location of the lens’ principalplanes is not known exactly, leading to an uncertainty contribution. Additionally, assuming theobject is at infinity in the thin lens equation [(1/f) = (1/o) + (1/i), where f is the focal length] isequivalent to identifying the inverse of object distance (1/o) as negligible compared to theinverse of image distance (1/i). This generally introduces a systematic overestimate of focallength by 5% in our experiment. This is typically not apparent to the students until aftercomparison to the other measurement methods, helping to drive home the idea that the model’sassumptions can pose significant limits on the quality of a measurement.The second method is an improvement but is still limited by the determination of “best
stating main ideas generalizations criteriaRelated to personal and community values:1. implications of my personal habits and 0.0 0.7 0.0 0.3 2.0 1.4growth, as well as others'2. implications of my personal values and 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.9 1.4 3.4feelings, as well as others'3. cultural attitudes about human relationship 1.2 0.0
first introduced the tenure process in 1915, whenthey formed the American Association of University Professors [1], after observing the dismissalof economist Edward Ross by Mrs. Leland Stanford from Stanford University, who did not likehis views on immigrant labor and railroad monopolies. The AAUP was organized to ensureacademic freedom for faculty members, which at the time was considered an innovative concept[2]. Tenure is often misunderstood as a job-guarantee for life, but it is not the case, since it doesnot provide protection from dismissal, but it is a measure of protection from colleagues, and anyspecial problems that arise in an academic democracy [3].The tenure process throughout the years has faced both criticism and praise, with
. In addition, the third column shows memory addresses to access for each instruction. For reference, the Pin Tool (version 3.2) is an open-source software tool (provided by Intel) to generate a trace file to feed into the proposed cache simulator using benchmark programs.• Decoding the data & calculating memory address (3rd step): After decoding a fetched data, the memory address should be placed or updated into cache memories, such as L1 and L2 cache memories. In order to update cache memories, it is necessary to check cache hit/miss before the update according to the following four cases: 1) cache hit for instructions except Store; 2) cache hit for Store instruction; 3) cache miss for instructions except Store; and 4) cache
1-4 units of credit in an independent study course. A contract isdeveloped between the student and the faculty outlining the work to be done. Each unit ofindependent study should be approximately 3 hours of work per week. These units are applicableas a technical elective.Summer Undergraduate Research ProgramOur Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) has been in place for the College ofEngineering since the summer of 2018. In this program, faculty propose projects to be worked onby undergraduate students over the summer. Students then apply to work on the projects and areselected by the sponsoring faculty. University funding pays the students involved for 20 hours aweek over 8 weeks. There is also a small stipend for the faculty
: increasing reasoning skills, developing ethical motivation, evidencing ethical sensitivity. While thisfocus has been important for analyzing and shaping the ways that engineers develop, it often ignores thevalue positions from which individual start in favor of attention to frameworks that can shape continueddevelopment.Recent work coming out of team science research, however, highlights a new direction that is ripe forattention and consideration in engineering ethics: that “members may differ in their values and motivations, shapedby their unique areas of expertise, organizational contexts, or life experiences” [1]. This observation that thoseworking in teams, as engineers often do, need to work across value and motivation differences suggests
Earth and Environment Sciences and CREATE for STEM Institute for Research on Science and Mathe- matics Education. Currently, her research focuses on cognition, assessment of student learning, validity and reliability in research, curriculum and visual design, and discipline-based education research.Miss Anastasia Katharine Ostrowski, University of Michigan Anastasia Ostrowski graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Biomedical Engineering where she worked with the Daly Design and Engineering Education Research Group and Transforming Engineering Education Laboratory. Her research focused on entrepreneurship self-efficacy and under- standing how biomedical engineering students engage in idea generation
engineering and to STEM concepts in general[1], [2]. The simplicity of the vehicle’s design makes it tractable to beginning students (frommiddle school on up) with little or no building experience, yet once students see it maneuver in apool they are immediately inspired to add capabilities. We have developed two systems toenable students to add capabilities to the Sea Perch as well as to enhance its utility as an oceanengineering and STEM teaching platform.As it is the Sea Perch is an excellent tool for teaching basic hydrostatics in a quantitative way.The displacement of the vehicle, its overall weight, and the distribution of weights can bemeasured and the centers of gravity and buoyancy can be calculated. Experience withhydrodynamics, the forces
constraints.IntroductionSenior-level students in the undergraduate mechanical engineering program at South DakotaState University are required to take five technical elective courses. These courses generallyfocus on the application of the knowledge the students have gained in their core courses. One ofthe courses offered is ME 418 Design of Thermal Systems, in which the students apply thefundamentals they learned in Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer to thedesign of systems that involve fluid flow and heat transfer.Educational research has shown that project-based learning is a good fit for courses where thedesired learning outcome is the application of knowledge rather than the acquisition ofknowledge. Mills and Treagust [1] state that project tasks
engineering undergraduates had significant practicalmovements. The generalized mathematical experience in embedded systems and only courserelationship between distance and output voltage homework assignments in hardware programming.reading is given by Equation 1: Technical experiences were gained as well as 1 𝑑 = ((a∗A )−𝑘 (1) DC +b)where: d – distance in centimeters k – corrective constant ADC – digitized value of voltage b – free member (value determined by the trend line equation) a – linear member (value determined
engineering courses, 2006, ASEE, page 11.730.1[5] Haykin, Moher, Communication Systems, 5th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2009.[6] Neaman, Microelectronics Circuit Analysis and Design, 4th Ed., McGraw Hill, 2010.[7] B. Kanmani, The Modified Switching Modulator for Generation of AM and DSB-SC: Theory and Experiment, Proceeding of IEEE 13th DSP and 5th SPE Workshop, 2009.[8] Analog Discovery Technical Reference Manual, Digilent Inc., 2013[9] Waveforms SDK manual, Digilent Inc., 2015.[10] Mazzaro, G., Hayne, R., Instructional Demos, In-Class Projects, and Hands-On Homework: Active Learning for Electrical Engineering using the Analog Discovery, Proceedings of 2016 ASEE annual conference.
. Themanual robot control and lead-through programming session deals with manipulating varioussmall objects. The computer programming task (two week session) is to have the robot write aword (student’s name) on an 8 ½ by 11 inch sheet of paper. Students’ evaluation survey, collectedwith the lab reports at the end of lab sections, plays an important role of “closing the loop” instudents’ experiential learning process. Figure 1: Laboratory setup for the RV-M2 robot.Hardware Setup The robot system setup, shown in Fig.1, includes the RV-M2 robot arm, the teach pendant, thecontrol module, and a computer. The robot arm can be controlled manually by a teach pendant orprogrammatically by a Q-Basic program, which originally run on an
passionately pursues workforce research characterizing, expanding, sus- taining, measuring and training the technical and professional construction workforce in the US. The broader impact of this work lies in achieving and sustaining safe, productive, diverse, and inclusive project organizations composed of engaged, competent and diverse people.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem solving
. 9College counseling:Garrison Forest School (GFS) has 2 counselors for 60‐70 students (senior class), who also advise juniors Every week the counselors offer college workshops for juniors and seniors, outreach with parents. These students have generally been supported by parents and their school since early elementary. The expectation is that they’ll go to college. The school has a 100% placement rate in 4‐year colleges.Western High School has 1 College Bound counselor in the school and 1 senior counselor for 300 students. Because this is a high poverty, majority minority school district, these students are likely to be first generation to college and not have as much home support as their GFS counterparts.Teacher
helped them tolearn math in the best ways possible. In the pre-survey, students generally chosetextbook/worksheets and teacher explanation, as opposed to in the post-survey, when manystudents changed their answers to preferring hands-on instruction [1]. Children are beingexposed to mathematics at young ages, but are not always engaged or enjoying this type oflearning. If students are given opportunities to continue working with math more often, they willhave increased success in their future years, even reaching into their high school years [2].According to a study completed by Rowan-Kenyon, et al., regarding student engagement duringmath, “students at all grade levels preferred class activities that were visually or physicallyengaging, or that
contribute andsucceed in the global competitive economic environment. As a result, this requires qualityscience, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. However, insufficientnumbers of American students pursue education and training in the STEM fields. After noticingthis challenge, STEM has become a great effort by many to increase STEM-related activities,which have the potential to promote collaborative learning and inquiry as well as to contribute tothe development of the 21st century skills [1]. The US government initiated the “Educate toInnovate” program to increase student participation in all STEM-related activities. The long-termobjective of these activities is to encourage more young women to choose an education in theSTEM
. IntroductionEngineering students sometimes are labelled as good professionals with technical knowledge but lackingsoft competences such as speaking in public or excellent oral skills. The development of soft competencesserves to engage students in utilizing critical thinking and problem-solving skills to interact with the subjectmatter [1]. Also, soft competences encourage students to acquire a deeper understanding of social problemsin their communities and how they can contribute to solve them through engineering [2]. Podcasting isincreasingly capturing the attention of educators in the last three decades from a wide variety of disciplinesto support the development and updating of a range of competences including communication skills [3]-[5]. In the higher
, community engagementIntroductionThe benefits of community engagement for the education of engineering students are widelyknown and described [1-3]. Typically, universities offer academic spaces for community servicein the curriculum of certain programs. In the case of the Electronic Engineering (EE) major of thePontificia Universidad Javeriana University in Colombia, there is a course called University SocialProject (Proyecto Social Universitario, PSU). During more than 30 years of different iterationsand changes, this course has promoted the commitment and responsibility of EE students withvulnerable populations and institutions that the university has built a partnership with [4]. Its goalis to generate in students an attitude of reflection and
spearheaded K-5 collaborations with Microsoft and Keysight Technologies.Mr. Dong Gyun Kim, Bit Project, College of Engineering, UC Davis Daniel Kim is the co-founder and president of Bit Project, a student initiative that has reached over 1800 K-12 students since its founding in Spring 2019. He has led educational technology collaborations with community nonprofits and industry leaders o make technology more accessible in K-12 Classrooms.Ms. Victoria Kang Li Xu, Bit Project, College of Engineering, UC Davis Victoria Xu is an undergraduate English and Psychology student who serves as the lead technical writer and editor for Bit Project. She works directly with various Bit Project teams to proofread for grammatical and
offer the necessary helpand thus increase the possibility of student to successfully obtain his or her academic degree.AcknowledgementsThis research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 1833869.Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] R.W. Lent, S.D. Brown, and G. Hackett, “Toward a unifying social cognitive theory of career and academic interest, choice, and performance”, Journal of Vocational Behavior vol. 45, pp. 79-122, 1994.[2] M. Gibbons and M. Shoffner, “Prospective First-Generation College Students: Meeting Their Needs Through Social
Paper ID #30436Evaluation of evidence-based teaching techniques in a graduate fluiddynamics courseDr. John Palmore Jr, Virginia Tech John Palmore Jr is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. He specializes in multiphase thermo-fluid flows. Dr. Palmore’s technical research focuses on developing numerical algorithms for simulating these flows using high performance computing. His educational research focuses upon incorporating technology into the classroom. Dr. Palmore is an active member of several professional societies including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
directs its focus at the five major innovation skills used by experts but doesnot explain which of these skills are more important and how these behaviors are linked to eachother. We are looking to fill those gaps related to these five skills. The purpose of this paper is todevelop a better understanding on innovative skills through a content analysis of experts andexamine the possibilities of further study in applying it to teaching future engineering students. “One’s ability to generate innovative ideas is not merely a function of the mind, but also a function of behaviors. This is good news for us all because it means that if we change our behaviors, we can improve our creative impact” 1.MethodsWe conducted a quantitative
for your development of vital skills that can be enhanced by learning. You enhance your skills by becoming proficient with a set of techniques and developing a mindset that favors impact generating behaviors [aligning with the KEEN 3Cs]. It is expected that you will attend every class, participate in discussions and activities, and complete the assignments to the best of your ability.The learning objectives of the course included that upon completion of this course, studentswould be able to: 1. Apply a variety of frameworks to view their research and educational goals. 2. Detect and assess atypical professional development opportunities. 3. Define the entrepreneurial mindset, and understand how it can help guide
-groups hierarchically as subsequent groups have sub-components and physical attributes that are technically measurable by apparatus. Thehierarchical organization stops at the furthest detail available and relevant to the field andtroubleshooter. The systematic approach draws from the problem-solving literature [2], and it iscomposed of recursive tasks in the order of problem description, generate causes, test causes,repair and evaluate. According to Schaafstal et al., ST is field independent as evidenced by itssuccess in electrical, computer, and mechanical related troubleshooting problems separately [3].ST has not been tested or validated against industry norms and practices.The aim of this pilot study is to understand how troubleshooting is
recognizesigns of student distress. While instructors are open to supporting student mental health, they feeltheir primary role is to connect students in distress with mental health resources or services [12],[13], [14]. It has been reported that most college educators have had some level of training relatedto student mental health, but their confidence in their ability to navigate conversations aboutanxiety, depression, or general stress remains low [3]. In engineering, faculty development trainingon mental health has been limited to brief informational sessions on what mental health resourcesare available on campus, with no time spent on how to recognize, discuss, or refer students indistress [3]. Consequently, the engineering education community is
light of technological changes, industrieshave been undergoing significant organizational restructuring, and academic institutions can playa part in training a technologically advanced workforce. To address how the industry might bemore successful with this new wave of innovation, human resource competencies have beenidentified by studies for managers [3], workers [4], and as integrated social systems [2, 5].Elsewhere we have observed that studies on workforce competencies are not cohesive [1], but itis generally acknowledged that avant garde systems require an overhaul of previous emotionaland social competencies in order to prevent the stress, anxiety, and fatigue that comes along withhuman-robot interaction [6]. In a review of the
producing algal-based fuels coupled with mitigation of greenhouse gases, bioreactor design, novel fluidized bed gasification and thermal processing of solid fuels, and adapting planar solid oxide fuel cells to coal-derived syngas. He has been principal investigator for over $15 million in externally funded research, holds several patents with three revenue generating licenses, and over 50 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of pollution control and energy conversions. Dr. Bayless formerly worked for American Electric Power (Gavin and Amos Plants) and was an officer in the United States Navy. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Profs. Richard Buckius
department.1. Related Works1.1. Retention Rates & Computing Demographics It is well documented that developing a sense of belonging is essential for student re-tention in STEM fields [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Recent work highlights how students from underrepre-sented groups, in general, have less of a sense of belonging than white men in the same field [9].And perhaps more salient, recent work documented how even after 10 years of focusing on inclu-sivity 62% of computer science students at the University of Illinois, a large R1 school, felt thatthey were not “real” computer scientists [1].1.2. Culture of Computing The importance of culture (department or college level) with respect to sense of be-longing is of
in2019 by this institution to allow broader participation, assess new constructs and evaluateundergraduate trends since previous data collections. In 2008, invitations were sent to 3010enrolled undergraduate students generating 1082 usable responses (36%). In 2015, we sent 4613invitations and generated 1036 usable responses (22.4%) and in 2019 we sent 4112 invitationsand generated 1132 usable responses (27.5%). Participants in all three data collection yearsresponded to questions about their educational environment including professors, teachingassistants, college resources, interpersonal experiences, and experiences of stereotyping andharassment from various sources (faculty, peers) and in various locations at the College (e.g. inClass or not
courses. It is an obligation to students and to the teachingprofession in general for faculty to provide a classroom environment that is engaging, and withcourse material that challenges and informs students of new techniques, knowledge, and thecritical reasoning skills necessary for the modern professional environment. Some exampleswhere faculty document this course modernization include the efforts to further engage studentsin engineering economy [1], to introduce new methodologies relating to computer vision [2], orto address content obsolescence in a computer science course [3]. In any case, these changesgenerally involve and require substantial effort by faculty, many of them might feel uncertain ifthese changes can be successful after their