagogicalpractices to this integration into education both within the traditional classroom and DL.One of the main focuses of this research was to generate a sound and robust reference list toestablish credibility to the research. The articles were individually evaluated and subjected to avalidity analysis composed of the following criteria (a) the credibility of the author(s) andinstitution(s) where the research was performed along with a robustness and methodology thatconforms to best practices, (b) whether the publisher of the article employs the peer review Page 14.1251.3process, (c
would be 90 for thatstudent. Four questionnaires were given to the students, one each time they handed in a report. Page 14.1065.3Each questionnaire used a scale of “1” to “5”, with “1” being “Completely Disagree” or“Definitely NO” and “5” being “Completely Agree” or “Definitely Yes”. The first threequestionnaires were strictly rating the degree of fulfillment of an activity, but the lastquestionnaire had open ended questions regarding the project and software. The firstquestionnaire and the average response values are presented in Table 1. In Assessment Questionnaire 1, questions A and B were to determine if the studentsopened
burner istremendous. The major benefit is a reduction in panic, stress, and work the year of your visitationif your process is well documented and utilized.ASCE Program CriteriaChanges to the Program Criteria had been a topic of discussion for several years at CivilEngineering Division sessions before the new Program Criteria were officially adopted2, 3, 4. Tofacilitate cross referencing, the new (2008-2009) ASCE Program Criteria5 are numbered below: 1. (a) can apply knowledge of mathematics through differential equations, (b) calculus- based physics, (c) chemistry, (d) and at least one additional area of science consistent with the educational objectives 2. can apply knowledge of four technical areas appropriate to civil
AC 2009-1833: EXPERIENCES OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY FACULTY INPROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION PROGRAMSJohn Denton, Purdue University John Denton is an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology in the Purdue University, College of Technology in West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1995. His areas of interest and expertise are analog electronics, RF electronics and electronic materials. He is the author or co-author of over 50 journal articles and conference proceedings.Nancy Denton, Purdue University Nancy Denton, PE, CVA III, is a professor of mechanical engineering technology at Purdue University. She is
capstone designs, has been the adoption of project-basedlearning models and student-centred, experiential teaching/learning mechanisms7. A widespectrum of project-based design instruction has been implemented, from case study to reverseengineering, to studio-based design, to full-scale projects tackling realistic (industry-customer) orsemi-realistic (faculty-customer) problems. An excellent review is provided by Sheppard andJenison8 (up to 1997) and Dym et al.7 (recently). These courses, which have been created overthe past two decades, demonstrate a great diversity in terms of implementing project-based,team-centred approaches. Nonetheless, they share two major features7: a) they are scheduled inone semester (or two quarters); and b) they tend to
is an indicator of the School’s dedication to basic research that theUniversity purchased Willow Run airfield complex, from where B-24 bombers fresh offthe production line lifted off, from the Federal government in 1946 for $1, and then soldit to Wayne County in 1977, also for $1, to become the busy cargo airport it is today.University of Michigan aerospace faculty have also become successful textbook authors,a relative rarity in aerospace engineering research universities with large undergraduateenrollments.Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT offered the first aeronautical engineering courses in 1914. That same year,Jerome Hunsaker, along with an assistant Donald Douglas, built a wind tunnel on the newCambridge campus of MIT.ix
in the New Century, Washington, D. C., National Academies Press.[4] Benini, L and De Micheli, G., “Networks on Chips: A New SOC Paradigm,” Computer, January 2002, pp. 70-78.[5] Yeh. Eric, Chao, H., Mannem, V., Gervais, J., and Booth B., “Introduction to TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE),” http://www.10gea.org/SP0502IntroToTOE_F.pdf[6] Spartan III Starter Board, http://www.digilent.cc/Products/Detail.cfm?NavTop=2&NavSub=519&Prod=S3BOARD.[7] Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FF1152 development kit, http://www.em.avnet.com/ctf_shared/evk/df2df2usa/VirtexIIPro_20_30_50_FF1152_2.pdf.[8] P. P. Vaidyanathan, Multirate Systems
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with buttons for NEMA type A, B and D designs.Fig. 9. AC Induction Motor Rotor DesignAC Induction Motor VFD OperationThe AC Induction Motor VFD Operation tool (Fig. 10) is a three-dimensional (3-D) version ofthe torque speed characteristic curve of Fig. 9. In addition it provides a visualization of theeffects of varying frequency drives (VFD) on the operation of an induction motor. It alsoincludes a representation of the induction machine in the generation mode. Page 14.1355.9Fig. 10. AC Induction Motor VFD Operation3.4 AC Drive ConceptsAC Thyristor OperationThis visual tool in Fig. 11 provides a phase plot representation of the operation of SCRs
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. Each test focused on threedomains of knowledge: 1) knowledge of specific science and mathematics content; 2) knowledgeof the engineering design process; and 3) knowledge of the work of different types of engineers.Science and mathematics concepts and related content were determined by the teachers; in Page 14.1057.5grades 3 and 4, this was simple machines and in grade 5, water. An example of a contentquestion included the following: A simple machine: A) makes energy; B)uses energy to completea task; C)does not involve energy; D)does not need energy to do work. An example of a designquestion was: Mary and Tom are working on the design of a soccer
traveling along the cycloid will in fact get from pointA to point B faster than a straight line. We can then explain to the students that the cycloid curveis the “optimal” curve for getting from point A to point B in the least amount of time. Page 14.405.3 Students Racing Marbles on Cycloid Track.A second demonstration is to start two marbles at different points on the cycloid track and havethe students guess which marble will reach the bottom of the curve the fastest. After severaltrials the students see that both marbles will reach the bottom of the track at exactly the sametime. Again we can talk about the geometry and
ABET PEV believed that the assessments of technical outcomes1, 2, 3, 5, and 11 (3 a, b, c, e and k) were insufficient. The major difficulty was the absence ofdata for the four core courses that had not collected data. In addition, since one of the twooptions (IDE 485) for a major design experience course had not been taught yet, there was nodata for this course.For the due process response the instructors collected direct assessment data on outcomes 1, 5and 11 for the MDE students in the four core courses. For the fluids core course that had anassociated lab, the instructor provided individually tracked direct assessment data on outcome 2.We also collected individually tracked data for IDE 485, which included significant directassessment
.. Page 14.778.12Appendix - CPD Training Roadmap for Engineering and Science ClassificationsDB - 02Assignment to sponsor/mentorSEC briefing by Director or Deputy DirectorYour Place on the Army Team – 4 HoursTutorial on the CE-LCMC New Employee AssetSEC Introduction to CMMI – OL – 3 hoursFundamentals of Systems Acquisition (ACQ 101) - OL – DAU*Action Officer Development Course – OL – AIPDBusiness Writing Essentials – OL – 30-hours – Army E-LearningDelivering Successful Presentations – OL – 11-hours – Army E-LearningGreening Course – 5-days – CERDECPlanning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution – 9-days – USAFSIntermediate Systems Acquisition (ACQ 201 A&B) A-OL B-5-days*DB – 03Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering (SYS 101
MSE concepts. In doing so, such aproposed framework would guide future research on student learning by developing studentknowledge and skills necessary to elicit, confront, and repair misconceptions in not onlyintroductory materials science and engineering but also .References1. Boulter, C. J., & Buckley, B. C. (2000). Constructing a typology of models in science education, in Gilbert, J. K., & Boulter, C. J. (Eds.), Developing models in science education. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers.2. Driver, R. & Bell, B. (1986). Students’ thinking and the learning of science; A constructivist view. School Science Review, 67, 443-356.3. diSessa, A. (1988) "Knowledge in Pieces", in Constructivism in
.Self-explanation and deep learningThe term self-explanation or self-generated explanation 2 refers to the explanation a learnergenerates on his or her own as opposed to the explanations provided by an external source suchas an instructor or a book. Reported gains in science education attributed to the use of self-explanation are overwhelming, with self-explainers sometimes performing twice as well as thenon-self-explainers 4. Self-explanations are usually more effective than the explanationsprovided by others because (a) they require students to actively elaborate their prior knowledge,thus triggering more constructive processes, and (b) self-explanations are usually very welltargeted toward the student’s specific problem or issue.The effect
the merits of using algebrasystems, visualization and simulation tools in teaching undergraduate courses inengineering electromagnetics. A complex computer-assisted problem-based learningsystem is proposed and is underway to be developed to assist and enhance teaching andlearning of electromagnetics through the use of symbolic computation, multimedia, andvisualization. Electromagnetics forms the basis of all electrical engineering fromelectrostatics, electric machines, power electronics, microwave engineering to radiopropagation and antenna theory. Electromagnetics has long been considered to be one ofthe most difficult subjects by students, primarily for the following reasons: a)electromagnetic concepts are perceived to be abstract, b) the
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be A star at work: 9 breakthrough strategies you need to succeed. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press.Manseur, R. (2003, November). An ABET-Based seminar course. Proceedings from the 33rd Frontiers in Education Conference, 1-4.Mayer, J., & Salovey, P. (1997). What is emotional intelligence. In P. Salovey and D. Sluyter (Eds.), Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Educational Implications. New York, NY: BasicBooksMoon, Y. B., Chaparro, T., Heras, A. (2007). Teaching professional skills to engineering students with enterprise resourceplanning (ERP): An international project. International Journal of Engineering Education, 22, 4, 759-771.Orsted, M. (2000). Software development engineer in Microsoft. ACM Press
), 1992.6. Dale N. Buechler, Liya Ni, “An Electrical Engineering Program for Place-Bound Students: The First Two Years,” Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference, Platteville, WI, Oct. 16-18, 2008. Page 14.329.9Appendix A: Sample of Math Error Tally SheetCourse: Semester: Year:Error types (add row for unlisted error types) Insert "x"for each occurrence, 1. Early Math a. Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide b. Fractions c. Exponentials d. Logarithms e. Geometry f. Definitions g. Functions h. Other
) (2) ≠ Calculate tuning parameters KC, TI, and TD for the PID controller with following equations Page 14.224.5 (3) (a) Initial setup of the PID function parameters (b) Reaction curveFigure 3. Tuning of an oven controller with the Ziegler-Nichols method for open-loop system Page 14.224.6As a static PID application example, the ladder logic program of a temperature control of anoven is assigned to students. In this exercise, the PID function of the