AC 2011-1135: AN OVERVIEW OF U.S. OPTICS PROGRAMSLauren D. Thomas, Virginia TechLisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa McNair, PhD, LinguisticsUniv of Chicago, is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). She is involved in several NSF-funded projects that explore issues of learning, practicing and teaching interdisciplinarity in university and industry settings. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, and assessing com- munication in engineering. Her research includes communication and interdisciplinary collaboration
authentication‟analysis was to become as commonplace as a „design for manufacturing/assembly‟ assessment.Existing materials testing, metrology and lot sentencing techniques could be optimized to detectcommon frauds. And in the field of logistics and distribution supplier development/supply chainengineering techniques could be assessed in terms of their ability to mitigate the potential forcounterfeit goods entering the supply chain. Cross disciplinary research efforts also seem to bepossible as the subject covers many specialty areas. Counterfeit goods manufacturers areunlikely to go away anytime soon, so the subject of anti-counterfeiting technology will likelycontinue to be a subject of significant interest in the foreseeable future
practical implications rather than original research.Upon successful completion of a directed project a student should demonstrate: • Ability to identify a business or industry relevant solution to a technology problem, • Capability to define and/or validate a business or industry relevant problem, • Competence to identify criteria for success/solution of the problem, • Application of business research procedures to gather information, Page 22.213.2 • Ability to document the research and development activity in a manner that permits replication and assessment of key decisions and alternatives, and • Proficiency to prepare and
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• Tensions and compression • Dead load and live load • Deflections • Elasticity and plasticity • CablesLearning objectives were associated with the completion of each task. The final products, anaccurate computer model of the George Washington Bridge’s geometry and a physical model forloading, experimentation, and display as well as the student’s ability to articulate what heachieved and how he was able to it achieve it indicate that the tasks were completed and thelearning objectives met.To fully evaluate the effectiveness of this project, particularly alongside or in comparison totraditional methods of introductory structural engineering education, we will need to establishformal methods of assessment. As of now we consider this
. Hence AJAX is established as a readily available,crash-free, and commonly usable tool for remote laboratories, making it a paradigm of choice indeveloping a user interface. The use of WS is also well-warranted because it provides a highlyflexible interface and permits dynamic use of different resources.9Example Application for Engineering EducationStudents in the undergraduate “Solid-State Electronic Devices” course, ECE 440,13 will be in-vited to use the Remote Lab interface to run tests on transistors fabricated as part of the Univer-sity of Illinois “Theory and Fabrication of Integrated Circuits” course, ECE 444, as shown in Fig.5. At the end of the Spring 2010 semester, surveys completed by all students in ECE 440 will becompiled to assess
James Kwon, “Innovative Engineering Technology Curriculum Integrated with Web-based Technology in Robotics, Mechatronics, and E-quality,” International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition (IMECE), Lake Buena, Florida, USA, November 13-November 19, 2009.5. G. Al-Kindi, B. Shirinzadeh, Y. Zhong, “A Vision-based Approach for Surface Roughness Assessment at Micro and Nano scales,” ICARCV 2008, p. 1903-1908, 2008.6. K. Rajneesh, P. Kulashekar, B. Dhanasekar, and B. Ramamoorthy, “Application of digital image magnification for surface roughness evaluation using machine vision,” International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, v 45, n 2, p. 228-234, 2003
indicates that, in terms of these aspectsof design fixation, the EPE did have an effect.Qualitative results can also play a role in the overall assessment of the EPE. A number ofpositive qualitative results from the EPE have been reported by the experimental group. Theybelieve that the EPE provided critical insight into the problem. The team reported being betterfocused while doing research during the EPE and that they better understood the end goal. Thisfocus during the research step was due to the fact that they quickly found a concept that wouldwork, so they focused their research on deepening their understanding of that topic versusresearching a broad range of topics. The EPE also uncovered latent customer needs and helpedthe team gain first
estimation and extrapolation, and how to appropriately collect data- skills which are clearly cross-disciplinary.The FAME program was conducted weekly on a semester basis for 2 years (Fall 2007through Spring 2009). Quantitative data in the form of surveys were collected at the endof each semester for the students involved. In addition, qualitative assessment data fromthe facilitators has been collected. In this paper we use the FAME program as a casestudy to evaluate the sustained impact of middle school after-school programs. This studyreveals the positive relationship between the students and facilitators, and improvedstudent and facilitator attitudes towards STEM fields throughout the 2-year period.IntroductionParticipation in afterschool
results in a bloated and disjoint curriculum. The need for additionalbackground in biological sciences is an exemplar. The entire core program has been reviewed,recommendations for improvement developed and acted on, and assessment conducted to Page 15.337.6determine the effect of implemented curricular changes.The second area of content concern lies in the current specialization options of the AES program.Because 95% of students select the supply chain management program, AES is effectively amore technically grounded variation on the Michigan State University supply chain major. AESgraduates are increasingly finding excellent professional
(CPT) certification was chosen. This certificationassesses a student/worker’s foundational skill and knowledge in four broad areas common to allmanufacturing sectors: Manufacturing Processes and Production; Quality Assurance; MaintenanceAwareness; and Safety. It was determined to be the certification in greatest alignment with the coreneeds identified by the industry stakeholders. Next, having identified the core certification, thecommittee then carefully mapped the rest of the curricula into vendor specific certifications to serveas assessments through the program and agreed on a set of standards for training, includingoccupations, length of training, selection procedures, affirmative action plan, wages, and number ofapprentices to be
districts, (ExeterTownship, Muhlenberg, Lower Merion, Reading, Wyomissing) it is evident that there isan increased use of handouts, workbooks and worksheets in grade school education.These implements are used for both in class learning and for homework assignments.From the same conversation, it is also apparent that for in-class assigned problems andhomework assessment, the teachers read out the answers and generally the students verifytheir own work or in some cases exchanges papers and correct the answers. Even thoughthe teachers insists and require that steps and work be clearly and neatly shown, moststudents do the work in any convenient manner and just make sure they obtain theanswers, because final answers are being checked and graded.As
, he worked at University of Arizona, University of Hawaii and in industry, where he held both engineering and management positions at Infineon Technologies, IKOS Systems (now Mentor Graphics), and Marconi Communications. His research interests include design methodologies for integrated circuits and systems with emphasis on system-level design, embedded systems, HW/SW co-design, system specification languages, and early design assessment, analysis, and refinement of complex SOCs. Talarico received a PhD in electrical engineering form the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and is a member of IEEE. Contact him at ctalarico@ewu.edu
measure, the impact of formal training on the Fellows, isdone somewhat informally. During the Fellows initial summer instruction period they are givensmall scale teaching assignments (10-15 minute lessons) in order to familiarize them with theclassroom atmosphere. The instructor gauges their effectiveness in communication andinformally interviews the Fellows to assess their comfort and confidence. Further training isapplied to the students based off of perceived weakness from both instructor and Fellows. Afterthe initial summer instruction, it becomes difficult to differentiate the impact of the weeklypracticum course and the weekly in-class experience, as the source of Fellow development. Ourcurrent model uses the practicum class as a way to
each animation is directly linked to ahomework problem and no programming is required of the user. The animations are web-based (hard-coded in Adobe® Flash Action Script), so no external computer programs areneeded.This software is visually similar to web-based Dynamics software, which has beendeveloped by the principal author of this publication. The Dynamics software has beenexplained and assessed in several previous ASEE conference proceedings and journalarticles.In this paper, the software functionality will be detailed. The results of student surveyswill be analyzed and the pedagogical advantages will be evaluated.1.0 IntroductionIn typical Thermodynamics courses, most homework problems require the student tosolve for a specific entity
to develop applied research andspecific technical education pathways to allow Florida to meet its 2020 energy generation anddemand criteria. The current strategy is entertaining a mix of conventional, nuclear, solar andbio-fuels for generation and a range of options to make Florida “green” within a “smart” grid. Inthat same legislative action, the National Science Foundation Advanced TechnologicalEducation Center for Florida (FLATE) was commissioned to determine the expected skills thatwould be needed to support this new energy reality. Part of this assignment is to find thecommon skills that will cross various alternate energy technologies and assess the current andprojected status of curriculum for such engineering and technical education
Page 15.387.4future, more intensive, applications. It is assumed that almost all network traffic will take placewithin the classroom. 3|PageInfrastructure testingThe network infrastructure described above was tested with several objectives in mind: 1) Assess usability of tools such as CP3 in the classroom given the state of the network design. 2) Identify, if possible, any critical bottleneck that limits the number of participants in a CP3 (or other tools) session, or that degrades CP3 performance to an unusable level 3) Identify any adjustments instructors should use in order to take best advantage of the combination of the software
of Freescale Development boards3 (Figure10a) based on the MC-1322x package, including sensor reference boards and a networkcoordinator board. The software with the devices included a ZigBee stack with exampleprograms that were adjusted to be used in the lab. Due to the nature of the first year course, thehands on programming that was expected to be done by the students was minimized in efforts tocomplete the lab assignments. The labs for the second two course offerings used the TexasInstruments eZ430-RF2500 development kit6 (Figure 10b), again with limited communicationsstack programming.Fig. 10a: Freescale 1322x development kit3; Fig. 10b: TI eZ430-RF2500 development kit6Student Assessment of PerformanceThe first effort of the course
significant. Questions 4 and 5 however, revealed sharp misconcep-tions and we intend to reexamine them for the purpose of formative assessment. It is unclearwhether targeted pre and post tests can measure the effect of an intervention over a single classperiod. Part of the potential benefit of the kind of hands-on activity studied here would comefrom the more in-depth analysis of the process that the students were asked to do as homework.It might be expected that students would be more highly motivated by an assignment in whichthey have real-world data that they took themselves to compare to their predicted heat-transferrates. It might be better to give the post test after the homework is turned in. The conceptualquestions used as pre and post tests
. Murray, W. Newstetter, L.J. Jacobs, and S. Rosser, “INTEL: Promoting Learning and Retention in a Statics Class,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, June 2009.9. Taraban, R., E.E. Anderson, A. DeFinis, A. Brown, A. Weigold, and M. Sharma, “First Steps in Understanding Engineering Students’ Growth of Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge in an Interactive Learning Context,” Journal of Engineering Education, 96, 57-68, 2007.10. Taraban, R., A. DeFinis, A. Brown, E.E. Anderson, and M. Sharma, “A Paradigm for Assessing Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge in Engineering Students,” Journal of Engineering Education, 96, 335-345, 2007.11. Litzinger, T., P. Van Meter, M. Wright, and J
documented elevendifferent computer-controlled projects. Page 5.8.1Section 2 introduces the overall NIFTY methodology describing the Project Planning, ProjectDevelopment, and Documentation phases of the project. Section 3 provides some additionaldetails on how NIFTY was implemented at USD during the Spring, 1999 semester. Section 4presents a summary of the results of student assessment. More details on many aspects of thisproject can be found in another paper3.2. Laboratory MethodologyThe NIFTY methodology provides a framework for a semester-long design project for first-yearengineering students. Working in teams of two to four, students design and
Page 17.16.3learning contexts and instructional supports, and specific learning tasks. The acquisition ofknowledge and development of skills in a domain take place along multiple dimensionssimultaneously. Knowledge and skill are interconnected in multiple and sometimes complexways. Assessment requires fine-grained observations of individuals over time in order to identifycritical bits of knowledge and the acquisition of successful strategies for effective problemsolutions.Case StudyEngineering educators have provided a number of useful didactic models for teaching problemsolving,6,7,8 but there are few cognitive models that show how mental processes change asstudents become skilled problem solvers in their area of training. The goal of this
process 13. Students will develop the abilities to assess the impact of products and systems. The applicability of ITEEA standards 14 - 20 depends on the ETK topic. Applicable NCTM Standards are: Geometry (use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve problems) Measurement (understand measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurements; apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements) Process/Problem Solving (build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving; solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts; apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve
-12.1d- Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives; synthesize comments, claims, and evidence made on all sides of an issue; resolve contradictions when possible; and determine what additional information or research is required to deepen the investigation or complete the task. ELA/Literacy – SL.11-12.3- Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used. National Standards related to Mathematics Mathematical Practices MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively
more leadership programs. Their noted impacts are on engineering education programs, students’ leadershippreparation, preparing industry’s workforce and communities served. Assessing these combinedcontributions equates to progress towards improving the world’s health and development. As the demand for engineering leaders increase, businesses and universities in countrieslike the US and Brazil are responding with innovative engineering leadership developmentprograms that generate great economic and social impact for the country. Universities role inproviding successful programs to address the leadership demand is essential to face the challengesthat engineers have. Universities all over the world must continue to meet this
experiential learning environment. Faculty mentors will assess the success ofthe program by monitoring changes in student attitude and academic performance. It ishypothesized that participation in a global learning environment will result in increased retentionas well as improved alignment of knowledge and actions, and an ability to collaborate on multi-level projects on a global setting. It is expected that student performance and perception ofcompetency in their subject will increase. The specific objectives of this initiative will be linkedto data sources to yield appropriate information for process evaluation purposes.EvaluationEvaluation is a core component of the proposed global initiative which main goal is to improvethe student experience in a
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, v 477-478, p 1491-1494, 2014, Applied Mechanics and Materials II[9] E. Barra, S.A. Herrera, P. Cano, Y. Ignacio, and J.Q. Vives, “Using multimedia and peer assessment to promote collaborative e-learning”, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2014[10] J. Conesa, A. Rius, D. Ganan, and D. Gomez, “Leco: An internal virtual tool to aid collaboration in the context of a virtual university”, Proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Web-Based Education, WBE 2008, p 247-252, 2008[11] Z. Nedic, A. Nafalski, and M. Jan, “Online International Collaboration - A Case Study: Remote Laboratory NetLab”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education and Educational Technologies 2011 (WORLD-EDU 2011
three universitiesgot to know each other and began their joint project work. At the end of semester, upon conclusion ofthe project work, students in all three locations will complete a final evaluation stage of the instrument.This pre and post assessment may help them understand how cultural interactions will have influencedteam performance during the project, and to what extent they may have been affected through exposureto other worldviews and by responding to the demands of their projects.Introduction and backgroundThe NeedAlmost all the leading corporations, all the multilateral organizations (UN, World Bank) and many Not-for-Profit organizations (NPOs) are in a great many countries and often in most countries. There areseveral reasons why
Royal Academy of Engineering, 'Educating Engineers for the 21st Century', (2007).3 Elaine Chapman Sally Male, 'Assessing the Generic Competencies of Engineering Graduates: Preliminary Report from an Ongoing Research Program', in Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE/AaeE 4th Global Colloquium on Engineering Education (Australasian Association for Engineering Education” 2005). Page 20.32.94 National Board Of Accreditation, 'Manual for Accreditation of Undergraduate Engineering Programs', (2012).5 Passow Honor J., 'Which Abet Competencies Do Engineering Graduates Find Most Important in Their Work?', Journal of