aconstitutive equation that features various parameter involved in the problem. Inshort, this procedure will identify a more rigorous equation for the KG parameteridentified in equation (9). By studying this equation, the student is able to identify thevarious physical conditions capable of being represented by the “homogeneous” orarea-averaged model. Details about this approach may be found in Whitaker (2000)and a discussion on them will be conducted during the session. A procedure such asthis is perhaps more likely suited for a graduate level course.III. ASSESSMENTThe assessment of the implementation of this approach in two different courses at theFAMU-FSU College of Engineering has shown a very promising trend. The studentshave been able to clearly
Engineering (CE 2633) is a sophomore/junior-level course in the Civil Engineeringcurriculum. This course introduces students to considerations of air pollution, solid and hazardouswaste management, and water quality. The semester begins with a general discussion ofenvironmental engineering that includes the science basis, environmental legislation, and risk andenvironmental impact assessments. The remainder of the semester is split into the air,solid/hazardous, and water sections where discussions are focused on concerns, specificlegislation, analysis, and treatment or control measures. Page 8.526.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society
returns to the partiesconcerned may cause impairment to historic resources, inadvertently throughunawareness of the perils of exposing the resources to the tourists’ feet, or complacentlyby ignoring the perils’ effect altogether. This scenario can be avoided through the heritagepreservation-tourism integration alluded to above.Engineering Education and HeritageThe American engineering community, schools and professionals, has not so far takenheritage education enthusiastically. Within this general assessment framework,engineering schools lag behind professional associations in attending to engineeringheritage. Further, when compared in the same respect with environmental designacademe, such as architecture and urban planning, engineering schools
university. The number of students who withdrew from the university,were academically suspended, or never returned to the university was also assessed, as was the Page 25.538.3percent of students who left engineering, but were later readmitted into the program.ResultsFreshman Engineering Program: All “engineering” students at this large land grant university inthe mid-Atlantic region, both calculus-ready and not calculus-ready,” must complete a common“first year experience” before moving to a discipline major. Students who are not calculus-readyat entry usually take 1.5 to 2 years to complete the required courses, depending on their initialmath
Page 25.542.5engineering. It is the formation of engineer before to be electrical or mechanical engineer.At the end the student receives a Diploma that is also a professional title in other words theyhave also the PEE.Evaluation System of ProgramsThe National Survey of Student Performance (Enade) evaluates the performance of studentsin undergraduate courses, entering and graduating in relation to the syllabus of the courses theyare enrolled.The first application occurred in 2004 and the maximum frequency with which each area ofknowledge is assessed every three years.COPEC: Science and Education Research CouncilIts History started with an idea shared by some scientists of creating an organization to foster theresearch mainly in sciences and
, L. 2010. Encouraging Conceptual Change in P-12 Mexican Teachers Through the Use of Engineering Design. Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Meeting. Louisville, KY, USA.5. Donohue, S.K., Schnittka, C.G., Richards, L.G. 2011. Under Pressure: Designing a Submarine. Teachers’ Guide. Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative.6. Richards, L.G., Hallock, A.K., Schnittka C.G. 2007. Getting Them Early: Teaching Engineering Design in Middle Schools. International Journal of Engineering Education. 23(5), 874-883.7. Richards, L.G., Flaherty, J., Cunningham, J. 2004. Assessing Engineering Teaching Kits for Middle School Students. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for
“no”, a program to decode dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signals, aproject to determine which note is played by a musical instrument and if it is sharp or flat, and aproject to check the claim that cars honk in the tone of F. Two of the projects involve designingfilters to eliminate noise from audio recordings, including designing a lowpass filter to remove atruck backup beeper from a recording of an owl hooting and designing a highpass filter toremove jet engine noise from a recording of birds chirping. The effectiveness of these projectswas assessed using anonymous course evaluations, and the results show that most of the studentsstated that these projects helped them learn. These projects can be implemented in almost anycomputer language
resources foracademic research. Access to information, especially amongst the populations of developednations, is rapidly become a non-issue. Academic librarians now play a vital role in assistingpatrons with organizing and assessing immense amounts of data that exists in the digital world ofelectronic resources. A great deal of students view this process as an immense barrier toobtaining viable and scholarly information.Nicholson and Eva highlight that the existing information literacy gap is a result of student’expectations for instant information access which results in a willingness to settle for “less thanoptimal” information10. It has been reported that students consistently overestimate theirinformation skills which lead them to avoid
(Sample 2, n=415)32. Therefore, this subscale is chosen for theuse of mapping the profiles of Chinese engineering doctoral students’ epistemologicaldevelopment.In the past decade, several researchers applied Perry’s theory among college students in China 16,17, 38-41 . Zhang and her colleagues performed a series of five consecutive studies on the cognitivedevelopment of U.S. and Chinese college students over the past decade (See a review of thesestudies in Ref. 20). Zhang and her colleagues developed Zhang’s Cognitive DevelopmentInventory (ZCDI) based on Perry’s theory. It is one of the few survey instruments based onPerry’s model.It has five subscales assessing three of the four positions in Perry’s model as mapped in Culverand Hackos 18
Politics ofFacial Recognition Systems”, Surveillance & Society, ISSN Number: 1477-7487, 2004;http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles2(2)/algorithmic.pdf[9] Givens, G., J.R. Beveridge, B.A. Draper and D. Bolme, (2003), A Statistical Assessment of Subject Factors in thePCA Recognition of Human Faces.http://www.cs.colostate.edu/evalfacerec/papers/csusacv03.pdf [Accessed Dec 22, 2010][10] W.H. Simon, The legacy of Goldberg v. Kelly: a twenty year perspective: the rule of law and the two realms ofwelfare administration. 56 Brooklyn Law School 777 (1990)[11] J. Wayman, A. Jain, D. Maltoni, D. Maio, “Biometric Systems: Technology Design and PerformanceEvaluation”. Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2005.[12] Find Law, For Legal professionals
collegeand university administrators; corporate executives; as well as STEM representatives fromvarious government agencies, e.g., Department of Energy. Page 25.606.4 Further, the meeting sought to define the:• Current relationships between XXX’s pre-college partners and partner universities and to assess the efficacy of such relationships both at the K-12 and post-secondary levels;• Initiatives that have led to higher graduation and retention rates at XXX’s partner high schools and university levels; and• Outreach available to high schools, existing pre-college programs, and finally, the impact of such programs on student
the most commonly used pedagogy for laboratory sessions in engineering curriculum.However, though commonly used, it is often marred by improper planning and inadequatedefinition as well as assessment of learning objectives. Based on this premise, this paper aims tosupport the claim that while the use of “Group-Work” doubtlessly entail several positive learningoutcomes through collaborative and cooperative learning, it has to be facilitated appropriately toearn higher dividends as an active-learning technique. Good facilitation is fundamentally a resultof good planning. When a session is diligently planned, execution of the same becomeseffortless and increases the likelihood of a session being successful is terms of involving thelearner and
%) responded with “Yes, definitely,” 38% with “Yes,but only in certain areas,” and a small percentage (8%) with “No, not at all.” Researchers thenasked when faculty requested help with the LMS (with such tasks like setting up classes,assignments, assessments, etc.) if they felt they received adequate help. The majority (72%)answered “Yes, definitely,” 26% answered “Yes, but only in certain areas,” and a mere 2% with“No, not at all.” Based on this faculty group’s response, general training seems less of an issue,but more specialized and specific training is desired.Online CoursesThe last group of questions dealt with the faculty’s perceptions, use, and interest in onlinecourses. First, the faculty was asked if they had taught an exclusively online
, industrial process control, modeling and simulation of mechatronics devices and systems, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer-aided design and fabrica- tion of printed circuit board, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic devices, and renewable energy-related projects.Dr. Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University, Calumet Mohammad A. Zahraee, Ph.D., P.E., is the professor of mechanical engineering technology and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies at Purdue University, Calumet. Zahraee has authored and co-authored a large number of papers and conference proceedings in the areas of mechanical engineering technology educa- tion and assessment, as well as technical papers in the areas of
Voelkl,19 Osborne,20Schmaeder et al.,21 and Lesko and Corpus.22 Several studies have also used self-esteem as apartial proxy for identification e.g., 8, 10, 20. Harrison et al. assessed identification with academicsin terms of the degree to which students experienced stereotype threat16 and Fletcher usedparticipation in school activities to measure the degree to which students identified with school.23Variation also occurs in the output variables, including GPA (actual and self-reported), SATscores, GRE scores, and even tendency to cheat.The variability in measurement approaches presents a challenge when comparing studies, and tosome extent the resulting lack of convergent validity prohibits the development of a predictivemodel to anticipate
memberswill benefit from having built relationships with well-prepared engineering graduates withdiverse perspectives and backgrounds. The true impact of the ESA has proven to be in theinteractions between the industry partners and the students. Student motivation and persistence isimmediately and noticeably different after each of these interactions. While the ESA is a youngprogram that has not yet seen its first graduating class, preliminary assessments show that thepresence of the Advisory Committee in this program has already proven integral to its success.BackgroundThe Engineering Success Alliance (ESA) is an academic success program that provides studentsfrom under-resourced high schools with the skills they need to be successful at Bucknell
show. A comparison of the curriculumbetween the two camps, 2010 and 2011, shall also be discussed as some changes were madebased on the feedback and the level of enthusiasm of the campers. Page 25.785.2The camp will be assessed given student and parent feedback. Some demographics will beshared regarding the camps attendees. Lessons learned will also be presented based on theexperiences of the camp faculty instructors and student counselors. The paper concludes with adiscussion of how the curriculum will be expanded to include a second week of advanced topicsand build activities for the 2012 camp. Figure 1: Students
2004. After graduating, Kerzmann enrolled in graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, where he graduated with a master’s of science and a doctorate of philosophy in mechanical engineering in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Kerzmann is currently an Assistant Professor at Robert Morris University, where he teaches mechanical engineering courses, as well as courses on alternative energy. His research interests include hybrid concentrating photovoltaic systems, energy system life cycle assessment, renewable energy product development, and active learning. Page 25.790.1 c
activities that work and do notwork are described in this paper. In the past two years, AE camps have been run verysuccessfully and have generated great amount of interest. Student feedback is collected after eachcamp. Camps are further improved with the feedback. In this paper, a few effective teachingtechniques are outlined. The lessons learned and potential areas of improvements are highlighted.References 1. Aerospace Engineering Summer Camp at Southern Polytechnic State University – Camp Website: < http://www.spsu.edu/aerospace> 2. Chu, M., ‘Education Case Analysis For Pre-Engineering Robotics After School Program: Assessing The Intangibles,’ 2011 ASEE South East Section Conference 3. McCue, L., Waller, T., Crede
STEM majors with regional secondary/higher-ed partnerships. • Failure as a part of the Creative / Learning Process (and making it a positive experience) – Gather and disseminate relevant literature. Create best practices repository for relevant curriculum and assessment tools.Additionally, the Consortium membership was used to generate the conference theme andstrands. The Think Tank and Conference will continue to build upon the successful previouslyheld Think Tanks. The new dates are July 18-20, 2012, and it will be held at The Harpeth HallSchool. The group has set “Changing the Paradigm: Lessons Up & Down the Pipeline – K12 touniversity to corporate” as the conference theme for 2012. Conference
the course is based on Outcome Based Education6, and utilizes theinteractive model of learning. All the students maintain an online portfolio of their work. Thesystem designed in the laboratory to perform a specific task is the core measurement as thelearning outcome of the course. The laboratory performance of the course is performed inteams of three students. This mode provides a platform for horizontal learning through activeand engaged discourse and discussion. Students are empowered to charter their learning andfeed their curiosity. The course culminates in a Final Project which is assessed based upon itscomprehensiveness and originality. Students are required to master the soft skills ofcomprehensive report writing on a weekly basis and
thinking visible. American Educator, 1991. 15(3): p. 6-11.16. Shaffer, D.W., Epistemic frames for epistemic games. Computers & Education, 2006. 46(3): p. 223-234.17. Rupp, A.A., et al. Modeling learning progressions in epistemic games with epistemic network analysis: Principles for data analysis and generation. 2009.18. Shaffer, D.W., et al., Epistemic network analysis: A prototype for 21st-century assessment of learning. 2009.19. Engineering Accreditation Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (2009). Criteria for accrediting engineering programs, effective for evaluations during the, 2010. 2011.20. Nash, P. and D.W. Shaffer. Mentor modeling: the internalization of modeled professional
care, and medicalstudents for quick health screening and cardiologic health assessment. Students progressivelylearn to monitor and interpret the conventional noninvasive electrocardiography by leveragingthe power of java’s graphical user interface and data structures.The paper explains the laboratory setup of a basic 3-lead EKG monitoring station using moderndata acquisition tool and software for EKG feature extraction. Students will begin their analysisby looking at rate, rhythm, axis, hypertrophy, and infarction and correlate the characteristicappearance on the EKG with existing conditions, certain pathology, and drug or electrolyteeffects. A diagnostic tool using Java and Objective-C programming is then developed. Thegraphical user
. (1987). The Academic Life: Small Worlds, Different Worlds. Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation; Clark, B. R. (1993). The Research foundations of graduate education: Germany, Britain, France, United States, Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press; Tierney, W. G. (1990). Assessing academic climates and cultures. New directions for institutional research, no. 68. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; Tierney, W. G., and Rhoads, R.A. (1994). Enhancing Promotion, Tenure and Beyond: Faculty Socialization as a Cultural Process. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 6. Washington, DC: The George Washington University, school of Education and Human Development; Weidman, J. C., Twale, D. J., &
. Page 25.1009.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Online Teaching of Senior ProjectsAbstractThe senior projects course is an important assessment tool for technology related majors. Almostevery university uses this course for evaluating graduates. The requirements for onsite teachingcan vary from university to university. Often, the course consists of research on a selected topic,design, presentation for review by judges (faculty, staff, and industry representative), and a finaldocument. Although there is much information about senior projects requirements, there are nosuggestions for teaching this course online. The following paper is a proposal of a model forpurely
population balance modelsin a particle technology course. As part of the course development, an initial version of acomputer program was developed to aid students in studying particle breakage modeling byusing population balance equations. This presentation will discuss the topics presented andresources used, as well as informal assessment of the course.IntroductionParticle technology has long affected human culture and technology from early times whenpeople were milling flour for bread and Egyptian pottery was being produced1, to current usagein the chemical processing industry (CPI). Although Japan and Germany recognized theimportance of particle technology and responded by creating powder technology departments inseveral universities, prior to
Springs, CO 80904. http://melabs.com[7] Omer Farook, Jai P. Agrawal, Chandra R. Sekhar, Essaid Bouktache, Ashfaq Ahmed and Mohammad Assessment”, Proceedings of the 2006 American Zahraee “Outcome Based Education And Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition June 20 -23, 2006. Chicago, IL. Page 25.514.17
simpler to apprehend. Two re-sponses expected a visit to an industry/lab where they can see how the design is done in real workenvironment. A few students complained about the grading system and requested a clearer pictureabout the weight of each assessed component on the final grade.The suggestions and review by faculty colleagues was also sought to determine the usability of thecourse. The faculty was invited to the presentations of the class project. They were also presentedthe course material and lab exercises. Suggested questionnaire for faculty colleagues are as follows:1. How do you think this course will help the overall educational objectives of the graduate pro- gram in Technology (Engineering if you are an engineering faculty)?2
preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).Angie Andriot, Purdue University Angie Andriot is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University. Her dissertation, entitled “Gender and Engineering Identity Development among Undergraduate Majors,” is partially funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Purdue Research Foundation. Angie also works part-time doing research for the College of Engineering