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in real time during the lab sessions, itbecame clear to me that in most cases the major deficiencies resided in post-lab work and in theirability to submit a coherent, well written final report. Trying to dissect the source and location ofthe deficiencies, I decided to keep track of the performance of the various lab classes with themetric of these parameters. The hope was to be able to characterize with some quantitativemeasures (a) the progress of the class, if any, within the same semester/lab and (b) the progressof the class along the sequence of the four lab courses described above.Accordingly, while all the reports were graded following the syllabus description, I also kept arecord for myself with the marks assigned in each one of the
following questions, indicate whether the activity allowed you to: Apply – transfer and use what you have learned in different settings that present novel challenges and opportunities Integrate – connect and grasp the relevance of what you are learning from different courses, out‐of‐class experiences, and life beyond the institution Reflect – think about your thinking and experiences in and out of the classroom, on and off the campus You may indicate more than one. 1. (a) Have you participated in a “First‐Year” seminar? Yes No (b) Have you participated in a “First‐Year Experience” class? Yes No 1c. Do you consider “First‐Year” seminar or “First‐Year Experience
project may have been a way to encourage theteam to slow down and work more intentionally on their designs.AcknowledgementThis material was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DRL-1513175.References[1] H. A. Simon, The sciences of the artificial, 3rd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.[2] B. Lawson and K. Dorst, Design expertise. Abingdon, Oxon: Architectural Press, 2009.[3] V. Goel and P. Pirolli, "The structure of design problem spaces," Cognitive Science, vol. 16, pp. 395-429, 1992.[4] D. H. Jonassen, "Toward a design theory of problem solving," Educational Technology Research & Development, vol. 48, pp. 63-85, 2000.[5] C. J. Atman, R. S. Adams, M. E. Cardella, J. Turns, S. Mosborg, and J
casting, and Computer-aided Manufacturing (CAM)/CNC areintroduced, and students build a prototype of the new wheel design using the Nomad 883Pro 13 desktop CNC milling center. The course materials were designed and organizedinto the following modules: a) Assemble the MIP robotic kit b) Bulkhead redesign c) Bulkhead prototyping using AM methods d) Wheel redesign and prototype e) Sand casting f) Wheel prototyping using CAM/CNC techniquea) Assemble the MIP robotic kitThis module introduces the features and functions of the individual component in theMIP robotic kit, detail procedures and associated components for assembly, and a fullyassembled working MIP robot to students who work collaboratively in small groups oftwo or three
for students with focus disorders that researchers at UC Santa Barbara developed acurriculum allowing middle schoolers with ADHD to design and fabricate their own customhand-held fidgets as a STEAEM activity [36].For the SFCA high school project described here, each student was given the necessary rawmaterials and challenged to assemble a finished device. Toward this end, they were taught by theinstructor how to modify the pieces using the classroom’s fabrication capabilities into the finalproduct.Each pencil-top fidget assembly was built from three basic components purchased fromMcMaster-Carr: 1) a nylon bolt, 2) a metal lock nut, and 3) a 1” x 1” x 1/4" aluminum blank; seeFigure 2. Appendix B gives the part numbers, description, and current
followed. Table II presents information about each team, includingthe number of students that made up each group. TABLE II. STUDENT TEAM DETAILS Team Project No. of Student Group No. students A1 Aircraft 5 Group A A2 Baja SAE – 1 5 Group A A3 Formula SAE 5 Group A B1 Shell Eco-Marathon Motion 4 Group B Transfer C1 Baja SAE – 2 5 Group C C2 Shell Eco-Marathon
other institutions. We mayexpand our reach to include industrial engineering students as well.5.0 Conclusion We developed a two week module on cybersecurity of industrial control systems anddelivered it to aerospace, chemical, civil, and mechanical engineering students both as part of anestablished course and as an outside enrichment opportunity. Survey data collected from the firsttwo semesters of supplemental cybersecurity instruction indicates that it is effective in makingdomain engineering students aware that cybersecurity is important to systems they design. Thedata is both quantitative and qualitative in nature. We plan both to continue and expand thiswork.References[1] Obama, B. (2013). Improving critical infrastructure
theexperimentations and/or projects [1-5]. The ABET [6] recently updated the "student outcomes"related to hands-on labs and/or design projects, such as outcome (3): “communicate effectivelywith a range of audiences” and outcome (6): "develop and conduct appropriate experimentation,analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgement to draw conclusions". Outcome (6)creates a new requirement for engineering educators, when compared with old outcomes (b) and(k), to assess students’ use of engineering judgement and their ability to conclude the outcomesof the labs and/or projects.This poses following research question for engineering educators looking to address the newaddition in ABET assessment: In the context of two junior-level engineering courses, how
Queues Building Structure Decision making Graph model Rule EngineFigure 1: a) Graph-based agent-oriented framework b) PF-based data assimilation frameworkTo support data assimilation of the graph-based agent-oriented model, we used the basic bootstrap filter[14] as the algorithm for the data assimilation which is also known as SMC methods or particle filters. Theobservations are the occupancy information which is collected by various sensors installed in the rooms. Inour framework, we consider only the node information as the state variable which reduces the size andcomplexity of the state for data assimilation. In the particle filters, particle represents a state, and eachparticle
both engineering and nonengineeringknowledge, hence the observed general decrease in N400 amplitudes to novel metaphoricalsentences (signifying creative cognition). By contrast, nonengineering students, with little to noexperience in engineering, found it more difficult to resolve the ambiguity of unexpectedmetaphor endings, which could have also affected the resolution of ambiguities in the case ofsentences relating to general knowledge, thus leading to a general increase in N400 amplitudes tonovel metaphorical sentences.References1. Rutter, B., Kröger, S., Hill, H., Windmann, S., Hermann, C., and Abraham, A., 2012, Can clouds dance? Part 2: An ERP investigation of passive conceptual expansion. Brain and Cognition, 80(3): p. 301
report after implementation. Twelve such courseredesigns have been funded and include a flipped classroom approach in an introductory Biologycourse, introduction of clickers into General Chemistry I and adoption of peer-led learning inChemical Engineering Computations.(b) Department level programThe department level program was adopted in the third year of the project on the recognition thatdepartment chairs often had the best vantage point for determining the instructional needs of adepartment. In this thrust, a department chair recommends to the STEER leadership team afaculty member who is interested in adopting an EBT method. The faculty member is pairedwith a mentor (another faculty member) who already uses that method and is coached by
,” Comput. Appl. Eng. Educ., vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 384–392, Mar. 2018.[21] X. Wang, Y. Bai, and G. C. Hembroff, “Hands-on Exercises for IT Security Education,” in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education - SIGITE ’15, 2015, pp. 161–166.[22] P. Deshpande, C. B. Lee, and I. Ahmed, “Evaluation of Peer Instruction for Cybersecurity Education,” in Proceedings of the SIGCSE Conference, 2019.[23] V. P. Janeja, C. Seaman, K. Kephart, A. Gangopadhyay, and A. Everhart, “Cybersecurity workforce development: A peer mentoring approach,” in 2016 IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2016, pp. 267–272.[24] W. Damon, “Peer education: The untapped potential,” J. Appl
got the same students got a lower score students got a higher score excluded) score on each round on round 2 on round 2 1076 497 58 521 100% 46.2% 5.4% 48.4%From Table 1, we see that 48.4% of activities in-class, resulted in getting higher scores after theteam-based discussions. When we compare this with the 5.4% of students whose scoresdecreased after team discussions in round 2, we may see that the benefit of working in a team-based model outweighs the negatives.Appendix B - Figure 1 shows the heatmap of several aggregated constructed features for eachstudent, such
than the control group.The control group received a manual that was similar to those used in previous years: itcontained step-by-step instructions on the use of different features of the oscilloscope. Thetreatment manual instead contained exercises that gave students significant leeway to teachthemselves how to use the oscilloscope.The difference between these manuals is most clearly illustrated by an example. Figures 1a and1b show exercises from each manual designed to teach the same concept: how to scale theoscilloscope display. It is clear that the control manual is much more detailed.2.4 In-Lab AssessmentThe practicum midterm asked students to interact with the apparatus pictured in Figure 2.Students were tasked with connecting a
: a. Knowledge of mathematics, science and/or computer programming to engineering technology problems. b. Knowledge of engineering and technology to engineering problems. 3. Teamwork as active participants in development and support of team objectives, sharing the work fairly and respecting teammates ‘points of view.As the project will be described below, three main pedagogical themes may be followed:A. Students recognizing an emerging engineering need in developing a “green automotive technology”. Student team enrolls in advocating for an environmentally conscious topic as a consequence of the “Global Engineer Curricula” developed within our program [4].B. The project interdisciplinary and complex
students at WCC and WWU in fall2018. The correct answer is in boldface. NA indicates students did not answer the question. Difficulty Point-biserial Item Description Index Correlation A B C D NA 1 2D position vector components 0.85 0.31 2 7 0 50 0 from length and angle given on annotated photo 2 Vector addition in 2D from point 0.58 0.50 0 23 34 2 0 labels on annotated photo 3 Visualizing direction of cross 0.69 0.63 1 5 12 41 0 product in 2D from position and force vectors referencing
elements too large for physical demonstration in the classroombut are extremely difficult to access. As a result, courses which are typically restricted tograduate level students are very theoretically based with very little hands-on activities forstudents. (a) (b) Figure 5. Examples of Seismic Isolators: (a) Lead Plug Rubber Bearing [15] (b) Friction Pendulum Bearing [16].In the classroom, there are efforts underway to increase the number of hands-on activities forstudents in engineering. Much of our work is misconstrued with being nothing more thandrawings and calculations. However, the best engineers know not only design theory, theyunderstand the
eliminated by adding nops another instruction. to the code Table 2 The interconnects among the topics a b c d e f g h i Remarks a N.A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Fundamental topic b √ N.A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Programming related c √ √ N.A _ _ _ _ _ _ Performance d √ √√√ _ N.A _ _ _ _ _ Datapath e √ √ √ _ N.A
faculty. Jossey-Bass Publishers.[3] Matthews, K., (2014) Perspectives on Midcareer Faculty and Advice for Supporting Them. Cambridge, MA: Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education White Paper.[4] Lechuga, V. M. (2014). A motivation perspective on faculty mentoring: the notion of “non- intrusive” mentoring practices in science and engineering. Higher Education, 68(6), 909- 926.[5] Haggard, D. L., Dougherty, T. W., Turban, D. B., & Wilbanks, J. E. (2011). Who is a mentor? A review of evolving definitions and implications for research. Journal of Management, 37(1), 280-304.[6] Ragins, B. R., & Kram, K. E. (Eds.). (2007). The handbook of mentoring at work: Theory, research, and practice. Sage.[7
-assess their understanding of the material. Several of the questions we use areshown below.“Question 1: Figure 14 Given the circuit of Figure 14 above and the following information: • All of the components are ideal • The operational amplifiers have inputs and outputs that may extend to the power supply voltages • The differential mode gain is 165 Which of the following best describes the amplitude of the voltage at VOut? a) 3.15 volts b) 6.30 volts c) 0.00 volts d) None of the other choices is correct.”The correct answer is c. We
andinstructors.Virtual reality case studiesFluid statics (FS) case studyThe narrative of the case study designed to explore concepts of fluids at rest is built around awater tower serving the needs of a small fictional town (Figure 1-i). Residents of the town arecomplaining of low water pressures in their homes later during the day and the municipalengineer is tasked with identifying the likely cause (insufficient water tower height),implementing a proposed solution (designing a new water tower), and suggesting other possiblecauses and alternative solutions.Identifying the likely cause of low water pressure involves: (a) taking hourly pressure readings atthe base of the water tower, (b) interpreting the plot of pressure readings to recognize that thewater tower
Vinciover 500 years ago and nowfound in engines, automationapplications, and miniaturedevices around the world – theslider crank. Let’s illustrate howto mechatronify this Renaissancemechanism [3]. Shown is adiagram of a slider-crankmechanism (Figure 3),consisting of a flywheel-crank, aconnecting rod, and a slider, allassumed to be rigid. The external forces / torques acting are the servo-motor torque τ, the sliderfriction force Ff, and the external force Fe. It is a special case of the four-bar linkage where onecrank is infinite in length, such that its end point (point B) has rectilinear motion. It is a one-degree-of-freedom system, as only one coordinate is needed to completely describe its motion.The constraint equation relating angles θ and φ
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value. Figure 11A-11C show trends in roughness,proficiency, and students’ cumulative grade point average. A Ra B RMS 0.30 0.35 RMS Roughness (A.U.) 0.25 0.30 Roughness (A.U
tasksand reflected on their thoughts and feelings. We deliberately incorporated discussion about wayswe think, individual and collective responsibility, power relations, and systematic patterns ofoppression.4.1 Lesson planEthics Discussion- NSF REU Program- Interdisciplinary Water Science and Engineering I. Opening and Introductions II. Freewrites What role do you think you can play in diminishing human suffering? III. Purpose/Objectives A. To think about the role of science and engineering profession/discipline in diminishing human suffering B. To imagine future/consequences of actions C. To imagine being someone else IV. Ethical Theory and
as follows: 1 𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕 𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕 2𝑢𝑢𝑉𝑉 = ± �(𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕 𝑢𝑢𝑑𝑑 )2 + (𝜕𝜕ℎ 𝑢𝑢ℎ )2 � (b)Using Eq. (a), the above equation is simplified to 1 1 𝜋𝜋 𝑑𝑑 ℎ 2 𝜋𝜋 𝑑𝑑2 2 2 1 2 1 2 2𝑢𝑢𝑉𝑉 = ± �( 𝑢𝑢𝑑𝑑 ) + ( 𝑢𝑢ℎ ) � = ± 2 𝜋𝜋 𝑑𝑑 �(ℎ 𝑢𝑢𝑑𝑑 ) + (2 𝑑𝑑 𝑢𝑢ℎ ) � 2 4 (c)One can
, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Dr. Doug Neal,LaVision, Inc.References[1] J. Hertzberg, B. Leppek, and K. Gray, “Art for the Sake of Improving Attitudes towards Engineering,” p. 30, 2012.[2] J. S. Rossmann and K. A. Skvirsky, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows: The Art & Science of Flow Visualization,” 2010 IEEE Front. Educ. Conf. FIE, pp. F2F-1-F2F-4, 2010.[3] B. L. Smith and D. R. Neal, “Particle Image Velocimetry,” Part. Image Velocim., p. 27, 2016.[4] R. J. Adrian, “Twenty years of particle image velocimetry,” Exp. Fluids, no. 39, pp. 159– 169, 2005.[5] W.-Y. Chang, F. Lin, W.-F. Tsai, J.-S. Lai, C.-H. Loh, and S.-C. Kang, “Development of Portable PIV Devices,” in The Proceedings of
reviewers for constructive comments.ReferencesAnderson, M. S., Horn, A. S., Risbey, K. R., Ronning, E. A., De Vries, R., & Martinson, B. C. (2007). What Do Mentoring and Training in the Responsible Conduct of Research Have To Do with Scientists’ Misbehavior? Findings from a National Survey of NIH-Funded Scientists. Academic Medicine, 82(9), 853–860.ASCE. (2017). Code of Ethics. Retrieved from https://www.asce.org/code-of-ethics/.Bachmann, B. (2017). Ethical Leadership in Organizations. New York, NY. Springer.Bedi, A., Alpaslan, C. M., & Green, S. (2016). A Meta-analytic Review of Ethical Leadership Outcomes and Moderators. Journal of Business Ethics, 139(3), 517–536.Brown, M. E., Treviño, L. K., & Harrison, D. A. (2005
the relationship:𝜂𝜂 = 𝑃𝑃𝑚𝑚 ⁄𝑃𝑃𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 , where 𝑃𝑃𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 is the optical power incident on the solar cell.A typical I-V characteristic curve for a solar cell under illumination and under dark are shown inFig. 1(b). The open-circuit voltage (𝑉𝑉𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂 ), short-circuit current (𝐼𝐼𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆 ), maximum power point (𝑃𝑃𝑚𝑚 ),voltage at maximum power (𝑉𝑉𝑚𝑚 ), and current at maximum power (𝐼𝐼𝑚𝑚 ) are marked on the figure. (a) (b)Figure 1. (a) Single diode equivalent circuit of a solar cell and (b) I-V characteristic curves underillumination and under dark conditions.As the illumination intensity and temperature changes, the PV parameters change. Dependence ofthese PV